times ramotraiea, thomasvdl.-le, Georgia, junb 3,1904.
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WALTER BLOOMFIELD,
' CoprrKht UK, tar Bum wrart Ion.
V CHAPTER XIV hlfh powers? But for my lore
• * , ' __ Constance Marsh the question whether
T ’* 0Blrr ' there exists a hidden treasure In our
The human mind, though busiest house or not would only languidly In
when exchanging Ideas In conversation terest me. ’ Che sara sera. Now will 1
wtto others, dives depest in solitude. u gllt my lantern and go below. If—
Probably no case was_ ever profoundly Heavens! what was that?
considered unless the student was i turned about In a fright ns great
nloue, and never so profoundly as „ that of a thief disturbed In his ne-
when Involuntarily—whep the mental fgrlooi WO rlt, yet It was nothing more
faculties dre so absorbed In contom- than a gentle tapping on the outside
platlon of one subject that diversion o[ my door , j t was now a quarter of
from It Is ’aa being awakened front an hour past midnight, and my father
aleep. and.the servants should have been In
I experienced this truth when—hav- hed at least two hours. As I glanced
Ing retired to my room, set down the at my watch the tapping was repeated,
lantern, and exchanged my boots for gg g()nt i y gg before. I am ashamed
slippers—I placed my elbows on the to confei , how much this simple dr-
mantelpiece end my head upon my cn matance alarmed me.- I listened in
hand:, and stood so for I know not te ntly for a minute, conscious of noth-
how long. That such was my attitnde Ing hot the loud ticking of my watch
for not less than two hours I am sure gnd t j, e violent throbbing of my heart,
from the Interruption which dispelled wben the tapping was repeated a third
my reverie. time, still very softly. With a great
I bad emptied my pockets, and all eI[ort j disguised my terror, and called
the money I possessed—six sovereigns ont boldly—
and some odd shillings—ley before pm “Who’s there?’
on the mantelpiece. Perhaps It was „ It . g onljr mgi Master Ernest,” re-
tbo sight of these few coins which led p I|ed tIlg feeble voice of John Adams
me to review my experiences of tjie -what do you want?” I asked, fling
past twelve days, and to seriously ask , ng t h e d#0 r wide open,
myself for the last time before seek- « Are you ni? j, there anything I
lug assurance by actual essay, what ^ d0 tor yo u?” Inquired the old
were my chances to And the treasure man
which bhd been deposited In the crypt
beneath my father's bouse. That the
treasure of which I had that day read
bad been disposed of as described by
my ancestor, I did not for a moment
doubt; that such a treasure should be
suffered to rest undisturbed for more
than two hundred years, there were
many reasons to doubt. Yot was It
not distinctly asserted by Roger True
man that the treasure was in the Ab
bot's Cell In the crypt-that it was to
remain there until he built a hospital?
Might not. the brlcked-up arch which
my aunt Gertrude had noticed when
she went <frer Holdenhurst Hall bo
this same Abbot's Cell alluded to by
my ancestor; and might not the reason
for Its being bricked up be to secure Its
contents? And If that were so, could
Its contents be other than the quarter
of a million Venetian sequins which
had sd strangely fallen Into my ances
tor's possession and been as strangely
bestowed by him? It must be so. No
one of my family had ever built or
endowed a hospital—no one of them
had ever possessed so much money
as a quarter of a million -sequins, un
less it wero this same Roger Trueman;
cud Had tp large a sum of money been
found In pur bouse and appropriated
by any member of my family at any
period I could not have failed to hear
of it. Yes; the money must certainly
be there, and I would presently go be
low and look at It, ond my father and
I would fetch It upstairs In the morn
ing. Then would my father and I In
sist on,returning to unde Sam the
money which ho had so generously
given to us; then would I ask Con
stance Marsh to become my wife;
.then—
What a thing Is money—the epitome
of all men's desires! Why, those six
small yellow counters lylug on the
shelf before me would buy the hard
dally labor of ah East Angllnn giant,
who to- gain them would sweat and
toll In the parched fields from sunrise
to sunset for twelve weeks—wages
current this last quarter of the nine
teenth century. For loss than two of
them will not n loan labor In darkness
In the bowels of the earth with oau-
Slant peril to life or limb, or stand be
fore a roaring furnace, or work in the
noxious air of a factory amid the mad
dening whirl of machinery for a weak,
esteeming himself fortunate if such
slender means of life so earned be not b ]y betrayed,
denied him? For want of these same once In the enttance hall, I again
counters has not a loving husband and , rauscd- All was still and quiet as the
athn, n’stplted Ills wife nine and his — riMvn mv lantern. I
man.
"No, I am not 111, and there is noth
Ing you can do for me. Why do you
trouble me with such an absurd In
quiry?'
”1 thought I heard you walking
about, and that I saw a light In your
room,”
“Why, I have not moved offAho
hearth-rug these two hours or more,
and the only light here Is that taper
on the mantelpiece.”
"You are not angry with me, Master
Ernest?’ pleaded the old man.
"No, no; why should I be? You are
very attentive. Go to bed at once."
t i watched the old man as he slowly
walked away along the corridor car
rying a lighted candle In one band,
and shading Its flame with the other,
and did not re-enter my room until
after I had heard his door close.
This simple incident abated much
of my courage, and caused me to post
pone my visit to the crypt for a full
hour. I was very anxious and ner
vous, but not to be, deterred from car
rying out my resolve. At half-past one
o'clock I quietly emerged from my
room, closing the door behind me as
noiselessly as possible. In one hand
I carried a lantern—lighted, but with
tho wick turned so low that It emitted
only a feeble gleam—and In the other
a riding whip without a thong, on the
butt of which a heavy hammer was
mounted—an Instrument used by my
sporting forefathers for opening ob
stinate flvo-barred gates. I tried to
persuade myself that I carried this
weapon solely to assist In removing
any lumber or other, inanimate ob
struction which might lie between me
and tho object of my search, and not
for defense—an Ingenious but unsuc
cessful attempt at self-deception.
Tho light from my lantern, feeble
though It was, caused my form to cast
an enormously exaggerated shadow
on the floor and wall of the corridor.
The carpets had been removed from
the corridor and stairs, a clrcumstnncc
I bad not considered, and despite my
soft slippers and careful tread, a dis
tinctly audible and weird creaking pro
claimed each step I set. I paused for
a moment outsldo Old John's door. It
was closed and all was dark and silent
within. Tho creaking of the stairs was
so loud that had any Inmate of our
houso chanced u> have been lying
swako my errand must have Infallt-
father watched his wife pine and his grovp. Setting dc-wn my lantern, I
child die? Answer, you who have toot trom Iny p0 eV^t a huge key 1 had
been Up and down this England of becn carc f U l to abstract from its ac-
onrs, yqu who have traversed her cugtomc a place a few hours before,
towns and villages, you who know how and w i,| c h opened a door In a stlll-
thc poor live and how they die, Is It ,. oom at tlle ba C k (,f the entrance hall,
not so? Why, In the towns of Chris- whence a steep flight of steps led down
tlau England. Is every man plucked , ut0 tb o cry pt. There was now no
by the sleeve who passes along the (ur t llcr danger of disturbing anybody,
Uyeway? What Is tho cause? Lust? and j cntl , red the stlllroom with con-
Nny: dire need of a pitifully few silver fl d enee, but was annoyed to And the
counters, and the Inability of hundreds door w Htcti opened on the steps which
St thousands of women to gain them lc( , t0 tbe crypt landing partly open;
Uy means more honorable. Even 1, and reproached myself for my care-
whose life has nqt yet run to two dee- i C8Bne , B -for doubtlei* I was the last
ados, and who have always lived ro- [)0rgou there—regarding the circum-
moie from the buly haunts of men. 6ta aee as additional proof of my nsr-
ennnot but knows these truths; and is yungness. However, It could not mat-
1* npt wrong lu one who has youth, te r, and I pushed open the door yet
leisure, and the luxuries of life to so wider and boldly descended Into the
passionately desire to grasp this tress- cryp t.
ure, which he has done nothing to no- i Had not visited the crypt since 1
,julre and which certainly la not his! conducted my aunt Gertrude through
Hut a' few dayo ago, and the whole Ui and perhaps less than half a dosen
spirit of greed was foreign to my ua- t i mes before. Certainly 1 had not pre
tut*; 1 now la my whole betug doml- v ( oua | y observed It so closely ae I now
uated by It. Alas, can it be that Love. dld It was a j arge vault, built en-
puttst of patalons, evokes Avarice? tlrely of stone, the malnway of It be-
Kot desire of that which Is necessary lng an apar tmeat about eighteen feet
in compaaolng a natural and laudable w ; da and as long as tbe house—that
munition la not avarice. These ee- ; a to say, a hundred and ten feet—
qutoa.aie necessary to me If I em to W lth eight arched recesses on either
trlu the fftri upon whom I have set a |de, whereof the one to which I was
- heart; nay, more, perhaps they bound differed nothing from the others
have been reserved In this t mysterious except to being closed by a brick wall
wav for this special object. Hart at the front. Tho malnway was toler-
not tbs wto* tutu or tho earth to every ably clear, hut ntarly all the rtcetats
er* ascribed what an sommenl} aaUtd were filled with milesU*nsous torn-
wmsrive to th» srdarly Intm of bar, for to. awt part ancient and n»
collar—terrestrial end celestial globes,
telescopes, retorts, crucibles, and
strange Instruments of which I did
not know the names, doubtless tho
whole of them long ago rendered
worthless by modem and Improved
means of scientific Investigation. Nob
withstanding my extreme eagernefe
to accomplish the object of my visit
to this place, I provedeed but slowly
<m my way, looking Into each recess,
first on tbe right andi then on tbe left,
resolving to.tborongUy examine every
object In It nfter I bad Informejd my
father of my magnifleent discovery.
My splrite were greatly elated; for
indeed It was scarcely possible that I
should now be disappointed, my great-
cat fear—that tbe workmen employed
about the house had Jipen Into the
crypt to use It as a store for their tools
and materials—being dispelled, tot no
sign of them or their {belongings was
anywhere to be seen.
In this mood I reached tbe Abbot’*
Cell, and. having turned- up the wick
of my lantern, stood before. It ond
considered it Yes, there It was; and
'its aspect was ihe same as wben my
attention was first called to It by aunt
Gertrude. And now, how was I to re
move so mucb of thle brick acreen ua
would enable me to get through to
where the treasure chests were con
cealed? I observed with Joy that the
mortar between the bricks, from age
and want of timely repair, was Dearly
all crumbled and gene; but though I
could have drawn a few of the bricks
out of their placer with the eld of
my hammer, I refrained from doing ao
for fear of tbe upper brlcka falling up
on me, which from Jbelr loose appear
ance seemed more than probable.
To get o couple of boxes, stand them
on end one upon the other and mount
to the top, was the work only of a
few minutes. I then applied my ham
mer as a lever to force .up one of the
topmost bricks, and was surprised to
And that It was merely laid In Its place
and not attached In any way to Ito
fellows. This wa» the case with an
other, ond yet another. Why, all the
bricks were perfectly loose—merrily
piled one upon another as a child
builds bouses with wooden blocks,
I removed more than a hundred
bricks which formed the upper ixvws
by simply lifting tbem one by one and
laying them aside upon the floor.
When n sufficient number bad been re
mpved to enable me to see what waa
within, I stood my lantern on what
waa now tbe top of the wall and, with
feelings of Intense satisfaction and
delight, beheld several square black
chest* at the end of tbe recess. For
getting in the excitement of the mo
ment that tbe wall with .which I waa
dealing waa only aucb to appearance,
I leaped on to tbe top of tl, and by
aid of my hand* 1 dropped down on the
Inside, pulling a large part' of the
structure Inwards with mo and dash
ing my lantern to the ground .with so
much force that the glass was broken
and tbe Ught extinguished.
Fortunately I waa not unprovided
for such an emergency, as, being ^ a
smoker, It was my custom to carry
matches. I soon extricated my lan
tern from among the bricks which
had fallen with It, and having relit It
proceeded to examine my snrronnd-
Ings. At the cud of the recess stood
the black chests which I hod noticed
from the outside, orderly disposed In
three rows, three chaste In a row—one
chest less than I had expected to find.
Looking about me marc particularly,
I beheld with dismay tbe tenth chest
nearly In the middle of the apartment,
with a half-burned candle protruding
from the neck of n bottle tind an or
dinary up-to-date box of inatebea
standing upon It; at sight of which my
burning hope fell to sero. Having re
moved tho candle and matches, I
tapped the cheat with my hammer; It
was resonant. I lifted It; It weighed
scarce ten pounds, and the lid fell off
on to tho floor. 1 held my lantern
close and scrutinized It eagerly, and—
Oh, cruel fate!—It bore every sign of
having been recently opened; the thick
black paint was grazed In a way that
denoted the action ,of a double-pointed
crowbar as freshly'as If the cbest bad
been forced open an; hour ago. I stood
It down, ran to tbe other chests, and
quickly moved them from where they
stood. Not one of them contained any
thing, but each of them bore the same
uumlstnkable traces of recent viola
tion as I bad observed upon the first
Mad with rage and disappointment,
I quitted the recess In the manner I
had entered It, pushing outward a lot
of loose bricks In thc act, and was
striding rapidly along the malnway
with Intent to go at once to my father
and tell him all, when, an object met
my gaze which arrested my progress
and almost stupefied me with terror,
lu a recess near to the door by which
l hod entered the crypt crouched the
figure of a man, bis back towards me
the better to conceal a small lamp
which he carried.
I was never robust, and my break
down at this critical Juncture must
In Justice be ascribed to natural weak
ness rather than to cowardice. My
first impulse was to rush nt the In
truder and strike him dotvu with my
hammer, but all power of locomotion
had deserted me. I tried to shout for
help, but my tongue refused its office,
and. involuntarily relaxing my grasp
of my lantern and weapon, I sank In-
•nslble to the ground.
To be continued.
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT;
Simple Home Experiment.
Clinching • Barents >° China.
When you engage a servant or make
a bargain In Cblna it is not considered
binding until the “fastening penny”
has been paid. Although bis bad faith
is notorious In some matters, yet, to
do him Justice, when ouce tnis coin has
bean paid by you tbs Chinaman, coolie
or shopman, will gtnerslly stick to 1
his bargain, avail If tka mult ta hist i
ba lets- . - ‘
This la a very amusing and interest
ing experiment and also ao instructlvo
one. I suppose you know how to make
a wine glass or a thin goblet “ring”
by wettlug your finger and rubbing It
around tbe rim of tbs gloss, and that
you know, also, that yon can -Change
the musical nots which tbe gloss sings
by pouring to water. Now, lf,you ti7
two glasses cf tbs same sot-yon will
find that, although they look exactly
alike, they do not give exactly the
same note wben you rub them.with a
wet dnger. But the two notch will be
so nearly tbe samo that a little water
poured Into one glass or tbs oton will
make tbem exsetiy tbe tame, Wben this
Is done tbe glasses srs said to bs in
tune with each etbsr, or to bo "In uni
son.” I am supposing tbat you have a
fairly good musical ear, so tbat you
can tell whether two note* are to tune
with each other, but we shall oto pree-
rapldly—so rapidly and for ao short ■
distinct that you cannot see them
move. Tbe vibration Is carried partly
through tbe air, but chledy through
the table to tbe other glass, sad mahrt
It vibrate, and, therefore, eets the half*
pin dabcing, but only wben the glass'*
are in tone. For'eoch glass lias Its
own way of vibrating. Wben strnoX
or rubbed It vibrates to and fro Jn*i
so many times In s second snd pro
duces a particular note, and tbe mo
tion which comes from one glass will
not bo taken up by tbe ether unless
each naturally vibrates tbe same num
ber of times a second, or Is tuned to
tbe same note.
Bo If you bang two marbles by
threads of equal length to two noils
driven several feet sport lu Ibe same
boom, snd set one marble swinging,
tbs other cue will gradually take up
the motion and awing too, but It will
o' r**,* 'vfl
THE POET AND THE POLITICIAN
wra c
Will Curtate a, too autbar of •‘Song*
of Two Centuries,” ’ •*» « *** t “? k
a long Journey from bU. heme to toe
nearest county town, In ercer to h “ r
Cassius M. Clay. to. *•“*““»*
make s speech. On reaching toe fair
grounds, vhere Olay was to speak be
found such a crowd assembled too. he
ould B0t see anythlsg sf tbe eloquent
southerner. U last, by crawHnff be
tween people'e feet, and taking other
bey methods of making progress, be
gained s friendly tre* not far from toe,
stand, and climbed np among its
screening branches. All went well un
til tbe speaker, to illustrate tbe Ig
norance of some of his political oppo
nents, exclaimed with an emphatic
gesture: "They don't know any more
about It than that hoy there In the
tree!” A thousand eyes were at once
leveled upon the bashful urchin who
had so suddenly been made nn object
lesson. "The sensation," sold Mr.
Carleton, In telling the story. "was_
very much as If some ice water were
being poured down my back. I tried
to conceal myself among the branches,
bat that would not work, and I was
not long in ‘shinning '.own* and mak
ing myself scarce. At home I had no
sympathy; they told me I should
have stayed and fought it out, not
knowing that ray sensitiveness nt that
time was positively abnormal. My
father called me Zaccbcus for a year
after.” ,.
WORDS.
Fatred always rebounds hr.rJcr than
It Is thrown.
Idle hands Kdvcrtiss themselves as
the devil's owu.
Getting up in the world is better
than getting on. *
The best maxims may be ea the iips
of the worst men. \
When a mnu nsplres ho will prob
ably soon perspire.
It Is easy to mistake the half-way
bouse for thaiiome itself.
Goodness Is thc essential component
part of all true greatness.
No man ever found thc pleasure* of
sin to be anything like the pictures of
fin.
All the flowers sf human thought
have tasted some time of thc lii'ht of
heavenly truth.—Ham’s Horn.
GLASSES TUNED AND PIN IN POSITION.
ently that the experiment Iteelf will de
cide the question as well ns yon can
do It by ear, or better.
When you have got tho two glasses
In tone set tbem two or three feet
from each other on an nnoovAred ta
ble. Pull a stout hairpin out straight,
bend down an inch or less of each and
lay the hairpin across ono of the
glasses. Any piece of rather fine wire
will do aa well as the hairpin.
Now wet your finger and rub It on
the ether glass until it sings loud and
clear. Immediately you will hear a
Jingling noise, nnd you will aee the
hairpin on the glass that yon are not
touching at all, tramble, dance and
hop about In lively fashion. But If
you try the experiment with two
glasses that aro not in tune the hair
pin doea not budge, so, ns I sold be
fore, tbe experiment itself affords a
good teat of *he corre«tr-aa of tuning.
The reason why the hairpin dances Is
this: The glass which yon rub, like
any other object tbat gives a musical
note; is vibrating; that la to say. Its
particles are moving to and fro very
remain quiet If the threads are net of
exactly the same length.
It the glasses ring very loud and
dear and If your ears are sharp yon
oan leave off tho hairpin, make one
glase ring, suddenly stop It with your
finger and then, by listening attentive
ly, yon may bear the untouched glass
ring faintly for a second.
In playing on a piano on Which a
lamp was standing you may have no
ticed a peculiar jiugle whenever a
particular note was struck, though
that note right when the lamp
was not there.
If you touch the tnrning-np wheel
of the lamp with your finger you will
feel a little thrill whenever that note
la played and the jingling will be dead
ened. The little elastic piece of metal
la vibrating in tune with that particu
lar note, that Is all.
All these examples of the vibration
and eound of one body being Imitated
by another body near It and la tune
with it are examples of what music
ian! and scientific men call ‘'reson
ance.”
THE POLLY OP THE POOL.
Who needs to worry, watch and Work,
• To think and plan and sweat,
In doing things that are of use ,
And keep himself from debt;
To earn the cost of what he gets
In fire, food and fan.v
In shelter from the bitmg storm,
Keeps busy if it’s dons;
Keeps busy as a honey bee
While hiving winter’s need. '
If. like tho bee, he lets himself
He then despoiled by greed.
■ But then the bee has better sense
Than let the idle drone
Lay claim to honey’s primal sourct
And treat it as his own.
He works the fields and forests free,
Enjoys the purling poo),
In nature cedes no greedy graft—
. The folly ^f the fool. ....
■ —Joseph A. Lstbad*.
A BLOOD RELATION.
Johnnie waa awakened by a strange
bumming, buzzing sound close to bla
head, and when he got out the sand
that the ‘‘sand man” had put in his
eyes he stared abont bim. There en
thc bottom of the bed was'a fearful
hobgoblin, so Johnnie thought, with
big, round eyes, awfully long legs and
wings, and a beak that looked like a
trooper’s sword.
“Are you one of those angels that
my mamma said tookcare of little boys
at night?” said Johuule, trembling.
“’Cause if you are,,I guess I kin git
olong by myself all right; yw needn’t
stay.”
jiut tho mosquito mads a jab with its
at tin bcddothti sm JoUmtis’s
shins and said loudly: “Cousln-n-n-n.
Cousin-n-n-n.!” •
“Oh, you’re a cousin, arc you?? I
wonder which one?”
“Z-s-l-m-m-ra,” answered the mosqui
to, buzzing about Johnnie's bead.
“Kim? Oh, I guess you must be that
soldier cousin of mother's by thc looks
of that sword yon carry; bla name waa
Jim”
“Cousln-n-n-n!” buzzed tbe mosquito
sharply. “Don’t you know your own
relations?”
'’You my relation?” asked Johnnie In
amazement “How do you make that
out?”
“Oh! easy. Relations are those who
have the same blood in them, ain't
they?”
"Yepl” assented Johnnie.
“Well, you nnd I have the same
blood. You had It, and now I’ve got It
l Just tapped you, you knqw.”
Johnnie Just scratched and wondered.'
—Mirror and Farmer.
THE GAME OF NOTED MEN.
The hostess begins the game by
choosing some noted man, say Cole
ridge. She then says to the players:
“I am thinking of a famous man. The
first part of his name Is very black and
thc last Is an elevation.”
Whoever guesses correctly has tha
right to give a name herself. Suppose
•he chose Shakespeare, for Instance.
Then she could say: “Here la the
name of a well-known poet. The first
part of his name Is something people
do wben they are cold, and the laat la
a weapon.”
When giving a name the man’s pro
fession should be told, whether poet,
soldier, author or itatesman, but noth
ing else must be revealed concerning
him. v
The following are some good names
to give:
Wordsworth. Washington.
Cornell. Fillmore.
Howltt. Longfellow.
Milman. Dickens (Dick-inns.)
Pulnesi of Fr*nch Bank.
The number of bills discounted by
tbe Bank of Franca and lta branches
In 1803 was 18,435,088. The number of
botes In circulation on January 881
IOWi WA8 UtOtttlMi
Th» JupaniM Vnilneu XM,
Before We restoration tho better
class Japanese esteemed it a degra
dation to work. A tradesman was
despised. To-day there it hardly a
man of Jgtfan who doss not fol.ow
some calling., The older men, the
grandfathers, may stay at home, but
tbe sons—the restless, modern, pro
gressive sons of New Japan—dre not
happy unless employed. The spirit
of modern Japan is in them. They
are as devoted to their business as to
tbolr homes. But they keep them well
separated 'kfld apart. Thc Japanese
who can afford it has his office in the
big city, but his home in thc suburbs.
During the day he Is In the midst
of the busy atir and whirl cf the city,
but about four In the afternoou he is
hurrying toward the grateful peace
and beanty of Ida country home. The
first thing he does ou reaching home
Is to batirand remove all thc clothes
he has. worn at his ofllce or store.
.With the changing of his business
clothes ho lays aside all thought of
business. In his home he fiuds de
sired rest and recreation. He is by
nature a lover of leisure. Few bind-
ness men In America would leave their
offices so early or would take so many
holidays. The Japanese business mnu
takes all the holidays he can afford.
He Is at homo most of the fete-days.
He goes with the family to see the
carnivals, the temple and flower fes
tivals.—Harper’s Weekly.
Bread of Soatonaoeo.
Corn bread is the bread of sub
stance and auslenanee. If* the com
pany thatis introducing this water-
ground meAl In New York would ad
vertise it liberally many thousands of
people, rich and poor, would learn of
an article absolutely new to them,
and a tremendous revolution would be
Worked. Flour would have to take a
tack seat in numberless homes, nnd
that tsrrlble pain in the pit of the
stomach that doubles so many of ug
op would disappear. Ten pounds for
thirty-three cents! It makes the mouth
.water to think of hoc cakes, ash cakes,
pone, egg-bread, crackling-bread,
griddle cakes—all made of corn meal.
I lived for a year on corn bread and
buttermilk, never worked harder in
my Hfe, never waa so healthy, never
•o happy. Tha world would be better
Jf every one ate corn bread made of
alow-ground, water-grouLd meal, from
'whtch all ailmentsdve, nutrient quali
ties have not been removed by pa
tented processes.—Victor Smith, in the
Now York Press.
Warming the rint-Xron.
When tho thermometer dropped far
bolow aero last December good Mrs.
Rogers was much disturbed at the re
collection that Huldah, tbe new kitch
en maid, slept In an unheated room.
“Holdall,” she said, remembering
the good old custom of her own girl
hood, “It's going to be pretty cold to
night. I think you had better take
a flat-iron to bed with you.” x
“Yes, ma’am,” said Huldah, in mild
and expressionless assent.
Mrs. Rogers slept soundly and free
from care, aeeure in the belief that
the maid was comfortable. In the
morning she again visited the kitchen.
“Well, Huldah,” she % askcd, “how did
you get along with the flat-iron r
i Huldah? brsathsd a deep sigh of re*
, collection.
* "Veil, ma'am,” iht said, ”2 got It
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