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Metropolitan Hall—Emma Nevada, March 8. Eherman-Clay Hall—Plano Recital. Woodward's Pavillon—Winter Clrcus Oakland Racetrack s BIMETALLIC BRYAN. has been supposed that the battle of the stan- l dards is over, and that no politician or party Jeader would endeavor to renew it, The gold tandard has been established by law. In that re- spect the statute hag merely affirmed an existing financial and commercial fact, Gold is the actual standard by natural selection, and would so remain in spite of all that My, Brysn might do if he were President and had & Congress to support him Juckson stated the of natural selection of a stan dard when he said, “Gold is the universal and only honest standard of value” Other and dishonest tandards may be artificially imposed upon the people by mistaken legislation, but their imposition causes confusion, Joss and distress among the people. It makes necessary a daily readjustment of prices and cuuses startling fluctuafions in exchange, makes the operations of business uncertain and sadly vnsettles all human affuirs that depend upon property and its ability. As we have recegtly shown, Mexico is just now getting her eyes open to the fact that gold is the universal standard, and her local silver standard has te be measured in it in all external transactions. Within four months Ler silver standard depreciated over 50 per cent, and then within thirty days recov- cred nearly half of that loss and then fell down again. Mr. Bryan has never had knowledge of the effect upon bitsiness of a depreciated and fluctuating artificial standard, opposed to the natural standard. He does vot appreciate the meaning of a natural standard. It is natural, because al! men seek to meas- ure the vzlue of their possessions in a medium that has the minimum instead of the maximum of fluctu- ation. They seek some form of property that derives its value, and the stability thereof, from the source of all value, which is human desire, and they make this conyertible into all other forms of property and all other forms convertible into it. This is 2 natural stan- dard of value, which becomes the medium of exchange by measuring all media of exchange by it. Of all this Mr. Bryan has no conception. It was well charged against him by the gold Democrats in 1896 and again in 1900 that he is not a Democrat, because he believes that value is not created by human desire, a natural process, but by legisiation, an artificial process. The gold Democrats defined statesmanship to be the alignment of legislation with the irrepealable laws of nature, and they believed that Bryan would not rec- ognize a law of nature if he met it in the highway, placarded back and front like a sandwich man. It is not strange that he does not grow.' Men grow by the study of natural law, by profound con- templation of adjusgment to its decrees, But when a man ties his faith to artifice there is no progress possible to him. 1t is not surprising, therefore, that Mr. Bryard per- sists in harking back to the battle ¢¥f the standards and insists that it shall be zenewed. 1In a late issue of his newspaper he says: “Under our form of government no unchangeable system can be established. ' If the people try the gold standard and do not like it, they can change it; if they try the double standard and do not like it, they can change it; if they try one ratio and do not like it, they can try another.” He treats the subject as lightly as if he wére dis- cussing a minor change in his order for dinner. Sup- pose that his protean policy were in operation, and at this moment we should change to a statutory silver standard, foreign exchange, which is now about 4 per cent premium, would rise to about $2.64. But he does not at all comprehend what that would mean. He has no conception of the strain and stress it would bring to business. He would go into the mar- ketplace with silver dollars in his pocket and pay more than twice as much for the necessaries of life and declare that values had risen. But values would be where they were before, measured in the natural standard, gold. Mr. Bryan would merely have im- posed an artificial medium, depreciated and fluctuat- ing, and the sellers of property would be exacting cach day enough of that base medium to measure in wold the value of what they sold. The people com- prehend this and have said so in two national elec- tions, but it remains a mystery to Mr. Bryan, who is joined to his idols, and the people have decided to Jet-him alone any IN MEMORIAM, : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1902 RICH SOCIETY GIRL R O HE country will gladly receive the full text of Secretary Hay's oration at the Me- Kinley memorial sgrvice in Washington, The parts of the address that were wired to the press disclose glimpses of its excellence which will stimulate a general desire for the complete text, The selection of Seeretary Hay for thi duty was peculiarly appropriate, His touch with American lifes has been unbroken from his youth until now, In literature his genius is that of the plain people, the highest form of genius. His public career began with Mr, Lincoln, and he went through all the agony and the exaltation of the Civil War up to the tragedy with which it closed, It is a peculiar expe rience, No other American has been in intimate official and confidential relations with two of our Presidents who have been victims of the assassin, That experlence, im- pressed upon the genius of John Hay, has produced an oration in which appear all the qualities of the poet, philosopher and statesman, This introduction to his sketch of the President's career has a charm derived from its picture of the common life of the people: 8 o “He was born into that way of life which elsewhere is called the middle class, but which in this country is so nearly universal as to make of other classes an almost neg- ligible quantity, He was neither rich nor poor, proud nor humble; he khew no hunger he was not stire of satisfying, no luxury which could enervate mind or body. His parents were sober, God-fearing people; intelligent and upright; without pretension and without humility. He grew up in the company of boys like himself; wholesome, honest, self- respecting. They looked down on nobody; they never felt it possible, they could be looked down upon. Their houses were the homes of probity, piety, patriotism. They learned in the admirable school readers of fifty years ago the lessons of heroic and splén- did life which have come down from the past. They read in their weekly newspapers the story of the world’s progress, in which they were eager to take part, and of the sins and wrongs of civilization with which thoughtful time. and high achievement were before them. they burned The boys of that day felt dimly but deeply that days of sharp struggle They looked at life with the wondering yet to do battle, It was a serious and resolute eyes of a young esquire in his vigil of arms. They felt a time was coming when to them should be addiessed the stern admonition of the Apostle: ‘Quit you like men; be strong.” " The close of the oration is an utterance of clean philosopliy “There is no one but must feel his devotton to his country renewed and kindled when he remembers how McKinley loved, revered and served it, showed in his lite how' a citizen should live, and in Lis last hour taught us how a gentleman could die.” Tt is evident that this address may well go into school readers to transmit lessons of patriotism to the future. LIBRARIES AND NOVELS, STERN librarizns are just now discussing vith much earnestness the expediency of adopting a rule excluding new novels from their shelves until a year after publication. The ar- gument for the rule is that a large number of new navels have no value whatever; that the demand for them does not outlive the year of their publication, and that by excluding them for that period libraries would be saved the expense of buying many of them and relieved from the risk of becoming the purvey- ors of worthless literature Mr, Putnam of the Congressional library is a strong advocate of the proposed rule, and he has lately been supported by Mr, Carnegie, who, while not a librarian, has no doubt a large knowledge of what sort of books ought to be supplied to the pub- lic by free libraries, These gentlemen maintain that one of the functions of a public library is to form popular taste and to direct it toward good literature, At the present time novels are published in shoals, They issue from the press by the hundreds, The greater part of them are worthless, and ma.y are worse than worthless, The reading of such stuff de- grades the intellect until it becomes incapable of any longer distinguishing good literature from trash, In fact, many persons easily drift into such a mental condition that they prefer the trash. A public library, say the reformers, should stand as a guard against that evil. It should refuse to purchase and circulate dozens of copies of some book for which the public has developed a passing craze, and should circulate no novel that has not stood the test of at least one year of time. Along with the moral idea of promoting a taste for good literature goes the desire on the part of the librarians to save money. The purchase of novels that live but a year is money thrown away. In order to supply the demand for a book that is having a run librarians in a large city have to purchase many copies, and within six months the demand for the work may cease altogether. On the other hand, money expended for books of lasting interest is in the nature of an investment. It adds to the perma- nent value of the library and serves the constant de- mand of readers. These considerations of course apply almost wholly to libraries maintained by taxation or by liberal en- dowments. Subscription libraries must perforce pro- vide the books required by the subscribers. The only way for them to avoid the purchase of a mass of worthless novels would be to educate their sub- scribers up to the point of preferring what is best cather than what is latest. It happens, however, that ?good many people unite with subscription libraries solely for the purpose of obtaining the new books without having to go to the expense of purchasing them for themselves. To such persons the adoption of the proposed rule would render a library compara- tively valueless. In this connection it is worth noting that many books that have had years of popularity in this coun- try and in England have found but little demand. in Germany when translated into German. Figures re- cently published by cne of the leading publishers in Stuttgart show that z translation of Barrie's “Win- dow in Thrums” in two years reached a sale of 202 copies. Blackmore’s “Lorna Doone” in seven years has sold 825 copies. Miss Corelli's “Romance .of | Two Worlds” in the same time has sold 688 copies. Crawford's “A Cigarette-maker’s Romance” in eight years has sold 513 copies. Miss Wilkins' “Short Stories” have sold 417 copies in eight years; Miss Howard's “Guenn” 967 in twelve years, and Haw- thorne’s “Scarlet Letter” 507 in four years. Evidently there is here a proof that there is a marked difference of opinion as to what constitutes a good novel. The rule providing that no novel be purchased within a year after its publication would save librarians the task of deciding between these differences of judgment. It would delay the purchase of many a good book and not prevent later on the purchase of many a bad one; but still it would save expense, and that is always something even to librarians. New York is said to be delighted with a novelty known as “Hohenzollern punch.” It is not the sort of thing that Tillman gave McLaurin, nor yet the kind the Kaiser wished to give Venezuela, but just the same it has a certain knock-out tendency, and that is why they like it. —— Lord Rosebery's admirers say he has “the country at his back,” but the thing that bothers his Lordship is the lack of anything tangible in front of him. BRITISH LIBERAL PROBLEMS, » HETHER British Liberalism shall com- W bine with the Irish party or cut loose from it and resolve not to take office until it has a majority of English and Scottish members of the Commons behind it is a question that is now agitat- ing not only the leaders but the rank and file of the Liberal party. Lord Rosebery has counseled separa- tion. In his recent addresses he has advised the Lib- erals to “clean the slate” of Gladstone’s Irish pro- gramme and to go forward to new issues, It is now for the Liberals to decide whether to accept Rose- bery's leadership or 1eject it and hold fast to the old home rule platiorm, The "Leeds Liberal Thousand” recently held a crowded meeting and indorsed a resolution for- warded by the executive committee to Rosebery ap- proving his programme. The indorsement, how- ever, was by no means emphatic, and was preceded by a long and spirited debate, The supporters of the resolution admitted there would not be much enthu- slasm for the “clean slate” policy, but they argued that it would not imply any surrender of principle, One speaker is reported by the Westminster Gazette as saying: “As to the 'clean slate, he thought Lord Rosebery méant they should not hustle each other in their projects, but be willing to take their turn.” The chairman of the meeting in summing up the issue edid: “When Lord Rosebery told them that they ought ‘to wipe the slate clean’ he meant only that they should wipe off the programmes upon it, but he did not mean to say they should wipe away their political convictions.” | A resolution based upon such a construction of his Lordship's words can hardly be deemed a complete indorsement. In fact, the vote seems to have ex- pressed no more than a willingness to accept aid from whatever source it came. The chairman said: “We want Lord Rosebery back because he is a man of genius, an orator, a leader of men. We want him back because there is work for him to do—to end the miserable war—to take up domestic questions.” The radicals of the party, however, were not will- ing to accept Rosebery even upon the basis suggested by the moderates. In reply to the argument that Rosebery would be potent in bringing forward Eng- lish reforms even if he did not go to the full extent of-home rule for Ireland, one of the opponents of the resolution said that if the Liberal party abandoned the home rule programme they would not elect a single member of the Commons from Leeds at the next election. Another said that if the Liberals are to wait until they have an English majority they would never have reform at all. He went on to add: “In only two Parliaments since 1832 has there been a Liberal majority from England. There would never have been any reform in England itself but for the Welsh, the Scotch and the Irish.” It appears from this expression of Liberal opinion that the masses of the party are by no means enthu- siastic over the Rosebery leadership. They will ac- cept him much as the Bryanite Democracy might ac- cept the lead of a gold Democrat, for the sake of temporary success, but they remain true to their con- victions, and, moreover, they doubtless hold the be- lief that once in office Rosebery himself would be forced to accept an Irish programme for the sake of getting Irish votes for the reforms he desires in Eng- land. Some of them even go so far as to hold that a change may come aver the mind of the leader even before he gets office, or, as one of the speakers at the Leeds meeting said: “Lord Rosebery will have plenty of time before the next general election to blossom into a full-blown radical.” ————————— They are having a hard time in Chicago. It ap- pears that some of the shoe manufacturers, having a large supply of tan shoes on hand when winter ap- proached, dyed them black to fit them to the winter trade; but the action of snow wears off the dye, and ngw Chicago dudes are wearing rubbers to hide the bad appearance of shoes half black and half tan, ——e The announcement that the Sultan of Turkey is to send a special mission to attend the Pope's jubilee celebration seems something like a sign of a forth- coming of peace in the world on religious questions. When the head of the Mahometan faith gives greeting to the head of the Catholic church it is time to have “hands all round” and a general jubilee. London is not the only city to have a coronation fete this year, for the King of Spain attains his ma- | jority May 17, and Madrid is going to have a apectacle—provided something doesn't ‘rise up and ;. knock the show before it starts. PAINTE F MICROBES e Vot Ao ST Yo | MIS$ KATHERINE M, MONTAGUE o LOOKS AND WEALTH, AND WHO POSSESSES THE STRANGE TAL- ENT OF MAKING ACCURATE PICTURES OF MICROBES, OF BALTIMORE, BLESSED WITH | B Investigators, e, Bhe s 20 years ol ‘Williams, qualifications were required, sclentist, other artist in the world, PERSONAL MENTION, Captain 1, J. Sims is at the Palace, J. Kullman of Beniela I8 at the Grand, Franklin O, Lewls of Tonopah {8 at the TAck, T, H. Clayton of Philadelphia is at the Palace, A, J. Larson and wife of Lodi are at the Grand, John T. Harrington of Colusa 18 at the Palace, J. H. Batch, an attorney of Sacramento, 18 at the Grand, -« ' Cornelius Corde, a mining man of Vit~ ginia City, is at the Lick. 0. Y. Woodward, a rancher of Wood- ward's Isjand, is at the Grand. Joseph R. Ryland, accompanied by his wife and family, is at the Occidental. Wythe Denby of Juneau, Alaska, is at the California, accompanied by his wife. Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at the Palace. James W. Forbes, an attorney of Butte, Mont., is at the Palace, with his family. \Mrs. W. H. Moreland, wife of the Epls- copal Bishop of Sacramento, is at the Oc- cidental. Dr. W. M. Lawlor, superintendent of the Hdme for the Feeble Minded at Eld- ridge, is at the Grand. —_————————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—The following Califgrnians have arrived at the hotels: ¥rom San Franclsco—H. Franklin, J. H. Miller and F. C. Pulsmeler, at the Im- perial; G. Greensword, at the Astoria; Mrs. Locke, Miss A. Meyer and Miss S. M. Spooner, at the Holland; L. S. Saun- ders, at the Morton. From Los Angeles—Mrs. N. R. Stone, Miss Stone and M. K. Young, at the Man- hattan; H. C. Ackerly, at the Astor. —_— A CHANCE TO SMILE. ““Go to the football game yesterday?" “Sure.” “Think you had fun enough to pay for the awful cold you caught?’—Indianapo- lis News. “That young fellow who's so attentive to her has money I suppose.” “Money! He has money to burn!” “Ah, yes. That explains why her moth- er is so anxious to make a match of the affair."—Chlcago Post. Mrs. Jenkyns—I see Mrs. Hoetong 1is golng to have “King Lear” at her next private theatricals. Mrs. Newrich (furfous with envy)—Is she? the affected thing. Do y6u know I don't believe he's a real king at all.— Tit-bits. Deacon White—What did yo' hab fo' dinnah at Mistah Henry's yistehday? ‘Parson Yallerby—Well, sah, I done fo'- got to ask what it was. Tt tasted a little like Leghorn, but it might hab been Cochin China' or Plymouth Rock fo' all I know.—Puck. ‘Mrs. Flitey—My husband's the meanest thing. He had the rheumatism when he woke up this morning. Mrs, Hitey—Well? Mrs, Flitey—Well, that's a sure sign of rain, and I've got a lawn party on for this afternoon.—Philadelphia Press. ‘Mrs, Naybor—The Woodbys have moved into the country, They found It took too much money to keep up appearances Jellus—Huh! I don't see why It take o much money to keep up appearances.—Philadeiphia Press. #ho thelr “What hhve you ever done for your try 2"’ ““‘llnhf'y‘ sald Senator Sorghum, “I am de- yoting earnest study to that great and weighty subject reciprocity.” “1 don't see what that has to do with my inauiry?” . “My observations on reciprocity up to the present time lead me to decide that pefore indulging in anxiety about what [ may do for my country, it s my privi- ge to ascertaln what my country is go- / :gs to do for me.”—Washington Star. , decidedly pretty, pos occuples a high position in Southern soc It was through Mrs. Gordon that Miss “Absolute accuracy, a firm touch and the most delicate skill,” L e e e e g OTH sclence and art in Philadelphia may cialm a recrult in Miss Kathe M. Montague of Baltimore, who has just taken up in nmzx :-I:’; ;P'r\ ).':r:“rd:; profession. Her work has won distinction among the most learned sci- entiste, who declare that her equal does not exist, three years with Dr. J. Whittredge Willlams of Johns Hopkins Unlver. sity, she has gone to Philadelphia to assist Professor 8imon R. Flexner, head of the pathologicdl department of the University of Penn: Miss Montague {s a painter of microbes, for reproducing with the brush the minute organisms which are visible only under powerful microscopes, and her work is therefore of inestimable value to After working for She posse: a wonderful talent Although engaged ‘for so long in Dr. Willlams' laboratory, it was only re- cently that Miss Montague's contributions to science became known to ihe pub- She s a sister of Mrs. Basil Gordon one of Maryland's soclal leaders. ses a fortune in her own right and ety. Montague ' became assistant to Dr. He has been engaged for ten years upon a work on bacterfology, and mentioned to Mrs. Gordon that it was Impossible to find an artist who coula repréduce the delicate illustrations so desirable for the ‘huuk‘ She asked what réplied the Mrs, Gordon suggested that her sister comld do the work and after yweeks of persuasion the latter consented té undertake it, trator at the university, declares Miss Montngue's work excels thai of any Max Broedel, the official fllus- L] ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TWO DATES—~W. 0, W., Winters, Cal, | The 25th day of December, 1857, fell on Mondey and the 12th of April, 1850, fell on Tuesday, SHAKESPEARE—R., Modesto, Cal There are a number of studies of the dif- ferent playg written by Bhakespeare that may be progured through any first class book seller, POLL TAX-W. . W., Kern, Cal. No law has been passed by Congress exempe | ing the soldiers who served In the civil | war from paying poll tax. In California | no one is exempt from such tax unless he be under 21 years of age or over 60 years, | or {8 a pauper, an idiot, an Insane person or an Indian not taxed. ON A WAR VESSEL—N. P. C, Los Angeles, Cal. If you desire to send a let- | ter to a seaman on board of one of the | United States war vessels and do not | know where the vessel is, send the letter | in care of the United States Naval Pay | Office, Phelan building, San Francisco, | giving the name of the vessel the sea- | to destinafion. HIS TITLE-M. M., City. The follow- ing is the title of the reigning sovereign of England as it appears in the Al- manach de Gotha, an authority on such subjects: ‘“‘Albert Edward (Edward VID of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British possessions beyond the seas, defender of the faith and Emperor of India.’ | CHECKERS—M. W. H. Santa Cruz, Cal. In the game of checkers each player | commences the game with twelve men. A player who fails to take a man or a king when he has a chance to do so may have the man or king he should have played | taken by his opponent. When a player | is unable to make a move that ends the | same, and the one unable to move loses. i SHIPS IN 1873—Subscriber, Grass Val- ley, Cal. You can find a list of all the vessels that arrived in the harbor of San Francisco during the month of March, 1873, in the files of The Cal for that month and year.” All arrivals are published the day after the vessel enters port. There is also a list at the Merchants' Exchange in this city. If you desire such a list it would have to be copied from either the file of the paper or from the register of the exchange. DROPSY—D. J. C,, City. The symptoms of general dropsy First, a swelling around the ankle and leg, which is more visible at night after standing and walk- ing, and is less perceptible in the morn- ing in consequence of the horizontal pesi- tion in the night. To the touch of another person dropsical feet and legs feel a little colder than natural! and when hard pressed with the finger a pit will be sunk in the flesh which remains some time before it fills up again. As the dis- ease advances, the skin of the leg be- comes smooth and shining, and some- times even cracks open to let out the ‘watery fluld that has accumulated under the skin, Inception it may succumb. Its seriousness depends upon conditions and what caused it, FAKIR—8., City. Fake has come to mean in the United States a story without foundation and those who write or efr- culate such are called fakirs or fakers, Some have attained an unenviable repu- tation in press circles by their indulgence in this practice. Fake in England ts to cheat and swindle; to fake away is an encouragement given by thieves to com- panfons. The word fake is a word that haws been used for more than half a cen- tury in the theatrical profession to ex- press the idea of a makeshift, Thus to fak drems I8 to get up a costume that is not correct, but which can be made to serve its purpose on a pinch. Costumes of this kind are called fakements, To fake a play is to play it imperfectly, that 18, without proper knowledge of the lines: gliven to this sort of thing are known as fakirs in the profession. The word takir is applied in India t Hglou: m-ndlc-nl.” LS - | man who at one time belon; anfd Medical School, | man was last on, and it will be forwarded | If the disease Is treated at the | GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS It s not given to every writer ta penes trate inta royal nuvseries, Miss Myra Hamilton has, however, achieved the dis tinetion with her recently pubiished vol- ume of fairy tales, as copies of her hooky whieh is entitled “Paney War Land,’ have been aceepted by the Princess of Wales in hehalf of her childven, Prinee Baward, Prinee Albert and Princess Vi toria of ¥ork Miss Hamilton who 1s the stepdaughier of A, W, Plnere, has written a large num er af short stories in the prinelpal mags alnes, which have atteacted 4 considerable amount of attentlon, The wellsknown “Pinero Birthiday Book,” which appeared & year of two ago, was also complied by Miss Hamilton. “The King's Racehorses + history ot the connection of his Majesty King ward VII with the national sport, by Bd ward Spencer, will be published by Long about the end of Aprll, The work will be printed oh hand-made paper, with twenty plates in photogravure, and will be limited to 300 coples, at three guineas net. Alfred Harmsworth {s to contribute a volume an “Automoblles and Automo- biling'’ to the famous Badminton Library The book will Include articles by wsuc authoritlies as the Hon. John t Mon tagu, the Hon. €. 8. Rolls and the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, who Is known in the House of Commons as Sir J. H A. Macdonald. There will also be a chapter by Lady Jeune, no doubt on du- | tomobiling from the woman's poimt of view. Some pen names are Invented by those who use them, but some arise out of eir< cumstances, This, in wiy, was ' the | ease with “Dick Donovan,'* which stands for J. . Muddock, who has a new detec- tive story just out. At the outset the name “Dick Donovan” was that of a character ke “Sherlock Holmes'' him self. Mr. Muddock has made a close study of the European police systems, and he created “Dick Donovan” as the gre detective of his storfes. The character was partly modeled on the qualities of a d to the staff of Scotland Yard, and readers of “Dick Donovan's’” adventures got to think of him as the writer, so Muddock took the “nom de guerre.'” Two Interesting storfes are told by the Dally Chronicle concerning Mrs. Hamil ton King, author of ‘“The Disciples. whose birthday occurred this week. The manuseript of “The Disciples’” was sent to Henry 8. King, then Tennyson's pub- lisher, who rot only offered to publish | the work, but offered his hand in addi- tion, so that the daughter of Admiral W. A. ‘Baillie-Hamilton and Lady Harrfet Baillle-Hamilton became Mrs. Hamilton King. “The Disciples” sang the pralses of the “Young Italy” disciples who, of course, opposed the temporal power of the Pope. When Mrs. King joined the Ro- man Catholic church she was anxious lest the new alllance should invelve any new alteration in the book. Cardinal Man- ning sald he would not change a line. Sir, Willi White, who recently re- tired from the great post of naval con- structor; is, | hear, lkely to produce a book. |/ He he® been asked several times to write one on the progress of naval archi- tecture, The fulfillment of ® n Stue pendous task depends a great deal on hie health, considering the labor involved in such an undertaking, Sir Willlam White's | part in this progress has been so large that the volume must more or less be autobiographical A comparison of the habits of the writ- ers of to-day with those of the Inst gen- eration is interesting It not instruetive If you want to find any one of the lead Ing novelists it s almost hopeless to ex- to find him er her inLondon. . ‘The Hterary aapifnt domes to London | to try to make a name. Whenaver that fs achieved to & certain extent he shakes the dust—or, rather, brushes the mud-—of London from his clothes and goes back to the country. Charles Lamb was no- where Happler than in London, where he spent all his days, declaring ‘the sight of a crowd around the doors of Drury Lane Theater to be a pleasanter sight to him than flocks of sheep on the hills. Thack- eray, Dickens and how many more did most of their work in muggy, grimy Lon- don, and none of their worst at that. To-day the celebrated authors who do thelr work in town could be counted on the fingers almost of one hand. but they | are such as Max Pemberton, Barry Pain and others, who are editors of magazines, whose work necessarily keeps them in town mest of the year. A CHANCE TO SMILE. | The Visitor—Of eourse you know noth- ing of yellow journalism up here? The Villager—Wall, the ed'ter of the Banner he now’n agin puts in items up- side deown so's tew make folks read 'em. 1 reckon thet's sawter buff like, ain't it? —Detroit Free Press. “You're not so much,” said the man who used the vernacular of the curb- stone. “Well,” said the other man, “I fancy T'd have to be much less in order to es- cape being much more than your much developed lack of muchiness.”—Clevelaad Plain Dealer. # “Where -did the big bouquet on your desk come from?” asked the friend. “From a grateful admirer,” ' answered the member of Congress promptly. “That will do. The joke is on you. have positive information that flowers were ordered by you." “That’s all right. The florist admired me for having the price of so beautifu! a bunch and was grateful to me for giv- ing it up.”—Washington Star. Poetess—The poem I sent you, Mr. Ed- itor contains the deepest secrets of my soul. . Editor—I know it, madam, and no one shall ever find them out through me.— Tit-Bits. 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