All Quiet In Athens

Aun Arbor is a niarked co.sniopolitan city. At least 3,500 persons írcwn all parte of our own 'and foreign lands come to Vhvs great Athens of America .for nine montihs of the year omd tien go1 awajy to {thelr near and distamt hömes. Tbis great change in out city life makes ome tead and lonely. .Tbe throoged and busy 'halls of fhö lUoirersitiy are now closed, and all iare silent as deserted castles. fTbe campus a few days sinee bo full of young life, of clierished hopes aaid lofty aspiratians, bas now iueftolme as quiiet as aSabbatih, mom, wttta otily here and there o. lone Tvanderer oti ite öhady and beautiful waUas. .The t emporary homes of he great multïtude are closed, and rest ootmee to tihose wlio have cared ior tlh'eim. The sweet Ktrains o: the guitar, banjo and nKWidolm liave ilied away, the hundreds yf gay wneetórs rushing bo swiftly along.our streets in gay anO üancy costumes are seen 110 more. Sudla vare some af the vuried scenee of the panorama of classic life in Ann Arbör, wWcih make a home in it to desirable. No Paper Money There- Clhas. H. Worden, im relating sorae of tílie incidents of his recent delihtful trip to and Ín OaliEornia, illus'trates the money question as tmjoyed by the iuhabitants of tliat olden 'statO iin tiiis -vay : He was drivlng by a. .fruit farm 'míe day where thejy were hnrvesttag cherries, beautiful luscious, red, ■black ot wW-tO fellows. The iruit ie put up la boxes ïiolding, about half a bushel. Mr. Worden stopped liis tooree aind oalled to ome of the inen, makiing kno-mi liis desire to purchase a box. The man approached carï-yiing1 a box in Oaeli hand witli anotiliier bala,nced on top of liis liead, eadli ome containing a different variety. lAfter making his selection, and tetowing the fruit away in liis carriage Jie asked the price, and was told'25 cents. Baring 110 change, lie lianded the man a greenbaok. Het ook it, looked it OTer with great curiosity, tiaid aid ihe didn't know whether .that iwas good or not. Hls jittle Bon standing by said : "Let's see it pa !" After )ooking it over thO lad exclaimed : "That's all right. I know what kind of money tihat ,is. I wiahi I tiad all I could carry of It." Tlhls eeemed to sattefy the iruit traiser and he took the bill, giving iback the change. ■ No ome tmt on eaetern ,tenderfoot oaiTies paper money out there. It ia always gold ar silver and inostly igöld. Plennies are unknown in that Btate. Tliey have mol use .for euch clieap etuff. A Shrewd Mark- Matlhematics- "Ifthis Misther Hanna gets to be ffluo 'great man he promises ttow," sald Mr. Dolan, ."Tlhere'l] be twlce the nunïber av bables named aftüiier Ivirn as is namedi aftttier most oelebrities." "Oi B&e no raysoin fur it," replied Hrs. Dolan. "It's pDaln as day, though. He's naturaUy qualifled fur the dlstinction. Tfoey kin name all the b'ybabies 'Mark' am' all the gtrl-babies ■Haniia,' an' there y'are."- "Washingtom Star. St. Andrew's 70th Birthday- The Protestant Episcopal cliurch of rliis city was (ouinded in 1827, and tdie eomjiig 70th amiiversary year of 1897, its Rector, Ribt. Henry Tatlock, ijroposes to make o, prominent year iin its histary. It is liis desire ba collect all the 'flacts relatine to the church's h'stoy posible, an 1 hav a record made that shall be preserved. ' i IE tnere are amy öld Vesidents In the city or comiity wlm know tanythlng about the eariy days of fit. Andrew'e paiish. it would be festeemed'a, great iavoir il they would write Vsuch recollections down and hand them to Her. Tattock, olr if they can.-u.ot do; that, will let him know about tliem. This is an imporhant matter that tías been sadly neglected in Ittiis parifL and tbere is Very little on. record tlvat is authentic about the early days of St. Andrews. ' ■' IE you can le 'Of ossistanee 5n tihis will yo-U not con:er witSi the rector af tihe parish nnd 'heip along ttie good work ? It is at)o porpoised !to liold ft missian Qvere sometinie during: the coming 'year, witíh the liope 'o: Kecuring a spiritual revival within the pari-li. In "Bilis wark Rev. Tatlock liopes to have the assistance and encouragement of all gwd 'people of the paa-ish. A Simple Statement of the Case- Here is a pla(iin and simple paragrapli vritten tal words of two eyllar blP--or more- tor the benefit of Brb. Uesemer, y that democratie a.nd unpretentioiiis man of few (big) words, Bro. Smith, of the Monrou Democrat: 'The Daily Times objects to what it is pleased to term big words" observen the Aun Arbor Courier. Upou oompreüwnisive aaiatogy along linee af paralllogramatic comparison, it ijs bame in upon tllie occult reasoning that ithe Times is correct. The structural grandeur oif tlie ancient obelisk, iK nat in its idecorations, nor its mysterious hieroglyphics, with their almost non-interpretable and at best liighly proiblematie proclamations o the giory aind adhtevements of a cryptological amtiquity, but in the Bimplicity vith wliioh the needle's point pierces 'the empyrean eni'oldmeuts o etlxer, -wlth its basic architecture indexing the direction oí nadir. Inve:-t its noble and sublime smmnit iwith ponderous excre-cerxes and the monumental pillar in the graveyard of pioneer anthropology topples to themundniie Bphere. So, also if 'we superinduce upon our sharply chiseled ideas, a cumberous accumulation of farfetched phrasonlogies and pot-bellied polysyllables, the effort Onds in ignominy and down comes oor uterary shanty. Crooked as a Populist Politician - A witter in the Detroit Journal gives this descriptive paragraph which most of our readers wül recognize a.s being slightly overdrawn : "Talk aibout crooked railroads," said a drummer recently, "Why a coilect serpeo is straight compared 'vitlj the Michigan Central between Jackson and Detroit. I am iiiformed thaí in a distance of tihirteen miles this road crofeses the Hurón river seventcen times and ties itself into1 a knot twenty times to escape cofet of more lriJges. I stood iu tlie midd:? of tlie train taat carne in this) moratng, and looking straiglit out saw our emgine coiming straiglit at me one Avay amd the raar end of tlie train, goinff from me in the other. On this road tibe engineer could maintain a rapidfire courtsliip witli the isummer girj in the last coacli and kiss her at every otber joiint in the rails. I am toW tthat when freight trains go round some of those curves the eegine ha? to stop until the ca1xose moves out of vbe vf&7. to avoid a t ail end colisión.' Crooked, ■vfhy the letter S is a perpeadicular straight line compared -witli tbe Hurón, river stretch of the Michigan Central."