New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-30
THE TALK OF THE DAY

The EDITOR REGRElS.
sent story 10 his den,
lie tore it open with his knife,
With asSassinating pen
He stabbed away its life.
sent "A poem to his cage
He seized IL through the bars.
Into a thousand fragments small
He tore my dreams and stars.
asked him. "Why. O Man Of Dule.
SO harsh and sharp and quick?'
lie said ut IS our Office Rule
I'm sorry If you're sick,
But if you only knew you'd know
Why Editors are always So
Glasgow Herald
The high cost Of living appears perilously near the
fall elections. but the Democratic party evidently
thinks it has a complete alibi- Chicago Herald.
A New York paper says that the war is killing the
tango War has its compensations, beyond a
doubt.-Detroit Free Press.
War prices are terrible things. We are supposed
20 get our Virginia tobacco from Turkey, our Cali
fornia oil from italy, our Michigan cheese from Hol-
land so everything goes up If America ever had a
war Europe wouldn't raise food prices 1t would just
lie down and starve.- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
americans" says correspondent of The New
York Tribune should keep their wits about them"
Well isn't Chaunccy Depew on the way home?-
Columbia IS. c. State.
Sarah Bernhardt calls the Germans barbarians.
There is truth i'm the report that Sarah has been
booked for return engagement in the Prussian cap
ital-Ceveland Plain Dealer
"There are enough magazines published in New
York to keep man busy thirty days in each month"
saws a book reviewer Well. OF course, the mass or
magazines might make the days work attractive in
comparison, but baseball fishing and a lot Of other
temptations pull you the other way.-Lousville
Courier-Journal.
Success brings ou' mans friends
"Yes but if you want to know your real friends
count the few who support you when you don't seem
TO have chance to vim Detroit Free Press
81 trust you don't spend all your wages"
"That don't. I only spend two-thirds. Two
"8rd tho other third you bank that suppose?o
"No. do hotter than that With IT, give IT TO the
wife to run the house London Evening Standard
Another indisputabc sign Of prosperity: A little
while ago John d. urging to save our pennies
Now he says spend the pennies and save the nckels
Pittsburgh Dispatch
"What does a mans bravery amount to If he is in
front Of machine gum asks inc ihIadelpn'h
Public Ledger What. for that matter, does II avail
If he is facing a 98-pound wife and must confess
having failed to mail letter. Louisville Courier
Journal
On wet. miserable fogey day in London Charles
Lamb was accosted by beggar with: please, sir,
bestow little charity upon a poor destitute woman.
Relieve me sir ! have seen better days" $50 have
TS said Lamb. handing the poor creature shilling,
$50 have l. It's a miserable day, even for London"
The Argonaut.
The Counsel How do you know this night letter
was forged by and not written by the woman
whose name is signed to 1t?
The Expert Because it contains just forty -eight
words and a woman would have used two more to
get her moneys worth Birmingh m Age-Helald
"You don't seem TO hold me in the same regard
that you did when you married me. said the sentl-
mental woman "You must remember" replied her
tactless spouse, chat you don't look the same as
you did then Fashions change so remarkably that
don't see how any man and woman can feel really
well acquainted" Variety