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Prudence of
the. Parsonage
By Ethel Hueston
is-one of those joyful stories that
will cheer and satisfy you. The character*
are just ordinary, plain people, living sweet,
loyal, loving, devoted, happy lives together •
in a nice, wholesome, little, American town,
and long before you're through with the
itory you’ll find they are all your real friends.
Prudence is the young daughter of
a minister who takes up the self-imposed
task of raising her four motherless sisters.
They are all just “regular” girls, full of
life and vim, and naturally there are all
•orts of amusing happenings. Then there
comes a Prince Charming into the ta.e
that furnishe* a very pretty romance. If
you can enjoy a clean, jolly story be sure
to read
Our New Serial
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What the Press Says
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Prudence
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Parsonage
The Continent i
Laughter nnd tears lie close
together. Something going all
the time In this perfectly de
licious story.
Review of Revlewai
Little Women bids fair to
have a rival In Ethel Llues
ton’s novel, brimming with
the fun and frolic of healthy,
hearty girlhood. A delicate
wild-rose love story tempers
the tnadcap merriment.
Philadelphia Press:
Full of humanity nnd humor.
Jt breathes the spirit of uni
versal good will as does no
other novel of recent days.
Llfet
Written with obviously genu
ine enjoyment of the tumul
tuous happy-go-lucky, hand
to-mouth fnmily life—its ap
peal ts a wide one and direct
ed to a wholesome, human,
good-to-preserve simplicity.
Doaloa Globe •
Sparkling with bright whim
sical humor. One of the clean
est nnd most delightful books
of the season.
Now York Tlmaat
As frivolous, gay, nnd amus
ing a story as one might wish
for—doubly welcome In a
world that has gone gray und
sombre with tragedy.
Brooklyn Citizen:
One could read of the doings
of the lovable PRUDENCE
for a week and never tire of
the story.
Be Sure to Read the
First Installment!
In This Paper Soon!
Praise from the Pulpit
for Our New Serial
Prudence of
the Parsonage
Rev. Cameron J. Davit, Buffalo:
PRUDENCE OF THE PAR
SONAGE is a good story, well t
told, and clean.
Rev. Boynton, D. D., Chicago:
PRUDENCE OF THE PAR
SONAGE is the picture of a
happy, winsome, fun-loving,
unselfish girl.- It Is sweet and
wholesome.
Rev. Bradley, Cleveland:
PRUDENCE OF THE PAR
SONAGE is a sweet, happy,
fine story of good people.
Rev. J. C. B. Moyer, Johnitown, Pa.:
A charming story. The
“twins" are certainly delight
ful and PRUDENCE a model
In all fhe varied circum
stances in which she is
placed.
Rev. R. S. MacGregor, Ludington,
Mich.
PRUDENCE OF THE PAR
SONAGE is a sweet story of
domestic life, portraying a
Christian home with its joys i
and sorrows.
Rev. G. Dowey, Philadelphia:
I gladly ri'Riniucnil PRU
DENCE OF THE PARSON
AGE as a good, clean humor
ous story for the home.
Rev. Mathew J. Hyndman, Phila
delphia:
PRUDENCE OF TIIE PAR
SONAGE is well written, and
has an interest quite its own.
Rev. D. E. Weigle, Philadelphia:
PRUDENCE OF THE PAR
SONAGE is a beautiful story,
intensely interesting and ex
ceptionally clean.
Rev. Carl H. Gramm, Reading, Pa.:
PRUDENCE OF THE PAR
SONAGE Is very Interesting
and helpful. The story is well
told and makes wholesome
reading.
Don't Fail to Read It!
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(Copyright, 1S16, hi' W. 3. Chapman.)
By VICTOR REDCLIFFE
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Ituhy^'ardcH wns madly jealous of
her husband and he never suspected
the fact. Certainly h^ was handsome,
Hatty, necommodatirar. but ’ of his
impulses were of the frienu v, and hu
mane order and ha idolized his wife
solely as the apple of his eye.
lie had noticed the first gloss of
sweetness and perfect happiness some
what dissipated after the first six
months of .irricd life, but he at
tributed the growing pettishness of
Ruby to loneliness, ennui, the absence
•f close girlhood friends. Arnold was
away a good deal of his time, being a
traveling salesman. lie felt sorry for
Kuby on this account. As to Iluby,
she continued to hear '"hut terrible
flirts these knights of the road were,
most of them, her informants assured
her. Hl;«i the sailor w ho has a sweet
heart in every port.
If Arnold had understood his wife
and her concealed suspicions better,
he would never have telegraphed her
one summer afternoon :
‘‘Man away for two days. Expect
a big order. Will be delayed forty-eight
hours.”
These facts were true. Arnold was
acting under a strictly business im
petus Jind house instructions. He hud
two days to loaf in. The village was
crude, hot. dusty, a dead old town.
The next morning he resolved upon a
hike down an inviting-looking coun
try road.*
The primitive struck him from the
start of his jaunt. The farms were an
cient, the people homespun and gawky.
Al* some doorsteps he saw old women
with distaff and spinning wheel. He
“Why, What Does This Mean?"
neared a ruined old mill patched with
moss, a fit setting for a picture of a
far past century. There was a little
grove near it. The place was delicious
ly quiet and cool. Arnold sat down
under a spreading onk and fell asleep.
lie awoke to the sound of conversa
tion near hy. Getting to his feet he
made out beyond, a bright pretty maid
en of about eighteen and a slouchy,
but honest-faced country bumpkin a
trifle older. Near by was a keen-faced
business-appearing young man, ob
viously city bred. Leaning against a
tree was a tripod and camera. The
young man was speaking: »
“It will never do.” .
“What do you want me to do?” de
manded the bumpkin in a fretful tone,
“squeeze her to death?”
“N<»t at all—be the nntural lover.
I >on't smack tier, kiss her daintily.
I>nn1 grab her us if she were a stack
of wheat. He expressive, my young
friend."
“Say," spouted the bumpkin, “you
want a love scene? Well, here it is
true to nature, isn’t it, Nellie?”
"Yes," nodded the blushing girl.
“That's the way lliram has always
made love.”
The young man looked troubled. He
stood musing. Finally he observed:
“I’ve offered our young friend here
a thousand dollars to let me catch a
good rural movie, winding tip by burn
ing down this worthless old rattletrap
of a mill. That’s all right, I can make
the tire scene thrilling enough, but I've
got to have half a reel of genuine sen
timent preceding the sensational de
noument. Wish I had one of the reg
ular troupe here. You won’t do at
all. Tin* audience wotild simply laugh.”
“There’s Lem Powers,” observed the
girl shyly. "lie knows how to play
love."
“How do you know?” roared the
aroused Hiram.
“lie studied in an elocution school.”
“Yes, I'd like to see Lem making
love to you. Oh, yes,” snorted Hiram.
“('iiu I help you out?” abruptly in
quired Arnold, coming into view.
All hands stared at his pleasanLsmll
Ing face, the girl particularly, the
movie man with Interest, Hirum du
biously. Said tin1 latter:
“Just play kisses, mind you 1"
“Oh, surely,” agreed Arnold accom
niodatingly. “I've sot a little time to
spare. What's the program, Mr.
Movie?”
The young man addressed outlined
two scenes. Arnold acted them out to
perfection and Miss Nellie Bliss wus
cute and original, if a trifle awkward.
There was a final scene where Arnold
jumpeo from a window in the Mazing
mill. The movie man settled with Hi
ram, the itter and Nellie, invited Ar
nold to dinner and the episode passed
pleasantly. Hiram got Arnold’s city ad
dress.
“Going to call on you when Nellie
ami I g on our wedding tower,” he de
clared. “It's just like picking that
thousand dollars out of the road, sell
ing that wreck of a mill.” -
Arnold returned home afe’ forgot all
about the incident. Three months later
Mrs. Warded invited a lady friend to
a new movie, advertised as “Rural
Love.” +
Mrs. Warded gasped, her friend
stared in grim silenee as the flint prog
ressed. It was the mill comedy that
Arnold had placed in, now on the verge
of being turned into a positive tragedy.
Arnold Wardcll reached home that
evening to find Ituby with her hat and
wraps on, her trunk in the hallway
and no supper ready.
“Why, wnat does this mean?” he
asked in wonderment.
“It menns that oave befcm to see
‘Rural Love’ and that you are a vil
lian!”
“W-whnt?" fairly shouted Arnold.
“And I’m going home to mother. A
nice scandal you’ve made. Oh-oh-oh !”
and the hysterical Ruby flounced out
through the open front doorway.
Arnold snatched up his hat to fol
low her. As he stepped upon the porch
he caught a hint of a new element oi
mystery in the scene unde play.
“You during hussy! Oh, this is too
much 1”
“I’m not hussy. I’m Mrs. Hiram
Briggs and I’ve come to see our good,
kind friend who helped us make a
thousand dollars, and since then Uncle
Jared has given us a farm, and we’re
the happiest people in the world. Oh,
Mr. Wnrdell! we told you we would
call, but maybe you don’t want to see
us.”
“And, say, what do you think—
they've got that whole mill business
in the movies. We saw it today,” add
ed Illrum. %
And you look just ns nice and mind
some ns you did the day you helped us
out!” cried Nellie.
“Oh!" exclaimed Arnold suddenly,
enlightened. “And you saw the movie,
Ituby, and fancied I was—a villain?"
"You?” cried Nellie. "Oh, no, in
deed! You are the best gentleman in
the world, and we like and respect
you, and we want you to come down to
the new farm and spend a month’s va
cation with us—and your wife,” added
Nellie, but n trifle dubiously.
Mrs. Warden, however, begun to see
the light. She got the whole story.
Within the hour she became trans
formed into a model hostess.
"It’s all right, -Arnold," she told her
husband, after their guests were gone,
“but that movie so reminded me of
how you u#d to be.”
“I’m Just the same as ever,” declared
Arnold. . "Don’t you think you have
changed a trifle?”
"Yes, I do. I was foolishly jealous,"
frankly confessed Ruby. "I won’t be
again, dear.”
"As to the old times.” observed Ar
nold, a merry twinkle in his eye and
opening his arms expansively, “sup
pose we adopt the old-time love-mak
ing as a regular thing.”
She nestled in his arms compla
cently.
“Ah, this is something like it!” jubfc
lnted Arnold, as their, lips met. “In
‘Rural Love’ they were only mock
kisses, you know!"
Mouse as Engineer.
A Hold mouse which hud fallen into
a hole dug to receive a telegraph pole
displayed great ingenuity and perse
verance in effecting its escape. The
first hour or so he ran round the bot
tom of the hole trying to find some
means of escape, but could not climb
out. Then he settled dowu to busi
ness. He began steadily and system
atically to dig a spiral groove, round
and round the Inner surface of the
hole, with a uniformly ascending
grade. He worked night and day, and
as he got farther from file bottom he
dug little pockets where he could
either lie or sit anti rest. The tele
graph workers, who had noticed his
plight and were curious to know how
he would escape, supplied tile little
engineer with food. At the end of two
weeks the mouse struck a rock. This
puzzled him. For nearly a day he
tried to get under, around, or over
the obstruction, but without success.
With unflinching patience tie reversed
the spiral, and went on tunneling his
way in the opposite direction. At the
end of four weeks he reached the top,
and probably sped away to enjoy his
well-earned freedom, llis escape was
not*observed.
Hearing Men at Work.
Nowadays, the manager of a ma
chine shop or factory can know how
much work Is being done at benches
by mechanics or by power driven ma
chines or tools by means of micro
phones or telephone transmitters con
nected with the working apparatus.
By becoming familiar with the vi
brations of the different machines he
can tell at any given moment Just how
fast Fat is working the lathe, or how
industriously Mike is operating the
milling machine on one of his bine
Mondays.
In addition to this he can tell at a
single turn of the switch if the ma
chine* are running at normal speed
and smoothly and properly, us they
ihoOld.
“Blue Monday” and Its Real Causes
By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON
Commiuioner of Health of Pennsylvania
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Is it a habit of yours to get out of
bed on the wrong foot on Monday
morning? Do you
start for the office
with a frown on
your face and a
look in your eye
that sets ,the of
fice hoy hunting
for an errand out
side and starts
the whole force
with a grouch
that lasts for the
better part of the
day?
Salesman wlio
make use of psychology in their busi
ness ore very apt to postpone their
Monday calls until after lunch. By
that time the atmosphere has cleured
a little.
When you come to think of it the
week’s work too often slips off the
ways with considerable friction. In
office, school and household, if this Is
not the rule it is of sufficiently fre
Feed ut regular hours aud the fowls
will always he ready aud waiting for
their last meal.
1’ut the windows in the poultry
house low down near the lioor, so that
the hens will get the benefit of the
light and sunshine when scratching for
their feed.
The chaff that settles baslde the
straw stack at threshing time makes a
splendid winter litter in which to feed
the small grain. Have it about six
inches deep ull over the hen-house
floor.
All perches in the poultry-house
should be built on a level. When built
one above another, step-fashion, the
hens will fight for the higher perches
with the result that some of them will
become Injured or eggs will be broken
In them.
(Irit or lime is absolutely necessary
for egg production. It is always well
j to have a large pile of sand und gravel
handy, where the fowls can help
; themselves.
j Milk is a good feed for hens. Give
all the milk they will consume. The
hens will not only lay well, but will
I keep In a strong vigorous stute of
health.
You should no more think of keep
i ing a common mixed flock of mongrel
chickens than you would buy or care
for chance seedling fruits, wholly un
known ar.d untried.
While the weather is dry, the poul
trymnn should store away several bar
rels of road dust to be used In the
dust brxes during the winter months.
Thoroughbred fowls are the only
prof*.table sort to keep, no matter
what you keep them for.
Be sure that early pullets and hens
that have moulted get plenty of the
right kind of food.
The advantage of keeping one breed
of poultry is that one can market a uni
form product in eggs and stock.
Plans to Make Waves Supply
the Power to Propel Boats
A system of driving a vessel by
means of wave motors is covered in
a recent patent granted to Benjamin
1*. Roach of Berkeley, Cal., who pro
poses to make use of the motion of the
waves as well as the rocking of the
boat to store up the necessary power
to drive the craft through the water.
This accumulation of power is accom
plished mainly by the meads of a false
how pivoted to the main part of the
ship's structure, and a somewhat simi
lar arrangement in the stern of the
vessel.
The bow and stern form loose por
tions which are .actuated by every
plunge of the vessel aud with each
movement of these parts air compress
ing pistons are operated, and a quan
tity of compressed air is forced Into
tanks, and subsequently drawn upon
for the propulsion of the vessel.
A Little Bit of Everything.
Rockland, Me., yearly produces 1,*
000,000 barrels of lime.
Los Angeles has an area of 337
square miles.
It costs Holland about $3,000,000 a
year to maintain its dikes.
Sacramento (Cal.) business men
have formed a Barefoot league for
health and amusement objects.
The skin of the whale In places has
boon found, it is said, to be as much
as two feet in thickness.
Canada's 1915 crop yield Is valued
at SSOO.OOOtOOO, with wheat heading
the list at more than $312,000,000.
Mrs. Mary A. London hns been chos
en president of the Woodstock-Sycu
more street railway in Illinois.
A peculiar clear, tough and durable
celluloid has been invented in England
for automobile windshields.
Believing that mountain-climbing de
velops the nerves, as well as the mus
cles, a Philadelphia physical director
has bis pupils climb the sides of quar
ries.
With Iter first proposal, a girl Is
firmly convinced that site will need a
blank book in which Jo keep u record
of her o IT era.
quent occurrence to make the picture
familiar to all.
With many people It is not because
their dally tasks are distasteful or that
their real attitude townrd their asso
ciates is aggressive; It is more a mat
ter of rather- Ill-conceived ideas of
wha* constitutes rest or diversion.
It isn’t possible in p few words to
describe the Saturday-unUl-J^ouday
habits of everyone. The majority of
people, however, are apt to fall into
two general divisions. One class'tries
to crowd too much into the time be
tween one week s end and the begin
ning of the next week's labor and
take up their business on Monday
morning exhausted and overtired in
stead of refreshed by the "day of rest.”
The other class goes to extremes by
overeating and underexerclst/lg and
the result is equally unhappy.
Try to strike a happy medium: Ite
member that the cheerfulness which al
most invariably begets Its like is well
nigh impossible to one who Is fagged
out or dulled by overeating.
Ireland Rrst Country to
Require Surnames; Here
Is What Some of Them Mean
The fact is not generally known
that Ireland was the tirst country In
modern Europe to enforce the adop
tion of surnames by law. The act
prescribing their general use was
passed more than 100 years before the
Anglo-Norman Invasion, whereas sur
names did not come info general use
in England until the days of Queen
Elizabeth, nor in Wales till late in the
seventeenth century.
There are some interesting mean
ings attaching to the most well-known
Irish names. Here are a few, with
the curious changes of spelling that
have come about since the nameg tirst
originated:
Murphy came from O’Murphy, Mor
phey, and Morphew, meaning "superi
or.”
Kelly came from O'Kelly, Klely,
Keeley, meaning "for war.”
j O’Connors is derived from Connors,
j Conerty, meaning “helper.”
Dougherty from O’Doherty, Doherty,
Daughaday, meaning “destroyer.”
All Irish names at the first stage in
their history had "O’ ” before them, the
first change consisting of dropping
that “O’.” It will not be necessary,
therefore, to repeat the name with the
“O' " before it.
Sullivan was originally Sulllfairt and
Suillvant, meaning “quick-sighted.”
O'Donnell and McDonnell ami ail
[ combinations of that name were Don
ald. Daniel, Dona, meaning “dark
chief."
Moloney was O’MuIlowney, Melnney,
Mullany, meaning “thoughtful."
McCormack wns O'Cormac, MeCor
mac, McCormick, meaning "son of the
crown.”
Flynn was Flann, meaning “red.”
Flannlgan was Finnegan, meaning
"Druid.”
Boyle was Boylan, • Boland, Bolan,
Boylin, meaning “benign.”
O’Brlan was Brfvan. Bryant, Brines,
Bryon, meaning “author.”
Brady was McBrady, meaning “ship
captain.”
MacHUley was O’Cawlew, McGowly,
McAuly, McAulifT, Cawley, moaning
“echo,” or literally, “son of the rock.”
Teaching Tricks to Birds.
A professor of natural history re*
futes the statement so frequently mail**
that teaohiug a bird to draw water
needs apparatus, and that the learning
Is cruelty to the bird.
“The following experiences of mine."
he says, according to London Ttt'Bli*
“proves that it Is not so by any means.
We bought a young bird last January,
so wild that on our approach It flew
madly round the cage. We hung th»
cage low, and by patience, after the
bird got used to our proximity, induced
It to take groundsel, first held at
stem’s length, then between the fingers,
finally from the lips. We used to let
him out freely, und he would perch on
the loaf next me at breakfast. His
perch projected through the wires, and
lu-re was his favorite seal, whm at lib
erty. Then I tried hanging a bit of
groundsel by a short string to the pro
jecting stick. After inspection he
pulled it up with his Beak. Ah* length
ening tlie string with a fresh bit of his
preferred weed I had the pleasure and
interest of seeing him pull up the
string willi his beak till the flower head
was within reach, catching the slack
after each pull with one foot and theu
transferring it to the other, so that th*
coils were quite neat." t)
To Revive After Shock.
An effective means of resuscitation
nftor an electric shock Is said to bo a
sharp blow on the soles of llie feet
without removing the shoes. In alt
Cases, however, it is necessary fo pull
tin- tongue from the throat, as the ac
tion.of the current is to cause a con
traction of the muscles and the totiguo
Is drawn back into the throat, com
pletely sealing the air passage.•'.'part
of many first-aid equipments consist of
a device which will grasp the tongue
and hold it in a distended position so
that the throat is open to permit
artificial respiration. _ _i