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Edited by John Kendrick Bangs.
 PART V.

Edited by John Kendrick Bangs.
 PART V.
 Editcr's Note.
 have taken some pains in this install nent of "The Personal Recollections of Father Time to extract from his volum- 1nous manuscripts certain anecdotes of . more or less seasonable import. In the Easter Number of a periodical a con- scientious editor does not care to regaie his readers with what is popularly known In literary circles as Christmas Stuff" Nor does the Man behind the Blue Pen ell If he is alive to his opportunities talk or Washington's Birthday overmuch in his issues of the Fourth of July.
 Fatner, Times allusions to the Easter tide are few, but such as they are ven- ture to present them this week, along with such smart sayings of Cain and Abel as find in a careful perusal of his work. Perhaps I should apologize for the selection of the Cain and Abel para graphs, but I do not realize any present necessity for so doing. Bonnets and eggs may be especially fitting as incidents to q celebration of the Easter season. but the children-they are appropriate at all seasons of the year, general or speciflc.- Editor.
 True Story of Columbus and the Egg.
 Speaking of Easter" said Columbus one morning as we put in a few moments together in his cell, whither I had gone to ofter my condolences over his apparent loss of favor with Ferdinand and Isa- bella. ''did you ever hear the true story about that egg business that everybody is talking about?''
 had to confess that of the ffty-seven variations of the famous anecdote that I had heard I was utterly at a loss to say which was the correct one.
 "The hfty-eighth," said Columbus with that genial smile which had been so use full to him on the sea in times of stress and at court when the storms of jealousy threatened him and his plans with ruin, T had remarked to the Board of Trusa tees of the Madrid Academy of Sciences that believed that If you treated an egg kindly you could do anything you pleased with it, provided. of course, that 1t was an egg of moral character and amenable to reason. My statement was immediate. 1v challenged by a smart young wise man from Granada, who. producing an egg from the folds of his cloak, scorn- fully requested me to make 1t stand on It's hind legs"
 ''so you partly smashed the bottom of the egg began.
 ''I did nothing of the sort" said Colum- bus. That's one of the htty-seven va ssObAcS. what uIu uO was 10 aSk TOT three months time in which to make my demonstration. The request was grant ed Three months later I returned. hav- Ing meanwhile had the egg matched. Of course, you know the rest"
 T must confess. my dear Christopher" ''I cannot quite solve the mystery
 Why, I took the squab chicken that resulted to the following meeting of the Academy and when I placed 1t on the table 1t stood on lis hind legs e hyveII aa any other old hen in the place." laughed Columbus. ''The result was that the so- eiety came out in enthusiastic support of my contention that the world was round"
 T must confess, my dear Christopher" said I. "that I fail to see the connection"