BiSB Readiivj all ike tPf^Pj THE PLOTTERS A New Serial of East and West By Virginia Terhune Van de Water rHVWEP XLII (Copyright 191s. Star Company) J Perhaps after all. Butler had notj understood her question. Perhaps) Clifford Chaplin had intimated to '■im that the girl whom he knew asi .izzie Moore" was related to Dou-i "lass Wade. This was the idea that grew upon) Elizabeth as she thought over the' situation be which she was con-! fronted. ler wish was father to her though . for the dicre she let her mind i linger on the confession she must) make to But'.or, the more she shrank from the ordeal. At first sue had feared that Clif ford might tell him the truth. Now she wished that he had told it all to him. Then she would already l know the worst. Had she not cared for John But- j ler she would not have been so ; afraid of the consequences of her! own and her brother's plot. Had i her mind been clear enough for her! to study her own reactions, she! would have known that her fear was) in direct ratio with her regard for Butler. But she did not analyze her feelings. She determined to defer the dreaded issue long enough to ascer tain just how matters stood. Amos Chapin waylaid her at the foot of the stairs late that after noon. "I see." be remarked, "that you got a letter from Douglass. I rather | expected one from him myself. Did' he say anything about having heard from me?" "Yes." She looked the man squarely in the face and her voice | did not tremble. "He said you had made him an offer for the farm. I but that he would have to wait fori a few days before coming to any, decision in the matter." "Well, when you write to hint, i you'd best tell him to decide pretty i quick," Amos said gruffly. ,"I must' make my plans. I'm getting too! old to want to stay on a place that! won't be any more mine ten years) from now than it is now. I'll) either buy or get out." "I understand." the girl rejoined. More Important Matters Her dignified manner irritated instead of soothed her listener. "Well, then make the young doc tor understand, too," he growled. "Have you answered his letter yet?" "I.have," stiffly. L Jborit envy those complexions Resinol heals unsightly eruptions A bad complexion need not cause Help to rid yourself of skin trouble Resino? S Obltme Soap and and keep your complexion attractive by ,hlt ,b ? •l. , arC Pr °r nK da ' ly Usin * Resinol Ointment and Resinol that they heal sick skins, and prese~ve Soap. well ones. They have been used for Por . . , yearstorelieve itching, remove pimples, * u * r,tv and to overcome roughness and rashes. S "' k *""" " fr " "**** | = if = Tr = ii II II H Y II H " T== jj More Economy Than I j[ Ever In Letting Us Dry Clean Your Clothes |- Nave you inquired the price of wo- I men's and men's clothes in the : various stores around town? Well, you : : know then, that it will pay you to make : : the best possible use of your old gar- : ' ments. Let us dry clean them and you ; . will see how really "new" they will be. And the cost will be too small to notice. W/e Will Call For and Deliver All Work Promptly MONDAY EVENING, " "BLomiSBURG GSS& TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 23, 1918. "What did you say about my offer?" "I did not mention it." Her tone rang out clear and sharp. "I had other and more Important things on my mind. Mr. Chapin." The farmer glowered at her, started as if to speak, then thought better of it and went on upstairs without another word. Going out on the veranda, the girl stood, her lips compressed, as she gazed out across the broad meadow lying between the house! and the little lake in the hollow. How 3he loved the place—and just because she and Douglass were poor this man, this bully, had it in his power to take it away from them. Tears of chagrin came to her eyes. Sulov Talak came shuffling up the, path, and stopped short when he saw her. But he did not speak until she addressed him. Elizabeth's own unhappiness made her suddenly sorry for this poor wretch. Since the death of his dog he had wandered about like an un easy spirit. "Good afternoon. Talak." she said impulsively, forgetting for the in stant her fear of him—forgetting everything but his miserable appear ance. "Good afternoon," he muttered. "It's been a warm day," Elizabeth remarked. "It's hard to work in such weather." "It's always h4rd to work for dis boss here." Talak grumbled. "I hate him!" A Hatred of Chapin His swift change of manner startled Elizabeth. The Pole's hands were clenched and his eyes glared menacingly. She wondered if his grief at the death of the dog of the heat of the day had not affected his befogged mind. "Well, well", she soothed, "that's too bad. But we will hope that to morrow will be cooler and the work seem easier." ."Not when dat old beast is here!" the man exclaimed. "Dat's what he call Nig—'beast'—damn him!" His voice broke- Elizabeth was reminded, sickeningly, of the day on which he had burst into passionate sobs at the death of his dog. With a murmur of sympathy she turned back into the house. She did not want to increase this poor creature's excitement. As she entered the hall John But ler came out of the large parlor on Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *—* By McManus the left of the front door. This room was always dark and cool and seldom occupied. Elizabeth started a she saw But l ler. "I did not know you were there!" She exclaimed. "Yes," he said quietly, "I had a | slight headache from the heat, so i! went into the parlor, where it wasi ' cool, and lay down on the sofa for| a few minutes. I must have fallen j j asleep, but 1 did not know I had i done so until I heard Mr. Chapin 1 i speak to you out in the hall just! now." "Oh!" She caught her breath.; i "You were lying there then?" "Yes," he replied, "I was lying! 'there then- I was about to make my presence known—as soon as I j realy awoke—but you went out upon; I the porch." Then he heard Chapin speak to : her of her letters from Douglas? What must he think? (To Be Continued) Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX HAD NOT SHOWN HER ENOI tJH ATTENTION i DEAR MISS FAIRFAX; ! I,am 19 and last winter went out a' j few times with a man of 21. For the | last few months I haven't been out i with him. but talked over the phone 1 quite a few times. Last week he call- ! ed me up and told me he was! | leaving for camp the next week and asked me whether I would like to have dinner with him. I accepted the invitation. At the dinner table he made it clear to me that he would like me to wait for him. I told him he had not shown me enough attention for that, but when he returned from ' the war if there were no obstacles in the way our friendship could be re newed. As I have no mother or sis ters would you advise me if I did the right thing? E. F. You neglected the highly important detail as to whether you cared about the young man or not. But I suppose as long as you gave him some encour agement, you are at least interested. Your answer to him strikes me as ex tremely prudent—almost too prudent for any deep feeling. Perhaps you will learn to care more for him while he is away. 0 MAKING THE MOST OF . A OUR CHILDREN VJ ' " A Series of Plain Talks to rresidmt o£ the Parents Association. tCop J vrlght,_llß.Jjy the Parents Association. Inc.) No. 23. Is Mother-instinct Enough? Mother love and mother instinct | are powerful and take the place of actual knowledge of right method in many cases, hut mother instinct alone is not enough. Natural im pulses are not always right. One mother writes to me: "My three-year-old daughter has begun to be saucy. When I command her to do things, she 'sauces' me back. I have often told her not to talk back to me. But she is so determined. Did I not do the right thing?" Yes, you did the right thing, but perhaps not at the right time. And perhaps not in the right manner. The impertinent child needs to be told not to talk back, but few par ents understand how to tell him in a really effective way. It is natural to scold, which is worse than to be silent. It is also natural to speak to the child the instant after the of fense. but this is not the right time. When your child "talks back," say nothing at all for at least a few sec onds after she has spoken. To wait two or three minutes is still better. ; Business Man Of Dauphin Has Tale To Tell Searched For Five Years Before Meeting With Success "After a search of five years suc cess came to me through following the crowd." said Henry Clay Frantz, a contractor and builder of Dauphin, Pa., near Harrisburg. "I suffered from constipation "at that time. I saw in the newspapers what Tanlac had done for others and resolved to try it. One bottle cured me. It toned up my stomach; completely got rid of the constipa tion; stopped the continual pur chases of laxatives which I formerly had to make and made me feel like a new man." Tanlac now is being specially in troduced ahd explained in Harris- \ irnrg at George Gorgas' drug store, j THE KAISER /IS I KNEW HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS By ARTHUR N, DAVIS, D. D. S. (Copyright, 1018, bj the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) (Continued.) i To secure gold for my work was j most difficult. The government had j taken charge of the gold refineries i and allowed only a small amount to |be distributed each week. Repre | senlatives of the various arts and | professions using gold had to stand in line in the hope of being allotted a small share, and very often only those who were fortunate enough to ; be in the front part of the line got 1 what they wanted, the others, after remaining in line, perhaps for hour , j had to leave with nothing to show I for their pains. I found a simpler method. I sent I several large cakes of chocolate— ! at $7 per pound—every week to the I girl who had charge of the gold i counter and every week she set j aside a certain amount of gold for | ' me and afterwards sent it to me by j j registered mail. This was not a j | particularly safe method, as even j j the registered mail was being con-! : stantly robbed, and one considered i himself lucky if twenty-five per cent, j ! of the packages mailed to him ar | rived. • j Horses were gradually disappear j ing from sight when 1 left early this year. One saw them lying about the streets where they dropped from exhaustion, and what disposition was made oi' their corpses can well be imagined. I is quite certain that ,no part wrs i wasted. The fire department was j constantly called upon to help I fallen horses to their feet. I hired a droschke, one of the few | remaining, to take me for a short I ride. The horse refused to move | and the cabby started to beat him. I I asked him what the trouble was I and he explained that as the animal I was limited to three pounds of offel ; j food, simply straw, per day, he . couldn't get -much work out of him j without-beating him. Rather than [ see the animal maltreated I got out and walked. | Above all, act calmly. Have your I daughter come directly in front of j j you; get her undivided attention, j Then, very slowly and in a confiden tial way, suggest that, from now on, j she is not to "talk back" when told ! to do anything. Tell her you simply will not permit It. When you have told her jivhat you j expect of her in a quiet but impres- ] ; sive way, begin at once to show your j I friendliness. The natural thing for ' j most parents when a child offends, ,is to keep the atmosphere cold, to 1 appear independent and distant, but j this is unwise from the standpoint of 1 results. It would be folly of course to com 'promise in any way during the con ! fidential talk. Let the talk be ser i ious business from start to finish, i giving the idea that you know pre | cisely what you want and expect in i the way of behavior. But hasten to j show that your spirit is friendly. Do | something or say something that | signifies yo*ir friendly attitude. You may be advised to ignore the ! saucy child on the theory that, if he | ■ j gains nothing in the way of atten- j | tion, he will discontinue it. You may i also be told to let the child play I alone a while as a natural punish j ment for her not being friendly when ; with others. Of course, the latter method might be used as a last re ! sort in case the saucy attitude was i displayed with other children. But j neither of these methods is advised for general use. The best method is j to tell the child the proper way to act and to retain the closest friend ; ship with her. You as a parent must, in dealing j with all habits in which temper is i involved observe two points closely, i First your child must be in good i health—he must be properly fed and ! his bowels in good order. Second, j he must not be allowed to sets ex j amples of the wrong attitude shown ; by adults (especially his parents) or |by other children, any more than j you can help. ' Give your children all the freedom | the need in the field of permissible things, but stand up uncomprisingly ; for the highest ideals in child dis t cipline. Only thus will you be doing j the best for your child. (Copyrighted, 1318, The Pa - cnts .*-! soclation, Inc.) Dogs, too, nearly vanished from j city life. A man I know, who had i kept a fine Newfoundland dog, told | me that it had disappeared one; night and the next day its skin was ■ found hanging on the fence with a j sign reading: "Died for the Father land." J One of the principal articles of i fresh meat to be seen in the butcher j shops consisted of black crows. [ They were selling at 75 cents apiece.; There was something ludicrous in; the thought of the Germans being! compelled to "eat crow," but there ' were little to laugh at in eating it j oneself. To obtain oil, prizes were offered I to the schoolchildren to collect fruit seeds, from which it could be ex-! traded, and veritable mountains of | 1 the seeds were thus obtained. The staple item of the diet of the : I poorer classes in Germany had al- j ; ways been the potato and the scarc | lty of that article resulted in much suffering. When in the early months |of 1917, potatoes were absolutely unobtainable, hysterical rumors be- i came current among the hunger- j crazed workers. It was reported, j for instance, that one pf the German : U-boats had captured a German ship; bound from Stettin on the Baltic to j England and that its cargo consisted entirely of potatoes—the inference! being that the German agrarians j were such traitors that they were | allowing their fellow-countrymen to j starve for the sake of .the profit [ they could make from dealing with i the enemy. This report spread j broadcast and became so menacing; the government had to contradict j it through the newspapers. The last meal I had in Berlin was lon January 21, 1918, when I dined t lat the Hotel Adlon. It consisted of i I one sardine, three thin slices of cold , smoked salmon, soup which was I hardly more than hot salt water, two small boiled potatoes and a substitute for cornstarch pudding. No butter and no sauces of any kind were served. Black bread I took in my hocket. The check for this elaborate tabl§ d'hote meal amounted to $4.50. The following day when I left for I Copenhagen my lunch for the trip, J carried in my pocket, consisted of j four pieces of awful black bread j smeared with goose grease. My journey to Copenhagen via the ! railroads of Germany was not with- I out its dangers. The fact was that I the rolling stock was in a terribly | dilapidated condition. There had j been no replacements to speak of | since the war, repairs were neg- j lected and there was no adequate in- j [ spection of the roads. A ear with- ' | out at least two flat wheels was a I very great exception. Constant j I wrecks were the result of those con- : '■ ditions. and one constantly read of: WOMAN WORKS -15 HOURS A DAY i Marvelous Story of Woman's - Change from Weakness to Strength by Taking Druggist's Advice. Peru, Ind.—"l suffered from a dis placement with backache and drag- j gin g down) pains so badly that at times I j on my feet and j Jgjfe I it did not seem j 'pgsL L as though I j \V) could stand it. ! '■■WbSj \ v_ * tried differ- ! ent medicines j without any if several doctors told me noth i f w/M operation wou 'd nle / W,'[m/J any good. My * JmL ''//// druggist told XiM /nil nie of Lydia I A® M" E- Pinkham's \> 1 \\l V Vegetab 1 e \(' \> V V Compound. I I . \ ">"U took it with the result that I am now well and strong. I get up in the morning at four o'clock, do my housework, then go to a factory and work all day, come home and get supper and feel good. I don't know how many of my friends I have told what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me."- —Mrs. Anna Meteriano, 36 West 10th St., Peru, Ind. Women who suffer from any such ailments should not fail to try this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. terrible accidents to troop trains and | pasenger trains because of faulty equipment or inefficient handling j Most of the street cars were run j by women and their inexperience J and nervousness increased the dan- ! gers of street travel. To sum up the situation as I was | ) able to observe it, living conditions ; '.n Germany in January of this year! were rapidly becoming absolutely | unbearable. How much worse they ) can become without bringing on in- I ternal troubles which will bring ; about the collapse of the German mimmMmfammimmimmmimmirmmiimmmimimim ifjjj Give Your Old Clothes to the Belgium Relief 1J 1 i 1 jj jjj The Kaufman Underselling Policy 1 Is Practicable and Proves Its Merits I I I Every Day to Thousands of People | " ;; —; 1 CJ The Kaufman Underselling Policy has built our busi- |j ness to its present large size. |j CJ Although war conditions have increased prices general ly, our steadfastness in adhering to our policy has not k wavered. QJ CJ You ask, "How can this be?" The answer is direct and simple. We are satisfied with smaller profits. ju CJ What benefit are smaller profits to us in war time, while many concerns take advantage of the times to make larger profits? |j CJ That, too, is easy to answer. We are looking ahead to the future, to the time after the war; and we are getting |j a greater volume of business—serving more and more |j people—all the time. || CJ While we are rendering this war-time economy serv- || ice, we are at the same time rendering a patriotic service by helping people save money. iy CJ The money you save you can put into Liberty Bonds. The more you save the more bonds you can buy. CJ Our Fall and Winter stocks are complete in every de partment and all goods are marked at Kaufman's if] famous Underselling Prices. v: | | Empire can be only a matter of con jecture. CHAPTER XX WUI There Be a German Revolution? ) Prophesying is a rash undertak ing at best: in these cataclysmic times it approaches rank presump ! tion. Nevertheless, the danger of at tempting to penetrate the curtain of the future lies principally, I imag ine, in the difficulty of understand ing the present. The more accurate our knowledge of prevailing condi tions. at any rate, the easier it be comes to estimate their probable consequences. Our views as to the future may prove unsound, of course, no matter how correctly we gauge the present, but certain it is that if we start out ! with an inadequate knowledge of the present we shall make a sad mess when we attempt to appraise the future. (To He Continued.) 5
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