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TWO WHO FAILED.
, A man failed after trying long.
And then sat down and wondered why;
He saw not where he had been wrong,
Nor where fair chances had slipped by,
AH that he did was sit and gaze
Upon the hopes strewn 'round him there
And wonder on through all hi3 days
Why fate had marked him for despair.
.Another failed and stepped aside
And saw the" causes of his woe
He saw w here efforts misapplied
Had aided chance to bring him low
And, taking note of all the past.
And turning into newer ways,
He tried again and filled at last
'The hopes of all his eager days.
$ MY NEW HOUSEKEEPER;
By IIoeace Eaton Walker.
; Of course I do not claim to be a mod
el housekeper; but Adolphus well
knew that I was the child of aristo
cratic parents, and he had fair warn
ing, too, as my father said, on giving
me to him, that I was a good girl, an
educated young lady, and with a little
patience and perseverance could be de
veloped into, a real helpmeet.
T take her for better and for worse,
my dear Mr. Hartshorn," he said, "and
I really believe that none of us. will
live to regret my union with your only
child."
Of course, we all hoped so and be
lieved so; for Adolphus Marston was a
fine young man, of good family, and
with habits of life above the average.
So matters were consummated, I be
coming his willing bride.
At first we took our meals at the
nearest restaurant, as our new cottage
was not yet fitted, to the requirements
of my fastidious new husband. I had
resolved from the very first not to ruf
fle his temper; and while mine was not
of the sweetest, I being to some in
tents and purposes a spoiled child, I
decided to hold my peaceif theheavens
fell. I saw a growing impatience on
his part, however, and could easily see
that taking his meals at a cafe was de
cidedly annoying on account of the de
lays of orders, the muddy coffee, the
impertinence of waiters, and other dis
agreeable etceteras!
Finally I ventured to ask him if he
was tired of taking his meals out. He
was very tired, and was now ready for
business, the business of housekeeping.
"But, Dolphy, may I ask the name
of our housekeeper?"
"It is Adolphus Marston!"
I simply stared, for so far as I was
aware, he knew little or nothing of the
culinary art. I patiently awaited
coming events, which were now rapid
ly casting their shadows before.
Not long after thi3 we were happi
ly settled in our new home; the res
taurant was abandoned for all time,
.and our larder filled to repletion. Of
course our first venture was breakfast,
;and I wondered at his remaining in
bed so late; as it was an excessively
cold morning, the sitting room and
kitchen fires would both need tending,
and he was due at the office at 8
o'clock.
I was later awakened however from
a light nap by hearing Adolphus mov
ing hurriedly about the sitting room.
An intense chillness was in the atmos
phere, and there seemed to be trouble
of some kind. '
I wondred what it was, but I did not
wonder audibly. Silence seemed to be
golden at this hour. Presently I heard
Adolphus descend the kitchen stairs,
and arising, I inspected the sitting
room. It was a sight to behold. Ashes
to right of me, ashes to left of me,
ashes everywhere. I could have sat
down and cried ; but as he haa not lost
patience why should I? So, on hear
ing his returning footsteps hastily re
tired, and ' when he " re-entered the
room loaded with kindling wood pa
per, shavings and a whole box of
matches, I was as unconscious as the
seven sleepers. But poking his chilled
nose through the portieres Adolphus
.announced:
"Hortense, the sitting room fire is
out."
"Indeed!"
"And the fire is' also out in the
kitchen stove."
"Can't I help you?"
"Oh, no! I'm the housekeeper for one
week. At the end of that tim I shall
either commit suicide go to a lunatic
asylum or fall into a high fever."
After more noise than a threshing
machine, and dust, smoke and some
remarks Adolphus announced to him
self that the "fire was going. As soon
as he left the room I arpse and dressed,
not to receive callers, "but in my eom-
monest gown, as from present indica
tion I knew that the unexpected was
sure to happen, and it did. I under
stood very little about a broom, and
much less about a carpet sweeper, but
between them both I managed to make
the sitting room presentable. Then
a call from the kitchen.
"Hortense are you up? "
"Yes, dear."
"How much water do you put in bis
cuit flour?'
"Just a little, so it will knead, Dol
phy, dear."
A rattle of dishes, a noise of spoons
and moulding board, then,
"Hortense, how much cream of tar
tar for a batch of biscuit?"
"I guess a teaspoonful."
"How much soda?"
"I gless a teaspoonful."
"You could tell me what a quaver, a
demi-semi-quaver is in music, a bar, a
breve, a crochet, a chord, and 'not
guess at it. So don't guess a t'ea
sponnful, but how much soda."
"Enough to suit the taste."
"Tastes differ."
"So do cooks."
A half hour passed away, I did not
dare to descend to the kitchen; the
noise there was simply overwhelming.
I could hear him bang the roller over
the moulding board, then crash! . He
had dropped a dish, and I heard him
say he didn't see how a dish could
break into so many pieces. Later I
heard the oven door snap to, a few
hasty steps, and then a deathly silence.
What could it mean? Why this still
ness? Had he fallen in a fit from
mental excitement? Or was he quiet
ly strapping his razor preparatory to
cutting his throat? The suspense was
horrible. I cbuldnot bear It! How
cruel of me not to share his morning's
troubles!
"Hortense!"
The name came with double excla
mations, and the voice seemed x nat
ural. . "What, dear Dolphy?"
"Breakfast is ready!" "
What a relief! I repaired to theJ
room below; sitting in front of the
stove, his chair tilted back, his feet
elevated to a level with his breast, a
glow of culinary' satisfaction over
spreading h'is face Adolphus said:
"Hortense, the new cook presents
the compliments of the morning, an
nounces his bill of fare as consisting of
hot biscuit, hot coffee, new creamy
butter, and the complete solution of
the servant question. Please be seat
ed, while I, at the head of the table,
will pour the coffee, pass the butter,
tender the biscuit, and as maid of all
work, carry off the honors of the day!"
I was only too glad to acquiesce, for
I had developed something of an appe
tite, and the prospective succes sof our
first housekeeping venture filled me
with those indescribable emotions
every new wife must feel.
"I certainly congratulate you, dear
Dolphy," I said, seating myself at the
table, upon which was steaming cof
fee, rows of plump biscuit, and, beam
ing over all, my husband's glowing
countenance'.
"Hortense, we have settled the ser
vant question forever and a day."
"How?"
"If the servant faileth, and the new
wife is not a cook, turn immediately
to the new husband, end if possessed,
of any brains, he will soon staH sitting
room and kitchen fires, prepare hot
rolls, gems or biscuit, as the case may
be. Eureka! I may well exclaim.
Hortense, allow me to assist you to a
beautifully golden biscuit!"
- They were golden, and no mistake.
The soda had not been spared, and the
hot oven had done its work.
"Are they all right, Hortense?"
"Very fair, considering " .
"Considering? Do you mean to say ;
his boots? Try the coffee. The aroma
I have not beaten the cafe man out of
is beyond compare."
It did have aroma, but as coffee it
was fiat, vapid, and altogether with
out character; and the creamery but
ter! It was the poorest kitchen cook
ing butter! I could not eat.
"Dolphy, let's go down to the res
taurant, get a good square meal, return
home, sand for your mother and my
mother, and hold a meeting, prepara
tory to taking our initial steps in suc
cessful housekeeping; for you cannot
cook, I cannot cook, and therefore
somebody must come who can. Am I
unreasonable?" 4
"I guess not."
"Shall we do it?"
"By all means."
And it all resulted In the fact that
our mothers secured us a cook, a
chambermaid, a washerman, and
though Adolpus has not solved the
mooted servant question, I am still
alive, and he has not committed suicide
nor made any more golden biscuit.
Waverley Magazine.
The Clanftic Spirit In Greece.
The classic spirit still prevails in
Greece. It even pervades the common
council, or whoever has the duty of
naming the streets, for they are near
ly all called in honor of the ancient
gods, philosophers and poets of the
golden age. The Boulevard of the Uni
versity and the Boulevard of the Aca
demy are the broadest and the finest
avenues in the residence portion of
the city, while the principal business
street is named in honor of Mercury.
Other strees are called after Solon,
Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Aristotle,
Thucydides, Pericles, Sophocles, Mean
der, Aphrodite, Pan, Hebe, Apollo, Ju
piter, Theseus, Philip, Constantino
and most of the holy apostles. One
of the principal hotels is the Miner
va, and it is the fashion to christen
shops in honor of the great men of
the past.
Classic names are also retained in
baptizing children. You frequently
hear of Hermes, Alcibiades and Hom
er, and ir you will look into the di
rectory you will be reminded of - vl1
muster roll of the army of Agamem
non, which you will find in the early
part of Homer. Achilles, Ajax, Mene
laus, Miltiades, Leonidas, Themisto
cles and other names equally familiar
to students of Greek, are in daily use
among the people. Chicago Record
Herald. Tnrqaoises Turn Grfen.
About one woman in three cannot
wear turquoises, the fashionable stone
of the day, without turningthem green.
Some turquoises will turn green after
being worn by any woman. Jewelers
of the first class guarantee to replace
turquoises if they turn green, and the
annual cost of the replacments is stu
pendous. One jewel house has tried
the experiment of having all its em
ployes go round with dozens of tur
quoises strapped next to their skin to
try to detect the green ones, but even
when they have passed this test some
of them will be brought back to custo
mers having turned a hideous green.
No reason Is known for the chang
ing of color.
Fashion- decrees that every woman
must have a turquoise. Earrings, hav
ing come again, the turquoises are set
either plain or with one diamond above
them, or in a circle of small diamonds.
You san spend $500 for a very simple
turquoise ornament. The fashionable
pearl, earring or pendant, is set one
pearl, with a diamond above.it. You
can get the sort of pearl that a fash
ionable woman calls presentable for
$1,500. New York Press. '
Fresh-Water Fishes In a Salt Bay.
According to residents in the vicin
ity of Bay Farm Island Bridge a re
markable discovery which may ac
count for the famous "sink" on the
narrow guage which has cost the 'rail
road company so dear has been made
by Charles Raddits, an oysterman,
known as "Deaf Charlie."
Raddits in his fishing discovered
that by making a cast of the line in a
certain spot he caught trout. The
fresh water fish were of a peculiar
species and of a delicious flavor. A
natural artesian well gushed forth in
the spot and emptied its waters into
the brine of the bay. From some un
derground river, the trout, which are
half blind, had found exit into the
bay with the fresh water which was in
such volume that they could live about
the opening, confined by the surround
ing salt water. Fishing within a ra
dius of ten feet produced trout, while
a little distance off there were rock
cod or perch. Raddits caught salt
water fish on one side of the boat and
fresh on the other. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Mere Opinion.
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it
is often inconvenient.
A few touches of nature smooth
many a wrinkled skin.
Experience Is a school. It Is also
trying, at times.
Absence of your wife's relatives
makes the heart grow fonder.
The sweetest meat is not always in
the largest nut. A great pedigree may
contain little virtue. Chicago Record
Herald. The French Legion of Honor,
The largest order of merit in the
world is the French Legion of Honor,
which now has reached half a million
members.
AN UNFINISHED STORY.
A Foint Where in Telling; It the Rev. Dr.
Barrows Always Stops.
The Rev. Dr. John Henry Barrows,
president of Oberlin College, who for
merly preached to a Chicago Congre
gation, tells a little story concerning
an experience of his own that may be
worth passing along. It was at the
time that Dr Barrows was making ar
rangements for the holding of the great
congress of religions here. He had an
immense correspondence to take care
of, and found It necessary to employ
a stenographer. The young lady was
pretty. It is not to be inferred that
there are any but pretty lady steno
graphers, but the one employed by
Dr. Barrows was especially comely.
The doctor fitted .up a workroom
on the third floor of his house, where
he and the stenographer toiled, hard
day after day, undisturbed by .callers
and well away from the noises of the
streets. -
The work of preparing for. the con
gress was still going forward on the
14th of February, when the doctor's lit
tle son became excited over the send
ing and receiving of -valentines. The boy
had been running about the neighbor
hood handing love tokens to the child
ren he knew and many had come to
him. when he remembered that he had
a father up on the third floor, in addi
tion to the One in Heaven. Going to
his mother, he proposed that they
send up a valentine.
"Well," said Mrs. Barrows, "it is very
nice of you to remember father. How
would it do for me to write a valentine
for him and let you take it up?"
The boy was delighed at the idea and
his mother wrote upon the sheet of
paper:
"Please kiss the bearer."
This she placed in an envelope,
which was properly sealed and address
ed to the doctor. The boy started up
stairs with his valentine, but he had
been running around a good deal dur
ing the morning and his legs were
weary. When he had reached the sec
ond floor he met the pretty stenog
rapher, who had started out after pos
tage stamps or something, and asked
if she wouldn't be kind enough to
hand the note to his father.
She took the envelope, gave the
child a pat on the check and ran back
upstairs, where perhaps prompted by
some feminine curiosity she waited
while Dn Barrows opened his valentine
and read, In his wife's handwriting:
"Please kiss the bearer."
Here is where Dr. Barrows always
cuts 'the story off. Chicago Record
Herald. When Richard III Was Crowned.
While men's minds as well as wo
men's are turned on cornation robes
and kindred splendors, it is interest
ing to compare the old with the new
fashions. The description of the cos
tume worn by Richard III. at his
crowning and ordered by himself was,
according to a list, still extant, com
posed of "a doublet made of two
yards and a quarter and a half of blue
cloth of gold, wrought with nets and
pyne apples, with a stomacher of the
same, lined oon ell of Holland clothe,
and oon ell of busk, instede of green
clothe of gold, and a longe gown for
to ride in, made of eight yerds of p'pul
velvet furred with tymbres and a half
and thirteen bakks of ermyn, and four
tymbres, seventeen combs and ermyns
powdered with 3300 powderings made
of boggy shanks, and a p'ayre of short
spurs with gilt." To give the exact
meaning of the old wording would
make a pretty task for scholars the
day before King Edward VII's an
ointing. But the "longe gown for the
cycle in" is an obvious hint for today.
One Method of Advertising.
At a popular sumer resort there was
ljuite a colony of Kentucklans last sum
mer. One day the landlord was startl
ed by the receipt of a telegram from
Louisville as follows:
"William Henry Robinson died last
night."
This was signed Harold Douglass
Robinson. The landlord, believing that
seme Kentuckian of fame had just
died, had news announced in the local
paper, with black rules around the
announcement Then he began to ask
his guests who William Henry Robin
son was. Nobody knew. After a
while it dawned on the landlord. Har
old Douglass was a young Louisville
man who had engaged a room. His
father had died, and Harold Douglass
took this method of announcing that he
would not join the festive colony.
Harold Douglass in a born advertise?
Louisville Courier-JournaL
ANCIENT TIME-MAKERS.
Ways of Keeping Track of Hours Befor
Pays of Clocks.
In the United States the oldest time
piece is the famous Endicott sun-dial,
made in London in 1S30, and it was
brought to this country the same year
by Governor Endicott at the time he
brought the fleet of ships laden with
emigrants to settle in and around
Salem. The dial stood for a great
number of years in front of the Endi
cott mansion in Salem and was in the
hands of the family until sixty or
seventy years ago when it was placed
in the care of the East India Marine
Society of Salem. The society held
it in trust until 1869, when it came Into
the possession of the Essex Institute,
where it now rests in a glass case ia
the museum.
Being unable to reclaim the original,
members of the family have on dif
ferent occasions had replicas made in
bronze and placed near their resid
ences. The sun dial the Kink Ahaz,
who lived 742 years before Christ, is
the first dial on record in the world.
This dial was a graduated instrument
having degree marks of some kind
which showed the daily course of the
sun. The Old Testament tells us that
it was known In Jerusalem as early
as seven centuries before Christ and
the manner of its mention indicates
that it was a novelty in that city at
that time. The sun dial took many
forms. The art of dialling involved
mathmetical problems of considerable
complexity, and it is very likely that
this contributed to the knowledge of
mathmetics which the world possessed
at that early period.
Imperfect sun dials were common In
Rome about a century and a half be
fore the Christian era, so common in
deed, that, as new inventions
nowadays afford material for the
photographer, they were tar
gets for the , funny men
of the period. The Romans later per
fected a sun dial suitable to their lati
tude, which was much more accurate.
The dial was later adopted and im
proved by European nations, and some
very accurate ones were- made by;
clockmakers throughout Europe. A'
dial, or rather a series of dials of
every conceivable description forming
a structure, was erected in Whitehall,
London, in 1669, by order of King
Charles II. It was the invention of
Francis Hell, a Jesuit and professor of
mathmetics at Liege. Vertical dials,
inclining dials, and dials for showing
time, as computed by various nations
at different periods', were all included
and ranged on platforms.
Of these bowls or brackets appear
to have been the most attractive. One,
on the first platform to show the hour
by fire, consisted of a little glass bowl
filled with clear water. This bowl
was about three inches in diameter,
and was placed in the middle of an
other sphere, about six inches in dia
meter, consisting of several rings or
circles, representing the hour circles
in the heavens. The hour was known
by applying the hand to these circles "
when the sun shone, and that circle
where the hand felt burned by the
sun beams passing through the bowl
filled with water shewed the true hour.
King Alfred measured time by burn
ing candles, marked with circular lines
to indicate the hours. Ingenious de
vices were adopted to prevent
the candle before it was burned, but
this was a very imperfect method of
thus, as it were, make "time speed on
its flight" by melting the tallow of
draughts from striking the flame, and
time keeping. Boston Globe.
Waterloo of an Anmrenr Detective.
A careless young woman in starting;
to leave a car, dropped her purse. A
young man, who evidently intended
to leave the car at the same time,
saw her drop the purse, picked it up
and put in in his pocket.
But his action had not been un
noticed. Just as he stepped from the
car an elderly man gripped him by
the arm and whispered, "If you don't
give that purse to the young lady this
instant I'll expose you."
"Yes certainly!" gasped the aston
ished young man. Then with a grin,
"I beg your pardon Elizabeth; yon
dropped your purse."
"Oh, thank you, Jim," she replied as
she took It. .
"I hope you are satisfied," said Jim,
turning to the elderly man. "The lady;
Is my sister." Forward.
People who study political economy
sometimes know nothing of the other
kind.
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