SOMETHING, = - It the world seams cold to you, Kindle fires to warm it, Let their comfort hide from you Winters that deform fit. Hearts as frozen as your own To that radiance gather ; You will soon forget to moan “Ah ! the cheerless weather.” If the world's a ‘‘vale of tears,” - Smile till rainbows span it, Breathe the love that life endears— Clear from clouds to fan it. Of your gladness lend a gleam Unto souls that shiver; - Show them how dark sorrow’s stream Blends with hope’s bright river! i His Freshman Romance. BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN. - _ Apropos of finding photographs, did you fellows ever hear about Briar- wood’s romance. In. our freshman year it happened. Briarwood was not exactly in our crowd, you know, but we all came from the same fitting school,and so at first we saw a good deal of him. I remember I went over to his room that first evening after he was settled and found him sitting in his big arm- chair before the open fire.” He jumped up quickly when TI came in and laid something slyly on the man- telpiece. It looked likea photograph, and I began to blow him about being homesick so soon and asked if he was looking at mother’s picture. He flushed . up quickly and 8aid it was nothing to be ashamed of if it had been his mother’s picture, but that as “it happened it was no such thing. _ Then he changed the subject and asked how I liked the room. ‘“‘Have you noticed my desk?’ he asked, pretty proudly. ‘I bought it of Thorne, the fellow who had this room last. He was first marshal last class day and a first-rate fellow, too, I judge. Great, isn’t it, Stockton?” It wasa handsome desk—mahogany, roll-top, with brass knobs and all that. He unlocked and rolled up the top for my benefit. “Thorne gave me the key himself, with his alumnus blessing, today,” he said, ‘‘and when I asked if ‘finding was having’ he laughed and said I was welcome to whatever I found in the old ark, for he was pretty sure there was nothing but undergraduate dust in the cracks.” : ‘‘But you did find something after - all?’ I asked quickly, for though he is a good lawyer now, he néver could keep a secret in those days. “Oh, well, not much,’’ he said, care- lessly; but I saw him glance toward the mantel. I guessed in a minute what it was, and before he could stop me I sprang for the photograph at which he had been looking when IT en- tered. He jumped up angrily. ‘‘Give me that photograph!” “Oh, bo! So it’s-a girl, is it? And a mighty pretty one, too.” The girl was evidently tall and dark, with a splendid figure, a strong face— almost masculine, but . perfectly feat- ured—and great big, dark eyes full of fun. She had a hugeshade hat hang- ing by its ribbons and was smiling so as to show the prettiest teeth I ever ‘Baw. : : “Thorne was a lucky fellow. I ‘wonder—ah, here's a name on the back,” I went on,composedly. ‘‘ ‘Rose Thorne.” Pshaw! So she was only his sister! What a fake!” Briarwood had the picture by this ‘time and after putting it away in the desk turned upon me indignantly again, ‘You had no business to meddle with it,”’ said he. : “‘She’s a stunner,’’] answered, ‘‘and if ‘finding is having,” Briarwood, T ad- ~ vise you to huntup the original pretty quick, old man.” = With this parting shot I hurried out of the room, dodging the curve on a Greek lexicon that came tumbling after me. After that I saw more or less of Briarwood, principally less, for he soon grew too popular to stay in our set. ‘He was easilythe man of his class and no wonder, for take him all around, he is about as fine a chap as I ever saw. It was one evening along about the first of June, ¥ think, when one of the fellows—Goodrich; expelled the year we graduated—came running into my room all out of breath for laughing and threw himself into my chair, so weak he could hardly speak. ¢‘Oh, it’s the rich joke on Briar- wood,” he gasped at last; ‘‘it’s the photograph.he always carries around with 'him—°‘Rose Thorne’— oh, my eye!” And he exploded again. ‘‘That picture—it’s Thorne’s own photo, taken last year in the Pi Eta theatricals. Here’s a duplicateof it. I found it in Van Ruyter’s room today.” And he pulled out of his pocket another like- ness of the fair Rose Thorne. The joke was too good to keep. The idea of dignified old Briarwood being in love with another fellow—a shaven and - bewigged ‘‘Rose’’ blossoming on the Thorne tree! ' ‘And he carried that thing around “in his vest pocket next his heart!” roared Goodrich. ‘‘I saw it the other day at the gym. Oh, the soft meat! He’ll never hear the last of this!” Then we concocted the fine scheme. We agreed that the crowd should meet around at Briarwood’s rooms some evening, quite accidentally, and man- age to bring ‘‘Rose Thorne’ into the * talk’ somehow, till he fired up, then we would give it all away and explain that his lady-love existed only as a strapping alumnus,and the joke would be on him for the Benefit of the whole college. For we planned to get a ver- sion of it into the ‘‘Lampoon,” with portraits. ’ * We set one night just before class- day for our seance, and all the boys promised to be there to see poor old Briarwood through with it. Well, sirs, that evening Harry was in his best mood. He had just finished his last examination and was feeling pretty fine altogether, for his year’s rank © was a sure thing; however, the profs ~ might play the deuce with the rest of : He did the honors in great shape I sign of Saring or any b alone the photograp rg2t up and out of here as ‘whose | b Bb ~ i original he had never seen. The boys began to put up the game before long. ‘Goodrich was the one to start if off. “I say, fellows,”” he called across the room, ‘‘don’t yout remember little Thorne? Yes, you do, at Adams’ spread a year ago—Ilittle Rose in the | red dress?’ We had all come on for class day the year before. “£¢Oh, yes,” said another fellow, with a grin; ‘‘you mean the girl who took too much champagne—"’ . ‘‘And couldn’t walk tothe carriage,’ chimed in Eddy, with his horse-laugh. ‘I remember that, fellows; I carried her.” ‘‘She was more ‘than a handful for Thorne, that little sister of his,” said another. And so ‘they went on with their jokes about ‘‘Rosie,”” as they called her, ; each growing more per- sonal in his hits, which were received with roars of laughter and assenting grins of delight. Briarwood was all this time sitting glum and quiet by the window, with his head bent in his hands, pulling fiercely at his pipe without a word. Then Goodrich said, suddenly: “I say, fellows, how many of you have her picture? She only gives ’em to the ones she loves best,sweet Sozo- dont! I gotmine the night I took her to Marliave’s for a little dinner after the theatre. How’s that, Briarwood? Is that the way you got yours?” Harry jumped up quickly and stood facing Goodrich defiantly, with his eyes flashing. ‘“Oh, you've got it there,we know,”’ went on Goodrich, tapping his breast pocket. “I’ve. seen it; isn’t it like this?’ And he pulled the duplicate out of his own pocket triumphantly. But Goodrich overdid the thing—he always did. * He was a coarse brute, and the faculty was all right to get rid of him as soon as they did. He made some other remarks i p ite | : emarks which were quite | in Morocco. unnecessary for the purposes of our joke and which we were all of us ashamed to hear, and thea he stepped forward as if fo grab the phofograph out of Harry’s pocket. But Briarwood was waked up now. With a gesture he flung away his pipe and then, planting, | St ~ {of the law. his big fist squarely between Good- rich’s eyes, sent him tumbling back | with a crash against the door. “It’s a lie; it’s-all a—Ilie,”” he said, steadily and in a low tone. ‘‘She is Jack Thorne's sister,’and I know she is a fine girl. I’m not ashamed to wear her photograph,but I won’t take it out for you fellows to see. If any of the rest of you dare. to say that Goodrich spoke the truth, let him’ step out and say it,and then T’ll knock him down.” : Just then there was a knock on the door. We must have made a terrible racket there with our laughing and jollying, and when Goodrich fell he made a big crash, for he was a heavy fellow—half-back on the team until ire was expelled. At any rate, as we all stood there | looking * sheepish enough, in walked Mr. White, ' the proctor. He stood holding the door-knob in one hand and looking first around at the crowd of us, then straight at Harry, who was still standing with his fists clenched, glaring down at Goodrich on the floor. Then Mr. White asked, sternly: “What’s all this row, Mr. Briar- wood? Did you knock this man down?” “I did, sir,” said Harry, firmly. “Why, may I ask.” ‘‘He insulted a lady.” ‘“A lady? What lady?” Harry made no reply, and some of the feilows snickered. But Harry looked around quickly with a glance that made us all keep quiet. “This is the lady’s photograph,” he said at last, steadily taking the pic- ture from his breast and handing it to the proctor with much dignity. *‘She is the sister of a man who is an honor to the college. You know him, Mu. White.” No one said a word, even to explain the joke. Mr. White started when he’ saw the face, turned it over and@ead the name as if puzzled. Then. as if suddenly comprehending, he glanced around the circle of us with a quisi- cal look and a half contemptuous smile. 5 “Briarwood,” he said, ‘‘yon were quite right. I excuse your action and thank you in the name of the lady be- fore all these gentlemen. Goodrich, handsome brother, by whose side she ‘shood chatting graciously with Harry and looking coldly at us from under half disdainful eyelids. We said little more to one another that night, but we all wondered, and wonder still, how much of that racket she ever heard. * She had, come to C early for her first class day, for she had been studying abroad for the last three years and so had missed her brother's spread. But she - had wanted to see his old room,now Briar- | wood’s, and had stumbled upon our | joke. | No, it didn’t get around the college. I don’t know whether Harry himself ever quite undersfood it. You see, | we naturally did not care to have it | | noised around much, for even Good- { rich agreed that the joke wasn’t ex- actly on Briarwood. Tie Oh; yes, her name really was Rose. { Thorne had written it on :the photo | because its resemblance to her was so | perfect. We saw it still more plainly on class day, when she wore a big leghorn hat as she walked about the yard with Harry, the lucky dog! We hung around them anxiously, the whole crowd of us, hoping for an in- troduction, but neither of them paid any attention to us. That was only Harry's freshman year. You should have seen him at his own class day. What’s that? Of ‘course, he did. .Harry always got whatever he tried for,in-eollege and out. Besides, hadn’t Thorne himself agreed that ‘‘finding was having?’ I rather think that Harry found something worth having on class day evening. It looked so. —Woman’s Home Companion. QUAINT AND CURIOUS, There have been thirty fatal termin- ations of prize fights since 1832. Seven out of every eight loaves of bread eaten in London are made from foreign wheat. The number of shops dealing exclu- sivgly in horseflesh in the Belgian ports exceeds thirty. Sea weeds do not draw nourishment from the soil at the bottom of the sea, but from the matter held in solution in sea water. In spite of the closest espionage, the diamond mining companies of South Africa lose, it is said, $1,000,- 000 a year by theft. Woman is asubject never mentioned It would be considered a terrible breach of etiquette to ask a man about his wife. One of the stations of the railway which is to be built from the Red sea thoroughly | Pa gO1Y | the spot where it is supposed Moses to the top of Mount Sinai will be on stood when he received the two tables The Congregational church in Gil- sum, N. H., completed 125 years. of existence the other day. The damask linen cloth, woven on a hand loom, about 1790, is still used to cover the communion table. : According to the. premier of New Zealand, a homing pigeon flew from Victoria to New Zeal#nd in three days. The distance is about 1000 miles, and the bird must have flown withowt rest at a speed of about fifteen miles an hour. In one consignment a feather dealer in London received 6000 birds of para- dise, 360,000 birds of various kinds from the EastIndies and 400,000 hum-| ming birds. In three months another dealer imported 356,398 birds from. the East Indies. A large sunfish weighing 488 pounds was captured off the south side of Nantucket, R. I., by a party of fisher- men and brought into town, where it has been on exhibition, attracting large numbers to see tig wonderful monster of the deep. V The Manx cat is not the only tail- less variety. In Crimea is found an- other kind of cat which has no tail. The domesticated Malay cat has a tail that 1s only about one-half the qisual J-length, aud very often it is tied. by nature in a kind of knot which can- not be straightened out. _ Herr Marpmann has found microbes of various kinds in seventy-seven samples of ink—red, blue and nigro- sine—supplied to schools, and some of the microbes were deadly enough to kil} micesinoculated with them. He recommends that ink bottles should not be left open to the air in schools. French Secret Police Methods. I once spent an afternoonin a pleas- ant little villa on the banks of the Marne, with the former chief of police in the time of Napoleon III, up to the proclamation of the republic. No one would have thought, to look at the peaceful figure of the proprietor, a little man in sabots, - with gray beard a la Millet, absorbed in cultivating the magnificent hortensias that covered his terraces, reaching to the water’s edge, that his head had been a store- SRIBREERIIIURRGRRaRRRIIIIDIK THE REALM OF FASHION. & QO ¢ 238 C)o | OF - - - - Fa HASH QACHACHASHAL HASH AC HASH ANCHALHAS HAH, SHASHAS HAL) NCH ASH ALD AS SH JE) ERC ERE RRO RENO ROI SPO OOP ODO DAO CROP DO DID Misses’ and Girls’ Bath Robe. The need of the bath robe is too apparent to require urging, writes May Manton. comfortable and luxurious at the same The model shown is COMFORTABLE BAT: ROBE. time thatit fits the figure sufficiently to insure satisfactory etfect. The fronts are plain and loose, but the backs are fitted by means-of a centre seam and side-back forms which extend to the edge of the skirt. Below the waist line the backsare laid in deep under- lying plaits which provide fulness for the skirt. 'I'ne hood extends across a in a bias seam at the centre-back. Two backward-turning, over-lapping side- plaits arrange the fulness at the top in such a manner as to completely con- ceal the placicet formed at the centre- back seam. A two-inch hem finishes the lower edge to which is stitched the flaring lower portion of skirt that is cut in circular shape, hemmed and decorated ‘to match the upper portion: Each portion of the skirt should be lined throughout and the hems firmly. stitched, the tops of lower portion be- ing included in the stitching of the upper hem. Any style of decoration preferred may be employed, or adouble row of stitching will provide an appro- priate finish in tailor style. Firmly woven textures in serge, cloth, armure, cheviot and other dress fabrics are commended for skirts in this style. Girls’ Frock in All-Wool Cheviof. Nothing gives better gervice for school and general wear than good quality all-wool cheviot. The useful yet stylish frock here shown is made of the material in a bright shade of tan with trimming of brown. The simple childish- waist is made over a fitted lining to which the full material is attached and which closes at the centre-back. The plastron-shaped trimming of brown cheviot is laid over the upper powion and extends over the edges of the full body. Its edges are finished with two bands of straight -| brown braid within which is a single | hand in trefoil effect. The sleeves are one-seamed and comfortably loose without being large. At the neck is a straight standing: collar trimmed with braid and, showing a narrow frill of lace. The wrists are completed with straight cuffs of the brown trimmed in harmony with the collar. The skirtis straight and may be either hemmed or faced. The fullness at the top is ar- ranged in gathers and sewed to the DR ith PP WW iE, a TA ne A - ROUND BASQUE AND TILARE SKIRT WITH SHEATH YOKE. the shoulders and forms a deep collar at the front. band of brown. The band of chexiot, It is so formed as to al-| which makes the decoration, is fin- low of turning up over the head and |ished with straight and trefoil braid as affords ample protection against chill. | is the plastrofizon the waist. Tastoful Costume in Stone-Gray. Tho popular fancy for cloth is exem- ! plified (see large picture) in a stone- ; gray tastefully trimmed with black velvet, worn with a hat of gray and black, and gray gloves. The waist, which makes a grateful change from the blouse, is made over a fitted lin- To make this frock for a girl of WICKTY aS you can.” Then- turning to’ Harry again, he said, pleasantly, as if noth- ing had happened: : ; ‘Mr. Briarwood, there are a lady and gentleman waiting outside who would like to look at this room, if you are prepated to receive visitors now.” We all stood mute and awkward while the proctor, after receiving ‘a puzzled, “but gracious. assent from Harry, turned and spoke to some one outside the door. ‘Mr. Briarwood,” he said, re-enter- ing, followed by the two strangers,’ “I think you have met Mr. Thorne before. He wished his sister to see his old college room. It is the first time she has ever been to the college. I assuré you, Miss Thorne, it is not usually so noisy here. ‘The boys were having a little frolic tonight.” ,One by one we slunk silently out of the room, fixing our dazed eyes to the last upon the feminine counter- part of the unlucky’ photograph—a sweeter, far lovelier ‘version of the house for all turpitudes of that period of decadence which ended in a disastrous war and a revolution.: It was on that afternoon that I learned how the fatal Ollivier ministry was: decided upon by M. Thiers and his political friends one evening in the conservatory of a beau- tiful French woman, living not far from the Opera. Two brothers, well known in the best Paris society, mean- while distracted the attention of the guests in the salon by sleight-of-hand tricks and gymnastic feats on a Per- sian rug. And when I asked the old man how he knew all this with such ‘precision, ‘From a femme de cham- bre,” he answered, tranquilly, “all personages of importance at that time, at their own request, took their ser- vants only from my hand.”—Harper’s Weekly. » A sponge with the great cireum- ference of five feet six inches has lately been taken from the waters of Biscayne Bay Florida. th h : e machinations and | indes - The uj joined to ing that closes-atb the centr e-front and smooth-fitting under-arm gores. The handsome vest, which is of velvet embroidered with jet, is at- tached to the lining at the right side and hooks over onto the left beneath the cloth front which is invisibly hooked into place. The bretelles, collar and belt are all of, velvet made over stiff foundations, and the collar oloses at the left side where it is fin- ished by frills of black lace. ‘The sleeves are two-seamed and snug fo the shoulder where shey are finished with small puffs, They ure cut in square tabs at the wrists and edged with narrow velvet bands, while frills of lace fall over the hands. The flare skirt delineates one of the latest styles, and one that will be popular during the coming season. The trimming, which is velvet to match the bodice, is cut in bias bands and stitohed.along each edge. : > ae i . pper portion, or deep yake, is with a front gore that fits to the figure, its sides being eight ous will require three yards of : -four-inch maseris] with one yard meet of de dares ols Tr mnie nip fl » SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. § Mushrooms genérally consist of ™ 80 per cent. water, but the remaining 10 per cent, is more nutritious than bread. : A French experimenter has sue- ceeded in grafting tomatoes upon po- tatoes. - The hybrid plant produces tubers underground and tomatoes on the stalk. : The Smithsonian institute has just come into posession’ of the Hallett Phillips collection of Indian imple- ments and antiquities from the Poto- mac valley. : The eagle is able to look at the sun without blinking, by means of a thin, semi-transparent veil, which the bird can draw instantaneously over its eye. It does not obstruct the sight. An electric locomotive in a Cana- dian coal mine shows a saving over mules of $5528 in 200 days, and an electric pump in the same. mine shows a saving over steam pumps of $1573 in 970 days. ; A new style of boat for use on the Yukon riveris on exhibition in Seattie. It is composed entirely of iron and canvas, weighs less than 125 pounds, and can be taken to pieces and packed in a very small compass, In the manufactures of Great Brit- ain alone, the power which steam ex- erts is estimated to be equal to the manual labor of 4,000,000,000 of men, or more than double the number of males supposed to inhabit the globe. The official reports show that the highest temperature ever recorded in California was 130 degrees, this being at Mammoth Tank, in the desert ot San Diego county. Close to it was 128 degrees, at Indio, in the same eounty. A new method of testing steel bul- lets has been devised in Germany. The balls are dropped from a fixed height onto a glass plate set at an angle. 1f properly tempered, they rebound into one receptacle; if they are too soft, they drop into another. Electricity, where unretarded by atmospheric influences, travels at the rate of 288,000 miles a second. Along a wire it is, of course, vastly slower and a perceptible period of time is. sccupied by the electric current in sending telegrams over long distances. A proposal has been: made by M. Gabriel Viand, a French chemistysto obtain easily assimilable iron tonies from vegetables by feeding the plants judiciously with iron manures. It would be interesting to know whether 3 suitable amount of iron couldvbe absorbed in this manner. According to the experiments of | MM. Seguy and Queni sset, the X-rays cause dangerous palpitations of the heart. The experiments were made on medical students and upon. them- selves, and they.describe the palpita- tions as violent and unendurable un- iess the ge intercepted by a metallic plate. Paper ids been used for a large variety of purposes, but one of the newest is for the glazing (if one may use the term) of windows. The new paper panes- have the appearance of “milky glass.” They intercept the light rays while letting the heat rays through. This feature is considered by the inventors to be a great advan- tage for greenhouses. Paper ‘‘glass’” is eheap and is said to last for years. Sleep-Inducing Methods. hi An article in the Lancet gives some hints on the inducing of sleep which will ‘be of interest to all victims of insomnia. So vital is the necessity for sleep that any method by which it may be secured is worthy of attention. The means employed is to produce weariness by muscular exercise after retiring. ‘Lying on the back the patient first reaches for the foot and head board at the same time. He then raises his head half an inch; at the same time he breathes slowly and deeply about eight inspirations to the minute which are counted. After about twenty inspirations the head, which begins to feel heavy,is dropped. The right foot is then raised (the reaching for the boards and counting being continued)and similarly dropped when fatigued. The left foot goes through the same process. The muscles which are used in reaching for the head and foot boards are then relieved, and the body is elevated so that it rests on the head and heels. He then turns on the right side and reaches for the head and foot boards again, and raises first the head and the foot, as. before. The same process as gone through on the other side. Thus eight positions have been assumed, and a large number of muscles used. If sleep has not been induced the same cycle is gone ovex again.—The Ledger. True Premonition of Rain. How often we hear the remark, ““We shall lave rain, the atmosphere is’ 80 heavy.” The reverse is true. When one sees smoke hanging from a chimney with a tendency to sink to the ground, it indicates that the at- mosphere is light—in fact, too light to float the smoke. When the smoke rises from the chimney it indieates a heavy atmosphere. A column of smoke is not a bad barometer, for a . barometer simply records the pres- sure of the atmosphere. When the atmosphere is light and the smoke settles, the pressure of the mercury is light and the column falls, indicat- ing storm. ‘When the atmosphere is heavy and the smoke rises, the pres- sure is greater and the column rises, indicating fair weather. 2 Knew What He Deserved. : ‘I don’t know what I would have done if it hadn’t been for you!” ex-. 23 claimed the discharged prisoner. “Well, you would probably h done time,” said the proud lawyer.— Boston Traveler. i
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