New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

THE aristocratic game Of golf" says Tho
Worcester Gazette" has found its way into the
dime novels or. rather into the modern suDsti-
tute the haf-dine novels. One does not hear so
much about this class OF literature nowadays but II
still fourishes. and its examples are as numerous
and as pleasing they were twenty years ago.
when no youths education was considered COM
plete without a long series Of warnings against
them. In one Of the famous fve-cent libraries
devoted to tales Of detective exploits and bioodshed
upon the high seas and the rolling prairies. there
has appeared new number, called Fred Merr-
val's Caddy: A Story OF st. Andrews Link< There
s a coored print upon the cover. with the likeness
OF a small barefooted boy in the act OF stopping
n runaway horse and saving the life Of a beauteous
maiden while several golfers stand looking on with
great concern II looks as II It might be great
reading"
stimuIus TO War-"Does your son feel that
his heart is in this war In the Philippines MIS-
II should say so. He writes that every time he
fires at Filipino he remembers that he owes MN
a grudge for making him miss tho cherry-pie sea-
son at home."-tChicago Record
THE London Tablet" says that Joan OF Arc. in
authorization of her canonization, is performing
miracles In France. A young Alsatian num- VINO
had been unable to assimilate solid food lot
months. after praying TO her arose. mace up her
bed and ate a hearty meal Three authenticated
miracles are needed to enable the Pope 70 pfo-
nounce the maid saint.
A Difference Never mind" said Aguinaldo
Napoleon met his Waterloo .
yes" answered the Filipino leader; .he met t.
Ho wasn't chased up and down several mountain
ranges by II. as have NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. star
A Kansas boy writes from Maloios "Brigadier-
General Wheaton Just rode by our camp, and now
we are counting getting out FIR another nght'
Whenever this brave old cuss is restless then some
thing Is surely going to happen" II am thinking
of X
in Linn County Kan. IF ever my country needed
men, 1t is now at this place. I will close May
God bless you" 1T is thought such an honor with
the Filipinos 10 have a revolver" writes David
Horkman. that If a soldier finds or otherwise OBJ
tains one he is made second lieutenant
The Higher Joy.-"well. did you have good
mo Merely sold lot of goods to men that
wanted them" .,y,
Selling a lot of goods to men who don't want
them"-(Chicago News.
Ralph Horne OF Philadelphia. who was fifteen
years old when he enlisted last February with
the consent Of his father, is now in the Philippines
a member Of the 18th United States Infantry.
The caterpillars recently stopped an eectTic-cs car
now from Corinna comes the story of an almost
successful hod-up of freight train, For long
distance between Dexter and Corinna the wrSgnng
worms covered the rails to sufficient depth so that
the engineer had to use sand and all the steam
the grade. The rails were literally covered py
the worms. and the friction was not such that It
was an easy matter 10 keep up any degree or
speed.-(Kennebec Journal.
School officials In Germany are considering the
advisabiity OF adopting for chdren's use an ex-
purgated edition OF the Bible. Parts OF this book.
they argue more utterly unsuited for the young
person than the average problem novel Of to-day.
They declare that TO It's pages numbers OF boys
and girls have only for reasons scarcely
acceptable to either parent or clergyman. Conse-
quent upon this course Of reasoning, an edition OF
the Bible, carefully expurgated. has long been in
use in Prussia and the northern provinces. 1t Is
known as the Bremen School Bible, and makes a
book about half the compass of the entire Script
ures Now the movement has spread TO South Ger
many and the Wurtemberg Bible Society has re-
celved orders for a large edition OF similar work
Wealth-Yes, her hat certainly lovely,
though II had cost but SIS 3D. quite as lovely as
that Smith woman's which had cost nearly hum
dred
But the Smiths are able to own a more con-
spicuous pew in church than we are" faltered her
husband.
well, they can't come in any later than we can'
With us, wealth confers distinctions at all
comparable to those which 1t does not confer
Detroit Journal