A HOOK.
J!e ate ami drank the precious words.
His spirit grew robust:
lie knew no more thnt lie was poor,
Nor thnt his frame wns dust.
He dam-ed along the diney daya.
And this bequest of wimts
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
Emily Dickinson.
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t VI
. THE
51' HrTTVTTO'TTT'TJ' C ?,
MINISTER'S
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SURPRISE
5IIDPRKFci
"Don't you notice anything new,
Eleanor?" asked Mrs. Amelia Bates,
pausing in her preparations for
church, and watching her niece nar
rowly. "Why no, r don't know that I do,
except the things you Bhowed me
when I first came," replied the young
lady, as she quickly ran her eye over
the familiar furniture of the room.
"Oh, it Isn't anything In the
house," said Aunt Amelia, "or on
the place, either," she added, follow
ing her niece's glance out of the wlu
dow and toward the barn, where
Uncle Andrew was engaged in "har
nessing up."
"I was In hopes you would notlcs
It the first thing," she went on, In a
tone of disappointment. "I've kept
it for a kind of surprise. Of course
you are used to them In the city, and
not having been here lately over Sun
day, I suppose you've forgotten about
our old one. Still I should have
thought "
' "Come, aunty," Interrupted Elea
nor, with a laugh, "hadn't you better
tell me what you are talking about?"
"Well, I will If you will give me
a chance," replied Mrs. Bates. "To
begin at the beginning. It so hap
pened that I was spending the after
noon with Mrs. Tyler, the minister's
wife, when he came home with that
letter from Mr. Perkins. Mr. Per
kins? Why, he Is the New York
gentleman that was boarding at
Pike's last summer. Well, In the
letter he said that he should not be
able to come to Greenhill again for
some time, if ever, but he ventured
to show his appreciation of Mr.
' Tyler by a little enclosure. 'This is
a personal gift,' he went on to say,
'and I want you to use It in the way
that will give you the most satis
faction.' The little enclosure that
he spoke of turned out to be a check
lor three hundred dollars.
"The minister took it as quiet as
If three-hundred-dollar checks were
every-day affairs, but Mrs. Tyler she
bubbled right over. 'That money is
going into the travel fund,' says she.
Then she explained that they have
been putting by little extra change
(hat came ln--weddlng fees and the
like hoping that some day Mr. Ty
ler could go abroad. It almost seemed
as if she wanted to begin to pack his
valise right off.
"But the minister calmed her
down. He said he should have to
think of it 'a little. 'In the mean
time, Sister Bates,' says lie, 'perhaps
we will say nothing about It outside.'
"Well, I can keep a secret a3 well
as the next one, but I guess Mrs.
Tyler must have dropped a word to
somebody that isn't so close-mouthed
as I am, for somehow a story did
get around that the minister had had
'a windfall, and was going abroad.
But I heard nothing definite until
last Thanksgiving day. I was hurry
ing my work that morning, and was
Just thinking it was about time for
me to change my gown for church,
when all at once now, Eleanor, do
you mean to say that you haven't
noticed anything yet? Don't look,
but listen!"
"Why, aunty," cried the niece, in
sudden recognition of a fact that had
, keen vaguely present In her con
sciousness, "it's the church-bell!
It sounds different."
"I guess it does!" said Mrs. Bates,
complacently; and she stood listen
ing in rapt attention. "I guess it
does," she. repeated, "and it didn't
take me so long to sense it that
Thanksgiving morning. I didn't
know Just how to account for it, but
the minute I heard It I connected it
In my mind with that three-hundred-dollar
check. You see, Mr. Tyler
never could get reconciled to our old
bell. He said that the ringing of
the church bell of a Sunday ought
to be the sweetest of music in the
people's" ears mi invitation and a
' song of praise. And he allowed that
i. our bell didn't sound like either. I
- doubt if it would have pleased him
even when it was new, and it was
.. cracked long before he came here.
"Well, there was about the biggest
congregation that morning that I
ever saw on a Thanksgiving day, and
' of course everybody was wondering.
JuBt before the sermon Mr. Tyler
. eald, in his quiet way, that the
-generosity of a. friend Mr. Perkins,
i ot New York had enabled him to
, provide a surprise for his people, in
the shape of the sweet-toned bell that
had summoned them to. the Thanks
giving service. It seemed that Mr.
.Tyler had bought the bell, and had
arranged for a couple of men to drive
over with it from CuBhoe the night
before and hang it unbeknownst to
. anybody except John Miles, the sex
ton. There is considerable ot the
boy to our minister, you see, and hels
' quite a hand to plan surprises.
"Of course the people generally
were pleased, and if It hadn't been
In church I guess there would have
been some applause. As it was, An
drew was twisting and hitching about
all through the sermon, and as soon
as It was over he hopped up and
moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Per
kins for his generous and timely girt
When that was done he looked as
satisfied as if ha had given the bell
himself.
"But when we had started for
home, and he began to talk abou
our having one more thing to be
thankful for on that Thanksgiving
day, I Just freed my mind.
" 'Thing to be thankful for! You'd
better say a thing to be ashamed of!'
I said. 'The money that bought the
boll was a present to the minister and
not to the parish, and it ought to
have gone Into his travel fund,' I
said. 'And if you men that hold the
purse-strings had done as you ought
about that bell there wouldn't have
been any need for him to make such
a sacrifice. And now that he has
made it, if you had the least sense
of the fitness of things,' I said, 'you'd
find some other way of showing your
appreciation than by passing a vote
of thanks to the man that didn't give
the bell,' I said.
"Well, at that Andrew never
opened his head. But I knew well
enough that He was thinking. The
next day he harnessed up, and drove
off without mentioning where he was
going; but I heard from him all over
town, taking the men one Bide, and
confabbing with them. And in the
course of the next fortnight several
of the Bisters told me they suspected
the men were hatching up something
that we women weren't to know any
thing about.
" 'Very well,' I said. 'It the men
of this parish, for once In their lives,
can do something worth while with
out our help, let 'em do it and wel
come.' "But if the men could keep from
telling, they couldn't keep us from
guessing, and I presume to say that
nobody was much surprised at the
next social circle when Andrew asked
the minister to step forward, and
then started la on a presentation
speech.
"He talked well, Andrew did.
They say that 'praise to the face is
open disgrace,' but I guess that
doesn't apply when you are talking
to your minister, and say only what's
true.
"After a spell Andrew branched
off on to the advantages of foreign
travel, and at that I pricked up my
ears. Up to that minute I had rather
calculated that the men had bought
Mr. Tyler a gold watch, same as the
people down at the Hollow did for
their minister. But now I whispered
to Abby Ellen Caswell, 'Do you sup
pose they iave been and raised
money to send Mr. Tyler abroad?'
" 'No, says Bhe, 'I don't suppose
anything of the kind!" And no won
der, for Just then Andrew had picked
up a good-sized parcel that had been
hidden under the table, and was mak
ing the awkward piece of work that
he always does undoing the wrap
pings. " 'So,' Andrew says, winding up
his speech, 'we trust that you will be
pleased to accept at our hands this
handsomely Illustrated book of trav
els; and "as in the future you turn
its pages,' he says, 'we hope that you
will be pleasantly reminded of your
loyal parishioners of the Greenhill
Society, and of the affection and
esteem with which they regard you.'
"Abby Ellen looked at me out of
the corner of her eye as the minister
took the book. 'Seems to me that's
quite a come-down from foreign trav
el,' says she. Not having any hus
band of her own to feel responsible
for, of course she was quite free to
make remarks.
"As for 'me, I said nothing, though
I felt as If somebody had thrown a
wet blanket over me.
"But the minister was as smiling
ns could be, and he made a beauti
ful speech, though Abby Ellen kind
of snickered when he said he should
prize the gift not bo much for its
intrinsic value as lor the spirit that
prompted It.
"After he had finished speaking.
he left the book on the table and
went to mingling with the people as
usual. But Abel Hayes spoke up,
and says he, 'Brother Bates, in his
remarks, said something about Elder
Tyler's feelings in the -future when
he' should turn the leaves of that
book. I think that some of us would
like to see hira turn the leaves a
little now."
"The minister flushed a little at
that, perhaps taking a hint that he
hadn't shown enough interest in his
present; but he stepped up to the
table and opened the book, and be
gan telling us what the first chapter
was about. Then all of a sudden a
queer look came over his face, and
he was holding up a twenty-dollar
bill that he had found at the end of
the chapter.
" 'Keep on turning, elder!' says
Abel. 'The book is handsomely il
lustrated, just as Brother Bates said.'
"And if you will believe me there
was a twenty-dollar bill at the end
of every chapter. There were twenty
four chapters in all, and besides one
bill was tucked Into the Index. When
the minister had taken them all out
-he tried to make another speech, but
it was no use this time, though h
had been glib enough before. All
he could say was, 'Again I thank
you, friends!'
"Well, Andrew is ready to come
Into the bouse at last, and here I've
been standing before the glass and
doing nothing but talk for the last
ten minutes. Yes, the minister is
going abroad next fall, and I hope
that the way will be provided for
Mrs. Tyler to go, too.
"We must make haste now'. . The
second bell will be ringing soon. "Yes,
it is a sweet-toned bell, as you say,
and we all take lots or comfort with
It." Youth's Companion.
: Household patters.:
Pigeon- Tie;
Clean and wipe four prgeons.
Split and put in a saucepan with
enough good broth to nearly cover.
Simmer slowly until tender. Take
out and remove some of the larger
bones. Cut the hearts and livers
into bits. Have ready four hard
boiled eggs, sliced. Butter a deep
pudding dish and fill with layers ot
the pigeon, eggs and minced heart
and liver. Season with salt .and pep
per, make a gravy with a teasponful
each ot butter and flour and a cup
ful and a half of broth. Season with
salt and pepper and pour one-half
Into the dish. Cover with a layer of
paBte, making an Incision in the mid
dle ot the crust, and ornamenting
the edge with braids, leaves or rolls
of crust. Bake for one hour in a
moderately hot oven. When nearly
done brush over the top of the pie
with the yolk ot an egg, beaten with
a little milk. Serve hot with the
rest ot the gravy.
Gumbo. -
Cut in small diced pieces a boned
raw half fowl, quarter of a pound
of raw. veal, two medium-sized white
onions, one .seedless green pepper
and two branches well cleaned crisp
celery. Place these in a saucepan
with one tablespoonful ot butter and
gently brown for ten minutes, being
careful to stir with a wooden spoon
once in a while. Moisten with thres
quarts of hot water, add the other
half of the'fowl, season with one and
a halt teaspoonfuls of salt and half
a teaspoonful of pepper. Cover pan
and allow to simmer for forty-five
minutes. Then add two crushed
peeled, tomatoes and twelve trimmed
fresh okras cut in quarter-inch
pieces. Open and thoroughly drain
on a sieve a third of a pint ot corn
and add to the soup at least a tea
Bpoonful of freshly chopped parsley.
Mix and allow to boll for forty min
utes longer. Remove fowl and keep
for further use. Skim fat from soup
and serve hot.
To Clean Fur.
Strip the article to be cleaned of
Its stuffing and binding and lay as
neatly as possible in a flat position.
Brush It well. Next warm some new
bran in a pan, and stir It actively so
as to prevent it from burning. When
the bran has been well warmed, rub
It thoroughly into the fur with the
hand. Repeat this two or three
times. Shake the fur now and give it
another sharp brushing until it is
quite tree from dust. Furs are usu
ally much improved by stretching,
which may be managed as follows:
To a pint of soft water, add three
ounces ot salt; dissolve. With this
solution sponge the inside of the
skin, taking care not to wet the fur,
until it becomes thoroughly saturat
ed; then lay it carefully on a board,
with the fur side downwards, in its
natural position; stretch it a? much
as it will bear and to the required
Bhapc, then fasten with small tacks.
The drying may be accelerated by
placing the skin a little distance
from the fire or stove.
Tomato Sauce for Spaghetti
Boil and strain one can tomatoes.
Chop one small onion fine and brown
in pan with two slices of fat salt
pork, or two tablcspoonfuls olive oil
or butter. Five minutes before the
browning is accomplished throw in
a handful of dried mushrooms that
have been scalded, strained and chop
ped. These add greatly to the fla
vor. 'Add to the tomatoes four whole
cloves, a lump of sugar, salt and
paprika or cayenne to flavor, mix
together, strain, then thicken lightly
with browned flour and cook two
minutes. Pour over the spaghetti
end add grated Parmesan cheese.
Meat Pie With Potato Crust Take
six boiled potatoes, three-quarters of
a pound of cold meat, threo ounces
of butter, one egg, one teacupful of
meat essence, pepper and salt to
taste. Mash the potatoes, add salt,
butter and the beaten yolk ot the
egg; beat all together lightly with
a wooden spoon. Cut the meat into
thin slices, trim oft fat, season with
pepper and salt Spread layer of
mashed potatoes on a pie dish, lay
in slices ot meat, pour over meat
essence, add the rest ot the potatoes.
smooth over with a knife, and bake
in a moderate oven for half an hour.
Serve hot.
Halibut With -Tomato Sauce i
Make a sauce with two cups of
stewed tomatoes, one cup of water,
two bruised whole cloves and twe
slices of onion cooked together foi
halt an hour. Melt one-quarter cn
of butter, rub in one rounding table-
spoonful ot flour, and then pour on
the hot tomato. Cook ten mlnutel
and strain. . Scrape the black skit
from a steak of halibut weighing
three or four pounds. Dust with salt
and pepper; put in a baking dish no)
much larger than the fish. Pour ot
half of' the sauce and bake three
quarters ot an hour. Add the re
mainder ot the sauce at intervals
while baking. Baste several times,
The potato crop of the United
Kingdom is worth annually over
$1,000,000,001)
DUN'S WEEKLY SUMMARY
Lower Temperature Has Good Effect
on Retail Trading for Seas
onal Goods.
R. G. Dun & Company's "Weekly
Review of Trade" says:
Lower temperature and snow at
many points stimulated retail de
mand for seasonable merchandise,
but retarded movement. Distribution
of heavy weight clothing, footwear
and other winter goods was very large
during the past week, reducing Btocks
that it was feared would be carried
over on account of the mild season.
Wholesale and Jobbing trade In dry
goods for spring delivery was also
llbt?ral, many cities reporting this for
ward business In excess of all pre
vious records. Much damage has
been done by floods, destroying prop
erty and restricting 'business, but
these drawbacks had only local
significance and did not prevent a
substantial net gain for the week In
nil commercial channels.
Leading manufacturing Industries
report a stendy volume of new busi
ness, assuring full operation of plants
far Into the future, and maintaining
high prices for all raw materials.
A gratifying steadiness is noted in
the iron and steel industry, mills re
ceiving a volume of new business that
readily sustains prices.
Strength Is readily maintained In
primary markets for cotton goods by
a vigorous demand and a scarcity of
supplies for Immediate delivery,
while In several lines there have been
further advances In prices.
Attendance of shoo jobbers in the
Boston market has decreased and In
another week the balance will prob
ably conclude purchases. Supple
mentary spring business has contin
ued heavy, assuring .all prominent New
England manufacturers of several
months, full operation of machinery.
There Is no effort to force conces
sions In prices, owing to the recent
advance ot a full cent In sole leath
er. Cereal prices advanced, especially
wheat, the rlBa starting In a better
speculative demand and finding sup
port In some adverse reports regard
ing, foreign crop conditions. Move
ment to primary markets was restrict
ed by severe weather.
MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
Wheat No. 8 rod I 73 n
Hjn No.:.' 11 i
Corn No 2 yellow, enr 61 M
No. rellow, shelled 47 48
MUM ear 411 47
Oats No. S while SH f.'J
No. 3 white 87 ,H
Flour Winter rtiint 8 99 4 01
Fancy strnlKht wlntors 4 OD 4n
Hay No. I Timothy SO 00 a) so
Clover No. 1 IS IK id so
Fnccl-No. 1 white inM. ton Hi 60 28 (H)
Brown mlddlliiKS So 00 81 (10
Bran, bulk al M 2i M
Straw Wheat in 50 11 m
Oat 10 10 11 00
Dairy Products.
Butter ElRln crn.imery I HO 82
tililo oroamnry gi 27
Fancy nountry roll lrt SO
Chrona Ohio, now 14 14
New York, new M 15
Poultry, Ets.
Finns por Hi 9 U 13
I'liU-keiw drwisml in 17
Ekks I'o. and Ohio, frosh SJ 41
Fruit and Vegetables.
Potatons Fancy whllo por bu.... 59 05
Cahbaco por ton IB 'W 1(1 "1
Uulous per barrol 1 til) IK
BALTIMORE.
Flour Wlutor Pntont $ 8 fli 8 81
Whitat No. a rod 7i 74
Corn JIUO'l 4fi 47
Eiwi M
Bunor Ohio creamery 1!) xd
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour Winter Patent $ 8 r0 8 73
Wheat No. 4 rod 7H 74
Corn No. '2 mixed 47 48
(at No. 3 white 41 4i
Butter Crenmory 8! 84
Kgg Pennsylvania flrota V6 '-'
NEW YORK.
Flour-Pitonta I 8 CO 8 70
Wheat-No. 9 red J?
Corn No. S 40 01
Oam No. 8 white SW '
Butter -Creamery W
Kgga Mtato and Pennsylvania.... SM
LIVE STOCK.
Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg.
Cattle.
F.itra, 1,4.'I1 to 1,810 lbs 5 8 fl 10
Prime, l,:tf) to 1.400 ll 6 la) 6 8)
Good. 1,!!U0 to 1.800 lba i'li 6 50
Tlily. 4.U.W to 1,160 lha 4 H5 6 S
Common, 700 to tlJO lbs 8 no 8 50
oxen, a 73 4 00
Bulls II 60 4 15
Cow 1 60 8 75
Heifers, 700 to 1. 100. 861 4 40
Flesh Cows and Sprlugora 16 W 60 00
Hogs.
Prime liary a A 90
Prime medium weight 7 00
Best heavy Yorkers 7 00
(food ll(ht Yorkers...., 7 0) 7M
Plus 6 80 00
Kc.uiths 5 4i 5 Di)
Stags ' 4 OJ 4 73
Sheep.
Prime wethers 16 8) 5 75
tiood mixed 5 85 ft 60
Fair mixed ewes and wothera 4 60 6 10
Culls and common i 00 8 no
Lambs & 00 7 60
Calves.
Venl calves . .". 8 00 K 60
Heavy and thin calves 3 0J 5 OJ
It Is not uncommon nowadays to
lengthen Great Lake vessels. In doing
so they are cut In two, pulled apart,
and the new part built In the middle.
According to tne Concord Patriot,
the cure for profanity reformer and
educators please make a note is
merely wit enough to handle your
words so that swearing will seem like
baiby talk in comparison.
At St. Osyth, Essex, England, an
ejectment order has been granted
against a tenant who, it was stated,
had paW no rent In forty years. v
And to think: we even lent Japan
money to pay for mar ships and guas!
exclaims the Baltimore Sun.
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Before we installed our National Cigar Stand, we
were unable (a3 other dealers are even yet) to sell
the equal of this cigar at 6c straight.
College Days
Cigar, 6 for 25c
This cigar is perfectly made, full size, and has a
mild, smooth, mellow, domestic blend which most
smokers find very enjoyable.
COLLEGE DAYS are sold only at National
Cigar Stands. Coming direct from factory to you,
we can save you the four to six middlemen's profits.
i- The best cigars are now told in the 2,000 Drug Stares having
v the National Cigar Stands Emblem in the window.
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MAIN
TROMINENT PEOPLE.
Marconi has been converted to
Spiritualism.
Rudyard Kipling's uncle, the Rev.
F. W. Macdonald, Is making a first
appearance as a writer.
King Leopold of Belgium Is a
brominent shareholder In some ot the
largest hotels In Europe.
William J. Bryan has eighty-six
engagements to lecture the coming
Bummer at $500 a lecture.
, False reports that J. P. Morgan
was seriously 111 revealed the fact
that he has practically retired from
business.
It is said In London that Lord Cur
ion might have been the head of the
British Legation In Washington had
ho so willed.
Secretary Taft Is not a rich man,
and he tries hard to live on his $8000
a year. His smallest'annual bill thua
far Is said to have been $15,000.
Senor Enrique Creel, the newly
appointed Mexican Ambassador to
Washington, Is a multl-milllonalre,
the son of a Kentucky father and a
Melcan mother.
President Roosevelt has been noti
fied that France has conferred the
Legion of Honor decoration upon
Professor Brander Matthews, of Col
umbia ynlverslty.
It Is said that there Is only one
member of the present Cabinet who
easily lives within his salary Secre
tary James Wilson, of the Department
of Agriculture.
The German Ambassador at Wash
ington, Baron Speck von Sternberg,
has had his salary increased $4000
a year on account of the increased
cost ot living in the United States.
Alabama's new Governor and Lieutenant-Governor,
B. B. Comer and H.
B. Gray, are Birmingham neighbors.
They live on the same street and
within a few doors of each other.
They are also close friends In politics,
It Is a healthy sign that American
women who find their noble husbands
Impossible are throwing away the
coronets with the husband's, remarks
the New York Sun.
HABITAT.
"Papa, what place do the most ex
pensive furs come from?"
"Wall Street, my boy." iife.
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You Pay T&m, But
You Get ESore
We couldn't make a flour better than KING
MIDAS if we charged twenty-five dollars a bar.
rel for it
We do charge half a cent a pound more for - J J
KING MIDAS, but you get your
UlUUC 9 1U tut.
best made
r .hi
No other flour will mix so easily, rise so evenly
or bake so iiell.
No other flour will make such golden-brown,
appetizing looking loaves.
No other flour will make such flaky, creamy,
tasty bread. KING MIDAS Flour takes up
more water it makes bread that keeps fresh longer.
Sold by Quality Qroetrs Zetrymhere.
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FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
Children are tired of the Teddy
bear, it is announced.
French telephone girls must no
longer say "Hello." They must say
"J'ecoute."
Country balls are the solace of
Engllsn society now when London Is
bo phenomenally quiet.
The National Synod of Norway has
recently voted by a large majority to
give women equal rights with men in
the government of the church.
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, who has
snent the holiday season in New
York, has returned to Paris, Where
she has made her home for the past
yoar.
When Lady Clancarty died, on the
last day of 1906, the world at large
had to be reminded that she wac im'
former Belle BUton, concert halt
singer with a history.
Mrs. Mabel Judson Cox, formei
wife of Dr. Rowland Cox, Jr., was
married to Congressman FrahcU
Burton Harrison In All Souls' Churcji,
Portland Place, London.
The beggars who plague Mrs. Rus
sell Sage will be discouraged when
they find that she regards herself at
a trustee who has responsibilities tc
the trust as well as to the Indigent.
Marie Corelll has turned to wilting
hymns. One entitled "Eventide' has
Just been published In the Suhday
School Hymnary. Mis3 Corelli was
a poet before she became a novelist.
Mrs. Reginald Do Koven, who has
gone from the national capital with
her talented husband to reside in
New York, possesses one of the finest
collections of unique Jewelry in this
country.
A correspondent of the London
Mail says that women always rode
astride till Queen Elizabeth, in ordet
to show a magnificent dress upon a
certain state occasion, rode sldewlse
and so Bet the fashion. '
SO CONVENIENT.
Agent This Is the, automobile you
want. You never have to crawl under
It to fix it.
Sparker Yon don't?
Agent No. If the slightest thing
goes wrong with the mechanlsm, it
instantly turns bottom-side up.---Puck.
CO., Philadelphia,
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