Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.