The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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,, Synopsis.—Her father and mother reported lost at sea when the
• Dunroven, on which they had sailed for Europe, was sunk, Carolyn
May Cameron—Hannah's Carolyn—Is sent from New York to her bach-
elor uncle, Joseph Stagg, at the Corners. The reception given her by
iier uncle Is not very enthusiastic. Carolyn is also chilled hy the stern
demeanor of Aunty Hose, l.'nrle Joe’s housekeeper. Stage Is dismayed
H when he learns from a lawyer friend of his hrother-ln-luw that Carolyn
has been left practically penniless and consigned to his care as guardian.
CHAPTER IV—-Continued.
v ,‘'Ko?" said the carpenter, pushing
fiiv4* big spectacles up to his forehead.
“F read about it. Too had—too mighty
bad! I remember Hannah Stagg,” he
added, winking his eyes, Carolyn May
thought, a good deal as Prince did.
■"You look like her.”
“Do I?" Carolyn May returned,
drawing nearer. “I’m glad I do. And
I’m glad I sleep in what used to he
her bed, too. it doesn’t seem so lone-
some."
“So? 1 reckoned you’d he lonesome
til) there at The Corners," said the
•carpenter.
Mr. Carlow stripped another shav-
ing from the edge of the hoard he was
plumbing. Carolyn May’s eager eyes
followed that curling ribbon and her
lips parted.
The carpenter paused before push-
ing the plane a second time the length
of the hoard. “Don’t you want u drink
of water, little girl?” he asked.
“Oh, yes, sir—I would. And I know
Prince would like a drink,” she told
him quickly.
“(lo right around to the well In the
back yard,” said Mr. I’arlow. “You’ll
find a glass there—and Mainly keeps a
pan on the well curb for the dogs and
outs.”
“Thank you, I’ll go,” the little girl
said.
She hoped she would see Miss
Amanda Carlow, but she saw nobody.
She went hack to the door of the
•carpenter shop and found Mr. I'arlow
atlll busily ut work.
“Seems to me," he suld, In his dry
voice, after a little while, “you aren’t
much like other little girls."
“Aren’t I?” responded Carolyn May
wonderlngly,
“No. Most little girls that come
here w\ut.shavings to play with,” sulil
the carfceuter, quizzically eying her
over work.
"Oh!’’ cried Carolyn May, almost
Jumping. "And do you give ’em to
’em?"
“’Most ulwnys,” admitted Mr. Car-
low.
“Oh! Can I have some?” she
gasped.
"All you want,” said Mr. Carlow.
When Tim’s old buck crawled along
the road from town with Aunty ltose
sitting Inside, enthroned amidst a mul-
titude of bundles, Carolyn May was
bedecked with u veritable wig of long,
crisp curls.
“Well, child, you certainly havemnde
a mess of yourself," said the house-
keeper. “Has she been annoying you,
Jedidlah Carlow?"
“She’s tlie only Stagg that ain’t an-
noyed me since her mother went
away," suld the carpenter gruffly.
Auuty Rose looked ut him levelly.
“I wonder," she said. “Hut, you see,
she Isn’t wholly a Stagg."
This, of course, did not explain mat-
ters to Carolyn Muy In the least. Nor
did what Aunty Hose said to her on
the way home In the hot, stuffy hack
help the little girl to understand the
trouble between her uncle and Mr.
Carlow.
“Better not let Joseph Stagg see you
so friendly with Jedidlah I’arlow. Bet
sleeping dogs lie,” Mrs. Kennedy ob-
served.
j her uncle had tirst said about the car-
| pen ter. "He is real llh’rai.”
"It’s a wonder to tat*," drawled Mrs.
Gormley, “that he lias a thing to do
I with a certain party, Mrs. Maine, con-
j siderin’ how his daughter feels toward
that certain party’s relation. What
d’you think?"
“1 guess--there’s sumpin—to ho
said—on both sides o’ that eontro-
I versy,” responded the dressmaker.
"Moanin' that tnehbe a certain par-
j ty’s relative feels just as cross as
Mandy Carlow?” suggested Mrs. Gortu-
ley.
“Yep," agreed the other woman.
Carolyn May listened, much puzzled.
She wondered Just who “a certain
party” could he.
Mrs. Maine was called away upon
some household task and Mrs. Corm-
ley seemed to change the subject of
( conversation.
"Don’t your uncle, Mr. Stagg, ever
I speak to you about Mandy Carlow?"
she asked the little girl.
Carolyn May had to think about this
i before answering. Then she remem-
j bered.
"<)h, yes," she said brightly.
“He does? Do tell!” exclaimed Mrs. •
Gormley eagerly. "What does he I
say?”
“Why, he says her name is Miss '
Amandn Carlow.”
Mrs. Gormley flushed rnther oddly j
and glanced at the child with suspi-
cion. But little Carolyn Muy was per-
fectly frunk and Ingenuous.
“Humph !" ejaculated Cbet’s mother.
"He never says nothing uhout bein’ In
love with Mandy, does he? They was
goin’ with each other steady once.”
The little girl looked puzzled.
‘"When folks love each other they
look at each other anil talk to each
other, don’t they?" she asked.
“Well—yes—generally,” admitted
Mrs. Gormley.
"Then my Uncle Joe and Miss Aman-
da Carlow aren't In love,” announced
Carolyn May with confidence, “for they
don’t even look at each other."
“They used to. Why, Joseph Stagg
and Mandy I’arlow was sweethearts
CHAPTER V.
A Tragic Situation.
Such was the introduction of Caro-
lyn May to The Corners. It was not
a very exciting life she hud entered
into, hut the following two or three
weeks were very full.
Aunty Rose insisted upon her being
properly Utted out with clothing for
the summer and full. Carolyn May
had to go to the dressmaker’s house
to he fitted and that Is how she be-
acquainted with Chet Gormley’s
inof tier.
/rtrs. Gormley was helping the dress-
maker and they^both made much of
Carolyn May. Aunty Hose allowed her
to go for her fitting alone—of course
with Prince as a companion—so, with-
out doubt, Mrs. Gormley, who loved
a “dish of gossip.” talked more freely
with the little girl than she would have
done in Mrs. Kennedy's presence.
One afternoon the little girl ap-
peared at the dressmaker’s with
Prince's collar decorated with short,
curly shavings.
"I take It you've stopped at Jed Car-
low's shop, child,” said Mrs. Gormley
with a sigh.
“Yes, lbA'am.” returned Carolyn
May. “Do you know, he’s very ilb’ral."
“‘Lib'rul?’ repeated Mrs. Gormley.
“I never heard of old Jed Carlow bein’
accused of that before. Did you, Mrs.
Maine?"
Mrs. Maine was the dressmaker;
and she bit off her words when she
spoke. much as she hit off her threads.
“No. 1 never—heard Jed Carlow—
called that—no!” declared Mrs. Maine
emphatically.
“Why. yes." little Carolyn May said
quite eagerly, "he gives me all the
shaving* I w»m. I—I guess folka
don’t Just understand about Mr. Car-
low," she added, remembering what
v\
Vi
coming tongue on the man’s cheek.
He succeeded In muddying Mr. Stagg s
suit with his from paws, and almost
cast the angry man full length lute a
mud puddle.
"Drat the beast *" ejaculated Mr.
Stagg. "I’d rather have an epileptic
tit loose around here than hint. Now,
look at these do’es! 1 declare, Car’-
l.vn, you've jest got to tie thut mongrel
u[>—and keep him tied !"
"All the time, Uoele Joe?” whis-
pered the little girl.
"Yes, ma'am, all the time' If I And
him loose again. I’ll tie a bug of rocks
to his neck and drop him lu the deep-
est hole In the brook.”
After this awful threat Prince lived
a precarious existence, and his mis-
tress was much worried for him.
Aunty Uose said nothing, but she
saw that both the little girl and her
canine friend were very uuhnppy.
Mrs. Kennedy, however, had watch-
ed Mr. Joseph Stagg for years. In-
deed. she hud known him as a hoy,
long before she had closed up tier own
little cottage around on the other road
and come to tin* Stagg place to save
the hardware merchant from the con-
tinued reign of those “trifling crea-
tures” of whom Mrs. Gormley had
spoken.
As a bachelor Joseph Stagg had
been preyed upon by certain female
harpies so prevalent In a country com-
munity. Some had families whom they
partly supported out of Mr. Stngg’s
larder; some were widows who looked
upon the well-to-do merchant us a
marrying proposition.
Aunty Hose Kennedy did not need
the position of Mr. Stugg’s housekeep-
er and could not he accused of assum-
ing it from mercenary motives. Over
her back fence she had seen the havoc
going on In the Stagg homestead after
Hannah Stagg went to the city and
Joseph Stagg’s final female relative
had died and left him alone in the big
house.
One day the old Quaker-like woman
could stand no more. She put on her
sunbonnet, came around hy the road
to the front door of the Slagg house,
which she found open, and walked
through to the rear porch on which the
woman who then held the situation of
housekeeper was wrapping up the best
feather bed and pillows In a pair of
tin* best homespun sheds, preparatory
to their removal.
The neighbors enjoyed what followed.
Aunty Hose came through the ordeal
as dignified and unruffled as ever ; the
retiring incumbent went awuj wruth-
fully, shaking the dust of the premises
from her garments as a testimony
against “any sloh actions.”
When Mr. Stagg came home at sup-
per time he found Aunty Hose ut the
helm and already a different ulr about
the place.
“Goodness me. Aunty Hose," he
said, biting into her biscuit ravenous-
ly, "I was a-going down to the mill-
hands' hotel to hoard. 1 couldn't stand
It no longer. If you’d stay here und
do for me, I’d feel like a new man."
“You ought to be made over Info a
new man, Joseph Stagg.” the woman
said sternly. “A married man.”
“No, no! Never thut!" gasped the
hardware dealer.
"If I came here, Joseph Stagg, it
would cost you more money than
you’ve been puylng these uo-account
women."
“I don’t care," said Mr. Stagg reck-
lessly. “Go ahead. Do what you
please. Say what you want. I’m
game.”
Thereby he had put himself Into
Aunty Hose’s power. She hud reno-
vated the old kitchen and some of the
other rooms. If Mr. Stugg at first
trembled for his hunk balance, he was
made so comfortable that lie had not
the heart to murmur.
Of course, Carolyn May let Prince
run ut large when she was sure Uncle
Joe was well out of sight of the house,
but she was very careful to chain him
up again long before her uncle was ex-
pected to return.
Prince hud learned not to chase any-
thing that wore feathers; Aunty Hose
herself had to admit that he wns a
very Intelligent dog and knew what
punishment was for. But how did he
know thut In trying to dig out a mole
he would be doing more harm than
good ?
The emplacement and platform of one of the German long-range guns which have hern bombarding Paris. This
gnu base was discovered during the recent offensive on the eastern front. The gun hud been removed. The plat
form is 11 meters in diameter and .‘h.’t.’i meters high.
AMERICANS CHARGING THROUGH BARBED WIRE
•CaJ
“I Reckoned You’d Be Lonesome Up
There at the Corners," said the Car-
penter.
years and years ago! Long before
your mother left these parts, child."
“That was u long time ’fore I was
horned," suld the little girl wonder-
lngly.
“Oh, yes. Everybody that went to
The Corners’ church thought they’d
be married.”
“My Uncle Joe and Miss Mandy?”
“Yes.”
“Then, what would have, become of
Aunty Rose?" queried Carolyn Muy.
“Oh, Mrs. Kennedy hadn’t gone to
keep house for Mr. Stagg then," re-
plied Mrs. Gormley. “He tried sev’ral
triflin’ critters there at the Stugg place i
before she took hold."
Carolyn May looked at Mrs. Gorm-
ley encouragingly. She was very much
Interested In Uncle Joe and Miss
Amnnda Pur'low’s love affair.
“Why didn't they get married—like
my papa and mamma?" she asked.
“Oh, goodness knows!" exclaimed
Mrs. Gormley. “Some says 'twas his
fault und some says 'twas hern. And
mebbee ’twos a third party’s that I
might mention at that." an ted Mrs.
Gormley, pursing up her lips in a very
knowing way.
“One day,” she said, growing confi-
dential, “It wns In camp-meeting time
—one day somebody seen Joe Stagg
drivln' out with another girl—Char-
lotte Lenny, that was. She was mar-
ried to u man over in Springdale long
ago. Mr. Ktncir t<w>L- CharloCc *c
Faith camp meeting.
“Then, the very next week, Mandy
went with Kvnn F’eokhem fn „
dance at Crockett's, and nobody ain’t
ever seen your uncle and Mandy Pnr-
low speak since, much less ever walk
together.”
One particularly muddy day Prince
met the returning hardware merchant
at the gate with vociferous barking*
and a plain desire to implant a wet-!
Carolyn Is heartbroken and
decides upon drastic action when
Uncle Joe passes sentence on
Prince. Read about it in the
next installment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Residents There Escape the Disconrw
forts That Are Inevitable Accom-
panlmente to Crowded City.
“Americans do not yet know how
to live," Is the constant cry of visiting
Europeans. The spectacle of people
of wealth and culture enduring the In-
dignities und discomforts of existence
In hired quarters in a crowded city Is
to them the proof of this, says a writer
In New York Sun,
But we are learning. The pioneers
from the city to the suburbs have
gradually created the things they
needed to make life livable from a so-
cial as well as from a material stand-
point, and now life In any up-to-date
suburban locality Is us full and com-
plete us In the most favored city.
Take tny own locality. We have
golf, tennis und squash clubs. We
hqve literary, musical and art socie-
ties. We have churches of the leading
denominations. We have assembly
rooms for public and semlpuhlic meet-
ings. During Ihe year there are nu-
merous public entertainments — con-
certs, lectures, amateur theatricals,
where the audiences are like one large
family gathering, und for the Idle evi*-
nings we have the Inevitable moving
picture house. We ure 32 minutes
from the subway station ut Grand
Central, the heart nf the club and
amusement district of New York. Wo
get trains In or out. every few minutes
during the busy hours—less frequent-
ly hut still sufficient at other times.
The rent which we pay to ourselves as
Inmlloni (and we Insist upon paying
ourselves (I per cent net on our cash
Invested) Is less than one-half of what
we would pay for the same living
space lu the city, In addition to which
\\c have light, air, space and that free-
dom which money cannot purchase lu
the city.
<,/. ; ■ ‘•‘♦HA* V l*.« u> . V
Some American troops are here shown ehnrglng through liarhod wire entanglements In pursuit of the fleeing
Huns.
FIGHTING THE INFLUENZA IN AMERICA
ml:
MOTOR CORPS IN TRAINING
— -
.-•V'.y
To successfully combat the Influenza, which has stricken a number of
our army and navy hoys, a special camp has I...... fitted up on the grounds
of the (’orrey Hill hospital lu Brookline, Mass. This picture shows one of
the nurses using a musk as a protection against the disease, which Is con-
tagious.
SOLDIERS HARVEST FRENCH CROPS
DULUTH SUBURB IS A MODEL
Carefully Planned and Laid Out, It
Furnishes an Object Lesson for
Other Communities.
In Morgan Park, a suburb of Duluth,
owned nml operated hy a subsidiary of
the United Stales Steel corporation for
the ust* and benefit of employees, the
government has found food for reflec-
tion with respect to town planning and
housing. It Is analyzed hy Lelfur Mag-
■mason, a housing expert of the bureau
of labor statistics, In the bureau’*
monthly review, wherein Morgan Park
Is described us "an example of a mod-
ern Industrial suburb Intended to serve
as a nucleus of a permanent Industry."
"It h»s been developed," It seems, "In
an orderly and systematic manner,
town planning principles have been ole
served In Its layout, educational and
recreational facilities have been pri*
vliled, and houses of u permanent und
substantial character erected.”
The latter, Indeed, are of concrete,
though vurlety lias been secured and
the usual monotony of company towns
avoided. There Is more than the av-
erage range lu the number of rooms
and character of dwellings provided In
the different designs In order that both
high and low paid labor may he ac-
commodated.
In addition to ttie variety of houses
to meet all purses there are hoarding
houses for the unmarried employees.
Also, the taklng'of roomers und hoard-
ers In private families Is permitted to
a limited extent. No Innd or houses
have been sold, the tltlo to the whole
townslte remaining In a housing und
maintenance company organized for
tl*e purpose. .Special blocks have been
set aside for business purposes, as well
as for recreation and parks, and u
block has been given hy Duluth for u
school site.
WARM WELCOME FOR TWINS
Their Arrival in an English Horne
Meant Two Extra Sugar Rations
for Family.
(’apt. Norman Thwaltes of the Brit-
ish Intelligence department said the
other day:
"The sugar shortage Is felt keenly
over the water. It’s odd how you
miss your sugar over there. You long
for It as you’d long for tobacco.
“A Bayswnter special constable hur-
ried home from Ills beat at the Mar-
ble Arch the other evening to he pres-
ent on a very Interesting occasion,
and. as he sat in his library In the
small hours, the nurse came to him
and said:
“ ‘It’s all right, sir.’
“The Bayswnter man swallowed; he
moistened his dry lips; then tie asked r
‘Is If, a hoy?"
“The nurse smiled soothingly.
" ‘One of Vm’s a hoy, sir.’ she said.
“And the Bayswnter man. Instead
of turning pale or smothering an oath,
as he’d probably done In peace time,
uttered a glad cry of Joy.
“Thank heaven!’ he exclaimed,
’that gives us two extra sugar ra-
tions.’ ”
Bell Note Bird.
A remarkable piping bird Is known
* I X 111 !s,l rJ r, • • flt ^1 r- M e, .
: known of which two are pure, glossy
white; one Is brownish with a white
black wings. Its call Is like |he note,
clear nrtd melodious, of n beautiful
Ik-11. Sometimes If utters only one
note, then rests. When several of
these hlrrte call and answer, the effect
Is beautiful. The Itell-blrds. which be-
long to the chatterer faintly, are found
In Central America south to BrtuOL
The motor corps of the National
• League for Women’s Service Is under
i going strenuous army training at Fort
i Totten. The women have decided to
abandon home duties and social affairs
I and prepare for real work. This photo
graph shows Lieut, t’utherlne Fred-
; erlck wtg-wugglng from near the tog
of a flagpole at the fort.
Loyalty.
Loyalty Is that quality which
prompts a person to he true to the
things he undertakes. It means def-
inite direction, fixity of purpose,
steadfastness. Loyalty supplies pow-
er, poise, purpose, ballast and works
for health and success. Nature helps
the loyal man. If you are careless,
it, nature assumes
la* a nobody, and
Suer-ess hinges oil
to your art, your
H1 i f isliOfJ,
indifferent
tlml you
wish to 1
grants your desire.
loj ally.
]’.<■ tru<*
business,
your emplii
1 icwilty I
s for tin-
It Ik a
quality w<
very fa hr
lc of one’s
Landscape Gardener Needed.
There Is agitation In many cities for
public lundscape gardener to co-oper-
ute with the county surveyors In set-
ting out trees and shrubbery, laying
out fertile gardens, giving Information
to gardeners und tree growers, fight-
ing Insects, securing black dirt, forest
mold, fertilizer and good seeds.
Tim average ynrd Is n Jumblcd-up
mess. A shade tree Is often stuck In
the center of the hack yard. This
iulna all prospects for a vegetable gur-
den. Fruit trees should he given ut
leust the hack yard In preference to
the front yard.
I'eople don’t know Just, what they
wunt when they do lay out the hack
yard; hence they ought to have the
services of a public landscape garden-
er. Thu side and front yard Is even
worse.
•bu p«r Unlbf ,
mmay
This French olHelul photograph shows French soldier-farmers tinn*>-ulug
,n the fields back of flic front lines In (tie Oise sector. This season’s crops
have been excellent and more than sufficient to feed the French uoWlers.
WORTH KNOWING
has grown by leups a
Ing recent >**ars, und
A Frenchman Is the
bourn
-•entor of
been in vented
electric clock tlmt ru
ri.*> without at- labor In
tent Ion as long us it
t buttery Is In j.
good order.
Ten per cent of the
entire populu- f,, y. fj-
tlon of Massachusetts,
or 300,000 peo- Hll mf. „
pic of voting uge, are
or w&te fiSUtu»tk-
unable to read : Fiance
A powerful wireless station In Ne\
Jersey now in governt lent control ]
exchanging messages llrcrtiv win.
similar station In Argentina.
An uhIi sifter that ha
til l,< liltllt lr.tr,
beneath the grate Is intended to i
handling ashes,
Gorman of Milwaukee,
* **fiKlru***r, u
that he was running
I locomotive ‘“over ther
hut he used to ruu over h.
who Is loyal,
through the
one’s being, and never
! a thing apart. Loyalty makes the
tiling to which you ar>- loyal yours.
1 Disloyalty removes it from you.
I Whether anyone knows of our dis-
I* ynlty is really of little moment ei-
' heir one wn.\ or the other. Tlo- real
point Is, how does it affect ourselves?
Work Is lor the worker. Art Is for th-
| artist. I he mcnliii ,n a man who Is
dh loyal to his w ork. All useful s<*rv
lee I- rai-cd to the plan - of art when
love for task loyalty Is fused with
the eflort. Era.
Locusts Versus Oyi
A traveler having rennu
Ariil* that tie wondered at
anything nn revolting as I
Amh replied, with some
; nothing ought to surprise
Religious Denominations.
Liberty Garden.
War gardens are now called Liberty
gardens, a more fitting term. Liberty
Is freedom, und a good garden means
liberation from store vegetables, the
free use of fresh food right from the
garden, easily worth double the price
of store stuff to a particular person.
Work in the garden means freedom In
God’s sunlight and pure air. I’lenty
of fresh vegetables and exercise In the
open air mean freedom from disease,
und the necessary toll Insures sound,
refreshing sleep. If a garden Is a
good garden, surely It Is a Liberty
garden, without consideration of the
food It may save to send to those who
are giving their all for liberty.
Safer Inside,
Maybe.
"You
claim to have
u model prison
to an
here?"
mating
“Yes
We can rat
ike that claim
f s, th«‘
good.
Men have actUM
illy been turned
thut
out of
here who hated
to leave."
“Uiuph ! Were they
bigamists?”
A Sure Sign.
Father—I
Willis
for- There are
H*X religious
<i»kw>rn
irm-
must he ge
ttlng
into bad company.
rot** of th**
l Stilt***.
Th*Tf*
ii r»*
Mother—•
Griic
lou.s, what makes you
th*; tllu-4-n kiwis
Of ItNptUtH.
f vv**n ty*
ow.» '
think so. A
Ibert
?
> ,n kiwi* of Lu
til ♦THUS, twHv*
* kind*
of |
Father- I
er have to reprimand
” i l"i****byt**rli*Mf
uwl ttft****li
kinds
of I
him arouad
the
house any more. *”
' Methodistsi
ft
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