Kir
The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VII.
HAKKI80X, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1$95.
NU3IBEK 43.
SIMPLE AND STYLISH.
SOME PRETTY EFFECTS FOR
THE GIRL GRADUATE.
It I an Unwritten Kule that the
Gown bhould He Fare White, and
Dainty Mnallna Are Moat Appropri
ate for the Event.
Sweet Htmpllcltj.
A graduation gowu U aa Important
any gown that a woman ever buys,
ud raukg only after her first gown or
wedding gown. For weeks the girls
who are to graduate, and their mothers
as well, are busy In preparing what
Is to be worn on the eventful day. It
U no small matter to choose a costume
that will be becoming alike to a dark
girl, a fair girl, a stout girl, a thin girl,
and yet It la the accepted rule that the
graduating class shall all dress nearly
OHAM ATIXO (iUWM.
alike, and to solve the problem of a
gown that will be satisfactory to all
U by no mentis an cany task.
An Id choosing bridesmaids' gown,
considerable trouble can be ((pared If
to one dressmaker be given the tank of
making nil; but It at a ml a to reason that
when there are ten, twenty, or more
girls lu a clans, mime are vastly better
able to pay for more expensive ma
terials than are others, and It Is very
rarely that the sensible pmn Is agreed
ti n hi of u fixed sum compatible with
w hat can le paid by the poorest mem
ber. When so many gowns are to tie
made exactly alike, there should le
some saving to nil concerned, for It Is
more of a wholesale than n retail ntTalr.
Fortunately. It Is almost a fixed rule
that the color Is white. There may be
OLD FATHER TIM K''LA XI) SAKF.S!
sashes, bows, and trimmings of other
colors, but the gown itself Is of pure
white. This at once disposes of u mat
ter which would Involve endless discus
sion. Simple and Inexpensive materials are
the bent for their purpose, says the
New York Herald. While It Is desira
ble the gowns should be as dainty and
smart as possible, anything elaborate
or overtrlmmed, lu the least suggestion
of an evening gown, would' be quite
out of place. The "beuute de dhible,"
as the French call the freshness ami
charm of youth, shows to the greatest
advantage in simply fashioned girlish
frocks. There Is time enough when
girls are formally Introduced Into so
ciety and when they have lost their first
freshness to load them down with
heavy trimmed silk gowns, but until
that time comes they should be dressed
In as simple a fashion as possible.
There are many wash fabrics which
are excellent for graduation gowns.
Organdie, cambric, dotted Swiss mus
lin, and a thousand and one others
give opportunity of a wide choice.
Twelveyardsof the wide goods arc suf
ficient, and the cost Is trilling. If the
waist is lined the lining should be cut
decollete, so that there Is only the sheer
muslin over the neck and arms. Silk
slips are very much the fashion this
season, but an under petticoat of
sateen, or even cambric. Is effective and
cheaper.
Silk graduation gowns are not often
chosen. When they are, India silk kV
used. This falls In soft folds and Is
always graceful, but this does not
adapt Itself well to the present stiff
effects. A class plh or some emblem Is
part of every graduating costume, and,
as all the world knows. Is almost as
much thought of as the diploma Itself.
American Students In Germany.
There are at the German universities
more students from America than from
any other foreign country, except Rus
sia. The Russians, however, bare only
a short dVtwe to come. It la only a
quest ioii of crossing over the line to
reach, for Instance, the University of
Kuenlgsburg. and In neacly every case
It Is a shorter trip for their young men
than to go to Moscow or St. Peters
burg. With ihe Americans, however,
the case Is julte a different one, ac
cording to the Berlin correspondent of
the Philadelphia Telegraph. They,
many of them, cross their own contin
ent, then sail over the wide ocean and
pa ss by England and France In order to
reach the universities of Germany.
This movement from the one country
to the other must rest upon some very
good ground, or else It Is a mistake,
and probably If the matter were care
fully examined there would be found to
be traces of both.
The Americans who come to the Ger
man universities would seem to be of
three kinds. They are, drat, those who
come for the curiosity of It They have
read concerning German student life,
and have heard of It from their friends,
and And It to be so unlike such life aa
It Is at home that they persuade their
parents to let tbem come abroad for
a longer or shorter period. These per
sons, and there are quite a number of
them catalogued at the German uni
versities, are usually not more than
tourists, and as they go again before
they come to have any knowledge
of the German language, they can
scarcely be considered as students at
all.
Second, there are students who lire
attracted to Germany because both the
life and the Instruction are cheap, and
It Is actually possibly for those whose
branches rest outside of the laborator
ies, which are not always very cheap,
to cross the ocean, live In a little room,
ns the German students do, and work
In free libraries at a lss expenditure
than It would require at an American
university. Students who are thus
limited In their resources will natural
ly continue to come to Germany In
preference to remaining at home until
such time as we become wise enough
to enlarge the opportunities for cheap
university Instruction In America.
The third class Is of those who come
out of the simple motive of being In
structed in a way that they cannot bo
elsewhere; those who come In the hon
est belief that they can secure In tier
many Instruction which, -In subject or
method. Is In some respect superior to
that which Is to be found at home or
In other countries. With the latter class
It Is alone necessary to engage our
Whether or not the proposition, as
COMMKNCJEMEXT TIME AfiAI.V,"
we have announced It, that there Is
better university Instruction In Ger
many than elsewhere Is true or not,
there are other matters to be consid
ered In sending your young men away
from home, which many think should
be regarded In forming n right esti
mate of this subject. Admiring many
features of the German university sys
tem, as I naturally must, I believe, If
I may speak lu the first person, that
the proposition Is In general to be de
nied. I cannot think that It Is In gen
eral nn advantage to a boy or a young
man to come Into such n center of social
ami political materialism as Germany
has got to be. Our universities In
America, subsisting usually on the vol
untary gifts of Individuals rather than
at the cost of the state, are, In many
cases, not what they ought to be, and for
some branches of study It Is undoubt
edly still necessary to go to Germany,
There are some branches of scholarship
which are either not at all or at least
very Inadequately represented both at
home and likewise In England and
France. Whether Germany has this
suerlorlty or not Is a question which
ought to be Investigated Into In every
Individual case, and we ought to all go
to work unitedly to bring about a state
of things where this promiscuous ex
portation of young men shall at once
lie brought to an end.
Teacher Inherit a fMVHM) Katate.
By the will of Miss Elizabeth Ewlng,
of Philadelphia, who was burled last
week. Miss Julia Harris, of Ilarrlsburg,
for many years a public school teacher,
Is made the sole heir to an estate valued
at over J.VI.OOO. Miss Kwlnir was a
cousin. The proerty consists of two
residences In Philadelphia and ffl.000
In Pennsylvania Railroad stock. Miss
Harris Is a descendent of John Harris,
the founder of Ilarrlsburg.
Dante read the chap hooka of his
time, and from their pages and those of
the monkish homilies gathered the lurid
Images found la the "Inferno."
TALMAGE'S SER5I0N.
THE PREACHER OPPOSES BIBLE
RECONSTRUCTION.
HeBhowaHow Futile Are the Aaaanlta
Made Upon the Scripture The Bible
aa Compared with Other Booke-Ite
Itivine Protection,
tstanda Like a Hock.
In bis sermon last Sunday Rev. Dr.
Talmage dealt with a subject that is agi
tating the entire Christian church at the
present moment vix., "Expurgation of
the Scripture." Tbe text chosen was,
"Let God be true, but every man a liar'
(Romans lii., 4).
Tbe Bible needs reconstruction accord
ing to tome inaide and outside tbe pulpit.
It ia no surprise that tbe world bombards
tbe Scriptures, but it is amazing to Bud
Christian ministers picking at this lu tbe
liibie aud denyiLg that until niauy good
people are left in the fog about wbat part
of tbe liibie they ought to believe aud
what parts reject. Tbe heiuouue of
finding fault with the Bible at tbia time ia
most evident. lu our day tbe Bible la as
sailed by scurrility, by misrepresentation,
by inliilel scientists, all the vice of earth
and all tbe venom of perdition, and at this
particular time even preacher of tbe gos
pel fall into line of criticism of tbe word
of God. Why, it makes me think of a ship
la a September equinox, tbe waves dush
ing to tbe top of tbe smokestack, aud tbe
bnl.i -lies f listened down, ami uiany'prophe
tying the foundering of the steamer, and
at that time some of the crew with axes
and saws go down into tbe hold of the
ship, ami they try to saw off some of tbe
planks (fail pry out some of tbe timbers
because the timber did not come from the
right forest. It does not seem to me a
commendable business for the crew to be
helping llm winds and storms outside
with their uxes and saws inside. Now
this old gospel ship, what with the roaring
of earth and hell around the stem ami
stern and mutiny on deck, is having a very
rough voyage, lint I have noticed that not
one of the timbers has started, and the
ruptaiu Buys be will see it through. And
I have noticed that keelson and counter
timber are built out of 1etiiiiinn cedar,
anil she Is going to weather the gale, but
no credit to those who make mutiny on
deck.
When I aee professed Christians In this
particular day finding fault with the
Scripture, it make me think of a fortress
terrifically bombarded, and tbe men on
tbe rampart. Instead of swubhiug out and
loading the guns and helping fetch up the
ammunition from the magazine, Are trying
with crowbars to pry out from the wall
certain blocks of stone because they did
not come from the right quarry. Oh, men
on the rauipurts, better fight hack and
fight down tlie common enemy instead of
trying to make breaches in tbe wall!
While I oppose, this expurgation of the
Scriptures 1 shall give you my reasons for
such opposition. "What," say some of
the theological evolutionists, whose brains
have been addled by too long brooding
over Darwin and Spencer, "you don't
now really believe all the story of
the Garden of Eden, do you?" Ves, as
much a I believe there were roses in my
garden last summer. "Hut," they say,
"you don't really believe Ihut the sun and
moon stood still V" Ves, and If I hud
strength enough to create a sun and moon
I could make tbem stand still or cause the
refraction of the sun's rays so it would
appear to stand still. "Itut," ibey say,
"you don't really believe that the whale
swallowed .J. mull?" Yes, and if I were
strong enough to make a whale I could
have made very easy ingress for the re
fractory prophet, leaving to evolution to
eject him if he were an unworthy tenant.
"Hut," they say, "you don't really believe
Ihut the water was turned into wine?"
Yes, just as easily as water now is often
turned into wine with an admixture of
strychnine and logwood. "Hut," say they,
"you don't really believe that Samson
slew a thousand with tbe jiiwhnnc of an
ass?" Yes, and I think thnt the man who
in this day assaults the liibie is wielding
the same weapon.
There is nothing in the Bible that stag
gers me. There are many things I do not
understand, I do not pretend to under
stand, never shall in this world under
stand. But that would be a very poor
God who could be fully understood hy the
human. That would be a very small In
finite that can be measured by the finite.
You must not expect to weigh the thun
derbolts of Omnipotence in au apothe
cary' balances. Starting with the Idea
that God can do anything, and that he
was present at the beginning, and that
he is present now, there is nothing in the
holy Scriptures to arouse skepticism In my
heart Here I stand, a fossil of the ages,
dug up from the tertiary formation, fullcn
off the shelf of au antiquarian, a man in
the latter part of the glorious nineteenth
century, believing in a whole Bible from
lid to lid.
I am opposed to the expurgation of the
Scripture In the first place because the
Bible in Its present shape has been so mi
raculously preserved. Fifteen hundred
years after Herodotus wrote his history
there was only one manuscript copy of It.
Twelve hundred years after Plato wrote
hi book there was only one manuscript
copy of it. God was so careful to have u
have the Bible In Just the right shape that
we have fifty manuscript copies of the
New Testament 1,11 years old and some
of them 1,000 year old. This hook hand
ed down from the time of Christ or just
after the time of Christ hy the hand of
uch men as Origen In the second century
and Tertullian in the third century and by
men of different ages who died for their
principle. Tbe three best copies of the
New Testament In manuscript are in the
Haseslnn of the three great churches
the Protestant Church of Kngland, the
Greek Church of 8t Petersburg and the,
Romish Church of Italy.
It ia a plain matter of hlitory that
Teschendorf went to a convent In the pe
ninsula of fllnal and was by ropes lifted
over tbe wall 'nto the convent, that being
the only mod of admlion, and tbac be
w there In the waate basket for kind
ling for tbe fire a manuscript of the holy
Scripture. That night he copied many of
the passage of that Bible, but It was not
until fifteen year had passed of earnest
entreaty aud prayer and coaxing aud pur
chase on hi part that that copy of the
holy Scripture wa put into tbe band of
the Emperor of Russia that one copy so
marvelously protected.
Do you not kuow that the catalogue of
the books of the Old and New Testament
a we hare it is tbe same catulngue that
ha been coming on down through the
age? Thirty-nine book of the Old Testa
ment thousand of year ago. Thirty-ulue
now. Tweuty-aeven book of tbe New
Testament l.tliKj years ago. Twenty-seven
book of the New Testament now. Mar
cion, for wickedness, was turned out of
the church in tbe second century and in
hi assault on tbe Bible and Christianity
be Incidentally give a catalogue of the
books of the Bible that catalogue corre
ponding exactly with ours testimony
given by tbe enemy of the Biide and the
enemy of Christianity. The catalogue
uow just like tbe catalogue then. As
aulted am spit on and torn to pieces and
burned, yet adhering. The book to-day, in
BOO languages, confronting four-fifths of
the human race in their own tongue. Four
hundred million copies of it in existence.
Does not that look as if this hook had been
divinely protected, as if God bad guarded
It all through the centuries?
I it not au argument plain enough to
every honest man and every honest wom
an that a lssik divinely proti-cted and in
this shape is in the. very shape that God
wants it? It please God and ought to
please us. The epidemic which have
wept thousand of other books into the
septilcher of forgetfulness have only
brightened the fame of this. There is
not one book out of a thousand that lives
five years. Any publisher will tell you
that. There will not be more than one
Ixiok out of lilt.lMMl that will live a century.
Yet here is a book mix h of it 1 N years
old, and much of it 4,(HK years old, and
with more relioiind and resilience aud
strength in it than when the book was
first put upon parchment or papyrus. This
hook saw the cradle of all other hooka, and
It will see their graves. Would you not
think that un old book like this, some of
It forty centuries old, would come along
hobbling with age and on crutches? In
stead of that, more potent than any other
honk of the time. .More copies of it print
ed in the last ten years than of any other
book, Walter Scott's Waverley novels,
Maeaulay's "History of England," Dis
raeli's "Kmlyniiim," the Works of Tenny
son and Longfellow and all the popular
bonks of our time having no such sale in
the last ten years as tills old wornmit
book. I)o you know what a struggle a
book has in order to get through one cen
tury or two centuries? Some old books
during a fire in a seraglio of Constanti
nople were throw n into the street A man
without any education picked up one of
those books, read it and did not se the
value of it. A scholar looked over his
shoulder and saw it was the first und sec
oiul decades of Livy, and lie offered, the
man a large reward if he would tiring the
Isioks to his study, hut in the excitement
of the fire the two parted, and the first
and second decades of Livy were forever
lost. Pliny wrote twenty books of history.
All lost. The most of Mc minder's writ
ings lost. Of l.'lO comedies of Phiutus,
all gone but twenty. Euripides wrote I'M)
dramas. All gone but nineteen. Aeschy
lus wrote Its') dramas. All gone hut seven.
Varro wrote the laborious biographies nf
'i(ii) Romans. Not a fragment left, tjuin
tilian wrote his favorite book on the cor
ruption of eloquence. All lost. Thirty
books of Tacitus I o -i t . Dion Cassius wrote
eighty books. Onlv twenty remain. Be
rosius' history nil t.
Nearly all the old books are mummified
and are lying in tbe tombs of old libraries,
and perhaps once in twenty years some
man comes along and picks up one of them
and blows the dust and opens it and finds
it Hie book he does not want. But this
old book, much of it forty centuries old,
stands to-day more discussed than any
other book, and it challenge the admira
tion of all the good, and the spite, ami the
venom, and the animosity, and the hyper
criticism of earth and hell. I appeal to
your common sense if a book so divinely
guarded and protected in its present shape
must not be in just the way that God
wants it to come to ns. and if it pleases
God, ought it not to please us?
Not only have all the Attempts to detract
from the book failed, but nil the attempts
to add to it. Many attempts were made
to add the apoehrypbal books to the Old
Testament. The council of Trent, the
synod of Jerusalem, tbe bishops of Hippo,
all decided that the apochryphnl books
must be added to the Old Testartient.
"They must stay in," said those learned
men. but they staiil out. There is not an
Intelligent Christian man that to-day will
put the hook of Maccabees or the book of
Judith beside the book of Isaiah or Rom
ans. Then a great many said. "We must
have books added to the New Testament,"
and there were epistles and gospels and
apocalypses written and added to the
New Testament, but they have all fallen
out. You cannot add anything. You can
not subtract anything. Divinely protect
ed book in the present shape. Let no man
dare to lay his hands on it with the Inten
tion of detracting from the book or cast
ing out any of these holy pages.
Besides that, I am opposed to this ex
purgation of the Sc riptures because if the
attempt were successful It would be the
annihilation of the Bible. Infidel geolo
gists would ay, "Out with the book of
Genesis." Infidel astronomers would say,
"Out with the book of Joshua. People
who do not believe In the atoning sacrifice
would say, "Out with the book of Leviti
cus, reopie wno ao not peneve in the
miracles would say, "Out with all those
wonderful stories In the Old and New
Testaments," and some would say, "Out
with the book of Revelation, and other
would soy, "Out with the entire Penta
teuch," and the work would go on until
there would not be enough of the Bible
left to be worth as much as last year's al
manac. The expurgation of the Scrip
tures mean their annihilation.
I am also opposed to this proposed ex
purgation ut tbe Scripture for tbe fact
that In proportion a people become elf
acrifiVlug and good aud holy and conse
crated they like the book aa it is. I have
yrt :o find a man or a woman distinguish
ed for self-sacrifice, for consecration to
God, for holiness of life, who wants the
Bible changed. Many of ua have inherit
ed family Bible. Those Bible were In
use twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps a hundred
year in the generation. To-day take
down those family Bibles, and find out if
there are any chapter which have been
erased by lead pencil or pen, and if In any
margin you can tbe words, "This chap
ter not fit to read." There has been
plenly of opportunity during tbe last half
century privately to expurgate the Bible.
Do you know any case of such expurga
tion? Did not your grandfather give it
to your father, aud did not your father
give it to you? '
Beside that, I am opposed to the expur
gation of the Scripture becaue the so
called indelicacies and cruelties of the Bi
ble have demonstrated no evil result. A
cruel tsdik will produce cruelty. An un
clean book will produce uncleanlines.
Fetch me a victim. Out of all Christen
dom and out of all tbe age fetch me a
victim whose heart ha been hardened to
cruelty or whose life has been made im
pure by this book. Show me one. One of
the best families I ever knew of for thirty
or foriy years, morning and evening, had
all the member gathered together, and
the servants of the household, and the
strangers that happened to be within the
gales. Twice a day without leaving out a
chapter or a verse they read this holy
book, morning by morning, night by night.
Not only the older children, but the little
child who could just spell her way through
the verse while her mother helped her, the
father beginning and reading one verse,
and then all the members of tbe family in
turn reading a verse. The father main
tained his integrity, the mother maintain
ed her integrity, the sons grew up and en
tered professions and commercial life,
adorned every sphere in the life in which
they lived, and the daughters went into
families where Christ was honored, aud
nil ihut was good and pure and righteous
reigned perpetually. For thirty yearB
that family endured the Scripture. Not
one of them ruined by them. Now, If
you will tell me of a family where the
Biide lias been read twice a day for thirty
years, and the children have been brought
up in Unit, habit, and the father went to
ruin, and the mother went to ruin, and
the sons and daughters were destroyed by
it-if you will tell me of one such inci
dent, I will throw- sway my Bible, or I
will doubt your veracity. I tell you If a
man is shocked with what he calls the in
delicacies of the word of God he is pruri
ent in his taste and imagination. If a
mini cannot rend Solomon's Song without
impure suggestion, he is either in his heart
or in bis life a libertine.
I tell ymi at this iKiint in my discourse
that a man who does not like this book,
and who is critical as to its contents, and
who is allocked and outraged w ith its de
scriptions bus never been soundly con
verted. The laying on of the hands of
presbytery or episcopacy does not always
change a man's heart, and men sometimes
get into the pulpit as well as into the pew,
never having been changed radically by
the sovereign grace of God. Get your
heart right, and the Bible will be right.
The trouble is men's natures are not
brought into harmony with the word of
God. Ah, my friends, expurgation of the
heart is what is wanted.
You cannot make me believe that the
Scriptures, which this moment lie on the
table of the purest and best men and
women of the age, and which were the
dying solace of your kindred passed into
the skies, have in them a taint which the
strongest microscope of honest criticism
could make visible. If men are uncon
trollable in their indignation when the in
tegrity of wife or child is assailed, and
judges and jurors as far as possible excuse
violence under such provocation, what
might to be the overwhelming and long
resounding thnnders of condemnation for
any man who will stand in a Christian
pulpit and assail the more than virgin
purity of inspiration, the well Beloved
daughter of God?
Let those people who do not believe the
Bible, and who are critical of this and
that part of it, go clear over to the other
side Let them Btund behind the devil's
guns. There can be no compromise be
tween infidelity and Christianity. Give
ns the out and out opposition of infidelity
rather than the work of these hybrid the
ologians, these mongrel ecclesiastics, these
half-evolnted people, who believe the
Bible and do not believe it, who accept the
miracles and do not accept them, who be
lieve in the inspiration of the Scriptures
and do not believe in the inspiration of the
Scriptures trimming their belief on one
side to suit tbe skepticism of the world,
trimming their belief on the other side
to suit the pride of their own heart and
feeling that in order to demonstrate their
courage they must make the Bible a target
und shoot at God.
There Ir one thing that encourages me
very much, and that is that the Lord made
out to manage the universe before they
were born and will probably be able to
make out to manage the universe a little
while after they are dead. While I de
mand that the antagonist of the Bible,
and the critics of the Bible go clear over
where they belong, on the devil's side, I
ask that all the friends of this good book
come out openly and above board in behalf
of it. That book, which wss the best in
heritance you ever received from your an
cestry, and which vdll be the best legacy
you will leave to your children when you
bid them good-by as you cross the ferry to
the golden city.
Young man, do not be ashamed of your
Bible. There Is not a virtue but it com
mends, there Is not a sorrow but It com
forts, there is not a good law on tie stat
ute book of any country but it Is founded
on these Ten Commandments, There are
no braver, grander people in all the earth
than the heme and the heroines which
It biographize.
Mountains are climbed In Central Af
rica by the aid of a long loop of calico
called a "Mnchlla." The climber leans
back at one end, while six or eight
strong men to pull at the other.
Old Way Wae the Beat.
Since we got rich and stylish, and took Is)
traveling 'round,
My wife she calls me "Mister" can't sag
I like the sound
And my girls no longer call me "pa," ts
"dear papa" these days;
They're all of tbem all taken up with
highfalutin' way.
I put up with a lot of things, but Fas
blessed if I can stand
To see my wife beginning now to writs)
this new-styled hand.
It' well enough for Helen and for Clara
I supiose;
They learned the horse-track fashion
while still they wore short clothes.
But their ma was brought up dlffereajV
and it's tough, I do declare,
To see her learning the girls' ways Bess)
she has got gray hair!
Ma always took to writing, and her hands
write's been my joy,
Since ever we was boy and girl way out bj
Illinois.
When we was children long ago oat to
that prairie school
(Run in the good old-fashioned way wttfc
rod and dunce's stool)
She used to write her name and mine, and
link 'em like our fate,
Before she learned the capitals, upon hat
little slate.
And after we grew up and I went off ta.
war, how sweet
The letters that I used to get in her hand.
write, small and neat.
She used to call me "noble," and a "here.
of the land."
And say she'd always love me, in a Sm
Spencerlan hand!
And once she wrote some poetry, real
poetry, with rhymes,
I've got it yet, you just can bet about th
old war times;
It's in her prettiest running hand not all
sprawled out and straight,
Like that confounded "angular" shs'i
taken to of late.
I s'pose I'm an old fogy, but I declare to
day
There's scarcely any sum you'd name 1
wouldn't gladly pay
If we hadn't got so stylish and moved hers
to New York,
Where you have to eat each kind of food.
with a different kind of fork;
If we still lived where we used to lira
(Lord, how the bob'Iinks sung!)
If my wife would write as she used ta
write, when she and I was younft
Boston Transcript.
Modern Learned Maiden.
"Where are you going, my pretty maldr
"To Vassar College, sir," she said,
"Sir," she said,
"Sir," she said,
"To Vassar College, sir," she said,
"May I go with you, my pretty maid?"
" 'Tis a female college, sir," she said.
"How can one enter, my pretty maid?"
"Solely by intellect, sir," she said.
"What will you do then, my pretty maid?
"Take an A. B. If I can," she said.
"Then won't you marry nic, my pretty
maid ?"
"Nay, we'll be bachelors, sir," she said.
"What will you do then, my pretty maid?"
"I shall be Master of Arts," she said.
"Then won't you marry me, my pretty
maid?"
"Y'ou would be master of me," she said,
"What will you do then, my pretty maid?"
"Try for a Ph. D., sir," she said.
"Then I won't marry you, my pretty
maid."
"Nobody asked you, sir," she said,
"Sir," she said,
"Sir," she said,
"Nobody asked you, sir," she aid.
Courier Journal.
Playthings.
"Back to your playthings, child," my
father says;
"I cannot tell you now."
Thi when I come to him on long daB
days,
To ask him "Why?" and "How?"
And other things that surely I ghouls'
know
"What brought me here?" and "Must I
some day go?"
"Whither, and why?" They all perplei
me so!
Ah, precious playthings, who shall hol4
you light?
Y'ou keep my eyes from tears,
My empty bands from trembling; this my
kite,
That windward wheels and veers
Fortune I call it, and this merry ball
I Pleasure, and, the dearest of them all,
Thi Idol broken; once I let it fall.
Then come some careless hand an4
sweeps away
My toys, and while I weep,
An ache is in my heart that such as they
Had never stilled to sleep
Its claaiqrous questionings, that will not
'Row
To his denial, nor my silence-vow;
"I have no toys. Ah, tell me, tell me now"
Iouise Rett Edwards in Scrlbner's.
Kvery time same men take a rhew ot
tol-acco, tuelr wives have something ta)
aay about alo.
