New-York tribune., 1902-04-27
A REToRT COURTEOUS.

How quickly these American buds born ana
reared IN soils remote from the haunts OF SO,
ciety learn the ways Of the town, as they useu
to say in Jane Austen's time Does NaShIH6
ton forget i wonder, that chit or a HesIsI
girl girl from the real West. daughter Oh a
man thrown hastily and Unexpectedly into lAe
Senate? She fresh and haTdy as tlI.
breezes and frs Of her mountains, ana @ an IL
notions OF etiquette and self-composure aiiloiis
the great Were to be found in the socldI CO1e
of the mining camps. But in year. nauNe Mit
and keenness and some judicous novel redolnS
aiding her. she became as sopnlstIca'eH "'
.ady OF the republican court neec De- Ia
Hurrying into the drawing room OF the "As
of Cabinet officer rather late. unknown anu
apologize, she was received by the woman i oL
the house with a rudeness that is sometimes
witnessed in WashingtOn-generally char es
1zing the women whose husbands nave IIleu @
aen ND and who consequently, have moi peeh
-bliged TO fit themselves into their ehNifon-
f1rent to moul1 their tempers and talents 10 liie
sinuosties of society.
every Wednesday afternoon receiving every
body who has mind TO come" SAID 'he sf"lu
dame -,
.'Oh. but fancy Mrs. X, how much pleas
ure your polite hospitality gives every one VINO
IS obliged TO come. chirped the yours oIriils, IS
blowing swiftly and quietly out of the room as
she had blown in.-(Henry Loomis Nelson III lhe
Century Magazine.
THE POLISH PROBLEM IN PRUSSIA.
The aim OF every Polish patriot, according 10
Khese papers, is to a Poland arise on tie
ashes Of the past. stretching from the baieic b ~
and almost much in width, comprlslns
100000 square miles ard with a popuatloh Vi
xhirty-five millions. 1t would embrace the So
rallied Polish provinces of Prussia, TO wlthln d
ehort distance Of Berlin, with half the Prusslah
ehore Of the Baltic 1t would also embrace
Ealicia and the whole Of that portion OF nus,
sia which at one time some of IL three hullufeu
Years ago. formed part of Poland at her largest
Such a Poland would be by no means hoIno-
eeneous It would include the Cossacks OF the
Don and the Dnieper, and the domain OF the SO
called Little BLACK" and white russians,
as well as that Of the Ruthenlans, Llthuafldils
and Masovians. There would be 10 per cent OF
.Jews and Is per cent of Germans in TINS to1a!
population. as well as liberal sprlnklng od
Rumanians, Magyars and gypsies- Thus, the
kreal Poles, ethnologically considered, l. e. those
kraaking Polish and of Polish race and synlPa-
khies would barely form the majority. How
ever there are other countries where similar
appor1ionment seems to work quite satlsfac-
horily as. for instance. in Hungary But IN
-point of creed there would be similar diversity;
FOR of the total population now dwelling on lhe
Territories embraced By this projected Pan-
Poland about 40 per cent are OF the creek
iOrthodoX faith. and only another 4o per CENT ol
the Roman Catholic, while 10 per cent are He
1rews some per cent Protestants and the
email remainder pagan. As to the standard OF
civilization, that, too. would show enormous
differences OF the total population thus formed
over 90 per cent would be grossly illiterate
Thus the new body polite would from the first
carry within Il the seeds OF racial ano renslous
dissensiOn.
However that may be- the creation of such
new Poland by whatever means is the ultimate
goal Of Polish patriots everywhere, according 10
she Polish press and the Polish writers anu
poets. The present agitation is but preparatory
for that It would be a mistake. however 10
suppose that there is impending q great Pollsh
revolution having for its purpose the reallzatlon
pf the above dream. The Poles have learned