DEATn AT MORNING. BY CHARLES HANSON TOWNS. She dird when tluwn 'was weeping o'er the Innil, When morning glories lit the gleaming Willi j Anil one who watched her, holding her pale hnml, .Whispered, "Aim! Hint she should miss it all!" The eavlv sun, rincn from his dark night, flamed his great hnnners when she went awny ; And one said, "Lo! nt coming of the light She liss gone forth, and lust the beau teous day." But she. from her poor mortal house of pain . Gladlv released, .went singing to God's place, And cried, "Dear Lord, after the bleak world-rain, 1 cannot bear the brightness of Thy face!" . -From The Quiet Singer, (U, W. Dodge . & Co.) A MIDNIGHT ENCOUNTER, ' BT MATTIE OVER BRITTS. ! Women are naturally afraid of rats. It Is an established fnet that a oman who will fly right In the face of death by wearing tight corsets, thln-soled shoes, or otherwise violat ing the laws of nature and common sense, will scream at the top of her lungs, If she does not go off Into' con vulsions or a fit of hysterics, at the Bight of a common sized rat. Mrs. Harry Brown, being a woman, and withal an exceedingly pretty one, Shared the common terror Indeed, had rather more than her share of It. One night there was company at Mr. Harry Brown's, and when the family retired the hour was quite late. Mr. brown, with man's easy forgetfulness, soon slept the sleep of the Just; but his wife tossed restless at bis side, and longed In vain to Imi tate his example. At length, however, she settled down, and was Just dropping Into a comfortable doze, when her attention was attracted by a faint sound, like the dripping of water upon some hard substance. What could it be? Mrs. Brown's heart began to beat fast, but she raised upon her dimpled elbow and listened. Drip, drip, drip! Drip, drip, drip! Slowly and steadily the sound came through the stillness. Something was evidently wrong, Mrs. Brown grasped her liege lord by the shoulder, and gave him a gen tle shake. "Harry, Harry! wake up! Some thing is the matter! " Harry turned over, gave a rather unmusical grunt, and subsided again. Mrs." Brown repeated the shake. "Harry! Harry! I say! Wakfl up! wake up! " Mr. Brown half opened his eyes, and yielding to Mary's pushes, sat up In the bed. "Eh? What's up? What's to pay, Mary?" he asked.' "I don't know. Somebody getting In the house, 'or something. It sounds like water dropping. " "Robbers getting in tho house wouldn't sound like water drop ping," said Mr. Brown. "You're al ways getting scared at nothing." "I'm not! And it is something!" Indignantly responded Mrs. Brown. There! listen don't you hear It?" Mr. Brown listened,- and did hear very plainly. "It's the water-pipe. There's a leak somewhere," he presently de cided. "It has to be stopped, too." So he tumbled out of bed and started In pursuit. Mrs. Brown, not daring to be left alone, got up, too, and followed him. And to protect her shoulders from the night air, she caught up Mr. Brown's dressing-gown, which hung on a chair at the bedside, and threw it around her. This dressing-gown was a very handsome affair, which Mrs. Mary, with wifely affection, had made and carefully ornamented with her own pretty fingers. At the waist she had sewed a long silken cord, with soft, heavy tassels, and as her stature was something less than that of her tall husband, when she walked these tas sels dragged on the floor at her bare feet. The leak, being diligently sought for, was at length discovered in the bath-room, and proceeded from noth ing worse than one of the faucets of the water-pipe being left slightly open. . Of course, it was only the work of a single Instant to turn the faucet and stop the leak, and having done this, Mr. Brown turned to renew his slum bers, followed by his devoted wife. But scarcely had Mrs. Brown takea a single step, when she set her little foot plump down upon one of the soft, yielding tassels of the dressing gown, and instantly the bathroom re sounded with a succession of piercing shrieks bursting upon the appalled ears of Mr. Brown, and freezing the blood in his veins. "Mary! Mary! what Is the matter?" he cried, running to Mrs. Brown, who had fled in terror to the farthest cor ner of the bathroom. "Oh! It's a rat! It's a rat, Harry! I stepped right on it! Oh, mercy mercy! Do kill It, Mr. Brown! do kill It! " "Where! where is it! Show It to me! I'll fix him!" bravely cried Mr. Brown, catching up t stick which lay upon the window-sill, and brandish ing it above his head with a savage Jr. "Oh, he's here! he's here! He followed me right Into the corner! Oh! look, Harry! look! Here It Is!" sTTTSJai T iHTTA Mr. Brown caught sight of ths tas. scl, which, of course, moved with every active spring which Mrs. Brown mnde, and down upon it he made a furious descent. Mrs. Brown jumped out of the WRy, and, of course, the rat Jumped too. And then began a wild race around the bathroom Mrs. Brown first the rat after her, and Mr. Brown after the rat, making desperate lunges at the fierce little animal, without seem ing to hurt It. "I declnre, I .never saw such a rat!" he panted, breathlessly. "I know I've hit It a dozen times, and It Jumps as lively as ever. Mary! Mary! Jump up Into the bathtub! He can't follow you there I Jump, quick!" Almost exhausted with lies strug gles, poor Mnry made a desperate at tempt to leap Into the bathtub, and succeeded In tumbling safely Into It. But that wonderful rat did follow; and Just as It went over the edge, Mr. Brown dropped his stick, and with frantic energy made a grab at It with his hands. And the hoxt moment, firmly cling ing to his prisoner, Mr. Brown dropped himself on the floor; and such a roar of laughter as he broke Into never shook the walls of that bathroom before. "Oh! hold me! somebody! Hold mo, or I shall burst!" he yellod, roll ing on the floor in a paroxysm of mirth. "Here, Mary, here's your rat! Oh, my gracious, I know I shall burst! Here's your rat, look, he won't hurt you!" And Mr. Brown held up the soft, silken tassel, which had been the cause of all their woes, to the astonished eyes of his wife. Well! It was too bad, after all Mrs. Brown's fright, that there wns no rat In the case though to this day she declares that there was one, and that she first set her bare foot upon a real, genuine rat, and, after he got away, she mistook the tassel for him. She begged Mr. Brown not to tell the story, but It was too good for a fun-loving man to keep, so he often entertains his friends with the story of Mary's terrible rat. THE USEFULNESS S OF ICEBERGS J When an Iceberg Is launched upon its long Journey Its bottom parts are barnacled with sand,' bowlders and other detritus gathered from the land surface over which It has made its tedious march to the sea. This bur den it gradually casts off as It melts while drifting down nlong our conti nental seaboard. As a result of the deposits thus made through countless centuries, combined with the products of erosion carried seaward by the rivers, the seabed for many miles off shore has been gradually filled up, creating those vast, . submerged pla teaus known as "banks," which ex tend from Labrador to the Bay of Fundy, and form the breeding grounds of innumerable shoals of cod, herring and other valuable food fishes. In this way the bergs have performed an economic service of In calculable value, laying the founda tion for one of the world's most Im portant productive Industries, and af fording a means of livelihood to those hardy bands of "captains courageous" who each year reap the harvests of the sea. The bergs serve a further economic purpose in that to their tempering influence are largely due the climatic conditions prevailing over a great part of the interior of North America. Alfred Sidney John son, In The World To-day. Target Practice Under Sea. The second submarine flotilla, con sisting of the Octopus, Tarantula, Vi per and Cuttlefish, under command of Lieutenant Charles E. Courtney, has been smashing target records from twenty to fifty feet under the sea in Gardiner's Bay. The new perl Ecopes have been used to excellent advantage by the helmsmen, and the new additions, it is said, have ad vanced the value of submarines largely. Under the sea the submarines have been firing with Whitehead torpedoes at from 1000 to 1500 yards' distance against targets made of woven nets about sixty-five feet long. The sub marines were run at full speed. When the submarines become attached to Commander Marsh's training squad ron more extensive drills, with both night and day attacks, will be held. Newport Dispatch to New York Times. Coal and Prosperity. It has been computed that In 1840 the production and consumption of coal In the United States amounted to a quarter of a ton per head for the entire population; In 1860 the ratio had risen to half a ton per head; in 1880 it was one ton, and In 1890 five tons. As the population Itself was increasing enormously all this time, the Increase In the amount of coal produced and consumed was, of course, vastly greater than these ra tios per head would Indicate. The increase has gone hand ia hc.nd with the growth of manufactures and In dustries Philadelphia Record. An Attractive Offer. Genial Clerk "Now it is not the limpid purity of . its tone, nc the superb quality of Its case which makes us certain you will be pleased with one of our pianos, but the fact that when you remove the wrappings, on delivery, you will find Inside 1000 all different souvenir post cards of New York and vicinity." Puck. About the Size of It. Hyker "Money is a conundrum." Pyker "What's the answer?" Hyker "Everybody has to give it up." Chicago News, Some Absurdities of the Stage Ily HENItY E. WARNER. Some of the stork absurdities of stage business familiar to every thea tregoer have- become artistic func tions which not even the spirit of progress In realism would dare to challenge. The maid, for Instance, whose business It is to dust the fur nlture, outers with a duster which has never lost a feather and makes Btralght for some article which will get her Into the first succeeding pic ture or situation. The general rule is that both Bhe and the stage director have thought more about getting her Into that situation than about the Inw mediate business of her part; so she attacks one leg of a chair and dusts It into splinters, while the mantel piece, piano, table and woodwork groan and grunt In vain for their Share of caressing. Using the telephone on the stage is nearly always a piece of absurdity. The player puts the receiver to his ear, Instantly gives the number and as Instantly gets his connection. Ex cepting In comedy there never was the least trouble getting central, there never was the slightest delay In mak ing connection, the call was always answered promptly and no third par ty ever crossed In on the wire! De lightful to contemplate, but absurd as to fact. As a general rule the use of me chanical devices on the stage and In the hands of any character leads to absurdity. For Instance, in Clyde Fitch's "Girls" Ruth Maycllffe plays the part of a stenographer, and the speed she makes across the machine is not less than 810 words a minute, while she never uses the space bsrl Were she really a good operator she would be cdbawvlng gum and reading a novel, devoutly hoping that the head of the firm would break a leg on the way to the office. In "Three Twins there is a canoe that Is supposed to be paddled across a stereoptlcon lake by beautiful mnidens. The maidens in the case, being far removed from canoe life in dully practice, paddle this particular canoe after their own conception of how a canoe should be propelled. One waves her paddle as she would a fan, gracefully and with languor for is not the audience watching? Another energetically thrusts her paddle In t6 the haft, while a third backs water so violently and erratically that. If it were a real canoe on a real lake, the logical se quence of events would lead quickly to a swimming match or a drowning event. The Bohemian Magazine, Fcrro-Concrote For Vessels.' - An Italian engineer, SIgnor Gabel llnl, of Rome, has advocated for many years the use of ferro-concrete for the construction of vessels and other kinds of floating structures. After being applied successfully in a great number of cases, his system has re cently been officially approved by the Italian Government, which has de cided to adopt it for certain purposes connected with the Italian navy. Un der this system the metallic frame work, or skeleton, of reinforcing Iron Is arranged In accordance with the actual distribution of stresses, and this frame Is covered with expanded metal, which supplements the pro tective action by the distribution-of the armoring over a large area, while it unites the various portions of the mass In such an effective manner as to preclude any risk of fracture. This process dispenses with the provision of costly moulds and renders it per missible to employ ' extremely thin walls to serve as the outer skin. Philadelphia Record. Light Evidence, An IrlBh soldier on sentry duty had orders to allow no-one to smoke near his post. An officer with a lighted cigar approached, whereupon Pat boldly challenged him and ordered him to put It out at once. The officer, with a gesture of dis gust, threw away his cigar, but no sooner was his back turned than Pat picked It up and quietly retired to the sentry box. The officer, happening to look around, observed a beautiful cloud of smoke issuing from the box. He at once challenged Pat for smoking on duty. "Smoking, Is It, sorr? Bedad, and I'm only keeping it lit to show to the corporal when he comes, as evidence agin you." Tit-Bits. Exempt. The Teacher "And why didn't you come to school yesterday?" The Pupil "Please, ma'am, me muvver didn't know school com menced yestldday, and she borrered Mrs. Green's almanac an' it wuz a last year's one." The Teacher "And didn't your father know the day that the school opens?" . The Pupil "No, ma'am, he doesn't know nuffin 'bout days." The Teacher "How is that?" The Pupil "He work nights." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Queen Alexandra's Favorite Roses. The Queen's favorite rose is one of the old time sorts known as Hermosa, a lovely free flowering pink rose which yields a rich harvest of beau tiful fragrant blossoms. So fond is the Queen of this rose that she has caused it to be grown by thousands In huge borders near her favorite dairy, as well as In the gardens sur rounding her home. Girl's Own Pa per. Slate valued at $6,019,220 was quarried and sold in the United States in 1907, an increase over 1906's out put of 1350,875. A HERO OF THE HIGH SEAS. The adventures of no dashing rover of fiction make more exciting reading than the true history of Captain John Manly. The valuable aid of the pri vateers during the Revolutionary pe riod has always been recognized and acknowledged by tho navy, and It is in appreciation of the fact that "Torpedo-Boat Number 22" bears the name of the gallant captain. Mr. Ed gar S. Maclay, in his "History of American Privateers," gives sn ac count of Manly's services to his coun try. Captain Manly took charge of the Cumberland In 1779. Soon after he took command he was captured by a British frigate and carried to Barba dos, where he was cruelly treated. His escape from prison was most au dacious. He bribed the Jailer, fled from his confines, seized an English, government tender, placed the crew In Irons and made his way to the Uni ted States. He was immediately placed In Charge of the fine ship Jason of twen ty guns. He had hardly left port when a squall carried away his masts and left him helpless. The fact of this disaster, coupled with his mis fortune on the Cumberland, made the crew suspicious, and they mutinied. A disabled ship and a rebellious crew are difficulties enough to dis hearten nny commander, but Manly was not to be downed by untoward circumstances. With the vigorous help of a cutlass he reduced the mu tiny and brought his ship to port for repairs. More than that, ho took two prizes, the Hazard end the Adventu rer. These he carried to Boston. There he heard that a British fleet of merchantmen, homeward bound, were supposed to be skirting the New Eng land coast Manly could not Ho quiet under Such news, and off he started In pur suit. Onp thick day tho fog suddenly lifted and revealed to the Jason a fleet of forty large ships In alarming proximity. This was a bit too much, even for the bold captain, and by the aldjof the fog, which fortunately shut down again, he escaped. 'Not long after this the Jason came up with the British vessel Surprise. "Heave to or we will fire Into you!" shouted the English captain. , "Fire away! We have as many guns as you!" coolly replied Manly. He fought bravely, but again his crew mutinied and the Jason was captured. Manly was carried before the lord admiral. "Are you not the same Manly who commanded the Cumberland?" ques Joned the admiral. "Yes." "Were you not taken by the Thun jerer?" ' "Yes." "Did you not escape by bribing the Jailer and-taking the king's tender?" roared the admiral. Manly did not wish to Incriminate lie Jailer so he held bis peace. He las sent to England to be kept In till Prison until the end of the war, nit In 1782 he was exchanged. He t as at once put in command of the Hague, and In thirteen days had cap tured a valuable prize ship. How much more he would have harried British shipping is not known, for he was run into Martinique, and block aded -there until peaca was declared. KOEPENICK OUTDONE. Tow that the cobbler ".Captain" of Koepenlck has been released from prison, where he hss been serving on account of hia trick with the German guardsmen, whom he used to arrest a Mayor and rob the municipal treas ury, Henry Cnambsrlain, a retired Lieutenant of th9 Royal Navy, has sent to the press the story of a simi lar experience of his own, which hap pened before the Koepenick affair. Mr. Chamberlain was making a our of Germany on foot He says he looked a typical Briton in his old, pray suit, old felt hat, flannel shirt nd shooting boots, and carrying a cotton umbrella. His German vocab ulary consisted of probably- forty rords. He was .walking through 4ome wood3 when he came upon About a dozen German soldiers lying In the grass. Their coats were un buttoned and sword belts unbuckled. The traveler, aided by signs, asked If ."ie soldiers were Prussians. No, i'..jy were Saxons. "I am Anglo Saxon," replied Mr. Chamberlain. To his astonishment, the men got up and shook hands with him. Casually he pientioned that he was a naval offi ce:'. At that last word tbe men quickly buttoned up tbeir tunics and 'eplacd their sword belts, got into line and saluted the stranger. "'Are you going to Niederbronn?' was lny next question,' writes Mr. Chamberlain. " 'Yes,' they replied, 'we are going to walk to Niederbronn and there take the train to Bitsch.' What evil genius prompted me to make the next remark I cannot tell, but, though nttered In Joke, its con sequences were perfectly astounding. 'I, too, am going to Niederbronn. You are my regiment, I am your Col onel!' "Up they sprang to their feet, fell In two deep and kept silent, as if on parade. 'Right turn!' and off we marched, I carrying my umbrella as U it were a sword. Breasting a grassy , slope we marched up to the top at a swinging pace, still observing perfect silence and In step. A short distance off was a solitary soldier of the same regiment, lying at full length on a bench near the entrance to a wood tunic unbuttoned, sword unbuckled, etc. On catching sight of the ap proaching squad up he Jumped, but toned his tunic, buckled on his weap on, stood rigidly at attontlon, and when the 'regiment' came by 'tailed on' as If It was the most natural thing In the world to do. "A disconcerting thought arose: 'What will happen if we chance across a German officer, and bow, In my bro ken German can I ever hope to ex plain this ettraordlnary assumption of command of the forces of the Kais er?' So, without a moment's further dels, I said to the men: 'I must go to my hotel, which Is over there,' and bade them good-bye. These docile and amiable Saxons, with one accord, taking time by the leading file, sa luted, and I, having returned their salute, got out of sight as rapidly as possible. On peeping around the cor ner of a house, there was my late 'regiment' still marching with the regularity of clockwork." NOT LIKE BEN BATTLE. . The only one-footed man who ever served In the United States Army Is C. E. Whltmore, an employe of the Tremont Hotel, Galveston, Texas, and he also enjoys the distinction of being the champion military bugler of the United States and of being the only one-footed man who ever served in the United States Revenue Cutter Ser vice. Whltmore, during the Spanish American War, had his foot shot off by the Spanish, but he was not In jured and was only temporarily dis abled. It was cork. His service In the army lasted two years, and he was In both the cavalry and artillery branches of the Govern ment's fighting force. He served In the Revenue Cutter Service eleven years and two months and retired only when more stringent regulations made It impossible for the authorities to further overlook the absence of his natural foot. During the thirty-two years which he spent with the United States forces Whltmore saw service In almost every branch of tho military and. naval forces. III3 service began when he was thirteen years old. At that age he enlisted as en apprentice on the Philadelphia, and was first assigned to the gunboat Saratoga, undir Fight ing Bob Evans. He served under Evans four years and rose to be chief bos'n mate. Whitmore's title as champion bu gler of the United States was won in 1900, when he was trumpeter at the West Point Military Academy. Ho blew 135 calls, ordered at random, in one hour and thirty-five minutes, winning the prize, a silver bugle. This he presented to the Military Acad- emy, and It is there now among the institution's relics. During the Spanish-American War, Whltmore served under Generals Shatter and Wood, and It was at Slbo ney, on June 29, that his cork foot was shot off and he was ordered by General Wood to report to the wheel wright for surgical attention. Whltmore blew the last bugle call that President William McKInley ever heard. At that time he was a civilian attached to the military force at the Pan-American Eposltion, and as Pres ident McKInley entered the Temple of Music he sounded three flourishes, announcing the approach of a distin guished personage to the people gathered within. Hardly had tbe notes died away when Czolgosz's shot rang out. Whltmore was near enough to be an eye-witness to the assassina tion, and his testimony regarding the occurrence is on file in Washington. Whitmore's foot was torn off In Galveston harbor when he was serv ing on the revenue cutter Galveston in 1892. While a wire rope was be ing unreeled it caught his foot and tore the member off. After several months In St. Mary's Infirmary here he was able to get about and devised a foot which enabled him to walk al most as Well as he formerly walked with his natural foot. In 1S95, despite the absent foot, Whltmore applied for admission Into the army and was ecamlned person ally by Surgeon-General Sternberg. This examination was supplemented by another in which experts of the Johns Hopkins Hospital participated. They pronounced him capable of do ing military duty, and he was per mitted, on the authority of a special board, to continue his military ca reer. Houston Post. Microscopic Tests of Wood. The microscopic examination of wood after it breaks in a testing ap paratus has just been started by the Office of Wood Utilization in the For est Service of the United States. Every species of wood has several different kinds of cells, each of which has its own size and form. There is also a wide variation in the number and arrangement of the cells In dif ferent species. These differences in structure have their bearing on the strength of the wood. For some time past the Forest Service has been carrying on a large number of tests on many kinds of wood, in order to determine their strength, stiffness, elasticity and other physical proper ties, so that they may be used to the best possible advantage in construc tion. The application of mlcroscopie work to such tests Is expected to give a better knowledge of the conditions on which the strength of wood de pends. Other problems connected with the structure of wood, such as the preparation of wood pulp and the treatment of wood with preservatives, will probably be aided by this new study. Philadelphia Record. HUS1NESS CKRDB, JUSTICE OF TH8 PEACE, Pension Attorney snd Roal'.RataU Agssk RAYMOND E. BUOWN, attorney at law, Brookvtlls, Pa. rJ"M. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Real estate- agent, patents secured, eel lection mull promptly. UlUce lo Syndicate hlldlflf, KeynoldsWUe, P. gMITH1 M. McUKEIGUT, ATTOKNEY-AT LAW, Notary public and real estate agent. OoJ lectloni will receive prompt attention. Offloe In the ItoynoUUvllle Hardware (Jo. building, Haiti street ttoynoldsvllle. Pa. JJR. B. E. HOOVER, , DENTIST, Resident dentist In the Hoover bnlldlaf Halnstroet. Uentlonese la operating. JJR. L. L. MEANS, DENTIST; Office on second floor of ths First Ratios a) bank building. Main street. DR. R. DEVEUE KINO, DENTIST, Office on second floor of the Syndicate ball! Eg, Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa. HENRY PIUESTER UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeral ears. Italastrssi, Bey'noldsTllle, Pa. SPOUTING BREVITIES. Ketchel now says that be will not fight Papke again. Strict rules were adopted to gov ern the next Brlarcllff auto race. Harvard won In three events this year crew, baseball and football. Harvard's football victory marks a return of athletic vigor at the Cam bridge university. E. W. McDonald. 1910, has been elected captain of the Colgate foot ball eleven for 1909. The Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia received an Invitation for a team to tour tho West Indies In February. Bender, the Athletics' Indian pitch er, won the open live bird handicap shoot of the Penrose Club by killing fifteen straight. ' Cincinnati University has offered the position of football director to former Captain Hollenback, of the University of Pennsylvania team.. The Board of Review of the Na tional Trotting Association exoner ated Oliver H. Balr on charges of drugging horses in a double team race. M. Deroze, a mechanic, was killed, and Juan Junasz, a driver, badly in jured while practicing In an S. P. O. car on the Savannah automobile course. j A committee of theXew York State Football Association will arrange a series of "knockout" matches for a cup. Play will begin the last week; in February. Abe Attell now says that he will never meet a man again that weighs more than 126 pounds. He does not care to go out of the featherweight class in future. , James Gordon" Bennett has pre sented to the French Aero Club an in ternational aviation cup, valued at 2500, as well as three sums of $5000, to be added as prizes in the first three annual competitions. PROMINENT PEOPLE. President-elect Gomes of Cuba greeted the people of the United States. King Haakon was the first contrib utor to Captain Amundsen's Polar ex pedition. He gave $5000. J. Plerpont Morgan belongs to thirty-five clubs, and his membership dues figure over $7000 annually. Guglielmo Ferrero, In a lecture at Columbia University, shattered the romance of Antony and Cleopatra. Premier Asquith said he will not dissolve Parliament at the dictation of an "irresponsible chamber" (House of Lords). Jay Gould Joined the Aero Club of Columbia University, and announced he would begin ballooning around New York City. Colonel Goethals has prepared a report denying the existence of a lake under the Gatun dam at Panama or any sinking of that structure. Mr. Bunau-Varilla, in an interview Ipeclally cabled from Paris, declared that the Panama Canal would result In the greatest disaster in history. Alfred Clifford was elscted a direc tor of the United States Steel Corpor ation, talcing the place on the board made vacant by the resignation of James Gayley. Friction Is said to have driven Judge Wllfley from his post at Shanghai, China, he having demanded the re call of two high American officials be fore he resigned. Tbe Rev. James E. Mocrdyar, Dr. Myra H. Josselyn and Gerrit J. Pen nlngs sailed from New York City to begin missionary work In .Arabia, un der the auspices of the Reformed Church of America. SAND TARTS. A llttTe cookie that will keep nicely Is well to have on band, and the fol lowing recipe Is for Just such an article. It can be made cut In vari ous shapes and Is even more delicious with a blanched almond at the middle of each. Take one teacupful of but ter, cne and one-half teacupfuls of sugar, two eggs, three teaspoonfuls ctf water, one-half teaspoonful of sal eratus and Just enough flour to make a stiff dough that will roll out very thin. Cream the sugar and butter to gether, add the eggs, which should be well beaten, then the water, and last ly the sifted flour. In which the sal eratus Is put Bnish white' of egg over the tops aid snrlnkle with cinna mon and sugar. New York Tribune. Stand by 7cur colors, advises the Dallas News, provided they are not blue or yellow. )