THE PLOTTERS
A New Serial of East and West
By Virginia Terhun© Van de Water
CHAPTER XL.
Amos Chapin seldom changed his
mind after it was once made up. So
when he had decided to write to
Douglas Wade, offering him a cer
tain sum for the farm, he wasted no
time in doing this-
Had he but known it, he chose
the psychological time for sendiug
the letter, for it reached Wade just
after he had confessed his love to
Alicia Butler and had been accepted
by her.
Douglas had not intended to make'
this confession yet. He held views
to the effect that a man should
never tell a woman of his love for
her until he was in a position to
support a wife. But such theories
have a way of going to pieces before
the onslaught of an ardent afffec
tion.
Douglas Wade was very much in
love with Alicia Butler. She was
also very much in love with him.
Combine these conditions with a
gorgeous moonlight night and a
drive across country on the front
scat of Mrs. Butler's car—while the
owner of the equippage dozed com
placently on the back seat —and it
is not hard to guess the results.
Nor did Douglas Wade repent of
his declaration of devotion. When
he followed the two ladies into their
house at the end of the drive ho
asked Alr3. Butler to-allow him a
little talk with her. Alicia with
drew with an air of innocence that
immediately confirmed her mother
in her hopeful suspicions.
Looking Tilings in the Face
Yet Mrs. Butler registered sur
prise when Douglas Wade told her
he loved her daughter, and believed
that his affection was not altogether
unrequited. He then remarkted that
as he was not at present in a posi
tion to marry, it would be well to
defer the announcement of the en
gagement until the state of his
finances was less static than at pres
ent.
The phvsician negatived calmly
but positively Mrs. Butler's sugges
tion that her income was quite suf
ficient to "help out" the young peo-
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pic. fie would not marry until he
was able to support a wife. He did
not expect to give Alicia the luxu
ries to which she had been accus
tomed—at least, not for a while —•
but he did want to establish her in
u comfortable little home and sup
ply her witn the necessities of life.
At last .Airs. Butler ceased to urge
the announcement of the engage
ment. She expressed herself as de
lighted at the outcome of their
friendship and voiced a hope that
the bethrothal need not be a long
one. She was sure that her daugh
ter would be willing to begin her
married life on tiie same modest
scale on which her parents had
started their wedding career.
Later, when questioned in Doug
las's presence, Alicia showed very
plainly that she was of the same
mind as her mother.
Douglas Wade looked matters
very plainly in the face that night
when alone In his room.
He was not in debt. For that he
was most thankful. But he had
laid aside next to nothing against
the proverbial rainy day. More
over, his sister had another year at
college and was dependent upon him.
After her graduation she might be
able to get a position that would
make her self supporting if she
wished to do this. He hoped, how
ever, that his engagement would not
cause her to fancy that she could no
longer depend upon him for mainte
nance.
In his soul he knew that Eliza
beth would feel Just this. Any high
spirited girl or woman would.
It was the next morning that
Douglas Wade received Amos Chap
in's offer to buy the farm.
The young physician frowned as
he read the sum the farmer named.
Then he re-read the letter and
thought long and seriously of its
contents.
He thought also of what John
Butler had said in a letter received
only a couple of days ago.
Butler had spoken of the farm as
in a beautiful location, but had
doubted if it would bring the owner
much money if he wished to sell it
in its present state. He had also
suggested that it would be well to
spend money on the property in
order to improve it. If it was not
improved it would depreciate In
value. That was the natural deduc
tion.
Better to Sell
Perhaps he would better sell the
place after all. Wade reflected.
Now that he was In love, he found he
would not greatly regret parting
with the old place- He could hard
ly imagine his Alicia, dainty, grace
ful and fond of society, as happy
there.
With Elizabeth it was entirely
different. She had always loved the
farm: she had tender associations
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connected with it. She was the only
one who would be really hurt by its
sale. .
Yet he could hardly be expected
to let sentimental considerations
interfere with his disposing of land
that was a constant expense. Were
he to decline Chapin's offer, the man
might not soon repeat it, and Doug
las Wade wanted to be on the safe
side.
Had he been willing to postpone
the acquirement of ready money, he
might wait until John Butler's cure
won for his physician the reputa
tion that vas sure to come. But it
would be several years before
Wade's income was as large as he
hoped it would be.
There seemed but one thing to do.
He would write to Elizabeth of his;
engagement and Chapin's offer. He
would explain why he needed the
sum the sale of the farm would
bring. He would also remind her
what a drain the land was upon his
slender resources.
Of course, John Butler must be
told of his sister's engagement and
of the deception his future brother
in-law had practiced upon him. This
last, Elizabeth had best tell him. He
and she were on friendly terms.
Butler was now so well that he
would look at the matter sensibly.
It might even appeal to his sense of
humor. Elizabeth was just the kind
of a girl who would enjoy making
the amusing and interesting revela
tion as to her identity.
(To Be Continued)
Ministers Break
Teacher Shortage
Lancaster, Sept. 18. —Dr. Daniel
Fleisher, county superintendent of
schools, announced yesterday that
the shortage of teachers had been
solved by the pressing of ministers
into service. Seven ministers who
are filling pulpits, are also working
in classrooms of this county.
©MAKING THE MOST OF- ~
OUR CHILDREN U
A Series of Plain Talks to
PnsidoU of the Parents Association.
(Copyrlgbt, tUe Parents Association. Inc.)
No. 20. What Shall We Do With the Spoiled Child?
I JUST can't bear having that child
around. He simply sets me on
edge," said one mother to an
other as a neighbor's child ap
proached.
And you couldn't really blame her
very much for feeling that way, for'
spoiled children everywhere succeed
in making themselves obnoxious.
The pitiful pqrt of it all is that the
disagreeabio child is not to blame.
His parents have applied wrong
methods of discipline, and given him
what will probably prove a handicap
for life.
If you want your children to get
along in the world, you must teach
them to show consideration for
others.
"What would you do with a ftve
year-old boy like this?" inquired one
mother. "Last night just as we were
starting out to the automobile, he
began yelling from across the street,
'Aunt Mollie —AuntMOLLIE! I said
Aunt MOLLIE.' After getting the
desired attention of all: 'Where are
you going? Can I go 'long?' He went
along but we hadn't gone far before
we wished he hadn't. He'd open the
door and stick his head out, and
seemed to delight in interrupting
adult conversation with his own re
marks/'
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THE KAISER AS I KNEW
HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S.
(Copyright, 1018, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
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(Continued.) 1
The stores were quickly depleted ,
! of everything edible, and the prac- j
tical Hausfrau who had never before (
hadb ought for more than one meal
i in advance and had never owned
, more than two pounds of flour at
a time, tilled her pantry to the top
most shelf and then started to store
ii things away in her trunk-room up
■ under the roof.
. Almost everyone In towns of any
[ size in Germany lives in an apart
• ment and each family has a key to
i a portion of the attic, which is di
vided into as many parts as there
s are apartments in the house. Later,
1 when tfood really became scarce,
■ robbing these attics became a popu
i la rprofession, and it was necessary
> to make room for the valued stores
, elsewhere. They were then moved
> to the "gute Stube"—good room,
. the sugar being locked away in the
[ writing desk and room being made
I for the butter next to the cherished
> war bonds in the safe.
On Sunday, August 2, all the gas
oline in the country was comman
deered, and we heard of many
American tourists being put out of
their cars in the cities and even on
country roads, no matter how lnac
, cessible to trains they might be.
We accordingly decided to stow our
car away in an old wagonshed at
' tached to a hotel and sought to
' return to Berlin by train.
At the railway station there was
such a tremendous crowd that it
was quite impossible to get any
-1 where near the ticket office, and
i anyway no promise could be given
; as to trains to Berlin.
Frankfort had always been a busy
This little fellow has probably
never been made to realize that his
acts are anti-social. To change his
habit, it will be necessary to reverse
the results for him. Beginning now,
each undesirable act on his part
should be made to work against his
own self-interest.
You will be interested in the fol
lowing illustration of the right meth
ed. A boy was climbing up one of
the columns on a veranda while
three other boys and a man were
talking. The man wisely treated the
boy in this way. He said calmly,
"Orville, you may come down now."
Any well-bred boy would have re
sponded to this friendly request but
this boy had been trained to try
others' patience. He looked around,
grinned in a sheepish way, and aft
er going a few inches higher, started
slowly down. Nothing was said to
him from the time the first com
mand was given until he came down.
Then the man said in a friendly
way, "Come here." When he came,
the man said after a brief pause,
"You can act more quickly the next
time. You may go home now." Im
mediately after saying these words,
he began ostensibly to play ball and
have a big time with the boys who
remained.
If you happen to be the parent of
such a child, you should of course
do more than merely see that he
gains nothing by wrong behavior;
you should tell him frankly just
what will be expected of him. In
using firmness, it is not necessary to
lessen your friendliness. Show an
Interest in the child's happiness and
treat him with full sympathy when
his actions are approved. But be
careful about showing "friendliness"
at wrong times.
Did you ever hear a child set up a
howl to go somewhere or do some
thing after the parent said, "No?"
And then did you hear the parent,
either to avert a scene or to show
friendly consideration" or both, say,
"Well, will you be a good hoy, if I
let you go?— All right, then, don't
stay very longi" This sort of thing
is what makes the spoiled child.
After observing a spoiled child's
actions for a half day, it is natural
to think that a good "thrashing" is
the only fitting thing. True, it would
have a tendency to satisfy adult
feelings, but satisfying the demands
of one's temper is not always the
best thing from the standpoint of
child development,
The method prescribed is proper
because the child will soon change
his habit in a natural why without
antagonism or ill-feeling.
railroad center, but it had never
witnessed anything like the rush of
German vacationists coming home
from Switzerland and from the vari
ous German baths, people of ull na
tionalities hastening out of Ger
many, and the long trainloads of
troops being hurried to the fron
tiers.
Trunks and bags were piled high
in every available space and it was
months before that enormous pile
of baggage was finally sorted out.
We decided to defer our effort to
reach Berlin until Monday, since
there seemed no hope of getting
away that day.
On Monday morning the streets
were filled with excited crowds de
stroying every sign with a French
word on it and looking for spies.
The papers had announced that the
country was full of French spies,
women as well as men. I saw the
crowd stop an automobile, take the
woman out and literally tear her
clothes to shreds before the police
succeeded in rescuing her from the
mob and took her to the police si"
tion. The general supposition was
that all the men spies were mas
querading as women and the first
thing the mob did was to pull out
hairpins to see whether the "hair
was real.
On Monday evening we managed
to edge our way into the last
through train to Berlin. We were
sidetracked innumerable times to
allow troop trains to pass through,
and we were required to keep our
windows closed so that no enemy
passenger could drop bombs on the
bridges we crossed. It was a hot
August night and the lack of ven
tilation was most oppressive.
Our compartment was crowded
with officers on their way to Join
their regiments and very gand and
important they felt in their new
field-gray uniforms which may have
been long put away in mothballs for
just this opportunity, but which took
the German people as well as the
Allies completely by suprrlse.
At Nauemburg, which is about
half-way between Frankfort and
Berlin, a company of soldiers board
ed the train and guarded the corri
dors while a noncommissioned of
ficer questioned the passengers.
My wife who was asleep in a cor
ner of the coupe 1, was the only
woman in the compartment. Be'
lieving that her sleep might be
feigned and she might, in fact, be
a man in a woman's clothing, the
officer yelled at her: "Where are
you going?" Her American accent,
revealed when she answered him,
incensed him the more and he de
manded angrily, "What right have
you to use this train? Where is
your passport?"
By that time I had produced all
the papers of identification I could
I THE LEADING
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find and tried to tell him that my
wife and 1 were returning to our
home in Berlin, but he was too ex
cited to listen and would have
dragged us off the train had not an
officer, with whom I had been talk
ing enroute 1, intervened and said:
"1 shall make myself personally re
sponsible for these people." 1 was
glad X had admired his new uni
form.
From the coupe next to Ours I
saw soldiers drag six Russians,
throw them down and kick theni in
the face, and one was a woman!
The train pulled out as the crowd
closed in on them' so that X was
unable to ascertain the fate of those
innocent but helpless passengers.
When we finally reached Berlin,
about 5 the next morning, it seemed
like a dead city. There was not a
droschke, a taxi o ra train in sight.
Every available means of locomotion
had been mobilized for the time
being.
As we had heavy bags, we simply
had to find something to take us
home, and after half an hour's
search far from the station I found
an old cab djjver who thought he
could take us for the liberal bonus
X agreed to pay him. We had hardly
got seated when an officer tried to
force us out, and only my wife's
quick plea of illness saved him a
black eye and me iron bars or a
large fine.
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We found that the Berliners had
been seized with the same desire to
store up food as we had observed
elsewhere, and the stores were closed
for lack of merchandise to sell. The
banks were filled with long lines of
people trying to draw as much money
as they could in gold. Even though
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the papers and all the officers were
quite confident that the war would
be of short duration, still there were
many who remembered previous
wars when only gold would buy
food, and there were many who
were preparing for that emergency.
(To lie Continued.)
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