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Scaled Packets Only Black--Green or Mixed SE Arthur Stanwood Pier ©opyright Houghton Miflin Company 'oy special arrangement with Thos Alles Torente CHAPTER XVI.--(Cont'd.) Jerry did not press for information, and after a moment Sheehan continu ed: "T know ] can trust you not to re- "+ peat 'what you're told. I've been a patrolman for ten years. There's nothing against my record, and there have been occasions when in for a word of praise. But promo- tion--not for me. In my early days on the force I was too zealous; that was my trouble. I was all for clos ing up the illegal points. I went to my lieutenant about it, and he turned to the sergeant €ind said, 'Sergeant, here's a' man that thinks there are gambling-hells and dives right here in this town. Now what do you think of that?' And the sergeant grinned and said, 'Can it be possible?' 'Well, Sergeant,' said the lieutenant, 'I' de- tail you and a squad to go to-morrow night with this active Joung scout to these places that he's been observing Let no guilty man nor woman escape, Sergeant. Horrible, to have such goings-on in our town.! Well, what * might you expect after that? The next night I took the squad round to the different places, and everything was as quiet and decent as a church. No gambling, no.yum, no vice. we got back to headquarters the lieut- enant gave me a tonguelashing. Told me 1 was a disgrace to the force, a false alarm, no_better than an ama- teur reformer, a hot-air artist, a pipe- dream fakir--oh, he laid it on, t Jientenant is Chief of Police to-day." "Is there graft all through the de- partment ?" "I don't know. Maybe I'm soured, but I can't help suspecting every man that gets ahead. Of course the chief has to divide up. Maguire gots a rake-off; I'm sure of that. All the grafters pay tribute to Maguire." "How about the Police Commission- er? If things are so bad, why does not he do something? He seems honest." ; "He's honest, but he's in palitics and he wants Maguire's friendship. He wouldn't graft himself, but he sees no more than he wants to see." 4] met Maguire the other day. He doesn't seem like a crook." . "No, he's too smart to seem like 'When youth takes flight on the wings of years beauty of complex- {on goes too, unless you give your skin proper and daily care. Use of Ipgram's Milkweed ream will en- _ dle you to appear youthful when _you are no longer young, Its dis- tinctive remedial effest i the 8 of the skin your com- 's been : "Saslthily undp - d." Take and $1.00, ~ ] Since 1885 ' pothing else 'just as ~ noother, Two sizes, pa, 've come |" When' DN and she Usually tri with her to affect a fulness. But alwa her she would say, You don't think anything has happened .to Dave, do ey T ly un thems: visita Jetey nally on these visits" Michael hg It was never an *periente to find Scanlan e sat in surly silence, sometimes Istening with apparent contémpt to the talk of more often oblivious of it. Ji never saw him when he did not the stale odor of liquor, and yet Jerry could never have said that he had seen Michael Scanlan drunk. There was a look in Scanlan's face that Jerry did not like. 5 : "1 did think that when Nora's baby came he'd take an interest," said Mrs, Scanlan. "But no; from the way he acts, much as ever he cares whether the child lives or dies." ! what he is. Youd better look out! for him, He's probably going after you to make you one of his gang." Jerry felt a strong impulse to de-! fend ne But he only said:-- "What is 'there against him any- way?" "Everything--f{rom the way he/got his start to the way he keeps on go- ing. Ten years ago, before the sub- ways were built, Maguire was bosing a-gang of Dago laborers for a firm of contractors. When the subways were planned, he came forward and! offered. wouldbe needed, and the street railway: company accepted his offer. He got! more than six hundred men | that knew mighty little English; and; ; the company kept him ox ito boss the Dagoes, Li for a year, and then he was fired. | 'But by that time he was a rich man, {| He had levied tribute on every one of {those Dagoes that he had working {under him. He had made each of! them pay him two dollars to get the | 'job, and" then he made each of them | pay him a dollar every week to hold | the job. And it wasn't til he got| grasping and began to demand two, 'dollars a week from them that some 'of them complained to the manage- | "ment and Maguire was given the sack. | Then he organized the Ward Fourteen! | Maguire Club, and he's got richer and, more powerful, and now -the manage- | ment of the street railway that fired | him ten years ago do business with him whenever they want to get any measures through the city govern-| ment. That's part of Maguire's re-: cord, I 'guess that Chief Dolan could tell you a lot more of his re- cord if he wished." ' "He didn't seem like such a bad sort | of a fellow," said Jerry. 1 talked to me about his sisters, little kid, and honest, he almost had teaps in his' eyes." "You're young at this job yet," re- plied Sheehan. "You'll be surprised to find how many crooks and criminals are good to their folks." Jerry was assigned to duty on the Front Street wharf the morning that Maguire gave his picnic for the chil- dren of the Fourteen Ward. The big side-wheeler Susan Myer was alive with = clamorous youngsters they crowded to the rail and waved and screamed to friends or relatives on the below. Maguire was bustling about, now on the boat, now on the wharf, giving a jolly word here to a chi and there to a mother, burdening him- self with lunch-baskets and rushing up the gangway to deposit them and return for more, moppi his face frequently with the handkerchief that hung like a bib from his collar, reas- suring parents as to the care that would be bestowed upon their chil- dren and exciting the expectancy of the children by pointing out the great freezers of ice cream that were be- ing carried on board, leading the band while it played "Dixie," and after- wards waving his hat in acknowledg- ment of the applause;--Jerry wonder- ed if he would maintain such continu- ous activity throughout the day. "Now don't you wo y bout your child," Jerry heard him say to a woman who clung apprehensively to her little girl. "There's two train- ed nurses aboard and half a dozen oth- er women, and we'll all look after her. This is a holiday for the mothers as well as for the youngsters; if we took the mothers along they wouldn't have any fun, ~ I'm givi » picuie for the wn-ups two weeks from - to-day; en you'll have your turn. Come along, idlet." The mother, reads sured, smiled and surrendered her He held the! and trudged away with him willingly. (When he had stationed her on the deck where she could wave to her mother, he to the wharf a Te De i Last SE the Lerowd, shouting, " B e Plonict All aboard that are to hire all' the diggers that Dave," continued Mrs. Scanlan. "Has Nora a baby?" cried Jerry. "Yes, didn't you know? I thought I told Io when you were here last. guess it didn't come till that night. 1 remember now; it was just after you'd gone that I got word to hurry out to Millvale. It's a boy, but not a strong baby. Nora's wor ried sick over it--and that husband of ; 8 hers--well, he cares no more than mine." "I guess they both really care," said Jerry. "And don't you worry, Mrs. Scanlan; Nora's baby will To all right." "And Dave--I don't prderstand " e was soon going knew -his sister 'd think--it's not lik have a baby; you e T to work-|him; I feel sure something's happen- | They were overwhelmed with gifts as ing on that subway--all foreigners'ed to him;--and Nora, she's begun to| well as with praise and received many | worry about Dave; she says she knows ras foreman Dave would take some interest in her | and her baby, and she cries and cries, thinking first of one and then the er. And that man of hers--he scolds and curses her just like she was ¢ ing only %o annoy him," the others, use to} oth-| | mtelligible explanation of its flight, ry- | vale. | t , his tho Nora pe ae grief i (To be continued.) t eons, conn dio A QUEER FLYING MACHINE. AChinese Imitation of the Genuine Article. The extraordinary imitativeness of thé Chinese, which ainis often at mere superficial likeness without any com- prehension gf all of the purpose of the form or the function that is copied, is given fresh and amusing illustra] {ibn in an article in the Century Maga. zine 'called Plane Tales from the kies. While Mare Pourpeé, the famous French trick flyer, with Raoul Luf- , bery, who died the other day, the "ace {ot aces" in th American Hscadrille, {as hig mechanic, was performing in China, the two aviators weré greatly impressed with the warmth of their welcome and.the repeated invitations !they received to prolong their stay. Ee | marks of royal favor. Their hosts' examined the strange "bird again and again, listened to the; { made measurements and drawings, {and excitedly discussed the problem EVAPORATING FOODS TO ELIMINATE WASTE 'This year the housekeeper who wishes to prove her thrift is finding {another means besides canning to save ed. the surplus of her garden or of markets. the owing to the shortage gf cans and the expense incurred in some of the usual processes of food conservatior. There is nothing new in this art of Drying or evaporating of erwise wquld cause "Why, he | foods has taken on a new importance, | juice. halves 'and the pits removed. Very large, fleshy varieties may be blanch- Cherries should be dried whole ' without removing the pits, which oth- too much loss of Sweet apples and the early sorts do not dry well, but the winter greenings | and other varieties do excellently. i Apples are to be peeled, cored and - | a splendid production of highly polish- dehydrating or evaporating fruits and | seed into rings or cut into eighths. vegetables; it was well known and! Since they discolor quickly on paring, practiced by our grandmothers, to,they'may be dipped for a minute into id | city home for the dui f often there is no room for'a store of| ture, such as carrots, cabbage, celery, whom dried raspberries, dried corn and dried peaches were part of every seahon's store, The advantage of drying vegetables and fruits is--in addition to saving on cans--the small easily and that there is space in the ed article where either canned or.fresh products. There are two main ways of drying, one by the means of the sun, the oth- er by some form of artificial heat. The sun.method requires more space and takes longer. Some form of the sim* plest drier is preferable. "Such con: sists of a-parrow wooden tray fitted with wire' netting to-be hung over a stove or placed in a slow'oven. Bev eral tiers of trays can be hung at the same time. The Right Drying Temperature The theory of drying is to remove compass of the food in its dried form,|in the sun or any form of drier. the "fact that it can be transported|you have not enough of one kind of {a cold salt bath, using one ounce salt to a gallon of water. Pears and quinces aré dried in the same way. Herbs need not be blanched, but should be well washed and then ried vegetable mix several, kinds together after they are dried into a soup mix: etee iid Incubator an Excellent Drier Some ingenious woman has discov ered that her incubator trays cold serve as a homemade drier. 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