36 THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



authority than Henry W. Lucy, the well- Walter Appleton Clark continues his re- 

 known "Toby, M. P.," of London Punch. markable illustrations to the series. The 

 SCRIBNER'S. fiction of the number includes a story of a 

 John R. Spears' papers, "The Slave convict settlement, by Lloyd Osbourne, 

 trade in America," are concluded in the the ste P son of Stevenson; a New England 

 October number, with an account of the stor y b - v Arthur Coltori ' and the last in - 

 final suppression of the horrible traffic. Bailment but one of "Tommy and Grizel." 



A BIT OF PHILOSOPHY. 



What's the use o' lyin', cryin', sighin'? 

 What's the use o' fussin', mussin', cussin''? 

 Does the savages' complainin' 

 Stop the rattle o' the rainin'? 

 Does the tormentin' and teasin' 

 Make the winter quit a freezin'? 



Quit a blowin'? 



Quit a snowin'? 



Does the grumblin' and the groanin ; 

 Do a bit toward atonin' 

 For the miserable moanin' 



Through the trees'? 

 Does the scowlin' and the growlin 

 Stop the prowlin' and the howlin' 



O' the breeze? 



Won't the sunlight be the brighter 

 If we keep our faces lighter? 

 Don't the dreary days seern longer, 

 And the wailin' wind seem stronger, 



If one frets'? 



Make the best of all the weather, 

 Sing an' snrile an' hope together, 



Won't you? Let's ! 



Medical !* imes. 



