NO LONGER YOUNG. While crow's feet vet have spared tlic face. And rime of time has left no trace Upon the locks which still with grace Above our brows have clung. We find our pace is growing slow, And, as wc view the passing show. There comes a time when we must know That we're no longer young. There comes a time when children born Long since our childhood's locks were shorn, The victor's bays we missed, have worn To praises freely sung; And while these acclamations flow, Truth's whisper in the car sounds low That it is time to know That we're no longer young. That it is tin-.e to bear the pain Of learning that we must remain Henceforth an exile from youth's reign In age's desert flung— Tut e'er we stagyor from this blow, Which adds to life another woe. May fortune grant us sense to know When we're no longer voung! —lndianapolis News. The love of Seo i Tokion. ...j— ... i... ■ - " 0 . HIS imine was Soo Tokion and he was the only Japanese student at n big university (, on a big lake. Her name was Helen Sturtevant and she was an American student at the same big uni versity. Soo was a little fellow like (early all of his race. Helen was n treat, splendid creature, who towered iaoro than a head above the little lap. Professors and students alike had ample opportunity to note the fact that Helen was a head taller than Soo, for the little Japanese was with her whenever opportunity afforded. The students said that Toklon came very near being a Greek word, and they wondered how the name wan dered to far-off Japan. They said that the Jap didn't have much of the appearance of the Spartan about him, though iie did have scholarship that might he called Athenian. At his first iianie, Son, they laughed. It fitted him, Ihey said, because it was n name that went with liis build and weight. Of course the lioys called him "Susie," and the Jap never minded at nil until he found out that Susie was a girl's name, and that it was given to him In a sort of contempt for his pigmy build. The .Taps are noted wrestlers, and one day Susie astonished a big fellow who had applied the girl name to him by standing him on his head and near ly breaking the tormentor's neck In /'.oing it. After that even the husky football players sunk the name Suslo and spoke to the little Jap cordially and called him by the name given him in the Orient. Now Helen Sturtevant had attract ed Soo the moment his Eastern eyes beheld her. It's curious, but it's true as the synoptic gospels, that little men, that is extremely little men, manage to fall in love wltli big women. Helen Sturtevant liked the devotion of the Jap. She treated him with nil amused sort of toleration. Every woman likes devotion, even though it Is shown by a little chap. Soo Toklon was a Buddhist, but he had become a Christian, or what Is more likely, pretended conversion, so that he ootild go to chapel and sit near Helen Sturtevant. It was a fair-haired goddess that ho was worshiping while on his knees, rather than the God of the Christians. Because Helen Sturte vant was taking a course In elocution and dramatic art Soo undertook the Bame course, ntid this gave hint other opportunities to be near his adored one. The co-eds gossiped much, and at times rather noisily about the devotion of Soo to Helen. As the girls put It the little Jap was awfully cut up about the fair American and it was a shame that because Helen Sturtevant liked admiration she must encourage Soo to go on breaking his heart when there was no chance of Helen's mending It for him In the way that Soo wunted. Helen had so many beaux among the American students that it Is. just bare ly possible that some of tho co-eds thought that she might let Soo attach himself to their trains, for Soo was re ported to he wealthy and the big bunches of hothouse flowers that went to Helen In zero weather, when hot louse flowers cost a mint, would have been very aeceptablo to any of tho other fair sisters of the university. Helen Sturtevant had no very serious thoughts about the Jap. She did like him In a certain way, and the bon-bons he sent her were delicious and the flowers were fragrant "and surely," the girl said to herself, "he can't mean any thing serious, for ho must know how utterly Impossible It would he for me to think of sueli a thing as loving him, let alone marrying him." Helen Sturtevant was bent on follow ing the career of an actress. She had natural gifts. Absolutely impartial persons had told her tliaf, and the girl felt it herself. Her father was a man of some means, and he grudged noth ing that would go toward tho education of his daughter and the helping toward the realization of her dramatic dreams. One day a dozen of the co-eds were gathered in the university art studio. They were waiting the arrivnl of an Instructor, and while waiting .they eat and gossiped. Helen Sturtevant wns there. Tho night before at a musical tho attentions of Soo Tokion bad been more marked than ever. He bad brought a great bunch of American Beauty roses to bo given to Helen when she had triumphantly finished her part in the program. It was mid winter, and American Beauty roses were quoted at fabulous prices. "Helen," said one of the co-eds. "you'll bankrupt Soo, rich though I understand he is. Charlie Nelson sent me one rose last night, and one of tlic girls told me she had asked the price ' of 'Beauties' and they were $3.50 each." "You'll do something worse than bankrupt poor Soo, Helen," said an other student; "you'll break liis heart unless you keep it sound liy marrying him. Frankly, dear child, everybody is taking about this thing, oven the pro fessors. Why don't you marry him?" the girl questioned, half mischievously. Helen flushed. The idea of marrying Soo was preposterous. "Do you sup- j pose any American girl would marry j an Oriental?" she said. "The Far 1 Eastern peoples have 110 more eoncep- 1 tion of the rights of a woman as a wlfo j than has the unspeakable Turk. Tliey i may think they love a woman, but not one of them would sacrifice Ills own pleasure for her, let alone anything higher." An Instructor came into tlic studio and called the students out. Behind a screen In the corner stood a man— | a man In truth, though in stature he ! was but a child. It was Soo Tokion. j He had been at work on a clay model when the students entered. He was i nbout to make Ills presence behind the j screen known, when there came the 1 words which held him silent. Now he stood trembling, and with something in the depths of his Oriental eyes that was past sounding. "No such thing as sac rifice known to my people for those whom we love?" he murmured to liim seir. "No regard for the rights of woman as a wife?" Then Soo Tokion murmured something in his native | tongue that sounded like a prayer. The next day there enrne a blow to Helen Sturtevant. Her father had | failed, failed utterly and miserably, and she must give up her course. The girl was crushed bodily and mentally. The news flew through the university. Helen's father's business had gone to tho wall and Helen was to leave. Tho stage dream had vanished with the j rude awakening. Soo Tokion heard. lie sought the ' girl out. Slio wns sitting alone in a j corner of a music room. lie went i to her softly. He carried one rosebud, j spotlessly white, in his hand. The girl looked up 11s he came. She saw him and above lier own misery came tho thought of what she had said the day before, and her heart smote her. "I have heard, and I am sorry, Miss Helen," said Soo. He put the white rose in her hand and then started to speak again, lint liis voice broke. He uttered the one word "Helen," and be fore the girl knew it ho had seized her hand, kissed it and was gone. Two days after the body of a man, a little man, was recovered from tho waters of the big lake. It was not hard to Identify the drowned, Ouo week afterward Helen Sturte vant was informed by a law firm that she was the sole heiress to $25,000, tho entire fortune of Soo Tokion, univer sity student. With the announcement was inclosed this letter, addressed to Helen in a handwriting she knew well; "You must keep on with your studies. I loved you. We of the East consider It a virtue to do tilings for those whom we love." There Is o little chapel now being built near the Presbyterian mission 111 a village just outside Yokohama. It la called the Soo Toklon Chapel. The village was the birthplace of Soo Tokion, student of an American uni versity. The money was made over to tile missionaries from some one known to them only as a classmate of him for whom the memorial was to be erected. The chapel's cost was $23,- 000. In an American city a regal-looking girl with sad eyes is working her way slowly but steadily upward in the pro fession of dramatic art.—Chicago ltec ord-Herald. Why Soins NflWl Is M Delayed." It is said that one of the great ene mies of the overland telegraph line in Central Australia Is tho common green frog. In order to save the insulators from being broken by lightning they are provided with wire "droppers" leading round them at a little distance to conduct on to tho Iron pole In case of need. The frogs climb the poles and find the insulators cool and pleasant to their bodies, and fancy that the "drop per" Is put there to furnish them with a hack seat. After a nap they yawn and stretch out a leg until It touches the pole. Re sult, sudden death to the frog, and as the body continues to conduct the cur rent to earth we see a paragraph In the papers to the effect that "In conse quence of an interruption to the lines, probably caused by a cyclonic disturb ance in the interior, we are unable to present our readers with the usual cables from England!" "Nnvvlpfl." Mr. Chamberlain is credited with tho Intention of exporting thousands of British "navvies" to South Africa. Tile word is now much more frequently used in the colonies than in the mother country, hut it had its origin here. It dates from the period of the construc tion of canals, when the phrase "Inland navigation" became familiar to eye and oar. The workmen employed 011 canals came to be known as "navlgn -1 tors," and by n natural process of lin guistic condensation the word was 1 soon abbreviated into "navvies." Its application afterwards was extended : to the men employed on the making of railways, and now. In our colonies at least, any able-bodied workman is called a "navvy," quite irrespective of the nature of tho work on which he Is employed.—London Chronicle. State Nicknames. s Wisconsin people are called Badgers; Neva dans, Sage Hens; Texans, Beef ;, Heads; Cnlifornians, Gold Hunters; I New Yorkers, Knickerbockers, and t West Virginians, Panhandleitea, ; i THE HONEST SEWER CLEANER. llow 110 Found Hi* Way Into the lllch* • est ltoom in tlio World. ] Some time ago the directors of the 1 | Ennk of England were startled to re , celve an invitation to met an unknown ; ! man in the strong room of the bank |at midnight. "You think you are all | safe hand you hank is safe, but I i knows better. I been hiuside the bank j the Inst 2 uito hand you nose nuffia | i about it. But I am not a theaf, so hif | yer will mett moo in the great squar I room, with all the monelys, at tweif | 2 nitc, lie explain orl to you, let only ; ther 2 come down, and say nutiin to nobody." The strong room was guard ! Ed the next night, in spite of a dispo i sition to regard the letter as a hoax, by police and—nothing happened. The next phase of the mystery was , more astonishing than ever. A heavy | chest of papers and securities taken from the strong room nrrived at tha j bank with a letter, complaining that ! the directors had set the police upon i the writer, and that ho had, there ! fore, not appeared as promised, but i to prove that he was neither a thief i nor a fool he sent a chest of papers {he had taken from the bank. Let a I few gentlemen be alone in the room and lie would Join them at midnight, ! said the writer, and to cut short a I long and strange chapter of bank his | tory, a man with a dark lantern burst | into the strong room of the hank at j midnight after calling from behind I the stone wails for the directors to : put out tile lights. He was one of a i strange class of men who gained a I living by searching the sewers at I night, and through an opening from I a sewer he had found his way into ! tlio richest room in the world.—St. , James' Gazette. "Wlirn ISonton JTnrbor Frozn. Boston Harbor froze over in January i of 18-14, and the advertised sailing of j the Britannia, then in dock, seemed surely to he Impossible. But the mer i chants of Boston would not have it | so. They met and voted to cut a | way, at their own expense, through the j ice, that the steamer might sail prac tically on time. The contract for cut ting the necessary channels was given to merchants engaged, like Frederick Tudor, in the export of lco—not from the harbor. Their task was to cut, within the space of three days a chan nel about ten miles long. For tools they had the best machinery used in cutting fresh-water ice, and horse power whs employed. The ico was from six to twelve inches In thickness. As the Advertiser of February 2, 1844, described the sceue: "A great many persons have been attracted to our wharves to witness the operations and the curious spectacle of the whole har bor frozen over, and the ico has been covered by skaters, sleds and even sleighs. Tents and booths were erected upon tlio ice, and some parts of tiie harbor boro tlio appearanco of a lius slan holiday scene." On February 2 the work was done, and the Britannia, steaming slowly through the lane of open water, lined on either side by thousands of cheering spectators, made her way to the sea. Whatever the New York critics may havo thought, the English managers of the company must have felt that the people of Bos ton wore good friends to have.—At lantic. Changed Ilia Ml ad. Jinks, like other men, has a horror of infant prodigies as exploited by their proud papas, llecently Binks mot him with: "Hello, Jinks! What do you think my girl said this morning? She's the brightest four-year-old In town. She snid " Jinks shied. "Excuse me, old man!" ho exclaimed. "I'm on my way to keep an engagement. Some other time " "She said, 'Papa, that Mr. Jinks is the handsomest man I know.' Haw, haw, haw! How's that for precocity, eh ?" And Jinks replied: "Binks, I'm a little early for my engagement. That youngster certainly is a bright one. Come into this toy store and help mo soloct a few things that will please a girl of lier taste, and I'll send thcin to her, if you don't mind."—New York Times. Kins Edward Never Forgots. King Edward VII. would, if ap proached on the subject, doubtless lay a good portion of his popularity with the masses at the door of his wonderful memory. Hardly is it be lieved that nnother could be found to match it in the present day. The King never forgets a face nor a name, and both he associates in his mind with his connecting place or incident. But this is not altogether an Incom prehensible trait with the King. The Implanting of memory was a hobby, if one may so speak, of Queen Victoria, In his boyliooy the King was made to repeat to his tutor every tiight before going to bed the names of the persons he had met during the day, the circum stances under which he had met them, and made also to repeat, as nearly ver batim as possible, the conversations in which he had taken a part. Improving: Chicago's English. A literary purist is making the rounds of the Chicago stores—or shall we say shops? and some very serviceable slang is being condemned to dlsuso. The young women have little note books in which are the following rnles: "The following words nre not to he i used: 'Customer,' 'department,' 'miss' 1 or 'lady,' 'ilitt' or 'house,' 'saleslady' i or 'clerk' or 'floorwalker.' Instead say 'patron,' 'section,' 'madame,' 'apart- I ment' or 'residence,' 'sales-person' or j 'usher.' It is requested by the manage- ; ; ment that the use of colored stocks 1 ' and brightly colored neckties be dls ; continued. Do not raise the voice to I attract the attention of the call boy or of the usher."—Kansas City Journal. I KEEP AWAY FROM PUT-OFF TOWN. Di/1 you ever go to Put-Off Town, Where the houses ure old and tumble down, And everything tarries and everything dragj, With dirty streets and people in rags? On the streets of Slow lives Old Man Wait. And his two little boys, named Linger and Late, With unclean hands and tousled hair, And a naughty sister named Don't Care. To play all day in Tarry Street, Leaving your errands for other feet; To stop, or shirk, or linger, or frown, Is the nearest wuy to this old town. —Ham's Horn. SsKKlmsCHaQ!®, "I am an old hen and I have gone through many strange ndventures and have seen many strange sights in tlio world, but I can recall one which to me seems the strangest of all. "It was a bright sunshiny morning when my little mistress put me and my chicks in a large box and tool: us to a big building which she called 'school.' "School! School!! I wish to this very day there never was such a thing as school. To think bow my poor little chicks were abused! "First we were taken into a room where the children crowded around to see us and almost tumbled over the box wo were in. Then they took my chicks up in their hands and I became very angry, for I was sure they would squeeze them. "But after a time I was taken to an other room. There it was worse than Missing Captain Y\izzle. ) ' <-* Mrs. Heald, wife of Captain Heald, defending herself from Indians at the massacre of Detroit, August 15, 1812. Find Captain Heald and Lieutenant Helm. ever. The children made such a noise that (If I could), I would have covered my ears. Then a little boy dropped one of my chicks. I flew at him and pecked blm, but be ran to bis seat and did not return to visit me and my cblcks again. I think be was sorry. "Then my denr little pet 'Blacky' got •ome ink oil his nose, poor chick. "O, dear, wasn't I glad when I was home once more with my little brood around me, safe and sound, chirping as happy aa ever? I don't care so much about It now, as long as it's nil over, but there's oue tiling I've learned since then, and lliat is that chickens belong in a nice, shady chicken coop, and not in school."—Chicago Ilecord- Herald. THE LOST WHISTLE. The game of Lost Whistle will make lots of fun for a little while, but it cannot, as you will see, be played more than once during the evening, for everybody then finds out the secret on which its success depends. It is necessary for the whistle hunt er to be a person who knows nothing about the game. When such a per son has been selected, blindfold him and carefully attach the whistle to the back of his coat by means of a string and a bent pin. As be is not to know what yon are doing, a gentle touch is necessary. And the whistle must be very small and light so that he may not feel it strike him as he moves about. When the whistle has been attached, take off the hunter's blind nnd then the Dlavcrs all standing around blm in a circle, one of tliem, to whom his back is turned, gently lifts the whistle and blows It, and then as gently drops it. This must be done quickly. Others blow the whistle in the same way, as they get a chance, and the hunter is urged to find it. If they are BMHDFOID niM. very careful In lifting and dropping the whistle ho may he kept on the search for a long time.—Brooklyn Eagle. HOW TO ENGRAVE GLASS. A famous French chemist, Caillctct, has discovered a very simple and easy way to engrave glass. The method is to cover a tumbler or bottle or other glass object with a thin, smooth and thoroughly laid on covering of glue. Either very good cabinet maker's glue or fish glue will serve perfectly. The only care that must be taken is to see that there are no air bubbles in the glue after it has beeu applied, and that the coating Is uniform and of even thickness over the entire article. Ordinary glass tumblers lend them selves beautifully to the experiment. Polished marble and the beautiful Ice land feldspath also make good subjects for the process. The very thin and fragile glasses must not bo used bo cause they will break after the glue begins to contract In the process of drying. It la this contraction that produce® the boautiful result. Glue thus applied to glass sticks to it very tightly. Then it begins to con tract as it dries. Now its tight hold to the glass prevents the layers of glue from contracting without pulling at the glass, and thus little by little the glue silts und splits tiny fragments from the surface of the glass. If certain salts are added to the glue the effect Is still more beautiful, bo cause then the splitting of the tiny fragments is done in such a manner that the result forms a perfect re semblance to a frosted window pane. A glass tumbler or flask so treated he comes a beautiful ornament to the room or the glass closet. The best salts to add are saltpeter and alum. They should he used In the proportion of about oue part of salts to fifteen parts of glue. Sometimes the glue treated with salts produces magnificent fern-leaf effects. Itarely does any one article so treated resemble another. The least difference in the thickness of the glue, the length of time needed in drying, and the hardness of the surface, make a vast difference In the patterns that are obtained. Must Persist. A general advertiser says that when an article has been thoroughly adver tised and established in England the people do not need to be reminded of it; but in America it only takes a short time for the people to be drawn away by the advertising of another product of the same nature. Therefore ho finds it necessnry to keep up his advertising In this country. WISE WORDS. Uniformity Is not unity. Character needs no safe. Patience produces peace. Self-saving is soul-losing. i Aesthetics are not ethics. A teacher is not a taskmaster. Our wills determine our work. Taiut docs not make a paiuter. Preparation precedes progress. * Mercy is the badge of majesty. * Faith overcomes many failures. Hope is the heart of aspiration. Labor is for man and not man for labor. The poor iu spirit are rich in possi bilities. Pleasant circumstances may not be ours, but we cau have sunny souls. The green wood of Innocence burns quickly amongst the dry sticks of vice. Solitude is as necessary to the soul as companionship is to the character. The only way sonic people expect pence is by making their own opinions prevail. It is easier to sweep off the snow of an act than to break the ice of habits. —Barn's Horn. Greody Animals. A* It may ho doubted whether those of us who are able to obtain sufficient food without difficulty can appreciate the craving for sustenance experienced by sea birds and other animals, which have often, by force of circumstances, to fast for long periods. Gulls will eat until they cannot fly. and when they find pilchards or hoard a boat will continue their feast until they can only lie down and gasp. A superfluity 9 of food comes at such long intervals that when it does come the avian in tellect reels at the prospect, and what seems a horn of plenty brings dire dis aster. Seeing that gulls and gaunets know no better, we are not surprised to hear of a John Dory, stuffed to the very mouth, floating helplessly on 1 lie surface of the water, unable to escape from a flock of sea birds which have J deprived it of Its eyesight and will -4 I quickly take away its life. A snake which thrusts its head through the palings to seize an unwary frog, and finds itself unable to draw hack again with the frog in its throat, has wit enough to disgorge the am phibian, and to deftly draw it through by tlie leg so as to swallow it on the safe side of the palings; hut probably a snake which happened to he on the wrong side in company with a frog would consume it on the premises and so render itself incapable of wriggling through the bars.—Longman's Maga zine. Stute and Mosses In France. General Andre, French Minister of War, lias introduced two innovations which have been the subject of some little discussion. In tlic first place, he has allowed bachelor officers to takat their meals with their comrades not, as they like. There was. hitherto, uo "mess"—that is to say, the officers of regiments did not dine together In barracks in state, all being socially equal, as ours do. They usnally ar ranged with some hotel or restaurant for a monthly "pension," the bachelor captains feeding nt one tnbie, the un married lieuteuants nt another, often In another house, and so forth. Now they may arrange as they please, and together or separate, according to tlietr respective tastes. Another change— but this mny he only temporary—has been brought about by tile suppression of the movements of advancing and presenting arms. The orders "Portea armes!" and "Presentez armes!" are no longer heard. It is argued that these movements took long to learn and were of 110 particular service. So arms are no more to be presented to officers and to high functionaries wWW were entitled to the compliment. ButJ* of course this does not mean that all military salutes are to be abolished. The presenting of arms to officers and functionaries and to high officials sim ply disappears with the abolition of the movement. Perneversince nt a Gln*g<Mr Prlntny. ' B. B. Johnstone, a Glasgow printer, has just completed the remarkable task of writing out the whole of the Old Testament. From Genesis to Mai acbi Mr. Johnstone has written every, word in the Old Testament, not in his ordinary handwriting, but In a unique style of priut, which made the labor of transcription all the more arduous. The Initial letter of each chapter has been especially designed, and cnrrled 1 out In a highly florid and artistic fash ion. Not only so, but the beginning and end of each book has given thtf, unique penman an opportunity for Il luminating the text with wonderful y pen and iuk illustrations. The top of • each page, too. Is highly ornamented, no two pages having the same design. Mr. Johnstone spent 0:1 this work the leisure time during seven years. The whole work consists of 002 pages of large post quarto parchment paper, and if there is a manifold variation of ornament, the ordinary lettering lias the merit of a uniformity almost equal to that of type. The hand print made use of by Mr. Johnstone has com mended itself to a Arm of London typo founders, who have prepared types from It, paying him £SO for his design Dr. Nansen's I'aury. Dr. Sanson has a liking for bright colors. Tlint is why his ship, the Frain, was painted green, gray, scar- W*-- let and white, picked out with gold, t The explorer 13 a clever artist, and a lover of music—of his wife's singing especially—but be does not eare for so-called "artistic" furniture. The desk at which he does all ills work when at home at his place at Lysaker, six miles from Chrlstiauia, is merely a huge kitchen table.—Tit-Bits.
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