» " HOUSE AND HOME. BY KATHERINE TYNAN, Whara 's the house, the house we love? By fisld or riv. r, squars or strat, The house our hearts go dreaming of, That lonely waits our hurrying feet; To mak : that happy house our home. Oh doar dre ys m-house! for aul store A medley of such curious things, As a wise thrush goes counting o'er, Ere the glad morn of songs and wings, Whan a small reat makes sll her heaven, And a tras mate that sings at even, Up thasa dim &*airs my heart will steal, And gnistly through the listeniag rooms, And! ng in prayerful love will kneel, And in the swect-aired twilight gloomas, Will set a curtain straight, or chair, And dust and order and make fair, Oh, tarryving Time, hasten, until You light our hearth-firas, dear and warm, S88 postures on these walls so chill, And draw our curtains "gains! the storm, And shut us in together, Time, Iu a new world, a happier climel Whether onr house be now or old Wo care not; we will drive aw. y From last year's nest its mamories cold, And all bo gold that oncs was gray Oh, dear dream-house, for which we pray, Our fo tcome slowly up your way! Mr. Weathercralls frgumen. The murder of old r. Weathe reraft crested the usual nine days sensation, which died away temporarily at least on the committal of James Thompson, the «leceasad’s butler, to take his trial for the The case could not eome on in tus ordinary course of events for four or mouths at nearest, so the public rime. Nive various newspapers entered a unanimous verdict of guilty against the accused, and turned its attention to other matters. The law officers were to be trusted todo their duty at the appointed time, and the papers would, of course, make things as amusing as possible when that time came, so James Thompson languished in his cell forgotten save by those officially interested in awlul majesty of the law. Vox populi, vox dei! [Let us follow the example of the sovereign people and leave old James in his solitary cell while we give a short account of Mr. Weather- «raft and his melancholy end. fle was a man of 60 or thereabouts, a retired stock broker, rich and of good standing in the community, living in a well-appointed house, with a large staff of servants, much given to quiet hospital. attention to his Kitchen and wine cellar than to the fluctuations of the market and the gamboling (save the mark) of bulls and bears. An old housekeeper presided over his establishment, and next én importance came the butler, almost as old both in age and time of service, he whom we have just left waiting trial for the murder of his master It would have been difficult to point out any peculiarity about Mr. Weather- «raft, anything to distinguish him from to her same class. He was commoaly supposed to have no eccentricities, no hobbies, and few strong opinions; in fact, those who wae subject. To be called a crank is the penalty nowadays for holding and airing any opinion in which at least nine-teaths of the community do not eoncur, Mr. Wethercraft was what may be called a circumstantial evidence crank. est distrust, and though as tirm a be. fiever in hanging for murder as any criminal lawyer on or off the bench, yet hid that no evidence save that of re- 20 the gallows. given to after dinner discourse, nor was fiis rather halting style unknown to the perm. however, never saw the light, thoaga it the magazine offices. Sach is the biind- ness of the editorial mind. or twice when newspapers were very hard up for copy. He enjoyed the pro- + porter to ‘‘call again.’ butler arrested people said it was a clear case of Nemesis that the evidence against the same time so purely eircamstantial, and some wag of a reporter was heard to wonder whether after Thompson's trial, conviction and execution, old Weather. craft's ghost would address ghostly de. nunciation to Bhostly newspapers from mere force of habit, or would sulk ina coruer of ghostland and interviewed. The case indeed seemed clear enough. Mr. Weathercraft had gone to bed on the 19th of November well and in good spirits; on the follow- ing morning he was found dead, stabbed to the heart. The weapon which was found buried in the old man’s heart was an old-fushioned silver skewer, part of the family plate, and had clearly been sharpened for its deadly purpose. The sharpening seemed to have been done with a file or some such rough imple. ment. There was very little external hemorrhage, only a few drops of blood being visible, The last person who saw his master alive was the accused himself. Accord. ing to his story he had gone up te Mr, Weathercraft's room with the plate chest, it being the old man’s habit to keep the silver in his own room at night, though the key was always left with the housekeeper after the chest had been locked up, This had been the custom fa the house for many years, His master was in bed Tending a novel and said night’ in his usual way. Mr, refuse to be t, as the footman was expected to EE on morning, fill This was the accused could or would say denying ali knowl. pdge of how his master had come to his The footman on being examined testi. fied to having found the body. He had entered as usual at 8 o'clock, scarcely waiting to knock, and had made arrange- ments for his master's toilet, thinking him asleep. Mr. Weathercraft was a heavy sleeper, but usually awoke when the bath was being filled. As his master did not move the witness went to the bedside and, to use the poor fellow's own expression, *‘As [ hope for mercy, sir, the face was the face of a dead corpse.” This witness further added that the bed was but little disor- dered, the lamp was out and the novel lay open on its face on the floor. He did not remove the skewer or attempt to do so, but ran and told the housekeeper, who sent him for the police, The house- keeper being summoned identified the skewer as part of the usual contents of the plate chest, which led to the recall of the butler, who, being asked whether he had counted the silver on the ni ot of the murder, answered in the affirm. ive but being pressed admitted that he did not often count the silver that was notin everyday use. Then finally, as it divin- ing at length his real position, he broke his old mas aside if he knew anything about ter's murder, and was led saving it was ‘leaving the silver uncounted.” The strongest agiinst the accused was found search was made in his room. as if old evidence when a It looked have left so many mute witnesses against himself. la a tall vase the mantel on | examined by an expert, proved to have {it. On a ledge in the chimney was Mr, Weathercraft's | notes and some change. Finally, at the i side of the rather more than half way down towards :h: foot of the bed, were discovered three distin which expert evidence asserted to blood stains, and seemed to left by a human right hand. If motive were wanted for the crime, Mr. Weathercraft's will seemad to tit. The will kad been drawn up some months previously, and witnessed by the two men servants, the last ¢ sisting of of $10,000 to the accused seemed Coveriet, Latains, be have been ¥ ofier Anise a bequest himself. it possible that he had perpetrated this awful crime | in order to benefit by it the sooner. It is not surprising, in the face of all | the evidence, that James Thompson was | fully committed to take his trial for the | that public opinion almost unanimously i condemned him in advance, | between the arrest and the trial James He seemed like one in a hopeless maze there and has given up sll hopes of ever petting out, public was tolerably unanimous in be- His sharp criminal practitioner, there was one notable exception. lawyer, a { fixed on the $10,000, almost believed him innocent, we may say almost, for Mr, himself to thing or anybody, quite believe any Mr Sharpy as a rile | innocent, and that was all. Indeed, there was something pathetic in the puzzled expression which never left the old man's face, sional remark with a melancholy shake | of the head, ““It was all along of me my siller uncounted.” Mr, to his partner in the privacy of their | only get off that tommy rot about the in insane without leaving the box.” found that he saw the day of trial dawn at last. be done. There is an end to all things, | even things legal, an end to challenges, | jury left the box. i did this as a compliment to Mr. Sharpy, who was always popular with juries: at all events, they soon filed back again with a verdict of * guilty as charged in the indictment." formally condemned to death, | lawyer visited him and tried to cheer { him by talking of “stays” and ‘‘ap- | peals.” He recommended him to make | himself comfortable, explaining that, by {the grace of God and the laws of the State, he had still a couple of years or | 80 to live, unless things went very badly. But the old man shook his head and said “No !" Fe had been condemned to death, and the sooner he died the bet- ter; he didn’t want any more palaver- ing about it since it was all along of that siller he had left uncounted. In vaio Sharpy poiated out that uncounted siller was not a hanging matter; old Thampeon was firm, and the lawyer de- parted not altogether without hope and demanded a commission to inquire into his client's sanity. The doctors came io due time and ex- amined the prisoner. Then they talked it over among themselves and decided that though fie was certainly a little odd he was sane enough to hang satisfac- torily and handed in their report in that sense, 80 old Thom aon was told thet he had nothing farther to hope for in this world and sat down to wait through the months which the wisdom rather than the mercy of the law ordains shall elapse between a condemned man's sentence aod execution. And here we must leave him while we pay a visit to the office of Mr. Fogey, the Mr. Weoathercraft's lawyer and confidential man of busi. ness. It was a M months after Mr. Mr, F and at it and ordered a te RA 5 AIT ET Sl OAT The card bore the name Mr. C, T. Lacey, and underneath, ‘‘on business connected with the late George Weather- craft's estate,” He was just acquainted with Mr. Lacey and knew him to be a very old friend of his deceased client, but he was at a loss to divine the reason of his visit. The lawyer rose as his visitor entered, and motioning him to a chair asked how he could serve him, to which Mr. Lacey replied by producing a packet from his pocket and laying it on the table in front of Mr. Fogey. Then he sat down and began: “Mr, Fogey,” he said, “I have come here torday in obedience to a request of poor dear Weathercraft. There packet which he gave me some months or more before he was murdered, asking me to give it to you er your suc- cessor exactly six months after his death, The time is up to-day, and here I am.” The lawyer took the packet, business envelope, his hand and then remarked : view of his strange and sudden end you should not have had this before.” point of view," replied his visitor. * but of his death for If it had been have been differ reason in the manner breaking my promise, suicide, now, it might wait.” “Well, I suppose you are right from vour point of view,” said Mr. F he slit the envelope methodically along the top edge and opened the package It contained a fcolscap wrapper around ten He counted the notes and laying them down opened the paper and read without com- ment, while Mr. Lacey listened in silent attention rogey, Ans Dean Foery 1 must begin by apol- ozizing for committing the letter to La rather than to yours, as might have seemed more natural, but | that as a lawyer you might make its known before the app inted time, At all events, you would have found y s trying and difficult position, ing me you would possibly, as a lawyer, by opening time you would defeat all plans and hopes, 80 | shai! hand this to Lacey in trust for you and beg you to lorgive me I am confident when shall have been dead mur dered —for so the law has doubtless did oided—by old James, my butler, with the silver committed to cev's chars contents Mirseil in By obey peur censure; the letier be we the my i you read this I Q i six months, 4 his charge. There will not have been wanting abundant evidence legally conclusive against my murderer or even motive for by the time you read this he has been and not ex since the law inter seatenced, but ecuted, requires an The legacy left him in my will, besides supplying possible motive for his crime and eshancing its heinousness, has prob ably furnished him means for proper de fense on his trial Yet, in spite of this, IE it not so! And now to explain everything, to clear and the crooked straight On the 19th of November last | suicide, having previoualy should clearly to the guilt of James, my butler I secreted the skewer, | sharpened it with a file and placed the file in Thomp son's room. 1 stained his coverlet with com. ar point onmy finger. 1 hid my purse in his chimney, and finally, on the night of November 10th | committed suicide by stabbing myself to the heart, And sow | give my reasons. In taking my own life | have doubtless God and the State, but [ believe that the weighed against even a possible good to If my death fulfils the object | have in view then my life has been well sacrificed; and even if it fails, Next | have inflicted great anguish of mied on an imnocent and virtuous deavored to supply consolation, if not compensation, ose herewith, Perhaps even now you scarcely under. by my death, but I will endeavor to ex- iain. You have heard me speak, you ave perhaps read my written words on the use of circumstantial evidence, | am convinced that so long as men are done to death om indirect evidence so long must the constant possibility of judicial murder lie heavy on the con. science of the nation. By my death and Thompson's conviction, I hope to awaken the public conscience to s sense of its shameful burden. If I am successful, then all has been done well. Here is an innocent old man sentenced the clearest description, and but for this letter his sentence would eventually be executed, All that I have done to fix my death upon Thompson ight have been done by a third party had [ been really assas- sinated, In conclusion 1 beg that a copy of this letter be sent to each of the newspapers, and that the inclosure be handed to James Thompson with the assurance of my af- fection and thanks for his services volun- and others, or myself I feel that if this case leads to a revision of the law touching the infliction of the death m life nor Thom will have been vain! Your affectionate hs Orono WEATHERCRAPT. The two men sat silent for a minute will think*of it. T wouldn't have gone through it for a million.” “I doubt if old James would if he had been given a choice,” replied the man of law; “not but what $20,000 is 8 good round sum for the fellow to earn in six months, though he might have preferred earning it in some other way." “Do you think it likely to have the desired effect on the minds of our law givers?" asked the other, **Not the least in the world,” replied Mr. Fogey: “rather the reverse I should imagine,” he continued with a half smile, People will say that Weathercraft was as mad asa March hare and may even infer that everybody who shares his views is a little cracked too. 55, Nal Poor Weathercraft has thrown his life away, old Thompson is richer by $20,000, minus as it was before, “Now good-bye. I'm anyhow.” Julian de Kestel-Hankin, in Brooklyn Daily Times POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES. A Ponranie Euvegcrnie Faw, electric fan has come to be such an in- dispensable element of comfort, if not of existence, during the summer months that new and Improved forms are con stantly making their appearance. One of these adds the very decided recom mendation of economy to that eft ciency. Its first cost, with battery com plete, is small, and the cost of operating it afterward is put at and three quarter cents an hour. It is claimed that the battery will last ten weeks without renewal at one hour's work daily, or davs at a steady operation of seven and a half hours per diem. It is designed to be suitable for the parlor or dining table, It of two ten being both ornamental and noiseless not drop grease on the tablecloth or for its oiling | carry on their own lubrication with- lubricant. The whole outfit packs up in a small box, and can be carried without inconvenience, Heating recentiy: The X wits, bearings are self loss of the out Raid a | lectric giectiric Etrcrnie Can turer in Chicago railway o ip the field for heating. Reports from roads operating in Northern Michigan and ia other por. tions of the United States and Canada, the cold, in pened where winters are unususiily that from 1,200 to 1,500 sufficient current to keep average sixtean-fool car warm in kinds of weather, It will be seen thas, inasmuch as the heaters require no attention what- and are practically a fixture of the } of maintaining and operat ing on the average electric road will be simply the Coal stoves take from twenty to forty cents per day o operate, il the least ac taken used heat 3 siiow watts the all ever be + car, the cost cost of current ’ int is in stove of time keep them ¥ LO 3 he coal 8% Or more passen- the car, which, business, is a too, ag < dition, takes up room gers while it remains in on a road doing a good very important item. Coal stoves, on cold days, when being heated unus ually warm, become so hot that it is often impossible to stand immediately in front of the stove without burning the clothing of the standing near. The electric heaters, being placed under the seats out of the way and furnishing a lower temperature, cannot be objected to mn this score, aad being entire! of no for one pers 17] out ng up space in the car which can be utilized to bring in a dividend, often saves in a day more than the entire cost of the current furnished them for the day's run. There are many times in the spring and {all when the mornings and evenings cool and the middle of the day warm, when 8 heated car for a few hours each day would add greatly to the comfort of passengers. With stoves this is often impossible, uniess the car can be taken out of service long enough to have a fire rebuilt in the stove. Crarvarvns or TRE Eanra’s Sunvace ~Ajenerally speaking, we say that the curvature of the earth seven inches to the statute mile; it is ex- 2 Coad geographical mile. The effect of illustrated in the following manover Take down your globe, place a book, either of the two objects first named be. ing best adapted to such an experiment. You will observe instantly that the book, representation of the earth at one point, the globe's surface falling sway in all directions from the point of contact, Now, suppose the ocean's surface was ealm and frozen and a sheet of glass many miles square laid upon it. At one mile from the place of contact the glass would pane; at three miles it will be six feet and at nine miles fifty-four feet, and so on according to the regular ratio. In order to get the whole matter in a nut. shell remember that the number of feet of depression is equal to two-thirds of the square of the number of miles for any observable distance. There is, how. ever, an error resulting from refraction which must be cancelled. The commonly used formula for correction is as follows: square the number of miles and take four-sevenths of it for the correction in feet. Thus, if an object is visible at a distance of five miles we may know that its height is at least 144 feet, Or, it the height of a visible object ix known 4 100 feet—-take one-fourth of that number, or 25, muieiply by seven and take the square root of the product and you will have the distance of the object, which is in this case a fraction over 13 miles, A man swimming in the ocean may see a tower 19 m away, even it only be 200 feet high, but now elevate that man 100 feet above the surface of the water and he could lsinly see a tower only 100 feet Rig, even though it be 26 miles away. A REASONABLE REQUEST, aS agent to recruit who has trodden yon h fgat od slighting Jiom the bar)-~Bomben und 1 well, Schiutas BA THE JOKERS’ BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, How It Is Done—~The Reservation—A Great Appetite Would Not Be Li | beled-—-The Irony of Fate, Kite, Ete, | HOW IT 18 DOXE. “Is it possible to make two out of onet” “Oh, yes; the divorce court does it frequently.” THE RESERVATION. “Do you tell your wife everything?” “Everything about others, but not about myself,” —{ New York Press. A GREAT APPETITE. “‘I had three invitations to lunch to- “Which did you accept?” asked his mother. “AIL returned Oscar, prou ily. WOULD NOT BE LISELED, I'he Doctor NO FILIAL AFFECTION AT ALL. “That carpenter a-workin' on th’ new house nex’ dour is the meanes’ maa I ever saw,” said Johnny Makethings to his father, as he came in with a disap- pointed expression on his face. “What makes you think so?” “W'y, 1 ast him to lemme his key-hole saw to cut a door in my pigin’ house, he said he wouldn't lend that saw to his own father to cut his head off with.” | Life, EMOLUMERTS OF A “1 think I will take a holiday the next three weeka,” remarked the secre | tary and treasurer of a private company to the chairman thereof “‘But you returned {rom one only two weeks ago.” “True; ti ptary: 1 wisl (Tid Bits, A FIELD Tacklow —] 3 | Boston who POO-BATL wat was my holiday as secre 1 10 gg now us treasurer,” — ¥ i i FOR IXYENTION, there i= a man in claims to have invented a fieldglass with which you can see through fog Backrow —~If he could succeed in venting an opera glass with which could see through his fortune, — | see in you naxe illinery he d Ale Do you know that! Felix—By who, docther? Of'll allow me back wido Ol not, —{Judge. THE IROXY OF FATE, Sianick—Did you hear about What about him? only twelve Quidgey—No Sinnick—Why, or | ago he invested his money in a new a large factory, | Inst nighta fire broke out and burned it | to the ground, Quidney- | what was he in sinnick-—Patent materials, ~| Yankee Blade, all By the way, ne fireproof A PROUD FATRER, Forrester What's , : He never speaks to the with now, Their pounds, matter The i ‘ J OGES a DOAY Dot. weighed fifteen Lavcaster—Of cot baby iTse Life. THE WAY THEY TELL, Mrs. Trimfoot— These shoes don’t Mr right Mrs. anyway {and they Puck Trimfoot—-Why, they look Trimfoot — Well, they don’t 3e fit, haven't hurt in the cust. - THE WRONG HIST. lady (tos Re otieman who has the ob to your face when talking) —You smoke bad tobacco, monsieur! Gent (astonished and Why. 1 never smoke Lady—Then perhaps you had better, Jsprit des Autres -] 1 ovst lin ey Bniing DIDX'T KNOW IT. “But you were well off before you were married “Yes; but I dida’t know it.” Life. i FUNEREAL CoUnRTSHIP. Mrs. Church—Do you think the young recto®’s attentions are serious? Annie Church— Well, I should say so! No serious, indeed, that [ feel like orying the whole time I'm talking with him. — | (Puck. A FORTIORL Srimus--Bea Butler's brain weighed more than Daniel Webster's. 1 always knew he was a great statesman. Secundus-— Yea, pity the two-headed boy doesa't enter | politics. —[ Judge. HE WAS A TENDERYVOOT, “Are you fond of music ' he asked. “Sometimes,” was the answer, ““1 have some duets in my trunk, | ary of you sing at sight?” “No, but we can shoot at sight." { Washington Star Can A DAY OF EXJOYMENT, Mr. Gabber—Where is Mrs. Gabber? Servant—Somebody told heran impor- i | been out all day going from house to { house visiting her friends —{New York WATCHFUL { “1 hear the i boots on?" “Yes, he knew the town too well to | pull ‘em off. "—[ Atlanta Constitution. T0 THE EXD. editor died with his IT" HEIGHT. She—How high is that big Ferris wheel at the World's Fair, Henry! He-I don't know exactly, but not any- thing like the prices in the swell restau. rants not far away.--{ New York Suan. ALL SPOILED. Mrs. Tittle—Did you have a good time at the sewing circle this after. poon? Mrs. Tattle—No, a miserable time. It was awful dull. Mrs. Tittle — Wasn't anything said about how Mrs. Blazer has been carry. ing on? Mrs. Tattle — No. She was mean enough to be there herself, and, of course, the pleasure we had all looked forward to was spoiled. Strange how people oan be so selfish. —{ Boston Tran- script. A SUMMER SIGN. Though signs of Summer that perplex May often come to hand, The ice cream sign is one that all The lasses understand. ~-| Washington Star, A COMMON WORD, “Did you ever notice,” said Hicks, “how men and women get hold of some which they use on e single word, oh y very “I don't know that I've noticed it," observed Parker. : *‘I have,” put in little Johony Hicks. word they're using aad a Save gue word is that?” asked Parker, THE LADY AND THE DRUGGIST, 1 a { Old Lady (1 I want a box want you A KISD~HEARTED WIVE “What do you do when your husband is out at th i Mra. Goode HAD HAD 0 woulda't EXPERI Mr. from have You pring chicken No, I thank you for veal unless itis tender. — Judge What's that ¢ f were pound F eecy ® Boarder LYOT Care It sounds 14 beefstesk it we always the perf yrmance here as ‘‘len- — Boston Transcript, rms as though 1 ou guessed right, b speak of fs «ane juet THE BEST GIRI to work after six of the foun “I don't ssk yo o'clock.” said the foreman tdrv. but] don't se for your quitting ten minutes before that time “* You don’t?’ replied the employee. { “Well, we do. We've got to keep silent in the place, that we can hear the | whistle blow." ~~ Washington Star } . : - - AROUND THE HOUSE, $0e ANY XI #0 Wash a not hot, ready to hang on the line pull 80 it will keep its proper shape. iron a red tablecioth. tablecloth rinse well, colored in warn and when the cloth Do not suds, dis from can be re. moved with pulverized chalk. Dip an | old nail or tooth brush in water, then in the chalk, and sn iostant’s rubbing will do the work Miss Archie L.—~The stains and colorations made in marble basins he dripping the faucets it of | MaxacEmexr or Kircnex Sroves — By far the most important belonging of a kitchen is the range, and every house keeper should thoroughly understand | the proper mavagement of her own par- | ticular one, for on its perfect working {depends not only the success of the { cook's most skillful efforts, but no incon- siderable item of kitchen expense, Much fuel is wasted and the best of | ranges often ruined by the common prac. | tice of filling them too full and leaving the draughts open. And vet it isa matter which the best informed and most care- ful housewife finds it difficult to control, | for the majority of servants resent any hint of iguorance in this respect, and as they almost invariably confound econ- omy with stinginess, their respect is les- sened for a mistress who attempts to en- | force it. A first-class modern range is a { decided improvement over those of even ten years ago in the ease with which itis | controlled and the quickness with which | it responds to the action of the different draughts. But in order to secure the benefit of this, one must study the draughts, and use them properly. In cold weather it is more convenient snd economical to keep a fire during the night; but whether one does this or builds it afresh each morning, the draughts should be opened and damper pulled out, to allow the heat and gas to escape up the chimney. Open the to and brush out the soot from all the cracks and corners and from the damper, and empty the ash : th a revolving grate there should be no necessity of sifting ashes, unless by careless management the fire went out with unburned coal in the fire box. Dust the outside of the range, and it with a stiff, ordinary scrubbing kept for the purpose. If biacking is re quired, apply it with a paint brush, hav. ing the mixture thin, so as not to create a dust. As stn as the blue flames ap- ron top of the coal, close the oy in oe. to throw the heat Samp the oven, for a red-hot top invariably means a cool oven, No definite rules can be given for operat the draughts, as different styles of ranges vary y in this re. spect, Jonaver at uote in cook especially in ng, very de upon a tn he oan aid Tas he for one article of food another, its oughly unders the differect When ow with a smile. ¢ wi | ““Dea’t” said Johany. —(Chicag. .i-
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