New-York tribune., 1902-03-24
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

In letter to "The Chur~hman" the Rev ". c.
McCracken. rector Of the Episcopal Church Of the
Covenant Of Junction City. Kan, agrees with
Bishop Potter that prohibition tends to make
frauds. He formerly lived in a Minnesota town
nearly large Junction City where a license
fee OF $1,000 was charged, and he says that he has
seen more drunken men in Junction City in four
months than he saw in the Minnesota town in
than five years. Besides number OF saloons
that are allowed to do business by paying fine.
there are eight drug stores where. according to
rumor liquor is sold. II believe" he adds. that
every one OF Kansas clergy who lives in
place OF any size will testify to the thing OF
his own knowledge. If he tells what he knows. and
not d-goody things that may be expected of him
in some quarters. 7 believe that this fraud de-
ceit and hypocrisy permeate much of life here. and
the whole thing is poison more fatal 10 Christian
manliness than open regulated saloon could be.
or ever has been. Let me hasten to add that
have never used liquor as a beverage in my life,
wine drinker nor have I ever used tobacco
in any FORM and hate saloon"
Does your son matrculate this year. Mrs. Ham
why, really. don't know. I amt heard any
thing about matriculation. but he wrote me in his
last letter that he had got vaccnated and 1t took
terrible. .'-(Chlcago Record Herald.
THE York CMeD Courant' thus describes the
daily life OF young man OF that vicinity: He
lives at home the farm. He is up before s
o'clock in the morning doing chores At $50 he
starts out and walks to York Corner. a distance Of
four miles. where he takes car TO York Beach.
He then walks another mile to Cape Neddick where
he teaches school all day. He returns in the same
way and after he gets home finds plenty OF work
to do until late in the evening. And this is not all.
The young man meantime is studying keep up
with his classes in Bates College and is teaching
this winter in order 10 get money finish his
education there"
nlhed entered well flled Markets. car. and
conductor. collecting far
blocked his progress;
Were you speakin to me?" asked the conductor.
Certainty" replied the passenger. step for
ward, SO we can get inside. Plenty of room up
II you. will attend to your business I will attend
10 mine, ne snapped the ne conductor
that you had better try taking the ahead"
was lost in the laughter of the passengers-Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
An old Arab of AIgiers the other day swallowed
his months wages. owing to apprehension that
ne going to be robbed. The coins. being most
ly five franc pieces. proved painful that an on
Grafton became necessary, and money was ex-
tracted to the value of IL
You played nothing but tragedies" said the
They were worse than tragedies answered Mr.
sy ne Msrs stopped agurng his
phes. "-(Washlngton Star.
Foreigners are always shocked at the spectacIa
Athens. to The Chicago Record Herald" 1T is a
spectacle which most people desire TO avoid be-
cause the body OF the dead is exposed in an omen
hearse. The coffin Is shallow, that not only the
face and head but the hands and much OF the body
can be distinctly seen from the sidewalk as the
procession passes through the streets The lid of
the coffin. richly upholstered and often decorated
with garlands and wreaths is carried on the hearse
by the undertaken. The priest, the relatives and
other mourners follow. and the ghasty spectacle
passes 1t is customary for bystanders to remove
their hats and cross themselves Graves are rented
in the Athens cemeteries for a term OF years lust
like the habitations OF the living None but the
rich own burial lots II is evidence of wealth
and aristocracy. The poor never think of buying
a lot a tomb 1t would be considered an unneces-
sary luxury. AT the end of the term for which A
grave is rented the bones dug up. put into a
bag. labelled with the name and dates and depos-
tied in a general receptacle"
The mistress of village evening school gave TO
her class of rough lads this question work out
their states: If two herrings cost three half
pence what would thirty cost?'' She noticed that
one lad filling his slate with calculations
and asked him his result About three and six
pence num- he replied douhtfully. Oh but
that's too much" said the mistress: don't you
see. IL two herrings COST 'Errin'st" inter-
rupted the lad silly of mel I was countin' 'ern
Like 'addocks-"-London Chronicle.