New-York tribune., 1903-01-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"From Madame Humbert's Confession Album is
the title of an entertaining page of publication
which has Just appeared in London. Readers who
have followed the affair will appreciate the fol-
lowing points:
The fault most dislike in others-suspicion.
The virtue l most admire in others-Trust.
My favorite song-"In Old Madrid
My favorite old author-George Borrow.
NY favorite living author-T. P OConnor.
Ny favorite nation-The Czechs.
The sweetest words-"How will you have it?'
and Not Guilty
MY favorite mottoes-"The gods help them who
help themselves" DO, that ye be not done.
Ny favorite characters in hction-Bros. Crawford.
WHAT. INDEED
THE pen is mightier than the sword"
Prav what then can excuse 1t
For never turning the horde
-Phladephia Press
The Okahoman' says that Gideon Morgan who
was honored with the permanent chairmanship at
the single Statehood convention for the two Ter
ritories held in Oklahoma City. is at present
member of the Senate of the Cherokee Nation of
the Indian Territory He is a second cousin to
United States Senator Morgan of Alabama. and
his wife is close relative of Senator Butler. 1t
may be truthfuy said that to Senator and Mrs.
Gideon Morgan, of the Cherokee Nation. the Dawes
commission owes its existence. Senator Morgan Is
OF the StdncheSt advocates or single stats
hood is famed in his nation for his high character
and integrity and has a following sufficient to
elect him Senator. He participated in the first
Statehood convention held in the Indian Ter
ritory. and he is looked upon a representative
Cherokee in every sense of the word The dis
tnguished Indian statesman presided with great
dignity and marked ability the body assembled
in Oklahoma City Tuesday to memorialize the
United States Congress for single Statehood for
Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Not man in the
vast concourse of representative citizens assembled
from the two Territories has wider ex-
tended acquaintance and he is regarded as the per-
feet type of the civilized educated American In
dian.
line when an old weaver came up and asked the
eaf6 W o aT they Esped Ke Th5
solempv ..Ay. mon, replied The the weaver, 'ye hae
literary purist is making the rounds of the
Chicago stores-or shall say shops?-and some
very serviceabls slang is being condemned to dis
The young women have little note books in
which the following rules:
THE following words not to be used: Gus
toner department miss or lady. fiat or
house 'saleslady' clerk 'foorwalker
Instead say patron Section madame apart
ment' or residence salesperson' or usher
1T is requested by the management that the
use of coored stocks and brightly colored neck
ties be discontinued
Of the call boy or of the usher"
An AT-Round Athlete-"We had very clever
bookkeeper last year He used to be an athlete in
DAY book in the air While he ugged the ledger t3 one
his and totailed the journal with either the
to let him go" How was that?" He was too
much Of an adept at the horizontal bar"-(Cieve-
land Plain Dealer.
Official morals must be improving in China. "
writ (1rts An ed ict Of
recently published indicates that strenuous meas
being taken to correct corruption in the
military service. For years-as long anybody
has known anything of China-it has been Gus
tomary for the government to turn over to the
colonel of the regiment of the army the money
needed to pay his He took for himself as
much as his conscience and the circumstances
would allow, then passed it to the lieutenant
colonel, who took out his squeeze and then the
balance divided among the captains, who paid
themselves and distributed what they had left
among the men Nobody had fixed salary.
Everybody was dependent upon the generosity of
his superior officers, and it customary for the
superior officers to exaggerate when they sub
mitted their estimates of the amount needed. The
colonel OF a regiment. for example. would ask for
funds to pay 1000 men. when he had only 450 in
his command. hoping to receive a sufficient amount
TO satisfy everybody.
This practice prevailed to such an extent that
it came to be expected and when the nay allow
ances were made it taken into consideration.
Everybody understood that everybody else was
cheating and acted accordingly. But somehow or
another reform has been ordered. and the EN-
peror, or whoever controls him, is evidently deter
mined TO stop the practice, because the edct re-
ferred to calls upon the generals to make iuvesti-
cations and report all officers of the army who
have been in the habit OF using dummies in
making up their regmental rolls. They are also
instructed give notice that any found guilty
of such fraud hereafter will be punished by de-
capitaton. If that order had sone into effect a
few years ago nearly every officer in the Chinese
army would have had his head cut off
Since the trusts and combines have got the up-
per hand, pessimistcally said the proprietor of
the grocery at Allegash. the price OF most
everything has rtz Coffee. tea. salt sugar pickles
and'- He sat down unpremeditatedly the stool
whereon the cat peacefully reposng, and
concluded his remarks in tone both rueful and
sasanart-"euAn tha natsuni"--IIudaA