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With postal cards and slot machines of many different sorts 

 And fancy nobby furnishings to meet the needs of sports ; 

 Some envelopes and postage stamps, paints and brushes too 

 And riddle strings and guessing 1 bouts, cameras and glue. 

 A waiting room and magazines, a public telephone 

 And blanks for money orders and the latest books to loan. 

 Directory for the city, and tickets for the show. 

 An agency for tailors and the Borax Laundry Co. 

 That ought to draw them hither, but it isn't any more 

 Than what is always requisite to stock a druggist's store. 

 But, Great Unguentum Zinci, with that diploma there 

 I s'pose I ought to have some, the back-room T might spare, 

 I do just hate a side-line, but "here his shoulder shrugs: 

 Tt might be just as well, perhaps, — to have a line of drugs." 



—Puck. 



A Western bookseller wrote to a house in Chicago asking that a 

 dozen copies of Canon Farrar's "Seekers After Cod" be shipped 

 to him at once. Within two days he received this reply by telegraph : 



"No seekers after Cod in Chicago or Xew York. Try Philadelphia." 

 — Everybody's Magazine. 



We accomplish more by prudence than by force.— Tacitus. 



Cold is less precious than virtue. — Selected. 



Doing to-day's duty and meeting to-day's emergency is what 

 makes history. — Selected. 



To him that wills, the way is seldom wanting. — Selected. 



The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his 

 settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow-citizens, 

 or by the threats of an imperious tyrant. — Selected. 



1 fe that would know what shall be, must consider what hath 

 been. — Selected. 



He who wants content cannot find an easy chair. — Selected. 



It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — A Proverb. 



