Hoi*f. kok Ick Mkn —There is yet some hope for the ice men. Iu 1819 no ice »us cut until the mid lie of March, after which time a full crop wa* gathered, lo 1950 the first and second weeks of March produced the entire crop of that seasn, and we find that ice was cut as lave as the first week in April in the year 1811 and 1813Wk were shown yesterday a bunch of freshly gathered wild timersaud the win* ter passed out of our heart and a breath of summer wind stirred pleasant memories of woodland joys, rustic feasts, pic-nics, c., with the inevitable broad brim Oypsy hats and the ripple of girlish laughter, but a voice from above awoke u* w ith the hateful cry “copy.’'