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Exeter Advocate, 1903-7-2, Page 2About the. isesissinssemovniresse tiedWWWWWWWWWWWWVKItradfieder% B .rts rr r SleaSsao,aelogiateexastaaaetaaaaaao4 It Was, n Sten:fly eiglat in ilidhlwin- 'ter 'wile* the boy come. briugina in - Ito her dreary life the glory mut the anguish of loVe. She was sitting AlOnes in. the shop perlort awl her hard, angular face was softetwol elatost into beauty by the glow from, the dencirig Ammo. The eb,eap clod; on the mantlepieee threw his arms roundrher neck and kissed her for the iirst time. Sue made many o spenty meal and toiled at many a seeret piece of needlework- before she bad the jay of leyiug the coveted beetroot:tient in the boy's 'lends; but she Was milady repaid by one of hia rare ceresses and the confidences that lie penred into her willing gem. As she 1isterie4 to the boy's annele tbeee oreavs.s, and looked At his boo.utit'ul glOWIng feee, she liegan to dreene herself. /hiteire almuld be 4 gentleinan, She begen to work and to save in grim earuestwith a Oefinite purpose be- dtruck ten. She rase and began to 1''we- her, Whorl she had some money make prepa.retions far gOing to lred,1leiti by she teterld brave her father Xt was alreost certain that her fa-, auger and dee:moil et htnn that the eller 'would slot reotre that eahat, boy should belie hie chalice in life. She had /Weir neelieteened. Par mawand if 11° wonhl not Path then- she years now to Metthew Orainger's Ivnu somewhat ewe -tedious etehh/has huh The day Cara° when Dinks was owes% Ire would desert the shohlselemely investea with 4 wbite apt at ar rplopleuva notice and remote ram and installed in what Mr. away for der, sometimes thr theede, ,Grainger rather geandly called "the yew% ee wood rearm. hist ea aud- :busineee." The boy's thwarted ana- teeedy as 11, imi (vac:, away. and ,bition. eeethed within Wm, but he *alio his pleree behind the ceomter ao Cr05e4 tn r°12e1 QPenLY' Ile DI.°11'gb:4 geefly jAs it be had last stepped rti, down his violin without any attempt be dear to look at tke weather. iat concetilinent. and twistiug its She toele her coodle rood arseeedeod nee% frOM its body as if it bad been kiiv ParroW stairs; but before he ,, a livirog theta thrust it into the ere, kid reaehed the first landing she 114114 his father was never "Vexed now as sainted by a. hatich at the doer ibY beating 1.1113 bennt1.114 vn1" bnv" tea, hasty. mulles Krone,-, sot itt ett ,, into snatches at irrepreesible sou. like Matthew Oraor,ger's ponderous thud. She haeteried to the door. A gust Of wind aud sleet ewept in, exthigu- ishing the caedle in her hand, and a, Pan with a large bundle ha MS Anna. Wheel she Imew to boo her father, brushed poet her without a word. Sue Seettfed the door and haeteeed after him. He had laid his burden down one was standing in the Mid- dle of the room with his head sunk upon hes breast. The bundle ou the couelt stirred: a large rug fell to the floor, and Sue gasped with aatonistaseut. A boy, about seven years old, with /dusky curie ond a lovely dimpled rare, sat Sp and Wilfred at her out Of a pair or bright brown feyee. "0, you darling!" she cried, drop- ping en her twee by his aide. "Witiat is your name" "Ory name lis Birdie," snitt the child, "mid don't etrotie met fade Owe; poor bends ere rough and trey. not lilie my mammas." Poor Sue. In all her ilve-and- twenty years aloe bad never regret - There wos nu pathway out of the o detested *hop into the encbanted land of his dreams. and he despaired! with the eaaggerated hopelessnees Of tho young. Bet Sue never faltered; she worked ou, stomlily, and in titee had quite 4 reSpeCtitbie pile of eovete tette laid away be her corner draw- . Sue was sitting in the parlor morning buoy with her eternal tedieworle. when the 6W:op-door was wn open with suck force that noisy bell seemed as if it would ver leave off ringing. She rose went to attend to the customer; or elm alwee's relieved Dialf.8 of tbe erill duty of serving when she A tall4 handsome man. who looked teeny sizes too large for the little shop. wow baumeering vigorously up- on the counter With his stick. When Sue appearedthe dung a eign towards her. 'Change me that. Pletiae." he said. a slightly foreign =mt. "These Oak cabmen, thwer said alwaSs. ot tlie charge.'" There WaNn sudden vey from Bias wbo hOd ettrunk aNray behind a pile 1of soap. Ire darted out and grasped tett her lath of Iteouty as elle did at the straugees hands in his. that moment. ''His name is Matthew." interrupt- ed the 'mesh voice of Mr. Orehoger, "and he is to be called by that lame and no other," The boy' s face hardened curiously. "Mamma always called me 'links, be cond. "I don't like that other ugly mune, and 1 don't think that. I want to stay here et all; this is not a nice place, toed it smells very funny." Matthew Grainger frowned. °Ile means the shop," murmured thrush. The boy's beautiful eyes Sue. And, indeed. the mingled ode glowed with excitement. Ile threw ors of soap and bacon and coflee tee, ets h,,„a e„a ;„ molurat the were rather overpowering to a ° "r' "`"‘" ""'" "" "— corm -non little shop was flooded with stranger. "The shop!" exclaimed the boy. PIO) Sou keep a shop, father? Don't you go to the theatre, like enanimar A dull, red flush dyed the muds face. Ile cought the child by the arra, end set him before him. "You ere not to talk aboue the theatre here," he said; "you have done with that plate for ever. X have brought you here to make an botoest tradesman of you, and don't let no hear you say agate that you don't like your home." "Are you an honest tradesman, father?* said the boy. "Yes, Thank Heaven, X ran." "Then / Would rather not be one,, thank you," said the child. politely. "I am going to be a. geatleraan, and sing like Signor Maerano." "Leave that scoundrel's name elonee. "He is a very nice man; he taught me to sing. I love Signor Macrame and so does nuumnit: In a. sudden access of passion he lifted his hand and struck the child a sharp blow on the face. Sue caught the boy in, her arras, and turned with flashing eyes upon her father. "How dare you?" she panted. "I don't know what all this means; but you have no right to hurt the child." "No right!" he cried, in a voice thick with passion. "The boy is my own son, and the child of a. mother ho has blighted my life." "Ile can't help what his mother has done. You aught to be asham- ed to punish a chiid for a woman's sin." If a Iamb had turned and bit him Matthew Grainger could hardly have been more astonished. Ile looked at Sue as if she had suddenly gone Mad. She carried the child up to her own bed, and watched him until he fell asleep, with a passion of tenderness in her heart which it was certain that his pretty, feather - headed mother had never felt for the boy. Binks pined in liis new home like a transplanted flower. Sue thought that he was fretting for his mother, and stole up to his bedside one night to comfort him. She Smooth- ed leis eurls with her work -worn hands, and whispered loving words into his ears. The child turned upon his pillow and looked at her with strange, un - childlike look in his beautiful eyes. "I am not crying, about mamma," he said, with a touch of scorn in his yo ice. "No? What is wrong, then, darl- ing?" - - "I an prying because father broke my violie and because I Shall never grow to be a gentleman here." ''But what difference would a Violin make? You could not play one if you had it." "Me not play!" flashed the boy: "I can play, and sing too. Signor Macrano taught me," "I will get you a violin if you think that La, will make you any 'meeker. dear," said Sue, gareved well delight. He **Signor Macranol he gasped, .ith a sob of rose The man stared at him for a mo- ment, then his faro paled mut his full lip quivered slightly. "I will he banged if It is not my little friend Zink's," he buret out at last. "How come you here? You with the angers voice. LlaVe you forgotten ell I taught you? Maw you forgotten how to sing?" Me sang a few notes himself in sweet. MU -throated voice like a devinest melody, such, as surely had never been heard in such a place be- fore. "Good!" cried the stranger. "And so the English fool makes a grocer of the boy with God's song -bird in his throat. Jove! It is a siht as big as putting a skylark in a pie." 'Save me, signor," cried the boy, -with all the fervency of prayer. "Take me away from this hateful place and teach me to sing." "Dines, my dear," cried Sue. "you cannot go with this man. roather would jill you if he knew that you had ever spoken to him." Dinka shook her off impatiently. "What does it matter about fa- ther?" he said. Signor Macron° can teach me to sing." The man scribbled down anaddress and handed it to the boy. '-'Come sea me there," he said; "we talk things over." Ile turned away, and Minks, with- out a word to Sue, rushed upstairs. Ten minutes later the little bell clanged again. Sue hastened to the door, and saw the boy flying down the street. Through the long bours of the night Sue sat by the dead fire, and it was only when the grey light of the new day came stealing in that She crept away to her oWn. roots.. The little corner drawer stood open, encl the money, the savings of so many painful years, was gone. Sur broke into wild weeping, for she knew now, without a shadow of doubt, that I3inks, her boy, her idol, had gone from her, never to return. * * * * * * Two years had passed away, and Matthew Grainger had been laid in his grave a week before. Sue was sitting over her solitary tea when the door opened softly and a gentle- man stepped in. She started up with a great cry of gladness. Xt was Binks, her boy come back to her once More. She clung about his neck, sobbing and laeghing for joy.' "I suppose you are a, great singer now, dear?" she said, looking up at hiin with fond eyes. "Pretty well," he said. "But I want a year in Paris before I can take my place at the top of the tree." "Are you going to Paris, Binks?" "I am, if I can get the money. How did the old man leave things, Sue?" Sue shook her head sadly. "He left everything to me, Bink. Ile would do it In spite of everything that I could say." "What a jolly shame, when I was his only son!" "But it need not make any differ- ence, Binks," she said, earnestly. "It is all yours, just the same as if father had left it to you." His face lighted up instantly. He stooped and kissed her. "You always were a brick, Sue," he said. "It is a Indy little busi- ness and ought to fetch a decent une'' "You mean to sell it?" she "Of course,** he said. "A seep is no good to !nes and I mita the money badly. But you shall not suffer Sue. When. I return. from Fee. is Yea sball eente ep to town. end keep, hoime for me. Aid I thoeght you would like that," Sue lived upon that hope through nutny dreary months while thinhe was in Paris, and elm eked out A scanty liviug with her needle, Thee Mee A day when hope died out of her life for ever. A letter reeohed her addresSed in a strange hand, and it told her that Itinlea was dead. He had died et fever. =meg etrang- . era in a strange land. She bed taken home some were; one morning, and was shown into a, sitting -zoom to wait for the lady of the lionise. It was 4 pretty room, with boolew and work scattered about it. Sue glanced carelessly at an open magazine. The mixt nue ment she snatched it up aud rushed with it to the window. Yes; sbe bad made no raista.ke. It was the Mee of Binles that smiled at her from the page. There was another face loeside bis -a girlish face, pretty and happy- , and they were both entwined With 4 wreath of truedaver's knots. She, began to read eagerly; then , She 1a14 the paper down with a sob of disappoirdineet. Although the Illaa was a great siuger, he Was not her Ilinrs. Ile was Otto Torricelle 'For goodness' sake don't go out crying," be said; "the servants would be sure to suspect semething. If you could keep it up about the old servant, and net mind ting your malls bn the hoesekeeper's room, yea eAght stay for 4 few Says; but you mamba have to give up ealling pao thet ridiculous name, You might call me Meister Otto; that is the kind of thing Old servants Al- ways do." But Sue tearfully declined tbis hospitable invitation mid passed out alone into the bliuding sunshine. One thought beat upon her brain with pitiless persisteuest-- "lainks was ashamed of her; he had moor loved her. It would be better for Desks if she were dead," * • * The first glory of the summer had departed wine, Sue walked the dreary London Streets. Just out- side a newspaper boy rushed past her shoetong tot the top of his "Dangerous illness of Torricellil Torricelli reported (Wing!** it- was true. The great singer had been struck dOWn by diphtheria mei lay at the point of death. An boom later Sue had fought her way past insolenb servants, past doctors and trained tomes. to the eiel where the Man she loved toy, lighting a hopeless betas with hia grim foe. A look of anxiety abaci - the eon of a great Italian noble. caved his dila ee'es at the sight of whore family had dieowned bhn be bete Sue understood the leek; and couse of his devotion to MUSIC. The 'enewered it. magazine article was an =mint of "Master Otto." sho said, "they are the unirriage of the great after and griing to let me help to Miran you, Miss Veronica Horton the only ibecause no otie Can understand you daughter of a wealthy MX, It also gave a brief sketch of the' bride., groom's biography. Ilia adventures had been numerous and romantic and thrilling in the extreme; but there was uothing at all about a, general shop in an ugly little towu or of a. sister who had sacrificed her all to help hiut on tho roaa to tor - tune. iIse well as your old nurse, who nureed you when you were a Iris look of relief sent a pang through ber heart. But from thut Omer she never left him. Everything that science and skill could do was '!done; but the battle went hopelessly lagainst poor Dinka. ! It was in the middle of tho night. Sue and one of the muses were She would go to London and ece psbering tho night watch when he this great man who looked at bee' et arted up, struggling for breath in I with, the eyes of bee lost boy. parONysra nt agony. It was a. lovely afternoon in June!! Thd P"r"-'0 1"113 her band on Sun. Mau Sue stood on the steps of the Arts, inauShall where the great singer lir- i °Don't tenth blind' she said. "it ed. Every window was bright with.' will alt over in five miniotes," "to f music float- But, Sue bent over him, and e, turn- ed out upon the summer air. She tato later he was ilyiug beck upon the rang the bell timidly. and the door pillow vent and exhausted, but was thrown open by 4 inagniticent breathing as softly and naturally as personage in gorgeous apparel, who a stared eerenely over her head. The some looked at /we with awe. "1 want to see Mr. Torricelli," Ms* said Sue, in a low voice. "You hove touched the tube!" she "Hal why couldn't you send a let- ,gdsPeth "Why did you do thee? ter? He's bout." lion'to you know. that it may cost The great door was shut in her you your life?" fave: loot the next moment it wits' Sue did not answer. She wee wild thrown open again and a lady steto- peel out. Sue knew her at once. She was the pretty girl whose portrait was beside that other face in the magazine. "Did you Visit to see me?" aloe asked, sweetly. "I wished to see Mr. Tonga:411, madam, though I 'know that it is a great liberty," said Sue. "Not at all," said the lady, "Come In. I am expecting my bus- vawould have done what you have band every moment. Aid ben, be done for me Even I, who love him, ,nt 12."•COUld not have done it. Tell me, by A carriage drew up bolero the door, -what ly up the steps, dear name Anil X remember and a man jumped out and ran light,- Sue's heart gave a great leap; for it WAS Bitilts, and no other. She rim forward with outstretched hands and his name upon her lips; but she was frozen into silence by the frown upon his face. He recovered himself in a =Wont aud counts forward smiling. "Why, Susan," be said, "It is in - dead a surprise to see you in Lon - dote" Then he turned to ins wife. "This is an old servant of our family," he explained. "She vra.s always most absurdly attached to me. Don't let me keep you from your walk, my love. Susan am sure, would like to have a chat with me about old throes." Sue followed him into a luxurious- ly furnished room, and tbe moment they were alone he locked the door and turned upon her fiercely, "How dared you do this?" he cried. "Erow dared you come here and bring disgrace upon me?" "Oh, Binks!" she wailed. "Are you not glad to see me?" "Glad to see you! Why, good heavens!' you could ruin me. What did you say to that mart?". "What mau, Milks?" "Why, Charles, the footman, of course. Did you dare to tell him that was your brother?" "I didn't tell him anything," said Sue, meekly. "I had no chance of speaking; he shut the door in my face." "Thank heaven for thatl" ex- claimed Binks, fervently. "Why, it would have been all over the place to -night. Those newSpaper men would give any money for a tale like that"- , ' -- Sue, weeping bitterly, began to groupe her way to the door. (mg tile damp down from the face of her boy. "You are sure that be is wit of danger?" "Quite awe. Yon saved his life, Susan.'" * * o The pretty bride's tears wore fall - lug fast. She Woweti the dying 1womiuds head upon her breast. 1. "Tell me the tattle" she 'whisper - "ed. "You aro no servant; no ser - you in my prayers?" Site looked wistfully into tbe sweet km The film of death was already on her eyes. "Old servant of the family," sae murmured. "But so fond, oh. so very fond of Bin -Master Otto." And so with a lie upon her toying lips Sue floated out to the dark sea that beats upon the shores of our little life. -London Answers. 1 WOULDN'T TAKE A no.T. "Polite society" is often at its wits' end to devise means of getting rid of people who are not wanted as callers or visitors, but who will not take a hint, for polite society can- not say in so many words, "X do not want you to come again." Frenoh paper repeats this dia- logue between two ladies: - “And So you still receive that dreadful Orme. Coraeagain?” "Irapossible to get her to take a hint. Do you know, once When. she called I never offered her a chair."" "And what was the result?" "leesult? Why, the next time she caane she brought a folding camp. stool." Mistress -"That was a very nice letter of Patrick's ofiering you mar- riage, Mary. What shall I say in reply for you?" Mary -"Tell him, mum, if you plaze, that when I get my wages raised next month, MUM, rn begin to save for the wedding things." Summer Boarder -dr thought your advertisement said something about boating?" Farmer -"Oh, yes. We have a boat and oars -only some- times the creek dries up,", Little Mose--Lawdy! Ef I's ed. white boy! as pale as I fecls, 1 mus TABIdld PACKING. There -are but. tato thinge neces- sary for faultless trunk -packing" - time and tissue paper. It is abso- lutely necessary to take the time to sort out and fold elothee carefully and At them -te the space of yew trunk, then to fill ovet7 crushable sleeve or pull or fold with. reale al tissue paper. Poch your shirt.% Pet- ticoats, lingeri and negligees in the bottom of the trunk, your waists in the speciet trays, and your bats in the hat -trays, unless you are willing to bother with a, hat box, which is touch better, -Vold a skirt with the side seams folded lengthwise, leaving tho front gore net, mita_ it is just the width of the trunk; them place it full length et the trunk, folding the top over, and fitting in a roll of paper in the fold. Never fold a, skirt three or four tittles and put it haphaezard 10 ad Pert of the trunk,, or it is bound to he ruined. All fancy waists should he *oohed together, studed with paper, ani the stuffed sleeves tale Owe to the sides. Place the waist lightly in a, commodious tray, and with long pins pin tight in the tray. Shirt waists are not stuffed with piper. but are laid flat in the epee Mid trey. It they aro at light mant terial. a. little paper may be placed under the fronts to keep them from egging. Hat trimmings are puffed out with paper, the crown is stuffed full of paper, and the hat pinned in tbe tray. It 13 a great mistake to stuff our bats and waists with heavy wearing apparel. It only does in- jury by ailditional crushing. Do not peel; books, and little box - s with elothes. Fill the corners of, be trunk with stooldngs, and any mail Wives ot Ilinffirio, and put books and baxes in a shawl -strap, and all toilet articles in a hand -hag. /n leaching neetea dathes,, fold the, trousers in the front and back creas- es. lit them in the leragth of the trunk, arid turn up at the foot, placing tiesue paper in the fold. In folding any sore of coat, first lay the coat on a table, then niece the sleeves flat on the back pieces, and last turn the fronts over the eves, and pack the coat tido width essible. If too wide, then fold togotber down the middle of the back. No tiseue paper is needed in the coat unless It is in this last. told, or unless a very little paper is need - el at the top of the sleeves. Where them is no special tray in a maids trunk, pack the shirts in the flat emend tray, filling in the corn- ers with Ser1,19 and underwear. 11 is dangerous experinient to try to peek a moods slit: hat in a trunk. You see, it cannot be pinned in Unlit, and the least slipping about is ruinous. A bat box is almost in- dispensable with a dress hat. TO CLEAN DItESS SNIRTS. The average black skirt of woolen material comes in for renovation of- tener than any other, and nothing repays the tirao spent upon it better. When it begins to look gray or rus- ty, It may be brightened by rubbing on the right side with equal pities of alcohol and wriem water, a.nd iron- ing on the wrong side while still damp. Black alpaca can be made to look like now by sponging in strong coffee and pressing on the wrong side with a hot iron. Nearly all kinds of woolen goods will wash well, and an old skirt may be re- newed without buying anything real- ly new for it. If the old skirt linings are good they may be washed, starched and used again. The canvas facing may be made quite stiff by going over it with a brush dipped in a strong so- lution of white glue and water, then iron it and the facing will be as good as new. Soap bark is excellent for washing black goods, and delicate colors may be washed in the suds without fear of fading. Put 10 cents worth of soap bark to soak over night in three guarts of warm. water. The nextmorningstrain through thin muslin into a tub ,balf full of warm, soft water anii wash the goods by pressing and squeezing between the hands; never rub on the washboard or wring by hand. Wash through two such waters 1! the goods is much soiled; then rinse thoroughly, hang on. the lino until alnaost dry, and press on, the wrong side. The goods av111 not have a fresh new ap- pearance unless it has been very carefully ironed. Washing with tho soap bark suds may be all that is necessary to make : goods look fresh and new, biet If the material -is good, and it has become rusty or faded, it is well worth re - coloring. Any kind of black goods can be recolored a jet black by dip- ping the skirt or the pieces, after the eleirt has been ripped apart, in black diamond dye . for wool, and light cloth will take any of the rich dark shades. By changing the color, the best parts of an old skirt or Woolen material may often be used to make a waist, and proper press- ing and neat finishing may be all that is necessary to xna,ke if as nice as a new one. look lak a ree-sarres valid who cannot det peas but iQllge ter the relish of them. Green Pea Soup.-09ok ono quart of pees until soft, thee numh and edit One pint of the weter la which thOY Were cooked end strain. Put two /mat tablespoons of Amer Malt saiteepan, add two rottudieg tablespoons of butter and rub tee gather until smooth, add one cep of cream anci one cup of mere, seeseti with salt and pepper tool add to the soup. Let it boil up °nee; Peaa wiiich ore tclo0 old te eerve PlAr other way may be used for soup, Steamed Indian Pudeing.--efie to- gether "twe cups of cornmeal, one elm of ryemeal, two cups of sour milk, the tablespoons of molassea and +me letal teaspoteri of sett. Dis- solve a eligetly roundieg teaspocon of soda in a little warm weter and add else oneehalf cup of raisins rolled in gene. steene in a tin mold three' and one-itelf hoitra or even eau- houra will do no berm. Serve with, •rololasses sauce. Boil together for twenty minutes oue etop of tuelaseee, one -halt cup of water, two level teat ;Toone of butter. a salt spoon et salt end three tablespoons ef vine- gar. Feather Itolls.-Meit two level Areblespoons of butter in one cup of scalding hot milk; when biliewaria pet i onetOelf ;meet cake. oue bet en egg. one level tablespooti of Mom and a ealtspoon of salt. When the yeast is diseolved stir in one cup and a loalf et well dried flour and beat three minutes. rt, should be too thick for a batter mid net thick enough for a dough. Cover with heated cloth and set in 4 warulf place eo rise for about two hours, The texture will Ito better it it ia beaten down, andallowed to rise agoan before putting into tins. With a tablespoon dipped In flour All small roll pans with the batter, bay- ing them a little more than half tull. Let them rise until the pans are full and balm ten or fifteen minutes in a. hot oven. The oven should be very quick. Creamed Now Potetoese-Scrope and cook email new potatoes in sat- ed water. drain and add enough. milk to gover. When thie boils add a level tablespoon ef dourmade smooth in e. little milk, and ono beaten egg for potatoes enough to serve four people. Pour the thick- nng and egg In elowly and stir to prevent iuzpps, Season with salt d pepper. A CAN OF SALMON. Cream Salmon.-Talte ono can of Salmona pint of milk, two table- spoonfuls each of cornstarch and butter; ono tablespoonful of salta, teaspoonful of pepper, and two cams of bread or -cracker crumbs, Cream the butter and cernstarch In a Wein over the Ara pour in the milk and stir until smooth, season- ing with salt and pepper. Butter a pudding dish, put in 4, layer of bread and cracker crumbs, then a layer of salmon, and next a. layer tof the white sauce. Repeat the opera- tion until aft the ingredients aro used, baving buttered crumbs at the top. Bake quickly. Sebum" Croquettes. -Take one small can of salmon, two eggs, but- ter the Size Oi an egg, two table- spoonfuls of rolled crackers, ono teaspoonful of salt, one-balf tear spoonful of pepper. Beat a togeth- er, make into small cakes, and fry In hot lard. Escalloped Saltsion.-Talte one can or salmon, picked up fine; butter al pudding dish, put in a layer cot craoker crumbs on the bottom, than a layer of salmon with bits of but- ter, salt and pepper, a trite of to- mato and a little milk. Proceed in this way until the dish is full, hav- ing buttered crumbs at the top. Add milk to make quite moist, and bake one-half hour in, a quick oven. . a - NOT SMART twouGa. GOOD THING -S. TO EAT. Creamed Green. Peas. -Cook the peas 1 boning water until It will take but five minutes to, finish cook- ing. Mix one tup of cream with one lairel tablespoon each of but.ter and flour, add also -a little salt and, add to .the peas, cook five minuthe long- er and serve, 'Ilds amount of cream will do for one quart of peas. Pea Broth. -Cook green peas in water to cover until done -arid strain off the water. Season it with salt aud a little butter or cream and it - Will make a delicate broth for an in - "11,,thert X was a young man," said a commercial traveler, "I was ratit- or fond of displaying my smartness when visiting country districts. The The people there, however, proved more than a match for me on one occasion. "While resting on a summer's day at a country inn I entered into con- versation with some farmers and proceeded to parade my smartneas as a townsman. "After a time a.n old. 1arm,er pro- posed, as a little diversion, that eaeh person present should have a suacer of sugar placed in front of him, and the mao whose saucer first ‘, attracted a. fly should pay for re- freshments for all the rest. "I entered heartily :nto the joke, but was a little chagrined when the first fly alighted in my saucer. How- ever, I paid up and looked pleasant, and when the refresb,ments were fin- ished sat down for another turn, confident that this tirao the fly would claim a rustic. victim. "Judge of my astonishment when two fle.s paid a visit to my saucer, quite ign.oring those of my com- panions. Amid a chorus of snorts and guffaws I again paid, and then, a little surprised, not to say ireysti- fied, I departed. "It was not until seine time, af- terwards that I became aware of the joke which had been practiced upon me. Those wily old farmers were in league with the landlord, who had seen to it that, while my saucer held powdered sugar, theirs contained salt." Small Politician -"I want to talk to you, sir, about a remark you made 'respecting me in your paper. You called me a political jobber, sir!" Editer-"Yes, it was a very annoying typographical error, and I proraptly dismissed the conapositor.". Small Poilticiats-"Ah! Then you didn't mean to call me -a jobber'?" Editor --"No, sir; I wrote robber'- ,-,. very distinctlya". , esete The herring fithers on the East Coast of Seetland and the Orkney arid Shetland Islands caught in in weeks 930 million herriegsattougli to give all the inhabitants a barring each for breakfast everY mornidg Uir six month.