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)
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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.
•
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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.