TECHNIQUE.
I take a little bunch of words and let 'em
in ft row,
I take a little hit of ink and mark 'em
down just so;
I take a little time and pains and then I
have a verse
That pturts nlmiit as this one does or mny-
he slightly worse.
(And then I go hack to the start and criss
and cross and scratch,
I vaccinate my words until I find me some
that mit;h
The pretty thoughts thnt dart about like
silver fish and sliine,
But Deed a piiticnt, watchful hook to get
'em ou the line.
My thoughts melt into words sometimes
not always now and then,
'.And I can feel 'em coming down my arm
and through my pen,
I only hnve to push it o'er the paper and
it spells
For you and all mr other chums the things
my fancy tells;
Just like a hoy with building blocks, I
move my words about
When 1 have something in my mind and
try to work it out,
Until in orderly array I get 'em in a row
Just as I think they ought to be and write
'em down just so.
lAnd so just with some words I paint the
pictures thot I think
The boys and gills who live in me and set
'cm down in ink,
And sometime there's a tear in it, and
sometimes there's a smile,
'And there is many a grassy bank and
ninny a vine grown stile;
And many a hue that you would know if
you could he with me,
To look right where my pen is now and I
could help you see;
I merely tnke a lot of words and place 'em
in a row,
And build such pretty things if I can get
em down just so!
J. V. Foley, in the Xew York Times.
IN THE CLUTCH OF A BLIZZARD
Ey ERNEST McGAFFEY.
The snow had fallen softly and
steadily for days. The strawshed was
a Chinese pagoda, the haystacks re
sembled Swiss cottages, and the sta
ble, with snow packed deep about It
and a heavy mantle on the sloping
roof, could hardly be distinguished
from a huge drift. Every morning
the prairie chickens perched on avail
able corners of the stacks and out
buildings, and In the hedges the quail
and rabbits sheltered themselves as
best they could from the wintry
blasts.
.John looked on the landscape with
keen Interest. Toward distant Tar
klo the timberllne loomed black as
night. To the northwest rose Satter
)ee's grove, a dark speck against the
tky, and for the rest there was only a
wonderful whiteness. Still the snow
fell, and higher and still higher rose
the drifts. They wound about the
lender trunks of the young walnut
trees like enveloping wraiths of foam,
and among the tall cottonwoods to
the south they broke in misty billows,
urged onward by the wind.
It was hard work now feeding the
tock and poultry, chopping and
bringing in wood and looking after
things generally on the farm. Satur
day night the wind freshened about
12 o'clock, and John felt shivery un
der the old fashioned comforters.
In the morning he found his uncle
and Mart Earr talking In whispers by
the kitchen stove. He heard Barr
say:
'I didn't much more than get back,
and if this keeps up we're In for it."
He started to go outdoors, but his
uncle's sharp "Wait a while!" kept
him from leaving the room. He tried
to look out of the windows, but could
see nothing but a whirl of flakes.
It began to be bitterly cold. Back
f the stove was a pile of wood, which
rapidly found its way into the fire,
and it was evident that a new supply
must be obtained if thoy wished to
keep alive. John's grandmother had
already been warned to stay in bed,
and with a lighted lantern at her feet
she was burled under blankets and
was quite comfortable. '
"Step out on the stoop, John," said
Uncle Tom. "See what you think of
a blizzard. Hold on to my hand," he
added, as the boy started for the
door. 1
John took his uncle's hand and
crossed the threshold. He found
himself in a blinding maze of furious
snows. He held his disengaged hand
up before him, and could not see It
for the revolving drifts; he was
stung and cut by fine icy needles,
which filled and even choked the air,
and he instinctively felt for the door
and got Into the house again, gasping
for breath.
The first thing he said on recover
ing his breath was, "What'U become
of the buckskin?"
His uncle looked grave. "The
pony will have to take his chances
with the mules. Mart fed 'em all last
night, and be tried to get to the sta
ble this' morning, but he barely got
back. 'We've got to wait till this
storm clears, if she blows a week."
The tears came Into John's eyes as
be thought of the pony, but he knew
the bUzzard must be a serious mat
ter when ,Mart Barr or his uncle could
aot get to the stable.
They sat down to a good breakfast,
and the' hot coffee heartened John up,
and he began to feel the novelty of
the adventure. He took his grand
mother her morning's meal, and re
turned to the room below.
The louse was a small story-and
a-half-frame, with no sheltering trees
er outbuildings near at hand. Up
ataira - were the bedrooms, three in
number, and down stairs the single
large room served as library, sitting
room, dining room and kitchen. It
was warmed by a squat, good sized
kitchen stove.
Pretty soon Uncle Tom rose, tied a
lobtesllne round his waist, and, went
ut into the swirl. Mart Barr held
the other end of the rope, and In a
ftw seconds'Uncls Tom returned with
a stick of wood' from the woodpile.
This he sawed Into stove lengths with
a hand saw.
The wood was dried in the oven
and piled into the stove and eaten up
like tinder. Then Mart put on the
life line and made a dash for more
wood. After this grist had been de
voured by the kitchen stove, John
begged and Insisted on being allowed
to go for a stick. The woodpile lay
south of the house, hardly fifty feet
away, and you could nofr miss It, al
though you could not see It. After
some persuasion Uncle Tom fastened
the clothesline with a firm grop about
the boy, the door was opened and out
he darted.
The instant he emerged he seemed
to be wrapped in a suffocating blan
ket and pierced by Innumerable bits
of glass. The time spent in reaching
the woodpile occupied only a few sec
onds, but he almost fell before reach
ing it.
He seized a cord stick and half ran
and was half hauled into the house.
He was speechless from even that
short exposure, and for a few seconds
fairly numb. His uncle looked at
him.
"You can't go out again, John," he
said. "It's as much as Mart or I
want to do to tackle that blizzard."
And with the rising of the wind
and the plunging of the drifts it
seemed to the boy's Imagination that
the storm was besieging the housj.
The thin and fragile window glasses
were re-enforced with wood, there
being no shutters, and snow fine as
the finest sand crawled in at every
crevice and was sifted down like pow
der on the beds above. The grand
mother's bed was brought down from
up stairs and placed close to the
stove. -John distinguished himself by
finding an old cross-cut saw in that
corner of up stairs called the garret,
and the men sharpened it up and al
lowed him to help saw the sticks
they brought In.
Outside the wind raved and tore at
the cottonwoods and walnut trees,
breaking off branches and moaning
away in the distance. The winds
piled up the snow against the house
until the men were sheeted with it
when they rushed back from the
woodpile.
Three days and nights the carnival
of an Icy ghost dance kept' up, and
three nights they had but fitful
snatches of sleep In the intervals be
tween the hurried races to the wood
pile. At last the strength of the storm
was spent, and Wednesday it cleared,
bitter cold. The men and the boy
hurried to the stable. The stock
were all alive, but weak.. They had
eaten the feed left In their boxes and
mangers, and then broken their hal
ters and got at some of the "slue
grass" which formed the roof of the
stable. The snow had so completely
covered the low structure In many
places that they had not suffered un
usually from the cold.
Every chicken and turkey on the
place had frozen, but the hogs had
burrowed Into a strawstack in their
pen,, and were squealing vociferously
for feed.
Away to the river bottom the trees
rose dark as scaffolds, and a great
white sea stretched in all directions
as far as the eye could reach. The
air was still, but nipped sharply at
the boy's bare cheeks. It was his
first blizzard.
To the northwest he saw the Sat-
terlee windbreak, and wondered how
it weathered the storm. And as a
solitary hawk, strong of wing and
gray as the drifts beneath him, swung
high over the prairies, he turned to
the house. Youth's Companion.
What's the Score?
By C. M. IULDWIX.
Unleash the doggerels of baseball.
The season Is open with the usual
eclat. The baseball reporter has
rubbed his facile pen on the seat of
his pants, and ground out something
like this:
"Smiling Harry came to the bat for
the local gladiators. He was a gdod
waiter and got three counterfeits,
Lanky Jim, who was handling the
damp spheroid for the opposing nine
finally unwound his superstructure
and put the Joy pebble to the liking
of His Merrlness. Smiler pressed
against the little comforter for a one-
sacker out into right ' truck farm,
Smiling Harry tarried not long on the
initial sack, but when Lanky Jim was
not sitting up and taking notice im
mediately drug his anchor toward the
second depot, which he larcenied in
safety. The Long One showed symp
toms of taking on a sky-pilot at this
time and Lonesome Jim, the next bat
ter, reached the first oasis via the
charity route. However, his nar,row
lankshlps took a caucus with himself
and Handsome Ike whiffed the ozone,
the understudy for the Singer build'
lng occupying the box for the visitors
putting Ike to sleep with three of his
fadeaway knockout drops. In the
meantime Smiling Harry and Lone'
some Jim performed a twin pilfer and
were safely occupying second and
third refuge when the smoke cleared
away. Hank the Bite put a fly in
Lanky Jim's ointment by aeroplanlng
to the Midway Plalsance, Smiling
Harry ambling on to the lowly
thatched cottage on the put-out."
From Puck.
Absent-Minded Alderman.
A Lynn (Mass.) alderman at a re
cent aldermanlc meeting inquired
what had become of an order he had
introduced some time before calling
for an arc light on Willow street
The city clerk, after digging into bis
files, informed him that the order had
come before the board nearly a month
previous anJ that he bad voted
against K.
The Power of Man Over Plants.
By OR. H. W. WILEY, Chief Chemist
iiHtmiiiiitiiiiiiii
We all know what education and
environment will do for the child in
the way of molding his character,
forming his mind and shaping his
future life. A few illustrations, it
seems to me, will show that a similar
change may be produced in plants
themselves. In fact, a great dlbtlnc
tlon has long been recognized be
tween wild and cultivated plants. It
Is a matter of universal experience
that under cultivation plants change
their character.
One remarkable illustration of this
fact is the sugar beet. In the wild or
uncultivated Btate .the sugar beet is
indigenous to Southern Europe, es
pecially along Its Mediterranean
coasts. Under cultivation It has been
converted from a plant containing
only three or four per cent, of sugar
to one which contains from twelve to
sixteen per cent.
This has made It possible to utilize
the beet for the production of sugar
to such an extent that the amount of
Btignr which Is now produced from
the beet Is equal to that which Is pro
duced from the sugar cane.
The factors which are active In the
production of changes In plants are
soil, sunshine, rainfall, cultivation,
fertilization and selection. It is
through the scientific use of these
factors that man produces the modi
fications he desires upon plants,
whether they be for the production
of foods or drugs. In regard to the
matter of drugs, It Is Interesting to
know that comparatively little has
been accomplished In the way of
modifying the medicinal properties of
plants by use of the factors above
mentioned. Nearly all our medicinal
drugs of vegetable origin are derived
from the wild or practically wild
plant. It has only been of late years
that the possibility of Improving the
medicinal composition of plants by
human agencies has been realized.
A drug of very high potency, which
possesses violently poisonous proper
ties In fact, is hydrocyanic or prusslc
acid. This acid naturally exists in
many plants, notably in the kernels
of peaches, apricots and fruits of that
description, and in the root of the
plant known as the cassava. Cassava
is a source of large quantities of
Btarch, and especially of that food
product which Is so highly prized,
known as tapioca.
It is Important that the plants se
lected for the manufacture of tapioca
be free from hydrocyanic acid, or as
nearly so as possible. It has been
observed that by pushing the cultiva
tion of the cassava plant northward
just as far as It can grow and have
a sufficiently long summer to produce
maturity, tae quantity of hydrocyanic
acid Is diminished. ,
Within the past two or three years
systematic Investigations have been
made toward the selection of cassava
plants of a low content of hydrocyanic
acid for the purpose of planting, and
securing by selection plants contain
ing less quantities of this undesirable
medicinal substance. Extensive ex
periments looking, to this end have
been made in Southern Mississippi
and in Florida.
Heredity In Plants.
It Is a well known principle that
qualities in plants, as In animals, are
largely hereditary. This is the key
note of what is known as selection
in the improvement of plants. By
chemical analysts those plants are se
lected which have the largest quanti
ties of the desirable constituents or
the smallest quantities of undesirable
constituents, and these plants are
used for the propagation of others.
One of the earliest and most extensive
experiments of this kind was con
ducted under my supervision, in col
laboration with the late Mr. A. A.
Denton, in the Improvement of the
sorghum plant.
A series of experiments was con
ducted extending over eight years,
with the idea of increasing the con
tent of sugar in sorghum for the pur
pose of securing a plant which would
be suitable for the manufacture of
sugar. In this experimental work
there was .selected by analysis the
best typical cane, that is, the cane
containing the largest quantities of
sugar, and by comparison, the small
est quantities of undesirable qualities,
and the seeds of this cane were used
for the work.
In regard to plants which produce
drugs, it has been noticed that when
they are brought from their native
environment and planted in green'
houses, the quantity of the drug
which they produce is usually dimin
lshed. The cinchona tree in captivity
does not by any means produce the
quantity of quinine which is found In
it in Its native forests. On the other
hand, other constituents of plants,
whether desirable or undesirable, may
be Increased in quantity under such
conditions.
The improvement of plants of all
kinds by the means which are in the
bands of the scientific worker has
become a very important part of agri
cultural research. The Department
of Agriculture at Washington and
nearly all the agricultural expert
ment stations of the several States
are engaged actively in this work
It is extending to all kinds of field
crops, even those of staple character.
Particularly may be mentioned the
work in the improvement of Indian
corn, which has been vigorously pros
ecuted by the agricultural experiment
station of Illinois, and the work in
the improvement of cotton, which has
been practiced under the direction of
the scientific men of the Department
of Agriculture in the Southern States.
As Is well known, there art two
of the Department of Apiculture.
iiiiii iiiiiiiHti'
great varieties of 'cotton, known as
sea Island and upland. The sea Island
cotton has the longer and better fiber
and brings a much higher price In the
market than can be secured for the
upland. The improvement of the sea
island cotton and the extension of its
growth to the mainland are, there
fore, highly desirable.
The sea island cotton, when first
Introduced to this country, was a
slowly maturing variety, and It was
difficult to secure proper seed. There
fore the first step Indicated was the
selection of those plants which ma
tured their seeds earliest, in order to
get a variety which would ripen well
near the coast or on islands off the
coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
Success attended the experiments,
and a variety of sea island cotton
was produced capable of much wider
extension than the original. A longer
and better fiber has been developed,
as well as a more hardy plant and one
producing a larger yield.
In regard to the methods of Im
proving Indian corn, It may be said
the not only is the Indian corn bred
on account of Its composition and
character, hut also on account of its
physical appearance. Work of this
kind has been very extensively done
at the Kansas Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
Mr. Luther Burbank has produced
some very remarkable transformations
of plants by the use of the factors
which have been mentioned before
In connection with cross-fertilization
and other means of Improvement.
The Magic of Cross-Fertilization.
The idea of cross-fertilization Is
suggested by Nature herself. The
birds and bees carry the pollen from
plant to plant, and often affect cross
fertilization In this way.
This Idea has been worked out in
a scientific manner, sat-hat systematic
cross-pollenlzatlon or fertilization has
now become one of the most Im
portant means of modifying plant life.
These modifications may be good or
bad. Those that are bad are aban
doned, and those that are good are
retained and propagated until distinct
tvpes or varieties are established.
The human hand, In other words,
takes the place of the bee or the bird.
It may be possible to produce almost
any kind of variation In a plant by
patient and scientific effort. Those
qualities In plants which are most
useful and are most beautiful may be
developed, modified and Increased for
the pleasure and the benefit of man.
Thus progress may go on almost with
out limit.
A systematic and scientific cultiva
tion of drug plants In the United
States with a purpose of adapting
them to practical use is an undertak
ing of recent origin. The Department
of Agriculture has begun these In
vestigations because of the fact that
the natural supply of drug plants In
the United States is rapidly being ex
hausted. Among the plants which
have been experimented with may be
mentioned licorice, capsicum, sage,
belladonna, caraway, anise and cori
ander. Especially In our Southern States
Is It evident that there are many ad
vantages of which the grower of
drugs may avail himself. The long
growing Beason, warm summers, and
the abundant rain supply are favor
able to the growth of drug plants of
many kinds.
In addition to the drugs already
mentioned there have been cultivated,
with an intent to domesticate them,
a number of drug plants heretofore
growing wild.
Golden seal is a plant of value as a
drug, and Its use has been of such a
character as practically to exhaust
the natural supply. The forests of
the country have been searched far
and near for the plant growing in a
wild state.
ELECTRIC TRACTION PROBLEMS
Beginning: of Another Era of Revolution and
unange in Transportation.
The world Is In the beginning of
annother era of revolution and
change in its systems of transporta
tion, says The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The growth of electric systems and
their development in the line of trans
portation have been little short of
marvelous. The employment of hun
dreds of millions of dollars In capital
in its various branches and the work
given to hundreds of thousands of
men could never have taken place ex
cept in this age of expansion of
knowledge and capital.
The use of electricity has scarcely
commenced, but already the early
plants established' for light and
power are antiquated and Inefficient
as compared with those that can now
be installed. The great railway sys
tems of the country are now seeking
the most advanced methods of em
ploying this force in order to equip
their roads and thus gradually sup
plant the steam power now employed.
Many of the roads are met with an
awkward financial problem instead
of a mechanical one in the situation
presented to them.
There is do (loubt that electricity
can be produced and supplied at the
minimum cost to cities, districts or
roads, within a radius of 200 miles,
at the mouths of the coal mines.
Roads that pass through or close by
such coal mines derive Immense rev
enues from the transportation of the
coal to the cities and the districts.
To establish and use an electric sys
tem for their own roads with power
derived from plants at the mouths of
the coal mines is an Ideal economy as
For a number of years this plant
has been under observation in the
testing gardens at Washington, and
some of the points which seem to be
necessary to successful cultivation
have been established. Evidently
plants which grow in the shade of the
forests could not be expected to be
come used to growing in the open, at
least without years of cultivation;
hence, the use of artificial shade in
the cultivation of such plants Is high
ly necessary. This Is also true, as Is
well known, of the pineapple, which
grows best In the shade of the live
oak or in artificial shade in Florida.
Growing in the Shade.
In France the truffles are found to
grow only under the shade of certain
trees, such as oaks and walnuts, and
certain kinds of mushrooms flourish
In the greatest abundance in the for
ests. In the cultivation of mushrooms it
Is necessary to have a dark .cellar or
cavern, as the mushrooms do not
grow artificially In the full light.
This Is an Important point to keep
under consideration In the cultivation
of wild drug plants.
The cascara Is another plant which
has been cultivated both In Washing
ton and In South Carolina. Profes
sor Sargent, of Harvard University,
Btates that at the Arnold Arboretum
the cascara maintains an existence
after some years of transition, but
eventually dies. Senega, snakeroot
and purple coneflower are other drug
plants to which particular attention
has been given.
The above are sufficient examples
to show that the cultivation of drug
plants may result In a very profitable
Industry, but it must be conducted in
such a way as to preserve and In
crease the valuable Ingredients of the
plants, and It requires the highest de
gree of scientific skill.
If the youth of our country can be
got to take an Interest In the mar
velous possibilities of country life, es
pecially In the application of science
to the Improvement of plants and the
development of new varieties, rural
life will become much more attractive
than it is at present. There is a gen
eral Idea that only mediocre talent is
required for service on the farm and
In the garden, but It Is evident from
the achievements already made that
the highest talent can find opportun
ity for expression In these avenues of
activity. Youth's Companion.
Tears of Blood.
The belief that certain Individuals
are able to weep tears of blood is of
such antiquity that the German equiv
alent for "bitter tears" is "blutlge
Thranen," "bloody tears." There
seems, however, no outhentic instance
of blood being actually secreted by
the lachrymal gland.
Micas has published a very Inter
esting article on real and false tears
of blood. It is a clinical study on
conjunctive hemorrhage. Some years
ago the author was consulted about
a boy aged twelve years, who from
the slightest cause, such as laughter,
or Bomettmes apparently for no- cause
whatever, wept tears of blood an
occurrence often . repeated several
times a day. The lad was tale and
enervated from constant hemorrhage.
The source of the bleeding was the
tarsal conjunctiva, which was cov
ered with fine papillae, and light
cauterization with the . galvano-caut-ery
resulted In a cure.
This case led the author to study
the literature of the subject. He
found that In none of the cases cited
Is It certain that the blood did not
come from the conjunctiva or from
the lachrymal passages. He feels
that It Is unwise to deny the possi
bility of a sanguineous secretion from
the gland, but that examples In which
other sources cannot be shown to be
present must be exceedingly rare.
Introducing Her Resolution.
"Johnny," said Mrs. Lapsllng, put
ting on her wraps, "I've been in the
house all day and I need the fresh
nir. If you'll mind the baby a while
I'll go and take a preamble around
the block."
to their own operation. But what an
object lesson it is for the cities and
towns to which they carry their ton
nage of coal! While in the State of
Colorado there soon will be In oper
ation a plant upon their order, fur
nishing light and power for a district
of 150 miles radius, the great cities
of New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Baltimore, In
dlanapolls, St. Louis, Chicago and a
hundred lesser ones are still carry'
lng their electricity on the coalcars
to the cities, instead of having it more
cheaply brought to them on a wira
direct from the mines. The railways
may as well accept a situation which
will force Itself upon them and.
while it will revolutionize existln
systems, will only do so because '.t
Is the best thing for the people, t'.is
country, and possibly lor the roads
themselves.
Somewhat Rough on Society "Man."
At dinner one evening a . well
known actress wamost amiable to a
very young lieutenant who sat next
to her. He was mightily pleased at
being on such good terms with a live
actress. Suddenly she said, in her
artless, pretty manner: "I am taking
a boy's part In a new play and I have
been watching you ever Blnce we were
Introduced. You don't mind, do
you?" .
It is figured that a successful phys
ician must have a clientele ot ISO
famllis, or about 730 Dersona.
A French chemist has Invented a
tablet which, If dissolved in a glass of
water, will give off as much oxygen
to clarify the air in a room as though
a window had been left open for an
hour.
A scientific labor of the utmost im
portance and Interest is about to be
commenced from Shanghai. This Is
a magnetic survey of Chiria, and Dr.
Edwards, of the Carnegie Institute,
Washington, D. C, who is to carry
It through, Is at present In Shanghai
preparing for the work.
In describing his latest Journey in
Thibet, ended during the present
year, Dr. Sven Hedin says that the
greatest result achieved Is the dis
covery of a continuous mountain
chain 2000 miles long, stretching east
and west, and which, taken as a
whole, is the most massive range on
the crust of the earth.
Experts have held that the so-called
"cat'' of the ancient Romans and
Greeks "allurus," the wavy tailed
one was not a cat at all, but a kind
of weasel. The mummified Egyp
tian animal, however, was a genuine
cat, even If certain peculiarities about
its teeth make it difficult to regard
It as a near relative of the modern
domestic puss.
commission of coal supplies have
shown that the present Inefficient con
sumption of coal in Great Britain
leads to a waste of from 40,000,000
to 6(1,000,000 tons per annum, and
It is also responsible for the greater
proportion of smoke and dust from
which they suffer. Thirty per cent,
of .the total British consumption of
coal might be saved by employing the
best known means for such purpose.
There Is being constructed for the
structural materials testing labora
tories of the United States Geological
Survey, a vertical compression test
ing machine of ten million pounds
capacity. This machine, having a
gross weight of over 200 tons and an
extreme height above foundation of
about eighty feet, Is the largest ever
constructed The machine was pri
marily acquired for- the purpose of
testing large blocks of stone made
necessary by the Ftudy of the build
ing stones of the country, as request
ed by the supervising architect.
The Flag.
By ELLIS O. JOXES.
"If you ever decide to settle down
here and go In for politics," said the
Politician, "the first thing you should
do Is to get up a good speech on the
fag. Many an orator has made a
reputation and concealed his Ignor
ance by an apotheosis of the flag."
"The flag! What's the flag?" in
quired the Man from Mars.
'Oh, of course, I quite forgot. You
don't know what the flag Is, do you?,
Well, you see, the flag the flag
that is to say, the flag Is well, the
flag Is a kind of emblem. It stands
for what we are."
"What do you mean by that?" pur
sued the Man from Mars, with grow
ing Interest. "What does it stand
for?"
"The flag," replied the Politician,
blandly smiling, "Is very meek. It
can't talk back, and accordingly it
stands for almost anything. That's
what's I'm trying to tell you. When
ever you make a speech in favor of
a proposition do it in the name of
the flag. If you are opposing the
same or another proposition, you be
gin by denouncing it in the name of
the flag. In both cases you at once
cease talking about the subject and
continue to talk exclusively about
the flag, saying anything commenda
tory that comes into your head.
"But suppose what you say is not
nip " ancrcpstpri thp, ATfln from Mars.
"That's not the point," replied the
Politician. "Ynn must commend the!
Ann. liaAaiie. Ika npnrtla will tint" ll (S-
lleve ill of it. If what you say is
false, it can't be helped. On the oth
er hand, if you are going to stick to
the truth all the time, there is no
need of the flag at all. You must un-
ment."
"Yes: but what is it?"
"It is the emblem of an argument."
From Judge. ,
The "Sisters" and Their Money.
"Most o' the breddren, I'se pleased
tn sav. has been tollable lib'ral." a bit
ster when the result of the collection
eret to state oat da sistans nas Deen
dess de diverse. Dey has contributed
..'..I. n.ittitn' . tn Hp flpwHn fund
I'FalT.f n n f J.n tan'f irnt tin TT1 ntlilV
Slstahs. lemma ax yo': Whuh does
vo' nutt vo' 4 money? De Lawd
knows "
ttr i- ... I 1. i. . I I iK.nM
runted Brother Tarr. rising in his
firm, "nat'a all rleht 'bout de Lawd
ToVia In flpan'l nuta Hall TTintlPV. hilt
! isn't yo' glttin" slightly spectacular in
: axin de infawmatlon lor yosei:
"assah, dess a little spectacular?"
A Toast.
The latest thing in toa:ts comes
M i .. O s t ,nrtA lr r n ropnAnrlod
Ui. uA nt-hni a twalvo Hon rrVi t ara
v UU LiaiUiS luab aw vujju u v w
we give love, to their beauty admira
tion, and to their hats the wliole ulde-l
vallt." New York Times.