The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-09-26
TRIBUNETS.
would you think Of a man

Chummy-What would you think Of man
that always went round talking to himself7
GrufIly-I should say. IL he did il to listen to
himself, no was q fool; il he did it to avoid
listening to his friends, he was a genius, and
if he did 1t to save his friends from listening to
him, he was philanthropist.
entirely sympathize with Senator Tillman
IN preferring Saluda to Butler as n name for
South Carolina County. There is no COM
parison between the two. Saluda Is euphoni-
Gus, individual, Characteristic and American.
Butler is the reverse of all this 1t was origi-
naily the name of the servant who attended to
the bottles and mixed the drinks for the COM
pany. II means servant to this day. The old
French was JouteiHier-bottler. from which we
get not only the name Butler, but all its varia-
tions. Boteler. Battler, etc. Perish Butler;
give US Saluda. every time.
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Peter Turney, who is drawing III. Clay
Evans's salary as Governor OF Tennessee, was
unsleasantIy conspicuous at Chattanooga.
s.
SOmerUiHs Journal It's a wise child tina.
knows that it doesn't know more than its own
father.
A Cincinnati man has introduced the fashion
of aluminium collins. Let me see: aluminium
is easily fusible, and has no affinity for sui
phur. Has that anything to do with itP
~
The Board of Geographic Names has taken
another wback at the photography Of names Of
places, and greatly extended the list Of SPELL
ings which must hereafter be followed by en-
ployes and officials of the Government, and
which will in time be followed by the book
publishers, newspapers and public generally.
The most startling change made is that of
spelling the name of the principal city of Cuba
with "b," instead of the "v'' in general use;
that u.s. it will be Habana instead of Havana.
This is proper, but it will take some time be-
fore it entirely supplants the old way. Korea
is to be always spelled with ''K," which is
also right. The NATIONAL TRIBUNE has
never spelled it any other way. The Korean
Capita! is to be Chemulpho. instead of
Chemulpo, and Russia's great penal colony of
Saghalien is hereafter to be spelled Sakhalin.
ONLY HALF YANKEES.
LIES Calendar for October has this good
story, for which it has very properly given the
first prize:
81 was on the losing side during the late
war;" said Roger Blakenship to party of vets
who were fighting their battles DER again in
the corridors of the Southern. al belonged to
Mississippi regiment, and the last mothers son
of US expected to return home with at least
dozen Yankee scalps dangling at his belt. Our
orators had led US to believe that all we had to
do was to show ourselves and the Yanks would
break for tall timber. Our Colonel was a
planter and a smsll-fry politician, who had
never seen real live Yankee. and he fully OK
pected to plant regimental colors on the
National Capital before wo had been out
month. We were eager for the fray.
"Just before Grant invested Donelson we
encountered a scouting party of Michiganders.
They numbered only about no. and the Colonel
took the company to which belonged and at
tempted to head them off, They made hasty
scamper for brush field that was surrounded
by rail fence, and we broke ranks and lit
after them in a go-as- please order. Every
man of us wanted Yankee, and realized that
there were not enough to go around. Just as
VIC bD6 leuce We IeC0lVeu u VOlley LUdI
laid score of our men out. Before we could
recover from our surprise those Michiganders
were over the fence and at work on US with
their sabers and rovolvers. We concluded that
we had made a mistake, and that we didn't |
want any Yankees, after all.
1.-THE Colonel was the first man back to camp |
Half his left ear had been shot away, and he |
had an ugly saber cash in his shoulder |
helped the Surgeon fix him up, and after we |
had made him comfortable he turned TO the |
Major, who was also an editor, and said, SOL !
emily:
"'Yer've been a-tellin' US in yer darned old /
paper that the Yankees wouldn't fight. bod |
rat yer measley hide, what do yer call fight
in'2'
"The Major replied that those men were |
Westeruers, and only half Yankees.
"'Only half Yankees?' snorted the Colonel. |
'Damme if amt goin' home. II them's only
half Yankees, I'll jest be dad burned if I'm
gon' to tackle any whole ones.'"
Life. Facts are almost as stubborn as some
people.