Show storied I They call It The Tho Silence When ion they mention It down at The Point th they Y generally uncover and stand at atten atten- tion For It be bo a 0 farble thin thing No It has nothing to do with tho the telephone telephone tele tele- phone when you oU ask for a 8 number numb Its It's Ilsa a a. real silence When hen one of the young youn men at Uncle Sams Sam's training school by bythe bythe bythe the Hudson dots does something which breaks the code coda of or ethics of that Institution they loath a lie Ho or theft or co cowardice c down by the New York state stream then tho the worst ortt punishment known on record Is served out to the guilty man manby manby b by his fellows It comes about that In the fourth or graduating year ear tho the cadets tako take turns as officers of the day and in holding oth other r Important positions positions positions po po- po- po at tho the government Jo military school When one who has been guilty I of or violating vio yb- latin lating the unwritten ia law as It were of tho the institution has been appointed of officer or- or fleer of the da day when he enters the mess hall ball where th the severn several I hundred cadets ca- ca dots are re chatting chattin and eating without any ny prearranged warning or notice whatever the tho whole cadet body Is paralyzed Into motionless silence Not a fork Cork or knife Jars against a plate The Th Indigestible pl piG pie remains half hal within the hungry Jo Jowl 1 of or the ravenous young soldier soldier sol sol- soldier dier The Tho entire student bO body sits at attention and through that desert deserted d droom room filled tilled with his fellow rellow cadets the officer of or tho the day walks His heels sound like lIko thunder to his guilty soul and h his hIli heart seems like the drum corps on dross parade That continues for Cor several oral weeks weeks never never mor more No one ono ever stayed through h It loru long Jong Is a 0 saying paying at West cst Point about the th silence Wherever Wherever ever over he ho approaches a group of lau laughing chatting cadets he ho finds his presence acting like an ice ico wave that freezes the others Into silence If It he does not move mo I on th they y do Graduation honors a mill- mill tart tan careers career's Ion glory the tho companionship of his fellow students all are finally gl en up lost in the depths of or the pitiless silence S S SUtah Utah hunters ma may amble along alonS the trail of ot the time wary wild fowl owl or lurch behind the fd rambling bear or choose the tho nimble deer for their prize But here and there arc aro some somo adventuresome souls who would fain seek excitement along another line Une and enter Into combat with foemen worth worthy of their steel Snakes the descendants of or the tho sagacious reptile which got the whole human race Into trouble and was tho the causo cause of ot Grandpa being evicted from his farm down n In Eden county snakes county snakes are are- the object of two hunters hunters' desire They be Salt Lake hoys boys And they search for their game gamo with for keel sticks yes yea C pronounced for ked When hen the lithe denizen of or the tho woods oell coils colls up so as to strike they thoy play pia umpire and call him out on strikes strike standing Just beyond the foul toul lino line Then when tho the cunning little creature creaturo Is ex ox- ox tended d at full length along tho the ground they Jam the ked for stick over o Its body Just back of ot the head head Now to the tho lay reader and time the aVera average e mind groping In Ignorance vile the tho exact latitude or longitude of a II snakes snake's head hend is a lItlie lit lIt lIt- the lie mystery corked up In the bottle of or Guess Work But anyway these yen yen- souls then drop a n looped loo string down in front of or the tho head thus thug pinned to the ground ground and and there you OU arc are Well to the lay r reader above mentioned and the average mind mini before referred to there you OU The only thing thInS that would prevent tIme the Ja lay R R. or the average M. M from being at least yards awa away from Crom Snake at that crisis would be bo the inability to break the tho intercollegiate Intercol Intercol- le late record for running said yards Hunting Huntin- snakes even surpasses that thai pas time o o. o of kings called looking for Cor trou trou- ble |