PRUDENCE R a u s O m a c ^ Is r E T H E L Z -T U E S T C î^ (C opyright, by (h * Bobba-M errlll pony.) Com I T ’S T R U L Y A N I L L W I N D THAT BLOW S NOBODY, GOOD AND TH IS W IN D B R IN G S LUCK TO THE PARSONAGE. Mr. Starr, widower Methodist minister. Is assigned to the con gregation at Mount Mark. la. lie has live charming daughters. Prudence, the eldest, keeps house for him. Fairy Is a col lege freshman. Carol and Lark, twins, are in high school. Con stance Is the “ baby.“ The ac tivities of the Starr girls— Pru dence’s work. Fairy's school af fairs, the pranks of the young sters—and the family perplexi ties make the story; It is simply a.recital of glorified homely In cidents. This installment de scribes the capture of a burglar in the parsonage. C H A P T E R V I I — Continued. — 9— Mr. Starr had gone to Burlington that morning to attend special revival services for three days, and Prudence had fifty whole dollars In the house, an unwonted sum In that parsonage! And the dungeon wps not locked. With out a word, she slipped softly out of the room, ran down the stairs, making never a sound in her bare feet, and saw, somewhat to her surprise, that the dungeon door was open. Quickly she flung it shut, pushed the tiny key that moved the “ catch." and was rush ing up the stairs again with never a pause for breath. A strange sight met her eyes In the twins' room. The twins themselves were in each other’s arms, sobbing bit terly. Fairy was still looking hurried ly through the dresser drawers. “ They are gone,” wailed Carol, “ our beautiful ruby rings that belonged to grandmother.” “ Nonsense," cried Prue with nervous anger, "you’ve left them In the bath room, or on the kitchen shelves. You're always leaving them somewhere over the place. Come on, and we'll search the house Just to convince you.” “ No, no,” shrieked the twins. “ Let’s lock the door and get under the bed.” i The rings were really valuable. Their grandmother, their mother's mother, whom they had never seen, had divided her “ real Jewelry” between her two daughters. And the mother of these parsonage girls, had further di vided her portion to make it reach through her own family of girls! “ Our rings! Our rings!” the twins were walling, and Connie, awakened by the noise, was crying beneath the (Covers o f her bed. “ Maybe we'd better phone for Mr. Allan,” suggested Fairy. “ The girls are so nervous they will be hysterical by the time we finish searching the house.” “ Well, let’s do the upstairs then,” said Prudence. “ Get your slippers und kimonos, and we’ll go Into daddy's room.” But Inside the door of dnddy’s room, with the younger girls clinging to her, and Fairy looking odd and disturbed, I'rudence stopped abruptly and stared about the room curiously. ’ “ Fairy, didn’t father leave his watch hanging on that nail by the table? 'Seems to me I saw It there this morn ing. I remember thinking I would tease him for being forgetful.” ' And the watch was not there. “ I think It wns Sunday he left 1L” answered Fairy in a low voice. “ I re member seeing It on the nail, and think ing he would need It— but I believe It was Sunday.” Prudence looked under the bed, nnd In the closet, but their father’s room was empty. Should they go farther? tFor a moment, the girls stood looking ¡at one another questioningly. Then— they heard a loud thud downstairs, as lof ■omeone pounding on a door. There •was no longer nny doubt. Someone IF BACKACHY OR was in the house 1 Couule and the rlod to the telephone, nail spoke to the and when they appeared, « » » la g at th* j twins scrennied again nnd clung to operator In u low voice. “Call lln* po burglar with mingled admiration, pity 1 Prudence frantically. And Fairy said, lice headquarters, und have them send and fear, lie congratulated the » with j "I think we'd better lock the door and two or three men to the Methodist par considerable exelleiaenL " I t ’s Lim ber LI mb Grant," be ex : stay right here until morning, Prue." sonage, right away. We’ve got a bur But Prudence faced them stubborn- glar locked In a closet, and they’ll have plained. "There'* n reward of # ** hundred dollars for him. You'll get j ly “ If you think ITn going to let any to get hftn out. Plena* hurry." one steal that fifty dollars, you nre At this, the girls crowded around (he money, as mire us you're boru.’ Then he turned again to the burglur. mistaken. Fifty dollars docs not cotuo him again In renewed fear. K.ut less limit oho tukc h I iimh of often enough for that, I can tell you. “ Don't be scared," hi* said calmly, "Say, (Iran*, what'* a fellow like you doing on such u fifth rale Job ns this? Salts before caline “ It's probably stolen already," ob- “ we're all right, lie's In there safe | Jected Fairy. enough and cun’t get out for a while. A Methodist parsonuge la not Jusl In bmikfuiit. "W ell. If It Is, we’ll find out who did Now, tell me about It. How did you your line. Is II?" Limber Limb langhisl sheepishly. It, and have them arrested. I'm going get him In the closet? Begin at the down to telephone to the police. You beginning, and tell me all about It." “ W ell," he explained good-naturedly. Drlo acid In meul excites the kid girls must lock the door after me, and Carol began the story with keen rel “ Chicago got too hoi for me. 1 bud neys, they become overworked; get stay right here.” ish. “ I woke np, nnd thoiight I heard to gel out lu a hurry, nnd I couldn't sluggish, ache, and feel llko lumps of The little ones screamed again, and someone In the room. I supposed It get my hands on nny money. I had n lend. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder Is Irritated, and you may ho Fairy said: “ Don’t be silly, Prue, If was Prudence. I said. ’Prudence,’ nnd fine lot of Jewels, hut I was so pushed obliged to seek relief two or three you go I'm going with you. o f course. nobody answered, and everything was UmeS during the night. When the kid W e'll leave the kiddles here and they quiet. But I felt there was someone neye clog you must help them flush can lock the door. They'll be perfectly In there. I nudged Lark, anil she woke off tho body’s urinous waste or you'll safe In here.” be a real sick person shortly. At first up. He moved then, and we both heard you feel a dull misery lu tho klduey But the children loudly objected to him. He wns fumbling at the dresser, region, you suffer from huekucho, sick this. I f Prue and Fairy went, they and our ruby rings are gone. We headache, dlxxtness, stomach gets would go! So down the stairs they heard him step ucross the room and sour, tongue coated and you feel rheu trooped, a timorous trembling crowd. Into n closet, lie closed the door after matic twinges when tho weathor Is Prudence went at once to the tele him. didn't he Lark?” had. phone. nnd called up the residence o f “ Ye*, he did.’’ agreed Lark. “ Hla Eat less meat, drink lota of water; the Allans, their neighbors across the hand was on the knob." also get from any pkMMSM four street. A fter a seemingly never-ending ounceM of Jad Halts; take a table “ So we sneaked out of bed. snd wait, the kind-hearted neighbor left went Into Prudence's room and woke spoonful III a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kid his bed to answer the Insistent tele her nnd Fairy.” She looked at Connie i neys will then act fine. This famous phone. Falteringl.v Prudence explained and blushed. “ Connie was asleep, and salts Is made from the acid of grapes their predicament, nnd nsked him to we didn't waken her because we didn't ( and lemon Julco, combined with llthta. come nnd search the house. He prom want to frighten her. We woke the j and has been used for generations to ised to be there in five minutes, with girls— und you tell the rest. Prudence." clean clogged kidneys and stimulate his son to help. them to normal activity, also to neu “ W e didn't believe her, o f course. I “ N ow ," said Prudence more cheer W e went hack Into their room and | tralize the acids lu urine, so It no long er is a source of Irritation, thus end fully. “ we’ll Just go out to the kitchen there wns no one there. But the rings I ing bladder w«<akness. nnd wait. It's quiet there, and away were gone. While they were looking Jad Halts Is Inexpensive, cannot In from the rest of the house, and we'll at the dresser, I remembered (tint I ju re, nukes a delightful effervescent be perfectly safe.” To the kitchen, forgot to lock the d u n g e o n door, where lit hla water drink which everyone then, they hurried, and found real we keep the money nnd the silver should taku now and then to keep the comfort in Its smullness and secure ware. and 1 run downstair* and kidneys clean and active. Druggists ness. Prudeuee raked up the dying slammed the door and locked It. nnd here say they sell lots of Jad Halts to embers o f the fire, and Fairy drew the went back up. I didn't hear a sound folks who believe In overcoming kid blinds to their lowest limits. The downstairs." ney troublo while It Is only troublo. twins and Connie trailed them fear Mr. Allan laughed heartily. "W ell, I T h e Reason. fully at every step. your burglar was In that closet after He— Why do thoso football men Every breath o f wind against the tho money, no doubt, nnd he didn't wear spikes In their shoes? windows drew startled cries from the bear you coming, nnd got locked In.” It— W hy—er— they are the new younger girls, and both Fairy and Pru In a few minutes they heard foot Const defense. (Deep stuff ) — Widow. dence were white with anxiety when steps around the house and knew the they heard the loud voices of the A l officers had arrived. Mr. Allan let As wv grew mere •cniihls, we refuse drug lans outside the kitchen door. Pru- them Into the house, four of them, nnd I couldn't use them. I came here and rsthartirs snd take Nature's herb cure, Ger deuce began crying nervously the mo led them out to the hull. There could loafed around town for n while, be tie Id Tea. ment the two angels of mercy ap be no doubt whatever that the burglar ' cause folks auld Mount Murk wns so Gas. peared before her, und Fairy told their wns in the dungeon. He hail been “ I hear Jones died from a single fast asleep It did not even wake up busy with Ills knife, und the lock was \ long enough to rend the dnlly pn|M*rs blow." tale o f woe. * “ Well, there now," Mr. Allan said nearly removed. If the officers bad I heard about this parsonage bunch, “ What hit him?" “ No one. He blew out tho gas."— with rough sympathy, "you Just got beeu two minutes Inter, the dtingeou and knew the old mnn had gone off to scared, that's all. Everything's sus would have been empty. The girls were get more religion. This afternoon at Illinois Siren. picious when folks get scared. 1 told sent upstairs ut ouce, with the Allan the station I saw a detective from Clil my w ife the other day I bet you girls boy as guard— as guard, without re- eago get off the trnln. and 1 knew what would get a good fright sometime, left gnrd for the fnct that he was probably that meant. But I needed some cash, here alone. Come on, Jim. and we'll more frightened than any one of them. nnd so I wasn't above a little Job of The chief officer rapped briskly on this kind. I never dreutned of getting go over the house In a Jiffy.” He was standing near the dining the dungeon door. Then he clicked his done up by a bunch of preacher's kids. Cincinnati authority say* corns room door. He lifted his head sud revolver. 1 went upstairs to get those family d r y up and lift out “There are enough of us to over- ! Jewels I've h<iird about, nnd one of denly, and seemed to sniff a little. with finger*. power three o f you,” he said curtly. | There was undoubtedly a faint odor the little ones gave the alarm. I al “ And we have men outside the bouse, j ready had some o f them, so I came o f tobacco In the house. “ Been any men In here tonight?" he too. I f you put your flreurms on the ! down at once. I stopped In the dun Ouch ! ? ! ? ! ! This kind o f rough asked. “ Or this afternoon? Think, floor, nnd hold both hnnds over your geon to get thnt money, nnd first thing talk will be heard less Lore In town If bend, you’ll be well treated. I f your ! I knew the door bunged shut. That's people troubled with corn* w ill follow now !” “ No one,” answered Prudence. “ I hands are not up, we fire on slgbL Get , all. You're welcome to th* flvo hun the simple advice o f this Cincinnati was alone all afternoon, and there has your revolvers ready, boys." dred dollars, ladles. Someone w u authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called freezoue whon applied Then the officer opened the door. ] been no one In this evening.” bound to get It sooner or later, Hnd Evidently the burglar was wise enough I'm partial to the ladles, every time." to a tender, aching corn or hardened He passed slowly through the din callous stops soreness at once, and to appreciate the futility of fighting ing room into the hall, closely followed soon the corn or callous dries up and against odds. Ills hunds were above lifts right o ff without pain. by his son and the five girls, already his head, and In less thuD n second he Now what do you sup[*ose the He says frresone dries Immediately much reassured. As he passed the was securely manacled. and never Inflames or even Irritates girls will do with thut five hun dungeon door he paused for a moment, The chief officer had been eying him tho surrounding skin. A small bottle dred dollars? How much will listening intently, his head bent. Closely. "Say !” he exclaimed. “ Aren’t of freezone will cost very little at any they devote to church purposes “ Oh, Mr. Allan.” cried Prudence, you Llmber-Llmh Grunt?" The burglar drug store, but w ill positively remove —foreign missions, for Instance? “ let's look In the dungeon first. I want grinned, but did not answer. every hard or soft corn or callous ‘‘By to see i f the money Is safe.” Her hand J ove!” shouted the officer. from one's feeL Millions o f American “ It la I women will welcome thlB announce was already on the lock, but he shoved Call the girls down here,” he ordered. (T O U K C O N T IN U E D .) ment since tho Inauguration of the her away quickly. high heels. If your druggist doesn't “ Is there any way out o f that closet have freezone tell him to order a small Monkeying W ith the Universe. besides this door?” he asked. HAVE AFFECTION FOR TREES It bus been reliably reported that bottle for you. “ No. We call It the dungeon,” laughed Prudence, her self-possession W r it e r T e ll» How Lum berm an Wept two New England men nre about to Getting at th* Fact*. startle the world with an entirely new quite recovered. “ It Is right under Bitter T e a r » W hen Ordered to Cut “ Did I understand you to say that power supply. One of these men Is Down a Fine Hemlock. your friend Pennlbbs wan engaged said to he n consulting mechanical en In literary pursuits,’’ sho queried. gineer. the other an astronomer, both "W ell, I hope not," repliod the Thnt one should feel nffectlon for great trees Is nnturnl. In the Minne In very good stnndlng. The atory Is knowing y< ung man. ” 1 merely stated sota forests I met a lumberman who that these two men have gone so fnr that he wrote alleged stories and told me he wept hitter tears when ho In the realm of infinitive formula thnt poems for the magazines."-Exchange. got orders to cut down n fine hem they have been able to develop n meth A Compensation. lock. Every stroke o f the ux seemed od that will enable them to stop the “ Geraldine, this Is a bad habit of earth at will for 1-.'t2 of u second of to him to be felt by the sturdy mon yours getting a new droaa every arch whose life he was taking, writes time nnd o bottle up the energy neces week." sary to stop the earth In Its product Julius Chambers In the Brooklyn “ Yes, ma, and aee how easily this so created nnd sell It commercially to Eagle. bad habit fastens on mo.” — Baltimore the \vorl<L It Is to he hoped that be American. When 1 have revisited the “ woods” In which ns n hoy I gathered nuts, I fore the plan Is actually put luto com Whenever there 1* a tendency to conxtips- have fancied the trees 1 used to climb mission two other men o f equnl abil recognized nie. They looked the same. ities wifi be found who will be willing tion, eirk headsebe, or bilioininese, tako a cup o f Garfield Tea. All druggiata. They hadn't aged. The shellback to collaborate with them to tho end that the earth can he sftirtis! prompt Beware. hickory trees seemed n trifle more Many a captivating co-ed has lost dangerous to climb than o f yore, and ly In Its revolutions after It Is once the walnuts had gained noticeably !n stopped, otherwise there will he a pain a perfectly good stand-In by guessing girth, ho that my lengthened arm hnd ful absence of market for this novel tho wrong name over a telephone.— Minnehaha. barely kept pace wltli the expanding power. Hugh L. Cooper In tho Helen- bark. I could still encircle their title American. G IV E “ 8 Y R U P O F F IG S ” trunks nnd could buve climbed them T O C O N S T IP A T E D C H IL D Boston Art Acquisition. If necessary, but the rewnrds of a The Zulongn exhibition In Boston re Delicious “ F ru it L a x a tiv e ” can't harm winter’s store of nuts no longer ap peal to me. The wulnuts und hickory sulted lu the sale to the Boston mu tender little Stomach, liv e r and bowela. nuts ono buys do not tnste like those seum of Zulongu's large group, "My Unele Daniel am) tils Family,” pre guthered with one’s own hnnds. Look at tho tongue, mother! If ferred by Mr. Sargent to all tho other picture* In the exhibition. In the pic coated, y r little one's stomach, liver Dispatching Business. and bowels need cleansing at once. Counsel for the Defense— "Yotir ture Daniel Zulongn, who In his day When peevish, cross, listless, doesn't honor, you neglected to ask the pris was regarded us the foremost cera alcep, oat or act naturally, or is fovor- oner If she had anything to say ns to mic artist In Spain, I n seen standing Ish, atomach sour, breath bad; has why sentence should not be pro before an easel, palette and brushes in sore throat, diarrhoea, full o f cold, nounced.” Judge— 'Tnnsinuch as the hand. The canvas Is lift Inches wide give a tenapoonful of “ California Quickly She Flung It Shut. prisoner Is a woman, we will omit tlint nnd K2 Inches high, nnd contains six Syrup o f Figs," and In a few hours the stairs, nnd not even a mouse co< formality In order to dispose of Un figures besides the dog Polly, which all tho foul, constipated waste, undi gnaw its way out. with this door shi case In some reasonable time.” sits with Its mistress at the left of the gested food and sour bile gently move* “ Who shut the door7” he tnqnir group. The picture wns painted at out of its little bowels without grip still holding Prudence’s hand from i Segovia In 11)10, exhibited at Home In ing, and you have a well, playful child Trees Affected by Lightning. again. Ask your druggist for a 60- lock. Then, without wnltlng for No particular species o f tree Is moro 11)11, at 1’iirts, Dresden and Munich In cent bottle o f “ California Hyrup of answer, he went on, “ Let’s go bnck susceptible to lightning stroke than 1012. nnd nt Brussels In 1014. This Is Figs," which contains f til directions the other room a minute. Come on, nny other except in so fur ns the spe the first time It bus been shown In su for babies, children of all ages and for o f you." In the living room he h American city. cies determines the height of the tre*. grown-ups. Hurrah ! How’s This