he spelled out the letters on the sign; "What the h--ll is that?--Self Master--Self Mastery--Self Control. Old Man, if you had ever had any of that Self Control in your make-up you would not be a Knight of the Dusty Road!... You had better go back to the East Side where you know the land; where no man cares whether you live decently or not--if you can buy." Then the sound of a piano and male voices came to him and awakened him to a new train of thought. "It is a Monastery--a Monastery of Vagabondia," he said, "and why not? why shouldn't a man, even a homeless man, have his Monastery, if you please, where he can forget his past and live cleanly? If he only lives cleanly for a day and falls.... It's something to remember--a day he doesn't have to be ashamed of. Who knows but that in the one day of unselfish living a man is more truly his real self than he is in all the other days of his vicious years. "Throughout his long life Moses was the leader of his people, but it was in that day that he talked with God--face to face--that his countenance did shine like the sun. It was not when he slew the Egyptian, and, frightened, buried him in the sand; it was when he stood in the presence of Divinity--that Moses was Moses. When the drunkard is in his sober mind, when the liar is speaking the truth, when the thief is giving honest measure, when the murderer is kind to his fellow, then, and only then, is the true Self finding expression." He drew heavily at his pipe and then smilingly said, "My pipe has gone out!" He knocked out the ashes into his hand and scattered them to the wind, gravely, as if it were some religious ceremony. Then he dusted his shoes and clothes, and straightening himself up to his full height, he marched bravely up to the front door of the house.... ... A black crow, belated in his home-going, left his corn-thieving, and, rising, flew across the sky to his eyrie in the pines. [Illustration] MARY AND THE BABY "And a little child shall lead them." --_Isaiah._ Mary and the Baby "Resolved, that old-fashioned cow's milk is better for Our Baby, than any prepared food." The debate on the above subject will start at seven o'clock next Thursday evening. The Conservatives of our Colony will speak in favor of cow's milk as a baby's food. The Progressives will speak in favor of prepared food. The parliamentary rules governing the debate will be the same as govern a "catch-as-catch-can" wrestling match. No slugging will be permitted until forensic effort has proven ineffective. When further argument has become useless, the three-ounce boxing gloves, recently donated to us, may be used to force a decision. In fact, several of the boys who talk but little, are practising with the gloves, so that they may become factors in the final settlement of the problem.