BULLETIN t Joo, Pa. « Editor and Publisher. UBSCRIPTION: ts Per Annum, strictly in advance. ig, spies, - Samples Copics Free. 25 Cents. 2 Cents. 1 Advertising 10 cents per line sertion. heial Rates to Yearly Alvartisers. tered at the Post Office at Mount P’a., as second-class matter. OFFICE REAR OF MOUNT JOY HALL. No power under heaven couls ce us live in New York City again,” 5 a writer in Country Life in Amer “It is no place to bring up a fam: There is no room in a flat. You oo much werthless informatico on you about your neighbor: turn, know all your fraiitiea o ho garden; no chance to keep bimails; very little light and air; the bwaiter racks your nerves; Yot sleep; amusements are costly eccmes a burden.” -_—_— ar wrath against reckless ng is taking on a humorcus abroad. The fcreign newspa- em with explosive communica 1 the subject. Lassoing or turn- e hose on the wicked chauffeurs reckoned too goéod for The Fst treatment is most Mr. W. of iy VOT. . Gilbert comes out avor The only diffi- ty that occurs to him is as to who hall undertake the rather delicate joh stopping a motor tearing along at 40 miles fter the mo- has been an hour a shot. or ist sagrificd and ‘ba have youth Berimped their famingg, and in in the nn, | acquire they hu- ¥! their digestion €jt of a “pile,” often public benefactors, anity in general owes them a debt of writes think and that patitude for being so rich, El bt Gregory, in The Century. 1ce they resent as cruel injustice fatigue, chagrin, and newspaper ty that money invariably bring: about as con- In con- rould be for a little boy who had gorged on purloined apples to feel in- ben an avenging stomachache gluttony. Iinnesota case it has been de- ht when a man gets into a railway car with full >f the fact that the stree knowl rail- rike h $ hay 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 pessed ‘em now an’ then we held our heads up high To make dead sure they couldn’t snub us if they was to try. It really made me nervous, 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 ys, “Hello!’ An’ they says, “Hewdy do!” so I jes- am 8 It wa'n't the cold an’ formal greetin’ that you've sometimes heard; smiled and’ said it hearty, like they meant it every word. It’s solemn to reflect on what we along life's way By not jes’ being natural an’ good humored day by day. There's lots of folks who fling simple joys of life aside. Because they dread the shadow of their own unconscicus pride. nine times cut o’ ten you'll find the rule works right and true— teil tae world “Hello!” and it" answer “Howdy do!” —Washkington Star. The Mystery of au Old Hat vincent Manning was sitting aione in his parlor nurzin: a sprained ankle His young wife had be on gone a week for the first “vacation” of their two years of married life. DMoping alone in the empty houses for four days was beginning to try his nerves co that he was almost tempted to let M Manning know, even the cost suddenly spoiling ’, that he 1ad suffered an awl after Tac the Aud Jes’ at she had started for New The house gir v treasure, had gone wit and aby. Being town, had few none at all during the waiter who from the hotel Having read played solitaire for SARIS Tie Rew, pulled out re wat there was yet four } 3 before him. He was crutch with the sudden to elephene’f for a 3 carriage and have a drive in the when he saw Geof- {rey Pair) of his o¢ldtime friends, st house numbers Manning ped on the window with the tip of his crutch and hailed him. “Oh, Jeff! Come in, old Where on cairth di drop fre The visitor in the Manning could reach the iim, and laughed like giad. “You're a wl that's what you ning, gloating ‘You've got gage and ke calle -- 1'ng the day wita around the everything in sig an hour and came his meals ht, ~iano, he saw that daylight _Onthe and of determination roy ne 99) Jn Wis hall door and are hands genuin 3 station, are, Jeft!” Man- over send for tor’s hall with me to you're ep bache ployes are One © for a stone against crashing | Lon damages y if comes the window and hits him. rado case it has been deci f an employer, who has an ug rike on his hands, hires a new man without telling him that he will be in | danger from the strikers, and if cne of | the strikers shoots the new man, that reticent and negligent employer is re: i in damages sponsible Let the jibes Let the effc Jast and still more effete Europe take cease. off hats to Chicago as a town wit a history. The day for jeering at tho windy city as a mushroom upon the prairies has gone forever, x: grovwib claims the Washington Star. are ancient records recovered from tbe deeps of the earth, long-lost archives, of rare interest to the archae- ologist and of value to the historian. | They illumine a period of dense dark- ness, the middle ages of Chicago, to speak, before the great fire. For fully thirty-six these have awaited the eye of man, that an accident has restored them to the light tkere great rejcicing among the oldest inhabitants go, and the tale of the great burgh can ow be told in all its fullne years and now is The sunual loss from forest fires in the United States is estimated by good authorities at $25,000,000 to $50.000, 090. 000,000 in alcne. This year it czed thesumin New York, V Only three states, Oregon and Washington will probably erment, Maine. New Pennsylvania and Minnesota, have any scientific’ system of fire and these, as we have seen, are not ef- says the New York Commercial Advertiser. 1t is a satisfaction to know that the bu- reau of forestry in Washington had sent a farce into the field before the recent conflagrations in the Adiron- dacks to study the problem of fire protection by cbservaticn while fires raging. In European countries, sere forestry is almost as much a Science as agriculture, forest fires sel dom or never accur. There is no un- cerbrush to burn, nothing to spread a fire from a place where is starts. fective in a very dry season, sto : For hero : municipal | SO papers of Chica- | Last year it was more than $12, | ex- | ang | York, ! protection, ' { ill Maud’s come {do i to her you've ncyvel’ where you ¢ Do you realiz: ond time were marr know, Vince, but rushed,” laughed at, “I don’t f wt! I have s witha the ba that mothe baby did m1’d been? 5 i 26 you've be cince we i “Yas, 1 terribly settiing down for write to my mother, no sweethearts know ol.’ I've been a ch even No, none —-at least Mann ( could stay; that he coulis afterward, ) eave him solitary While Faireiil Manning was che g a two and explaining the didn’t seem to un tand, that { after, until otherwise ips bring food and s2rvic | one. c phone, dinner wailer, for ¢ axclaimed, when h revered dom Ss a e, cur She ticnce t¢ Gooff mate of Manning, and y had unr ame | comrade- married Mavd Cut- Manning had anguis 3 any rate was telerable to the loser as to pravent i from appearii the most blytae end hai Pp y kei pL u his visits, t¢ }, Ss ne as the i Mannings remained in their New Y hotel, but when him they moved west, lniking art, was s Geoifrey hapj regions of ’ more and w He few to sce undcceived, for rollic in the oil cece ingly He as nea £5) had been month homewai ¥ lo and He or d, he £pend tha w fer a had days Vincent the son and heir. tiens about asked a dozen que: the child, laughed at tn yarns about its prececity a o man can lauzh but a and made himself so gayly at - that it s 2 o'clock vher Manning bade him th~ doer of his roem. 1 was 4 x 3% whe came for tl Wafast ord ) 1 A of | two days | tn York. | the | he | and | except for | Corner. voncrhine Far hic | reaching for his | without a man. | before | .. to greet | , friend. | bag- | 5, she's gone | | Manning, | all about Fairchild, | > { Vince so marl that I} Fhe i inexplicabl: con- | rranged, | 1gh with this by Sat- | ’ | gverhear main- | there.” | Chil said, at | in- | fio i ork | | Woman Wakes From Long Trance to he | 5 | wrote | wor - | ing after | years {| thrown in foar | informed stanch friend, 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 ten o'clock. At that hour the bell woke him again; he hobbled down, let in the commissary, and went back to rouse Geoffrey. He rapped on the door but got no answer. Then he went in- to the darkened room, let up the shades and saw that the bed was not only empty but that it had been un- occupied during the night. He searched the rooms and the closets before he went downstairs, but there was no sign of either Fairchild or his baggage. Cn the hall rack, however, he found Geoffrey’s hat hanging just where its wearer had placed it the aft- ernoon before. This set him to think- ing that perhaps his friend was lolling about, but a half hour's search yielded no further trace of the vanished guest. The waiter was gone. There was no help for it but to continue his explorations of the house alone. Tt was nearly noon bafore he b:sgan to feel faint for want of his breakfast. He ate it, puzzled, worried and waited, but no Fairchild appeared. The next morning his mail brought him a letter from Geoffrey. It was dated Beau- mont and said that the writer was just starting for Chicazo and would “drop in.”. The date line and post mark both showed that the letter had been written only the day bcfore Geof- frey had come, and how he had man- aged to beat the fast mail from Texas was almost as puzzling as his extra- ordinary behavior after arriving. Manning suspected that Fairchild had put seme sort of a trick on him, but turn and twist the thing as he night he couldn't guess where the lauzh was to come in if it was a joke. While he was- finishing his coffee a telegram came which set Vincent's neari to heating uneasily about his ab- sent wife and boy; but it, too, proved from Fairchild, dated Texark- ana, thus: “Delayed here two days. Will see you Saturday night sure. Jef.” On Saturday right Manning was so curious to find ont what sort of a plot his friend had been putting upon him that he went in a carriage to meet the train. Ife was at the gate a half hour up be riod | too soon, Lut when the train did groan sn't two --minutes in Manning was put upon gard Tfairchild’s too enti husisa “Dut what did you mean by of the house in the ?” ask:=d Manning. tealing out of istic stealing night like what house?” Geoffrey nning Jooked at him a moment, airchild carried ‘the joka bravely twitch of eye or lip except what denoted surprise, and Vincent conld ike his head and say: it, Jeff, Have you will, but by ared me, I thought had-gone wrong.” Fair- child laughed a little foolishly as they went slowly to the carriage, but Man ning ged the subject with an out- resolve to be on gnard against v's “funny” climax, whatever prove to be. but F only sh all rig} rd jokes if a h eorze, ycu se something char g£pol there to greet them. “But wi is Maud?” g around, drop that joke of yours,” said half annoyed. “I told you that the other day when you were here.” “You said e170 said Geof- “Ah, ” ” knew I wasn’t here, Manning, Fairchild, dropping the familiar dly that Manning saw was not a joke after all. They ex- lained, argued, almost quarreled. i"aivchild ipsisted that he had not heen near the house for a year, and that, if Manning was in had either dreams=d or imagined the visit. Vincent insisted he dit not dream in the daytime, he used no alecholic drinks or and then—he thought of the He rushed to the hall, and, sure the hung beside the that that hat?” he asked in “It bas your ini- Or am I dream- your trinmph, t, hasn't it? 6 hild took it, smiled and locked “Yes, it’s an old hat of mine, I suppose, but how—-" Maggie who had odd debate, sorr, if nat in a away last wake. 1 twas, _an"so 1 Jot Hote paused to said: you'll excuse me, I closet befure I didn’t know hung it the “Tlease, found that wint whose ‘I left it here last summer,” Fair- bositating, but sure. And the: aid unravel the mystery. — Joh im H. Rafferty, in the Chicago Rec- ord Herall 7 never JLEPT TWENTY YEARS. Dit Loncon Express recently from correspondent St. Quentin, A France: Marguarite Boyvenval, an of Thenollez” “the sleeping died this morn- remaining in a trance for 20 On May 21, 1883, she was to a cataleptic sleep through of the police, and it s found impossible to ar Dr. Charlier, who attended the case, me that he succeeded causing s-neibility in his pa- by giving subcutaneous -injee- of sulphate of atropime. The ere first affected and gradually © whole body as far as the neck. ter which he could make no further ress and ceased his treatment. a corpse-lika rigidity immediataly from a visit your | ! When they a - | of at Manning's house Maggie was | earnest, he! it was given Manning saw that his returned. The arms remained strotch- I ed out in any position in which they were placed. The doctor is of opinion that the woman was never conscious of what was going on around her, but Profes- sor Voisin, of the Salpetriere, thought that at times she heard vaguely what was being said to her. Throughout the whole 20 years’ sleep her respiration remained perfectly normal though her temperature was a little above the ordinary, About five months aso the doctors saw signs of returning consciousness, and renewed their efforts to revive her, For the first time yesterday she opened her eyes and remarked, “You are pinching me.” She did not seem to distinctly recognize the mem: bers of her family on awakening, but was able to answer “Yes” and “No” to questions that were put to her. She took her mother to be her sister, and mentioned her grandmother who died 15 years ago. Her memory went back to the time when she worked In a sugar factory in the village. When she fell asleep she was 22 years of age. During the whole ot the time since then she had been arti ficially fed. She began, however, to show signs of consumption and wasted away to a skeleton. Doctors from all parts of the world visited Thenolles to see the sleeper, and the case was declared to be absolutely without proceden; in medical science COLLEGE GOWNS. How Degrees of Scholarship Weavers May be Known. cf At most college functions, and par ticularly so during commencement festivities, the academic cap and gown are in constant evidence. Un: dergraduates and newly fledged bach- elors, proud of their right to the dis tinctive garb; visiting alumni, glad thus to link arms once again with a vanished past; the august facutly body and those of the official guests wl:ose scholastic attainments entitle them to the all don tha flowing robe and top it-with the quaint ard tasseled mortar-board, Some persons may call this peculiar attire a piece of antiquated flummery, but even they admit, says the New York Times, that the sombre robes, relieved here and there by the bril liance of the hood linings and of the Mans paedy velvet facings Jang heauty as well as xnity to the semblage hered upon the platform. The casuai glance notes little if an difference in the appearance of tho various gowns, but the initiated eye can tell instantly not only the exact degree of scholarship atia'ned by tho wearer, but also the faculty of learn ing that awarded it and the university where it was obtained. There ave other distinguishing points, but the main ones may bc summed up as fol lows: Matriculation at the college entitles the student to wear a gown and a mortar-hoard cof black woolen materi al, usually serge. When he wins his bachelor’s degree he may attach a hood three feet long to his gown, made the same woolen material and lined colors of his alma mater. bachelor attains the mas: the doctorate he in en- titled to wear a silken gown and hood, the latter four feet long. The doctor- ate entitles him also to wear a panel, outlined with his college colors, be: neath his hood, and to exchange the black tassel on his mortar-board for one of gold Even the privilege, + fn ga with the When the ter's degree or sleeve changes with value of the degree. The open, point. od sleeve of the bachelor’s gown closed for the master, and the doctor wears a round one, trimmed with bars of velvet, The doctor's est in the gift of a university, tire is the most distinguished pearance. He may, if he choose, his gown with velvet facings, is his at: in ap adorn thea degree heing the high- black | or of the color that indicates the spe’ | cial which reccmmended £ og ior faculty the dezree. school of arts philosophy, scarlet ple for law; yellow green for medicine, Understanding these the visitor at a college function, watching the long procession of nota bles file to their places upon the plat. can rocognize at a glance the dezree attained by each, the faculty that recommended him for it and tho university that conferred it. Occa- sionally he may err in the last point, for a man officially econnoeted with a college courteously displays its colors in his hood instead of those of his own alma mater. for pur- blue for theology; for science, and letters; distinctions, form Revolving Fans, 1 noticed something new in electric fans yesterday, and it struck me as of sufficient novelty to mention here. You know that heretofore the wind-making contrivance has occupied a fixed posi- tion, with the curio! always nropelled in cne direction. Now this has been improved upon. with a sort of rudder attachment projecting from the fas in front. The fan itself is cn a pivet As the curreat strikes the rudder it causes the whole thing to revolve slowly, thus distributing the air cur- rent in all directions with each revoiu. tion. As all-round wind jammers, how- ever, I know some fellows who would talk a revolving fan back the way it came, but perhaps I had better not go info that.—Pittsburg Dispatca. The poetic nature of the patient Serviap is shown by tne wiping out of King Alexanaer on the anniversary of the removal, in a similar mann-r, nt his grandfather, King Michael. and | him | White stands for the | The castaway fishermen who refus ed to land on*an iceberg inhabit2d by a starving bear are open to the arge of cruelty to animals. Mr. Carnegie has taken to % dow- ing “home culture” clubs. The pros. pects for his dying poor grows dle. tinctly brighter, thinks the Mexican Herald. The diamonds which came through the custom houses in 1902 wei= val ued at $25,415,755. © Millions ¢f dol lars worth of these are being sold oF the installment plan. The census of 1900 shows us that the busy bee contributed to the wealth of the United States as fol lows: Value of bees, June 1, 1900, $10,186,513; value of honey and wax produced in 1899, $6,664,904. It has often been explained that Jne reascn why men get higher wages than women is that they do not give up their work as svon as they have become experts, as women usually do In Germany nine-tenths of all sales women leave their occupaticn (usual- ly to get married) before they are twenty-six years old. A mouse recently wrecked a train syut West. It was walking along a rail, looking at the Joon on2 even- ing, when an owl saw it. The ow! immediately e1v=s chase, and the mouse retrea‘s3 gracefully into the jaws of a sw'4, ed in the jaws of the switch, and pre vented its being closed, so that a freight train was derailed. “nfortu- nately the Western papers failed to say whetaer or not the mouse escaped Vright of University, finds the fossil the men of the Neolithic bronze ages almost perfect ber. regularity, and soundness. those early days men’s teeth all their lives; the dentist was un- known and not needed. It is so now in many savage and half-savage races, the South African natives, for exam: ple. Way civilized life should tend to dental deca a very Birmingham teeth of and the in num- In Professor important question. Captious critics of the naminz of American thoroughbreds may possibly at times carry their alliterative Bwin- burnian censures too far. Sad Sam for instance, is a vile name for a race- horse, comments the New York Tri- bune. And there are many other un- conscionable appellations in the Jock- ey Club’s registry of names. But pro saic, unimaginative breeders ought not to be held too strictly to account. The Ottoman Government has bought the English concession for a line of railroad from Halfa to Dam- ascus. It is intended to build a rail way through Galilee to Mzerib, by way of Meisan, connecting at Mzerih with the Damascus-Mecca line. While the line will be built for strategical purposcs, it can hardly fail gradual ly to develop the trans-Jordan eoun- try—hitherto another Thibet—Dby bringing it into touch with the out- side world. The report of the French bark Vin cennes of a sea of pumice stone six miles long, south of the Tongan group would seem to indicates that there has been some great volcanic outburst in the neighborhood, of which the rest of the world has net heard. The first ships which passed through the Sun: do Straits after the eruption of Kra- kateca found the sea for miles cov ered with a thick coating of pumice and for some of them it was the first ‘ndication that anything extraordin- ary had taken placa. R cen! forest fires and floods renew public demand fer measures on a large scale to prevent the occurrenca of such disasters. The average for- ast-fire loss is estimated at $50,000, 300 a year, most of which. it is claim: :d, could bo saved hy greater care on the part of campers and by the remov- 11 of underbrush kindling that starts these fires going. The prevention of floods is a much more dificult mat. ‘er, but it {5 said that wa'er storage at the sources of the great middle western rivers and their tributaries would prevent floods in the future. If this can be demonstrated, remarks Public Opinion, congress will doubt. less be as liberal in providing ways snd means as it was in appropriating money for forest preservation and ir- rigation. The women of the Unitad States will probably be interested to learn that Uncle Sam is cultivating a beau- ty plant in the experimental farm at Washington. The women of Algeria the seeds of this plant to make them beautiful, and the Zovernment sat ! pxperts are trying to determine what | this vil | grounds fin | they have for the faith that is in them. The outcome is not a mal!ter of much practical importance, however, for there are many beauty cods now, and little use is made of There are fresh fruit anq vezetables, and there is absolutely no doubt about their beautifying quali- ties. according to Professor MH. W. wi. ley, the government chimist, Why is so is not perfectly understood, but their health and beauty giving powers are marvellous, and the wom- an who wants bright eyez and a clear | ramnlexion can scarcely a too much