The Independent . were circumstances which led someto suppose that a stranger had been re-ceived into the cottage on this awful night,and had shared the catastrophe of all its in-mates. Others denied that there were suffi-cient grounds for such a eomecture. Wofor the high-souled youth, with his dreamof Earthly Immortality! His name andperson utterly unknown; his history, hisway of life, his plans—a mystery never tobe solved; his death and his existenceequally a doubt! Whose was the agony ofthat death-moment? PEBBLES Lawyer—How large were the hoofs?Were they as large as my feet or my hands? Dar
The Independent . were circumstances which led someto suppose that a stranger had been re-ceived into the cottage on this awful night,and had shared the catastrophe of all its in-mates. Others denied that there were suffi-cient grounds for such a eomecture. Wofor the high-souled youth, with his dreamof Earthly Immortality! His name andperson utterly unknown; his history, hisway of life, his plans—a mystery never tobe solved; his death and his existenceequally a doubt! Whose was the agony ofthat death-moment? PEBBLES Lawyer—How large were the hoofs?Were they as large as my feet or my hands? Darkey—No, sah. they was jus ordinarysized hoofs, sah.—Widow. Zero—Bill told me a funny story in NewYork and when Id gotten to Chicago Icouldnt remember it. Kolder—That was carrying a joke toofar.—Tiger. Captain—Have you changed the guardyet? The Newchum Junior—No. sir: the oldguard was doing the job so well, sir, Ithought Id let em stay on, sir.—SydneyBulletin. March 12, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 457. A DOCTORS MEMORY BOX If doctors, by reason of their inti-mate associations with all kinds ofpeople, get a better perspective on lifethan do the rest of us, then truly McLane Hamilton, grandson andbiographer of Alexander Hamilton andone of the most distinguished of alien-ists, should be able to give us mostvaluable books. For he has known aspersonal friends many of the great-est men and women of his time. Heknew Agassiz and Lincoln, EdwinBooth, Max Beerbohm, Henry Irving,and many others. He travelled inEurope and Asia and Africa and metthe leaders of thought everywhere. Hestudied many a famous criminal. HisRecollections of an Alienist is a bookof frank comment on life and personal-ity, a veritable feast for those whosehunger for similar experience has neverbeen satisfied. His comment on manyof the men and women he has knownwill be certain to stimulate controversy,for others still living have knownthese same people and thought of themeach after his own fashion.
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