New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-15
THE TALH OF THE DAY.

Purcell Powless full blooded Oneida Indian
grandson of a former chief of the tribe has just
secured a position motorman In the st. Louis
street railway service He is the second full
booded Indian to be employed by the St Louis
Transit Company. Felix Scott. Sioux. has been
in the service six months. Powless is twenty-three
years old He born in Wisconsin, where the
Oneida tribe has lived for years. His Indian name
is Soda-Wah
McFlub-He pressed his suit donned IT: called on
his girl. pressed his suit and married her. and
nov S'o he he has spPlieSd for a divorce
eh?-(Pittsburg Post.
An Alaskan missionary makes this request,
which shows how diversified the needs of his
calling: He asks for "a peck OF spectacles and
eyeglasses" few years ago he made a similar
request, and in response received large quantity
That supply is running short. and there
frequent applications for glasses from people
whom they would be a great boon he says, the
glasses not only minister to comfort but aid some
persons in gaining a livelihood.
NATURE CO.'S FALL SALE.
Do you want some nice persimmons?
We have just lovely line:
They are plump and fat and juicy
And are really very fine:
Ere the 'simmon seasons past
Bear & 'Possum buy quite largely.
And they're going very fast,
Or perhaps you need adornments.
Decorative things and such?
We've line of leaves and branches
That no other house touch;
Wind & Gale large investors
And they're going very fast.
If for nuts you're In the market
We have quite the finest stock,
And our lovely line of acorns
Fairly makes the buyers flock:
But though we control the output
Squirrel Brothers still buying
And they're going very fast
louisville Courier Journal.
The statement so often repeated that a jap will
heht for vyen on n rat Oft
three beans and sip of tea has been at last ex-
planned. The Japanese bean is not the common
horticultural bean with which our gardens
quainted but a vegetable often a yard in length.
and large enough to fill a quart measure. a single
bean makes meal for a hungry ploughman.
Nothing Doing-"Dear." said the poets wife.
noticing his distracted look you are worried about
.WeIl-er-yes" replied the poet
TEL me; What have you on your mtn6?r
phia Press.
The English bar still clings to rs robes So
licitor who for some reason prepared with
his professional costume asked permission OF a
London judge the other day 10 appear without it.
but the judge declared that ne could give no such
sanction. However to avoid delay he resorted to
a fine legal distinction: Il do not give you permits
SION but II the other professional gentlemen pres
ent raise objection will consent to hear YOU"
He was heard, and it is trusted that no sacred
precedent damaged.
THE COMMON THINGS.
The sunshine and the gentle rain
The meadow land which flowers stain,
The swaying banners of the corn
What common. common things these!
The broad blue mirror OF the lake
That smiles back at the sleeping sky:
The pillows, too that leap and break
The ps s1a ns c fosF fG 5a one sy 6 6h
Toss back the lances of the sun.
The stars that blaze IS jewels blaze
And Ike he al D1I-S
Go speeding through eternity
Across unfathomed seas Of space
On paths that but dimly trace
All these are common-broot and bird,
And of red. and meadow green;
So common that they unheard
SO common that they seem unseen.
And yet there IS no DAY or nlsht
But boTrows all of their delight.
No common thing is held apart
From us, or peIlt with lock and key.
II always God loves the best
-(St. Louis Globe Democrat
The railroad mileage in this country is increasing
at the rate of about five thousand miles year At
this rate in twenty years there will be 10000 more
miles of railroad the country. II the country
continues TO develop during the twenty years
as rapirdly as IL during the last decades it
will require fully 100000 miles of railroad to
handle the in the volume of traffic. With
this increase in railroad mileage the demand for
steel and iron will be correspondngly greater The
last great building constructed in NewYork with
iron beams and iron girders the Waldorf
Hotel and yet this building Is only eleven years
old Every large building that mas gone up since
ha. been constructed with steel
one Advantage.-Rimcr-D you really prefer 10
have long poems sent in to you rather than short
'Editor-Yes; When they're long you see. don't
them.-P philadelphia PresA