New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-23
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Summing UP the results OF the fair for tho first
forty days. St. Louis paper says that. consider
ing the unusual quantity OF rain they have been
excellent. They are ready to pay back the gov
ernmcnts loan OF plus four and half millions, and
stiI have a margin left As 70 the city having
been swamped by its visitors, no sign OF such a
thing has anywhere appeared Tho hotels haven't
been full nor have the boarding houses. Both to-
eeth,- Il IS estimated that they viii accommodate
half = million visitors. and larger number than
this N any time Is not expected Transporta-
tiou has not been ovcrtaXed. nor anything like IT,
As 90 eXtortion. such q thing has not been heard
o. az any rate. since Secretary Hay left for the
East some time ago. on the contrary, visitors
have been nEreeably surprised at the moderation
OF the charges. The paper estimates that
wccEs' outing transportation from any part Of the
country and back included. should como within
500. which It thinks IS cheap enough. when II IS
considered what Is given for It, and there little
doubt that that Will be tho general opinion
Visitors spend more Il they like, hut see
tho fair handsomely for the named. doubt
prevailing anywhere that 1t is well worth the
money.
THE LAND OF PRETTY SOON"
know OF land where the streets are paved
Il Is walled with the money We meant TO have
And the pleasures for which we grieve
Tho kind words unspokcn. the promises broken.
And many coveted boon
Are slowed away there I'm that land somewhere
The land OF Pretty Soon
There ere uncut Jewels OF possible fame
Lying about in the dust
Covered with mould and rust.
And OH this place. while It seems so near.
is further away than tho moon!
The land OF Pretty Soon"
1t is further At noon than IT IS at dawn.
Further NJ night than at noon;
Oh, let us beware Of thar land down there
The land Of Pretty SOon.'
-CThe Kings Own.
The prize hard luck story Is told by Tho BeIoit
GNan) Gazette" about r. ID. Dukes. n farmer
Within a short space Of time lot OF things hap
pened to him. lie lost hts crops. cholera killed
most OF his hogs. shed fell and killed his two
cows his wife thrown from buggy and
hurt so badly that she went on crutches for months
and she was just beginning 10 walk again when
she burned 10 death by exploding lamp;
Mr.. Dukes also was seriously burned in the fire;
then he injured his knee and had go on crutches
then he was badly burned again in a prairie fire;
a few weeks later his mother died. and recently
his house burned up with all its contents.
WHO WAS It," shouted the suffrage leader. who
was II that did the most To elevate womanY' Par
drawled. why. the that invented those high
French heels And then the meeting adjourned.
-(ChIcaSo News.
Hari-kari IS still honored practice among the
Japanese. much in favor as ju iitsu The Off
could resist the temptation to commit suicide
when the Russians had made ciphers of them. They
ordered their banners burned and crossed the
chrysanthemum ACheron at Il Speedway pace.
Death rather than disgrace was their guiding
principle and they preferred. like the followers of
Leonidas the Spartan to be carried homo on their
shields rather than yield TO the enemies Of their
country.
Go9dleymHs says he 9ways believes in the
ilpn Of The
greatest number is always No. 1-(Phiadelphia
Ledger.
Moved by fancifuI stories that lately have been
published. General Gusts Lee has addressed a
letter 10 the Confederate Memorial Literary So
ciety. at Richmond. Va. saying that to the best
OF his knowledge and belief all the swords that
his father. General Robert f. Lee. ever possessed
remain I'm the possession of the surviving MEM
bers Of his family. He also recalls that the oft
repeated story, 'unobjectonabIe II true" OF the
tender and return OF General Lees sword at Ap-
pomattox is emphaticalIy denied by General Grant
In his memoirs,
stngy.-"Why did you quit the Richleys. Jane?''
1t was the stnslness OF EN-. mum was
a-lookin' out me kitchen window one day. when
the mistress comes in and says that she'd give a
penny for me thoughts-and them millonaires
mond you"'-(Detroit Free Press.
Many thousands OF dollars have been spent In
ew-England in efforts to stop the ravages OF the
gypsy moth and the taxpayers there are becoming
weary OF the heavy expenditure 1t is hoped that
the campaigns for the determination OF the boil
weevil in the cotton fields of the South win be
more effective and less expensive.
:, Custom House Omoer-Madam. have you any,
thing dutiable 10 declare?
apparel.
~ of me- {afer examination of said trunk)-what
90 you eau these six bottles of whiskey?
AIadam-oh. those are night caps.-(Lifa