Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1917 — Page 3

PRUDENCE OF THE PARSONAGE

THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION FORGET THAT THE PARSONAGE FOLKS NEED MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS, SO LITTLE CONNIE TELLS BANKER SOME PLAIN TRUTHS Mr. Starr, a widower Methodist minister, comes to Mount Mark, la., to take charge of the congregation there. He has five charming daughters, the eldest of whom, Prudence, age Nineteen, keeps house and mothers the family. Her youpger sisters are Fairy, the twins * Carol and Lark, and Constance, the “baby.” The family’s coming stirs the.curiosity of the townspeople.- After a few weeks the Starrs are well settled. Prudence has her. hands full with the mischievous youngsters, but she loves them devotedly despite their outrageous pranks. It is a joyous household, but the parsonage girls are embarrassed at Christmas time because the congregation has failed to pay the pastor’s salary. Little Connie needs clothing, and sadly disappointed, takes matters into her own hands.

CHAPTER Vl—Continued. “Oh, I had her dressed warmly underneath, very warmly indeed,” declared Prudence. “But no matter how warm you are underneath, you look cold if you aren’t visibly prepared for winter weather. I kept hoping enough money would come in to buy her a coat for once in her life.” “She has been looking forward to one long enough,” put in Fairy. “This will be a bitter blow to her. And yet ■it is not such a bad-looking coat, after all.” And she quickly ran up a seam on the machine. “Here comes Connie!” Prudence hastily swept a pile of scraps out of sight, and turned to greet her little sister with a cheery smile. “Come on in, Connie,” she cried, ■with a brightness she dld not feel. “Fairy and I are making you a new coat. Isn’t it pretty? And so warm! See the nice velvet collar and cuffs. We' want to fit it on you right away, dear.” Connie picked up a piece of the goods and examined it Intently. "Don’t you want some fudge, Connie?” exclaimed Fairy, shoving the dish toward her hurriedly.

Connie took a piece from the plate, and thrust it between her teeth. Her eyes were still fastened upon the brown furry cloth. “Where did you get this stuff?” she Inquired, as soon as she was able to speak. “Out of the trunk in the garret, Connie. Don’t you want some more fudge? I put a lot of nuts in, especially on your account.” “It’s good,” said Connie, taking another piece. She examined the cloth very closely. “Say, Prudence, isn’t this that old brown coat of father’s?” Fairy shoved her chair back from the machine, and ran to the window. “Look, Prue,” she cried. “Isn’t that Mrs. Adams coming this way? I wonder—” “No, it isn’t,” answered Connie gravely. “It’s just Miss Avery getting home from school.-—lsn’t it, Prudence? Father’s coat, I mean?” “Yes, Connie, it is,” said Prudence, very, very gently. “But no one here has seen it, and it is such nice clothjust exactly what girls are wearing now.” ■ “But 1 wanted a new coat 1” Connie did not cry. She stood looking at Prudence with her wide hurt eyes. “Oh, Connie, I’m just as sorry as you are,” cried Prudence, with starting tears. “I know just how you feel about it dearest 1 But the people didn’t pay father up last month. . Maybe after ’Christmas we can get you a coat. They pay up better then.” “I think I’d rather wear my summer coat until then,” said Connie soberly. “Oh, but you can’t, dearest. It is too cold. Won’t you be a good girl now, and not make sister feel badly about it? It really is becoming to you, and it is nice and warm. Take some more fudge, dear, and run out-of-doors a while. You'll feel better about it presently, I’m sure.” Connie stood solemnly beside the table, her eyes still fastened on the coat, cut down from her father’s. “Can I go and take a walk?” she asked Anally. - • “May I, you mean,” suggested Fairy. “Yes, may 1? Maybe I can reconcile myself to it” “Yes, go and take a walk,” urged Prudence promptly, eager to get the small sober face beyond her range of vision. I “If I am not back when the twins get home, go right on and eat without me. I’ll come back when I get things straightened out in my mind.” When Connie was quite beyond hearing, Prudence dropped her head on the table and wept. “Oh, Fairy, if the members just knew how such things hurt, maybe they’d pay up a little better. How do they expect parsonage people to keep up appearances when they haven’t any money?’” “Oh, now, Prue, you’re worse than Connie! There’s ah use to cry about It. Parsonage people Have to find happiness in spite of financial misery. Maney isn’t the first thing with folks like us.” “Poor little Connie! If she had

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cried about it, I wouldn’t have cared so much. But she looked so 2 —heartsick, didn’t she, Fairy?” Connie certainly was heartsick. More than that, she was a little disgusted. She felt herself aroused to take action. Things had gone too far I Go to church in her father’s coat she could not! She walked sturdily down the street toward the “city”—ironically so called. Her face was stony, her hands were clenched. But finally she brightened. Her lagging steps quickened. She skipped along quite cheerfully. She turned westward as she reached the corner of the square, and walked along that business street with shining eyes. In front of the First National bank she paused, but after a few seconds she passed by. On the opposite corner was another bank. When she reached it, she walked in without pausing, and the massive door swung behind her; The four older girls were at the table when Connie came home. She exhaled quiet satisfaction from every pore. Prudence glanced at her once, and then looked away again. “She has reconciled herself,” she thought. Dinner was half over before Constance

burst her liomh. “Are you going to be busy this afternoon, Prudence?” she asked quietly. “We are going to sew a little,” said Prudence. “Why?” “I wanted you td go downtown with me after school.” ~ “Well, perhaps I can do that. Fairy will be able to finish the coat alone.” “You needn’t finish the coat —I can’t wear father’s coat to church, Prudence. It’s a—it’s a—physical impossibility.” The twins laughed. Fairy smiled, but Prudence gazed at “the baby” with tender pity. “I’m so sorry, dearest, but we haven’t the money to buy one now.” “Will five dollars be enough?” inquired Connie, and she placed a crisp new bill beside her plate. The twins gasped! They gazed at Connie with new respect. They were just-wishing they could handle five-dollar bills so recklessly. “Will you loan me twenty dollars until after Christmas, Connie?” queried Fairy. But Prudence asked, “Where did you get this money, Connie?" - “I borrowed it—froffiTfie bank,” Connie replied with proper gravity. “I have two years to pay it back. Mr. Harold says they are proud to have my trade.” Prudence was silent for several long seconds. Then she inquired in a low voice, “Did you tell him why you wanted it?” “Yes, I explained the whole situation.” “What did he say?” “He said he knew just how I felt, because he kfiew he couldn’t go to church in his wife’s coat —No, I said that myself, but he agreed with me. He did not say very much, but he looked sympathetic. He said he anticipated great pleasure in seeing me in my new coat at church next Sunday.” “Go on with your luncheon, twins,” said Prudence sternly. “You'll be late to school. We’ll see about going down town when you get home tonight, Connie. Now, eat your luncheon, and don't talk about coats any more." When Connie had gone back to school, Prudence went straight to Mr. Harold’s bank. Flushed and embarrassed, she explained the situation frankly. “My sympathies are all with Connie,” she said candidly. “But lam afraid father would not like it. We are dead set against borrowing. After—our mother was taken, we were crowded pretty close for money. So we had to go in debt It took us two years to get it paid. Father and Fairy and I talked it oyer then, and decld 1 we would starve rather than borrow again; Even the twins understood it but Connie was too little. She doesn’t know Ijow heartbreaking it is to keep handing over every cent for debt, when one is just yearning for other things, Ido wish she might have the coat, but I’m afraid father, would not like it She gave me the five dollars, for safekeeping, and I have .brought it back.” Harold shook hia head. “No, Connie must have her coat. This will be a good lesson for her. It will, teach

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her the bitterness of living under debt! Besides, Prudence, I think in my heart that she is right this time. This is a case where borrowing is justified. Get her the coat, and I’ll square the account with your father.” Then he added, “And I’ll look after this salary business after this. I’ll arra'age with the trustees that I am to pay your father his full salary the first of every month, and that the church receipts are to be turned in to me, ’ ’And if they do not pay up, my lawyer can do a little investigating! Little Connie earned that five dollars, for she taught one trustee a sorry lesson. And he will have to pass it on to the others in selfdefense ! Now, run along and get the coat, and if five dollars Isn’t enough you can have as much more as you need. Your father will get Ms salary after this, my dear, if we have to mortgage the parsonage!"

CHAPTER VII. — 2 _______ A Burglar's Visit. “Prue!” A small hand gripped Prudence’s shoulder, and again came a hoarsely whispered: “Prue!” Prudence sat up in bed with a bounce. “What in the world?” she began, gazing out into the room, half-lighted by the moonshine, and seeing Carol and Lark shivering beside her bed. “Sh! Sh! Hush!” whispered Lark. “There’s a burglar in our robin!” By this time, even sound-sleeping Fairy was awake. “Oh, there is!” she scoffed. Ss “Yes, there is,” declared Carol with some heat. “We heard him, plain as day. He stepped into the closet, didn’t he, Lark ?” “He certainly did,” agreed Lark. “Did you see him?” “No, we heard him. Carol heard him first, and she spoke, and nudged me. Then I heard him, too. He was at our dresser, but he shot across the room and into the closet. He closed the door after him. He’s there now.” “You’ve been dreaming,” said Fairy, lying down again. “We don’t generally dream the same thing at the same minute,” said Carol stormlly. “I tell you he’s in there.” “And you two great big girls came off and left poor little Connie in there

Prudence Dropped Her Head on the Table and Wept.

alone with a burg!at*, did you? Well, you are pice ones,-1 must say.” And Prudence leaped out of bed and started for the door, followed by Fairy, with the twins creepihg fearfully along In the rear. “She was asleep,’’ muttered Carol. “We didn’t want to scare her,” added Lark. Prudence was careful to turn the switch by the door, so that the room was in full light before she entered. The closet door was wide open. Connie was soundly sleeping. There was no one else In the room. “You see?” said Prudence sternly. ‘Til bet he took our ruby rings,” declared Lark, and the twins and Fairy ran to the dresser to look. But a sickening realization had come home tov Prudence. In the lower hall, under the staircase, was a small dark closet winch they called the dungeon. The dungeon door was big and solid, and was equipped with a heavy catchlock. In this dungeon. Prudence kept the family silverware, and all the money she had on hand, as it could there be safely locked away. But more often than not, Prudence forgot to lock It

Have you ever awakened to find a burglar in your room? What did you do—pretend sleep? Or shout? Or keep still at his command?"

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Urgent.

Just as the Christinas dinner was on the table, and the family had gathered about it, big sister stepped into thO hall to look at her hair in the mirror there. . Helen was hungry, and everything did look and smell so good, and yet she knew well that father would not s«y grace utfdl big sister was also in her seat, - '“Hurry up, Buth," aha called. “GOd’fi waiting.”

SKIRMISHERS ON THE TOPS OF THE CARPATHIANS

Austrian mountain troops skirmishing against the Russians on the tops of the snowclad Carpathians.

NEW DRUG CURE PROVES SUCCESS

Treatment by Former Naval Surgeon General Is Effective in 25 Cases. DRUNKARDS ARE ALSO SAVED One Patient, a Mere Human Shell, Is Able to Walk in 48 Hours—To Be Made Public After 100 Cases Are Treated. New York. —A new treatment for drug addicts and drunkards which appears tn be of remarkable efficiency is being used at Warwick Farms, the 800acre retreat maintained by the city in Orange county for inebriates and other dereMcts. The remedy, or system of treatment, has been in use about three weeks. It has been applied to 25 drug users, each of whom has rapidly gained weight, has lost his craving for narcotics and stimulants and has acquired a normal appetite. The treatment was devised by Dr. Charles F. Stokes, superintendent of Warwick Farms. Doctor Stokes’ standing in his profession is lofty; he has served in many city hospitals, he was surgeon general of the navy under both President Roosevelt and President Taft, and he has attained distinction as the author of many monographs on military and general surgery. For the past two years he has had charge of the medical work at Warwick Farms, and most of his interest lay in the treatment of habitual drug users.

Note to Justice Kernochan. Most of the work of the farms heretofore has been in building up the strength of drunkards and narcotic victims after medical treatment had been given in city hospitals. Doctor Stokes’ desire to acquire patients upon whom to try the treatment was responsible for a know ledge of his cure becoming public prematurely. for he wrote to Justice Frederic Kernochan of special sessions asking, that a number of drug addicts be sent direct to the farms to try the new treatments . Doctor Stokes declined to discuss the treatment on the ground that to do so would be unethical; that if the cure proves satisfactory it will be made public in the recognized ethical way, i. e., through a paper read to the Academy of Medicine. Charles Samson, executive secretary of the board' of Inebriety, which conducts the farms, adopted the same attitude. The letter to Justice Kernochan asked that the worst cases be sent to try the treatment. The cure will not be made public by Doctor Stokes until he has treated and cured at least 100 cases.

No Failure in 25 Cases. However, there has been no failure so far in the 25 cases that have been treated. The cure causes no suffering, and the acute symptoms are reproved in from two to three days. One of the patients had used morphine for seven years and was in a state of collapse when he was sent to the farms. •After 48 hours he was able to walk around, and when the treatment was stopped he did not know .lt. Other methods require from ten days to three weeks before the cure is effective. .' » Some of those under treatment gained ten pounds in a week. All these cases will be kept at the farm for twolmonths for observation. The Increased number of addicts Is being handled without the addition of an extra staff. One nurse and one woman. who combines the duties of nurse and housekeeper, do all tne work. It is thought likely that if the treatment turns out to be a real cure it will permit the sllnjlnation of, the three dty institutions that now handle drug addicts, and in their place a receivjng station will be established, where, the dfur addicts can be gathered for shipment to the farina.

AMUNDSEN TO FLY TO POLE

Explorer Sails for Norway to Witness the Launching of His New Ship. ’ New York, —Capt. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South pole, sailed recently for Christiania to make iinal preparations for his aerial trip to the North pole. He expects to return to this country-onee before making the flight to purchase the most highly developed aeroplane for the attempt. Captain Amundsen will witness the launching of his new polar ship at Christiania. The equipment which he has been gathering together in this

Capt. Roald Amundsen.

country will be placed on the ship and the explorer will then return to the United States to procure the aeroplane in which he will make the final dash. The new polar ship will force its way through the ice to a position in the Arctic situated at 89 degrees north latitude. This base is 69 miles from the pole. From here the explorer will

SURGEON IS CUBED OF SEPTICAEMIA

Recovers Completely After Undergoing Nine Operations for Blood Transfusion. CASE WAS THOUGHT HOPELESS Contracted Blood Poisoning While Per. forming an Operation—Most Remarkable Case Ever Treated in This Country. New York. —Made a victim of septicaemia while performing a surgical operation two months ago. Dr. Albert Pittis of Plainfield, N. J., whose case was considered hopeless a few weeks later, has recovered completely as the result of undergoing nine operations for blood transfusion. Each operation was performed by Dr. Edward Lindeman cif New York, who used a method of transfusion which he devised four years ago. The recovery of the young surgeon is not only unusual, but physicians say- the.case is one of the most remarkable of its kind ever treated in this country. After physicians had given up hope of recovery Doctor Lindeman was summoned to the Muhlenberg hospital, Plainfield, where Doctor Pittis was a patient Eight Quarts of Blood Furnished. After a consultation it was decidedthat Doctor Lindeman begin his operations. Eight quarts of blood were furnished for the operations by Miss Constance Pittis and Betram Pittis, sister and brother df the patient, and four members of the local fire department. Doctor Lindeman’s method embodies the use of arteriai syrlnges and eliminates the necessity of making an incision over the vein in either the donor of the blood or the recipient. By means of especially devised telescoping tubes

FALLS ON ICY WALK; PICKS UP A ROLL

Miss Eva Sanbell of Highland Park slipped and fell w'hlle walking on an Ice-coated sidewalk. Underneath the planks, which were loosened by the fall, she found two bHIs, one for $lO and the other for S2O. “Just what 1 needed ” she said later. “JJy hotel bill was due today.” The money Is believed to have been lost by some passer-by before the snow fell, and blown beneath the sidewalk by the wind.

fly toward the pole with the expectation of reaching it in less than an hour of flight. *The aeroplane which Captain Amundsen will use will be capable of 150 miles an hour, the explorer hopes. With him in the fltlQl flight will be an observer.

KEEPING COW EXPENSIVE NOW

To Feed Her In Oklahoma One Must Spend $1 a Day—And She Doeatrt Always “Deliver." Oklahoma City, Okla.—A cow is an expensive member of the family -in Oklahoma City at this time. She costs more In a month than most families spend for necessities in a week. It figures out about sls'to S2O a month for feed alone, and “Bossle” doesn’t deliver the year around, as a rule. Good prairie hay costs from sl6 to* sl9 a ton. Alfalfa hay costs from S2O to $22 a ton. Bran costs $1.65 per 100 pounds, corn chops bring $2 and cottonseed meal sells for $2.25. Dealers figure that “Bossle,” if fed properly, will consume about 50 to 65 cents* worth of feed a day, besides pasture. A good cow should give in return about three gallons of 40-cent milk and a _pound and a half of 35-cent butter every day. Few do, however, and practically none produce all the year. ———— ; ; ; ’T'-J

of platinum he pierces the vein, making a hole about the size ot an ordinary needle point. This primary hole is then dilated until of such size as to permit an unobstructed flow. Forty-eight hours after the first transfusion poctor Pittis showed Improvement, although he still was unconscious, as he had been sot some time. Consciousness returned to the patient after several operations two weeks later, but his mind was not yet clear. Doctor Pittis steadily responded to the treatment and finally his temperature became normal and his mind clear. Pricks Skin While Operating. The poison, ‘which had circulated through the whole body, was exactly like that of the patient Doctor Pittis had been operating on when he became infected, Doctor Pittis* patient had been suffering from septicaemia, too, and w'hile using his Instruments the skin between hia fingers was pricked. The condition of the hand soon became so alarming that Doctor Pittis went to the Muhlenberg hospital for treatment. It was said that when he first underwent treatment by the Lindeman method he was closer to death than any other patient who had been operated on byDoctor Lindeman for the same disease and who had recovered. , Doctor Pittis has left the Muhlenberg hospital, after having been under Doctor Lindeman's treatment for a month, Fully recovered, he will be able to resume his practice as a surgeon at any time he wishes. However, he is contemplating a trip to the South before going in for hard work. Most of his work is among the poor of Plainfield, where he is surgeon at a dlspensary._ . Within the last two weeks Doctor PittJs roitfpeHed tio undergo am* putatlon of a finger on his right hand, as the bone had become damaged by the cut made by surgical Otherwise he is in normal condition.