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 Whafs in a Name? threw the Jew and Moslem closer together, and it therefore does not seem to be remark able that a distinguished professing Jew like Maimonides or his son should at the same time be one of the chief ministers at the court of a Mohammedan ruler. But of all these events our document says nothing. Be yond the limits of the fighting and out of earshot of the noise of combat, life went on quietly along its accustomed lines: men pur sued their daily vocations haled each other

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into court and lived their lives as though there was no such thing as the holy sepul chre about which millions of men were con tending. This document, having served its purpose, found its way into the Genizah where it lay neglected for nearly seven hundred years, until it was resurrected by an English uni versity professor, and has now become an object of antiquarian interest.

WHAT'S IN A NAME? BY J. M. PATTERSON. JOB TROTTER BROWN, the tipstaff, was a student of the Laws, And all his time was occupied in learning legal saws. He scorned to live a fameless life — mere lackey of the Court — And nightly did he lucubrate on Contract, Crime and Tort. For Job had sworn right solemnly, forensical renown Should trumpet to the universe the worthy name of Brown; And, though his own accomplishments ne'er reached the outer throne, His genius hatched a brilliant scheme to help his oath along. So all his little children, as they numerously came, He christened after jurists in the Pantheon of Fame. Hence Mansfield and then Webster Brown and Salmon Chase Brown appeared And Brewster Brown and Blackstone Brown and Story Brown were reared. P. Henry Brown and E. Coke Brown arrived at man's estate And Bacon Brown and James Kent Brown filled up the family slate. Old Job believed his great-named boys predestined to renown And that, in time, they'd lift the sod from the buried name of Brown. But still that great day has not come, and still that worthy name Is missing from the pedestal within the Hall of Fame; For Mansfield Brown, the farmer, is the man behind the hoe; And Webster Brown's a tailor, content to sit and sew; Salmon Chase Brown's a monger, offish, both shell and scale; And Brewster Brown 's a maker of choicest brands of ale; Young Blackstone Brown delivers coal — good anthracite's his line — And Story Brown is pitching for the Tallahassee nine; Pat Henry Brown, the lightweight, is a pugilist of note; And E. Coke Brown 's a stoker on a Jersey ferry-boat; The butcher shop is Bacon Brown's and there he toils each day; While James Kent Brown makes cock-tails in a Cripple Creek café.