New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-01
THE PASSING THRONG.

General Macfyer. who was Confederate Officer
from Virginia in the Civil War, and has since
fought In Egypt and travelled over
THE SOUTH several continents. wa at the Gii-
AND THE sey House last night General
BOER WAR MacIver is the original Of the gem
erai who, IT is said. Is TO play a
prominent part in the novel just begun In
serial form by Richard HARDING Davis Speaking
o. n ,pe hn said III has been ray experience
that there is pronounced sentiment one
neutral attitude But the sentimen: is not against
a viii Il the on nso aqs em fS Which are
scended and Southerners have not forgotteh that
most Of us Democrats but it does follow that
subseribs 70 the opinions ana ex sisr ar His
expression Of opinion on that subject was unwlse
Of votes have been TO abou u evers srs an
colony Of size in my life; and the EngnTh are az
not the spread eagle style of the American; There
are two sides TO I'm, 5he so1 mpTige that the South
is not American to the core fof ~ Is So tedav
than in the South
Not all the freaks are in the museums. Some Of
them are in China. Frederick Taylor. F. r. c. s..
who is also folk lore expert and
CHINA HAS member Of anthropological So
SOME cieties, who has returned TO thls
FREAKS country recently from trip
around the world. very neat
freak in Cochin China. when passing through that
country This strange freak of nature he siid
at the Hotel St Denis was baby which had
two heads and pairs of shoulders. four arms APP
parently only one stomach. and no legs at all Per
haps the strangest feature of this renarkaoie m
health and when L it it had lived for SIX
teen months with every prospect OF ar1 1prT nd
viduals and their other children (they had sevsIaD
basket an where it was the object Of generating
gIances from natives. who came even from some
hnman IL to them an object of veneration They
cannot understand it, Each of the heads is OF
sir
Strange So far as I could make out from the in
vestigation I was able make. there was but one
work for two months" Mr.. Taylor did not say
whether the baby was champion crier-
In his now famous after dinner speech at the
banquet of the Omar Khayam club. John Hay toio
of an experience of his while cross
THE GREAT ing the Great Divide. At dawn
OUTDOORS morning, while the party was
FOR HIM encanped on the summit of the
divide. he heard a guide quote.
Its but tent where takes his one days rest
as he stood looking over the valleys AT nls
feet Irving Clark civil ensneer Wn2 mas r
called the anecdote yesterday at the SturtsVa1 s
House one q nones5 osr y in the
where / have been. he said but can truly say
vivid and / may say pure imaginative pictures
anywhere as in the Wild districts where my work
the men have met both engineers and miners miners;
have been thinking of it to-day. as have walked ,.
all they want of this worlds goods. who have aIe
no 5eed no Work in fact Money spent
freely in the search for pleasure OF ar evening
oymenf Care free But in the midst of it long
to back in the great outdoors out on me slleht
Sleep under the stars much Of the time. to have
little spend and less chance to spend H. 70 koM
sight of sky line; that is the tfe Of civil engl.
f. PERHAPS it '' is not an ideal that appeals to
twenty. but to forty the appea! is strong