The latest astronomical observa
tions indicate that Mars is among
the few places which have not gone
“dry” yet.
Now they cable over the news that
Kaiser Wilhelm is broke. Tom John
son will chortle at this announce
ment.
It will be observed that when the
shooting commenced President Cas
tro was elsewhere. Now, there is a
practical man.
That clergyman who thinks New
York will be a pagan city twenty
years from now is just twenty years
behindhand.
Dr. Lyman Abbott asks if anybody
can explain the mystery of life and
death. Nobody has yet, anyway, and
it has not been because of lack of
time, either.
Dr. Heidt that I am most agreeably
surprised to find that he is the father
of the sons whom I have known so
well and so favorably and who have
served their country so gallantly in
times of peril, when perhaps they dis
played as much bravery as did their
father when he wore the gray.”
It is not difficult to imagine the
well-spring of paternal pride which
gushed from the heart and reached to
the eyelids of the gentle man of God
upon hearing this golden encomium
from the great jurist who is soon to
be the president of the United States.
But the history of the whole Span
ish-American war bears eloquent tes
timony to the fact that Dr. Heidt is
only one among many thousands of ex-
Confederate veterans whose sons are
ready to follow the streaming stripes
and the blazing stars of Old. Glory
whenever the hour of national danger
shall sound the cry “to arms.” —The
Georgian.
An enterprising life insurance
agent might do a thriving business
with the jungle folk of Darkest Af
rica about this time.
