In Lighter Mood

EDITOR'S TABLE. 473 agrees with all the views set forth. The magazine will be issued quarterly, the subscription price being 30 cents a number, or $1.00 per year. TO THE READER. The Era returns thanks to the many young men who made reply to our request in the March number. Many of them between fifteen and twenty years of age have written the editors, and in their letters have given good suggestions with which it will be our pleasure to comply. We will embody them in the Era as rapidly as possible, and hope to get every young man between those ages interested in our magazine. The allotment of the book for the best suggestion will be announced in the next number, as more replies are expected at this writing. In the meantime, besides some splendid articles for students, we present the closing chapters of "The Celtic Maiden," and the first division of "Kentucky Belle," in this number; and will begin "Adventures of a Pioneer," in the May number — all very interesting to the boys. IN
LIGHTER MOOD. Passing It
On. — Elsie:
"There's a man at the door, pa, who says he wants to 'see the boss of the house.' " Pa:
"Tell your mother." Ma (calling down stairs):
"Tell Bridget." — Philadelphia Press. Nathan's teacher believed in reducing poetry to diagram and vis- ible outline. Therefore, says the Boston Herald, she told the class to make a rough illustration of the poem; "The Old Oaken Bucket." Nathan's illustration consisted of- a large circle, three buckets and a bunch of dots. "Nathan," said the teacher, "I don't understand this. What's the circle?" "That's the well," replied Nathan. "And why have you three buckets?" "One is the old oaken bucket, one is the iron-bound bucket, and the other is the moss-covered bucket that hung in the well." "And what are all those little dots?" "Those are the loved spots which my infancy knew."