New-York tribune., 1903-04-02
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

The Venerable Beds is coming late to honor
To the famous old Saxon scholar 1t Is proposed 70
erect a. monument at Monkwearmouth, on grouno
+bot beIoneed of old to the twin monastertes Of
Monkwearmouth and Jarrow. The fame OF the
Venerable Bede scholar and a teacher fnaoe
his clustered home a beacon light 10 the Europe
of the eighth century, The memorial Is to take
the form of an Anglian cross. some twenty-five
feet high It will be placed upon a commanding
site at Roker Point, Monkwearmouth a spot that
must have been familiar to Bede in the days tnat
he spent at st. Peters Monastery hard by'
THE NIGHT EDITORS CRITICISM.
The poet writes: 1T sat upon the shore - -. ssa
6@e An9 gMT 6 6hs snd Gn Upon
There's something that would interest me more:
And And watched the great big eobers Of dr land
Come splashing Ger the water near at r.
But writing 9 Of thing SO SO t1 GIm9ngae a8d SPACE
He also writes: -. sat beneath tree n,rt
Flirting from bough to 5oughIhs ot song tS she heard
r s bt ofaeS f brd dPd had sat Beneath the tres
And. with book in hand, had watched the man
you'd haze 1 been e9 mSPt1 sTg sae N pac
To write it up seems almost olssrdce-
Again: 'I held brimming glass in hand.
NV soul was lifted even while quaffed
Now had he held the liquor in his hand. ..
And Quaffed the glass-there were story s{Ere'
When that tqmbler in bis midst should n land
Fha II at storm 4 Roud be be RoPt double head
~ II Baltimore American.
A Genoa paper tells this delightful story of the
enterprise of the Duke of Veragua: When the de-
scendant of Christopher Columbus visited chicago
he inquired at a telegraph Office the charge Tor
telegram of ten words to the city of Columbus
Fifteen cents" answered the official. mot IN
cuding the signature which is wired free"
whereupon the duke wired: mayor, Columbus
Shall visit your city next Monday or Tuesday
And he signed IT. "Christobay Colon de Toledo y
Larreategui de Ia Cerda Ramirez de Baquedanoy'
Gante Almirante Adelantodo. Mayor de las Judas.
Marques de Jamaica. Ducque de Veragua y de la
Vega, Grande de Espaha, Senator del Refine, Ca
ballero de la insigne orden del Toison dOro, Gran
Cruz de Ia Conception de Villaviciosa- Gentil
Hombre de Camara del Rey de Espaha-"
Preferred Hogs to Land.-They tell a good one
on prominent real estate man of Waurika M M Some
creek 70 show him a certain claim He told the
that it was an exceptionally hne claim; that
to him for $4,000. The man looked around and dis
covered some red mud way up in a tree, and asked
the real estate what caused that mud In the
tree tops If the land did not overflow The agent
raised over n the Chickasaw country Witch used
to range on the creek. and that they rubbed the
the land glanced up in the tree again. and told
the Waurika man that he wouldn't take the claim.
hogs.-(kansas, City journal.
Utah has adopted amazingly drastic legislation
with regard to tobacco and opium. A law has been
passed providing for fine of S. or five days i'm
prisonment for any under eighteen years Of
age who even has in his her possession a cigar
cite. cigar or any other kind of tobacco. or any
opium 1t will be interesting to observe how rig
orously so sweeping measure will be enforced
Temperance Lady-Ah, my poor man. fear you're
hard drinker.
The Poor Man-Hard drinker? Why mum, it's
the easiest thing does.-Iiarvard Lampoon.
viscount Tadasu Hayashi. japanese Ambassador
at London, recently initiated into Freemas sonry
at the Empire Lodge. The ceremony unique
and interesting performance, Inasmuch as Is not
only the first foreign ambassador to be initiated
in English lodge, but he is believed be the
first of his countrymen, who mostly Shintoists
or Buddhists. to be instructed in the and
mysteries of the craft Although there two
lodges in Yokohama, in Toxic and one in
Yeddo, they are all under the grand lodge of Eng
land. and all the members are British.
OUT OF DOORS AGAIN
Fair Spring that. decks with green the sod
Works change in many a man.
He who was late gallery god
Becomes bleacher fan.
-(Phiadelphia Press.
In article on Negro Pedagogy 1.-The Charles
ton News Courier brings forward some exam
pies of the learning which inspires the negro with
the hope to be teacher. In literary examination
the test, Name literature you have read and
write a snort paragraph about the merits of
piece that pleased YOU educed the following:
this dredful Dark and Dismal day has Sweep
my Glories all away my Sun Goes down and nv
days Goes Past and I must leave this world at
last"
The applicant may have felt the influence OF the
coming decision his paper-it dreadful
day for him If he had any hopes.
Pillow deep. while the suggard sleeps and YOU
win have Corn to sell and Corn for yure own USE
81 have read about Cargo Washtan the hike of
CRATE men abtain by suctran hite but
whies thay company sleept thay tarng up in
the night
"Longfellow-Life is real and Life is Earnest life
is Ithmus."
'Longfelows Ship OF State-Truth fore ever on
the scafod. rang fore the throne. But the
future the scafold. and tho dine is left un-
known
But oh that Dredful Judge I'll see Shall
that awful sentence her Depart ys Cursed Down to
hell and for Their to Dwell"
"Heighth by Great men reatched and keeped
were not obtained by sudden hight but they. while
their companions sleept toing upward in the
night
u G. Whittier. Water-fovel And so beside the
sallen Sea waite the n.ufal oar. no harm from him
can come on Ocean nor on Shoes"
do you drink pale beer Miss Milwaukee, mo.
indeed papa buys our beer In bottles. "-( Boston
Christian Register.