im ftfcad'iY? all ike forciißi THE PLOTTERS A New Serial of East and West By Virginia Terhane Van de Water CHAPTER XXXIX With a dazed, dizzy sensation, John Butler sat down again and tried to assimilate the facts that had just come to him. Of one thing- he was sure. Lizzie Moore's picture had been on Dr. Wade's desk that evening last spring. And it had been the only photograph in the entire office. Then she must be of enough im portance in the physician's life for him to wish to have her face al ways before him. Now John Butler understood the sensation of discomfort that' had accompanied his recognition of the girl's resemblance to someone whom he thought he had met. It was be cause, at the time he had studied the picture, he had been so acutely miserable himself. The likeness and his mood were associated in his inner consciousness. • , Well, that was explained- But there were many other incompre hensible things facing him. j Of course Doublas Wade had aj right to this picture. But the orgi-1 nal had not intimated that she hadj seen Wade of late years, or had hadj any communication with hlm.i When she was a little girl she had' known him, she said. Why had she not acknowledged that she kncWj him now? Butler arrived at the conclusion; he had almost reached on the day on which he had spoken to Eliza beth of Wade's attentions to his sis ter, Alicia. This conclusion was thai the girl he admired must be fond of the young physician. If not, she would not have been startled by the information impart ed to her. Nor would she have al lowed Wade to have a large picture of her upon his desk. And, clearest evidence of all, she would not have hesitated to admit that she and Wade were on terms of intimate friendship. Just for a moment Clifford's vile suggestions came to John Butler's mind, but, as usual, he banished them as unbelievable. The girl might care tor Douglas Wade. She might even be engaged to him- But whatever she did was honorable and right. He repeated this statement and over to himself, and in his heart he knew that he believed it. But, since his happiness depended upon the state of Elizabeth's affec tions, he felt that he had a right to study these. At Your Grocer's A Regular 8-oz. Package of ■MULE TEAM BORAX SOAP CHIPS I with the purchase of a one pound, package of 20 Mule Team borax AND THE COUPON co be published in the Wednesday papers I • MONDAY EVENING, &ajlrxsbtxrg TELEGRATiJ SEPTEMBER 16, 1918. j He could not bring himself to the point of questioning the Chapins about their pretended cousin. That would be low and ignoble. But he must know who she was and what her feelings were, or he could not stay where he would see her fre quently. All was fair in love and war, lie mused. And he certainly was in love. First of all, he would write to Dr. Wade. This he proceeded to do. He ac knowledged that he appreciated how phenomenal had been his own phy sical and mental improvement since his arrival on the farm. He would therefore think seriously of the phy sician's suggestion that he keep up the present regimen for a while I longer. Much depended upon the development of the next few days. He would communicate with the owner of the farm later. "By the way," he added, "I do not think that I have told you yet hfcw much I admire this part of the coun try. You have a place of which you, may well be proud. But to make it I what it should be would take a great j deal of money. I wonder if you feel i like putting so much money in a place at such a distance from yourj present home? For, of course, prop-i erty out here is not very valuable j just now. It is lovely, but land in I this region will probably be hard to I sell until a railroad runs nearer! than it does now. And the train ser vice from Midland to the larger i cities is very poor. "The matter of the farm is, how ever, your e.ilair, and none of mine. I When I leave I may never see this j spot again. But I shall always bej grateful for what it has done fori me. I have managed to stand the j eccentricities of your farmer. Hisl wife and the friend who is staying j with her have done much toward! making me comfortable and con-l tent." A grim smile crossed the writer's face. "There," he exclaimed. "If the 'friend' in question is very dear to him, he may be made a bit uneasy by that statement." At all events, he hoped it might result in an explanation or revela tion of some kind. Almost anything was better than this uncertainty. The same mail that brought his letter to John Butler brought one for Amos Chapin. It was from his Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *■* # " By McManus It) LOVE TO <0 TO A TQVIN H 7 "1 II , T I\/F /RVR IF -R 1 *>HOW TONIGHT- THERE'S I POPULAR W '/ — 3 s. /— t> THAT . THIN< I [ NOTHIK ELTJE TO OO ENOUGH TO HWE - f LU. <0 FCACK |N f SHOW IN •=.*-_ E TELIA> NE | I M THROWN-<S> r A r % % AN' TELL ( TOWN? EROMT ROW- J thl% IWT AH j *ND IF YOO CAN | -■ P 1 (^C^' D '^ ERA: ( 1 son, and contained the information that later—probably in the early fall —the young man might be able to negotiate the loan for which bis father asked. Meanwhile, he said, it might be well to name a certain price to Douglas Wade and ask him il he would consider selling the farm. "I would be glad to have you cut free him him and his kind,"' Cliff ford Chapin wrote. "He has made a patspaw of you and mother this summer. You do not know it, out I do. And the sooner you get out of his clutches, the better. "I suppose you are right when you say that he put Butler on the place to spy upon you. I do not see his object in keeping that girl there, but I bet she has some low schpme on foot. "I though at .first he wanted to keep her safe. I guess how it may be to get her out of his way. He may be a. bit tired of her and finds her an inconvenience." Amos Chapin scratched his head as he read this paragraph. "I can't understand what Ciif's got against Lizzie Wade," he mused. "Wade sure has a right to send his sister to his farm, if he wants to — though goodness knows he don't pay any too much board. That's another proof that he's hard up. I guess the time's about ripe for me to make him an offer for the farm." (To Be Continued). THE KAISER AS I KNEW HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS By ARTHUR X. DAVIS, D. D. S. (Copyright, 1918, by the McClurc Newspaper Syndicate) j (Continued.) i < "My officers always laughed at ! the little .22 high-power American' i Savage rifle I carried as a side arm." | J he added. 'They thought it was 11 only a toy. Their opinion of the | i piece changed, however, when I set < out with it to get some of those sharpshooters, and got three of ' them. Of course, I used the soft- ' nosed, or ' dum-dum, bullets; but | those Russians deserved anything we < could give them," The jubilation with which the ] news of the sinking of the Lmsitanla i was received by the German people < was general. It was so significant that 1 believe America would have declared war immediately had it been known. I have failed to find I a sing.e German who did not exult | over the dastardly crime, and the J activity of the Zeppelins in their 'aids on open towns evoked similar demonstrations. That the views whjch the people held regarding the conduct of the war were strongly influenced by the public press, which was absolutely controlled by the government, was only to be expected. The fact that I in peace-time the press of Germany 1 was perhaps the most reliable in the world, made of it a particularly valuable tool in the hands of the government in time of war. The German newspaper is gospel to the people. The last word in any argument was always furnished by proof supplied by some newspaper article. "Es steht in der zeitung," liberally translated, "The paper says so," was always final and conclu sive. Nothing the papers declared was too preposterous to be believed. The press was used to excellent advantage to conceal reverses and to make the utmost capital out of successes. Right from the start the newspapers declared that Germany was fifighting a defensive war; that; the nations of the world jumped on Germany's neck because they! were jealous of her growing power. ] It is true that some of the more thoughtful were led to inquire why it was that the Germans were con stantly advancing into their ene mies' territory if the war were being j waged merely to defend the Ger man borders, while others insisted ! that if the Kaiser didn't actually j start the war, he might very easily! have averted it. But such sugges- 1 tions were usually advanced in muf- j fled tones and where one was safe in speaking, and they received little ! consideration. • How the press managed to satisfy ! the people that everything was j going well, even when the outlook ! was most dismal, can be explained | only by the deep faith which the i people had in everything they read. ! With the capture of Servia and | Rumania, for instance, the people; had been promised that most of j their food and raw material troubles i would be effectually disposed of. I Rumania, they had been told, had j the largest oil fields in the world, as' well as vast food resources; while | Servia was the most productive agri cultural section and had the largest copper mines in the world. The I realization that no such relief as I had been promised was forthcoming came to the people very gradually,! the press breaking the news most i skillfully, a little each day. So, too, when food conditions ne- j cessitated a cut in the rations, the ■ Berlin papers sought to prepare the 1 public for it by stating that in Dres- j den such a move was contemplated. A day or two later it would be de- I nied that Dresden had any such plan in contemplation, but that Ba- i varia had already shortened the ra tion. and that it was hoped no such| measure would be necessary in | Brandenburg. Then, a day or two later, it would be calmly announced that, as the rest of Germany had adopted the shortened ration, Bran denburg could hardly do less than follow suit. The slogan," "Gott Strafe Eng land," was not officially used, but when the internal discontent be- I came too serious and strikes were j too menacing to be ignored, the j government caused large posters of I "John Bull" to be posted all over j the country. Underneath a hideous ' "representation of "John Bull" was! the line, "This man is responsible for your hunger." The importance which the Kaiser and his leaders placed in public opinion among the German people is clearly illustrated by the an nouncements they made and the measures they resorted to from time to time, for home consumption. When in December, 1916, for ip etance. the Kaiser realized that the resumption of unrestricted subma rine warfare, which he had deter mined upon, might bring neutral nations, including the United States, into the war, he felt that it was necessary to do something to up hold the spirit of his people. It took the form of a proposal of peace to the Allies. _ ? This proposal was designed to ac- I complish two distinct purposes: 1' irst, it was to convince the Ger man people that their Kaiser was really the peace-loving monarch he had always professed to be; second,! it was to demoralize the Allies by' dividing them against themselves. J This much is certain: The Kaiser' never intended the Allies to accept' the proposal he made, lie admitted i that much to me, as did also the j Prince von Plcss, his most intimate adviser. It was termed in such a way that the Allies could not pos sibly accept it. But it served one of the purposes which it was in tended to achieve, and nearly ac complished the other. Some of the Socialists in the bel ligerent countries, and others in neutral countries, accepted the Kaiser's proposal at its face value, and proposed a peace conference at' Stockholm. But the allied govern-1 rnents saw through the Kaiser's I plan and refused to allow their I delegates to attend. But if the Kuiser did not succeed i in embarrassing the Allies to any great extent, he certainly accom-1 plished his first objective—creating the impression among .his own STORE OPENS 8:3O A. M.—CLOSES 5 P. M. WM/M lof afriVTOUV TISVCM P .. 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The full extent of the Kaiser's hypocrisy in this connection be comes evident when we compare his admitted object in issuing the pro posal with the terms in which it is j couched. It was not written for I the powers to whom it was ad j dressed,, but for the power at home —the German people. I The following passages are worth | rereading with this fact in mind: i ' "The most terrific .war experi- I enced in history has been raging j for the last two years and a half | over a large part of the world—a j catastrophe which thousands ol'! years of common civilization was! unable to prevent, and which injures j the most precious achievements of; humanity. "Our aims are not to shatter nor J annihilate our adversaries. In spite i of our consciousness of our mili- j tary and economic strength and our' ! readiness to continue the war (which | | has been forced upon us) to the l I bitter end if necessary; at the same I time, prompted by the desire to: avoid further bloodshed and make | an end to the atrocities of war, the ' four allied powers propose to en-1 I ter forthwith into peace negotia-1 tions. . . . (To Be Continued.) I Emphatically Asserts Worn Out, Lagging Men Can Quickly Become Vigorous and -Full of Ambition 7 A DAY FOR 7 DAYS Don't blame the man who Is perpet ually tired; his blood needs more red corpuscles and his brain and nerves are craving for food. Given the right kind of medicine, any tired-out, Inactive, lagging fel low can quickly be made into a real live, energetic and even ambitious man. 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