And This Is Craddock Literature

What havo you for tlio short story?' askcd the editor of ono of the leading American magazines, lighting a match across the seamed and furrowed face of the weather-beaten o!Ec towel. 'A romaneo of (eoria in corn cracker dialect ' replied the fore an of the leacling American maga-ine, liftinx tho Pear's soap adverliseu ent and placing it betwei-n '(jeralino Flakes' and the 'Toothpowder poetry,' ' . ountains iii it?' asked the editor. 'Ossa, l'elion, Olympus and old .Shasta.' replied tho foreman, who had studied tho old classics at tho J eoria hgh school. 'Moonshiners?' 'Ten to oegin with, nine dead and ono married in tho last parairaph.' 'Moon?' 'All the way way through.' 'Full moon?' 'Full as a tíck.' lns:stent?' 'Part of tho timo.' 'Chuck her in.' and tlio editor sat down to make out some bilis for job worlc printing, the dead s lenco of the s;inolum sanctorum was faintly brokon by tho patiënt ticking of tho delinquflut subscriptio list. - Bnrdctto. Susan B. Anthony snys he iesixty-olght years of age. Noborty will b llkeiy to dispute tbis statemonü.