New-York tribune., 1902-06-04
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

4 woman recently entered an omnibus IN an
English town. accompanied by a snai oos' VIZ
wore s. saucepan on his head in place OF the more
usueI hat His appearance provoked comment.
.cYot.s e doin' It fur? asked ore traveller Dom
q ,,,r?" cried the mother. why, he was playin
at bein' Lord Kitchener or somethin ana
wanted 'elmet, so e puts the sorsepah on 10
ed. and now e can't get 1t off. so I'm takln III
to the 'orsptal" Poor kid, said sSnlPa'L'|e,. G
poor kid,' cried the mother. ITS poor mel h
was in such 'urry that e never looked TO see
wot was in the sorsepan. and now 'es got my
blessed breakfast on is cad.
THE DAWN OF PEACE.
Put of put of your y,andI mall. H. 62ss1 % kings
Your hands must learn surer grasp
Your hearts q better trust
oh. bend aback the lance's point.
And break the helmet bar;
A noise is in the morning "lno.
But not the note or war.
Upon the grassy mountain paths
The gittering hosts increase .,., s,o.,
They come! They come! How fair their feet!
They who publish peace
And victory. fair victory.
Our enemies ours! -,
For all the clouds are clasped IN light,
And all the earth with MOWERS
Ave still depressed and dim with dew.
But wait a little while,
And with the deathless radiant rose
The wilderness shall smile
And every tender, living thing
Nor lamb shall from the flock be lost
Nor nurseng from the nest ,,
When Representative Tompkins. of Ohio. was a
young lawyer in that State and was winning his
spurs he occasionally found it profitable to ac-
cent case in a Justices court In the country He
tells the following story of the argument made
by a rural barrister before such a magistrate
The case in which the plaintiff sought
to recover damages from railroad company for
Of During the of his
argument the country lawyer used this expressive
sentence ''If the train had been run as IL shouid
have been ran, If the bell had been runs as 1t
should have been rang, or If the whistle had
been blown as it should have been blew. both or
which they did neither. the COW would not have
been injured when she was killed.
Tess-I suppose she'll go to the mountains this
Jess-Oh. no! She has become quite plump ana
has developed a good figure.
Jess-WeI she'll go to the seashore of course
philadelphia Press.
A. S Cook a merchant of Boston. controls four
hundred square miles OF hunting land in Maine.
Mrs diab? erms0nOeak-h 0u say ne peat MS WIG WIN
Mr. Crimsonbcak-Several clubsl
THE monster"
"0h, 1 don't know! You see. he beat her at
golf!'-tYonkers Statesman
William E. Curtis. describing in a letter to The
Chicago Record Herald" the Mosque of Omar at
and how a Mosem guide explained it: AT one
corner of the rock Is shown a depression, called
the footprint of Mahomet- Here the prophets foot
last touched the earth he departed on his
heavenward journey, and little further away
another depression shows where the Archange
Gabriel laid his hand upon the rock and held 1t
down by main force when it rising with
Mahomet When Mahomet he go heaven, holy
rock he say he go, too the explanation given
us by Isa, dragoman, whose English vocabu-
larry and information concerning Scrtptural things
not natural. but acquired. And Angel Gabriel
he put his paw it here and he say, NO rock.
you can't go with Mahomet. You must stay.
keep you and the rock he stay DOWN -
There's a queer thing about Italian laborers
said contractor who employs great many of
them. and that is that they absolutely refuse to
work in the rain. Stop a minute and think. Did
you ever gang of them working in the streets.
digging trenches or doing any other manual labor
in the rain? Well you never did, and probably
never Will Just as soon as shower sets in.
matter how slight, they will scramble for cover
If the rain continues they will complain of
feeling sick, and knock off for the day. One Yellow
Will nave sore throat, another will be doubled
up with pains in his stomach, and others will
suddenly acquire equally severe ailments of all
sorts 1t Is useless to attempt to do anything
with them and pretty soon they Will all go troop
Ing home Why is 1t? suppose it's their natural
entipathy to water."-(Philadelphia Record. -