New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-17

used have a suit of clothes
All rags and paint dirt;
A suit couldn't hurt:
Secure within that wreck of cloth
IN t sr9ytle sa On the R8r ground ar5
Primeval bliss I found
1t waxed familiar with the woods,
The thickets, marshes, brooks.
It carried rents and burrs and mud
From all the forest hooks,
got down close 10 Mother Earth,
Ny spirit seemed to root
And spread its flaments and grow
Within that mouldy suit.
But all. my wife, in vandal mood
In vslian rt'' 1T Of G'S tidiness say
Cave old suit away!
And now I weed the garden walks
Al length OF formal hoe.
And keep within the proper paths
I've lost the sense Of sweet warn. dirt,
The kinshp with the ground;
Whcnee I tinker round.
Dr. % not 70, own "a, single aagg;. suit
No shred of blessed cloth that l
obviously
Before my oldest suit is fit
For either work fun.
solemn year-at least a year
Must circumspectly
o. woman, woman! prim and neat
The flower OF humankind.
And purity Of mind
But, oh, with heavenly perfectness.
Your graces will be girt
Just waiiow in the dirt! puck.
The gains of n first rate American Jockey are
large but it may De doubted whether they equal
those of Spanish toreador of the same Grade in
his calling This reflection is suggested by the re
tircmcnt Of "Bombita" perhaps the greatest, as he
is also Of the youngest of the toreado~s He
withdraws finally from the at thirty years of
age. with fortune of 100000 without counting
jewels worth about $4,000 moro. presented to him
by admring enthusiasts.
First Aid to the Injured.-On a rockstrewn beach
on he 81 frrryr vr,l1,
was just abatlnC A vessel had gone TO pieces on
the rocks. and after display of much heroism
gers had been saved. with the exception OF
drowned, and the new curate knet at his SIDE on
the BEACH endeayortng 10 restore his circulation
My friends he said, turning to the Villagers
how do you usually proceed In these cases?'
As one man the simple folk replied:
Search his pockets. -(tiarper's Weekly.
Becrbohm Tree. the London actor. tells a story
Of a dog named Argus which used to accompany
him To the theatre. The dog was of an emotional
habit If mind and was greatly affected by scnSa-
uonal scenes. When Mr.. Tree was playing in
Captain swift Argus used to take his place in
the wing and follow his every word and look until
the suicidal situation reached. The moment
Mr.. Tree felt for his pistol Argus used to rush
into ,be darkest corner he could find. and blrying
his head between his paws. listen for the thud OF
tho actors fall After that the dog would crawl
back 10 meet his master with a howl OF 10Y 1T Mr.
Trees apparent TO life.
A Strong Guarantee-Would-be Suicide fv-iIdlv>-
Give me any kind OF poison you've got in stock
that will Kill ii man dead. dead deadi
Druggist (uTbanely)-Yes SIT; hare is the very
thing you want We guarantee this to KIN man
so dead that his case will be diagnosed plain
drunk by any ambulance surgeon.-tLIfe.
A strange thing is reported TO have been found
recently in the opal fields OF New South Wales a
fossil shark that had become orallzed II was over
three feet long and eighteen inches in crcumrer-
ence.
The Limits it true that the Bloptons Nv
ing beyond their incomeT'
Worse than that They're living beyond their
edit."-CBrooklyn Life.