New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-24
BRITANNIA TO JAPAN.

Over the hundred years gone by
Voices are borne on the sea;
''Ye have warred our war, We have cried our cry,
Ye have conquered, even as We
Tyranny darkened our Western light
CTwas a hundred years ago..
And struck the all saving blow.
Tyranny grasped at your island throne
But your signal to-day has been Nelson's own,
And his word on your warships won
Ye have learned our lore of the glorious seas,
Ye have proved it pure and true
But your faithful vigil. your scorn of ease
God grant that we learn them of you!
-(London Spectator.
A tale is told of Kansas minister a great pre-
cisionist in the use OF words, whose exactness
sometimes destroyed the force of what he was say
ing. On one occasion, in the course of eloquent
prayer he pleaded 20 Lord! waken thy cause in
the hearts of this congregation and give them new
eyes to and impulse to do. Send down
thy lever or lever, according to Websters
WorceSter's dictionary whichever thou usest, and
pry them into activity"
Explained. Blobbs--There seems to be a strange
sobBNstraIIy One desee e from Ham
and the other from eggs-(Philadelphia Record.
Years ago Lord Wolseley published little
volume called The Soldiers Pocket Book of Field
Service" To show how to fill out blank space in
the field reports, he happened to the name
Thomas Atkins" The pocket book is the British
Atkins was at once adopted his proper nick
An Argument.-Mamma-D tell you Willie
that you were not to go out in a canoe?
Wille-But, mamma the man told me that was
enc of the best ways in the world to learn how to
sW1m-tToWn and Country.
No bird. beast or creeping thing will touch a
castor oil plant. 1t be rank poison to all
animals. Even goat will starve before biting off
leaf and horse will sniff at it and turn up his
odor on the face of the earth. Locusts will pass
by, though they may eat every other green thing
In sight and there is surer way to drive moles
away from a lawn than to plant few castor beans
here and there,
Some Dog rales.-'I have unusually intelligent
with party Of friends He s was taught to say is
prayers and If you'll believe me. that dog
waes his tail whenever he sees a minister any
4 have a dog with even more intelligence than
One day when he got out in the street some
You'll believe me- that dog headed for the nearest
saloon and backed right up to the bar baltimore
American.
The Argumentative Man.-"But, my dear fellow,
I tell you it's impossible for the to be in
habted When it is full it is all right. but when it
wanes down 10 little crescent, where the deuce
would all the people go to-
Father said inqurlng youth ''Ehen hen
is the egg spoiled"
LAS an article OF diet. my son, it is henceforth
failure but for political purposes it has It's uses.
-tTit-Bts.
A clerk in a Portsmouth (Eng) solicitors Office
had a stroke of luck the other day He happened
so 10 please n wealthy woman client that she
offered him $1,000 down or $4,000 in her will. He
declared for the money the nall and got It by
check the following day.
BACK.
Backward again from the place where the hills are,
Backward again from the boom OF the seas,
Back from the mountains where rainbow hued ris
Back from the sands too, ard back from the feas
Back from the hostleries where the huge bills are
And back from the lolling meath trees at our ease
Back to the city, where work and where toll is,
Back TO the streets and the jostle OF men,
sack 10 endeav6r where sweating and MOL Is.
Back to the stool and the workshop; ana then
buckling right down where all kinds OF hard toll Is
To save for next year and vacation again.
-(Houston Post.s !