THE WAITING INSTRUMENT.
I blame no man for failure here, for
be
Who wing no crown is like an
gtrument
That silent waits the Master's touch
to free
The noble numbers that within are
pent,
in-
Untouched, and unawake, and still it
stands,
Dasgpite the glorious
contains
Who knows but that in those diviner
ands
“Twill swell
with its
~—fllakeney
- — ——
measures it
the songs of Heaven
strains?
Gray,
lee’
in Ains
AWAKENING.
By Burton Egbert Stevenson.
down his
ink splashed
jushnell threw
savagely that the
the blaiter.
There,”
over
he said, pushing a shect
a full
assets and
back in his
weariness
the other man, “you will find
statemant there of both
liabilities,” and he leaned
chalr with a sigh of utter
Rogers took the paper and
eye down the colum
gained by long pr
the totals, he glanced at |
a surprised way.
“You will pay
lar,” he remarked
“Yes,” said Sushnell
is the one redeeming
whole business.”
The ather
though at a loss how
pulled nervously at
“The two amounts bal
or nearly so,” sald, at last
will be nothing left for you.”
“1 Xnow it,” snapped Jushnell
shortly. “You need not remind
it, Rogers Do suppose I
idiot ™
The lawyer glanced at
from ander his eyebrows
tated again Evidently
to say was not easily
“1 sappose you
wed, finally, “that
Bary: but there are
it could avoided’
Bushnell stirred pationtty in
chair, but he did not meet
ayes,
Yes,” he
it I went
afternoon
have
As he
lushnell
actice
out dollar
hesitate
ance exa
he
me oO
you am an
his friend
and
what he
said
he
hens
4}
had
ways in
be
his
he other's
3: wi ® le
irritadly, i
that
remind me of
said,
over all
ion't
fongbt that battle
ground
Rogers wided gravels
“Thal's m
say.,~ ho
ore than
marked,
lawyer
every poss.
the other
It was
headed m
he turned
pursed I
dened Ly
It is
face slightly
dd emotion
las!
haz: any
right 0 ex
fa the stalem
Yes,”
what I made it out
the other
out of
I'm beginning
the accursed
ed here, wi
wish
BushneHl
for."
ont
answered
you poated
“that’s
and then aa
arose to go, “lI want to get
town fo Rogera
run
down,
No
think.” and
statement aro]
$1
the
POC HG Oy!
yon in
‘At
in the
“yg
iAaxingion,
You
“Born
“You.
‘All right, the lawver turne
toward the That's
place fo go, I'm sure Good-by
hope the rest will do you ge
"Thanks and Bushnell
himself to h fee! The two
shook hands he said
Bushnell dr« into
chair aa
and
door the
od
Goody,”
wiped hack
door closed
fel! forward hiz hands, and
bitterness and futility of it all weizht.
ed him down The rush and
the street drifted in through the win.
dows and filled the room, but he did
not hear it, for he was far away. He
had left that little village in the
Catskills full of hope and purpose
t was not long ago in time,
long In events—and for a space {tf
seemed he was to win his battle
against the street. For he had de
termined to win. It had come upon
hm suddenly-this fever to show the
stuff that was
his
His head
the
BOT PN
pon the
sway up on the side of Vly Mountain.
had dreamed of millions. But
been caught
fica which his own brain had built
and crushed utterly. But the bitter
#st thought of all was that he must
go back empty-handed, gwhen he had
hoped to take so muc
win.
The station at Shandakin, a long.
verted as Bushnell stepped off the
train the next afternoon. Only
stage was there, as It was every day,
ready for the ten-mile journey over
tha hills to Lexington, and he graspud
the hand of the old driver with real
warmth.
“I'm glad to see you, Jim,” he said.
“How are all the folks?"
“Oh, they're all right, I reckon. But
vou look kind er peaked, Mr, Bush
nell. Been workin’ too hard, 1
‘spect.”
Bushnell laughed.
“That may be it,” he sald.
way, 1 decided that a week
beck here in the hills would do
good."
“So
the
reckon.
“Only
the
“All
passenge rr
Bushnell piled In"
clambered to the
ked to the horses, and they
The road for the first few miles
through a wood of stately
pines, and Bushnell la) back in his
seat and great breaths of tho
fragrant alr, and felt his
ing with renewed vigor
“Any
or two
me
twill,” nodded the driver, “an’
will be glad to see you, I
Got any luggage?”
this,” and Bushnell held up
he carried in his hand.
right. Pile in. You're the or ly
folks
grip
accordingly.
front seat,
were
off.
wound
took
pulee beat-
Up and up
“notch,
dent in the chain of moun-
tains, and the air grew cool and brac-
ing. A plashed along by the
side of the road, and Bushnell re
with peculiar vividness
how many trout he had caught in it
he was a He felt his
a mere
brook
boy.
phalt
been
nostalgia of as
which had
vears, shp-
and the
crowded streets,
for the past two
his
was
him
ped from
The sun
hills in
reached the
imperc aptibly
dipping behind the
the west, as
notch,
from
venea
they
and
the
th
summit of the
drink
which bubbled
great rock at the roads!
can the only d
Bushnell took §
fron
irom
Was
sparkling water.
clearing,
steadier,
cau
on the
horses felt their way
valley
and sped
home The
night sound from the
on either croaking
} vrping of the
The
down
side of
other
through
noises
into the
the ridge,
toward
of the began 10
wood the
of the frogs, the
crickets How
he had heard th
od as if they were weld
long since
em! It almost seem-
oming
smed charged
tricity NOT jy Were near
ers danced with
lashed nol
hoharie, wat
on
there
bag
an i! them I'll be
an hour.”
flown here
half
The drive pulled wp
and wal
his hor
hed Bus
struck
ithout word,
a moment as he
hillside. And when
horses again, there was a
pprehension in his
steadily
he unact
breathe
for
he clucke
to his
eyes
tivve tyne!
CHiITIea
the cloud
awn:
she as
and quickly
What is it. Tom?
“What has happened?”
He dropped her hands, with a
ng that he had no right to hald t
“The worst that could happen,
answered, bitterly. “1 have played--
and lost’
“Lost? she echoed
“Yes. lost.”
forl.
hem
he
“Do you mean that you have fall
her face suddenly white,
“That's it. Failed. For every
tar I'm worth”
She put her hands tpon his arm
and he could feel them trembling.
“Tom, tell me,” she whispered, “did
you lose it all—-theirs as well as
yours?” °
He laughed, but with a
anger In his volce.
“It's not quite so bad as that 1
elon
that
dol
touch of
money--only all my own, Isn't
enough?”
The color came back Into her fare
in a great wave.
“Oh. I am so glad,” she “ried. “So
and she came close to him
and clasped her arms about his neck,
and kissed him. The moon wos sil
voring the treetops and flooding the
valley with soft radiance. “Look
about you, Tom,” she sald, still hold-
ing him with one hand. “It ‘s a
good world that you left—a swoet
world, It is worth living in. Now,
tell me, what does money matter?”
Hao looked about at the horizon and
back again into her eyes.
“1t doesn't matter,” he sald, "not
heres, Not a bit”
An® the Yeaves of the trees and the
waters of the brook seemed to catch
up the words ana annd them echoing
up and down the vitley.
“It doesn't matter, not
a bit”
For a moment
ing at him.
“It was a dream,” she sald, at last,
very softly. “Only a dream. Forget
it, dear. This is the awakening. Is
it not a sweet one. Tom?'-—-New York
Independent,
here. Not
ghe stood so, look-
OUR GREATEST BALLAD WRITER.
Stephen Fomter's: Songs Have
the Test of Years.
Stood
writer of
business of
American
lar songs who made a
writing songs for a living has ever
succeeded in striking a chord that
irrespective of
years,” says the Tay-
Magazine. That writer
Foster,
in his grave for more
years, but 'Old Black
Uncle and the ‘Old
Home" appear to be immor-
tal. These, like "My Old Kentucky
Home, 'Hard Times Come Again
More, ‘We are Coming, Father Abra-
ham, and at least a score of others
by the same author have become true
folk songs—a part of the thought, sen-
timent and life of the
“Foster was born
July 4, 1826, and made his first at
tempt at composition just thirteen
vears later. When he was only 16 he
sublished the song ‘Open Thy Lattice,
Returning to Pittsburg after a
years in Cincinnati he fell In
a musical club and one zh
“But one popu
continues to vibrate
the
lot
pasa!
Trotwood
was Stephen
“He has been
than forty-five
Joe, ‘Old
Folks at
Collins
Ned'
No
people.
near Pittsburg
I
Love.
few
with
ang a song of his own composition
‘Loulsi
ight
ana Belle'-—for the entertain.
club members
inuroom was
next produc
had comg
among
and © Suss
HIRO
them being
cle Ned’
“These
of mouth
came general favorites.
by the measure of local
published ‘Uncle Ned’ in
ceived nothing for it Susanna’
published soon afterward, and
the author was paid $100
check received for 'O Bus
him to ¢ on the
gong
tions
rape
that
‘Olid
were con
throughot
WAS
for it
“The
anna’ cau
rather
mbark uj
ation of
sed
prec arious vo
for a time his pro
» turned out with astonisl
th a sal
was unparalle
meeting w
where he
Home’
lowered
Politicians as Playwrights.
That virile nd versatile French
ex-Premier Clem« seizes
opportunity of the
office to indulge himself,
people, by playwrits
dramas on
the po
is small
mak-
an
tus
moeny,
release from
perhaps his
percentage of
reaons who know
the inside
pe
litical from
game
country process of
states:
Augu
who have
for the stage
political am-
¢ Clemen-
Roos
ave writs
a than
out in
Follette
the
a pity
the form
of his
would use
Chan-
hag turned
much of
that it ia
on does not take
a fine play
ng knowledge, It
of his time than the
tanaua lecture tours, and if it was a
would quickly bring him into
he has not had time to
pursue. Like La Follette, Bryan has
the dramatic instinct He missed
being an actor by a close margin, but
he ean =till. be a playwright —New
York Press.
etrife
out
gucroun
the
fortune
ce S————— ———
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They are, in fact, a marine institu.
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other lines could have no place on
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Jack carries his worldly possessions
would have no room for any other
brand.
Ask any sallorman you chance to
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you that the widelegged trousers
stand not only for convenience and
cleanliness, but comfort as well
They are cst exactly the same width
from the knee down as they are from
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tc shed his footgear and turn up his
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when turned down again the cloth
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shape, as would be the case if the
trousers were cut narrow at the bol:
tom~New York Times
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A nice supper dish is one of potted
and mashed sweet potatoes thor-
sughly mixed together, moulded In
form of croqueties and fried In
The mixture should be sea
soned with salt and pepper and the
mashed sweet potatoes entirely freed
lumps. Use about one-third
potted beef to two-thirds sweet pota
to. Fry eroquettes until a rich
brown and take care that they do
burn--New York Tribune,
the
SHAD CROQUETTES.
the remains of yesterday's
bits: there should
Flans
fiah info
upful of this
tables;
ter, and stir
milk; stir till
gradually upon
Mix well,
geason to taste
a platter to and
it is cold and firm mould
crogquettes, roll first in cor
then in then
racker dust Set in a cool
hours, then fry in
wrought slowly to a boll
sliced lemon Post
be about
together a
of but-
Cream
and one
cupful of bho
then
oon of flour
into a t
this thickens,
the beaten
add the
pour yolk
of an
fish,
CRE
Irn
When
into small
acker dusi,
again in
for
lard
with
and 1
cool stiffen
beaten egg,
( place
two deep
i Serve
- Boston
ORANGE
One-third
one-third tables;
gelatine, one
third cuj
three
THAKLOTTE.
one and
granulated
cold w
box gelatine or
ater,
cup
juice,
one one
sugar
One Cup ou
whites
Cu
winier,
strain an
1
1
iy
rumbs
Then
until
time
used
ail kind
dinner
One of the
puddings is as
pint of yellow Indian meal
into it a quart of which
be boiling hot. slowly
quarier pound of t
with a pint of
Stir this gradually
flavoring the mixture
and the grated rind of a
Then let it stand
when six eggs
which have alread;
The
pudding dish
milk,
Melt
itter and
molasses
into the
with
lemon
cool
batter poured into
and baked
hours.
here is
allen another ro
¢
for {wo cups of t
two abl
calls
ornmeal,
of sugar and
suet rubbed fine
To this is added a ball
gar and ground
bet to pul a pin
milk and heat it
then stir in the
This is set asid
When cold, the s
whipped egg are bealen
red vigorously This |
brownbread mold for
One must be sure lo
in the mold for the pudding to
It is served with hard sauce,
The pudding with fruit in it is
posed to be more palatable than
other, It is made in the same
ner and with the same ingredien
the bolled pudding, but raisins
currants are added
A cupful of secded ralsins
cleaned currants well dredged
flour is stirred into the pudding
before it is put in the mold —Amer
fcan Cultivator
two eggs
two tables i
each of 8
it is
the
ing
suet
four hours
leave room
swell
snp
he
man
is as
and
and
with
HINTS.
It the milk that ig to be added Jo
custard, is bolled and cooled before
adding it to the beaten eggs, the
custard will never curdle
To remove iodine,
thoroughly into the apot and
allow Kt to remain for several
hours. Then wash in cold water and
naphtha soap first and alterwards in
hot water The spot will disappear
entirely.
When sewing silk is used on a
machine it often becomes unwound
the spool spine
rub lard
‘an be overcome by cutting a round
hole in a small plece of fiannel or
felt and placing this shield on th
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elping
if she
we could,
she meant to
en she was older
they heard baby May
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were so mas folks in the
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inking Polly
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