New-York tribune., 1902-02-13
THE BUGLE SONG.

he went away 10 the that day,
To the swinging busle song;
All stanch and true in his suit Of blue.
Mid the tramp of feet and the loud drum beat
And the ringing OF the cheers
VINO could for tears.
And back again came the marching men,
WIN the ougle singing sun;
Yet the musics surge was a slghing dirge,
An sad and slow and shrill.
For woman wept; and soldier slept
In the dreamle9s. silent sleep.
And the bpgle, song had a measure wrong.
For the buglers sometimes weep.
And 79t the bugIes' lure while the years endure
And the lifting strains on the hills and plains
But the suits of blue and tho sabres too.
md the worn and battered caps
When II sighed the song of Taps .
-(W D. Nesbit. in Baltimore American.
Senator Dolliver. Of Iowa. the other day told Of
his visit TO little town in the western part of the
State last fall. He found that an old friend OF
his who lived in the county was there in Jail hav-
ing chosen to stay in cell rather than pay A tax
he considered unjust and Illegal Delivers friend
wrote to the Sheriff: Dear Sheriff: II will be a
great favor II you Will let me out of jail for two
hours, so I can hear my friend DolIiver make a
speech" The Sheriff was a good fellow said
Mr.. Dolliver. He wrote his consent on the back
of the note, and then added these words The re-
mainder Of your punishment is remitted'"
Grimes-Ingenous way Higgins has to make peo.
pie believe ne is liberal;
Grimes-When he hands out cigar he CASUALLY
rem TreiInarks;, ,. ~ ~ Is out OF box my wife me-
script. ''S''" iran
Or. Flinders Petrie the archaeologst announces
that he has deciphered the cuneiform inscription
on a tablet he excavated in thu plans OF Assyria
and believes that 1t is copy of prehistoric comic
paper. Among other items it contains the follow
ing merry Jest. which bears a strangely familiar
sound: Now. there were gathered together at the
place OF the telling of stories many of them thar
have lived long in the lond and one of them hfted
up his voice and said: Behold it groweth cold
with much extremeness.' Whereupon another
made answer saying; Verify II doth But let ms
separate and set hence. for here cometh Methusa-
lem the aged, and if tarry he will even tell ne
again of the cold spell OF the year 40 And thev
got hence with much speed This item OF news
which appears exclusively in The Baltimore Amer
ican,' is not, however. accompanied with an an5
davit.
Some boys were asked what they knew about the
Pharisess I .1s,,,. They II are mean lot sir said one
them brought penny to Christ once, and He toor ~
IL IN ttls hand looked at ~ and said. Whose sub
With several other small bequests the late Fred
erick Wicomb. of Ipswich. Mass. beaueathed $50
10 the Methodist Episcopal Church of that town
the income TO be expended in purchasing turkeys
for the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners of the
pastor of the church.
Hard Luck.-"I don't see why you're ALWAYS
croaklng ABOUT your hard luck. said the optimistic
clerk You're getting $40 week and'-
MOL amt replied the pessmistic one for I
had it raised lately"
And suppose YOU consider that unIucxy"
Sure. They made 1t slS.'-(Philadelphia Press
Drouth in two successive years over the same
area in India almost means depopulation and that
is what is at present threatened, Unless rain falls
there during the remaining week of the present
month the world will have a repetition OF last
years dismal tale. with even deeper notes of misery
and desolation
Held you say he a millionaire?
She-No; mner
He-Well that should be the same thing II he
collects his bills regularly.-(Philadelphia Record