New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-21
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

man who recently was presented by a Soudanese
potentate with the Labaksi-Tapo Order OF Merit.
The recipient. anxious display the decoration at
the earliest opportunity, applied at once to the
Ministry for permission to wear II. While readily
granting the permission the minister inquired.
with the ghost OF smile. Do you know what
the order Is lIkeT
Certainly replied the delighted applicant: 1T
IS q beautiful gold ring. and hanging from It
small red enamel pipe Of peace. I should like to
wear IT
"'of course you may wear it; bu, according to
law you have TO wear It it is worn by the
lives in Africa
And how might that be-
why. with the ring through the nose
THE new knight OF The Labaksl-Tapo Order has
not been heard OF since"
INDIANA-THE MOTHER OF GREAT MEN.
Between the blue Of inland seas
She Sits among her fertile farms
And weayes the web OF state.
Slip smoothly through her hands;
Tf IS E %aTh a 6 Is s9F 2gs{ loom
Forth from her Iog-buut cabin door,
With running roses red.
Fun many sturdy has gone
The nations halls TO tread;
50. when on lame's immortal scroll
You place TIE Good and great
AWWG TSs } h.sb 4 the dos S51u sta ne'
-tMlnna Irving. in Leslie's Weekly.
Objection to the use of the French word "chauf-
feur in the ordinance regulating the speed Of auto
mobiles in Kansas City has led to the substitution
of the word operator 10 designate the con-
trolling the machine
She's evidently the apple of his eye"
He told me she was a peach
so? Well, at any rate. they are fine looking
pair -Qndianapons News
The question of Sir Walter RaIeighs burial place
has lately been revived in England. Three churches
claim both the head and body of the gallant cour-
tier. Immediately after the execution, which took
place N Tothl-st. Westminster. on October %
1913 his wife placed the head in a red bag and
of with it in a mourning coach. This treasure she
kept for twenty-five years. The body buried
in st. Marearets Church, but shortly after the
execution Lady Raleigh wrote to her brother Sir
Nicholas Carew, asking permission to bury her
husband in his church at Beddington, where she
desired also to be buried History IS silent from
that time 1t is known however. that her son
treasured the head his mother had. and, accord
ing to The London Daily Chronicle" tradition
says that 1t was finally buried with him at West
Horsley. Surrey. Or. BrUshied. who has made
d thorough study of Raleigh history, is of the be-
lief that when investigation is made the three
bodies-father. mother and son-will be found
buried together. He has suggested to the British
Archaeological Society to inscribe the stone under
which his body supposed to be buried in ST.
Margarets. London, with his and coat-of-
arms. No English memorial to this universal
genius" exists. The window in St. Margaret's,
dedicated to his memory through the enterprise OF
DR.. Farrar. was the gift of this country.
After two or three banquets whereat the menu
stretched out through numerous finger lengths of
many syllaDled French words. 1t must crafty the
sense of delight in contrast for the President to
sit down to a dinner of bear paws. 'posSum and
sweet potatoes in the Mississippi wilderness y
fecognzabe but eaiicng forms, but he cannot
initiate the wtld-woodsy tang of game that has fed
on what nature in the wastes provides Sometimes.
of course. the tang that attaches itself a bear
and eXhaeS itself perSistently from his steaks and
Sparerlbs after death rs too ''taGSy,'
might say, tangible. Some bears do not
have sought TO make a pleasing impression after
death. They have regard for their fellow
creatures on this earth than the mild-eyed but
selfish at least thougntleSs, Jersey that lin
that wishes to be thought well Of will live that
when he comes 10 pass away his memory will
from his earthly frame. We have no direct infor-
nation from Smedes concerning the character of
the bear that furnished the paws for the Presi-
dents Sunday dinner. but
to the proverbial good luck the head of the
nation and hope for the best.-(St Louis Globe
Democrat.
In the Congressional Directory no Senator
will be designated as 'PopuIist" Senator Harris
OF Kansas, has been so classed, but he now asks
10 be designated 4 Democrat. Senator Teller
who has been called a Silver Republican an
nounced himself in the campaign a Democrat
johnnie" AIcCraw was bit Of a character in q
country village in the North of Scotland He lived
the charity of the Villagers but sometimes
found it particularly hard work TO do so.
one day when the springs of sympat ny seemed
10 have dried up, Johnnie" made his way To tba
house of the local doctor and said:
i've come TO get a my teeth taken DOT doctor"
Dear me-! said the medical man. What's
"Oh. they're a RIGHT. but I've nae use for them:
I've naething 10 eat
Yes, said the doctor who saw the Joke. s'hara's
sixpence for you to set a Ioaf.7-(Pearson's Maya