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NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TIUBITNE. c II i Spanish Doubloons j c tWfitllltlttMlUltTiiiilllwIH,llBt,w,MW)ttBwl)B, (CHAPTER X. Continued.) 13 Captain Magnus looked moro III at nso tnan usual. "Did you think o rowln' the wholo vay round the dinged chunk o' rock?" ho Inquired. "Certainly not," said Mr. Shaw with nn impatient frown. So tho man, In addition to his other unat tractive qualities, was turning Into a shirk I Hitherto, with his strength and feverish, If Intermittent, energy, plus an almost uncanny skill with flflnfjl. Ilf liml hfun nt vntlin "Pur. 1 - " ...u "Vll W I 111 U V. tnlnly, not. We nro going to make a .... cnreiui survey or tho cliffs, and ex plore 'every likely opening as thor oughly as possible. It will bo slow work and hard. As to circumnavigat ing the Island. I see no nolnf In It. for I don't bcllove tho chest can have been carried any great distance from tho cove." "Ohall right," said Captain Mag nus, , Air. Tubbs, who had been whisper ing, with Aunt Jane and Miss Browne, now with a very ma'do-to-ordcr ens ualness proposed to tho ladles that they take a stroll on the beach. This meant that tho trlumvlrato woro to Withdraw for discussion, and Amount ed tootlca. that henceforth tho coun- i -m kill ' . . pcia ,ui uiy company wouiu uo uiviueu. Captain Magnus, nftor nn uneasy wriggle or two, said ho guessed he'd turn In. Cookie's snores were already audible, between splashes of tho waves on the sands. The Scotchman, Cuth bert "Vauo nnd I continued to sit by tho.dying.Jlro. Mr. Shaw had got out hie plpp and sat silently putting at it. He might have been sitting In soli tude, on the topmost crag of tho island, so remote seemed that impus lvo presence. Was It posslblo that over, except In the sweet madness of m. dream, I had been In his arms, pil lowed, and cherished thorc, that ho hi 1 called me lassie I lifted my eyes to tho kind Iionost gaze; of Cuthbert Vane. It was as faithful as Crusoe's and no more em barrassing. A great impulse of af fection moved me. I was near put ting' out a hand to pat his splendid headi . "Oh, how easy, comfortable and calm would be a life with Cuthbert Vane? 1 wasn't thinking about tho title now Cuthbert would bo quite worth,' while for himself. For n mo ment I almost saw with Aunt Jnno's yes. Fancy trotting him out beforo th. girls I stole Insidiously Into my mind. How much moro dazzling than a plain Scotch sailor t I turned in bitterness and yearning from,lhe. Bllcnt figure by tho Are. I think In an earlier lifetime I tnukftve been a huntress and loved to ptnme tbe gamo that fled. CHAPTER XI. JT Th r4nd Queen's Freight. S hS et morning with-a groat t$H ef exhilaration. Perhaps beforo thmn went down again I should kwwr the secret of the island. Th' twe divisions of our party, which were designated by mo private Ijr the Land and Sea Forces, wont their separate ways directly after fbreakfast, which wo ate In the cool jof egrJlMit morning. I could rotiro to the..tperusal of tho Journal which I had .recovered from tho wrecked sloop without fear of interruption. I resumed my reading with tho en try of February 10. $ "This morning, havlpg, gr.own vory itlred. of flsh, of which I got plenty very time I go out In tho boat, by dragging a lino behind, I decided to stay ashore nnd hunt pig. I sot out tacrosa tho baBo of tho point, nearly duejjouth whereas I had boon work lng along tho coast to tho north of iXho cove, I reached tho edgo of tho t -cliffs and found thnt on my right hand itho. mountain dropped in a sheer jproclpico from hundreds of foot nbovo mo straight into tho Bca. I consld iered, and made up my mind that by (Staking back samo distance ono mlgtit by a very rough climb gain tho top of the precipice, and so swing around tho shoulder of tho mountain. I did not feel inclined to attempt it The. cliffs at this point offored no taeans of descent, nnd tho fow yards t'sand which tho receding tldo had left, bare at their foot led nowhere. "X turned to go back, and nt that mo- .l r , . . . fflraiv x uenra an outcry in tno wishes and, Bftoy camo tearing out qt tho heektfof'Arflnei'youttg porker. I'throw-' un my cun to (Ire. but thn ovninHnna ef Bcrijy and tho pig wero such that I was' as likely to hit one as, tho other. The pig, of courso, mado desperato efforts'.to escape from tho eul-do-sne la which ho found himself. Ills only hope, was to get back Into tho woods m the point. Benjy kept him headed off successfully, and I began to edge up,' watching my chance for u shot. Suddenly the pig came dashing straight toward me oblivious, I sup pose, to everything but tho white snapping terror at his heels. Taken by surprise, I flred and missed. Tho pig shot between my knees, Benjy Mter him. I withstood the shn,ck of the pig, but not of Benjy; I fell, Vlu'lng wildly, Into matted mass of. creepers that covered the ground be side me. "I got to my feet quickly, dragging tho wholo mass of vines up with me. Then I saw that they had covered a curiously regular little patch of ground, outlined nt Intervnls with smnll stones. At ono end was a larger stone. "The patch was nnrrow, about six feet long Instantly suggcstlvo of n grave. But swift beyond all process of reason was tho certainty that flashed Into my mind. I fell on my kneos beside tho stone nnd pulled away tho torn vlnc-tendrlls. I saw tho letters B. II. and an nttempt nt cross-bones rudely cut Into tho sur face of tho stone. "I closed my eyes nnd tried to steady myself. I thought, 'I am see ing things. This Is the moro projec tion of tho vision which has been In my mind so long.' "I opened my eyes, nnd Io, tho fan tasy, If fnntnsy It were, remained. I smoto with my fist upon tho stone. Tho stone was solid It bruised tho flesh. And as I saw tho blood run, I screamed nloud llko a madman, 'It's real, renl, real!' "Under tho stone lay the guardian of tho treasure of tho Bonny Lnss And his secret wns within my grasp. "I don't know how long I crouched b'esldo tho stone, as drunk with Joy as any hasheesh toper with his drug. 1 roused at last to And Benjy at my shoulder, thrusting his cool nose against my feverish check. I sup pose ho didn't understand my Ignor ing him so, or thought I scornod him for losing out in his race with tho pig. Yot when I think of what I owo that pig I could swear never to tasto pork again. "Brought back to earth and sanity, I rose and began to consider my surroundings. Somewhere closo at Under the Stone Lay the Guardian of the Treasure. hand was tho mouth of tho cave but whoro7 Tho cliffs, ns I have already sold, woro too steep for descent Nothing but a fly could have crawled down them. I turned to the craggy faco of tho mountain. There, surely, must bo tho entranco to 'the cavol For hours I clambered among tho rocks, risking mangled limbs nnd sun stroke nnd found no envc. I camo back at last, wearily, to tho grave. Thoro lay tho dust of tho brain that had known nil and n wild Impulso camo to mo to tear away tho earth with my bnro hands, to dig doep, deep and then with listening ear wait for a whispered word. "I put the delirious fancy from mo nnd moved away to tho edgo of tho cliffs. Looking down, I saw a narrow sloping shelf which dropped from tho brink to n dlstanco of ten or twelve foot hnlnw. whom (t mnf n ellnVit Jectlon of tho rock, I had seen 1$ be fore, or courso, but it had carried no Blgnlflcnnco for my mind. Now I stopped down upon tho ledge nnd fol lowed it to us cna In tho ancle of tho rock. "Snugly hlddon In the nnglo waB n low doorway leading Into blackness. "NOW. Of COUrfiO I OUCht In nnulnnon " to havo gorio back to the hut nnd got matches and n lantern and n ,ropo boforo I sot foot in tho darkness of that unknown place. But what had I tO do today With nrudcnro Pnrhmn had mo by the hand 1 In I went bold ly, ucnjy at my heels. Tho passage turned sharply, and for a llttlo way wo walked In blackness. Then it veered again, and a fnlnt and far-off light seemed to filter its way to us through a web woven of tho very stuff of night. Tho floor, sloped n llttlo downward. "I felt my way with my feet, nnd camo to n stepanother. I wns going along a descending passage, cut nt Its steepest into rough, Irregu lar stairs. With either hand I could touch tho walls. All tho while tho light grow clearer. Preseutly, by nu- cq Camilla 7 Kenyon coPYRiotrr niH BODDS. MERRILL COMTANV other sharp turn, I found myself In a cave, some tnirty rcct in depth by eighteen across, with an opening on the narrow strip of beach I had seen from tho top of tho cliffs. "Tho roof Is high, with nn effect of Gothic arches. Near tho mouth is a tiny spring of Ice-cold wnter, which has worn a clenn rock channel for Itself to tho sea. Otherwise the cave Is perfectly dry. There is no doubt In my mind that In tho great buc caneering days of the Seventeenth century, and probably much later, the place was the haunt of pirates. Ono fancies that Captain Sampson of tho Bonny Lnss may have known of it be fore ho tn-ought tho trensuro to tho Islnnd. There wero queer folk to be met with In thoso days In tho west ern ocenn. Yes, the cave has seen many n fierce, sea-tanned face and tarry pigtail, and echoed to strange onths nnd wild sen-songs. Men had carved thoso steps In tho passage thirty-two of them. In tho sand of tho floor, ns I kicked It up with my feet, hoping rather childishly to strlko tho corner of tho chest, I found tho hilt nnd part of the blado of a rusty cutlass, nnd a chased sliver shoo buckle. I shall take the buckle homo to Helen and yet how trivial it will seem, with nil else that I have to of fer her I Nevertheless she will prize it as my gift nnd because It comes from tho placo to which some kind angel led me for her sake. "I left the cave and hurried back to tho cabin for a spade, walking on air, breaking with snatches of song the terrible stillness of the woods, where ono hears only tho high fitful sighing of the wind, or tho eternal mutter of tho sea. "Back In tho cave, I set to work feverishly, making tho light sand fly. At tho end of half an hour, at n point closo to tho anglo of tho wall my spado struck a hard surface. It Ik. I should Judge, under nbout two feet or sana. Soon I had laid bare a patch of dark wood which rnnir under mv knuckles almost like iron. A little more, nnd I had cleared away the sand from tho top of a large chest with a convex Hd. heavllv hound in brass. "Furiously I flune tho annd nnld until tho chest stood free for half its depth which Is roughly three feet It nas nnnaies nt tho ends, great hand wrought loons of motnl. I tucced ir hardest, but tho chest seemed fast in its place as the natlvo rock. I laughed exultantly. Tho weight meant gold gold I I hnd hammer and chisel witn me, nnd with these I forced tho massive ancient locks. There wera threo of them, ono for each strip ef brass which bound tho chest The I flung tip the lid. "No glltterlnir treasure dazzled m. I saw only a surfneo of stained can vas, tucked in carefully around tho edges. This I tore Off nnd (Inner nlri eclipsing poor Benjy, who was a most interested spectator of my strange nrocccdlncs. Still no doom nt gold, merely demure rows of plump Drown nags. with both hands I renched for them. Ob. to m-nnn thm all I I -had to bo content with two, be cause they wero bo heavy, so blessedly heavy I "I spread tho square of canvns oh tho snpd, cut tho strings from the bags und poured out cold, aroldl All felt- shining golden coins thoy were, not a paltry Bllver piece among them I And tney mnuo a soft golden music as they fell In a glorious yellow heap. "I don't know how lontr I sat thero. playing with my gold, running it through my fingers, clinking tho coins together In my palm. Benjy came and sniffed at them Indifferently, unable to understand his master's nreoccunatlon. no thrust his nose Into my face aad pnrk-ea, and said ns clearly as with words, 'Come, hunt pig 1" 'Benjy,' I said, "we'll leave th pork nlono Just now. Wo have werk enough to count our money. We're rich, old boy, rich, rich!' "Of course, I don't yet know exact ly what tho vnluo of tho treasure la. I have counted tho bags in the chest; were nro ono hundred and forty-eight Each, so far as I havo determine contains ono thousand doubloons, which makes a total of ono hundred nnd forty-eight thousand. Estimating each coin, for tho jpnko of oven figures, nt a value of seven dollars a safe minimum you get ono million, thlrty olx thousand dollars. And as mn of the coins are ancient I. ought te reap a harvest from collectors. "Besides tho coin. I found, rntfcw surprisingly, laid between the upper mycrs or nags, a silver crucifix about nine Inches long. It is of verr nuslnt old workmanship, nnd badly tarnished. us money vniuo must De very trifling, compared to tho samo bulk of traldna coins. I think it must have had some special cnaracior or sacrcdness which led to Its preservation here. It is strnngo to find strch a relic among a treasure so stained by blood and crime. TO BB CONTINUED.) War 8hrlnes In Schools. Nearly 1,000 schools In Great Britain have been provided with war shrlnos In memory pf old scholars. NEBR ASKAIN BRIEF Timely News Culled From All Parts of tho State, Reduqed for tho Busy. Convicts In tho Nebraska state pen itentiary soon will be making shirts und overalls, according to a contract signed by tho state with the D. M. Obenuan compnny of Jefferson City, AIo. The convicts, stnto officers stated, get one-half the profits derived by tho state. One- half of their money goes to their dependonts, while the remaind er is held in trust for them until they aro released. This same system has prevailed for years In giving convicts one'half the profits of tho Industries In which they are engaged. Business men and farmers of Bloom field have formed an organization un der tho name of "Burn Corn of Bust," nnd. arc engaged In furthering tho movement Itules nnd regulations have been adopted. Ono of these, pro vldes that each business mnn pledge himself to buy and burn two tons of corn at approximately $0.00 per ton, but no farmer Is allowed to sell over two tons to uny Individual. A group of Omaha business nnd pro fessional men havo formed the "Men's Service League of Omuhu," tho object of tho league Is to provide a fatherly ndvisor, a "Big Brother," for oyerv wayward boy In the city and the governor will be requested to set nsld! by proclamation the week of January 22 to 20th as "Father und Son Week." Homer Morrow, Kldmrd Allbrlght nnd. Itobert AIcGhghy, Kearney Boy Scouts, wero awarded medals by the Chamber of Commerce for having per formed CO hours of community service. Thoy represent tho second group of local Scouts so honored. Gold mednls nro given for 100 hours of service. A near Christmas rarity wus shown at Pawnee City when moro than a dozen dandelion plants on the front lawn of W. D. Hcnrtwell's town prop erty burst into full bloom. The maxi mum temperature was 72 degrees, a record for the season of year, so far as can be recalled. The postolllco and general merchan dise store at Cumro, was burned to tho ground. Tho ntoro belonged to N. Morgan, who is the postmustcr. It was partially insured. All stamps, rjpeords and government papers wore in the safe and not destroyed. Chnrles McNnlly, postmaster of Inez, Neb was bound over to tho fed eral court at Norfolk on a federal chnrge of embezzling a money order amounting to $2,507.78. All December weather records were broken In Omaha December 13th when tho thermometer registered 70 de grees. This was one degroe less than tho record of December 10, 1890. grcesuumeor Tlio enforcement of city ordinances requiring the Inspection of milk and meat is requested by the Beatrice Wo man's club In n petition filed with the city commissioners. A. Gothenburg organization of "Good Fellows" us in the past, ure raising a Christmas fund for Gothenburg's poor. Thus far, $210.25 has been raised. In a drive to ml so funds for ttu Improvement of Its building, the Om aha Young Women's Christian associa tion" obtained pledges amounting to $30.t)OOT It hns been announced thnt the Con solidated Gas nnd Electric Company at Beatrice will soon build a new $150,000 plant nt Beatrice. Nebraska fnrm hens laid 49,132,537 dozen eggs in 1020, according to n re port by tho Chamber of Commerce publicity bureau. ' Tho Nebraska State Bar association will meet In Omnlm December 29-30. An' attendance of 500 Is anticipated. Anon ltnymond, Omaha Is secretary. Herbert Tuodtke, of Creston, was In stnnlly killed when a Northwestern train struck his automobile. Tho largo twe-story brick Woodman building nt Comstoclc was destroyed by Are. Loss Is estimated nt $50,000. Twenty-five marines have urrivea In Omaha to act as guurds on mall trucks nnd mull trains. The Omaha city council Is investi gating a proposition t,o developo power by harnessing' tho Missouri river. The 1922 convention of the Nebraska Potato Improvement association will bo held at Allliuico In December. A few cases of influenza huve beea reportud In the vicinity of Cullaway. Valley County hns Just dodlcatod their new $207,083.00 court house. Acting Postmnstor .Herbert S. Dan iel of Omaha, bus been uppolnted aud itor by Federal Woodrough to investi gate regularity of tho sale of tho Wells-Abbott Nleman Milling company property nt Schuyler to W. Dale Clark and to protect rights af stockholders nnd creditors of the million-dollar con cern. , Tho Wells-Abbott'Nieman prop erty holdings wero sold for $90,000 to W. Dale Clark by the receivers In o sale November 21, 1921. Judge Wood rougJU will not confirm this salo un til ho recolves tho report Danlol. December 20 will bo ".Bridge day" In Centrut City. Tho occasion will be n fitting celebration of Uie opeulng of ho now state aid bridge, which spans tho Platte due south of tills city and which wus built at a cost of $100,000. Golden eagles are unusually num. erous this winter. George Robertson, who resides on the Idlewlld furm. Do'dgo county, captured ono alive the other day and it is bolng displayed In u storo window at Fremont. John Grcenli'o on tho Abbott farm found the body of an oaglo that had been electro cuted by wires passing over his farm. A telephone strike is nlmost certnU to stnrt In Valley county January 1 with nearly 100 per cent of tho sub scribers "out" Following u mass meeting nt St. Paul, attended by repre sentatives of business and fnrmlng In tcrests from nil sections, tho local Community club wns given full power to "cnll out" telephones the .first of the year unless tho Northwestern BcU company reduces rates. A county wide campaign to stamp out tuberculosis In cattle was launched by the Butler County Farm Bureau at Its annual meeting. Co-operating with tho state and feUcral bureaus of animal Industry tho local organization has made provision for the testing of ovcry herd of cattle In tho county. Alvln Belnert, business mnn of Wy moro, has prosented his private library consisting of nbout 200 volumes, In cluding a finely bound edition of Brlt annlca Encyclopedia, to tho public library. At a meeting of highway officials, held In Omaha. T. II. Mncdonnld riilef of the federal bureau of roads, urged tno immediate construction of public highways as a means of furnishlug employment to tho ox-servlce men. Wayne Mnrples was badly cut and bruised when a tractor ho was operat ing alone the hlchwnv near Wvinorn. struck nn obstruction nnd rolled over a 10-foot embankment, pinning him beneath tho wreckage. Tho Nebraska Aircrafe corporation announced thnt Otto Turner of Venice, Cat, representative of tho Paclflc Aslutlc Co., was on his wny to Lincoln by airplane to negotiate the purchase of ijftcen passenger plnnes for tho Chinese, government Weaver Bausch, 25, of Atkinson, Neb., wns found guilty of desertion In vndlng the selective drnft law in court-martial proceedings at Fore Crook, und sentenced to one year ut hard labor In Lcnvenworth federal prison. J. B. Greekmur, 40, proprietor of the Vesta battery station of Fnlrbury, wns found dead In his placo of busi ness. It Is the supposition that ho was fixing n battery with a blow torch and that tho battery exploded. On nccount of thn nneklnir linnsn strike In Omnhn nnd the Christmas rush, the state board of Inquiry, which had planned to hold hearings on econ omic conditions in Omaha has deferred the hearing until after Christmas. Sevcrnl farmers living In the vicinity of Shclton report tlio loss of horses from the corn stnlk disease. F. 0. Horth, who hns been fecdlug corn .fod der to his herd of horses, lost a valu able race horse. . One of the five nicht schools to bo established In tlio state by federal and state governments will he nt North Platte, It was decided after officials had completed an Investigation. The school will carry twenty classes. In two days after the organization of the Omnhn branch of the Wur Fi nance corporation, farm lonns aggre gating $1,039,000. coming through 01 Nqbrnsku Banks' were approved. An epidemic of chicken pox has broken 6ut among the children of Friend. Nenrly all the pupils of tha prlmnry department of the city schools are down with the disease. The four year old daughter .of Mr. nnd Mrs. Henry Pforfor, of near Butte, was burned to death In Hip family home while her pnrentx were out In the field picking corn. The Ord schools have the largest attendance In their history, und it has been necessary to employ an uddltloiml teacher. Hugh McCarty, a pioneer of Hurpy county, has Just died nt the ue of 80' years, nnd Is survived by 104 direct descendants. Failure of the Bank of Cass Cunty at Plattsmoutli will cost the state guaranty fund from $100,000 to $125, 000, wns announced nuthorltlvely. Tho farm loun company, organized In Omaha for the purpose of aiding Nebraska farmers and Stockmen, has a capital of $1,000,000. As a result of being thrown from his horse, John Itclners, 19, of Hustings, suffered the loss of his right eye und a fracture of the Jaw bone. A temporary Injunction against Is suing bonds for tho erection of a high school at Imperial was granted In dis trict court nt McCook. Muny head of hogs have died of cholera In Richardson county during the past few days. Eno Glosmun lost forty head within a short time. A nillch cow census of eight western states recorded Nebraska second with 454,790 cows. Five head of horses burned to denth when flro of unknown origin destroyed tho Georce Gibbs llverv hnni at Hav Springs. A mnn who wus sleeping in tno structure was curried out un conscious. Twelve head of horses wero in the barn when flro was dis covered. H. E. Bnrrett. of Norfolk, wli.i wns listed on tho recent slacker list senft out from Fort Crook, Is asking the array to mnke'a correction in the dr.ifti rexrds. Barrett enlisted nnd sewed In tho supply company of the .137th Infantry overseas, ne was honorably discharged April 14, 1010. One hundred Nebraska Bankers met recently In Omaha and organized tho Stnto Agricultural Loan association. Tlio purpose of tho association Is to convert slow assets Into cash and In turn, put the cash -into circulation In order to help tho financial situation. Four nersons Joseph Zelnk. Mrs. John Strolow, John ringcmlre nnd Frank ICollor were badly burned, one of thorn seriously, In n prairie flro near unssett wnicn rngeu an or Saturday and Sunday. It covered an area of 30 square miles and consumed 200' tons of liny. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 U 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 The Kitchen 1 Cabinet Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiimn Cosyrlght, ml, Wentarn Newapaper Onion. No man Is bis enough to do a lot of things and do them woll onough to last. When you take him and spread him over a lot of surface, ho makes a layer too thin to lorm any Impression. But If you take htm and hammer him with the sledco of a mighty purpose, even If thero Is not moro than enough of him to mi a bean-shootor, ho will malto an Impression when he strikes. D. ti. Moody. A DESSERT FOR EVERY DAY Here Is n dessert for each working day, and on Sunday Ice cream and CUKC or a pie ui some kind, which may bo "prepared on Saturday, mny be served. On thn busiest day try : Fifteen Minute Pudding. Make a batter. uBlnc one cupful of flour, one-quarter teaspoon ful of salt, one tenBpoonful of buklng powder nnd enough good milk or fresh buttermilk to mnke a drop bat ter. Butter custard cups and drop In n teaspoonful of the batter, then ndd two tablespoonfuls of canned cherries, Juice nnd all. Add another tablespoopful of batter and fill all tho cups about half or two-thirds full. Set In n pnn, surround with boiling wnter nnd cover closely. Boll for fifteen minutes without uncovering. Bo sure thero Is enough wnter but not enough to boll over Into the cups. Servo with cream and sugar. Lemon Meringue. Take one pint of milk, three ounces of sugar, one cup ful of fine bread crumbs, two eggs, tho Juice and rind of n lemon. Mix all Ingredients and cook slowly until well Bet, baking In n deep pie plate. Set away to cooi, cover with a me ringue nnd serve cold. Edinburgh Pudding. Take one-halt pound of oatmeal, one cupful of thick cooked custard flavored with- vanilla, one nnd one-half pints of water, one- quarter of a cupful of milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt and two ounces of coconut. Cook the oatmeal, salt and wnter until well cooked. Cool, turn In the custard and pour Into molds. Serve when molded, sprinkled with coconut nnd sugar, with cream. Snw Jelly. Make Jellies of plne npple, raspberry nnd lemon. Arrange In lnyers the lemon, then raspberry and when the pineapple is thickening whip it until frothy, pile this on top of the raspberry Mly. Chill before serving. Mince, pumpkin or npple pie may be served on a day the dinner Ja rather light The difference between a precious etone and a common stone Is not an essential difference not a difference of substance, but arrangement of the par-tlcleu-the crystallization. In sub stance the coal and tho diamond are one, but in form and effect how widely they differ. The pearl contains noth ing that is not found In the coarsest oyster sholl. Two men have the same thoughts; they use about the same words In expressing them; yet with One the product Is real literature, with the other It Is a platitude John Bur roughs. SEASONABLE IDEAS Cakes und cookies will be more delicious If they nre aRpwed to age for a while before using. Spice Cookies. Cream one-third of n cupful of butter, ndd one-half cup-' ful of sugar, one well beaten egg nnd one cup ful of molasses, In which hns been dissolved one teaspoonful of soda. Then add three nnd one hnlf cupfuls of flour, a little cinnamon, clove nnd nutmeg and one-half to a whole cupful of chopped raisins. A few chopped nuts make an Improve ment. When well mixed drop by ten spoonfuls on buttered sheets nnd sprinkle with sugar. Dutch Peppernuts. Mix one nnd one-quarter pounds of brown sugar with two tablespoonfuls of cinnamon nnd one tnblespoonful of cloves with one teaspoonful of bnklng powder. Into this stir three eggs and as much flour as It Is possible to work In. Roll thin nnd cut In circles the size of n quarter; bake In u very slow oven. These little cakes will puff up and are delicious. Ice the flat sides. They will keep for months. Cranberry Cake. Cream one-half cupful of butter and one and one-half cupfuls of light brown sugnr, add thn well-beaten yolks of three eggs. Have ready and sifted two cupfuls of flour, n teaspoonful of soda, n teaspoonful ench of clnnnmon and nutmeg nnd one-hnlf teaspoonful of cloves; ndd to the sugar and butter. Fold In ono and one-hnlf cupfuls of cranberries that have been cooked, put through n rlccr nnd sweetened slightly, then the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Bnke In two lnyers nnd Ice, using some of the strained Juice of the cranberry for flavor nnd color. Honey Doughnuts. Doughnuts made of honey and sour milk or cream will keep moist a long time. Take two eggs, two tnblespoonfuls of butter, one nnd one-hnlf cupfuls of honey, one cupful of sour milk; If sour crenm Is used take half the butter, ono ten spoonful of soda, three cupfuls of flour Blfted with two tenspoonfuls of cream of tartar. Fry In deep, hot fat. .V
