MASSIE'S CREEK.
I've just been wondering, Bill, if you re-
member Massie's Crick—
Or ‘‘creek’” they call it nowadays—with
sumach growing thick
Along the banks, and willows that bent
down to make a shade
Above the dreaming shallows where
boys one time would wade.
us
Remember how it used to loaf sedately
through the town
And out into the pasture lands, and then
would hurry down
Between the cliffs—and sang
a song to you and me
That told .us.of the outer world, the rivers
and the sea.
and sang
I've just been wondering, Bill, that's all,
if you still hear it sing,
If you can shut your eyes and
spray that it would fling
Above the rocks until it sparkled on the
© hanging ferns
That noddéd from the mossy cliffs in hid-
den nooks and turns.
see the
how we used our
bare selves down, and lie
A-looking through the checker work of
good green leaves and sky,
And count the cloud ships sailing through
the sea of limpid blue—
then we did not know
that meant for me and
Remember to throw
Ah, how much
you!
The sunshine shuttled through the leaves
and jewelled all the stream,
laughter sometimes bubbles through
the mazes of a dream,
And we knew not that roundabout the
big world waited then
To rob us eof our boyish ways
should grow to men.
As
when we
I've just been wondering, Bill, if you can
hear old Massie's Crick ‘
softly through the summer days—
and. does your heart beat quick
answer? Does your mind leap back
into the long ago
And laugh and sing and dream again tne
days we used to know?
—Chicago Post.
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Miss Janet Galbriath tooke her best
black kid gloves out of her: corner
drawer, and gave the strings of her
Sunday bonnet a final adjustment ba-
fore she turned away from the mirror.
It was the self-same mirror in a
solid mahogany frame with a little
drawer in the stand. that had reflect-
ed Miss Janet Gaibraith’s face for
over thirty years; but the . mirror's
task must have heen as grateful now
as ever, for the fgce under the Sunday
bonnet was undeniably comely and
winsome, with the pink of rose eptals
in the cheeks, and an attractive crinkle
in the soft hair that was turning to
that beautiful creamy white that re-
compenses many a Scots woman in
her old age for the red tinge endured
in her youth. But it was Miss Janet
Galbraith’s eyes that made her lovable
—eyes blue and apologetically gentle,
with, in them and in the soft wrinkles
around them, a wis‘ful hint of sad-
ness,
It was not Sundzy and yet Miss.Jan-
et donned her Sunday bonnet and tcok
morn
of dignified intention. She was to-day
going to carry out a great resolve, to
put into execution a long and prayer-
fully considered purpcse; she was go-
ing to select the spot of ground which
she intended to purchase in tae new
graveyard, in crder that she might feel
that her bones weull be decently laid
there when her time came: Her father
who had so long been the chief doctor
in the small town everybody's
friend m time of trouble, and her
mother, whom she ¢ould not remember
and the half-dozen little brothers and
gisters, who had died in infancy be:
fore her birth, as well as several un-
cles and:.aunts znd ccusins, were a'l
laid bencath one upright slab in the
wall cof the colder burying-ground; but,
alas! an uncle-in-law who had died
ten years previously, had left it in his
will that he desired to be buried beside
his wife, and this, as Miss Janet pa-
thetically remarked to the miaisier,
‘“fillled up the lair,” and leit no room
for her. But she had not gone against
the dead man’s-wish—and she was tco
gentle to be assertive.
Miss Galbraith visited the grave
every Sunday at the conclusion of ser-
vice. This was a decorous habit, ai-
lowing Miss Galbraith's little servant
time to run home and rapidly dish the
potatces, and eiso allowing time for
the congregation to disperse. When
Miss Janet had read, line by line, the
names and azes of her forbears and
kindred down to the inccnsiderate un-
cle-in-law in the line— ‘Thomas
Wyllie, relict of the above Susan Gal
braith’’— then was sure the last
loiterers would have gene, and tha!
she could feel secure from garrulous
acguaintance. For Miss Janet was
hopelessly shy and diffident, and her
dignity of carriage and ressrve of
speech were as much the outcome cf
shyness as they were the result of the
pride natural in the last survivor of
a highly respectable and professional
family. “Ay, she keeps herself to he -
self,” they said abcut her in the small
market-town that had known her for
over half a century. *She has aye
kept hersel’ to hersel,” and been that
respectable I doot if she has ever hail
an cffer 0’ marriage,” it was once
added.
But the speaker was mistaken. The
anniversaries that are marked in the
‘alendar are pot the only one’s in a
‘woman's reckonng. There was a cer-
tain day—in June it was, when the sun
shone and the birds sang year after
year in unconscious cruelty—when
Mi%s Janet always, unostentaticusly
wore black; and in the afternoon.
when the duties of the day were
over, she would go upstairs to her
own room and after carefully diaw-
ing down the blinds, whether to keep
out the sunshine or to prevent the
birds from leoking in was uneertain,
would unlock en cold desk and take
hence three letters tied together, and a
photograph, and two or three appar-
ently meaningless trifies. When Miss
Galbraith came downstairs again quite
two hours later, the sad lcok in her
blue eyes was intensified, and her
gentle mouth was somewhat tremu-
lous. But, indeed, there w:s no one
to notice.
When Miss Galbraith walked iato
the graveyard on that May morning
it was with an added sense of impori-
ance that she made her way, not to
the moss-grown monuments she knew
s0 well, under the dark yew-trees be-
low the church, hut up towards the
newer part that lay east. Here red
granite and new black lettering
abounded; and as in most Scottish
~ ghurchyards, very few of the grave-
stones were in the form of crosses.
Miss Janet went tcwards a green cor-
and
las:
he
she
3 : By ROSALINE MASSON,
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| not get the warm sunshine, and
out her best black kid gloves this May |
1g, and sallied forth with a face!
sodesfestoeds
be.
i
fesse
ner, across which the afternoon sun
struck. Her head was bent and she
was thinking—perhaps of a grave far
away under the palm trees on the Pa-
cific coats, where the hot sand had lain
fcr—was it thirty years? Or perhaps
she was thinking of that presumpti-
ous uncle-in-law who had ousted her
from her rightful place in the old cor-
ner, and forced her to rest at last, as
she had lived, alone. Suddenly _she
{ raised her head, and as she -did so,
{ she paused, and drew herself up with
a quick, shy movement, and a shade of
annoyance passed over her gentle
fzce. There was a man, a stranger,
standing beside her “lair.” The man
had his back turned.towards her, and,
if one judged by his bent head, was
thinking also. Miss Galbraith pres-
ently found courage to draw near and
take up her position on the littlé piece
of mossy turf she had selected to be
her final resting-place. She measured
the plot with her eve. It wou'd be cos-
ier next to the wail, but that would
she
loved warmth. She would feel easier
in her mind when this purchas= was
settled. and she knew where she would
be put when her time came. She hail
left all directions for tie funeral, and
everything wculd be decent and in or-
der. There would be no chief moursn-
er. She was the last cf her race. Her
eannuity would die with her—so would
her race. She was so lost in thes2
thoughts that she quite forgot the v:-
cinity of the stranger, and failed to
observe that he had become aware of
her presence, and was now quietly re-
garding her. He was a tallish man.
older than cne would hive judged
from his broad shoulders and upright
carriage. His hair was gray and griz-
zled, and his gray moustache hid his
mouth and showed oaly his firm chin.
Under his rather shaggy gray eve-
brows his eyes were alert and keen ani
kindly.
Yes, her annuity would die with her
and so would her race. They had been
much respected folk, the Galbraiths;
but she had done them no discredit.
She had lived quietly in the little
store house with the front garden,
had been peaceable with her neighbors
and helpful as far as her mesns and
her abilities allowed her, had bzen a
dutiful church member, and had train-
ed her maid-servants and given them
teas-sets when they left her to bz
married, and had done up her hair
neatly morning after morning in front
of the mahogany mirror with the
drawer in it. Well, one day, it would
be over, and they would lay Ler here,
where the afternoon sun struck the
grass. They would carve her age on
the tombstone. There would be no
chief mourner; but beside her in the
grave, if her written instructions were
carried out, a little gsexled packet—
Miss Janet suddenly became aware
that her tears were tickling her face,
and worse still, were falling on her
hest bonnet-strings. She drew out
a folded cambric handkerchief and
sheok it open, and in dong so nervous-
y remembered the man a few paces
away, and glanced in his direction.
Jut at the hint of the handkerchief
the man had turned quickly on his
heel, and Miss Galbraith's agitated
look found him apparently absorbed
in contemplation of a budding ash-
e. -She raised her veil and dried her
, and furtively regarded the stran-
r. What could have brought him to
the graveyard -of the Parish Church?
It was not any past association, for
taat would have taken him to the old-
er graves down among the yews.
Could it be .a future ‘interest? Could
he, aiso, - like herself, he selecting a
“lair?” There was rocm. for but two
in this ccrne was he then chcosing
the c¢ne next her own? Miss Galbraith
kept her eyes on the ground, and be-
gan to walk slowly to the path that
led to the gate; but in doing so she
nad to pass the stranger.
“Are we to pick up cur last mcor-
ings alcngside, in this little Eaven?”
asked a quiet voice, and she looked up
to find him standing in front of her,
his hat in his hand.
A sudden pink tinged Miss Jane's
pale cheeks, where the marks of
tears still showed. She bowed gravely.
“It would seem so,” she answered, in
her soft, low, Scottish voice.
They stcod in silence, side by side
for a moment or two, she with shyly
averted face. He still kept his hat mn
his hand, and Miss Galbraith, to whom
these courtesies were unfamiliar, was
gratified.
“It is a pleasant spot,” the man said,
cresently.
“And very peaceful,” the woman re-
plied demurely.
He glanced at her kindly. “That is
what 1 was seeking, ma'am,” he told
her, “but you—"" he paused, “look the
”
| on ‘her lap.
embodiment of peace in yourself,” was
how he ended the sentence in his own
mind.
Miss Galbraith made no answer. She
thought the conversation ought to
cease—it was very irregular. But it
seemed ungracious to walk away; and
then—what had he said?—something
about last moorings and a haven. It
really seemed like an introduction
sanctioned by the Church—Dby the bur-
ial service,
“I have come home from a wander-
ing, sea-faring life purposely to lay
my bones in old Scotland, beside my
parents; but—" he glanced westward
t=wards the yew.
“Is the lair full?’ she inquired with
sudden interest. “That is just how it
is with me!”
And after that it seemed very natur-
al that they should saunter west to-
gether to the older graves among the
yews. Thus it came about that she
learned, from one tombstone, that his
name was Jamieson and that his
father had been a farmer, and he
learned from another tombstone that
her name was Galbraith, and that her
father had been the doctor of the little
town.
“Doubtless they would have been ac-
quainted, living so near one another,”
she hazarded.
“And some day we are to
homes next to one another,” he
minded her. ’
After this it became a tacitly ac-
cepted custom “that’lie should’ =zccom-
pany Miss Galbraith after service on
Sundays to visit the tombs of
forbears and of his, and then
3
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
CAPTURE BLACK HAND MEN
| Alleged Writers of Threatening Let-
| quarry
| Sergt.
ters Rounded Up in Stone Quarry.
After shadowing a deserted stone
near Grapeville five days,
Pitcher and Pte. Brooks of
| Troop A, State Police Force, arrested
| Scinnie Searrio, who is
| terrorizing wealthy Italian
| of Greensburg and Jeanette.
i
have |
re- |
| formally
| nomination
| of the package.
accused of
residents
The ar-
rest brought about the capture of
four others, John Deore, Pietro Ace-
tor, Marbis Sarvatino and one who
refuses to give his name.
John Albertolli, a Jeannette con-
tractor, received a threatening letter,
demanding that he place $1,200 in the
old stone quarry. A dummy package
of money had been placed at the foot
of a tree, and Scarrio was arrested
just after he had torn away the cover
The other two were
taken soon afterward, while acting
suspiciously in the vicinity of the
quarry. Charges of being suspicious
characters were lodged against them.
In their boarding house incriminating
letters were found. :
KNOX IS ENDORSED
State League of Republican Clubs
Favors Senator’s Candidacy.
Urited States Senator Knox was
endorsed for Republican
for President next year
| by the Pennsylvania State League of
her |
that |
they should leave the shadows of the |
yews and linger on the green patch of |
cpen ground where they had first met.
And so May passed into June, and
June brought the anniversary with it,
and it fell on a Sunday; and Miss Gal-
braith, clad in unostentaticus black,
| demands
| those responsitle
| Capitol frauds and recommends
walked slowly beside the stranger. who |
was a stranger no longetr, and
thought of the old desk and the coming
rite of the-afternoon kept her cold
and silent.
They stood beside her
, and he laid his hand
p-rents’
grav on it.
the |
| Wilkes-Barre next year,
tepublican clubs at the closing ses-
sicn of its twentieth annual con-
vention at. Harrisburg.
This endorsement of Senator Knox
is a part of the platform, which also
the speedy punishment of
for the alleged
that
the pensions cof soldiers be paid
monthly instead of quarterly.
Following the election of officers
the convention adjourned, to meet at
the time to
| be fixed by the executive committee.
| Representative Robrt P. Habgood
"Bradford was
It | Pre sident.
was a broad, bronzed hand, and on the |
little finger was a thin, worn old wed- |
ding-ring.
had not seen hm wear it before.
followed the direction of her glance,
and took the ring off, and held it
thoughtfully.
“I don't know what made me put it
on tc-day,” he said.
made no reply; but she shiver-
ed a little, as-if with cold.
“It was my mother’s,” he said.
was not a good son to her—I was
wild, heedless lad, and I ran off
cea, and never wrcte.”
He looked from the name on
gravestone to the ring that
palm of his hand.
She
“1
a
Her eyes rested on it; she |
He !
{ Coal &
i The mortgaged
| nearly
of
unanimously chosen
Foreclicse on Mines and Towns.
Attcrney Geo. R. ‘Scull, represent
ing the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. of New York, issued a writ, the
biggest ‘in the history of the county,
to foreclose a mortgage of $180,000
against the Connellsville & Ursiaa
Coke Co., Somerset county.
property consists of
8,000 acres of coal land and
a railrcad five miles long with two
sidings. Unless relief is obtained the
| property and equipment will be sold
to !
the !
ay in the
“1 should like to make a gcod wom- |
an happy before I die,” he said.
Miss Galbraith turned silently to
lead the way as usual to the newer
art of the churchyard; but he rut cut
his hand and detained her,
“Won't you have it?” he asked, and
held out his hand, in the palm of
which lay the ring. “Ever since I saw
i nounced the following staff
| ments:
| Mai.
by the sheriff at the December court.
Located on the property is the min-
ing tdwn of Humbhert.
Staff Appointments.
Gen. Willis J. Hulings, command-
ing the Second brigade, N. G. P., an-
appoint-
Assistant adjutant general,
John M. Reed, Oil City: com-
missary, J. M. Martin, Greenville;
judge advocate, W. O. MeNary, Pitts-
| burg: ordinance officer, Blaine Aiken,
| Washington;
you standing there, all alone, crying, |
with your sweet face—"
“Qh, whisht!”’ she interrupted.
and his fingers clesed tightly over the
ring.
“You are surely forgetting what day
this is,” she said; “this is the Sab-
hath!”
vulsion of gladness.
the Sabbath?” he cried. *‘Rivet it, then,
by accepting me.”
That afterncon Miss Janet Galbraith
pulled down the blinds and
| color
sergeant major, J. H.
Poorman, Oil City; quartermaster
sergeant, R. B. Wolfe, Pittsburg:
sergeant, John Lardsreth, Union
| City.
A sudden pain leaped into his eyes. |
“Does that mean—"' he cried, hoarsely. |
| presidents,
{ Bank;
He laughed outright, in a sudden re- | Theodore Diller,
“Have 1 broken |
State Medical Society Election.
The State Medical Society elected
these officers at Reading: President,
Wm. L. Estes, South Bethlehem; vice
S. G. Statler, Alum
Daniel Longaker, Reading;
Pittsburg; Ba oF
secretary, Cy-
assistant
Langton, Shenandeah;
rus Lee Stevens. Athens;
| secretary, Theodore B. Appel, Lancas-
| ter;
treasurer, Geo. W. ‘Wagoner,
| Johnstown.
unlocked |
the old desk, with its contents lying |
ters, but suddenly she laid her cheek
against the photograph.
“Qh, laddie—it’s not that I
i
yeu!
She did not read the let- |
Organize Copper Company.
The Crown Pecint Copper Co. was
organized at Punxsutawney by Punx-
| sutawney,
forget
I
she said, “but see how young |
you are by me—you’d mavbe expect me |
assie you left—and oh, lad- | A )
to he ihe lnsele you lonely! ”—Scottish | talized at $1,500,000, with :
2 ters for the present at Reynoldsville.
die, I've been so
Review.
The Lady and the Anecdote.
{ The company
Reynoldsville, Knoxdal=
and Dubois business men. WW. RB:
Meredith of Punxsutawney is presi-
dent and Dr. J. D. Steiner of Knox-
dale, treasurer. The company is capi-
headquar-
acres of
9
«4
owns
| land in Gila county, Arizona.
Quonah Parker, the millionaire chief |
of the Comanches, was discussing in!
Guthrie a new Indian bill.
“The bill is no good,” said the chief.
“It would not have any effect. It re-
minds me of a young French lady in
Washington.
“1 was dining in Washington at an
Ambassador's house, and this young
lady was the only female guest.
Italian Duke wanted to tell an anec-
dote, but he hesitated. .
Railway
October
Philadelphia & Reading
Co. announce that during
| the round trip fare within the state
| of Pennsylvania will remain
| cision of the coustitutionality
| effect Oct. 1.
An |
! be reduced to 2
|
Ge
“ «My story, he said, ‘is a very good !
is rather low in the neck,
the young lady—’
laughed and interrupted
one, but it
and before
“But
him.
“0h, don't mind me!’ she said. Tl
shut my eyes. Go on.’—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
she
Lightning Dries Up Spring.
jg corporations:
During a severe storm on Friday
in the lower part of this county near
East Prospect, the lightning
a large chestnut tree on the farm of
jeorge Anstine.
the tree asunder, and then the elec-
hase of the tree.
The old spring seemed never fail-
ing and had quenched the thirst of the
people on the farm for more than
1900 years. When the lightning
struck it the course of the water was
entirely changed and the spring had
disappeared as though it ncver ex-
isted.—York Dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Press.
Sir®* Walter Scott's poems are Lord
Rosebery’s favorite reading. He of-
ten sleeps with them under his pil-
low, so that they may be handy for
waking moments.
struck |
The shock burst |
at the
the de-
of the
law. which goes into
In instances where the
fare exceeds two cents a mile it will
‘9 cents.
; New Coke Region Railroad.
Charters were issued to the follow-
Dillsburg & Wells-
trolley
same as at present, pending
two-cent fare
ville Railroad Co. to build a
line 71% miles long, in York county,
capital $75,000; Youghiogheny &
Cheat River Railroad to build 15 miles
of railroad in Fayette county; presi-
dent, E. W. Mudge, Pittshurg; capi-
tal, $200,000. 2
Dynamiters Convicted.
Or a charge of dynamiting fish pre-
ferred by Game Warden M. P. Mait-
land, of Uniontown, two Italians
were taken before Justice Montgom-
ery, at Waynesburg. John Laskeley
| paid a fine of $100 and costs, but his
tricity disappeared into a spring at the | companion, Jos. Bosgina, got 100 days
in jail in default of paying his fine.
While hunting near Point Marion,
Raymond McCahon, aged J years,
accidentally shot his brother, Lucian,
aged 7, and the lad died from the
wound.
Grove City College opened with a
splendid outlook. More new students
were emmolled than at the beginning
of any other session of the college in
years.
After six months’ idleness the
Avonmore Foundry Co. at Avonmore
has resumed operation.
OLD MYSTERY CLEARED
Finding of Skeleton Is Said to Be
That of Murdered Man.
Workmen unearthed the skeleton
of a man at the Hickory sand bank
south of Wheatland, while taking out
sand. It was in a perfect state of
preservation, and older inhabitants
of the town «claim the discovery
clears a supposed murder mystery of
60 years ago.
According to the story, Jacob
Meier came from Lancaster to Mer-
cer county during the construction of
the Erie-Beaver canal, to purchase a
farm. He carried his money in lea-
ther saddlebags and stopped at a
camp of diggers at Pulaski. .Here he
displayed his money and told his pur-
pose. He then started for the next
camp: above, which was at Sharon.
He was riding a horse, and that was
the last seen of him. ‘
. Relatives who searched for him
found his horse a mile . from the
Hickory sand bank, and later picked
up the empty saddlebags. The bags
were found within half a mile of the
sand bank where the skeleton was
unearthed.
BOMB IS HURLED AT HOUSE
Building Partially Wrecked, but Oc-
cupants Escape Injury.
Shortly after dark Sunday night a
dynamite bomb was thrown against
the house of Frank Perry, an Italian
boarding boss, at Altoona, wrecking
one corner of the building. The oc-
cupants were congregated upon a
rear porch and none wasginjyred, als
though the explosion t i
a panic. i
Perry has lived there 11
and his countrymen know little of
him. The police are working upon
the theory that members of the Black
Hand have attempted to frighten him
and will follow .the outrage with
demand for money.
££ od
months;
a
a
Health Precautions: on Sieepers.
Samuel G. Dixon, Health
Commissioner,~directed®that sheets in
the berths of sleeping cars running
thrcugh Pennsylvania must hereafter
be sufficiently long to turn over at
the upper end of the = blanket at
least two feet, so as to prevent the
lanket from coming in contact with
the face of the occupant of the berth.
~The same order also directs that
porters on parlor cars must not
brush the clothes of passengers in
the aisle of ecar:, but only at the
end of the coach beyond the seats.
This order is designed to protect the
traveling public from communicable
diseases.
tat
State
STATE S. S. WORKERS
Forty third @Annual convention Will
Meet at Uniontown.
More than 250 Sunday schocl work-
ers of Allegheny county are expect-
ed to attend the forty-third annual
convention of the Pennsylvania State
Sabbath School Association, which
will be called to order in the Union-
town Christian Church, Oct. 9, by
H. J. Heinz, who is state president.
Some of the most prominent Sun-
day school workers eof the country
have been secured to make ad-
dresses and deliver lectures. Ses-
sions will be held morning. afternoon
and evening, beginning Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock and closing
Friday evening.
PHILADELPHIA, BEWARE!
City Must Be Good or Face Destruc-
tion, Says Colored Prophetess.
Mrs. G. D. Gale, a colored prophet-
ess, who lives at Red Lion, York
county, predicts that Philadelphia
will be entirely destroyed by fire, un-
less it mends its ways after a third
warning from her. This prediction
was made while was addressing
an evangelistic meeting at Lake View
park, Red Lion.
Mrs. Gale says that President Me-
Kinley was warned by her of his
assassination, that she predicted the
Jaltimore fire, and that in the not
far distant future God will demolish
everything in New York city.
she
Transit Line Sold.
The Shamokin & Mt. Carmel Tran-
sit line, between Shamokin and Ash-
land, which has been tied up since
last May, was sold by the principai
stockholders reciding: in Lancaster
county, to coal region capitalists,
headed by fermer Congressman F.
W. Samuel of Mt. Carmel. ‘The road
which is 16 miles leng: will be re-
vpenad at once.
State police at Greekside, Indiana
county, made a haul of 11 foreigners,
who two weeks ago held up and rob-
ted one of their countrymen in a
hotel at West Lebanon, Indiana
county. Six were held for court and
sent to the Indiana jail, - and the
others got bail.
Seven raiiwayv companies operating
in York county were merged into the
York Railway Co. The new corpora-
tion will be capitalized at $3,397,600.
The chief object is to get rid of the
New Jersey charter and operate un-
der the laws of Pennsylvania, with
headquarters in York.
Explosion Causes $2,000 Loss.
An explosion of powder in the base
ment of Jos. Claie’'s store at Canons-
burg seriously damaged the building
causing & lvss of over $2000. The
origin of the explosion is a mystery.
Pittsburgers Buy Oil Land.
John F. Post has sold leases for
oil and gas or a block of territory
south of Washington to John M. Pat-
terson, representing the Imperial Oil
& Gas Co. of Pittsburg. The tract
contains between 2,475 and 2,500
acres. Patterson expects to drill a
test well in the near future.
Presbyterian Church,
has extended
L.- Kern of
Long Run
Westmoreland county,
a call to Rev. Francis
Vanngstnon MN.
them into’
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A Night Screen,
Many people cannot slec p with win-
dows open at night in damp weather.
A screen that will admit pure air and
vet keep out the dampness can be eas-
{ly made. Use thin Angora flannel, fas-
tening it to a screen frame, and place
this in the window «t night when the
window is raised. In the ric rning the
inside of the screen will be found dry.
while the outside wiil be wet, the air
having filtered through.
Making Sewing Easier.
The French seamstresses have riuny
little tricks that make the work eas-
ier and quicker, and better than when
done by our methods. One is to lay
the lace on the material to be trimmed _
leaving a very narrow raw edge above
_th¢ face. Use a fine needle and
thread and sew over and over toward
you with a slanting stitch. This makes
a tiny roll, which irons perfectly flat
and holds securely.—New York Press.
* Washing Stockings.
There is one. part of the family
washing usually left to the last, and
then slighted, and that is the washing
of the stocking. All s should
washed carefully 1" by themselves.
Use no soda or strong powders, as it
is bad for the feet. Have only
erately warm water both for w
and. rinsing. Add o little liquid am-
-monia . to the rinsing water and dry
‘themds quickly as possible in the open
air, and press with a warm—not hot—
iron. Silk stockings should be washed
in lukewarm water and pure soap.
linse in several waters, shake well
and pull gently into shape, after which
they should be rolled tightly in a cloth.
This will dry them. After they have
dried press with a iron.—l1.." A.
H.—Boston Post.
he
mod-
warm
Emergency Ccoling.
It sometimes happens on warm ud-
ternoons that the supply of ice fails
and the butter seftens. Try this meth-
od of keeping it ha: Place a large
earthenware bowl on the kitchen table
and in it place a small bowl upside
down. On inverted bowl put
the butter dish containing sufficient
butter for the uext meal, wrapped in
oiled paper. Over spread a clean
napkin, covering the sn anal
the edges resting ci the bottom cf the
large bowl. Then fill the large bow
with fresh cold water to the level
of the butter plate. Put a hsavy tow-
el over the large boy] with
wrapped around it. Two hours later
You may remove-the towel ani the
napkin (the latter now completely sat-
urated with water), znd the hutter
will. be firm and har The napkin
acts as a wick, and the id
water up to the butter, chilling and
hardening it.—Womean's Home Com-
panion.
this
the ends
rings
New Ways.
A woman who always has fragrant bu-
reau drawers accounts for it by her
of pumice stone saturated with her
favorite perfume in place of the usual
transitory odor of the fancy sachet.
The fish course at a fashionable din-
ner the other evening consisted of
creamed fish served in cucumber
shells. The shells gave a peculiar,
far-away flavor to the fish which was
very pleasant.
A certain card club always has hand-
kerchiefs for prizes. They are
pensive or as inexpensive as the
tess chooses. There are so man:
ty designs to be had that, if on:
broiders or makes lace, very
ones can be given at a small ct
A college girl, who made fudg
house party not long ago,
the onlookers by using lemon juic: in-
stead: of vanilla. The acid made the
fudge more creamy as well as added
to its flavor. Sometimes she employs
it with vanilla. Another her own
innovations is mixing maple sugar
with the white sugar when she wants
a change.— Pittsburg Dispatch,
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Recipes.
Plain Custard—Beat to
eggs with 2 tablespoons of sugar,
very little salt and 1 quart rich milk;
flavor; bake until thick. If taken out
as soon as thick it wiil not be water;
Potato Mayonnaise—ILightly whip
one cupful of cold mashed potatces,
add the beaten white of an egg, a t2-
blespoonful of chopped olives, two-
thirds of a cupful of maycnnaise
a cupful of chicken breast cut in dice.
Serve on crisp, cold lettuce
Chocolate Pudding—One
milk, 1 cup of sugar, 3 cg
of chocolate. Heat a quart of
boiling point, add beaten yolks of of
and cup of sugar to chocolate dissclved
in cold milk; thicken with 3 re
spoonfuls of cornstarch. Fiavor with
vanilla. Frost next day.
Egg Cocktails.—For
take one teaspoonful lemen
two drops of tabasco sauce, haif
teasponful of grated horseradish, ono
teasponful of tomato catsup 1d a
saltspoon of salt. Mix together d
add one egg beaten to a foam. It is
served in tall glass with a long spoon.
Beet Mayonnaise—Bake in their
skins medium-sized red beets. When
tender plunge into cold water, rub off
the skins and rub the beczts throuzh
a sieve. To a cupful of this pulp add
one-eighth of a cupful of lemon juice
and slowly add half a cupful of salad
oil. Season with celery, salt and cay-
enne and beat until smcoth. Serve
with cold iamb or thinly sliced beef.
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right of franchise.