New-York tribune., 1901-03-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Judge Gates. Of Kansas City, tells this story:
MY family being absent from the city. was tax
ing nv meals at a restaurant where negro boys
employed walters. In one corner OF the
room is a dumb waiter. where orders are called
out TO the cook in the kitchen above. The first
morning my order included. among other things
two eggs. fried medium. The waiter. following his
custom. went TO the open shaft and then called
my order ending with for Mistah Gates He
then turned to attend to some other duty, out
had not taken than three steps when pc
culiar look spread his face The next moment
he had fairly jumped 10 the opening and cried out:
Say thar. William Lookee heah! That order
amt foah Mistah Gates! 1t are foah Jedge Gates!
An. say. thar! Make them aigs fresh aigs" After
which he drew a breath of satisfaction second only
to my So. you see it really pays sometimes
10 be Judge"
Il see that Wisconsin finally has law taxing
Sort O. single tax. amt it?'-(Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Noting suggestion that the British colonies be
called Kingdoms. THE Montreal Herald says;
There is not in the world more democratic COM
munity. In Canada we have neither the appanages
of a court the survival of feudal nobility by
which to be joined to the past We have only a
growing population of Industrious freemen. know
ing no castes or classes and a government tnat Is
truly by the people and for the people"
Harry-Girls take things literally, you know
Five wears ago, when my sister twenty,
you'n believe it, her twenty-ffth birthday returns
regularly every year"-(Boston Transcript
An old man who has been a farmer for fifty
seven years in Missouri says: When began
farming I ploughed with wooden plough. cut
wheat and with sickle and threshed them
out by the tramping process cut the meadow with
scythe and used wooden tooth harrow. Much
of the wheat and corn I raised was eaten by deer,
turkeys and prairie chickens. 1t was no uncom-
mon sight TO many as twenty deer in herd.
Just think of the jump from an OK team to
railroad. I remember my first trip the cars.
1t was in 1876. think. My wife and drove from
Harmony to Ashley to see some friends. When at
Curryville we concluded to take trip up into
Audrain County to Vandaa- Well. when the
train started and were moving over the prairie.
the experience pleasing and novel that L
couldn't help thinking ofs the wonderful age IL
felt so good to be wheeling through space that we
remained aboard until reached Mexico 1t was
wonderful go that far and back in day.
II see that. the reorganized army is to have
That's good thing; They'll keep the do dogs & Of
advantag ."-(Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mr.. and Mrs Daniel wigle. who live on a farm
near Greensburg. Penn. born in the same
neighborhood in which they have always lived IN
the same year. 1907. They were married seventy
three years ago. For the same length Of time they
have been members OF the same church. They
q
grandchildren. thtrty-six great-grandchildren and
one great great -grandchid- In the early days of
their marriage Mr. wigle traveIed all over the
neighborhood itinerant tailor BY 1880 he
had saved enough money to buy the farm on which
they have lived for ffty-one years.
Two Ways Of Writi7g-Mrs. Bibbs-I declare!
You can't write a letter unless you have a
regular desk. and office chair and big blotting pad
Mr.. Bibbs-Yes. and woman may have two
hundred-doIlar writing desk with everything 10
on an old book.-(New-York Weekly.
A number OF returned officers from South Africa
recently attended an exhibition of moving pictures
in London. when IN of the South African
scenes they recognized officer friend The wife
OF the officer. being told OF this wrote to the
manager and asked that this picture might be put
on on a certain evening. when she would purposely
Journey from Glasgow. She had not seen her hus
band for over year. but at last observed him in
a group-on the screen of a ctnematograph!
His Interest-wright-I believe the copyright
laws cannot be made too stringent Don't you
think so2
Wright-Ah! you are not interested in journalism.
eh?
facturer-(Catholic Standard and Times
Ed" Alvey, prominent Kentucky gambler has
been convicted and sentenced TO two years in the
Frankfort penitentary Ex-COngressman Owens.
the coolest who ever sat in a Kentucky
poker game" was retained by the Social Purity
League to prosecute Alvey. One lawyer remarked
when the verdict brought in: When a man
will quit drinking whiskey and burn up the stock
farms
Game.-"Here." sang out the Express Bullet. as
into the gameI'-(Detrot Journal