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OR forty tedious days drawn out, FOR Thou most perverse of misses (Your sacrifice you say it was), You've kept from me your kisses. And now you come with lips held up To mine-your penance overYou'd have me leave the arid sands And dwell once more in clover. But has it been an arid sand For me while you've been fasting? Dear me, so far as I'm concerned, Your penance can be lasting. Sahara was too much for me, It had too dry a basis, And while you fasted, dear, I found A dimpled, sweet, oasis. AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY. He: How FEW PEOPLE THERE ARE HERE, AND YET AMERICANS ARE FOND OF ART. She: THAT'S WHY. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying at this office. Single copies of Vols. I. and II. out of print. Vol. I., bound, $30.00; Vol. II., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 25 cents per copy. Vols. III. to XVI., inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per volume. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. LIEUTENANT TOTTEN has the courage of his convictions, and continues to maintain that his predictions have come true, and that all mundane concerns are in the actual process of settlement. Judgment, he says, is to be a progressive matter and will take seven years, which makes the ultimate smash due in 1899. Precedent is against the Lieutenant, for many men before him have figured out the collapse of Earth, and it is here still. There is good reason to believe, though, that it will flare up some day, and whenever it does every one except the cranks will be caught napping. It is in favor of Totten's theory that the times are so marvellously progressive that it seems reasonable to expect them to arrive somewhere before the end of the century. THE PEED has been beaten in Central SPEEL Park, but it triumphs in Philadelphia. The Quakers may not like the trolley, but it will do them good. There has been only one American city that needed to be taught to "step lively." Now that city is going to learn. HE Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has accomplished a noble work. New York is rarely shocked nowadays by cruelties to dumb brutes which were formerly of every day occurrence. Henry Bergh had many hard fights and the public was quick to recognize how much he and his society deserved at its hands. The reward has been generous. Gifts and bequests have placed the society in an enviable position financially. It has men and means at its command to accomplish anything that lies within its province. There is a suspicion, however, that as the Society has grown rich it has also grown fat and lazy. This suspicion may be and probably is unfounded. An excellent way, however, for the Society to show that it is still at work would be for it to publish the statistics of the number of disabled and under-fed horses at work on the Fifth avenue stages. THE HE only redeeming feature of the proposed free silver is that it will make the pensioners take a dollar that is worth only sixty-nine cents instead of a dollar that is worth one hundred cents. If the present and future appropriations for pensions could be paid off on that basis, it would be a pleasure to every one except the pensioners and the Republican party, which pays pensions for votes. There seems to be no real reason why the free silver fiends and the pension fiends should not come together. If they would do this and leave the rest of us alone, the separation would be quite as gladly welcomed by us as by them. |