New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Don't these telegraph workers know anvthtne?,'
asked a man who had had returned to him a tele-
gram that the operator couldn't read. oh don't
you mind" replied an old newspaper man. why
do you know when I in Chicago at the Re
publican National Convention of 1908 1 had some
thing happen to that would make your ex-
perience seem like cheap imitation had prom
ised Mr.. Roosevelt few confidential bulletins, and
one night, at the Auditorium, 1 down dis
patch addressed to The President Washington
minute or two later, back came a request from
the woman operator: Name and address, please
1 collapsed. But the chief operator didn't. What
he said to that poor girl 1 don't know 1 was
charitable enough not to want to hear it,
There The foH was time" said the old inhabitant,
f1@t pefe pseisd Of t6 6PPoPesy sold for
How very Observation-Disclosures Star.
Correspondence between young girls in Germany
and natives of the German colonies in Africa has
grown to such extent that the ''Norddeutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung" has published a warning to
parents and guardians on the subject. Exchange
of photographs said the writer. els often the
first step in the correspondence, but then letters
and photographs cCme and CO. to the delight of the
African youth, who tacks the pictures of his Ger
friend the wall next to objects and pict-
ures not in harmony with civilization and refine
ment; and to the joy also of the silly girls who
treasure the badly written notes from negro
spondents coming from African princes. Parents
are warned against allowing the yonug people TO
good"
the optimst Look on the bright side sid of thnss s"
That's all very Well mournfully replied the
sufferer; but what is the bright side of a gum
bo?"-Tit-Bits.
In order to demonstrate that the anti-Jewish
feeling is growing less in Austria, THE Philadelphia
Exponent says: 1T is well known that the Dual
Empire does not exclude the Jews from the ranks
of officers in the army, not even from the highest
army contains one Jewish lieutenant field marshal
three major generals, ten cooneIs eleven iieuten-
ant colonels and seventeen majors. besides a large
| number of officers of lower grade'
viii the discovery of the pole result in any
humorlst doubt il the few y'E new jokes s il 'S- af
out of commission. Louisville Courier-Journal
The desertion of Hedwig wangel from the stage
and her enlistment in the Salvation Army. says
the "Frankfurter Kleine Presse," came about I'm a
peculiar way With her mother, the gifted actress
strolled into a hall at Frankfort one evening last
month when a meeting was in progress. She was
seen to smile broadly when the speaker told OF the
great future OF the army. but when he enlarged
on what ii had already accomplished and told
about the poor girls 1t had befrended. Of the dis
consulate who had been cheered and the homeless
ones who had been made TO smile and to enioy
life. she became interested, and when the ex
I X,
handsome, beautifully clad and wearing MANY
jewels the other older but also fashionablv
dressed, advanced and knelt among those who had
been converted They We're the actress and her
mother. That night they both enlisted In the
army. the daughter renouncing forever the pro-
fession in which she had achieved success"
The multi-millionaire gets angry eyerv tius
anybody applies to him for a little money =
Yes. 1t often happens that swollen fortunes are
very sensitive to the touch."-Washington star
The Rev Dr. Edward $ Rousmaniere Of pro,t
dence, mentioned and voted for several times f,r
Protestant Episcopal bishoprcs and thought of nv,
some churchmen a probable successor m tho
late Or. Huntington OF Grace Church. New York
has accepted the rectorship of historic ST PauI's
Boston Dr. Falkner the late rector of St Paul's
died abroad a few months ago, DIR. Rousmanierr
native Of Boston was educated Harvard
1t seems queer tnat she ever took a fancy to
him. lie isn't at all the kind of man one would
expect her to admire ~
II know; but he always had a Wav of DOticiD,-
it when she happened TO have on a new hat or a
gown that had just come from the dressmaker's -
Chicago Record-HeTad.