New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-25
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

III people knew what a cure exists for
consumption said a Bowdoinham man. quoted In
The Kennebeo Journal" they wouldn't be going
of to warm climates when they are sufferers with
that disease. Let them go into a fertilizer mill
and work for a while. and II they are not better
II IL because they pretty far gone when they
went in / have an instance in mind that will
prove my statement. Not very long ago a
young fellow that know in the last stages
OF consumption. He had consulted the best spe-
ciasts the disease that could be found In the
country and they all told him the same thing
that there hope. I don't remember II
ever knew. how II happened that he came TO work
In the fertilizer mill. but he did come and in less
than a month change for the better was APP
parent. He kept working and he Is working
there to-day, as fine specimen OF healthy man
hood as one would wish to see. He has gained
nesh steadily. and. best OF all. there is not tho
slightest trace OF consumption In his system"
Weary Willie (readng)-"De qualities a woman
requires In husband are neatness cleanliness in
dustry, sobriety honesty and courage!'
Battered Bachelor-Tank Heavens! I kin claim
feeling NV perfect security from de female SEX
Chicago News
To judge from the returns of "kills' in the last
hunting season In England. foxes much more
numerous than the 'non-hunting man." or even
than the man who shoots. would think. From L
return OF kills by eighty packs in England IL
is gathered that 5.l29 foxes fell TO hounds in the
hunting season Just ended while at least one-half
of that number were marked TO ground. These fig
ures mean that the average wayfarer should see
more foxes than he does. night prowler as the fox
is. One pack alone (tho Cattistoch) accounted for
ISL foxes. while the Beivoir killed ISL the Bcester
and Warden Hill 100 and the Berkeley l47 The
Scottish returns show q lower average but in some
parts OF Ireland foxes quite numerous as in
England. In Scotland there are many foxes OF tha
"hilI' type or these the professional Highland
foxhunter, who uses terriers and gun. will Sc
cure from forty to nifty average each year
or In other words many as most packs OF
Highland fOXhunter is
fessional lamb protector than a sportsman though
searching the cairns with terriers is an exciting
pastime.
MUMPS AT HARVARD
Harvard. Fair Harvard is down in the dup,ns
Because her brave sons are afIiicted with mPmns
Ap0ut on the campus tney gather in cluInps
And examine each other for symptoms OF tumns
oi 'nG me Jaws, ana are prone to pronounce them
For their childish propensity-rnen catching r,umps,
1T is bad enough, looking like so many frumps.,.
tney declare. nut our courage decidedly
AT tn 9 thought ought, that our athletes. the men who
The runners. the rowers the 'varsity's trumns
oh t st neid' In the diamond, are all up their
At home or in hospital. nursing the mumps"
The doctors, they say are Incompetent sumns
H H0usm eaeh BUSY practitioner hastily humps
ms medicines into them, giving them fbnnns
M. 'ie pack 20 encourage them, saying the mumns
0'O"''"aN'e merely more pleasingly plumpsi
captain John Ryan. OF the Newton Mass, %
nee department, has unique cane In his n,use,,1n
.. war souvenirs The knob is made from the hill,
OF cavalry sabre picked up on the battlss.Id :,
gettysburg. the ht OF an artiIIery .ah -,
up On the battlefield of Fredericksbnrs a.. No.
OF oayonet picked up the field n, Ioa,aS go
thus representing the three branches of the .s;n.
IN the Civn War. The stan is made fron, ,aa.'He
taken from Fort Mallette Cuba. in N. sa''o
American War. The engraved plate ,s ,ror, u.s."
belt plate picked up on the Custer batt,eoeIs -.
ing the Sioux war IN 1876 in which t,apta,n p,,,
took part. The tip is made from a pair of araroon
spurs from the oattieheld of Buena Vista. Mexican
War. The cane was made under the eantain.. 60
vision the stan being turned out at the c,o,ror,
Reformatory. the metal moulded at the waItba,,
foundry and finished at the Cambridge fo,,,a
Captain Ryan served three years In the sstb M,sso
chusetts in the Civil War. one year in the c,s,
Massachusetts and ten years as sergeant ana et
sergeant in Company NJ. 7th United States Cavalry
all the time with General Custer on the mains 80
in the Southern states.
DO you believe in art for arts sake9" asked the
transcendentslfst ' ING
No" answered the materialist: tho mention NJ
art for arts sake usually means q request 10 work
star "s'on