TWO POETS.
Two poets lived: their time came and they
died.
Silenced, they slept their long gleep, Bide by
side.
In memory of the one with loud acclaim
M«n built a temple beautiful, of Fame.
"Mid richest oarvings splendidly enscrolled
Mis name shone radiant, embossed in gold.
And even proclaimed him greutest of muu
kiud.
The Master-singer and the Master-mind.
With lauds and praises did tbe temple quake,
liut of the other silenced poet no man spake.
Calmly surveying from his heaven's height
The temple-builders in their puny might,
Enthroned in splendour sate ihe Oversoul:
And on eternal tablets did a name enroll
Upon the honour-list of heaven's best;
In flaming colours it outshone the rest.
Hut 10, the letters did not spell the name
Of him whom men placed in their hail of
Fame.
A Voice spake: "Empty Is the name ye
quote :
This pout lived the poetry the other wrote.
—Elizabeth H. Finley.
i AUNT MEG'S COLUMN.
"Harry, I can sum up your case in
three words," said Lancaster. "The
fact is—and you cannot deny it —
you're in love.
"How on earth did you find that
out?" he muttered.
"Experience and casual observa
tion," replied Lancaster, shortly. "By
the by, 1 saw Milly Holsworth today."
Then, with a grin, "Um, I thought I
wasn't far out. She's a nice girl,
Harry, and a clever one. Women
nowadays who are good looking and
can earn their own living are in great
demand in the matrimonial market, so
I'm told, and I can quite believe it."
"Yes," groaned Ellington, "but when
a man has only a paltry twelve hun
dred and fifty a year the idea of —er—
«2r —even proposing to a lady who can
buy him up might give rise to un
pleasant comments —h'm!"
"Personally, I should try my luck.
"Faint heart,' etc., you know. You
never know what may transpire. Say
you decide to see how absence might
affect the case and to wait until
your return from England. She might
be snapped up in the meantime. Per
haps the steamer might founder, and
--and—"
"Don't Lancaster, don't!" shuddered
Ellington. "Your advice, old chap, I
tear has not advanced the improve
ment of the outlook at all."
"Then the only course that remains
open for you is to consult Aunt Meg,"
sighed Lancaster.
"Aunt Meg! Who is she? And what's
she got to do with it?"
"Aunt Meg is a lady connected with
a popular publication entitled "The
Daisy," whose official duty it is to re
ceive and reply to, through the col
umns of the aforesaid journal, all
questions that may be submitted to
her notice on the all Important theme
of love and its attendant trials, mis
understandings and vagaries in gen
eral."
"Consult Aunt Meg!" the words
seemed to ring in Ellington's ears for
some time after the departure of his
friend Lancaster.
"A precious fool I'd be thought," he
anused, "supposing I was idiot
enough to trust my private affairs to
the tender mercies of a modern lady
Journalist, if the story leaked out.
Certainly one might write under a
uoni de plume or initials, but then I
don't believe in such rot."
Half an hour's meditation, however,
served to put matters before him in a
different light. He reflected that the
journal in question bore a very high
character, and he resolved to try Aunt
Meg.
After due destruction of various
sheets of note paper, his communica
tion was at last fairly neatly trans
cribed and ran as follows:
""To 'Aunt Meg,' Daisy Office, 420
Fleet street, E. C.:
"Madam—l trust you may be able
to successfully advise me as to my
actions in the following matter: To be
brief, I am aged 30 and am in receipt
of an annual income of twelve hundred
iind fifty dollars as private secretary
to a titled gentleman, who is about to
depart on a voyage of infinite duration
in three weeks' time for his health's
sake, and I am to accompany him. A
month ago I made the acquaintance of
a charming lady about my own age,
and we have met at various intervals
ever since.
"As you will already have surmised,
I r.'m deeply in love with her, though I
sia.ve not as yet declared my passion.
As far as I am aware, from the state
ment of a friend, she is in receipt of
an income exceeding mine by two hun
dred and fifty dollars per annum, de
rived from her employment, the ex
act nature of which, however, owing
to the shortness of our acquaintance,
I am unfortunately in ignorance
beyond that it is something in a city
office.
"I have every reason to believe that
xny attentions, such as they have been,
are not altogether distasteful. What
would you advise me to do? Ask her
nc.v and risk a slender income, or
wait until I am in more affluent cir-
T.'Uznstances, which chance is slightly
'•emote at the present outlook? ?
H. A. E."
Two Saturdays passed and left him
in the deepest depths of despair, ow
ing to the nonappearance of a reply
ing his communication.
Jn the meantime he met Mildred
Holsworth on two occasions at the
house of a mutual acquaintance and
once was almost on the verge of a
declaration, but checked himself in
time to save making himself an arrant
ass, as he termed it.
It was with feverish excitement that
he opened the last issue of the Daisy
published before he left England.
Eagerly he scanned the page sacred'.y
set apart for the benefit of "Aunt
Meg" and her amorous amblings.
Yes, it was there at last!
"H. A. E.: —Waste no time, but go
and ask her at once. If I judge
rightly from the tone of your letter,
you need scarcely have any apprehen
sion as to the nature of her reply. As
to monetary matters, a girl who can
not oomfortahly manage and be happy
on the united income doesn't deserve
a husband at all."
It was all over. The last slipper
had sped its course in the air and dis
appeared through the window of the
compartments which had the honor of
accommodating the happy couple, and
the last handful of rice lay whitening
the platform like a miniature fall of
snow.
"I'm so glad it's all over at last,"
sighed Mildred Ellington as she threw
herself wearily back among the cush
ions. "But the whole affair was a
complete success and went off without
a flaw."
"Yes, darling, quite complete, except
for the absence from the ceremony of
one to whom I owe a great deal of my
present happiness—in fact one of your
sister strugglers in the field of liter
ature. Milly, 'l've a confession to
make. I know you'll think I'm an
awful fool, and perhaps be angry, but
promise me, Milly, beforehand, that
you will forgive me."
"I'd promise you anything, Harry.
It —it can't be anything dreadful, I'm
sure," falteringly.
"Then read that and put me out of
my misery."
And taking from his inside breast
pocket a copy of the Daisy containing
Aunt Meg's advice, which he had so
successfully acted upon, he opened it
at the fatal page and handed it to her.
"Harry," she said quietly, pushing it,
away, her eyes filling with tears the
while, "I —I know what you mean now.
She —she was there, and —and you
saw her."
"I saw her her, Milly?" ejaculated
Ellington, utterly taken aback by her
answer.
"Yes, Harry, and you see her now!
I —l was Aunt Meg at the time, and
knowing whom your question con
cerned replied accordingly. I, too,
meant to confess all today, and you
have made it easier for me to do so.
Kiss me, Harry, and say you forgive
me." —Waverly Magazine.
QUEER ARE WCMEN.
That I*. Some of Thi m Are, Says a Cyu
leal Masculine Observer.
"Women are critically curious creat
ures," said a cynical citizen, "and the
wonder to me is that they ever make
a wise selection in marriage. I do not
mean to say anything unkind,. for no
man has a deeper or more profound
regard for women than I have, and I
admire Drummond chiefly because he
said that woman represents evolu
tion's, Go<Vs, highest achieve
ment, and that she was really the cli
max of all these forces, and they
reached their limit in her creation, a
result the forces had been striving
to bring about from the very begin
ning of time. I believe this is true.
Being of a cynical turn of mind, 1 am
not inclined to admit that the world is
wholly good, but what good there is
on this old planet is to be found in
the other sex.
"But why is it that we are constant
ly confronted by the perverseness of
woman's taste in the matter of choos
ing between men as we find it, for in
stance, in the stage portrayals? Take
the average play, and we will gener
ally find the woman's love drifting
toward some fellow who is totally un
worthy, a fellow who is a vertitable
scalawag in all that the word means.
"In nine cases out of 10 it is neces
sary to kill a ft w men in order to pro
tect some gootl woman—on the stage —
from the fearful tortures of living all
her life with an unworthy man. At
least, one man will have to be of the
melodramatic kind, why, there is no
limit to the number of fellows who will
be sacrificed in order to get the womaa
out of a bad matrimonial bargain. Are
men's ideals higher than the ideals of
women? Is the heroic and the sublime
in man's nature more highly devel
oped and more delicately outlined than
these same impulses in the nature of
the fairer sex? Fiction, you know,
and fiction of the standard sort, is
filled with women of the kind I have
mentioned. Of course, they are not all
of the kind I have been discussing.
Shakespeare's women, for instance,
are made of sterner stuff, and histori
cal examples of the stronger and more
thoroughly balanced kind are not lack
ing. There are the women of the
French revolution, who towered above
the men like giantesses. There are our
own noble women, who struggled
through the blood and tears that
drenched the 'GO'S, and others might
be mentioned, for we may count all
around us the good examples of wise
v<omen in all of life's relations.
"But I was just thinking lightly
about the appa-ently natural devotion
which a woman has for the scalawag,
pnd in a majority of cases, if she is
called upon to make a selection be
tween two men, she will lean toward
the fellow who needs reclamation, in
deed if she does not take him. If you
do not believe it, keep a tab on them
for awhile."—New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat.
l*at ienre.
"I never lose my temper when t»
man insults me," said Broncho Bob.
"But you didn't waste any time on
Coyote Bill."
"No. But I didn't lose my temper.
I've learned by experience that noth
ing keeps a man from shooting
straight like losing his temper."—
Washington Star.
1 irr 3!""
AND
New York City.—The novelty of the
season is undoubtedly the shirt waist
with pleats that run to or over the
shoulders. The smart May Mantou
SHIRT WAIST.
example illustrated combines that
, feature with the new deep pointed
I cuffs and stock and is suited to all the
I season's waistiugs, madras. Oxfords,
| pique, chambrays, linen, batistes, silks,
j light weight flannels, albatross and the
j like, but in the original is of silk cham
j bray in pale blue, stitched with white,
| and is held by white pearl buttons,
j The Httcd lining extends to the waist
! line only, but forms the foundation on
! which the waist is arranged. The
| fronts and back of the waist proper are
laid in two pleats at each side, which
j meet at the shoulder seams. The
fronts include the regulation box pleat
i and are gathered at tlie belt or left
1 free and adjusted to the figure as pre-
I ferred, but the pleated back Is smooth
! and without fulness.- When the plain
i back is substituted it is drawn down
iin gathers at the waist line. Orna
j mental stitching, simulating pointed
j bands, is shown on the fronts. The
i sleeves are in shirt style, but with deep
i pointed cuffs that lap over and are but
j toned at the outside. At the neck is a
novel pointed stock that matches the
| cuffs.
I To cut this waist for a woman of
medium size four yards of material
twenty-one inches wide, three and sev
S BOLERO WAIST.
en-eighth yards twenty-seven inches
wide, three yards thirty-two inches
wide or two and one-eighth yards for
ty-four inches wide Aviil be required.
Woman's Itolero Waist.
The bolero waist is a marked favor
ite of fashion, and is shown in many
of the advance styles. The smart May
Mauton model shown in the large
drawing is admirable in many ways,
and is adapted to a variety of mate
rials. The bolero, having no collar,
makes it peculiarly desirable for wear
beneath a wrap, while at the same
time it gives sufficient of the jacket
suggestion to be suited to street cos
tumes designed for spring. As shown
It makes part of a costume of satin
faced cloth in sage green, with the full
waist of Liberty satin in a lighter
shade of the same color, the trimming
being folds of the satin, cross-stitched
on with black corticelli silk, and at the
ends by jeweled buttons.
The Utted lining closes at the centre
front. (In it are arranged the waist
and the bolero, so that both are made
in one. The full front and back of the
waist are tucked to yoke depth then
left free to take soft folds, the closing
being effected at the left front where
an opening is cut from the shoulder to
waist Hue. The jacket is fitted by
means of shoulder and under-arm
seams only, and is cut away at the
neck to reveal the chemisette. The
sleeves are novel, while in bishop
at the upper edge which render them
shape they include deep cuffs, pointed
exceptionally becoming. At the neck
is a regulation stock that closes invisi
bly at the centre back.
To cut this waist for a woman of
medium size two and one-eighth yards
of material twenty-one Inches wide,
one and three-quarter yards twenty
seven Inches wide, or one and three
eighth yards forty-four inches wide
will be required for the waist; two
and a half yards twenty-one inches
wide, one and seven-eighth yards
twenty-seven inches wide, or one and
one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide
for the bolero.
Tiny Jets For Lattice Centres.
The evening gown of black lace or
dotted Brussels uet is treated with
paneling of embroidery. The panels
are of white satin veiled with Chan
tilly lace medallions. Although the
medallions are not large In size they
are enhanced by edges of ha by vel
vet ribbon applied in three rows. At
intervals here and there the ribbons
are joined with small jet ornaments,
"paillettes." which make lattices of
the delicate structure. This adds to
the beauty of the lace ovals used "in
paneling the skirt.
Novelties in Coats.
The loose coat wrap is quite an ac
cepted fashion for the season, and
there are many charming little coats
in black silk or soft material which
are very smart witli the now univer
sally worn black skirt. A limp, un
lined blouse of silk batiste plentifully
tucked and inlet with lace is most
effective with a black coat and skirt,
and there are many dainty tints of
ciel and turquoise blue and the new
vieux rose and pink with a salmon
tone.
A Haiulaoiue I'etlicoat.
An attractive petticoat in a plain color
has u deep flounce in plaid silk and
lace. There are perpendicular stripes
alternating, lace and silk, the lace of
a deep cream and the plaid showing
several colors in deep shades. The
effect is of stripes of two 01 two and
a half inches of the plaid and the same
of the lace. It is a very attractive
skirt.
CuflTs on Lawn Slilrt Waists.
Many of the white lawn shirt waists
are finished with wide cuffs made of
alternating rows of insertion and lace,
with a narrow riilHe of lace at the end
and coming over one side of the open
ing. The cuffs fasten with three pearl
buttons concealed by tue lace ruffle.
Fancy Foliage oi» the Huts.
Gold and silver tissue is now used
to make foliage 'of the most fancy
variety, and if fruit effects, such as
tiny berries, grapes and currants,
form a part of the spray, pearls aie
employed for the latter.
Girl*' F«ur-Gore<l Petticoat.
Little girls as well as their elders
have need of well titted underwear if
the pretty frocks are to appear at their
best. This carefully shaped petticoat
was designed by May Manton with
that fact in view and can be relied
upon to give entire satisfaction. As
shown It is of white cambric with frill
of needlework, but taffeta, Sicilian and
gloria are all correct as well as the va
rious white fabrics. When made from
silk or wool a plisse tlounce makes the
best substitute for the embroidered
one, although a bias ruffle, gathered,
is correct.
The skirt is cut in four gores so pro
viding a straight back that can be
trusted to launder satisfactorily. To
the lower edge is joined a deep gath
ered flounce that, in turn, is edged
with a frill. The upper side is finished
with a painted yoke-band, applied over
the material that can be drawn up to
the required size by means of tapes or
ribbons.
To cut this petticoat for a girl of
eight years of age three and a quarter
yards of material twenty-one inches
wide, two and three-quarter yards
twenty-seven inches wide, two and a
GIP.LS' FOUE-GOP.ED PETTICOAT.
half yards thirty-six inches wide or
oue and a half yards forty-four inches
wide will be required, with Ave yards
of needlework for frill.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
It appears that the greatest velocity
of a rifle ball is not at the muzzle, but
some distance in front. An average
ol 10 shots; with the German infantry
rifle has shown a muzzle velocity of
201:8 feet per second, with a maximum
velocity of 2132 feet per second at 10
feet from the muzzle.
The extension of the use of elec
tricity in British warships in place
of steam for subsidiary purposes is
to be made the subject of a series of
experimental tests. At the present
time the capstan, steering engines,
ventilating fans and derrick boists
are worked by steam power.
Arsenic is a very brittle metal, steel
gray in color, and of no great impor
tance in the arts. Metallic arsenic is
found native in veins in metamorphic
rocks in Saxony, Bohemia, and abun
dantly at Chanarclllo in Chili. Ar
senic is widely disseminated, as few
sulphur ores are free troin traces of
it. The white arsenic of commerce is
arsenious acid.
A striking proof of the lasting qual
ities of cedar wood nas been discovered
in the state of Washington. Near Ac
me is a forest of hemlocks, which has
grown up over a buried forest of ee
uars. It has been iound that the
trunks of ceuar are well preserved,
although they have been lying in damp
soil for at least 150 years. The rings
of growth on the hemlock show that
they have been growing over the ce
dars for that length of time.
Mr. Birkeland has continued his cal
culations to determine whether the
periodic changes in the area of tho
spotted regions of the sun's surface
are in any degree due to gravitational
disturbances produced by either of the
planets Mercury, Venus or Jupiter, ms
latest calculations cover the period
1892-96, and his conclusion is that we
must seek for other causes than plan
etary influence to explain c.ic sun spot
period and that in future it. is idle to
look for the cause of this period out
side of the solar sphere itself.
Professor Georgeson, who is In
charge of the agricultural experiment
stations in Alaska, sends encouraging
repoits of the conditions there. He
made a trip into the interior and
down the Yukon early in August and
found new potatoes, cabbages, cauli
flowers and other vegetables ready for
the table, and gardens blooming with
a variety of annual flowers. On the
lower Yukon he found extensive tracts
of land covered with luxuriant grasses,
six feet in height in places, and appar
ently well suited to agricultural pur
poses.
The following item relating to the
Manila observatory is taken from Prof.
Barward's account of his trip to Su
matra: The observatory is equipped
for both astronomical and meteorologi
cal purposes. It has a fine refracting
telescope of 19 inches aperture, the
cbject glass being by Steinheil and
the mounting by Saegmuller. On ac
count of the troublous times of the
past three year the object glass had
been removed and hidden away during
that period, so ihat the telescope was
not in a condition to be used when the
observatory was visited by the Ameri
can eclipse observers during their stay
at Manila. Father Algue, the director
of the establishment, stated that they
had a large percentage of clear nights
curing the year, and that the atmos
phere was steady much of the time.
This observatory is doing very valua
ble meteorological work. The study and
prediction of typhoons—so destructive
in the China sea, and of which Father
Algue has made a special study—is of
the utmost importance to navigation.
The work was spoken of highly by the
officers of the various vessels on which
the expedition sailed.
Measuring; Humidity.
To most minds scientific instruments
are so fearfully and wonderfully con
structed that no attempt is ever made
to pry into the manner of their per
forming their functions, the results
obtained being accepted as a matter
of course. Yet many such instruments
while apparently complicated, are
really based on very simple principles.
Of these the inermometer and the
barometer are, of course, now general
ly understood, although this was not
always true.
Another meteorological instrument,
however, which is much used, out
which is more or less mysterious
the public, is that by which the amount
of moisture in the air is determined.
While delicately constructed and bal
anced by means of fine springs, the
chief reliance is placed on a few horse,
hairs, which are exceedingly respon
sive to the influence of dampness.
When the air becomes moist they
relax, and a pivoted bar, one end of
which forms an indicator, is drawn
along a scale, which snows just to what
extent the air is saturated with water.
When the air is dry the horse hair
becomes tense and the indicator is
returned to its appropriate place on
the scale.
It is in this way that track i3 kept
of General Humidity, whose damp
forces so effectually conspire to keep
humanity in misery during warm
weather.
Inlelllgpfieo ami the SuflTra*;e.
Symonds—!?o you object to worn at.
suffrage. I should like to know upon
what grounds, if you have any reason
able ones.
Belcher —I've heard more than a
hundred women say the men are al
alike. With such an idea in theii
heads, "how can you expect an intelli
gent use of the suffrage from them?—
Boston Transcript.
The Price of Thickness.
J no persiflage of some of the snop«
where the trade is with the poor is not
without Its humor. Into a Fifth ave
nue butcher's establishment there came
the other day a little girl of the tene
ments. She had a large hat with a
feather—evidently the product of some
ill-conceived charity box—and a little
shawl was thinly covering her shoul
ders. She carried a small brown paper
parcel.
'Tlease, Mr. Schmidt," she began,
shoving this ucross the counter to him,
"my mother says this ten cents' worth
of steak ain't thick enough. You have
a right to send her a thicker piece."
"I have, have IV" growled Mr.
Schmidt, opening the parcel and look
ing sternly and suspiciously at the re
turned meat. Then he went to the till
and produced \ dime.
"There, take that to your mother,"
lie said, "and tell her if that's thicker,
she'd better keep it."—New York News.
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