Sure Safeguard

Aniong the uumberJess stories of the quick wit and felioitous sayings of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes isone connected with the breakfast given in his honor by the publishing flrm of Houghton, Osgood & Co. ou the ocoasion of his seventieth birthday. Not long af ter the breakfast he met a friend who had been a guest on that tneruorable ocoasion and had written one of the many bright poems which formed part of the entertainment. In referring to the late festivity the doctor said to his friend: "I knew there would bea good many things said that would be calculated to draw tears. I was resolved that I would not ory - that nothing shotild make me cry - and so I went to the breakfast determined to maintain a rigid upper