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Up jolts a haycart from the crof î And soon from oft the tawny knoll lioads on bent pitchforks reached the Old Dobbin, streaming o'er with hair, ' * • *teeks the loose hay, while nods his in *î 0<f In little doses, wad with stare • " i, And stamp the pert colt guards tfcegat ̂ Hi* red farm gate, with reaching awing, •.«, i >, . -'Apd sSeek Torn purring on the poet; i. • >y, ' *$MnSng lane wfcera hoof and wing | - up the farmyard's tiring Beat. '"'*f 'In aweeps the hay, the haymow <Ute, . '•• The hay cart lessens, muscle* vfw •)>*• On till the sunshine scarcely drill* , * Bays through the window's blinded And now the wasp's white knob is Md, The hornet seeks in vain its chink, UpA ifhere the knot-holes showered amid, hi:$ The loft, rich rain, not even a blink, r. 1 . •' 'Vv-M In the gray tangle strays the rat rjivfll. rt Vbr mangled birds the scythe destroyed, „, , And twilight wakes the head-down bat - Hiat through the knot-hole skim* the TWU ' •{«• ; ••• •• •A breathing silence, save the sound ' ' Of insects trickling through the hay, 8wept up within the tawny mound * And searching for the vanished day. m' yi*0: C < v f. t&r f T", ^ '» fflt. -rk*1 lta winter wealth the fun mow yields Below to dosing plow-worn gray; Bed Crumple find the summer fields Benewed in wreaths of jnicy hay. 3^1 I fir- vi" 'J.' -', '*1 «• i Mated jfhom deat^ ,! • One or two young men came oat of the Academy of Music when the opera was over, and lingered in the lobby to watch the pawing of the crowd. Young Fred Saulter came up to them while putting hifl pearl lorgnette in its case. " Nice house, eh ? " he said, languidly. * VWF , well dressed. See Fanny Swann? Wretched taste for young girls to wear diamonds I What d'ye think of the new teilMr, eh? Misera- .-MVIAAY.V'-;. H * ' ' The old^r man snswwed him civilly and walked on, leaving bim with some lads of hia own age. . • " What would Miss Swann say if%she 'heard that cub criticizing her?" said - .ni^" PpmefFpy. " The most insufferable f creature in the world to me is a oon- |4 *4?*'ceited boy, assuming the tone of a m«n ^ j of position, wlten he has not yetproved i + r f i i l | i s r i g h t ; - t i l b e a l i v e . " • " I thought young Saulter had Wttey," said one of the party. "He **§ml :mm0: WMi .fc '-if* - t!--i i j>s . ^^4 ft- '-if.' -r# 1, la;. <$•&- f-x fl ' -J 1 ,|V mm* drives a fine horse, wears clothes made by a better tailor than I can afford, and iBBfehes at the best restaurant." * Money!" said the doctor, angrily. ^ Why, his father is head book-keeper for Smile & Son, with a family of six. fie strained every nerve to educate thin boy, who now looks upon every practi­ cal way of earning his living as plebeian. I'll warrant you the . fellow never has 20 cents in his pocket of his own earn* ing. His restaurant and livery-stable bills come in to his poor old father at the end of the months." ' - Mad **eanwhile young Saulter stood oom- T"" . twirling his opera hat and watching the pretty girls as they passed. ik * i S® caught a glimpse of his dapper little V ̂tfgare in . gJT t̂oor-thr̂ xed mustache, laVender gloves, wired roses rin his bntton-hole, and looked pityingly after the doctor and his friends. MHow those old fellows must anvy us!" he said. "Wine, with life in its sparkle, and dregs, eh? Oh, by the way, I saw a curious thing to-day. Dick Knight--you remember Knight in our -class, who took the scientific course to 'fit him for a civil engineer? Well, it appears that, times being so hard he could find ao proper work to db, he has taken to improper. Instead of lay­ ing by, as X have done, waiting quietly for an opening for an educated man to step into, he actually is--I'm ashamed -totell it* "What? What is he?* asked his [Jjfteners., • t/ Driving an engine oti the Central toad! Factl I saw him all grimy with •«aoke in his little caboose to-day. ^Good heavenst* Isaid. 'Knight, are 3roumadt' M< Not mad enough to starve,'he said, \im twM.'1 r -frW, asked him why bis father did not #<v- • Mpport him and keep him from such iit. degradation. Then he was mad. ^ y°u think I, with my big strong Iwdy, will be a burden on an old nun?' lie said, and began to talk nonsense about laziness being degrading; that no nan was ever degraded by honest work, with more of the same sort ©f bosh, all -fwry ridiculous and very disgraceful. "YouH see him to-night if you'll take 4h(B 11 p. m. train." 7$. "Tut1 tut!" the lads said, and "Poor Vnight, he was a good fellowprecise­ ly as if he were dead. Indeed, from the light and brilliancy of the scene about them--the music, tfce beautiful, low-voiced women, them calves daintily attired, that gay and feappy part of the w^ld-- there was a ,4 *. •' '*^1 **• • gulf like death to the grimy engine- driver in the dark depot--a gulf which none but « madman, they, thought, would willingly cross. -They sauntered ;out of-.the opera house, and a few minutes before 11 reached the depot, in time for the train that ran off to the suburban town wberA they lived. "There he is!" whispered Saulter. "He took our train out; but the engine is not put to it." The engine was on ft siting, puffing and spitting little jets of steam, and Dick Knight, a tall, manly young fel­ low, was coming at the moment from the Superintendent's room. He caught sight of his old olaswptes, laughed, hesitated Mid raised luis hand to his hat.,. ' AiU : ? "Going to speak to him, hteyf" said little Billy McGee, ansdously; The young men grew red and em- banasaed. Some of them nodded to Knight awkwardly, and seemed inclined & go and meet him. "I say no P said Saulter, peremptor­ ily. "If he chooses to leave the com­ panionship of gentlemen, I shall not follow him. I talk to him. I talk to mechanics and that sort of people who never had a chance to be anything bet­ ter, but Knight is 4 social suicide, sirl" "That's true,* said McGee. "How well Saulter puts things!* he added, aside. "Social suicide I Well, I shall not bring him to life* • Knight saw that the young men wished to avoid him, and turned aside with a bow and heightened dolor, while they hurried into the train. It was yet five minutes until the time of starting. The train of passenger cars was on the main track--the engine still being detached--and the people were hurry­ ing in, most of them coming direct from the theaters and other places of amuse­ ment. Inside of the cars and in the de­ pot there was a good deal of jesting and gayety between acquaintances meeting on their way home, the train being a local one, and running only through suburban villages. Just then, a short distance up the track, there was a hiss and a cry, and a voice shrieked out in horror: "A run­ away train on the main track! Passen­ gers in the depot! Out of the oan! Out of the cars!* A runaway freight train was on the track. The fireman had started it for the puiposeof taking it into the freight depot. By some accident, before it had left the main passenger track, the man had stumbled as he was at his work, and had fallen nearly upon the; ground. Half stunned, he had jumped up, but could not catch the moving engine, which was gaining speed every second, and he had shrieked out his warning. It so happened that the switch-tender, through fright or some unexplained cause, did not move his switch to run the train off the main track, and now the huge machine, with its train be­ hind, was rushing toward the train in the depot with a speed that promised fatal disaster. The new officials who were near had time but to gasp with horror. At the moment when the cry of danger was shrieked out upon the night air Dick Knight waslttaching his engine to the passenger train. Prom the cars and platform rose a yell of frantic terror, in which Saulter's voice was the highest. Death seemed rushing upon the people, who had not time to get out of the cars before the driving train would be upon them. The officials in the depot watched Knight with blanched faces. "He'll be crushed to atoms!* mut­ tered one stout old man, standing by Dr. Pomerov. ' But Dick had put up steam' upon his engine. Apparently he did not think of leaving his post. There he stood with his hand on the lever, calm ' aftd determined. / His hugamscfatne sprung forward. It met the coming locomotive with a crash that threw both monsters upward, as if they had risen to wresite and throw each other. Then Dick's engine was thrown one side, but the force of the runaway train was overcome, and the machinery of the engine so injured that all move­ ment was stopped. Dick, was hurled, senseless, several feet from the place of collision.. • The stout old man and Pr, Potfteroy* with all the other men in the depot, ran, to Knight, picked him up and carried him into the washing-room, where he was left with the physicians. Well, well," said the old ge&tlemau. mated reply, " There's no work so humble that he oannofc show the best qualities of manhood in it, aa we have seen to-night It is not the daring courage I approve of in him so much as the presence of mind, the keen eye, to see what to do and how to do it. Re­ quest Mr. Knight, if you please, to call on me at 10 to-morrow," he said to the station master. " Who is that?" asked Fred Saulter, breathlessly, of the official*, "The President of the road. Diek Knight, if he lives, has an open road to fortune now, and he deserves it." Fred Saulter crept into the oar to go home. His lavender gloves were soiled, and the wired rose to his button hole was falling to pieces with a sickly, de­ cayed smell. Life itself was sickly and decayed, he thought, with a yawn, and he threw the wilted rose out of the win­ dow. Yes; and to all conceited, effemi­ nate natures like his it is likely to prove what Saulter's imagination pictured it that night. mtCXPTIOK IN COWeBK, When coffee was retailed in its natural condition, and roasted in small lots over the kitchen fire, imperfect beans and impurities were picked out by hand. With wholesale recasting more expedi­ tious methods were necessary, and ma­ chines were invented to do the work with greater economy and dispatch. From this necessary operation to the in­ vention of processes for polishing and coloring inferior goods, to make them look like prime ceffees, was but a step. The poorer grades of coffee were washed in colored water, and then treated to a course of polishing with powdered soap- stone, which gave the beans the glossy and flinty appearance of first-rate coffee and covered up all defects* The natural result was to make all honest dealers suspicious of polished coffees, though the need of machine cleaning was in no' way diminished. It is possible, however, to have coffee cleaned and polished by ma­ chinery, and at the same time be honest. By this process the coffee is put into a large cylinder capable of holding eight or nine hundred pounds, the cylinder being lined with heavy linen and pro­ vided with cleats to increase the Mo­ tion, when the beans are set in motion by die rapid revolution of the cylinder. At one end of the cylinder are a number of holes to admit air, and at the other a suction fan making about 2,000 revo­ lutions a minute. The friction loosens the dust and the outer covering of the coffee, which impurities are carried away by the air current set in motion by the fan. After ten or fifteen minutes of this treatment +he coffee is wet with pure water and the machine again set in motion. The coffee is thus washed and after half an hour's scouring comes out entirely clean and much improved in appearance by the polishing it has re? ceived. Coffees which contain muoh loose dirt and many broken beans are subjected to a preliminary process in whioh the perfect beans are winnowed clean, after which they are treated as already described.--Scientific Ameri­ can. SENSE Of SMELL. A deaf and blind mute--fa girl--was remarkable for her sense of smell. She smelled at everything which she could bring within range of the sense, and she came to perceive odors utterly insen­ sible to other persons. When she met a person whom she had met before, she instantly recognized him by the smell of his hand or glove. If it were a stranger she smelled his hand, and the impression was so strong that she could recognize him long after by again smell­ ing his hand, or even his glove, if just taken off. She knew all her acquaint­ ances by the odor of their hands. She was employed in sorting the clothes of her companion pupils after they were returned from the laundry, and oould distinguish those of each friend. If half-a-dozen strangers should throw each one his glove into a hat, and they were shaken up, she would taKb one glove, smell it, then smell the hand of each person, and unerringly assign each to its owner. If among the visi­ tors there were abrotherand sister, she coul£ piok out the gloves by a similar­ ity of smell, but could not distinguish the ohe from the other. This case fur­ nishes a strong argument in support of the conjecture that a dog removed to a distant place finds its way home by fol­ lowing backward attain of smells which he has experienced. A STRANGE case of poisoning is re­ ported from Peterborough, Eng. An old man named House was walking impatiently, as Dr. Pomeroy eame out, " how is be? will he livet* "I think so. Qod forbid that I should have to take him home dead to his old father!" "You kacw him then? . Who is he? Do you know what I owe himf* and his voice broke. " My little girl is da that train." Dr. Pomeroy told Knight's story, briefly, informing the old gentleman that he waa thoroughly educated, but he looked upon any worjr as better than dependent idleness./ \ " He's the true grit, - was tHe am THE BRIDGE OF LODI* Napotomtfg bathing Charge The battle of Lodi was fought on'the 10th of May, 1796, and resembled rather a grand storming party than a pitched battle. It was Bonaparte's purpose to cross the Adda to Lodi, and it was Beau- lieu's purpose to prevent such crossing; and, had the opposing commander de­ stroyed the bridge destined to become historical, the French advance upon Milan would, to speak moderately, have been made a very difficult matter. The Austrians did not evfen defend the town, though it was very susceptible of de­ fence; and the French were covered from the Austrian fire by the walls of the town, and by the town itself. Beau- lieu defended the place on the left bank of the Adda, where; he had many guns placed, supported by a strong body of infantry--only that, this supporting force was drawn up too far in the rear of the batteries to prove a support. Cov­ ered by the town, 3,000 French grena­ diers were formed in a column, while the cavalry forded the Adda. As soon as the cavalry was seen on the Austrian flank, against which it bad been directed to operate, the French column rushed to the bridge, anu the Austrians turned all their cannon on it, pouring into it showers of grape-shot, in good grape- spreading distance; and Austrian in­ fantry in the houses on the left bank of the river added a tremendous fire of musketry. The bridge w as several hun­ dred feet in length, and it was not in human nature to stand suoh a pitiless storm of pelting shot without some hes­ itation, though the column was com­ posed of the best soldiers in the world. But Bonaparte, Massena, Berthier and other officers hastened to the head of their men, rallied them, and led them on--and the Austrians were routed, los­ ing their position and their guns, and 3,000 men. The victory was as complete as it could be made; and the effect was to establish the ascendency of the French. Bonaparte has been much oen- sured for the daring manner in which he acted, and it has been argued that he might have accomplished his purpose without running so immense a risk. Perhaps the critics are right, but the best answer to their criticism is the suc­ cess that crowned the dashing opera­ tion. Besides, it was so very brilliant an affair that it established Bonaparte's character for heroic courage only a few weeks after he had assumed command; and, of all things, men most admire daring bravery in war, if it succeed. The French oommander had his ohar acter to make, and he made it at Lodi. down his garden there when a bee flew into his mouth and; went down his throat, stinging him internally, and musing great pain. He immediately swallowed a quantity of ammonia for the purpose of killing the bee and alle viating the effects of the sting, but he took too large a dose, and, in spite of prompt medical treatment, he died in a very short time. A man in Michigan swapped his horse for a wife. An old bachelor acquaint­ ance said he'd bet there was something | wrong with the horse, or its own­ er would never have fooled it away in that reokles^ manner. kt> aOMX Of THE DISCOVERIES Of THE BOUNDING LINE. ' ' The deepest measurement in the At» lantic has been by the Challenger, some eighty miles north of the Virgin islands --3,875 fathoms, or 23,250 feet--about 4.4 miles. Over much of the area the depth ranges between 2,000 and 3,000 fathoms. An irregular ridge runs along the middle, and there the depth is less than 2,000 fathoms. North of 50 de­ grees from Ireland to Newfoundland, where the cables are laid, extends a similar depth. Around the British isles the sea is nowhere above 400 feet deep. The Pacific ocean was formerly consid­ ered muoh shallower than the Atlantic, mainly on aooount of the many islands contains, This notion has been largely overthrown by various sound­ ings. The islands rise abruptly from the bottom, and very deep soundings have been taken near their shores. Over a large part of the area the depth is above 2,000 feet, but in other places it is from 3,000 to 4,000 fathoms and more. The deepest sounding yet made in the Pacific, or anywhere else, is 4,475 fathoms--26.850 feet, over five miles-- near the Ladrone islands, in north lati­ tude 11 degrees 24 minutes, east longi­ tude 143 degrees 16 minutes. From the gentle slope of the bed of the Arctic ocean to the North of Siberia, the line showing only fourteen to fifteen fath­ oms at 150 miles from the shore, and from its configuration to the north of this continent it is believe^ to be the shallowest of oceans. Little is positive­ ly known of the depth of the Antarctic ocean, though it is presumed to be deeper than the other polar sea. The bottom of the ocean, so far as has been Observed, seems to correspond with the surface of the earth as respects eleva­ tions and depressions; the same valleys, mountains, chasms and plateaus being found below as above the Surface of the sea. A FEW WAY TO WIN A WIFE. A radiant young fellow shook our hand with a vise-like grip yesterday as he ejaculated in volcanic words, " Con­ gratulate me! congratulate me! I am the happiest man this side of the Elysian fiekjp. At last! at last! Why, I am walking to triumph! Why is it? Won & lottery prize? Paugli! She has consented--she has promised to marry me - the prettiest girl in Kentucky--the girl who jilted me seven times before she said yes. Five long years have I loved her. I wooed her ardently, ten­ derly, gallantly. I had money; I was young; I waa not bad looking. But she Tefused me* I sought honors and emi- ^ My ™. HfV & -i 'k * j f % y ? nence in my profession. I gained them; I laid them at her feet; she declined them. Seven separate times had I ad­ dressed her, and seven separate times had I been rtifuaed. I was in despair; I was losing my own respect and prob­ ably hem; and I determined to quit, to go away, to look upon her face no more. I packed my trunk for Lead- viQe. I started out to buy my ticket, when a plan flashed to me--a plan, a plan, a plan! I went back. I tried it. I won* "And the plan?* "I hired myself to her father as a ooaeh3aan.*<~; Louisville Courier- Jov-rnaL „ A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE, yf):'-if BY OLA REED M'CHRISTIB. • ? Dear children, many years ago I lost my mother; although, foo young to remember it or to realize my loss. I think that day must have been a dark one, even to my baby mind. I think that some realizing, sickening sense of the loss I that day sustained, and the dark­ ness of the future surely cast their sorrowful influence over my childhood days. I have wished, oh! how ardently wished, that my mother had lived! And,'dear children, I many times thought if I were blessed with the love of a good kind mother, that I would not wound her patient heart with cross looks and angry words, as I have seen some little folks do. When mother asks her little girl or boy to rock the baby, or to pick up ohips, or help to wash the dishes on a busy Saturday, do it, and do it cheer­ fully and lovingly though it is Saturday, and the sun bright and you want to join your little playmates in a ramble through the woods. Do it oheerfully, I say, for mother often thinks that a ramble through those very same woods, away from the petty vexations of the kitchen, would do her a world of good, but it cannot be taken, for there is baby to take care of, and supper to get, and little garments to mend and innumer­ able other things to do, of which you know nothing. And, saddest of all, dear ohildren, there will come a time perhaps when your whole soul will cry out in unspeakable anguish for that mother whose hands are peacefully folded over the cold breast, and whose gentle eyes are closed and sealed with the icy seal of dbath. Ohi remember that, as you stand weeping o'er that coffined form, every tucikind word, every disobedient action, every rebellious thought will come crowding out of the past, to accelerate your grief and tear anew your bleeding heart. Oh! then, dear ohildren, now while she is spared to you, cherish your mothers. No other heart holds so much love for you, no other hand so willingly toils for you, and no other angel form in heaven so gladly wilf 'weloOihe you |a your mother's. >f I add what Lord Maoaulay, the great historian and essayist, has written: " Children, look in those eyes, listen to that voice, notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by a gentle hand! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all good gifts--a loving mother. " Bead the unfathomable love of thqge eyes--the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight your pain. In after life you may have friends--fond, dear, kind friends--but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows. Often do I sigh in my struggles with the hard, uncaring world, for the sweet, deep se­ curity I felt when ot an evening, nest­ ling in her bosom, I listened to some quiet tale, suitable to my age, read in her tender and untiring voice. " Never can I forget her sweet glances cast upon me when I appeared asleep-- never her kiss of peace at night. Years have passed away since we laid her be­ side my father in the old churchyard; yet still her voioe whispers from the grave, and her eye watches over me a* I visit spots long since hallowed to the memory of my mother. CIAMDKN, OHIO mow me got jrrjfir. ̂ 1 Didst ever meet the handshaking bore? He called in the other day, hap­ pening first in the press-room. Seeing him coming, and knowing his penchant, the pressman prepared himself for the ordeal by slyly smearing his own hand with printers' ink. The visitor came on, all unoonscious of his fate, reached out his mandible and received an im­ pression at one and the same time. But ah, the artfulness of the fellow! He spake not, he scowled not, he made no sign. He simply walked around the room and through the various rooms, and with engaging impartiality shook the hand of every one, editor-in-chief, "local,* the scissors-man, the foreman, the intelligent compositors, proof-read­ ers, devil, and all. Not one escaped. He then took his leave soberly and be­ comingly, like one who retires from a funereal service. And than there was a rush for wash-basins.--Boston Trans­ cript. • - PENNSYLVANIA is no longer to have a practical monopoly of the business of furnishing the world with cheap petro­ leum. The oil field crosses the State line, and there have been lately several strikes in Allegany county, N. Y. Wyx-V-: £ . > wi - ONLY A WORD. Only » word! but it tinged with sadflW • life that never did anght ̂him; Only a breath! but it chilled ttwgbjjdnMa And crushed a heart that WM )i&ii find Only a word I bnt a heart in sorrow • . It roused from depths of despairing sMll Dismal forebodings concerning the giann^ ,r It made to happier thoughts gtre room. ' ; Oo'ra word has driven to madness Hopes as bright as eyfer were known; Only a word has changed to glaAnesa, Trembling fears of the poor and IMS. Only a haaty word harshly spoken t How many Urea haa it driven to waet Then psuae aad Mnk, and let no aueh tokeS Of hasty temper from your lipa go. Only a kindly word; think how many, With that to help them, would betted Wei And surely we ought, if it will help any So amall a trifle to freely give. COMPTOW, 111. lhlf.lL 41 . :" rLBASAimintat comes - fall leaves,. IT'S not tea, but it's nice--Coffeif.' .I KIDNAPPING--Infancy in slumber. BBEJ> on the waters--Mosquitoes, THE motto of commencement-week: ^Let us have pieces!" ? BEWARE of dried apples; they live not wisely, but to swell. WHY is a lazy man like a' y Because he works by spells. Do YOU know what the man got who took a car? He got aboard. " THERE is a pleasure in the pathless woods"--Hunting for the path. A ;3HRD-FANCIER calls bin canaries ' Riches," because they have wings. WHY is a good fiddler like a bad tav­ ern-keeper? Because he's master of a vile-inn. " How CAN we help our town? * *«*« a Chicago editor. Did you ever try leaving it? WHEN does the rain become too fa­ miliar with a lady? When it begins to patter on her back. A BURLINGTON woman calls her hue* band " Darkest Hour," because he cornea just before morning. THE world is made of two kinds of people: Those who work, and those who spend all their time in getting ready to work. WHEN a young man goes to have his mustache colored, it is very humiliating to have the barber tusk if he irought it with him. THE girls like the new song: " Put your armor on, my boys." It sounds so much like, " Put your arm around me, boys." A GERMAN inventor proposes to make boots thai will never wear out. But what good is a boot if yon can't wear it out? Slippers are preferable indoors. --Norristown Herald. A SCHOOL-MARM whe was recently kissed by mistake in the dark, ex­ plained her omission to use any light for nearly a month afterward, on the ground of hard times! « ALWAYS help those who 'are able to help themselves. Lightning can reach the earth without any assistance, and yet men put up lightning-rods for light­ ning to slide down on. "SEE, mamma!" exolaimed a little one," as puss, with arching spine and elevated rudder, strutted around the table; "see, Kitty's eat so much she can't shut her tail down.^ THE latest rendering of the proverb is "People who live in glass houses, and who want to throw their arms around the girl, should pull down: the blinds." How true it ist--Peck's Sun. IT is stated that a well-known En­ glish sporting nobleman last year paid a bill of $1,000 tor medical attendance upon his pack of hounds. He must have thrown considerable physic to the dogs. " • ' « ' • _ AN Irish gentleman having pur­ chased an alarm-clock, fm acquaintance asked him what he intended to do with it. "Och," answered he, "sure I've nothing to do but pull the string and wake myself.* " YOV'BZ welcome, love!" said Filkina to . , Hia package-laden spouse, " Who'd just returned frost shopping tour, i. Her hair all blown a-blowsq$ | . , ' vrier temper riled at waiting lc|Mt •»,f ? Outside the mansion-door--- f "You're wellcome, too! "she tot replied, "»And should have ottne befdrel» York Times. BURLINGTON Hawk-Eye: Some In­ dian mounds, supposed to be 3,000 oi 4,000 years old* or &o, vtere recently opened near Beloit, Wis., and the firs! things the excavators dug oat were couple of railroad passes and an auto graph album. Thus we seethe earl] dawn of remote civilization minglef with the gray shadows of the aeons tha --of the seons--the eeons--the graj shadows of the shadows of the seons. r-r TWENTY fellowships, each yielding $500 a year, were recently awarded a Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimoi whose holders are required to live ii the city during the academic sassion and make return for the benefits re ceived by occasional service as teachers A Marian (GaO cow, which fell do^ a well, subsisted a week on a strai mattress - , aipfe