New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Cornell student who spent the summer in the
West made a successful trip from ST. Louis to
Ithaca last week amateur hobo. He left st.
Louis Wednesday night the front end of the
blind baggage of Rock Island train, and the
ride to Chicago was easy. Thursday was spent in
Chicago as he did not care to take the chances of
a daylight ride. In relating his story to the boys
on arrival at Ithaca. he said: That night 1 took
trolley to the outskirts of the town and caught
the Lake Shore for Buffalo at coal yard OF the
seven tramps the train, another fellow. a brass
worker. and I were the only ones who got to Buff
faIo. The others 'ditched From Buffalo
caught the easy Lehigh, and here I am. I had
shipped my trunk on to Ithaca so all was well.
If these automobile fanatics think they go some,
let them ride the platform of a baggage or
mail while the train making bit better
than sixty miles.
Lady engaging servano-And what did you do
Candidate for stuation-Nothin'. you may say.
mum. l was just useful 'elp-Punch
In view of the movement toward the Qualification
of Pope Plus IN, says the Italian correspondent of
a Frankfort paper, the much discussed question.
WAS Pho Mono a Free Mason?" is again subject
for discussion. When the assertion was first made
many years ago the ant-clerical papers published
a statement purporting to come from the master
of Calena Acterna Lodge, of Palermo in which the
record appears that lat the meeting in the first
half Of the month of March 1882 Giovanni Farretti
the ancient rites" In contradiction the Church
authorities publish statement through Monsignor
Varrlzzi to show that the time mentioned Bishop
Mastai (Pope Pius) at Imola and could not
have been proposed for membership at Palermo.
Furthermore the person whose initiation re-
corded at Palermo must have been another Mastai.
because he who became Plus TX always wrote his
name Giovanni Maria Mastai Farretti- AS further
proof that the Free Mason story is groundless. a
Church paper contained in 1880 statement. signed
by Adranno Lemmi, grand master of Italy. that
no evidence could be found to establish the con-
tention that Pope Plus TX had ever taken upon
himself the obligations of Free Masonry.
Mrs Grumpy-Women have all the troubles in
this world. -, -. -. -.
MIR. Grumpy-EXcept onei tHey uoh haFe Wives
Illustrated Bits.
1t is reported from Wayne County. New York
tr1T the farmers have been studying the habits
of the Monaghan pheasant. and that many Of
advocate further protection for the handsome
birds 1T is declared" says The Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle" that observation
proves that the food of the pheasant consists of
noxious insects in far greater proportion than
grain In this way many farmers coming
TO think the good in the bird far outbalances the
evil. It Is urged that the farmer can we'll afford
to share the little grain eaten by the pheasants.
in view of the vast benefit accrung from the
destruction of ravenous insects AS this view
has been advanced by scientific observers, the
pheasant should be given fair chance for its
life"
They looking Up at the latest skyscraper.
But what are those things sticking out from the
.'Those7 Oh. those mie-posts!' answered
the New Yorker.-JudgN