firWmeiv<md aH Ike ferssiKj jjffifpj THE PLOTTERS A New Serial of East and West By Virginia Tcrhuna Van de Water CHAPTER XLIII. * (Copyright, 1918, Star Company.) I There was an awkward silence after John Butler had made his re mark. Elizabeth felt she must speak. "I—l —was just talking to poor old Talak out there," indicating the front porch. "He has looked queerer than ever since his dog was killed. I wonder what's going on in that craxy brain of his?" "He has been practically useless for the past week or two —or so L'hapin says," Butler remarked. "I heard him toll Talak he was going to discharge him as soon as it suited his convenience to do so. If the poor fellow had sense enough he would leave, anyway. But 1 suppose he knows that, with his inefficiency, lie could hardly get another job." "Yes!" Elizabeth exclaimed in dignantly. "And Amos Chapin knows it too. And that is why he bullies the poor wretch, and threat ins him. 1 hate Talak myself—but 1 hate still more to see any helpless; creatures taken advantage of." She paused, remembering that man of whom she was saying such | bitter things was supposed to bej ihe husband of her cousin. But But ler did not seem astonished at htrj vehemence. "I agree with you entirely." he,! said quietly. "And I sympathize, with your indignation. You see, l| heard a part of what Mr Chapin was saying to you in the hall. I! understand that he wants to bu>-| this farm." i Don't Let Soap Spoil Your Hair When you wash your hair, be careful what you use. Most soaps! and prepared shampoos contain too [ much alkali, which is very injurious, I as it dries the scalp and makes the 1 liair brittle. The best thing to use Is Just plain niulsified cocoanut oil, for this is! pure and entirely greaseless. It's! very cheap, and beats the most ex- | pensive soaps or anything' else all j to pieces. You can get this at any ; drug store, and a few ounces will i last the whole family for months. Simply moisten the hair with wa- 1 ter and rub it in, about a teaspoon- I U/ls all that is required. It makes] fii abundance of rich, creamy lather, i cieanses thoroughly, and rinses out -easily. Tho hair dries quickly and 1 •venly, and Is soft, fresh looking, j jrlght, fluffy, wavy and easy to han- i die. Besides, it loosens and takes out every particle or dust, dirt and j dandruff. gjgillillMM Get your old clothes ready for the Belgian and French Relief Committee collections will be = §ji made this week. Ml i| B | Cretonnes J I Cretonnes J P, They Play a Wonderful | Part in Making a Home II jjj H Beautiful, comfortable, liveable homes rarely Jj| |j ever HAPPEN! |g Almost without exception they are MADE, p Some brain plans wisely—some store sup- M I plies the materials. • E Cretonnes, rich, gorgeous cretonnes such i| as only GOLDSMITH'S sell play an import- 5 ant part in changing the house to a home. We show every conceivable color and de- 9| sign—everything that is new when it is new 1 —bird, butterfly and floral designs as well as § many conventional patterns. Cretonnes for 1 every use and at prices to meet every purse. <|| 35c to $1.50 per yd. B Consult us about all your drapery needs te| selections are unequalled —an expert's advice is = GOLDSMITH'S J North Market Square WEDNESDAY EVENING, Harrirburg TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 25, 1018 "Yes--" Elizabeth began. Then she stopped again, horribly embarrassed. Butler must have heard her acknowledge that she had had u letter from Wade, lie also must know by this time (hat Douglas was engaged to Alice But ler. ,"There is something I must toll you," she said abruptly. Her breath came fast. The most casual observ er could not tail to see that she was deeply ugitated. "There is nothing that you must tell me," he corrected gravely. "What's more. I do not want to hoar anything that you do not really want to confide to me." "Thank votl," she murmured, look ing toward the head of the stairs. She feared that Amos Chapin might be listening to the conversation be tween his two boarders. Butler say the glance and in-] terpretcd it correctly. "If you < omc into the pajrlor," hej suggested, "we can talk more un- ] reservedly. -It is at least Cool and l comfortable in here —In spite, with 1 un effort at a smile, of the fact that] the room is never opened for any thing except state affairs—such as' weddings and funerals, I suppose. "I do not know that they hu">e; ever had either of those functions here." Elizabeth strove to speak i lightly. 1 Wonder why the Chapins; never use this room. It is opened once in a long while, swept and dusted and then shut up tight again. However .on a day like this the] close air is so much cooler than that outside that it feels good." She had followed her companion' into the big parlor, and now seated] herself in tlit- corner of a black I horsehair sola. The man- drew a| chair opposite and sat down. "I remember this furniture as long] as I can remember anything," she j mused. She was talking against time, in | the hope of calming her beating | heart. But her plan did not have the de-i sired result, for John's next speech; set her pulses to racing madly. No Use in Pretending "Have the Chapins always lived here—l mean, were they here when j Dr. Wade's people used to spend j their summers on this farm?" She shook her head. "I don't] think so," she stammered. "But of; course I do not remember the time i when the Chapins were not here." j There was nothing to tie gained j by pretending any longer. She would confess that she was no rela tive of the farmer and his wife. "I want to tell j'ou." she began, moistening her lips with her tongue, j Butler either did not hear her or I ! Bringin UP Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *— * By McManus ,°l . ) Two* t RON<i A A BELIEVE ) -A 0 bHE H\T /\ PAKPf LAVT NKJHT -\ - XOU WE OP A f I \ ... t>HE DID L7\ ~ f ME BEFORE I J \•z -i ENDED N /S FI6HT I M J V- <*OOD EXCUSE I H*D A, / \ - - YOO . *FTER I 1 I W'%l: i , HAD AfUkNCF I Uilll:.- Ajt'xoOior J CfcCXiMH IMjT i [--i-HU PER. e>EN-OOT <REKT E*CObE | - S ) i\ uJ I Jt. lomtheone L " TE? UP " J : >1 ' ■ ■ ■. ■ _'' ""frf * wished to spare her a distressing! ! revelation. "You know Dr. Wade," he said! abruptly, "so you will be interested 1 ' to learn that he is engaged to my I sister. I got a letter from Alice and one from my mother a few hours ago." Now was the time for her to cast, aside all reserve. "Yes." she said suddenly, "I know, about it." ''You know about it!" he repeat-1 ! ed, astonished. "Why, it is not an- i r.ounced yet Surely, Wade has | not" — "Yes," she interrupted, "he has written me of it. He felt that 1, I had a right to know about It. Oh. I Mr. Butler —didn't Clifford Chapin, ! tell you about Douglas and me?" Her question was followed by a • silence so long that she was fright- i i ened. "X must tell you the truth." 3he! I hurried on. "I am not the Chapin'sj ] cousin. I—" I "I know that!" the man's voice ■ was hoarse. "I have known that for ! some days." "Clifford Chapin told you?" she asked eagerly. "He told you every j thing?" I "Everything?" Butler repeated ! dully. "You mean"— j "About Douglas and me—and our i little plot—and why we"— ! She stopped appalled by the i change that swept over his face, i Even in dim light he could see how white she had grown. "Don't!" he said sharply, spring ing to his feet and standing above her. "Don't tell me! I did not be- I lieve it then, and by Heaven I won't ! believe it now!" (To Be Continued.) Lansing Denies the U. S. Is Mediator in China Washington. Sept. 25.—Secretary j Lansing yesterday authorized an un | equivocal denial of the widely-pub lished report that#the United States [ and Great Britain had offered to i mediate between the Pekin govern i ment and the revolutionists of south ! ern China. Mr. Lansing said such a I step never had been contemplated ! by this government. Daily Dot Puzzle •4i A n 42 44 37 4o • . . . • *45 3b 38 33 *43 • • o *4fe 34. 35 47 33 ~.'.L • 40 49 i • sz 51 • *3l 27 35 * *5O ** * '*s4 *" 23 • * lfl #53 •5b #53 ' a In • • 2b* *B* *o°y2' * 37 ,7 ' 'is'" 5 15#5 . 0 .5b 16 'V •4 . feo I: ••••■ !,% A 9 V G8 3. 7Z *7o * 2 *7l * *73 <i>\ i I W| *7B' 74 J ' Trace sixty-four lines and you'll know What my name is—don't be slow! Draw from one to two and so on to the end. USE RESINOL FOR BAD SKIN TROUBLE Considers Recovery Remarkable Brooklyn. N. Y„ Aug 14.—"For al i most six years I suffered from a se ! vere case of skin trouble which be 'gan with swelling and intense pain lin my knee. Then my leg became 1 inflamed and sores broke out, which j itched an.l burned terribly day and ! night. I tried many remedies, out | gained no relief. I even spent six S months in the hospital, and the doc i tors wanted to amputate my leg. At ! last I tried Resinol Ointment and I Resinol Soap and obtained relief ! from the first application. Mv knee 1 is now well, and I consider the cure i remarkable, as my trouble was very serious." (Signed) Mrs. Henri Mauer, 416 Hooper ; Street. All druggists sell Resinol Oint 1| ment and Resinol Soup. 1 THE KAISER AS I KNEW HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S. (Copyright. 1918. bj the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) — (Continued.) In this way, the second year of | | the war found the German people j J with their faith in their leaders | comparatively unshaken. Disasters I | had been so skilfully concealed or | minimized and victories had been i so widely circulated and magnified j that the people were, if possible,! : more solidly behind the war and i : keener for its vigorous prosecution ! in 1916 than they were when it' | started two years before. On May Day, 1916, the Socialist! I Liebknecht addressed a crowd in ; the Potsdamer Platz and his dia- I j tribes against the Kaiser were so! | distasteful even to hiS own support-| | ers that they unanimously turned 1 against him when he was arrested. 1 ! The criticism was made that as he j I was a member of the Reichstag it 1 was undignified for hint to speak! j openly against the government from .; a barrel in the public square, and I many Socialists with whom I after- ; ,! wards talked, said his arrest served ■ j him right. ! Then Schneidman became the i I most conspicuous Socialist in the! ; public eye, but he has developed into ■ j a most conservative advocate of so i ciaiistic principles, and, indeed, the | whole party has been torn to pieces ]by dissensions and internal differ , ences. The Socialists were never ' less of a problem to the government i than during the early years of the I war. I When, however, the food shortage I began to grow to serious propor- J tions and the people were put on 'I such meager rations that the pangs ■| of hunger and the ravages of dis . ease became a constant reminder of the war and its consequences, a spirit of unrest became noticeable. ' No one seemed to care very much • that the war which was to be over . by Christmas. 1914, was still very L far from over by Christmas, 1916, . ! so long as everyone had plenty to Meat and the German cause was 0 MAKING THE MOST OF r\ OUR CHILDREN V A Series of Plain Talks to Ry C Beery, A.8., V ■>. ./ President of the Parents Association. (Copyrighted. 1918, by The Parents AasociaUon, Inc.) Ji". 24. Why Parents Fail to Secure Obedience. OBEDIENCE First" is an excel- . lent motto in training chil- I dren. And yet, how compara tively few parents are able to secure j absolute obedience! Why is this? Is it due to a lack of I knowledge or simply failure to ap ply knowledge already acquired? Or is it, perhaps, both? Let us take an example. A mother ■ writes me: "This morning our boy, aged three, started the electric toaster as is his i custom. He usually takes the bread ! off the toaster also, but as the toast j was burning his father took off one > piece. Result —one dreadful howl. We gave it to him to put in again to pacify him: down on the floor he threw it. His father took him into the living room and talked to him but nothing would appease hint; he howled and howled. Then I took him upstairs and tried to hold hint in bed as punishment until we both were exhausted. Please tell me what to do as I am almost sick over it." The outstanding point in the an alysis of your case is the fact that you have given this boy entirely too much attention at wrong times. For j ' example, when, your husband took j' off the burnt piece of toast, and the j •' boy set up a howl, you certainly 1 1 looked upon it as an undesirable j" thing for a child to do—and it was decidedly so. Then, in order not "to encourage the very same kind of action in the future you should not have rewarded him for his conduct. By giving the toast to the child to put in again, he virtually was re warded. And scarcely anything worse could have been done! The fact that this boy threw the toast on the floor after you offered it to him indicates that he probably has discovered on previous occasions that he can make you serve. He finds j a certain pleasure in getting others to go clear out of their way to cater , to his slightest whims. If wrong methods are continued, this boy later I will be compelled to get some very ! hard lessons In the world. ( He will cause you endless trouble unless you start in at once to teach him that howling or screaming gets him absolutely nothing. Don't even ; talk to him when he begins to cry. much less try to do anything with him. Simply pay no attention to i him. j everywhere triumphant. But when | the ordinary mode of life was being | ! constantly changed by one military j I restriction after another and the | pinch of hunger and deprivation bc i san to be felt throughout the em pire, then the people began to ask questions. Why haven't the U-boats subju i gated the Knglish fleet and opened | the German ports, and together with the Zeppelins brought England to i her knees? Why does the war, | which was to be over in three months, now. enter its third year? | Why are we pressing into French j and Russian territory if our only j object is to defend our borders? | Why are we suffering for lack of food and clothing, if we are winning ' in the field ? By the time America came into j the war, in April, .1917, conditions i had become very bad from an eeo | nornic standpoint and the murmer j ing of the people was becoming more I pronounced. People were now not ! only asking questions; they were be- I ginning to insist upon answers. | Strikes were breaking out all over 1 the country. Robbery and bribery | were never so rampant in the history jof the nation. The birth rate had | declined at an alarming rate and the death-rate among civilians was rapidly climbing. Poor food and insufficient nour ishment were beginning to make themselves felt and seen. The na tion was being slowly but surely starved to death and the people were beginning to realize it. Ersatz — substitute—foods were not enough jto satisfy physical requirements. ; They might deceive the eye but they couldn't deceive the blood. The suffering that the people had to endure began to undermine their faith in their rulers. I heard mur j muring on the streets and in the street cars, and patients who carhe j into my office were not hesitant in < expressing themselves freely about i the outlook. The big mistake that most parents fnake in dealing when a bov of this I type is that they let the child's mood j influence theirs and consequently they show temper. But this is very I unwise. If you want the best re- j suits, maintain a calm, but firm at titude, which suggests to the child I that you have the situation abso- 1 lutely in hand. Then you are in a ; position, the moment the boy shows \ the least sign of a friendly spirit, to | respond to him courteously and ! thereby reward him for his desired j change of attitude. This is not only impossible, in case you show dis gust, but the boy would not very quickly change his attitude in the first place. The two great general causes of disobedience are a lack of friend ship between parent and child and a lack of consistent firmness on the part of the parent. Of course, vari ous factors may serve as causes for disobedience in particular cases, but each of them is related directly or indirectly to one or the other of the I two fundamental causes. Your child's obedience, therefore, will practically be assured if you are consistently friendly and, at the same time, consistently firm when firmness is required. LEAVE ALL YOUR SKIN TROUBLES TO POSLAM "Get things done" in the quickest, most efficient way. * That's the de mancj of to-day. Because Poslam is so well able to combat skin troubles, goes at them energetically right at the start, and finishes what it begins, it should be first aid to any sufferer from eczema. Itchbig stops; angry skin is soothed and comforted. Pimples, rashes, scalp-scale and minor troubles usualy need few applications. Here is quality—concentrated. Sold everywhere. For free sample write to Emergency Laboratories, 243 West 47th St., New York City. And Poslam Soap, being medicated with Poslam, will benefit your skin while used dally for toilet and bath. Advertisement. in October, 1917, through the in fluence of a prominent German of ficer, t who was a patient of mine, I secured permission to accompany my wife to Warnemunde, from which port she was to saij for Copen hagen. On the way back to Berlin, all the available seats in the lirst and second-class compartments were taken and I had to occupy a third class compartment in yie train. Al though this was somewhat less com fortable. I\ was rather g!ad of the experience because it enabled me to overhear an extremely enlightening conversation between the seven or eight passengers w'ho-shared the compartment with me. They were of the common people—the back bone of the empire—and their point of view w.jfes well worth considera tion. As soon as I realized tho drift of their -remarks, I sank down in my corner seat and pretended to be asleep for fear they would be more guarded in their utterances if they realized or suspected that a for eigner was listening to them. One of the group was a soldier return ing to the front after a. furlough which had been granted to him for the purpose of buryins his daugh ter. When he had arrived home he found that his daughter had died from the effects of undernourish ment. "You may know how I feel." he declared, bitterly, "to have .to go |j Does Your Home Need Music? iS : 1 Why Not Get a hi ! lIIT New Edison jli "The Phonograph With a Sour } ||| I Never was the need of good music J HBP /Mnr7 e home more necessary than <£js " /0-- '■, < now, in these times of stress and !' HEp 1 Music is one of life's greatest j wjflj fcgfef' comforts. And in the New Edison , B y° u have . music > real music - Un - I §ll Iwwi \imsm or^nary ta lking machines, |j||| |p§|l : which merely imitate music,, the [JW: fllll f ew Edison actually re-creates j' ||||| n! As a result one never tires of the | ' New Edison; the novelty never . j|j|jfcjj j |BM| 1 And the New Edison is the most • flfi economical to own. Don't be led > fel I J |J to believe that it is higher priced. l||f II ■ There are Edison Cabinet models | §at $l2O, $175, $220 and $275, any p| a of which may be purchased on rental payments when desired. g|| ! Come to our store and hear the New Edison play youv ! [' favorite selections. We will gladly demonstrate it to you and explain how it plays all makes of records. Hear the Victrola, Vocalion and Chcyne, too. New Edison Records |g| , Just Received Including the latest patriotic and popular selections, Wi£M New dance and instrumental novelties, classic and sacred mm||] numbers, and many selections that have been long wanted. 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But the point is—don't suffer with Catarrh —it is not necessary. The remedy S. S. S., discovered over fifty years was neutral. I tell you. I don't be lieve it. I've got a brother in Amer ica. He's been there for ten years. He has written to me many times end has told me much about the American people. I believe that when the American people go Into anything they go into it with all their hearts. How long are we go ing to allow tho government to de ceive us this way?" ' * (To Be Continued.) #Ko, tested, true and tried, is obtain able at any drug store. It has proven its value in thousands of cases. It will do so in your case. Get S. S. S. at once and begin treatment. It yours is a long standing case, be sure to write for free expert medical ad vice. We will tell you how this purely vegetable blood tonic cleanses the impurities from the blood by literally washing it clean. We will prove to you that thousands of suf ferers from Catarrh, after consistent treatment with S. S. 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