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INCORPORATED. 1824. Capital. $200,000
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BEEN. Cashier
DIRECTORS .
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er 11E EVEN 1 N0 G
— THE COLLEGE COUSIN.
In two of the leather-seated chairs
before the big 1v indow of the hotel the
Junior and the Sophomore sat side by
side. Each wore a large Chrysanthe-
mum and carried a-cane decked with
streamers of ribbon. The rotunda be-
hind them 11 as filled with restless
groups of y oung men, all wearing rib-
bon or carrying flags and all talking
hoarsely and excitedly The street in
front of the hotel already filled 1v ith the
dusk of the early twilight, through
which the street lamps seemed spheres
of golden haze, 11 ore much the same
look; but 1v ith the difference that the
groups took the form of a procession
moving along the 11 et side“ alk. Across
the way the shirts in the window of the
“I" xents’ Clothing Palace” were all of the
s1me color as the ribbons. The en-
trancc to the dry goods store further
down was draped with the same shade.
Ev en the bootblacks and newsboy s,
perhaps with a 1 iew to personal benefit
rather than from any stiong affection
for the college, 11 ore knots of the same.
The SOphomore looked out at the
mo1ing crowd and tapped the floor
lightly with his cane.
“G1eat game, 11 asn ’t 1&9 he said
hoar sely. ,
The Junior nodded. The fact that he
had heard the same remark from the
same source a dozen times in the last
15 minutes did not affect his apprecia-
tion of it in the least.
“Wrecked my voice, though,” said the
Sophomore.
“If it were. shattered,” said the J u—
nior, thoughtfully, “I might get a little
sleep mornings.”
To this the Sophomore made no an-
swer. He did not feel himself capable
of conversing on any subject except» the
game.
“There were holes in their line that
you could drive an ice wagon
through,” he said, in sudden cxulta-
tion.
“I don’t dri1 c an ice 11 agon, ” said the
Junior, shortly. Then he turned and
looked at the clock above the desk.
“It’s nearly six,” he said. “Let’s go
and get something to eat.”
The Sophomore glanced at him out
of the corner of his eye, and an instant
later became immersed in a study of
the toes of his shoes.
“I’m going uptown to dinner,” he
said, hesitatingly.
“What?” said the Junior.
The Sophomore repeated his state-
ment with obvious embarrassment.
The Junior looked at him with wither-
ing sc01n.
“Didn’ it you tell me," he said accus-
ingly, “that we’d take dinner together,
go to the theater, and catch the 11:30
train back?”
The Sophomore shifted uneasily in
his seat.
“Well, you see,” he said, “I hadn’tre-
ceived this invitation then.”
“That makes no difference.” said the
Junior, sternly. “You made an en-
gagement with me. Are you going to
break it?"
“No,” said the Sophomore. “Only——
“Only you don’t intend to keep it,”
said the Junior. “that’ll 1 do now?
\\ andel about till train time. 9”
“0, you’ll be all right,’ said the
Sophomore. “Unless some one takes
you for a hayseed and bunkos you,” he
added.
The Junior looked thoughtfully up
at the electric light. Then he turned
to the Sophomore:
“Who is she. 9” he asked.
“It’ll do you no good to know,” said
the Sophomore.
“I don't- want to know,” said the
Junior. “Was it the one on the coach?"
The Sophomore nodded. “I met her
at the beach last. vacation,” he said. “I
never called on her here, but she asked
me to dinner to—night. She has acousin
in college. I never asked his name for
fear she’d want me to look him up.”
A broad smile came over the face of
the Junior, but when the Sophomore
turned toward him he was preternatur-
ally grave.
“You’re going,
.askcd. '
“Yes,” said the Sophomore, calmly.
The Junior looked pensively at his
cane.
“I think I’ll go with you,” he said.
The Sophomore laughed.
“I mean it," said the Junior.
see why I shouldn’t.”
“What!” said the Sophomore.
“You could say that you had brought
a friend with you,” said the Junior. “It
would be all right. She’d understand.”
The Sophomore looked at him close-
ly, as though searching for evidence of
a joke, but the Junior was apparently
in earnest.
“I’d look pretty,wouldn’t I?” said the
Sophomore.
“I’ve no doubt of it,” said the Junior.
“You always do.”
“It would be the most cold-blooded
thing on record,” said the Sophomore.
“\th, I hardly know the girl». It
11 ould make me look like the 1ery
deuce!”
then, are you?” he
“I don’t
“You flatter yourself, ” said the
Junior.
“She’d think me an ass,” said the
Sophomore.
“Well, 11' hat’s the use trying to de-
ceive her?” asked the Junior, coldly.
“Of course you’re joking, though,”
said the Sophomore, appealingly. “You
wouldn’t do such a thing.”
“Why not?” said the Junior. “You
could make it all right by a little expla-
nation.”
“ ‘Little explanation! ’ ” said the
Sophomore with great exasperation.
“It would take a duodecimo of explana-
tion to clear up a thing like that! ”
“Stick to football English,” said the
Junior. “Duodecimo is the little kind.
,When you get out of your depth yOu
don’t say what you mean.”
“I might tell her you were a lunatic,”
said the Sophomore, thoughtfully.
“That would do,” the J unlor agreed.
The Sophomore looked at him criti-
cally.
“I believe you would do it,” he said
\
I
“It’s a blessed thing that I’ll
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at last.
not take you.”
“How’ll you help yourself?” asked
the Junior with interest.
The Sophomore studied the question
in silence.
“You can’t turn me over to the police,”
said the Junior, “and you can’t fight,
because if you did you’d not be pre-
sentable yourslf.”
The Sophomore glanced over his
shoulder at the clock.
“It’s time for me to start,” he said.
“Good-by. I’ll meet you at the train.”
The Junior promptly rose and fol-
lowed him. At the door the Sopho-
more turned and looked at him help-
lessly.
“I say, now, you’ll not—” he began.
“Come on,” said the Junior. “There
goes a car.” ~
He seized the Sophomore’s arm and
they boarded the car together.
“Better go inside, it’s warmer,” said
the Sophomore, wilily.
The Junior smiledr .
“I’ll stand out here with you,” he
said, carelessly.
The Sophomore sighed.
“You don’t really mean—~” he said.
“That- I’ll invade the young woman’s
home,” put in the Junior. “I do. Un-
der your protection I will have no hesi-
tation.” A
The Sophomore turned his back and
gloomily watched the passing lamps.
The Junior paid the fare for two.
“If 1 obliged him to pay my fare," he
said to himself, “it mightang‘er him ”
The Sophomore did not- look at him
when they got off the car. Half way
down the square he stopped at the foot
of a flight of steps and turned his eyes
doubtfully from the door above to the
Junior.
“Is this the place ?” asked the Junior,
innocently. “I’m beginning to get nerv-
ous. I always do when 1 go calling.”
“You’ll need all your nerve this time,”
said the Sophomore, bitterly.
He went upstairs slowly, the Junior
close behind him. At the top he turned
sharply around.
“Do you really mean to do so ungen-
tlemanly a thing?” he demanded.
“It’s not ungentlemanly,” said the
J unior, stoutly. “All you have to do—”
“0, shut up!” said the Sophomore:
He turned away and put his hand on
the bell. Then he looked back over his
shoulder. The Junior was leaning easi-
ly against the. broad railing of the ver-
anda.
“I believe you are fool enough to fol-
low me in,” said the Sophomore,
angrily. “
“I am,” said the Junior, calmly.
“Perhaps not exactly that, but we’ll
not fight over terms.”
“Well, you can’t make me make such
an ass of myself,” said the Sophomore,
suddenly.
“You can take dinner here if you
want to,” the Sophomore went on. “I
believe that you have no more sense
than to try. I‘ll wait 011 the corner
to see you kicked out. Then I'll go
back to the hotel and ,get. something
to eat.”
“I’ll go with you,” said the Junior,
readily.
The Sophomore turned and stole
quietly down the steps.
“I hope no one saw me,”
when he reached the bottom.
“I thought that I saw a girl looking
out of the second-story window,” said
the Junior, comfortingly.
“0, you go to the deuce.
Sophomore.
“Well, perhaps I was mistaken,” said
the Junior. “It looked that way.
though. Had you just as lief walk he-
he said,
'3’
said the
‘ side me? “'hen you drop behind that
. thusiasm.
' unbend.
way it makes me nervous. It’s so easy
to hit a' man over the head when he’s
not looking.”
“It wouldn’t hurt you,” growled the
Sophomore. .
“We’ll go back to the hotel and carry
out the original programme,” said the
Junior.
The Sophomore did not echo his e11-
Even when he found him-
self opposite the Junior at a little white
table in the cafe among his friends
and in the presence of a clamorous
argument about the game, he did not
But by the time that the
oysters came in his face began to clear.
“_I suppose you’ll tell this thinfiall
over college,” he said, ruefully.
“It’s a good thing that they don’t
peel these lemons,” said the Junior.
“One would never know 11 hat they
were if it were not for the yellow out-
side.”
. “It makes me feel pretty mean,”
said the Sophomore.
“They call these two-by-four mon-
strosities ‘blue points’ on the bill, don’t
1hey.” said the Junior.
“What troubles me most,” said the
Sophomore, “is what the dickens the
girl will think of me.”
The Junior lifted an oyster on his
fork and looked at it closely. ,,
“Don’t worry about that,” he. said.
“I ll fix it all right with her. "
The Sophomore stopped his glass
half way to his mouth and looked at .
him over the rim in amazement.
“I’m the cousin at college 'whose
.name you never asked,” said the
Junior,—Chicago Tribune.
Saved from a Lion by a Pillow.
An English ofi‘icer was shooting re-
cently in Somaliland. One night, when
he was in bed inside his tent, a lion
sprang over the rough thorn fence,
which it is usual to throw up round
one’s encampment at night. Instead
of picking up one of the men or ani-
‘ mals that must have been lying about
asleep inside the fence, he would have
none but the sportsman himself, made
a dash into his tent, and seized him——
fortunately only by one hand. Then,
by some wonderful piece of luck, as the
hon changed his grip for the shoulder, .
he grabbed the pillow instead, and so
vanished with his prize. The pillow,
was found next morning several hun-
dred yards distant in the jungle, and
outside were also the spoor of a lioness,
who had evidently been awaiting the
’ return of her lord with something eat-
able.—Ca'pt. C. J. Melliss, in Scribner’s.
WATER SNAKE FIGHTS; EEL.
Terrific Combat Which FinallyEnded in
the Eel’e Escape. >
“Did you ever know that there is a
deadly antipathy between a common
water snake and an eel?” asked the
fisherman, according to the Indlanapn-
lis Sentinel. “ Yell, I never knew it
until an experience I had in witnessing
a fight between the two. Personally,
I have the greatest dread of eels. I'm
more afraid of them than I am of a
snake, and you can imagine my chagrin
when I happened to hook one on one
of my fishing expeditions. I was afraid
to touch it, and all. I could do was to
let it dangle in the air. I could not get
it off my hook, and I was m'editating
what to do, when altogether unnoticed
I allowed the slimy object to drop into
the water. In a. moment I saw a big
water snake make a dive for it. At
the first lunge it caught the neck of the
eel squarely between his teeth, and I
could see it sink its ugly-looking fangs
into the eel’s flesh. I waited anxiously
to .see the developments. With its grim
hold still on the eel’s neck the snake,
quick as. it takes to tell it, wrapped
its sinuous body around its antagonist’s
neck in an effort to squeeze it to death.
The body of the eel was too sleek, how-
ever, and the snake’s coils, despite all
it could do, would slip down into the
water. Time and time again it tried to
squeeze the life out of its antagonist,
never for an instant releasing itshold on
the eel’s neck, but the body of the lat-
ter was too s'leek for it and every time it
would slip down. Finally the hook
broke,and the eel made good its escape.”
HANS AND LENA.
“Ven 1 Ha! No Vork She Lots Me Not,"
Says Malmgreen.
“I want you to put him somewhere so
7 he can’t bodder meso many times,”
said Mrs. Berglin, of 291 Market street,
to Justice Kersten when she appeared
against Hans Malmgreen, who she
chrargcd with being disorderly, says
' the Chicago Journal.
“What has he been doing?” said the
justice. _
“V ell he comespy my house. all the
,time and he bodders me and bodders
me. He never vorks, all he does is bod—
dter me.”
“What have you got to say about this,
Hans?"
A tall German- lad with light blue
eyes hung his head in shame, swung
one foot backward and forward, pulled
his cap nervously, and said in a 101v,
timid voice:
“We was in lofe, you know, and she
went back on me two or three times
alretty. When I haf vork she lofes me,
and when I haf no vork she lofes me
not.”
“Well, you had better transfer your af-
fections somewhere else, Ofr if you
bother this woman again I will send you
to the bridewell. , Do you understand?”
“Yes, chudge; I vill say to her right
here: ‘(jood-py, Lena, you vill never
see your Hans again.” ”
So they parted.
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‘ A woman life insurance is doing a.
thriving business in and about Nebo,
Ky-
A bald eagle, with a. big steel trap
hanging to one of its legs, flew over
Licking, Ky. ., a. few days ago. '
Howesville, Ky. ., the county seat of
Hancock county, has no Hebrew
residents, and there is only one Hebrew
in the county.
A woman’ s rights club has been or-
ganized in St. Joseph, Mo., and arrange-
ments have been made for putting in a
billiard table and awoman barber.
“In honor of a young lady visiting the
town” a very successful dog fight was
given in Swampd ale, Ky., the other day,
according ‘to a local paper.
A farmer in South Gray, Me., says he
has a hen that is 22 years old who can
yet scratch a. good living and care for a
brood of chickens.
A man was put in charge of the
Officials of the county asylum in Kenne-
bec county, Me., the other day on the
sole ground that he was “ignorant."
Just how ignorant he was the commit-
ment papers did not' state; they only
said he was “ignorant.”
Two poultry keepers in Bronson,
Mich, kept tally last year on the num-
ber of eggs laid by a certain number of
hens. One man had 320 hens, which
laid 32,782 eggs during the year. The
other got 24,827 eggs from 270 hens.
The total was nearly a. car load of eggs.
A Lewiston (Me) man found a gold
ring in the street the other day. When
he got home his wife bewailed to him
the loss of her ring, which had some-
how slipped from her finger in the
course of the morning. The ring the
bus-band found proved to be the one
his wife had lost. .
Last Christmas a San Francisco news--'
paper gave a. silver cup to every child
born on the Pacific coast,on that day.
The offer was made until some three
weeks before Christmas. The Ledger,
of Mexico, Mo., now announces that it
will give a. silver cup to every child born
in the country next Chrismas week.
MULTUM IN PARVO.
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
—Bovee.
They that stand high have» many
blasts to shake them.—Shakespeare.
Let not anyone say that he cannot
govern his passions—Locke.
The greatest .misfortune of all is. not
to be able to bear misfortune—Bias.
The mind grows narrow in propor-l
tion as the soul grows corrupt.—1Rbus-
seau.
A poet must need be‘ before his
own age to be even with posterity.—
Lowell. "
The coward reckons himself cau—'
tious; the miser thinks himself frugal.
——Hum_e.
' Never read a. book through merely
because you have begun it—Wither-
spoon.
Opinions grounded on prejudice are
always sustained with the greatest vio—
knee—Jeffrey.
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts; to believe in the heroic
makes heroes—Disraeli.
Those who never retract their Opin-
ions love themselves more than they
love truth. —Joubert.
ABOUT EYES.
Dreaming of an'adversar'y signifies
that you are to overcome Obstacles , A.
which are in your way.
Many specimens of worms and the
larvae of insects are not provided with
eyes. Their habitation being in the
earth, eyes to them would be useless.
It seldom happen-s that both eyes are
exactly alike. An examination with a
magnifying glass usually discOvers
many differences between the two.
When the under arch othhe upper
eyelid 'is a perfect semicircle it is in—
dicative of goodness, but also of timidi—
ty, sometimes approaching cowardice.
Scientists who have made a study 01"
the eye say that a. flash of light lasting
40- 1,0,00 000, 000ths of a second is quite
sufiicient for distinct vision.
The eye which when open presents
a. long acute angle to the; nose invaria-
bly indicates comprehensive under-
standing and great intelligence in its
possessor.
MANY PATENTS.
The great department stores and ele-
vators of our cities may choose any one
of 1,167 cash or goods conveyors.
The fire extinguisher is represented
in‘ the patent office by 1,023 different
models, each covered by papers pat-
ent.
Montana has the usual number of
inventors for a. new state. There is
one to every 1,73' of its population.
But-tons, buckles and other dEVIOeS
for fastening straps or clothing have
been patented to the number of 11,795.
The new woman may choose any one ,
of 1,506 difierent kinds Of crinoline
and corsets, all of which have been pat-
ented.
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If not, call on me and
I will write you a. policy 1n the Mutual Plate Glass and Sale lnsur-
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In Case of Fire
You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance 01 Philadelphia;
Phoenix ,of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire of
Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific
of New York; Security of New Hampshire Or Granite State 01 Ports-
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w. 1a. amusement.
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