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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1910)
1 THE WIZARD OF THE TAPE BY HAROLD C. BURR III !! IIIL JMIII I ! II I ICopyntlil, by liuily Story 1'uU. Co.) The gods of chance had called Andy Gage and ho had harUcned. "Thcre'3 no douht of It," ho said to his partner, Jenkins. "It's the wisest step we can take. Wo ought to branch out on a lurger scale. Of course wo'U liavo to put In a quotation board, hire bigger ofriccs and more clerks. Hut look how our profits will Increase, man! We ought to got in some outalde custom ers. There's Duncan for one." "Who's he?" asked old Jenkins, wavering. "Some friend of yours?" "Yes a stock gambling friend. He's a corker with a barrel of money be hind him, his own. He don't dabble In stocks; he plunges. The tips ho gets are safe and sure absolutely, lie's hand and glove with the big men bauk presidents, railroad wreckers and mak ers, financial giants the crowd who moves things." Andy laughed. "The wizard of the tape. I can swing him Into line. Jenkins, wo ought to branch out." Jenkins had known tho strife of the treet, man and boy. "That's all right," be said dubiously, ' but I'm getting along In life. I've been through panic cares. I know what shrinking, unre plenlshed margins mean the danger. You're young and have never seen dull times down here. Private wires and heavy expenses why, I wouldn't Bleep nights!" "Look around you, Jenkins," pleaded young Gage. "There's hundreds of suc cessful firms all about us doing a cus tomers' business. Watch them forgo head. We're being distanced, side tracked, lost among the small fry. There's no use in dodging, we're tak ing tho dust of the big procession. We tight to branch out." And his partner, eager yet cautious, aught sotne of tho boy's enthusiasm. "That settles It," he conceded. "Hut If we're mowed down" doubtfully. "We won't bo." declared Gage. The new venture was a pronounced success from the start. Jenkins had rich friends who rallied around him solidly. Young Gage's wizard never balked about margins to carry along bis big stock balances. Tho profits the first year doubled, tripled, quad rupled any In the concern's history. Andy was vindicated, elated; tho senior partner converted. A smash did come. Duncan, Jenkins & Co.'s star customer, was away some where Bhootlng quail. On the eve of bis departure he hnd disposed of verything bar Ave thousand Seaboard Traction. High prices faded and died sway that day, ten points loss the matter of a trivial half hour. Jenkins, watching the tape like a hawk, tele phoning, anxious, tried to reach Dun can by wire. No use. Nobody knew where he was, how to reach him. And his security vanished like snow on the Fourth of July. Gage, because he was young and nc live, clear-headed, was over on the lloor, tearing madly around, executing stop-loss orders, seeing tho house of finance Bhake, hearing It tumbling bout his ears. His partner of tho quaking heart sent him notes by the dozens "Hadn't we better sell Dun can out? Margin exhausted." And al ways there came back the same loyal answer: "No. Stand fast and keep a stiff upper lip. He's good for a fifty point drop." And Jenkins believed ho was, too. But after the close of the exchange and tho day hnd become history, he met Gage with a gravo face. "I've been going over the accounts," ho said, nhaklug and worried. "Andy, if your man Duncan should welch, if ho re fuses to assume his losses!" "Bad as that, hey!" Gngo voiced tiredly. His nerves were in strings and his head aching. "Hut he won't, lie's white and square, Jenkins." The wizard of the tape arrived back Wednesday. He looked neat and brand new, pressed and polished to the mode. A carnation spiked his buttonhole. Jenkins wns never gladder to seo a uian in his life, and vastly relieved. "Hello!" he greeted him 8olemnly. "Read about yesterday's panic? Sea board Traction's down thirty points." "Tho devil you Bay! Get out!" gasped Duncan twice, crossing over and reading the tape. 'Let's see, five thousand ten points." Ho looked out the window a second, calculating. "Fif ty thousand dollars. Whoo! That's too bad." "One hundred and fifty thousand," corrected Jenkins gently, by way of precaution. The customer whirled on blm. "You didn't sell out? You didn't cover your self against loss?" "No, Andy said to hang on. Ho said you wouldn't go back on us." Duncan gestured impatiently. "Where la Andy? I want to eoe him." Jenkins' heart was In his mouth. Tbnt which he had told Gage tho night before wus no idlo exaggeration. Tho Seaboard Traction stock had been paid for with borrowed money. "I hope," he ventured, "that you're not hit too hard. There'll be some re covery to the market, maybe to-day. Of course you'll" "Of course nothing!" flared Duncan. He turned hotly upon bis broker and shouted so that the whole office could hear. "I know what you're driving at, dodging around. You needn't tell me. I know. You want me to pay for your stupidity. Well, I won't. It's your funeral if you stayed in the game too long not mine. Where's Andy?" Gage was sent for, and he hustled to the office posthaste, sure of some mistake. "I want to see you alone," the wiz ard repeated stubbornly. Jenkins started to say something, hesitated and stopped altogether. Andy nudged hlra and led the way to his private office. The next moment the door was closed and ho and Dun can were alone. "What's all this rubbish I hear?" Andy laughed, awkwardly nervous. "Jenkins is scared. He's somehow got some fool Idea into his head you're going to knlfo us. You why, it's bosh and moonshine! You " "In the first place," tho other re quested on the start, "please don't get theatrical. Heroics aro crude and won't help you any. You're whipped, beaten, squelched!" Ho lounged on the table, half on, half off, leaning on his knee, laughing coolly, triumphant ly. "I'm prepared to admit I'm what the lady of the drama calls a false friend. I'm a rascal anything. But I swore to get you, Gage, and I have, d n you!" Gage was stricken dumb. He stood where he was, quivering, his nostrils blowing, his young, shrewd face gray and wild. The blood pounded In his brain, clogging his thought. It was too horrible to understand. Duncan his friend the man ho had trusted hated him! "What's what's the game?" he mouthed, not realizing he spoke at all. "The game! Tho game!" the sneer ing wizard said after him. "Don't you know I hate you? Don't you know I've despised you for years? Haven't you realized I love aye, love Joan Rlck ard, the girl you married? No, you don't know, so I'll tell you, Andy Gage!" His voice rose sharply, quick ly, and he panted. 'I do, I do, I do all of these things! How I've waited, waited, waited, endless waits, weary waits! And now my chance has conic. God! my chance has come!" The walls of the room were his cage now, re straining his frenzied pacing, beating him back. "I knew how the cat would Jump, knew the market was top-heavy. I loaded up to the muzzle on Seaboard Traction. I went nowhere. Thought I'd bo a weakling and let you bleed me, hey! Why, you easy keep off there!" he suddenly yelled. But Gage, Infuriated, goaded by his taunts, was flying for his throat, sink ing his fingers there, crashing to tho floor with the man who had betrayed him. The whole office was in an up ronr. Clerks, headed by Jenkins, poured In upon the two battling men, squirming and cursing on the carpet. They had to pry them apart, Duncan gasping, bloody and frightened, his coat ripped and twisted, his flower gone; Gage unhurt, insane to rend and tear. A minute of chaotic confusion and tho wizard of tho tape had van ished. Jenkins & Co.'s course was run. It was hopeless to even attempt to con tinue business. Everything had to be sacrificed overboard to meet a settle ment of eighty cents on the dollar. Duncan's revenge was coninlete. ob- j literatlng. Jenkins, who was luckily a bachelor, went west to end his days on a hum drum farm of his Bister's. "You'll come to the surface again," he said to Gage on leaving. "They can't keep n good man down if he's young. And see here, my boy, don't you ever go and forget Wizard Duncan!" And Gage, miserable because he de served all tho blame, had squeezed his honest old withered hand. "I'll square our score!" he vowed stoutly. "Tho mills of the gods will help. 'I'm living for that. How I'll stamp him into the ground if I ever get the opportunity!" Andy went around among his finan cial friends to seo where he stood. "I don't want favors," he said to them. "I want work and a chance to retrieve. Yes, I am down, but I'm not quite out. I'm coming back." Newcomb, of Newcomb & Hatch, had the most to offer. "Sure, old man, I'll do what I can. But look hero, how did you get crippled? Some custom er?" ho Insinuated. But such a hard, level look had crept Into Gage's eyes that he hastened on. 'We want a tele phone clerk twenty dollars a week." It wasn't much or a place for Andy, but false pride was but a symbol with him. He was out to get a fresh grip and it mnttered not where he caught hold. The duties of a telephone clerk are not complicated, but vital, the mainspring of nearly every transac tion on the floor of the stock exchange. Orders are telephoned to the board over private wires from tho various offices. The order Is written on a pad by the man at the exchange end of tho connection, and forwarded to bo exe cuted. He and Joan hnd to buckle down to hard pan. But she had married him because she loved him, not to splurge, not to poso liko a big, graceful, use less doll as the wife of rich young Andy Gage. And tho gods of chance still flirted with hlin. One day Wizard Duncan opened an account with Newcomb & Hatch, Andy's very employers, where at Audy waited, watchful and cautious. He laid In wait under cover. The young telephone clerk contract ed the laudable habit of keeping late office hours to secretly pore over the customers' accounts. Ho learnt by heart and kept himself posted on every detail of the wizard's trading. Then things failed to break right for Duncan. He began to slide. The king of the pool crowd who had sliced many a ripe melon with him had died under the Burgeon's knife. Speculat ing on margins Is a precarious calling. It's an adage nf the Bound financial world that sooner or later he who gambles on tho tape la lost But Dun can hung on, going deeper and deeper, totally unable to break the shackles of the mania that had seized him, his very blood mad to win back his dwin dling fortune. But tho climax was reached on tht Tonopah preferred deal. He was heavily long on Tonopah pre ferred, a one-track system whose next to worthless stock was flim-flammed up and flim-ilainnied down, the price a mere decoy and a fake. Now the wiz ard was still solid in certain circles whero they pull the string. Tonopah preferred was a good purchase at 40, a gold brick twenty points higher. Forty was low water, 60 high tide. It wns all very simple to his understand ing, the A B C of tho game of stocks. Two weeks after he bought he re ceived a telegram marked "rush." "Sell quick! Fight on with Tonopah directors. Going to wreck, merge, freeze-out." ' And Duncan was up to his neck in Tonopah preferred. It had seemed such a Bate play, such a supreme chance. But it hadn't been a chance. It had been a sure thing. And he had succeeded In fooling even himself. He would make a big haul and bid good by to tho ticker, bid farewell to the nerve-racking, furious strife forever. But even now he wasn't afraid, disap pointed. His brain, working smoothly, naturally saw the easy way to hedge, to still play trumps. He gave his brokers Instructions to sell twenty thousand shares of Tonapah preferred, whereas before he had been long but ten thousand. It wasn't smart. It was tho logical remedy. The telegram had warned him and gone over his head harmlessly. That order came buzzing over the wire into Andy Gage's ear. Outside of the booth of ringing phones, out on the floor of the exchange rose the mur muring shout of Wall street's pulse, dust-laden, jumbled, Incessant But Gago shut out all else Bave that dron ing voice that came to him from the oillce. It was the voice of opportun ity. Sell twenty thousand Tonopah preferred! It was a big order, a migh ty big order, hampered by no price limitations. Sell at the market! The clerk at the other end wa3 instructing him to scatter tho order around in small lots, to sell by easy stages. Twenty thousand shares! Gago knew for whoso account the sale was for. Something had happened. A break was coming. Why, Duncan was sell ing out, going short on Tonopah pre ferred! Ho Jingled the receiver back in place, wrote down tho order facetious ly, took a long breath and tore it into long, thin strips. Tho office of Newcomb & Hatch was a scene or angry shouts, accusations and denials. Duncan scented careless ness of Home sort on somebody's part He could feel himself grow moist and sick and desperate. Somehow tho stock hadn't been sold. Newcomb, floor member of the firm, had denied all knowledge of the' order. The wizard's margin was gone three times over. The borrowed trust funds he had staked were gambled away. "Keep cool half a minute," New comb ndvlsed him strongly, seeing bad breakers ahead. "The firm can never weather this broadside We're all in the same boat rapids-bound. But keep cool. We'll ask Andy and see. He'll know." And Andy came walking into the midst of them, into tho midst or con fusion and mystery. He looked straight at Duncan and smiled, his blood beating a tattoo of victory. His enemy faced him one brief, paralyzing second in silence, white and stiff with Biidden amazement, sudden under stmding, sudden, rekindled hate. "You here!" ho strangled out. "Why, you!" Gage laughed mirthlessly. "You're whipped, beaten, squelched!" he mocked him tauntingly and laughed again in his fuce. He came closer to the man he had beaten down. "Yes, I tore up the order, your order. Yes, I sent fake reports on sales over here. Turn about is fair play, and I've turned on you!" Newcomb was gradually regaining his poise, his power to act He pushed Andy Gage aside. "What's tho meaning of this out rage!" he demnnded roughly. "You ungrnterul young whipper-snapper, what have you done? Weil wring the insolenco out of you. You're fired, dis charged, d'yer hear?" "Or course," nodded Gage evenly. "It doesn't matter. But you won't suffer Newcomb & Hntch won't. That can be easily arranged. You see, I heard from Jenkins yesterday. He's struck a million-dollar oil gusher on his Bister's rarm, and we're going to atart up again. He'll stand your losses In Ton apah. Mr. Newcomb gladly. I'll write him how I broke a traitor's back." That was nil, and he halt turned to go. Duncan was snarling at him. His big white teeth were chewing his lip, splitting the skin there into tiny wet. red crncks. Poison centered, hard and steadfast. In tho green of his con tracted eyes. Suddenly he reached around back of hlin under tho drop of his coat, the lust of the slaughter blast ing his sanity. He cursed when tho re volver he carried caught in the pocket lining, and Jerked it free. The arm or the maniac leveled. Once, twice ha blazed Into Andy Gage's face, missing both shoU. Burrowing Into tho soft plaster of the side wall, the bullets found another mark. Every light in tho office shivered, winked and went out. The flnuie of his weapon spurted again through tho dark. But the dan ger was over. He had turned the smoking barrel on himself. Duncan had solved the last great riddle of life. Tho wizard or the tape was dead. SAVED BY "HOBOES"! RAILROAD DISASTERS AVERTED DY TRAMPS. Notable Instances Where Wanderers Have Warned Engineers of Dan ger Ahead Philosophy Displayed by "Springfield Mike." Promptitude and presence or mind on tho part or a "Weary Willie," who was resting on a railroad embank ment in May last year, enabled him to save a mall train rrom possi ble disaster Glancing idly down the line, he suddenly noticed that the heavy rains had washed a large quantity of earth on to a portion of the IineSf quite suffi cient to derail the express, which he noticed was al ready signaled. Quickly stripping off his tattered coat, he rushed down tho line to wards tho oncoming train, frantically waving his coat above his head. The express came dashing on, the driver not noticing the tramp, owing to a curve in the line, until the train was almost on top of him. Luckily he saw him Just as tho tramp sprang from the track to escape being killed, and the train was brought to a standstill within a short distance of the obstruc tion. It was in the same month, as report ed in an American paper, that a crowd ed express train on the New Haven railway was saved from disaster by a tramp, who, walking along the track, suddenly discovered that several feet or rail had either been cut or broken. Almost at. the same moment he heard the whistle or an engine. It was an express excursion, and, running on to wards the curve, he saw the train only a short distance off. Pulling out his red bandanna, he rushed forward, waving it above his head and shout ing with all the strength or his lungs. The driver saw him and stopped tho train, which in a rew seconds more might have plunged down the embank ment Needless to say, the passengers, when they realized how near they had been to death, showered thanks and rewards on the tramp, who gave his name as "Springfield Mike." The driver wished to take him to the ter minus, in order that he might bo fur ther rewarded by the company, but Mike would havo none of It. "Re ward," ho cried; "why, I owe the rail way for a good many rides, and I guess this makes It square." Five years ago, almost to the day, a dastardly attempt was made to wreck the Boston express by cutting a portion or the rail at night time and laying it across the track. A half starved tramp named Blbby, who was walking along the track to the next town, Btumbled over the obstruction. Feeling round him, he was horrified to find a gap in the rails, and in a flash he recognized the work or wreck ers. In spite or weakness and ratlgue, he rushed along the track and man aged to reach the next, station, half a mile away, Just as the express was approaching the station. Rushing in to tho night operator's box, Blbby shouted, "stop the train; there's a going to be a wreck If you don't!" Tho operator Immediately sprang for a red lantern, rushed out on the track, and gave the signal Just in time. When tho important part the tramp had played in saving the train became known to the passengers they con tributed enough money to keep hlra from starving ror months, and ulti mately the company provided him with a job Tor lire. Train Goes on a Rampage. At Bagneres de Bigerre, near Tarbes, In the south or France, a pas senger train which should" have stopped at the station ran through it at a speed or 20 miles an hour. It had been intended' that the train should not proceed rurther, and the polnt3 had accordingly been turned so that tho train ran into a siding, completely demolished tho buffers, passed, with out breaking a single coupling, over a ditch, knocked down a garden wall and continued Its cross-country run for 400 yards over fields. Though tho passengers were much alarmed, no body was hurt. A Quick Lunch. Lnnch at a railroad station means, for some peoplo, two pieces of half raw dough, called bread; a sample of butter hidden beside a small scrap of partially cooked ham, that won't come out And the description is not complete without the admission that it is "grabbed" and "bolted" while tho clock hand Jumps from minute to min ute. It doesn't sound nice, and the description ought to bo enough to in sure a well-developed case of Indi gestion. Falls Dead at Throttle. Dead at the throttle or his engine, and the train running Itself, was the situation presented on the passenger train of the St Francis branch of tho Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy railroad, near Herndon, Kan., says a dispatch from Beaver city, Neb. Tho dead engineer succumbed to heart disease while at his post Hid rigid position drew the attention of tho fireman, A. Koler, who ran the train to 8t. Francis. extending lines in mexicc American Capital a Dominant Factor in the Buildyig of Railroads for Diaz. When Diaz became the constitution al president or Mexico in 1S77 tho country had about 3H0 miles of rail road, says the New York Sun. Nation al affairs were in a state of disorder and demoralization. Investment was little else than a gamble, offering no special temptation to Americans, who were at that time occupied with tho projects which resulted In the enn- structlon of some 85,000 miles of American railroad in 12 year3 (1S79 1S90). Thero was nothing "supine" In American railroad energy and cap ital at that time. They were active ly employed in more promising enter prises at home. Moreover, It was dur ing the earlier years of that time that enterprisipg Bostonlans undertook and completed the construction of the 1.200 mile line from the Texas border to the Mexican capital, an enterprise of about four times the magnitude of the Vera Cruz line built n few years eatlier by Europeans. Since that time American capital has been the strongest Individual fuc tor in Mexico's railroad system, and Is now the dominant factor. Mexico now has nbout 12,500 miles of rail road. Out of the total about 7,000 miles aro under control of the recent ly effected consolidation known as the National Railroads of Mexico. In this system the government holds a ma jority interest, but the actual manage ment is iu tho hands of capable and experienced American officials, and the capital invested, excepting the holdings or tho government, is largely Americnn. In the railroad policy pursued by President Diaz practically from the time of his inauguration, more than 30 years ago, there have been two ma jor purposes namely: The develop ment of Mexico's vast resources and the creation of a system of military highways as factors in the mainten ance of political peace and public or der. Both undertakings have been wonderfully successful. RIVAL AMERICA IN LUXURY Sleeping Cars in India May Be Said to Be Even Better Equipped Than Are Ours. Tho latest sleeping cars in India arc fitted luxuriously. Like most foreign cars they are divided into compart ments, but a corridor runs from end to end of the car. Each compartment contains two berths. The upper berth Is of peculiarly Ingenious de sign, so compactly constructed that n casual observer would fall to see how It can be lowered. The compartments are large enough to accommodate the luggage that any two persons can require, and are fit ted up with all kinds of conveniences. Every compartment has an electric fan under the control of the passen gers, and of the three electric lamna one Is a small night lamp that can be Kepi Durrung an night without incon venience. If a party is too largo for a single compartment, says tho Railroad Man's Magazine, a sliding door connecting with the adjoinine be thrown open. On the other hand, u me passenger desires he can lock hlS dOOr, pull dOWn his Vonntlnn blinds and be secure from intrusion. At each end Of the rnnph la a " . . w atI l IUU11IJ ouuiroom, wun a large bath half sunk in the floor, tho walls lined with mir rors, and equipped with ever imnin. able Bnnltary device. There in nln a servant's compartment. It Is said mat mis coach has been approved by luu runrouu Doaru as the standard type for Indian rolling stock. Take Their Ti me for I nk Railroad travelers don't need to go hungry or thirsty In Eurmw. nn ery station platform there Is a small army or men, women and children selling fruit, wine, beer, sandwiches anu misRets of lunch. Yon innn of a car window and get a glass of Deer anu a Wienerwurst, ror Instance, and hand the vendor nrobnblv siv seven cents. But you don't have to gulp me beer down and give the glass ones. iaKo your time for It nnd leave tho glass In the rnr Tho ployeB gather up the empty glasses at me end or tho trip and put them Into circulation again by handing them over to other vendors. Got Better All the Time. A pnrty of tourists were doing Bos ton nnd Cambridge. Said one, "So this is the cemetery whero they say James Russell Lowell, ns a small boy, went out one Halloween night to look for ghosts. I wonder which stone he was hiding behind, and if he really did see a ghoBt?" "I can't tell you, ..... uui, ituant ivu iuo guide, out over here lies a man who had three wives. On the stone of the first one he had inscribed, 'My Wife'; on I ho stone oi tho second, 'My Dear Wife,' and on that of the third, My Beloved Wife' If any ghost tries walking around here it ought to be that first wife." Large Order for Equipment. An order has been placed at the West Milwaukee locomotive shops oi the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad by the company for 40 freight locomotives ror heavy service. The work or gathering the material for tlicso engines was begun at once, as the order calls for their delivery In 40 days. The road has also ordered the Bhop to build 1,000 freight cars at once. Tho car shops are about to begin work on 17 mail and baggago cars oi the rond's standard design. The ac tual work of erecting these cars will begin iu two weeks. LATEST THING IN DDCF;... . - New York Woman Has Invented One That Fold3 Up and Is Eaty to Clean. A folding doormat that Is a conveni ence for householders and saves money to the manufacturers Is that do vised by a New York woman. It will also save householders' money In lo calltics where doormat thieves ply their petty trade, for it Is no trouble at all to fold it up at night and stick It in the vestibule. The mat Is mada of metal, with two side bars and a' surface of plvotally-counectod slats, V like folding gates. Attached to oppo site ends of tho side bars are cross bars, by moans of which tho mat may be held In position when In use. Oth erwise tho continual stepping on It would contract it. Manufacturers find a very appreciable Bavine In freight in shilling mats of this de sign as a dozen or more can bo packed in one box. Another advantage ot this typo of mat Is the ease with which it can be cleaned. By unfasten ing the locking ends and extending and compressing It several times the illrt that has accumulated on it can t'e quickly disposed of. Meat for roasting should not be washed, but wiped with a dry cloth. Bacon rinds should be scalded and used for flavoring stocks and stews. Sausages should heat gradually when cooking to prevent the skins bursting. Never try to Ice a cake hot and let layer cakes get nearly cold before put ting together. All lard to fry fritters and dough ruits must bo very, very hot before putting in tho batter. Do not salt stock till it has been thoroughly skimmed, as the alt pre vents the scum from rising. Before broiling a steak dust it with salt and pepper and rub It in well with salad oil. This will greatly Improve It. Delicious are hot biscuit served with game. Break them open, butter them generously and then spread with currant jelly. To keep silver rrom tarnishing when packed away, make small cotton bags and fill with camphor gum. Place them among the silver. , Always lower the temperature or the oven some after a roast has been in for 15 or 20 minutes. Then the Juices will be retained. Parker House Rolls. Three cups scalding hot milk, four tablespoons butter, two tablespoons sugar, one teaspoon salt, eight cupa Bitted flour, one yeast cake dissolved In one-fourth cup warm water. Pour the scalded milk over the salt, sugar and butter, when lukewarm beat In four cups or flour; mix well, add yeast. Cover closely and let rise in a warm place. When light enough add more flour to knead (four cups). Cover, let rise till light. Roll out to half-Inch thickness. Shape with bis cuit cutter, brush each shape with melted butter, crease through center, fold over and press edges together, plnce in buttered pan one inch apart and let rise till very light, then bake In a brisk oven 15 minutes. Mocha Custard. Put one-quarter cup or pulverized coffee Into a little muslin bag and drop into two cup3 or cold milk In a double boiler. Heat and when scald ing hold at that temperature ror five minutes, then take out the bag. Beat one rounding tablespoon of flour, one third cup or sugar and three eggs until light and turn into tho milk. Bring to the boiling point nnd cook eight minutes. Add hair a teaspoon or va nilla, turn into small molds rinsed in cold water and set aside to become Arm. Serve well chilled with beaten cream. Sausage Omelet. Beat Ave eggs into a bnsln, add one finely chopped shallot, beat up well. ' and add one heaping tnblespoonful of chopped smoked ham or liver sausage, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Melt one tablcspoonrul or butter in an omelet pan; when hot, pour in tho eggs, etc., stir until It sets. Shake the pan whilst holding It in a slant ing position so as to give the omelet its proper size. Leave It over the Are for a moment to brown, then turn out on to a hot dish and serve with whit 1 sauce. When Cooking Chlckeni. The beBt way to ennt ,ii ' whether vounz or nld. in . them first by broiling, rrylng or roast- ' Ing and then cook them In a ,-overed i pan in the oven. The time of in- latter ' cooking to bo reflated the youth or age of the chicken.