Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 December 1910 — Page 9

For a Friend and One Other 'B} ANTOINETTE PATTERSON

Nichols pulled his hat well down to hide the worried look his face wore. : “It’s a pretty plece of business,” he €aid fo himself. “I'm convinced the woman’'s an adventuress, but how am I to find out, and Cyril getting every day. more bewitched? If only she claimed some civilized country—but Poland, where I haven't a friend-—or even an enemy!” , John Nichols and Cyril Thornton were close friends. ‘Nichols, much the elder, and Cyril's sister were to have been married, but she died. Nichols was a lawyer from New York; and in the interest of a client was now in Los- Angeles. €yril, recovering from typhoid, had come with him for a quicker convalescence. Everything had Dbeen going on smoothly: when their train met with en accident. v L They had escaped injm‘y' and saved the life of a beautiful woman. The woman, . whom = Cyril‘ ‘thought the most charming he had ever seen, was very grateful, apparently very frank. Her name, she said, was Marie Lazka; she hmd been a widow two years. Her father—and she said this with lowered voice—was ~deep in Polish politics. He had sent her away fearing she might come under suspicion. She never would have left him, but illness had made another northern winter dangerous, and she had taken a small house near Pasadena. She intended to live in retirement and have a complete rest before returning to Poland. It- was surprising how much time

had been spared by both, for Nichols, “unwillihg that Cyril should spend days and evenings, alone with the ‘charming foreigner, found himself in

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Pasagena whenever his business would permit. This hé.d, been going on’ for a fortnight. . As a further complication, Cyril, just of age, would shortly be in possession of $25,000. :

Nichols walked forlornly home and went to bed.

.Next morning he showed Cyril a business let®er requesting his. presence in San Francisco on Wednesday. His friend, though decidedly adverse 1o any move, consented to go with him. :

Cyril had promised to take Mme. T.aska a song that morning, but while dressing to the whistled accompaniment of a Polish air, word came that she had a headache, so would he—and Mr. Nichols, too—come in. the evening? : 1

Mme. Laska was tying up a spray of white rose-tree when they arrived. She gave them each a hand in her pretty foreign way. - On a porch table was a half-hurned cigareite. Nichols felt sure he detected the faintest aroma of a very fine cigar also. - .

The professional instinct was aroused! Mme. Laska had repeatedly said she knew no one in California but themselves. The cigar seemed 10 tell a different story. : Nichols threw his coat in a corner of the porch. In the pocket there was an important letter. If he forgot his coat h» would have to come back for i‘t——tonight—-on"_ account of leaving the next day.

" Cyrit pressed a guitar into Marie T.aska's hands, seating himself where he could watch the singer’s face. The boy was of a poetic nature, and here vas everything to speak to it—the fflowers, the music, that lovely face. s “Cyril,” Nichols sald after a time,

CONSUMPTIVE EGGS

An invalid was complacently suck-

ing a raw egg. ; : “This does me so much good,” he said.

But his visitor, a young bacteriologist, criel impatiently: “Why, man, it's the worst thing vou couta do. That egg, for all you know, may come from a tuberculosis hen—it mray be fall of tubercile bacilli, or consurmaption germs. Cooked, the germs are harmless; but, raw, they're a terrible danger. “Don’t you know: that the French bacteriologist at Lyons have succeeded in giving comsumption to a rabbit by feeding it on the gravy from a consumptive chicken? Don’t you know that they have even given rabbits consumption by inoculating them with raw white of egg from consumptive hens? “Yes, consumptive chickens are a grave source of danger, and in France —France always leads the world—they are establishing governmental tnspection of chickens and eggs. Till

“as we have a journey before us t.o‘ morrow we must say goodby.” ' “It will be lonely for a few days,” he | heard Marie Laska say to Cyril ‘ After bidding Cyril good night,l Nichols took the car back to Pasa-i dena. Later he walked toward Mme. Laska’s house, and then, hearing| Cyril’s name, stopped. ’ ; A man was talking in English, pre- | sumably that the servants might not understand. i | *“ Twenty-five thousand dollars will | see our project through and help Poland to her own again. Young Thornton will have the money and you must get it—somehow. You are beautiful and still' young, and can! make a boy like that do anything.” ’ Nichols knew he was listening to | an unscrupulous fanatic. ‘As forl Marie, if a tool, she was a willing | one. ; : I Even. as a lightning flash revealsl in an instant miles of country and. throws into relief the most- promi- | nent features until they are seen | more ‘clearly ' than ever before, so} things revealed themselves to Nichols l at this moment. © Cyril should not | marry Mme. Laska, or give up his; money. *One word from Nichols} could fix all that. But if he - spoke! | that word Jjust now, while the bo'y“ was still dreaming dreams, would%

that nature ever be the same again? A sudden rude awakening has been the makirg of many a man, but it was borne in upon Nichols that it would not do for Cyril. Nichols had deliberately listened. He mow as deliberately went up the steps of the porch and faced the man and the woman sitting there. “l have heard everything,” he said quietly. = Marie’s companion put his hand to his hip pocket. : ' _ “Don't do that,” Nichols said. with a little deprecating gesture. “I am worth more to you just now.alive.” Then he went to the end of the porch and picked up his coat. : “I - came back for this,” he said. “It has papers in the pockets which I shall want 'in. San Francisco tomorrow.”

The man and woman watched him curiously. He put on his coat; then he turned to the Pole. .

“T will give you $5,000,” he said, “for what in return I know you will do. My lawyer, Mr. Henry Stanton, in Los Angeles, will drrange all matters. In consideration of this’ money you will both leave Pasadena within two days—and the country. in, the shortest possible time. I will write this down,” taking a pen and paper from his pocket, “so there can be no

misunderstanding.. llf there should be I might feel bound to inform the Polish government that 1 have knowledge of a suspect.” Nichols stepped inside and drew up the document in legal form. The man and woman both signed. Then he turned to Marie.

“Write,” he said, “what I tell you.” She obeyed silently.

He then told them that this note should be mailed the following night to Cyril at the hotel in Los Angeles. He turned to go. ‘“You believe that I will keep my end of the contract,” he said, “afd I that you will keep yours. Good-by.” He raised his hat to Marie Laska. ; :

On their return to L.os Angeles they went first to Cyril’'s rooms. There was a note in Mme. Laska’s handwriting.. " Nichols walked toward the window. He was feeling keenly for the boy as he went over in memory each word he had dictated. :

“When you return,” it ran, “I shall have left - California. I have only time to write you a few lines, for word has come which takes me immediately to Poland. My country has need of me, and still more a man of whom you have often made me think, and with whose fate it now seems best I should unite my own. For my father’s sake I shall travel under an assumed name. I shall always think of you, and Mr. Nichols with the greatest kindness - and gratitude. Farewell. MARIE LASKA.”

Cyril read the letter twice and then, after a moment’s silence, handed it to Nichols. il Nichols saw there had been 'no shock that would be serious. - “Jack,” he said, “it’'s all over—my dream. She was a star too high for me to hope to reach, but I want you to see this letter, for you never rightly understood her. She was ‘s)o‘g, fine and noble and would rigk even her life for her country a#d for her love. I had thought at times she cared for me, but it was just that I reminded her of that other man.” < Cyril’'s eyes had the trusting look of Eleanor’s—his dead sister—at that moment and John Nichols turned away his head.

we, too, get such an inspection, we must eat our eggs and chickens well cooked. Cooked consumption germs, you know, are as safe a. cooked oysters. But a raw egg is a dangerous as a loaded gun.”

Wﬁ Knows?

A boy in a Chicago school refused to sew, evidently- considering it beneath the dignity of a ten-year-old man. George Washington sewed,” sald the principal, taking it for granted that a soldier must; “and do you consider yourself better than George Washington?” *“I don’t know, time will tell,” sald he, serenely.—Popular Education.

Cork Known in Ancient Times.

Cork was known to the Greeks and Romans, and was put to almost as many uses as at present, although there is no mention in Roman annals of linoleum, notwithstanding its Roman sound. Glass bottles with cork stoppers did not come into use until the middle of the fourteenth ceutury.

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Coach Yost of Michigan, is very versatile. If he can’t make his football varlets get there in one way he tries another. Yost began his career as a tutor in the art of maiming without Kkilling back in 1897 at Ohio Wesleyan. Yes, Yost once coached the Methodist collegians at Delaware, and in that same year Yost beat the Michgan eleven that he now trains—that 5, he beat an eleven I'épresenting the Walverines. ° ’ This is how it was: Yost had finished his course at the University of West Virginia in 1896. He went to Delaware. Yost had a fair eleven so he took them up to Ann Arbor.

CREDIT BELONGS TO TRAINER

Dr. Daniel Luby, Ex-Pennsylvania Player, Doing Splendid Work "With Missouri Team. ;

The Missouri rooters are willing to give credit to the trainer, Dr. Daniel F. Luby, the ex-Pennsylvania player who was brought from the East this vear to keep the players din good physical condition, for the splendid showing made by the team this sea-

son. In the games played thus far on Rollins field the effect: of the new rules in lessening the number of injuries has not been noticeable. Play has been stopped and time taken out for minor injuries just as frequently this season as in previous years, says the Kansas .City Star. But the rooters have noticed that nearly always it was a member of the opposing team—al;hough it was heavier and stronger team—who called for time out. Some weeks ago Doctor Luby first appeared on the field and since that time the Tigers have met lowa, 'Ames and Oklahoma. Each one of these contests was a gruelling struggle for the team, yet there isn't a team in the Missouri Valley, perhaps, that is in better physical condition as a whole.

| / A 0 ti l $ -\ \ I SN !/ . | 'R F SN LET = 1 7gB g ‘ 3 “f‘ SEIE s PR Dr. Danlel Luby. : There have been many injuries, but under expert treatment from Doctor Luby they have not resulted seriously and the victims are back in the game in a short time. The schedule this yvyear is the hardest that Missouri ever had and it was on the advice of Coach William Hollenback that a man was brought to look after the men’s condition. . The football followers and the players like the way this man Luby works. His energy and spirit on the field is second only to tha§ of Coach Hollenback himself. An hour after he arrived he was with Hollenback on the fleld, a cap on and coat off, ready for work. And since then he has had plenty of work to do. No matter how small the injury, the player receives the personal attention of the trainer. Every afternoon, before and after practice, he “overhauls’ the men personally, looks after each one who may be a “little off”! until he is back in shape again. It is said that he can “spot” a stale man as far as he can see him.

Papke Scores Knockout.

Billy Papke, who claims the middleweight champlonship of the world, the o:her day at Sydney, N. 8. W., knocked out Williams, champion of Victoria, in the sixth round. \

Yost was young then and unknown and more scrappy than at preseit. He conceived a brilliant idea. - He traded places with his brother, and played tackle for Wesleyan. Player Yost ran up and down the side lines, pulled his hair, beat the air with his fists and in other ways imitated a football leader in action. Ohio Wesleyan won by one touchdown. Possibly that is what made Michigan take an interest in the freckled one. After his year at Wesleyan Yost tutored the football teams at Nebraska, Kansas and Leland Stanford. He joined forces with Michjgan in 1901 and. has been with the Wolverines ever since. ‘ '

: (14 /l . -/ ~ . 1)) b o RIR R e ) 'Y/ 3 ~-aj‘ . Rsron’ — ol The gridiron is about the hottest place these frosty days. - The small universities are coming to the front, at least under the new football rules. Michigan disposed of its most formidable rival in Notre Dame without a single injury. Under the new rules it has become an. important factor to have the ends big, powerful men. :

Qualification for entrance to some of the big universities seems to be a diploma from a prairie football coach. How about an official announcer for football games? We need it to tell us about all substitutions and penalties.

Coach Stagg of the Maroons football squad is optimistic, it is ' said. When the Maroons win Stagg is a pessimist. !

If a college football player escapes the flerce scrimmage of team practise with the freshmen without injury he is lucky. It is the ambition .of every freshman to butt the regulars clear off the field.

Gilchrist, who played with Missourt against Kansas last year is playing an end on the navy team at Annapolis. Gilchrist has started in each game to date and is considered one of the hardest players in the academy. The new football rules are to remain intact, according to the reports from Boston, because the list of killed and injured has been reduced astonishingly. That’s a good thing. Now, if the game could be made a little more interesting. :

The left end position seems (o be the' hoodoo on the Yale team. WilNam Coates is the latest candidate for that position to be put out of commission, wrenching his knee, Walter Camp, Jr., was disabled at the same position and the other day Kilpatrick was hurt. ;

Sorg Gets Cups.

The Maryland challenge cup, the trophey in the feature event of the Louisville Horse show, which was concluded the other night, was awarded to Paul A. Sorg of New York. Mr. Sorg’s Park Four defeated Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s entry. ‘Mr. Vanderbilt won the event last year, and the cup would have remained in his possession had he won it tonight. Mr. Sorg’s horses were Puritan Maid, Precise, Pioneer and Pilgrim.

$5O for Four Teeth.

Twelve and a half dollars per tooth is the amount awarded Charles J. Peters, a semiprofessional baseball hero, by a jury in a Municlpal court the other day in a suit against John W. Devine, right fielder of the Mutuals, a semiprofessional ball team. Peters asked for $5O per tooth for four teeth Knocked out by Devine in an argument over a decision given by Peters in a semiprofessional game between the Mutuals and the Normals.

Football Is Strenuous.

Guarded by policemen, the referee of the Barnes-De Pauw footdall game at St. Louis the other afterndon was escorted from the field. He forfelted the game to De Pauw by a score of 1 to 0. When the score was oto 0, the Barnes team refused to accept & penalty of 45 yards,

JFFENSE WINS MANY GAMES

football Teams With Strong Plays and Men to Use Them Score Victories—Yost Sees Error.

Football teams that have developed a strong offense loom up as the contenders® for championship honors throughout the country. Those which have striven to perfect a ' defense, without paying extraordinary attention to the offense demanded by the new rules, are making only a poor showing and the coaches are beginning to realize that an eleven without a great number of plays and men back of the line with ability to work them are in no shape to claim titles. In the words of an old football player, “A strong defensive team may tie a great many games, but it takes an eleven with a strong offense to win.” = - ¥

Michigan is one of the most prominent schools in which too much attention has been paid to the defense to the neglect of the offense. Coach Yost has been working all. year with three games in ;view, says a writer in the Chicago Daily News. His schedule has been particularly hard—Notre Dame, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, the three strongest teams on the list, following each other on successive Saturdays. His early games have been practice affairs and against schools which in previous years had always been beaten by his eleven by overwhelming scores. :

t In coaching his team Yost has been particular to build up a defense capi able of taking care of his three strong- | est opponents while letting his offense i g 0 until just before his big games. In Ithis way he has prevented his oppoi nents from gaining much ground | against his team, as is shown in the | games in which the Wolverine eleven

bas participated. The Ann Arbor goal ilne has never been in danger of a touchdown and no team thus far has been able to gain consistently against Michigan. * The sum total of the gains in the three games played so far this season would be considerably less than 70 yards.’ o g In spite of this, Michigan has won only one of its three games, defeating the Michigan Aggies by the narrow margin of 6 to 3, while both Case and Ohio State have secured 3-to-3 tie scores. While this shows the opposing teams could not gain against Michigan and were unable to score by running the ball, it is equal proof that the Wolverine offense was even weaker than that of its opponents, for the Michigan backs were not obliged to work against so strong a defense and yet were unable to score.

* Yost, according to critics, has taken a slow way to develop his team, but that lately great improvement may be seen. He will be forced to teach his men a number of offensive plays to cope with the Syracuse eleven Saturday and there Is no doubt expressed that he will have a greatly improved offensive eleven on the field when he takes on the easterners.

Minnesota is an example of a team that has taken up the work ofstrengthening the offense to the neglect of the defense. From the start of the season Coach Williams’ men began to reel off intricate plays based upon the new rules and the men were taught something new each week. The Gophers have rolled" up overwhelming scores against their opponents and it is on these scores that the followers of the conference elevens base their hopes of a victory for Minnesota over Michigan Nov. 19. Playing against teams not in its class, the Gophers’ defense was found strong enough to prevent any score being made against it, although considerably more ground has been: gained against the conference eleven than against Michigan, in spite of the difference in the scores.

In developing_a strong offense the line is the first consideration for the coaches. In spite of the talk at the start of the season about fast backs and trick plays it has been found by nearly all instructors that the strength of a team lies In the strength of its forwards. Thus the linemen have come in for more than their share of coaching on the offensive side of the game and more stress is being laid upon this as the season progresses. It has been proved that the greatest back field in the world cannot score when the forward line ig weak. The University of Chicago team has a back field second to few in the West and yet on account of the weakness of the Maroons’ forwards the Midwayites have been beaten twice by teams the back fields of which were no better than theirs and they were lucky to get away with the Northwestern game, although the Purple backs were weaker. Chicago is not an isolated instance of this. The same state of affairs is to be found throughout the country.

Much of the ground-gaining ability of teams this year depends on trick plays and on the forward pass. In both instances a strong line is needed in order to give the back-field men time to work out the intricate formations. The forwards must hold the defensive team back long enough for the men carrying the ball to complete their plays and this must be for a considerably longer time than was the case under the old rules. Trick plays, although they seem fast and suappy to the spectators, take a much longer time to execute than simple ones, and the forwards must be taught and must have the ability to hold just so much longer. :

Stolen Bases Are Fatal. \J It was a stolen base by Dougherty in 1906 that upset the Cubs, proving Kling could be outguessed. It was a stolen base by Collins that sent the Cub machine into the air and crumbled the Cub defense in the second game. 3 i

Boy Killed In Football.

Lee Simpson, aged 18 years, of Trappe, is dead at his home at Easton, Md., from the effects of an injury re ceived while playing football at the Trappe high school. He was struck an the temple by the knee of one of the players.

Hard on Middle Ages.

Nicholas Murray Butler, presideni of Columbia University, says football is worthy of the Middle Ages. - Isn% this bearing down rather hard on th¢ Middle Ages?—Chicage Record-Her ald

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AMMOTH CAVE! Ten to one you have not heard the name mentioned, let alone thought of it, since you put aside . your school geography. Yet it is one of the greatest matural wonders of America and at one time rivaled Niagara falls in popularity. There was a time when it was the Mecca of all newly-married couples who could afford the trip. Travelers came from all over the world, to See it. Today, however, it is practically forgotten. Visitors even from nearby cities are few and far between. In fact, Mammoth cave is the forgotten natural wonder of the world.

- Representative Thomas of Kentucky expécts to introduce a bill in congress providing for the purchase of Mammoth cave by the government and making it a national park. like Yellowstone and Yoseniite. His argument will be that the ‘United States government should take steps to preserve a great natural wonder that is likely some day to be destroyed unless some strong hand intervenes to protect i;. There is as yet no indication that Mammoth cave will be destroyed; but no one can guarantee that science, in its constant search for new material.to convert to man’s use, may not discover some profitable use for the curious geological formations that go to make up the gory of this great hole in the ground.

At any rate, this project for its purchase by the government brings it once more to the attention of the public. Its present owners, the heirs of the late Dr. John Croghan, under the trusteeship of sudge Albert Covington Janin, have allowed the great cave to become negl:cted and forgotten. Back in }844 more than 100 persons visited the cave every day. Today the number does not average five. Yet the population of the country has increased from 20,000,000 to almost 90,000,000 since that time. To discover what had brought about this condition a newspaper representative recently journeyed to Mammoth cave. It required nearly an hour to buy a ticket to the nearest point on the railroad. Only after a long, careful study of r%ilroad maps was it possible to get a ticket, and this was to Glasgow Jqution, Ky. This station was reached after a 24-hour ride, and there, on a siding, was the train for Mammoth Cave, nine miles away. This train consisted of a little engine with the name “Hercules” painted on its sides, .and one old-fashioned day coach lighted by smoky oil lamps. The writer and an old man with a dog were the only passengers. There were two conductors to collect the fare of two dollars® which is deman-i--ed for the short ride to the cave. The nine miles of grass-covered tracks were covered in about an hour and at last the lights of the Mammcth Cave hotel came into view.

The hotel is a rambling old strueture built nearly seventy-five years ago—part of it, in fact, almost 100 years ago. There were only three persons at the hotel during the writer's two day stay = The big diningroom, with its long rows of tables, capable ~f seating .30 or 300 persons at one time, was deserted. The greater part of the structure was boarded up, deserted ani fast falling into ruin.

The cave itself, of course, is just as wonderful as ever. It is the largest cave that has ever been distovered and its natural beauties excel those of every other. There are moere than 157 miles of walks in the cave, and some idea of its size may be gained from knowing that its main avenue is four and one-half miles long, 170 feet high and 60 feet wide. There are 49 other avenues, large and small, and «t least 100 chambers. The present owners charge two dollars for the first admission to the. cave and one dollar for each succeeding visit. Four trips are necessary to see all the wonders. Each one takes from four to six hours to make, a.c the four enable one to see practically all the sights, if one is willing to walk some twenty-five or thirty miles. On one long trip practically every important sight could be seen if the guides were disposed to show the cave thit way. If the cave shall ever become the property of the government, is lighted by electricity and shown in a way that will not take three or four days, and » modern hotel be built to replace

the present barnlike quarters, Mammoth cave will come into its own again. = . . ) ‘'However, thers are many obstacles that will have to be overcome before this can be brought about. When Doctor Croghan, the owner, died in 1849, he left the entire Mammoth cave estate, consisting of nearly 3,000 acres, in the hancs of trustees for the benefit of his nine nephcws and nieces, with the proviso that when they should all ‘be dead the- trustees should sell the estate at public auction. Five of the heirs .are still ab'>e. and although the youngest is seventytwo, it may be many years before the provisions of the will can be carried out. At public auction the Louisville & Nashville railroad probably would be the purchaser, for already it owns practically all the land around the cave, and for a long time it has been known that the railroad would like to get -it to boom its traffic. The railroad and the trustees have been at loggerheads for years, with the result- that the road makes no effort to stimulate traffic. The trustees of the estate do not spend any money in advertising the cave or for - improvements. They are content to get what revenue they can from admissions to the cavern and from the hotel.

Representative Thomas dedlares the government could step in znd buy the cave despite the “roghan will, which provides for its sale only at public auction, and then only when the last heir shalllﬁhave passed away. If he can get a sufficiently large appropriation—probably $1,000,000, for the timber on the land is worth $250.000— the government can have the estate appraised and pay the appraisal price to the trustees. His idea i{s to have the federal authorities improve the estate and make the cave once more a famous show place. The thousands of persons who have visited the cave in earlier days, who have seen its wond%rfjul stalagmites, who have sailed on its Echo river and who have sat in the star chamber. will sympathize with him and his plan.

And unless his plan be carried out in the near future the cave will be absolutely forgotten except in its immediate vicinity. The guides and the people who live near the cave love it, and they are looking forward to the time when under government control hundreds of visitors will arrive daily to see its wonders as they did in the good old days “befo’ de wah.” -

The Seven Worst Sermons.

As one surveys the field of pulpit oratory - for illustrations -of sermonic incompetence, he will perceive that if his subject is tojbe handled with any high order of justice, he must -dispossess himself of the personal equation. Among the 52 sermons he was privileged to hear last year, there -may have been 49 which he disliked, which bored him or failed to produce a fiuttering of conscience, but these of themselves are not sufficient reasons for bestowing upon any of the 49 -the sinister distinction we have in mind. They may have been stupid sermons, badly written, abominably-delivered sermons, uninteresting, unedifying, uninspiring, un-anything which a sermon may be, and perhaps generally is; but they were just meager, or commonplace, or tiresome .sermons, no more nor less, certainly not of an order of demerit to rank among the seven. For to have won the distinction of badness in a supreme degree, a discourse, like a person, must have violated one of the fundamental laws of goodness, and have clashed somehow with the eternal verities.—William Austin @mith, in Atlantic. ' L

How About [t?

Stranger—Many holdups In this town now? :

Policeman—There's some hotldin’ up done, mister, o’ course, but not near as much as there used to be. Since we shut down on the gamblin’ there {sn’t s 0 many -men gettin’ cleaned out and havin’ to cook up an excuse to make to their wives. when they get home. : b

The Friendly Critic.

“Yes, sir,” said the artist of the impressionist school, “I paint things as I see them.” “That’s all right, my boy,” - rejoined the friendly critic, “but really you ought to take something for your liver.” 1 , :

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BABY’S GIFT FROM HIS PAPA Inheritance for Vhich Mother Did Not Seem to Be in Any Great . Degree Thankful. Richard Harding Davis, at a footbali game in Philadelphia, praised the voices of the young undergraduates shouting their weird college yells. ™ “It makes me think of a Locust street bride,” said Mr. Davis, smiling. “She turned to her husband one night at dinner and remarked: “*‘My dear, the first time I saw you was at Franklin Field. Your head was thrown back, your mouth wide open and your face was very red—you were yelling your college yell.’ “‘Yes, I remember,” said the young man. - “‘And 1 noticed,” she continued, ‘what a remarkable voice you had. ‘““Yes, you spoke of it at the time,’ said he. ‘But "~+hat makes you think of it now? ¢ “*Oh, nothing,” said the bride. ‘Only I wish the baby hadn’t inherited it. That’s all.”” = Reason for Strange Names. A little colored girl appeareds on one of the city playgrounds the other day, accompanied by two pickaninnies, who, she explained, were cousins of hers, visitors in Newark. “What are their names,” asked the young woman in charge of the playground. “Aida Overture Johnson and Lucia Sextette Johnson,” the girl answered. “You see their papa used to work for a opera man.”—Newark News. s .Only on Great Occasions. “How are you, Mr. Tyte-Physt? 1 hope there is nothing wrong with that set of teeth I made for you a few wecks ago.” . “No, they’re all right; but, great Scct‘t,' Doc, I paid you $3O for them teeth. You don’t s’pose I'm going to wezr ’em for everyday use, do you?” Sweetest Success. “What's the sweetest kind of sue cess?” ‘That which you achieve by acting contrary to the advice of your friends.”

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