New-York tribune., 1900-04-21

There's a storm upon the sea.
For the sky is eaden low;
The thuuders come and CO.!
There's no storm upon the sea,
And those thunders rolling free
Are our Queens salute TO Me,
Says the Shan Van Nooht-
And has Herself come DER.
For who but you should know,
Her fixed time before
We'll maybe then She's raced
To be with as h in sue such a1ate haste nc
Says the Shan Van Vocht.
..And what word Is that She whispers
And what is that She asks you for
o Shan Van Nocht?
'She but asks shamrock spray
And upon Her heart She'll wear it
For the Shan Van Nocht.
.And She says She's thinking fondly
When first She came to visit
With the Shan Van Vocht;
She She ,ons younsg and and happy hs 42s- bride H,6e
And And gotOaec got cead Mile Faiite
From the high and from the low
Pit since s1e the syo!l widows VS. loss los know
For the Crown She's took the Cross
With the Shan Van Vocht
Before the Throne Divine
For the boys that for her sake
Are lying cold and low.
so. my daughters and my sons.
When She rides down your row,
Only staring at the Show?
An what call had TO fear it!
Och that shout none eer came near II!
How the Darlin' smiles to hear It,
-(Afred Perceval Graves, In The London POST
THE Poor Old woman"-a cryptic name for
Ireland. Pronounced Shan Van No
The sextonship of the parish church at Chapel
en-le-Frith Derbyshire. England has been retained
In one family since 1881. The latest incumbent
Joseph Bramwell who recently died. had held office
h,riel in N which
the bodies of the eight predecessors of whom he
was a descendant. One of them was sexton for
hfty-two years.
Did your courage ever desert you" she asked @
OF the popular hero. l'io you ever ei'irei! ioSe
Madam he replied in tone that ;a was an ,a1o ad,
role in big church wedding ''-(Chicago Post.
A pilgrimage Rome during the present year Of
Jubilee will not be medieval Within the Eternal
City electric and horse cars to St Peter Keep
down the greed of cab drivers anxious to over
charge and The Tablet announces that the
pilgrims from Padua will pedal their way to Rome
on bicycles along the old Via Emilia
Harriet-There's one thing about Fred that do
admire. He has such faith in me. you know
Carrie-'That must be awfully nice
Harriet-Yes Last night when told him could
sing Anne Rooney" he said he would taRe ESestn my
word for it. Wasn't that good OF htm?-(Boston
Transcript.
The sale of liquor within three miles of the Iowa
state Agricultural College, at Ames. is forbidden
by law and an attempt will be made during The
session of the next Legislature to afford the same
protection 10 the State University, at Iowa City.
One Of the signs In the grocery store announced
All" said Mrs Newiiwed, isn't that dam jear?'
Beg pardon exclaimed the grocer.
Il said isn't that dam dear?'
Then she blushed wildly and retired in confusion.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
A business man of Holland. in Washington.
says: Electricity is just getting foothod in lIol-
land. Electric tramwsys a wonder TO the
natives They will leave their work to watch the
cars go by Incandescent lights have been put in
two or three houses. The novelty is attraction
to the simple Hollander. He cannot understand it.
II is him a marvellous display OF ingenuity.
But the Hollander is slow to take up with any
idea. He lives as did his forefa thers-the
customs. habits and mode OF living. He wants
nothing to disturb this harmonious arrangement.
but when an innovation is brought forth If it is a
good thing, he will adopt it America is far more
interesting than country-that is of course. TO
a Hollander. over there you see the people pod
ding along IN their wooden shoes here you see the
people hustling. The Iiolander is slow in all
things here you up 10 the times 1t will take
people "A great many years to adopt the various
of the American. but the time will come
when every Holland village Will be Americanzed."
THE GIRL IN THE KHAKI DRESS
There she goes in the shopping square.
The men look back, the women stare:
The critics remarks are passing loud
AS she wends her way through the gaping crowd:
But she hears them and she much less
She's of the first in a khaki dress.
She passes the cop on the shopping beat:
lie smiles and points out into the street
The color's the same" he says with grin
The the mud she's walking in
But she hears them not and she much less
She's OF the first in a khaki dress.
The newsboy grins: Get onto her nbs!
Now, wudn't dat tickle yer under de ribs?
fis awning stuff wild mustard smear
Take II awayi IL don't go here!'
But she hears them not and she much less
She's of the first I'm "A khaki dress.
lis gantlet for a thousand eyes
But she braves the ''Whcws," and the rude "Oh
mys!
And the girls who gape and love to say
'She looks like road on rainy dayi"
But she hears them and she much
she's one OF the first III a khaki dress.
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