New-York tribune., 1902-03-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

II admit" says a woman reporter quoted by
'The Philadelphia Record that in certain lines
of work Miss Blank beat me every time. I'm
not emotional enough to compete with her; I'm
not enough Of an actress. That girl can cry when
ever she wants to- I've known her to go to a
house where suicide had taken place, worm her
way into the confidence of the bereaved family,
sympathize with them tearfully and jolly them into
believing that she veritable angel OF mercy
She would explain that her paper had sent her for
the details but little would be written con-
corning the tragedy, and that her heart was bleed
ing for the bereaved ones In the end she would
get photograph, go back to her Office chuckling
and write the yeowest kind OF a story embel-
lished with all the sickening details. And it's all
because she can cry at moments notice"
Second AmercanHFne tTavelled ne aG5oae IpcaS Went
where pleased, and escaped the vulgar curiosity
.EIh? How did you trayel?'
rich American lust pretended 7 wasn't apWhod&
but an ordinary English lord "-(New-York Weekly
Besides the cheating prices paid to army con-
tractors for them, the Boer war has used up
horses at an unexampled rate. than half a
million having been shipped there, of which but
a fraction remain in service. Competent authori-
ties declare that the cavalry recruits out
were uninstructed and did not know how to take
care of their animals, and the food supply for the
latter, as might be expected. has not always been
regular adequate. Besides these conditions, and
partly, doubt, a consequence OF them, horse
epidemics of greater less severity prevailed
almost since the breaking out of the war No
wonder it has borne heavily the equine
generation.
Foreign visitor-You have a glorious country
here. and fairly revel in the blessings OF freedom
Mr.. Crossroads-Wall. as to that. we don't take
office don't half pay expenses, and SO ali parties
patTiotcaily agreed to retire from the political
Weekly
A mass meeting recently held in Durham to
protest against the charges made against the Brit
ish army. A feature of the meeting was the read
ing Of letter of emphatic protest against the
eign calumLies from Thomas Craven. late adjutant
to General De Wet Mr.. Craven is now a prisoner
parole, and his mother and sisters have been in
the concentration camp at Kroonstad.
cali the roll of thirty-1ve good men and true
to their names, and the sheriff looked somewhat
ingHlrlngy M at the Judge but the latter was calmly
ANY desiring to be excused from service on this
jury jury will now now cor come forward" Twenty-Five men
In his work e. OF noting those who had failed 70
nTe 3enre desiring o GSk a "a the the
Judge. speaking to, long, thin nervous looking Ing
It please your honor, answered the aforesaid thin
I'm sae4nF h TO om 6e %
prove prove embarrassing to the other jurors and is GER
Of Your iness asked the Iudge we vef @assFs sss
the young man. hesitatingly I'D prefer to tell YOU
In private. I'm somewhat delicate about speaking
OF 1t in public" II cannot hear anything in pri-
vate, responded the judge impatiently "If YOU
want TO be excused you must tell me here and
now what is the matter with you" We'll II /
must tell il here-I have the itch" 'The itch %
echoed the judge. and. turning to the clerk with
out marking how apropos his observation was said
MI Jones, scratch the juror or."-(St. Louis
Paddy DiSnam, who used to be a member of
parliament In Victoria Australia, was a thorn In
the side OF ofcialdom and a terror to his political
foes, although often when he opened his mouth he
put his foot in II. Dgnam was well-to-do and as
he could only just read he employed a secretary to
write out his speeches. which the honorable MEM
ber read out laboriously 81 know there will be
many who won't agree with my Views on this
question" he read out night. but although
some of US are going way and some another
shure were all striving 10 reach the same 1ail"
Mr.. Jay Smith has returned from EuroDe where
ne went 10 take a course In voice culture He re-
ceived few lessons from some OF the Gold mas
ters and then quit and came home. In an inter
view with THE Lindsborg Record he saws the
old masters employ no better methods than those
10 be found in Kanaas and that he Concluded
after ne had taken a few lessons at SIS each that
he was being played for sucker We gather from
Mr. Smiths interview that he would ike TO see
hahsas go INTO the old master business and play
others Tor suekers.-(hansas City Journal