New-York tribune., 1903-05-01

The Pacific Coast is sending across the continent
and across the ocean for oyster seed. The Pacific
Coast is in need of good oyster seed and Japanese
as well as American seed, is sought for the beds
That from the Atlantic sea board Is from Wareham
Mass where the raising ans shipping Of seed has
become considerable industry. It does not cost
much more to bring the Japanese oysters across
the ocean than It does to ship the Wareham seed
by rail and the government is especially desirous
of having the Oriental stock tested
CAMPAIGN AND CHAMPAGNE
Caupafening with the workers:
ChampagneIng with the heelersi
Hot air for all the spielers-
But billboards for the voters
And board bills for the toaters.
little swallovtailinR
Where there be fads - follow
Some lies that call for Ue ling;
Some doubtful tales 70 swallow
But billboards for the voters
And board bills for the oaters
According 10 dispatch from Porto Rico the
smuggling cases have been settled. Charges were
made against certain officers OF the army and the
navy and the grand jury, at San Juan. returned
indictments against five of those accused. A per-
sonaI investigation of these cases was made by the
Secretary OF the Navy and the Postmaster Cen
eraI when In Porto Rico recently, acting under
orders of the President, and they submitted re-
port recommending that all criminal proceedings
against the officers be dismissed It seems that the
specifc facts upon which the charges were based
were that the officers had brought to San Juan
certain articles for personal use namely cigars and
LIQUORS which were subject to customs duties.
There was no charge that any of the articles were
sold TO any one in Porto Rico although IN one IN
stance present was made Of some of the cigars to
a local club by one of the officers who had re-
ceived the privileges OF the club 1t is stated that
the officers IN question have paid the penalty i'm
posed in such cases. which Is double the amount OF
the duties.
A , i,,roh
grandma passed him the deviled ham No. thank
and all his orks."-(Springheld Republican.
Out in Missouri the papers speak frankly, espe-
cially If the subject is politics In moro polite parts
of the world is the custom to make such hints as
in the following item only regarding persons OF
another nationality, not OF friends ana
neighbors "Tha Centralia Courier" has just raped
a successful candidate the head in the follow
ing item in praise of the defeated man Professor
Green of Sturgeon. is clean. able master OF the
science Of pedagogics. He would have made a
splendid school commissioner but alas! he is a
man who bathes and wears store clothes and holds
himself up like man. Hard to elect any one VINO
takes his baths regularly.
"EIer novel is one Of the ephemeral successes"
"Indeed?" ''Oh, yes. 1t was published before
o'clock in the morning and was not completely for
gotten 4nl 1f quite DiI ai'sf oi''A III '''o
A Warsaw journal relates the following story of
an experiment made by a Polish nobeman to
ascertain how far storkS migrate during the winter.
He caught a stork and attached a plate to its
neck on which inscribed the words, "Hec
ciconia ex Polona" (''This stork comes from Po-
land'). the following spring the same stork was
found In the nobleman's park, with bundle around
its neck containing several precious stones OF great
value and the metal plate with these words the
other side: India donis remittt PoIonis''
(.'India sends him back with presents to the
Poles'O.
Not Much Left.-"AIr Jones has terribly bad
manners
''WeH, he is an uncut diamond; you know"
''Yes, imitation. "-(Brooklyn Life.
An oddly carved tombstone marks the resting
place in AXIS Bllrying Ground, Germantown. Penn,
OF the remains Of an old resident OF that suburb
1t bears the following inscription: I'm memory Of
Adam shisler who departed this life Dec. 22d. III
aged $50 years" Every one IN Germantown how
ever believes that Master Shisler was not Me-
thuseIah and is confident that there must have
been some mistake. And there was. The ex-
planatiou is that the sonecutter marked the mans
age es instead of 60. by accident that might
happen to any absent minded person. To correct
this error the "9'' was filled with cement and an
other figure was cut after the % Time and frost
have loosened the cement. and the hid
den 80" appears as distinctly the other numerals
4 Ouestion-..What do YOU think of the new
boarder?' asked Mrs: Starven
Ion | don't know replied Starboard
EITHER that or very sarcastic. Did you hear
him ask me If I'd have the cream -lP Philadelphia
Press.