THE lEhlGAIWN AGE. 



With a hundred dollar income and a 



thousand dollar taste. 

 Roy Farrell Greene, in American Agri- 

 culturist. 



"I WISH'T I'D TOLD." 



"Now, Tommy, dear Tommy, don't tell," 



said she. 



"Come, say Tommy- boy, that you won't. '' 

 "And there's something down town mighty 



swell," said he, 



"And it's yours, little man, if you don't." 

 (But I wish't I'd told!) 



For she, you must know, is my sister Kate, 



And the prettiest ever you see; 

 And she hadn't kissed folks at our garden 



gate, 



Nor at anywhere else, 'cept to me. 

 (And I wish't I'd told !) 



Then that Elihu came. Pretty soon he 



began 



To come every night, an' he'd stay, 

 An' keep sayin' to me, "Go to bed, little 



man, 



And you'll see what I'll bring you some 

 day." 



(Humph ! I wish't I'd told!) 



Days they'd snoop off an' leave me with 



nothing to do, 



But I tagged them one time to the gate, 

 And that's when it happened, she said, 



"Elihu!" 



An' he said, "My own little Kate!" 

 (I saw, an' I wish't I'd told!) 



O then it was, "Tommy, don't tell," said 



she, 



"Now promise me true that you won't.'' 

 "And there's .something djwn town mighty 



swell," said he, 



"And it's yours, dear old chap, if you 

 don't." 

 (But I wish't ['d told!) 



Then he gave me a knife, and a kite, and 



a play, 

 And a goat, and a dollar in gold. 



Now Pa's give him my Katie, to take her 



away, 

 And he wouldn't, perhaps, if I'd told! 



(0 dear! How I wish't I'd told!) 

 Charlotte Whitcomb in Orange Judd 

 Farmer. 



WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 



SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. 



Scribner's for November contains an ar- 

 ticle by Nelson Lloyd, entitled "Among 

 the Bunkers." A continued article, by 

 F. Hopkinon Smith, begins in this num- 

 ber. A second paper, by 'I heodore Roose- 

 velt, entitled "With the Conger Hameds." 

 "Without Law or Licence," by Sewell' 

 Fordi Continuation of ''The Pines of 

 Lory," by J. A. Mitchell. The third 

 paper, by Francis V. Greene, of ''The 

 United States Army." : 'Marquis Ito," 

 by Frederick Palmer, and "Russia of To- 

 day/' by Henry Norman, M. D. 

 LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 



The Thanksgiving number of The La- 

 dies' Home Journal is replete with good 

 fiction and interesting and novel features. 

 It opens appropriately with an article 

 which tells "Where the President's Tur- 

 key Comes From." Then there are de- 

 lightful stories by Hezekiah Butterworth 

 and Laura Spencer Porter, and a new love 

 story called "Christine," by Frtderick M. 

 Smith. Cleveland Moffett has an inter- 

 esting story ahout Ira D. Sankv, the 

 great evangelist, and Edith King Swain 

 recounts the famous ascents she has made 

 in various parts of the world. Will Brad- 

 ley's original designs for a house begin; 

 with the breakfast room, and Wilson 

 Eyre, Jr., preaents plans for a country- 

 house arid a garden. Mr. Bok gives much 

 good advice to young married C"uples in 

 his editorial. Another most tiniels feat- 

 ure is "Why Should a Young Man Sup- 

 port the Church?" by the Rev. Francis E. 

 Clark. Many home-made Christmas gifts 

 are shown, and the first of "The Journal'* 

 Amusing Puzzles appear. The regular 



