FACTS AND FANCIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 9

FACTS AND FANCIES.

MR, (MAB9EY,( MAB9EY, POLITICAL MEDICO. Black plague of corruption eradicated by inoculation with germ* of yellow 4 fevered Freehold without revaluation. "The Opposition its not dead." so gays tho oftettfol Ut\mj t ' Who up at PuKe&ohe grew Quite resolutely "sassy." . "We'll take our beating standing up Like* men," 'Tig well to be bold) But Folly's self to court tho rod Of unrevalued freehold. •We'll organise till all 'fa blue, • "We'll have things clean and pure;; "tfeduotion by the public funds "Our souls will not endure. "AH anti-Tammanj tbe viows And principles that we hold." Cf'Lordi OMtt«aeyl What about That unravalued Freehold "i ( he Oppoiition's much alive." So Is that little creature , . , Whose power to uselessly disturb ' One's rest i# its chief feature-* ,> , i And you will scarcely do more good ' Than it at shifting tbe, old > Kamarlati from hlg pride of place i With unrevalued Freehold. < Yfftt may draw schemes and other things, And fight like warrior Rewl < Bo* better far sit still and pipe ' . « Like to ft lonely tul If you can't s«e that' thoughtful folk And tho majority hold A bribe to fewest, filched from uost, Is unrevalued Freehold. > ANGttO^OERWAI? RELATIONS (With the Kaisor Left out I) 4 U wr Supplement of Saturday last we published "Two Remarkable Letters," in, which the German leading intellectuals aairare,- their British confreres of the purely paelfla nature o£ naval enlargu* mt>ntt,<of their regrets over false news-, paper statements and' iniinuationg, and of their undying, regard, Reprogentative ' Britishers respond point for point— but both sides are silent, on the K*iser. Our versifier suggests appropriate reservations fai the last two .lines of each verse:— GERMANY TO BRITAINBr&thor savants, we stretch to you Our hands across tho ocean In proof of science, literature, - , ,' Aadrfeindred artfl r .devotion— < ' - „ mtnaiiot. WflHe— on this point We really h&ve no notion. ifar love for you Is much disturn'd ' , 0y those vik mfcohief'shapers Jttipating motives bad and false unto us, in the papers— . • ■ HI course, this does not pledge) us at Sponsors for Willie's 1 eapors, •' » .We are not building navies up . Just for to show who's best; "Us ,to ensure our ships and trade ' A very perfect rest— Ho wllinr saysi but what he means , „ 'jaay^yarlouiily be. guessed, / • ' ito may we be in truest bond* Of truthfulness united, ' ■ • 'And unto you and us long b* • All evil days respited— And Hea'v m preserve us from tho freaks Of WllHo, , when excited 1, , BRETAItf TO 1 OmMAHt-m l^eapfflUow lavoflU, we respond Td the regard* you send,, „ , i^fltt hope pw-n(|{vo fends wlU.«^ '„. Bat vri shall keep our. "watch-dogs'* SullaOn this, you may depend. ,. , /iSji > Ihit newspapers ohouid go ,aitr*y 'F' Is subject' lor regretting, , ' But scarcely a good retwon for . / Notional futtie and fretting— - , t for peac« WU live, but die to keen , Your Will our fi»h from netting* . Tis well that- love should be ejprosi'd • 'TiWieH intellectual twins }, But what is good and true, alas I • Los& as oft as wins— (And Willies "peaeVj may scatter all Like ninety times nine pin»{ Your ttobtors we in medioTne r - lfl poetry, and music, , ' •.. - And much philosophy, 'math which Our buoyant hopes once grew sioK«ot for your Wiffie, 0, dear, No I We draw tho line at prusilc.