New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-21
THE PASSING THR0NG.

England and the Continent as well" said r H
Cuttings. of ST. Paul. who has recently returned
from Euro7e. at the Murray Hin
ENGLAND Hotel yesterday, "are a fever
LOOKING TO heat account OF the Boer
KITCHENER While no nation has yet committed
any act which could possibly be
construed into being an overt one, there is little
doubt that the masses OF the European peoples are
decidedly in sympathy with the Beers in the pres
ent struggle and that England is enjoying to the
full the splendid isolation Of which she has so
long boasted. but at the present time 1 should
think it would be a trihe cloying-
The utter Ignorance of anything and everything
American which has for years marked the COM
ments OF the European press our affairs is
strangely enough finding, although to a lesser ex-
tent its parallel in its reports regarding England
For example The St Petersburg Gazette recent
" gravely informed its readers that the English
had plenty of food for their soldiers but like the
MaIays. they fed their men on tigers flesh. 10
make them more courageous and blOodthirsty-'
That's gem; don't you think so? the reference 70
the tiger eating Malay amounting TO positive
genius
Field Marshal Lord Roberts. or 'Bobs the name
mt it seems T9T To be- everywhere Believed that the
guiding spirit in the south AtriSan war So fro3 0w
YOU might perhaps better say frantic and despair.
Ing is the faith OF the English in the ability Of
Beers and to set right ali that is now wrong
that I fear it viii operate TO his detrtment Ior
the pendulum has swung SO far in his favor that
II would take but little 70 set 1t gong N IS part
would be likely to call forth deluge OF criticism
so fierce as possibly TO impair his usefulness
"Apropos of the Boer war" said W L. Corder
yesterday Jokes Of course, being perpetrated
Thursday I was sitting with
BET THE group Of men, one OF whom was
ENGLISH known to be rampantly prO-Boer.
WE'RE NOT IN Another Of the group turned 10 him
LADYsAITH. with the remark; 1 see the Ensiisn
are In Ladysmith.' Where did you
hear that2 asked the Boer sympathizer- I don't
believe it 'why?' the reply. it's in all the
afternoon papers and in the morning papers as
we'll That Is not true the hot retort, for
read them carefully and saw not a word OF It.
Well, 1t is So returned the other. And I'll bet
you the drinks It is The offer was taken where
upon the one who had precipitated the discussion
drew a paper from his pocket and pointing TO p, a
pL S IN 49, canrsS Wiz ana 1be English
garrison were in Ladysm1th. The drinks were
but not 1t must be confessed with enthusiasm or
without remarks about tricks, unfairness ana
THE late Edward A sothern" said c. H. Tai
colt, OF Buffalo, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yes
terday, was known far and wide
SOTHERN a practical Joker. and many o.
HELD THE those he perpetrated found their
STAGE way into print. He would go 20
any amount OF personal inconveni-
ence and trouble TO carry out one OF his jokes.
and remember his telling with great gles
how ne had got into empty stage in the lower
part Of F1fth-ave and succeeded IN riding the
length OF the route and return without any get
ting aboard or the company receiving any fares
except his own The manner IN which he accom-
plished this he explained TO be follows: The
stage had proceeded some three blocks. when II
stopped TO pick up couple OF women who had
sgnallsd Il. whereupon SOthern who could not Of
course be by the driver, began TO dance up
and down the interior Of the stage, wave his arms
about and grin and chatter in idotc and expansive
manner me women decided tast they Woqla nave
slider riding with Iunatic conducive to either
would-be passenger this manoeuvre was success
fully repeated until the stage had returned TO the
original point where Sothern had boarded It. when,
luckily for the receipts OF the company. an i'm
pOrtant engagement compelled him reluctantly to
leave it.