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BUTTERCUPS.
I wandered here forgetful, gay,
Until a sudden glare of gold,
From fields flame-kindled after cold,
Recalled me to that other May.
And you were with me, down a way
Roofed low by branches tender-green;
The' sun smiled through with gracious
mien
And, Midas-like, made gilt of gray.
There hangs an old gate by a brook,
So like another which we spanned
When through the field our steps we took
With childish chatter, hand in hand.
Our arms with buttercups we heaped.
You wore them in your gown, your
hair';
Our senses in spring joys were steeped
It cannot be you did net care!
I deemed the past, so passing sweet.
Forgot, and I grown blithe and cold;
These flowers a-bloom beneath my feet
Hare thrilled me with May memories
old. ,
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Burglar at Bay
HH
CI HAD all but done the trick when
- II suddenly the room was lllumin-
ated by a brilliant flood of elec
trie light. So unexpectedly It came and
so dazzllngly, that I was struck all or a
heap, as It were, and stood stupidly
caught in the very act, with one hand
lingering over my booty and the other
raised instinctively to shield eyes and
face from the blinding glare.
A pretty position for a professional
burarlar. Taken completely at a dlsad-
. vantages like any greenhorn. Held up,
as you might say, at the very psycho
logical moment and by a girl the
Drettlest creature. I swear, that ever
d.nned lace and cambric for the distrec
tion of mankind.
She sat up in bed, a symphony in
white, all be-laced and be-ribboned.
and confronted me, bending upon me
two eyes as blue as twin sapphires, In
which was neither alarm nor suppllca
tion, but satisfaction only satisfac
tion complete and apparently long an
ticipated.
' The loveliest hand In the world, white
as the lawn that fell back kindly to re
veal It and molded like that of the
Medlcean Venus, held, as if well-accus
tomed to It, a silver-mounted revolver
a toy, yet unmistakably a weapon; a
trinket such as a dainty woman might
hang at her chatelaine, but still suffi
ciently convincing to holdme planted
there deprived of any inclination to run
the risk of testing its mettle.
"Well, said my apprehender, in a
voice that betrayed no more emotion
than did her lovely face, which was so
intoned as to set my susceptible heart
beating, "at last I've got you! Now,
drop into that chair If you please. No,
keep your hands In front of you, If you
don't mind. Yes, so; and let me talk to
you. (Jood gracious! But I'm In luck!
To think of my getting hold of a bur
glar at last!"
Her charming features beamed with
delight. She even smiled, revealing a
double row of the whitest, dearest lit
tle teeth It is possible to imagine. Still
keeping the muzzle of the little pistol
leveled straight at me with a hand that
never trembled with the other she
reached down to the foot erf the bed
and drew up a delicate woolen wrap of
pale blue, which she flung deftly about
her shoulders, after which she raised
the pillows at her back so that they
should support her in an upright posi
tion, and sank back upon them with a
luxurious air of establishing herself In
comfort. It was evident from look,
tone and gesture that the situation was
exceedingly agreeable to her, and that
she was bent upon enjoying It to the
, utmost. '
"Now," she commanded, "tell me
about yourself. All my life I've longed
to hear something of a burglar's history
from his own Hps. Pardon me, but
would, you very much mind removing
your mask? It is only anticipating
matters a little, you know. The police
will do it anyhow when they come in,"
"The police!" -I exclaimed - involun
- tarlly. '- .. -: -
She nodded. ; '
"Yes;J they're all over the place, you
know. Or perhaps you didn't know
that we were warned of your coming?
One of their confidence men (stool pig
eons, I think they call them) discovered
your Intentions and divulged them."
"Confound it!" I ejaculated beneath
my breath. "That skunk of a Boyn
ton!" "What did you trust him for?" she
aid with a note of reproof In her
voice.
"Heaven only knows," I replied in
fierce self-condemnation. "But he'll
pay for it yet. Just let him wait till I
get my grip on him "
My fair' captor Interrupted with a
mocking laugh.
" "He'll have to wait a long time, I ex
pect," she remarked. "I shouldn't won
der If you get about five years for this.
Shouldn't you consider that would be
about It?"
I regarded her anxiously through the
eye-holes in my mask.
"So you mean to give me up, then?"
I hazarded.
She returned my scrutiny with a look
of humorous surprise.
"What had you supposed. I meant to
do with you?" she asked. ' "Wear you
on my watch chain as a curiosity, or
fill your pockets with those trinkets,
which appear to have caught your
fancy, and show you a safe and sure
way of making off with them?"
"I don't know," said I, gloomily, for
I really appeared to be In rather a bad
hole. "Women sometimes have tender
hearts. Beauty and youth have often
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THOMAS JEFFERSON'S PEN.
Ca- to JtQ&it3i4--
pen with which Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence.
GUANTANAMO, OUR PROSPECTIVE NAVAL
FORTRESS IN WEST INDIES, A GIBRALTAR
GUANTANAMO BAY has been selected as the site of the principal
naval fortress of the United States In the West Indies. Babia Honda,
the other Cuban port ceded on the north 'coast of the Island a short
distance west of Havana, is likely to become merely a coaling station
subsidiary to Key West, on the opposite side of Florida Strait.
There could have been no better location chosen for the projected naval
stronghold than Guantanamo, which was the base of operations of our fleet
against Santiago during the Spanish war. Guantanamo Bay Is one of those
bottle-shaped Indentations which are so numerous on the Cuban coast, with
a narrow and easily defended entrance and room enough inside to. harbor
an armada. The vicinity of Guantanamo abounds In small mountain streams
and springs from which a supply of excellent water can be obtained; the
whole of Cuba could be drawn upon for fresh beef and other provisions; a
few batteries of high-power guns would make the bay Impregnable, and with
a dry dock, repair shop and a stock of coal a fleet could operate from Guan
tanamo independently of a home base for years if necessary.
On top of all these advantages, which are greater than would be afforded
by St. Thomas or any other point in the West Indies that has been thought
of as a possible naval base in that quarter, Guantanamo has the advantage of
being located In the strategic center of the Caribbean Sea, It dominates
the Windward passage between Cuba and Hayti, and an attack on the
Panama Canal by way of any other interinsular channels leading Into the
Caribbean Sea could be readily Intercepted by a squadron Issuing from
Guantanamo, because this harbor is much nearer to the isthmus than are
any of the passages through which a hostile force could enter that sea. An
assailing squadron coming from the other side of the Atlantic would be
obliged to coal and revlctual before venturing to, engage our ships with
their full bunkers and storerooms; and on the first news brought in by our
naval scouts of the approach of a hostile fleet a line of battle could' be
drawn up to dispute Its progress In the narrowest part of the American
Inland sea. Just as Gibraltar and Malta are the real British defenses of
the Suez Canal, so would Guantanamo become the true point of defense for
the Panama Canal. It would be the Gibraltar to our Mediterranean. Phila
delphia Record.
ful to the unfortunate " I broke off
doubtfully.
The gleam of humor in her eyes
deepened.
"Yes," s'he remarked, "the female
heart might well be moved to pity a
man in your embarrassing position. Are
you, perhaps, an orphan? And is your
present condition solely the result of
the evil Influence to which you have
been exposed since early youth?".
I, shook my head, entering .into her
mood. The girl was certainly a charac
ter, and I lost sight of my own dan
ger for the moment in enjoyment of her
raillery. . '
"Ah, poor man!" she exclaimed. "No
wonder you have been driven to Irreg
ular courses with such Incentives to
erlme.' Now, would you mind removing
your mask? I am consumed with curl
oslty as to your Jooks. But wait a mo
ment; I feel quite nervous over the
event. You see I've been anticipating
this moment for years. I've formed a
dozen pictures of you In my mind, and
do so hope you won't disappoint me.
Tell me first, are you good-looking?"
"On the honor of a house-breaker, an
Adon)s," I answered. Immensely
amused.
A troubled expression crept over her
face.
"Hm m," she mused, half aloud. "I
don't think you should be. It's rather
upsetting, don't you know. I didn't look
for It at all. Aren't you In the least
ruffianly looking?'-'
"Not In the least," I sald with convic
tion. She looked quite dissatisfied.
"Perhaps you are not a CQmpetent
judge," she suggested hopefully.
"I have perfect confidence In my dwn
discernment," said I firmly. "But since
you doubt me, pray permit me to -"
I raised my hand to the mask, but she
cried out loud and sharp.
"No, no; you are not to move your
hands, you know. It Is never allowed."
"Pray, then, my dear young lady,
how am I to uncover my f ace?'
' She .considered a moment.
"I think," she remarked presently,
"that I shall be obliged to do it for
you. Please come nearer."
Still with my hands uplifted in the
traditional attitude and covered by the
small revolver, I advanced to the side
of the bed. When I got quite close'she
reached out a beautiful hand and
touched the mask that hid my face. I
breathed the perfume of the exquisite
flesh, and felt my heart beat in ecstasy
at the near proximity of the lovely
The yellow stain caused by removing the plate from the hypo too soon
can be removed by placing the negative in the following solution: Alum,
50 parts; water, 1,000 parts; bichromate of potassium, 10 parts; hydro
chloric acid, 10' parts. After several minutes the negative turns yellow.
It is washed thoroughly, exposed to sunlight for several minutes and de
veloped with the ordinary oxalate-and-iron developer. Am. Photog. -
In a recent lecure to amateurs Mr. George G. Rockwood, the well-known
New York 'photographer, said: "There Is no paper made on earth that wlll
print with all kinds of negatives, and the, converse of that proposition Is
true, that no negatives can be made that will print on all kinds of paper
with satisfactory results. This is a preliminary statement of the fact that
all developing papers require especially made negatives or negatives of a
particular quality In order to get the best results. I have been making
experiments with developing' papers, the results of which lead me to say:
.Negatives for all developing papers should be full (not over) time, and
developed with the utmost caution as not to in the slightest degree 'block'
the high lights; In fact, a very thin but snappy negative Is just' the thing
required-f ull of detail, but clear In shadows: There Is no danger of carry
ing this caution to an extreme, for this, particular paper will almost print
from an ambrotype. It will be noticed that the very best results obtained
from amateur films or negatives are produced on the various developing
papers. -.. It is because the amateur almost universally stops short of full
development; hence, they have almost exoetly the quality to produce the best
results on this grade of paper. Negatives possessing this peculiarity will not
make the best Impressions on P. O. P paper, but if carejs taken In making
the negatives for the developing papers, It would be a skilled expert that
would distinguish prints en such paper from the best platinum photographs."
form. Joy was It to be a burglar, to
find one's self detected In crime, to suf
fer Imprisonment aye, even death it
self, for the delight of feeling that soft
hand steal to one's cheek, of drinking
deep of the intoxicating beauty of those
wonderful violet eyes, of tasting that
fragrant breath upon the lips.
One moment and the fair shapely
hand dropped again to Its former posi
tion, the mask held daintily between
its white fingers. Another, and a soft
murmur of pleasure and approval es
caped the curved, red lips.
My divinity was evidently well
pleased with hercapture. She smiled
triumphantly. And I I was complete
ly captured in more senses than one.
But hark, what was that? A noise
overhead! With astonishing rapidity I
was transformed from the spell-bound
lover to the commonplace burglar.
My divinity was far too much occu
pied at her own anxiety as to the noise
to notice my change- of expression.
Burglar-like I took advantage of her
pre-occupation and deftly snatched the
revolver from her hand, and In another
second was gazing back at her from the
window-sill. She had completely recov
ered her self-possession.
"Yes, perhaps you'd better go," she
suggested, "but please leave my re
volver on the garden seat below."
I needed no second bidding, for foot
steps were plainly audible. In another
minute I was, in the garden, expecting
every moment to run Info the arms of
the police. But my divinity had lied.
Not a soul did I meet, and my only me
mento of that night's adventure- is a
pretty little revolver which has not left
my person from that day to this. New
York News.
About the Pepper Plant.
The pepper plant piper nigum
which - produces the white and black
pepper of commerce, Is a. climbing, vine
like shrub, found growing wild in the
forests of Travancore and the Malabar
coast,of India. Pepper Is entirely trop
ical In Its requirements. The white
pepper is the black pepper decorticated
by maceration and rubbing.
-,. Nearly Drowned In Cider.
Leo de Mille, a young farmer of
Geneva, N.,-Y., was just starting to
empty some elder from one barrel into
another when the bung flew out, strik
ing him In the eye and rendering him
unconscious. The contents Of the bar
rel followed and the young man was
nearly drowned before he could be
rescued.
tnatmr
CABINET OFFICERS EARN
OF THE
THE position of cabinet officer must be a snap In Washington," re
marked a visitor to a resident official friend In the office of an uptown
hotel this morning. "I would like to have the office 'tendered' to me.
The alacrity with which I would 'accept the portfolio' would be aston
ishing." . ,
"But there might be reasons why you would not accept," replied the
official. "The position Is very far from a nnap, as you say, and I. being a
poor man, would, for one man in the capita), decline the honor, no matter
how much I might secretly desire the office. ''...- .. "
' "There is not a member of a cabinet, with possibly an exception here and
there, who gets out of the game for less than $20.000 a year Qd no one
under $10,000 or $12,000. To properly maintain the position of cabinet offi
cer, and to live upon the salary would entail the practice of economy
which would be quite unusuaL A member of the house can live and many
practically do upon his mileage, but not a member of the cabinet, upon bis
salary. I have known of many members of different cabinets who have
spent from $30,000 to $150,000 a year. In the Senate and House combined
there are scores of men who have practically no lncomesotber than their
salary of $5,000 a year. These men work for what may be properly termed
their wages.
"Cabinet officers do not work for their salaries; they merely accept what
the Congress decided a cenlury or two ago, in stage coach days, to be
adequate compensation. The salary of the office did not enter Into their
calculations In ninety-nine cases out of 100 when their -portfolio was ten
dered them. "
"When a cabinet officer Is a wealthy man. as most of them usually
are, they work for a variety of reasons. Some have wives who have social
ambitions and tastes which cannot be gratified in their former environments.
Others work for the personal pleasures, the privileges and the honors the
position bestows, the last being more or less passed. down to their posterity.
Others give up $100,000 a year Income, toll like messengers over their desks
by day and eat official dinners at night for reasons, past finding out. Some
believe, usually erroneously, however, aud occasionally orr.ectlyr that . ser
vice in the cabinet may prove of future use to them In presidential .conven-,
tions or in senatorial elections. Dozens of members of the cabinet have
resigned before the end of the first two years.
, "The pay Is incommensurate with the responsibilities and the work. A
cabinet officer once said to me: 'My salary pays my house rent and gas
bills. My work Is performed solely for love; It Is uncompensated, and, upon
the theory that the laborer is worthy of his hire, I am going back home and
gather up the stray strings to my scattered Income," and home he went
shortly afterward.
"To the feminine members of a cabinet officer's family the rule Is re
versed. They get about $1,000,000 a year each out of It In the gratification of
their- personal ambitions and desires and the fun they have, s
"You often, hear men say: 'I would go Into the cabinet for $8,000 a
year.' These men can't get In. Ninety-five per cent of the cabinet officers
of the United States, who are not multimillionaires, serve their country at a
sacrifice, and the latter do, too, to a certain extent Upon a single meeting
of the cabinet may hang the fate of
expenditure if billions of money, yet the men who thus are to pass judg
ment are paid salaries on a par with the cashier In a New York bank of
small size."
"I should think that Congress would properly Increase the pay of cabinet
officers."
"My friend, you do not understand Washington life. For over a century
there has been a deadly social feud between the members of the Senate and
the members of the cabinet Up to the time of thepassage of the presidential
succession act placing the cabinet In line for succession to the presidency
In the event of death, the Senators had the best of It, but to-day--the wives
of the cabinet members carry the trophy flag. There Is no Immediate pros
pect of the passage of the bill you suggest" Washington Star.
ENGLAND'S NAVY TO BE
ADDITION OF THIRTY-ONE NEW VESSELS.
THB naval program of the British government for the coming financial
1 year Is bold and comprehensive, says the London correspondeut of
the Washington Star. Although the. details of the ships to be ordered
are not yet drawn up, it has been decided to order thirty-one new
fighting vessels, exclusive of a river gunboat, a new admiralty yacht,
and a surveying ship. The new program includes three battleships, three
armored cruisers, four scouts, fifteen destroyers, ten submarines aud two
coast guard cruisers. Even the "forward group," who desire the navy. to
be increased at the expense of the army., will be satisfied at the estimates,
which propose a net increase of the naval expenditure of 3.250,000, com
pared with the last year.
- Exclusive' of 1,250,000 met by appropriations, the total expenditure will
be 34,500,000. The. personnel will be. 127,000, a net Increase of 4,600, for
which 619,000 Increase Is taken. The biggest Increase, however, is 2,250,
000 for new construction, principally in contract work. : The item for arm
aments has decreased by 150,300 to 3.250.000. but there is an Increase of
nearly 500.000 lri works."" . . v '
Those who have complained In the past that the naval authorities appear
to have been asleep while other countries were making a great fuss over
the doings of their submarines will be particularly pleased with the state-'
ment explaining the navy estimates. The admiralty have been active in
the matter of submarines and before long England should have a nice little
fleet of these queer craft A year ago five, of these vessels were under
construction and they have been delivered.
Trials will shortly , commence to test their practical utility, both for
defense and attack, and one may expect to hear some interesting details
Meanwhile four vessels of an Improved type have been laid down, and
it is hoped they will be completed , before the end of March. 7 -1. One of
the four has so far advanced that preliminary trials have begun, but se
crecy is maintained -as to the results. Evidently they have been satisfac
tory, for It is proposed to build ten more.
DON'T DROP BEHIND.
No Woman Bhould Lose Her Hold Upon
Progress and Growth.
Oftentimes one hears a woman com-
nlain that she is losing her hold ou
progress that she hasn't time to read
.and to keep up generally.
Why has she dropped behind? Some
women do not. Under any circum
stances, amid any surroundings, they
develop. Take them into a log cabin
in the wilderness and they return to
civilization and talk so delightfully
about their experiences that everyone
envies them the chance of the wilder
ness and the Joys of the log cabin. In
their success one finds a hint of the
noBKibilitv of catching up with the
procession, and keeping up with it, too.
what la their secret or progress, wnere
other women .fall out of the line of
advance?
xOtiB woman, relates Harpers Bazar,
who lived in the. most out-of-the-way
ninea in all Texas for some ten years,
and came back more ' charming than
she went, explained It thus: "I never
let either my dress or my mind get
careless. There is a great deal In
elrdlng up one's loins, as the Bible
advises, and keeping them -' girded.
Once loosen everything and you dis
solve in sloth, and lose ground before
von know it." She was determined
not to drop behind, and. having the
will, she found the way. She kept up
her correspondence with many friends,
subscribed for a New York newspaper,
and read It regularly, even if a trifle
late, and studied with so much inter
est the life of the far-away spot where
nhe lived, its Deoole. its animals, its
plants, its customs and incidents, that
when she came back to her Eastern
home and talked to her friends about
every woman of them sighed and
said:" "Oh, what an opportunity you
had in being there! ', instead or com
miserating: her for having been a thou
sand miles, from a woman's'club.
GREATNESS OF INVENTIONS.
True Measure Their Service to Society
In Influence on Civilization. . .
The greatness of Inventions Is meas
ured not by their ingenuity nor by the
fortunes they make for their origin
ators or others, for that is a small mat
ter, but by the service which they ren
der to society and by their influence
on civilization. I had Intended," there
fore, to interpret briefly some of the
great Inventions, to show how the most
EVERY DOLLAR
SALARIES THEY RECEIVE.
hundreds of thousands of lives and the
INCREASED BY
destructive weapons of war are life
savers and peace-preservers: hnw tho
telephone will affect' morals and elevate
tne standard of honor; how the arc light
serves as good police; how the elev!or
is affecting social problems by piling
one city on top of another; how the
ocean cables, the telegraph and wire
less telegraphy are creating new world-
conaitions wnicn are producing a new
world-life, and how the bicycle ad tho
automobile, by securing for us better
roaas, will not only Increase the wealth,
but also improve the intellectual and
moral life of the country, but the limits
of this article forbid.
If . Inventions are to be measured by
their effects, by far the greatest in the
history of the world was the invention
of the steam engine.- In 1769. the same
year in which the Duke of Wellington
and Napoleon Bonaparte were born,
James Watt patented his steam engine,
which was destined to exert more Influ
ence in shaping the world's future than
both of these great captains put to
gether. From the beginning, man has
had to struggle with nature for his life.
She scorched him; she frosted him; she
starved him; she smote him with dis
ease; she overawed and terrorized him;
her winds buffeted htm; her waters
drowned him. Before her lightnings,
her floods, her cataracts, her aval
anches, her tempestuous seas, he was
powerless. Against .the measureless
forces of nature he could oppose only
his. puny arm. On that arm he must
rely to wrest from her his food, fuel,
raimentvand shelter. Such was the un
equal contest for long thousands of
years. But to-day nature Is man's ser
vant; her mighty forces do his bidding,
and run his errands. Dr. Josiah Strong,
In Success. . y
A Human Candle.
Candidate for Mayor I have found
something beside a candle that wll' an
swer '-at old riddle, "Tne longer
It
stands the shorter It grows."
Friend What is It? -
Candidate for Mayor A candidate.
The longer be stands for office the
shorter he grows financially. Balti
more American.
Japanese' Calendars fbr America.
One of the prettiest calendars of the
vear hails from Japan. It is bound
with quaint Oriental jingles in a smalT
book -which is illustrated by Japanese
artists and printed on the delicate rice
paper.
BURGLAR ON THE TELEPHONE.
H Answered the Call and Defied the
. Householder.
' "Yes, the telephone's all right some-1
times," said the man who had boarded
the car at Edgewater and taken a -seat
beside his friend from Rogers Park,
"but it has its drawbacks. If I didn't
have a telephone In my house I would
be ahead about $90 worth of valuables
which a burglar carried away with
him last week.' The whole affair was
rather peculiar. I caught the burglar
over the 'phone and had a little talk I Dissolves half teaspoonful of salt in
with him, but he knew he. was In no. PInt ot scalding water and beat In
danger of arrest. gradually enough flour to make a soft
"It came about In this way. My wife dough jor stiff, batter. Beat for ten
and I went away and left the maid miflutes, cover and set in a very warm
alone. She told us she would soon Pce for eight hours. Now stir a tea
leave the house, and we Instructed her spoonful of salt Into two cups of warm
to lock the doors and windows before
she left After we had been gone
about an hour and had arrived at the
house of a friend In Evanston my wife
remembered that she wanted to tell
the maid something. She told me to
call up the house, thinking perhaps the
maid had not yet left. I called for the
number, and, what do you think, a
mai'i voice answered.
"'Hello,' he said, 'who Is this?
"I told him what my name -was, and
he laughed. I then suggested that I
bad the wrong number, but he laughed
again and said, 'Ob, no; you have the
right number.'
"Who are you, then? I demanded.
'What right have you got in my house
when all of us are gone Yj
"Well, I'll tell you,' he said with ex
asperating coolness and another laugh,
'I called up your number, and, finding
that there was no one at home.
thought I would come up to the house
and look around. It's a way I have of
doing. The windows were not locked
and I had no trouble getting In. If
any one had answered he 'phone
should not - have come, but I made a
good guess, didn't 1?
"I was up In the air, so to speak.
man t Know wnat to do. 1 waited a
minute and then asked the fellow what
he was doing In my house.
" 'I am what my friends call a gen
tleman of leisure, but what you might
be rude enough to call a burglar,' he
said. i nope you will not"
"I broke off bis speech at this point
and yelled that I would have him ar
rested and hanged, and everything
else, but he only laughed again and
said he would "not be around by the
time the police could get there.
"I knew it was useless to telephone
for the police to" hurry to the house.
My. wife and I hurried home, and sure
enough one of the windows was, open
and the rooms ransacked. I don't know
so well about the telephone's being a
good thing. Chicago Inter Ocean.
HUMORING MOTHER'S FANCY.
Little Deputy Parent Believed in Be-
lag Indulgent.
The child was a typical "little moth
er. Like most families In which
"little mothers" serve as proxies, there
was also a "big mother," but this lat
ter functionary went out nursing other
people's babies every day and all day
This being so, what more natural than
that Kathie's. 9-year-old shoulders
should adjust themselves to carrying
the household 'burdens? Of course
these burdens were as light as the "big
mother" could make them, but even
her skill could not reduce the weight
of the bouncing 15-months-old baby,
who had a penchant for crying all
aight and falling down all day. These
proclivities on the part of the young
est were more or less disturbing to
the baby's Invalid' father, and with
deep enjoyment of his own joke he
proceeded to express his feelings to
baby's "little mother."
"Well, Kathle," he commented, "1
think your mother showed very little
sense when . she went to market and
bought this last baby. She surely
should have left him where he be
longed. We were getting along very
nicely without him, and he grows
crosser every day." .
Instantly Kathie's cheeks burned and
her eyes gleamed. .
"Father," she. said, severely, "my
mother works awful hard, and shs?
don't ever have no rides on the trolley,
no picnics, no fun nor nothin', an' I
think If she likes babies we ought to
let her buy all she wants."
With swift, step she crossed the
room, says the New York Times, and
seised an unoffending tin parrot, who
suffered patiently from a slit In his
back that he might serve better as a
bank. This latter she shook so - vig
orously that even a tin bird must have
regretted very'bltterly having been so
faithful a guardian to so thankless a
mistress. "Finally the' last coin, was
out, and Kathle gathered up her riches.
''There." she -said,, as she triumph
antly waver 14 cents before her
abashed father, 'Tm going to give
mother all this . 14 , cents an' let her
go out an' buy another baby the min
ute she comes In."
Reckless Voyagers.
A New York exchange says that dur
ing a gale which ravaged the Atlantic
coast the Short Beach Llfe-Saving Sta
tion on Long Island was aroused to res
cue four men in a small sloop about hair
a mile from shore.
After a tedious and' perious trip, the
surf-boat reached the sloop, and the
crew" found on board four men be
numbed with cold, and half-starved.
When brought to a place of safety and
thawed out they told their story.
They had been out on a gunning trip
on the Sound, and when overtaken by
the stcrm had taken refuge in a desert
ed shanty. Their provisions were soon
exhausted, and. also their fuel, and
then, although perfectly aware of their
peril, they set sail again, in hopes of
bringing up at some place where they
could get provisions. '
As a consequence of such rashness
they came near losing their lives. The
captain of the life-savers remarkedaf
terward that It was a pity to risk the
lives of good men to save the lives of
confirmed Idiots. Youth's Companion.
Where It Iteally Hurts.
"What do you thlnkof this Idea of
electing Senators by a direct vote of
the people?" .
"Well," answered Senator Sorghum.
I don't know that It would make n
great deal of difference to me, but it
would mean a considerable privation
to the members of my legislature "
Washington Star.
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Fait-KUinsr Bread.
milk and add enough flour to make a
very stiff batter before working It into
the risen dough. Mix thorouhgly, cover
and set again In a warm place to rise
until very light Turn into a wooden
bowl and work In enough batter to
make of the consistency of ordinary
bread dough. Make into loaves, set
these to rise and bake when light
Tea Cake.
A delicious tea cake that may easily
give your "five o'clocks" a deserved
reputation is thus made: Keserve the
white of one of six eggs, beating the
yolks to a stiff froth; add five ounces
of sugar ahd the same quantity of
almonds that have been blanched and
pounded fine In a mortar with three
ounces of flour, the grated rind of
half a lemon, one ounce of orange
peel cut very fine.- a dust of ground
cloves and half a teaspoonrul of cinna
mon. Finally the single beaten white
is quickly stirred In and the cake
baked In small round pans. Harper's
Bazar. :
rtaked Korea.
To bake eggs, cook a dozen eggs
hard, drop them Into cold water and
remove the shells. Arrange ten of the
eggs In a shallow dish, pour Bechamel
sauce over them, sprinkle the top with
the yolks of the two remaining eggs,
which have been powdered fine and
mixed with an equal quantity of bread
crumbs. Pour a little melted butter
over the top. garnish with triangles of
bread dipped In melted butter, and
place In a quick oven. When colored
a light brown, serve In the dish in
which they were cooked.
Mashed and Fried Kegplant.
- Peel and slice the eggplant and soak
all day in salted water. Drain, boil
tender in fresh water, or until much
of the water has boiled away, then
mash and set aside to cool. Add a tea
spoonful of baking powder . to the
mashed plant stir in a beaten egg. salt
and pepper and enough flour to make
the mixture like, cake dough. Drop by
the spoonful in deep, boiling fat and
fry to a good brown.
Waffles.
Into a bowl sift a pint of flour with
a teaspoonful of baking powder and
one of salt. Beat the yolks and whites
of three eggs separately, stir the yolks
into a pint of milk with a tablespoon-
rui or melted nutter. Mate a noie in
the flour and pour this liquid into it.
Beat all together and the stiffened
whites and pour the butter into the
greased waffle Iron.
Gluten Gem.
With two cups of gluten flour sift a
teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoou
f uls of baking powder. Beat two eggs
light stir them into a pint of milk and
pour this, with two teaspoonfuls of
melted butter, Into the sifted flour.
Stir smooth, then pour into greased
and heated gem pans and bake imme
diately in a hot oven.
-Gingersnaps;
Two cups of New Orleans molasses,
one cup of butter; put these on the
stove ana lei mem come io a uou.
Remove and add one teaspoonful of
soda and one of ginger. Add enough
flour to make a dough; roll thin and
cut out
Peanut Butter.
Pound or grind fresh-roasted pea
nuts to a powder and work into two
two tablespoonf uls . of this a heaping
tablespoonful of fresh butter. Spread
thin slices of bread with this paste.
Pineapple Cream.
Heat to the boiling point one can of
shredded pineapple. Strain half an
ounce of gelatine, which has been dis
solved In cold water, and add to the
pineapple. Remove from the fire, and
when it begins to chill stir in the
beaten whites of three eggs and half a
pint of cream. Pour into a mold and
set on Ice.
Tomato Soup.
Turn the contents of a can of toma
toes into a quart of beef stock aud.
simmer slowly for half an hour. Strain
out the tomatoesand return the soup to
the fire with a half-cup of rice that has'
soaked for ten minutes. Cook until
the rice is tender. Season with salt.
pepper, onion Juice and a teaspoonful
of granulated sugar and serve.
Dumplings. ,
Sift together a pint of flour, a tea
spoonful of baking powder and half a
teaspoonful of salt. Work into this a
heaping tablespoonful of butter and
moisten with a half pint of milk.-., Work
quickly to a light paste and drop into
the boiling gravy of the stew of what
ever you are cooking. Cook for ten
minutes before sending to the table.
Brief Bnjfgestion.
To remove paint or varnish marks on
glass, rub with a little warm vinegar
or witn tne eage or a copper coin
dipped in water.
To clean embossed silver articles, dis
solve an ounce of alum in two quarts
of strong soapsuds, wash the article In
it using a soft brush for the very or
namental part Rinse in cold water,
dry on a clean cloth and polish with
a chamois leather.
To make rice glue, mix rice flour '
smoothly wtth cold water and simmer
It over a slow fire, when it will form
a delicate and durable cement not only
answering all purposes, of common
paste, but well adapted for joining pa
per and cardboard ornamental work.
Nut cookies are made by creaming
ing two tablespoonfuls butter and one
cupful sugar; add three beaten eggs."
one-fourth of a teaspoonful salt three
tablespoonfuls milk and two cupful
peanuts or walnuts, chopped fine; add
Just enough flour to roll out out st;:r
hape and bake In a moderate oven."