It is a mark of provincialism and lack of good form for people to walk arm-inarm, says the March Delineator, or for a man to walk between two ladies; his place is at the outside of the walk. If a lady is very old or infirm and requires assistance, he may offer her his arm; otherwise, it is unnecessary and is not the custom even after dark. A lady bows first to a man, as it is her privilege to take the initiative in such matters. If people meet several times during the day in walking or driving it is not necessary to bow each time; once is sufficient.

Ida M. Tarbell's story of "The Trial of Aaron Burr," in the March McClure's, is a splendid essay on a most dramatic and little known episode in American history. Recently some writers have attempted to whitewash Burr's character, to make of the adventurer a true knight of romance. Miss Tarbell, with her sure common sense, shows the true nature of the man—brilliant, audacious and capitvating, but at the bottom vacillating and irresponsible. She draws a fine contrast between the prisoner at the bar and the great judge who tried him-two men of almost the same age and in earlier life of equally brilliant promise-Aaron Burr and John Marshall.

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"Northern Europe" is the second volume of a series of geographical readers which Ginn & Company (Boston) have compiled by special arrangement with Perry, Mason & Co. for the right to use all the material presented in The Youth's Companion. The first volume, "The Wide World," gave in a sketchy manner a general survey of the whole world. The present volume, as its name indicates, is limited in scope and introduces with considerable detail the most interesting phases of life in northern Europe. The Faroe Islands, Life in Normay, Scenes in Holland and Belgium, Studies of French Life, Life in the Alps, and A Journey down the Moselle are some of the titles of the stories and descriptions.

The Outlook in its March Magazine number has no less than ten illustrated special features-certainly a good showing as to quantity in a magazine which is also a weekly newspaper and devotes even in its "magazine numbers" large space to current topics, editorials, and book reviews. Among the illustrated articles of this month are: Two College Presidents (Mark and Henry Hopkins); Edward Everett Hale's "Memories of a Hundred Years"; E. A. Steiner's "Crackow and Polish Patriotism"; Poultney Bigelow's "Henry the Sailor Prince"; Brown's "Some Rare Musical Instruments" and Clifton Johnson's "When the White Mountains are White."

W. A.

Helen Keller, the remarkable deaf, dumb and blind girl, who has not only learned to talk, but enjoys every privilege of those who hear and see, has just finished writing with her own hands the story of her remarkable life for the Ladies' Home Journal. In this she describes her first awakening to the realization of life and the world, and all that both contain; her first impressions and feelings and emotions, and the first rays of understanding that came to her. From that point she tells of the unfolding of her mental and physical powers, how she learned to think and act, how she received instruction, and finally became capable of acquiring an education which places her among the best educated women of her age in the world today. It is a wonderful story, wonderfully told. It will begin in the April number of The Journal.

Fool Youngens

Me an' Bert an' Minnie-Belle
Knows a joke, an' we won't tell!
No, we don't-'cause we don't know
Why we got to laughin' so,
But we got to laughin' so,

We ist kep' a-laughin.'

Wind wuz blowin' in the trees-
An' wuz only ist us three
Playin' there; an' ever' one
Ketched each other, like we done,
Squintin' up there at the sun
Like we wuz a-laughin'.

Nothin' funny anyway;

But I laughed, an' so did they-
An' we all three laughed, an' nen
Squint' our eyes an' laugh' again:
Ner we didn't ist p'ten'—

We wuz shore-'nough laughin'.
We ist laugh' an' laugh', tel Bert
Say he can't quit an' it hurt.
Nen I howl, an' Minnie-Belle
She tear up the grass a spell
An' ist stop her yeers an' yell,

Like she'd die a-laughin'.

Neer sich fool-youngens yit! Nothin' funny-not a bit!But we laugh' so, tel we whoop' Purt'-nigh like we have the croupAll so hoarse we u wheeze an' whoop An' ist choke a-laughin'. -James Whitcomb Riley, in the Century.

"O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule

And sun thee in the light of happy faces? Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces,

And in thine own heart must they first keep school."

"Your character cannot be essentially injured, except by your own acts."

Dame Nature's Recipe

Take a dozen

tle clouds And a patch of blue; Take a million raindrops, As many sunbeams, too. Take a host of violets,

A wandering little breeze, ..nd myriads of little leaves Dancing on the trees.

Then mix them well together,

In the very quickest way,

Showers and sunshine, birds and flowers,

And you'll have an April day.

-Rachel G. Smith.

ARITHMETIC

1. a) Express in the form of a couplet in its lowest integral terms the ratio of 3 in. to 2 rds. b) Write as a decimal fraction 3 per cent. c) Write in Arabic notation two million three hundred and four hundred-thousandths. d) Write in Ro man notation 1902.

2. a) Using a short process, multiply 246 by 33 1-3. b) Using a short process divide 864 by 16 2-3.

3. The length of a rectangular field containing 20 acres is twice its breadth. Find the dimensions of the field.

4. A commission merchant remits $532 as the proceeds of a sale of 200 barrels of apples, his commission being 5 per cent. At what price per barrel were they sold?

5. A boy spent 1-3 of his money, lost 1/4 of what he had left, and gave away 1-6 of what still remained; he then had 50 cents. What had he at first?

6. A man purchased through his broker 20 shares N. Y. Central stock at 1625, commission / per cent.; the stock pays 6 per cent. dividend. Find cost of stock, amount of dividend, and rate of income on the investment.

7. What principal at interest at 5 per cent. per annum for 3 yrs. 6 m. 9 da. will amount to $705.75?

8. How many pounds of tin in 400 pounds of gun-metal composed of one part tin and 534 parts copper?

of goods bought for $132 and sold for $98.50.

GEOGRAPHY

1. If the inclination of the earth's axis were 40 degrees from a perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, what would be the width of the Torrid zone?

2. a) What is the leading product of the Philippine islands? b) Name four other important products.

3. What port of South America would a ship enter to obtain a cargo of a) tallow and hides; b) guano; c) niter; d) rubber; e) coffee?

4. Name an important city a) in the Danube basin; b) on the Seine; c) on the Elbe; d) on the Ganges; e) on the Black

8. Name one of the five leading states in the production of a) coal; b) iron ore; c) gold; d) sheep; e) cotton and woolen goods.

9. In what river system is a) Lake Champlain; b) Chautauqua lake; c) Mohawk river; d) Delaware river?

10. Name the provinces constituting the Dominion of Canada.

[Continued in April Number]

University Notes

The members of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity are rejoicing over a very handsome chapter house, a gift to them from Mrs. S. B. Cochran, of Dawson, Penn., as a memorial to her son who was a member of that fraternity, when he died about a year ago. It is a beautiful piece of property, and was purchased by Mrs. Cochran especially for this purpose. The price was $8,500.

Hon. W. J. Bryan delivered a lecture. for the University Y. M. C. A. March 1, in Commencement Hall.

On April 15, United States Senator J. P. Doliver of Iowa, a member of the class of '78, will deliver a lecture in the regular lecture course.

Hon. David J. Hill, First Assistant Secretary of State, formerly President of the University of Rochester, has been invited to deliver the commencement address.

Judge M. H. Dent, class of '70, President of the Alumni Association, has appointed Dr. I. C. White, class of 75, Professor Thos. E. Hodges, class of '81, and Frank Cox, Esq., class of '83, a committee to have charge of the alumni banquet, to be given during commencement week.

A local chapter of Delta Chi Fraternity was instituted here Saturday night by delegates from Cornell University, the University of Michigan, Dickinson College, and New York city. After the installation of the chapter, a banoret was held at the Wallace House. This fraternity is composed entirely of law students.

It is expected that there will be a meeting of the Board of Regents in April, to accept and dedicate the new armory and new engineering building.

Professor B. H. Hite attended the inauguration of Dr. Ira Remsen as President of Johns Hopkins University. Professor Hite studied chemistry with Professor Remsen for several years.

The spring term will begin the first of April, and it is expected that 150 or 200 new students will be in at that time. Many of them will remain for the Summer School, which is to begin on the 23rd of June and continue until the first of August.

Great interest is already manifested in the model and training classes to be conducted during the Summer School by Miss Susan Frances Chase of the State Normal School at Buffalo, New York. She comes with the very highest recommendations, and her model and training classes in geography, nature study, reading and numbers will be of untold value to teachers of those subjects. Supt. Gallup, of the Morgantown public schools, will furnish the children for these classes.

The St. Cecilia Society of the School of Music will give an invitation recital in Commencement Hall March 6.

The Glee Club will give an entertainment at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the middle of April.

Mr. Elliott Wood, a former student of the University, has been appointed superintending architect of the capital buildings and grounds at Washington, D. C., by President Roosevelt.

There are twenty or twenty-five prominent graduates of the West Virginia, University living in Pittsburg and vicinity, and it is their intention to have a meeting soon for the purpose of organizing a W. V. U. Society Among them are Johns McCleve, the well known leader of the Pittsburg bar, Major Jas. M. Lee, of the Pittsburg Academy, Geo. Calvert Lewis, Lewis J. Robb, chief engineer for Heyl and Patterson Company. Most of them are civil or mechanical engineers.

The final contest to name the W. V. U. representative in the Central Oratorical League will be held early in March. The contestants have, narrowed down to Miss Daisy B. John and Mr. Mansfield M. Neely. The Central Oratorical League is composed of West Virginia University, Cornell, Indiana State University, Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Illinois and the Ohio State University.

Glenville Notes

The Glenville Normal School being one of the younger and smaller members of the family, has kept quietly at work, while others have made interesting reports of progress. The enrollment for the fall term fell below the enrollment for the corresponding term last year, while the