New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

OLIVER WENDELL. HOLMES.
IsO9-i0O0
Hail. sweetest singer OF the band
Our alma mater bore.
To stir the pulse nerve the arm
To battle at the fore.
When for the right thy trumpet tones
Her 10 victory sped.
or swept thy Tyre funereaI notes
In memory OF her dead.
That Tyre. attuned 10 meuower lays.
No more our hearts shall thrill
Al festal board in banquet hall
When loving cups We hlL
Sole Autocrat whose loyal realm
No sunsets rays e'er bound;
Professor. OF n broader fame
Than Knights OF Table Round
1.-THE Iron Gate" has closed for thee.
THE Last Lear s fallen from the bough:
THE Old Man Dreams no more for ave;
The Shadows" only left US now
''IIomesck in Heaven thou canst not be;
THE Secret OF the Stars thOust learned
For the harp with silent strings
For thee, the thy life had earned
CHARLES ALEXANDER NELSON
Wigg-what kind of cigars does CIosehst smokes
Wasg-Wel; when you light one OF them YOU in
Philadelphia Record.
lie Soir'' of Br'.ssels in a recent issue. has an
article I'm which the writer attempts TO prove thar
Menelak OF Abyssinla is the descendant Of Euro
peans. His grandfather" says the author. "was
no less parsonage than the French author Ia
MARITIME, whose daughter Julia inherited the poets
wanderlust and spent many years IN the Orient
where II was supposed she had died II is known
that only the father present when the body
% was buried In France The queer biography
maintains that the coffin contained only stone and
that Julia. who had been stolen by Bedouins and
sold a slave TO King Solomon of Abyssinia was
then alive. Also that the Abysslnian fell In love
with the white slave. made her his queen and her
is the present ruler OF Abyssinia whose death
is reported whenever there Is scarcity Of news
from that part OF the world
What is a food expert?'
ANY man who can make his wages buy enough
for the family table. '-Philadelphia Ledger.
Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen President OF the
New Jersey Senate. acting Governor OF that
state in the absence of Governor Fort becaus.
New Jersey has no lieutenant governor. is a sue
cesssul insurance man in New York. The acting
Governor is relative OF u the Secretaries or
State Of the Arthur Cabinet. He began his b,,si
ness career at the bottom of the ladder When n
boy Of eighteen Senator Frellnghuysen came IN
New York and secured employment as an Office bo,,
IN commission house. Soon after he took nm
the fire insurance business. He is one OF the Ie.a
ing candidates for the Republican nomination 10
succeed Governor Fort.
II when you fish for compliments
NJ \ GU ma you're catching none
NO longer wait, but change your bait
AND bait your ho>k with one
Philadelphia Record.
The health OF the Right Rev. DIR. Alexandra
Mackay-Smith Episcopal Bishop Coadiutor q,
Pennsylvania, Is causing much anxiety to his fam
lily and friends. and report has 1t that long leave
CT absence will be granted him. The stand,n
committee D: l'r Mackay- Smiths diocese Is said
to be about to allow him a years vacat,on
Bishop Maekay-Smths health has given his friend.
concern for the last two years He has hsan
afflicted with rheumatic govt which gave hira
many painful hours last winter and spring 7, ths
spring he was compelled to remain away from the
Church House for days at a time ~
Niei5She.s an awful gossip. She tells ev.rv
thing she hears Belle-Oh. sha tsI,. Ely
that.-Philadelphia Record ~ s"S ihofo IMAM