-AT rsiwshavwN! RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF - '"l J."! - , A ." ?ftkO .fT M H? TV U1TAlV tVHBI t,,4 CHAPTER X. Continued. 15 Tliolr eyes mot, and ench of tliotn know whnt it inonnt. It niunnt an notinccmcnt to her tnutlier Hint slit? had met Dave downtown. It mount perhaps n supposition on her mother's part that she had gone downtuwli for thnt purpose. It wns fiir-wiir-hlng. But she said simply, "I should enjoy driving home with you." On- the way they planned that the following Sunduy they would drive Into the foothills together. Of course ' they would ask Mrs. Hardy to accom pany them. Of course. Hut It might happen that Mrs. Hardy would he In disposed. Irene wns of the opinion that what her mother needed now was rest. As It happened Mrs. Hardy was at the gate. She greeted Dave cordially enough. Kncouraged ly her mood, Irene determined to settle the Sun day program nt once. "Dave was good enough to hrlng me up In his car," she said. "And Just think I lie Invites us to drive into the foothills with him next Sunday. Will you come? It will be delightful. Or are you feeling " "Mr. Elden Is very kind," said Mrs. Hardy, with dignity. "I have no doubt Mr. Conwnrd will accompany us. He Is to call this evening and I will ttsk him. . . . Yes, I think It very likely we will go." The summer wore on, and nutumn followed on Its heels. The processes which had been discerned by Conward and other astute operators were now apparent to the mob which forever follows in the wake of the successful, but usually at such u distance as to be overwhelmed In the receding flood. The forces which had built up fabu lous fortunes were now in reverse gear, and the same mechanism that had built up was now tearing down. As the boom had fed upon Itself, cur rying prices to heights justifiable only to the most Insane optimism, so did the subsequent depression bear down upon values until they reached depths justifiable only to the most abandoned despondency. The rosy bubble, Inflat ed with the vapors of lrresponslblo speculation, had dissolved into thin air. Mrs. Ilardy was among tho last to admit that she had bought on an ebbing tide. She contended that her house was well worth the price she Had paid; what If speculation had come to n stop? So much the better; her house was still worth its price. She would stand firm. Mb, Ilardy consulted Conward. It had grown to he her ltabit to consult Conward on all matters in which she found an Interest. "How Is it, Mr. Conward," Mrs. Hardy said to him one evening over her fancy work for she practiced an Indefatigable industry in matters of no Importance "how is it that there la no demand for property? You are a real-estate expert; you should be able to answer that. Isn't this city ns good today ns It was a year ago? Doesn't it occupy the same site? Are not the farms still producing?" "That's Just It. dear Mrs. Hardy. Why, indeed? Simply because the booster has siren way to tho calamity howler. Its psychological explanation Is simple enough. The world lives by faith. Without faith there would be neither seedtime nor harvest. That is true of raising cities as well as of raising crops. But there are always those who ridicule fulth ; always were, always will be. And as soon us fulth disappears things begin to sink." "Ah l" said Mrs. Hurdy gently. "So we owe till this these empty houses and shops, unsalable property and ev erything to those who have lost faith or never had It. To men lll Mr. Elden, for instance. You remem ber how he tried to dlscourugu me from the very first tried to break down my faith that was it, Mr. Con ward I see it all very plainly now and he and others like him have brought things to their present pass. Well, they have a great responsibil ity." As a result of this discussion Dave found himself rather less popular with Mrs. Hardy than before. Dave accepted her displeasure with n light heartedness that was extremely trying to tho good woman's temper. Hud It not been for his desire to spare Irene any unhapploess ho would hav trait ed it with open flippancy. He was enguged In the Bcrlous business of capturing the heart of Irene Hardy a task made none the easier by the self-imposed condition that he must conduct no offensive but must nwult with such patience ns he could com mand the voluntary capitulation of the besieged. On, the whole lie told him self be bad no reason to be dissatisfied with the progress of events. He and Irene often motored together, frequent ly accompanied by Mrs, Hardy, some times by Conwurd as well, but occa sionally alone. And Irene mude no se cret of the fact that she preferred the trips In which onjy she and Dave par ticipated. The gradual shrinkage of values to the vanishing point Imposed upon Dave "many buslnfc'js duties which he would very gladl havo evaded. The ttltv of Conward & Elden, which had Jl PT'JfattAjm'Jy Car TRe COW PUNCHER By Robert J.C. Stood e Gtuinoro . A ' nuciienur, ana inner poenu ICujtNtionj ly Inrin Myers nwi r m (mm2 once been besieged by customers eager to buy, was now a center of groups no less eager to sell ; and when they could not sell they contrived fo lay the blame upon the firm which had orlgluully sold to them. Although, for the most part, these were men and women who had bought purely from the gambler's motive, they behaved toward tho real-estate dealer us though he had done them an injustice when the finger of fortune turned up a loss Instead of n protlt. For such people Dave had little sympathy, and if they persisted in their murmurlngs he told them so with becoming frank ness. Then there was Merton, the wid ower with sick lungs and the mother less boy, who hnd brought his little savings to the West In the hope of husbanding out his life in the dry, clear atmosphere and saving his son from the white death that had already Invaded their little family. With n cruelty almost unbelievable Conwnrd had talked this man into the purchase of property so far removed from the city as to possess no value except as farm land; and the little savings which were to ward off sickness and death, or, If that could not be, minis ter modest comfort In the declining hours of life, had been exchanged for property which, oven at the time of the transaction, was valueless and un salable. Merton had called on Dave with re spect to his Investment. Dave had nt irst been disposed to tell him frankly that the property, for which he had paid twenty dollars n foot, whs barely worth that much an acre. But u sec ond look at the man changed his pur pose. "I know you were stung, Morton," he said, "shamelessly stung. You arc one of those unsuspecting fellows who think everybody Is going to play fair with them. You belong to tho class who leep all kinds of rogues and scoundrels In easy circumstances. You might almost be charged with being accessories. Now, just to show how I feel ubout it how much did you pay for those lots?" "Three thousand dollars. It was nil I had." "Of course It was. If you had had more you would have paid more. I suppose Conward Justified himself "I Think You Are Absolutely Inno cent," He Said Gravely. with the argument that If he didn't take your easy money someone else would, which Is doubtless true. But Just to show you how I feel about It I'll buy those lots from you, for three thousand dollars'." "I can't do It, Mr. Elden; I can't do It," said Merton, and there wns moisture on his cheeks. "That would be charity and I cun't take It. But I'm much obliged. It shows you're square, Mr. Elden, and I hold no 111 will to you." "Well, can I help you In some way you will accept? I'm afraid I don't mean to be unkind, but we may ns well be frank I'm afraid you won't need help very long." ' Merton answered ns one who has made up his mind to the Inevitable, and Dave thought better of him. This little wreck of a man this child In business matters could look deiro In the lace without a quiver. "Not so long," he said. "I felt ever so much butter when I came here first; I thought I was reully going to be well again. But when I found what a mistake I had made I began to wor ry, not for myself, you know, but the boy, and worry Is Just what my trouble lives on. I have been work lug a little, ami boarding out, and the boy is going to school. But I can't do heavy work, uud work of uny kind is hard to get. I lind I can't keep going that way." Morton looked with dreamy eyes through the ofllce window, while Dave was turning over the hopelessness of his position and Inwardly cursing a system which made such conditions possible. Society protects the phys ically weak from the physically strong; tho physical hlghwaymun usu ally gets his deserts; but tho mental highwayman preys upon tho weak and the inexperienced and the unorgaulzed, uud Society votes him a good cltlzon uud a success. "I had u plan," Merton continued, half apologetically, as though his plan did him 111 tie credit "I hnd a plait; but It can't be worked nut. I have been trying to raise 11 little money on my lots, but the mortgage people Just look at me." "What is your plan?" said Dave kindly. "Any plan, no matter how bad, Is always hotter than no plan." "I thought," said Merton timidly "I thought If I could build u little shack on the lots I could live there with the boy and we could raise n very fine garden. The soil Is very fer tile and at least we should not stnrve. And the gardening would be good for me, uud I could perhaps keep some chickens and work out at odd jobs as well. But It takes money to build even a very smnll shack." "How much money?" demanded Dave. "If I had A hundred dollars" "Bring your title to mo tomorrow; to me personally, you understand. I'll advance you Ave hundred dollars." Merton sprang tip, and the.ro was more enthusiasm in his eyes than had seemed possible. "You will? But 1 don't need that much" "Then use the surplus to live on." So the Merton affair was straight- ened away In n manner which left Dave more 'at peace with his con science. But another event, much more dramatic and far-reaching in it; effects upon his life, was already rlpt for the enacting. There were enses that could not be turned away with a sharp answer. Bert Morrison, for Instance. Bert had never mentioned her "investment" since the occasion already recorded. She greeted Dave with the sociability due to their long-standing friendship; and her calm avoidance of the subject hurt hhn more than the abuse of all his irate patrons. Business conditions had necessitated unwonted economy In the ofllce uffulrs of Conwnrd & Elden, ns n result of which many old employees had been Inld off and others had been replaced by chooper and less experienced lnbor. I Stenographers who had been receiving a hundred dollars a mouth could not readily bring themselves to accept llfty, and some of them had to make way for new girls, fresh from tho busi ness colleges. Such a new girl was Gladys Wnrdln pretty, likable, Inex- potienced. Her country home had offered no answer to her ambitions, and she had come to the city with tho most dangerous equipment n young woman can carry an attractive faco and an unsophisticated confidence In the goodness of humanity. Conward had been responsible for her position In the ofllce, und Dave had given little thought to her except to note that she wus a willing worker and of comely nppearunce. Returning to the ofllce one Saturday evening Dave found Miss Wardln muk lng up a bundle of paper, pencils and carbon paper. She was evidently in high spirits, and he smilingly asked If she Intended working at home over Sunday. "Oh, didn't Mr. Conward tell you?" sho answered, as though surprised that the good news had been kept a secret. "Ho Is to spend n day or two at one of the mountain hotels, and I am to go along to do his correspondence. In't it Just lovely? I have so wanted to go to the mountains, but never felt thnt I could afford It. And now I can com bine business with plensure." The smile died out of Dave eyes, and his face became more set and stern than she had ever seen It. "Why, what's tho matter, Mr. El den,?" sho exclaimed. "Is anything wrong?" He found It lmrd to meet her frank, unsuspecting eyes; hard to draw back the curtains of the world so much thut those eyes would never again be quite so frank and unsuspecting. "Miss Wardln," he said, "did Conward tell you that?" "What? About going to the moun tains? Of course. He said he was taking some work with him, and he wondered If I would mind going along to do it, and he would pay the ex penses, and and " There wns a quick, hard catch In her voice, and she seized EJden's arm violently. Her eyes were big and round; her pretty faco hud gone suddenly white. "Oh, Mr. Elden, you don't think you don't think that I that he You wouldn't believe thut" "I think you are absolutely Inno cent," he said, gravely, "but It's the innocent thing thut gets caught." The girl had broken Into violent tears. "Whatever shall I do? What enn I do?" she moaned. "Oh, why didn't somebody tell me? What can I do?" He let her passion run on for a few minutes, and then he sought, us gently as ho could, to win her back to some composure. "Some one has told you," ho said "In time. You don't hnve to go. Don't he afraid of anything Con wurd may do. I will settle this score with him." She controlled herself, but when she spoke again 'her voice had. fear und shume in It. "I I huto to tell you, Mr. Elden, but I must tell you I I took I let him give me some money to buy things. He said mnybo I wus short of money und I would want to buy some new clothes und he would puy me extru, In uuvunce und ho gavo mo fifty dollurs und and I've spent It 1" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Trick of the Trad. Lawyer (to fair client, a defend ant) "When a young juror looks at you, weep; when an old one looks at you, flirt." Nothing New. "AH the world's a stage," and yet some people look upon the revolving stago as u modern Idea. m PALATABLE AND NUTRITIOUS More Economical Than Meat Be cause Less Labor Is Re quired to Produce It. BE SURE THAT IT IS FRESH Carefully Broil, Doll, Bake or Fry and Serve With Well-Seasoned Sauce for a Change Some Welt-Selected Recipes. (Prepared by the Unltei! Stat Depart ment of Krlcnliure.) I'lsh Is mri uud us a food to the extent It should be In this country nor to the extent that It Is iced In other countries. It Is cheaper than meat because it requires less labor to produce and market It, and because IIhIi consume In their growth very llt lhMiiaterlnl which Is available or use ful "in human food. Like meat, It Is ii protein food, mid If well cooked It makes a nutritious and palatable dish. Even though purchased dressed.- tlsh should he carefully cleaned In the home. After cleaning and washing wipe dry with a soft cloth and salt well before cooking. The addition of vinegar or lemon Juice during the ( oklng Is usually advisable when It. Is baked or boiled. Beenuse they contain loss of the so called extractives which give flavor to pork. beef, and mutton, fish are likely to be .somewhat insipid. For this rea son extra care should be used In the selection of the other food to be srrved with It. Have It either very highly flavored or so mild In flavor A Disagreeable, But Essential Task In Preparing the Fish for Cooking. thnt the flavor of the flsh will not be obscured. Sauces of various types are acceptable with fish, especially when It Is boiled or baked. The following sauces are recom mended as desirable to servo with fish. The first two recipes were tested In the experimental kitch ens of the department of agriculture. The others are selected from a bul letin published by the Indiana Agri cultural college, i Egg Sauce. 1 cupful milk. IVi tablespoonful.i ol 1 tablepoouful fat. cornstarch. Si tcatipoouful Bait. Moisten the cornstarch In a small amount of cold liquid and add to the heated milk. Cook together In n double holler. Hard cooked egg, chopped fine, is added. Tomato Sauce. 1 cupful strained to- Salt und pepper to muto. taste. 1 tablefpoouful 'at. 1 tablrspnonful corn 1 Mice onion, starch. Put the tomato through a sieve. Moisten the cornstarch and add to tho heated and seasoned tomato. Scald the onion In the sauce, removing It befoie the sauce Is served. Mustard Sauce. i cupful vlnoar. 1 teaspoonful ground U cupful water. inuntard. 1V4 tablenpoonfuls of 2 tablepoonful fat. cornstarch, 4 teaspoonful snlt. Two tablenpoonfulH of tlnely chopped plcklo may bo added, Maltre d'Hotel Sauce. Cream toKethen " teiixpoouful suit. 3 tubloxpoonfula of 1 tiiblogpnouful finely butter. chopped parsley (If 1 tabtenpoonful lent- doslrt-d). on Juice. This sauce renumbles oft butter and Is to he spread on the hot tlsh so the f(it will he melted, Horseradish Sauce. Z tnblespoonfuls of 4 tuhk'Hpootifula or liorscrudlsh. heavy cream beat- 1 tablespoonful vln- en stiff. egur. U teaspoonful salt. Mix the llrst three Ingredients and then add the boMcn cream. STOCKINGS NEED GOOD CARE Frequent Washing Prevents Rotting and Continued Strain on the Same Parts. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of AKi-lculturfl.) Wush stockings frequently. It pre veuts continued strain on the same purt of the stocking uud rotting und chunge of color from perspiration. Wash now stockings before wearing to remove tho alzlng; otherwise holes may uppear at once. ''11 "' ? f. ? SkbpR RIGHT KIND OF FOOD NOT GIVEN CHILDREN1 Costs More in Some Instances, But Is Not Suitable. Improperly Fed Child Is Under Handl cap From Start to Finish Result Qlven of Experiment Re cently Made in Iowa. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The chlhl fed Improperly Is not get ting a square deal in this world, how ever much else may be done for him by bis parents. From start to finish he Is under a handicap, mentally and physically, when In competition with those who have been given the right kind of food. Surprising as It may seem, statis tics show that the proportion of un dernourished children In the better homes Is large Just ns It Is in the homes of smaller Incomes. The food served In the former may cost more nml be In greater abundance but It Is quite as apt to he unsultaliTc for a growing child. Wapella county. Iowa, Is a prosper ous community, where comfortable homes are the rule and not the excep tion. Heeontly the county nurse and the home demonstration agent, with the nld of ten volunteers, weighed and measured '-'.ISO children In tho county. Of the children examined. -107 wen.' below weight. Out of a group of 1H7 children In rural districts, who were weighed, measured and Inspected, only live were found to be normal. To Illustrate what proper diet, will do for a child, two nutrition classes were started In Ottumwn Fchools. In one were eight children, ench from live fo fourteen pounds underweight. The? are being given one pint of milk dally for three months. One cupful Is given In morning recess and one In the aft ernoon. At the oilier school, n lunch Is served nt 10:15 ouch morning to the class selected. It consists of a large dish of well-cooked oatmeal, with sugar and whole milk, a glass of milk and grnhnm crackers. The children are very eager for this plain whole some food. The records of gain are Interesting. Every child has mnde at least a two pound gain. One nine-year-old boy, six pounds underweight, has gained eight pounds, and one eleven-year-old hoy 17 pounds underweight and in ex tremely poor physical condition, hns gained nine pounds, and his genernl health Is much Improved. FREQUENT SCALDING IS BEST To Keep Household Water Vessels' Clean and In Good Condition Much Care Is Needed. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The greatest care Is required to keep household water vessels clean and In good condition. Water coolers should he of some material, such as porcelain or enameled ware, which Is easily kept clean. They should lie scalded at frequent Intervals. The Ice. If It comes In contact with the water, should he of known quality. Doubtful Ice should he kept from con tact with the water. Many families cool drinking water by putting it In the Ice box In glass fruit Jnrs or bot tles. Where It Is believed or known that the water supply Is not pure, a (liter should he used. If n filter Is used every precaution should bo taken to keep It clean and In' good condition, United States department of agricul ture specialists suggest. An earthen ware (liter may be cleaned by thor ough scrubbing with n brush. Then It should he placed In a pan or kettle of wnter nnd boiled. A small piece of wood should he placed under the Jar to prevent direct contact with the heated bottom of the pan. GOOD MEAT FROM CHEAP CUTS Housekeeper Has Two Problems tc Contend With In Attempting to Reduce Expenses. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) When the housekeeper attempts to reduce her meat bill by using the less expensive cuts, she commonly has two dlllicultfes to contend with tough meat and hick of flavor. Prolonged cooking softens the connective tissues of the meat. Pounding the meat and chopping It are also employed with tough cuts to help break the muscle libers. 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