Exeter Advocate, 1901-3-28, Page 3RpSP1TE.
A little while, dear God, a few brief day,
I pray thee, let me keep this love of mine
JUbt in my inmost ieart safe from the world!
Too dear, too deep, it lice tor earthly gaze.
A few brief days!
A littls while, oh, grant the boon I o.slc,
ler none Can ever know save heart divine
Ilow life's environments have bound my soul,
Ahar God l 1,AY Ilieed not wear my meek
A iCNY brief days:
A lila: while, oh, just a little while, ,
To have and hold the love I've prayed so neva ;
ttlioutm doll: the way and drear my heart may
sm;le,
For evesniore my life will'hold loyetataginei
Though love but linger her
A teNV brief days'
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if By Walter Littlefield.
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There were three of us one evening
In the reading roora of the Press club
—M. Paul Blouet, better known as
"Max O'Rell" through, his sketches of
French and Englieh life and character;
M. Charles P. Lebon, instructor of
French, who; by the way, is a littera-
teur of Selhe little Dote,- and myself.
The e011trerSilti013, after various fluctu-
• ation% had assumed a story telling
drift. M. 131ouet had just related an
amusing anecdote of his Boston So-
• journ, and we were silently puffing in
, that agreeable languor that arises from
a good weedand a good story.
On drawing his cardease from his
pocket M. Lebon brought, forth a Small
bright object that glistened,a second in
the lamplight as it fell to thefloor. He
stooped for it with rather undue hate;
with so 'nada haste, in fact, that he
called our attention to a movement that
otherwise would havo passed um -
noticed.
"What is it?" inquired M. Blouet.
Without a word Lebon handed him
the object he had dropped, but eyed
him carefully as it was examined.
"A. key," remarked M. Blouet; "a key
and evidently a gold." And he passed
it to -me.
I held in my hand a keyof. perhaps
an inch in length and half as wide.
There was nothing particularly re-
markable about it miles's, it were the
material of which it was composed,
that appeared to he gold. Suddenly
my eye caught sight of a data and an
inscription upon the ringofthe key—
'ler Juin, 1848. Memento merit"
"A curious key," I suggested as I re-
turned it to M. Lebon. '"Tell us about
The one -addressed puffed assiduously
for a moment or two as he twirled the
mysterious, key between his forefinger
• and thuiub, but he made no reply. ,
"Come, come," said al. Blouet as he
leaned* forward with interest, "there
must be something to tell about a key
like that. 'Why not let us have it?"
"You are rigdit, gentlemen.* There is a
curious story conceruingdhis key; and
Since you desire it I will tell it to you,
for truly, gentlemen,. Without exaggeras
tion, this little bit. of metal that Ithold
in my hand has one or the most re-
markable of, histories." t
"Tell it! Tell it'' we both exclaimed
in a breath. ,
Fresh cigarettes were lighted, and,
still holding the key in his, hand as if
to, bear witness to what he said, M.
Lebon began his story.
"It was in 1871, just after the surren-
der of 'Paris. The second emPire had
fallen. M. Thiers and his party, held
• the government. Evidence S of theter-
rible commune were on every hand,
still the city was beginning to look like
the habitation of a civiliZecl People.
One mornirag- Le journal des Debate
announced'the death at Versailles Of a
• Russian lady who for more than 20
' years had kept all the gossips of, -the
Faris salons busy concerning a mystery
that seemed to surround her. For reaa
sons that I shall presently explain she
became known.as `La Dame a latClef.'
• Now, a nickname -in Paris naeansaa
great deal more than it does here.
When one is nicknamed there, one car-
ries that name to the grave. .
"The notice in Le Journal des Debats
mentioned 'La, Dame a In Clef ,est
inorte.' It did not give her own name.
That would have signified nothing. The
paper concluded by saying that she
•died, aged 45, in complete solitude. It
seerns that her' huSband who was ranch
• older than she, had visited her regular-
ly every six months during the past ten
years and then had disappearedano one
knew where. All was mysterious about
this 'Lady of the Key.' One day -came
to her the news of her husband's death.
Sheeeurvived him but ti" short time, and
it was -whispered that she had allowed
herself ,to die from hunger. That was
all the notice of her death had to say
about the matter. The mystery still ,
remained unexplained, and the interest
concerning her grew less and less and
gradeally died away altogether."
'M. Lebon paused to relight his ciga-
rette, which he bad allowed to go out.
:A.fter doing this, he settled back in his
chair, puffed once or twice, but did not
seem at all inclined to continue the
• story. »"
"Well," I ejaculated, "go on. That is
no story. 'Why, you haven't even said
what the mystery was, Or why she was
called 'La Dame a la Clef.'"
"Ala yes," he replied —pensively,
"cpliM right I had forgotten. Gentle-
men, I have not said that she was
beautiful, yet such was the ease. Her
face was one of the loveliest that I
have ever seen, her figure was perfect,
and"-- • '
"Well?" interrupted M. Blouet some-
what impatiently.
"Gentlemen, I will not bore" -you,"
continued M: Lebon smiling. "Simply
Imagine her beautiful in face and form;
then, gentlemen, aronrid her neck,
which wae of the purest mold, tost-aft
riveted a golden chain to which was
attaened this key.' And, gentlemeria
from the 1st of JiineM1848, to the clay
"
•of her death the ehain never left her
neck, 130r the key."
He paused again and °two more
seemed disinclined to go on.
"Well," said AL Blouet, we Itsve the
mystery; now for the solving of it."
"Gentlemen," continued M. Lebon,
smlling sagely as he tipped onthe
ashes of his cigarette, "I have told you
alt that anybody but myself. knows.
Is that not enough? You lotto know
what all Pari e knew. Are you not satis-
fied'?" and he laughed quietly to him-
self.
We smoked for a few moments in
silence, both M. Blouet and myself sur-
mising that the best way to hear the
rest of the story was to leave the nar-
rator completely to himself. In a mo-
ment the latter began again, speaking
rapidly and in short sentences.
"Da 1848 her husband owned a
country house near "sassy. She Was
then young and gay.- No chain or key
adorned her neck then. One day she
was snrprised by her lord, .ehutting
somebody in the wardrobe. A servant
had betrayed • her. The Muscovite
Othello turned the key twicedin the
wardrobe, took jt out; then told his
wife to follow him. A traveling
brizska stood a few paces from the
villa. More dead than alive, ;the un-
happy woman obeyed.. When the hus-
band had placed bee inthe carriage he
gave an order in a low voice to the
coachman. 'Keep this key,' heasald to
his 'wife. 'I have forgotten something
and will return,' then Wenf baek to the
house. » -
"He returned, according to his proin-
ise, but as thewarrtage descended the
hill the poor woman saw flanies issu-
ing froth the windows of the villa. She
fainted. Three days she remained un-
conscious., -On regaining -her senses sbe
perceived that a gold chain was riveted
around her neck, to which was attach-
ed a goldela key, the exact counterpart
of the original, bearing an baseription.
She wished to kill herself, but her hus-
band pointed to the inscription and
added that if she would save her fam-
ily from dishonor she' must, ever oh -
serve it. She was therefore condemned
to live. Her strange .neckla.ce excited
much curiosity in Paris. At last her
tyrant allowed her to retire to a quiet
retreat On the express stipulation that
she would not attempt to destroy her-
self during his lifetime. His death re-
leased her from this dondition."
* * * *
Some three weeks later I was calling
on my friend Lebon, who wished to
show me some old manuscripts that he
had been collecting. He produced a
large box of rosewood, which he casu-
ally remarked contained his family pa-
pers. • To my, astonishnaent, he drew
from his pocket the mysterious key and
inserted it in the lock, which yielded
readily th his pressure, and the lid flew
• back.
, "Why," I exclainied in wonder, "that
is the key!"
"The key?" he interrogated. Then he
laughed long and lead. "And woo swal-
lowed allAhat," he' said *when he ceiald
control his Merriment.'
"Certainly," I replied grimly. t
"By the way, though it wouldn't
make if bad storygwould it? I think I
will work it up -elaborate It a little,
you know."
I left the hotise feeling deeply morti-
fied to think I.had been so effectually
"sold." A desire for revenge took pos-
session of me, and I determined to steal
a march on him. I have done so.
Don't 'Scold. •
Of all forms of hunattn effort and
execution scolding is the most useless.
When a parrot, a chipmunk, a squirrel
or bluejay scolds he is ludicrous. For
people to scold is ludicrous, too, but
with a difference, and assuredly the
difference is on the unfavorable side.
It never did and never will do any one
any good. It has done much harm.
Besides, "scolding grows to be a habit.
We have all suffered because of the
shorteonaings of some one else, re-
ceiving tremendous tirades over »what
we had no hand in, because »we hap-
pened to be present when the scolding
habtt was yielded to by one of its vic-
tims.
• Seolding is easy. It takes neither
power of brain nor heart to scold. It
does not even make any great draft
upon the physical being. Any' fishwife
alioe can be a grand success at scold-
ing. Why compete with her? • '
Scolding should be compelled to per-
ish from the earth. The tongue, the
voice, the eye, the face—all should be
trained not to scold—yes, and the pen,
for of all things a scolding pent is the
worst. And the habit once formed
with the pen is apt never to be entirely
Shaken off. '
Millions Spent In Amusements.
"The American people are great -thea-
ter goers and spend about $112,000,000
annually for'sach amusements," said a
preminent theatrical manager to the
writer recently. "This vast sum 'Of
money is paid into the treasuries of
some 1,000 companies; which were esti-
mated to be playing in all parts of the
United. States last year. This includes
everything that can be considered
strictly professional companies, to say
nothing of the countless amateur or-
ganizations.
"Of the Strictly theatrical organiza-
tions it is safe to say that the average
receipts per night for the 1,000 compa-
nies is $400 each. At seven perform-
ances per week for each company the
weekly average would be $2,800. The
average theatrical season is 40 weeks.
The entire 1,000 companies, with aver-
age' nightly receipts of • $100, would
produce weekly receipts at seven per-
formances per week amounting to $2,-
800,000. This multiplied by 40, the
number of Weeks in be theatrical sea -
soh, will yield gross receinte amount-
ing, to $112,000,000, which is probably
far 1)016watt-hat the'people o this coun.
try really do pay every year for the--
utak:al amusenierit."
•F°\LL CANKERWORM
Its Lite History and the Methods lfa
V e VtleeSgt 171C i°
t 3; Y. ke* liSUebe rireIt.
iiia can-
kerworms. Though easy to conquer if
Properly treated, the annual toes due to
their depredations is very considerable,
and it would seem that many persOne
have yet to Mara the methods of taght-
ing, this old time pest. There are two
species of cankerworms more or less
comrnen wherever apples are » raised,
the fall canke,rworm and the spring
cankerworm. . The fall worm 'Is per -
harts the mare common., It is' a single
brooded insect, whielelays Its eggs ei-
ther late in the auttmm or early in
spring. The egg hatches taut a small
loopworm that grows to the length of
nearly, an inch. It variesgreatly in
color, but is usually gray or almost
black, striped with yellowish or green-
ish. Being a measuring worm, it has
less than the ordinary number of legs,
six true legs near the head and four
false legs near the Posterior extremity,
with an extra rudimentary pair on the
fifth a,lidominal segment. When f011
grown, it descends to the ground and
usually buries itself soinetimes several
inches beneath the surface. Here it
forms a cell • by turning round and
round and changes to the pupal stage.
Late in the fall, from the last of Octo-
ber to the time when the ground be-
comes ammee, the adults emerge and
lay their ,eggs on.the brancheS, of the
trees. Many of the ,moths do not,
.emerge hi the fall, but remain in the
,ground till .spring. When adult, the
two sex'es differ greatly in appearance.
The male is a pretty moth, with ash
gray' .front „eWillgs marked by three
transverse darker lines and hind wing's
of silvery gray. The female, on the
other hand, is riot provided with Wings,
but has to crawl wherever 'she goes.
She is somewhat more robust than the
male and ashen gray in color marked
with black. -
The fact that the female canker-
worms are wingless and must »creep
from the ground to-thet branches of the
trees in order to lay their eggs gives us
an excellent means of fighting them.
If we can head them off and prevent
them from crawling up the trunks of
the trees, the eggs cannot be deposited
on the twigs, and no harm will result.
FALL CANliERiVORIL
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A, male; b, female; c, d, e, st'rUctnral details.;
f, g, egg enlarged; h, 1, segments of body; "Ij.,
patch 01 eggs; k; larva"; 1, pupa: of female. » '
To accomplish this end various devices
have been tried, such as banding the
tree with paper and on this spreading
printers' ink or caterpillar lime or any
thing sticky enough to prevent the cat-
erpillarg from . crawling up. Perhaps
the best band is made of cotton bat-
ting. A strip of this is wound around
a tree trunk and fastened securely by
a string at or bele* the middle. The
upper end is now turned down, form-
ing a loose, fluffy mass, in which the
insects get entangled and die. This
method has one disadvantage. The
bands have to be kept on from the last
of October until spring is well advanc-
ed and must be renewed after rains or
when the cotton loses its fluffy nature.
As the W011318 feed upon apple, elm,
cherry and some other trees precau-
tions must be taken to prevent them
frombreeding on these trees and again
infesting the fruit trees.
:The best method of overcoming these
pests, however, is by spraying. They
readily yield to a spray of one of the
arsenites (see chapter on insecticides),
which should be applied early as soon
as any worms are seen, even before
blooming, but never during the period
of bloom. It may be necessary to re-
peat the spraying, but this method is
by far the cheapest and most satisfac-
tory.
Notes and News.
It has been particularly noted at the
Rhode Island station that where a
greater amount of nitrate of soda has
been applied annually to grass land
Sown with clover, red top and timothy
a far* greater proportion of ,the crep
consisted of timothy than where less of,
it was applied or than where it was
omitted.'
The heads but not the stems of sun-
flowers are made into silage.
"'In growing onions In Bermuda the
land is enriched with well rotted cow
or pig manure. The seed is sown iu
September and the crop harvested from
January to Slay. A rigid systeni of in-
spection careers all shipments to the
United States. `
This country has come to be without
a peer in ,the manufacture of agricul-
tural implements and machines both
as to quality and number.
Under the recent act for *the protec-
tion of game animals and birds anamig
birds the most general prohibition Is
that against the shipment of quai). All
but 12 of the states prohibit export of
these birds. .Among the exceptions are
seven southern States, Montana and
North Dakota but in Montana the sale
'and in North 1)altota the killing of
quail are at present unlawful.
The approaching Argentina wheat
harvest, which begins with December,
will be watched With great interest, as
it figures largely in the world's trade.
Present talk le that it will be large.
13ut this, crop is an uncertainty tnilalavce-
tually harveStecl.
Mlle making , of paper from ti
grasses is a new proposition.
PEAH CULTURE.
ome Points About Cultivation anti
Probably tiler° are rid other opera-
tions connected with the etilture or tlm
peach in which euch a variety of meth-
ods prevail as in cultivation and ma-
nuring.. In a bulletin on peach growing
in New Jersey, Professor Jordan con-
siders these points as follows:
On the one hand are thoee who plow
and harrow their orchards bat once a
season perhaps even omitting the hit-
ter, and apply no plant food whatever.
On the other hand, there are thee° Who
start the plow early in the seawall arul
cultivate oontiortously until the laet of
July and apply plant food liberally.
Bett-yeen these two extremes all possible
gradations exist. One quite common,
almost general, practice, however, is to
crop the land for two years or until the
trees occupy the ground. Corn or buck-
wheat is the crop usually grown. The
one great objection to a grain crop ia
that it prevents 'nipper cultivation.
Corn or other cultivable crop can be
grown without disadvantage, provided
sufficient plant' food is supplied and
good cultivation given, Ylany growers
do not realize that tw
o crops are grow-
ing on theland at the same time and
thus fail to provide a sufficient amount
a food for both. • On ver Y rich soils,
however, cultivated crops woold benefit
the orchard by checking any tendency
to excessive growth.,
The ideal culturefor ,the peach is a
shallow plowingbor cultivation early in'
May, followed by frequent harrowing
until the end of July. After this date
the growth should.not be encouraged, in
order that the wood already made may
• be properly fiperied. The use of crim-
son clover, iowri at the last cultivation,
as a soil covering for the winter and to
be turned under in early spring as green
manure has been practiced quitelrge-
ly in the state and with good success,
though the question has-been raised
whether its contitmed use is advisable.
since it provides a surplus of slowly
-
available nitrogen,*encourages a large
and continuous growth of tree through-
out the season, which may not properly
ripen. It is the opinion of those who
practice this method that no clartg,er is
liable to arise provided the trees are in
bearing and an abundance of the min-
eral elements, phosphoric acid and pot-
ash, is added. •
Iri fertilizing, nearly every substance
which contains an element of plant food,
can be found in the list cf fertilizers
used. All kinds of combinations exist,
and the amounts Applied vary frenn 100
pounds to 1,000 per acre, averaging ap-
proximately 325 pounds A study of
the methods of feeding practiced by
growers reveals very strikingly, the fact
that they are haphazard in their char-
acter. It is generally recognized, how-
ever, that it pays to mannre, even in
haphazard fashion, though the best and
most profitable orchards are those that
are systematically cultivated and ferti-
lized, Which is in line with the results
obtained from an experiment continued
for ten years, by the New Jersey sta-
'Elkin: The cOnclusions drawn from this
experiment were
' First. --That it pays 'to MaXrUre or-
chards bn land of medium fertility..
Second.—That manuring, or fertiliz-
ing, extends the profit:tie » bearing
period of the trees.
• Third.—That fertilizes 'or manures
containing all the eletents of plant
food—viz, nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash—are more useful than single
elements or combinations of two ele-
ments.
Fourth.—That chemical fertilizers
are more profitablethan yard manure.
The complete fertilizer in this experi-
Ment applied per acre annually was
composed of 150 pounds of nitrate of
soda, 850 boneblack superphosphate
and • 150 muriate of potash and fur-
nished 24 pounds of nitrogen, 56 :of
Phosphoric acid and 75 of potash, all
from the most available forms.
Inexpensive Rollers.
I herewith present two ways Of mak-
ing rollers which will not be expensive
if you will do the work yourself. One
roller consists or logs of any desired size,
and a roller or this kind,will last a long
time if kepi bonsai. Put on a naower
or planter seat for the driver. The oth-
• 11011.1EMADE ROLLERS.
er may be made out of castoff mower
or -planter wheels, which can be picked
up almost anywhere for a small price
Have plenty ofaholes drilled throngh the
rims and bolt on 2 by 4 or 2 by 6 scant-
lings of the desired 'length.* The frame
may be made of pine, and a binder or a
mower tongue , may be • used.—Iowa
,
Hoinesad.
• Agricultural Brevities.
SpUrl'y, which it favorably mentioned
in some parts of the west 'as a forage
-plant, did not make sufficient growth
to be considered of value ha a test•at
the New Hampshire station.
As reported in The New England
Homestead, a trade bureau has been
organized by the Vermont Maple Sugar
Makers' assdeiation for the purpose of
handling maple sager products, Dis-
tributing agencies have been estab-
lished in Spfingfielcl, Providence, Wa-
terbaret Hartford, New York and
Brooklyn.
It is claimed •that middle Louisiana
can grow profitable crops of cigar to-
bacco.
• Early plowing is not always best.
"To plow wet ground is a hole in the
pocket," says The Farm Journal.
German experiments with grass seed
cov,ering 14 years are said to show that
the larger and heavier seed germinated
more fully than small or light seed »
An effective and cheap treatment bf
potatoes for prevention of scab consist%
in rolling the cut seed in eulphur.
COCii7r5rsAkiii77,'
1 that was blithe crewhile,
Dre.aining the world a lovely lotus isle,
Ani one for whom the oun India lost its smile.
There was a garden place
Wherein metlioright .there blossomed 'every
That man might crave to look upon. -her face! .
A_TIAL ab, 1,be goldn st'oro
OPP 11e4rtse1se 1:11p.'t it brought zne: That it 'Wei
Since otherWard 'tis turned, forevormoro. ,
. ,
Shall, go down the years,
Groping through sterile hopes and crewding, firs
To darkling, solitude too. deep for tears.
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.A Story Touching on the Serv-
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The table, was charming. The pearly
expanse of damasis that infolded • it
was one of the Misses Dormond's most
treasured pessessione, saved out of a
general wreck of fanaily fortunes.
The o' - fashioned silver 'of those la
inaitaot patterns which no modern
shop can supply, gleamed like irregai-
larly shaped planets at intervalesacross,
the cloth. •
• ,
Moreover, a daffodil bulb cherished
in 'window sill warnith had: obligingly
thrown - out a handful of blossoms.
This pot, sheatlaccl in ,yellow tissue pa-
per, made a thoroughly attractive cern
terpiecm
, "It is siintily lovely," said Winifred,
with a little sigh of relief and satisfac-
tion. ' "I, Shan't be in the least afraid
to have Mrs. Caulking,ton's eagle.; eye
• turned upon it, ,even ;though you are a
candidate for her secretaryship, Isabel,
and so much does depend upou making
a good impression."
"The house couldn't fail to make
good impression," Isabel broke M. "It
is clean and sweet find old fashioned
from top to toe. One cant Say that a
house has a toe.' There' e just , one
thing lacking. I* do wish we had a
• good maid to wait on the tahle. I hate
those embarrassing breaks in a horne'
luncheon where tile hostess is obliged
to cut off in the middle of a sentence
and bolt into the kitchen to bring the
broiled equab course to table,"
"Yes. That's always wretchedly elm
Marrassing," Isabel agreed. "It's hard-
er on the guests than the hostess too.
However, there's no help for it. We
don't keep a rank], and this suburb'isn't
a place where you can,find a girl to
call in for a day at a time. It's a pity,
but it calft be helped."
"What is a pity; but can't be helped?"
demanded the youngest Miss Dornaond,
who pirouetted into the room just in
;time to hear the last half a the send
fence., *
• "Isabel and -I were lamenting that we
didn't have' a maid to'Serve the lunch,
eon, Gertrude.' We were „saying how
desperately embarrassing it la for a
ho,steSs to jump up,to removethe plates
after a course and to liting the next
emiree'to table." • -
"I never thought of tha.t," Gertrude
acquiesced -in a disappointed tone
"Our entertaining has always been so
informal we're likely to make the
guests change the plates and bring in
the -courses from the kitchen tbem-
selves. But it's true, as you, say, that
kind of thing won't do wben we're en-
tert'aining Mrs. Caulkingten. She's 'so
critical that her eyes burn holes in
• a.nytbing they fall •On. We wouldn't
mind her little peculiarities if she were
merely an acquaintance, but if Isabel is
going to demand a big, fat salary she
must make a big, fat impression: I'm
sure Mrs. Caulkingten would cut her
down halfif she knew bow poor eve are
and how badly we need that secretary-
ship. Something must be done."
"Gertrude, dear, yen know perfectly
well that nothing can be done. There
are only two hourleft, and in any case
you can't secure a girl here in the coun-
try to eome in for just one day." •
"I» know that, but whislit, my dear!
An idea dawns in my brain! »Let It
mature!"
"An idea for dvhat? For getting *us a,
maid?", '
"Yes, my dear—a „readymaid, so to
speak."
7 "Silly! Do you think Isabel and I
liave time to waste upon your vapor-
ings ?", •
"A ready maid—no, a maid, to order!
Doti% talk to me for three minutes. I
feel the idea grow in my cerebrum, and
It really is a good one." •
The young lady sat down in the little
oaken window, seat and buried her face
in her hands.
Three minutes lat,er ' she sprang up
• and e pirouetted triumphantly around
the charming table. .
"Huzia! I've solved the problem,"
she cried. "And I'll stand for it that
you shall have ad maid to serve Mrs.
Caulk ingten's luncheon. A stunning
inaid, well iseined, light footed, soft
'voiced; , a maid Who. Will not,send so
much as one plate of raw oysters.down
the back of your guest; who will do
thins without diagrams and will not
cause the downfall and destruction of
precious willow pattern china.» In f'net,
the maid I propose' to offer you will be
an explanatory key with ,coplouS illus-
trations to the eutire servant question."
Gertrude's sisters were very far from
despising the girl's ready imagination.
It had often helped to solve an econona-
lc problem which they themselves had
abandoned in despair. But this crisis
of the maid to order seemed consider-
ably beyond Gertrude even, and they
frankly announced themselves skep.
"Do, you Inean to look for your re-
markable maid here in the subutb or
elsewhere?" they demanded.
"I shall procure lier in the city, or,
rather, I shall go on a trip to the
city, and I will send the maid to you
its wiy absence."
• "But, Gertrude! 11 yea leave fl)W
tor .the city you won't have time, child,
I to get back •for
CaUlk'
to
luncheon!
"I'm not, nfraid, Vitt l'I'
'b• oe:e.reolIZIS'erctl'')0eCagail:3.11:16111:10Pgit'Inh":'1,::e'lai:1:1'faltae4t tea. .
„can make „my exesisee to Mrs.ti
, Ctilic
ltroig gtoota .,itnintod tet
tnel.,,,,hoenry thatil)roWs
stisingstbbile
ogi31.4
It Seemed air injustice that 'Geld/awls*
cessh°ti loaf obeecAt hs leer: tf dor Nss'si:thni celstst-ht the
'snlaleti";
. . ;
all worked so bard; ,
The older girls reasoned, pleadederena
resented, but Gertrude stood firm, ,
,
1\frs. Caillitillgton's critical ear's weriti
already boring liolcs in the drawin ,
room furniture, and the luncheon Louts
was but three minutes in the futurm "ii •
Isabel, in her prettiest silk watsti!
was arranging the oyster plates upon
the table preliminary to ushering their,
•guest into the dining room. '•
Suddenly a muding of ginghain skirtst
brushed the silence of the place, and A
soft voice sounded in Isabel's ear. '
"If yo' please, miss,"` said the voice
"Miss Gertrude done send me. 1 anl
de maid to orclah." '•
• "Good gracious!" shrieked Isabel nilh,
od3e,ts'teli:rpblarteeatihn. hSelbehasntanrtnedarib,oawelsiy; tehset.;
caping calami y.
• She said "Good gracious" once morea
and very fervently, when she turned*
for there, not a yard from her sides!
waiting to be assigned to her duties1
stood the most desirable of colored!
waitresses.
• She was tall, well poised and, bars
ring her ,skin, a strikingly handsom
young woman. Her pink gingham.
gown fitted to -perfection arad closely
el
resembled one worn by Gertrude for
. ,
morniugs on the porch. Her dainty,
ruffled apron was strikingly like one
which Isabel herself wore while sew-
ing. Perched sautily in her black, rip-
ply hair she wore a bit of a cap, which;
when examined ,at close range, seemed
to be nothing more than a tuft of whits '
lace cleverly pinned.,
" Isabel took a second look at her new
acquisition and dropped into a chair1.
laughing weakly. , ,
•t .
"Miss Gertrude done send me, miss,qa
the maid repeated softly, "an she said;
fo' yo' to jest ,go set in de pariah an _
leave all deservinto me."
, "Oh, Gertrude, Gertrude!" gurgled Is,.
abel. "What-nonselase won't that child
attempt?" ' _ ,
The luncheon was faultlessly served.
sNoeftt•oerr, mwoalso waitress istereesinsg,t1nalliocikoeigtraloigefh,
otez‘,
' Even the critical Mrs. Caulkington,
was impresse .
Afterward, when the luncheon partys
had adjourned to the drawing room, the,
• guest deliberately led around to the,
subject of domestics. :
"Do you find it as hard to get goo"
girls in the suburbs as we do in thes!
city?" she asked. , "I imagine not, for,
dhat,ydung waitress `of yours,is perfec-1
tion itself?' ,
"Well, good girls are very scarce),
here," answered 'Isahel,, "and "I've no:
•doubt we'cl have endless trouble if we
had to Change. But, you sem, we have
raised Anna ourselves. 'She knows ours
c.w-n ways:and suits us perfectlY. We've
'had her:for more than ten years. II
know ,she'll never leave us—unleis, ofl
course, she marries a,nd has a home of
her own." •
"My• dear girl, you siinply have a'
treasure," *cried the "visitor, with!
warmth. "If I were in your place, II,
would shiver at the very 'thought of
losing. her. And, do you know,Osince;
I've seen how perfectly your little table
is arranged and served I'm reallg afraid!
of what Miss Isabel will think when!
things in my housekeeping, Miss ,Isa-,
"Oh,' I am not critical, Mrs. Caulking -
ton," laughed ,Isabel. "And *every one
knows how hard it is to get rcaids like,'
Anna nowaday s." -
Neglected Dryden.
Notwithstanding Bowell's higla praise:
of Dryden's prose works and tie accu-
sation he brings against literary pliiii-
derers of this magnate of letters 20(
years ago, few people except .scholars
now ever open Dryden's essays, though
they are well worth careful perusal
and study, in spite of Swift's malicious
and witty lines:
Read all the prefaces of Dryden
For these our critics much confide in,
Ti -,ugh merely %wit at first for filling
..t'o raise the volume's price a shilling.
There is truth as Well as wit In thig
characterization, for Dryden was in
some respects but a literary hack, al-
though a man of genius. But, being a
genius, it was impossible for him to
write anything, however carelessly and
slipshod, without something finding its
way in that will arrest the reader's at-
tention even yet, after the lapse of tveo
centuries. Unlike the other and small-
er literary hacks of his time, whatever
Dryden wrote he wrote freely, and
there is an absence of cramped formu-
las and 'of pedantie utterances, as a
rule, which is interesting. Even in his
shilling, prefaces to which 'Swift al -1
ludes the reader will have no difficulty'
in discovering it man of genius, one or
many lovable •traits and great charac-
teristica, and at least Dryden's, own
likings ,and jutIgments are set forth
pleasantly and`frequently in a convinc-
ing manner. He is one of the ottl writ-
ers that weary moderns given tip to
nrovel, reading could profitably turn
bach to and peruse to their own great
advantage.
Brother-Dieltey's Sayings.
Er dis worl' is a liowlin wildern
it's man dat do de
Job wuz a pasliunt man, but he never,
had ter Wait fer a railroad train.
Solomon wuz a mighty mtich mar-
ried than, en yit (ley calls him de Naja-
f:et man!
Ananias wuz kilt fer 13/11. In (leen
das a men git a, prize See it.—A 'antra.,
Constitution.. •
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