New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-14
TIRE TALK or THE DAY.

MOONLIGHT IN THE WINTER WOODS.
The bare brown limbs OF patient trees
Rise Up against the sky:
There's but whisper in the breeze
That sways their heads high.
Beneath lies silence. robed IN white.
Broad spreading ike the sea:
Her garments all with EenlS becight.
That CLEAN mysteriously.
All nature dreams; what the world holds
or Is far away:
Here's nRught hut peace. that night enfoids
To hide the scars OF day.
JAMES B CARRINGToN.
Little willis who Is PaiiedsiPhia boy had been
Papa" he asked. what kind Of a dog Is that? 20
was silent a moment, Wen: be. finally said
from the time he takes TO wind himself up, !
guoss he must be Waterbury watch og.'-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
An English newspaper tells this story: They
were about buy beef on the hoof for the ships.
SO the officer whose duty Il to make the pur-
chase took ashore with him the bo'swain. a rep
resentinR the crew. TO look over the animals and
either object or not. They approached the first
animal. How viii that do7" asked the O1lcer.
The bo'swain cautiously approached the beast.
bent down and gingery his thumb and fore
finger down first one shank and then the other.
until the whole four shanks had been examined.
STRENGTHENING UP. he said: He'll do all right sir"
The officer cried: But dash IT all. you can't tell
the good points OF bullock by the shanks." Per
haps not. sir; but they're the only parts We ever
gets. sir" was the reply.
Conductor-Pass away up in front. pleased
Agonized Voice from 'front.' platiorm)-Dont bring
him out here! We've got three already.-(Harvard
Lampoon
The Rev. Dr. Schick is President Roosevelt's pas
tor in Washington. He is example OF muscular
Christianity. The other day he was out shovelling
snow in front OF his church the Grace Dutch Re
a. a. nv (Hopa
ing doctor" said tho President What are you
doing there?' I'm doing my duty. Mr.. President"
replied the minister with strenuous movement OF
his shovel In strictly limited but necessary
sense 1 am obeyng the scriptural Injunction. Pre-
pare ye the way OF the Lord "
ON THE PORTRAIT OF AN ANCEsTREss
Fair you look. and fascinating.
Dainty ancestress OF mine:
Called your laughing eyes divine"
To this world. had fate 50 voted.
Had I earlier entered in
In ,ne days Of crnOiine.
Lovely seem your rlbboned tresses
Rr2% 01r GHmHTey o a S mach Sa I.
stays,-but stay had / beseeched it
An embrace the dance within
Your slim waist. could have reached It.
In the days OF crinolne?
Had we gone to walk together
On the hillside or the plain.
What a vast expanse OF weather
Steel my bosom to resist you2-
Nav. but that could not have beenl
Yet how could I e'er have kissed you
the days Of crinoline?
-(clinton scollard in Life.
Engineering" in special article. deals with the
question OF contraband OF war. detailing the list OF
goods absolutely contraband This list was com
piled in 1864 and revised in 1sSs. All the articles
which, since that date. have been found to be use
fol in naval warfare added to the list As
an illustration. Marconi's apparatus and searchlght
machinery may be mentioned. Among goods con-
dtionally contraband provisions and liquors nj
for consumption OF army navy and money. AL
though there is difference OF opinion among
the powers. the international rule may be taken to
be that question whether coal is contraband or
not is to DO determined by reference to the crcum-
stance in which it is found
balancing the Scales.-The following story Il a
fair ilustra ton OF Russian justice to the Jew One
Jew met another at the break OF morning entering
the wicket OF judges residence.
whittier early In the morniag2'' asked tho
first, somewhat surprised.
ITO balance the scales" replied the second with
a smile Il an the defendant IL an action which
viii come Up before the Judge this morning The
plaintiff has already given ths Judge ten rubiss,
j am also going 10 give ten IN order keep him
ghL"-lWorld's Work