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HOUSEHOLD
TALKS
Henrietta D. Grauel
Housekeeping With, and Without, Neighbors
The correspondent who asked for di
rections t'or hanging mirrors in her re
ception hall so they would reflect the
face of callers at the door certainly
struck a responsive chord, for many
readers have asked to have the same
information forwarded to them-when it
comes. So far no one seems to know
the exact angle in which to place the
glasses, for as we thought, it all de
{•ends on the entrance and the position
of the inner door. But any number of
worried women are telling how they
must plan to circumvent the early
morning caller or the intruding agent.
Listen to their secrets!
One woman says she had her son ar
range a switch on the electric bell aud
v hen busy and unpresentable she can
turn this so that the bell will not ring.
"This does not work in all cases." she
writes, "for my most troublesome caller
has found out the scheme anil now tele
phones before she comes visitiug. Of
course. 1 must answer my telephone, so
many of my precious morning hours are
taken from me in spite of the silent
door bell,"
\nother confession comes from a city
woman who takes refuge in flight: "1
rave my long coat and hat uear at
hand and when one of my tiring, time
consuming friends (f) "iust drops in
for an hour or two' I am just going out.
It is a real treat to run away from
the house for a few moments and I re
turn more rested than if I had spent a
morning or an afternoon listening to
chia-ehat or gossip."
Vow all these confidences might
make one think that women are grow
ing just a tritle selfish with their time.
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Wife of Minnesota University President
Becomes "Moonlight"'
Walker, Minn., Or". 22. Mrs.;
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but this does not follow. Kather it
shows that they are developing a higher
| regard for it and for themselves,
i When carpet sweepers were tirst put
on the market 1 heard a woman ask
her husband for one. "What would yoji
want with onef" he demanded. "It
would save time." she meekly replied,
i "Craph." snorted the man, "what's a
woman's time wutb and what would
you do with et ef you did save et f"
Happily, this attitude is fast passing
away. Mothers' time is very precious
to her family now. and if she is to keep
up to date, and even with her children,
she must save it and use it for reading,
a little club work, an occasional pleas
ure trip and to make home the love
liest place in the world. No, it is not
selfish to deny your time, interest and
strength to inquisitive strangers, it is
'only sensible, for it permits extending
more generous hospitality to your
chosen friends.
It is just as easy to make friends
with persons of refinement as with those
who never bring you an interesting
thought. Easier even, for intelligent
persons are always approachable. Their
very surroundings and the food they eat
become more interesting for their pres
ence. With them your olives and sar
dines recall a trip to Italy; a penny
print brings forth the history of a fa
mous painting and a Dutch cheese turns
at once into a fairy coach, and awav
you go into Holland! with its dikes and
i windmills.
Share your home with your friends
and neighbors, but as soon as your hos
pitality seems burdensome you will
know you are practicing the wrong
kind.
i ot the t'niverstiy of Minnesota, was ad- j
initted to the C hippewa tribe of Min
| resota Indians, with the name of
' Moonlight.''
Her adoption, the first of anv white!
woman into the tribe, was accompanied
by ceremonies her* Her admission;
was voted some time ago.
Takes Poison by Mistake
Hazleton. Pa.. Oct. 22.—Making a'
mistake in the dark, Mrs. Jennie Fritz i
mger, of West Hazleton. who arose to '
seek relief for a hiinding headache,
took two mercury bichloride tablets for |
headache wafers, anil is dying. 1
THE AFTER HOUSE
A Story of Love. Mystery and a Private Yacht
By MARY ROBERTS
Cafrnfkt, 1913, h tht MtClurt PutJicattons, Jn*.
Coffrxght, 1914, kf Mary 'Rjkrrtt Riwi«r(.
Continued
turner wmried on me. incredulity
•ml rage iti his face.
"You!"
1 put the best fare ! could 011 the
matter, and eyed hitu steadily. "There
; has l>eeu too uilicli drinking »u this
ship." 1 said. < "If you douot it so up
and look at the three bodies on the
i clet'k."
"What have you to do about it?"
"With Schwaru gone. Captain Rich
ardson dead and Singietou in irons the
crew had uo officers. They asked uie
to take charge."
"So! And you used your authority
to uieddle with what Uoes not couceru
! you! The ship has an officer while 1
am on it. Aud there will be no mutiny."
He tiuug into the main cabin aud
■ made for the forward companion way.
i 1 stepped back to allow Miss l<ee to
precede me. She was staudiug. her
back to the dressiug stand, facing the
door. She looked at me aud made a
helpless gesture with her hands, as if
♦.he situation were beyond her. Then
i saw her look down. Siie took a quick
step or two toward the door aud.
J stoopiug. picked up some small object
J from altK-st under my foot. The iuci-
I dent would hare passed without no
| tic had siie uot. in attempting to wrap
j it in her handkerchief, dropped it. I
' saw then that it was H key.
"I-at me set It for you.*' I said. To
my amazement, she put her foot
over it.
"Please - - ee wuat Mr. Tnruer is do
ing. she said. "It is the key to mv
jewel case."
"It is not the key to a jewel case."
"It does not concern yon what it is."
"It is the key to the storeroom
: door."
"You are stronger than 1 am. You
| look the brute. You can knock me
; away and get it."
CHAPTER VII.
"The Dead Cine."
mKNEW then, of course, that it
was tli" storeruout key. But 1
could not take it by force.
Yet 1 had no intention of los
ing the key. I could uot take it by
force, but she knew as well as I did j
what finding it there iu Turner's room i
meant. Turner had locked me iu. But !
I must be able to prove it—ray wits
against hers, aud the advantage mine.
; I had the woman under guard.
| I went up on deck.
! A curious spectacle revealed itself,
j Turner, purple with anger, was ha
j rangutng the uieu. who stood aniicj
! ships, bnddled together, but grim aud
| determined wi; ha I. Burns, a little apart
j from the rest, was standing, sulleu. hi<
arms folded. A* Turner ceased he took '
| a step forward.
I "You are right. Mr.-Turner." he said,
j "It's your ship, and it's up to you to
say where she goes and how she goes
j «lr. But some one will hacg for this. !
j Mr. Turner—some one that's on this
I deck now—and the bodies are going
I back with us. likewise the ax. There
| eln't going to be a mistake. The right
, man is going to swing."
I "That's mutiny!"
"Yes. sir." Bums acknowledged, his
face paling q, little. "I guess you could
j call it that."
At 2 o'clock all hands gathered amid
ships. and the bodies were carried for
ward to where the boat, lowered in its
davits and braced, lay on the deck. It
had beeu lined with ennvas and tar
paulin. and a cover of similar material
lay ready to be nailed iu place. Ail
the men were bareheaded. Many were
in tears. Miss Lee came forward with
us. and it was from her prayer book
that i. too moved for self couscious
ness. read the burial service.
"1 am the resurrectiou and the life." j
I read huskily.
Mrs. Johns and the stewardess came
op late iu the afternoon. We bad
railed off a part of the deck around
the forward companiouway for them,
end none of the crew except the man
on guard was allowed inside the ropes.
After a consultation, ending the snip
very sborthanded and unwilling with
the night coming ou to trust any of the
men. Burns and 1 decided to take over
this dnty ourselves and. by stationing
"It ia not overboard, Mr*. Johns."
I ourselves Mt the top or tlie companion
way. to combine the duties of officer ou
watch mill guard of the nfter bouse.
Mr*. Johns. carefully dressed, sur-
Tejed tlie railed off deck with raised
eyebrows.
"For—us?" she asked, looking at me.
"Yes. Mrs. Johns"
: * "Where have you put them?"
I pointed to where the Jolly boat, on
1 ftie portslde of the ship, swung ou its
davits.
"What did you do with the —the
weapon?"
i "Why do you ask that?"
"Morbid curiosity." she said, with a
lightness of tone that rang false to uiy
ears. "And then-naturally, 1 should
like to be sure that it Is safely over
board. so It will not be"—she shivered
—"used again."
| "It is uot overboard. Mrs. Johns," I
said gravely. "It is locked iu a safe
place, where it will remain until the
police come to take it."
"You are rather theatrical, aren't
you'.'" she scoffed, and turned away.
But a second later she came back to
me and put her hand on my arm.
I "Tell me where it is." she begged,
j "You are making a mystery of it, and
1 detest mysteries "
1 saw under her mask of lightness
then; she wauted desperately to know
where tlie ai was Her eyes fell uu
der my gaze.
"1 am sorry. There is no mystery.
It Is simply locked away for safe
I keeping."
Sliu bit her lip.
"Do yon know what I think?" she
said slowly. "I think you have hyp
notized the crew, as you did me—at
first. Why has no one remembered
| that you were in the after bouse last
night, that yon found poor Wilmer
; Vail, that yuu raised the alarm, that
you discovered tile captain and Karen":
Why should I not call the men here
and remind them of all that?"
j "1 do not believe yon will. They
kuow 1 was locked in the storeroom.
; The door—tlie lock"
"You could have locked yourself in."
j "You do nut kuow what you are say
ing:"
Bur I had angered her. and she went
on cruelly:
"Who are you. auyhow? You are
not a sailor. You came here and were
taken on because you told a hard luck
story. How Jo we know that you
came from a hospital? Men just out
of prison look as you did Do you
know what we called you. the first two
days out? We called you Elsa's jail I
bird! And now. because you have j
dominated the crew, we are ix your j
hands!"
"Do Mrs Turner and Miss Lee think |
that?"
"Tliey feel as Ido This is a picked
crew—men the Turner line has employ
ed for years."
"You are leaving me only one thing [
to do." I said. "I shall surrender my- ;
self to the men at once." 1 took out
my revolver and held it out to her ;
"This rope is a dead line. The crew j
know, and you will have no trouble; j
fcnt you must stand guard here until |
some one else is sent."
She took the revolver without a word !
rnd. somewhat dazed by this uew turn I
of events. I went aft. The men were !
tcuthered there, and 1 surrendered my- I
self.
"It will leave you pretty short hand |
ed. boys." 1 finished, "but you'd hetter j
fasten me up somewhere But I want i
to be sure of one thing first; whatever !
happens. I;eep the guard for the wom I
en "
"We'd like to talk it over. Leslie." j
Burns said, after a word with tlie
others.
I went forward a few feet, taking '
care to remain where they could see
uie. and very soon they called me. j
There had been a dispute. I believe.
Adams and McNamara stood off from
the others, their faces uot unfriendly,
but clearly differing from the decision.
Charlie Jones, who by reason of loug
service and a sort of pious control he
had in the forecastle, was generally
spokesman for the crew, took a step or
two toward me.
"We'll uot do it. boy," he said. "We
think we kuow a man when we see
oue. as well as having occasion to
kuow that you're white all through
Aud we're not inclined to set the talk
of women agaiust what we think best
to do. So yuu stick to your job and
we're back of you."
In spite of myself 1 choked up. 1
tried to teli them what their loyalty
meant to me; but I could only hold
out my band and. one by one. tbev
came up and shook it solemnly.
"We think." McXamara said. when,
last of all, he and Adams came up.
"that it would be best. lad. if we put
down in the log book all that has hap
pened last night and today, and tliis
just now too. it's fresh in our minds
now. and it will be something to go
by."
By unanimous consent the task of
putting down what had happened was
given to me. 1 have a copy of tbe log
book before me now, the oue that was
used at the trial. The men read it
through before they signed it.
Aug. 13.
This morning, between 2:30 and 3 o'clock,
three murders were committed on the
yacht Ella. At the request of Mrs. Johns,
one of the party on board. I had moved
to the after house to steep, putting tny
blanket and pillow in the storeroom an I
sleeping on the floor there. Mrs. Johna
gave, aa her reason, a fear of something
going wrong, as there waa trouble between
Mr. Turner and the captain. 1 slept with
a revolver beside ma and with tbe door
of the storeroom open.
At some time shortly before 3 o'clock I
wakened with a feeling of suffocation and
found that the door was closed and locked
on the outside. I suspected a Joke among
the crew and set to work with my pen
knife to unscrew th« lock. When 1 had
two screws out a woman screamed, and
I broke down the door.
Aa the main cabin waa dark I eaw no
one and could not tell ndiere the cry
cume from. 1 ran Into Mr Veil's cabin,
next the storeroom, and celled him. Ills
door waa standing open I heard him
breathing heavily Then the breathing
stopped. 1 struck a match and found
him dead. His bead had been crushed Sn
with an aa, the left hand cut off. and
there were gashes on the right shoulder
snd the abdomen.
I knew the helmsman would be at the
wheel and ran up the after companlonnav
to him and told him. Then I ran forward
and called the first mate. Mr Singleton,
who was on duty. He had been drinking
1 aaked him to call the captain, but he
did not He got his revolver, and we hur
ried down the forward companion. The
body of tbe captain was lying at the
foot of the steps, his head on the lowest
stair. He had been killed like Mr Vail.
His cap had been placed over his face.
The mate collapsed on the steps. 1
found the light switch and turned It on
There was no one In the cabin or In the
chart room. I ran to Mr Turner's room,
going through Mr. Vail s and through ihe
bathroom. Mr. Turner was in bed, fulh
dressed. I could not rouse him. Like th
mate, he had been drinking.
The male had roused the crew, ami
they gathered In the chart room I toM
them whut had happened and That ill*
murderer must be among us I fcuggesit
that the> slay together and thai ih
submit to being searched for weapons
They went on deck in a body, and I
roused the women and told them. Mrs
Turner asked me to tell the two maids,
who slept in a cabin off the chart room
I found their door unlocked and, receiving
no answer, opened It Karen Hansen, the
lady's maid, was on the floor, dead, with
her skull crushed In. The stewardess.
Henrietta Sloane, was fainting In her
bunk. An ax had been hurled through th?
doorway as the Hansen woman tell and
was found in the stewardess' bunk.
Dawn coming by that time I suggested
a guard at the two companionwavs. an.t
this was done. The men were searched
and all weapons taken from them. Mr
Singleton was under suspicion. It
known that he had threatened the cjp
tain s life, and Oleson, a lookout, claiming
to have seen him forward where the ax
was kept.
The crew Insisted that Singleton be put
In Irons He made no objection, and ivu
locked him in his own room in the for
ward house. Owing to tbe loss of
Schwartz, tile second mate, already re
corded In this log book (see entry for
Aug. 9> the death of the captain and tile
imprisonment of the first mate, ilie ship
was left without officers. L'ntil Mr. Tur
ner could make an arrangement the cre.v
nominated Burns one of themselves, as
mate and asked me to assume c< nniand
1 protested that 1 knew nothing of navl
ttatlon. but agreed on its being represent
ed that, as 1 was not one of them, the-e
could be no 111 feeling.
Tbe ship was searched on the possibil
ity of finding a stowaway in the hold
But nothing was found I divided tile
men into two watches. Burns taking one
and I the other. We nailed up the after
companionwav and forbade anj member
of the crew to enter the after house. Tile
forecastle was also locked, the men brlns
ing their belongings on deck. The stew
ardess recovered and told her story,
which. In her own writing, will be added
to this record.
The bodies of the dead were brought j
on deck and sewed into canvas and later. I
with appropriate services, placed In the i
.lolly boat, it being the Intention, later on. j
to tow the boat behind us Mr. Turner I
insisted that the bodies be buried at sea !
and, on the crew opposing this, retired to
his cabin, announcing that he considered
the position of the men as mutiny.
Some feeling having arisen among the
women of the party that I might know
more of the crimes than was generalh I
supposed, having been In the after house j
at the time tiiey were committed ami j
having no references. I this afternoon vol-1
untarily surrendered myself to Burns,
acting first mate The melt, however, re-1
fused to accept this surrender, only two,
Adams and McNatnara, favoring it. 1 ex
pect to give myself up to the police at thei
nearest port until the matter is thorough
ly probed.
Hie ax is locked in the captain's cabin '
RALPH LESLIE I
Witnesses. John Robert Burns. Charles!
Klineordlinger (Jones). William McNa- j
mara. Carl L. Clarke. Joseph y Adams. !
John Oleson, Tom MacKenaie. Obadiali
Williams.
To Be Continued.
Stop Those Early Bronchial Coughs
They bang on all winter if not
checked, and pave the way for serious
throat ami lung diseases. Get a bottle
of i olev s Honey and Tar Compound,
and take it freely. Stops coughs ami
colds, heals raw inflamed throat, loos
ens the pli'.egan and is mildly laxative. '
Charles T. Miller, Ed. Enquirer, C'an
nelton, Ind., had bronchial trouble, got
very hoarse, coughed constantly from [
a tickling throat. He used only Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound. Was en
tirely relieved. Wants others to know j
of Foley's Honey and Tar. George A.I
Gorgas. 16 North Third street and P.!
R, fi Station. adv.
Under Surgeon's Knife at 02
Scranton, Pa., Oct. 22.—Stephen 1
Ballard, 92 years old. was operated oil l
in the State hospital here yesterday for j
a trouble of 40 years' standing. Hal-;
lard entered the operating room, sav- j
ing, "I'm good for teu vears vet." '
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Inquest Over Victim ol Supposed In
sane Clergyman Continued
Chicago, Oct. 22.—Th. Re\ J. 1
Mullen, of Holy Kosary church, this)
city, who Tuesday uignt stabbed and
Killed Thomas J. i'atterson in the Hill- !
side suburban railway station, supposed
ly while insane, yesterday was ordered j
| held in the county .jail pending a con !
tinuance of the Coroner's in<{to!
November 5,
Seli;c Simonini at the opening vester- |
day of the inquest over Patterson testi j
tied that Father Mullen had acted in a 1
frenzied manner in a restaurant just
before the fatal quarrel, throwing
glasses and bottles around the room 1
and finally suffering a knockdown in a '
tight with another custodier. Simonini I
said:
"1 picked him up and he shouted. I
'Keep away: I'm dangerous' Then ho (
broke away and ran toward the railroad
station." |
COKE OUTPUT IS CUT
Fritk Company Blows Out 1,200 Ovens
in Connollsville Regions
Connellsvillt), p a ., Oct. 22. —Twelve
hundred ovens were blown out this
week by the H. C. Krick Coke Com
pany, bringing the Connellsville coke "
legion's output down to approximately ,
one-third capacity. There are now 20,-
000 of the 38,000 ovens out of blast, i
and the ovens that are operating are
running only tvo and three davs a 4
week.
Curtailment of pig roll production
on the part of the Steel Corporation is j "
the reason assigned for cutting the coke I »
output. I "
New Catholic Cemetery Near Lebanon i
Lebanon, Oct. 2 2. —The Rev. Adam *
i hiist, reifm of St. Mary's Catholic
parish, this city, has had plans drawn
i for the laying out of a Catholic ceme-
J tery to take up one-fourth of the Krall
farm in North Lebanon township, pur
■ chased by liini last spring. The ceme
! tery will be 25 acres and will shortly
i be deeded over to Bishop J. W. Shana
| han, of the Harrisburg diocese.
; "i.Vly new teeth are pretty good com
i pauy at a square meal."
! "Still, you must be careful how you
j pick your company."—Philadelphia
j Ledger.
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