peaceable and decent people No charge. Bangham Smasher, Burnham Blazer & Co. beg to assume their patrons that all the choppers, hammers, bombs, stones, etc., employed in their business are of the very best quality, and only refined paraffin and wax matches will be used in burning down any building. Being in a position to offer such exceptional advantages they trust to receive a large measure of support in their elevating and enlightening work. If none of the above is found suitable to the needs of intending clients, a further list of assorted outrages will be supplied on application. * * * * * LOVE'S LOGIC. My happiness is in another's keeping, My heart delivered to a maiden's care, And she can cast it down or set it leaping (The latter process is extremely rare); Ah, would that love indeed had made me blind, That I might put her image out of mind! Yet if I looked at her with eyes unseeing Her voice and laughter would not pass unheard; I should not be a reasonable being, I still should tremble at her lightest word; How could I then gain freedom from the spell Unless I turned completely deaf as well? So, blind and deaf, I might perhaps recover A partial peace of mind, but all in vain, For memories pursue the luckless lover, And only death can ease him of his pain. Thus, having proved that I were better dead, I think I'll go and talk to her instead. * * * * * BALM FOR THE BRAINLESS. ["If one man has more brains than another, which enable him to outstrip his fellows, is not that good fortune? What had he got to do with it? If your brain is a bad one, it is not your responsibility. If your brain is a good one it is not your merit. Some men have greater physical, mental, moral strength than others that enables them to win in the race. That is their good fortune and they ought to be grateful for it; and the one way they can best show their gratitude is by helping those who are less fortunate than themselves. Men endowed with any, or most, or all of these fortunate conditions ought not to be stingy in helping others who have not been so fortunate as themselves."--Mr. _Lloyd George at Denmark Hill, June 30_.] As a result of Mr. Lloyd George's vivid and convincing pronouncement on the responsibilities of the fortunate, we have been deluged with appeals from all sorts and conditions of unlucky correspondents. We select the following from among the most deserving cases in the hope that our opulent readers may avail themselves of the chances thus offered of redressing the partiality of fortune. The Cry of the Cracksman. _The Sanctuary, Crookhaven._