New-York tribune., 1903-02-28
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Winds from the east bringing hther alarm
ing rumors that the Atlantic is beating so ferceiy
upon the classic sands of Cape Cod that the famous
bulwark of Southeastern New-England is shrinking
steadily. Prophets of evil are predicting darKiy
that the crooked arm of Yankee land thrust out -
boldly against the surges may shrivel up and dis
appear before many centuries have come and gone
Where then will lamenting universe look Tor cape
Cod cranberries for Cape Cod shippers and the
famous specimens of other salty Cape Cod foIk:
The monkey lost his hold and fell into the the
not desert him. Il just dropped in for dinner ne
said, with an engaging smlie-tfale RECORD
A veracious chronicler of the times OF Jonathan
Edwards gives figures which prove a liberal con-
sumption of fuel IN he household OF the great
theologian In the winter of 1904 the town OF
Northampton supplied the Edwards parsonage Win
seventy-fve loads of wood: in the next season
eighty-two loa1s were delivered for the succeeding
winter the total seventy-eight and year
afterward the astonishing quantity or nlnety-h'e
loads supplied. There was no lack OF fire at
the Edwards hearth. Is it wonderful, then' thaI
he preached burning sermons?
she-You make love like novice.
He-,rhen we're both defective. ought to make
love like an expert, and you ought not to kno" the
/ difference.-L1fe.
M Legouve the doven of the French Academy,
celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday on Febru-
be a member of the academy for half century.
He is living link with the age OF the Graho
Monaruue for his birth his horoscope was cast
by a woman who had learred the secret from her
husband a page at the Court of Louis XIV
where he was initiated in the art by Nine de
Maintenon. The woman took the year of the future
Academician's birth. 1907. and added to 1t the sum
of the digits which yielded 1923, repeating the same
oneration with the result she obtained 1887. and
third calculation gave her fateful year In 1856
Afterward substracted from this year the seven
years with which NJ. Legouve had omitted to grace
the century and arrived at the year 1S49 Well. rs
the Figaro remarks. 1S49 was the date OF Adri-
enne Lecouvreur" his masterpiece and the year
1856 saw his reception among the immortals
Deep Thought-"In a brown study. eh?'
..Tss .:Yss: .,:I.y ! was as; Just 5't thinking
Il was just wondering why fellow never has
much trouble trouble as 5he
Press
The muskrat must 60 That pernicious little
beast has been causing floods in the South by un-
dermining levees and in the North by weakening
the walls of reservoirs. He has now no excuse for
existence
WILLAMETTE.
A willamette is apropos
For songs of love and songs of spring.
And ecstasies of morning glow.
For roses red and breasts Of snow
! And soft white arms that twine and cling,
A willamette is apropos
Each word and line is fashioned So
Delicate a wedding ring,
! Or a maiden's virgin glow.
Alasl That poets grosser grow.-
For songs that bloom and flowers that wing,
| A willamette is aprcpos-
| Love is nv theme! The ways I go
| Are April-1owering; sing
OF stars that gleam and eyes that glow
ARa thus thus my ny. song M 5ddasfi6q fash0n So
A willamette is aprooos
| For ecstasies of morning glow
--(Richard Kirk in Harper's Magazine
Western of wealth bequeathed a fund of
S. COO the annual interest to be used for the care
of two favorite trotting horses VIII some devotee
! of the auto equal excel this bounty?
To Settle the ouestion;-He was engaged to be
man mar tall talks When he sets friend eornered
She is the loveIest and best girl that ever
"sure.!.. of course I'm sure You don't doubt it,
Certainly not" replied the friend hastily
oh suppose it's all right. but I'd like intro
duce you to Dobley.''
who's Dobley?''
terdax that he was engaged to the ioveliest and
best girl that ever lived and Ia IKE 10 have you
POST
Who dreams of the coming of a new Philip of
Macedon or a new Alexander? Byron sang of
nineteenth century Thermopyla. But the Grecians
of that time like the ancient holders
of the Pass and modern Macedonia has forgotten
the phalanx which destroyed the Persian Empire.
Eugene F. Ware the Pension Commissioner. has
written some and sent them in a letter, to
friend in Topeka, They the subject of
Sin" but there is intlmaton that his expert
in the Pension Bureau have inspired his med
itatons. They are:
II the wages of sin are death
| do not want TO begin.
If / can't get living wages,
| will not work for sin
Then. again If l work
the work didn't like,
After I'd passed pay day
l would md couldn't strike.
In a note nclosing the verses he says: II have
thought the whole thing over and my views are
embodied In the few paragraphs herewith in
closed"
Perfectly Safe.-A tourist in a remote part Of
Ireland having stayed the night at waysde inn
not usually frequented by visitors, Informed the
landlord in the morning that his boots which had
been placed outside his room door, had not been
touched
All shure.' said landlord, and you .noIght
put your watch and chain outside your room door
in this house. and they wouldn't be touched
CThe King