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But my face must have been expressing some of the joy a4 gratitude that filled me. "She has chosen!" I was saying to myself over and over. "Whenever you usually have It," she replied, without looking up. "At seven o'clock, then. You had better tell Sanders." I rang for him and went into my little smoking-room. She had resisted her parents' final appeal to her to re turn to them. She had cast in her lot with ma "The rest can be left to time." said I to myself. And, review ing all that had happened, I let a wild hope cend tenacious roots deep Into me. How often ignorance is a bless ing; how often knowledge would make the step falter and the heart quail! "You could as easily throw down that steeple by pushing against it with your bare hands," I said to her. "as 'they,' whoever they are, could put me down. They might take away my money. But if they did, they would only be giving me a lesson that would I "I doni think you cam see Mr. Hoe- buck," she laid. "Take my card to him,. I ordered, "and 111 wait- in the parlor." '"Parlor's In use," she retorted with a sarcastic grin, which I was soon to understand. So I stood by the old-fashioned coat and hat rack while she went in at the hall door of the back parlor. Scon Roebuck himself came out, his glasses on bis nose, a family Bible under his arm. "Glad to see you, Matthew," said-he with saintly kindliness, giving me a friendly hand. "We are just about to offer up our evening prayer. Come right in." I followed him into the back parlor. Both it and the front parlor were lighted; in a sort of circle extending into both rooms were all the Roe bucks and the four servants. "This is my friend,. Matthew Blacklock," said he. and the Roebucks in the cir cle gravely bowed. He drew up a chair for me, and we seated ourselves. Amid a solemn hush, he read a chap ter from the big Bible spread out up- teach me how more easily to get it back. I am not a bundle of stock cer- on his lean lap. My glance wandered tificates or a bag of money. I am from fan t far, nt th Rnhnntra - ww v. wv www - FAMILY XXHL BLACKLOCK ATTENDS PRAYERS. During dinner I bore the whole burden of conversation though bur den I did not find it. Like most close mouthed men, I am extremely talk ative. Silence sets people to won dering and prying; he hides his se crets best who hides them at the bot tom of a river of words. If my spir its are high, I often talk aloud to my self when there is no one convenient. And how could my spirits be anything but high, with her sitting there op posite me, mine, mine for better or for worse, through good and evil re port my wife! She was only formally responsive, reluctant and brief in answers, vol unteering nothing. The servants waiting on us no doubt laid her man ner to shyness; I understood it. or thought I did but I was not troubled. It is as natural for me to hope as to breathe; and with my knowledge of character, how could I take seriously the moods and impulses of one whom I regarded as a child-like girl, trained to false pride and false ideals? "She has chosen to stay with me," said I to myself. "Actions count, not words or manner. A few days or weeks, and she will be herself, and mine." And I went gaily on with my efforts to interest her, to make her smile and forget the role she had commanded herself to play. Nor was I wholly unsuccessful. Again and again I thought I saw a gleam of In terest in her eyes or the beginnings of a smile about that sweet mouth of hers. I was careful not to overdo my part As soon as we finished dessert I said: "You loathe cigar smoke, so I'll hide myself in my den. Sanders will bring you the cigarettes." I bad my self telephoned for a supply of her kind early in the day. She made a polite protest for the benefit of the servants; but I was firm, and left her free to think things over alone in 'the drawing-room "your sitting-room," I called it I had not finished a small cigar when there came a timid knock at my door. I threw away the cigar and opened. "I thought it was you." said I. "I'm familiar with the knocks of all the others. And this was new like a summer wind tapping with a flower for admission at a closed window." And I laughed with a little raillery, and she smiled, colored, tried to seem cold and hostile again. "Shall I go with you to your sitting-room?" I went on. "Perhaps the cigar smoke here " "So, no." she interrupted; "I don't really mind cigars and the windows are wide open. Itesides. I came for only a moment just to say " As she cast about for words to carry her on, I drew up a chair for her. She looked at it uncertainly, seated herself. "When mamma was here this afternoon," she went on, "she was urging me to to do what she wished. And after she had used sev eral arguments, she said something I I've been thinking it over, and it seemed I ought in fairness to tell you." I waited. "She said: 'In a few days more he' that meant you 'he will be ruined. He imagines the worst is over for hira. when in fact they've only be gun. "They! I repeated. "Who are they'? The Langdons?" "I think so." she replied with an effort. "She did not say I've told you her exact words as far as 1 can." '"Well," said I, "and why didn't you She pressed her lips firmly together. Finally, with a straight look into my eyes, she replied: "I shall not dis cuss that You probably misunder stand, but that is your own affair." "You believed what she said about Be. of course," said I. "I neither believed nor disbelieved." she answered indifferently, as she vose to go. "It does not interest me." "Come here," said L I waited until she reluctaatly joined se at the window. I pointed to the temple of the church across the way. here," and I tapped my forehead. She forced a faint, scornful smile. She did not wish me to see her be lief of what I said. "You may think that is vanity," I went on. "But will learn, sooner or later, the difference between boasting and simple statement of fact. You will learn that I do not boast What I said is no more a boast than for a man with legs to say. T can walk.' Because you have known only leg less men, you exaggerate the diffi culty of walking. It's as easy for me to make money as it is for some peo ple to spend it" It is hardly necessary for me to say I was not insinuating anything against her people. But she was just then supersensitive on the subject though I did not suspect It She flushed hotly. "You will not have any cause to sneer at my people on that Roebucks, as plainly dressed as were-their per-" vants. I was able to look freely, mine being the only eyes not bent upon the floor. So absorbed was I In the study of the influence of his terrible master character upon ' those closest to It, that I started when he said: "Let us pray." I followed the example of the others, and knelt The audible prayer was offered up by his oldest daughter, Mrs. Wheeler, a widow. Roebuck punctuated each paragraph in her series of petitions with a loudly-whispered amen. When she prayed for "the stranger whom Thou has led seemingly by chance into our little circle," he whispered the amen more fervently and repeated It The prayer ended and, us on our feet the ser vants withdrew; then, awkwardly, all the family except Roebuck. That is, they closed the doors between the two "When will the reorgaaixatio announced?' I asked. "I can not say." he "Some difficulties chiefly labor diffl culties have arisen. Until they are settled, nothing can be done. Come to me to-morrow, and we'll talk about it" "That is all I wished to know," said I, with a friendly, easy smile, "flood night" It was his turn to be astonished and he showed it where I had given not a sign. "What was the report yon heard?" he asked, to detain me. "That yon and Mowbray Langdon had conspired to ruin me," said I, laughing. He echoed my laugh rather hollow ly. "It was hardly necessary for you to come to me about such a a statement" "Hardly,' I answered dryly. Hard ly, indeed! For I was seeing now all that I had been hiding from myself since I became infatuated with Anita and made marrying her my only real business in life. ' We faced each other, each meas uring the other. And as his glance quailed before mine, I turned away to conceal my exultation. In a com parison of resources this man who hud plotted to crush me was to me as giant to midget But I had the joy of realizing that man to nrnti, I was the stronger. I TWO OLD STYLE FAVORITES. I 6 BS W A " ' i n. !' J tas- y i HE r1 Mur III I I ' W; mmfy III i, tin iiiiii.ii Hi. i i i Mir in n r ,mf'-rz4 t t tiff ItMlwiUmwKtr ffl U sniBBi M I if ii I ttflBH ' i 'luililulHOtMummm ''III li'laB i i she said. "I WAITED. I set- account hereafter,' tied that to-day." "I was not sneering at them," I pro tested. "I wasn't even thinking of them. And you must know that it's a favor to me for anybody to ask me to do anything that will please you Anita!" She made a gesture of impatience. "I see I'd better tell you why I did not go with them to-day. I insisted that they give back all they have taken from you. And when they re fused, I refused to go." "I doa't care why you refused, or imagined you refused, said I. "I am content with the fact that you are here." "But you misunderstand it" she an swered coldly. "I don't understand it I don't mis uiderstand It,'" was my reply. "I ac cept it" She turned away from the window, ifted out of the room you, who love or at least have loved, can im agine how it made me feel to see Her moving about in those rooms of mine. While the surface of my mind was taken up with her, I must have been thinking, underneath, of the 'warning she had brought; for. perhaps half or three-quarters of an hour after she left. I was suddenly whirled out of my reverie at the window by a thought like a pistol thrust into my face. "What if 'they' should include Roebuck!" And just as a man be gins to defend himself from a sudden danger before he clearly sees what the danger is, so I began to act be fore I even questioned whether my suspicion was plausible or absurd. I went into the hall, rang the bell, slipped a light-weight coat over my evening dress and put on a bat When Sanders appeared, I said: "I'm going out for a few minutes per haps an hour if any one should ask." A moment later 1 was in a hansom and on the way to Roebuck'a The door of Roebuck's house was opened for me by a maid a man-servant would have been a 'sinful" lux ury, a man-servant might be the hire ling of plotters against his life. I may add that she looked the cheap maid-of-all-work,. and her manners were of the free and fresh sort that indi cates a feeling that as high, or higher, wages, and less to do could be got elsewhere. " v " "' " rooms and left him and me alone in the front parlor. "I shall not detain you long, Mr. Roebuck," said I. "A report reached me this evening that sent me to you at once." "If possible, Matthew," said he, and he could not hide his uneasiness, "put off business until to-morrow. My mind yours, too, I trust Is not in the frame for that kind of thoughts now." "Is the Coal organization to be an nounced the first of July?" I de manded. It has always been, and al ways shall be. my method to fight in the open. This, not from principle, but from expediency. Some men fight best in the brush; I don't So I always begin battle by shelling the woods. "So." he said, amazing me by his instant frankness. "The announce ment has been postponed." Why did he not lie to me? Why did he not put me off the scent as he might easily have done, with some shrewd evasion? I suspected I owed it to my luck in catching him at family prayers. xxrv. "MY WIFE MUST!" -,-As I drove away, I was proud of my self. I had listened to my death sen tence with a face so smiling that he must almost have believed me un conscious; and also, it had not even entered my ''head, as I listened, to beg for mercy. Not that there would have been the least use in begging; as well try to pray a statue Into life, as try to soften that set will and pur pose. Still, many a man would have weakened and I had not weakened. But 'when I was once more in my apartment in our apartment per haps I did show that there was a weak streak through me. I fought against the impulse to see her once more that night; but I fought In vain. I knocked at the door of her sitting-room a timid knock, for me. No answer. I knocked again, more loudly tHen a third time, still more loudly. The door opened and she stood there, like one of the angels that guarded the gates of Eden after the fall. Only, instead of a naming sword, hers was of ice. She was in a dressing-gown or tea gown, white and dinging and full of intoxicating hints and glimpses of-all the beauties of her figure. Her face softened as she continued to look at me, and I entered. "No please don't turn on any more lights." I said, as she moved toward the electric buttons. "I just gmw in to to see if I could do anything for you." In fact I had come, longing for her to do something for me, to show in look or tone or act some sympathy for me in my loneliness and trouble. "No, thank you," she said. Her voice seemed that of a stranger who wished to remain a' stranger. And she was evidently waiting for me to go. You will see what a mood I was in when I say I felt as I had not since I. a very small boy indeed, ran away from home; I came back through the chilly night to take one last glimpse of the family that would soon be realizing how foolishly and wickedly unappreciative they had been of such a treasure as I; and when I saw them sitting about the big fire in the lamp light heartlessly comfortable and un concerned, it was all I could do to keep back the tears of strong self pity and I never saw them, again. "I've seen Roebuck," said I to Anita, .because I must say something, if I was to stay on. "Roebuck?" she inquired. Her tone reminded me that his name con veyed nothing to her. "He and I are in an enterprise to gether," I explained. "He is the one man who could seriously cripple me. "Oh," she said, and her indifference, forced though I thought it wounded. "Well," said I, "your mother was right" She turned full toward me, and even in the dimness I saw her quick sym pathy an impulsive flash Instantly gone. But it had been there! "I came in here," I went on, "to say that Anita, it doesn't in the least matter. No one in this world, no one and nothing, could hurt me except through you. So long as I have you, they the rest all of them together can't touch me." We were both silent for several min utes. Then she said, and her voice was like the smooth surface of the river where the boiling rapids run deep: "But you haven't me and never shall have. I've told you that I warned you long ago. No doubt you will pretend, and people will say, that I left you because you lost your money. But it won't be so." I was beside her instantly, was look ing into her face. "What do you mean?" I asked, and I did not speak gently. , (To be Continued.) Pumpkin Pie ami Indian Pudding as They Owjht to . Old Style Pumpkin Pie. When the "lady" did her own cooking- or knew how better than her help, they were baked in the old style clay deep-in-the-center plates, brown, with yellow wiggles in them. The pumpkin was cut In pieces, peeled and stewed soft enough to be scooped. Then mashed and sweetened with sufficient dark molasses into which ginger and cin namon, two parts of the first one of he latter to each pie, is mixed. To this was added about one-third rich cream to two-thirds drained pumpkin. First bake the pie crust lining, add the pumpkin till -level with the edge and bake in a brisk oven '(it was brick then) a rich brown, even darker at the edge, with a brown film above. It" cutsscoherentry. not like custard nor cornstarch, but like a firm pump kin pie. Old Indian Pudding. Pour a pint of scalding milk on a cup of coarse yellow Indian meal, add two beaten eggs, two-thirds cup. of dark molasses, salt and cinnamon to taste, add one pint of cold, rich milk, and hake two hours, stirring several times to make it whey. Make a sauce of one cup of powdered sugar and one-half cup of butter, beaten to a cream, flavor with nutmeg, wine or brandy. A woman hotelkeeper in a small western town has built her trade on that pudding. i. HHKS"?.. .fSr5LLBBLHLLLLr JALf LLf Bnmmm! MnmnmnV snmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmml KKBK&BSKKitttlBKr9tKIKl sanwsmianV mnml snnnnmni m afBSIBSBKBiJM ""mVHiBimSA snmmnW g """ H BnvnasnsnmnnmSJv inmCmmmmmmmmmnnA nK jj ' - JimW Jr.ggg - jBBMtwiia-iK-? 5" "snmmmmmmmmwsB" .KKl. - m9 7 Bnmrnm snm"swHLnmmmBW "-" "-, " t SHELVES ARE IN FAVOR. Of Equal Utility and Beauty in the Living Rooms. Shelves, as perhaps few of us real ize, add much character to a room. Like cushions and rugs and books. they give that delicious air of com fort so often lacking In the stately yet stiff drawing-rooms of some of our modern homes. Many people do not take to the idea of shelves, associating the shelf with the homely uses of the kitchen, the pantry, and the cellar, whereas the real fact is the utility of the shelf con stitutes much of its beauty. People have become educated to see ing bookshelves in a library or sitting room in preference to bookcases, for these always seem designed more as showcases for books and their bind ings than to hold books ready for" in timate use. Fewer bookcases are sold nowadays than formerly, for everybody seems to appreciate the charm of the low book shelves built in around a room for oc cupying some special nook or corner in a bay window or alcove. On the top of these shelves one can always have plants, photographs, magazines, all the hundred and one little furnish ings that add to thes beauty of a room. The high corner bookshelves are al ways good for they use space often otherwise wasted. m Fruit-and-Nut Rolls. Sift together, three times, three cupfuls of flour, six level teaspoonf uls of baking powder and half a teaspoon ful of salt Work in from one-third to one-half cupful of shortening. Then mix to a dough with milk. Turn the dough onto a floured board, knead slightly, then roll out into a rectan gular sheet about one-third of an Inch thick. Brush over the sheet of dough with softened butter, then sprinkle with sultana raisins or cleaned cur rants and filberts (hazel nuts), cut into several pieces. Roll up the dough compactly, then cut the roll 'in pieces an inch long. Set these on end, close together, in a buttered baking-pan. Bake about 20 minutes. Ever Try Coffee-Chocolate? It is not generally known that cof fee and chocolate combined make a good flavoring somewhat peculiar, however, and perhaps one would tire of it easily, but dishes containing this combination often make an agreeable change from the general routine. A loaf cake with this flavoring is espe cially good. Cream one cup of sugar and half a cup of butter; add the yolks of four eggs and half a cup of strong coffee. Sift in one and a half cups of flour, with two table spoonfuls of baking powder. Last ly, stir in one and a half squares of melted chocolate. Ba'j in a regular cake oven; frost if wished. 'TTiiinnnr iniiiiiiriniiriuunusij HEAD HUNTERS OF FORMOSA. Race ef Man Eaters Whose Cry for Blood. Is The mountainous Interior of For mosa is inhabited by a race of blood thirsty savages, whose chief delight is to sally forth on head hunting raids. Few strangers (the exceptions being some intrepid Japanese explorers) nave ever penetrated far into the wild mountain country which is the home of these savages. They appear to be akin to the Dyaks of Borneo, but no definite study of their language or habits has yet been made, though interesting de tails will be found in Consnl David son's voluminous book on Formosa. For hundreds of years the tribes, eight in number, have withstood their ene mies, who have never been able to penetrate to their fastnesses. It re mains to be seen what saecess the more systematic Japanese win achieve. . It seems almost incredible that the ptatlon of a military force should not be safe from the raids of these head hunters, but it was the case a few years ago. At that time one of the tribes crept in the night upon a post of the Japanese and made off with a score of heads. Their more usual method is to stalk the Chinese of either sex when they are engaged in tea picking. The sav age creeps up unobserved to his vic tim, transfixes him with his spear, se cures his head and he Is lost in a moment in the neighboring jungle. Macmillan's Magazine. Keeping House Sanitary. To keep a house in a sanitary con dition does not mean that you must be sweeping, dusting and scrubbing all the time. Let the air and sunshine into every part of the house; do not allow any decaying matter to accumulate in the cellar; wash and dry all cleaning cloths, tubs, pails, etc., as soon as you have finished using them. It Is not so much the dust that is in sight as the dust, dampness and decay in dark places that make a dwelling insanitary. French. Apple Fritters. Pare and core six large apples, cut them into slices, sprinkle pounded sugar over them, and leave them for an hour. Then dip each slice in bat ter, previously prepared, and fry in clarified butter. Let the chafing dish be very hot When the frit ters are nearly ready, drain them, and dust with castor sugar mixed with a little ground cinnamon. Patient Apologist. "Charley, dear." said yoanr Torkins, "yon said yon knew exactly which horse would win that race." "I thought I did." "O. well, accidents will happen. Maybe one of the other horses got frightened and ran away." Washing ton Star. Raised Buns. Three cups milk, one cup sugar, one-half yeast cake. Flour enough to make a thin batter. Mix at noon. At night add. one-half cup butter, one and one-half cups, sugar, little salt cur rants, flour enough to knead. Keep in a warm place. In the morning cut into shape and let rise till light When nearly done brush over the top with a little warm milk, butter and molasses. Valuable Product. Daring the last tea years the single product of sisal fiber has yielded la Yacatan the enormous sum of 297,Mt,. 00e Mexican silver dollars. To Boil Eggs Properly. Never cook an egg for an invalid la water that boils furiously, for this makes the white tough and Indigesti ble. .Put the egg in boiling water, throw the saucepan to the back of the store and allow it to stand for live minutes. This will cook the egg per fectly and the white will be soft and easily -digested. Little children should also be gives eggs cooked In this way. Uselei ALLEY FORGE! Perhaps no spot In ail America has a sig nificance to Americans such as attaches to that little vale in the hills of Chester county, Pennsylvania. Ply mouth Rock has its halo of history, but without Valley Forge the land ing of the Pilgrims would have been a for gotten incident It was at Valley Forge that the young nation was tried in bitterness and defeat, only to come out of it steeled for the work that In that long, dreadful winter was ripen ing for It Through it all Washington, as commander-in-chief, as soldier, and as an Individual sufferer with his men, was the colossal figure that emphasizes this supreme test of patriotism. Defeat at Germantown on Oct 3. 1777. had sent Washington in retreat Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer in quick succession had been abandoned by the continental army. At Whltemarsh Washington had made a stand so un expected and determined as to cause the British general, Howe, to return to his comfortable winter quarters in Philadelphia. There, on Dec 11, Gem. Washington, with his suffering army of 17.000 men, took up the weary march to Valley Forge, a sleepy de pression in the hills, 22 miles from Philadelphia. On one side was the Schuylkill river and on the north was Valley creek. Snow lay deep on the ground when, on Dec 19. the patriot army reached the site of the winter camp. Tents were stretched for as many as could be housed, hundreds slept in the snow, already reddened by their bleeding bare feet At once Gen. Washington directed that work begin on log huts, previously designed. To do this, mien were divided into squads of 12, fur nished with rude tools, and directed to build huts large enough to house each squad. According to specifica tions these huts were 14 by IS feet with sides, ends and roofs made of logs. The roofs were made water tight with bark, split slabs, or other material. The cracks in the sides were filled with clay. In the rear of each hut was a fireplace made of wood, protected by clay. The door was in the end next to the camp street and was made of oak slabs. In the rear of each line of huts for troops were the huts for officers. Each general officer got a hut to himself; each field officer of a regiment got one; the staff of each brigade shared another; the staff of each regiment was assigned one; commissioned offi cers for two regiments had one, while for the non-commissioned officers and men of the army 12 persons were al loted to each hut The winter of 1777-78 was remark able for its severity and its deep snows, and when work was begun at making camp, nearly 3,000 men were unfit for duty. British- sympathizers populated the surrounding country and food and bedding were hard to get even when the soldiers had the de preciated currency of the country to offer in exchange. As an incentive to hut-building. Gen. Washington offered a purse of 1100 to the officer or man who would suggest the best substitute for boards as a roofing material, hav ing especial reference to cheapness and celerity in building. Then, to the squad in each regiment which built its nut quickest and in the best manner he gave a purse of 312. So encour aged, the tattered, emaciated army was housed late in January. Twenty-two miles away was Howe's army of 19,500 men in Philadelphia paying British gold and silver for sup plies. Washington's starveling army had only the continental currency worth 325 to the 3100 of face value. Even with the spirit of Toryism ab sent the army at Valley Forge would have been handicapped. As it was they found farmers defending their cattle, grain and straw at the musket's nuzzle. With reference to these uncomfort able quarters for the men. It may be said that Washington shared them with his men until all had been housed In huts. Then only did he take up headquarters with the old Quaker preacher near the mouth, of Valley reek. Around his headquarters were stationed the members of his life guard. Alblgence Waldo's Diary. Somewhere in this chilled, starved. name of providence can I do with ft fit of sickness In this place, where nothing appears pleasant to the sick ened eye and nauseating stomach? But I doubt not providence will lad a way for my relief, only I cannot eat beef if I starve; for my stomach posi tively refuses such company, and haw can I help that?" Next day he is worse, and in a worn mood he scribbles: "Dec 12. Sunset We are ordered to march over the river. It snows I'm sick eat nothing no whisky no baggage Lord Lord Lord!" Twelve days later he begins with a tribute to the endurance and pa tience of the soldiery, followed with loud pretestings for himself aad his condition, and winds up his memo randa by taking it all back: "Dec 24. Prisoners' and deserters are continually coming in. The army. who have been surprisingly healthy hitherto, have now begun to grow sickly from the continued fatigues they have suffered in this campaign' Yet they still show spirit and alacrity and contentment not to be expected from so young troops. Why are we sent here to starve aad freeze? What sweet facilities have I left at home t a charming wife, pretty children, good beds, good .food, good cooking all agreeable all harmonious. Here all confusion cold, smoke, hunger, aad fllthlness. Here comes a bowl of soup full of burnt leaves and dirt Away; with it boys IH live like a chameleon, upon air! "'Poh, poh, cries Patience within me; yoa talk like a fool! Your be ing sick covers your mind with a mel ancholic gloom, which makes every thing about you appear gloomy. Sea the poor soldier when in health with what cheerfulness he meets his foes and encounters every hardship. It barefoot he labors through the mud and cold with a song in his mouth, extolling war and Washington, "But hearken. Patience, a moment. There comes a soldier. His bare feet are seen through his worn-out shoes; his legs nearly naked from the tat tered remains of an only pair of stocks.' ings his shirt hanging in strings his hair disheveled his face meager his whole appearance picturing a person forsaken and discouraged. Ho comes and cries with an air of wretch edness: T am sick my feet lame my legs are sore my clothes worn out my constitution broken I fail fast I shall soon be no more! And all the reward I shall get will be: Poor Will Is. no more.' " Christmas day enters only nominal ly into Surgeon Waldo's diary as a date;. he gives a few professional ob servations in his diary for that day: "Dec. 25. Christmas. We are still -in tents when we ought to be in huts. The poor sick suffer much in tents In this cold weather. But we now treat them differently from what they used to be at home under inspection of old women and Dr. Bolus Linctus. Wo avoid pills, powders, bolus linctus, cordials and all such Insignificant matters, whose powers are only ren dered important by causing the pa tient to give up his money instead of his disease. But few of the sick mem die." Humor in Some Entries. That Surgeon Waldo was a humorist in no mean degree is shown by an ex tract following one in which he gives a dissertation on "fire-cake" as an artt cle of steady diet. He writes: "Dec 22. Lay excessive cold and uncomfortable last night My eyet are started out from their orbits like a rabbit's eyes, occasioned by a great cold and smoke! "'What have you for breakfast Inita?' "'Fire-cake and water, sir. "The Lord send that our commis sary of purchases may live on fire cake and water till their glutted stom achs are turned to pasteboard!" To this comprehensive picture of' life at Valley Forge is that memorable winter. Surgeon Waldo added as one of his last memoranda a little tribute of his own to the general who had come with them so far afield. "So much talk about the officers. he writes, "and so many discharged. that his Ex y lately expressed fears of being left alone with the sol diers only. Strange that our country will not exert themselves for his sup port and save so good so great a man from entertaining the least anx ious doubt of their virtue and perse verance in supporting a cause of such unparalleled importance." But when May came the army wat eager to meet the British in their ro half-naked camp was a genius who. may have added mirth to Its cheerless UetLt from Philadelphia. wiu. nn umiue wbs Aiuiiientri Waldo, a surgeon, and in addition to his official duties he kept a diary, which, after a hundred years, -is strangely Interesting. This diary same to light la 1861 in the old Penn sylvania Magazine, and read through from the first entry on Nov. 19 it in dicates, as nothing else could, the wearing effect of the times and cir cumstances. On Dec 11 the hardships of Valley Forge have begun to tell on this surgeon to the continental army. I Hilar BUiKC It is useless to try to convince the He writes wou u u,a .rvuna a preuy ; r am prodigious sick and cannot get 'anything comfortable. What in the girl that life is a barren waste. .Gen. Cronje's "White Flag." Earl Roberts, who has given up his town house in Portland Place nasi gone to live in the country, has trans ferred his large collection of curios to his residence at Englemere, near As cot One of the most highly prized Is a piece of dirty white rag, Tory much the worse for wear, fi many seeing it have wondered what on earth It was doing among other curios. It Is the "white flag" that Gen. Cronje sent to Lord Roberts intimating his reader at Paaxdeberg. 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