“Ah, Gentle Reader, this is not really ‘Back Home’ we gaze upon when we go there by train. It is a last year’s birds’ nest The nest is there; the birds are flown, the birds of youth, and noisy health, and ravenous appetite, and inexperience. You cannot go ‘Back Home’ by train, but here is the magic wishing-carpet, and here is your transportation in your hand all made out to you. You and I will make the journey together. Let us in heart and mind thither ascend. “I went to the Old Red School-house with you. Don’t you remember me? I was learning to swim when you could go clear across the river without once ‘letting down.’ I saw you at the County Fair, and bought a slab of ice-cream candy just before you did, I was in the infant-class in Sabbath School when you spoke in the dialogue at the monthly concert. Look again. Don’t you remember me? I used to stub my toe so; you ought to recollect me by that. I know plenty of people that you know. I may not always get their names just right, but then it’s been a good while ago. You’ll recognize them, though; you’ll know them in a minute.” A. S. H. _The Easter Hope_ BY CORA A. MATSON DOLSON We look across the days of March, Of knife-keen winds, and barren hills, To where the skies of April arch Above the beds of daffodils. Oh, hearts of Hope! The hours are long, While melting drifts o’erflood the rills; Yet do these winds blow, keen and strong, Toward those beds of daffodils. The Easter promise cannot fail! The stone will move when God’s hand wills, And we again our loved ones hail, Who sleep, as sleep the daffodils! _Explained_ MRS. GIVEM—Why are you out of work? WEARY WILLY—I was a life-insurance president and made so much money I had to resign. [Illustration: _The Say of Other Editors_] Clark Howell’s politicians and newspaper supporters over the state are sending up a unanimous wail because TOM WATSON, a Populist, manifests some interest in Georgia politics. They swear he is trying to break up the Democratic party and gain control of the state. Well, what about Major J. F. Hanson, the Republican president of the Central Railway? He has been active in state politics for a long time, and wields more influence than a thousand ringsters who are “cussing” TOM WATSON. If it is a high crime for Populist Watson to take a hand in Georgia politics, what kind of crime is Republican Hanson guilty of when he joins Hamp McWhorter and Sam Spencer in a prolonged struggle to dominate the public policies and politics of Georgia? Will some of the political time-servers please answer?—_Newnan (Ga.) News._ * * * * *