One day a new horse came to town, and in the circles "around the store" where so many races and blue ribbons are won, some one remarked that he "liked the new horse better than Mabelle." When my friend heard this he smilingly replied, "I am satisfied to have Mabelle be the standard by which my friends measure their horses-that is compliment enough to her and to my judgment and taste in horseflesh." Somehow, my business seems to have become the standard of its kind. When you send to me for cigars, economically it amounts to this: I pay you for your trouble what you have been paying the retailer for his. In other words, by selling you cigars at wholesale prices, I permit you to keep the retailer's profit-which you have been paying for the convenience of buying "round the corner." paid. I make other cigars ranging in price from $4.00 to $15.00 per hundred-such as retail for about double my figures. I publish a booklet entitled "Concerning Cigars," which gives some valuable information about tobacco and cigars in general and about Shivers' cigars in particular. It gives actual-size-and-shape illustrations of every cigar I make, with full descriptions and prices. It also tells something about my factory in Philadelphia, where every cigar that I sell is made, and which is always open from cellar to roof to anyone interested in Shivers' cigars. I take no stock in the theory held by some dealers that the average man cannot judge a cigar. I make every cigar that I send out as though it were to be smoked by an acknowledged expert-most men are pretty good judges of cigars. My offer to deliver to a man anywhere in the United States one hundred cigars without any advance payment, permit him to smoke ten of them and then to I sell cigars only in that way-direct, at factory take back the remainder and pay the return prices. I call a spade a spade, and I do not call any tobacco Havana or Sumatra unless it is genuine. My whole proposition-tobacco, workmanship, factory methods-is open and above board. I couldn't hope to make you believe in my cigars unless I were absolutely certain of them myself. My Havana is not the kind that is grown simply to sell on the name-but is good Havana-clean selected stock and better grade than is put in any other cigars at equal prices. My Sumatra is always genuine and of choice selection. And when I say a cigar is hand-made it is handmade and by skilful workmen. My Panatela is my most popular size and shape. It is a full five-inch cigar, clear, clean, long Havana filler and selected genuine Sumatra wrapper. It is the equal of the usual cigar sold at ten cents straight, better than many. Yet my price is but $5.00 per 100, express Here is My Plain-English, Loop-hole less Offer: I will, upon request, send one hundred Shivers' Panatela Cigars on approval, express prepaid, to a reader of the Literary Digest. He may smoke ten cigars and return the remaining ninety at my expense if he is not pleased with them. If he is pleased and keeps the cigars, he agrees to remit price of the hundred, $5.00, within ten days. Enclose business card or give personal references, and state whether mild, medium or strong cigars are wanted. If you desire another cigar than the Panatela shape, write for my booklet. HERBERT D. SHIVERS, 913 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa. Readers of THE LITERARY DIGEST are asked to mention the publication when writing to advertisers. CURRENT POETRY. BY BLISS CARMAN. Has your dinner lost its savor, Is your laughter half a sneer? There's a medicine to cure you, With a horse and a saddle and a mile of open road. Is your eyeball growing bilious? Is your temper getting short? Is this life a blind delusion, Or a grim, unlovely sport? There's a world of health and beauty, On a dusty mountain trail. Come out, old man, we're going To a land that's free and large, Where the rainless skies are resting On a snowy mountain marge. When we camp in God's own country, You will find yourself again, With a fire and a blanket and the stars upon the plain ! -From The Reader Magazine. Virgilia. BY EDWIN MARKHAM. [This poem, we are told, is Mr. Markham's first lovepoem to appear in print.] I Had we two gone down the world together, I had made fair ways for the feet of Song. And the world's fang been but a foam-soft feather, The world that works us wrong. With you the cloud of my life had broken, And the heavens rushed up their final height: That lone last peak of my soul had spoken, That last peak lost in light. If you had but stayed when the old sweet wonder What sent it upon me-my soul importunes- All the tears and fears, all the fates and fortunes, Is this then the pain that the first gods kneaded But why it was that the whole world wasted, After this noise of years. Yet some things stay tho a world lies broken, IF YOU WANT. THE BEST TAFFY IN THE WORLD If not carried by your dealer, send ten cents in stamps or money to HUYLER's, 18th St. & Irving Pl., New York City. Readers of THE LITERARY DIGEST are asked to mention the publication when Never Soils or Spoils DAY'S White Paste It's the paste that sticks, but doesn't leave a sticky look. It's always ready in our Handy Paste Jar, for Office or Home or Photos. Pasting is a pleasure when done so easily, cleanly and well. Sample Sent Free Have your dealer get Day's. 25c. jar, 156. jar, or in bulk. MANDY PASTE JAN DAYS WHITE PASTE DIAMONU PASTE COME* DIAMOND PASTE CO., 80 Hamilton St., Albany, N. Y. 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Some element from nature seems withdrawn, The world we lived in being of his spirit wrought His brightness, sweetness, tender gaiety, His childlike, wistful and half-humorous faith He made our world, and now our world is changed. The sunniest nature his that ever breathed; Who built his joy on making others happy; From dream to dream he passed on Shakespere's day So delicate his mind to pleasant thought, Of wonder, and of wisdom, and of mirth. Locomotive. BY MARY FLOYD MCMULLEN. A tilting knight across the fields and plains, Nor was a paladin of old, perchance, PERSONALS. The Englishman Couldn't See the Joke.Joseph H. Choate, former Ambassador to Great Britain, since his return to this country, says the New York Times, has been telling this story as indicative of the average Englishman's notorious inability to see the point of a joke: "On one occasion,' remarked the ex-Ambassador with a smile, 'I was propounding the time-honored conundrum about the difference in the manner of death between the barber and the sculptor-the answer being that while the barber curls up and dyes, the sculptor makes faces and busts. "One of the party to whom I was relating this seemed to be particularly impressed by it, and a few days after I heard him trying to tell it, with the following results:' "I heard an awfully good story the other day about the difference between a barber and a sculptor. It makes me laugh even now to think of it. You see, the barber curls up and busts, while the sculptor makes faces and dies. Pretty good, isn't it, bah Jove?' General Nogi's Senior.-Mr. James Ricalton, staff photographer for Underwood & Underwood, and Mr. Richard Barry, the brilliant young American correspondent now in the Far East, on one occasion Readers of THE LITERARY DIGEST are asked to mention the publication when writing to advertisers. WINCHESTER visited General Nogi at his headquarters at Port Arthur, and, according to Mr. Barry, the following interview took place : "Look after your bodies,' the General said after greeting us. I was out to the firing line the other day and came back with a touch of dysentery, so take warning.' "We are of little account, General,' said Ricalton, 'but it is a very serious thing for a man on whom the world's eyes are centered to have dysentery.' The General smiled. "I am quite well now,' he said; but how old are you?' he asked, looking at Ricalton's gray hairs. They compared ages. Ricalton proved to be three years the older. The command of the army, then, belongs to me,' said Ricalton. 'I'm your senior.' "Ah,' said the General,' but then I should have to do your work and I fear I could not do it as well as you do.'" That night a huge hamper came to Ricalton's tent in charge of the headquarters orderly. It contained three huge bunches of Malaga grapes, half a dozen Bartlett pears, a peck of fine snow apples, and bore a card reading:-"The General sends his compliments to his senior in command.' "He is a great man,' said Ricalton, 'who can so notice, in the midst of colossal labors, a passing old photographer."" Cleveland Admires His Portrait. -"From what I know of his tastes and tendencies I am not at all surprised that Grover Cleveland should prefer to keep out of politics," says a writer in Success. "I re member that when he stepped out of office at the end of his second term as chief executive he felt vastly relieved." 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