Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE T TALK A K OF THINGS GRAVE AND GAY A I t CHANCE FOR A TITLE In one of the New ev York papers lateY lately lately late late- ly Y there appeared an nn advertisement inthe inthe in inthe the following words words- An American lady ady may take take- her er seat scat as a marchioness marchion marchion- ess ass In Westminster Abbey during the preliminary negotiations In confidence Box Naturally the inquisitiveness of the reportorial mind rose to this bait like a May trout to a Do June fly and the advertiser was q quickly found round and interviewed He lIe appeared ed to b in be-in ln good faith In the matter n and after considerable pump- pump ng ng Acknowledged ck that he had ad been employed to look lookup up a wealthy American Americ Ameri Amen c can n wife fo for a a British peer er using the peculiar of his ad advertisement t to attract att attention n n. n But nut the affair Is regarded as a rather ther a a. good joke on one of two prominent English x nobles ItIs Itis It ItIs Is said that there are kne only two bachelor marquises In England and that one of f them Is fighting In South Africa He may be counted out as he would auld riot not have time or opportunity to Indulge in matrimonial transactions between now and the date of the coronation Theother Theother The Theother other is at present traveling In this country and denies that he is the marquis marquis mar mar- quis w who o wants the American lady to sit with him In Westminster Abbey The word of ot a peer must be taken without without without with with- out any salt of course AN AMERICAN SNOB I The aristocratic regions of Long Island have produced an humble ot of William m Waldorf Astor In the person of a a wealthy resident of Blue Point who is turning his American property Into cash preparatory preparatory to emigration emigration emi emi- gration and expatriation LU Like e his exemplar exemplar ex ex- ex- ex he holds that this country is no not a fit pl place c for 80 a gentleman to live in and he lon longs s for tot the he day when he can become a subject of King Edward He also observes that our courts are corrupt and Justice not atall atal at atall all al on 01 tap o oh on this side of the Atlantic Thank goodness there are not many thany many Americans like lile him and he never will willbe willbe willbe be missed No No- doubt it often has cau caused ed surprise in In the imitation En- En gUsh Astor mind that the country of his birth h ha has s gott gotten n along so comfortablY comfortably comfortably comfor comfor- tably without w him The fact is that the room of all individuals of his kind kindis is more to be desired than their com corn pany A DULLED DUELED PITCHFORK Senator Tillman of South Carolina appears to be in much nuch the condition of th the boy who had the bull by the tail and and was tearing down hill bill after him to the shore of a deep river The boy could not hold the animal back and cpu d not l let t g go of f him Tillman Tiliman was generously free with the charges of political po po- Ucal dishonesty which he hurled at athis athis athis his c colleague S Senator McLaurin r. r from time to time in fn the Senate until the thelow therow therow row low culminated In the disgraceful personal personal personal per per- alter altercation atlon on the floor of the chamber which will not soon BOOn be forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten by the khe the country But now nosy when a It committee Has lias been constituted to investigate in- in them it is said that T Tillman Is perfectly willing to overlook his own past conduct In the matter and to close the Incident But a number of Senators including Mr Hanna are arc disinclined to to accommodate te the pitchfork pitchfork pitchfork pitch pitch- fork statesman They are represented as thinking tl that at having made the charges and insinuations familiar to the public he should quietly but firmly be invited and c compelled to substantiate substantiate substantiate them Or r prepare to accept what consequences may accrue to his reputation reputation reputation tation and st standing Most minded fair-minded people will agree that that th they y are about right i SWEET ALICE Every notice we have seen seen of the career and death of Doctor Thomas Dunn English has referred to his dislike dislike dislike dis dis- dis- dis like of of the fame which c came came me to him as the the theauthor author author autho of ot Ben Ben Bolt and generally generally gen pen this feeling on his part has been ascribed to a a belief beUel that the piece did not represent his best work Probably there was a different reason In his mind which escaped the notice of at his friends and the obituary writers It is far from impossible that the words of Ben Bolt related to a boyhood love and loss which he did not care to have exploited with voice and trumpet allover all allover Il over the round world by y strangers in strange lands The v very y language and sentiment of of th the work ork c considered In connection with the youth of the author author author au au- au- au thor at the time they were written and the instant and and deep appeal they made to the hearts hearts' of people everywhere present strong trong presumptive evidence that Sweet Alice with hair hall so brown was vas not a figment of poetic imagination tion but a real existent little sweet womanly personality such as thank God comes at times into the life of every hearted clean-hearted man The slab of granite so grey somewhere exists for most of us who have passed our youth And Sweet Alice lies under the theston ston stone stone stonas as as we believe behave she Ehe did In the memory of Thomas Dunn English Peace to him Who knows but that he has fou found Sweet A Alice waiting for him on the farther shore of that mysterious mysterious mys mys- river dver which ich one day we all L must cross cross cross' Who knows but that there may be long lost sweet Alices Alkes waiting wai for m many ny of us on on that same ame sh shore re |