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COMMENCEMENT. _
The Pretty Custom Observed by College
Graduates Each Year.
Commencement is like spring in that
it' 18 new each year and that familiarity
with it breeds only increased apprecia-
' tion. It grows on the participator as
his years accrue. It is a good day for
the hopeful youths who graduate and
march at the head of the line.
seem good to them next year, when they”
come back after a 12 months’ separation
and hobnob with one another over their
class punch and presently get in line at
the very tail end of the procession, so
far off from the band that they can
scarcely catch the music. But in 10
years’ time, when they have moved up
10 places nearer to the band, they will
find it dearer still. Then it will have
begun to assume its true properties, as
the day of all the year that brings back
the youth that is already slipping from
them, by taking them back to the scenes
of their untrammeled adolescence and
rubbing them up against the men who
were young with them when they were
young.
Life brings great prizes to the diligent
and the lucky. To the average college
graduate of 15 years’ standing it has
broncht a wife and children, a certain
foothold in the world and a definite pros-
pect of respectable achievement. But it
is better at bestowal thai at replenish-
It brings him new things, but it
does not fit him out with fresh supplies
of the treasures that he had. There is
only one set of the men who were young
when he was young, and it cannot be
duplicated.
If he is wise, and the cockles round
his heart do not get too stiff, he is very
careful of that dwindling set of asso-
ciates, and the fewer there are 'of them,
and the more he realizes the impossibili<
ty Of replacing them, the greater pains he
takes to go back to commencement and
take account of stock.
A strangely impressive spectacle is the
forming of the line of graduates that
marches to the commencement dinner of
an old college. First comes the gradu-
ating class, then the alumni by classes
inorder of seniority. “Class of 18201”
cries the marshal. Perhaps there is no
response. “Class of 1821! Class of 18221
Class of 18231” Presently, as his class is
reached, the oldest graduate present
steps out, a venerable man, perhaps the
sole representative of his year, and takes
his place amid the cheers of the specta-
tors. Then for a dozen or a score of
classes as the marshal calls. the year one
or two or four or five old men walk out,
arm in arm,,supporting one another’s
steps. Then as the list gets into the for-
ties come gray haired men, but vigorous
and not yet of the lean and slippered
period. And then in larger companies
the men of middle age and then the
younger men, and finally a boisterous
crowd 200 strong of lusty youth who
cheer for “ ’92.” A marvelously vivid
panorama of human life is the com-
mencement procession from “Morituri
.salut‘amus” at one end to “Life let us
Dull must be the
spirit that is not stirred by it. And yet
it is a cheering sight with all-its pathos,
so much good fellowship it shows and
sympathy and joyous greeting when old
companions meet.—Harper’s Weekly.
Mind Your Own Business.
An old custom once prevailed in a re«
mote place of giving a clock to any one
who would truthfully swear that he had
minded his own business alone for a
year and a day and had not meddled
with his neighbors. Many came, but
few, if any, gained the prize, which was .
more difficult to win than the Dunmow
fiitch of bacon. Though they swore on
the four gospels and held out their hands
in certain hope, some hitch was sure to
be found somewhere, and for all their
asseverations the clock remained sta-
tionary on the shelf, no one being able to
prove his absolute immunity from un-
called for interference in things not in
any way cencernin'g himself.
At‘lbst a young man came with a per-
fectly clean record, and the clock seemed‘
as if it was at last about to change
.. owners. Then said the custodian, “Oh,
ayoung man was here yesterday and
made mighty sure he was going to have
the clock, but he didn’t.” “And why
didn’t he get it?” “What’s that to you?”
snapped the custodian. “That’s not your
business, and—you don’t get the clock.”
—-Home Journal.
Treatment of the Wrists.
Very few people know the importance
of keeping the wrists cool in warm
weather. Actors and actresses tell you
that if one of their number faints they
pour cold water on their wrists. Ath-
letes engaged in the performance of
feats of endurance know that in winter
the wrists must be kept warm and in
summer cool, but the general public
still continues to wear tight gloves and
heavy cuffs in the dog days, and then
wonder why it is hot.
Taking off one’s gloves (especially in
church) often makes quite an amazing
difierence in temperature. Tight sleeves,
above all things, make the wearer hot
in oppressive weather; delicate girls
have been known to faint from this
cause alone—Exchange.
What Botanists Do Not Know.
How water, commonly called sap, nec-
essary to the life of a tree, passes from
the roots to the topmost leaf and evapo-
rates is a problem not yet solved bygbot-
anists. It is known that the ascezi't is
made chiefly' 1n cavities in the «sap wood
only, the heart and bark serving other
ses. That is the extent of our
knowledge of the matter. Beyond is
more conjecture, and every theory yet
advanced has failed to stand the test of
_. experiment. —Exchange.
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FORECAsrn G'STORMS
ACCURACY AND TIMELtsssmu Fons-
CASTANG WEAT" '
Remarkable Success of the United States
Weather Bureau 111 For-owning Sudden
and Dangerous Changes Illithe Atmos-
phere In Various Sections. I. '
The signal achievement of‘the gov-
ernment weather bureau in prediCting
the disastrous tornadoes in Iowa 24
hours in advance of their awful visita-
tions brought into new prominence the
remarkable accuracy? with which in
these days of advanced science a weather
forecast can be made ~.
The prediCtion of the Iowa tornado
offers a noteworthy example of the value
of the government bureau and inns-.-
trates the perfection of the system it em-
ploys, but the forecast in point of accu-__
racy is duplicated daily. It isn’t every
day that a tornado starts on a wild stam-
pede, but the weather sharps are expected
to keep the cities and towns of the coun-
try posted' 1n advance in regard to the
weather. The daily forecast has become
an all important eleni'eiit 111-.311 calcula-
tions, whether of pleasure or of business,
and could no more be. dis ensed with
than the telegraph 01- any of the other
agencies which have revolutionized
affairs.
Several years ago a couple of young
army lieutenants who saw‘ tornadoes in
every cloudcap kept the" Western farm-
ers dodging in and out of-low ground
cellars until they became round shoul-
dered and neglected their crops, but the
young lieutenants’ experience is‘ now one
of the amusing traditions of the ofiice.
It is told, too, possibly as a. joke, that
the colored janitor who had. rheumatism
and looked upon his left leg-gas a reli-
able gauge did the prophesying business
when the lieutenants were invited to
some swell function. ‘
Things are run difierently new, as the
reliability of the predictions and the
able administration _1o‘f' the bureau at-
test. It is doubtful, moreover, if any
country on the globe has a' better equip-
ped service. This is due in some meas-
ure to the opportunities of study oflered
by the diverse climatic peculiarities of
the United States. Theseipeeuliarities
make the work of weather prophesying
here a. most difficult task,-requiring the
employment of men of Wide experience
and learning. It is bynoinieans an un-
common circumstance» for the weather
bureau to chase half .-a. dozen difierent
varieties of storms over-theco'untry in a
day. It may be hailing.in-..North Da-
kota, a tornado maybe making sad
havoc in the western; farming belt, a
Windstorm may be bowling along the
Atlantic coast, imperiling shipping, and
four or five thunderstorms may be
creating alarm 1n as many different sec-
tions.
With all these comphcations, a short,
thickset man, with gray eyebrows and
gray mustache, calmly looks over the
maps which are made on the reports of
every one of the government observers
throughout the country and figures out
just the kind of weather that may be
expected in every state and section.
This short, thickset man, with gray
eyebrows and gray mustache, is the
official who, on examining‘the' maps on
the night of July 5, paused for a mo-
ment, and then, to the surprise of his
assistants, murmured, “This leeks like
a tornado”
Major Dunwoody was the emcer who
read the signs aright. The government
observers at SiouxCity, Des-«Moines,
Keokuk and Omaha: had all reported
threatening atmospheric conditions, and
their reports when reduced to tracings
on the maps showed that the center of
the atmospheric d1sturbanees was at
Cheyenne, with the winds racing from
all four points of the compass toward
the Wyoming capital. , 1 ,Major Dun-
woody has had an - intimate acquaint-
ance with storms. for years, and this
tornado didn’t feel him by pretending to
rendezvous at Cheyenne. The major is
an old army ofiicer, who understands all
about flank movements, and he began to
figure out where the main attaCk might
be expected. .-
He was sitting on a high stool 1n the
forecasting room at the weather bureau,
calculating on the tornado’s‘ probable
evolution. The major read the'report of
the storm sentinels at Sioii‘fCity and
,1 Des Moines over again and then drew a 1
Circle, with the center at Cheyenne and
the circumference ,,toward the east,
touching Davenport. The major’ s ex-
perience taught him that- the most
trouble might be expected in the south-
east segment of the circle, and before 9
o’clock that night all the observers who
furnished the alarming reports were in-
structed by wire to send but warnings to
cities and tow: :s on the respective sec-
tions, and 01 ders were also given to em-
ploy every means to inform the country
districts of the impending peril.
Hours before the storm broke with its
terrible fury express trains running
through the isolated communities had
carried the bureau" s intelligence, and
those who lived far from the railroad
- station were warned by Whistles which
were blown according to an established
and well unde1 stood code.
How quickly all this was accomplished
illustrates the efficiency of the govern-
ment system as directed by Chief Har—
rington. At 8 o’dock on the night of the
5th the observations were made, and an
hour later Major Dunwoody, with quick
judgment based on longgexperience, had
located the storm and had sent out a
forecast to the threatened community,
telling of the dangers to. be feared. How
much greater might have been the dam-
age to property and how much greater
the loss of life but forthenwarnings!
The weather bureaujdid not announce
that a tornado might be expected, as
tornado predictions “went? 'o'utof favor
with the young army' lieutenants. The
warning, as sent out, was , to 'the efiect
that severe local thunderstorms were
threatened, a the farmers knew full
well what w meant. As interpreted
by them it signified that a ound cellar
would6 be a good place' 1n wliriCh to s end
July 1893. —Wash1ngton Ger.
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. Lemonade neat- Bandotino.
“l was out to a dance recently,” said
an acquaintance to me, “and a funny
It was notso very
.5 funny either, butitmade me laugh after
thing happened. .
it was over. You see, it was as hot as a
bake oven, and the room was crowded to
suffocation. I had a girl, and we were
'waltzing aroundfas best we could when
suddenly the girl gasped, turned pale
and said, ‘Get me out to the air.’ I
stopped and released her and offered her.
my arm, when bump! down she went on
the floor m a heap. Fainted away, see?
Dead as a herring.
Why, I tried to pick her up and couldn’t
do it, for she was a heavyweight. Then
I succeeded, with the aid of others,m
getting her to the po1ch', but she
wouldn’t revive. Then I ran into the re-
freshment room for water, but the tank
was empty, and the only thing they had
was lemonade.
“Something had to be done, and I got
two glasses, ran back and emptied their _ ‘
contents into her face—not exactly ‘in-
to’ but onto.’ After using 30 cents’
worth of nice,s sweet lemonade she came
to. Well, say. You would have died
to see her hair. StiCky? Why bando-
line, quince seed, gum ~arabic and kin-
dred concoctions were not in it. Lemon-
ade beats them all; Was she mad? Well,
I guess yes. She said I was intoxicated
and a natural born fool. Some one else
took her home, I didn’t.”—Youngstown
Freaks of Globe Lightning.
A very singular story is told concom-
ing the vagaries of one mass of globe
lightning. A tailor in the Rue St. J ac-
ques, in the neighborhood of the Val
de Grace, was getting his dinner one day
during a thunderstorm, when he heard
a loud clap, and soon the chimney board
fell down, and a globe of fire as big as a
child’s head came out quietly and moved
slowly about the room at a small height
above the floor. The spectator, in con-
versation afterward with M. Rabbinet,
of the Academic des Sciences, said it
looked like a good sized kitten rolled up
into a ball and moving without showing
its paws. It was bright and shining, yet
he felt no. sensation of heat. The globe
came near his feet, but by moving them
aside he avoided the contact.
After trying several excursions in dif-
ferent directions it rose vertically to the
height of his head—which he threw back
to prevent it touching him—steered to-
ward a hole in the chimney above the-
mantelpiece and made its way into the
flue. Shortly afterward—“when I sup-
posed it had had time to reach the top,”
the tailor said—there was a terrible ex-
plosion. which destroyed the upper part
of the chimney and threw the fragments
onto the roofs of some adjoining build-
ings, which they broke through. —-Cham-
bers’ Journal.
French Art In Manipulating Plaster.
It is stated that French builders, who '
have carried the art of hardening plas-
ter to where it is used for flooring, either
in place of wood or tile, employ for this
purpose six pa1 ts of good quality of plas- 1-
ter intimately mixed with one part of,~
freshly slaked white lime finely sifted.
The mixture as thus composed is laid-
down in as quick time as possible, care
being taken that the trowel is not used
upon the surface for too long a time.
After this the floor is allowed to becOme
dry and is subsequently saturated in a.
most thorough manner with sulphate of .
iron or zinc, the iron giving the strong-
est surface, its resistance to breaking
being found to be 20 times the strength
of ordinary plaster. It appears that
with sulphate of zinc the floor remains
white, while when iron is used it be-.
comes the color of rusted iron. But if lin- .,
seed oil, boiled with litharge, be applied
to the surface it becomes of an attractive
mahogany color, this being especially
the case if a coat of copal varnish is add-
ed.1—Neiv York Sun.
The Abandonment of Deep Mourning.
The so called “deepest mourning” is
no longer considered good form in Eu-
rope, and crape has dropped out of fash-
ion, being new only used for draping.
buildings and monuments, or for shroud-
ing the lighted lamps of. the vehicles
figuring in the funeral cortege. No one
would ever dream of taxing either the
empress of Austria 01‘ the Princess of
Wales with indifference to the death of
their respective son's. yet each has been
centent to mourn her offspring without
crape, either in the shape of a veil or as
a trimming to her dress. The result of
this has been that widows, especially
when young, dispense not only with
crape, but with the characteristic cap
and long streamers. Indeed, at the pres-
ent rate, there will be no outward sign
left by which we shall be able to distin-
guish from the ordinary woman those
fair sirens against Whom we have been
so pathetically warned by Mr. Weller.—
New York Tribune. ,
New York,
August 7, 1893.
“ No news this week.”
The store that has nothing
but that to say had better shut
up shop. In a lively and eneré ’
getic business there IS always
news, there 15 always some good
thing about the store that the
public either never knew or has
let slip frbm its mind.
Many of you readers, for 1n-
stance, have you net forgotten,
though we say it over and over
again, that you may bring back
what you don’ t like and get
your money?
That is the beginning of
first-rate storejkeeping.
ROGERS, PEET aco.‘
Free deliveries toall poinlts within one nun.
dred miles of NewYork city.
EREE Prince.
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our store and you won’t say so!
We’d like .to have a few of the “ dull
times” croakers‘ in the store Satur-
day or have them in tomorrow!
They’d soon cease croaking,,and if
they had a. dollar, in their pockets they
Would soon be buying, for there’s a.
magnetism in the very air, created by
the loadstone of desirable, lowrpriced
goods that seems irresistible.
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SEASONABLE GOODS.
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"Ladies’ Shirt Waists.
Shirt Waists made' 1n silk, lawn, sateen, percales and cambrics at prices never
before known. Note the prices: A good plated waist for 19 cts; a regular 50o
waist for 3716; a fine percale waist. never sold less than 75 cents for 50 cents ,
All of our fine lawn and sateen waists reduced' in the same proportion.
5111: Shirt Waists.
Silk waists, in China, India and Sarah, in black and colors, all reduced 1n price:
$5 silk waist for $3: $6 silk waist for $4. 50; $7. 50 and $8 silk waists for $5. 50.
Gentleman’s Outing Shirts. .
We have decided to close out our entire line of gentlmen’ s outing and neglige
shirts, and' 1n order to do it we have made just two prices on them and wills ell
.. all of our cheviot, percale and madras shirts, regular 75c and $100. goods, at 5Qe- ,
‘ all of our finer goods. in Oxfords, zephyr and French flannels, regular price
item $1 to $1. 75—we will Close out at 75c.
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