THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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For I know it brings a letter, o'er the 



South Pacific's foam. 

 From the girl that sings supraner in our 



meet'n' house at home. 



MILE A MINUTE SNUB. 

 We worked for Bill McKinley, and we 



hustled for him fair; 

 We argued and we quarreled till he landed 



in the chair; 

 We pointed out the future; 'twould be 



glorious and grand 

 If folks would only recognize that he could 



save the land ; 

 But when he got to Bowersville upon this 



western trip 



His train slid by our station 

 At a 



mile a minute 



clip. 

 Why, when we read the papers how he 



planned to come this way 

 We bought a bunch of banners and got 



ready for the day ; 

 We put flags on the deepo and put up a 



speaker's stand 



And bought a lot of musie for the .Bowers- 

 ville brass band. 



And when the engines whistled we pre- 

 pared to let 'er rip, 

 But the train went by us people 

 At a 



mile a minute 



clip. 

 W T e're done with Bill McKinley. He's a 



emperor that's what 

 To pass the men that made him like they 



wasn't on the spot ! 

 Yes. sir. He's lost his chances when they 



was within his reach. 

 We've got some unused fireworks and 



I had prepared a speech 

 A few short words of welcome, but McKin- 

 ley got too flip 



When he rattled by our station 

 At a 



mile a minute 



clip. 



ABOUT EXCHANGES 



SCRIBNER'S. 



For July contains a "Tour in Sicily," by 

 Bufus B. Richardson; "Parkman at Lake 

 George," Francis Parkman ; "Uncle David," 

 by LeEey Milton Yale; "Krag, the Koote- 

 nay Earn," Part II, by Ernest Seton- 

 Thompson, author of ''Wild Animals I 

 have Known"; "When Gitchigamme 

 warned the Muscovite," by Sewell Ford ; 

 "Some Famous Orators I have Heard," by 

 George F. Hoar; "Passages from a Diary 

 in the Pacific Tahiti," John La Farge; 

 "The Delta Country of Alaska," G. R. 

 Putnam; "Homesick," Julia C. R Dore; 

 "The Diary of a Goose Girl Chaps. IX.- 

 XI," by Kate Douglas Wiggin ; "Matthew 

 Arnold," by W. C. Brownell ; "Dawn at 

 Venice," by Martha Gilbert Dickinson; 

 "The Field of Art," Daumier to Forain. 

 LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 



Seldom has a better chance for "stay-at- 

 home traveling" been offered than in the 

 Ladies Home .Journal for July. From 

 West Point, as pictured by George Gibbs 

 on the cover, readers may go with W. L. 

 Taylor to see "A Busy Boston Street at 

 High Noon;" next try "Goin' Fishin' with 

 Joe Jefferson" in Florida; then travel out 

 West with Ernest Seton -Thompson to see 

 "The Mother Teal and the Overland 

 Route" ; next go along the Atlantic coast 

 to find out how the places "Where our 

 Country Began" look to-day; then seek 

 Northern Michigan to hear "The Story of 

 a Maple Tree," by William Davenport 

 Hulbert ; next visit an Eastern magazine 

 editor's office and enjoy the good-humored 

 raillery of "The Case Against the Editor," 

 by Edward Bok; and finally see what 

 "The Country of Sheridan's Ride" looks 

 like nowadays. There are many other 

 articles of equal interest on various sub- 

 jects. 



SATURDAY EVENING POST. 



Twenty-five years ago, when "Elbow 

 Room" and "Out of the Hurly-Burly" 

 were the successes of the day, Max Adeler 



