New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-20
MID-OCTOBER.

Let us walk I'm the purple October:
Let US wander away to the hills
Where the gold and the crimson commngle.
Where the haze. in its purple, fills
The air with nebulous dreaming,
And the town-weary feet may tread
The somnolent aisles of the forest
With a motionless sky overhead.
Let us walk in the purple October;
Let us dream and, forgetting the ways
That lead through the turmoil and trouble
OF life in these strenuous days,
Let us see on the palette of Nature,
Ia it's pigments of crimsons and Colds,
picture of rest and of rapture
Which the Master Of masters unfolds.
W. j. HAMPTON.
Clarence" said the American heiress
hesitatinglV. Il think that you should he
told at once how my father made his
money. our business men I'm this country
have methods which to one Of your pure
soul, whose motto is 'Noblesse Ohlige, can
rot but Cease Mamie, cease" said
the young lord TeassurnCly, tell me no
more However he made his millions /
can forgive. for your sake. But-er-has ne
still got them all rieht?"-London Globe.
NJ. Joubert, Professor at the Agricultural
College at Fontainebleau, France, believes
that he has discovered new and simple
method Of making hens lay. He feeds them
with wine I'm addition TO their ordinary
food. The professor has not allowed his
discovery to be made known lightly. He
has been experimenting with fowls of all
kids for several years. and finds the same
result I'm every case. In each case he eX-
perimented for the four winter months with
two sets Of twelve fowls OF the same breed,
adding bread soaked IN wine TO the food of
one Of the two sets Of twelve. After SIX
separate trials the wine fed hens laid more
eggs. in the proportion Of twenty eggs a
month or Whereabouts, the professor re-
ports.
Gibbs-I suppose your brother shutters as
badly as ever?
Dibbs-Oh no: he's quite proficient at II
now.-Boston Transcript
Difficulties of census work among Chinese
are amusingly illustrated by the British
Commissioner at Wei-haiWei In his re-
port "A Chinese child at birth is said to
be one year Old" he writes. and after
Il has passed one new year II Is said 10 be
two years old. Thus a child If born I'm the
last month Of the year may be said TO be
two years OF age before IL IS thirty days
old according TO European reckoning. a
child Of eighteen months time of life since
birth is reckoned by Chinese to be either
two years or three years old. this depend
ing on whether n was born I'm the first
or second half of the year 1t Ia common
for a Chinese mother 10 give a son the
name Of q girl presumably to deceive the
Fates. II being considered easier 10 bring
M girl There are many large undivided
families in Wei-hai-Wei The largest IS
that Of a widow named Meng w Shih.
whose family consists Of sixty-siN, which,
with one servant. makes sixty seven
mouths 10 the common meal
Bacon Why. according 10 the plans the
architect has prepared that house viii cost
vou SIS 600
Fgbcrt-Well ! want something can get
= good mortgage on when 1 do buy an
Automobile don't I9-Yonkcrs Statesman.
Chief NJ Police McWeeny NJ Chicago
thinks that his city has more than its
share Of deaf and dumb beggars. and has
issued orders for their suppression. The
chief saws that "nineiy-nine out of hun
dred of the beggars who work the deaf
and dumb plea on the sympathetic public
are fakes" and addS that there are plenty