The following very remarkable lit

tle poem is a contribution to the San

Francisco Times from the pen of Mr

H A Deming The reader will see boots had just been rubbed down

that each line is a quotation from with fried meat gravy He was

some one of the standard authors of looking at everything with open

England and America This is the mouth when a couple of young men

result of years of lahorous search who had been driven in by the l ain

among the voluminous writings of commenced to guy him One of then

thirty eight leading poets of the past asked him if he was on a bridal tour

and present The number of each and the other insisted on calling him

line refers to its author below Shakespeare 1 Liberal offers were

1 Why all this toil for triumphs

of an hour

2 Life s a short summer man s a

flower

3 By turns we catch the vital

breath and die

4 The cradle and the tomb alas

so nigh

5 To be is better far than not to be

G Though all men s lives may seem

a tragedy

7 But light cares speak when

mighty grief are dumb

8 The bottom is shallow whence

they come •

9 Your fate is but the common

fate of all

10 Unmingled joys here no man

can befall

11 Nature to each allots its proper

sphere

12 Fortune makes folly her partic

ular care

13 Custom Apes often reason over

rule

14 And throws a sunshine on a

fool

15 Live well how long or short

permit to heaven

1G They who forgive most shall be

most forgiven

17 Sin may be clasped so close we

cannot see its face

Shakespeare Liberal offers were