New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-02
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

church Defence a monthly periodical Of this
city which was established about year ago to
drive the Protestants out of the Protestant EpIs-
coPal Church, has suspended publication.
I'm another OF these fellers that's got to
vote the way he's told er lose his pay" said the
"Huh"' said the listener What is your job"
Observation-Disclosures Press
Elmo Crawford OF the SD Volunteers serving in
the Philippines, has returned his home in Cor
sicana, Tex. with honorable discharge He
says that the islands will prove exceedingly vaIu-
able TO the United States. and that the war has
become merely a guerilla contest and he adds:
so far as politics IN the Army is concerned. 1t is
six OF one and a half dozen of the other. About
half the men are for Bryan and the other half are
for Mckinley. but all Of them are of the opinion
that the marauding Filipinos should be whipped
into subsection There is disIoyalty In the
Army the boys all true blue s far as have
been able to observe, and they have no sympathy
with those people in to country who are trying to
create sympathy for the negroes"
Mr. KRUGER has been treated with the greatest
courtesy at Lourenco Marques from which he has
just sailed a Dutch warship. But We are sure
before his departure gala performance was given
IN his nonor of The Flying Dutchman''- London
Chronicle
There were" says 1.-THE Kansas City Journal"
forty applications for the eighteen little New
York waits who were distributed among those will
ing TO provide homes for them the little Cooper
County village of Pilot Grove. No. the other day
All OF the children said to be OF American
birth. but of foreign parentage two being of Swed-
ish descent. one English and the rest German
They were led home by the hand IL their claimants
lived in town; II In the country, the children were
bundled into wagons and driven off. The bakeries
and candy stores did good business for nearly
every woman who had secured a child felt
the next thing necessary stuff him with
good things "
lis M De Tro, Iatt
Is Miss Mabel at home?
Maid-No. sir; but she says II that's a box Of
candy she saw in your hand ye might lave 1T
philadelphia Press.
"A Bates County CdoD gardener" saws .eThe
Kansas City Journal" has been exhibiting in Rich
Hill what he calls the American expansion potato
The samples were grown from small tuber sent
him from a New-York house, the original seed hay
ing from Russia three years ago A number
OF smaller cluster about the central tuber
One of these potatoes shown had thirteen other
growths of this kind. The Bates County man Will
cultivate the expansion potato a more extensive
scale next season"
Honolulu correspondent OF THE Boston Tran
script" writes: John Chinaman Is an entirely dir
ferent person in Hawaii from what he is In Cali
fornia Those who know him only on the Pacific
Slope do know him at all. There he is a
desr!sed mental outside the pale OF society abused
and tolerated because he can't be wholly got rid Of
In these favored isles he is man among men the
faithful and trusted servant. and often occupies
important places in public affairs; he Is welcomed
to any society for which he has fitted himself And
so well has he improved the exceptional oppor-
tunities that have come to him In Hawaii that he
Is sometimes able to grace the select social
functions. Last week 1 attended n reception at
oahu College, given to the president and his
wife. There. among the elite of the city l saw
Chinese and japanese men and women. some in
their national costumes"
The Hat Was Removed.-"Madam." complained
fha afao .
you'd kindly remove 'Ohr' snapped the
lady. Il guess you're seeing your moneys worth"
You're right. he replied. II only paid 81 so but
here I can see the price tag of your hat and IT'S
marked So SS."-(PhIladelphia Press.