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life is more than meat and the body is more than raiment." This 

 was declared by the great Master, hence it must be true. 



"I saw some handfuls of the 



Rose In blooni. 

 With bands of grass suspended 



From a dome. 

 I said, 'What means this 



Worthless grass, that It 

 Should iu the roses fairy 



Circle sit?' 



' 'Then wept the grass, and 



Said, be still! and know 

 The kind their old associates 



Ne'er forego. 

 Mine is no beauty, hue, or 



Fragrance, true! 

 But In the garden of my 



Lord I grew." 



BEN DAVIS' MARRIAGE TO A WESTERN BEAUTY. 



(Copyrighted 1903 by Ohas. A. Maxson.) 

 Read by Miss NellleJOochran, Boonville, Mo. 



Ben Davis was a Wealthy Mann. He was married to a West- 

 ern Beauty by the name of Caroline R. June in Early Harvest by a 

 Fameuse Dominie by the name of Gideon. They journeyed by 

 Horse to Lowell, where they were seen by a Northern Spy by the 

 name of Jonathan Baldwin, who was drunk on Smith's Cider and 

 who lives on the St. Lawrence, tributary to the Wolf River. He 

 was Stark mad and saw Stars in mid-day, which made the Maiden 

 Blush. An Arkansas Black Senator, Peter Longfield by name, a 

 perfect Paragon, was sitting on a Stump near a Smoke House eat- 

 ing a Golden Sweet Winter Banana that was Early Ripe, bought 

 at Cooper's Market. He saluted the Lady, who wore a Red Astra- 

 chan and carried on her arm a Mcintosh fit for a Bismark or even 

 a King, and upon her corsage she wore a Bellflower imported from 

 Ontario by a gentleman by the name of Rolfe Vandevere, who is 

 employed by the Duchess of Oldenburg, wife of Alexander Wag- 

 ener, Esq., nephew of the late Walter Pease, Primate of Lankford, 

 M^hose marriage to Lady Minkler, daughter of the York Imperial 

 and author of Ivanhoe, was such an Opalescent failure. We recall 

 that he borrowed money of a Wine Sap-ped Jew by the name of 

 Gravenstein, and Haas never paid it back and Swaars he never 

 will. 



This couple visited Pewaukee, stopping at Hotel Salome, where 



