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agreeable that It soon cost her no effort to
converse, and then her old lively spirits re-
turned, and, to her surprise, she found
that she was enjoying herself. Her hus-
band didn't much notice this, but Miss
Baden did, and her Irritation with Mr..
Palmer lost much of its charm, now that
his wife did not appear mortified and jeal-
Gus, and that people couldn't see that she
was so.
Wherefore Miss Baden grew Indifferent,
and Mr.. Palmer bethought himself to look
after his wife. Not finding her looking
over the photograph albums, nor talking
to deaf old Mr.. Brown, neither in any of
/ the "holes and corners" which she was
won't of late to frequent, he became rather
| puzzled
At that instant little laugh at his elbow
startled him, and turning he saw Nellie,
! bright and flushed. talking TO a very hand
some man, who appeared to be quite alb
! sorbed in her. Mr. Palmer stared mo-
ment at the unconscious couple.
why, the deucer' was his thought
| what on earth can they have been talk
| ing about all this while?" Then suddenly
meeting his wifes eye he smiled and whis-
| pered, Enjoying yourself, Ne!lY"
"Oh, yes, dear, delightfully."-! Don't
! trouble yourself about me, pray"
| Nellie Palmer had never sung more
sweetly or danced more gracefully than
upon this evening.
Don't you think, Nell. you've danced
enough for one night" said her husband,
towards the close of the evening, Tor a
married woman?" he added
Perhaps so" she answered, cheerfully;
q an Nv
/ almost forgot that I was married
woman, and felt like girl again"
And behaved like one,'' ne said, rather
coolly. who is that fellow that has been
in attendance upon you all the EVENING""
he inquired, as they walked down stairs.
That remarkably handsome man with
the expressive dark eyes, do you mean"
Il never noticed his eyes or that he was
at all handsome" he answered stiffly
'Oh, thought You meant Captain Low
ell, Of the artillery. All here he is-just
one moment, dear-I quite forcotn-
And Nellie spokea few words to the cap
tain IN passing, of which her husband
could distinguish only something about
that book"
When Robert Palmer came home next
day he found his wife, net crying, as be-
fore, in her bedroom, but in the parlor
practicing new song
Captain Lowell called this morning"
she said, ''and have promised TO sing this
for him at Mrs. Campbelis."
'Ah!" he answered with an expression
OF Indifference; and as his wife struck I'D
with the first few notes he muttered to
himself, ''Confound Captain Lovellg'
At Mrs Campbell's Captain Lowell was
again in attendance upon pretty Mrs.
Palmer; and then other gentlemen diScov-
cred her attractions, her piQGancy and
coquertishness and hiUtableness; and SO, in
s very few weeks, Mrs. Palmer was belle.
She did not seem n the least to care who
her husband was attending upon, and in
deed he could rarely get 8 word with her
al all when at the gay assemblies which
they constantly frequenued- He sometimes
gave her hint that she was mo longer a
girl" and that he was her husband. but
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substance and Form, in r.i,er,rv.,rs,r.,,


And is it no1 true that from the nature
of thino the contemporary Judgment
lays most stress on substance. and that
the final Judgment is favorable to
form: Substantially speaking. how mscy
historic things % lrlLaenSe contemporary
vogue seem il.si?il u rs, whereas scarce
~ anything; q very g;ea. formal merit
has been allowed 20 perish?
IN other WORDS. Is there not an element
of universally abont perfection of form
which significance Of thought does ne.
possess: or, At any rate. is not perfection
more nearly attainsole in form than it IS
in substance? And nothing is 80 pre-
sentative IS perfection or any approach
10 it,
One thing is very certain-neglect az
form involves the sacrifice OF al elener.t
Of positive attractiveness as well rs OF
Tending positively by perverseness and &c.
centricity. Whether rhyme ana RHYTHM.
cadence, purity, hawlessneSs. melody
are essential or not to poetry. tie aban-
donment Of the artistic quality which
they imply is obviously a loss.-Sc.ib-
uerS
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HER FIFTEEN MINUTES

Asexactiy fifteen minutes to eieht
His step was heard ct the garden rata
And then. with heart that was lirht and ~
He laughed to himself in . juhuant vay.
And rang the ben for the maiden trim
Who'd promised to 60 to the play With htm.
And told the servant. with Joyous air,
To say there were fifteen minutes to spara
And then for fifteen minutes he sat
In the parlor dim. and he held his hak
And waited and sighed for the rnaiden trim
Who'd promised to go to the play with him.
Until. as the clock overhead struck eisht.
He mutsered Great Scott. it IS getting hts:s
And took turn On the per,or floor,
And waited for fifteen minutes more
And swore to himself in dubious wav.
And thought OF those seats in the front parprcx
And midnight came, and the break Of day;
That day and the next, aud the next one. too.
He sat and waited the long hours through.
Then time few or and the years sped BY.
And still he sat, with expectant eye
And frightening beard. for the maiden trim
Until one night, as with palsied hand
He sat IN the chair. for he couldn't stand.
And drummed in an aimless way, she came
And opened the door with her withered frsna
The moons bright rays touched the silver.d
hair
VI her who had fifteen minutes to spare.
And then in tones that he strained to hear
She spoke. and she said. Are you ready, dearfs
Tom Mason in New York Sun.
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An Old English Hoax,

The bottle imp hoax was one of the most
gigantic of the many hoaxes and impost-
ures played on the English people during
the Eighteenth century The Duke of
Montague, in the year 17A9 laid wager
with another nobleman that if an impostor
advertising that he would jump into a
quart bottle should come along. all Lon
don society would flock to see the wonder.
In order to decide the bet the following ad-
vertss,ment was put in all the papers:
At the new theatre in the Haymarket
on Monday next, the 10th inst, is to be
seen person who performs the several
most surprising tricks following, viz:
First, he takes common walking cane
from any Of the Spectators and thereon
plays the music OF every instrument now
IN use. Secondly, he presents you with a
common wine bottle (which any of the
spectators may first examine); he then
places this bottle on table in the middle
OF the stage, and he without any equivo-
cation goes into it il sight of al the spec
tators. While in the bottle he will sing all
the popular songs OF the day. During his
stay IN the bottle any person may handle
II and see that IL does hot exceed com
mon tavern bottle in size"
This advertisement excited the curiosity
OF the people, and on the evening mem
toned prodigioUs number of people gath
cred in and around the Haymarket. Roy
atty went N disguise and beggars in their
every day clothes. Not more than half the
crowd, the account says. could find seats in
the great building. Finally the supposed
coDjuror appeared on the stage The ma
Jointly OF those present confidently expected
70 see him soon IN the odd shaped bottle
sitting on the table. Not until be brazenly
told them that If they would paySoubIe
fare he would go into pint bottle instead
OF quart did it dawn upon them that
they had been sold 4 general row en-
sued. during which masks were removed
by force and many aristocrasic features ex-
Notes and Queries
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Electricity in Agriculture,

II has long been problem how 20 apply
electricity 70 the growth of plants Use Of
the electric force for such purpose IS still,
IN the experimental stage. bet enough has
already been done 20 show tina. there are
possibilities n the case.
In one series OF experiments the seeds Of
beans, suDaowers and winter and spring
rye were Used. The seeds were soaked.
electrified and Immediately sown The
plants were more fully developed. thsi-
leaves were larger and tle.g coioz brighter
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Hka ENetu~

AZ village IN SsASsrdshir. . boy w.s
detained from school 20 assls. "a sorsarZ
potatoes The school rz as,er. - usua Oh
such occas!ors, desired the boys fa.Asr .s
write and state she cna-e Of his akssencs.
ALe next morning the boy appeared with
note from his father which contained
bo; one word. ~Ks7tstonatA;ertzg" Ths
school master, aston4stsd a. s1cs q wcrs5-
p1zz4ed ever it scroe Minutes, bat a. L.sf
discoveries % he KEEP: ~ besse s-ss.er.
Ing "-ExehArz.
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i; mus b n5ce 20 De = b~ar.~ AID
Amanda softly. 81 she p-e-ern ote.s snosses
inch Of B.bsias' half Of the so.A
You think sof"
-; II sArs h q. paper tha. the beam
On The narks- are beng sqae>zei T"
And then froE> s@sse Ssfs came = sxh Of
satasiAes2oa TIA; denoted that spite q the
pressure 10 bear panic WA .zu.isea1. st
:. .A<ns Eswa
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A PICTURE ~ FROST TIME.

window. With wide paaes enbayed
And half moon seat Of old gold cloth.
Looks forth 70 where the trees are swayed
BY winds whose breath . chill and wrUtA.
And OF the glass flny Teii
Extends, as II 70 shiea6 The bloom
That nods n greeting 70 tbs gale
From midst Tie varn and CHEEKY room
Roses And liliss- totzozse pirks
And pa-sies TIA; 10 garden dew
er wet, aud ferns whose fragile Inks
No woodland pool visA shade id ssrsv.
And showing n alt5-coio-,i ttn.s
PAL clusters Of cArysaz;heuazans
FlzsA back he rose4.e fame Ia. gi4ats
Where ocz.ly tie hearth iog aanA
V lille near 1t hand Si1z ors who reads
Tie pages Of . cook Of AT,
And I-aCSai outdoors or indoors heeds.
Los; II some spirit realms far z1&-t-
w liam SsrutbsrS - Dstr0ts FIRES Press
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Wlll!{I ''s;5 GLE
AN OLD BEAU.

What IL choose to st alone
And scan these printed pages,
Or gossip with your chaperona
Who nearer to D1y age is
Than VOC. whose laughter fills the car
And reaches me IS from afar
By slow and easy stages
The bellies and beaux Of '62,
Though doubtless wise and witty,
OF theater parties never knew
Bound for the Quaker City.
And !. relic of the past,
For deeming them trife fast,
No doubt have earned your pity.
Although quite out Of place I seem,
Don't think that / regret it:
Just let me sit in peace and dream
Somehow we crate: and yet it
Is not because you seem too gay,
But that I'm growing old and gray
And cannot quite forget it.
Fond girl, that fitting by my seat,
Some joke no doubt intending.
Gives me smile as bright as sweet,
Her way then onward vending.
I see within her pretty eyes
The image of her mother rise,
And just above me bending.
It brings me back the long ago.
And when and where met her
In all her girlish blush and glow;
All, how l still regret her.
But she was rich and | was poor,
While time and absence bring cure,
never shall forget her.
The youth who in your cushioned chair
A yawn attempts to smother,
No doubt considers you as fair
AS once thought your mother;
But you are rich and so is he.
Between you need no parting be,
And you may love each other
F. II. Curtiss in New York Sun
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The Slang Stricken Youth

Long since she was "A darling"
Or "a daisy" or "a lamb"
And often she said earnestly
She wouidn'; be "a clam
She was often called ~sdumpiing--
II my mind nisleads me not
Sometimes she'd say Il an q. 4:
Yo1 be; Lad the lot"
And then "A beaut~ found her
Abbreviated truth
But when she'd Be way az IN 6"
zas puzzled youth
Then she was great she tod me
doubt Dos this WA right
Ard then she aid ast teez~d hu aeaA.
TEA4 sse sAs ~out Of sight
I love ksr still though daily
through worcertsE- at veTs1
With anIso2s care. 5g.st sa>i or vsess
My dear 0cs viii BE- nsIi
-WAssAzxtou pxA
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The head Of the London Waters union
has stated that the tipping syssesn has 4
velopec 70 such ca extent that Ii sorrs
restaurants shc VOTERS pey Ave sai,lings .
Gay for the privilege Of waitiaS. Fross
this fact it sppeSrs that n waters wszsI
are based upor his chances o. tip or ne
tin
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-ANanceQy-
"These six months; before I met him;

"These six months; before I met him;
and l would have told you of it, butt
She stopped, and looked half archly in
his face. He understood her, and taking
her in his arms, kissed her tenderly.
'Oh, Bob! how could you ever have
doubted me?"
81 will do so no more, lovep'
"Never fiirt any more?'
"Neverr'-New York World.
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WHY She Waits.

He-Why hasn't she married. Is she
eating for her beau ideal'
She-No. She is waiting for her bean
real.-Harper's Bazaar
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waen Baby was sick, VIC gave her Castor.a,
When she WAS a Child, she cried for Cas:oria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children. she gave them Castoria.
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being inclined al the bow and very sharp,
ST. as either to cut through distractions, or
dive under them, as indicated by the dotted
lines in the cut Both the t0at and fish are
sheet copper. The furmer Is ABOUT thiiy
feet long and filled with cotton, which
renders 1t imperyious to the water, and even
if struck repeatedly by small projectiles IL
would still sustain its burden III IS Oroaa
at the top a. narrow at the bottom, so tha1
the buoyancy increases rapidly WITH I'M
mersion. The fish, which carries zoo
pound charge of explosive, is submerged
about three and three-Quarter 1eei. ana en-
be exploded at will or by conclusion against
the object of attack.
AS NAV BE- seen in the cut the fish has two
commandments with water-tlght Dulkh eads.
The forward compartment carries the eX-
plosive, the next compartment is empty, the
third carries the cable, and the l0urth car
ries the electric motor and steering gear. ltS
total weight. including 40-h0rserower mo-
tor and COCO feet OF cable is 43O4 POUNDS.
The motor is two-pole, series-wouud, and
its resistance at rest 6.53 ohms. The Edison
generator is capable of 1900 to 1900 reVolu,
lions, with 1900 volts at terminals and
twenty-five amperes normal capacity On
the official trial the motor drove tie boat at
a speed of over twenty-One miles an nohr,
and on a short run reached Twenty-Five
miles an hour.
The charge is exploded electrically, hence
there is no probability of premature dis
charge. The moment that the torpedo has
reached and is pushing against the object
of attack can be exactly determined day or
night by simple ammeter in the circuit
showing by its great change Of reading
when the motor is affected by the stoppage
of the boat Besides the many advantages
possessed by such torpedo for coast and
harbor defense, it has a special value as an
instrument of offensive warfare on the hlgh
seas, as nearly all the war vessels are fitted
with dynamoS and engines for them. By
carrying generator for torpedo service,
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automatic, automobile and fish torpedoes.
Those of the automobile type, which have
been extensively experimental with, are the
Whitehead, the Brennan, the one invented
by Captain John a. Howell of the navy,
the one invented by Lieutenant Hall OF the
navy, the Sims-Edson and the Patrick.
The Howell torpedo is one OF the most
complete submarine, or automobile tor
pedoes vet perfected. In TACT it is con-
sidered the ideal torpedo, with capacity
for a charge sufficient to insure the dlsab-
ling or annihiIation of the ship attacked,
and send every soul on board before his
Maker 1t possesses a motive power easily
applied and always available, and 1t can be
fitted and effectively employed from every
type of ship The speed, size, charge ana
accuracy of action are equal TO the best re-
suits that have been obtained with the
Whitehead torpedo. In fact no other auto
matte torpedo OF the the same size has
reached so great speed. Its initial speed
is now tWenty-three knots for the eight
foot pattern, weighing $50 pounds, lnciud-
ing seventy pounds of explosive, or greater
than than that carried by any but the
largest Whitehead.
The general form of the Howell torpedo
is that Of a spindle. the central portion be-
ing cylindrical. The shell is constructed
entirely Of brass or bronze. Its character
istic feature is the heavy tywheel by which
it is propelled and by which, at the same
time il gives a directive force that renders
unnecessary any device for steering the tor
pedo in a horizontal plane. The hy-wheel
is of steel and weighs about $50 pounds and
rotates on trictional wheels 1t Is geared to
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killed under him from ArcOla to Waterloo.
cit appears that nearly all of them were
either white or gray. The most famous
was MarengO, the charger that lie rode at
Waterloo. Austerlltz, Marie, Ali and Jatfa.
Marengo's skeleton is at present in the Mill
tary Institute of whitehall. London, and
one of his shoes, made into snutf-boX, is
in the meSs-rOOm OF the officers OF the guard
in ST. James Palace. Upon tie silver cover
of the shoe, the gift of Colonel ADgersteln
to his comrades, is the following inscription;
Shoe of Marengo, the war horse that
belonged to Napoleon. and mounted by him
at Marengo, AusterlitZ, Jena, Wagram, in
the Russian campaign and at Waterloo
Around the shoe there is this inscrip-
ton:
'Marengo was wounded in the left
haunch when his master rode him1at Water
loo on the suuken road al the outposts.'
But 1t appears that he was also wounded
in the preceding battles, and here the Figaro
remarks that If the above inscription Is cor
rect in Its statements, Napoleon must have
used that horse for fifteen years, from Ma
rengo to Waterloo, which srems very doubt
full. There is no doubt, however, that Ma
rengo was the horse that Napoleon rode ut
Waterloo, and that carried him to Chartered
after the battle How the horse came 10
end his days in England has not yet been
fully revealed
THE suppositon is that he was taken
there along with Jaffa by the Frenchman
who leased some property at Glassenburg,
in Kent, and who was once great friend
of Napoleon, but whose name Is now for
gotten. The greatest possible care was
taken Of the old horse, who died in 1929. at
the venerable age of 81 years. In the park
on the Gassenburg property there is a little
column with the following:
So Under this stone lies Jaffa, the cele-
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THE s1usED1sov TORPEDO
until it fouls the brated warhorse of Napoleon aged

aft and above the torpedo until it fouls the
net that the torpedo passes under. Then
the pull upon the tOw-line (e) trips the trlg-
ger (c), aud explodes the torpedo in close
proximity to the ship The magazine (E)
contains eighty pounds of gun-cotton in
copper case. The motive power is steam,
which, together with a suitable quantity Of
water heated to $50 degrees, is stored in
flask or generator. As the pressure is re-
duced by the consumption of steam the
heated water gradually vaporizes, furnish
ing a continuous supply.
The Patrick torpedo Is an invention OF
J. n. II. Patrick. and has been thoroughly
tested, to the satisfaction of both the United
States and the French Governments. 1t
consists of two 14-foot copper cylinders,
held by bars three feet apart. The upper
cylinder is filled with lampblack and carries
signal flags. The lower cylinder is filled
with the firing CHARGE. The machinery is
propelled by carbonlc acid gas. Recent ex-
pPriments with it by the Navy Torpedo
Board at Newport were reported as emf
nently successful The conditions OF the
test were that the torpedo should make
speed of twenty knots for one mile. maneu::
vering and firing under the conditions Of
service, to be readily, certainly and com.
pletely accomplished by the manipulation OF
the operating apparatus. the center OF the
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THE LIEUTENANT NAIL TORPEDO.

two shafts, one on each side of the torpedo,
which carry the prOpellerS, and when set TO
revolving at a considerable speed II Will con-
tiuue to rotate for several hours If no addi-
tional load is applied. The propelers re-
yolve in opposite dire ctions, thus prevent
ing the rolling motion OF the torpedo. This
forms the whole driving mechanism OF the
torpedo, which is, in principle, the same as
that of the Whitehead.
Like other fish t0rpedoes, that designed
by Lieutenant NJ. L. Hall OF the navy has
the share # a spindle of revolution, carry
ing the charge in the nose with per Us
sion apparatus. The principal features Of
this toIpedO are its diving mechanism, the
pectoral fms, the device for overcoming the
net defenseS of vessels OF war, and special
automatic engine that utilZrs the full eX-
pansive force IF the motive power. The
pattern Of the torpedo shown III the cut has
the following weights, dimensions, etc. ::
Length, 10 feet; extreme diameter, 1is
inches; weight, 575 pounds; diameter of en-
gine-. inches; length Of stroke, inches {;
diameter of PROF ellers, 10 inches; reyolu-
t0ns a minute. POO; sun-cotton charge, SO
pounds.
The cut shows q side view of the torpedo
and It's three sections-the forward cone
"a, the ar-hask OBJ attaching :he buoyant
grapnel o.. A the end OF the forward
cone or compartment " the firing rod (a) Is
fitted loosely into the sleeve 90 and actu-
ated by a spring connected with the trigger
(r) upon contact with the object Of attack
Should the torpedo Craze a vessels bilge the
trigger would be tripped and the firing-r0d
would be impelled by the spring against the
plunger G), decorating the gun-eotton
charge, as before. bv means of the primer
and detonatOr. When attacking vessel
protected by netting the float o. is drawn
ait by the resistance Of the water, and lows