“Fred,” sald Aunt Hildreth to young man who had come down with rod and gun and dog for a week's stay, “you have finished with col lege.” “And college has fin be laughed. “You barely Jarely, aunt.’ “And you haven't thought of a profession? “Why, aunt, 1 couldn't run farm! I'm a dead failuiv. know as much as 1 did before spent all that money to send me through college It's absurd for me to talk of taking up a profession. 1 might possibly make a book convass er, but I can think of nothing else I'm careless, happy-go-lucky lot, and I'm here up to it I guess you spoiled me by being too good to me.” Fred Wanless was Aunt Hildreth's nephew, She hae ple him, he had he was a boy past 23 generally underst lar would be left been unduly j agi the , {shed with me,” scraped through.” yet seriously a frog I don't you {Oo own Fried Dus of ten, She had dol ood He hadn't and he hadn't advant indness and of who one are The Wild Yell She Echoed Far and Near. ton were brought out, and the nephew jogged away for the Jewett home, “You will probably meet with some rebuffs,” sald the aunt as he was ready to start. “Oh, of course what the publisher said, not be discouraged. if 1 That's shal! gel of course, but I can I guess I'll be all right.” And as the book canvasser took the road Miss Polly Jewett finished wash ing her hair and was sitting out In the sun to dry it. She had a hammock suspended between two trees on the lawn, and there was sun there In plenty. It was doing its work on her hair, and she lazily swinging u and fro, when a bumble bee came that WAY He went around with a bluff on shoulder He espled the girl In hammock and alighted to inves He was met with a slap that him a rod away, but got the of nine and came He alighted on Miss wulder, and the wild she echoed far and near was ach the gate, knocked up at he count Polly's vell utter Il was heard by the boc was ju Ju } ¥Y¢ ¢ Ariviy vasser, who driving vehicle shall ask for the ting Misa Polly rest of book canvasser I privilege against ber happy “Why of protec bumble bees all the days.” Fred, you haven't fallen Ir when about | ng, and I'll bave it all settled come back Don't you worry y part of The young man tiing merrily told that his aunt had made a hun dred thousand dollars, and when he returned with a couple of bass it was to say ‘Aunt, I've struck money, and | can't walt to learn law or medicine or to become a second Horace Greeley. 1 spoke about book | canvassing the other day. It's a lighe, genteel employment, and it's mostly | outdoor work I knew fellows at col- lege who made big money at it during vacation.” “And you asked ‘Bure i morrow i a publisher went away whis- as as if he had been it You've lost will take it up? was get a hustle on EO up town to When 1 come back I'l begin right here in the country, if you'll lend me the pony and phaeton I think I'll try a book of poetry.” “If you do, I think | can tell you where to make a sale The Jewetts | live two miles up the road. Miss Polly Jewett is something of a poet | herself, as | have heard” “All right, aunt, Miss Polly may consider herself my prisoner.” When Aunt Hildreth saw that ber | nephew was in earnest, and that the changed order of things had already roused him, she was consciencestrick. en; but she had made a resolve and | she stuck to it, The trip to the city was made, a publisher interviewed, and Mr. Fred | Wanless returned with the outfit of | a book canvasser-—canvassing, In this | case for: “Fireside Memories In| Verse.” The%publisher had predicted | great things for him. His gions should amount to at least $200 | a week, He was sure to reform the profession of book canvassing, just as | a clark from a “gents” furnishing me to interview “Head-over-heels'” “And you Intend “To court her and to job in a marry her and stone cuarry to “But 1-1 haven't lost my money— and | wanted you to see Polly and fall and--and and loving oid and a nice young man, and a whole lot of money can accom plish much, And a scheming Cretans Always Ride. We have to Bo back to a very early The earliest record of the coming it may even point to the first The figure of a horse, with a tree In is cut intaglio in one haps the owner, who used it to stamp the clay seals of that prehistoric pe riod, was a horse dealer, like the Icen Christ envied him this strange animal, his white elephant. the Cretans are so wedded to theh nobody walks but asses and dogs, and tate means in Crete an animal.--Prof C. H. Hawes, In Wide World. On the Ship. “Ma, did you observe that man walk ing up and down the deck--what a | searching expression he has? “Guess he's a custom-house officer.” MAKE THEM QUICKLY AND FRY IN VERY HOT FAT. ‘wo Recipes for the Batter and Half a Dozen for as Many Vari- eties of the Dell cacy. Before warm weather comes try These should be quickly made, hot enough to give off a blue Fritter Batter, No. 1—Into a bowl put one egg, one cupful of milk, one teaspoonful of salt and one Beat until smooth, but not frothy. add a teaspoonful of sugar. Fritter Batter, No. 2—-To the well cupful of milk, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, cupful of flour and one ta blespoonful of butter. Beat until smooth, set a for an bour or longer When ready to use add whites of the eggs, beaten stify Apple Fritters—Pare and four tart app and cut in fourth inch thick crosswise with two table and powdered sugar and an hour Draln, and fry a light brown, paper, sprinkle hot A one melted ide very core slices Sprinkle uls of lemon juice let stand les one spoon 2 drain on with sugar and Fritter N Make a bat ti add pple gecon seipe and ae P ul of chopped apple fat with oonfuls into hot maj pie Pi Pe niatter to cool into cCroqgus tien in sm BAU and fry with caramel powdered SURAT Excellent Cookies. Eight tablespoons of sugar tablespoons of melted butter, tablespoons of milk CREE teaspoons of baking powder and flour thicken Stir the butter into sugar: beat the eggs lightly and add them to the butter and sugar, stir ring well, and then add the milk. Sift the powder with a little flour, it in and add more flour, admit of rolling out on a well floured board, roll it cut the cookies out and, If liked, each In granulated sugar as soon as possible after being cut. Bake quick oven six four two two to Brussels Sprouts, Brussels sprouts will be used freely the economical housewife while they are cheap and good. To prepare this vegetable properly the sprouts If this is not done they will The It 1s be almost as coarse as cabbage often used, and a great many other vegetables that are constantly being gerved with cream sauce would be better with browned butter or maltre Bacon Omelet. Three eggs beaten light, one-half Add to the beaten eggs. Take four rather thin slices of bacon, and after put the bacon through a food grinder. Turn into a hot frying pan and cook it a little be fore adding the egg mixture, Mix it all together In the pan, then cook as any other omelet. This amount will serve three persons. Hy ated by Women in the Reno- vating Season. HOUSE CLEANING TIMES | = | | You Warm can clean white water, washcloth and with clear water | A good way of preventing rust on | kitchen fenders, after having cleaned | the bright parts with fine emery cloth, | {8 to rub them well with a plece of suet, To clean and restore the elasticity of cane bottom chairs, turn the chalr and with hot water and a sponge saturate the cane work thoroughly. If the chair is dirty soap. After ward set the chalr to dry out of doors will be as when paint with | rinsing afterward use seat taut new If you wish to draw yet leave the down the blind, open, it is a in each be fas- end of wind Is prevent window fi BOCTeW eye of the tened the curtain which can the hooks at window sill very strong ind of its to each i'nless the this will fo nning ApPIng, alr rreeable so plenty yet will admit of {1 AIR IN THIS ALWAYS FRESH ingenious “Well” Refrigerator in Which Food Is Placed Below Open ice Trough. y of the tors Continuall level t enEpoon level teaspoons chocol of half a lemon flour, and a of baking powder may appear stiff, shallow buttered thick and grated peel fw cups of sifted half level spoons Though the batter it is perfect. Put In pan about an inch bake in a slow oven three When cool cut in Always oven and one ten or oblong pleces cool heat gradually and steadily To Test Oven. To know whether an oven is of the should be placed on the shelf on | which the ples or cakes are to stand If the paper turns a light brown in a few minutes the heat Is just about right, but should the paper turn a deep yellow, a confectioner would | know that the temperature was right | for cakes of a solid description, a pale yellow denoting the correct heat for | such pastry as sponge cake and light | buns and biscuits ! Berwick Sponge Cake. Beat, beat, beat three eggs, add one and one-half cups granulated sugar, | galt, and beat Add one cup sifted bread flour in which mix one teaspoon | of cream of tartar, Beat. Add one | half cup cold water in which dissolve | one-half teaspoonful soda. Beat. Add one more cup of flour. Beat. Flavor | Bake in quick oven in sheet or bread | loaf pan. i Banana Salad. Banana salad la not cooked, but ia | appetizing for those who like such a rich mixture, Serve plain on lettuce hearts covered thickly with mayon. naise or mix with equal parts of or ange sections sprinkled with chopped nuts, ———————— Pe TE Co L OVER THE STATE b TOLD IN SHORT ORDER Harrisburg. ~-Charles Stone, 7 years, was burned to death his Mechanicsburg home while plays ing Indian, With companions, he was dancing about the fire when he fell into it and was fatally burned, aged Mauch a school guitted Corpor al Chunk. teacher at Maymond Kistler, Hazard, was ac- by a jury the charge of punishment, preferred by of his pupils, and the prosecutor the on one directed to pay cas 24 and the and hour pital Reading Peter years, of Murdick, un n aged Excelsior, beri county, fell from on Reading Rallway at Mohrsvill North tra fracty his skull » died an i prea after being H n charges Farm Bank ret of the United States { original 'nited States prison at Leaver Kansas, by Judge Orr tn the United States District Court To growing out ers & Mer. at Mount nanded to the Marshal of five National easant, was istody toy $e erm serve years in the nworth, Franklin The O11 City signers of petition asking for an investiga- tion of former Congressman *. Sibley's $42,500 election expenses incurred during the June primaries, 1910, in the Twenty-eight gional District, refused investigation, although offered to withdraw from the petition quently Judge Criswell set June 15 as the date for the audit. the Joseph to Kennett Square The farm house James McGlinchy, a few miles has been burglarized four times within the past two months, always on Sunday morning while the family was at church. Last Sunday one of the family remained gecluded in the house, and at about the usual time the place was broken into and Thomas Trusty, captured. He confessed the other Allentown here, shows there is a balance for distribution of $182.591.65. Dr, Boye, who was a native of Denmark, was the inventor of dynamite and a noted geologist. The University of Pennsylvania will receive $24,000. £12,000 for its ophthalmic depart ment and a like amount for its dental department. 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