THE UNSUCCESSFUL, We met them on the common way; They passed and gave no sign The heroes that had lost the day, The failures, half divine, Ranged in a quiet place, we see Their mighty ranks contain Figures too great for victory, Hearts too unspoiled for gain, Here are earth's splendid failures, Come Irom glorious foughten fields: Some bear the combat, some Are prone upon their shields, wounds of To us, that still do battle here, If we in aught pwoevail, Grant, God, a trinmnh not too dear, Or strength, like theirs, to fail. Elizabeth C. Cardozo, in the tury. Cen “THE LONG ARM.” It was 6 o'clock in the evening, and the editor of the “Monthly Rocket” sat alone in his room at a large desk, strewn with papers and cuttings, ing thoughtfully at the sheets of man uascript which be bad taken from a pile before him, *I can't understand it at all,” he was thinking. “Except for the change of scene, and the matter of turning a collision into a fire—~the two are practically identical. At any rate, they're rather too similar for me to pass the matter over. The extra chap ter is original enough, though, and =ally well writen, I'l admit. But sforijes send it here, out of all the offices in tewn where it might have gone In- stead? the whole thing is beyvoud me.” “I don’t know quite what to say at this early stage in the proceedings,” he sald slowly: “but, let me see, first of all, what's the sender's name and ad dress? Ah! ‘Claude Hellingham, 14 Cadogan street, W.'"” He paused irresolutely for a second, and then wrote on the sheet in front of him “Dear Sir—If the author of the short story, “The Solitary Soul,’ will call at this office at 3 Thursday afternoon, I or my representative will be glad to see him” “There, that ought to fetch him.” said the man, with a peculiar smile, as he signed the letter, “Douglas Baird, Editor.” Then directing the velope to the address given on the script, he posted it at the corner of the street o'clock on en manu on his way home ® ® - On the afternoon Thursday, Douglas office again. He obviously not quite at ease, and from time to time he would open one of the draw ers of his desk and examine the it contained, as if to himself that none of them were missing. Pres ently he looked at his watch. “H'm! a quarter past he mused sy spondent is going to fight st all?» A tap at his soliloquy. In answer to his somewhat surly “Come in!" The editor of the “Monthly Rocket” slightly raised his eyebrows. Accus tomed as he was to all sorts and con ditions of visitors, it was not often that such a pretty girl as this invaded his office. His surliness vanished in- stantly. He could be charming to ladies when he chose. This was one of these occasions, set a chair for the visitor and returned her timid greeting with a geniality cal culated to dispel her very obvious ner YOusSness, It was a young but sad and troubled face that looked at him across the desk. The soft, fair hair might have adorned the sunny head of a child, but the girlish mouth had assumed a curve the following Baird was of » =a + his papers Assure three already,’ wonder if fins Corre iy. after the deer Interrupted the visitor entered, which is to be seen only in the eyes of the refined poor. editor—1 don't know if you are he girl “I am the editor, certainly: don’t recollect writing to Miss ter, at this hour.” “Mr. Claude Hellingham, perhaps?” “Yes! Do you know him, then?" asked the man eagerly. “Oh, yes, I think I may say I do. a little,” she replied, smiling again. “In fact, II am the individual himself!” “I don’t quite understand.” returned Baird wonderingly, “Is there such a person at all, then?” “Oh yes, very much so—I'm he—or, rather, he's my nom de guerre,” she answered quietly, seeming to enjoy his evident mystification, “You? he replied., “You? What on earth made you take such a psen- donym?’ he demanded wonderingly. “Oh! becanse Ithought a man’s name would give my story a better chance of acceptance, But why did you write to me?’ she continued anxiously, “I was so glud to get your letter! | thought you had accepted the tale, You are going to publish it, aren't you?’ she added, all bor smiles van- sshing, / “No,” sald Baird, looking at glendily: “I don’t think I shall.” The girl's eyes filled at the answer, and, as he saw the bitter disappoint ment In her face, the editor began to feel quite remorseful. It was a deuced awkward basiness, he told himself, “I am sorry, Mise Chester,” he said, pulling himself together with an effort, “that yon should have thought my let ter meant acceptance of your contri bution. Before we go any further, however, let me ask you one question, Did you send in that story, “The Soli. + but 1 hes her tary Soul,’ as original matter?” A pause ensued. The ticking of a clock on the mantelnidée alone broke the silence of the room, The editor watched the woman keenly-a sudden spasm passed over her face and a hunted look came into her eyes, Then for the first time the man noticed her I she had clasped her hands as if to make an appeal, and he saw | that even her gloves were carefully | mended. | =1p vou would rather not answer,” he sald gently, and in a very different tone to that nesd not do Only, 1 think RO, 1 for me to magazine." “Will you tell why? | asked, trying to control her voice, “1 | will own that {it to you without an explanation, per | haps. But 1-1 For answer from a drawer ia newspaper and a pile of manuscript, | | | publish the story in wm) me Ww she lie took “This is your manuscript,” he remark | ed, watching her keenly as she put out “and this,” he added the story on NOW, | her hand for it; | gravely, taking up the paper, “is journal b vhich a titled ‘The Lia’ haps, you will understand.” Fhe girl's hand trembled so thn could hardly hold the printed After a momentary glance, she laid it down again, and then, turning blanched face to him, she said tremul ously, “I—ask your pardon” “Will you tell me, Miss Chester,” he asked slowly, { sent of to me? Was it for of getting into print—a certain anpeared per t she sheet Her “why you his the sake natural enough vanity, I'll allow: or,” he continued in a softer was the payment that you would have received had the manuserint been ac. cepted, an important consideration?” “Oh, Mr. Baird!” she exclaimed, try- ing to regain her composure; “I know to do, but—but—you don't know | hard It has been for me in London, {a girl like me, without friends, it seems Impossible to get work. [I've lost heart utterly now, and | I'm so tired of it all!” “Have you met with any success at all?’ he asked sympathetically. “Yes--a little, not very much, and nothing regular. 1 got some fairly interest or but and too,” but the paper failed last summer left mone y me she added sadly “That was hard Ii ) h for it?" some owing to wes! Did vou 1 deal I Proving did all those ialism of Lon “The Heart of short | good “The and also the serial “Yes, a articles on don,’ fa Woman, with well” “By Jove! : Heart of a Woman,” then? claimed How 3 £5 SOs Mit Hs The ex was it you who wrote her silly edd } fis n capital story with interest I ought to have rn ther It » nme should get it published in volums I'm sure it would sud “1 tried to, bhnt it firm I offered it to kent it months, then wrote to would the bear CX [nse people who they coed The for ay story out If 1 The next fot half goexd was no good first seven nnd they would bring the considered it asked cost, | knew firm, and would treat me well, and so I tried to get the before the book would be too much out-of date.” “That why manu script to me, then?” “You. | saw that you were offering £100 for the best ten thousand word story. The money meant such a lot to i me and | was so awfully bard-up! 1 { began a story and | with It; but it wasn't | somehow, couldn't get on with It i Then, one day, I came across an old file of the ‘Capetown Mercury’ in the reading-room’ in the museum. | saw nh story called “The Liar’ in it, and liked the central very much. | worked it up and changed the struction a little, and added another | chapter; and then well, then | sent it | here, 1 never imagined any one would recognize it years old, and had lasted only a dozen numbers, “And now, I think I've nothing more to say,” she went on, “éxcept that ['m | ever so sorry about it all! 1 hope you wont think too badly of me it was such a temntation! Will you tell me, | though" her volee faltered--“how it was you found out? 1 didn’t think any one in London could have read the ‘Capetown Mercury,’ or, even if they bad read “The Liar,’ that they could remember it now, It is a curious coin cidence, of course?” “Yes,” answered the man slowly, “an extraordinary coincidence, The fact is, though —er—1 myself happen to be the original author of ‘The Liar.” The Sketch. were Bey bad; only the me to pay they were a money is voir sent this alive, idea econ Naming of Steamboals. Many steamboats, like race horses, ave names given for the reason that thelr names reflect some whim of the owner, or are named after some object { of interest or affection to him. The | steambont Billen, which was sunk re- | cently at Island 34, and on which the | wrecking crew i= still at work, had a name which puzzled rivermen, Steam. boats are always named after some thing, and what Eilllen meant was more than most of them conld de. cipher. The boat was named after the wife of the owner, He is a Pa ducah man, when the boat was lnunch. od he decided to call her Nellie, His wife objected to having the boat named after her, so he satisfied him. self and wife too by spelling the name backward. Memphis Scimetar, apis a London spends $140 a year on the education of each child in the public schools, And Yet the Facts Were Rather Out of the Ordinary. Four or five traveling men around when one of them got up and “Did you notice what fine teeth that party had?’ sald a man from St Louis. “He won't acknowledge they tell the truth. My brother is a den- there, and for him, thing, but every body my brother does his work Not that he tells me any- merely an who knows the man knows circumstances, His teeth are his and at the same time they are You don't understand, I'l He always had unusually but about five years ago Aas own, false, explain, fine teeth, ®O an affection which the to recede from the roots, leaving them exposed some distance down from the surface, In aggravated CHURES gums enameled sitive the disease is very painful and « almost Impossible to relieve It. To cure it Is practically mpossible, for will back again, This man was sensitive kind, and although physicians and dentists tried their skill on him they could do nothing, and he suffered so that at last he told my extract every tooth in his mouth and put false ones in for him. As nothing else could be the gums not grow the of brother to and pulled every tooth all In perfect They and as were condition, my them his patient was up, a novel idea Over, forced ocenrred that io ’ was that instead of same teeth be used exactly as if they were artificial. My brother, who is a first-class dentist always, was more when he had mounted the teeth plate measured to a hair's and slipped them his mouth they fitted as if they had grown there, as It were, and now man in a thousand can they are false, if, indeed, are. At the same time there isn't any into there isn’t tell false that they to trouble him DEATH OF AN HISTORIC OAK. It Saw Mansy Queer Sights in the Course of Its 300 Years of Life Another of the of Marviand Las perished. Nearly three of Lloyd's Fallot side was described historic trees hundred years ago the oak Hill pear Hillsboro of the T in "x on the writing i extant no known record of its di mighty trunk. its branches, There is mensions, had a its whose amplitnde The shi outspreading limbs magn fleoneoe was 0 extraordinary. ground by the under a whose diameter wis Decay fastened Years Ago, was adow cast on the vertical sun made a circle more than 100 yards upon the then, an axeman made a huge wound in one the wing old gradually rotted. Recently tree; somo free, fo to and heal Hiself, side leaves and brush and set it afire at night. The country for miles around was lluminated, After the fire burned out the remainder of the giant oak The oak in these olden days Was called because the Delaware Friends, after having assembled at Camden, made their pilgrimage by this route William Penn meeting long before town of Easton to ex- Baltimore met there was any tend to them its hospitality. on Lloyd's Hill was their regular noonday stopping place. Here would rest and feed their horses and treeless, for many years the only tree on this barren waste of sand, was recently oystermen who were cast away there in a storm. The cedar was a valuable landmark to the river sallors, Terrie torially, Heron Island is in Anne County. It belongs to the es tate of the late Col. Richard 8. Dod- |0on. Guarding Nis Treasure. Staring at women is so common in about it. It ix, therefore, rather sur if reprehensible is well established in fre, “ as “clubmen’’ when a stranger, charms, Hhe her The beauty did was too well enamelled stare of the fascinated foreign person. Her companion, the “clubman” how- ever, took the attentions of the sup- posed American in a different light, and ealled him to order on the spot. Hard words passed between the two pwr, and andlitors were intensely atiused. One of the latter-a hard- ened bachelor-was heard to remark that he did not know the clubman was such a watchdog, but it was true that he had a treasure to guard. No duel will be fought over the matter, and the dispute has ended in mere words. «London Telegraph, FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICUL. TURAL TOPICS. The Best Breed of Hens—Secure Even " Crops If Possible Temperature of In. cubators Sand in Maple Syrup-Cows Prefer Fixed Habits Etc, Ete The Bést Breed of Hens. There i% no best breed of hens, The breed most sultable to any farmer the breed that he can the most money out of. If you can make money ER in minke and by all means keep good ones, The farmer don't want hens with certain markings on them, but he wants hens with lots of eggs In them. Secure Even Crops If Possible. Perbaps there is nothing that is such an to in the spots eyesore any one interested field and in where growth is uneven Ome perfectly bare, No doubt the be to get all parts of the field to bear a8 good as the best part ing a deal, but can be done, Fertilizers and time spent in farmer's aim should This is ask good nevertheless it tillage the of a portion of soil being too wet and the this might more than overbalance the pro fits of the whole field. loss on one wet pateh Of course this require Temperature of Incubators. I have incubators of different makes, and in one it takes from 10] 10234 degrees to bring the chicks day, while In takes from 102 degrees 108% to hatch in the same time, with the ther mometer fertile eggs and i same place In each machine Every incubator should be and temperature determined This will depend upon the incubator, the eggs. the thermometer and where it Is placed hateh, better them to than Fitch, two io out to on in the tented the on When the eggs begin te shut up shop and leave ome out In their watch Haine in New England Homestead Own way to too closely. J, Sand in Maple Syrup. The maple sugar trouble in removing the fine maker may have sand that through the ordinary strainer, he be and to Care least of may wonder bow it spitd of his itn quantity, is present anliness nll carelessuess, been nse and els IPO TI in sm ent i = thi = dirt. but sugar zn not common sand nor a form wa nd malate-—of lime that present to a greater o the and grains when It may be removed ve following n ing ap, merely the sap Anner Pass the hot syrup through closely woven flannel into =» where it hours settling tank remain for at Draw it off this with a tap placed at Jeast an inch a half above the bottom of the better still, use a siphon funnel-shaped felt syrup is to these strainers any grit that may quantities are to be strained at a time, change the strainers often. For sugar, let the syrup stand longer be fore boiling down. The strainers may must 4 tank and least from fank. or, Ise 0 strainer, and {io remove If large the be bottled hot thoroughly wash collect The Epitomist Cows Prefer Fired Habits, Every man that has had the care change of practices by the cow keeper goes away from home for a single day and leaves his cows to others. The irregular and the next day the herd is decidedly “off” in its milk, The worst is that the cows cannot be again brought back to Frequently there will be some cows that have been in milk for a few months that will show a de. and will How quickly the cows drop off in milk in midsummer when the pasture gets short and the farmer neglects to provide anything to take the place of The cow will only keep up her milk if she have a fixed ration of For this reason every dairyman fast as it becomes Have the feed as like in kind as possible. This is one feed the year round. When the pas tion can be kept up and even increased without the habit of the cow in this regard being disturbed, As to milking, all scientic dairymen sre agreed. It does not do to milk a | ow at § o'clock one morning and ¢ v'clock the next and 7 o'clock the next. | Neither must such a variation be per. | mitted in the summer, The writer bas | known cases where the cows were milked at evening any time between most always In haying times on cer tain farms. The loss ix not only that shown in one day, but the dally losses that will continue to oceur during the whole subsequent Inctation period of Se cow. Farm, Field and Flreside, eka ie A Modern Farm Carden, The eusentinds of a good garden are a rich soil and a sunny foestion, The land must be wel fertilizogh deeply plowed and thoroughly Loo great care cannot be ja get ’ cr AA AS EPA REI BI tion. Thix work can be done with a horse and tools and requires but a few hours. A small hotbed should be pro tomatoes cabbages, canliffower, cel | ery, peppers and the like, of This is not construction or manuge been given in these columns, The cost | is trifling, amounting to almost no ex old at AE i about the farm ean be for mak the frame, and discarded sashes used for glass, ing that of Plant evervihing that for ir it Start cabbages, flower, celery and peppers in a hotbed, the ground is In good con- dition set out a few roots of asparagus, Then pens, radishes, danger of frost rows of beans. As soon as the ground warmer and the add in seed enough to furnish vour family is fond can be easily liked at tomatoes, i% not first it soon will be cauli AR BOOT a8 plant a few potatoes, carrots sets, and two or onion when i past, becomes Beason vanced, put a full supply of peas and beans, and to plant liberally of dwarf limas, Plant carrots, parsnips, turnips and salsify. Set ouf early cab be sure also bages from the hotbed and sow a few rows of for fall late cabbage and cauliiower Plant a cucumbers, and winter use good supply of sweet corn, squashes, Providing an abundant sup ply of winter squashes If your ground pared and you have a good garden drill, the seeding of the entire garden | will not take more than a day. If your rows are long and straight, an bour or two at a time horse and culti vator will do most of the work of culti- vating and but little hand hoeing or weeding will be necessary. - American Agriculturist has been well pre with a Short and Useful Pointers. All garden refuse should be burned. Millet chicks, More meat an duces the egos perce] is excellent for young « less corn is what pre finding a quick market Close confinement and a superabund ance of food will ruin sny animal Farniers should select breeders from the poultry as well froma other stock There that the Never an are some parts of a good cow ar: always nrominent; but never ribs sold # always ber “an at home fhe Dost One weed fence Means a conple of | 134 3 Year in ROE hosp other heep anda whe ‘an ¥ Hog lice wash them with fresh Hime don't like this A good Pigs is a nn food fo “ iIXture of ground HOW Wilh young » yt ’ parts of wheat equal cornmesl oats and bran More more stork menus nore manure; manure means better crops: bet ter crops is the forerunner of the farm er 8 prosperity if swine cholera Keep just about as far away from place as vou would if his family had the small-pox Your neighbors have the his Farmers should not depend entirely No matter how good they sare, there is always somebody lee can give them a pointer or iwo. Numerous on 1heniselves that experiments show that fairer and brighter fruit is grown in sunshine and in lighter soils and in than is grown in heavy soil on low land. Do anything that will tend to lighten work. The farmer hasn't got any “snap” and anything that will take 2 portion of the labor off his hands is a welcome addition to the farm Courtesy on a Street Car. A big, fnedooking man sat in the corner of a South Ride car reading his newspaper. Next to him sat a little woman in an uptodate frock. She had a box of candy in one hand and an opera libretto in the other. She tried to get a newspaper from 8 boy who came through the car, but the conductor broke up the transaction, and seizing the small newspaper deal er, put him off, Then the pretty wo The big man'snewspaper was spread out before her eyes, and she glanced at the head lines, Then she read half Sonth Ride flat, bow they bound and woman, stole her sealskin “Oh. oh! the horrid things!” she ex- clajmed excitedly. corse, he said: “Have you finished this page. madam? If =o. let us turn to the stock reports and the society news” «Chicas BO News, A man in Pennsylvania has achieved fame by always standing up when he sleeps. In these peculiar, sensation. foving days the man who Hikes obseur. fty has a hard time dodging the lasso of notoriety. He had to be without an peculiarity, and even then runs risks of becoming noted for that, Women are not permitied to be phos _toeravhers in China. TABLET NO. FIVE, the Truth Came Out The story was told by a Police Coin missioner of another city who was in New Orleans recently on a “The most ingenious murder | knew anything about,” be committed by a young physician, Wik o visit ever “eas He rising practitioners place where | formerly lived, and, with your permission, 1 will speak of him simply Dr. Smith About a VOArs ns nearly asx | this man went rela wa bd, #2 a ax dozen ago, remem be young on a visit 10 8 in a peighboring city, and one af- third or fourth day he gtartled a lady member of the household by remarking that he ‘had a that misfortune had overtaken a wealthy planter whom tive ternoon, on the of his stay, feeling’ wome they both knew very well, and whom | will call Col The Colonel] was a prominent of doctors Iarge outlying habit of On the day of wan James rexident the had a Was In home town and estate, which he the visiting Week once a Smith's singular premonition he ou one of those tours of inspection, but falled morning his corpse was fou He had twenty-four to come back, and the following nd lying in evidently been dead hours and from appearance of body seemed to have been selzed with some convulsion, “Gf course the affair created a great stir, and the police made a pretty thor ough investigation, but the only thing they found that merited any special attention was a small, round vial in the dead man's vest pocket. 1t wae about the dismeter of a lead pencil by four inches jong, and had originally contained a couple of dozen medicinal tablets, which, lying one on top of the other, filled the little bottle to the cork, A few still remained in the bot tem. Upon inquiry it was jearned without trouble that the tablets were a harmless preparation of soda, and that a cornfield about the the sort of fit or local drug store. That ended suspi clon in that quarter, and, for lack of anything better, the coruer returaed a verdiet of death from sunstroke. There was no autopsy. “Some tine after Jones had been buried,” continued the Police Commis sioner, “1 learned accidentally of Dr. suna's curious prophecy, snd it set me to thinking, Eventuaily | evolved a theory, but it was impossible at the time to sustain it with proof, and fer Sve or six years | it pigeon-holed in my brain, waiting for something te Meanwhile, to everybody's Dr. Kmith dogs I: 61st td happen BUTDT Ise, went to 1a He began by drinking heavily, gradu and finally prosecution for After s 3 Yuu ald x enough y BAlwOiutiels i= praciice lost i oid pped out ng a fake I learned ally sk cash Lis fight oon firm death What bad really happened was this “Dr. 8m siderable my theory as y Jones's h owed the old money and had given which he had forged his 0a me indorser. The plan! er was pressing him for payment and had which meant in evitabile One day, while Jones pulled a little glass vial and swallowed of the tablets it contained, remark that be took one dally, after din ner, for sour stomach. That suggested a disbolical scheme of assassination which the doctor proceeded to put into execution. Repairing to his office, he made up a duplicate tablet of sirych pine, and, encountering the Colonel man a oon sum of 2 Dow, Upon father's an threatened sult exposure they out ole mg were conversing. the vial for a moment, so he could copy the address of the markers from the Jones handed it over unsus pectingly, and while his attention was briefly diverted elsewhere Smith put in the prepared tablet. He placed it the top four, thus making it certain that his victim would take it on the fifth day from Next morning he left town, #0 a8 10 be far away when the tragedy was consummated, and some myster jous, uncontroliable impulse evidently led him to make the prediction that first excited my suspicion. When | made certain eof all this, I located Sfmith in Oklahoma and was on the warrant, when he anticipated me by tal pigeon-hole, where it has remained “Pardon me for asking.” said one of “It is absolutely true” narrator. “But how did you learn the partic ulars?’ “Well,” sald the Police Commission. replied the er criminals—he had one weak spot. He was fool enough to tell a woman. The Part She Didn't Like. The other day a wee little woman cinnati BEuqguirer. She talked about i it was also In fact, the through her It was a “good donkey, a “beautiful donkey” child went completely gmall store of adjectives, And when ber father came home at night he heard the addectives all over again, “And so you liked the donkey, dar ting, did you?” he asked, taking the tiny lass on his Knee, “Oh, yes, papa, 1 liked him. That is, I liked him pretty well, suit 1 didn't like to hear him donk.” Though Spain fs an agrienimaral conatryl it bad to import last year, more than $15,000,000 worth of grain, =
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