10 A TOWS AND HIS i .I^kMONEY Copyright, 1915, by George Br rr McCutcheon. CONTINUED uur second and more critical survey of the lower floors of the castle reveal ed rather urgent necessity for exten sive repairs and refurbishing, but 1 was not dismayed. With a blithesome disregard for expenses 1 dispatched Rudolph, the elder of the two sons, to Llnz with Instructions to procure arti sans who could be depended upon to undo the ravages of time to a certain extent and who might even suggest a remedy for leaks. My friends, abhorring rheumatism and like complaints, refused to sleep over night In the drafty. almost pane less, structure. They came over to see me on the ensuing day and begged me to return to Vienna with tbem. But full of the project In hand, 1 would not be moved. With the bouse full of carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, lock smiths. tinsmiths, plumbers, plasterers, glaziers. Joiners, scrubwomen and chimney sweeps, I felt that I couldn't go away and leave It without a con trolling Influence. Just as they were leaving my secre tary and my valet put In an appear ance, having been summoned from Vienna the day before. 1 confess 1 was glad to see them. The thought of spending a second night In that limit less bedchamber, with all manner of night birds trying to get In at the win dows, was rather disturbing, and 1 wel comed my retainers with open arms. My first night had been spent in a huge old bed, carefully prepared for occupancy by Herr Schmick's frau. I knew there was a ceiling, for 1 had seeii its beams during the daylight hours, but to save my soul 1 couldn't imagine anything so far away as it seemed to be after the candles had been taken away by the caretaker's wife, who had tucked me away in the bed with ample propriety and thor oughness combined. Twice during that interminable night I thought 1 beard a baby crying. So It Is not unreasonable to suppose that 1 was more than glad to see Poopen-. dyke, my secretary, clambering up the path with his typewriter in one band and his green baize bag in the other, followed close behind by Britton. my valet and the Gnrgentuan brothers bearing trunks, bags, boxes and my golf clubs. "Whew!" said Poopendyke. dropping wearily upon my doorstep. My secretary is a youngish man with thin, stooping shoulders and a habit of perpetually rubbing his knees together when he walks. "It is something of a climb, isn't it?" •aid I beamingly. "In the name of heaven, Mr. Smart what could have induced you to"— He got no farther than this, and to my certain knowledge this unfinished re proof was the nearest he ever came to openly convicting me of astninity. "Make yourself at home, old fellow," said I In some haste. I felt sorry for him. "We are going to be very cozy here." "Cozy?" murmured he, blinking. "I haven't explored those upper re gions," I explained nervously, divining his thoughts. "We shall do it together In a day or two." "It looks as ijougb It might fall down If we Jostled It carelessly," he remarked, having recovered his breath. "I am expecting masons at any min ute," said I, contemplating the unsta ble stone crest of the northeast turret with some uneasiness. My face bright ened suddenly. "That particular sec tion of the castle is uninhabitable, 1 am told. It really doesn't matter If it collapses. Ah, Britton 1 Here you are, I see. Good morning." Britton, a very exacting servant looked me over critically. "Your coat and trousers need press ing, sir," said be. "And where am 1 to get the hot water for shaving, sir?" "Frau Scbniick will supply anything you need, Britton," said I, happy on being able to give the information. "It Is not I as needs it, sir," said he, feeling of hiß smoothly shaved chin. "Come in and have a look about the place," said I. with a magnificent sweep of my arm to counteract the feeling of utter Insignificance I was experiencing *t the moment • ••»••• A day or two later the castle was swarming with workmen. The bang ing of hammers, the rasp of saws, the spattering of mortar, the crashing of stone and the fumes of charcoal cruci bles extended to the remotest recesses. The tower of Babel was being recon structed In the language of six or eight nations. Poopendyke, In great distress of mind, notified me on the fourth day of rehabilitation that the cost of labor as well as living had goue up appre ciably since our installation. In fact It bad doubled. He paid all of my bills, so I • suppose he knew what he was talking about. "You will be surprised to know. Mr. Rmart." he Raid, consulting his sheets, "that scrubwomen are getting more here than they do in New York city, and 1 am convinced that there are more scrubwomen. Today we had thirty new ones scrubbing the loggia on the gun room floor, and they all seem to have apprentices working under them. The carpenters and plas terers were not so numerous todav. 1 paid tbem off last night you see. It may Interest you to hear that their wages for three days amounted to nearly S7OO In our money, to say noth ing of materials and breakage." "Breakage?" I exclaimed in surprise^ "Yes, sir, breakage. They break nearly as much as they mend. We'll— we'll go bankrupt sir, if we're not careful." I liked his pronoun. "Never mind," 1 said; "we'll soon be rid of them." "By the way," he said, "old man Schmick and his family haven't been paid for nearly two years. They have put in a claim. The late owner as sured them they'd get their money from the next"— "Discharge them at once," said I. "We can't get on without them," pro tested he. "They know the ropes, so to speak, and. what's more to the point they know all the keys. Yesterday 1 was nearly two hours In getting to the kitchen for a conference with Mrs. Schmick about the marketraen. In the first place, I couldn't find the way, and In the second place all the doors are locked." "Please send Herr Schmick to me in the—in the"— I couldn't recall the name of the administration chamber at the bead of the grand staircase, so I was compelled to say: "I'll see him here." "If we lose them we also are lost" was his sententious declaration. I be lieved him We kept the Scbmlcks. On the fifth day of our occupancy Britton reported to me that he had de vised a plan by which we could utilize the tremendous horse power represent ed by the nftscles of those lazy giants. Rudolph and Max. He suggested that we rig up a huge windlass at the top of the Incline, with stout steel cables attached to a small car which could be hauled up the cliff by a hitherto wasted human energy, and as readily lowered. It sounded feasible and I In structed him to have the extraordinary railway built but to be sure that the safety device clutches in the cog wheels were sound and trusty. That evening, after the workmen had filed down the steep looking for all the world like an evacuating army, I sought a few moments of peace and quiet in the small balcony outside my bedroom windows. My room was in the western wing of the castle, facing the river. The eastern wing mounted even higher than the one in which we were living, and was topped by the loftiest watch tower of them all. We had not attempted to do any work over In that section »s yet. for the simple reason that Herr Schmick couldn't find the keys to the doors. Suddenly 1 found myself staring as If stupefied at the white figure of a woman who stood in the topmost bal cony of the eastern wing, fully reveal ed by the last glow of the sun and apparently as deep in dreams as 1 had been the instant before. CHAPTER 11. I Defend My Property. FOR ten minutes I stood there staring up at her, bewildered and not a little shnken. My first thought had been of ghosts, but it was almost In stantly dispelled by a significant action on the part of the suspected wraith. She turned to whistle over her shoul der and to snap her fingers peremptori ly, and then she stooped and picked up a rawer lusty chow dog, which prompt ly barked at me across the intervening space, having discovered me almost at once, although 1 was many rods away and quite snugly ensconced among the shadows. The lady in white muzzled him with her hand, and 1 could almost Imagine 1 heard her reproving whis pers. After a few minutes she appar ently forgot the dog and lifted her hand to adjust something in her hair. He again barked at me, quite fero ciously for a chow. This time it was quite plain to her that he was not barking at the now sliadowy moon. She peered over the stone balustrade and an Instint later disappeared from view through the high, narrow win dow. Vastly exercised. I set out in quest of Herr Schmick, marshaling Poopen dyke as 1 went along, realizing that I would have to depend on his Ger man. which was less halting than mine and therefore more likely to dovetail with that of the Schmtcks, neither ot whom spoke German because they loved It but because they had to, be ing Austrlans. We found the four Schmlcks In the vast kitchen. "Herr Schmick," said I, "will you be so good aa to Inform me who the dickens that woman Is over In the east wing of the castle?" "Woman, meln herr?" He almost dropped his keys. "A woman in a white dress, with a dog." "A dog!" he cried. "But, meln herr. dogs are not permitted to be In the castle." "Who Is she? How did she get there?" "Heaven defend ns. sir! It must have been the ghost of— "Ghost your grnnnyP I cried, re lapsing into English. "Please don'l beat about the bush. Mr. Schmick. She's over there in the unnsed wing, which I haven't been allowed to pene trate in spite of the fact that it belongs ' • y 1 ■ ' HARRISBURG STAB-INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1915. TURKS CONFUSE FRANCO-BRITISH GUNNERS BY CONSTANT SHIFTING OF LAND BA TTERIES —' ' THE QUEEN ELIZABETH ■■—MjCHAEL The Queen Elizabeth, the largest ship In the British navy, to at present leading the Allies' fleet In trying to force the Dardanelles. The Franco-British gunners have been con fused all along by the constant shifting of the Turkish land batteries. This Is given as one of the principal reasons why t hey are having such a hard time forcing the straits. Rear idmiral John Michael de Robeck is the present commander of the allied fleet to me. Yon say yon can't find th« keys to that side of the castle. Will yon explain how it Is that It Is open to strange women and—and dogs?" "Yon must be mistaken, meln herr," he whined abjectly. "She cannot be there. She— Ah. I have it! It may have been my wife, Gretell Have yon been in the east"— "Nonsense!" I cried sharply. "This won't do. Mr. Schmick. Give me thai bunch of keys. We'll Investigate." The four Schmlcks wrung their hand! and shook their bends and then, re pairing to the scullery, growled aud grumbled for fully ten minutes before deciding to obey my commands. In the meantime I related my experience to Poopendyke and Britton. "That reminds me. sir," said Britton "that I found a rag doll in the court yard yesterday, on that side of the building, sir—l should say castle, sir." "1 am quite sure 1 heard a baby cry ing the second night we were here, Mr. Smart" said my secretary nerv ously. "Come!" said I finally, grabbing tb« keys from the old man's unresistinp Two Abreast We Filed Through the Long, Vaulted Halls. hand. "And. Schmick. If that dog bites I'll hold yon personally responsi ble. Do yon understand?" Two abreast we filed through the long, vaulted halls, Rudolph carrying a gigantic lantern and Max a sledge. We traversed extensive corridors, mounted tortuous stairs and came at length to the sturdy oak door thnt sep arated the east wing from the west a huge, formidable thing strengthened by many crosspleces and studded with rusty bolt heads. Padlocks an large as horseshoes, corroded by rust and rendered absolutely impracticable by age, confronted ns. "I have not the keys," said old Con rad Schmick sourly. "This door has not been opened in my time, .it Is no use." "It Is no nsp." repeated his grisly pons, leaning against the moldy walls with weary tolerance. To Be Continued A Persian philosopher says, "The goat climbs the rock hill, the wise man takes the valley road." Cumberland Valley Railroad In Effect May 24. 1914. Tralna Leave Harriahurifc— For Winchester &nd Martlnebtirg, u (.OS, *7.50 a. m, *3.40 p. m. For Hagerstown, Chanibersburg and Intermediate lu.tlona, at *5.01, *7.ttL •il.. r .3 a. 111., "11,40. 6.32. *7.40, 11.0* p. m. Additional trains for Carlisle and klechanlcaburK at 9.48 s. m.. 2.18. J.JT ij.3o. 9.30 p. m. For DUlaburg at 5.03, *7.60 and *11.1)1 h. m.. 2.18. *3.40, 6.32. d.30 p. m. •Dally. AU other trains dully except Sunday. J H. 'i'ONQB. H. A. RIDDLE. G. P. A. Sapt BUSINESS COLLEGES —\ Begin Preparation Now Day and Night Sessions SCHOOL of COMMERCE 15 S. Market Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. | ■ — J' HBO. BUSINESS COLLEGB 3C9 Market Street } Fall Term September First j DAY AND NIGHT 1 PLANT PROSPEROUS UNDER MR. J. CILWORE FLETCHER Brother of Former Sheriff of This Coun ty Is President of Pittsburgh Steel Concern That Is Sharing Largely in the Return of "Good Times" (Ppeclal to the Star-Independent.) Pittsburgh, April 20.—The I'itts burgh "Dispatch" of April 14 prints the following article showing the facts of a prosperity wave that, has come to the Kiter-Conley .Manufacturing Com pany, of Pittsburgh, of which the president is J. tiilmore Fletcher, former ly of Chambersburg, a brother of for mer Sheriff J. fiowe Fletcher, of Dau phin county: "Apparent symptoms of a real pros perity wave, devoid of any foundation in war orders, were contained in facts revealed during a talk yesterday with a representative of the Kiter-Conley Manufacturing Company. Recent news reports from steel mills and shops tell of approaching prosperity and the early return of men to steady employment, but, almost without exception, the rea son given is the large war orders. "This company has been exception ally busy for the last three months, and is now busier than for years past, but these good times are not attribut able in any way to the war. The busi ness recently booked covers the regular line of products, tending to show a revival of business in this country, as the orders upon which these activities are based come from many sections of the United States. "The orders received by the com pany within the past three months to tal betweeu $2,000,000 and $.3,000,- 000. Last month broke all previous records for tonnage shipped, totaling more tfcan 10,000 tons of fabricated material. During that month 14,000 tons of plain material were received from the steel mills. The Kiter-Conley company makes steel construction of every description. The plant, aside HOTEL IROQUOIS South Carolina Avenue <£■ Beach ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Pleasantly situated, a few steps from Boardwalk. Ideal family hotel. Every modern appointment. Many rooms equipped with running water; 100 private baths. Table and service most excellent. Rates SIO.OO. $12.00 sls 00 weekly, American plan. Book- I let and calendar sent free on request. David P. Rahter Sllnn Wright Chief Clerk Manager Calendars of above hotel can also be obtained by applying at star-In dependent office. * j I Directory of Leading Hotels of Harrisburg HOTEL VICTOR No. 25 3outh Fourth Btreet Directly opposite Linton Station, r quipped with all Modern Improve* uieuta; running; ivater In every rooai Hue liathi perfectly sanitary) nicely lurulalieil throughout. Rates moderate. European Plan. JOSEPH GIUSTI, Proprietor. THEPLAZA IMarket St., Harrisburg, Pa. At the Entrance to the P. K. R. Station EUROPEAN PLAN F. B. AX.DINGER, Proprietor Broken Egg Stove Nut sizes of coal arc now 50c a ton cheaper. Why not get in touch with Kelley and have your bins filled for next Winter"? H. M. KELLEY 1 N. Third Street Tenth and State Streets from the office building, power and galvanizing houses, contests of six largo shops, all under one roof, that covers an area of 360,000 square feet, and is said to be the largest and most com pletely equipped shop In the world for miscellaneous plate and structural work. Comforts for Employes "In laying out the plant the com pany was net unmindful of the comfort and convenience of its employes. The grounds are especially attractive and there are two tennis courts, a baseball diamond, quoit grounds and a putting green for the use of all employes, while a large truck garden is cultivated to supply vegetables for the noon meals of employes. "One reason for the increased out put of our company," said this man, "is orders for 55,000-barrel oil-stor age tanks. These tanks are 114 feet 7 J inches in diameter And 30 feet 4 inches high and weigh approximately 150 tons each. Two of these tanks are fabricated each workday and, during the last three months, 145 of them were contracted for, to be delivered and erected in the Oklahoma oil fields, 20 for the Texas oil fields and 10 for the Tampico district in Mexico. "'A recent bridge order wo re ceived from the Indianapolis Union Railway covers the furnishing of ap proximately 8,100 tons of metal work i for the downtown track elevation in Indianapolis. This is one of the most important improvements authorize! by the Pennsylvania Railroad since its re trenchment policy adopted about ( two years ago. " 'Refinery and tankage work re cently booked for the Texas company includes 6,500 tons of plate work to be erected at their various refinery plants. Orders for galvanized transmission tow ers for power and light companies call for delivery of approximately 75 miles of towers to be erected in Eastern Pennsylvania, North anil South Caro lina aad along the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Beaver, Pa. Big Gas Contracts " 'The 4,000,000 cubic, foot holder under contract for the Cambridge Gas Light Company, of Cambridge, Mass., and retort houses now under contract for the Worcester Gas Light Com pany, Rockford Gas Light Company, and" the Philadelphia Suburban Gas and Light Company are well under way and will be completed this summer. "'A contract is practically com pleted with the United States Reclama tion Service for furnishing material for tlio rolling crest at the Grand River Di version Dam of the Grand Valley project in Colorado, consisting of six 70 and one 60-foot by 15-inch rollers with accessories, involving approximate ly 300 tons of structural and plate work. This type of dam, the first built in the United States, is patented by Maschienfabrik Augsburg Wurnberg, A. G., Gustavsburg, Germany, and the Reclamation Service caused its manu facture in this county under a license from that company. " 'More near-local business covers structural steel required for an exten sion to the shops of the Hockensmith Wheel and Mine Car Company-at Penn Station, Pa., anil the American Vana dium Company at Bridgeville, Pa. Ship ments will start shortly on the steel work required for a six-story storage building, 121 feet long by 115 feet wide, for the 11. J. Heinz Company. This contract involves approximately 1,400 tons, and the building will be similar to the present seven-storv building which the Riter-Conley Com pany furnished. " 'Work is going on rapidly on an order for dredge pipe for the St. l<aw rcnee River Power Company at >Mas sena Springs, N. Y. The outer calls for one mile of pipe, 24 inches in di ameter.' " Makes 01 Feel Like 10 "I suffered with kidney ailment for two years," writes Mrs. M. A. Bridges, Robinson, Mass., "and commenced tak ing Foley Kidney Pills about ten months ago. 1 am now able to do all my work without fatigue. I am now 61 years of age and foel like a 16-year old girl." Foley Kidney Pills strengthen and invigorate weak, tired and deranged kidneys; relieve backache, weak back, rheumatism and bladder trouble. They nre tonic in action. Geo. A. Gorgas, 16 North Third street.—Adv. Hold Two for Bounty Fraud Brookville, Pa., April 20.—State Game Commissioner E. W. Kelly, of Dußois, yesterday arrested Milo Yount and B. H. Booser, both young men of Suminorville, on the charge of collect ing bounty on weasel pelts which they purchased outside the State. Booser was hold under SIOO bail and Yoant is in jail. More than 500 weasel pelts were found in the possession of the men when they were placed under ar rest. Veteran Dies on Visit York, Pa., April 20.—While visiting in the city, as had been his annual custom for five years, George H. Drys dale, of the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiors, Johnson City, Tenn., died of apoplexy last night. His body was found in a local hotel. Lancaster Tabernacle Sold Lancaster, April 120.—Dr. Henry W. Stough, evangelist, will close his seven weeks' campaign here next Sun day. The tabernacle was sold yester day at auction. The building cost $4,- 50 r 0 and was sold for $1,7'25. STOMACH SOUR? STOP INDIGESTION, GAS, HEARTBURN-PAPE'S DIAPEPSIN Don't Suffer! Regulate Your Upset Stom ach in Five Min utes Do some foods you eat hit back— taste good, but work badly; ferment into stubborn lumps and cause a siek, sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr. and Mrs. Dyspeptic, .jot this down: Rape's Diapepsin digests everything, leaving nothing to sour and upset you. No dif ference how badly your stomach is dis ordered, you get happy relief in five fjpl HOUSEHOLD 111 TALKS - jfllsl Henrietta D. Grauel A Most Important Food —Jam It may seem early in the season to talk about making jams. We usually wait until strawberries and raspberries are low priced and plentiful, and they are far from that now. But so much is being said about the demand abroad for this food that everyone is consid ering it. We are given to thinking it a sweet and more or less of a luxury but often it is a necessity. Such cases are, when food is not plentiful, when it is lacking in variety or playing pranks on diges tions. „ In army camps all these conditions prevail and Professor James Long ex plains in detail that "jam contains three and one-half times as much en ergy as butter. That minerals are present in the skins of the fruit, that the fine seeds and fibres are a natural, or mechanical, laxative. It is tooth some and gives plainest faro a relish and creates a mental effect that helps to maintain health." Dr. Long adds that all sugars are not alike and that the sweetness of jam is like a sugar of fruit and has a wonderful action on nutrition. Commercial sugar, eaten freely, would cause irritation, acidity and other freaks in the way of trouble in the digestion but there is none of this where fruit sugar is used. Our favorite jams are made from gooseberries, plums, currants and black berries, but we make peach and apple butter, pear conserve and various mar malades and all these the British dub "Jam." Just now we should have orange DOEHNE BEER Unrivaled for Purity and Flavor A builder of A Tonic strength for businessmen and and flesh overworked persons V. ' / Produced by the Master Brewer DOEHNE BREWERY Bell 826 L Order It Independent 318 EVERY HOME Has Its Real Value want to buy or sell one. The wants of many business people and home de mands are realized by its use. Let us act for and with you—now. Call at our office or Bell Phone 3280 Independent 245 or 246 minutes, but what pleases you most is that it strengthens and regulates your stomach so you can eat your favorite foods without fear. 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In the morning boil until it is jelly like^ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS "Should wash material be shrunk be fore it is made up and how is it done so it will still look like new goods?— Maidie." Reply.—Materials should always be shrunken before use. Sprinkle go'.is with water, using a whisk brush to get it on lightly and evenly. Place on a clean sheet and roll it up as tightly as you can and let it stand for twenty four hours. Iron on the wrong side. * * * "I have several cans of corn left from last season and would like to use it before corn comes, but my family is tired of it. Can it be made into a relish or a salad?" Keply.—Corn salnd is made from either fresh or canned corn and is ex cellent with meats and fish. To each can of corn add one stalk of chopped celery, one-half of a head of cabbage chopped, two quarts of vinegar, and several sweet peppers. Season with four cups of sugar, four tablespoons of salt and the spices you like. Boil this twenty minutes, taste and add more sugar or more spices as needed. Seal in cans. .
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