New-York tribune., 1902-02-23

This hunting story comes from Scotland: When
the beaters came out Of the covert of the guns
said 10 the keeper Have you got all your beaters
out?' Aye" said the man. astonished. Are you
sure have you counted them" Counted them?'
said the keeper; AYE they're all right" Then ''
said the shooter. with sigh OF relief Il have
shot roe
Do YOU CATCH THE DRIFT?
Great praise is due unto the man
Who helps the poor pedestrian
And cleans his walk on thoughtful plan.
What. w9hm
We say of him
Walk to the brim heaped
High with clinginE driftcd
Snow and does not with his shovel
Go and push the stuff into the street
NJ Where S, . rwl IN not t. slip beneath our feet and
Guage of despair and get wet snow packed in our
Far and rip our clothing up the rear and nj n
What shall we say of such a man
S, Mho does not sweep snow when he can?
That would reach to his tender spot.
He'd all that snow annihilate
And feel the joy that soul uplifts
baltimore American.
A Philadelphia tells this story about the
Rev. Dr. Alexander Mackay-Smith Coadiutor
Bishop-eect of Pennsylvania: Il was travelling In
Europe with him few years and In Athens he
a
the Acropolis by moonlight We found however
that a strict rule law of some kind forbids the
admittance of strangers to the ruins after sunset
The doctor was in despair. but he finally urged me-
TO come with him and make effort at least to
get into the ruins. So left the hotel after din
ner and climbed the steep hill TO the entrance ,f
the old citadel, where the guards grutrv ordered
us TO malt. long argument ensued. I'm which my
friend took the lead. and. after about fifteen min
utes-we got in. You see" concluded the teller ~
= ,,T,,fce e.r{aI
ed. liberal churchman able to talk effectively on
any occasion. and when he showed a bunch of
good American dollars to those Greek guards and
whispered mysteriously to them they were so i'm
pressed that they left their posts and spent tho rest
Of the evening in showing around the glorious
old pile
Why He Raced.-Nervous Passenger-why are
You steamins alons at such fearful rate through
Ocean Captain (reassuringly)-Fog are very, dor-
eerous madam. and am always in a hurry to get
A. wendllnser, of Richmond Va. a military
tailor. eighty years old made the uniforms TO-
Jefferson Davis's staff and for the STAFF Of ever,
Governor since then. and has been selected to rral
the uniforms for Governor Montague's STAFF VIII
has changed the color from Confederate grav 10
bright blue
GaTeshIn GGamieshDwhat mba p% queer chap synnex s
Dumleigh,I was saying that Tyson claimed 70 ba
great mind reader but ne was unable To- read ~ @ oe
could there no book Ss Poq6 before reader AIDE
mats the way Synnex has of suddenly wanderinss
from the subject.-(Boston TRANSCRIPT eii"s
Inc Reading. Penn, superintendent OF schools
mas oilcialy told the teachers that they must read
the daily papers and keep the run OF events ..In
my Judgment. he says. THE teacher who s,vs
she never reads the napers is not qualined 10
teach" -
II tel you. cried the Jingo the United States
could lick any power in the world 'eS
Well" replied the man who had baar .,,A.u,
a SI tne cHuate, we can never be weather beaten
NV An' olnef Y.-tfhiladelpha Record.