———— . HIS NEIGHBOR, They -—-ghe's be!s what I'm this Wh love me? send her JOougn her! Bi* never send tell me to “love %8 sweet my neighbor” as sweet kin! {But a-wantin’ know is neighbor {Oo don't my the sweetest not flowers they're 80 Sweet as in summer hours does she me a "Thank you, sir! They tell an’ 1 But what I bear, song? dunno me love to “love my neighbor,” her right along: she care for the grief what for my sweetest does and what weighbor never in send me a songs or flowers prefer, summer hours does she “Thank vou, my does Fer gir! my neighbor?” until 1 way o love seem the i worl one that walks comfort it brings to heart an’ my pulses nmer hours does she a “Thank Stanton, in afpt? 8i1 Atlanta yOu, Con SS Ge a. Benen. By Elizabeth Mason. 28 2m «Tw SNE of one had been out the of days before any Somebody ther DOYy Ww sick, and the an- amounted to so little that the it wait fi it. But thing up that the two noticed absence. sid iQ asked as came part in great great powers then the compliment of 3 with him Sick? What right Why hadn't he explanation about hi wWrot head clerk i side of ] city. You him up } an don’t out he'll tomorrn, loge lanlet old unt he Wis himself won happened to He had in the offic for ¥ 0 could earn more also occurred to h know whe single, wh denal The latter gq his mind 2s. on door of a small, neat the end of the street, oned the name he sought It looked tions there on the ‘. . $ 11% a bit like Ranlet, said voung Spencer A woman ans astonished Spencer by saying she see if her husband could see him She treated him graciously with a Ii touch of loftiness. She plump and vivacious, with a burr in her speech, which sug. the Irish blood which was con- by blue eyes and bright black hair Mr. Ranlet ing vou” said, ailing. I'll ask him.’ The door through which she van ished did not quite close behind her. It was in this wise that Spencer heard quite distinetly what follows: There's a young man—Spencer’'s his name—from your office wants to speak to you, father. 1 told him you might not feel like it.” There was a pause. Then a arose, strong and irritable, in of a quaver or two. ‘Bend him away at once, Jane, Don’t talk to him. How often have I told those fellows never to bother me out of office hours? Send him away!” The woman could hardly have moved away from the old man's side, however, before he had changed his mind. “Well—let him come,” he said, “but you, Jane, just show him in and then leave us, and take care that the child doesn’t come in. I won't have | these business affairs discussed fore my family.” She came back to the door, then, and motioned Spencer to approach. He went into the room and she went out. He stood looking down into old Ranlet's faded white face as he lay stretched In his bed, and in the younger man's expression there was a strange mixture of wrath and un- certainty. “What did you mean by that talk I iret overheard?” he sald, bluntly. Old Ranlet's eyes iooked up meek. ly. “Mr. Spencer" he began. It was the veolce Spencer was acous. worked vears and ing anything modest salary It that he &d was married or boarded Char had a‘dwelling Mere was settled i looking up at the { ottage near read in blaz of the man quite pret door m not ther jot Rani ether he street o1 on iestion he letters en somehow.” wered his ring. She tle was slight gested firmed her not feel like “as he's been may A she 80 voice apite to ther-—nat at all Uke the one he had just heard. The young | distrust deepened. “You needn't answer by question.” sald coldly, “It's none of my busi What I called to say was that must be back in the Low or the day after, Ranlet clutched his arm. go loud,” he whispered. “Why-—what-— stammered Spen cer angrily, yet stopped the mo ment by the anxiety in the old face, They remained so fon an instant Then the door was pushed open and a girl came In. She was singing lightly as if to herself, but she stopped when she saw Spencer sit ting her father, and the two young people looked at each other “My daughter said old Ran lot the mysterious change in his voice. Why had daughter sunny he ness offic @ you morrow or Old “Don't talk for by with nature endowed old Ran with deep dark eves hair? Spencer found wondering, then he was ed to know that he enter her father's deception and fore her humbly n After el to iet's and hims« and was as her them they had interrupted to the him- old Guet leave and Spencer together, alone finish h mind is reverted Awaking found and from his looking I never the old voice face, “1 can \ was al again, self dream he Ranli harm,” without pre how ft sort do ered, just meant to whisj tell an an who any vou was of side myself that 1 than I was. And and bye, I she took me at my own imaginative lived ins nded to myself WAYS Young in and was better her mother nereon pers dream arried fiieq here to all meth and came thes ne anx mind proud proud than ever her a poor Ranlet beside Sp in his tnka man be well md to the young hink It might care of well to keep on trust of her ‘and 1 i take the business as well let me your part You're not going the the business He held enough to Let rom office end me manng Re now on out Olid Ranlet's daughter has never understood wh it was that instead of shaking the hand. her father rals ed it to hie, lips and kissed it Boston Post, Graftiess Town Planned. town is being built on Kentucky side of the Ohio River svanaville, Ind. The have no officials, hence, it there will be no graft I. A. Brown of Now York is the builder, and his backers are Mrs Kate Hawley, a philanthropist of New York. and James Crawford. a capi talist of Terre Hante, Ind. The town has been laid out and work has started on a large factory and the electric plant The new town will be run on So cialistic lines, although Rrown st ‘cs he is not a Socialist. He says Mrs Hawley and Crawford want him te build the ideal city of the world. The people will rule themselves A graftiesa the directly opposite town will is agreed, a week in the coliseum in the town, where all trials will take place, ple accused of any crime will brought before the people as a tri bunal, and they will vote on the guilt or innocence of the accused. the store “sasses” a customer he can be brought before the town meeting and have his job taken away from him. the Golden Rule ~New York Amer ican they are apt to take. . HOUSEHOLD ~~ 1 CLEANING STRAW HATS. Many a person uses a solution of oxalic acid and water for cleaning a straw hat Sometimes this solution gets on the hat band, .cadly discolor ing it. The damage may be over come by wiping off the band with ammonia water. An application or of liquid will the Indianapolis News two this restore color, PLE , will found for thea CHICKEN POT TET be required Have for aver for an hour, then butter simmer for ba i 81 fan hour, during which time sift 2 heaping teas f poonfuls powder cups of chop In i 1-2 cup butter, or half butter and lard, then add enough ilk to make a dough which rolled o in a elrcle pie and bake in a quick oven done, pull apart and lay the half the bottom of a deep earthen Ware idding dish, then the chicken skimmer z¢ neatly on of the in flour, and gweel m can be cut the size of a plate when lower in lift ant cooked with a and short whic top thicken the chicken and the and a little cake th the water was bolled wit flour over pour of dish, seasoni then COVer 3 cake As taing whi atte wh ich a 11t to mak nit machine straight the ail The ran on rods the hems dim # ncealed bs for a room is not dose it take | s used For the room of a is more charming treated afr ered wewing gir! noth whit faaki young than ilar muslin and a Mas An with Ans agils mands of 1 of hege wash. loot kept fresh Unbleached tory curtains and am aware ¥ mas would To make a desi Hn must he vad in a 2 posit cool Are # not the mus has that ia must be curtaina rable effect room which yall Oe colar the ive red. bLlune sharply in evidence in such room hang to the ill. having the edges trimmed with small ball fringe. The hed cover hoedz the same finish, as does any other This is lovely, and, of course wear for years Helen Howe in Washington Star green or vell Let the nlece wil HINTS. When elothes have acquired an un- pleasant odor by being kept from the air, charcoal laid in the folds will soon remove it. When the embroidery on a white petticoat begins to wear put a couple of rows of machine stitching close together and just above where the embroidery has frayed. then cut the worn part off close to the stitehing and finish the edge with narrow lace, aovercasting it to the skirt on the wrong side. Bare floors will wear longer and keep clean easier if. when thorough. tv dry, they are given a coat of hot linseed oil, all they will take up. Put red pepper in the places the ants frequent the most and scrub the shelves or drawers with strong carbolic soap, To stop nose bleed apply a wet cloth or paper to the back of the neck and hold the right hand up as high as you can reach. Will stop almost immediately. Try wolling out Very rich pastry for ples on waxed paper. It can, when thas rolled, be tranferred to the ple paus without breaking, as it nearly always does when rolled on a board. Lancaster Mrs died at the home Of Cobble, near Smithy years, under distr slances For the past Mrs. Cobble had been week ago she sustained a home, breaking her never recovered the the Injury For more years the deceased had been a con sistent member of the Methodist i Church, Four children, seven grand children, twenty-five great-grand | children and five great-great grand children survive Harrisburg Gover appointed rank ‘B burg, and Berton members of the Board of Os Examiners of Pennaylvanis Governor also announ d ti ng Cobble son, Elias ille, aged earring circum- BEVEN Years blind A fall at her hips Shi effects of than fifty Mary her x6 one of from Btuart re Harris Kr ie ie opath it nor Kann, W. Sweet pes will be Lancastor ate Misa of t hosa $500 to the Children at for the Mennonite Society, and ville pre phe re made ome for O30 ic beqre nnonite lleraville eign Missi 00 for Sunday School of the ii lersville gnnonite Chure! Wampum Dynamite was to ch the proress nearly wiped « ut MIATY the of a fire the business eottilement razed before onquered, The joss It believed the from skyrocket 1aved hich section of this n Eleven buildings the flames were ¢ is over $50,000 originated ining were tparks, Altoona Separated at Harris Lemea, a retired Pennsyivania met his cousin, William of Tower City, Pa, for the the occasion of the the former's 71st John Lemoa, first time on celebration of Yirthday Conestoga Center Christian Mas the second oldest man in Lan easter County. residing in this sec is dead aged He was a retired farmer 87 years. Fire destroyed two au- Pittsburg .- several build- tomobile sales rooms, ings adjoining and an apartment house in the East End District, Two firemen were cut by fiving glass. The loss is estimated at $150,000. York. Robert Bickley, young son » Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bickley, of New Cumberland was drowned In an ice pond here. The boy was swimming with fout other young- store, Allentown. Grasping a live wire while on a pole to make repairs, James Mills, a lineman, was shocked 80 severly that he fell landing on the iron cover of a sewer manhole, and was Instantly killed, It han nened on one of Allentown's busiost reets in the view of a hundred women and children picniokers. Mills left a wife and child. Lancaster. —