The morning news., 1899-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A movement has been inaugurated to
have the first annual reunion of the Rough
Riders of the late war with Spain held at
FL Paso. Tex, because that city furnished
a great number of the riders. Gov. Roose-
welt has notified ex-Gov. Prince, OF Ne"
Mexico. that he will visit that territory
this year and while down there in the
great southwest the effort will be made to
hold the reunion of Rough Riders
A western editor was running the mot
to I'VE tell the truth" at the head of his
paper The other day, however. he was
compelled to encounter several gentlemen
who objected to the truth being told, and
as a consequence the motto disappeared
and the following notice was printed;
"JJntil we recover from the injuries re-
Gently received this paper viii lie just ike
the rest of them"
"A Boston syndicate has purchased
from various small holders $50 acres OF
land on Monument mountain, just north Of
Great harrington, Mass, which Is the
scene of the Indian legend immortallzed by
Bryant in his poem of the lovelorn aoorlg-
inal maiden who threw herself over the
cliff because she could not wed the man OF
her choice What the syndicate proposes
to do with this picturesque tract has not
been divulged
-El-Alam, a Turkish paper of New York
city. tells this story: ''Ibrahim Enendi
to whom things happened, did not per-
chance hear OF the things? The Effendl
was crossing a river, bearing with hlm
his mother-in-Iaw and bag of gold, his
savings. Then rose the flood which
wrecked the vessel and Ibrahim knew not
at first which to save, the gold or his
a,I~a aua7x n
himself, thought Ibrahim and spake My
gold will I save, for where can 1 get more
gold? But Allah to me will give all the
mother-in-laws that 1 need, and perhaps
more Then having thus said, he thus
did. and all the Turks said that he was
wise"
The Atchison Globe declares that John
]. ingalls, is almost as bad as a Pennsyl-
vania Dutchman in believing in signs and
omens. The Pennsylvania Dutch never cut
their hair except on the Friday in the
dark of the moon, and they plant pota-
toes by the same sign, reserving Good Fri
day for the planting of onions They all
ways consult the figure of the naked man
in the front of the almanac when baby
is born and pretend to know what kind
of a baby 1t is going to be by the sign
fixed to the date of its appearance. The
| GlODe says lnSdHS UeHeNeS III ali llit6e
things and lots more. Nevertheless we
are Impressed with the beIief that in poll
tics the Atchison man does not consult
the naked figure in the almanac. Instead
he carefully scans the horizon to see If
he can see the tall, angular form of a
woman who answers to the name of Mary
Ellen.
-Modesty has ceased to be a virtue
saws a writer in the New York Press
There were times when writer's hid their
identity under pen names until a reputa-
ton had been established for sense and
STYLE but nowadays I notice that children
sign their right names and titles to articles
hurriedly dashed off. possessing neither
maturity nor merit Noms-de-p plume are not
popular with publishers. because it is the
writer who must sell the magazine, not the
magazine that must make the fame of the
writer. The nom-de-guerre is popular with
towards who will never fight in the open.
Let US go back a few years and recall
some familiar literary pseudonyms. Here
Is our faithful friend, George Alfred
Townsend, who is Gath" and was, years
ago, John Green" and 'Laertes." Oakley
Hall, just laid away in his coffin, was
Hans Yorkel' long before he was Mayor
Joe Howard used to sign his name Mon
sier X" and IN. T. Jug" and Whitelaw
erty as Agate" 1t was under the pen
name of Asa Trenchard that Henri Wat
terson made his appeal to fame. and about
the same time his former partner, Charles
H. Smith, was getting glory as "Bin
Arp" The amiable authoress of Uncle
Toms Cabin" used to take pride in her
signature of CHRISTOPHER Crowheld," and
her famous brother, Henry Ward Beecner,
signed his name with a star (O to many of
his ablest articles. Never forget that my
old friend Richard Watson Glider, editor
and poet. used to regard himself as genu-
inc ''Old Cabinet" for that was his
pseudonym when he was one of the wild
boys of Bordentown. George William Cur
It's was "Old Bachelor" William Winter,
before he became the dean of dramatic
critics toyed in print over the nickname
Of "Mercutio," which showed how he
leaned to Romeo and Juliet" in his early
DAYS. Mr. Winter is GO years old. A. c.
Wheeler Is not doing much these days
with "Nym Crlnkle.' but the pseudonym
followed "hot stuff" when he was the
Worlds critic words and Their Uses
did not give Richard Grant White more
fame than his other two precious posses
sions-"Stanford" and ~. Donough
Quits" Before he grew famous as 'Ik
Marvel our friend Donald Grant Mitch
ell was broadly known as John Timon."