he other side sit silent, save
when especial circumstances elicit responsive bout of ironical cheering.
To-day's demonstration afforded striking recognition of genuine merit
modestly displayed.

Ever a difficult thing for young Member to be son of distinguished
father also seated in the House. Position to be sustained only by
exercise of qualities of mind and manner rarely combined. Whilst his
father yet enthralled attention and admiration of House by supreme
capacity SON AUSTEN successfully faced the ordeal. After DON JOSE'S
withdrawal from the scene his son's advance to a leading place in the
councils of his party and the estimation of the House was rapid. Within
limits of present Session he has shown increased power as a debater,
promising attainment of still loftier heights. Ever courteous in manner,
untainted by the "new style" deplored by PREMIER, he, though an
uncompromising party man, has made no personal enemies among any section
of his political opponents.

_Business done._--House of Lords threw out Plural Voters Bill on second
time of asking. Commons still in Committee on Budget.

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Illustration: A REVOLTING TASK.

THE WAITER'S EARLY-MORNING JOB.

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"Hearne and Mead, the not-outs of Monday, were separated at 80,
their partnership having yielded 441 in forty-five minutes."

_Daily Mail._

The spectators, we suppose, could stand the strain no longer.

* * * * *

DIPLOMACY.

(_Yawning, though rude, is, according to the doctors, an extremely
healthy exercise._)

I have a friend who wrote a book
And begged me to peruse it,
And bluntly state the view I took--
Encourage or abuse it.
I want, he said, the truth alone,
But said it in a hopeful tone.

Perceiving there was no escape,
With Chapter I. I led off;
Page 2 provoked my earliest gape,
At 3 I yawned my head off,
At 4 I cast the thing away
Unto some dim and distant day.

For weeks I racked my harassed brain
For something kind and ruthful,
To spare his feelings and remain
Comparatively truthful
(I'm very often troubled by
My inability to lie).

"Dear Charles," I wrote him in the end,
"I fear no contradiction
When I declare that you have penned
A healthy work of fiction.
I am, I candidly admit,
A so