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THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER

The Uneasy Chair.
THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER
SwInburne's New Poem.-Algernon
Charles Swinburne has written a poem
which appears in Harper's Magazine for
June. English friends Of the poet who
have read the manuscript pronounce it Mr..
Swinburne's greatest work. Following is
a. brief excerpt from the poem:
Ages and creeds that drift
Thru change and cloud uplift
The soul that scars and seeks her sovereign
shrine,
Her faiths yelled altar there
To find when praise and prayer
Fall baffed, if the darkness be divine.
Lights change and shift thru star and sun;
Night. clothed with might of immemorial years.
Is one.
Day, born and slain of night,
Hath hardly life in sight
As she that bears and Stays him and survives,
And gives us back for one
loud-thwarted fiery sun
of e -.
Whose starry sOundless music saith
That light and life wax perfect even thru night
and death.
Another feature of the number is the
beginning of a new. novel by Mrs. Hum
p1ry Ward.
About Getting Servant.-Miss Frances
A. Kelor, writing in The World Today for
June tells some Of the tricks Of trade
found in employment agencies:
If we stated we were thirty and they had
place for a younger person, they calmly said:
For our purposes you are %, tell her so.' When
we said we would work for SIG, the proprietor
said, well, | guess not; l get 10 per cent Of
your first months wages and I'll get $1S or $40
for you. When we modestly said we had only
a 'tlittle experience we found ourselves pro-
posed as Several years experience with the
ence, they Wrote us one or gave us some other
girls, and instead of being "Mary Watson we
were whatever name was In the reference When
we wrote ourselves bad references they said,
cold lady must have had a crouch when she
wrote it; we will change It; no charge" We
asked for general Homework and they said: "You
are green; we are running this general Homework
business out; the other means more pay and
less work; be waitress or a maid; you can bluff
them. - 7
The June number Of The World Today
announces that, beginning with July, the
price Of this great magazine will be S10O
q year, or 10 cents a copy BY this change
of price The World Today becomes the
pioneer dollar magazine in its class.
Spiders Go BalIoor,lng.-"f you anchor
a pole in body Of water, leaving the pole
above the, surface end put a spider upon
1t, he will exhibit marvellous intelligence
by his plans to escape. At first he will
spin web several inches long and hang
to one end while he allows the other to
float off in the wind, In the hope that it
will strike some object. Of course, this
plan proves failure" So says Frank H.
Sweet in 4LlPptneott's for June.
'He climbs to the top Of the pole and
energetically goes to work to construct q
silken balloon. He has no hot air with
which to initiate it., but he has the power
yl~.<s ~.
balloon finished, he does not go off upon
the mere superstition that it will carry
him, as men often do, but he fastens it to
a guy-rope, the other end Of which he at
taches to the island pole upon which he
Is a prisoner. He then gets into his aerial
vehicle, while it is made fast, and tests
it to see whether its dimensions are cap
finds that he has made 1t too small, In
which case he hauls 1t down, takes it al
apart and constructs 1t on larger an0
better plan. A spider has been seen tc
make three different balloons before he be-
came satisfied with his experiment
A Shop That Never Had StrIke.-.The
factory which has for its cardinal princi-
pies fair treatment Of It's men, the pay
ment of an honest days pay for an honest
days work, and which instills into its
employees principles Of loyalty and hon
esty, need have no fear of labor troubles,
says S. M. Vauclain in the Engineering
Magazine for June. ut is the record OF
the Baldwin Locomotive Works that they
have never had strike, neither do they
discriminate In favor Of or against the
union men, The workmen know that the
latchstring to the head Of the establish.
ment is always out, and that any one. Of
whatsoever station, can secure respect
full hearing of any grievance he may have
1t takes years of good faith before the
workingmen can understand that prin-
ciples such as these are traditions Of &
plant, and II such traditions are to be
kept alive they must be instilled in suf
f1cient number of men to form the back.
bone of the later element tt is diff
/ ficult matter to teach an old dog new
tricks, SO that the apprentices offer thu
most fertile field for development of {
good, loyal body of men. =
Other illustrated studies In character
/ iStic branches of engineering arc the con
/ tributions Of the late Herbert G. Fyfe, OF
the latest London Tube railway; O
George L. Fowler. on the labor condition.
in the Pocohontas coal fields: and Of A
1 Frederick Collins on the tMetamorphosi.
In Wireless Telegraph Apparatus
/ One Of the features of Harper's Week.,
for May % is THE Fate Of Spy in Ko
spy caught by Japan. A Russian View o
American Sympathy Is another articl
which will find many readers In view o
the present war
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