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Show tween his bauds and paused to kiss the baiting lips. The improvement, he said slowly, "is the result of an unprofessional M. Louise Cummins, in Bosh opinion. ton Globe. TO f GOOD BOOK. fee o A STORYO, I JAW- - PY A. CONAN DOYUt-- JblTEP.NATIONAL PM. S3 ASSOCIATION. ce CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.) "Well, maam, since you know so much, you probably know also that I have sold my pension. How am I to, live if I do not turn my hand to work? Mrs. Westmacott produced a large registered envelope from beneath the sheets and tossed it over to the old seaman. That excuse wont do. There are your pension papers. Just see If they are right." He broke the seal, and out tumbled the very papers which he had made over to McAdam two days before. , But what am I to do with these now? he cried in bewilderment. "You will put them in a safe place or get a friend to do so, and, if you do your duty, you will go to your wife and beg her pardon for having oven for an Instant thought of leaving her. The Admiral passed his hand over his tugged forehead. "This is very good of you, ma'am, said he, very good and kind, and I know that you are a staunch triend, but for all that these papers mean money, and thou h we may have been In broken water lately, we are not quite In such straits as towehave to signal do, ma'am, Ito our friends. When there's no one we would look to sooner than to you. Dont be ridiculous! said the widow. It, fYou know nothing whatever about and yet you stand there laying down matthe law. Ill have my way In this ter, and you shall take the papers, for It Is no favor that I am doing you, but pimply a restoration of stolen property. How that, maam? I am Just going to explain, though you might take a ladys word for it without asking any questions. Now, what I am going to say Is Just between you four, and must go no farther. I have my own reasons for wishing it kept from the police. Who do you think It was who struck me last night, l? Some villain, maam. I don t know his name. But I do. It was the same man who ruined or tried to ruin your son. It was my only brother, Jeremiah." Ah! I will tell you about him or a little fctbout him, for he has done much which would not care to talk of, nor you to listen to. He was always a villain, j can have no scruples about taking It. You have brought sunshine upon us, maam, when the clouds were at their darkest, for here is my boy who insists upon returning the money which I got. He can keep it now to pay his debts. For what you have done I can only ask God to bless you, ma'am, and as to thanking you I cant even Then pray dont try," said the widow. Now run away, Admiral, and make your with Mrs. Denver. I am sure If I were she it would be a time long before I should forgive you. As for me, I am going to America when Charles goes. Youll take me so far, wont you, Ida? There is a college being built in Denver which Is to equip the woman of the future for the struggle of life, and especially for her battle against man. Some months ago the committee offered me a responsible position upon the staff, and I have decided to accept it, for Charles' marriage removes the last tie which binds me to England. You will write to me sometimes, my friends, and you will address your letters to Professor Westmacott, Emancipation College, Denver. From there I shall watch how the glorious struggle goes on In conservative old England, and if I am needed you will find me here again fighting in the forefront of the fray. Good-by- e but not you, girls; I have still a word I wish to say to you. Give me your hand, Ida, and yours, Clara, said she when they were alone. Oh, you naughty little pusses, aren't you ashamed to look me in the face? Did you think did you really think that I was so very blind, and could not see your little plot? You did It very well, I must say that, and really I think that I like you better as you are. But you had all your pains for nothing, you little conspirators, for I give you my word that I had quite made up my mind not to have him. And so within a few weeks our little ladies from their observatory saw a mighty bustle in the Wilderness, when carriages came, and coachmen with favors, to bear away the twos who were destined to come back one. And they themselves in their crackling silk dresses went across, as Invited, to the big double wedding breakfast which was held in the house of Doctor Walker. Then there was and laughter, and changing of dresses, and when the carriages drove up again, and two more couples started on that Journey which ends only with life Itself. Charles Westmacott Is now a flourishing ranchman in the western part of Texas, where he and his sweet little wife are the two most popular persons in all that county. Of their aunt they see little, but from time to time they see notices in the papers that there is a focus of light In Denver, where mighty thunderbolts are being forged which will one day bring the dominant sex upon their knees. The Admiral and Ms wife still live at number one, while Harold and Clara have taken number two, where Doctor Walker continues to reside. As to the business, it had been reconstructed, and the energy and ability of the Junior partner had soon made up for all the ill that had been done by his senibr. Yet with his sweet and refined home atmosphere he is able to realize his wish, and to keep himself free from the sordid alms and base ambl tlons which drag down the man whose business lies too exclusively in the money market of the vast Babylon. As he goes back every evening from the crowds of Throgmorton Street to the d peaceful avenues of Norwood, so he has found it possible in spirit also to do one's duties amidst the babel of the City, and yet to live beyond it. THE END. and plausible, but a dangerous, subtle villain all the same. If I manhave some hard thoughts about childkind I can trace them back to the hood which I spent with my broher. Ale is my only living relative, for my Other brother.Charles father, was killed In the Indian mutiny. Our father was rich, and when he died he made a good provision both for Jeremiah and for me. He know Jeremiah and he mistrusted him, however; So instead of giving him all that he meant hliti to have he handed me over a part of It, telling me, with what was almost his dying breath, to hold it in trust for my brother, and to use it in his behalf when he should have squandered or lost all that he had. This arrangement was meant to be a secret between my father and myself, but unfortunately his words were overheard by the nurse, and she repeated them afterwards to my brother, so that he came to know that I held some money in trust for him. I suppose tobacco will not harm my head. Doctor? Thank you, then I shall trouble you for the matches, Ida. She lit a cigarette, and leaned back upon the pillow, with the blue wreaths curling from her lips. I cannot tell you how often he has kttempted to get that money from me. He has bullied, cajoled, threatened, hoaxed, done all that a man could do. I still held it with the presentiment that a need of it would come. When I heard if this villainous business, his flight, and his leaving his partner to face the itorm, above all that my old friend had been driven to surrender his income in order to make up for my brothers defalcations, I felt that now Indeed I had l need for It. I sent In Charles yesterday to Mr. McAdam, and his client, Upon hearing the facts of the case, very graciously consented to give back the papers, and to take the money which he bad advanced. Not a word of thanks to tae. Admiral. I tell you that It was very cheap benevolence, for It was all done with his own money, and how could I use it better? I thought that I should probably hear from him soon, and I did. Last evening there was handed In a note of the usual whining, cringing tone. He had come back from abroad at the risk of his life and liberty, JUBt In order that to the only sishe might say good-by- e ter that he ever had, and to entreat my forgiveness for any pain which he had caused me. He would never trouble me again, and he begged only that I would hand over to him the sum which I held In trust for him. That, with what he had already, would be enough to start him as an honest man In the new world, when he would ever remember and pray for the dear sister who had been his savior. That was the style of the letter, and It ended by Imploring me to leave the window-latc- h open, and to be In the front room at three In the morning, when he would come to receive my last kiss and to bid me farewell. Bad as he was, I could not, when he trusted me, betray him. I said nothing, hut I was there at the hour. He entered through the window, and Implored me to give him the money. He was terribly changed; gaunt, wolfish and spoke like a madman. I told him that I had spent the money. He gnashed his teeth at me, and swore It was his money. I told him that I had spent It on him. He wked me how. I said in trying to make him an honest man, and in repairing the results of his villainy. He shrieked out curse, and pulling something out of the breast of hts coat a loaded stick, I think he struck me with it, and I remembered nothing more. The blackguard! cried the Doctor, but the police must be hot upon his track. I fancy not, Mrs. Westmacott an swered calmly. As my brother Is a Particularly tall, thin man, and as the Jnlice are looking for a short, fat one, I ;do not think that It Is very probable lihat they will catch him. It Is best, I t'hink, that these little family matters phouid be adjusted In private. My dear ma'am. said the Admiral, ( 'f it Is Indeed this mans money that (flas brought back my pension, then smooth-spoke- n New York Milk Supply. One hundred and fifty thousand cows constituting an Immense herd that would do honor to any great cattle range of the west are engaged the year round Jn supplying all their milk to the people of Greater New York. More than one million quarts of this fluid are consumed every day in the American metropolis. The stream flows to this center from five states New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The mine industry in the largest city of America engages a capital of probably sixty million dollars, says Leslies Weekly. The territory which supplies New York city with this essential article of food is divided, in a general way. into two zones. The boundary of the outer one is four hundred miles from the city and the width of this zone is about two hundred and fifty miles. The inner zone is about one hundred miles wide, the outer boundary being about one hundred and fifty miles from New York, wnile the inner boundary is fifty miles from the same center. The area within fifty miles of Manhattan Island produces practically no milk, for this large district is not pastoral; it is filled with suburban towns, all tributary to the busiest city In the world. In this fifty miles area there is no room for pastures and cows. And the suburbs of the city are gradually crowding the dairy district farther and farther away. two-hor- se health-drinkin- g, Foundation of Dairying. Many people when handling milk seem to forget that they are dealing with food products, says Prof. Wilbur J. Fraser, of the University of Illinois. There is a tendency for certain unfortunate practices to invade the dairy business. If filth is allowed to get into milk or it becomes tainted at any point of its production, no amount of care either before or after can make amends for the difficulty. A man may be careful and correct in all of his dairy operations but one, and yet this one be the cause of his producing This one mislow grade product take not only Injures his product but the dairy market as well. This being true, it is clear that the greatest care should be exercised in every step of production, manufacture and delivery of dairy products to the consumer. exercise Only those dairymen who such care can hope to secure the trade of people who desire a product of superior quality and are willing to pay an advanced price. The real foundation of the whole dairy business lies in the milk producer. The chief necessity then in improving the dairy conditions is to give the producer such a knowledge of the right methods of handling and caring for milk that he will not only see the necessity for such methods but may also know how best to accomplish this purpose. tree-line- AN INDIAN An Account Hide BOYS PONY. of Hl It et First Attempt Buffalo Hunt. Thus led by those dedicated to religious service, the tribe leaves Its vil lage, the people by families dropping bearing into line men, their weapons ready for use; women, in gala dress, riding their decorated s; ponies, older ones leading the little children in twos and threes upon the backs of steady old nags, or snugly stowed away in the swinging pouch between the tent-poland the dogs trotting complacently everywhere. Here and there along the line of the cavalcade is a lad being initiated into individual responsibility. He has been upon the hunt before, as one of the family, but this is the first step toward going Independently uncared for as child. The father has a wild horse, sadled and bridled him, and now bids his son mount the animal. The boy hangs back; the colt is a fiery creature and already restive under restraint The father tells his son that the horse shall be his own' when he has conquered it, but the lad' are does not move. The lookers-o- n smiling, and the cavalcade does not! wait "Get up, says the father. The boy slowly advances, and the colt' quickly recedes hut the boy, grasping' his mane, swings himself into the saddle. The father lets go, and so does the colt rears, jumps, wriggles, humps his back like an infuriated cat stands on and kicks at his own tail, his fore-lepaws the air and stamps the earth, but the boy clings to him until with a sud is broken, and den jerk the saddle-girt- h he is landed over the head of the excited creature, which runs for dear life and liberty. Brought back, protesting by twists and shakes of the head, he is again mounted, and again frees himself. After two or three repetitions of this sort of thing, the boy becomes angry, and the mother grows anxious. She runs to her son as he is scrambling up from the ground, feels him all over, and moves his legs and arms to see if he is hurt He is impatient at the delay; he is going to master that pony now or die for it This time he stays on. In vain the animal lashes himself jnto foam and fury; the boy sticks to him like the shirt of Nessus, and the father at last leads the Indivisible pair bebetween the tent poles which trail hind a sophisticated family horse, and there, fenced in, they journey all day, to each other. The trying to get used out of the pony does not see his way to keep up with the poles, and Is forced procession. , flows Turpentine is a balsam which from some varieties of pine. d, pack-horse- ias-so- ed Notes on Nut Trees. demand There is an for hickory, chestnut and walnut lumber. The supply of these tiees is very short indeed, and the price that a good one will bring Increases from year to year. It is altogether probable that the price paid for such lumber fifty years from cow will be very much in advance of the price paid now. It is therefore suggested by men who have looked the ground over pretty thoroughly that it would be a good investment to plant quite heavily of those trees now where land is unsulted to general farming purposes. That there is an abundance of such land we all know, for we see it here and there bearing only Bcrubby growths of different kinds of trees of small value. If trees are to be grown at all, why not grow valuable ones. Besides, the nuts of some of these trees have some value in the market Gas Content of Milk. The elimination of gases from the milk does not necessarily mean that the milk has been rendered more palatable or more healthful, but it does Indicate that with the elimination of gases, changes take place which do influence the milk one way or the other. Of course It is easily understood that the gases which have been determined can have only indirectly a bearing upon the fermentations of the milk. The presence of carbon dioxide of oxygen, or residual gases, called usually nitrogen, signifies nothing especially so far as these gases themselves are Involved, but, when we find that the amount of carbon dioxide is greatly diminished as we draw the milk from the udder as we pass it over the aerator, in fact, as we agitate it more or less In the presence of air, farther, as we note at the beginning, the milk in the udder contains no trace of oxygen but with the milking process the amount of oxygen greatly increases, as when the milk is treated as recited, under carbon dioxide, the oxygen continues to increase in amount, and too, as we notice the changes in the amount of the residual gas, we can that there are readily understand marked alterations going on in the milk as it passes through the various manipulations of the dairy. Prof. C. E, Marshall. Quiet and Milk Secretion. As the milk glands are under direct control of the nervous system, any conditions which affect the nervous 'system, will react upon the glands. Any undue disturbance of the normal distribution of the nervous force will divert some of the blood supply from the milk glands to some1 other part of the body and thus diminish the milk flow. The well known phenomenon of not giving down the milk is the result of lack of nervous tone in the gland brought about by some sort of excitement. The udder is not a container in which the milk is ready stored up at milking time, but an organ in which, as has already been pointed out, the greater part of the milk is elaborated while milking or suckling is in progress by virtue !of the agitation produced. Unless the ;cow is in perfect repose this secretion will not take place normally. The lesson to be derived from this is that the cow should be treated with the greatest gentleness and be otherwise kept ree from excitement, especially during the time of milking or suckling. J. J. Repp. g i Test for Buttermakers. We must make the business of bub termaking more attractive, not only as to the place where we have to work, but in wages as well, and in order to do this I believe that a A (compulsory examination of candidates for creamery buttermakers before a duly constituted board of examiners, similar to the examination which doctors, dentists and lawyers have to mndergo before being able to practice, would tit seems to me) weed out 'some of the incompetents, and thus by raising the standard of qualifications enable those who really desire to make buttermaklng a life work to 'enter the ranks confident that they can make of themselves as much la this their chosen line as other men in theirs. J. B. Moore. f Come, friend, and ait with me; We two are company Who, in our calm retreat. Need nothing from the street. Nor opera, nor play, nor dance. Nor club, nor dinner, to enhance The pleasure that it is to be Each in the other's company You give me everything, while I I give you nothing and I sigU do you sav? Becausewhat 1 love you and no other pav Tou ask for your alluring cheer? Is that enough? It is so easy, dear. To love you that it seems to me 1 give you nothing for your company. William J. Lampion, in the Reader. We realize that it is difficult to grow chestnuts in all situations. The tree When Natalie Hall married Clarke seems to be one that will do well only Dexter the people who prophesied that where given proper conditions of soil she would not be happy were so and moisture supply. Yet there are very much in the minority that no one certainly many waste places where paid heed to them. chestnut trees might be successfully Dexters opinion of himself will grown. The nuts would prove quite a valuable annual receipt while the main have to be whittled down several harvest of timber was being waited inches before hell make any womans for. He who plants these trees plants life what it ought to be, one man had , for his children unless he himself is said. But every one knew that the a very young man, but most men desire to do something of the kind. speaker would gladly have Btood in Dexters shoes, so he did not count. Nevertheless, not many months had Some years ago an enthusiastic Pennsylvanian came into the office of passed before a vague uncertainty bethe Farmers Review to show some gan to grow in the heart of Natalie large chestnuts of the Paragon vari- Dexter, which, had the minority known ety. He told of a new company organ- it, would have caused them to exclaim ized in his state with the object of cul- complacently, I told you so! As to Dexter, while still very much tivating this nut Since that time the company mentioned, the Paragon Nut in love with his wife, he frankly adand Fruit Company, has been doing mitted to himself that a woman of good work In reforesting hilly and more penetration, In other words, one rocky land in that state. They began more keenly alive to the rare intellectwork about eight years ago, purchas- ual qualities of Clarke Dexter, ating 200 acres of hilly mountain land. torney at law, might have proved a This land contained much native chestnut, which was cut down and permitted to sprout from the stumps. These sprouts were then grafted. The root under it, sprout, with a grows with great rapidity, and the graft will bear some chestnuts in a full-size- d very few years, and will become prof- itable in a few years more. Other tracts of land were bought in subsequent years and treated as had been the first tract. Now the company has about 800 acres of land, on which are growing 80,000 trees. There is always a demand for chestnuts, both for eating boiled and roasted and for confectioners use. The Strawberry 8ed.- From Farmers' Review: The late frosts got the earliest blossoms', but owing to rush the patch was not worked over this spring, leaving mat of plants, so the frosts were perhaps an advantage to us, for while the yield was less, the berries were larger. The second week of berry time was very warm with daily showers, hence the fruit ripened very fast, yielding from eight to eleven gallons daily; but oh, so hard to pick! by being in a mat From a patch of an acre in extent we gathered seventy-fou- r gallons of berries, and perhaps eight or ten quarts spoiled. Ripening as fast as they did, a few ripe berries overlooked would be spoiled The quality was fine, extra; and the size on an average was very good, some few berries as large as common peaches four Inches in circumference. The yield was in proportion to 4,600 quarts per acre. The bed was not mulched at all last winter or spring; where the bed is covered with thick foliage, it is better to mulch lightly with straw or leaves in our climate, if at all, excepting with late set bed. Now since the harvest Is over, spaces two feet wide are marked off lengthwise of the bed; in each alternate space the plants are dug out this vacant space is to be spaded or plowed, then mulched with stable manure as free from weeds as is possible. Commercial fertilizer suitable to strawberries and to the soil in which they are grown would be the best possible to use, as It is free from seeds, but we hare the manure; hence for economical reasons we shall use It, cultivating the weeds out of this path. In addition to fertilizing the vacant place, unleached wood ashes will be thickly sown over the rows of plants. Plants will be left as they are in th weeds, grass and clover plant rows, being all- - removed, but there Isnt much of this, only where the berry 6 y shoulders r 'F as words that the mind which could find absorption in a bundle of colored silks and a piece of fine linen must be a small affair." A slow red mounted painfully to the face of the man on the piazza. Do you know what it brought to my mind. Aunt Grace? Miss Halls voice was No, dear. dull with distress. One of your days at home in When most of the peoWashington, ple bad gone Judge Doane dropped in for his usual cup of tea. I was finishing for your birthday and he a came and stood beside me. Presently he said I wonder if a woman's hands ever look so charming as when they are occupied with needlework.' And when you told him that I had arranged the orchids on a table and copied them clean-shave- n tea-clot- h more congenial companion. It was a warm day in early summer. After a hard five hours in court Dexter ascended the steps of the pretty suburban villa which he called home somewhat before bis usual time. With the jangle of the day still on his nerves he dropped into a low chair on the piazza. Presently his own name reached him as through a haze. Dexter opened his eyes lazily, realizing that for a moment he had been blessedly unconscious. But surely, dear, you and Clarke are very happy?" The question, coming repeated through an open window where the air softly stirred some light draperies, pricked him into complete wakefulness. An aunt of his wife, who had been to her as a mother, was visiting them. Dexter recognized her voice. He found himself listening intently for the reply. It came gradually. If you mean do we get on. Aunt Grace, I suppose we do, as well as s of the people we know, perhaps." But, my dear, that is different from the married life I had hoped for you. It is different from the married life I had hoped for myself. to realize Dexter sat up, that be was listening to a conversation not meant for his ears. The fact is Natalie Dexter paused. What, dear? It seems abominable to say, but you are the only mother I have ever known. There would be a greater chance of happiness for Clarke and me if if something occurred to disillusionize him a little with his own atnine-tenth- tainments. Had Clarke Dexter walked against a stone wall on a clear day he would not have so surprised as he was by these words in his wifes voice. But, my dear, Clarke has surely some right to feel complacent with his attainments. Not yet 30, and fast climbing to the top of the tree In his profession. Dexter blessed said as plainly REED'S Miss Hall In his heart Dont I know that Auntie? In the hours that I have sat and thought It all out I have come to this opinion that all his life long everything, even his wife, has come to Clarke too easily. It must have been so at school and college. His grasp of a thing is so Immediate and absolute that it plants are thinnest All runners will be kept out of vacant rows, and straw will be put there this winter. If put on thick enough, g this will do away with and also serve some protection to the weed-fightin- berry plants. Do not mulch heavily with material that lies close or packs; better risk winter killing than smothering. Emma Clearwaters. Cost of Pasteurizing. Experiments conducted at the Royal Experiment Station in Copenhagen prove that If a pasteurizer is properly constructed and properly operated It will require about 90 lbs of steam for heating 1,000 pounds of milk, from 90 to 185 degrees F., says M. Mortenson. If we figure that It takes one pound of eoal to produce four pounds of steam, to produce ninety pounds of steam will then require 23 pounds of ound himself listening Intensely for the reply, coaL Figuring coal at per ton with what he Intolerant him makes and our butter yield 4 butpounds ter to 100 pounds milk, makes the coet considers the stupidity of others, es of pasteurizing one pound of batter pecially with mine. Yours?" Miss Halls voice bristled of a cent This exabout 1th Indignation. pense, however, is reduced considerYes, mine. The one fact which ably by pasteurizing the cream and larke does not seem to have master-l-a skimmed milk separately. The cream that a womans mind may be is reduced to such a small amount ksen as a mans and yet remain that the expense per ponnd will be ilnlne. very little. For pasteurization of skimmed milk the exhaust steam can Yesterday, she went on, he stood be used ; this is also more satisfactory r watched me when I took up this to the patrons as milk when pastenr-- i itroidery. It puzzled and almost a ed him that 1 could be interested ized after skimming is warm enough to scald the cans and the milk keeps! i Tbat was to him so trivial. When e urned away the very angle of his sweet longer. 34-0- one-tent- h -- lr-t- FORTUNE. His Llteisry as Well as Legal Work Paid Him Handsomely. The fact that the late Thomas B. Reed left an estate of 3431,000, after all indebtedness had been discharged, was a matter of surprise to people generally, writes William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record-HeralMr. Reed always pretended to be very poor, but some of his intimate friends were convinced long ago that his poverty was an affectation, because they knew of large fees received by him from ttme to time for legal services and literary work. He never wrote a line or made a speech for nothing.-Eacof the many articles which from time to time appeared in the magazines from his pen brought him 3500, and I know of one instance st least in which he received 3100 from a New York newspaper for an inter- view he prepared with himself upon a current topic. His lectures brought him 3500 a night, and occasionally in large cities like New York and Boston he received 31.000. The year before he left Congress he delivered five lectures in one week, for which he received a check for 32,500. He estimated his legal services at a very high value, and unless his clients made a bargain with him in advance they were sure to be surprised when they received their hills. There is a story that, while In London some years ago, he charged John V. and C. B. Farweil of Chicago 35,000 for giving some information to their English solicitor about the laws of the United States bearing on the sals of their Texas lands, and I know where he made a life enemy of one of his closest friends by sending him a bill for advice given on a legal question in what was supposed to bs a friendly conversation. The Improvement," he said slowly, is the result of an unprofessional opinion. with my needle he exclaimed, Why, child, you are an artist! That is literal needle painting." Clarke Dexters eyes, which a few hours before bad scintillated with the joy of laying skilfully concealed traps for the feet of an unwary witness, stared before him in blank amazement. Judge Doane! Only that morning he had held in reserve a decision of the great justice and played It as his trump card. And this man had found time to admire his wifes hands end be Interested in her daln'v work. When' she spoke again her tone was so hurt that Dexter felt something clutch at his heart. I dont think Clarke would believe that I could originate anything even design for fancy work and the worst of It is that I am fast descending to the level of his opinion. The unhappiness in her voice had been like a stream restrained at first, but gaining such force from the tributaries of thought that the weak barriers of caution were swept away. Her next words revealed its true depth and current appallingly to the man who had taken her young life Into his keeping. He could have knelt in contrition and kigsed the hem of her pretty gown. I shall not offer this cloth to the church after a'l, she said firmly. "I have stiched so many bitter disillusions with life into it, that it woyld be sacrilege. There are places I cannot bear to look at, tor every thread was a protest against God. What was that?" Mids Hall looked np at a sound on the piazza. Natalie Dexter went to the window and drew aside the curtain. Someone was disappearing around the corner of the house, but her vision was too blurred to distinguish who it was. COULD NOT BE WORSE. Why William Dean Howells Favored the Second Sonnet. William Dean Howells has lifted so many young men from total obscurity Into fame that his time Is often trespassed on by persons quite unworthy of his attention persons without talent, who, nevertheless, think that be should write of them an essay as appreciative as those, say, wherein he pointed out the genius of Stephen Crane. At the Franklin Inn club of Philadelphia a poet told the other day of a young man who once called on Mr. Howells without so much as a letter of Introduction. This young man thought himself a sonneteer. He had two sonnets with him and be said he would read them both, and then he would ask Mr. Howells to tell him which of them was the better. Mr. Howells is always gracious, and always particularly gracious to young men who love letters. Therefore he listened patiently to the first sonnet. It was execrable. The writer of such doggerel could not but be hopeless. The second sonnet Is the better of the two," Mr. Howells said firmly, and he refused to listen to It Pleading an engagement, he asked the young man The second sonnet ia to excuse him. the better, I assure you, he repeated. Detroit News-Tribun- Ideals. I look to find Perfection;- and the mocking stars disclose A soiled spot on the illy and & canker In the rose, A lovely woman burdened with unrepose. for Wisdom; and I see a preaclfc-e- r, fresh from school, to heaven with a come-paslay off theandwaya rule; A doctor that's a charlatan a teacher 1 look s that's a fool. look for Virtue; men are flies, who lose their souls for honey; The women see their draggled wings, and laugh and think Its funny. And scorn their fallen sisters and wad a man for money! I I look for Inspiration; from what cesspools poets pump it! Why, even Kipling tootles on a penny pewter trumpet, And Homer sang the Trojan war a struggle for a strumpet! I look for Honor; stay awhllo what honest men are these? A politician out for plums, a lawyer out for fees Go to! 1'il get a lantern and Join Dio1 genes! look for Gods: I And poor things make the angels weep that. Jehovah killing Canaanites and eating slaughtered sheep, And Jove debauching women and Buddha sound asleep! Perfection. Wisdom, Virtue, Inspiration. Honor puff They all go up in smoke theyre mado of very fragile stuff And yet Ill find them if I keep on look- ! fng long enough! Meade Robinson In Indianapolis Sentinel. -- Edwin Three Kinde of Poor, One of the patriarchs among the Baptists of this country was Rev. A. K. Bell. He was a leader of the earlier generation of its clergymen, believing that charity was only half done unless a smile or a jest went with it. He was a great worker among the poor and upon one occasion at a public It was almost a year later. Winwas unexpectedly called ter seemed to have stepped back and gathering to speak on The Poor in Largs taken the reluctant earth in a last upon Cities. Dr. Bell arose solemnly and beebrace. Ladles and gentlemen, thera Before a blazing log fire in the li- gan; are three kinds of poor. There are the his sat. wife indulgbrary Dexter and Lords poor, the devils poor and the ing in one of their many witty disdevils. This will conclude my adcussions, which were as the striking poor And the old clergyman Bat dress. of flint and steel. More than once he had risen and down without another word. paced the floor, with hands thrust deep Extravagance Begets Extravagance. Into his pockets, when his wifes keen "Madam, cant you gimme a nickel? wit and womans instinct met and bafasked the tramp, with his eye on the fled him, Come, he said, holding out one brlndle pup. "Why, sir, exclaimed the lady of hand to her, I dont admlf that Im beaten by any means, but I know one the house, "I gave you a dime yesterLets go and day. What did you do with it?" thing I'm ravenous. I bought a auttlmubble, leddy," resee if we cant find something cold in plied the migratory genius, but now 1 the larder. Natalie Dexter rose and laid her needs a nickel t pay de fambly of a hands on her husband's shoulders. gentleman wot I run over in my keer-les- s ways. The eyes which looked Into his were so caressing that he went toward her, The Proper Thing. but she held him back. "I hope you do not consider It she said slowly, theres "Clarke, wrong for a young lady to wear fine something I want to ask you , You have grown so immensely In the clothes and jewels," said Miss past year, there Is not a trace of the Certainly not, replied the parson. the you will forgive me, dear! little touch of intolerance of egotism "If the heart is full of vain and. ridiculous things, there can be no obr which Dexter took the glowing face be- - jection to advertising the fact Gid-din- |