New-York tribune., 1902-12-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Virginia nsgro. who is so light that he was not
allowed to ride in the Jim Crow" section or q
train sued the railroad company for putting MIN
OF the train He refused to ride In the compart-
men, for whites II. ". Hawkes. the plaintiff. sue
ceeded easily in proving TO the satisfaction OF the
court that he was ciasscd in the tax iists as
negro and that he the descendant or Two
slaves He gained his contention as to being ON
clallv a negro without difficulty. yet ne failed TO
secure an award OF money damages from the Coast
Line Railroad Company. II seems that tne Jun
Crow law Of Virginia contemplating the aisheuity
conductors may have in determining the race OF
some blacks who very white and or some
whites who are very dark. empowers the conductor
70 make an arbitrary classification or his pas
seusers to suit himself regardless OF his experiences
as an ethnologis; Consequently the court refused
TO award damages to Hawkes., although IL con-
coded that the conductor had erred in thinking him
a white man.
sbc-Go away. you nuisance! You DON'T know
when a woman is well dressed.
HNoh, yes / dot 1t is when she is head and
part OF 1t is IN the way of Fellows feet-tooS'oh
transcript
Judge Morrow, of the federal bench on the faclrc
Coast tells this story "A consulship vacancy oc-
Cured in one Of the group OF islands of the South
Pacific ! commended friend for the vacancy;
he was appointed. and. 1t was imperative ne
should reach his post at the earliest possible DAY
he sailed from san Francisco with the understand
ing that his commission should follow him. aud
local MAGISTRATE after he had arrived Well, the
new consul sailed. and it was six months before
the State Department heard from him. he reported
there was local magistrate. and inquired OF the
Secretary If he could not take the necessary oash
before the King. The Secretary wrote him IN the
affirmative and it was several months later when
another letter this time by sailing ship. after
going around the world. 1t contained the graphic
information that the aforesaid King had In the
mean time gone to an adjoining island and taken
10 the brush Should the consul follow him? Again
he was given an Affirmative answer. The archives
of the State Department will show that he eVentu-
allv located THE South Sea island King in the
brush was in, and after the lapse OF nearly
two years from the date Of his appointment was
fully qualified to enter upon his consuiship,'
Sufficient Materal.-'"rhat great arctic explorer
saved saved from the wreck was few timbeIs.'
oh well they'll be enough to provide lecture
platform. - philadelphia Press,
Curious was the find made in Sharon, Conn, by a
couple of youths while hunting They discovered
an old tree into the hollow of which an altar had
been built by cementing in fat stones at from ten
to twelve feet from the ground and piiing others at
the base up a height OF some three feet
tablet was the back of the hollow, about
elk feet from the foot which bore in Greek the In
scription which ST. Paul saw on the altar in
Athens ITO the Unknown Cod This of a
Biblical quotation evidently made In spirit
of n,ockery. The altar is supposed to have been
erected by an irreligious sect society which
fiourshed in Sharon in the early years of the last
century and have been the seat of their athestic
orgies and revels. The altar has since been defsced
by some curiosity hunters carrying off the tablet
but luckily a photograph of it had been taken be-
fore this vandalism committed.
Extinguished.-"O yes!' he said boastfuy. Il
used to be old fame of hers
"Aht So you were. Her father was telling
last night how he put You out '-tPhiladelphia
Press.
A story is told of Arthur Bafour's experience
Secretary for ireland which illustrates both his
unpopularity and the wit OF the celebrated Father
Healey. Balfour asked the priest one occasion:
do the Irish really hate much the news
papers say?'' My SIR Father Eealey's
answer ''f they only hated the devil half much
as they hate you my occupation would be gone
put advertisement in paper headed:
boy wanted
The next morning he found bandbox on his
doorstep, with this inscription on the top:
How will this answer?'
On opening it he found nice fat, chubby looking
specimen of the article he wanted, warmly done up
in hannei.-tSpare Moments
AS industrial progress goes ahead some Of the
most celebrated waterfalls harnessed for the
motive power of great mills, and the dusty old age
miller no longer grinds with the water that Is past
if he did before This is the age of machinery
and the mill the floss and the village sYnthy
outworn and out of date
Slusn.-"Weli, well,' remarked the city man. on
visit to his old home in the country, 'it certainly
does look like snow"
Looks like snow2" exclaimed the native. why
it's showing now.
Yes and I say it looks like snow Snow never
looks like snow in the city."-lPhlaeelphia Press.