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THE (Copyright, by the R. STARR, a widower Methodist minister, has been assigned to the con- gregation at Mount Mark, Iowa. He and his daughter, Pru dence—she Is nineteen, and the eldest of five girls—have come on ahead to get the new parson age ready for the younger mem bers of the family. Of course the whole town, especially the Methodists, Is throbbing with curiosity about the newcomers. Mrs. Adams, a member of the Ladies’ Aid society, hurried over to call on Prudence, and nosing around found the girl on lier knees praying In the barn. So she began at once to “pump” the girl for all she was worth— ft would be great stuff to tell the neighbors—and is still at it. CHAPTER I—Continued. Bobbs-Merrill Company.) the girls—with Fairy to keep me bal anced! I read, but I do not like to study.—No, you'll have to get along with me just the way I am, Mrs. Ad ams. It's all I can do to keep things going now, without spending half the time dreaming of big things to do in the future.” “Don’t you have dreams?” gasped Mrs. Adams. “Don’t you have dreams of the future? Girl’s in books nowa days dream—” "Yes, I dream,” interrupted Pru dence, “I dream lots—but it's mostly of what Fairy and others will do when I get them properly raised. You’ll like the girls, Mrs. Adams, I know you will. They really are a gifted little bunch— except me. I'm Just common little Pru dence of the Parsonage—but the oth ers !" And Prudence lluug out her hands dramatically. CHAPTER II. The Rest of the Family. HERMISTON HERALD, may possibly have occurred—we have never seen it. Neither had the three Misses Avery. Nor did they ever ex pect to. And if they had seen ft, it is quite likely they would have joined the backsliders at that instant. But without wasting much time on this gruesome thought, they hurried to a window commanding the best view of the parsonage, and raised It. Then they clustered behind the curtains, and watched and listened. There was plenty to hear! From the parsonage windows came the sound of scamper ing feet und banging doors. Once there was the unmistakable clutter of a chair overturned. With it all there was a constant chorus of “Oh, look !” “Oh ! Oh !” "Oh, how sweet !” “Oh, papa !" “Oh, Prudence !” “Look, Larkie, look at this!” Then the eldest Miss Avery closed the window overlooking the parsonage and confronted her sisters. “We must just make the best of it,” she said quietly. But next door the grny old parson age was full to overflowing with satis faction und happiness and love. Every one has experienced the ecstatic, creepy sensation of sleeping in a brand-new home. The parsonage girls reveled In the memory of that first night for many days. “It may be haunted for all we know,” cried Carol deliciously. "Just think, Connie, there may be seven ghosts camped on the head of your bed, waiting—” "Carol !” When the family gathered for wor ship on that first Sabbath morning, Mr. Starr said, as he turned the leaves of his well-worn Bible, “I think it would be well for you to help with the morning worship now. When I finish reading the chapter, Connie, you will make the first prayer. Just pray for whatever you wish as you do at night for yourself. I will follow you.” Connie’s eyes were wide with respon sibility during the reading of the chap- It was Saturday morning when the —2— four young parsonage girls arrived in But to return to the Ladies—the par- Mount Mark. The elderly Misses Avery, nonage girls always capitalized the La next door, looked out of their windows, dies of their father’s church—“One of pending their appearance on Main us should go and help the dear child," street, with interest and concern. They said Mrs. Scott, the president of the were Episcopalians themselves, and in Aids, when they assembled for their all their long lives they had never so business meeting, “help her, and wel much as heard of a widower-rector come her, and. advise her.” with five daughters and no housekeep “I was thinking of going over,” said er. There was something blood-cur one, and anotiier, and several others. dling in the bare idea. “Oh, that will not do at all," said the The Misses Avery considered Pru president. “I think in a case like this dence herself rather a sweet, silly the president herself should represent little thing. the society. Therefore, I will under “You have some real nice people in take this duty for you.” the Methodist church,” Miss Dora had But this called forth a storm of pro told her. “I dare say you will find a test and It became so clamorous that It few of them very likable.” was unofficially decided to draw cuts! “Oh, I will like them all,” said Pru Which was done, and in consequence dence quickly and seriously. of that drawing of cuts, Mrs. Adams “Like them all,” echoed Miss Dora. now sat on the front porch of the old “Oh, impossible !” gray parsonage, cheered by the knowl “Not for us,” said Prudence. “We edge that every other Lady of the Aid are used to It, you know. When we was envying her! people at first sight, we visit “Now, just be real sociable and tell dislike them, and to them, and invite me all about yourself, and the others, them to the talk parsonage, and entertain too,” urged Mrs. Adams. "I want to them with our best linen and silver know all about every one of you. Tell ware, and keep on getting friendlier me everything.” and friendlier, and—first thing you “There Isn’t much to tell,” said Pru- know, we like them fine !” dence, smiling. “There are five of us ; So the Misses Avery concluded that I am the oldest—I am nineteen. Then comes Fairy, then the twins, and then Prudence was not entirely responsible. And they wondered, with something the baby.” “Are the twins boys, or a boy and a akin to an agony of fear, if the younger girls "had it, too !” and when Miss girl?" cried excitedly, “Quick ! Quick I “Neither,” said Prudence, “they are Alice They are coming !” they trooped to both girls.” Alice’s window with a speed that “More girls !" gasped Mrs. Adams. Miss would have done credit to the parson “Quick! They Are Coming!” “And the baby?” “She is a girl, too." And Prudence age girls themselves. First came the minister, whom they ter, but when she began to speak her laughed. “In short, we are all girls knew very well by this time, and con voice did not falter. Connie had nine except father. He couldn't be, of years of good Methodist experience course—or I suppose he would, for our sidered quite respectable. He was back of her ! lively, as was to be expected of a family does seem to run to girls." “Our Father, who art in heaven, we “Prudence is a very nice name for Methodist minister, and told jokes, bow ourselves before thy footstool in n minister's daughter," said Mrs. Ad and laughed at them ! Now, a comical humility and reverence. Thon art our rector—oh, a very different matter— ams suggestively. God, our Creator, our Savior. Bless us “Yes—for some ministers’ daugh it wasn’t done, that's all ! At any rate, this day, and cause thy face to shine ters," assented Prudence. “But is sad here came the Methodist minister, upon us. Blot out our transgressions, laughing, and on one side of him ly unsuitable for me.” pardon our trespasses. Wash us, that Mrs. Adams looked critically nt this tripped a small, earnest-looking maid we may be whiter than snow. Hide young daughter of the parsonage. en, clasping his hand, and gazing alter not thy face from the eyes of thy Then her eyes wandered down to her nately up into his face and down at children, turn not upon us in wrath. clothes, and lingered. In silent ques- the stylish cement sidewalk beneath Pity us. Lord, ns we kneel here pros tioning, on Prudence's dress. It was her feet. On the other side was Fairy. trate before thy majesty and glory. a very peculiar color. In fact, it was The Misses Avery knew the girls by Let the words of our mouths and the no color at all—no named color. Pru- name already—having talked much meditations of our hearts be accept dence’s eyes had followed Mrs. Ad with Prudence. able in thy sight, O Lord, our strength “Such a Fairy I" gasped Miss Milli- and our Redeemer. And finally save ams' glance, and she spoke frankly. “I suppose you’re wondering if this cent, and the others echoed the gasp us, an unbroken family around thy dress is any colori Well, I think It I but wordlessly. throne in heaven, for Jesus' sake. For Fairy was very nearly ns tall Amen." really is, but it Isn’t any of the regu lar shades. It Is my own invention, as her father, built upon generous This was followed by an electric si but I've never named it. Fairy grew lines, rather commanding In appear- lence. Prudence was biting her lips up and out and around, and one day ance, a little splendid-looking. Even painfully, and counting by tens ns fast when I was so nearly out of clothes I from their windows they could discern as she could. Fairy was mentally go hardly felt I could attend church any something distinctly Junolike in this ing over the prayer, sentence by sen more, she suggested that I cut an old sixteen-year-old girl, with the easy, tence, and attributing each petition one of hers down for me ! At first I elastic stride that matched her fa- to the individual member in the old laughed, and then I was insulted. Fairy ther’s, and the graceful head, well car church nt Exminster to whom It be Is three years younger than I, and ried. A young goddess—named Fairy ! longed. The twins were n little Behind them, laughing and chatter amazed, and quite proud. Connie was before then she had got my handed- downs. But now the tables were ing. like three children, as they were— an honor to the parsonage—but they turned. From that time on Fairy's camo the twins with Prudence, each were concerned lest they themselves clothes were cut down for me. I still with an arm around her waist. And should not do quite so well when their feel bitter about it. Fairy is dark, and Prudence was a very little taller than days came. But In loss than n moment the min dark blues are becoming to her. She | they. When they reached the fence handed down this dress—It was dark 1 that bordered the parsonage, the scene ister-father began Ills prayer. When blue then. But I was not wanting a for a montent resembled a miniature he said "Amen," Prudence was on her dark blue, and I thought it would be 1 riot. The smaller girls jumped and feet nnd half-way upstairs before the less recognizable if I gave it a con- exclaimed, and clasped their hands. others were fairly risen. Fairy stood trasting color. I chose lavender. I I Fairy leaned over the fence, and gazing intently out of the window for dyed it four times, and this was the re- I stared intently at this, their parsonage a moment, and then went out to the | home. Then the serious little girl barn to see if the horse was through | suit." “Do the twins dress alike?" inquired | scrambled under the fence, followed eating. Mr. Starr walked gravely and Mrs. Adams, when she could control | closely by the lithe limbed twins. A soberly out the front door, and around pause, a very short one—and then Pru the house. He ran into Fairy coming | her voice. “Yes—unfortunately for Connie. dence, too, was wriggling beneath the out the kitchen door, und they glanced | They do It on purpose to escape the I fence. quickly nt each other. “Hold the wire up for me, pnpa !" handed-downs! They won’t even have “Hurry, papa," she whispered ; "you hair ribbons different. And the result cried Fairy. "I'm too fat." And a sec- can't hold In much longer! Neither | is that poor Connie never gets one 1 ond later she was running gracefully can I !" new thing except shoes. She says she across the lawn toward the parsonage. And together, choking with laugh- | cannot help thanking the Lord In her i The Methodist minister laughed boy- ter, they hurried Into the barn and prayers that nil of us outwear our Ishly, and placing his hands on the gave full vent to their feelings. shoes before we cun outgrow them.— | fence post, he vaulted lightly over, Connie Is only nine. Fairy is sixteen, and reached the house with his daugh- | and the twins are thirteen. They are ters. Then the Misses Avery, school- | Doesn’t it seem that the happy- teachers and elderly, looked at one an a very clever lot of girls.” go-lucky houseful of parsonage "And what are you going to do?” In- other. girls will win the friendehip »f "Did you ever?” gasped the oldest quinal Mrs. Adama, looking with real the Avery spinster* and tear affection at the bright, sweet face. Miss Avery, and the others slowly away the barrier of snobbishness “You ought to go to school. You're shook their heads. and reserve which hedges them Now, think ! Did you ever see a rec- just a girl yourself." in? “I * don't want to go to school," tor jumping a three-wire fence, and laughed Prudence. "Not any more. I running full speed across his front like It, just taking care of father and yard in pursuit of a firing family? It (TO BE CONTINUED) .i i HERMISTON, OREGON. on the extent, direction and nature of the cut. This gaping will hinder , the healing process so that It must be overcome by bringing the edges to MA Y BRING gether by some sort of sutures or pins or by a bandage applied from First Aid Insures Minimum Loss below upward. As suture material, ordinary cotton thread is good, if well of Service of Animal. The irritating, tickling cough sterilized, as is also horsehair, catgut, silk and various kinds of wire. affects the lung tissue and If the suture is made too tight, the wears down nature’s power to subsequent swelling may cause the stitch to tear out. In order to make resist disease germs. a firm suture, the depth of the stitch Air Kept' From Wound Cause* Pain should be the same as the distance the stitch is from the edge of the to Pass Rapidly—Stop Flow of wound. The deeper the suture the Blood by Several Methods- more tissue is embraced and the few Use Antiseptic Fluids. er the number of stitches required. • ----- Process of Healing. (Prepared by the United States Depart In those cases where perfect stop ment of Agriculture.) To be able to render "first aid” to page of bleeding, perfect Joining of a wounded horse, and to follow up the edges of the wound, and perfect suppresses the cold, allays the in with proper treatment, not only in cleanliness are obtained, healing oc flammation, steadily removes the sures a minimum loss of service of the curs rapidly, without the formation irritation and rebuilds the resistive animal, but frequently saves its life. of granulations, pus or proud flesh, power to prevent lung trouble. Horses are liable ordinarily to such by what is termed first intention. If ‘4.3 SCOTTS has done more wounds as cuts, lacerations, contu wounds do not heal in this manner A10 for bronchial troubles than sions, bruises, punctures and poisoned they will gap somewhat and become 7 any other one medicine. Wounds. They also may be burned or warm and painful. Healing then oc curs by granulation or with suppura ’ M It contains no alcohol. scalded, incur troublesome harness or saddle galls, or be afflicted with ul tion, which Is termed healing by sec Ars* Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J. 16-10 ond intention. The sides of the cers, abscesses, or fistulas. An incised wound is a simple cut wound become covered with granula made with a sharp body, like a knife, tion tissue which may fill the wound producing merely a division of the tis and sometimes overlap the lips, form sues. The duller the body the more ing a fungoid growth called proud force is required, the more tissue de flesh. Under favorable conditions the stroyed, the greater the time required edges of the wound appear to grow to for healing. In a cut wound the gether by the end of the first week, edges are even and definite, while those and the whole surface gradually be- of a lacerated wound are irregular and comes dry, and finally covered with torn. Three conditions are present as pigmented skin, when the wound is a result of an incised wound : (1) Pain, healed. All antiseptics are not equally de (2) hemorrhage, (3) gaping of the wound. The first pain is due to the structive, and some germs are more crushing and tearing of the nerve susceptible to one antiseptic than to fibers. The secondary pain is usually another. The most important are (1) Sold by all druggists. due to the action of the air and in bichloride of mercury, which is to be preferred on horses. It becomes weak flammatory processes. When air Is kept from the wound pain ceases soon ened in its action if placed in a wood after the lesion is produced. Bleeding en pail or on an oily or greasy sur may be from the arteries, veins, or face. It is used in the strength of 1 capillaries. In the latter form of bleed part of bichloride to 1,000 to 5,000 ing the blood oozes from the part in parts of water, according to the deli drops. Hemorrhage from the veins cacy of the tissue to which it is ap PLASTERS is dark red and issues in a steady plied. (2) Carbolic acid in from 2 The World's Greatest External Remedy. stream without spurting. In arterial to 5 per cent solution is. used on in Coughs and Colds bleeding the blood is bright red and fected wounds and for cleaning in (on chest and another spurts with each heart beat. This lat struments, dressings and sponges. It between shoulder blades) ter variety of hemorrhage is the most unites well with oil and is preferred Weak Chests, dangerous, and should be stopped at to the bichloride on a greasy surface. 7—Any Local Pain. once before attempting any further A 5 per cent solution in oil is often Insist on treatment. Bleeding from small veins used under the name of carbolized oil. Having and capillaries censes in a short time (3) Aluminum acetate is an efficient ALLCOCICS. and cheap antiseptic, and is composed spontaneously, while larger vessels, especially arteries, require some form of 1 part alum and 5 parts ace of treatment to cause complete stop tate of lead, mixed in 20 parts of wa is no more necessary ter. (4) Boric acid is good, in a 2 to page of the hemorrhage. than Smallpox. Army experience has demonstrated 4 per cent solution, to cleanse wounds Stopping Hemorrhage. the almost miraculous effi- Checking the flow of blood may be and wash eyes. Compound cresol may cacy, and harmlessness, of Antityphoid Vaccination. Be vaccinated NOW by your physician, you and accomplished by several methods, such be used in a 1 to 3 per cent solution your family. It is more vital than house insurance. as compress bandages, torsion, hot in water. Iodoform acts as an ano Ask your physician, druggist, or send for “Have you had Typhoid?” telling of Typhoid Vaccine, dyne, stimulates granulation and iron and ligatures. The application results from us * and danger from Typhoid Carriers. of nn iron at red heat will cause the checks wound secretion. A very effi THE CUTTER LABORATORY, BERKELEY, CAL immediate clotting of the blood in the cacious and inexpensive powder is PRODUCING VACCINES a SERUMS UNDER U. S, 6OV. LICzuss vessels, and this clot is further sup made by taking 5 parts of iodoform ported by the production of a scab, and 95 parts of sugar, making what is Might Lose Ball, Too. or crust, over the portion seared. If called iodoform sugar. Tannic acid is Two English soldiers caused some the iron is at a white heat, the tissue a useful drug in the treatment of amusement at a golf course the other is charred, which makes it brittle nnd wounds, as it arrests hemorrhage, day. The first man teed up and made the bleeding is liable to be renewed; checks secretion and favors the for a mighty swipe, but failed to shift the if at a black heat, the tissue will stick mation of a scab. A mixture of 1 ball. The miss was repeated no fewer to the Iron and will pull away from part tannic acid and 3 parts iodo than three times. “For heaven’s sake. Bill,” the other the surface of the wound. Cold wa form is good in suppurating wounds. out, "hit the thing! You know ter and ice bags quickly stop capillary Iodol, white sugar, ground and roast broke we have only four days’ leave.”—Phil ed coffee and powdered charcoal are bleeding, while hot water is preferable adelphia Ledger. all used as protectives and absorbents In more excessive hemorrhages. A solution of the chloride of iron on suppurating surfaces. More de- Jealous. placed on n wound alone or by means pends on the care and the method of First Girl—Mr. Dauber said my face of cotton drenched in the liquid pro application of the drug than on the was classic. What is classic? Second Girl—Oh, most anything duces n rapid and hnrd clot. Tannic drug itself. On aseptic wounds use only those old.—Boston Transcript. acid, alum, acetic acid, nlcohol, nnd oil of turpentine are nil more or less antiseptics that do not irritate the tis A Masculine Mrs. Blunderby. active in this respect. To check bleed sue. If care is used in the application Visitor—Do you employ many wo ing from large vessels compression of the antiseptic, corrosive sublimate on your farm, Mr. Hawbuck? may be adopted. When it is rapid or carbolic acid is to be recommended. men Uncle Si—No, sir; they be too con- nnd dangerous nnd from nn artery, the In order to keep air from the wound trarious an’ onsartln. Gimme manual fingers may be used for pressing be and to absorb all wound secretions labor every time.—Boston Transcript. tween the wound and the heart (digital rapidly, a dressing should be applied. compression), but If from a vein, the If the wound is aseptic, the dressing “Father, what did you do in the pressure should be exerted on the should be likewise, such as sterilized great war?” "I nursed you while your mother other side of the wound. Tourniquet cotton gauze, oakum or tow. This may also be used by passing a strap dressing should be applied with uni was selling flags.” around the pnrt nnd tightening after form pressure at all times and se He—I could die tangoing. placing n pad over the hemorrhage. cured by a bandage. Allow it to re She—That’s no reason why you main for a week or ten days if the The rubber ligature has now replaced should expect me to keep a suicide the tourniquet nnd is bound tightly wound is aseptic or if the dressing pact.—Philadelphia Ledger. around the limb to arrest the bleed does not become loose or misplaced or ing. Tampons, such ns cotton, tow, or become drenched with secretions from oakum, may be packed tightly in the the wound, or if pain, fever or loss of wound nnd then sewed up. After re- appetite does not develop. The dress mnining there for 24 or 48 hours they ing should then be removed, the wound treated antiseptically, and a sterilized are removed. Bleeding may sometimes be easily dressing applied. checked by passing a pin under the Healing Under a Scab. vessel nnd by tnking n horsehair nnd This often occurs in small superfi forming n figure 8 by running it above cial wounds that have been kept asep and below the pin, thus causing pres tic. In order that a scab may form, Take Salts at first sign of Blad sure on the vessel. Torsion is the the wound must not gap, secrete free der irritation or Back twisting of the blood vessel until the ly or become infected with germs. The ache. walls come together nnd form a bar formation of scab is favored by rier to the flow of blood. It may be astringents or styptics, such as tannic The American men and women must accomplished by the fingers, forceps, acid, iodoform and 5 per cent solution or by running a pin through the ves of zinc chloride. In case of fistulous guard constantly against Kidney trou sel, turning it several times, nnd withers, open joints or other large, ble, because we eat too much and all food is rich. Our blood is filled then running the point Into the tissue hollow wounds that cannot be dressed, our with uric acid which the kidneys to keep it in a fixed position. antisepsis may be obtained by warm strive to filter out, they weaken from Ligation is another method for stop- water irrigation, with or without an overwork, become sluggish; the elim ping n hemorrhage. The blood vessel antiseptic fluid. It should continue inative tissues clog and the result is should be seized with the artery for day and night, nnd never be Interrupt kidney trouble, bladder weakness and ceps. a clean thread of silk passed ed for more than eight hours, for a general decline in health. your kidneys feel like lumps around It. and tied about one-half inch germs will then have gained headway of When lead; back hurts or the urine from its end. The silk should be ster and will be difficult to remove. Four is cloudy, your full of sediment or you are ilized by placing it tn an antiseptic or five days of irrigation will be suf- obliged to seek relief two or three solution, so ns not to impede the heal ficient, for granulations will then have time* during the night; if you suffer ing process or cause blood-poisoning formed and pus will remain on the with sick headache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or you have rheu or lock law, which often follows the outside If it forms. ligation of a vein with unsterilized The following rules for the treat matism when the weather is bad, get material. Sometimes It will be im ment of wounds should be followed : from your pharmacist about four of Jad Salts; take a table possible to reach the bleeding vessel, (1) See that the wound is clean. re ounces spoonful In a glass of water before so it Is necessary to pass the ligature moving all foreign bodies. For this breakfast for a few days and your kid- around a mass of tissue which in purpose, use a clean finger rather neys will then act fine. This famous cludes the blood vessel. Ligation Is than a probe. (2) All hemorrhage salts is made from the acid of grapes the most useful method of arresting should be arrested before closing the and lemon juice, combined with lithia, hemorrhage, since it disturbs healing wound. (3) Antiseptics should only and has been used for generations to least and gives the greatest security be used when it is suspected that the flush and stimulate clogged kidneys; to neutralize the acids in the urine so against secondary hemorrhage. wound Is infected. (4) When pus is I It no longer is a source of irritation, After the bleeding has been con- present treat without closing the ‘ thus ending bladder disorder*. trolled and nil foreign bodies removed wound. This may be accomplished Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in from the wound, the gaping of the by drainage tubes, absorbent dress- jure, makes a delightful effervescent wound is noticeable. It is caused by Ings or continuous irrigations. (5) lithia-water beverage, and belong* in the contraction of the muscles and Protect the wound against infection every home, because nobody can make a mistake by having a good kidney elastic fibers, and its degree depends while healing. WOUNDS OF HORSES ANY CHEST COLD Bronchitis or Tonsilitis LIABLE TO MANY INJURIES SCOIT’S EMULSION Resinol first aid for skin tro Allcock TYPHOID BIG EATERS GEI KIDNEY TROUBLE flushing any time.
