New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-13
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

good story Is told IN the English papers OF
how the Soman Mad Mullah worked one Of those
miracles" which drew many waverers TO hts ban
ner.
off the coast and at night threw a searchiight on
TO the jungle covered mountains Abdullah was IN
hiding there and, knowing from his visits 10 Alden
what It was that his followers hailed as a new
star. told them that the light was seeking him
when the electric rays actually flooded his en-
canpment he cried I'm triumph: ''wIn you deny
now that l am under the eye Of God?"
The Somali fell on their knees. beat tho earth
with their foreheads. and replied: Thou art truly
the Elect. the Chosen. the Mullah the Master
Our goods. our existence. our souls belong 10 thee
We place ourselves entirely at the disposition of
thy will"
A few weeks later came the news cf the rising
or some four thousand OF these Somau
II sometimes happens that a man puts both
money and confidence in bank-and later draws
OUT MS cOhndence.-CChicago News.
The punctualty at a wedding of the chief narttas
TO 1t has always been expected a principal feat
ure OF the ceremony, and 1t is a testimony to the
general interest in the occasion OF both OF them
that they are generally on hand at the time an
pointed, and braced to the stress OF the ritual II
there Is occasional delay the part OF either there
Is usually some after explanation OF IT which IN
be accepted as adequate. must be only plausible
on its face but present some difficulty in the WAY
quite lnsurmountable as being arrested and put in
Jail, or falling in the river and being swept over
the milldam The excuse OF young bridegroom of
New-Brtain. Conn. who of late failed to appear
at the appointed hour to take his vows OF bond
was that his father without sufficient in
vestigaton. had locked him In his dressing room,
while he was putting the last touches to his toilet
and gone OFF 70 the ceremony by himself surprising
that his son had preceded him. He was finally dis
covered and released. but not until the whole town
had been searched through the bride rnearv,biIe
on the tremulous edge of Mysteries and with diff
Guilty kept in composure by the officiating parson
But airs well that ends well, and the ceremony
was only held up for half an hour a DELAY not
very formidable in face the long contract which
the twain melting into were entering upon.
ever met with that OF Sioux girl AT the
Hampton Institute not long since. 4 silly visitor
skinned belle and said Are You civizei ~! rec Fec
was fashonng breadboard at from the h9T wor-shs
replied: NO Are you?"-(Rochester POst-Express
New England exults more or less in the French
Canadian increment of its population and from
some points OF view 1t has the best reasons for
doing so. For example. of them ara so ardent
in the impulses leading TO marriage that thew go
ahead banging at the early shutters of sleepv
town clerks in search OF licenses before they have
found out what the prospective brides name is
This happened to one Joseph Chatelot OF the re-
spectacle old town of Torrington. Conn. who was
enforced to put the finishing touches to his court
ship by interrogating the tender young damsel 70
whom his addresses were paid to her name
ne had no olhculty IN nnding out. and the only
thing about the incident worth recording Is that he
should have gone through his wooing without clear
ing up a point so essential To court young
woman on the general string of endearing appel
latives commonly applied to damsels in situations
of sentimental exposure. without caring to find out
her solder natal and legal appelIatiyes NAV do
well enough for the transplanted and inTnetuous
young French Canadian suItor but IL is not at all
in the old fashioned New-England style OF wooing
II used TO be set about with much more method
and wifi
like legal process. II is not TO be asserted that
the way of Joseph Chatelot is better than the
given usage which it succeeds. but there is an Off
hand holiday air about it which makes II several
times more lively and amusing.
Sailors are awful fOrgetful. amt they2" asked
little Elsie.
WHY. what makes you think that?" inquired
her papa.
Because every time they leave place they have
q. weigh their anchor. IL they weren't forgetful
they'd remember the weight philadelphia Re-,
ord.