New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-02
a sOUTHERN FLIGHr.


SOUTHERN FLIGHT
The winter day dragsed dreariiy
In icy pallidness away.
Before flung our AawsNrs free.
And dropped atown the Bay.
Then twilight swooped. the shore grew blind.
save where the sunsets Eusty pink
Stained the enbattled clouds behind
Tho hills OF Nayesink.
soon BarneEat flashed out It's fire
As We the purple ridges elomb;
Flashed DER tho hclds OF foam.
And ere the dawn broke vermelI-brigh,
Ger 6eryl league on welteT,ing league.
The star OF AssatcaSue.
We dreamed we saw tho twin capes pass
Throueh shredded foe that ,worketh dola
And caught round stormy Hatteras
Tho long Atlantic roll.
Afar from Lookout and from Fear
49, We faced and cleft the flying Jaws
And lonely Osslbaw.
Then on morning hlthe and bland
Tho land-the iouged-for landi-and. ah.
Above the tawny dunes Of sand
The palms OF Floridai
Tho palms the sunshine. and the breath
or Bowers, the sky without n stain;
And after W mites deaTth ana death.
Clinton Scollard. in Lppincott's Magazine.
The ruler OF Japan really should be called ten-o.
mikado. The latter means royal gate and Is
n title somewhat similar TO sublime Porte.' which
IS used ini!ncrently 20 mean tho Turkish Sultan.
means heavens highest" a titIe surprising all
the most grandiloqucnt European efforts. The
original japanese equivalent for ten-O Is soumeami-
koto. but the former Is universally used. perhaps
on account OF its brevity.
Wei. Johnnie ala you have good time at the
You bet! ! was sick for nearly q week.
Chicago Record-Herald
Senator Knute Nelson went TO Baltimore sons
ten days ago, and addressed n meeting OF bankers
and merchants who giving a banquet The
Minnesota Senator recalled in happy fashion how
during tho Civil War he marched through the city
as a private soldier telling in humorous fashion
how Re captured a horse not far from Baltimore.
These experiences furnished much amusement but
a couple OF days after Nr. Nelson returned 20
washington no given opportunity TO see
the other side Of tho medal. The man who owned
the horse wrote. demanding payment for the prop
erty which had been appropriated so many years
ego The letter gave details which convinced Sem
ator Nelson that the writer was indeed owner OF
the captured animal
which part Of the paper are you reading. VIII
"Dur1bed IL I know said Mr. Tubbins. This
war page and the music page is both fun o them
tell Which IS which. "@IBuffaIo Express.
A Missouri court seems to have broken the record
for the trial OF a case. 4 negro up for theft
and d political meeting scheduled to begin
fifteen minutes later The case was tried. the jury
found the prisoner guilty, and the court ADJOURNED
eight minutes after Il convened.
PROTESTING MODERN METHODS.
o may some high authority
Our frenzed prayer give ear.
A real. live man next yearl
With Corson out, now naught is left
Where "Teachers' Course and Gothic verb
Dance I'm unhoy gleel
The English drama-Shakespeares Ehosti-
Is measured out by rule
A 4 though u scanned
What though Macaulay uses but
A thousand times? We don't read him
AS bloodless statisucians.
The essay. and De Qulncey's prose-
"Impassoned" styled think
Are taught by men who calm would sit
And as for style? ASK all whove dragged
Their weary sr se dS9i.S ALONE
You'll hear opinions strongl
And So authorities" we beg
That you our plea will grant
And Se SSts be te M9S 6Rs s ean vim
Men are not made to rouse the world
or draw tears from her eyes
Because they write ~ clear, good style"
-(Cornen Widow.
.eThe Enid COkla-) Events is In receipt of a let
fer from a young man Of Klnghsher asking about
the matrimonial prospects in Enid. Said he: Il
have heard much about Enid: heard that you had
lots OF pretty maids up there and some sweet grass
widows ] like grass widows Now. please let
me know the names Of any marriageable girls or
grass widows in Enid" The Events answered
by return mail. sending him quito a list OF Ends
narriageable girls and considerable bunch OF
grass widows. The Events also threw in a
bevy OF old maids and invited him TO come I'D and
partake. It's indeed too bad that Kingasher has
no pretty girls. and the young men down there are
compelled to go abroad for sWeethcarts and wives
Miss De Muir-wsre you ever hypnotIsed. Mr.
Hector