aid the Idiot. "But expensive. I'd
hate to pay a milliner's bill for a Mormon household--but anyhow we
needn't grow acrimonious over the subject, for whatever I may think of
matrimony as she exists to-day, all the injustices, inequalities,
miseries of it, and all that, I prefer it to acrimony, and I haven't the
slightest idea that my dream of perfect conditions will ever be
realized. Only, Mary--"

"Yessir?" said the Maid.

"If between this and the first of January, 1905, any young ladies, or
old ones either, call here and ask for me--"

"Yessir," said the Maid.

"Tell 'em I've gone to Nidjni-Novgorod and am not expected back for
eleven years," said the Idiot. "I'm not going to take any chances."

COMPLETE INDEX

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED BY AUTHORS

ADAMS, CHARLES FOLLEN
Bary Jade, To, 1899
Der Oak und der Vine, 1823
Shonny Schwartz, 1206
Yawcob Strauss, 370

ADE, GEORGE
Hon. Ransom Peabody, 1429

ADELER, MAX (see CHARLES HEBER CLARK)

ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY
Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog, 403

ALLEN, NINA R.
Women and Bargains, 1352

AMSBARY, WALLACE BRUCE
Anatole Dubois at de Horse Show, 152
De Gradual Commence, 1164
Oncl' Antoine on 'Change, 1891
Rubaiyat of Mathieu Lettellier, 1965
Tim Flanagan's Mistake, 1673
Verre Definite, 1183

ANONYMOUS
Book-Canvasser, The, 1113
Country School, The, 1734
Merchant and the Book-Agent, The, 1124

APPLETON, JACK
Modern Farmer, The, 1083

ARP, BILL (see CHARLES H. SMITH)

BAGBY, GEORGE W.
How "Ruby" Played, 311

BAILEY, JAMES MONTGOMERY ("The Danbury News Man")
After the Funeral, 1146
Mr. Stiver's Horse, 464

BALDWIN, JOSEPH G.
Assault and Battery, 1391

BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK
By Bay and Sea, 1367
Genial Idiot Discusses Leap Year, The, 2018
Genial Idiot Discusses the Music Cure, The, 1105
Genial Idiot Suggests a Comic Opera, The, 504
Gentle Art of Boosting, The, 1575
University Intelligence Office, The, 1727

BATCHELDER, FRANK ROE
Happy Land, The, 1389
Wicked Zebra, The, 1322

BAXTER, BILLY (see WILLIAM J. KOUNTZ, JR.)

BECKER, CHARLOTTE
Modern Advantage, A, 642

BEDOTT, WIDOW (see FRANCES M. WHICHER)

BEECHER, HENRY WARD
Deacon's Trout, The, 212
Organ, The, 217

BELDEN, J. V. Z.
A Committee from Kelly's, 929

BILLINGS, JOSH (see HENRY W. SHAW)

BOY