MR. Simon Yoder, president of the English Valley Railway Co., stood on the station platform and looked at the company’s only passenger coach. He was feeling particularly pleased with himself, for, as president of the West English Cheese Factory, he had just made a contract for the sale of the factory’s entire output of cheese, and, as president of the West English Bank, he had bought a couple of mortgage notes that would undoubtedly have to be foreclosed, making about two hundred per cent, for the bank.

ON an east-bound train I went into the smoker and found Jefferson Peters, the only man with a brain west of the Wabash River who can use his cerebrum, and medulla oblongata at the same time. Jeff is in the line of unillegal graft. He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans; he is a reducer of surplusage.

(The October number has as a frontispiece an excellent reproduction in color of General Otter's arms. The other contents are as follows : Major Ferguson’s Riflemen. By Joseph Howe. Union of Maritime Provinces. By Reginald V. Harris. Major Thomas Hill.