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ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.

"Lieutenant Asquith's first thought is for the comfort and feeding
of his mary ..."--_Daily Record._

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From an ante-War advertisement:--

"HOLIDAY COURSES IN GERMAN, KAISERSLAUTEN, RHENISH PALATINATE.

Lectures under the auspices of the International Peace
Association.--Aug. 3 to Aug. 29."

This course of pacific lectures has had to be postponed, but it is hoped
that it may be given by the end of next summer under the auspices of the
Allies in Berlin.

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Illustration: A PLAIN DUTY.

BRITANNIA (_to Holland_). "MY RESOURCES AND MY OBLIGATIONS ARE GREATER
THAN YOURS; LET THIS SERVICE FALL UPON ME."

[The number of Belgian refugees in Holland is probably ten times as
great as the number in England.]

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Illustration: "WELL, WILLIAM, HEARD ANYTHING OF YOUR SON?"

"NO, MISS; BUT THEY'LL SEND 'E TO THE FRONT RIGHT AWAY. 'E BE JUST THE
MAN THEY BE WANTIN' THERE."

"I'M SURE HE IS. BUT WHY DO YOU THINK HE WILL GO STRAIGHT TO THE FRONT?"

"WHY, YOU SEE, MISS, 'E'LL BE ABLE TO SHOW 'EM THE WAY ABOUT. 'E WAS AT
THE BOER WAR, AN' KNOWS ALL THEM FURRIN' PARTS."

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THE REAL REASON.

Mr. Arthur Grayson, recently returned from Bad Nauheim, brings an
interview with His Excellency Herr VON BODE, which he obtained under
curious circumstances. It seems that the famous Director of the Kaiser
Friedrich Museum in Berlin, and for long the ultimate arbiter of taste
in Germany, wishing to send a message to the American people, wrote to
an American journalist, also, as it chanced, named Grayson, and also a
resident in the other Grayson's hotel, making an appointment. But the
American Grayson had then gone, and the English Grayson having opened
his letter by mistake, and being not unwilling to see Berlin for himself
during war-time, carried the missive to the capital, met the illustrious
virtuoso and received the confidences intended for the instruction of
New York and Washington, correcting their preposterous view of the
German origin of the war.

We now give Mr. Grayson's words: "'To make you understand the situation
clearly,' said Herr VON BODE, 'we must go back a little into history.
Some years ago I was offered by an English dealer a wax bust of Flora,
which I saw in a moment was by LEONARDO D