ur own.

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_THE PHILOSOPHY OF BALDNESS._

_One by one the hairs are graying,
One by one they blanch and fall;
Never stopping, never staying--
W. t. h. and d. i. all!_

_W. R._

* * *

A DEAD SHOT.

[From the Mt. Carmel, Ill., Republican.]

The Mount Carmel Gun club held its weekly shoot this afternoon, the
chief feature being the demonstration of expert marksmanship by Mr.
Killam of the Du Pont Powder Co.

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IT WOULD PUT 'EM ON THE STAGE.

Why does not some pianist give us a really popular recital programme?
Frezzample:

Moonlight Sonata.
The Harmonious Blacksmith.
Mendelssohn's Spring Song.

Old Favorites:

Recollections of Home.
Silvery Waves.
Monastery Bells.
Etincelles.
Waves of the Ocean.
Gottschalk's Last Hope.

Clayton's Grand March.
The Battle of Prague.
The Awakening of the Lion.

* * *

There is an encouraging growth of musical understanding and appreciation
in this country. Even now you hear very many people say, "I liked the
scherzo."

* * *

"He sat down in a vacant chair," relates a magazine fictionist. It is,
everything considered, the safest way. Much of the discord in the world
has been caused by gentlemen--and ladies as well--who sat down in chairs
already occupied.

* * *

A Kenwood pastor has resigned because some members of his flock thought
him too broad. The others, we venture, thought him too long.

* * *

"Prof. Hobbs Will Make Globe Trot"--Michigan Daily.

Giddap, old top!

Vacation Travels.

It is a great pleasure to be free, for a time, from the practice of
expressing opinion; free to read the newspapers with no thought of
commenting on the contents; free to glance at a few hectic headlines,
and then bite into a book that you have meant to get to for a long time
past, to read it slowly, without skipping, to read over an especially
well done page and to put the book aside and meditate on the moral which
it pointed, or left you to point. Unless obliged to, why should anybody
write when he can read instead? One's own opinions (hastily formed and
lacking even the graces of expression) are of small account; certainly
they are of less account than Mr. Mill's observations on Liberty, which
I have put down in order to pen a few longish p