MOTHER.
At Hrllfirht here I alt alone.
Yet not nlone: for thoughts of thee
Palo Images of pleasure Mown
Like homing birds, return to me.
Again the shining chestnut braids
Are soft enwreathed about thy brow,
And light a light that never fades
Beams from thine eyes upon me even
now,
As, all undlmmed by death and night.
Remembrance out of distance brings
Thy youthful loveliness, alight
With ardent hopes and high imaginings.
Ah, mortal dreams, how fair, how fleet!
Thy yearnings scant fulfillment found;
Dark Lethe long hath laved thy feet.
And on they slumber breaks no troub
ling sound;
Tet distance parts thee not from me,
For beauty or of twillKht or of morn 1
Binds me, still closer binds, to thee,
Whose heart sang to my heart ere I
was born.
Florence Earle Coatcs, In the Century.
What Is Love?
By Edith L. Joslin.
The man was young and wore his
youth with all the grace of a man well
governed and well trained. He lay on
the soft, sweet brown needles under
the tall, splendid pines, and listened
to the wind singing In their branches
feigh above his head and his thoughts
strayed Into strange and divers ways.
And most thought be of love, for he
was a young man. After idly musing
for a time he became more serious and
uddenly startled himself out of his
levery by abruptly asking: "What is
Jove, I wonder, anyway?" And he who
had been so lanquid and tranquil but a
moment before seemed strangely agi
tated and the question hammered it
self out again in pulse and brain.
What Is love?
All at once a new sound stole into
the chaos that was existing within him
and like the cool delicious rain to the
parched and thirsty fields, so was this
new sound to his troubled brain. Bit
fey bit it grew distinct until the man
no longer heard his question but in
Its stead the melody of sweetly blend
ed voices giving him an answer to it
He threw himself back on the pine
aeedles and relaxing his over-taxed
forces prepared to listen and to learn.
The melody that he heard was the
Tolces of the fresh, green branches of
the pines over his head. "Love is life,
love Is beauty. Love is duty, love is
verything in the world," sang they.
Then they stopped and one voice
sweeter than tho rest addressed him.
"Oh, mortal man, wouldst thou know
what love is? It is to us in its acme
the caress of the soft south wind as he
omes singing through the forest, and
the chill, hard cold blast of the north
wind as it wraps us about in its death
dealing embrace is our sorrow of love.
That to us, oh man, is love. That
which deals us all our joy and all our
Borrow." " And the voice of the pine
tree was silent and another voice rich
with dainty fragrance spoke and the
man turned his head to behold a sweet
Tiolet growing at his feet.
"Love, dear man," said the violet,
"is to me as it is to my sister the
pine tree, that which is all my joy
nd all my sorrow. For the dew whose
light kiss is the life giving, anon turns
to Ice and chills me into insensibility
and yet is the dew, my love," and the
Tiolet hung her fair head as though
the modest tirade had frightened her
- gentle soul. Then up spoke a bright
little buttercup that grew just outside
the woods:
"My love, oh, mortal. Is the beautiful
sun. His warm rays are such a joy
to me, such a delight, but of, what
misery I know when he frowns or be
comes wantonly cruel and scorches me
with his passion. So do I know love,"
and the buttercup lifted her pretty
head and smiled fondly at her lover.
And us the man lay thinking of
what he had heard he saw a woman
Approaching. She was beautiful with
all the splendid beauty of maturity and
as she neared him he felt his pulses
ieat faster for her coming.
"What Is love, dear man?" she mur
mured as she knelt beside him. "Love
Is joy; love is pleasure see, I am
bringing it to you." And she bent clos
er. "You are young end handsome
and brave I would win you. It pleases
me to make you my slave and so to
take you into the halls of pleasure and
then offer you in return for your
servitude the possession of all this
feeauty and charm. Art a mind, dear
man?" and she bent still nearer and
pressed her full red lips to his.
He had anticipated delight, but the
touch of those red Hps was like rank
poison to him. He made a motion as
though to push her from him and
rew dsck wun a snuaaer. inou an
a "child, not a man, and thou does not
deserve to know what love is nor to
fee permitted to cull its sweets," said
the proud beauty scornfully as she
drew herself erect and moved majes
tically away.
The man closed his eyes to shut out
that tempting1 beauty, but with a sigh
f relief crept up to his lips and was
breathed when he felt that she had
gone. Bome way he felt that the pine
- tree, and the violet, and the butter
cup, all had a better idea of love than
he had at first thought.
All at once' and quite against his
will be opened his eyes and looked at
the foot of the tree where the humble
Tiolet grew. Could he be dreaming?
No, it was not a vision, but a beautiful
girl that eat there so fondly toying
with the violet at her side. Every
line in her dainty body suggested
grace. Her face, bent over the flower,
-'told of kindness of heart and beauty
f mind.
She raised her head and looked at
tlm, and the pretty arched lips parted.
Thou bast asked, what is love? Love,
h man, is life. Love I tender, for
bearing, thoughtful and true. Lev Is
self sacrificing, it knows no heights
loo great, no depths too deep. It 4s all
joy. It is all sorrow. It Is the be
ginning and the end of all things. It is
the essence of God himself."
The man's breast was filled with s
great longing, and he reached up to
ward this maiden, but light as a bird
she was away and speeding through the
pine woods. Quick and eager, he was
In pursuit She glanced over her
shoulder and addressed him: "Thy
heart has been sleeping, when it
awakes only canst tbou hope to catch
love," and then she turned and sped on
out of the woods into the sunlight.
Like one in a trance, he stumbled
on in headlong chase, but when he, too
reached the open the fair form was
gone. Only a soft white cloud hung
on the eastern horizon, like a woman's
form, seemed to wave its willowy arms
and beckon him on.
The man turned and went slowly
across the meadow. "Love is life, and
to live is to love" he whispered softly,
"I am Just awakening, dear heart,1
and he hastened his steps, and his face
showed eager anticipation. Boston
Post.
FARMERS' ARITHMETIC.
How English Farmers Measure Space
and Weight.
Farmers have an arithmetic pecul
larly their own. This is essential,
seeing that their conditions for buy
ing and selling are totally different
from those of ordinary tradesmen.
Suppose, for instance, you wanted to
purchase a farmer's crop of turnips
In a ten-acre field, the townsman
would be at his wits' end to judge the
weight of the roots in that field. The
experienced farmer, however, would
find it an easy matter to arrive at a
correct calculation.
Turnips or swedes are usually plant
ed in ridges twenty-eight inches apart
This the farmer knows, means nine
ty ridges to the acre. Then he care
fully measures off a yard from a row
where the crop seems about the av
erage, pulls up the roots In that yard
and weighs them. Supposing they
weigh ten pounds, a simple calcula
tion proves that the crop averages a
little over twenty-eight tons to the
acre. Eleven pounds Is equivalent to
nearly thirty-one tons, and so on. Af
ter he has found out the weight of
one acre, it is quite an easy, matter
to estimate the weight of the whole
field.
When a man of the soil sets about
planting an orchard, he does not or
der so many hundred of trees until
ne has carefully calculated how many
trees will be actually required. This
number will, of course, depend on the
distance apart at which the trees are
planted. If they are set at even dis
tances of twenty-five feet an acre will
fold exactly seventy trees; if only
twenty feet, 109 trees will be re
quired. In this way all waste Is pre
vented. In regard to planting cabbages,
strawberries, or any other small fruit
the distances apart are, of course,
much smaller. It might be interest
ing to note that if they were planted
a foot from each other an acre of
land could accommodate no fewer
than 43.ES0 plants.
It Is equally essential for a farmer
to be able to tell the weight of cattle
without troubling to put them on the
scales. The way in which he does
this is to measure the girth of the
animal just behind the shoulders and
square the product Multiply the re
sult by the length in feet from shoul
der to juncture of tall. This is then
multiplied by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30,
according to the animal's fatness. The
result will give the carcass weight In
stones. Carcass weight, by the way,
is much lees than live weight.
Now, the- novice in attempting to
buy a stack of bay would run a great
risk of being swindled In regard to
its weight. Not so with the farmer
who knows his business. He would
calmly take out his foot-rule and
measure the stack to the eaves and
add to this number of feet half the
height from the eaves to the ridge.
Multiply the result by the length In
feet and that by the width in feet.
Then divide by twenty-seven. This
gives him the total number of cubic
yards in the stack. A cubic yard of
new hay weighs six stone, and of old
hay nine stone. Therefore, if he mul
tiplies tho number of cubic yards in
the stack by six or nine, according to
the age of the hay, ho will find the
exact weight of the stack.
Tho farmer's arithmetic is very use
ful to him in checking the work of
his employees. He knows that an av
erage ploughman can walk about
eighteen miles a day, and he must
therefore, be able to estimate how
much land this eighteen-mile walk
will cultivate. It depends largely, of
course, on the size of the plough.
Supposing the plough can cut a seven-inch
furrow, t. full day's work will
mean the ploughing of an acre and a
quarter of land. If it cuts an eleven
Inch slice, two acres would be an av
erage day's work, and a fifteen-Inch,
two and three-quarter acres. Tit-Bits.
' Two's Crowd.
"Fellow-citizens," shouted the candi
date, "if t am elected for this district
I shall endeavor to make you glad
that you did not elect another."
"That's right!" yelled the dry goods
box philosopher. "I reckon one would
bo a-plenty." Puck.
Cause and Effect
"If -you didn't smoke those expen
sive cigars,' you might own yon hand
some office building." "
"I do own yon handsome office build
ing. If I didn't I couldn't smoke these
expensive cigars." Washington Herald.
8tyle Requires Dash.
"I wish I had as many clothes as
My bachelor girl friend," said the im
pecunious girl. "She always is get
ting something new every time I go
there."
"Yes," said her companion, "but
the never looks stylish. You are
more stylish than she is with all her
clothes. She is too neat Her ex
cessive neatness stamps her an old
maid. You must have a sort of reck
less dash about your things to look
stylish." New York Press.
Why Women Tolerate Men.
"You see that old woman and the
young one In the corner of the room,"
said he, "They come here every night
for dinner. I don't know whether
they are mother and daughter or a
rich woman and her attendant but I
wish you could hear their comments
upon the men in the place. Critical
as to their manners, their looks; their
talk. I get quite discouraged when
I happen to sit near enough to hear.
Ever any man with them? Not that
I ever saw, but it is the women who
never go with men who are most crit
ical. Those who do are lenient with
their foibles. They excuse them for
the sake of whatever good traits they
might chance to possess." New York
Press.
Charm of Sincerity,
Few attributes add so much to one's
personal power as the knowledge that
one is absolutely genuine and sincere.
If your life Is a perpetual He, if you
know that m are not what you pre
tend to be, you cannot be strong.
There is a continuous struggle with
the truth going on inside you which
saps your energy and warps charac
ter.
It there Is a mote In your eye, re
move It at once. Otherwise, you can
sot look the world straight In the
face. Further, there will be a cloud
iness, a haze, about your character
which will be noticeable to those
about you.
Strength lies In character. Deceit
Is weakness; sham and pretense are
nfeebllng. Only the genuine and the
sincere are worth while. Indianapo
lis News.
The Haughty Maid.
A writer in Charities and the Com
mons seems to think that the attitude
popularly attributed to the haughty
servant, who demands to "store her
bicycle In the drawing room and re
ceive her company In the library," has
Its foundation In rainbow hued imag
inations. She describes the scenes at
her home on advertising for a maid;
out of seven applicants . , . three
wept with disappointment at not se
curing the work offered. All the ap
plicants, with but two exceptions,
were bedraggled, disheartened and
discouraged, and the amount of wages
to be paid them did not seem very
essential. Saddest of all was a dazed
looking deserted wife, who had three
small children, , and who, when she
found she was unsulted for the place,
hesitatingly asked for 10 cents for
carfare, as she had come from Brook
lyn to Manhattan in search of work.
Another married woman had a boy of
ten, and pleaded, with tears in her
eyes, to be allowed to make a bome
for herself and her boy."
Her Views on Immigration.
Mrs. Marie Cross Ncwhaus, prom
inent in women's club circles of the
Slate, has the following to say In the
New York Telegram regarding immi
gration to this country:
'We are accustomed to talk of our
great hospitality in allowing for
eigners to come to our shores and are
apt to forget that many of them bring
qualities that are of value to us com
mercially and are Important factors
in helping to mould the character of
the nation. The German element, for
example, brings thrift, cleanliness and
good citizenship to the United States,
and we should welcome this kind of
immigration.
"We are especially prone, though,
to underestimate the good In the Ital
ian portion of our immigration. Tho
Italians in New York have deposited
JIG, 000, 000 in the savings banks, and
have invested $35,000,000 In real es
tate. There Is an Italian Chamber of
Commerce here and four papers are
printed dally. For the last ten years
Italians have built railroads dug sub
ways and done all sorts of pick and
shovel work. If the Italian laborers
were suddenly to drop out of our in
dustries their loss would seriously
cripple us.
"It is difficult for us to understand
and appreciate the romantic and
Idealistic nature of the Italian because
we live in a country where the prac
tical dominates nearly everything.
For instance, the only ruins that the
Americans tolerate and respect are
subway and railway excavations and
the demolished buildings in their
trail."
Suffragette Banners.
The occasion of the meetings of
university extension students in Cam
bridge was utilized for an exhibition
of the beautiful banners contributed
by the Artists League for the proces
sion in support of woman suffrage on
June 13.
The banners are skilfully displayed,
the fine flag of the Cambridge alum
nae (the women students, past and
present), in rich shades of subdued
blue, being hung in -the place of hon
or at the back of the platform.' Near
it were the banners to celebrate some
of the great women who have shown
what women can achieve.
On one, in shades of gold, stood
forth the word radium and the name
of Mme. Curie; on another, with a
delicate Madonna lily on a pale
mauve ground, the name of St Cath
erlne of Sienna; on another St Ter
esa; on another Kathertno Barlass,
whose heroic story is told in Rosset-
tl's ballad "The King's Tragedy."
Elsewhere hung banners to com
memorate George Eliot, Charlotte
Bronte, Elizabeth Fry, Edith Pechey
Phlpson (one of the pioneers in open
ing the "medical profession to women),
Mary Wollstouecraft, Florence
Nightingale, Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing, Josephine Butler, Mary Sorrier
ville, Susan B. Anthony, Lydia Beck
er and many another.
With these were the banners of the
great brganlzatlons of woman suffra
gists throughout the country, of some
of the chief professions in which wom
en are doing good work, and of some
of the societies, such as the National
Union of Women Workers, conserva
tive and Unionist Suffragists and
Liberal Women Suffragists. Queen.
What Is Meant by Dlrectolre.
Dlrectoire, lncroyable, marvelleuse
words that are on every tongue,
yet they are frequently used inter
changeably without regard to dis
tinguishing characteristics. Directolrg
Is the comprehensive word, Including
lncroyable (the dress of the man dur
ing the dlrectolre period), and the
marvelluse (the woman's dress of the
eame period.)
Tho classic type of costume which
has so revolutionized the clothes of
the moment is a revival of the copies
of Greek draperies assumed at the
close of the ISth century, when the
new government the dlrectolre (di
rectory) supplanted the old French
monarchy.
At that period Greek and Roman
philosophy appealed to cultivated
minds, and classic costumes, as ex
pressed In the lines of Greek sculp
ture, demanded a share of considera
tion. The women of the younger re
public appeared attired In costumes
on Grecian lines, and the style at
once simple and artistic prevailed.
So the original direotolre was born
of the Greek 'and adapted to the re
quirements of the "present day" of
the closing of the 18th century; and
the dlrectolre of the moment is the
revival of that of a hundred years ago,
with just sufficient amendment to suit
it to our "present day" needs.
The characteristic features of the
dlrectolre style are: Skirts scant and
clinging and en tralne, with a high
waist band, sleeves small, close fit
ting, and long; collars high; pockets
large; re vers exaggerated; buttons
numerous. One, all or any number of
these characteristics may be discov
ered In one garment
The introduction of the dlrectolre
has caused a radical change In cos
tume building. The effect must be of
swathing, of a seamless robe, no mat
ter how much seaming, darting and
'goring may be employed In the con
struction of the foundation.
Distinguishing characteristics of the
lncroyable are the coats 'long or tall
and cut off squarely and abruptly
above the waist line in front, with
long sleeves, massively cuffed, with
huge revers and pocket flaps all
much lie-buttoned.
Mervellleuse stauds for the scant,
clinging, swathing Btyle.
The empire style is an evolution of
the dlrectolre, even as the dlrectolre
period merged into the empire. The
chief difference between the two
styles lies In the greater fullness of
the empire, New Haven Register.
Fashion Notes,
Sleeves with wide armholes will be
a feature of the evening wraps.
Tiny roses, made of satin ribbon,
are placed on many evening slippers.
Suede shoes and slippers are in
great demand, especially for house
wear.
The wide, full rouches are very ef
fective in giving a touch of daintiness
to a plain gown.
Ribbon and silver, also gold chains,
with a tiny tassel on each end, are
shown everywhere.
New hair ornaments in amber, tor
toise and silver have butterfly and
birds' wings in design.
A noticeable feature of the new
frocks is the difference between tho
two sides of both bodice and skirt
Not for some years has so much at
tention been paid to costumes as dis
tinguished from suits as during the
present season.
Tho old peacock blue, under a new
name, appears in many dress mater
ials, though most of the latest shades
are not pronounced.
An exceedingly smart touch Is giv
en the tailored waist of heavy linen
by finishing the front simply with
large crocheted buttons.
House frocks, affect the tucked
sleeve, for with the simplest model
of challis to the handsomest of after
noon gowns this style will be correct
Of course, in fashioning sleeves for
evening dresses the style of the gown
will have to be carefully considered.
With the short-walsted empire and
dlrectolre effects the puff sleeve will
be correct. The Dlrectolre buckle Is
a novelty. It is square in shape, with
ribbon through the open space and
soft short sat ends falling in grace
ful folds.
Wheels Within Wheels in
San Francisco
By William Inglls.
I ll
S a confirmation of
All diverted from its
II ruin him and his
lunuw wuriters cuuia Duy me unuea naiiroaas ciieup, ana
thus acquire the transportation business of San Francisco,
President Patrick Calhoun, of the United Railroads, lays
much stress on the fact that the Municipal Street Railway
Company of San Francisco filed lis charter on April 17,
1900, the day before the earthquake and fire. The princi
pal owners of the) company were Rudolph Spreckles and James D. Phelan.
The plan of orcratlon, as set forth by Mr. Spreckles in published Interviews,
was to compete with the United Railroads by running for ten blocks at a
time along the tracks of the United Railroads, then going around a block, and
again using ten blocks of the company's tracks, paying there for interest on
the original cost of construction, as provided by law.
"But when they thought they could drive us out of existence by using
the prosecuting power as a club," says Mr. Calhoun, "they dropped their Mu
nicipal Railway scheme and devoted all their energies to ruining us."
This I submitted to Mr. Spreckles.
"The charge is untrue," he said. "Our sole Idea was to demonstrate that
It was possible to operate cars efficiently and with profit by means of the
Underground trolley system. We were not going into a general competition
with the United Railroads. The best proof of that Is that we were ready to
sell out to the city at any time. Our charter provided that we would turn
over the road to the city whenever required, upon receiving the amount of
our original Investment, plus Interest. We intended to make that demonstra
tion in perfectly good faith; but after the fire the project was dropped."
It is a fact that nothing was ever done toward establishing the Munici
pal Railway lines after the fire.
Having conquered the guilty supervisors and given them immunity in
exchange for confession, the prosecution allowed them to remain in office.
When Scbmltz had been thrown into jail to await trial on many indlotments,
the guilty supervisors elected one of their own number Boxton to act as
Mayor in place of Schmltz. At this there were great manifestations of popu
lar disapproval, and all the boodlers were put out of office. The corporation
officials point to the retention of the confessed bribe-takers in office as a con
firmation of their theory that the prosecutor had entered into an alliance
with these men In order to obtain false testimony against the "higher-ups."
Harper's Weekly.
Idleness
Eyes
By Winifred Black.
'
ii i
i iff iff!
KNOW a woman who is jealous of her husband.
Every time the man is five minutes' late to dinner the
woman thinkis he has stopped to see another woman.
The wife has nothing in the world to do all day but read
novels and think up love scenes, and when ber husband
comes home from downtown so worried that be doesn't
know whether be is walking on his head or bis bands, she's
cross because he doesn't tell her how lonely the day has
been without her.
If she could see the crowd of hangers-on that won't breathe until they've
asked her husband about it, she'd realize that he'd give a year of his life to
get a chance to be lonely for a minute.
The man Is a good, plain, sensible, every-day man, who would cut ills
right arm oft at the shoulder to keep his wife from any real sorrow, but he
hasn't time and doesn't know how to make love. '
I wonder why his wife can't understand that.
Do you know what I'd do if I were that man?
I'd bring that wife of mine down twon with me every morning for six
months; rain or shine, hot or cold, tired or rested, sick or well, down town
she'd have to trapse, and I'd make her help me do my work. I'd shove half
of my worries on to her shoulders, and when she had been bored, and puz
sled, and irritated, and driven to distraction by trying to talk to half a dozen
people about half a dozen things at once, I'd sulk because she hadn't told me
for half an hour that she loved me.
Six months of that sort of thing would cure tho poor, foolish woman of
that particular kind of folly, I'll warrant you.
What a lot of women waste their time being jealous!
The average man is Just as faithful to his wife as the average wife is
faithful to ber husband.
The average man Is too busy trying to pay his wife's bills to have time
to-fall In love with Venus herself, even If she sits at the typewriter in the
same office with him.
Men get past the flirtation age very early If they have anything else to
think of and most of them have.
If I were a man and had a wife who was Jealous without cause I'd make
her go to work and get something to think of. An Idle mind Is the most
fierce trouble breeder in the world. Get rid of it. Madam Green Eyes, get rid
of it New York American.
Some Uses For
Seaweed
Ey Charles
HE seaweed industry in the United States is not as extensive
as it is abroad. It is practically restricted to Massachu
setts, and is addressed to one species, the "Irish moss."
The Irish moss, or carrageen, is found from North Caro
lina to Maine, as welt as on the Pacific coast, being espe-
L
Hcially abundant north of Cape Cod, growing on rocks Just
below low-water mark. The fronds are from three to six
I inio. inn? and usually nurnle. but when exDosed to a
bright light while
The crop is usually gathered between the months of May and September. A
small part Is gathered by hand, but most of it is torn from the rocks by means
of rakes used from boots. The rakes are made especially for the purpose,
have a fifteen-foot handle and a head twelve to fifteen Inches wide, with
twenty-four to twenty-eight teeth six inches long and an eighth of an incn
apart.
In the- preparation and curing of Irish moss, fair weather and much sun
shine are the principal requisites. When first brought ashore, the plants are
washed In se't water, and then spread on the sandy beach to dry and bleach.
After twenty-four hours In good weather they are raked up and again washed
and again spread on the beach to dry. Three washings are usually sufficient
for complete cleansing, curing, end bleaching, but as many as seven are some
times given. After the final washing, tho plants are left in the sun, the
entire process requiring about two weeks of good weather and sunshtre. At
the end of this period the plants fade and arc whlto or straw-colored. Two
more weeks are then required to soften and prepare the produce for shipping
The moFS 13 sent to market in barrels holding about one hundred pounds,
nnd the first crop Is usually shipped in August The product has a wide dls
frlluiilon in the United States and Canada, part going to druggists and groc
ers, while the larger part is taken by
his theory that the graft prosecution was
original general design into an effort to
associates, so that Mr. Spreckles and ills
and Green
I
Jl. Sldman.
growing are ot'Tl yellowteh-green color.
brewer. The World To day.