THE HERMISTON
ETHEL HUESTON
ILLUSTRATED BY
W.C .TANNER
(Copyright,
by
the
Bobbs-Merrill
CHAPTER XIII—Continued.
“Will we!” And Carol added, “Will
you kiss Prudence good night for us,
and tell her we kept praying all the
time? Prudence is such a great hand
for praying, you know.”
Fairy promised, and the twins crept
upstairs. It was dark In their room.
“We’ll undress in the dark so as not
to awake poor little Connie,” whis
pered Lark. “It’s nice she can sleep
like that, Isn’t it?”
And the twins went to bed, and fell
asleep after a while, never doubting
that Connie, in her corner of the room,
was already safe and happy in the ob
livion of slumber.
But poor Connie ! She had not wak
ened when Fairy closed the dungeon
door. It was long afterward when she
sat up and began rubbing her eyes.
She did not know where she was. Then
she remembered ! She wondered if
Prudence— ' She scrambled to her
feet, and trotted over to the dungeon
door. It was locked; she could not
turn the knob. At first she thought of
screaming and pounding on the door.
"But that will arouse Prudence, and
frighten her, nnd maybe kill her,” she
thought wretchedly. “I’ll just keep
still until someone passes.”
But no one passed for a long time,
and Connie stretched her aching body
and sobbed, worrying about Prudence,
fearful on her own account. She had
no idea of the time. She supposed it
was still early. And the parsonage
was deathly quiet. Maybe Prudence
had died ! Connie writhed in agony
on the hard floor, and sobbed bitterly.
Still she would not risk pounding on
the dungeon door.
Upstairs, In the front room. Prudence
was wrestling with fever. Higher and
higher it rose, until the doctors looked
very anxious. They held a brief con
sultation in the corner of the room.
Then they beckoned to Mr. Starr.
“Has Prudence been worrying about
something this winter?”
Company.)
wontedly tender as he carried her up
stairs to bed.
Prudence slept late the next morn
ing, and when she opened her eyes her
father was sitting beside her.
“All right this morning, father,” she
said, smiling.
“Are the girls at
school?”
“No, this is Saturday.”
“Oh, of course. Well, bring them
up, I want to see them.”
Just then the distant whistle of a
locomotive sounded through the open
window, but she did not notice her fa
ther's sudden start. She nodded up at
him again and repeated, “I want to see
my girls.”
Her father sent them up to her at
once, and they stood at the foot of the
bed with sorry faces, and smiled at
her.
“Say something,” whispered Carol,
kicking Lark suggestively on the foot.
But Lark was dumb. It was Carol
who broke the silence.
“Oh, Prudence, do you suppose the
doctors will let me come In and watch
them bandage your head? I want to
begin practicing up, so as to be ready
for the next war.”
Then they laughed, and the girls
realized that Prudence was really
alive and quite as always. They told
her of Connie's sad experience, and
Prudence comforted her sweetly.
“It just proves ail over again,” she
declared, smiling, ’ but with a sigh
close following, “that you can’t get
along without me to look after you.
Would I ever go to bed without mak
ing sure that Connie was safe and
sound?”
Downstairs, meanwhile, Mr. Starr
was plotting with Fairy, a willing as
sistant.
“He’ll surely be in on this train, and
you must keep him down here until I
get through with Prudence. I want to
tell her a few things before she sees
him. Bring him in quietly, and don’t
"Yes, sho has.”
“It is that young man, isn’t it?” In
quired the family doctor—a Methodist
"member.”
•HHE
"Can you bring him here?”
“Yes—as soon as he can get here
from Des Moines."
"You’d better do it. She has worn
herself down nearly to the point of
prostration. We think we can break
this fever without serious conse
quences, but get the young man as soon
as possible. She cannot relax and rest
until she gets relief.”
So he went downstairs and over the
telephone dictated a short message to
Jerry: “Please come—Prudence."
When he entered the front bedroom
again. Prudence was muttering unin
telligible words under her breath. He
kneeled down beside the bed and put
his arms around her. She clung to him
with sudden passion.
"Jerry! Jerry!” she cried. Her fa-
ther caressed and petted her, but did
not speak.
"Oh, I can’t,” she cried again.
can’t, Jerry, I can’t !” Again her voice
fell to low mumbling. “Yes, go. Go at
once. I promised, you know. They
haven’t any mother — I promised.
Jerry ! Jerry !” Then, panting, she
fell back on the pillows.
But Mr. Starr smiled gently to him-
self. So that was the answer! Oh,
foolish little Prudence I Oh, sweet-
hearted little martyr girl I
Hours later the fever broke and
Prudence drifted Into a deep sleep.
Then the doctors went downstairs with
Mr. Starr, talking In quiet, ordinary
IHHHL:
imi
"Oh, she Is all right now, no danger
She’ll do fine. Let her sleep.
Send Fairy to bed, too. Keep Prudence
quiet a few days—that's all. She’s all
right."
They did not heur the timid knock
at the dungeon door. But after they
had gone out. Mr. Starr locked the
door behind them, and started back
through the hall to see If the kitchen
doors were locked. He distinctly
heard a soft tapping, and he smiled.
“Mice!” he thought. Then he heard
something else—a faintly whispered,
-Father !”
With a sharp exclamation he un-
locked and opened the dungeon door,
and Connie fell Into his arms, sobbing
piteously. And he did the only wise
thing to do under the circumstances.
He sat down on the hall floor and
cuddled the child against his breast.
Ho talked to her soothingly until the
sobs quieted, and her voice was under
control.
“Now, tell father,” he urged, "how
The
id you get in the dungeon ?
at all.
twins—"
“Oh, no, father, of course not: the
twins wouldn't do such a thing as
that. I went into the dungeon to pray
that Prudence would get well. And I
prayed myself to sleep. When I woke
up the door was locked.”
“But you precious child,” ho whis
pered, "why didn't you call out, or
pound on the door?”
“I was afraid it would excite Prue
HERALD,
that whenever we were ready for her
she would come. We both felt that
since you were getting along so magni
ficently with the girls, it was better
that way for a while. But she said
that when your flitting time came, she
would come to us gladly. We bad it
all arranged. You won’t want to mar
ry for a year or so, yet You’ll want
to have some happy sweetheart days
first. And you'll want to make a lot
of those pretty, useless, nonsensical
things other girls make when they
marry. That's why I advised you to
save your burglar money, so you would
have It for this.
We’ll have Aunt
Grace come right away, so you can
take a little freedom to be happy, and
to make your plans. And you can
initiate Aunt Grace into the mysteries
of parsonage housekeeping.”
A bright, strange light had flashed
over Prudence’s face. But her eyes
clouded a little as she asked, “Do you
think they would rather have Aunt
Grace than me?”
“Of course not. But what has that
to do with It? We love you so dearly
that we can only be happy when you
are happy. We love you so dearly
that we can be happy with you away
from us, just knowing that you are
happy.
But you—you thought our
love was such a hideous, selfish, little
make-believe that—”
“Oh, father, I didn't! You know I
didn’t !— But—maybe Jerry won’t for-
give me now?”
"Why didn't you talk It over with
me, Prudence?”
, “I knew you too well, father. I knew
It would be useless. But—doesn’t it
seem wrong, father, that—a girl—that
I—should love Jerry more than—you
and the girls? That he should come
first? Doesn’t It seem—wicked?”
“No, Prudence, It is not wicked. Af
ter all, perhaps it is not a stronger
and deeper love. You were willing to
sacrifice him and yourself, for our
sakes! But it is a different love. It
is the love of woman for man, that is
very different from sister love and fa
ther love. And it is right. And it is
beautiful.”
“I am sure Jerry will forgive ma
Maybe if you will send me a paper and
pencil, I can write him a note now?
There’s no use waiting, is there? Fairy
will bring it, I am sure.”
But when a few minutes later, she
heard a step In the hall outside, she
laid her arm across her face. Some
how she felt that the wonderful joy
and love shining in her eyes should be
kept hidden until Jerry was there to
see. She heard the door open, and
close again.
“Put them on the table, Fairy dear
est, and, leave me for a little while,
will you? Thank you.” And her face
was still hidden.
Then the table by the bedside was
swiftly drawn away, and Jerry kneeled
beside her, and drew the arm from hei
face.
“Jerry !” she whispered, half unbe-
lievingly. Then joyously, "Oh, Jerry !”
She gazed anxiously into his faca
“Have you been sick? How thin you
are, and so pale ! Jerry Harmer, you
need me to take care of you, don’t
you?”
But Jerry did not speak, He looked
earnestly and steadily into the joyful
eyes for a moment, and then he
pressed his face to hers.
THE END.
LIVED UNDER SIX SOVEREIGNS
Aged Reeldent of New Brunswick
Ascribed Long Life to His Ac-
tlvity and Early Retiring.
But Mr. Starr Smiled Gently to Him-
self.
After posing for his picture on his
one hundredth and fifth birthday an-
nlversary, Levi W. Richardson, said to
be the oldest man In New Brunswick,
died before he had fairly started his
one hundredth and sixth year. He
had been ill for only about ten days.
Mr. Richardson ascribed his long
life and remarkable preservation of
his faculties to going to bed early
and being active.
He had followed the operations of
the war with the most careful atten-
tlon, and his only ambition for the
last year, says the Mutual Star, had
been to live long enough to see Great
Britain and its allies successful, for
he had lived under six sovereigns and
had watched with interest the ex
pansion of the empire.
More than 80 children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren survive him.
HERMISTON, OREGON.
WHY SOUP
IS TOO
SALTY
CHEAP AND USEFUL
Frequently a Failure Because the
Proper Kind of Flavoring Was
Not Used in IL
FIRELESS COOKER EASILY MADE
IN THE HOME.
The average housewife wonder why
she often over or under salts her
dishes when she "knows” that she
salted them just right as she always
did. and as the recipes called for.
The reason is just this : The season
ing value of different brands of salt va
ries widely. This is easily proved.
Take five slices of ripe tomatoes; ap
ply equal parts of five makes of salt
upon the separate pieces. Eat as soon
as salted. The difference in flavor,
permeation, rapidity and equality of
dissolution and seasoning value are
readily detected.
A table salt should be fine, the crys
tals of equal size, quickly soluble and
free from ingredients which absorb
moisture from the air. Large and
small crystals will not dissolve uni
formly, consequently the full salting
effect Is not obtained until the large
crystals are dissolved. The quickly
soluble salt diffuses Itself through the
food at once and gives an equality of
savor. Sticky salt is an Intrusive nuis
ance.
Failures in salting are largely due to
changing from one make of salt to an
other. Get the best grade, grow accus
tomed to its use, stick to It.
SAVING IN ODDS ANO ENDS
Small Economies That Seem to
Amount to Little, but Are Well
Worth Keeping in Mind.
Never throw away the water that
dried beef has been boiled in. A bay-
leaf and a few cloves cooked in this
stock gives it a pleasant flavor. Add
a tiny bit of red pepper and serve in
bouillon cups with a slice of lemon.
The stock from half a pound of dried
beef will serve four persons.
Save the pound tins In which baking-
powder comes and use them to steam
brown bread and puddings, allowing
less time for cooking than when the
large steamer is used ; about one hour
and a half is enough for bread and two
for suet pudding.
Finding that I had a lot of small
ends of paraffin candles that were too
short to use for lighting purposes, I
hit upon the scheme of melting them
up, taking out the wick and then using
the melted parafin as a covering for
jelly, marmalade, etc.—People’s Home
Journal.
Sauce for Maitre De Hotel.
One sliced onion, six whole peppers
and a bay leaf tn a saucepan with two
ounces of good butter on the hot stove.
Stir in two tablespoonfuls of flour to
thicken, then mix in a pint of chicken
or white broth. Mix well, remove any
fat accumulated. Add a half teaspoon
ful of salt. Cook for twenty-five min
utes. Beat the yolks of three eggs
with the juice of half a lemon, being
careful not to boll again after they
have been added, then put through a
sieve. Add then a teaspoonful of
chopped parsley, half an ounce of but
ter, small teaspoonfnl of pepper and
half a teaspoonful of nutmeg.
Method of Construction So Simple No
One Can Fall to Understand it—
Aluminum Kettle With Cover
Is Best to Use.
Drink a glass of real hot water
before breakfast to wash
out poisons.
To make at home the simplest kind
of fireless cooker line a large pall,
either a metal or wooden one, with
several thicknesses of paper, or of
asbestos. If not too expensive. Pack
to a depth of two and a half Inches
with clean bay;' then set a tin pail
with straight sides in the center. This
should come a few inches below the
top of the outer pall and should leave
a space of two and a half or three
inches between the inner pall and the
outer all round. This space is for
packing. Then pack in all the hay
that can be crowded In, bringing it
even with the top of the tin, a little
higher at the outer edge. Make a
round cushion, filled with hay, to fit
snugly inside the top of the outer pall.
This is laid on the cover of the inner
pail. A wooden or metal cover goes
over all.
The kettle or pall in which the food
is cooked must be air-tight. An alum
inum kettle with a cover that clamps
on is the best for meats, beans, and
“boiled dinners,” although an enameled
kettle will do with a tightly fitting
cover. Have the cooker near the stove,
so that the kettle may be set Into it
the second it leaves the fire. Put It
into the tin pall, cover with the cushion
and put the board cover over that,
weighing it down to make it air-tight.
Recipe books are issued by the
makers of the various tireless cook
ers on the market, and might be ob
tained from the hardware department
of department stores. They give the
time for the preliminary heating and
for the cooking in the "fireless,” the
time varying for different articles of
food.
Life is not merely to live, but to
live well, eat well, digest well, work
well, sleep well, look well. What a
glorious condition to attain, and yet
how very easy it is if one will only
adopt the morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach,
can, instead, fell as fresh as a daisy
by opening the sluices of the system
each morning and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
well, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink a glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the
stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels
the previous day’s indigestible waste,
sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus
cleansing, sweetening and purifying
the entire alimentary canal before
putting more food into the stomach.
The action of hot water and limestone
phosphate on an empty stomach is
wonderfully invigorating. It cleans
out all the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one a
splendid appetite for breakfast While
you are enjoying your breakfast the
water and phosphate is quietly ex
tracting a large volume of water from
the blood and getting ready for a thor
ough flushing of all the inside organs.
The millions of people who are
bothered with constipation, bilious
spells, stomach trouble, rheumatism;
others who have sallow skins, blood
disorders and sickly complexions are
urged to get a quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate from the drug store,
which will cost very little, but is suf
ficient to make anyone a pronounced
crank on the subject of internal sani
tation.
Apple Water.
This will be found a refreshing drink
for both invalids and healthy people.
It can be made with either baked or
raw apples, the former to be preferred
when time is short, especially if the
apples are baked and in readiness.
They should be sour, and when cold
should be immersed in boiling water
to cover them. Let them stand until
cool, then strain and sweeten to taste.
If raw apples are used, three or four
juicy sour apples of fine flavor should
be pared and sliced, and, if desired, a
few slices of lemon rind added to
them. Put over them two cupfuls of
boiling water.and let them stand for
three hours. Strain, sweeten and add
a small piece of ice.
Honey Divinity.
One-third cupful strained honey, two
cupfuls sugar, one-third cupful water,
two egg whites, one cupful pecan
meats, broken in pieces; one teaspoon
ful vanilla. Cook honey, sugar and
water together until mixture will spin
a fine thread from the tines of a fork.
Beat the egg whites until stiff and
Handy Things for the Kitchen.
pour syrup over them, beating all the
A bottle makes a good potato time. When slightly cooled add vanil-
masher.
la and nut meats. Beat until candy
A can cover with a few holes begins to harden. Drop from a spoon
punched in it makes a good grater.
in little piles on buttered tins or on
A large kettle makes a good bread waxed paper.—Mothers’ Magazine.
extra
then
you
have
it
for
box and
use, such as boiled dinners.
Variety of House Aids.
Sifted wood ashes make a good
Save all egg shells; they are very
cleanser.
good for cleaning bottles and cruets.
Put your soiled handkerchiefs in
Kerosene Is excellent for cleaning
cold water and a little soap powder, bathtubs and white sinks.
let boil a few minutes and they will
Salmon served with oranges as a
wash very easy.
flavor Instead of lemon Is very good.
When making Ice cream whip your
A drop of lemon extract in apple pie
cream first. It is enough better to makes a delicious flavored pie; use
pay.
nutmeg or cinnamon also.
Save all lemon rinds and when boil
Chocolate Sauce.
ing the tea towels, put into the water;
Shave one square of unsweetened they make them very white and sweet
chocolate Into a saucepan and add half
a cupful of sugar, one cupful of boil
Irish Scallop.
ing water and a pinch of salt Cook
Take a large, thick slice of raw ham
all together slowly until It is the con and cut into two-inch pieces; slice
sistency of maple sirup, or thicker If about six raw potatoes after peeling.
desired. Remove from the fire, flavor Place alternately in a baking dish, sea
with one teaspoonful of vanilla and soning with pepper, and sprinkle gen
serve hot This sauce Is very easily erously with flour In each layer, keep
made. It will keep indefinitely, and ing potatoes on the top. Heat milk
may be reheated.
enough to cover all. Bake half an
hour in hot oven with a cover and
Berkshire Sardines.
half an hour longer without cover to
Remove fish from box, take out back- finish.
bones and break Into small pieces.
Melt four tablespoonfuls of butter, add
one-quarter cupful of bread crumbs
Try some toasted marmalade sand
and one cupful of cream or rich milk, wiches when someone "drops in” for af
with a little more butter. Stir until ternoon tea. Cut the bread very thin
heated, add two hard-boiled eggs and remove the crusts ; then spread not
finely chopped and the sardines.
too generously with orange marmalade,
son with salt pepper and paprika. chopping the rind unless It was shaved
When very hot pour over toast.
very fine. Press the sandwiches togeth
er and toast lightly In the gas broiler
or on a toaster over the coals.
Chocolate-Dipped Grapes.
Wash one-half pound of malaga
Lamb 8tew.
grapes, and dry perfectly. Stir one-
Boll slowly three pounds of lean
half cake of chocolate over hot water,
until melted. In a small cup. Dip stem lamb flank one hour, then add three or
end of grapes In. one at a time, to one four sliced onions and half cupful rice,
fourth depth of grapes. Invert to cool, and boll with a heaping teaspoonful of
then dip the other end in warm fond sage and summer savory for three
ant. cool, and then Into the chocolate. quarters of an hour. Then add a pint
of cream of tartar dumplings mixed
with three eggs. Boil 12 minutes.
Chopped Ham and Corn Pattina
One-half cupful cooked corn cut
Eggs and Tomato Kedgeree.
from cob, three cupfuls chopped ham,
Have ready a cupful of boiled rice
one well-beaten egg. dash of pepper.
Form Into («titles and fry in butter per person and allow one tomato per
or ham grease. Drained canned corn person. 8tew and sieve the tomatoes.
Allow one egg to each person and
may be used.
arramble egg, tomato and rice with salt
and pepper, just as for scrambled eggs.
let him speak loudly, I do not want
her to know he is on hand for a few
minutes. Explain It to the girls, will
you?”
After sending the younger girls
downstairs again. he closed the door
of Prudence’s room, and sat down be
side her.
“Prudence, I can't tell you how bit
terly disappointed I am in you.”
“Father !”
“Yes, I thought you loved us—the
girls and me. It never occurred to me
Didn’t Get the Umbrella.
that you considered us a bunch of self
One of Chauncey Mitchell Depew’s
ish, heartless, ungrateful animals!”
best stories is the story of the spotted
"Father !”
dog which, as a boy, he bought from a
“Is that your Idea of love? Is that local dog dealer. “The next morning
it was raining,” he says, “and I took
“Oh. father !”
the dog out into the woods, but the
“It really did hurt me. Prudence. My rain was too much for him. It washed
dear little girl, how could you send the spots off. I trotted the dog back
Jerry away, breaking your heart and to the dealer.
his, and ours, too—just because you
" ’Look at this animal,' I said. The
thought us such a selfish lot that we spots have all washed off.’
would begiadge you any happiness of
“Great guns, boy !’ he replied, there
your own? Don't you think our love was an umbrella went with that dog.
for you is big enough to make us hap Didn't you get the umbrella?’”
py in seeing you happy? You used to
say you would never marry. We did
Proof Positive.
not expect you to marry, then. But we
“You can't fish here,” said the farm
knew the time would come when mar er to an angler who was gloomily
riage would seem beautiful and desir making his preparations to quit the
able to you. We were waiting for that post. “Don't you see that sign, 'N»
time. We were hoping for It. We Trespass! ng'?”
were happy when you loved Jerry, be
"Oh, yes. I see the sign," replied
cause we knew be was good and kind the fisherman, “but I wasn't convinced
and loving, and that he could give you that I couldn't fish here until I bad
all the beautiful things of life—that I waited nearly seven hours without get
can never give my children. But you ting a nibble.”
thought we were too selfish to let you
go, and you sent him away.”
Where the Paint Was.
"But father! Who would raise the
Regular Customer (who has just en
The lace around the neck or collar
girls? Who would keep the parson tered restaurant) — “Strong smell of
age? Who would look after you?"
patnt here, William.” Walter (cough-
Ing apologetically and indicating young To clean, take boracic acid powder,
rub well Into lace, and leave for a day
Look and Feel
Clean, Sweet and
Fresh Every Day
Chopped suet la very useful In tak-
Simply sprinkle a little on the top and
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver ana bowels.
Not Much to Say.
“You have sworn to tell nothing but
the truth."
“Nothing but the truth your honor?"
“Precisely.”
"Then, judge, with that limitation
upon me I might as well warn you
that I'm not going to have much to
say."—Detroit Free Press.
Called Bet Off.
Miss Elder—I’ll bet you a hundred
that I’ll never marry.
Mr. Easy—I’ll take you.
Miss Elder (rapturously)—Will you.
really? Then I won’t bet after all.—
Boston Transcript.
Freedom.
The Boy—I shall be glad when I am
old enough to áo as I please.
The Man—And about that time you
will go off and get married, so It
won’t do you much good after all.—
New York Times.
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