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Then lie eet down, feeling that no
matter what turn eventtook, ha luid
done hie duty, and thee; his bold guess
at the identity of the cobbler's. assist-,
tint with Rose Dupont's levee., was 1,
stroke of genius only equalled by his
improvisation a what really took
plaee oi the night of Barry Ross' ,
death, and which.Rose' e at titled° had
affirmed. to be coreeet.
Yet no one knew better than he how
brief the effeet of his tour de force
would be.
HAP'PER XIII
"1 drecened a dreary dream last
nicht,
God keep us a' free free sor-
row 1
dreara'd 1 pu'd the birk sae
green,
Wr my true love an Yarrow."
The judge was summing up, and. Mr.
Lemaire was not happy.
His lordship- commenced by saying
that "a murder is seldom, or never
committed without a motive and
the prisoner were guilty, the whole
evidence in this case, with one or two
trifling exceptions to be dealt with
later, pointed to jealousy as the, im-
mediate cause.
"in the highly ingenious and bril-
liant defense setu by the learned
eounsel, it had been insisted on that
each of these two persons believed the
other guilty ; but there was not one
atom of proof to support this .theory,
in fact, there was no title of positive
evidence to support anything he had
put forward, with the exception of the
drugged glass of ginger ,and water,.
and who was to prove. that Mrs. St.
George did not place the choral in it
herself? Unhappily women, and men
too, were only too prone to purchase
rest at the cost of subsequent weak-
ness and depression, and Mrs. St.;
George had evidently suffered from
sleeplessness in no unusual degree.
That she did sleep through the oe.ear-
rences of that night might be taken
for granted, and that she had no far-
ther hand in the catastrophe than
possibly the moral responsibility of
bringing it about, was equally cer-
tain.
"Her deafness was a naost extraor-
dinary feature in the case, and a
very piteous thing in a most pit-
eous story. Here were the facts:
"Mr. St. George had taken as ten-
ant under his own roof, a young and
attractive man, who by degrees had
apparently become on greater terms
of intimacy with Mrs. St. George than
the husband was aware, as, quite in-
dependently of the possibly tainted
evidence of the maid, the detective had
described how he found an envelope
in Mr. Ross' bedroom, evidently torn
open during the night, that Mr. St.
George recognized ,as his wife's hand-
writing, and the sight of which most
powerfully affected him. The letter it
liad enclosed was gone, and presum-
ably had been abstracted by Mrs. St.
George or her maid, when the two wo-
men went upstairs next morning.
Now what construction could reason-
ably be placed on a letter ;written by
a wife secretly, and by her maid sec-
retly conveyed to another man's
rooms, the immediate -effeet of which
was to make him descend to the apart -
client in which she was sleeping? If
there were no harm in the letter, why
had it not been left in the envelope
on his table? A mere ordinary note
would have told in favor of there be-
ing no bad blood between the two men,
-but the disappearance of the letar
.rgued a desperate determination to
aeiow no one to read its contents. Then
r' -in, the strongest witness against
pii oner was his wife—her self ace,
easai accused bim. Humanly speaking
set conduct was that ot a woman who
has sinned, who has brought about
'tragedy by her sin, and who wishes a
pay the penalty with her life. Why
was it that neither of these two per-
sons ever thought, as rational people
would have done, in the first shook
and. horror of the discovery, that the
murder had been committed by some
one from outside, by a foiled burglar,
to have seen glanced at such a sup-
position, and. the inferende is obvious,
I hat one suspected and the other knew
by whose hand. Mr. Ross had met his
death.
"His own confession must go for
something, supported by cireumetances
as it was. He had said that he com-
mitted the murder in a violent fit of
rage and jealousy on seeing his friend
enter and go straight to the inner
room where his wife was. The pistol
was founcl in his possession, his wife
believed hirn guilty, and but for the
theory about Janin Pierrot, the for-
mality of trial need scareedy- have been
gone through.
"If, indeed, as had been affirmed,
Janin Pierrot had obtaiued an ' en-
trance to the house with the intention
of stealing Mrs. St. George's sapphires
how came he to depart without them,
though within actual reach of his
bend?
"Burglars don't stumble about their
work blindfold, they have a pretty ac-
eurate knowledge of the exact where -
n bouts of things before they peril
their lives to steal them, and was it
for a moment conceivable that a man
who had nerve enough to commit mur-
der, rather than be balked in his de-
sign, would not find sufficient cour-
age to carry out his intention when
only a drugged woman and a dead
man were by to hinder him.
"Had the sapphires been diecovered
missing, then indeed suspicion might
have fallen on some person without
the house, but nothing was touched or
disturbed, and diligent inquiry had
failed to f.urnish one iota of proof
against the Mail whom coensel had so
boldly denounced.
"He had left the cobbler's house at
a certain hour, had. eaten' his evening
meal at his lodging in Marylebone
Road, had gone to bed at 'his usual
time, having placed, his boots outside
his door, had risen as usual, next
morning at eeven, and. gone to bus
work, continuing to do so with perfect I
regularity. from that day to this.
ff the man were guilty, he wouldt
pi obably have run away long ago, un-
able, to bear the strain upon him ; that
he had not done so was enormously in
his favor.
"Why had not the learned counsel
Lor the defense brought him forwafd
as a wiltriee? The man lied been
watebed and tracked everewheitn Kor
weeks, yet evidently without any re-
sult being °Whined. whatever.
"One was f'012C041 to conoluele teat the
learned eouneel's line of defense was
built mainly on his observation of the
WO/11ft n --.Rose Dupont's—a t titucte un-
der eross-exantination, and that his
imagination, growing by what it fed
en, he hied been swept away by the
violence 'of a euddenly coneeived and
prejudieted opinion,
"That the woman had come out bad-
ly could, not be denied,: but it sheuld
be remembered that she was a foreign-
er, that she found herself in is. diffi-
cultposition even to a person whonn-
deretood our laws and ways, that she
had been roughly handled, and that
women show fear in different ways,
and that the livery of guilt and inno-
eaenekeQe. is, in some instances, 1)01'11°1'41Y
"It was also clear that she was deeP
in her mistress's confidence, and it
might be that bee desire to suppress
facts calculated to harm Mee. St.
George, tended still further to ember -
riles her, for it was possible that she
might hive a sincere affection for that
unfortunate lade, though compelled by
oath, to epeale against her.
'Mien the identity of the man with
whom it was ;issuraed she kept com-
pany was by no moans eetablisbed
with that of Janin Pierrot, though if
this could. be done, no doubt his pres-
ence at the cobbler's would, in itself,
be a suspicioue eircumstane.
"Gentlemen of the jury," he said, in
conclu don, "you eave the else. Ifsyou
are not sure that you have' the right
men, it becomes your duty to bring in
a verdict accordingly ; if, on the other
hand, you find that, in a !moment of
madness, the accused Look his friend's
life, you. will find him guilty, and in
your hands, c.!onfident that you will ex-
ercise your utmost, judgment and clis-
creinoin, I. will now leave the issues Of
the trial.
The sun was shining brightly into
the court, a warm summer wind seem-
ed to blo.v in through the open doors,
as the judge abruptly left his seat,
and the jury, vih anxious hearts and
faces, retirei.
CHAPTER XIV.
"I wad gie gowd, my bairn,
Sae wad I a' nay fee
For se blast o' the wastling wind
To blew the reek frae thee!"
Daffy for the first time in all his
little young life, had found his moth-
er's door locked against him, and after
waiting outside it for a long while,
had gone down AI-ith bursting heart
into the kitchen, and. sought the
company of the old lady who, for the
present, ruled those shades, and dwell-
ed in them by night and day- There
had been a difficulty in replacing the
servants, who had precipitately fled
after the occurrence in May, but Mrs.
Chick, a lone widow who usually trav-
elled with a bundle, had shown herself
loftily indifferent to fears of reven-
ants and spirits, indeed, she bad a very
strong partiality for the latter, mixed
with sugar and hot water, but as she
seldotu indulged the taste till evening,
no one but Rose was any the wiser,
and certainly she herself seemed nev-
er the worse.
Thielady was preparing the little
fellow's luncheon when he came in for
comfort, for she was kind. tolaine, and
in the depths of his heart he preferred
her, black and grimy as she was, to
Rose.
She brought him the kitten to play
with, dried hi seyes on her apron and
made him extravagant promises in the
way of jam puffs and sweeties, as she
went on mincing the chicken, and
turning out..the custard -pudding that
were to form his dinner.
Daffy gradually ceased to sob, and
sat, with the kitten in his arms, look-
ing at the strange medley of things
that an untidy cook gets about her in
a kitchen, at the shapeless bonnet, the
dismal shawl. the suspicious little bot-
tles, and that admixture of things eat-
able and the reverse, that, if seen,
would take away up stair appetites'
very speedily.
He felt almost happy as he sat there,
it was all so strange and new, for Rose
never allowed. him to come in here, but
sat him down to his toys in the shabby
room on the other side of the passage,
w -her mother, poor mother, was too
tired to play witb him.
"Now here's as nice a lunch as a lit-
tle gentleman could wish to eat," said
Mrs. Chick at last, and tying a clean
apron over her in such; a way as to
hide a multitude of sins, she washed
her face, smoothed her hair before a
bit of broken glass, and announced her
intention of zoing up stairs to lay the
cloth.
"Mother won't, open the door," said
Daffy, sadly, as she went out, and then
his eyes Micd up again, and he sighed
—he had got quite into the habit of
sighing now. `
Mrs Chick knocieed in vain at the
(lining -room door, which was locked,
and still as death within,
For once in Elieabeth's life Nature
refused to answer to whip and spur,
and she had fallen prone before the
great agony which swept in relentless
flood above her, leaving her xio power
to rise or even cry out, .but only to
passively endure it, knowing that be-
yond lay only the worse apathy of de-
spair. '
'Rose had gone to the•court, and till
the woman returned with tidings of
either good or evil; life itself seemed
'arrested, and everything void to Eliza-
beth. Even Daffy had faded out' of
a consciousness that had room for no-
thing but Jack—Jack.
More than one person had wished to
Come and stay with het that day, more
than one of those friends wham she
thanked gently enough, but who had
never stormed the citadet of, her 'con-
fidence, never known her inmost heart,
for she was essentially of that eider
of women who makes of her husband
her chief and only friend, and In a
lesser degree lier children, so that she
keeps the hearth warm while the
world finds her cold. .
Mr. Chick felt herself growing anx-
ious as she stood there, dead silence
within and without the shut. door, No-
thing, as she used to say, was more
catching than cotoner,'S inquests in a
house, and knowing that no message
had come to say the trial was proceed-
ing favorably, Mrs. St. George bad per-
haps resigned herself to the worst.
So Mrs. Mick stood in doubt and
nnxiety for some minutes, then think -
ng of Daffy, went downstairs.
"'Your ma don't want her dinner just
directly, Master Daffy," she said,brisk-
ly, "so what do you say to having it
clovvrc here at this end of the table,
all nice and cheerful, with the kitten
for company ?"
Daffy expressed himself delighted
with the idea, and after begging Mrs.
()hick to keep some of the chicken very
hot for mother, and afterward ra ke
her an "orublebit," or something she
would like, be fed himself end the kit-
ten alternately, almost forgetting his
Woes in the novelty of the situation.
When he had eaten his eustard-pud-
ding, and drank sone milk and water,
he got dawn out of the chair that had
been manufactured into a high one by'
sundry bundles and shawls of Mrs.
Chick's, and when she went up stairs
agate, laying many injunctions on him
not to go near the, fire, lie wandered
out, the kitten still in his arms, to
the door that opened on the area, ree
joieing in the sal air that blew fresh-
iy on his face, •
Many interesting and unusual. sights
beckoned him on, and soon he came to
(hp foot of the area steps, arid with a
fine feeling of indfependence and ad-
venture, began to climb them.
At- the top the gate was open, and
lid stood there with. the wind blowing
his golden curls about, and making a
balloon of his white pinafore, a little
the worse for his adventures in the
kitcben, and wishing that he had
somebody to pla.y with.
Few people were passing, and no 01a0
took ally particular heed of/ him, but
soon be felt more lonely still, for the
ungratefut kitten suddenly.sprang out
of his arms, and down the- steps and
out of sight.
He bent over to look after her, and
the steps frightened him, they looked
so steep andedlirty ; lie wished Mrs.
Chick would come up to fetCh him
down—or Janin—the thought of the
man put an idea into his head, and
fast as he could patter, he ran down
the bit of street, and round the corner.
He laughed to himself as he went, he
though!, his idea so very elever, and
never stopped laughing till he had got
to the cobbler's door, through which
he saw Janin sitting with his back to
him hard at work.
"Jenny," he screamed at the top of
his voice, and rushing in, threw his
arms round the inan's neck, "me has
runnedecl away and come to play a
little bit with you!" , -
The man laid down his tools turning
a drawn and haggard face upon the
child's lovely, eager one.
"Master Daffy," he said, stumialing-
ly, "you might have been run over—
how could they let you Come out
alone ?" -
"Rose is in the city," said Daffy,
promptly, "Mrs. Chick's up stairs, and
mother—mother's sick," he added,
hanging down his head so that his
curls fell over and hid his face.
Janin lifted the child ,with trembl-
ing hands, and set him on his knee.
Ele saw that Daffy's heart was aching,
and felt like lead in his little bosom,
and it is a mistake to think that a
heart cannot break, it can, and
does sometimes,
Janin sat perfectly -still, something
picking and working at his own heart,
as if that were breaking too.
"Don't cry," he said, lauekily, and
then Daffy looked up, and tlee„ blue and
the brown eyes met.
"It's very miserbul, Jenny," said
Daffy, sorrowfully, "Daddy's goneded
away, 0' this ever and ever so long,
and mother says p'r'haps he'll go away
further—she don't quite know how far
—and mother, she never laughs and
plays now; and Mrs. Chick she said to
Rose she 'spected," Daffy's lies quiver-
ed convulsively, "they'd take mother
away in the black box soon!"
"Mrs. Chick's a fool," said Janin
savagely. -
"Mother naust be welly bad," said
Daffy, shaking his head; "she aekshal-
ly forgot to feed the Pink un—only
fink of that l you see, I was so very
ibetrieyr, forgoted him too. Dear little
But there was not the usual lively
pride and joy in -his voice, when speak-
ing of his pet.
"Mother never locked the door on Me
before," said Daffy, looking up earn-
estly at Janin, "not never. I called -
ed to her through the keyhole, and
said I was welly lonely, and mother
alsvay e hears me—does you think inceh-
er's dead, Janin ?"
"Alaster Daffy," cried- Janin, start:
ing up suddenly, and setting the
child' down.
'Then me will die too," said Daffy,
With a gleam of hope on his sad little
face, "mother 'ud want somebody to
take care of her up therel You see—
poor mother's a little deaf—and she
might lose her way, if she hadn't got
nae."
Janin shivered as he looked clown on
(he drooped golden .head, and seemed
to see the mold being laeaped above
TIIE SCITEllEll
A STROKE OF GENIUS THAT PUTS MIL-
,
LIONS BEHIND HIM.
"Curse her!" he said between his
set teeth, andDaffy looked, up alarm-
ed.
"Is you angedy?" he said, slipping
his hand into Jaanin's; "don't takd me
'ora yest yeti, Let's 'ave a little walk
in the park!' he added, with a sudden
burst of .inspiration.
"But you have no hat," said Janin,
who felt indeed that horses would not
drag him to the door Cif that house
where Elizabeth lay waiting for the
message of.jack's life or death. •
''Tie a handkercher on," said Daffn
jumping clown; "never wore no 'at in
the CO,I1I1 try !" •
Janin got up slowly, and went bo a
coat that was hanging up, drawing
from ite pocket a very large vvhite
silk handkerchief; far too Inc in tex-
ture to belong to a shoemaker's assiste
ant.
This ne tied round the child's head,
and tucked the ends into the bosotrn
of his little pinafore, eftee yvhich he
puu on his coat and. bat, and like one
a dream, sieffered himself to be led
out by Daffy, who trod on air.
The mews were deserted; it was only
when they got into the street that led
to the square, midway to tile park, that
people noticed the oddly-matehed pair,
and stared and wonclexed.
But the man evidently meant no
llama to the child who clearly rejoiced
in his COCUIPatly, chattering nineteen
to the dozen; so they reached the park
in safety, and presently, sat down not
far from the Serpentine to rest.
'The cloudless sky, the warm, brisk,
sweet, the SelaS0 of liberty, and a
vague Suspicion that he was very
naughty affec,ed Daffy to exhilaration;
he laughed, he eolled. on the dry grass,
and he talked in his own delightful
way to hie heart's content.
Thus an hour passed; then hie
9pirits' suddenly "flagged, and he drew
in close to anima, who had been sitting
with eyes that looked straight before
him, and face cold and still as marble,
When that soft little figure stole
under his coat, and nestled close to
him, mechanically he put his ;inn
round it, then a strong shudder ran
through him from, bead to foot, and
be shook like a reed( in the grasp of
a moral and physical cnnytilsion that
terrified Daffy. ,
"Jenny!" he cried, "Jenny! Is yon
going Co C ic k too—like poor Moth-
tinlied.
tattier CrofoOt StrIkes a Grunine
Gdod Witittg and Divides, or Pro-
tests That lie Is Willing to Divtde.
With Ills Chiropodist.
[Copyright, 1900, by C. B. Lewis]
It was the chiropodist from the floor
above the major's office, and lie passed
the door two dr three times before
knocking, as if to get up his courage.
"Come in!" called the major in a
bland aud cheery voiee. "Come right
in! 13y George, but what a coincidence
--what a coincidence! Not a minute
ago I sat- down to write you a note
asking you to step down here. There
is surely such a thing US mental teleg-
raphy."
""You have owed nee $1 for the last
four months," stiffly replied the chirop-
odist as he lugged out a bill.
"Just so—exactly—just so!" smiled
tbe major as he rubbed his hands to.
"Yes, sir, about fdiiremontlis
-07;:leD
"I WANT THAT DOLLAR!"
ago you removed two corns from•tny
right foot. The circumstance is per-
fectly fresh in my memory."
"And you said you'd pay ape next
Jay."
"I presume I Aid. Yes, I know 1 did,
and I humbly apologize that it slipped
my mind. My dear man, permit inc to
pay you $2—$3, $4, $5. I have a check
here for $250. You may hand me $245
balance, and I shall be perfectly satis-
fied."
"I haven't got no $245," replied the
man, "and I only want what is due
me. I'll go to the bank with you."
"Don't! Don't do it! I'd never for-
give myself for putting you to that
trouble, Yes; I was about toeverite you
a note. It was surely a curious thing—
your coining down as you did. Doctor,
do you know where I stood financially
four months ago?" e
"Mighty herd up, I guess," was the
sullen reply. 4
"You've hit it Yea, sir, I was so
hard up that I didn't own the Owes to
my feet. It was the hardest kind of
work for nne to rahSe a dollar. The
cold, cruel world sneered at me and
called me a deadbeat, but there were
-a few exceptions. You were one. In
my darkest hour you had confidence in
me. When I wanted tbose corns re-
moved, you didn't demand payment in
advance."
"I -wish 1 had!"
"No, sir. you trusted in my word,
and you didn't see!: to humiliate me,
and -you aroused my deepest gratitude.
I have offered to pay you five for one,
but l'shall not stop there. It shall be
5,000 and more for one. Can you 'sell
out your business or give it away to-
day or tomorrow?"
"Are you going to pay me the dol-
lar?" sternly demanded the chiropodist.
"If you can't sell out, give it away,
lock it up, throw it out of the window!"
continued the' major as lie walked
about the room. "My dear man, listen
to me. Pour months ago I was hard
up for a quarter; today I have mil-
lions behind me—millions and millions.
I maybe said to SW1111 in gold."
"I'll be hanged if you look it!"
"And how has the change been
brought about? By my indefatigable
genius, coupled with ambition. I look-
ed around for a ten strike. It was a
little slow in coining, but 1 'hit It at
last. What do you thiult of the Veal
Cutlet Tablet company; capitat,
000,000? There are the papers OD my
desk to perfect the organization and
apportion the stock -- over $2,000,000
of. the stock subscribed for „in advance
at 70 cents on the dollar, and capital-
ists tumbling over each other -to take
the remainder. Doctor, let me congrat-
ulate you. Shake hands!" '
"Over what? I'm after my dollar."
"Over your appointment as secretary
of the company, at a salary of $10,000
a year, and you Call begin work tomor-
rOw. As an official you also have first
choice of $20,000 worth of stock. You
Deleted Major Crofoot, and thie is the
result; this 'is your reward. Shake
Ilftwis again!"
"Not by a durn sight! You might as
well give up trying to work any --cold
deck in on me. I want that dollar."
"And It was my genlue and my fin:in-
dexing which brought it about," said
the thelior as he rubbedkie hands and
patted the chiropodist on the shoul-
der. "The thought came to me while I
was eating a veal cutlet at my board-
ing house. Our veal tablets are exact -
what the name implies. We prepare
a cutlet for the table and then, com-
press it and divide it into tablets. Ev-
ery box contains 25, and the price is
15 cents. Two weeks hence they will
be on sale at every drug store in the
United States, and all doctOrs will rec-
ommend 'ern. You don't have to wait
for breakfast or dinner to get your cut-
let. Just drop a tablet into yourmouth
and let it dissolve, and there you are.
Ceen he taken with you to church, leo
tures, balls, camP Meetings or horse
races; should be in the hands of all
travelers, Minters,' sailors and baseball
men. In letiri,tlutri tLuee months they
*III driVe",e'very other tablet out of
A
market.; Invented, orgaplzed and naut
ed in less than tea borers tend, bound, to
pay dividends, of 50 per cent. My dear
"Loo'k here now!" .exclanned the chi-
ropodist as be ,pounded on tlie table.
"I've conie for my dollar! Don't try to
•
stuff me, but come down with the
cash!"
"And the company had only been
nameu when I thonght of you for the
position of secretary," mused the ma-
jor witbout seeming to have heard the
inelignaat protest. "You were a man
who had trusted me. When others die
mantled cash down, you gave me a
show. My heart swelled as 1 thought
of this and I set tile salary at $10 000
a year, payable quarterly in advance.
Shall I drew you a check for the first
quarter?"
The chiropedist looked at the major
as if wondering if he had met a crazy
"1 said $10,000 a year, but if that is
not enough—if you feel that you ought
to have $20,000—speak right up. I
want you to be perfectly satisfied, you
know. Will $20,000 a year be enough?"
"What about my dollar?"
"The tablets will be a go. They can't
help but be. Let us walk mit in the
hall while 1 tell you that the public
can't get enough of veal cutlets in their
present form. They are always eager
for more. They want the taste of cut-
lets in their mouths as they go about
their daily routine. Fifteen cents a
box in order to compete with potasb
lozenges, but a profit of 10 cents on
every box! Take the sales at 10,000,-
000 boxes a year, and whet do you
least"— get? You want stock. You Want at
"Not a blamedent's wortb! I want
my dollar!"
.:—"at least $20,000 worth of stock.
You shall have it You have paid me
$1' to secure it, and don't you worry. It
will be made In your name, and later
on— Excuse me."
The major stepped into his office and
shut the door.
"Here, what's this?" called the chi-
ropodist.
The major locked the door.
"Look here, you old deadbeat! I
want that dollar!"
The major sat down at his desk and
lighted the stub end of a cigar.
"Yon come out of that and pay this
bill, or I'll bust the door down!" shout-
ed the creditor as he gave two or three
kicks.
The major calmly puffed away and
gazed out of the window, and the look
on his face would have reminded a be -
bolder of buckwheat cakes .and mo-
lasses. '
"Then lay for you out here and
punch your old head! Do you hear
me?" ,
The major did flot hear. He was per-
fecting the organization of the Veal
Cutlet Tablet company and wondering
whetuer the Canadian general agency
should be placed in Toronto or Quebec.
M. QUAD.
SUCCESS AND FAILURE.
The Higher the Purpose the Rarer
the Achievement.
If by success we mean the full ac-
complishment of an end, the actual
reaping of A harvest of results, then it
is undoubtedly true that the higher
and nobler the purpose the rarer will
be the success. If we aim to relieve a
man's hunger, we ean quickly succeed
in the easy task, but if we aim to in-
spire him with a desire to earn his own
bread the work is more difficult and
the suChess far more probleuaatical.
If we would iestrain a thief from rob-
bery, the prison bars and lock.s insure
success, but if we would make an hon-
est' man of him our task is a complex
one, and success may be afar off. We
undertake toeteach a child to read. If
veitlf requisite, effort we follow up our
task, we are successful, but if we as-
pire to raise the educational standard
of our community how arduous the
task, how uncertain the result, how
questionable the success!
The low man sees a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
The high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
Is his life, then, a failure? No; let
•us never imagine that any high pur-
pose, -any noble thought, any generous
emotion, -any earnest effOrt, is over lost.
We may never witness its growth,' we
may not live to gather its fruit or even
to see its blossoms, but we may safely
trust that somewhere and at sortie
time the harvest will be abundant, and
success, long hidden. shall become ap-
The Wickedest Bit of Sea.
Nine out of ten travelers would tell in-
quirers that the roughest piece of wa-
ter is that cruel stretch in the English
channel, and nine out of ten travelers
evcculd eay what was not true. As a
matter of fact, "the wickedest bit of
sea" is mit in the Dover strait, or in
yachting, for example, from , St. Jean
de Luiz up to Pauillac, or acrese the
Mediterranean "race" from Cadiz to
Tangier, nor is it in rounding , Cape
Horn, where there is what sailors cull
a "true" sea. The "wickedest sea" Is
encountered in rounding the Cape of
Good Hope for the eastern ports of
Cape Colony.—Shipping World. e
Flight of Time.
Old Med—Well, old man, how'd yon
sleep last night? Follow my advice
about counting up?
New Med—Yes, indeed; counted up
to 18,000.
Old Med—Bully! And then you fell
asleep, eh?
New Med—Guess not; it witsmorn-
ing by that time, and I bad to getup.
• Never bear More than one kind Of
trouble at' a time. Some people bear
three kinds—all they have had all they
have now and all they expect' to have.
LAYERING GOOSEBERRIES.
When and How to Do It--i'ropaga
lug Currants by Cuttings.
GOOSCDerrieS Ciln be layered aftet
bearing or later in July, aftee the
primipal growth is rinide.. When limbs
are pegged down, a Slit can be niade in ,
the 'underside of the bent poetion,
which is likely .to induce more rapid
,rooting., •Four or five hiehes of the tip
should be left above ground. The most
common method of propagating Euro-
pean gooeeberries and the more dint.
cult American varieeles, like Downing,
is by mound layering. About July 1
tehaerthbuisshems,oluetanlveidngnobiolltyit adnidewthiin'oclilieet
of tips of the branches exposed. Most
American varieties will have produced
roots by October, but gooseberries of
the Keepsakeand Iuduetry class
should be left Mounded up for tWO sea-
sons: About Nov. 1 the earth may I•ce "
dug away, the ,slioots cut below any
eoots that have formed and immediate-
ly planted in trenches 15 or 20 inches
apart, firming well about the roots and ,
eovering with earth nearly to the tips,
Even if no ;loots nave formed, the Cut-
tings are In a much better condition to
throw out roots and make a good
growth than if planted without such *
Preparation. Atter a seaeon's growthe'
and cultivation in the nursery trench
they may be planted in. their Nettie -
tient position. Curradts,are lieSt prove-
eated by cuttings, which may be taken
as early as September. They are usual-
ly ina.de six or eight inches long and
may be firmly planted at' once, leaVing
;tie or two buds above the surface.
lrhe Houghton and one or two other
kneerican gooseberries can be, propa-
gated in the same mamente beg they
root with less certainty than currants.
—Rural New Yorker.
Chrysanthemum Rust,
Chrysantheniuna rust has been some-
what abundant in various -sections the
last year or two. It grows so rapidly
and the spores are so numerous that
they fall from one leaf to the other
and cause the leaves to look as if they "
liad been dusted over with tobacco.
dust. Professor Halstead advises to
buy your stock from people who bave
none of this rust, and if you are so un-
fortunate as to have it use heroic mine -
dies. Throw out and burn all your
etoek, rip out all boarche walk, etc.,
and burn also. Dig out all the earth,
whitewash all the walls. In short,
make thorough work of cleaning out
the house and begin over again witlac
new stock. Do not use any ludf way
methods in getting rid of It.
A Beautiful Flowering Vine.
Among all the Seeding flowering
vines which embellish the beauty Of
the summer season, that beautiful enh
trocluction from Japan, Clematis pa.
culata, stands unsurpassed in many,
respects. Its pure white flowers, given;
forth in untold abundance, lend a sern..1
blance of coolness under the hot, late'
CLEMATIS PANICULATA.
summer sun and exhale delicious
fragrance around, It is a delightful
plant aud evoieby of all the wide no-
tice it receives. As a climber o
a trellis, on the roof of an old shed
or outhouse or as 11 spechnen on a pil-
liar, this most popular of clematises
is sure to please. Our picture is ft vely
faithful interpretation of the graceful'
habit of the, young growth as well as
an exact reproduction of individual
,flowers, says American Gardening.
Phenomenal Prospect For Pertehei.
The prospectof the peach crop June
'I were nothing less than phenoineeal,
according to the governinent statisti-
cian, almost every heiportant peach
growing state reporting a condition far
above the average and some even above
100.c Among the latter are Delaware,
Georgia and North Carolina, whose re-
ports of 106, 110 and 105 are about
double their respective ten yeae aver-
ages. Only ,California, with a condi-
tion of 77, or six points below the aver-
age, constitutes any noteworthy exceps
tion to the long series of highly favor-
able reports.
Now New Strataberrleil Ate Produces.
• Hybridization has been the favorite
method of producing new varieties cif
strawberriesperhaps because the first
, .
successful variety Was obtainedin this ..
way. Among the recent hybrids Ma!? -
be mentioned the thine, which also it
lustratee the .difficeltY of • systematic ,
breeding, it being the only one deemed
-Lettrn to keep yout ears open aild worthy of preservettiotf Out of about
your motith elesed. 1-700 11-vbrIr1 fdk4ted.
id