STEPHEN G. FREEMAN & GO.

Freedom

Men ! Whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

If ye do not feel the chain

When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves, indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?

Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt?

No ! True freedom is to share

All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse.

Rather than in silence shrink

For the truth they needs must think: They are slaves who dare not be In the right with

How To Succeed

Lower.

There lvas once a destitute concert violinist who lived in poverty in a tenement. Every day he'd watch in disgust while a roaming musician stopped and fiddled-very badly -outside the tenement windows. As he sawed away, windows would open, and the tenants would shower him with wads of money.

Finally the concert violinist got so desperate he decided to try it himself. lle rendered a magnificent selection of his most brilliant and difficult tunes, but collected o,nly a few cents. Bewildered, he stopped his inferior competitor next 'day, and asked how come?

It's easy to'explain," said the other amiably. "You also got to be a bookmiker."

Mcn, and Ncture

Man is incomprehensible without nature, and Nature is incomprehensible without man. For the delicate lovliness of the flower is.as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals, and the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory, as in the shining of countless worlds.-H. W. Mabie.

No Necromancy

"How many kegs of beer do you sell over this bar?'i asked the beer-drinking custorher.

"About thirty kegs a week, on the avetagc," the bartender replied.

S4id the customer, "I've figured out a waf that will sell twice that number. Would you be interested in my plan?"

"I certainly would," said the bartender. "Tell me how?"

Said the customer, "Fill up the glasses."

A Court Hecring?

The judge was quite deaf, and so were the two men who were appearing before him. One of them said:

"Judge, this man owes me a gfocery bill amounting to twenty dollars, and he refuses to pay it."

The second man jumped to his feet, and shouted, "That's a lie ! My dog did not bite him."

The judge said, "Gentlemen, after hearing your remarks, I think I understand just how you both feel, and yet, I see no reason why you should not combine to suPport your aged mother."

Couldn't Disprove Thct One

The bright boy w'as trying hard for a peffect examination paper, and was getting along perfectly until the fol' lowing question came along:

"State the number bf tons of steel shipped out of the United States in any given year."

Desperately, he wrote, "2,000 B.Q.-11qns."

Priest or Soldier?

'Quoth a little red jackal, famishing, "Lo, Yonder a priest and a soldier go; You can see farthest, and you ought to know, Which shall I wander with, carrion crow?

The crow ctwed back at him, ",Ignorant beast ! Soldiers get glory, but none of the feast; Soldiers work hardqst, and snaffle the leastTake my advice on it-follow the priest !" -Talbot MundY.

Love

' Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening star. It shines upon the cradle'" of the babe, and sheds its. radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and phi-losopher. It is the air,and light of everf heart, builddr of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with : melody, for Music is the voice of Love.-Ingersoll.