New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The death penalty awarded a private in the
French Foreign Legion, for throwing his cap in his
captains face at Oran, is illustration of the
merciless severity exercised that famous corps.
Shooting at sight is permitted the officers. who
have 20 deal with dangerous characters from all
quarters of Europe. Nowhere is there such corps.
according to THE London Chronicle" It's ranks
recruited from outcasts of all social ranks.
Dsgraced officers of the Russian service deserters
from the German army, broken scions of the Aus
TRAN nobility, fraudulent debtors from Belgium,
forgers from Spain. homicides from America.
ruined gamblers from Italy are found in plenty in
the ranks No excuse is taken for a fault, and the
slightest symptom of characterization carries with
it a swift passage to another world. It is under
stood that recruits simply seeking refuge from
the Of the civil law The Foreign Legion is the
only voluntarily enlisted corps in the French army.
1t done excellent service against the Arabs and
is always placed in the forefront Of the fight
After Bargain.-The had applied
for a marriage license.
How much?' She asked In a businesslike way
Two dollars, replied the clerk.
em."-(Chicago Post.
In the faith as a barrel of mustard seed Of the
pious East reincarnations taking place all the
time. and have been for thousands Of years. but
the first chief of police to be reincarnated served
in Burmah, and killed there by the robber
DaCoits in 1894. Now a six-year-old Burmese
youth appears whom the villagers recognize the
reincarnation of the highly popular chief afore-
said, and they crowd round him TO kiss the hem
of his garment. Was ever poet so trusted be-
fore?" as Dr. Johnson said when Goldsmith died
owing $1,000. In like may well ask,
was ever policeman Of any rank so honored before
in his own or any other country?
A LIFE OF TRUST AT LAST.
1.-THE Rev Bruce Brown proposes religious trust He
believes consolidating the churches. and presumably
the creeds.l
With all the , churches esr in trust
ThereU be corner he may turn
The cradle trust when he is born
TIE Re9 6dysso him trust in It's eo 23ms in
In infancy's alarms.
Through boyhood's happy days days, he goes
With trusts to make him glad
These make his father mad.
At Christmas time the stocking trust
Upon the Christmas tree to get
The trust made Christmas things
Young manhood finds him putting trust
It also finds him putting on '''''9
Her hand trust made ring;
And nd smokes 9SIS the trust it cigar gar again
And takes the trust brewed nlps.
And so it goes-wIth wool trust clothes,
The pants trust walks with him through life;
TIT s Gnnrf fTt sfps sa TngI ITS f 3H a. dread
The ice trust tries his soul;
Fills up his breakfast bowl.
The coal trust crImps his bank account;
And If he builds home
The building trust in happiness
Across his form will roam.
The railroad trust takes him to ride
And so his life is passed,
Till a bed trust bed he signs:
The coffin trust, at last.'
-(Chicago Tribune
An old bachelor living about six miles from Rich
mond, Kan. large beneficiary OF the flood
He had lived for years in little old shanty. The
food washed it away, but left in its place new
wellbuilt. six house. which is well furnished
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1t came from. Having failed he has decided TO
take what the Lord provides, and is living very
comfortably in It, and thinking of making an ad-
dition 70 his household.
The many dysDepuc utterances Of William Jennings
Bryan recall tour-line that hardly
gested for epaph headstone for when that Is
put up he have nothing say; but appropriate
in these days. II
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