New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-23
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The Poetry of Motion.-'"This is the poetry OF
motion" said the sentimental young woman in the
rapidly moving automobile.
''Th-the metre seems little Irregular remarked
her companion, who was not entirely familiar with
the controlling levers.
And just then the car skipped several feet and
seemed averse to going any further.
THE BAREFOOT TRAIL.
Out Of the dear front gate 1t ran.
Into the sun and dew and tan:
Traversed the dusty, peaceful street
Arched by naples Din mem'ry sweet;
Entered the copse, where thrilled the, thrush
Tarn ei to mother and home hon eI again Inch
Street and pasture and hill and vale
Such was the course Of the Barefoot Trail;
S fer ana 2 Teernfg T0r 5s ana mat
Now {0T TolliSkng but butterfly 496 s,zn
Now for a brookside haunt-and then
Back to mother and home again.
Never sun for fq,t this 4. trail j. too too hot.
Twisting and turning from scene to scene.
II checkered the realm of the gold and green,
Passenger-courier boyhood, slim;
Provnce-to becion afar, and then
To lead to mother and home again.
Many secret and many tale
Ours who followed the Barefoot trail.
Wonders witnessed and marvels heard;
Kinship of squirrel and hare. and bird.
The The n2y sPo f00 Of he s sRayn oe 0e
Care free triumphs and ioys-and then
CBestD the mother and home again
edwin L. S;bin. in Saturday Evening Post.
An interesting photograph, taken IN 1857 at Fort
Sanders. near Laramie Station. Wyo. on the Union
Pacific Railway, has been discovered The picture
shows General L S Grant and his party while
making tour of the region. There are twenty
figures among them besides General Grant. being
General William T. Sherman. General P. H Sberi-
dan General Granville NJ Dodge, General John
Gibbon General William S. Harvey, General Adam
slemmer Brigader General Frederick Dent, Brtga-
der General James c. Potter, Brigadler General
Adam Kautz, Colonel L. Cass Hunt and number
of women and children. wives and daughters OF
some of the officers named. The picture is an ID
teresting souvenir os the carly days of the great
railroad that mas transformed the old Overland
Route that in the sos was not traversed even by
the mail in less than twenty-three days between
ST Louis and San Francisco, into a highway of
travel over which express trains pass in three days
between Chicago and San Francisco.
An Operators Queer Error.-''I've seen some
N.Y. my time said jack 1ian9y chief clerk at the
Hotel Baltimore. but Saturday one turned
named w H. Andrews staying here and he
times Saturday he asked, here at the desk, for his
message, but had seen nothing for him ABOUT
gan looking through the kilograms here Suddenly
he turned TO me and said: w. :.
YOU M 4hnF about OF OT it.? '3' NY
4 looked at the address on telegram he handed
Wv H. & Rews.' 1t was his message '-fFIansas
City Times
A motor car wild boar and Bavarian official
red tape have produced a farcicaI complication.
Frau Senger- Bettaque. the Bavarian singer. was
driving her automobile when a boar charged. with
fatal results itself and much damage to the car.
The singer but slightly hurt Now Frau
Senger- Bettaque has received bill for 10 marks
from the postal administration for telegraph pole
broken in the upset and another for the dead
boar She has cCuntered upon her official tor
mentors by bringing action for injuries TO her
self for an account Of doctor and for cost of
repairs to her motor car
With These Exceptions.-Landlord- has
everything been all right since you've been with us?
we came and found cupboard in our room you
didn't
And you told US you'd give US a table to our
selves, but you didn't
And YOU said your bus met the train. but it
didn't"
And YOU said you'd give us a where we'd
get the ocean breeze while. in fact you gave us
other house and facing directly away from the
beach"
And You said the hotel was on the ocean end Of
a mile from the sea
But they all adver'-
.'You said the place orderly and that the
bile was good yet haven't been able TO sleep at
all. and whenever we wanted decent bite to eat
We .. RaG to n K S dear .l' sir u
has 6ss W nerfec t Satisfactory and we shall take
great Measure in telling friends so."-(Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
Greece boasts the largest sundial on the planet.
There is a large promontory in the lIgean Sea.
looking TO the east which extends three thousand
feet above the level of the water AS the
swings around the shadow of the mountain touches
one by one a circle of islands separated by regular
intervals which act hour marks
When the weeds grow lush and plenty in the
farmers garden, his children are never well
brought up.-(Somerville Journal
Goldfish cheese is the name given to canned
preparation of fresh cod. put up in Newfound-
land 1t is used for hash fish cakes
It is pity that Opportunity does much travel