"Travelling in a becoming suit of Copenhagen blue with hat to match the newly weds left on the Duluth train."--_Canadian Paper._ * * * * * "She looked as Eurydice when her captor-King carried her away from earth and gave her instead the queenship of Hell."--_"Daily Mail" Feuilleton._ Presumably Persephone had secured a decree _nisi_. * * * * * "These cowardly murders and attempted assassinations are abhorrent to the national mind, whatever its political views may be, and it will not seek to exterminate in any way the position of those who have any share in them."--_Provincial Paper._ We still think extermination is the best thing for them. * * * * * A SELFLESS PARTY. ["They (the electorate) know that we (the Labour Party) are not, and never will be, merely concerned in the interests of one particular class."--_Mr. THOMAS in "The Sunday Times."_ "Nationalization was proposed not to gain increased wages for workers, but in the national interest.... They were prepared to produce to the last ounce of their capacity to give to the nation and to humanity all the coal they required. If he thought that this scheme was intended to or would give the miners an advantage at the expense of the State he would oppose it."--_Mr. BRACE, in the House of Commons._] Though Comrade SMILLIE keeps a private passion That yearns to see Sinn Fein upon its own, Clearly we cannot put our Unions' cash on Men with a motto like "OURSELVES ALONE;" To us all folk are brothers And on our bunting runs the rede, "FOR OTHERS." Our hearts are ever with the poor consumer; We long to give his sky a touch of blue; To doubt this fact is to commit a bloomer, To falsify our record, misconstrue The ends we struggle for, As illustrated in the recent War. We struck from time to time, but not at Caesar, Not to secure the highest pay we could; Our loyalty kept gushing like a geyser; We had for single aim the common good; Who treads the path of duty May well ignore the cry of "_Et tu, Brute!_" Humanity's the cause for which we labour; The hope that spurs us on to do our best Is "O that I may truly serve my neighbour, And prove the love that burns within my breast, And save his precious soul By a reduction in the cost of coal!" Nationalize the mines, and there will follow More zeal (if possible) in him that delves; Our eager altruists will simply wallow In work pursued for others (not themselves), Thrilled with the noble thought-- "My Country's all to me and Class is naught!" O.S. * * * * * A STORY WITH A POINT. (_With Mr. Punch's apologies for not having sent it on to "The Spectator."_)