l verity!" interrupted Fatfloat. "They were
beaten as flat as a field of turnips! And it was in high good time,
too. Had Tammany retained the city, before 1904 the outlaws would have
stolen everything but the back fence."

"They did not keep the city, however," continued Enfield, "and being
defeated, Mr. Croker developed with much speed an eagerness for
England. I do not blame him; while outwardly respectful, the leading
folk of his circle were cheerless and cold, for to be beaten is to be
hated in Tammany Hall. And so he made pretense of abdication and Mr.
Nixon appeared in his place. The sequel of that ill-fortuned
substitution is known.

"Mr. Croker will continue still to hold what Tammany territory he may.
He has money interests to protect. And yet, strive and plot and battle
as best he can, it is too late. His day is over and his power lost. He
will win such consideration and no more, as Mr. Carroll and the
others grant.

"It is to be doubted if Mr. Croker realizes how prone and dead he is.
One knows when one is wounded, but one knows not when one is killed.
Some near day, or some far day, Mr. Croker will seek to return. Then,
and not until that time, will he comprehend the palsy that has
stricken his supremacy. Mr. Croker will return only to be denied. And
that, too, will be as it should; for even a Napoleon comes back but
once to France."

=No Time Like To-Day=

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.

--Robert Herrick.

=As You Like It=

Who Loves a Lord?

The London newspapers give one the impression that a number of English
people will attend the coronation ceremonies. It is evident that the
editors of these newspapers do not read journals which are printed in
New York and other American centers.

* * * * *

Killing for Futurity

When Balmascheff, who shot and killed M. Sipiaguine, Russia's Minister
of the Interior, was asked if he had accomplices he replied: "So many
that it is impossible to name them." He also said that he nor they
expected grace or mercy; that he and they worked for those who came
after. Some will call this the raving of an anarchist. But these know
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