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A dozen or k spaper men were | ecllected together, when somebody said something about Rudyard Kipling.

‘‘I notice in the papers,’’ said az- other, ‘‘that he is the best paid writer in the world at present.’”’

‘*‘The Pall Mall Gazette people say | they paid him $750 a poem for all they printed of bis,’’ ventured a third.

*‘And why not?’’ put in a fourth. *‘He is the best writer of English prose or verse now writing. That one line of his, ‘A rag and a bone and a hank of hair,’ describing a vampire woman, couldn't be stronger, I think.’’

**Good and strong,’’ commented a fifth, ‘‘but Kipling is not the only man who has chosen monosyllables to give emphatic expression to his thought. If you will remeniber, Pope in his essay on ‘Criticism’ remarked, ‘And ten low words off creep in one dull line,’ and before and after him there were others, who, as he, were scarcely dull and sel- dom crept. Hymn writers are strong in this. Take Watts in that well known hymn, for instance:

“Are there no foes for me to face? siust I not stem the flood ?

Is this vile world a friend to grace To help me on to God?

**‘Shakespeare found one syllabled words good enough for him, and you all know that passage of Young’s:

“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, Save by its loss, eto.

**Bailey’s ‘Festus,’ that makes its reader feel as if he had ‘eaten of the in- sane root that takes the reason prisoner,’ has many examples, and this one you will recall:

**We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths.

We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

** And the Bible, the greatest of books, is filed with the short words. Right at the beginning of things we find, ‘And God said let there be light, and there was light,’ and at the end of things, so to speak, ‘For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?’ and still further along, ‘And the gates of it shal] not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there.’

‘Oh, Kipling is all right! He knows he has plenty of authority for seeking short words when he wants strong ones.’’— Washington Star.

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Ata meeting of the Worcester Anti- quarian society Senator Hoar said that when he was a boy in Worcester a cate- chism was in use of which tke follow- ing is a sample:

Where is hel!?

Under the earth—a place of darkness.

Who live in hell?

The devil, his angels and bad men.

What do they do in hell?

They curse God and sin coptinua'ly.

Do you ceserve to go to hell?

I do.

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Three negroes not long ago made a bet among themselves that each could name a supper that would be better than the others could name. They put up $i apiece, and the one that named the dishes that would constitute the best supper should take the $3. They drew straws as to which ones should be the first and the last to make up the menu for the imaginary meal. The first man said he couldn’t think of anything bet- ter than greens boiled with hog jowL For side dishes he would take corn bread, souse, black eyed peas, and wesh them down with buttermilk. The other two smacked their lips.

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‘““W’y, youse niggers don’t know what’s good,’’ said he. ‘‘Tell me, fools, what’s better’n possum baked wid sweet *tatehs scattered all roun it, swimmin in de gravy? Hey? ’N den atter youse done nibbled at de bones tell they ain’t no more meat on ’em dere set de water millyon starin you in de face lik’. Hey?’ And with that he started to pick up the money.

‘*You leave dat money alone,’’ the other two yelledin chorus. ‘‘Wewarn’t bettin ag’in no sure thing.’’—Chicago Times- Herald.

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At a recent meeting of the British chamber of commerce in Paris E. J. Hemebryk, .ne of the vice presidents of the Liverpool chamber of commerce, made an interesting statement and sought the support of the Paris cham- ber in his endeavors to obtain accelera- tion in the delivery of telegrams in France. He said thawtelegraphing from Liverpool he could obtain a reply frem his New York house in three minutes, while from his house in Paris it took five hours. There were countries, like Austria, which were even worse, the time for a reply being sometimes as much as six or seven hours. There could be no greater condemnation of the pres- ent system than the practice which was commonly followed by Liverpool mer- chants. When they wanted to obtain a reply quickly from, say Havre, they would telegraph to Havre through their New York office, and they could thus obtain through New York a reply in half an hour which it would take them four or five hours to obtain direct. The blame could not be attached to the Eng- lish postoffice, for he had ascertained that, as a rule, a telegram handed in at any English office left the United King- dom within 15 minutes of being handed in. The Paris chamber agreed to give the subject its most earnest consideration, with a view to taking steps to obtain reform.—Paris Messenger.

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