New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-09
TILE CAT

like the simple dignity
You never See her showing OFF:
She let's the dos dc that.
You never catch her leaping hoops
Nor prancing on the floor
Upon two legs. when generous
Dame Nature gave her four.
We train the dog 10 hunt the birds
And beat him when he fails
lie works all day, and never gets
a single taste OF quatls.
The cat is wiser far than he
She hunts for birds TO eat
She does not run her legs of Just
To give some treat
The hunting dog. when told TO charge.
1nti NH b ss ss,r TO sh@ i o tbeE Spot cat
So foolish? There is not.
The dog may emrlate the boy
Upon the burning deck;
Timent She saves her neck.
The cat can fight. but nobody
Has ever known her yet
To fight do the bulldog kind.
To win man bet.
She never fatters any mar
BY tagging at his heels
When he goes out TO ride about
On horseback, or on wheels.
Talk not 10 me about your dog
II Is but idle chat
Give me that calm philosopher
OF hearth and home. the
truth ktmbali Gardiner, in Life.
Senator Bate. of Tennessee. is a passionate lover
OF tobacco yet tho cigar he carries in his mouth is
always unlighted. He explains IL in this way
During the Senator Uhen GeneraD Bate
riding by the side Of his brother battle He felt
a longing for a smoke coming on so he drew a
finely favored Havana from his pocket He
scratched a match against the saddle and was just
about to light n weed. when shell whizzed sud
denly by and the quick rush of air accompan wing
the shell put the match out He about to
strike another when. turning, he discovered that
the shell had made its mark, for there lay the dead
body OF his brother. To this day he has a sort OF
superstition regarding lighted cigars and this
plains why he only INDUCES in dry smoke.
DO you think that a young ought TO go into
NO" answered Broncho Bob. There's nothing
IN It. | went to a political convention once. All
wasn't shot fired Washington star
The farmers near Milwaukee have risen in their
might against the begoggled and scorching auto
mobilist And theirs the victory in the first
encounter. Near that city is particularly fine bit
of straight road and this the lives of the
try people have been menaced in the past by
thoughtless Chauffeurs Last week the farmers
organized and made preparations to avoid danger
the Fourth Several carloads of fine gravel
dumped at intervals along the road. and now
the automoblists have TO go slow risks
with their lives and machines 1t is n clever trick
and more effective than the building OF thank-you-
ma'ams.
From all parts OF North Russia peasants are
travelling n pilgrimage TO extraordinary her
init. Prokop Selevtsch who is known the hairy
of Archangel'' Five years ago. in an access
of religious mania. he off all his fingers his
left hand. When he heard that the Russians had
suffered misfortune In the Far East. he declared
it was the result OF their sins. which could be
atoned only by a sacrifice offered to Mother Earth
At first he said lie did know the significance
of this declaration But on John the Baptst's day
he represented that he had been commanded to
plant himself in the earth and there remain until
the unbelieVeTs. meaning the japanese. beat
en- or until birch leaves sprouted from his finger
less hand. lie has accordingly planted himself
up to the knees in earth In his hut. There he now
remains with granddaughter 10 look after him.
She-Are your intentions toward the widow seri-
Gus?
He-Oh, very. l going. If possible, to get out
of marrying her.-Qllustrated Bits.
"Seevral years ago. In exploring an Indian mound
in the southwest part OF Missouri quantity of
corn was found" says The Jamesport Gazette "
Some Of this planted. and. to the sur
prise of all. it terminated and matured. How long
it had lain IN the mound which large trees were
growing. conjecture, probably several
hundred years Last fall the Gazette editor Sc
hills OF 1t growing in his garden The grains are
about the usual size of field but of deep
brown notified with yellov-.'
Teacher-WiIlie give "a sentence in which the
term hook-and-eye is used
Willie-Me an pa went nShin. Pa told me L
bait M hook an diS--lBa!timore American.