THE OLD CUMBERLAND'S CALLING- COME HOME." I know Nottiln' In My 'jjalnst the Northland the West In appeslin iheres somethin a pull m me so- It's pnllin' nd tuggin' nnd savin' to m: "There's Homebody waitin' in old Tennessee, Ain't you tired of the road oh, why must you roam?" For the Cumberland's ealtiti' "Come home, come home. V . thin' 10 say 'gainst t-'ie Northland-the East ii all right hi I But somehow to me it ain't old Tennessee, So I'd like to run down fur a day Run down where the sunshine is drippin' its gold, Ami the blue grass is wavin' to me as of old. And they're sayin "Come home, where the sky s always blue, You're lonesome fur us and we'ere lonesome fur you." .Tes' the same wbereyer I journev, wherever I happen to go, They're all right I guess, but f've got to confess They ain't like a place that I know , A place where the mockin' bird's singin' all day And the blue bird is trillin' right over the way Can you wonder my thoughts in the distance must roam W'heu I benr the old Cumberland ralltn' "Come home?" --Grantland Rice, in Taylor-Trotwood Magazine. t Evolution of : ttfttfl of an Qffair of Senfiment. A Match wind rattled the skeleton (tranches ot the trees in New York's Central Park, and an April sun Srightened the unshaded lawns be neath them, so that tho air was at ance warm and cold. A couple walk ing down tho mall remarked this phe nomenon. He likened the weather to a mixed drink, and she encouraged him with a pretty show of toeth. "Blowln' itself," he said of the wind that tugged at her Sunday skirt, tossing tho feathers in her hat and blowing wisps of her disordered hair about her face. She put them back with: "It'll blow me to bits." "Come an' see tho circus," he sug gested, meaning tho menagerie. "The monkey house we'll bo out of the wind there." "All right," she agreed. "They're sunnin', ain't they? the monkeys." "Sure," he nodded. "Are yeh cold?" looking at her with more ad miration than solicitude. It was plain that he spoke only as an excuse tor that look. "Cold?" she laughed. "Are you? Put. on yer coat, w'y don't yeh? Aw, io." The coat hung on his arm. He protested that he was not cold; he had only thought that she might be 10. "Aw, put it on," she urged. Now, no man of any spirit will put an his overcoat in such a case. That would be to acknowledge either that he had not sense enough to know when ho was cold, or wisdom enough (0 put on the coat, knowing it. "Say," he said, "w'at'sthe use of me puttln' on tho coat w en T don't want It?" "Yeh might put it on w'en 1 ask feh," she pouted. "Aw, say," he appealed to her. "Well," she defended herself, "yeh (lever do w'at I ask yeh." The defense was lame, inasmuch B.B they had met only three times as yet, and she had never asked him to do anything for her before. How ever, he saw that this affair promised trouble. "Gee!" ho said, "I ain't goln' teh crap about it," thrusting an arm Into B sleeve of his coat. She turned to him, all smiles, "Yeh needn't put it on, if yeh don't want it," she said. "Sure, I don't want it," he said. "I tol' yeh that." She took tho coat from. him, and folded it over his arm. "Silly," she laughed, squeezing his hand. He grinned at once. "AH right, all right," he said. "As Ion's you're happy." She took his arm with an air of ownership, and they turned down the path toward the menagerie. On or dinury days she was a factory girl and he a bricklayer, but this was a spring Sunday afternoon, and they were a pair for the poetB. Several hundred other couples on the crowded walk were in the same happy condition, but planets revolving in common pace could not be at further cry from one another. Each pair was the cen tre of its own solar system, with the other worlds circling about in outer darkness. Therefore, these two went arm In arm with Coney Island frankness, as If they were the sole Inhabitants of a new Garden of Eden. They were Just on the pleasant verge of an Intimacy which each, unknown to the other, very much desired. He turned greed ily to her, and she to him, to hear the lightest word. They impeded the mld-attyam of promenaders while he turned up the collar of her Jacket. When ho guided her around a corner, helped her up a step or passed her through tho crowd before him he reached a protective arm about her waist and let it remain long after these slight excuses for its presence there had passed. Ho wore his hat Jauntily on one side of his head, and he tried to be witty beyond telling. "We'll getta peanutty for de monk," he said, swlngiug her around to a vendor of nuts and candles. "How rnucha? Fiva centa? Sure," and paid out the coin like a man of money. He put the bag of peanuts in the coat pocket that was nearest her, and Invited her to help herself which she did. Necessarily, his hand met - hers sometimes in the pocket, and held it there uutll tho difficulties of making a passago through the crowd parted them again. He chaffed bor delicately because she ate so many nuts. "Here," he said, "yeh'll make yerself sick. You ain't the monkey I got them for." She smiled gay!, winking a happy ye at him as she broke a Bbell be tween her small white teeth. It la certala that he looked longingly at the lips that parted to show those teeth. "Aro yeh try-In' teh make a monkey )f n?" lib-- asked. This overwhelmingly witty retort, SQmiug go unexpectedly, Jol'eii htm into a loud laugh. He choked and coughed. She giggled. They stood for a moment, helpless with laughter, and even after they had sobered suf ficiently to walk together again, ho replied to hor inward convulsions with deep chuckles of the throat. He was proud of her. Ordinarily, the lady in these affairs does nothing but giggle and again giggle, giggling Insipid admiration of the camel who sets a heavy footed wit capering for her amusement. Here was a girl who smiled and answered back. He thought upon It deeply, chuckling over it and saying nothing. She un derstood that he approved of her re tort and she could not help but try the point of it in memory again and again. She put her hand in his pocket and he trapped it, smiling down on her with a new feeling of sympathy. She answered his look with its fellow, pleased with tho compliment of his laughter. They went down the walk so. to tho tiger's cage, where a crowd had gathered to watch the small boys In the front row who were teasing the big brute with sticks and nutshells. The couple elbowed a way Into the press of people, and were' crushed to gether In it. He had an excuse for putting an arm around hem. eye, going over the evidence she hat) accumulated in the process of emo tional vtvlsfctimi which shei had been practicing on him. It amounted to this: That he Would put on his over coat to please her, even when lie did not need It: that he looked at her with a full oyo of admiration; that ho avoided a cheap discussion of marri age; that, she could change him from tho highest of good spirits to the low est of bad, without a word. This promised something serious. She slipped her hand Into his pocket for a nut again. Ho did not follow It. "Yeh'ro mad," she said. "No, I ain't," he contradicted sul lenly. ' Yes, yeh are," she repeated, with great cheerfulness. "An' I wouldn't be so silly if I was you." "But yeh're not me," he retorted. "Yes, yeh are," she Bald irrele vantly, "Who is? What?" he frowned. "What 1 said yeh wasn't," she said slyly, biting a peanut. That bewildered him. "Eh?" he queried, puzzling over It. "Would yeh rather be one of them?" she asked, taking his arm again, and nodding at the bears. "A bear?" he smiled. "W'at'd 1 I want teh be a bear fer?" "I dunno," she said, "w'at did yeh want teh be a bear fer?" He grinned. "I wasn't, was I?" he said, rather proud of it. "Yep," she nodded. "Come on, now, an' give peanuts to the other bear." He went jauntily up to Bruin, and fed peanuts to it in the most daring manner. He put a hand almost with in reach ot Its claws, and even ven tured to lay a nut fearlessly on the back of the hugo paw that was thrust through the bars to him. She drew back on his arm. "Don't, don't," she whispered; "he'll scratch yeh. Aw, Jim, don't." "That'B all right," he said brave ly, picking out another nut. She drew him away. "Now, yeh mustn't," she said. "Come on, an' sit down here." He was withdrawn from his fool hardlness with reluctance. "That was all right," he said. "I wouldn't let him get me." "Sit down," she said. "I'm tired," seating herself on a public bench. He was all anxiety in a moment. "Here," he said, putting hiB arm around her shoulders, "lean back now," She laid her hand on his arm, and looked up at him with a comfortable smile. "Don't yeh want to put on yer coat?" Bhe asked. "Not except yer want mo ter," he said. Sho reached out for his other hand at this whole-souled surrender. And How to Tell If You Are Crazy. lAccordlng to Allenlsls,. If your sweetheart seems to you wiser and lovelier than any other girl, you are the victim of delusions. If you never had a sweetheart, you are of unsound mind. If you are devoted to your wife to the exclusion of all else, you have dementia uxoriosa. If you, after a hard day's work, doze while your wife reads Browning aloud, you are one-sided and abnormal, possessing only ability to have one interest in life. If you have confidence In the brightness of your future, you 11 DattRscj iiieu ego. suffer If you are Bkeptical as to your ever becoming President you er from melancholia. ' i If you aro of any higher order of being than an animation, you are insane. ' Sj rT3 fTTl 1 1 i r 1 , ,, .. .... M M tib 5HSESH5ESESa5HSP SSHSHSa!? "There's Tammany fer yeh," he said of the tiger. "Hello, Dick." "He'll get out," she was afraid. "Not on yer life," he reassured her. The tiger beat the floor of the cage with its tall, opened its pink Jaws and yawned a melancholy roar. She pre tended to be mightily frightened, caught at his free hand and was Im mediately wrapped more tightly in his protecting arm. "yeh're not they sat there, hand in hand, his arm about her neck, his free hand lovingly fingering her ear, looking unutterablo tenderness at cIobo range into each others' faces. A number of the passers-by turned to stare at them, but they did not mind it. She had tacitly accepted him as her "steady," and ho knew it. The world might go hang. New York Commercial Advertiser. "Say," he chuckled scared, are yeh?" "Well, w'y don't they leave the poor thing alone?" sho said. might break those little bars." He made no answer, having his arms and mind full ot other things. She felt quiet, too, and they stood gazing speechlessly contented, at I aothlng at all. Tho boys poked sticks j between the bars, and the tiger : roared dismally; but these two did not heed it. They were in a stupid daze of happiness, the usual condition of Central Park lovers, who will sit so, on a bench for hours together without speaking. A policeman finally stirred on the stagnant btream of sightseers again with his "Keep mov in', there; keep movin', now," and they were elbowed out of their stupor. "He keeps movin'," he said, resent fully. She busied herself with a peanut, doubtful whether she had not given him too much encouragement, wheth er he had not been simply amusing himself with her. They drifted down to the cage where the eagles and the buzzards were shut up together. There had been trouble among the birds, and they were sulking in all corners of the cage. "Look as If they'd been three years married," she said. He regarded her doubtfully. He would have liked to reply to her sar casm, but marriage was such an awful subject to discuss In such circum stances. When they came to the ostriches he said "Rubber neck," and they both laugbed as heartily as if the ostriches had not heard that same remark from every wit who had passed that day. "Gee," he aald of the rhinoceros, Poet nnd Creditor, t Paris contemporary tells this It story about Joseph Mery, tho French pubi. ureuitor caueu one morning to ask payment of an account. He interviewed the poet in bed and ex pressed sorrow at having to troublo him, but would he settle the account. "With pleasure," replied Mery. "Havt, the goodness to open the first drawer of that cabinet." "I have, sir," re plied the creditor, "but there is noth ing there." "Indeed, well try the next." "There Is aothlng in it." "That Is strange. Try the third." "There is nothing there, either." "Look on the mantle shelf." "But It is the same as the drawee. " "it la incredible. Have you looked on the table?" "Yes." "And in the secre taire?" "Yes, and there Is nothing." "In my clothes?" "Yes, I have turned out all the pockets." "Ah, well," re plied Mery, with the greatest com posure, "if there is no money In the drawers or on .the rqftntel or on the table or in the secretaire or in my pockets, how in the name of all that's wonderful can I give you aeytoi.T. '" London Globe. rJ3 r J A Woman's Era. "If I were a man!" Is surely a very unnecessary cry these days. The epoch of the man Is past; the twen tieth century is the era of the woman. There Is, with a few very slight ex ceptions, nothing that a woman, as a woman, cannot do, and do every bit as well as if she were a man. Baron ess Orczy, in P. T. O. Night School Teachers. Dr. Elizabeth Athman, of Gott helmer, Is the first woman to be elect ed teacher In a night school In tho German Empire. She entered upon her duties In Frankfort. Frauleln Athman Is well known In Germany on account of her original investiga tions upon sociological subjects. She has written and lectured extensively upon tho condition of the working women, especially those employed In the factories and shops of Germany. As she has lived among the women about whom she lectures and writes and knows thoroughly their condi tion, she is looked upon as the lead ing authority on the subject and es pecially well fitted to act as their teacher In night school. New York Sun. ment. An sho had many regular cus tomers In distant cities she offered to buy tHIngs fof them. Knowing their tastes as she did she had little diffi culty In selecting the very a.ticles they liked best. 8oon she lind to hire an assistant two three soon there were six Also she built up a dress making establishment that employed a score of experts in the art and mys tery of fashionable feminine cos tumes. Harper's Weekly. V Household Matters. Waist Box. Lace and chiffon wslsts are often ruined by being hung on the ordinary clothes hanger. The hangers draw the waist and ruin the fit about th neck and shoulders. It Is best to keep them in a waist box or drawer. New York Evening Post. Corsets Good For Women. Dr. L E. Landrone. whose plan to Improve the human race by applying Luther Burbank's plant theories to the training of children has attracted much attention, now commends the modern corset. In an address before the members of the Women's Literary Club he declared that the stays were good for the reason that tho torso muscles have been weakened for cen turies through tho generous support of the corset until now the average female form could not stand without Its help. The speaker said that the body was composed of chemical fluids at the mercy of the emotions. Anger, ha tred and sorrow poisons the fluids of the body, while love, cheerfulness and happiness serve as eliminators of the motive fatigue poisons. To the Suffragettes. Some of the Suffragettes are love ly Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the Duch ess of Manchester, Mrs. Keppler, for Instance. In former times women Mls Cnrtis' Views. Miss Eleanor Curtis ("Marguerite Blanc"), in her clever little sketch of "Tho Graceful Art." declares for the theory that the foundation of the modern ballet Is Greek art. The first masters of modern dancing argued that what Is satlsfylngly beautiful In marble must be doubly so in flesh and blood and set to music; so they stud ted old vases and statues, choosing one pose from a statue, linking It to the next with gestures and steps from a frieze; another pose, more frieze; the Idea Is that of a goldsmith mak ing a chain of alternate links and a pern. Dainty as lacework of filagree, these entro chats (crossing the feet in the air on a leap), or the flight known as "jBtay" (turns and atti tude). This was the origin of tho sort, of classic dancing that has van ished with Gence for a period. "At the end of the phrase the dancer alights in a pose from n classic draw ing which must be meant to strike the mind of her audience as the gem in the chain does the eye." Some ot these mesdemoiselles of the ballet have been cultivated and brainy enough to have written magazine ar ticles on the art and history of the ballet and some have made text books for beginners of their profession. Fanny Ellsler's Journal shows that she has had a very cool, keen head and a perfectly balanced judgment of character which she exercised without mercy on the great person ages of Boston who crowded about hor. Speaking of Tagllonl whom Justin McCarthy pronounced the "greatest of dancers," Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who Is certainly a Judge on that point, testifies to the Intellec tuality of her art. Mrs. Howe long ago suggested that the "best stage dancing gives us the classic In a Airing the Room. Every room thnt Is occupied should be thoroughly aired each day. It should be remembered that a rarge volume of air rushing through the hoitBe will remove the Impure air more effectually In ten minutes than an hour's airing with windows partly opened and doors closed. C.iod Housekeeping. Table ami I.nnip Mnts. For a serviceable and Inexpensive table mat make a braid of three strands of colored crepe paper and sew braids together In either round or oval shape until desired size. A pretty lamp mat may be made by using two strands of white and one of pink paper, and finishing with a nar row pleated ruffle of the pink. Bos ton Post. Handsome Dutch Silver. For table use the large fiat Dutch spoons and even forks are very popu lar this year, and happy iB the hostess who possesses a few handsome pieces of Dutch silver. These spoons are used almost entirely for decoration, nnd should be placed around the edge of the centrepiece, not more than three being generally used. ' York Evening Post. 00 ea. o - - o O m U a. OS 2 9 I o Frosted Lemon. Be sure to put this pie together Just as directed and you will find it delicious: One smooth, juicy lemon, grate rind and cut up the pulp, put It into a cheesecloth and squeeze out all the juice. Now put a cup of sugar and piece of butter size of an egg Into a bowl; put one teacup of water Into a granite saucepan; stir a tablespoon of cornstarch up in a little cold water and add to the water in the same pan; stir it smooth, add butter and sugar, then tho lemon juice and rind. Let this cool a little, then stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs. Pour this Into the open crust and bake. Beat the egg whites until stiff, add one or two tablespoons of powdered sugar, heap over the pie and set into a very cool oven. This makes a nice pie, but it is very rich. who demanded the suffrage were de picted as hard vlsaged. They were described as unsexed, and resembled dear Maggie Cline in the act of throw ing McClosky down. Just forty years ago Mrs. Dolly Chandler and 194 oth er women sent a remonstrance to the Massachusetts Legislature against woman suffrage, believing that "It would diminish the purity, the dignity and the moral influence of women, and bring into the family circle a dan gerous element of diBcord, without securing the additional strength, effi ciency or wisdom to the Government or the Nation." In conclusion: "We nsk to be let alone In the condition al lotted to us by nature, by custom and by religion." New York Press. The Coiffure. Present coiffures reveal infinite pa tience and infinite time in the doing, and the effect is simple and artless in the extreme. No more of your round bullet heads, encircled with regular and almost metallic waves achieved by the systematic passage of a hot Iron mathematically balanced, nnd I surmounted by a geometrical coil of precise proportions and definite out line all this la now thought provin cial, prim, graceless, not to say de mode. Instead, the hair Is bundled, rolled, twisted and looped with the appearance of carelessness and indefi nite intention, high drawn here, drooping there, now sweeping in a .mooth, long flat stretch of shining lock, then breaking into a witching tendril or fascinating curl. The iron crumples up this little spot, or a bit of brllllantlne smooths out that, after the coiffure is almost completed, as the exigencies of the hair ornament or hat suggest. No two women wear their hair alike, save that It is done over, Invariably, for the evening In a more elaborate fashion than for the moiling. Vogue. "I'm glad I ain't got an upper Hp like that to shave," and she was hys terical again. He grew bolder, and when she called to the deer with a hlsBlng noise of the lips, he said: "Yeh're scared to do that teh me." This sounded too flippant. She turned on him quickly. "But you ain't, a deer," she said snappishly. , He was flatly crestfallen. She blew i hoi and cold In a breath. Why did she Apeak to him like that? He had ! been only joking. He followed her in a sulk. She watched him from the corner of at Loss in Labor Power. Probably no reader has the least Idea what is the total amount of Im prisonment to which offenders in this country are sentenced every year. The figures are remarkable. In round numbers 950 people receive sentences of 4200 years' penal servitude, and 195,000 people receive sentences of 16,600 years' Imprisonment. That is a. total of 20,800 years. What a bfg lo3s this is to this country! Not only have all these people to be fed, clothed, housed, guarded, but they are nractlcallv tdiu m- t i, tv-i. work is of little value. The' great majority of them are In the prlnn of working life, age from sixty. London Answers. twenty to A dentin Criticism. "The difference," remarked the drug store philosopher, us a motor car barely missed him. "is that wild geeae honk contlnuully, while the educated goose is the fellow -who ftp. gets to honk." , Sunday-School C'ontribtttio?i(. The average missionary contribu" lion for each pupil in the Suiu'.ay schools is higher In th Episcopal de nomination thun any other. fluent form with the illumination of life and personality." "I cannot re call In tho dances which I saw in the Tagllonl season anything which ap peared to us sensual or even sen suous, rather the very ecstasy and embodiment of grace." This is what she says she said to Theodore Parker, and it is as good as that threadbare story of what Margaret Fuller said to Emerson and what Emerson re plied and a good deal more authentic. Lolo Fuller has Just published her "Memoirs" In Paris, and Anatole France has written a preface for them as exquisitely as if written for the works of Racine. Boston Transcript, NEWEST FASHIONS fni iCi i sassst wi Professional Shoppers Helpful. Who are the professional shoppers, who are they that so excel the aver age woman In her favorite pastime? Until lately there were In New York City alone 5000 of these gifted buy ers, but suddenly a relentless edict was passed, and the number was re duced at one fell crash to a mere 500. And the surviving 500 are doing busi nMl to this day, tilling at it steadily from morn till dewy eve; comparing, 'tricing, choosing, buying and for warding to their customers the goods that they demand. The surplus 4500 were eliminated because they were not regular. That is to say, they fol lowed the fascinating business of shopping only an an avocation, used it as a side-line to increase their in comes by buying things for casual customers lu their off bouri. The first professional shoppor lu New York Is a woniau who began n 1 884, and is still at the head ot an r.v j ;, business that has far out rown ilRr most ambitious dreams. ' ere are many amateurs or semi amateurs in the field, but thr ui ( taring agent mentioned Is oho of tho btot known and of louu.'wi exerieno. She w.ici at the head of liia dressmak ing dtpartiaent whou falling health lot ced ntr to give up that employ- Brown Is smart, but only In the lighter and more unusual shades. Coats revers are very long, often extending almost to the waist line. Though several sorts of oversklrts figure, skirts proper are untrimmed. The ruche will probably be a most conspicuous accessory during this sea son. The American beauty waistcoat adds a smart touch to a black coat suit. Ono fad is the employment of black chiffon with colored cloth and silk gowns. Dog collars come In links of solid Jet or la links studded with cut Jet beads. The rage for tassels is unabated, and they are to be found in gold, sil ver and silk. The most fashionable niching Is of white crepe, doubled and standing out about an inch. One-button gloves are much in fa vor fo evening wear under theso long laco and net sleeves. Little belts not more than an Inch wide, studded with jet or Jewels, vie with the Empire girdles. A bit of bright color is obligatory on the hat of taune or other dull color, and sometimes it is aiore than a bit.. Parrot effects in brilliant colorings are Immensely popular, aa well as owl l ".ids in conjunction with other nov elties. The new evening hoods of French design are being copied and modified, resulting in some picturesque as well as useful headgear. Tho sleeves are so tight at the wrist thkt a woman does not wlah a glove any longer than a two-buttt length, for It covers the arm t t spoils the fit. Pretty and Ai-tlsile. An Atchiuou man tbougbl nui tkou :!it what colors would to pretty and artistic to use In i la lag bla house, uud then used bright yellow ; ami WUsM -u - -Aickun Globe. Baskets and Vnsen. A new centrepiece of rock crystal Is in the form of three baskets or vases. The centre basket Is taller than the other two, which are of equal height and. attached to the middle vase by a chain of delicate glass links. This decoration Is prettiest used on a long table, and care should be tak en to supply only graceful and dainty flowers. New York Evening Post. Vmbrellns Lnst Longer If Oiled. To prolong the life of your um brella open It and place a drop of oil In each Joint; now open and close the umbrella several times to Insure the oil penetrating to where it Is most needed. Wipe off and stiperflous oil and in case some gets on tho cover remove with gasoline. Repeat this process In the course of a few weeks and noto how much less you spend for umbrellas. In tbo matter of the Children's umbrellas, one lasts as long as three when treated in this way. Pittsburg Dispatch. Refrigerator Basket. The refrigerator basket made of strong light weight rattan Is service able for any household. It has two lids, resembling an old-fashioned market basket. In one end is a small compartment for holding ice which can easily be removed and kept clean. Between the rattan and metal Inside lining there Is n layer of asbestos and felt, while the lids and the bottom aro treated in the same way. Handles of tough wood are securely riveted to the sides, and the entire basket Is durable and convenient. A complete camping outfit of cooking, serving and eatins utensils conveniently nests, and Is carried In a fibre case twelve Inches in diameter and four teen inches in height, which can be strapped and locked, ready to check. w fires Johnny Cake, No Egg. Two cups fine Indian meal, one-half cup flour, one-half cup of baking powder, one and one-half cups milk, one-half tea spoon salt, or one and one-half cups sour milk and one teaspoon soda. RaiNiii Pie. One cup raisins cut fine, one cup sour milk, one cup su gar, two eggs, Juice of one lemon, one teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon cloves, two teaspoons cinnamon, a lit tle nutmeg. Bake between two rich crusts. Brittle IcIiir. A teasnoonful of vinegar beaten Into boiled frosting when the flavoring Is being added will keep It from being brittle and breaking when the cake is cut. It will be as moist and nice in a week as the day it was made. Lemonade Cake. Ono and one quarter cups of brown sugar, one half cup butter, one large egg or two small onep, one-helf cup lemonade, one teaspoon socia, ono teaspoon grated lemon peel, one cup flour. Sprinkle with granulated sugar to form a rrust. Ginger lookies. One cup granu lated sugar, one cup lard, creum alto gether; then add two eggs, two cups molasses, ono cup Bour milk, one heaping teaspoon salt, two heaping teaspoons ginger, four teaspoons sodu. Mix not too stiff and roll about one half inch thick; bake carefully In hot oven. Lemon Pie. On3 cup sugar, one tablespoon flour stirred woll togtther. Pour over one and one-half cups boil ing water, stirring constantly until lumps disappear. Add butter size of walnut, grn'.ed rind and jutye of one largo lemon or two small ones; three eggs well beaten To be mads with two crusts. Nut Cuke. Cream two tab'.espoons of butter with one cup sugar and add the yolke of three eggs; add one-half cup milk and ono amt4 three-quarter cups ot flour with two teaspoons bak ing powder sifted lu It; add one tea spoon lemon extract, one-quarier lea-., spoon 8Atti one eup Ifiagl'sb walnuts, cut fine, flnsllv tbo beaten whftea if. the eggs Bake in slow oven, lee) with whits icing and plane one-uait nuts on top. Darhctrd for the ogiEJrioujj NKARINO HOME. A little longer 'tis the soul's nppost My hesrt as Thine, my loving Fntner. senlj Long Thou linst borne me o'er life's boia- terous tea A little longer still my helper be. The gnrish day is closed; eve comes npnee; The tfiore I feel dependent on Thy grac; As nature fails, oh, prove Thyself my stay. Till earth's vain shadows shall have passed away. Let my yet few remaining hours be Thine; Heaven bo more real as all things here de cline; My strength Thou vnst when life's fair glories shone; t My strength remain until the 'rare be run. Around my steps the dews of evening fall; May sweeter sound the raptured heavenly call ; The ties it eiKh unloose as, Hearing home, raith triumphing, I wait the welcome "Come! " Po let it be; a little longer, pray, Hold Thou my footsteps in life's narrow way. The eyes grow dim, strength fails, 'twill not lve long When mine the glorious scene, the rest, the bung. C. B., in the Christian Herald. The Discipline of Life. Stress, strain, struggle what a persistent triumvirate! On every sldo thoy strike us. The story of most lives re-echoes them. Their reign Is undisputed, untiring, univer sal. Extensively, intensively they rule. Expect them! Shrinking from them does not eliminate their pres ence. Life requires them -and all of life. To meet them is our part to conquer, our privilege. To com plain, to groa,n, to yield is childish. Why despair? Why forespend? They hurt of course. But do not hate them. Assert the stuff that vic tor souls are made of. You are mak ing character. They help you In the making. Discipline Is what counts. Never fight that. It Is what every life needs. They furnish It. Don't permit them to torment you. That is foolish and enervating. Endure! Strength of character real strength will result. By them your soul Is proved- and polished. You cannot escape the finishing pro cess. Don't try! It Is the will of God. It Is your Father's purpose. He knows the whole process of soul refining. His way Is good. Be brave! Have courage! You need the stress and strain and struggle. It may be most unpleasant but It la best. Try to understand. Co-operate! Sweetness, richness, beauty will be your soul's sure recompense. Re sign yourself! A real child of Christ must. A true child of God will. Such adjustment reveals you to yourself, explains the core meaning of life; puts before your fellows the attain able Ideal. Be unafraid! God loves moral heroes. So does man. Grow! Develop! Ripen! Mellow! Live the intensive life! God Is watching. Your crown is being Bet with God-cut gems. Mean time you are learning the true inter pretation of life's only meaning. You are building the one enduring thing character God's hand is helping you. Behold It in life's stress and strain and struggle! Get hold of the Father-hand. Grip hard and hold on. ' Know this: He will carry you through. Seth Russel Downle, In the Westminster. Natural Trials. The way In which a man bears temptation Is what decides his char acter; yet how secret Is the system of temptation! Who knows what is going on? What the real ordeal has been? What Its issue was? So with respect to the trial of griefs and sor rows, the world is again a system of secrecy. There is something particularly penetrating, and which strikes home, in those disappointments which are c lly not extraordinary, and make j s low. What comes naturally, and us a part of our situation, has a probing force grander strokes have not; there is a solemnity and stateli ncss in these, but the blow which is nearest, to common life gets the stronger hold. After all, the self made triul is a poor disciplinarian weapon; there is a subtle, masterly, irritant, and provoking point in the genuine natural crossness of events, which the artificial thing cannot man age; we can no more make our trials than we can make our feelings. In this way moderate deprivations are in some cases more difficult to bear than harder ones. And so It Is often the ense that what we must do as simply right, and which would not strike eve n ourselves, and still less anybody else, is just the hardest thing to do. A work of supereroga tion would be much easier. Scottish American. m Blessing of Freedom. I say that wo have chance ana right to look for the fulfilment of prophecy, such as our fathers never had; the improvement of the future will come directly and visibly in the lines which Jesus suggests. It will be lu happy homes, it will be in life not bent by hateful toll, it will be as pure love binds heart to heart, it will be as as piring man listens to God's voice, and In glad society, in easy intercourse, in music and other fine art, In letters and other mutual advance, nihn en joys God's matchless gifts. It will be as a happy world grows happier and happier, as a free world tastes the real blessings of freedom. Ejward Everett Hale. It Must Be Right. "He that gave me my being, and gave His Sou for my redemption, He has assigned me this suffering. What He ordains who I boundless Love must be good; what He appoints who Is unerring lsdom must be right. J. Harvey. A Good Uiioug!i World. I find no word of quer,,; ju'Jispat iBfactiou upon Jesus' lips about the world He had come into. It was a good enough world to live a good life in. Phillips Brooks. I'ear-SItnpcd Balloon. Pear-shaped balloons are the fash Ion In Belgium. The point Is up ward, the base of the balloon i spher ical. It la claimed that balloons ot this shape pierce the air vertically with far great speed than the ordi nary spherical balloon. Consequently they are steadier. AIbo tho uppei pointed end prevents the accumula tion of moisture or snow on the sur face, which frequently weighs a baV lo'.u down .ud destroys it power to rue.
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