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.
Dentistry, “Not the cheapest but
the best.”
465-459 Morgan Building, fourth
floor, Washington at Broadway, Port
land, Oregon.
Telephones, Marshall 96; A 3363.
Open Evenings. Nurse in attendance.
YES! MAGICALLY!
CORNS LIFT OUT
WITH FINGERS
You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says
this Cincinnati authority, because a
few drops of freezone applied directly
on a tender, aching corn or callus,
stops soreness at once and soon the
corn or hardened callus loosens so It
can be lifted out, root and all, with
out pain.
A small bottle of freezone costa
very little at any drug store, but will
positively take off every hard or soft
corn or callus. This should be tried,
as it is inexpensive and Is said not
to irritate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn’t any freezone
tell him to get a small bottle for you
from his wholesale drug house. It is
fine stuff and acts like a charm every
time.
Difficult
"Is your daughter studying music?”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it studying,”
replied Mr. Cumrox. “She makes so
much noise about it, I don’t see how
she can possibly get her mind on the
subject.”—Washington Star.
The Place for Him.
Uncle — That boy Sam of mine
doesn’t seem to be able to keep his
mind on anything. I don’t know what
to do with him. Uncle Eben—Why
don’t ye send him to one of them con
centration camps we read about?
Spotted.
Mrs. Smith—They tell me one of the
girls made a faux pas at the cooking
class lunch that everybody noticed.
Mrs. Comeup (proudly)—I guess it
was my daughter. She can make any
of them French things.
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES.
Allen’s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder. Makes
tight or new shoes feel easy. Relieves Corns,
Bunions, Hot, Swollen, Tender, Aching Feet. Sold
everywhere. 25c. Don't accept any substitute.
Sample FREE. Address. Allen S. Olmsted. Le
Roy. N. Y. ____________________
Getting the News.
“Why do you encourage that inces
sant talker, Mrs. Gaddy, to come
here?”
“Well, I save that much on sub
scription to a daily newspaper."—
Exchange.
Why She Left Him.
Mrs. Bridey—Want to dine out
again? Why do you prefer hotel food
to home cooking?
Her Husband—At the hotel I can al
ways look at the menu and see what
I am eating.—Boston Transcript.
CAw
.90
Ig
Eves gyekezrelyexdszMrhp:
I»
Granulated Eyelids,
Eyes inflamed by expo-
sure to Sea, Dust and Wind
•
just Eye Comfort. At
Your Druggist's 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye
Salvein Tubes25c. For Book el the Eye Free ask
Druggists or Mariae Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
DAISY FLY KILLER * Rieeedu."nzahem:
metal, can’tspill ortip
Guaranteed effective.
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