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HARDY an artist of
EDWAIID and his friend
Alfred Moore the art critic of
the Planet were smoking in the stu
dio of the former It was a delight
ful morning with the sun streaming
into the room and through the open
windows came the hum of the streets
Intermingled with the chirping of
Jbirds
Bj George Ilardy suddenly Moore
burst out as he dropped upon a chair
with his eyes fixed in wonder on a
jpainting in front of him surely this
is a product of a master hand Ive
never seen you working at it
No answered the rrtist Ive done
3t in the strictest privacy its been a
ilabor of love to me for the last three
ivears since in fact I began an artis
Uic career Its finished now and I
feel as if I had lost something out of
my life
Anyhow it shows that youre a
painter of genius old man said the
critic with genuine appreciation I
havent seen such a work of talent for
many a long day You must send it
to the academy there are still three
days left for submitting pictures to
rthe hanging committee I make bold
to prophesy that it will be the painting
of the year
The picture in question was a rather
Ilarge one hanging in the center of the
wall immediately behind the artists
easel Whu at work he had but to
raise his eyes to catch sight of the
rara avis which he had christened
The Dawn of Love It represented
-a beautiful girl of tall and stately fig-
nire seated lost in thought in front
of the fire in her room whither she
had come from the ballroom indicated
by her lushed cheeks and the uniform
of the dance in which she was dressed
Her sparkling eyes betokened tbe kin-
dling of a flame within her heart to
which it had hitherto been a stranger
and one did not need to look twice at
lier face to understand that Cupid had
shot one of his arrows with unerring
aim that night In her imagination
she was still tripping through the dance
with her partner the man who had
brought the dawn of love to her
SOUl
After much persuasion the painter
agreed to submit The Dawn of Love
to Burlington house and they proceed
ed to pack the precious work of art
A few hours later they personally de
livered it at the Mecca of the knights
or the palette and the brush
jtfay had again dawned on a waiting
-and thankful world and all who were
conspicuous in the worlds of beauty
brains and business crowded the gal
leries of the Royal Academy at the
private view Progress amid such
a throng became nigh impossible and
ever and anon one came across a block
round some particular exhibit so that
for several minutes all movement was
completely stopped
Halloa Hardy exclaimed Alfred
Moore who just then ran against the
artist meandering through the show
rooms youre the luckiest dog alive
You and your picture are the one theme
of art talk I got the merest peep at
your gem awhile back but it was so
diotly besieged that I was forced to
retreat
I never dreamed there existed such
enthusiasm for art murmured the
painter now evidently much excited
Surely it is phenomenal
Not more so than the phenomenal
nature of the work demands re
sponded the other Its most for
tunate that your personality is un
known otherwise you would almost
be mobbed and killed by kindness
one of the penalties of success
lingo its hot in here exclaimed
Ilardy wiping his forehead Well
Clinch at the Cafe Royal on the strength
of what the gods have sent me fame
and perhaps fortune
And they left the Temple of Art for
the more prosaic surroundings of the
restaurant
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Inclosed 1 bey to hand you check
Tor 500 at the request of the purchas
er in payment or your painting The
Dawn of Lovk So ran the formal
letter from the secretary of the acad
cmy and as he read it the young ar
tists heart beat wildly with legitimate
ipride
At last he cried I have got over
the barrier that ever has to be climbed
ere genius receives its due acknowl
edgment But whos my patron and
he took up the cheque it was signed
Henry Greet Dont know the gen
tleman continued Hardy pouring out
Jhis second cup of coffee
Then he read his other correspond
ence an offer of 1000 for his next
picture and three letters from deal
ers anxious to be his middlemen The
latter he cast on one ide re
serving the others for replies Break
fast over Hardy thought he would
look Moore up so lighting a cigar and
putting the two letters in his pocket
he set out for his friends chambers
Ln the Temple
The journalist was writing an article
on Pictures and Painters of the Pe
riod for the Week a high class pa
per whose opinions were much prized
ly people of light and leading Moore
looked up smiling as the painter en
tered the sanctum
Just the man I wanted to see
said he putting down his pen what
do you think of this and forthwith
read
The present exhibition of the Roy
al academy will ever stand out promi
nently in the annals of British art as
the one that introduced to the world the
greatest painter of genius since Sir
Joshua Reynolds finally laid down his
brush This is no mere high falutin
but is simply placing on record the
consensus of opinion of the most com
petent judges- in artistic circles the
academicians themselves We refer
to Edward Hardy whose Dawn of
Love has made such a sensation and
is attracting such vast crowds to Bur
lington house
I am astonished with the success
the picture has met with though I
felt it was the best bit of work Ive
ever done rejoined the artist While
it was in progress it enchanted me so
much that it grew as though painted
by divine hands And when in its
presence the genius of painting al
ways appeared to guide my brush in
whatever work I was engaged I
begin a new picture to morrow
I shouldnt old fellow why not
take a good rest suggested the other
Then you will have redoubled zest
for your work
Yes I think youre right said
Hardy after a pause Im feeling a bit
seedy and I can now run to it espe
cially after this and he threw the
letter containing the check across the
table to his friend
Its all right so far as it goes but
you might get four times that sum
for the picture before the academy
closes was his comment Your pa
tron however is worth cultivating
a south African millionaire baronet
Indeed but I must acccept his bid
money and I have long been anything
but intimate acquaintances and now
its inclined to be chummy I mustnt
say it nay laughed the artist What
should I say to this chappie he went
on passing the other letter
That you will accept the commis
sion if he can wait as you are going
away for a month those are your
orders said the critic returning the
letters Im going to rest myself and
shall take you off with me to Paris for
a month
Having agreed to go by the express
from Charing Cross the following
night they parted till then the jour
nalist to finish his article and the paint
er to answer his two correspondents
III
It would surpass the wit of man to
imagine a more miserable morning
All night long the wind had blown
as though it meant to break its record
and with the daylight the rain came
down in that determined manner it
assumes when it intends to continue
all da3
As the miserable hours of daylight
waned the gale was still undiminished
and as our travelers turned Strand
ward they thought the cab must be
blown into nothingness however it
remained intact and they were soon
racing toward the sea in the express
As they approached Dover the rain
ceased and the wind dropped consider
ably but there was still enough left
to indicate a rough passage
They were soon moving toward the
gangway to board the steamer The
journalist was descending and the ar
tist about to follow when a sudden
blow in the back sent him almost off
his legs Hastily looking around he
was surprised to see a young lady
sitting in the middle of the gangway
and he at once assisted her up
May I offer you my arm he asked
Thank you I must accept else I
shall never reach the boat
They were soon on board and the
laly sought the saloon The artist
and his friend paced the -deck during
the passage and as the wind dropped
the moon rose and the stars came out
So enjoyable became the scene that
they were sorry when they arrived at
Calais
It was not till Paris was reached
that Hardy again spoke to his fair
assailant As they -were exchanging
cards she suddenly exclaimed Oh
theres my father I must intro
duce you At that instant a tall el
derly jovial looking man came up and
was introduced as Sir Henry Greet
and the daughter told how Hardy had
saved her from what might have been
a nasty accident
It is an unexpected pleasure to meet
such a famous artist said the baron
et You and your friend must dine
with us to night we are at the Hotel
de lAthenee Rue Scribe
The dinner was a jolly affair and
at its conclusion they separated with
buoyant spirits Especially was this
the case with Hardy upon whom Miss
Greet had m ide a deep impression
During the next few days they met
repeatedly and ere long their friend
ship ripened into something which the
artist concluded must be love
They visited the salon together and
did all the sights in each others society
had eyes and ears for nothing else
but their individual selves When the
artist and the journalist left the gay
city the latter took it as a matter of
course when he was told that the for
mer was engaged to Miss Greet The
baronet and his family were to stay an
other month in Paris
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Hardy had just finished his morning
pipe and was selecting a subject suit
able for the commission he had to exe
cute His mind was brimful of ideas
for paintings so that it was no easy
task to make a choice At length he
decided that the work should be called
Beside Still Waters a lady strolling
in the twilight by a quiet stream read
ing a letter from her lover
Now Miss Nash if you please we
will begin he said to his model and
placed her in the desired position
Then the artist took up his palette and
brush and seated himself in front of
the blank canvas
Then it was that his eyes missed a
well known sight and they glared
around the studio in bewilderment
With an effort and a sigh he pulled
himself to gether and settled down ta
work Dipping the brush in the color
he lifted it to the canvas and mad6
nothing but a smear upon the sheet
Again and again he essayed to bring
back his departed talent but in vain
With intense and unutterable horror
it dawned upon him that his artistic
genius had been but an intellectual
No sound escaped
from him he was as one transfixed
staring with wide open eyes at the
canvas bespattered with daubs with
out form and void and anon to the
blank wall beyond his easel
All the time the model had been an
astonished witness of this remarkable
scene but as the brush fell from
Hardys grasp and sinking upon a
chair he covered his face with his
hands in abject misery she rushed
up to him Are you ill Mr Hardy
she asked breathlessly
Oh its nothing only only I cant
paint all conception of how to do it
has completely gone like a frightful
dream Avhen one awakes Its awful
And an eternal darkness seemed tc
gather over his very being
Just then there was a knock at the
door and the baronet and his daughtei
were ushered in They were deeply
concerned at the phenomenon that had
occurred to the artist
Now jou and Mary must marry
and then possibl3r the baronet said
laughing your intellectual blight will
disappear Youll bo all right financial
ly Ive arranged that part of the busi
ness so it wont matter if you never
paint again
A fortnight later the wedding took
place Hardy was too occupied to dwell
on his lost genius Three da3Ts only
remained of their hone3rmoon in Scot
land when a telegram arrived an
nouncing that Sir Henry Greet had
died suddenl3 from paralysis So
with heavy hearts the 3Toung couple
at once returned to London
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Six months had gone since the weu
ding and the painter and his wife
were living in the late baronets house
in Grosvenor square which along
with all the other property of the
dead man had been left to them But
Hardy still hankered after his lost
art and continued to rent his old stu
dio
One morning he and Moore were
smoking in the familiar room every
thing had been kept exactly as on the
da3 when the artists genius left him
Alfred said Hardy Ive a strange
fanc3T if The Dawn of Love were
placed again on the wall be3ond the
easel I think I could paint a little
Lets act upon the idea
A couple of hours afterward the fa
mous picture was in its old position
Hard3 sat before a clean canvas The
model posed for Beside the Waters
and after a steadfast look at The
Dawn of Love the artist began opera
tions To his great surprise the old
skill came back to him as quickly as
thought and with such a power as he
had never known before and once
more the glow of inspiration shone in
his eyes
At the next exhibition of the Ro3al
Academy Beside Still Waters was
even more popular than the celebrat
ed Dawn of Love
Ever afterward Edward Hardys ge
nius for painting was marvelous when
The Dawn of Love was before him
but unless in the presence of this talis
man iie had not the remotest notion of
his art Cases are on record where by
sheer force of will painters have given
to their brain creations the figures
in their pictures the power of
their authors the artists them
selves Hence it has now and again
arisen that a painter has only been
able to work at all while in view of
one of his masterpieces And thus it
was with Hardy and his Dawn of
Love
The magic influence of a product of
the intellect as our story shows is
but an indication that there is a genius
and an inspiration imparted to some
by ways that we cannot fathom but
which are the inscrutable designs of
the being beauteous London Tit Bits
Napoleon and Ancient Nobilitj
Of the ancient nobility the Emperoi
once said with a sneer I offered them
rank in m3 army they declined the
service I opened my antechambers tc
them the3 rushed in and filled them
To this sweeping statement there werfi
noteworthy1 exceptions but oe
the whole Napoleon never classed tlu
estate of the French nobles lower thai
they deserved Still they had a powei
which he recognized and it was wit
a sort of grim humor that he began to
distribute honors and the sops of pat
ronage among both the old and the
new aristocracy a process which onlj
made the latter independent and failed
to win the affections of the former
Century
Hilloo Is this the feed sthore
Will sind up at once a bale of hay
two quarts of bran and a- bushel of
oats Who is it fhore Ah dont git
gay Its fhore the horse Life
FACTS E0E FAEMERS
HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR
THE AGRICULTURISTS
A Prolific Breed of Sheep New Prim
ing Shears Having a Sliding Blade
Hov to Select Potatoes for Seed
Dehorning Young Calves
Shropshire Sheep
The Shropshire branch of the Down
family partakes of the general charac
teristics of the Southdown says the
Orange Judd Farmer although much
heavier both in fleece and bodj and
also more robust It is said to be the
most prolific of all breeds of sheep the
average rate of increase in some flocks
of pure Shropshire often being 150 per
cent while the product from the cross
of the Shropshire ram on half bred
long wool ewes frequently reaches 200
per cent The prolific tendencj of the
Shropshire is a point of great import
ance with the breeder as it materially
Increases the profits in furnishing early
lambs for the market They are also
good mothers and generally have an
abundance of milk for their young in
this respect differing from many of the
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large breeds The Shropshire has a
longer face of uniform dark tint than
the Southdown a full and spirited eye
spreading ears of good size and a fore
head rather flat and well wooled Their
fleece weight is generally from five to
seven pounds The meat is like the
Southdowns in fineness of texture the
presence of fat in the tissues and rich
ness of color These sheep are hardjr
In moist climates and will endure a
wide range of soil and feeding The il
lustration herewith shows a blue rib
bon ram lamb belonging to W H Beat
tie of Canada
Potatoes for Seed
There needs to be greater care taken
in selecting potatoes Not only the
right form and size are important but
it is quite as much so that the seed
should be grown from plants that have
kept their vigor until the tubers were
fulry ripened and that had not suffer
ed from attacks of the potato bug says
the Orange Counts Farmer The onl3
way to be absolutely sure about having
good potato seed is to mark the strong
est hills while the3 were growing and
select the best potatoes from these
hills Such seed should easily be
worth five times as much per bushel
for planting as seed selected at ran
dom from a pit or bin If a farmer
can once get started with seed of this
character it will require much less
labor to fight the potato bug It is a
good plan also to try the new varie
ties as quickly as they come into mar
ket Most varieties grown from seed
will yield much heavier crops for two
or three years after their introduction
than they ever will again
Dishorning Calves
Dishorning calves when two to three
days old with the chemical dishorners
which I believe are simpl3T dissolved
potash is in my case a complete suc
cess says a contributor to the Country
Gentleman I have found a better waj
for me jet I will describe the chemical
way Before the horn has come through
the skin on the second da3 after birth
if possible cut the hair away from the
place where the horn would come you
can feel the bump and moisten a
place as large as a silver quarter dollar
thoroughly with the dishorning fluid
rubbing it in with a small swab Do
not drop an3r on clothes flesh or on the
calfs eyes In ten minutes rub more
on Then let alone and have no more
uneasiness on the horn question in the
case of that calf A brown crust forms
which is the skin killed b3r the dishorn
er Let this alone and it will come off
in due time To make the chemical dis
horner dissolve a little potash in as lit
tle water as will do keep in a glass
stoppered bottle
Fresh Water for Hogs
No animal suffers more frequent 3
froni thirst than does the hog especial
ly when it is fattening If it is fed
milk and swill the latter made salt3
by the addition of the brine made from
salt pork while it is being freshened
its case is so much the worse Milk
contains some water but it is so mix
ed with fat and casern that it cannot
serve as a substitute for water as any
one may see by placing fresh water
where the hogs can get it at will They
will not drink large amounts The
hogs stomach is hot large enough to
hotel a great bulk either of food or
drink But the hogs that have fresh
water will have better digestion and
if fattening will be more free from
fever for having pure water On many
farms so much salt meat is freshened
and the water used in doing this is
saved for the swill barrel that the
hogs fe swill are constantly suffering
intense thirst making them unhealthy
and diminishing their ability to make
the best use of the food they eat
Fraud Among Jtfilk Dealers
The report of the Massachusetts
State Dairy Bureau calls attention to
a new fraud practiced by milk dealers
which cannot be reached under the
isting statutes It appears that cer
tain milk when tested has the re
quired amount of milk solids but the
percentage of fat is very low It has
been found that this State of affairs is
due to the addition of a condensed
skimmed milk after the cream lias been
removed bj the dealer The report
sa3S that the dealer practicing this
fraud cannot be successfully prosecut
ed because it cannot be proved that
the cream has been removed and the
addition of the condensed skimmed
milk is not an addition of a foreign
substance prohibited by statute It
appears that a concern in New York
is doing a thriving business furnishing
dealers with the condensed skimmed
milk The number of cans of milk
received by dealers in Boston in 1S95
was 9850500 of which there were
sold S0i0732 each can containing 8
quarts This quantity supplied about
three fourths of the greater Boston
district American Cultivator
Potatoes for Cows
Potatoes have been found in many
trials to be an excellent feed for meat
production and the general estimate
of their value for this purpose is that
four pounds of tubers are about equal
to one pound of meal Some rate them
even higher than this Their value ac
cording to the Orange County Farmer
however does not depend upon the
nutrition they contain solely but upon
the fact that as part of the ration they
tend to keep stock healthy and are an
aid to digestion No very accurate
data exists as to their value in milk
production although the3r used to be
regarded as a good milk feed in a gen
eral way Some experiments confirm
the old time view witn the qualifica
tion however that when fed largely
they lower the quality of the product
to some extent but a small ration of
sajr live to six pounds a day produces
no effect upon quality and is valuable
from a sanitary point of view and for
the sake of variety answering in this
respect to the office performed by roots
in mixed feeding While pigs do not
readity eat raw potatoes or at least
prefer them cooked cows eat them
with avidity in their raw state
The Grain of Butter
When the butter has come and ap
pears in little irregular masses from
a pins head to a large pea in size is the
time to draw off the butter in the churn
This removes most of the buttermilk
sajs the Massachusetts Ploughman
After being then gathered and removed
from the churn worked washed and
salted on the butter worker at the
proper temperature we find upon
breaking it that it has a granular look
The mass seems to be made of little
particles with a slightly glistening ap
pearance This is called the grain
These small particles are partially kept
apart b3 films of water after salting
this water becomes brine and the pe
culiar texture thus imparted to the but
ter is a test of proper manufacture
Over churn or overwork it churn or
work it at the wrong temperature and
the grain is gone never to be restored
and with it is gone a large percentage
of the selling value of butter Enough
water brine must be gathered to pro
duce this appearance which distin
guishes butter from grease Con
sequently the most perfect grain is ob
tained by washing it in the churn be
fore the butter is gathered
gNciv Pruning Shears
Here are a pair of garden shears
which are constructed on a principle
quite different from ordinary shears
The latter will no matter how sharp
never cut twigs and branches very
easy The way they shut pushes the
twig away from the cutting edge and
much force is useless spent The
shears shown in our cut are quite dif
ferent in that respect the upper blade
while closing slides toward the hand
SHEAIIS nWE A SLIDIXG BLADE
b3 a simple yet very ingenious contriv
ance which is fully explained in the
illustration The sliding upper blade
does not allow the twig to slip away
from the grasp of the shears but will
even draw it into its cutting edge The
inventor of these garden shears is now
constructing other scissors upon the
same principle and claims that cutting
of several layers of cloth is performed
with much less use of force and with
better results than with the old time
scissors
Odds and Knds
Clover tea is excellent for purifying
the blood clearing the complexion and
removing pimDles Dried clover may
be used for the tea
If castor oil is applied to a wart once
a day for a month the wart will en
tirely disappear In many cases it wil
not require so long a time
Water carrying a little salt in solu
tion is said to be an excellent wash for
tired or inflamed eyes when stronger
solutions may prove injurious
The discovery that cold coffee is an
excellent tonic for growing plants
should do away with the last remnants
of the custom of warming over cold
coffee
To prevent a bruise from discoloring
apply immediately hot water or if
that is not at hand moisten some dry
starch with cold water and cover the
bruised place
It is said that if parsley is eaten with
onions or a salad containing onions the
odor of the onion will not affect the
breath The sprigs or parsley should
be eaten as you would celery
OUR FOREIGN TRADE
Way in Which Our Export of Man
ufactures Should Be Built Up
To work up a demand and properly
to introduce our manufactured goods in
foreign markets require greater energy
and aptitude than in selling cereals
provisions and raw materials for the
reason that it becomes necessary to ca
ter to the tastes and overcome the pre
judices of consumers while in the case
of raw materials the exporter deals
with wholesalers and manufactur
ers who themselves convert the pro
ducts into manufactured articles suita
ble to the wants of their people Hence
a manufacturer and exporter must ex
pend much time labor and mone3 to
introduce his wares abroad requiring
a large preliminary outla3 and careful
study of the wants of the different
markets coupled with untiring energy
and perseverance Returns and profits
are necessarily slow That frequently
discourages exporters in their first ef
forts and causes them to abandon the
attempt to introduce their goods in
competition with others alread3 well
known and established in the market
thej seek to enter
The prejudices of foreigners are diffi
cult to overcome but the energy and
of our business men who go
abroad to cultivate new markets should
be equal to the occasion and capable
of overcoming all obstacles With our
inexhaustible natural resources im
proved machinery and inventions of all
kinds and an increasing supply of skill
ed labor ever3 year this county is ca
pable of making rapid strides in the ex
pansion of its foreign export trade
provided our capitalists manufactur
ers and merchants give it the thought
and attention that it deserves If only
one half of the capital energy and at
tention that is now absorbed in manip
ulating stocks trusts and other inflat
ed schemes was devoted to the develop
ment of legitimate manufacturing en
terprises and to seeking consumers for
their products abroad the country
would become more and more prosper
ous each 3ear and be able to provide
emplo3ment for her skilled artisans
whose labor is the foundation and
inainsta3 of her wealth Century
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W T Stead believes that it is high
time that we return to the old custom
of political tracts driven out of ex
istence b3 the modern newspaper His
first tracts will deal with the Armenian
and the Venezuelan questions as Mr
Stead sees them
The new English magazine Cosmopo
lis seems to have been a great success
An edition of twenty four thousand
copies of the first number was entirely
exhausted Of the second number a
first edition of eighteen thousand has
been printed It has been well received
on the Continent
The United States Book Company of
New York has through its receiver
Charles W Gould sold the stock in
trade cop3rights etc of the United
States Book Lovell Coryell
Co and the International Book
Compaq to a new corporation which
will conduct the business under the
title of the American Publishers Cor
poration
Mrs E L3nn Linton in a recent num
ber of The Woman at Home writes
most entertainiuglj of Landor Thack
era3 and Dickens Landor she knew
from her girlhood and through
him became acquainted with the other
two Dickens bought Gadshall from
the estate of Mr L3nn Mrs Lintons
father for the small sum of seventeen
hundred pounds Mr Lynn had seen
the place and coveted it as a joung
man and bought it when he grew old
er Dickens did the same thing
Max Nordaus manuscript is some
times almost microscopical Pie sends
iall his manuscript as It is written off
to the printers and has it sent back
as soon as the work is composed He
fthen has the complete manuscript
bound into a volume He can tell by
the look of his writing what degree of
concentration of spirit he had reach
ed while writing such or such a pas
sage The Paradoxes which he
wrote in 1S84 is a printed volume of
four hundred and fourteen pages The
manuscript is contained in sixty five
pages
A volume of Yailima Table Talk
by Mrs Strong and Lloyd Osborne will
be published early in the present
month Mrs Strong it be remem
bered was Mr Stevensons amanuen
sis and Mr Osborne as is well known
collaborated with him in several of his
stories This Table Talk was taken
down while it was fresh in the memory
of both and with the consent of Mr
Stevenson who submitted to being
Bos wellized though he rather made a
joke of it The book is said to be most
interesting and there is every reason
to believe it
A French Blessing
Green to Black who is preparing for
a continental trip How do you get on
with your language old fellow
Black Capitall Why Ive got so
far now that I can think in French
Green Well thats a blessing for
its more than you could ever do in
English Tit Bits
He Had Been
Miss Gush Oh captain were yon
ever boarded by a pirate
Captain Storms Yes He charged
me 11 a day for a hall room on the
fourth floor Indianapolis Journal
J When n man plays cards in the af
coon it Is regarded as a sign of shift
1 lessness
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