his man kept burning cheerfully tor him. Today he had Intended to start out after luncheon. He decided to wait till the girl hod called. While bis man prepared the simple luncheon he rum­ By HOPS A IN t L I I. maged around the attic tor the prom On# of those woolon fascinators that Ised books and clothes. He got them I women used to wear over,their hutr road y In a large basket that he I when they went out In the evening, a thought could be eaallf put into tbe set of bone dishes of the same data of car. usefulness, an umber of dilapidated It waa- three when Molly called ' umbrellas, band-boxes full of old hats Tom hod not gone out. "Even If Mr. l end pieces of bats, saucers without Stanley should still be In," ber mother any cups and cups without »grtsau- hod warned her, "just pick up the bun cars, and s motley colle«TOf$flf%ut- die from tbe veranda and «come away. of-date men's and women' You know bow people would talk If such was the array of afflclue that they saw you going tpto his bouse." Molly Bergen found In the living room An hour later, Stanley, having one cool morning In November yrben missed the sound of Molly's light foot­ she returned from her usual trip to steps on the veranda and giving up Uw Tillage. hope of seeing her, started off for his ’’Whatever on earth’'— she began, trip to the bunting club. On the ver­ pulling off her gloves and slipping out anda, bn looked for tbe bundle be of bar sport cost. bad left there hurriedly when he en­ Her mother anticipated her ques­ tered the house In the morning. , It tion. "Those are for tbs rummage contained a new fur motor coat, mink sale for the benefit of the old people's lined; two sleeping rugs, hunting boms." Mrs. Bergen was sitting at boots, oilskins, half a dozen new books hor desk laboriously rubbing the fresh from the printers, and two new names off from Christmas and Easter steamer rugs— in short, bis entire out­ and other seasonal' cards. " I ’m get­ fit outside of provisions and arms. He ting these cards r««g y , too. I've saved thought perhaps he had left them In them ever alnoe before you were born. the station taxi, but a trip of his man There are many hundreds of them to the station and his own recollection and moat of them 1 can use. W e can of having lifted the bundle from the ■ell them for flve for a cent. Borne taxi convinced him this was. not the one will want to buy them." case. 1'erbsps bis man had taken tbe Molly drew ber chair to the open things indoors for safekeeping; but flreplape and strstchud out ber bands on Inquiry and patient searching be to the blase. "H avo you hoard the found tola waa hot sa ; - news, mother?" she asked by way o f After passing a half hour In doubt, announcing that there wss nows to be suddenly recalled that something tell. "The Stanleys’ bouse Is opened had been said about Mqjly Bergen tak again. Yes, It la Tom Btanloy, I Ing a package left on thé veranda. think, though 1 know you don’t agree That cleared tbe matter. He would with me when ! say that be Is quite telephone to the Bergens at once. Of the best looking men that 1 ever sew. course they would have seen the mis­ I know wbst you are going to say. take. It would be easy to expiai«. You're going to nay that It Isn't be­ But no ono was borne but the cook coming for a young, eligible girl to ."Sure huff Miss Bergen and Mies make complimentary1' .remarks like Molly done gone to the scrubbage sale. that about men—you woron't going to Yasaar. been gone ail afternoon. No, aay It just that way. but that would sir, there’s no telephone there. It’s have been the gist of It. But really at tbo old hay barn on the Smith place you mustn’t mind.*' All girls aro quite and the - Smith place done burned frank about those things nowadays." dqwn, so there's no telephone there, *1 wasn't going to say that at all," neither." - assured the mother. "I'm sure Mr. It was nearly five and Tom waa Just Stanley Is very handsome, but don't getting ready to start out In person to Imagine for a minute that-the heir to the "hay barn" of the Smith farm, that large fortune la golqg to bo one wherever * that might be, when the little bit Itilerexied In a little country phoue rang at bis side.* It was Mrs. mouse llko you." Bergen's sweetest voice. "I'm not a country mouso at all. "1 Just took a chance at finding you Haven't 1 been away to boarding home. I thought maybe It would be school? Anyway, T vs met that Stan­ cold for you to start out this after­ ley man and he's fine. HI« cousin was noon. I miatt thank yoa. Such beau­ at boarding school— not that he cared tiful things^ never saw. Why, tt was at all for her. She waa engaged at only about ten mtnutea before they toe time. Ho dropped around to boo were all sold. And such high prices, her once or twice. I met him. But tool W e actually got twenty dollars wbst were you going to say ?" for that <|>at—'” Tom had paid eighty "Simply that your remark gave me for It a wleok before— "and the books an Idea that I might telephono them my daughter waa glad to buy. One tor a bundlo of rummage. 1 am sum would hardly know tbey had been Obey have plenty of old things that read—" As a matter of fact the lessee they don't want that would tell very had not Sxen been cut. "And tbe rugs easily." ........ . and tho blankets and everything were "N o one Is there but old Tpra and almplr splendid. 1 can. never thank the man who drlvee bis car. Old man you enough for being ao Interested in hates the country. Son adores I t our old people's borne. They really He's making the old house a bead- made my little offerings look quite quarters for a hunting trip. Just gets shabby. I bad managed to get to­ In the village on the eleven-seven and gether some interesting antiques my­ ■tarts out hunting again' this after­ self that sold pretty well, but not so noon. That's wbst the rlllago gossips well as your things. And, Mr. Stanley, If you would care tr we should be de- say.“ Before Molly had finished, Mrs. Ber* llghtod to have you come to call. You Perhaps you would gen had picked up her desk phone to are all alone. get Into communication with the Stan­ share our simple family dinner with * ley house. Her voice waa sweetness us. "111 send down the car for you at personified when she spoke. "Mr. Stanley, excuse mo for phon­ once. No. I promise I won’t have a ing the minute you arrived, but we are thing done for you except to have an giving a rummage tale, beginning tbla extra place laid. And I’ll tell you that afternoon, for the benefit— ’’ and xo our #ajtress has gone and we have ■he went on with her honeyed words only a cook, so yoti know how simply we shall dine.” 8he didn't add that of explanation. As a matter of fa c t the telephono there had nover been a waitress In the bell had boon ringing when Stanley ^ Bergen household and probably never arrived at the bouse. Tom had would be. No sooner bad she put down the droppod the armful of paraphernalia that he had with him on the front telephone receiver than she rushed to porch to hurry In to answer the call. the kitchen, ber excited daughter wbo There was a chance that It was Impor­ bad been listening to the conversation tant business news from New York. following ber. "Olive, for pity sake,” Meantime bis onetime chauffeur, who ■he said, addressing the cook, "open a was active as chief cook and bottle large can of bouillon and some olives. washer and boon companion on the And If you have time make the butter proposed hunting trip, had stopped at Into balls and get out that bottle of the village for provisions and Tom bad port that the grocer sent by accident with tbe last order. And, Molly, hurry dismissed the station taxi. “ I’m sure I can dig up something. and get out the best china, and lay an Old books we have lota of," Tom said extra place at the table, and get down the candlesticks and— and when your over the phone. "And I have a trunk full of old clothes somewhere. I’ll father comes In whisper to him that get my man to hunt them up. Noth­ he Is to make no comments. Tell him ing very wonderful, of courae, tor we not to put his foot In It the way he did have to wear our clothes till they are the last time we used tho candles t?y worn out, but perhaps they w ill be asking if the electricity had been salable for a few cents. I really turned off. And, Olive, be sure to wouldn't dare to give you anything wear that cap I bought you the time Molly. from around the house, though I am the minister dined with us. you’]l have to take the car around for quite sure there are loads of Useless things, but when my elster comes out Mr. Stanley. You might make some next time she might discover that I remark about tbe chauffeur being ill had given away all* the family heir­ or hla day off or something .if you think It would look better. Slip Into looms. I'll send my man over with your little blue mull before you go. the bundle.” I’ll wear my black moire. Really, "Please don’t bother," Mrs. Stanley those Stanleys must have a great deal replied. “ I shall be delighted to stop. of money to be able to dis^mM such You may be away on your trip. In perfectly splendid things. ™ n d he that case, leave the bundle on the seemed eo delighted when I told him front veranda. My daughter w ill run that they had sold well. I am sure he down In the car. My daughter says has a very kind, heart. Molly, he la ■he has met yon. No, Indeed, I should really Interested In yon already, tor really rather have her stop for their." he aeemed fairly to Jump at the Invi­ Tom Stanley experienced a decided­ tation to dinner. I wonder why he ly agreeable turn o f memory at the didn’t go hunting. It wasn’t really ao nama o f Mrs. Stanley’« daughter. Yea, vary cold.” ■he was to « decidedly pretty, viva­ (Copyrlgbt, UK, by McClure Newspa­ cious brunette he had met at hie cou­ per Syndicate.) sin’s boarding school, th e had told him that bar home waa near one of hie many home*. He had practised "The new minister called upon the himself to t pleasure of hunting her np factory superintendent today.” "H ow ’d ha come out?" some time. In tact, he had m ad« two tjrlpa to the eountry with a half Idea "Bolling. The busy superintendent o f finding an excuse to meet bar «gain. thought he was a man looking for a But Tom was anything but a ladle«' Job gafi told Mm (hat he would give him a Job in eplte of his look«, i f he Oould furnish fifita)loss rsfsrenoeeaad HAS DISTINCT FLAVOR C A U U F L O W IR ONB OF TH B BfifiT OF V gQ B TA B LB t. Careful Preparation Needed to Bring Out Itai Really Fine Qualltlee In lo n u Dlehes That Have Indorse­ ment of txperts. Cauliflower has a distinctive flavor, suggesting cabbage somewhat, but more delicate. Whatever tbe method of preparing It for the table, care should b e taken to preserve and de­ velop Its flavor and to keep tbe creamy white color which Ms so attractive. This meaps that It must be cooked just long enough to Insure tendernee* and no longer. I f overcooked, the white portion turns dark and the flavor becomes strong and finally rank. Some persons Insist that overcooked cauli­ flower and overcooked cabbage may be tbe cause o f digestive, disturbance which ie not noticed wtaed .these vege­ tables are properly cooked. The following recipes are worth try­ ing! Boiled Cauliflower With Drawn But­ ter,— Place , tbe cauliflower, head up, In boiling water to which salt has boon added (one teaspoonful to a quart of water) and cook until Just tender, w^lch should require for a medium- •tsed cauliflower about one-half hour. Then remove whole to a hot dish and serve with melted butter. Sometimes the head la wrapped In cheesecloth be­ fore being cooked to make sure that the delicate flowerets are not broken off. If tbe leaf sta lk » are cooked with the bead, serve in such a way that each person receives a portion o f both bead and leaf. - Creamed Cauliflower^—1 T he cauli­ flower cooked as above may be served with a cream sauce, and the dish looks particularly well when tbs head la left whole and the-sauce Is poured over It. I f more convenient, however. It.m ay be broken up Into small portions, which should be arranged neatly In the dlah and then covered with the Cream Sauce.— This kind o f sance (so ohen served with vegetables) should be made rather thick for cauli­ flower, as follows: One cupful milk, two tablespoonfuls butter, two table­ spoonfuls floor, one-half teaspoonful ■alt and one-fourth teaspoonful pepper. Heat the milk over boiling water; beat tbe butter and flour to a cream and stir Into tbe hot milk. Cook live min­ utes, then add salt and pepper, In this and tbe other dishes referred to salt and pepper can be added as desired. Cauliflower Baked : With Cheese (Cauliflower au Qrattn)-— Break Into pieces a well-drained" bead o f plain boiled cauliflower and fill a dish with layers (two or at most three) of cauli­ flower lightly sprinkled with grated cheese. Pour over all a capful of cream sauce; sprinkle the top with buttered bread crumbs, and, if a decid­ ed cheese flavor is liked, with a little grated cheese also. Bake In a mod­ erately hot oven until the top la a deli­ cate brown. Qresm o f Cauliflower Soup.— Cream aoups can be made by adding the pulp of a vegetable (enough to insure good flavor) to a thin cream sauce. A good proportion ia one cupful o f vegetable pulp (In this case cauliflower broken into very small pieces or pat through a rather ooaroe aleve) to a quart of sauce. WHEN TH E PINERS ARE LATE CARING FO R LAMBING EWES 1 -- ■' % Food May Be Kept In deed Condition If Requisite Paraphernalia la at Hand. Week Animals Cannot Give Birth to Vigorous Lambs— Furnish Dry, 1 Comfortable Shelter. * This problem confronts every house­ keeper in all the seasons, and per­ haps tt is the IsgCluC breakfast-comers, and those who are a little uncertain at the dinner boor who cause her toe most anxiety. However, since the in­ troduction o f hot water plates and fla t ­ ters, this has ceased to be serious a question. The food on these plates, after the nickel reservoir under them has been filled with hotting hot water may be covered with the nickel cover and will keep in perfect condition fo r a half or even three-quarters of on hour. Tbe vegetables, cooked now in toe three-quarter compartment steamers, may be well kept tor at least the seme length of time. The roast, done In the universal covered roasting pan. will suffer none from the same length delay. Tiny alcohol burners under toe lit­ tle chaflng dishes used for saucers will keep the sauces warm, though perhaps they suffer more than any other one thing by waiting— they get too thick or dry out if allowed to stand, and thetr flavor ia often sacri­ ficed. Soup, of course, can wait with- put serious injury. Fish la the hardept article to keep warm unless It is made into a fish tar-, bot. If It has been boiled, then It should be rpUUBd uu UiUTnak—end- placed over boiling water, so tt la steam-enveloped and covered, but if It is allowed to stand more than ten or fifteen minutes this way It yrlll become woolly and lose Its taste. T r im m e d It will stand all right in a double boil­ er over hot water for twenty or thirty minutes, after which It begins to get watery. Solid alcohol burners, lighted un­ der toe chaflng dish long «tough at a time to keep the water at boiling point In the water pan, will keep the contents warm without danger o f be­ ing overcooked, tor at least a half- hour. Any o f toe plate warmers placed on the dining room radiator will keep the plates warm and ready for serv­ ing when needed. The ewes that ore to Inmb h spring should havo good care In toe winter, so they will come through strong and healthy. Weak ewes aa> not give birth to vigorous Iambs, and often they will die in the attempt to give birth to their offspring. It becomes necessary, therefore, to keep the ewee under good shelter to the time o f storms snd bad weather, says an Oklahoma writer in Farm Progress. The ewe that must stand out In the snow or natal storm w ill get her wool bedrabblsd snd become chilled and weakened. She «t»n«td have a dry, comfortable shelter, and here she should stay except when the days ore bright and ¿nnny and the ground la firm. To torn her out on soft fields may result disastrously, for she may mire down and strain her­ self or perish. The ewe should be fed plenty of good clover or alfalfa hay, with the addition o f a fair, grain ration. It is not necessary fo r ber to grow fat, but ■he must be kept in good flesh, so that she will be strong at lambing time. I like oats fo r a feed, but a little corn mixed with to e oats Is beneficial. A straw bedding for the sheep will be appreciated. Sheep should not be allowed to sleep on damp or wet ground In toe winter. H ELP FU L SUGGESTIONS . Add a capful o f cooked rice when making beef loaf and the loaf will be moist add slice firmly and will have a new flavor. x After plucking and singeing, Xqwla. dampen them slightly, sprinkle with flour, rub gently all over arid wash In tepid water. .> Mix the salt with the flour before milk or water is added in making thickening for gravies, etc., and there­ by prevent lumpiness. Before pouring hot fruit into a glass dish or Jar, place the receptacle on a cloth wet in cold water. This prevents the glass from breaking. To remove oil stains and point from windows, wet a woolen cloth with am­ monia and apply to the spots, rubbing briskly bnt not too hard. , To prevent cakes, pies and other pastry from burning on the bottom sprinkle the bottom o f the oven with fine, dry salt, and your cakes or pies will bake perfectly. T o make a light and dark layer cake first bake the dark part, then when almost done remove from the oven, pour the light part over it, put back in the oven and bake quickly. Creamed Celery. v Celery two cupfuls, white sauce one cupfaL * Method: Select the tender parts of the celery and serve as a relish. The tougher, undestrablo parts, break into Inch pieces and cook until tender in enough boiling salted water to cover (30 to 00 minutes). Make a white sauce by melting one tableapoonful of butter and adding one tablespoon ful of flour and stirring until smooth, grad­ ually pouring on the one-fourth cupful of milk and stirring until smooth. Add the cooking water. Instead of Starch. I f you have found the ordinary starch unsatisfactory when "doing up" your fine white wear try making starch either o f borax or gam arable. The borax method is the simpler in that it is merely added to the rins­ ing water (two heaping teaspoonfuls of borax to flve quarts o f water la the proportion) and gives the gar­ ments when Ironed Just the right amount o f crispness. T o make a gum arable starch use half an ounoe of the gum arable to a cupful o f boiling water. Dilute to ault your taste In stiffness and use as you would the common laundry variety. Fruit Pudding. Take one egg„ beaten slightly; one- half cupful butter and lard mixed, one cupful milk, scant one-half teaspoon­ ful cloves, allspice, cinnamon, nut- mog, ginger, one-half teaspoonful ■alt, one teaspoonful soda, three cup­ fuls flour, one cupful seeded raisins, one-half cupful citron, one cupful wal­ nut meats, ground. Steam three anQ one-half hoars. Serve with cream or wine or brandy sauce. This makes an excellent des­ sert and w ill keep a long time. Glass Plant 8helf. I t la a good Idea to have glass cut to fit a shelf on which plants stand. The glaas Is easily cleaned and aavea the wood underneath. A piece of plate glass cut to fit a window ledge or top o f a radiator w ill often fur­ nish a convenient shelf. A pretty tear room has its tables covered first with an attractive pattern lx cretonne, and this In tarn oovered with plat» g laas exactly fitting to e tables. Creole Balls. Add to one cupful of milk butter the ■lee o f an agg and let It come to a boil. A fter the milk bolls add three cupfuls light brown spgar, getting the mixture to toe boiling point as quick­ ly as possible to avoid curdling. Stir continually. Whan a soft ball will form in the water tt la done. Remove from the stove and boat, add one tea­ spoon ful vanilla, one capful not meats. When tt creams form In small ball ahapes or mounds. w x --------- - Sauteed Oyster». T o be prepared In the chaflng dish. Free the oysters from bits o f shell and rinse If gritty, drain and lay on a bed o f ooaroe cracker crumbs, tolled rather coarsely, and seasoned with pepper and sa lt Put enough butter into the blaoer to m ar» than oever the bottom, lay in the oyster» an# turn as soon as light brown, adding more butter as needed. Serve with ehvee or ptoalillL Scald one «ni one-half cupful Veal Balia. Bight ounces o f cold cooked real, three ounoee o f bacon fried, two tablespoon fuls of cream, three ounces o f grated roll, one tablespoonful o f chopped parsley, pepper and sa lt Pass the meat and bacon twice through the «whtniwg machine. Stir grated roll into cream, add egg, salt, pepper and parsley and lastly the meat, mixing all thoroughly. Form Into balls the alas o f a hut, boll for fits minutes in o f milk, add to thle ploca, let ooxae to a e-halt cupful sosar; flavor with ranilla, JVhmiB u n i B w B t. -♦ n || HOW MRS. BERN MET THE CRISIS Hatovflle,T L ife 1 fo r tt u n « | called a w « F Lydia & Pbkham’s it It to » Chang» o f L ila i I got home I did net need B i ds I took t the 1 gone, tbe doctor said, owl I have not felt it rinee. I tell evucy eaa bow 1 was eared. I f this help others yoa sgaAreleome to use ft * —Mrs. E. H. B k ZS, 825 Joseph Av Nashville, Te Lydia E. P in k W s Vegetable Gita» peuud, a pare remedy containing tha extractive properties o f good old i and herbs, meets the icyveosti times. Keep hogs end dogs ou to f the sheep o f her Hfe. Try it I f th e re Is pen, and whan the ewee are ready to mse w b ie h ] lamb separate them from the rest of he L y d ia 1 the flock.’’ Ono should have a com­ fortable stall In which the ewe be put to bear her lamb. Here she may be kept until toe lamb has WEEKS’ BKEAK-UP-A-COLB TABUS learned to suck snd knows toe moth­ A guaranteed remedy fo r Colds er w e ll L a Grippe. Price 26c o f your a S5^ It's good. TakqjgctHnr dee. — 3K U S SYSTEM FOR MARKING FIGS Acute Hearing. Animals W ill Not Bleed I f Work la A number o f Candida too for Done When They Are Real Yeung lice force were being — Cuts Are Made in Cars. doctor the other day, and a J examination it was, to a I will give you the system o f mark­ came to testing tbe men's ing pigs which I have used for sev­ bearing, and said ton i “ Do you sea this watch?“ eral years. I find tt much better to “Yea" mark the pigs as ooon as they are “ Do you hear tt tick?“ farrowed, writes Horry Belts o f Wash­ "Certainly; quite plainly.“ ington county. Neb., in _ Independent “ Stand further back.“ Former. They w ill not bleed iff tt fla / Candidate retires to re » pm “ Do you hear it now?" “ Ten” “ Well, yoa must- watch has not been i —Chicago H erald.. .XMlUf’f* HOW WONDERFULLY RESMOL SOOTHES ITCHING SKMS1 I f you have ecsema, other Itching, burning; ing skin-eruption, try ment Riwinni Soap quickly the itching stops and the t Me disappears. R »J «« an excellent tor dandruff, sores, burns choflngs and for a scare o f < where a soothing, healing is needed. Reelnol contains nothing o f a ! or injurious nature and freely even on the mod face. Every druggist Ointment and Reelnol Marking Flga • ;-4<> ■ V done when they ore real young. Cuts In the lower part o f the right ear mean |l. X, 3 and 4; one cut In the upper part Of right ear means 6; one cut in the upper part o f left ear means 10, and In the lower part o f the left ear oae cut means 10. Thus a pig with one eat off the l o w « and cae on the upper side o f the left ear is numbered 30; with tour For chronic pain In toe back apgSff cuts on ths l o w « and one on the upper Hanford’s Balsam Rah tt SB sad s q » Side o f right ear ia numbered 9; and tt 1 b thoroughly. Adv. an animal with all seven cuts is num­ la bered 39. ■*. _ ARGUMENT FOR M ETAL POSTS Coming Into Use on Many Farms Where Permanent Fences Are Being Made—They W ill Net Burn. There ore several good and sound arguments for the use o f metal poets, and they are coming Into use on many forma where permanent fences are be­ ing made. These poets can be driven, in moat cases, not needing to be s e t They do not r o t and w ill not burn. Tbey also furnish a ground connection as a protection against lightning tn case o f w ire fences W ire fences con be grounded at ■mall coot o f time and money, but as a general thing they are n ot The little work and expense needed w ill usually be postponed until are killed. Fires which gat beyond control, and those set to burn out weeds and rub­ bish along the fences w ill not damage either metal or concrete ports; and an these reasons are convincing many that such posts win prove more eco­ nomical than wood where wood la hard to get and replooe when through SmmtsK ted that while he was the three cows, “ the besets worn as as Phsrosh’s lean klne." The chairman, thinking to o old Kenneth, asked U a to sag lean Pharoeh’s klne were. Bren a 17th-century (Urine x hare wanted a day or two to thl over. But Kenneth answered at “ They were, sir, so lean that could only he seen In a dream.“ Paradoxical Result “ How did prohibition week Crimson Gulch?’’ “ Fine,“ said Bronco Boh, “ T have sared np so much men mebbe w e ll hare to let a few open ao’s they can celebrah prosperity.“— Washington Star, Keep Your Stom ach W< The Stomach k the i trolling power in i l l : ten pertaining to hi and it muet be •ndactfv* A t sign o f