of starting a Subscriptions' Department, to which you could write a
refusal of any application for money, even if you have to subscribe in
the end. It will give a man a pleasant glow to write to a clergyman, for
instance (I shall keep a dozen or so on the premises), and say he'll be
immortally jiggered if he'll subscribe to the Church Building Fund. But
the anonymous letter business will always be my chief source of profit.
Here's our prospectus, with all details. If you think any more of it
perhaps you'll let me know. I get out here. Good-bye."

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[Illustration: _Kaiser (reading English news of wood-pulp
restrictions)._ "HIMMEL! THEY'LL THINK MORE THAN EVER OF THEIR PRECIOUS
'SCRAPS OF PAPER'!"]

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Kipling Revised.

"Men of all castes had rallied to the Flag, and truly we had
witnessed the truth of what the poet told us. 'The East is West
and the West is East.'" _Surrey Mirror._

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"Alfred Billinger and Albert Robson, miners ... were fined 20s.
each for trespassing in search of fame." _Provincial Paper._

Well, now they've got it.

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"In the Metropolitan Police District the employment of special
constables has resulted in a saving of five-eighths of a
penny."--_Yorkshire Evening Post._

Very disappointing! Not even a whole copper.

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From the report of a Dairyman's Association:--

"It further aims at insuring that the milk-supply for the city
and district shall, like Caesar's wife, be beyond suspicion, and
it therefore enjoins on its members the necessity for taking
every possible care that the sanitary conditions prevailing at
the farms, in the dairies and during the transit of the milk to
the public shall leave nothing to be desired. In short, its
motto is, in these respects, '_Nilus secundus_'."--_Hampshire
Chronicle._

If they must use water in their milk we are glad to think that the Nile
is only their second choice.

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"The Sunday schools must try to 'wangle'--that was, a project
their in-to 'wangle'--that was, to project their in-enlarged
task, and attempt to do what seemed impossible."--_Provincial
Paper._

We would not go so far as to say impossible, but they certainly se