New-York tribune., 1902-08-29
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

...,, ,o,. IN one Of our district schools. says
The Momence Gul Press-Reportsr' when 'S aSAea
bv a kind old lady II he studied very na'u sa''
"Oh don. hurt myself at IT.
Oh said the lady. you VIII "o'e' 20
% the United States.
NO ma am" replied the boy. 7 don't expect to
be. I'm Democrat
Too Cautious have the greatest oo2haencs I'm IN
Dr. slom as PhysiS4n ,ss ssia an one opI0ion nj iii he
has waited and weighed case ana 'ooNe' at II
IRON eIef SAID the scep,ica friend. That's all
right 3 don't carry it too fss ss 30 csutoHs
v,jtb The nost-mortem. '-(Youths Companion
r, tho book Of Nahum the Prophet these words
are found: The chariots shall rage in the streets
thew shall joste against another n tne n'o1-
u,,vs. they shall seem like torches; they snail run
~ ,b, frh,nirEs" Did this wonderfully impress
sivc and vivid description foTeteli the era OF tile
trolley and the automobiles? Even the SuI'an .!
Morocco and Sir Thomaa Upton have been 1ostled
and shaken Up by self-motors in the last few days
Fond Nan1ma--Tsn't baby getting big Just sec
ni% PapaHe s does seem solid this morning. and rs
remarkable because he appeared 10 DC al H'AeI
last nfght-(Philad"lphia t'ecor',
The following recent incident illustrates the eih-
cheney of the United States mail service: At Rock
Island IL there was deposited in a United States
rnailbox letter upon the envelope OF winch was
pasted picture evidently representing some fdli-
agent MS was All JIlSlC Nf'S '.t''I
the envelope. That the picture was Of some rail-
y. naseengcr agent the rostoff1ce authorities de-
termined from the uniform. and. under micro
sconc inspection discovered that the cap bore the
inscription Chicago and Alton Railway Passenger
Agent" Upon reference TO a Chicago and Alton
Railway folder in which appear the pictures Of
depot passenger agents, the postoffice authorities
discovered shat the individual TO whom the letter
vas addressed Price NJ. Taylor. depot passen-
ger agent at ST Louis. The letter was forwarded,
NIr TaI three after 1t mailed
iii Rock Island.
Faint Heart never marry you. said the
..Rut pleaded the wealthy old man. wont you
here? am troubled with weak and faint heart.
And yet they say faint heart never won fair lady.
-tChcago News.
George Kennan. writing to The Outlook says
that careful investigation Of the stories OF wit
r1esses of the eruption OF Mont Pelee shows that
the flames so often described. were not present in
the catastrophe. The descent OF the eruTted mass,
which looked like black cloud, watched by
Father Mary from Morne Rouge; by Messrs. Las
sere and Simonut from the Grande Rebuilt; by Mr.
Guirouard from the bishops garden. just back
of the Grande Reduit; by Mr.. Fernand Clerc from
Mont Parnasse mile east of st, Pierre; by En-
gneer Charles c. Evans from the deck of the
Roraima. and by Mr. J. Montera from the French
cable steamer. eight miles off the coast None of
these observers saw any fame in the cloud.
ything like an explosion of inhammabe gas
The frequent references to fame" he writes
lava, burning gas and rain of fire, III the early
accounts OF the disaster due. think, partly
to inaccurate observation partly the appear
ance of lightning flashes in the lateral discharge
and partly to excitement and confused blending
OF effect with cause. IL is perfectly natural to
associate intense heat with visible fame and when
a cloud burns flesh and sets FIRE TO every indam-
rnable object that IL touches the average OBJ
server concludes that II must contain the flame
that 1t communicates. Some of the sailors the
Roraima insisted that they burned by
tongues of fame they lay the floor in the
forecastle. but when they closely cross
questioned and their attention called to the
fact that their clothing not scorched. they
had admit that they did not actually see the
tongues of Tame"
MANIFESTLY UNFAIR.
The world acclams necessity
The mother of invention
The hard worked father. where is he?
Should he not get mention?
(Philadelphia Press