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hoofs. He would even stop to kick at a convoy of prisoners who were marchYet I never ing past us on the road.

knew him to lift a leg to a French or American soldier, though he had plenty of chances."

An English weekly prints some "extraordinary questions" which ex-service men who wish to enter the civil service are asked in an examination paper. Here are samples:

Write here the name of the first drink in the following list, if it is only drink, but if it is not put a cross instead, and if it is, put an "E" under it. Underline whatever you have put. (The list was: House, bean, sugar, paraffin, coffee, milk, cheese.)

Re"Earth, the, the, warms sun." write these words so that the word that would be the middle word if it were rearranged so as to be true now comes last, remaining whilst the words are in the right order, but the one now first is spelt backwards.

"One of the official excuses for the list," is the comment, "is that such questions have been tried with success in America and on children." A compliment to both!

The Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity in New York City, says in the "Atlantic" that when he first came to New York he "by happy accident" ran into Edwin Markham, and that the poet sat down and wrote a quatrain for him summing up the preacher's faith, as follows:

No soul can be forever banned,
Eternally bereft;

Whoever falls from God's right hand
Is caught into his left.

The Japanese constable, or country policeman, is ever ready to act as guide, philosopher, and friend to the foreign traveler, so an article in the "National Geographic Magazine" says. For the policeman's guidance in dealing with the tourist the police department some years ago issued the following counsels:

"No criticisms should be made, either by gesture or words, regarding the language, attire, or actions of foreigners.

"If a foreigner pulls out his watch and looks at it, you should think that he has business elsewhere, and that it is time for you to leave.

"It is a mistake to suppose that a foreigner will always respond to a request for a loan of money."

A serio-comic testimony to the absorbing interest of the books of a popular novelist is found in the reports in the New York newspapers of the recent electrocution of a condemned man at Sing Sing. "During the afternoon," the report says, "he occupied himself reading one of Robert W. Chambers's novels. After dinner he returned to his book, reading as rapidly as possible so that he might find out how it ended before he was killed. He did not learn, but a guard who had read the book told him that it came out all right."

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Take again, as example, a small vi lage in central New York State. Th village before the coming of prohibitio was more or less distinguished for th amount of drunkenness and unpa bills which, taken together, sadly d tracted from the merits of an otherwis beautiful town. It is now, under prohi bition, a much more prosperous litt town, still maintaining its origina beauty, and with the added blessing a main street free from drunks. might add that they are seen occasio ally; but where it used to be ten quar of whisky to one phonograph record, on might be safe in saying it is now te phonograph records to one drink of concoction called whisky behind some body's door.

The writer has always used liquo moderately, and has seen its use an abuse, with all the attendant sufferin and unhappiness; has seen it lead clea characters into vice; and also on occa sion seen it change a dull evening int a decent and enjoyable one. He h seen it at its work in two-thirds of th States in our Union, and is not hyp critical enough to try and convince an one that there are not occasions whe he would like to fall back in somethin a little stronger than reminiscence; hu not being selfish, and believing tha after all, there are only a few of us wh really miss it, he says to .them and wi them: Let us be broad-minded regar ing this subject, acknowledge the go that the masses are deriving under p hibition at the present time, the great good our posterity will derive, and if who still look back upon the time wh we could, under the law, take our gla must suffer the deprivation for our f remaining years, let us be men a make the sacrifice. Live as well as ta morals, and back up prohibition in t knowledge of the good we know it doing. R. B. GOETSCHIS.

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