New-York tribune., 1906-08-23
HOW TO MAKE ONE.

To build neat balade like this
pronounce the word 'bah-lahd, you know)s
Il you yo construct ms utS the the thing thing just So
Well take to END THE line, "bestow.'
Or any other word in sight.
Ballades are easy things to write
Nov let your word be "precipice"
II sounds all right Wen let it go.
l4fa Mny hSee 6e speeeeded peP9adPsd by Bows KISS
Now watch your bloning poem grow.
But this somehow; susgests q ''whOa!' -.
Ballades are easy things 70 write -
Then next you. try the word abyss
And follow il with overflow. p; 81
Lug in some reference 70 bliss, ~
Or something as TO Cupid bow. . )
Or marble brows" Of driven snow" ).
The process thus you expedite
This sort of thing is not so slow
Ballades easy things to write. ,.
L'ENvOL g
But here you've, got to stop although
The object merely is TO show
Ballades are easy things 70 write
Chicago Tribune.
Manchester man writes TO 'The Guardian" 20
tell how he caught a sparrow on the wing He
was running for a car. few yards in front of!him
sprang the bird. and. with cricketer's instructive
action when the ball is bounding near, out went
his hand. He caught the sparrow and held him
prisoner until he reached the car. The writer felt
compelled to add that the bird not strong on
the wing He was moulting and had lost all his
tail feathers and. further, was heavily handicapped
by the bread in his BILL
1t Ruined Him.-Quite recently into railway car
riage at Oldham stepped a young man. fresh from
The very many proud glances which he cast on
the gold chain raised smile on the faces OF his
AppaTenty BY accident though mischief mis- might
watches was brought on the carpet"
Ah sighed an old faEmer farm o giving the e watch
for the inspection. OF the company that theer
fOvy'G
Why ga gave e Inn I'm t "qTen nTn W When EN- wur nfteen
Being asked for an explanation. the farmer con-
tinued: 49,. -.-.,-...-. -.
lad for miles around: but e admit 'ad that watch
above four months afore e growed rumpbacked
wi lOOkin at the chain so much."-I1t-Bits.
The old and the new mingle in China. The news
papers from the East tell OF Jail mutiny in Can
ton in which thirteen prisoners escaped The au-
thorites failed capture them. but issued orders
that all their relatives should and i'm
prisoned until they could give information as 70 the
hiding place OF the escaped prisoners But before
long they were offered their freedom on condition
that they paid $3.50 to the police s2o for the chief
and $50 for the rank and file. The bargain was
clnched. the money paid, and the circumstances
duly chronicled a news item in the native press
In Fatshan preparations were under way 20 cele-
bratc the birthday of their idol Saen Kai. But an
opposition party arose They urged that II the
money 20 be spent at all. IL had bet
ter be spent in cleaning up the drains IN
the neighborhood, since. II there should be any,
thing in the Western theory Of cleanliness the
community would benefit more than By propitiatinS
Saen Kai who did little stay plague in spite
OF the festivals in his honor. The opposition won
the day. and the money intended for Saen Kai went
20 the drains
Shell haven't seen you FOR an age. Herr Doctor.
notwithstanding that live only a few streets
apart here in Berlin ! learned with much re-
gret that you've been III this spring.
Herr Doctor-WhO told you that?
My brother wrote me from Inda-"-Fliegende
Batter.
A benevolent old gentleman brimful OF insornla-
ton saw a rustic sitting on fence gazing earnestly
at telegraph wires. Going up 20 the countryman he
said:
Waiting TO see a message go long eh?'
The man grinned and said. ''Ay.''
The benevolent old gentleman got on the wall
and for the next quarter OF hour tried hard 70
dispel his ignorance.
Now" he said at last. "as you know something
about the matter. hope you will spread your
knowledge among your mates the farm"
But don't work on a farm" replied the rural
citizen
Where then, may ask?"
Me and my mates are telegraph linesmen, and
testing a new wire
A Slight Omission-Captain (to soldier IN ballooD
ing division)-NOw, them Gruenzug, In with yolI-
sharp
Soldier advances hesitatingly toward the car os
the balloon and then stopsl-Please. sir. in my oath
of allegiance I swoTe 20 he true and faithful on
land and Water-bUt there nothing said a6Nnf