New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-01

Ohio convention that they have been trihs
premature.
The celebrations of "old Home Week" in
New-England have been so successful and en-
joyabe this season that various commemorative
in the Union arc showing an inclination to fol-
low excellent an example in future years.
The useful and interchangeable mule is to have
a place of honor in the livestock department in
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. at St
Louis He deserves 1t. He shipped in huge
numbers to South Africa while the Boer war
was raging and he did his duty without finch
ing. No easy duty. either. Moreover, he was
sold so extensively and at so liberal prices to
the British campaigners that he brought in
spacious profits to breeders and dealers in
Missouri and several other States OF the Mis-
sissippi Valley.
Was It Brian Boru who first sang the song
Of "the dear little Shamrock a charming
ditty. Words and music were alike lively and
exhilarating: but unless Shamrock. the three
Ieaved gets a move on speedily, to use
bit of Bowery slang. Brian Boru may stir
easily in his tomb.
Those Englishmen play tennis with a snap
and dash. with ginger and pepper, that make
Americans wonder why Yankee tabasco sauce
weaving arms and wonderful passes. those Do
hertys, Old Uncle Sam pulls his goatee and
draws: Wall. 1 don't know about tennis.
Amt my best holt yachting?'
Even the armories might be taken to ad-
vantage as schoolrooms, in order that children
might get the instruction to which they have
rightful claim. And what good reason can
be suggested why churches. chapels and vestry
o,fevrt he 10 of o.
leve the jam of the youngsters who need COM
mon school instruction?
Half century ago "two-forty" horse was
almost an ideal animal for road driving among
speed loving Americans. In these breathless.
hurrying days such creature would be consid-
cred as At for nothing more rapid than snail
SOUP Is there any leisure class left? Not In
the autos, anyway.
A way has been found. they say. to get prints
from a Photographic negative without light
Treatment of the plate with certain chemicals.
it is alleged, will make 1t possible to secure re-
productions in the dark. The discovery prom
Uses no revolution. The old method is cheaper
and probably more rapid than the new. Only
under very exceptional circumstances. appar-
entity would an operator find the latter valu-
able.
In Philadelphia a desperate woman. whose
children and herself were starving because Of
the strike of textile workers. tried to murder
all four OF her little ones by gas suffocation and
TO take her own life by breathing in the deadly
fumes. Two lives were sacrificed. The older
children and the mother survived the horrible
ordeal The weaker and feebler children died.
Now the mother VIII be tried for murder. Is u
not a grave responsibility that the promoters
of strikes often bring upon themselves
Among the reforms recommended by the mu-
nicipal committee in Paris which has investi-
gated the tunnel disaster several relate to the
operation of trains, and others to improved IA
cilities for escape. Concerning the one change
which is most needed the Metropolitan line.
though the authorities show timidity. The in
PRODUCTION of freproof material is considered
only as a remote possibility Has not recent
experience been convincing enough7