THE PLOTTERS * A New Serial of East and West By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER I,VII. (Copyright, 1918, Star Company) Elizabeth Wade went into her own room, gripping John Butler's letter tightly. It seemed the one thing for her to hold fast to. Some instinct made her turn the key in the door behind her. She could not endure the possibility of any one's intruding on her privacy. Then she sat down and with tremb ling hands tore open the envelope she held. "My darling," she read. Her first love letter! As a girl she had dreamed of the man who would some jjay write to her like this. In her dazed condition she had al most forgotten her anxiety and fear. Now both rushed back upon her like mighty forces as she read what her lover had to tell her. He was being detained pending further investigation into the death of Amos Chapin. That was the way , he put it. To the girl the sentence meant but one thing. John was accused of murder. 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In falling he must have Hung the pistol upon the table again. It is all like an awful dream to me. 1 know my explanatin sounds insane and ridiculus. it will sound so to the jurors wh will try my case. "You and Mrs. Chapin will be called as witnesses, of course. I wish I could spare you'all this, my darling. My fear is not for myself, but for you—fear that this shock will make yoy 11, fear that you are wretchedly unhappy. I am thank ful your brother is coming. You must do just what he tells vou to do. "Meanwhile there are the count less delays of the'law. You have heard of them. So have I. I have spoken lightly, jestingly of them. 1 shall never do so again. "Do not worry about me, dearest. I am comfortable here in this little country jail. Later, of course, I do not know, and I must be patient and await developments. I will try to write you regularly. Xo Self-Pity "Write to me if you can, please dear. I will tell the man who takes this to wait for an answer." Then there followed repetitions of his love for her and his regret at what he was causing her to suffer— his desire that she try to be happy in spite of all that had happened. Xot a word of self-pity. Not a word of his fear for himself. And ! his life was in danger. Elizabeth sat motionless for some time. She felt unable to make any muscular effort. At last she dragged herself to her feet. Her limbs were numb, her brain dazed. But she must force herself to write some thing to this man, who depended upon her love. Seating herself at the table, she took a sheet of paper out of the drawer and. with unsteady fingers, scribbled a few lines. There was such a blur before her I eyes that she could scarcely see. I John must not suspect this. "Darling." she wrote. (This term of endearment came I naturally from her pen. It was as |if she and John had been married J for years—she took her love and 1 bis so entirely as a matter of ! course.) 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Write to-day, describing your j case to medical department, Swift | Specific Co., 434 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *•* By McManus I WELL-FOR I I FORJSAKE WHERE I I'LL CO AFTER \ OlDtiT V/ANT TO , ) %T~ S FO °L-I'LL <0 MY *M*E YOU ME MADE 50 TH THEM- P, LLIT- ILL <,O itered; "pretending not to be afraid! ; when I am." Unlocking her door, she went on downstairs. The man who had brought John's letter was on the side-porch, Mrs. Miller had said. Eliz.abeth felt she could not face bint. Going to the kitchen, she i handed the letter to Mrs. Miller. Solicitous Soul "Would you mind," she said trem i ulously, "giving this to that man? j Ask hint to rive it to Mr. Butler." When Mrs. Miller had handed the j letter to the messenger and re- I turned to the kitchen she found ; Elizabeth standing where she had | left her. "You look clean tuckered out,"' j the matron remarked solicitously. . "Why not lie down, like Mrs. Chapin's done? What's the mat ter?" as the girl caught at a chair; |to steady herself. "Tell me the 'truth, honey!" "The truth"—Elizabeth's teeth ] chattered as if from a hard chill, j "the truth is that—John—and I are ! engaged to he married. And he is, , held for the—the murder of—of j Anios Chapin." She swayed, and would have fallen but for Mrs. Miller's support-1 ing arms. (To Be Continued) McAdoo Demands That Wilson Shall Be Dictator Washington. Oct. 28.—The storm i iof political fegling occasioned by \ President Wilson's appeal to the ! ! country to vote for none but Demo- ! j cratic candidates, was increased last night by a statement from Secretary' McAdoo. the President's son-in-law, i which is declared to he a supplement to that of the President. in this Secretary McAdoo argues that all authority placed in Congress by the constitution shall be abrogat ed by the voters In the coming elec tion. Mr. McAdoo's specific (declaration is this: "The President, who is oomman- \ der-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, giust not have ! ! the authority divided in the United j ! States between the Congress on the ' one hand and himself upon the ; f other." Congress is the body Mr. McAdoo ] is discussing here, with no reference ; i to either Republican or Democratic i i control. He proceeds, however, to j explain that the abrogation of the authority of Congress can be ac- | complished by the election of a Dem ocratic majority in both houses, which obviously means that there will be no exercise of authority by the Democrats, but absolute dicta tion of legislative action by the President. N. Y. Herald Forecasts' Republican House Majority Now York. Oct. 28.—The New i York Herald, having made its eusto- j mary pre-election canvass, publishes j the results. Its forecast is that the United j States Senate will remain Democrat- ' ic by a reduced majority, but that 1 the Republicans will win control of ! the House by a narrow margin. THREE MARINE CORP AVIATORS ARE KILLED ' Washington, Oct. 28.—Three fatali- r ties among Marine Corps officers in the aviation se/vlce abroad were re ported to the Navy Department to day by Vice Admiral Sims. Second ' Lieutenants Harry C. Norman,' Daven- | port, lowa, and Caleb W. Taylor, i Pelahatchie, Miss., were killed, when j a mobing plane was shot down by the i Germans on the Belgian front. Lieu- I tenant Ralph Talbot.' South Wey r I mouth, Mass., was killed when his j plane fell In trie same sector. FORMER ASSEMBLYMAN DIES Rochester, Pa., Qct. 28.—Hartford P. Brown. 60 years old, of Hope Val ley, R. F.. former member of the Pennsylvania Legislature from Beav er county died t>f heart failure yes terday while visiting relatives. He was elected to the Legislature on the j Republican ticket In 1886. RIOTS DAILY GERMAN SPORT London, Oct. 28.—1t Is persistently reported that riots are of dally occur- | rencc in various parts of Germany, j resulting In conflicts with the police and loss of life. The lack of raw material, especially for explosives, In seriously hampering munition works. , It Is started that Krupps have been compelled to dismiss many workers. Look out for Span ish Influenza. At the first sign of a cold take CASCARAEJ QUININE Standard cold reraed" for JO year*—( tabltfc form —aafe, aure, ,o opiatea—break. up ■ cold la 24 boura—relieves gri| ii diyc. Monev beck If It falls. The genuine* \ha Red top with Mr. HiU'e pictv. . At All Drug Star HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH 0 MAKING THE MOST OF ~ 1 OUR CHILDREN U , J j A Series of Plain Talks to #By Ray C. Beery, A.8., M.A. President of the Parents Association. You never see a child continue long) j any line of action after he finds it | ! doesn't get the desired results. In | this respect, children often are more i sensible than their parents. Take the habit of teasing, for in- | stance. One mother writes to me: | j "Our little daughter expects us to. play with her all the time. She acts! very naughty if we don't play with I her every time she wants us to, which] i of course isn't always possible. Please! I advise how to overcome her disagree- i j able habit." Simply set aside a certain amount i of time—say, five minutes —and let the child understand at the beginning ; of the five-minute period that at the end of that time you will have to go Ito work. Once or twice at least be- j fore the time is up, remind her about! I how many minutes more _you can I ! p|ay. Then, just before you leave, it I ; is a good idea to have her do some j , stunt for you. .Say. "All right, we'll | ( do this two more times together and ' then I must go." Just before execut- j ing the last stunt, announce that it, will be the last. Immediately after | ; doing it, start to leave and even ; l though the child keeps on talking, continue walking toward the place where you are going to work. Never j go back and do another stunt after | , you. have executed what you said would be the last. The child may tease some at first, but if you carry out this policy absolutely, she soon j will discontinue it naturally. It will aid you in solving your prob- I lent to furnish her with some mould- | ing clay, out of which she can make little pies and cakes. Make it a | point to leave sugestions with her' PNEUMONIA IS FATAL TO PASTOR Rev. E. E. Curtis Dies After ' an Illness Lasting but a Few Days t ' j j M i jfl j ' hEV. EDWARD E. CURTIS The Rev. Edward- E. Curtis, for | seven years pastor of Westminster! Presbyterian Church and prior to coming to Hatrisburg for nine years jiastor at Chestnut Level, Lancaster 1 county, died of pneumonia at his' late home, 1502 Green street, yes-! terday morning. He had been! i seriously ill for six days. His wife, too, is seriously ill. Word of his ! death was yesterday communicated | to the officers of Carlisle Presby tery. The Rev. George Fulton, stated clerk of presbytery, referred to the death of the Rev. Mr. Curtis ,as a calamity to prsbytery. Funeral services likel / will be held on Wed nesday morning. Necessarily, be icauso of the ban on public funerals, I the services will be private, being at tended only b/ members of the ses- Ision of Westminster Church, who ! will be pallbearers. Burial will be j at Chestnut Level, within the bounds I of the Presbytery of Lancaster. Upon the retirement of the Rev. I William McNally us pastor of West. | minster, seven years ugo the con ' .'legation called the Rev, Mr, Curtis, •/ho then was serving his first charge at Chestnut Level. It was upon the uggestlon cf the late Rev, Dr, E, ;T, Jeffers, president of York Col. | legists Institute, that Mr, Curtis was | invited to till the pulpit, the congre. ] gatlon beinr advised of the success 'of the pastorate in Lancaster county. The call followed, and the Itev, Mr, Curtis began a pastorate that was characterized by untiring work, Members of Westminster Church who discussed the death of their pastor yesterday did so ia I as to what she might make and then i I approve her in due time for her ef- | I forts. Not only furnish her with in- | j teresting things to occupy her atten- | t tion, and suggestions to carry on, I I but it is quite essential to show aj | great personal interest in her affairs) I and be enthusiastic about her doings. . I Don't be afraid to use suggestions. 1 If you want her to like to play alone, ] 1 talk to others in her presence übout ] ! what a fine time she has playing she I j is baking pies, taking her doll to I I church, etc. Frequently during the • j day when she is playing contentedly, near you, make remarks about how j | she likes to play at whatever she i I happens to be doing. These sugges- I ! tions will have their effect. | One may very quickly cure the teas i ing child by using firmness in the 1 proper way. Too often we have ex- j I press ions like this: "Won't you ever i get through teasing?" or "Don't try ! to tease me all day. can't you see I'm ! busy?" or "Do you want to worry j [ the life out of me when I have so j much to do?" But these all suggest] I fault-finding. % Sueh expressions also ] I tend to make the child think of him ! self as being a teaser and a nuisance | which is by no means desirable. And ; these expressions also suggest weak- j I ness. The better idea is to make no sug- ! , gestions whatever that the child is ' ! not the best friend you have, but in ] i a most calm manner, let the child i understand that teasing doesn't work with you and that you won't have it I done around you. ] The child will soon learn and both parent and child will be happier as a • result of this new policy. broken voice and in many instances with tear-filied eyes. He was dis tinctively a pastor who mingled with his people. He had made the mid week prayer service unique and it , was his custom during the months ] ] that followed the entrance of West ! minsteh boys into the war to have special services of prayer In their ] honor. I Because of the serious illness of Mrs. Curtis, who was stricken with I pneumonia last April at the conclu sion of the meeting of Presbytery, I held in Westminster Church, Mr. j Curtis had been under a severe men- ] tal strain. When the epidemic in-; vaded the homes of his parishioners i he in no wise relaxed his 0 bors in ministering to the sick. It is be- ] lieved the task was more than he; could bear and he went down under; the burden. Although feeling badly 1 on Friday prior to taking his bed he 1 would not give up, and it was not; until the following Sunday he gave! way. His last official act was to) send notices to tHe members of the I congregation appointing a meeting J for the coming Wednesday evening, ! at which time the congregation was to be asked to join in petitioning' Carlisle Presbytery to dissolve the pastoral relations. Because of Mrs. | Curtis' condition he had accepted! I the pastorate of the Presbyterian j [Church at I,es Vegas, New Mexico, where he hoped change of climate I 'would benefit Mrs. Curtis. He had! [made all plans to leave Harrisburg ;nnd was to have departe.d within a i few days. j The Rev. Edwin E. Curtis was 4 6 I years old, a graduate of Princeton] I University of the class of 1899 and | lof the theological seminary of the ! I class*of 1902. Several years ago he ' married Miss Harriet Jeffers, daugh-] ter of the late IteV. Dr. E. T. Jeffers, I [who survives him with one daugh-1 liar. He was a member of the Har-' Irisburg Ministerial Association and | lof the Presbyterian Cleric. Mem- 1 i i era of the congregation are to be i i notified of the arrangements for fill- I ing the pulpit until a pastor shall I | have been secured. The session will ! | submit resolutions and. Carlisle Pres -1 bytery will take action. Will Rush Men Overseas Despite the Peace Talk! Wnahlngton, Oct. 28.—Army train . ing camp commanders have been or dered to eliminate from their shed ules ail work that can be done after ' the men arrive overseas, as one of the moves of thfe War Department . to speed up the enlarged war pro fram and overcome delays resulting rom interference with draft calls by 1 influenza. 1 If the peace talk has had any ef fect at the War Department, It- ap parently has spurred everybody to • further exertions to swell the num • ber of troops going to France. The October draft calls, held up because of the Influenza epidemic. ' are beginning to go out again and ! nothing will be permitted to Inter -1 fere with the movement of soldiers , overseas at the rate of 260,000 month . iy- Daily Rioting Is One of Germany's Troubles 1 London, Oct, ll.—lt la persistently r reported that riots aro of dally oc ' currence in various parts of Ger f many, resulting In conflicts with the 1 police and loss ef life, HAYS CALLS FOR REBUKE OF WILSON [Continued Front First Pago] I ] great party and to your own self- [ ; respect to meet that challenge square- | l ly, not only as Republicans, but as j I Americans. I. as your chairman, call ] j upon you to do it. I Gives Republicans Xn Credit | "Mr. Wilson accords the Republl- j i cans no credit whatever for having | I supported the 'war measures' pro- j I posed by his administration, although ! ] they have done so with greater unan- j i'mity than the members of his own i j party. Despite that fact, he accuses | j therh of having tried to usurp his : proper functions. That charge, as : i Mr. Taft declares in carefully meas- j j ured words, is not true. ) '.'At no time and in.no way have I they tried to take control of the war | out of his hands. The President | knows that. The country knows it. lY'ou know it." j "A more ungracious, more unjust, i more nnnton, more mendacious accu sation was never mnile by (he most reckless stump orator, much less by n president of the I nlteil Stntes for par j tlssn purposes. [ "It is an insult, not only to every loyal Republican In Congress, but to | every loyal Republican in the land. ] It fully merits the resentment which rightfully and surely will find ex pression at the polls. Why Wilson In Partisan I "Mr. Wilson grudgingly admits that | the Republicans have been 'pro-war,' 1 Then why doerf he demand their de -1 feat? Because they are still pro ! war? Hardly that. No. It is be- I cause they are for peace through, ' not without, victory, because they do 1 ] not believe lasting peace can be ob- j ! tained through negotiations; because | they consider that 'U. S.' stands for 1 unconditional surrender as well as for j the United States and Uncle Sam. I The Democratic Congress does not. There is the issue as clean as the noonday sun. The country will de cide. "Mr. Wilson wants only rubber stamps, his rubber stamps, in Con gress. Mr. Wilson says he has 'no thought of suggesting that any-poli tical party is paramount in matters of patriotism,' but he does suggest it, and he suggests further that he alone is paramount in Intelligence." Continuing, Mr. Hays declared one of the President's purposes is to se- I cure power to settle the war "pre- I cisely as he and his sole unelected, unappointed, unconfirmed personal adviser may determine." 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They have turn j ed to him in the belief that he is the ! one great political leader who can Ibe trusted to make a permanent peace, which shall permit equal eco i nomlc development." I'lea That la Absurd ] 'What worse than nonsense, then, ; is the Democratic campaign cry that I the election of a Republican Congress, pledged to unconditional surrender ■ and protection of American industries and American workingmen, instead ]of a Democratic Congress, ready to ] assent to a negotiated peace and free ] trade, 'would bear cheer to Germany. .Such claims would be ludicrous if they were not so seriously unpatrlo -1 tic. "Mr. Wilson calls upon the Repub licans of the country to repudiate their representatives in Congress, ] who have proved true and loyal pa- Nurses Recommend ; Cuticura Soap I It appeals to tliem because It la so pure and cleansing. 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