Sign in the Black Hawk Hotel, Byron, Ill.: “If you think you are witty send your thoughts to B. L. T., care Chicago Tribune. Do not spring them on the help. It hurts efficiency.”

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AN OBSERVANT KANSAN.
[From the Emporia Gazette.]

The handsome clerk at the Harvey House makes this profound observation: Any girl will flirt as the train is pulling out.

THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.

She formerly talked of the weather,

The popular book, or the play;

Her old line of chat

Was of this thing or that

In the fashions and fads of the day.

But now she discusses eugenics,