New-York tribune., 1908-06-27
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

philanthropist was kept busy for little while
yesterday buying tickets at cent apiece for warm
and thirsty and not overclean little boys at 'he
Nathan Straus milk BOOTH IN City Hall Park
Presently he saw a little fellow pass his yellow
ticket to q companion. who slipped 1t into his
pocket and then resumed his place in front Of the
window where the tickets sold. The woman
In charge who sells about thousand tickets
day, said that some of the children carry on
traffic in these tickets that she had been COM
PEELED to warn people against a number of the
boys who begged for but never drank milk.
You are something of inventor. are you not?'
II have done few things IN the inventing line
answered the man in the repair shop
had brought With him here's an an eght-day eiock
that will ring for two hours if someb9dy doesn't
go and wind it on the morning of the eighth day
Chicago Tribune.
Friends of Judge Samuel R. Artman. of Lebanon,
Ind are booming him for the Prohibition nomina-
ton for President. He is Circuit Court judge OF
Boone County. Ind, and gave a decision against
the constitutionalty of licensing saloons on Febru-
ary 13 1907 According to the decision the State
Indiana had more right to license liquor SELL
Ing than to license gambling being dangerous to
public morals and public safety The decision sup
ported the claims of the Anti-Nuisance League of
Indiana and was hailed by Prohbitonists as af
fordfng a means Of combating liquor selling
throughout the nation Since the decision Judge
Artman has been in demand lecturer for pro-
hibition.
Reggy-You rude rufiian! I'll knock your brain.
out.
Dennis-Shure an thot's phwhere yez how ad-
vantage me.-Iustrated Bits
Deaths from Iockjaw caused by Fourth of July
injuries are growing fewer, according to figures in
THE Baltimore Sun" In the last five years there
have been United States 1856 cases. 71 result
ing In death. OF the latter, COS were due to blank
cartridge wounds The number of deaths from
wounds.
however is decreasing. probably due to less fire.
ouent use of blank cartridges as noise producers
In 1903 there 45 cases but last year there
were only 73. There is statute in Maryland,
which is rigidly enforced by the police, prohibiting
the sale of the toy cartridge pistol, to which
cases Of lockjaw have been traced
Friend Halloa. Pat! 1 scarcely knew you with
Pat"The same wild me- me bhoy; I didn't know
meself when I looked into the glass, except by me
vOice.-Tt-B Bits.
The remarkable success of the semi-Teetotal
Pledge Association of England was reported at its
recent annual meeting in London The motto of
the organization is No Drinks Between Meals
The association formed in January. 1903, and
in the five years and six months of It's existence It
has Induced 1870 600 people to subscribe to its
poses and sign Its pledges Among It's hackers Is
the Bishop Of London
HAS my boy been kind to dumb animals to-
Eyes, grandma; 1 let your canary out of the cage,
and when my cat caught IL set 4o"ser Oh her-
Pick Me Up.
The "Neue Freie Presse," Vienna, publishes
al interview with DIR. Edwin c. Cooley, in which
the head of the public schools OF Chicago says
many Iaudatory things about the Vienna schools,
and praises both the teachers and the pupils. You
give the pupils practical knowledge of foreign Ian
guages," he said, land they conquer the difficulties
much better than boys. One of your pupils
conversed with IN English and his command
of words and his pronunciation remarkably
good / you would have to look long in
of schools before you could find q scholar of
American parentase who would speak German as
fuently.
Club women in Boston, SAID the head line
Dear. dear, commented the nearsignted man.
unable TO read the context. Il never would have
thought it possible. Why. the very worst we do IN
Philadelphia is to neglect to give 'ern a seat
Philadelphia Ledger.