New-York tribune., 1900-04-07
THE PASSING THRONG.

A. B. Haskins of Buffalo who has just re-
turned from Europe, when seen at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel yesterday. said: They
WAR GOSSIP were very enthusiastic in Eng
IN land when 1 there recently
LONDON. over the British successes in South
Africa, and IL you had been OF
credulous disposition and prone 10 accept as the
literal truth any of the gossip that was every
where floating around you would have supposed
the war over TO all intents and purposes and all
the English troops had left to do was TO make an
they would release all the English prisoners; re-
ceive the unconditional surrender or tne boer
forever. The blow they have just received at korn
Spruit where Broadwood lost seven guns. together
with the setback Plumer Is reported TO nave re-
ceived in his last attempt to relieve Mafeklng must mus
iish cousins and Changed their late gayety and
rejoicing to woe and lamentations. - 49,.
worlds interests I think lie with England's win
ming and our own interests peculiarly So The
follow a final defeat Of the English armies in South
al A1rca w4n16 nave YEA an vear 70 come
But there is phase of the English mind"
continued Mr.. Haskins. that wholly out of
tune with. and that is the way
TALK OF DIS they look upon KRUGER and the
POSITION OF boodthirsty predictions they make
KRUGER. to his final disposition On
every side in London to-day you
hear these predictions That he will be hanged
shot is the undoubted belief of many Englishmen.
while those conservative ailOt to him lfe's
exile on the island of ST. Helena. 1t isn't a par
KRUGER mistaken and bigoted believe him to
his people and in defeat should receive the treat
ment usually dealt out to an honorable and coura-
TT struck me as great Joke" said a promi-
Western man at the waldorf-Astoria yester-
day when ! received the follow
WANTS TO ing telegram this morning;
CARRY John Doe. Waldorf-Astoria
THE WARD New-York CITY. See Senator
regarding troops voting. We must
carry Third Ward RICHARD ROE
ITO enter into full appreciation of the situa-
ton you must know that the town from which
habitants, you can gather some idea or now
suppose Roe is running for Scho0l Commissii4ner
lax assessor or m his mind o great as to call
for Federal interference. Rich. isn't it?
I'm earlier days" said H. L. Wilson, of Wash
ington, D. c., at the Hoffman House yesterday. "a
diplomat to from out
HAD the East who source of joy
TOOTH TO and never ending pleasure while he
PICK WITH sojourned among His short,
HER. we'll built figure surmounted
by head out of all proportion to
the body beneath, which to maintain perfect SYM
metry should have been Joined to a far larger
trunk This disproportion of head TO body led a
certain brilliant young wit of the capital to re-
mark on first catching sight of the newcomer. He
looks if he'd picked his head on battlefield.
doesn't he? The visitor from the Orient signalized
his advent into the social life of Washington by
giving dinner at which. he being bachelor, the
wife of a fellow member of the corps acted as
hostess. To her as she entered his house, adher-
ing pretty custom of the East, with deep
salaam he presented a saver upon which rested
bread and salt and highly chased key of
pure gold, which supposedly gave entrance to his
treasure chest. the whole combination typfying
hospitality and confidence. Now, this key
very beautiful and the wife of his fellow diplomat,
having regarded II with cOvetous eye when she
found it presented to her. promptly put it into her
pocket and left ii there, to the manifest and i'll
concealed chagrin of her host.
I'm his first days in Washington. but after he
had learned sufficient English to maintain run
ming conversation. he became ambitious and
sayed the idiom of the newly acquired tongue with
something of disaster to himself. for at ball one
evening he went up to a debutante and greeted her
with: 'Ah, ha! I've got tooth to pick with YOU
He has gone from now, but he has left a
vacant place behind him, for he a good fell
low, and clever well, and you were always
that he would furnish constant food for talk the
through"