The National tribune., 1902-11-06
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laid for the annual scrap" the other
Harlan appeared on the scene. He order
ed halt, but seems not to have been
obeyed OH the instant, so he just reached
his arm out over the heads of the youths
who look like pigmes beside the big lee
turer on Jurisprudence, and picking up a
couple of the ringleaders by the back of
the neck he hauled them kicking and strug-
Cling out from among the others, and
quietly shaking them till their backbones
ratified like castanetS, set them down with
out another word, and the scrap was over
for that evening. Justice Harlan stands
about six feet four, and is broad in pro-
portion. He ''golfs" like a boy, and de-
| lights in any kind Of athletic exercise. If
he had lived in Ancient Rome, he might
have been the glory of the Gladiators.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay
| on Saturday. November l, dedicated to
the memory of their son, Adelbert. who
met his death in New Haven in June of
last year, a beautiful Memorial Chapel.
This chapel is erected in Simsbury, Conn,
and is q gift from the Secretary and Mrs.
Hay to Westminster School of Simsbury,
where their son was graduated in 1891,
and from which he went to Yale. A beau
tiful memorial window will be a perpetual
reminder of the bright young fellow who
was beloved by all of his mates, and sin
cerely mourned.
If the United States cannot derive
revenue one way, it will save it another.
| 1t does not look as though fuel at $4,000
| 4 day for one Department only was much
of saving, but it really is, showing that
| figures will sometimes lie, and that the
| costliest things are sometimes the cheap
est. The Bureau of Printing and Engrav-
ip,v &c kor with ba raSnOnSibiify nf
burning $300.000.000 of revenue stamps.
the accumulation from the repeal of the
stamp tax on bank checks, telegraph and
telephone messages. With coal prices
irivalling those on the white crystals, and
unobtainabe at that, the engineer of the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving, see
ing a possible hiatus in his position, un-
less he speedily found something to burn
in his yawning furnaces, suggested feed
ing into their capacious nav the redeemed
revenue stamps, and so it was done. The
redeemed revenue stamps come in by the
car load, and coal by the few bushels.
bushel of coal, wagon load OF revenue
stamps, and another bushel or two of coal
and the thing is done, the stamps are got
ten rid of, the big Bureau is warmed, and
$15 a day in coal is saved to the Govern
ment. The stamps destroyed each day
amount to $4,000. Horrible stories of
scandal and extravaganza are founded on
less tact than that.
ambassador Jules Cambon, of France,
will this week present his letter of recall
to the President, and France will send us
another Embassador, who it is hoped will
find US more congenial. Madame Cambon
only honored the United States with one
brief visit during her husbands career
here as ambassador. She found US rather
nice in spots but quite impossible,
don't you know" Then displayed her
breeding by going back to France and criti-
cizing the people who had tried to make it
pleasant for her when she was a stranger
in strange land. Nobody will weep over
the transfer.
Secretary. Of State John Hay has the
most beautiful home in Washington. He
is now erecting 95 beautiful homes for
other people all under one roof. ''The
Hay Flats are the talk of the town. They
are being constructed on the corner OF
Connecticut Ave. and L st. northwest, and
will rival anything of the kind in Wash
ington. Flat life is the process of eyolu.
ton toward economic principles. Small
families find that fat life is cheaper than
the more aristocratic single house home,
because of the saving in expenditure for
fuel and water, and, then, modern flats are
models of convenience for getting the do
mestic work done. Work will almost do
itself in the modern fat
Comrade Jacob Coons, of New Auburn.
Mimi, formerly of the 4th Minn., but now
a farmer of the great wheat-grOwlng
State, was among the hundreds of Min
nesota veterans who visited Washington
during the Encampment, and remained
over to revisit old scenes. COmrade Coons,
who was an Aid on the staff of Command
er-in-Chef Torrance, had the honor to be-
long to the regiment which was first into
Vicksburg, and it also led Sherman's
Army in the Grand Review.
Surgeon General Rixey is making plans
for a new Naval Hospital. Ii his plans
are followed the new hospital will stand
on the site of the old Naval Observatory,
and there will be school for Assistant
Surgeons On the same grounds, where,
upon entering the service, they can enter
special course of training for several
months before taking up the duties of ac-
tive medical service in the navy. The
present hospital is entirely too small, its
facilities inadequate, and its sanitary con-
dition not what it should be for a hospital.
The United States ought to congratu
late itself ON the fact that it is fast be-
coming the finishing school for the
crowned heads of monarchicai countries.
King Edwards education was not con-
SiQefeU UNlSUeO Until he HaQ Sudhcu tue
glad hands Of few hundred Americans
on American soil. Ii Hung Chang came
here to sit at the feet of Grant, whom
he considered the greatest General Of the
worlds history. We have had Prince
Henry of present-making fame, Slams
Crown Prince, and the promise Of a visit
from his august father, the regning King
of the land of the White Elephant, if we
ask him very prettily to come and play
on our cellar door; we have had Prince
Albert, of Belgium, and lot of little
princelings and kinglets who have come
to learn about our newspapers and
educational institutions, our machin-
cry, our railroads, our banking system, our
Army and our Navy, and we have been
courteous to all Of them. True, many of
our people have been snobbishly seryile
to most of these, but that is an evil that
time never cures, and which we must ac
cept. Now we are about to officially in
vite the Prince of Wales, son of his IA
ther, who was our guest so lorg ago, TO
come to our great Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position, and mayhaps to include the
Crown Prince of Germany In the invita-
ton! Really. the Anglomaniacs are likely
to expire of ecstacy! Let's hasten the in
vitations.
Mrs. Castle, wife Of Capt. Henry A.
Castle, Auditor for the Postofiice Depart
ment, was elected President of the newly
organized District of Columbia Depart
ment, Auxiliary to the Spanish War Vet
Grams. Mrs Castle is hprpdifa rially aS