The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-04-07
CHAT AND CHAFF.


think you'd feel?
1t must real nice to announce your
self as a popular Idol all ready to be
placed on pedestal and then to bs
vociferously informed by soma millions
OF your citizens, speaking as one man.
that all the pedestals are spoken for.
That is. 1t must be nice II you like
to find yourself surprised.
I. A year Or SO ago the Presidency was
Informally offered to Dewey amid q
general popular hurraif.
Dewey declined it and the people re-
sumed their normal state of mind.
1t was accordingly shock when
dewey came down to the footlights and
like Barkis. declared his willingness.
For the fact is. Dewey as a Presi-
Dental possibility had been pretty
thoroughly forgotten up to the other
day.
Still, TO judge by the comments
read in the newspapers, / should say
that the general run OF folks could not
have been any more surprised by what
Dewey did than Dewey must be by
what his coy fellow countrymen have
been saying about him as Presi-
Dental possibility.
If Dewey had been looking for
trouble. he could hardly have been more
successful In finding 1t.
AS ] view the tiger hunt In South
Africa, the tiger is still doing most Of
the hunting.
Only the other day reports came that
Lord Roberts was preparing to march
''on. to Pretoria"
Now Il looks more as though a reTlef
expedition would have to be dispatched
to get him out of Bloemfontein.
There was q young Mayor named
Greene,
Who since election day hasn't been
seen;
But they say that woonsocket
is still in his pocket.
Though all else may be In the tureen.
The judge charged the jury in the
"Sapho" case that mere suggestion is
against public decency
SO "Sapho" will be restored to the
stage In New York. and fancy stand-
ing room on the ceiling at Wallacks
Will be at premium tonight.
"Sapho" may be pretty tough.
never saw it. But 1t must have made
New Workers feel funny to have the
New York World teaching them morals.
The new convention hall In Kan
sas City will be made of fireproof ma
terial.
1t ought to be II II is expected 20 sur
vive the oratory that is looked for when
the Bryanites gather.
If was an overburdened taxpayers
as I would be IL paid taxes In Prov
idence on any considerable amount 2f
property--I would seriously consider
moving TO Guilford. Conn.
At the Guilford town meeting the
other day the voters decided that the
town didn't need any money. and that
It would be needless extravaganza to
pay tdA toicNtois WI shuhAhb the du-
nual graft.
For five years the tax rate has been
only ten mills on a thousand. The sur
plus funds have gradually decreased
by reason OF this exceedingly small
collection. but. having about $1,000 still
on hand. the Guilfordites are going to
risk going without any tax this year
just to be able to say they have done
II.
Happy Guilford!
But shouldn't want to be an office-
holder in Guilford myself.
Il see that Lord Dunraven Is going
20 the front with a command just
started for the seat Of war in South
Africa.
Perhaps he proposes to argue with
Paul Kruger that theBoers aren't fight
ing fair and according TO the rules and
articles OF agreement.
r,.
Honest. chewed so many hy-
gienic food samples at the Food Fair
that I've had the stomach ache ever
since.
That 16-year-old anarchist with a
6o-cent pistol must have scared the
Prince of Wales out Of his stocking
feet.
1t was a truly awful experience.
DAN II. Low.