We imagine the Gideon Bible is read more than may be supposed. Evening in a small town must be desperately dull to many travelers. And there are better love stories in the Bible than can be bought on the trains. Some of our gadding contribs have so good a writing style that we feel sure it must have been influenced by the Great Book. * * * A STERN PEDAGOGUE. [From the Antelope, Montana, local.] Miss Gladys Spank arrived here from Bozeman last Saturday and is again teaching in the school near Williams. * * * Our esteemed contemporaries, F. P. A., Don Marquis, and Chris Morley, have taken the pains to reply to Miss Amy Lowell's recent remark that "colyums" are "ghastly and pitiful." Dear! dear! What has happened to their sense of humor? * * * SHE NOT ONLY HAS A BOOK. SHE HAS TWO! "I wish to buy a book for a young lady," infoed the blond mustached one to a clerk at McClurg's. "She has both the 'Rubaiyat' and 'A Tale of Two Cities.' What do you advise?" O. B. W. * * * "I never could get to Detour, either," communicates Jezebel, "but recently, on a train, I passed through Derail, which seems to be a fairly thriving village, although some of the houses need paint." => _Old readers detour here--_ * * * YES, YES. Sir: Herbert F. Antunes is a piano tuner in Evanston. L. L. B. * * * => _Resume main pike._ YE STUFF. Sir: "Yee Laundry" reads the sign over Yee Hing's washee at Deming, N. M. Wherein ye olde world is joined with ye olde English. C. P. A. * * * "Henry Ford is poverty stricken intellectually, morally, and spiritually."--Comrade Spargo. Hint for Briggs: "Wonder what Henry Ford thinks about?" * * * Powell's taxicab service in Polo, Ill., offers "a rattle with every ride," and for the life of us we can't imagine the kind of car employed. * * * Speaking of Detour and Derail, "I wonder," wonders A. T., "whether in your travels you ever got to Goslow." * * * DATED. Sir: From the Blue Book: "Pleasant View. Saloon on left corner. Turn left. Then follow winding road." A. C. * * * YOU KNOW THE TUNE. "No girl," say the rules of Northwestern University, "must walk the campus after dusk, unless to the library or to lectures, or for purposes of learning." _I'm a merry little campus maid, The campus sward I rove, Picking Greek roots all the day And learning how to love._ * * *