The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-03
NYE READS HIS NAIL.
6 [Copyright, 1893, by EdCar ". Nye,1

NYE READS HIS NAIL.
-toric times. Could you tell me if sponges
are or are not divided as to sex, as are
most of the lower aswell as higher order
of lifey'
Yes, the question lis really considered
settled by late authorities, though ut first
In grave doubt. Even mollusksare, many
of them, now so divided.
1tisa wonderful.study, Napoleon, the
relation of the sexes, for instance, in the
public.schools of Spanish mackerel and
the communities of gasteropods, and the
various types of conchifers.
Who would think that away down in
the bottom of the sea, where the bones
OF dead men lie covered with moss and
the treasures that 1T has taken thousands
OF years to accumulate upon the face of
the earth lie forgotten in the back yard
of apolyp or echinoderm, 1.-The line is close
ly drawn, and the little sponges. some
OF them. are playing circus and pirates.
while the others construct plavhouses
and carry dolls, while ut the head of the
school we may find a large carriage
sponge as tutor, who tutcs in summer
and boards around sponging on her rela-
tives i'll winter? All these are divided into
two great classes, like the higher order
of vertebrates
Is it not remarkable. Napoleon, that
the sponge should love and be loved at
the bottom of the deep deep sea? Do
you not wonder as You think that in the
'f.hoW.wladow of the druggist there are
fragments of broken hearts and envy
and jealousy and unrequited love:
Away down in the bottom of the sea.
where the Atlantic cable and McCiinty
lie together, sponge yaearns for sponge
: with II great big yearn that distance and
damp weather cannot destroy.
/ once knew IL little gniet sponge that
had no parents living. and she was given
to introspection and absorbed knowledge
or anything else that came along. and
She grow to he very beautiful. with blond
tresses and features ei@ugh fora Sunday
paper.
She grew up under tie eye of an uncle
WHO Ibid not care for hcy and who carved
IN such a way as to give her the salty
and disagreeable end of the Joint. and in
other ways he was unpopular her.
She loved large tan sponge with
liquid eyes who sat near her on a rock
the livelong day for 80 years, like an arts
tocrat He spoke of his dove to the cruel
old uncle, but he told hisn to 20 and soak
his head
And SO while they suffered on, hoping
for merciful death to come and carry
OF the old gent, she was one day torn
from the rock Oh which she had SO long
been seated that she seemed rooted to
the spot, and now far away, where even
the murmur of the sea is never heard.
She is the top of sonr and unhappy
mucilage bottle on the desl, Of IL man
who uses grammar that he has learned
by ear and who gesticulates with his
tongue while he writes and contributes
the literature that is marked .'Comlnu-
nicated.''
Yes, Napoleon, even into all sponge
life some rain must fall.
Mortimer G. Tidd, Erin Prairie. Wis.
writes: II am a constant reader and n
young man of "a years old. was en-
couraged by what you have said to sort
of branch out for myself and try to free
myself from my environments at home
SO as that could, as say, branch out
Tor self and get start. / have no money
to speak of, but felt that should no
longer be burden on my parents, and
they agreed with me.
II got on a train and rode as far as |
could, which brought me to small town.
where thought l would practice medi
cine. There were no other physicians
there, and I got off there more on that
account than anything else
II felt encouraged to sort of make a
large wild ass of myself partly because
you had been through the same thing.
and thought it would be exciting to be
busted and trust in providence, like YOU
did, but when practiced medicine / got
7 arrested for not having etate license.
for did not know that I was required
10 have them, and the justice of the
peace called me to one side and said he
/ was my friend and would fig it for me SO
ms that would not be sent to the peni-
Tertiary. He would advise me to waive
examination, and then he would letme 20
on my own reccomisance, which meant
.hati could fit.
$50 fitted.
please tell me what to do and send SO,
's 7 had OF used my own good sense,