Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 2
Articles in this issue
- A dialect poem by Joe Cone in which Hiram Hicks and Rastus Green sit in Bill Jones's store complaining that their town is forever "goin' daown," until grocer Bill Jones retorts that idle men can't build a town up.
- Rudyard Kipling's poem voicing a wandering tramp who has tried all the roads of the world, likening life to a book whose pages one must turn through to the end.
- An essay surveying the many exiled and pretender royals of the day, including Don Carlos of Spain, the Bonaparte and Orleans pretenders of France, ex-Empress Eugenie, ex-Queen Natalie of Servia, and Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, and discussing Emperor William of Germany's hypothetical claim to the British throne.
- A fable attributed to "Uncle Eli" in which a Wolf tricks a Fox into helping catch a gander, then eats it all himself, with the moral that there is honor among thieves only when they are evenly matched.
- A question-and-answer feature explaining the origins of terms and customs, including "freshman," the words symphony/sonata/concerto/cantata, the "three R's," mourning-rings, college "commencement," dummy clocks, the highest mountain and longest rivers, and the saying "raining cats and dogs."
- The L.A.W. official department conducted by the Secretary-Treasurer, stating the association's objects and listing officers including President Geo. L. Cooke of Providence, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett of Boston, and Foreign Consul Joseph Pennell of London.
- President Geo. L. Cooke's column thanking those who accepted Standing Committee appointments, noting the League's role in killing bicycle-lantern bills in the Massachusetts and Rhode Island legislatures, and describing his first spin of the season on Wednesday, March 29, 1905, ahead of Jubilee Day.