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THE HERMISTON HERMISTON, HERALD, OREGON. UNCLE SAM’S SOLDIERS OF SEA IN ACTION SHEEP’S CLOTHING s . ■ 8 I By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE LrLrLLTLrLrLrLrLrLTLrLrLrLriLriririti LYDIA IS VASTLY AMUSED BY PETER TRAFT’S WHIMSICAL WAY OF MAKING LOVE, BUT-SHE IS MORE SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED WITH THE PERSONALITY OF QUOIN WHO SEEMS TO HER THE TYPICAL YANKEE SYNOPSIS.—A well-bred young Englishwoman, nervous and sus- plclous, finds when she boards the steamer Alsatia, bound from Liv erpool to New York, that her stateroom mate is Mrs. Amelia Beggar- staff, a fascinating, wealthy American widow of about sixty years. The girl introduces herself as Lucy Carteret and says she is going to America to meet her father. Lucy’s behavior puzzles Mrs. Beggar staff, who Is vastly surprised to find the girl in possession of a mag nificent necklace, stolen from a museum some time previously and passes the news on to her friend, Quoin, a private detective cn board. Lucy, dressing in the dark in her stateroom, hears a mysterious con versation between two men just outside her window and recognizes one of them as Thaddeus Craven, her father, whom she hasn’t seen for five years. She confesses to Mrs. Beggarstaff that she is in reality Lydia Craven. The girt discovers her father and young Mrs. Mer- riless, a charming widow, engaged to be married. Mrs. Merriless Is bewildered for a moment because Craven had always posed as a bachelor, but she and Lydia like one another. Craven tells Lydia he secretly represents the British government In the United States. Peter Traft falls In love with Lydia and Mrs. Merrilees displays a mag nificent necklace which she says she's going to give Lydia for a wed ding present. CHAPTER VII. pen. Lydia and I understand each other, my home's the place for her, and there she goes, straight from the steamer.” When he had detached his fiancee and departed, the Dowager Dragon took up the thread of her discourse with Lydia. “It's up to you, my dear,” she an nounced. “I mean to say, it’s for you to decide. I warn you you’ll never be happy. Tad’s not old enough to be a father. For that matter, he’s not old enough to be a husband. He's heed less, irresponsible, as flighty as Betty Merrilees. He never has grown up, and he never will. He’s Peter Pan, with all the Innocence expurgated." Here the Dowager Dragon paused and, receiving no response, regarded with suspicion the object of her solici tude. “What are you smiling at, pray?” she demanded In dudgeon. “Do you think I’m merely blustering for your amusement?” “I beg your pardon,” Lydia said meekly, hastening to erase a smile; the idea of the chief agent of Down ing Street in America being heedless. Irresponsible and flighty having proved too much for her sense of the ridicu- lous. “You made me think of some thing funny. But please, Mrs. Beg garstaff, don’t say any more. The thing is quite settled; and you don’t know how stubborn he Is—and I'm his daughter I” The frown of the Dowager Dragon relaxed, and a crusty smile succeeded. "So be it I I sha'n’t contend with you Mrs. Beggarstaff was right, who terself admitted that she was always •Ight: Lydia was a very happy girl. She had, indeed, never been so happy lince those memorable days when Cra- fen's rare, capricious, and always un expected appearances In England had nvariably signalized his amazing iprees of paternal indulgence—frolics Tom which, as from the nirvana of airy tales, one emerged In childish de- noralization to renew acquaintance with the hard and grimy facts of life is lived in Mrs. Grummle’s Blooms- »ury lodging house, or with the chilly routine of the Misses Stint's Select Academy for Daughters of Gentlemen. She lived those days in delicious ex- itement. She would be a strange girl f twenty had her imagination not quickened to the romance inherent in he words secret agent. To think her- telf the object of stealthy surveillance, is daughter and confidante of a past naster of devious diplomacy ; to think the must ever keep her courage bright n the shadow of nameless dangers, be orever jealous of the great secret, tomport herself always warily—in hese persuasions lay delight as deep and abiding as that of a girl playing he mischief at her first bal masque. Not Infrequently she would catch Graven regarding her with his dark and quizzical smile; and then she would flush and smile spiritedly in re turn, thrilled to think he read her noughts and understood. One circumstance alone flawed the perfect jewel of her happiness—the second and final disappearance of her sardonyx cameo. The first time Lydia had missed It * had turned up safe and sound be fore bedtime in its place on top of the thest of drawers. But the next day It vanished again and finally. And though for a time her hope ran high that the finder would return the trin ket in view of the rather heavy re ward posted by Craven, when noth ing of the sort happened she felt forced to accept the hypothesis that the clasp had worked loose when she had been lounging beside the rail, de livering the brooch to the sea. In her new relationship with her fa ther Lydia found several friendships that, however young, promised perma nence. For one, Mrs. Beggarstaff had un questionably taken a fancy to Lydia, which the girl was quick to divine and reciprocate with a frank and—If un- demonstrative—real affection. And “But I Haven’t the Slightest Intention the Dowager Dragon was daily wast of Marrying You, Mr. Traft.” ing much time in amiable bickering with Craven about his daughter's fu or Tad another minute. But when you ture, openly discountenancing his in see your mistake, remember, my home tention to make Lydia part of his me is always open to you. You're a cheer nage; at least until there should be ful snippet, and not a bit hard to look a second Mrs. Craven to keep his house at, and I believe I could grow quite In order—and its master, Into the bar fond of you. Now promise you'll come. gain. If ever you’re In trouble. You owe “Though," she once amended ac me that consolation at least—If only ridly in the presence of Mrs. Merri- for being graceful In defeat.” Lydia promising lightly, a placated tees, "as for that, to my taste, Betty’s altogether too frivolous to make a Dowager Dragon consented to let the proper duenna. Mark my words. Tad, subject drop. Then there was Mrs. Merrilees, who |ust as soon as that pretty feather- weight head finds out life with you Is bade fair to prove the sister more than not one round of pleasure, she's going the stepmother, the girl friend more to cut loose and lead you a dance that than either, who, once Craven had won’t leave a breath In your fat little wheedled her out of her resentment of body. And then what will become of his putatively negative and innocent deception, seemed to find in Lydia the child F “Oh. blow your meddling!” Craven I just one more reason for being fond of retorted with entire good humor. “You Craven and viewing with confidence forget the 'child' is of age—or will be their life after marriage. Though tn another six months. She can take vain and avid of admiration, she care of herself. If it turns out she seemed incapable of any sort of mean can't, I give you permission to use emotion, and was as generous as the your well-known arts of moral suasion good sunlight. Ar. adorable creature I Peter Traft, the third of three new- and nag her until she's mad enough to hitch up as companion to a saw- found friends, was a riddle Lydia toothed destroyer of reputations like couldn't read, bat found endlessly di- verting. Publicly sentimental about yourself.” “She could do fsr worse,” the Dow- Lydia, brazenly seeking every oppor ager Dragon sniffed ; "and will—if I tunity to seclude her with himself, once this was accomplished, he flouted let you have your way." "Which Is just what Is going to hap sentiment, ridiculed the world (includ- Ing himself), and kept her In a state of amusement that 1 luded discour agement of his eccentric wooing. “I want you to know me as I really am,” he informed her on one occa- sion. “If I should seem as sober-sided and solemn as your next adorer, you'd marry me in ignorance of my true character.” “But I haven’t the slightest intention of marrying you, Mr. Traft." “That’s a fine line,” he commented admiringly. “What you heroines of modern fiction would do without it heaven only knows I It’s certain our novelists don’t, or they’d invent some thing less stereotyped. But you mustn’t forget it really means nothing In the first chapters. Along about page three hundred and twenty-one It’s a signal either for the clench or for the bouncer.” "I do wish you’d talk sensibly In lan guage I can understand.” “As for the language, if It cramps your style, Miss Craven, believe me, I’ll slip the rollers under it and give it the gate! But as for talking sen sibly—not I, not while sparring for wind and trying to figure how I stand with you. It wouldn’t be fair to snare your affections with the impression that the architect of my dome used any building material more substan tial than funny-bones.” “Do you mean me to understand you're incurably frivolous?" "Rather !” "Isn’t It a pretty poor recommenda tion for a suitor to advance?” “Do you think so?” He appeared to ponder this gravely. “But I can’t see that. Think how deadly life would be with a man who took everything seriously—himself, for instance, and the candidate for president on the Pro hibition ticket, and Lloyd George, and —ah—the Anti-Woman Suffrage move ment. There’s only one thing I’m ready to promise to take seriously. Now pretend you don’t get me!” “You are quite, quite hopeless!” "Wrong again: I was never more hopeful. First thing you know you'll be lying awake nights wondering if I can possibly be as silly as I sound, and thinking what a pity ‘tis if true; and when you come to that stage, it’ll be all over but the rice and old shoes and Niagara Falls !” “Certainly you must be an incurable optimist !” “You think so? I say, that’s an aw fully good sign ! You’re thinking about me already !” But of the four it was Quoin who most impressed Lydia’s impressionable imagination. His seemed an individu ality rarely simple and straightfor ward, to which latency and indirection must be altogether foreign. He was, Lydia understood, a criminal investi gator of unusual attainments ; yet he utterly lacked every idiosyncrasy of the “great” detective of fiction. He was a long, lank man, with a thin face of strong features. His wide, thin lips drooped quizzically at their corners. And his eyes were dark and, normally, deep with humorous expression. To Lydia’s notion he was the Yankee type incarnate, but without that uncouth ness she had been bred to expect. Because the Alsatia. groping her blind way at half-speed through wrap pings of fog ever more opaque, per sisted in making night hideous with her unearthly whoop of warning, the concert all but fell flat. Only Cra ven’s inexhaustible enthusiasm saved the function. When It was over Lydia, announc ing her Intention of going to bed, de layed only to say good-night to Peter Trift on the upper companionway landing, near the doorway to the port side of the boat deck. One-half of this double door was open. Beyond It was nothingness—a flat wall of gray but feebly tinted with artificial light Then, descending to the promenade deck, she turned aft to her stateroom, and was about to enter when she heard her name called In Craven's voice, and—since she had left him only a few minutes before the center of an animated group In the music room— with pardonable surprise she discov ered the man coring swiftly toward her from the after part of the ship. “Just to say good-night!” he ex plained hastily, folding his daughter in the tenderest of embraces ; and then In a rapid whisper, “Meet me on deck —this deck—to port—fifth stanchion aft from the door—in an hour, if anyone seems to be watching you. go back!" And again aloud. "Good-night, dear child, good-night !" he murmured fondly, releasing her, and hurried for- ward. Almost without her knowledge the knob turned in Lydia's grasp; and when she found herself alone in that dark stateroom her hands trembled so with excitement that for a moment she fumbled In vain for the switch. Watch fee startling develop- menta described In the next m- stallment some thing big com- I ng I CTO BE CONTINUED) This is a photograph of a painting made by Sidney H. Riesenberg for the United States marine corps, which is not only, according to its slogan, the “First to Fight,” but is the first branch of Uncle Sam’s fighting forces to be recruited to full war strength following the declaration of hostilities be tween the United States and Germany. WOMEN IN HOMES FROM FARM TO TABLE CAN AID NATION Better Methods of Using the Par cel Post Are Sought. Not Necessary for Them to Aban Uncle Sam’s Experts Trying to Work Out New Ways of Transporting don Domestic Duties, Says Agricultural Products. U. S. Official. URGES THRIFT AS WATCHWORD Secretary of Agriculture Houston Declares Housewife Should See That Nothing Nutritious Is Thrown Away. How every woman, without leaving her home, can aid the nation in the direction of producing and conserving agricultural products, is told from the viewpoint of Uncle Sam in a statement of Secretary of Agriculture Houston. Secretary Houston says : “Every woman can render important service to the nation in its present emergency. She need not leave her home or abandon her home duties to help the armed forces. She can help to feed and clothe our armies and help to supply food to those beyond the seas by practicing effective thrift In her own household. "Every ounce of food the housewife saves from being wasted In her home —all food which she or her children produce in the garden and can or pre serve—every garment which care and skillful repair make It unnecessary to replace—all lessen that household’s draft on the already Insufficient world supplies. “To save food the housewife must learn to plan economical and properly balanced meals which, while nourish ing each member of the family prop erly, do not encourage overeating or offer excessive and wasteful variety. It is her duty to use all effective meth ods to protect food from spoilage by heat, dirt, mice, or insects. She must acquire the culinary ability to utilize every bit of edible food that comes into her home. She must learn to use such foods as vegetables, beans, peas, and milk products as partial substitutes for meat. She must make It her business to see that nothing nutritious is thrown iway or allowed to be wasted. No Waste Insignificant. “Waste In any individual household may seem to be insignificant, but if only a single ou ice of edible food, on the average, Is allowed to spoil or be thrown away in ench of our 20,000,000 homes, over 1,3/7,00v pounds of mate rial would be wasted each day. It takes the fruit of many acres and the work of many people to raise, prepare, and distribute 464,000,000 pounds of food a year. Every ounce of food thrown away, therefore, tends also to waste the labor of an army of busy citizens. “Clothing is largely an agricultural product and represents the results of labor on the sheep ranges, in cotton fields, and in mills and factories. Whenever a useful garment is need lessly discarded material needed to keep some one warm or dry may be consumed merely to gratify a passing fancy. Women would do well to look upon clothing at this time more par ticularly from the utilitarian point of view. “Employed women, especially those engaged in the manufacture of food or clothing, also directly serve their country and should put into their tasks the enthusiasm and energy the im portance of their product warrants. Housewife’s Apron a Uniform. “While all honor Is due to the women who leave their homes to nurse and care for those wounded In battle, no woman should feel that, because she does not wear a nurse's uniform, she is absolved from patriotic service. The home women of the country, if they will give their minds fully to this vital subject of food conservation and train themselves In household thrift, can make of the housewife’s apron a uniform of national significance. “Demonstrate thrift in your homes and encourage thrift among your neighbors. “Make saving rather than spending your social standard. “Make economy fashionable lest it become obligatory.” Officials of Uncle Sam's department of agriculture, who have striven long to bring the producer and consumer to gether for the sale of farm products, are now trying to work out better methods of transportation. Although the marketing of farm produce by parcel post is relatively new in the United States, It Is, In fact, only a special case of direct dealing be tween producer and consumer, which was the very earliest type of market ing. Only the transportation medium is new in parcel-post trading. This is to a certain extent paralleled by ex- press, which has been available and has been utilized by some farmers for many years. Even with the older forms of direct dealing, In which sales are made from house to house or through farmers’ markets, parcel post marketing has points in common in that the actual producer of the goods is known to the consumer of them, and the satisfaction or dissat isfaction of the latter has a direct and potent effect on the success of the former’s business. Quite naturally, In spite of these general similarities many new prob lems In the marketing of farm pro duce were created when the mall sys tem was made available for transpor tation of relatively bulky commodities, all post offices and rural routes there by being made shipping agencies. This was In striking contrast to the facili ties furnished by the older transpor tation systems, which the farmer could use only by making a trip to a rail road or express office. Many of the problems, a great many of which still exist, have been attacked by the office of markets of the department, which has made its work hundreds of ex perimental shipments of various com modities over varying distances under different seasonal and other conditions and has studied methods of grading and packing and of transacting busi- ness. Success In parcel-post marketing, ex perts of the office have found during their studies, demands that the farm er continue to give thought to details after proper preparation of his goods for shipment. The mere placing of the packages In the mails at any time Is not sufficient, they say. Mall sched ules should be carefully looked Into and the commodities should be started on their journey, if possible, so that they will travel chiefly at night and reach their destination early the fol lowing day. Such methods, it is said, have been worked out by the farmers who are carrying on the most success ful businesses with the city people. Commodities traveling at night thus utilize natural refrigeration, since the nights are usually colder than the days. It is especially Important, It is pointed out, that such precautions be taken In the shipments of products like butter or lard, which may be liqui fied by heat, and dressed fowls and other meats, which may spoil if they become warm. Perfected. After one year of experimenting in my laboratory, I have perfected a Por celain and Cast Gold Inlay Crown for bridge attachment which is so superior to the Gold Crown or the Gold Band and Porcelain Crown, that it gives me pleasure to demonstrate the technique of making it to other Dentists. Fortunately, I have enough imported German Novocain to last me over one year. I’can now absolutely promise to work on your teeth without pain. It is the moet wonderful synthetic substi tute for Cocaine ever used by the Dental Profession. Dr. Elof T. Hed lund, Dr. L. Bogan, Dr. S. S.’Skiff. 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Sold by dealers, or PREVENTED DTAFV LOSSES LOSSES SURELY SURELY PREVI DLAUN T SUTTEEA SAcsurs PILLS JEWELERS TO SAVE PLATINUM w won m fresh. reliable; (osrg • • A preferred by er Agree to Use Gold In Its Place When ever Possible to Conserve Supply for Government. In order to conserve the supply ol platinum, for which Uncle Sam may have great need in prosecution of war the jewelers' vigilance committee is sued an appeal to the jewelry trade ol the country to discontinue the use of the metal wherever possible. The committee asked all manufacturing and retail jewelers in the country t< discourage the manufacture and sali of platinum in all bulky and heavy pieces of jewelry and its use in al parts of Jewelry where it is not essen tial, ana where gold will serve satis factorily. The committee urged the jewelry trade to encourage the use of gold ir combination with platinum wherever artistic results may be obtained by such a combination. Resinol will stop that itch
