The National tribune., 1902-11-27
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hat and a bright-colored bathing suit.
people," he explained, "than our dress is
to you" He did not take his automobile.
The streets of Pekin will not permit of its
use. They are too narrow and tortuOus.
i
Every Congressional District is now ac-
counted for. In the 5Sth Congress there
will be POS Republicans and 17S Demo:
Gratis. There is not Populst returned
to Congress. Senator Harris, of Kansas,
who was Colonel in the rebel army.
came to the Senate as POpulist. He has
now come ont of the woods and in the
next Congressional Directory the letter
''P'' will be changed to ID" in connection
with his political color. He has never been
anything but Democrat at heart.
There will be 1si1 new names in the
Congressional Directory. Of these 90 rep.
resent the additional districts under the
new apportionment. 1t also includes half
dozen names of those elected TO fill
vacancies in the 57th Congress caused by
death and resignation.
I 1t is said that the Federation of Labor
will take a hand in trying to force suffrage
III DAstIlCt VI SOluiHDlu, anu VIII pan
an attack on Congress for the so-called
''un-American" condition of affairs in the
District. Some people are always hunt
1 ing trouble.
The election for the 5Sth Congress near
lly eXterminated the Committee on Ac-
counts for the House. OF its five Repub-
lican members. Charles Q. Hildebrant. the
Junior Republican member who stood at
4 fhn font fho only ra-alaofaA This
will take him to the head of the Commit.
tee in the next Congress.
1 The Committee on Mines and Mining got
the next jolt. 1t loses its Chairman, Mr.
Eddy, of Minnesota; Mr.. Cornell, of
Pennsylvania; Mr.. Sheldon. of Michigan;
Mr.. Moody, of Oregon; Mr.. eileen. of
Smith, of Arizona.
There might be trouble brewing for
somebody. Delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii
insists that his well-laid plans for return
were all mussed up by Senator Burton, of
| Kansas, and he lost because of the Amer.
ican's uncalled-fOr INTERCHANGEABLE in
the Islands on Senatorial business last
Summer.
There is at least one man in Washing.
ton who never was a kid. Or, If he was
he missed the attendant joys. His name is
Sanford c. Kellogg, and he owns the prop.
erty joining the Friends Select School
This man Kellogg objects to football, base.
ball. and any other athletic exercise, and
particularly does he object to the expires.
sion of exuberent spirits exhibited by these
school boys, and he has applied to the
courts for an injunction against the boys
and the Superintendent of the school
What that man needs is a lot in the Vel
lOwstone Park, where his companions will
be fourfocted bears and such. Or maybe
fiat on top the Washington Monument
would suit his selfshness.
prince Cupid" the handsome Kanaka
whose unpronounceablen name will make him
the butt of many jokes in the House, is
heralded as 'full-blooded Hawaiian. =
How viii official society receive him? The
first inhabitants of Hawaii are said to
have been Malays. Those who came later
were the Polynesians. 1t then resolves it
self into case Of paying your money and
Hawaiian" may be a slant-eyed. olive
skinned Chinaman, or his descendant. OF
he may have the happy hair and darker
skin OF the Papuan negro, and back to Ont
IOr the other of these the ssfull-blooded
Hawaiian" has got to go. And both PEG
pies were cannibals of the most fiendisl
TYPE. Now what will the haters of Booker
Washington do? The Delegate from
Hawaii is as darkly handsome as the vii
lain in q play, educated and rich, and OF
royal blood. But his royal" ancestors
are not blazOned on the pages of the AL
manac de Gotha. They wore necklaces Of
human teeth, and not much else, wher
Capt. Cook discovered them.
First Assistant Postmaster Genera
Wynne. true to the editorial instinc,
which he carried into his new Office. ba.
blue-penciled his annual report till it Gov
ers but lob pages. This is reduction oil
134 pages on the report of last year, ani
is move in the direction Of economy. Al
excellent move, too. Millions of money mr.,
+. wasted every year in tons Of useless Gov
eminent publications which nobody eve
reads, and which go to feed furnaces il
the end. A good, live newspaper man il
each OF the Cabinet portfolios would sooI
curb the disposition of his Bureau Chief
; to spread"
There are 10000 negro wage earners il
the District of Columbia. Most of thes
are unskiiled laborers and domestic serv
ants. In the public schools of the cit,
: there are 1900 negro pupils.
81 1t is said that the Austrian Legation
. will soon be raised to an Embassy. Their
is nothing funnier in life than the manne
e in which the Embassadorial families pu
! on airs when the Legationers are in til
n horizon. And to be Dean of the bunch i
!, considered just about as near heaven a
O one can get in official society.
Mrs. q. 8. Grant, who las been ipdis
i posed for some time, is undoubtedly failing
: and cannot in the nature of things liv
many years longer. She has been oblige
to walk with a cane for several years be
C cause of rheumatic trouble, and her hear
e has been weakened by the severity of ties
n attacks. 1t is perhaps worthy of comment
n that one of the sincerest mourners, in cas-
/ Mrs Grant should be taken first, will b
i Mrs Jefferson Davis, wife of the forme
e head of the so-called Southern ConfedeI
o acy." Up in Coburg, Canada, they hav
, cottages on adjoining lots, and have bee
u visiting friends for decade. Both ladie
: are rotund of figure, and both are fast az,
: ing, each walking with cane. As the
It sit the long days through by the little LAX
IS near Coburg, both clad in deepest mourn
o ing, they represent a pathetic picture {
II the past, but it is said that they never di
n cuss it. The lot of Mrs Davis has bee
l. particularly sad. While her daughter
s. memory is loved and revered by the poop
te of the South, Mrs. Davis has been MOI
or less of an alien among her own fl
many years, and spends most of her tin
" in the North. She seems much alone. TIL
n is not true of Mrs. Grant, however. 81
D. has very large circle of friends, m
e. scarcely day passes that she does n,
st receive some kind of reminder from SON
e. friends of Gen. Grant.