BREAKING THE ICE.
We had some offish neighbors once
that moved in down the road.
We reckoned they was "bout the proud-
est folks we'd ever knowed.
An' when we passed 'em now an’ then
we held our heads up higa
To make dead sure they couldn't snub
us if they was to try.
It really made me nervous, so I jes-
braced up one day
An’ thought I'd go ahead an’ show my
manners anyway.
On Sunday, 'stid o' turning round an’
gazing at the view,
I looked at them an’ says, “Hello!”
An’ they says, "Howdy do!"
[t wa'n't
that you've sometimes heard;
They smiled and’ said it
*» they meant it
It's solemn to reflect
along life's way
not jes’ being natural
humored day by day.
There's lots of folks
simple joys of life
Because they dread the
own uuconscious pride.
And nine times out o' ten you'll find
the rule works right and
tae world “Hello!” and
answer "Howdy do!”
-—Wazhington
every word,
By an’ good
fling the
aside,
who
true
Jes’
tell
Star.
vincent Manning was
ttiug awone
for the first “vacation” of their two
years of married life. Moping alone
in the empty house for four days was
beginning so that
he was aimost let Mrs.
Manning know, even at the eost of
jay, that he
two days
York
trv
ir
to try his nerves
tempted to
suddenly spoiling her holid
mad suffered an awkward
after had
The i
had gone wit
baby. Bei
had few
aone
‘he
she
house
at
wa
from the
Having read everytl
played solitaire for an
sverything he
pulled out his
there was Jy
before him
rutch
to telephone for a «
drive in the park,
frey Fairchild, one
friends, staring at the
Manning tapped on the wine
the tip of his erutch and
“Oh, Jeff!
Where on earth did you drop
The visitor was in the hall
Manning could reach the door to greet
him, and they 3a and
laughed li genuine are
glad
“You're a whole
that's what you
ning, gloating
‘You've got to send for
ti1ge and keep bachejor’s hall
t.ill Maud’s come home
down to her mother's wita
never scen that baby,
piano,
Saw
layligh
He h
the sud
was
with
oldtime
low
Come in
hands
nandas
ook
ke
men who
station,
id Man-
friend.
you're bag-
with me
are,
over
yes, sae 8 gone
baby
Jeff
the
you've
where
Do you
second
ze, Jeff, that this only the
) our house
res
time y
were married
I know, Vince,
terribly rushed,” laughed
settiinz down for a chat, “I don’t even
write t« y mother, fact! No, I have
no sweethearts-—at none that I
know of
And they chatted just as
as a couple of women till
came for the
insisted
that ae
afterward,
sheer
you've
since we
“Yes.
east
and
waiter
Manning
ould
fast
the
and
crime to go away
alone like a sick man ir
finement And so it
While Faircaild was at the
Manning was choosing a dinner
two and explaining to the walter, wi
didn’t to understand, that
after, until otherwise instructed
must bring food and service for
instead of one
“We'll get through with this by Sat.
urday,” Manning exclaimed, when he
came in. “Maggie, our revered domes
tie, will back. She's a good
and we'll tax her talent and her pa-
tience to the limit, eh, Jeff?”
Geoffrey Fairchild had been a class
mate of Manning, and they had main.
tained a close and unruffled comrade-
ship till Vincent married Maud Cut
cliffe Some said that Manning had
vanquished a rival in Geoffrey, but at
any rate the wedding was mot in
tolerable to the loser as to prevent him
from appearing as the most blytae
anfl happy of the groomsmen. He
kept up his visits, too, as long as the
Mannings remained in their New York
hotel, but when they moved west, he
hed called but once and
all If Manning had
of a lurking disappointiinen
friend's heart, he was soon pleas
und-celved, for Geoffrey aad never
ved 10d 80 rolll happy as now
Ho ad been in the oll reg.ons of Tex:
as for a month or more and was on
his way homeward he sald. He had
come purposely to spend a few days
and
ana
geem there-
he
two
be cook,
80
written not as
any suspicion
in
at ar
Rada
Ylnegle
KiB Y
son and heir.
paternal yarns about its precocity as
and made himself so gayly at home
that it was 2 o'clock in the morning
when Manning bads him good night at
the doar of hls room.
It was 7 * * * when the walter
came for the breakfast order, and when
¥
it was given Manning saw that his
friend was not yet stirring, and went
back to bed with a parting emphasis
upon the dull ears of the waiter that
he wanted breakfast served at
o'clock. At that hour the bell woke
him again; he hobbled down, let in
the commissary, and went back
rouse Geoffrey. ‘He rapped on the door
but got no answer,
to the darkened room, let up
shades and saw that the bed was not
only empty but that it had been un.
occupied during the night,
searched the rooms and the
before he went downstairs. but
was no sign of either Falrchild or his
baggage On the hall rack.
he found Geoffrey's hat hanging jus!
ernoon before. Tals set
about, but a half hour's search vielded
no further trace of the vanished
The walter was gons There
was no help for it but to continue hus
explorations of alone It
was nearly noon b he began to
feel faint fo his brealkfast
guest,
the house
fore
want of
puzzled, worried
but no Fairchild appeared
from G
mont an
“drop Ir and post
letter had
sy (eof
was almost
ordinary
Manning su
It un rey
t ug IY
turn
i
might
. B *
out of the
that?” ask
“Stealing
gapad
Manning looked at
but Fairchild
without
what de
spyee 1 A
what
Geoffrey
him a moment,
sarried the bravely
ip except
shake
right, Jeff
if you wil
me I
had gone
only
0 all
and
Have
1. but
HAY
your
by
George scared
wrong
something Fair
1d laughed a
went to the carriage, but Man
ning changed the subject with an out
spoken resolve to be on guard against
Geoffrey's “funny” climax, whatever
it might prove When they a
rived at Manning's house Mazgie
there to greet them
“But where is Maud?”
frey, looking around
“Ah, drop that joke of yours.” said
Manning, half annoyed I
all about that
were here.”
“You kn here
said ing
Vince so markedly that
t was not a joke
plained,
slowly
to he
Was
said Geof:
told you
the other day when you
Manning"
the
Manning saw
after all. They ex
almos: quarreled
Fairchild that he had not
been near the house for a year, and
Nanning he
dreamed or the
insisted
t Vin
Fairchild
argued,
ated
that If was in earnest
imagined
ent
alcoholic drinks
thouzht
hall, and
beside
or
the
gure
of
the
that your hat?” he
triumph “It
asked In
has your ini
Or am 1 dream-
sneering
tials in it, hasn't it?
ing again™"
Fairchild took it
“Yen
but
i
smiled and looked
it's an old hat of mine,
I suppose, ROW ee ™
Here Maggie who had paused
overhear the odd debate, sald:
“Please, sorr, if you'll
found that hat in a
wint away last wake
whose "twas, an’ go |
there.”
‘I left it here last summer,” Fair
child said, hesitating, but sure. And
they never did unravel the mystery —
John H. Rafferty,
ord Herald
serious
to
excuse me, |
closet befure 1
I didn't
jumat
JLEPT TWENTY
YEARS,
Dis
A Lonaon Express
wrote recently from
France
Marguarits Bovenval, “the slesping
correspondent
St. Quentin,
On May 21, 1883, she was
thrown into a cataleptic aleep through
fear of a visit from the police, and it
was found impossible to aro
Dr. Charlier, who attended the case,
informed me that he succeeded
seneibility im his pa
tient by giving subcutaneous injec
tions of sulphate of atropime. The
progress and ceased his treatment.
The norpsellke rigidity immediately
were placed.
The doctor is of opinion
woman was never conscious
that the
of what
thought
that at times she heard vaguely what
was being sald to her. Throughout
whole 20 years’ sleep her respiration
remained normal though
temperature little above
thao
perfectly
Was a
five months azo the doctors
of returning consciousness
efforts to revive
time yesterday
and remarked
She did not
seeny to distinetly recognize the mem
awakening, but
4 "NO" 1
She
About
w, signs
nd renewed their
her, Por the first
she opened her eyes
bers of her family on
able to answer’
that
her me
mentioned |
was
questions
took
ars
a sugar
When
YEArs
thie
ficially fed She began, howey
and
consumption
1
Jeton Dactors
{ the
was d iar i he al iutely
without preced science
COLLEGE GOWNS.
How Degree; of Scholarship of
Weavers May be Known.
At most «
Ye
Hance
many-hu
as well
gathered upon
The casu
difference
if any
tha
aye
10008
ROWDS t he initiate
1
can tell instantly not only the
! exact
atta ned by the
learn
rorsity
degree of scholarship
the fa«
ing that awarded it and
where it was
other distinguishing
main ones may be summed up
lows
Matr
student to
ult
rh
the ur
The
wearer, but also 4 of
Are
the
fol-
obtained
points, bu
nlation at the college entitles
wear a gown and a
black woolen materi
ns his
the
mortar-board of
al, usually serge When he wi
bachelor’s de may attach a
hood three his gown, made
of the same woolen material and lined
of hi= alma mater
mas
or en-
titled to wear a silken gown and hood
latter The doctor
ate entitles him also to wear a panel,
gron ho
RT hi
feet long to
with the colors
When the
ter's degree
bachelor attains the
the rate he in
the
four feel long
colors, be
tho
for
lege
to exchange
mortar-board
changes
he open,
the
gift
is the most
adorn
biack
De
which recommended him
White stands for the
arts and letters; l
scariet
He may
with
pearance
I gown
rings
ates the
sia
18
r Of
\ th
OF ne
cial facul
for
gehon! of
the
for
for science
. 3 ryt re.
philosophy theology;
en
ple
i for
aw:
medicine
Underatanding
yellow
these distinctions,
the visitor at a college fur
wate he long procession of nota
bloa fil o thelr places upon the plat
at a glance the
earch faculty
mmended him and the
that conferred it Ocea-
sionally he may err in the last point,
form can recognize
the
for it
university
alma mater
Revolving Fans,
{ noticed gomething new In electric
and it struck me as of
sufficient novelty to mention here. You
contrivance has occupied a fixed posi.
tion, with the current always propelied
in one direction. Now this has been
attachment projecting from the fas
in frort. The fan itself is on a plvrt
As the current strikes the rudder fia
it causes the whole thing to revolve
slowly, thus distributing the air cur.
rent in all directions with sach revolu.
tion. As all-round wind jammers, how-
ever, I know some fellows who would
talk a revolving fan back the way
it eame, but perhaps [ had better not
go into that.Pittaburg Dispaten.
The poetic nature of the patient
Servian is shown by the wiping out
of King Alexander on the anniversary
of the removal, in a similar manugar,
The Law Has Changed but
Little in Hundreds of Years
Man Could
memory of man runneth
The same definitions
but littie,
nw,
quirements of justice just as it has
little amendment necessary, except in
Of course, many things have
law to simplify and expedite the trial
san say they
selecting juries, the conduct
have changed and are stil
toward two objective points
of the law,
IHustrative
in the
method
to the
I will zo
ence on the
trial and punishment of
possib made
Substantial j§
main, resvits from
is the only danger |
control or jurisdictio
devices,
of
changing,
of
criminal b
of procedure now
within the two
even beyond that, |
lead mo to
crime
branc}
court
bench the
are
he
tice
the
Convictions ar
1y safeguards around
nt man
the
fair
alr
rn
has thrown so many
impossible tha! an
I am of the
every man
bar with re
Prove the existing condi hi
noes
opinion that law
crime a
not to the contrary.”
of crime that have been handed down
The law has changed
many years past, and there is very
the way of detail and application,
accompanied in the practice of
of cases
so simple that I think 1
The manner of
the rules of evidence
of detail all trend
stration
are
and
matiers
perfect
by
but
jury
these
admini
may be brought to trial
that under the present
any oy ) tod
that cannot be presented
a man
will say
no
limitation
it my twenty-five years of experi
the courts
case
tory
of tod
as any human insti
fallure to
otherwise
The
by death
and it
Wwe
or
rials
reached
at the
that
and
eriminal
fcted,
thie
he conv
and practice it day
impartial t i is brought to t
would 1
consider admirable.
ZT
By the Editor of
on's
race
long ago
ath
paiDoOs
greatest
wi
the Denver Post,
thi
Men
the lauzh
man who {a
laugh
can’t
and Away
fight
man
Angry
grim and Prejudice
{ humor—with the smile
plain and distortion
n for
here have been
frivolity are strangely
happiness
and akin
national
pervades
hn
a
me
tha!
nations, but gayet}
Germany whose
: Sadness
that above all it
and frivolous
That gay
ied by mel
louded 304 Y.
American laugh is
there's a sound,
healthy, v
The
national
never a forced
Empires and
great
laugh, and
langh. It is
powers have
ahead
2
Acrimonious
an irascible old man
worked himself up to su
perfectly intolerable
f the gout” In hot
age to “keep cool”
begets irritability and
| mania and insanity
is a pleasant ch
more apt even whe
the nineties At such
the health, and
vie
doubtediy
fact that sui
when
how mueh
mometer 8 in
a direct influence
cids
there
on
system
go to their cool offices,
although it goes without saying, that th
aAnxioef
their
o%
very magnitude
pin pricks of life
the contact w
are oblized
exactions
very
and importance
that
he uneducated,
of small
trying the
endurance
lesson its effecl.
doubt to
evils is calm
it will greatly
Fg
Americas
it. RB 5B
thing Investigate the
practical something behind
igorous, spontaneous :
in solemn serious
lips, forges
Fg
Humor...
characters depicted is that of
things contrariwise
that made him
“until finally,” sayy
into a hiasing hol
is a great advant
Heat un
is a well knows
wave, and subside
one is aware
when the ther
bacause went
he
about hir
to all
of self-control. It
a hot
every
increase with
while
person ia to “snap”
times, {gs said, mental irritation has
that the “acrimonious hu are nc
which may affect the genera
wives Thes
sryra’’
1078
s{ram
Lions
ey have much to worry them, and many
rritability, inasmuch ar
soning a necessity. ¥
render calm rea
reatu
in managing 1
ren All these little
the only known
* ours cannot
Fr
res that the generality
ir servants, the fret
tribulations are
panacea for
remove the
but
By Dan Beard.
AKE bags with draw
ton flannel for fish
your
Have
can
for
everything you need
gilk for yoour tooth-br
reels and chintz of different
for
g—olled
colors
of trunks You can get
1
them for from 75 cents to $1.50 apiece
They have doubls
pen braid, and vary in size from twe
a rubber dri
compass
weighing at least three pounds, some
minum Kind,
simple medicines,
thread, common pins and safety pins.
a lot of hairpins.
An axe
lanterns, preferably of the folding alu
If there are ladies along, don’t forget
button tight around the ankles
or other bugless or thornleds resorts.
allow them to
provisions,
Wireless Telegraphy in Forests.
M. Maiche, a French inventor, has
made some experiments with wireless
telegraphy in the forests of 8t. Ger.
main. The transmitter was placed
on the top of a house, but connected
to the ground in the manner of a
lightning rod. A thousand yards dis
tant two iron poles 50 feet apart were
connected together by wire, and had
a telephone receiver in circuit. Sounds
from the transmitter were plainly
heard in it. Receivers off the line
of transmission do not catch the mes.
sage.
A British parliamentary paper
shows that as ususl, mearly 20,000
British Isles last year. Whenve, then
the “superfluous woman?”
die, during the first weeks and monthe
of life, at a far greater rate than the
supposed “weaker vessels.” In a few
months they have sunk to an equality
and soon woman takes the lead, num
erically, and keeps it, numerically,
The reason is not unconnected with
the larger size of the baby boy's head,
for which he either pays the penalty
very early or reaps the reward-—if
woman will forgive the hint--later
The State of New H
more than $5,000,000 seach
hire gota
from
summer boarders.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Geperal Trade Conditions,
Bradstreet's says: “Warm, foreing
weather has been the keynote of the
for the winter wheat har-
splendid progress by and
cotton, enlargement in retail trade
summer goods, generally
backward, and, what is most
of all, bringing about
cheerful feeling as to the
conditions
vest, corn
in
afore
ortant
Ton b
look for business general
for the
nbered 162,
the like
n 1900, and
not reported
ro,
‘id
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS
21
Eastern
a2.00:
§100@4.00;
dutch, $4004
wla, per
Maryland anc
size $1.00G 1.00;
basket $1.00@ 1.25;
ket soto. CC
half-barre!
per full
Arundel, per basket
ib. state
5.00
2
crate
i
basket
$4000 4.50
fw
fer
vet
barrel
>
:
per bt
-Rappahan
OOH
Stock
Re G00
lower: good to
poor to meh
Chicage —" y le se
head; market iil 100
prime steers $4000
um, $4.0004.80;
$2.75 4.00; COWS
4.75: canners,
119t 8
cif
4
4
£18
4
steagy i
t
11.
lambs
vi te
fair tr
native lambs
sales, $25.70 5.00
x00 head ; sheep 10
choice, firm: others
hoice wethers, 31.7
~hoice mixed, $3.000G375;
$3.0006.70
East Liberty
choice $5.4003'5.%0;
good $4Reaeno, Hogs active: prim*
wavy $6006.65; medium $6 30006 32
heavy Yorkers $6 1waban: Light. «dr
WH.goirb to: pigs $5800.60; roarghr
$4.00n5.50. Sheep steady: best worl
ers $4154.25: culls and common
$r.s0fm2.25; yearlings $3005.00; veal
calves $7.000@7.28.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
When the Mississipi river is at flood
ane can drink fresh water from the
Gull ten miles from the river's mouth,
In Utah there are larg: deposits of
radioactive uraninm ores and com
pounds that are about to be oened
Analysis shows that they will vill &f
teen grains of radium to the ton of ore
Cuba is still exempt from yellow fo
ver and smallpox owing to the excl
tent sanitary administration of the
felend while vader the control of the
United States by Governor Wood and
his associstes
“ Bus
any
Pa—Cattle st
prime $g186 8 8