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Show y fiv j? ji " jtfgwgs L.aiLr11' TF""'5"' dc- oxes serve In winter for a v, Llch brings the observer ncnrc-- bo d from cold and observa- sees the same shelter sentimentalslight when does ist standing sedately apart. tion. The gymnasium duty A little poem in the Howitzer como GIRLS OFTEN GROW WEARY OF flirtation i3 too bleak and exposed months for comfort. ago showed how a maiden made BOOKS AND TEACHERS. to not safe Is the it retort discourteous to the adSometimes, though, risk staying over Sunday, and the col- vances of the overbold young soldier: West; Point Military Academy Is Near lege girls must hie them back to Alma She was a merry Vassar girl, by and the Students Manage to Take Mater after the hop. There is a conA West Point spoonoid he; train to PoughkeepOccasional Strolls Thitherward The venient sie at 10:30, and so one eye is kept on They sat and watched the waters swirlf Brother a Boon. About the Point of Gee. the clock, while the other tries to gaze youth who i3 He to his heart would soulfully at the gray-cla- d Vassar Letter. press the maid, murmuring sweet nothings. And then Alas! she held aloof; HE happy leap year the scramble to catch the train, and Ji which the excuses if one fails to get there! And when his arm around her strayed. privileges Thus harshly gave reproof: A! valuable ring was lost and must be 1896 hrings may be great novelties to searched for dress was torn and had Young soldier, you cannot, Im sure, some girls, but it to be mended watch was too slow so Protect 'gainst wars alarms is leap year all the sorry. And one girl actually went to Your nation and its flag if youre year round and the length of falling down hill with So careless of your arms! with the the! idea of straining her ankle. She every year ' Was she really and truly a Vassar Vassar girl. The did more than that, and had to be taken strict rules of the back to the hospitaj,; but there were maiden? Echo answers not. Whe the Hundred Nights college on the hill compensations. She still breathed the play y Pough-mancomes off many are the devices of the beloved of same air with the object. back visits from It would puzzle the average man to Poughkeepsie students to get an invido tation, and sad and devious are the young men; and the still stricter rules invent the stories which used tocoolcolds account West to at for ways to which some of them have to caught of the? nearest 'man's college, duty low-cresort. when at the gowns ing off in Point, keep the men from attempts Now The play Is going to be fine this year; Hall. in were Grant held Mahomet So laws. hops breaking Vassar's conditions and Academic you ought to see me in girls clothes, goes to the mountain. Like the Arabs, they are in the Vassar maiden folds her tent and are improved, plenty of unlighted, wrote an unwary yearling, and his wrote back by next mail, silently steals away. To thoughtful ob- well heated rooms being . available for inamorata old boy. Ill be there Thanks mata cooling-ofawfully, f servers at the Point it is often the process I for the play. hoped you were going And what a boon all this is to the ter for wonder how the girls spend so me. to ask Whereat the trapped one these raw youths who many delightful stolen hours away under-gratore his and thought longingly hair as as and sich well tactics from their Alma Mater without being must learn, fern of for whom he had really the discovered and incurring the penalty the ways of the great world, the proper to use meant that invitation. manner of paying daintily veiled comfor disobedience. will If you promise to refuse. Ill are a In the The rules are there the men pliments and managing partner to the Hundredth ask imyou Night play, there, and the girls must get there dance! Society manners are a very a wiser who had been man, damof of Uncle bitten, the so portant clever the equipment somehow, part, perforce sels from the halls of learning must Sam's soldier boys when they leave wrote frankly; to his second best girl. Then youll have the fun of saying bend their superior brains to the work after the four years course, and how were invited, and I can. ask some you of circumventing these laws. And they are they to learn them unless they have one else. succeed. How they do it history says practice? The summer months when not, but the fact remains that they more liberty Is allowed, are all too short TREATMENT OF ORCHIDS. in the for the exercise of their required do. Many a time and oft, words of the immortal bard of Avon, knowledge and the development of YVoir Oar Grandfathers Slowly Discovered Their Disposition. are they seen on the Rialto of West their social talents. The essential cultural requirements So these visits under the rose are Point, to the amazement of the aforeto west a of indeed boon orchids were not known till long af- real the Two observer. mentioned thoughtful pointer. FLIRTING AT YASSAE. Sentry r gray-coate- up-sho- CHILDBEDS INSTRUCTIVE.1 hJADING FOR OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. ut d! j Lover Trouble for the Stutterer i a rally of Ilnrdj-Cla- r TjJt ' Let Tour 1.1 ghlue Ejects of Tobacco An Unoccupied Field, - Jfp OUR heart is ice, you ' say, fair maid, Like that upon the river. By which we stroll in wintry day The chill thought makes me shiver. Like ice both hard and cold, you add, And yet your profile gentle And tender, liquid eyes of gray Induce a process mental. The ice is cold and yet it reflects The ardent blue above you. My hearts the sky your hearts the - ice And ray heart says I love you. When next upon your wintry words I all forlornly brbod. Ill think beside tho' ice is hard It has a melting mood. Trouble for the Stutterer. In ordinary conversation no one would detect that I naturally stutter, said A. L. Benedict at the Normandie, but such is the fact. When I was a small boy I stuttered badly, but overcame the linguistic defect sufficiently to talk smoothly as a rule. When I converse with a man who stutters, however, I cannot control myself and I always stutter as badly as he does. This fact, came very nearly getting me in serious trouble a few days ago. In the mountains of West Virginia. I was in a hotel, talking smoothly as I am now, when a stutterer joined the crowd. He listened for awhile, then entered the conversation with me. At once I began to stutter. His face turned red, then white, and finally he could stand it no longer. Arising from his chair, he began taking off his coat, saying, to I t-t-- tlk yo, but I kin cats, was so excited that the Impediment irt y speech became so prominent that I could not explain, and he would not have believed me if I had, so there was nothing to do but prepare for a in which I would have been placed t a Try decided disadvantage. At that moment the town marshal entered the room and arrested us both. I explained matters to the mayor and he released us both, letting me have an hours start to get out of town before the stutterer was turned loose. Ex. w-w-w- ild fit -- - , J-- k ; p, WHERE VASSAR GIRLS RESORT. visits a term is supposed to be the rule. Perhaps it holds good with somef the Vassar girls. But there arc many more from whose minds the ways of the free and Independent West have not and he takes the goods the gods provide and is thankful. He considers the Vassar girl fair 'sport and a splendid field for practice spins in flirtation and the two-steHe has small regard for her feelings, physical or mental; he yet faded, who, scorn the trammels of eastern rules and effete convention- tramples on her toes and her feelings ality, and take the law in their own indiscriminately, for is she not there for hands. When fancy dictates and there the purpose, and he knows that his ele-is a hop or concert on at the Point, thens the time for disappearing, and they; bob up serenely at the government dock with gripsack or brown N-'- & raifestive paper parcel containing ment; also a box of candy for the loved, cadet. When accommodations are a dozen or so of girls sometimes scanty It club together and take one room, and &Lalso one trunk, much to the detriment v! ' of their voluminous skirts. At any rate, or any how, and on any train they come, and the stage which runs up from the landing on such occasions is temporarily their own. They take entire possession of the 'bus and quite fill It up with themselves and their impediments. Vassar songs and l u class calls, stock jokes and personal ANOTHER TYPE, remarks about the sweet creatures are to see enliven the pro- vating society i3 a sufficient quid pro they going butHe lends her his cast-o- ff gress up the hill, and woe to the out- quo. sider who creeps into this truant com- tons, waist plate, chevrons and class ring in fact, all the decorations on pany. No false ideas of conventions and which he can lay hands. And the moth priety damp their ardent spirits if of a plebe who scents coming joys they have to come without a chaperon. afar decorates her hop card with hits on the older They come just the same, and matron-iz- e sketches in kind men and one another by numbers. Ten of general post jokes. So the Vassar girl who has a brother these fair undergraduates were claimed by one elderly man as his daughters, or a "brother at West Point is a popuis a his good nature not being proof against lar maiden, and her sitting-rootheir appeals for protection. gathering place for the clans, and her Not having a chaperon does not trouble "teas are much frequented. Her scrap them much at the hotel, for they are book would furnish interesting chapnot there except to sleep and eat. It ters of history, with imagination to fill is no- place for fun that quiet and re- in the spaces. Affaires de coeur move rapidly at spectable parlor. There are much better chances at other places. The hop the post. Introductions are easy, and cr concert which alternate on Saturday facile decensus Averni. One evening nights, with ispccticn Saturday after-- on the stairs of in an unlighted anteroom; a walk on Flirtation; a note asking her to come again next week; an answer; an answer to that, with an r r added touch of sentiment and aspiration after the love cf a true woman, with verses and eo forth "ad infinitum ! and ad nauseam; graduation, obllv-iotwo and V sets, of wedding cards c. which perhaps cross in the mails and if recall an affaire of two years ago. Sometimes the cadets, a stray one C hero and there, in furlough time, get off i to Vamar and arc feted and made much cf. But epportunitiu are more num' erous down the river, and the leap year ' yyy methods hold. Beautiful and Vnllv-enln- g are scan on Flirtation. sights ' y In the twist3 and winds of that Lutoric TYIE or VAfoAR GIRL. Academy of Social Science the cillow 1 J chi; fiunJay morning, keep youth learns the uro cf his arms, and r".n a:. c .'tb t vo, Afkr chapel there Is also tho ti.3 of his feet and jumping n I j w, a ch" two for a ramie, inform-- . muscles for emergencies when tho an of h " , :r round uL ;i acli mart has his advancing stop is hoard. ' if :i r 'r one turn of tho walk, when tho leaves ;j m.oimli to ro At arc few, and tho wanderer:-- after a bolitude-- f Jcux, R ore al o in A onnd Isin-- d 'E, forget tho R rroaiiNo rnMw the fact, one may ceo wondrous vistas cf a vu a flier,, j lav ting "i, :o r.n!,i i vino tli ntirncntd youth and a R f turn to Vurn n m while in :3d' fair to f Eat. Run, p. V Hi! ? - ! I Ml m so-call- ed - y ( t 4 -- n, v 4 ter they had attracted the attention cf horticulturists; says Garden knd Forest It is interesting to note tha struggles of our to discover the conditions most suitable for them. We who know all about it are surprised that any intelligent cultivator should have tried to grow epiphytic plants in common soil in pots plunged to the rim in a tan bed. Teak baskets, sphagnum moss, peat fiber and charcoal appear to us to be exactly what any intelligent schoolboy would have recommended as supplying the right material for an epiphyte. But, like all useful discoveries and Inventions, simple as they appear to us they were not worked out without much thought, experiment and the' sacrifice of many plants. One ofthe shrewdest of botanists working in the van of the horticultural art of his time. Dr. Lindley,-statein a paper read to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1830, that high temperature, deep shade and excessive humidity are the conditions essential to the well being of orchids. Thirteen years later another orchid authority, Mr. Bateman, recommended the same treatment, adding that a resting season was necessary. This treatment became the only orthodox one and was persisted in for upward of thirty years. We now 'recognize that fresh air. at all times is essential, that many orchids enjoy, bright sunshine, that while some require plenty of moisture all the year round, others require it only for a portion of the year, and that some even thrive only when treated as if they were cacti. The temperature for exotic orchids varies from a purely tropical to that of a few degrees above freezing point, and while some species during growth are kept in a hot, steamy atmosphere and after growth is completed are removed to comparatively cool and dry conditions to afford then a rest, others suffer If the conditions are not fairly uniform all the year round. great-grandfathe- rs d I'ay Abbott In Japan, Annie May Abbott, the Georgia electric magnet, whose feats cf strength created a sensation in this country some years ago, is amusing herself now with the strong men of China and Japan. The Japanese wrestlers, whos3 physical strength 13 celebrated the world over, were unable to raise Liles Abbott from the floor, while with the tips cf her fingers che neutralized their most strenuous efforts to lift even light objects, such as a cane from a table. The Japanese papers ray this is hypnotism, while the Chine: o journals accuse her cf being in league with tho powers cf evil. Exchange. . ( , -- Ldc-"c- i d - - S004 f ; ; tv v orinpn rare nlBEoua tV.n rr-u at th- - ti- n- of ChriA Ik women ill ' phi 1 innjT roll r Ion-- ferve than men; tiwy an., tl 0 -t In attendance at the crncil'iA ion. JEw. B H - ri n? ; l- IRrkpatrick, ... lower liRhtbeur'1 w'virrt t!m thy. Tho lights had goro mil. Cant jou turn your Read ;; round? No; tho rdght Is too vff 1 for that. J.Vfds . it 1 : , 1 t V r r rwinj tlj , Em 1 e r t ) I r.pr. E0 r to Imr Inlm.' She wont w-veTho stern wm to f irful that they to could do nothing. TVy triwl ck f ? r rin make for the harbor, crash against the rocks, and ? ink to the bottom. Very few c rag ml; the great majority found a v.atcry grave. r y r i yrup CuKNrnk V NMt-f- r t I t) A Fa rally of EliV.nt. A short distance above Ckvcutoovn and New Harmony, Ind., on the Wabrsh river, vhich little town their resident, Robert Dale Owen, has made famous, is the village of Payson, 111. It consists of but a few houses, but it is noted as the home of ague. Not ordinary chills and fever, but the shaking kind cf ague, where the chattering teeth play a waltz and every bone in the body keep3 time to the music. One of the houses 13 occupied by a man cf an inventive turn of mind, who is blessed with a family consisting of a wife and ten children. He has gone into the dairy business and in his spring house is a large churn, operated by a spring board. Every day butter is made and the way it is churned is unique. The proprietor of the little dairy explained Its operation to his neighboi. You see, he said, none of U3 do any extra work, so I call it clean profit. Monday I always shake in the morning and my wife in the afternoon. Tuesday Jim and Sallie shake; Wednesday, Bob and George; Thursday, Ella and Minnie; Friday, Tom and Bill, and Saturday, Charley and Eliza. When the shakes come on, we all just go and and they alstand on the spring-boarways last long enough to bring butter in the churn. So it aint any extra trouble. Washington Star. t, n i . I ( f rr C - ? i : ; jti I t V i j. L V' 1 ( t f - ' r al f i: t J k Vrr a E i Vt t r: J irujf - 1 - - r - r- ; ff i r 1 1 r : r.f j . LtA tlwy vwoi t ) TLo iron ffr o?p of tcrcfula mercy upon its victim a. This V La? r d:;f, cf the blood is often not fcticficj v.L' causing- dreadful eorcs, but recLep body with tho pains of rheurrA until Hoods Sarsaparilla, cures. Nearly four years ego I beca if. fiictcd with ccrofula and rheumatism r - 5 I L J . f, s r' J Running sores broke out on cay thighs Pieces of bone came out and an operation was contemplated. I had rheumatism i3 my legs, drawn up out of ehape. I lost ep. petite, could not sleep. I was a perfect wreck. I continued to grow worse and finally gave up the doctors treatment to take Hoods Sarsaparilla. Soon appetite came back; the sores commenced to heal My limbs straightened out and I threw away my crutches. I am now stout and hearty and am farming, whereas four years ago I was a cripple. I gladly recommend noods Sarsaparilla. Uebax Hammond, Table Grove, Illinois. d, Jat Fun for Ilojj. Dld you ever see hogs kill rattlesnakes? inquired the old mountaineer, according to the San Francisco Post Evidently none of his hearers had ever beheld such an exciting spectacle. Well, Its a picnic for the hogs, he continued, and a great surprise and disappointment to the snakes. As soon as a hog sights a rattlesnake ho grunts as though some one had chucked him an ear of corn and trots right after It. The snake sees a big, fat hog coming his way, and you can almost see It grin as it coils up and says td Itself: Thats my pork. The hog trots right up as if he wanted to be friendly and the snake fired with am ambition to kill some pork, Irts fly like a steel spring and hooks onto the pork. Then comes the surprise. Instead of running and squealing, as the snake expected, the hog calmly turns around, plants his forefeet on the snake and commences feeding off his tail. It is a painful surprise to an ambitious rattler. He keeps thrashing around Garcaparilia ill Is the One True Blood Purifier, druggists. 1, Prepared only by C. I. Rood & Co., Lowell, Mass! cur brer Ills, easy to HOOfl S PlllS take, easy to operate. 25c. I:'! V, ti and striking until there Isnt a bite of him left Then Mr. Hog looks for a new rattler. He doesn't ifeel any more Inconvenience from the snake bites than he would from a yellow jackets sting. 1 li ! 1 1 ui : I): The Columbia Catalogue is not a mere It gives convincing reasons why all who love pleasure and comfortin' bicycling should select price-lis- t. Tle of the Day. A small boy stole out early when They Blake a Family Party. The recent fine spring weather has brought the south side a treat in the milkmens wagons were the only vehicles on the streets and shops were shape of a brand-nedrawn about on four substantial wheels yet closed. The small boy carried horse. The piece of chalk and a wicked grin. by a comfortable, well-fe- d a bright Stooping, with his back to the east, he in is Instrument gay huge are tunes the latest made several marks which shone vividgreen cover, and its additions to the popular street songs. ly Against the walk. He surveyed bin The chief charm of this elaborate ou'-fi- wok, chuckled and melted away, says the Chicago News. however, is the family which a woman a a and A little while later when the rush to it man, fine big baby. While the city had begun no one got over these the father holds his cap under the win- marks without stopping. Men 'with dows of aristocratic nurseries, the watches in their hands and speed in mother bravely grinds out the stirring their feet paused in their mad career, tunes, and the baby, perched high on swung around, read the inscription, the front seat, laughs and crows in hap- missed their train and swore. Girls py content. During the rides from on stopped, read and looked contemptuous stopping place to another, the whole at their folly. Every one who read trio ranges itself on the wide cushioned hurried away without looking back to seat, chatting as gayly as though all this see who saw him. When the rush abated wealth were not the fruit of pennies the bad boy sauntered out, and hugged himself as'he looked at his chalk marks: picked up one at a time. Ex. w n? kfanr-- 1 St r The Youthful re . COBBER piano-orga- n, . sTfltipanp A Rinfl L w ac-edwpa- Free from the Columbia agent or by mail from us for two stamps. r.lfs- - Co., Hartford, Conn. J Bont 3 1 UG7. Effect of Tobacco. A Fathers Revenue. A physician at Yale has discovered in the church tower struck clock The that In a class of 147 students, the 77 3. Three in the morning. who never used tobacco surpassed the the hour of A wearied man softly and haggard 70 who did use It 10.4 per cent in gain a of bundle laid linen, surmounted with in weight, 24 per cent in Increase in a small red face, bearing traces of teai s, height, 26.7 per cent in growth of chest r F1SC3 DEACffi I per cent in gain in lung within tbe cradle. An object on the mantel caught his capacity. Figures even more striking glaring eye. He picked it up and read were obtained at Amherst, and the inscription: are!duly elated at the show-In- the To the quietest and But this exhibit relates only to the baby, Shagwoxs Baby Show, 1835. Laughing bitterly, be crushed tho physical side of the boys nature. Prof. fragile silver mug with his slippered Fish, of the Northwestern University, is heel, kicked off the slippers and wearily authority for the statement that to- sunk Into bed. Cincinnati Enquirer j bacco injures the intellectual faculties a as well. He says that when college An Unoccupied Field. class at Yale had been divided into four W. R. Harper, president of Chi- - j Dr. sections, according to scholarship, it wa3 found that the highest section was cago University, says in the Biblical World: composed almost entirely of The successful teacher of the Bible and the lowest section almost ena Is rarity. Tbe country has hundreds tirely of smokers. and thousands of men and women who have, by long effort, prepared them- Let Voor Light So Shine. selves to teach the English language, A3 an illustration of the need of keepmathematics, or modern languages; but D. L. lower the lights burning, ing where are the men and women who Moody often relates the following: have undertaken special preparation to A few years ago, at the mouth of enable them to teach the Bible? Cleveland harbor, there were two lights, one at each side of the bay, called the Conception of Eternity. upper and lower lights; and to enter us Let imagine ourselves a . hugs the harbor safely by night, vessels must mountain, tbe largest on tho face of Eight both cf these lights. the earth, rays Yilliam George a great Thezs western lakes are sometimes solid macs cf granite rock. And suppose more dangerous than the great ocean. that once every 100 years a little bird One wild, stormy night, a steamer was came flying to the top of the mountain trying to make her way into the har- and rested there and merely dusted U3 bor. The captain and pilot were anx- beak upon the summit. The time it iously watching for the lights. By and would take before the birds beak, with by the pilot was heard to say, Do you its little tap every 103 years, had comeee the lower light? pletely worn away and leveled tho No, was the reply; I fear we have whole mountain i3 only a moment cf passed them. eternity. Ah, there are the lights, raid the If things dont get tatter, raid t o ;dlot, and they roust be, from the bluff cn which they stand, the upper lights. shco clerk to his fellow slaves, I an' W c have passed the lower lights, and going to chango my bearding I ocac. e last our chnnco cf getting into the Why, they had mutton so cld far din- - j hnrEor. ikf that tho I'ndlady didnt haw tfo VI it v,t 3 to to done? They lottyj iwrvo to call it Iamb. Inddaiwj ads ha: I , w.J iw tho dim cuUw t iJ v Jcurrai. eJGE?m BEEP YOU DRY U12JL. 77.5 ! con-solationis- Your knowledge of bicycle making will grow by read-- t ing this interesting book. o a 1 1 a li k Arril L girth, and or the world ts 7 g. best-behav- ed DAYS June 6th to 13th, inclusive. OVERLAND PARK ! non-smoke- rs, . Club Association, of Denver. TROTTING, PACING, RUNNING and DICYCLE RACES EACH DAY. For Information address, CIIAS. G. 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