New-York tribune., 1908-11-23
THE TALK or THE DAY.

An extraordinary demand has arisen in the east
ern counties of England for second hand Bibles
the older and dirtier the better Copies whlch TOT
rnerly realized fourpence are now readily oousH'
for half a crown They are being used to manu-
fscture evidence OF age in the case of old age pen
sions A woman who produced Bible TO prov
her age as seveuty-six from entity on the hyieat
had unfortunately omitted to tear out the titie-
page. which showed the Bible was printed IN 1850.
Does your husband forget to mail the letters
'Never put them in his cigar case"-Cleve-
land Leader.
According to decision OF the inspector general
of the army neither officers nor enlisted men VIII
wear gloves hereafter when equipped for heid ser
vice Enlisted men will also dispense with the use
Of white collars when doing field duty O1cers
will be allowed to wear white collar with the ser
vice uniform when in garrison The decls'oh 8i9'
forbids the use Of white gloves, which were once
looked upon Indispensable on some occasions ~
officers as we'll as enlisted men In the helo
.cYou's got to put a certain amount o dependsnSs
aroun lookin' fob too much advice s ia 9ie 70 e F IN
terested readn' de timetable dat he misses ms
Washington star.
Here is possible explanation Of the strong pre-
diIection J. Pierpont Morgan has for cigars Ac
cording to THE United States Tobacco Journal
the chester School. OF Uaterbury- which the hnan-
cier once attended, has sued a man in HsHlden'
Conn for years board end tuition for his son.
The defendant makes the unique answer for MS
refusal TO pay that the school officials and teach-
ers used tobacco in the presence Of the pupils
thereby encouraging them 20 contract the habit
An interview with the Kaiser had been sup
Good" said the yellow corresponding. Fine.
Now we can put anything we want INTO 'hSt in'e'
Immediately they all got busy.-PhiladeiDhia
Ledger
New Yorker writing from Berlin under date Of
ts
We Berlin Americans have that and another incl
dent to interest US. To-day the two American pro
fessoIs William Morris Davis, OF Harvard ana
Felix Adler OF Columbia. delivered their initial ad-
dresses before the Berlin University at the Aula.
BesdeA Prince EiteI Friedrich who represented the
Emperor. there were many notable persons In the
assembly OF the two men, think Adler the tnird
Roosevelt professor, received the more cordiaI
greeting and this was probably because the news
papers when referring him have never omitted
10 say that he born at Alzey, in Germany. and
that his father q rabbi Davis spoke first, and
in his discourse on geography grouped the work OF
Rchthofen, Ritter and Humboldt with Whitney and
other Americans to show that years ago a fellow
ship had been established between Harvard and
Berlin. Adler followed with learned discourse on
'The Foundation for the Friendly Relations Be
tween Germany and the United States He was
loudly appauded, especially when he read the Pres
idents letter in which admiration for the Germans
and their Emperor vas expressed. II YOU knew the
Germans as We who I've among them do YOU could
understand w1v rejoice in the exchange profess
sor plan. which furnishes annual demonstration
of the fact that there are lands and men beyond
the German realm
.,You are pretty. sharp boy, Tommy" .n,.
We'll Id ought to be Pa takes me out IN JnS
woodshed and strops three or four times a
week. ."-yfsrper's Weekly.
sudermann's "sodom's End has been branded as
unworthy of production before Christian audience
by the clergy OF Duren, Germany, where, according
TO the 'K0lnsche Zeitung," it was recently per
formed by the Ddsseldorfer Theater company We
protest emphatcaly,'' the clergyman said. against
such performances and regret deeply that place
dedica TED to real and to education should have
been thus desecrate-i.'
- Vicar Of Poppleton-T hear YOU have been over Al
IppIs4ou church the last Sundays, Bates. How
would YOU like it if YOUR cattle strayed INTO some
body eses feld2
Bates-I shouldn't object, if so be the pasture was
better.-Punch.