New-York tribune., 1905-03-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Stanley is to be commemorated by a monolth II
feet long, feet wide, feet inches in thickness
ana weighing six tons. The stone was found in
Deyonshire after a long search to comply with
Lady stanleys desire that a monument should be
erected to the famous explorer which had been
fashioned by the ages, tempered and colored by
time and untouched by man" The only exception
to the latter provision is in the inscription which
bears the explorers name and also the name by
which he was known 70 the natives of Darkest
Africa. "Bula Matari." the Rock Breaker.
PROGRESS.
In the golden maze Of the dear old days
There was time and enough to spare.
The world and love was true,
Men brave and maidens fair.
A rose grown cot was the happy lot
OF the bridegroom and his bride.
With a garden for primrose
And n moss grown well beside.
But we've passed all that and a five room fiat
Is the home of our modern pair;
No driftwood's light on the hearth at night
a gas logs glittering glare.
No longer he waits at the garden gates
R Raohes SeP G the the SRag inf
To list TO the old. old tale.
lie brings no flowers wet with fragrant showers
That he's gathered in the dell.
He sends, his love to tell.
He proposes by wire in words of fire.
Ten ~ little & words alone. 49,, 49, 49,
over the telephone!
Then the wedding day. and the word "obey"
Is stricken from the vow.
In thus the gTea sep veS ths " No% to date
And "1Ohengrn'' is the Joyous din
OF the panolas tune.
Afoat in a big balloon!
PUCK
An English contemporary tells story Of an un-
usual exhibition of forethought by an Irishman At
a certain lecture there was little disturbance and
the lecturers head broken. ut isn't much" he
said, sit would be all right If only had bit OF
sticking plaster"
Here's bit. sir" said muscular spectator. ''I
oIn
night"
Ethel don't see why it is considered necessary
Charles isn't wicked and he's interesting.
Katheryn-He's interesting as curiosity. Ethel,
not a man.-(Cincinnau Inquirer
Mother can win the medal for good be-
havior," exclaimed boy just in from school; I've
tried and tried. but some other pupil always gets
It,"
But you must keep trying" said his mother.
encouragingly
IT'S no use" replied the boy: Il shant try any
more. It's a clean waste of goodness Tit
THE SONG OF THE RETREATING RUSSIAN
ARMIES.
We're marching to freedom. in the dark before
The shells are bursting round us. and the shrap-
We're marching on to freedom, through the black
crimson thread is in the east and creeps across
the sky.
We're hopelessly defeated: let the joyous news
our be- r5es Fee are IN f" retreat and soon we shall
Outfought and outmannuvred. outfanked and
Three hundred thousand beaten men are sing
ing ike the sea.
Our forces I'LL the valleys full: the plain is over
Our bayonets clothe the trampled earth like
Above the distant mountain tops the light /,
slowly growing;
be
We die that Russia may be free we lose that
There's blood upon the road we take, but still
Our triumph is in our defeat, our glory in our
We're marching on TO freedom through the blood.
The canton roar behind us. and the dead are
falling fast
of the dawning:
We've suffered through the weary night. but
day has come at last.
For we're beaten-beaten-beate Let the joyou.
We've lost. the .tyrants battle now. and soor
Wronged. robbed, oppressed, tormented imprisoned
A hundred million Russian slavs are rising like
-CBertrand shadwell in The Boston Transcript
curious question has been stirring Spanish feel
ing and strong agitation has only been avoided by
popular custom being permitted to have its own
way. The Cortez recently passed law ordaininR
general prohibition OF Sunday labor This law hav-
ing been secured opponents of the national pastime
promptly sought its application to bullnghts which
| almost always take place Sundays Instantly
there arose outburst OF popular resentment SO
strong that the Council OF State took the matter
into its own hands and by series OF special plead
| lugs concluded that the law does not apply 70
tauromachy. which is not labor. but an art like
the drama
do you not sometimes have soulful yearnings
which you long TO convey in words. but cannot o.
asked the sentimental girl
Ind nit cd tha