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
