Busy Bee Magazine from Topeka, Kansas • 2

12 THE BUSY BEE MAGAZINE. Scientific Courtship. Young Molly met Christopher down by the farm, With his analysis And his catalysis And his dialysis. What would he do there He came down to woo there, He came down to sue there, To bill and to coo there, Not to fill all her soul with alarm. Science, tis thus that a fair maid you win, With parthenogenesis And alterogenesis And heterogenesis And othor such things; For Love, he has wings And with him he brings Full many such things In the ears of fair maidens to din.

Young Christopher came with his finest brochures, On trilobites And troglodytes Theodolites And such delights, And he said, my dear, these are yours, Yes, theyre yours. Love may come and love may go, Science endures. The heart is a stubborn thing, And conical in shape; A remnant which with us we bring From our ancestral ape. It drives the blood to Mollys cheeks, She opens her ruby lips and speaks; Her mitral valve plays In the wildest of ways; Her columna carnea Gives her an idea By the way that it acts; And, accepting the facts, She then and there agrees to become The partner of his scientific home. Selected.

Massachusetts, according to the report of the State Board of Education, last year spent more than $9,000,000 on public schools. Side Glances at Great Authors. BY THUCATVOUWAH. THOMAS CARLYLE. Let us spend a few moments with Carlyle, as he reveals himself in his Hero Worship, and see whether or not he is worthy of a closer acquaintance.

We take Hero Worship, not because of any transcendent merit in it, but because one must draw the line somewhere. The only excuse I offer for introducing him in this imperfect manner, is these 'words of his own: One comfort is, that great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him. On any terms whatever, you will not grudge to wander in such a neighborhood for awhile. The first thing that strikes even the cursory reader of Carlyle is that he was a thinker a fearless, intrepid, penetrating, original thinker, if not always an unbiased one.

For this, no doubt, both heredity and environment have to answer. Born of humble parents, in an humble parish in the south of rugged Scotland, the boy never became the victim of that effeminacy so apt to overtake the youth who are pampered in luxury. Like the majority of their neighbors, the Carlyles were strict Calvinists, and it was in this faith that Thomas was nurtured, and to promulgate it as a preacher that he was educated. Now mark how slight circumstances changed the.