New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Dean Shaler Of the Lawrence Scie.tihc School of
Harvard. defended slavery Wednesday at a
meeting in the interests of the Tuskegee Institute
ut was he said "the best relation that could
have existed between such cultured and such IN
cultured peoples. By that discipline in several gen
erations they were well under way. At the close
of the war. when broke the chains and gave
them the ballot, we made a great blunder. Is 1t
due to any quality in the negro race? think not
If our own people five hundred years ago had been
treated in the same way they would have made
the same blunder. Our did not begin with
the ballot and the academy. but with the arts. If
we educate them to work In the arts with US. the
rest will come in time Unless we lift them up
they will in time drag us DOWN
Housekeeper-Now. you clear out right square
on Tr al mum. only wanted to borry
Bible If you Ii have zee one sht to sP "a Tf
Well, num- will ye please LEM enc, me one few
Mebby it will stay my appetite till git to some
town where people has fewer Bibles an more pies >
-(New-York Weekly
LAS there have been added to the United States"
says 1.-THE Argonaut" some 1900 900 100000 of
people-about one-sixth the population of the main
land-who speak the Spanish tongue, why would
II not be we'll to add courses in Spanish to the
public school curriculum? For some generations to
come Spanish will be he language in our new
possessions The American generation to come
should therefore learn speak. write and read this
"a N-@S O%@-SNO
Uor,d Miss It-"IAttle boy" said the grabbed
old man IT don't suppose it would worry you much
if there was nc SUCH thing as SOAP ,,~obi ..1f
SURE 1t w gap ey WouId1 be no soap boxes
fer make bonires outer Philadelphia Press
Soldiers of the recent war with Spain not
recognized as veterans by the Massachusetts, State
Soldiers Home. at Chelsea. The case that has
brought this decision Is that Of private now dying
from consumption. He has been rejected by the
he haS
If looks as if he would have to die in almshouse
Governor Crane is ready TO make some recon-
mendations for the correction of this state Of af-
fairs The trustees say this decision is to be en-
forced by all similar institutions throughout the
country.
reached Bigg Drive Co.'S ahead of the crowd this
morning. and got enough stuff for perfectly ele-
'iH4iutsband-Hoopa: You're angel. What will it
c0 Wif to FFS at sso|CNew-York Weekly.
UNLESS the present style Of trolley cars should
go out of vogue" says a gossiper in THE New
Orleans Times-DemCcrrt." they will develop a
race of left handed motormen. If you will notice
the motorman next time you get on car. you
will observe that n keeps his left hand the
crank which controls the current, and his right
on the one connected with the brake. The reason
for such an arrangement is that the brake crank
requires considerable more strength in its manipu-
lation. but the current regulator comes into play
ten times often, and Las to be moved at much
greater speed. AS matter of fact, the operator
is continually shifting ii to and fro for the pur-
pose of Increasing decreasing the power. and
sort of dial ove- which the handle moves. tells
him exactly how much electricity he is calling
into play at any given moment. All that demands
special alertness and attention, while with the
brake it is merely a matter OF a straight pull.
The natural consequence of such unequal di-
vision of labor is transfer the dexterity of the
right hand TO the left. and with many of the older
1t has already become noticeable"
Literary Notes.-Mr. Ernest Siton-Thomas is
about to bring out his fourteenth book on wild
Animals / Have Never Saw"
People who wondering why Richard Harding
Davis and Charles Dana Gibson 90 not work to-
gether any more must remember that the wives
of those gentlemen were not friends in college.
We reliably informed that che of the East
publishing houses has book dealing with
the life of John Paul Jones In its Christmas llst
+. Marion Crafford is at work on a novel of
$4,000 words the action of which Is limited TO nine
teen minutes by The stop watch.
The strictly new and original versions of Mother
Goose far as reported this season number l5S
II is reported that j. Gordon Coogler's poems
are TO be dramatized for Pete Dailey.-(Chicago
Times-Herad.