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Show IN JUBILEE JAPAN CELEBRATION OVER VICTORY OF LIAOYANG. Grand Daylight During Display Procesthe In Beauty by Eclipsed to sion at Night Scene Delight the Eye of an Artist OUR ENGLISH COUSINS. again, shouted rather impatiently: I Mr. "Whenever cannot reference is mado to hear you." "Speak up. Mr. "Mr. the liking entertained for Americans "Mr. what? Hay. Hay. Hay b u y, hay, dried grass Secre- by our KnglLh couuns and of the tary Hay. Do you hear mo now?" courtesies shown us by them," says And ho said he did. Bliss Carman, the poet, "I recall with amusement the experience of certain ladles of my acquaintance who on arGLORIES OF WAR. at Southampton were embarMajor General Corbin commanding riving by the fact that a friend whom the department of the cast, tells the rassedwere expecting to meet them following with reference to a member they to put In an appearhad failed there of the militia of a northern state takance. were casting about While ing part In tho recent manoeuvers In their mindsthey what course to pursue at Manassas: advanced The guardsman w as one day making a nice looking Britisher of were in the that rarty heroic efforts to get away with his age, observing movements, as some to their doubt solA first ration of army beef. fellow politely Inquired dier walking near him stopped to approached and of service to he he whether might watch, with some amusement, the at- them. tempt of the northerner to mastlcato "Thank you so much! exclaimed the meat. "Whats the matter, Bill?" one of the ladies, explaining the asked he. and adding: "Oh, nothin much. was the sullen 'You sec, we are quite Ignorant of reply. Then, disgustedly regarding a the best way to get to our destinapiece of the beef that he held In h!s tion, having just arrived from Amerhand, the Yankee added: ica. "Now I know' what people mean "Indeed! replied the elderly Britwhen they talk about the sinews of isher. Just from America? We have war. quite a number of your countrymen In Jail here, madam. elt-uatlo- BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE. A A West Virginia coal operator who is represented in New York by his son ONLY WANTED INFORMATION. As It Is Capt. Frank Conn'r business io build trolley roads, he always pa Cronlzes them on principle whenever ixissible and eschews cabs. When he emerged from the Hotel Marie An toinette the other day a cab driver accosted him with the regulation, Keb, Ir, keb? "How much, to tho Long Island ferry? "Two dollars, sir." "No. "All right, sir; make it a dollar and a half. "Is that your lowest? "Yes, sir; Isnt that cheap enough? "Oh, suppose so. "All right then. Jump In." "Oh, I dont want a cab. I only wanted to And out how much I would save by taking a street car. ORIGIN OF THE "HOOSIERS. Thomas Taggart, who may be accepted as an authority on the subject, tells a picturesque story of the origin of the word Iloosier. "When the first settlers, he says, "came to Indiana from the Carolinas apd Kentucky they built their little ilog cabins along a common road, and as the cabins all looked alike, it became the custom for any one seeking friends to go along the road calling out at each cabin: Whos here? From this the original settlers came to be topown as Hoosiers. ! . HAY DRIED GRASS. As might well be expected, the name of the present secretary, of state is familiar to nearly, all Americans, and evidence of his claim to a place in their memories was furnished recently by a little incident that happened while a farmer, rejoicing in his monosyllable cognomen, was talking over the long distance telephone. "Mr. Hay was given as an answer to the frequent telephone question, "Who is there? . But Mr. Hay was requested jto repeat his name, and his interlocutor, falling to catch it again and , H-A-- Find Skeletons of Missing Men. The skeletons of four men who mysteriously disappeared there, between two days, twenty years ago, have been discovered, in an.old water hole near tjuart.rlte, .Aria. They were on their if ay to California and no doubt were 'murdered for their money. , 1 THE VIRGINIAN AND THE CLOCK. At the luncheon following the recently wrote the following letter torpedo concerning a shipment of bituminous launching of the submarine M. Mr. X. Foster Lake Simon beat coal: " Voorhces, former governor of New Jer, October 1C, 1904. sey, told this story on a distinguished "Jim: "DAD. In a few days the following answer W2LS sent New' York, October 23, 1904. "Dad: "JIM." Translated Into the vernacular this reads: "Jim, see my coal on. Dad. Dad, coal on. Jim. ENGLISH HUMOR. Charles M. Fepper, the newspaper man who was appointed a commissioner on the Intercontinental railway commission, tells an amusing story In w'hich the main figure is Henry Norman, the British journalist. Norman visited Washington a few years ago. One evening just before the departure of the Britisher it was determined to put up a joke on him at the Press club. A Mr. Decker was selected to be the perpetrator. This gentleman arose in his seat and, taking a small bell from his pocket, addressed Mr. Norman as follows: "Sir, I have been designated by my fellow members to convey to you an expression of our pleasure. On behalf of the National Press club of Washington I am instructed to give you thing ring. As he uttered the word ring Mr. Decker rapped the bell smartly and placed it upon the table. It was plainly to be seen that the Englishman was taken aback. After a good deal of hemming and hawing he replied: Mr. Decker and members of the National Press club, words fail me. I am overwhelmed. With respect to this gift, which I am pleased to receive, I suppose that Mr. Decker, as was only natural in the embarrassment of the moment, for we newspaper men are notoriously poor speakers, has made a mistake, for he has, as ycu see, given me a bell instead of a ring! Railroad Cver Hamlets Grave. A railway is about to be constructed near Elsinore which will run across the spot traditionally believed to be Numerous the grave of Hamlet. signed protests against the projected railway have been addressed to the government On the evening of Sept 4 messen- gers went from house to house with their Instructions. On the morning of the Gth tho entire country broko out Into a blaze of banners, fiags, largo and small. Here and there was an American or English flag; but the air was fairly alive with the Japanese red sun In a white field, or the war flag with Its red rays streaming. Tho colors were only red and white and the bunting, wound about poles everywhere, was set off by the green of the Immense arches. Innumerable lanterns lined the street and hung from tall poles In long festoons. No wonder that the price of lanterns went up from two cents and & half to twenty-flvcents, and that Anally none were to bo had. All through tho next day the people were busily engaged In completing their preparations for even a grander display In th evening. Transparencies were prepared displaying mottos of congratulation, or scenes from the war or humorous pictures of falling bears and eagles, on their backs, tumbling through space with wings outspread and claws clutching at the air. And when the night came panorama bafe fles description. In the light of tho paper lanterns everywhere one saw the red In Its white field on flags and banners and bunting and transparencies. And then the processions! Thoso who have seen a torchlight procession In America, with the air filled with Virginian: smoke of the torches and the grimy The son of the Old Domlrlon had tin lamps dripping their oil over tbelr been out with the boys. As he softly of an oriental bearers, know opened the hall door the melodious procession with nothing Its thousands of pretty voice of his better half greeted him of all shapes and sizes, borne lanterns with the query: aloft upon bamboo sticks, each lan"What time Is it? tern decorated with the Japanese flags "It Is early, my dear, responded the or some fanciful design a veritable Virginian. of fire river and. rippling till growing "How can you say so, exclaimed , E DearIns his spouse, "when the clock cas Just struck two? "All right, said the Virginian, his Mint Refuse Worth $30,000. voice indicating virtuous Indignation. All right! If you choose to take the The United States government asd Yankee clock against word of a d sayed the old mint at Denver recentthat of a Virginian gentleman you may ly, said R. W. Burchard of that city, of do so; but 1 have my opinion and got $30,000 in the clean up. That you! sounds like a peculiar statement, but it is the truth. "The new coinage mint, which had WOES OF A STAGE MANAGER. been in course of construction there While we all felt that we had for seven years, was completed about trouble of our own in the recent disastrous production of Bird Center, In recently, and the government moved said George Richards, from the old mint, which had been ocNew York, who had a leading part in the play, cupied for about thirty years. "When they got ready to clean out the stage managers troubles eclipsed the old place every particle of dust ail the rest. Everything seemed to and dirt was carefully saved. This go wrong for him. One of the many slips that hap- was run through the assay furnace, and it was found that the tiny parpened was when the piano heirloom, of gold which had accumulated ticles fifty years in the family was brought about the building in all thoso years out. It proved to be a new upright had to the snug sum I have amounted of the most modern style. Then, in making the Welsh rabbit with baking mentioned. The particles had been carried powder it was supposed to swell up the air during the refining a effect lid. through To get this and lift the and were so minute that processes, cream colored toy rubber balloon was not had affected the weight of to be used and blown up at the proper they the metal assayed to any appreciable moment. They could only find red balloons, and so for the first time in extent. It was all velvet for Uncle tho history of cooking a red Welsh Sam and more than paid the expenses Milwaurabbit was evolved from the chafing of moving to the new mint. Sentinel. kee dish. Then water would not come from the pump; but, to crown all, when the Mexican Journals. into was the glasses poured brandy Mexico is credited with being at (it was really ginger ale and had be the head of the councome warm) it foamed up. Imagine tries in the matter of letters. Besides foaming brandy! After that we lost possessing the oldest organs of all hope. journalism, it is said to have in active existence the first liFall of Half Mile of Scenery. brary established in America, which J. AdamN Bede has been talking is now at least 300 years old. In Chile, about the Roosevelt landslide. I once Argentina and Peru there are papers asked a Montana conductor, he says, that have been published for fifty why his train was two days late, and years and more. One is the El he told me that half a mile of the of Lima, which has had a career of fallen down. had sixty years of uninterrupted daily Thats what scenery Issue. a few happened days ago. Latin-America- n Span-ish-Americ- an Com-erci- o, |
