The National tribune., 1902-11-13

ment. Comrade Haskell was received
with special welcome in his home town oi
Wilmington, VT. and given reception by
his old Post The Grand Army Hall i:
now located in the old school house where
Col. Haskell once taught young idea!
how to shoot" He served in the 10th Vt.
| which achieved fame at Gettysburg. Mrs
Haskell enjoys the distinction of getting
into the White House grounds dispite al
objections. I'm from Texas" she said
''and l must go in." well, I'm from
Texas myself replied the blue-coated
I'll just risk letting you in" and in they
walked. To add to the distinction, Mrs
Haskell, Col. Haskell, and the friend they
are visiting, Comrade Manchester. oi
Washington, had their pictures ''took,
with the White House for q back ground
On the whole it was a great day fol
Texas.
The United States Government keeps q
splendid set of books, and the statute of
limitation seems never to run against its
collections. When Fitz Hugh Lee went
over to the rebels at the beginning of the
war of the rebellion, after having received
his educa ton and having been for several
years maintained at Government expense
responsible for $3.50 of Government
property which ''sloped" with him, and the
Government could not touch him, as he
was out Of the Union Army. Forty yearS
later, Fitz Hugh Lees transgressions were
biotted out, and he was appointed a
Brigadier-General in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. If the War Department had for
given, it had not forgotten, and this was
it's chance. About the first communica-
ton that the rellabilitated Lee received af-
ter his appointment was a statement from
the War Department that he owed the
War Department $3.50 and the intima-
ton that he could pay it, or have it held
out of his pay account. 1t is matter of
record that Lee paid the debt and is now
straight with Uncle Sam
The Italian Government now owns its
handsome property at 14OO New Hamp-
shire Ave, where the Embassy is located.
Very few of the 30 Embassies and Lega-
tions accredited to the United States own
their homes, but pay rent for not over
handsome houses.
The picturesque Mr.. WI is peremptorial-
y ordered to return to the land of Con-
fucius to receive higher honors. In his
place We are to have Sir Liang Chen
Tung. Presumably, this Sir Liang is the
first Sir that China has sent us, but
we can't be sure. The title is q new one
there. China is making prodigious efforts
to "anglcize" herself, and the change in
titles is one of her first moves. So, while
We may have had ''Sir Chinamen" before,
we didn't know it. Sir Liang will have to
travel fast if he keeps up with the record
set by Minister WI, who is highly es-
teemed in the United States, even if he has
the very marked Oriental habit of asking
pointed questions and making startlingly
blunt comments on our customs and habits.
Washington seems destined to enter
tain genius of rare order this Winter. NJ
States as ambassador in lieu of NJ. Cam
bon, recalled, is reported to be litterateur
of more than ordinary merit. In fact, he
IS said to be writer of eminent ability.
For many years he has been a student of
English literature. NJ. Jusserand says it
IS his fayOrite study. He began his career
as writer under NJ. Taine, being asso-
lated with him in his History of Eng
ish Literature" He has since then writ.
:en books and critical reviews and has
been long associated with the best French
writer's of the day.
Prussia is sending us a second Pader-
.Hski, or D'Albert, in the person of Mr..
rheo. Hansen, who is coming to take the
place of NJ. De Wollant as First Secre-
,ary of the Russian Embassy. Mr.. Han
sen is a pianist and takes a back seat for
nobody. He is said to have mastery
technique" wrists of STEEL" and item
'erament for emotional expression" which
.arries everything before it. OF course,
Mr.. Hansen doesn't have to be accomplish
ID to ''carry everything before him." the
act that he is 'furriner" and an "at-
ache" is quite sufficient to open all So
,iety DOORS and the daughters will be right
IN the threshold to meet him. 1t is re-
.reshing, however, to know that, for once,
Hansen is neither long haired nor thin.
He is bald headed and stout, and has no
lffectations at all. That will be a disap-
,ointment, but when these ''wrists of
,teeT" get down to business, we may for
,et the lack Of hirsute adornment.