? The Scrap Book Wanting In Grit. At cme of the fashionable seaside resorts on a beautiful evening last summer a handsome couple promenaded the bench until thev werp tired and theD threw themselves ou the sand ^ to rest. The young woman watched the waves, while the young man toyed with the moonlit sand, tossing it from hand to band. "Reginald, dear, you puckered up your lips just then as if you were going to kiss me." 6aid the beautiful ture languorously us she glanced ier companion. Intended to." replied Reginald tatingly. "but I seem to have got some sand Id my mouth." "For heaven's sake, swallow It." exclaimed the young lady. "You need it badly in your system!" It Pays. It pays to wear a smiling face And laugh our troubles down. For all our little trials wait Our laughter or our frown. Beneath the magic of a smile Our doubts will fade away As melts the frost in early spring Beneath the sunny ray. It pays to make a worthy cause By making tt our own. To give the current of our lives A true and noble tone. It pays to comfort heavy hearts Oppressed with dull despair And leave In sorrow darkened lines A gleam of brightness there. ?Fannie E. Emmis. A Bridal Tour. At & fashionable wedding in a southern bWy the contracting parties were a wealthy widower and a handsome young lady, and a faithful old servant who bad llTed with the first wife all her married life was reporting the festivities confidentially the next morning to a neighbor. When she finished a fellow servant asked, 'is he going to take a bridal tour?" The old woman looked startled and then, glancing around to see that no i one was near, whispered. "Well. I V don't know ez be will take a bridle to her If she gets cantankerous, but he Tgure did take a strap to the other one." A Tragedy at the Parsonage. A present of a pair of chickens to a cot^try parsonage where there were a largd family ard a small Income was an event, and the youngest two children (who were usually put to bed with a simple meal> were promised a snare m tne ramuy treat; uui, uuiurtunately. two neighboring ministers ( dropped in. and the children's mother had to compromise with the little peo- | pie. A promise of candy pacihed them to wait until the older people were through. 'At the table the chicken was fast disappearing, when the door, which 1 had been suspiciously creaking for - some time, was Sang wide open. Two faces glared at the visitors, while two jtchildish voices shonted In unison: "Go ^ ahead; tbafs right! Eat it all up. bogs!" Wonderful. A German university doctor, desiring to see a bird catcher exercise his employment, accompanied him to the field. As soon as be saw the birds he hallooed in Latin: "There they are!" The birds took the alarm. The 1 sportsman, indignant at the absurdity ' of the professor, told him of it in very plain terms. "My good friend." exclaimed the doctor in great astonishment, "who would 1 have imagined that birds would under- ] stand Latin?' An Injustice. An order prohibiting gambling among the enlisted men detailed at the West Point Military academy caused, it 1 would appear, uqucd trouDie lor certain of the soldiers there. An old sergeant of a negro regiment who was | sent to tbe post suggested a game of craps soon after his arrival. Other soldiers told bim of tbe rale against gambling and refused to join in tbe game. "Dls yere ain't right." said tbe new arrival, "an' Ab'll see de cap'n 'bout it." Dpon being admitted to tbe commanding officer's room tbe ser geant said, with some show of beat: "Cap'n. Ab understand that gambiln' ain't 'lowed here no mo'." "That's correct," said tbe officer. "Well, dat's a injustice to enlisted men. sab. 'cause I's got a large family to suppo't" True Religion. True religion growB more and more anxious to declare that religion is not something foreign to humanity; that it is simply the fullest utterance of human life; that all human life which is not religious falls below itself.? Phillips Brooks. First Aid to Illiterates ( Uncle Joe Cannon bad an amusing experience with a waiter in a Kansas caty hotel during his last visit to that >&ty. Being in no mood to select his dinner, he had tossed aside, after a glance, the menu presented to him by bis waiter, saying: "Bring me a good dinner." Incidentally Uncle Joe slipped tbe pan a Dig tip m advance. This repast proving satisfactory, the speaker pursued the same plan during the remainder of his stay In Kansas City. As he was leaving the servitor remarked earnestly as he helped him on with his overcoat: "I beg your pardon, sir, but when you or ahy of your friends that can't read comb to Kansas City just ask for Tom." \ The Scrap Book ? Hi* Draw. A. cartoonist who had been married only a short while met some of his old time boon companions, who induced him to take a band In a little game of draw which kept him oat until the wee small hours. His excuse to bis wife when he got home was that a pressure of work kept him at the of? -*.?-? J UU Dee. HL8 wire sympainizeu wuu mui, and the next day. indignantly telling j a friend about how the office imposed upon her husband, said, "And 1 know that Fred really didn't want to stay in the old office and work last night." "Why. bow do you know?" asked the friend. "Because in his sleep Fred said. 'Well. I'll stay, but 1 don't know what to draw.'" Forgiveness. Now bury with the dead years conflicts dead. And with fresh dayr let aH begin anew. ' Why longer amid shriveled leaf drifts tread When buds are swelling, flower sheaths peeping through? Seen through the vista of the vanished years How trivial seem the straggle and the crown! How vain past feuds when reconciling tears Course down the channel worn by vanished frown! How few mean half the bitterness they speak! Words more than feelings keep as still apart. And in the heat of passion and of plqoe The tongue is far more cruel than the i heart. Since love alone makee It worth while to live Let all be now forgiven and forgive. ?Alfred Austin. Two Hits to 8pare. A baseball game was played In Topeka once between the married men 1 and the bachelors. A man named Flood came to bat | The pltcber put over a straight one. j and Flood knocked the ball over the fence. Instead of starting for first base Flood braced himself and stood stock still. "Run. you Idiot!" screamed the spectators. "Run! Why In blares don't yon run?" "Run?" calmly queried Flood. "What would I run for? I've got two more clouts at It!"?Saturday Evening Poet. Burn Your Own 8moks. The first lesson of life Is to burn our own smoke?that Is, not to Inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases. ?James Russell LowelL Town Booming Helps VI.?How Is Your Front ? A frontless man Is an "also ran," Bnt the man with the front, He gets there! The author of this poem is unknown. He wasn't strong on versification, but he was long on horse sense. He knew that the winners in life are THE ONES THAT PUT UP THE BEST FRONT. It's just the same with a town. IT MUST HAVE A FRONT. Everybody living in it or doing business in it should boost at all times and in every place. One of the best ways to boost is to boom your own business by EVERY KIND OF ADVERTISING v. THAT IS PROFITABLE. Other people will realise that yon are living in a live town and move in. We are doing what we can to put np a front for our town. 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