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."tTF- T- rmgfjflmiGtfr?fi ifK&yoi?!rrwf,yi'v "wJ "i The Commoner. SEPTEMBER 18, 1910 15 Stephen Gywnn. Maunsel & Co., 96 Mid. Abbey St., Dublin, Ireland. The Durable Satisfactions of Life. By Charles W. Eliot, ex-president HarvaTd University. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & go., 426 West Broadway, Now York. Price $1.00 net; postage 10 cents. A Century of Drink Reform in the United States. By August F. Feh landt, Cincinnati. Jennings and Graham, New York; Eaton and Maintf, publishers. Gold Production and Future Prices. An inquiry into the In creased production of gold and other causes of prico changes with a view to determining the future of prices. By Harrison H. Brace, LL. M. The Bankers Publishing Co. Letters to His Holiness, Pope Pius X. By a Modernist. The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, III. Prico $1.25. Golden Rod and Lilies. By Rob- ert Warren Gilbert. Richard G. Badger, Publisher, Boston, Mass. Social Insurance. A program of social reform. By Henry Rogers Seager, professor of political econ omy in Columbia University. The Macmillan Company, Publishers, New York. Price $1.00 net. Letters From the Teacher (of the Order of tho 15) Transmitted by Rahmea:, Priestess of tho Flame. Edited by F. Homer Curtiss, B. S., M. D., secretary of the order. Pub lished by the Curtiss Book Company, Denver, Colo. Cloth, $1.10, post paid. Napoleon's Brothers. By A. Hil liard Atteridge. Methuen & Co., London. Brentano's, New York. Price $4.00 net. College Days Essays. Reuben Alonzo Gibson, LL. B. Nixon-Jones Printing Co., St Louis, Mo. Price $1.00, postpaid. Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American. By Janet Jennings, Mc KTinley' -Place, Monroe, Wis. Cant well Printing Co , Madison, Wis. The White Bees and Other Poems. By Henry Van Dyke. Charles Scrib ner's Sons, New York. A Scientific Currency. By William Howo Crane, L. B. Broadway Pub lishing Co., 835 Broadway, New York. $1.00, postpaid. God, Man and Human Welfare. By Spinoza. Translated from tho Dutch by Lydia Gilllngham Robin son. The Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago, 111. Rhymes of Home. By Burges Johnson, Author of "Rhymes of Lit tle' Boys," etc. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. $1.00 net, post age, 10 cents.c A Life for a Life. By Robert Her rick. The Macmillan Company, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York. Price $1.50. stock. But when sho entered tho hall of sculpture, then she was more than startled. " 'Land!' she said. 'Land sakes!' "And with dubious shakos of tho head she passed before the white beauty of tho Venus do Medici, tho Apollo Belvidero, the Venus de MIlo, and the other gracious shapes of snowy marble. " 'Land sakes!' " 'Don't you like it, Malinda?' said her mistress. " 'Yes'm said Malinda. 'Ah likes it well enough, but All's powerful glad dar ain't none o' my color here.' " Washington Post. HETTY GREEN'S BASHFUL BOY Edward H. R. .Green, tho son of tho richest woman in the world, is a bachelor. "The reason why I am a bachelor," said Mr. Green to a reporter, "is. that I'm so big that I can't disguiso my self sufficiently to pose as a poor man. In my own person I'm afraid of being married for tho wrong reason. "I'm afraid lest, like tho lady with tho doughnuts, I may be tho victim of ulterior and Insulting motives. "The lady-1. refer to, after assist ing a tramp, received another visit an hour later from that same man. " 'Madam,' ho said, 'you gavo mo three doughnuts a while back. Would you mind adding another one, to mako it four?' " 'Gladly,' said the lady, all smiles, and she wrapped a doughnut in a newspaper and handed it to him. 'So you like my doughnuts, do you?' " 'No, madam, it Isn't that,' said the tramp; 'me and some friends down in the holler wants to have a game of quoits.' " St. Louis Republic. out tho sick, and ralso tho devil." Another ministerial friend of Washburn's, speaking to a congrega tion, remarked: "I am sorry to seo so many absent faces I usod to shako hands with." Boston Record. A MISUNDERSTANDING Census Taker What did you say your namo Is? Editor of tho Century R. U. Johnson. Census Taker What difference does it make whether I am Johnson or not? ' You'vo got to answer tho questions I ask or get arrested. What did you say your namo is? Sorner villo Journal. REASONABLE NOTICE REQUIRED Fire Chief John Conway, of Jersey City, has posted tho following printed notico on his desk at fire headquar ters: "All requests for leave of absenco owing 1o grandmother's funerals, lame back, house cleaning, moving, soro throat, headache, brainstorm, cousin's' weddings, general indisposi tion, etc., must bo handed to tho chief not later than 10 o'clock on tho morning of tho game." Metro politan Magazine. USELESS "I will go out with you," who nnld, "If you will promlso not to rock tho boat." "Never mind," ho sadly replied: "wo'll not go. If you think I'm fool enough to do that without being warned not to it will bo useless for mo to wasto any moro tlmo with you." Chicago Record-Herald. COLOUNIAL Mrs. Oldbluddc "I hear that you havo very fine colonial furniture In tho hoiiBo you havo rented." Mrs. Nowrlch "I don't know, ma'am, but wo'vo been to Cologne, and I never saw any Uko It there." Town Topics. HIGHER EDUCATION Gerald "I have never kissed a girl before." Gcraldinc "You havo come to tho wrong place; I'm not running a pre paratory school." Town Topics. PASTOR'S BAD EXAMPLE Tho intemperate citizen had prom ised the clergyman that he would that night take just another drink and come to service on the morrow. On Monday the clergyman chided the citizen for not having kept his word. "You promised me you'd take just another drink; see how many you've had since." "Yes," retorted the man, astutely, "yesterday morning you said, 'Now, just another, word,' and see how many' more you gave us after that." Widow. CAUSTIC TOWARD CRITICS Eugene Waiter, the playwright, said at a theatrical supper that he gavo in New York: "The critics have been unusually kind to all my plays, and I havo only praise for them. I can't share the view of my friend Blink, the vaude villo manager. "Blink's bill last week was handled very severely by the critics. I dropped in on him Tuesday morn ing as ho was reading his roasts. On my entranco ho looked- up from a theatrical page and said: " 'Nineteen roasts out of a possible nineteen. Walter, my boy, the aver ago New York critic's motto evident ly is: "Leave No Turn Un- stoned." ' " Washington Star. CAUSE AND EFFECT - A stanch teetotaler and enthusias tic fisherman had a good stretch of the Dee to fish in, and engaged the services of an experienced boatman. But night after night ho came back with empty creel, and at length de parted in disgust. When he was gone the boatman was approached and asked how it was that a fairly expert fisherman had such a run of ill luck. "A well," Baid the man, "he had nae whuskle; an' I took him where there was nae 'fush." Boston Traveller. WHY AUNT MALINDA REJOICED Booker T. Washington, head of the Tuskegee institute,' after a visit to tho Metropolitan museum in New York, told this story: "A Kentucky lady," he said, "visit ed the museum with her maid, an old fashioned mammy. "Malinda: had never seen an art gallery before, and the nudes startled her in a-way that would have en deared her to the heart of Mr. Com- HELPING HER OUT "Have you a young chicken? I am rather green at cooking." "Such being the case, madam, don't you think you'd better have an old, experienced fowl?" Courier-Journal. 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