The National tribune., 1902-12-18

that the grave OIL the late Senatof DaNlS'
Of Minnesota, lies neglected in Arlington
Cemetery, with only plainly-insci'ibet
wooden slab to mark it, If the story of
neglect were true, which it isn't, what is
that to Minnesota, or to st. Paul? Did
the State which Cushman X. Davis so
ably represented for many years muss mp
its finances much in an attempt to do him
honor while his dust rested in that State
Did the City of st. Paul eyince any par
ticular disposition to do honor to its dis
tinguished citizen who had done so much
in life for st. Paul? Even after Mrs.
Davis had said that if st. Paul desired
to present a lot and erect a monument TO
the memory of her husband she would let
the State which he had honored in Con-
gress be his final resting place; even after
that, did st. Paul or the State do any
vast and lofty tumbling to register a first
response? Or has any first response been
noted at all?
Arlington is the National Valhalla, and
It is there that the veteran soldier and
statesmen will rest till the last trump
sounds. The little wooden slab with its
black-painted inscription will tell to
strangers who lies there, and his friends
need no sign-board. 1t is the same kind
Of q marker that rested for many months
above the graves of gallant Phil Shefi,
dan and Admiral Porter, and hundred
other noted men who have joined the ST.
lent majority, until time could be given
to erect a more fitting and enduring monu-
ment. The National Tribune chronicled
the fact a week or two ago that Mrs.
Cushman X. Davis had given commits
siop to Trentanoye, the eminent sculptor,
for a magnificent monument to be placed
above the grave of her husband in Airing
executed in day, nor in a year of days.
But, in case the wooden slab should not
be replaced by the intended Tfentanove
monument. the Government furnishes to
all its soldier dead whose friends neglect
them, simple marble slab, upon which
suitable inscription is made, and the grave
is cared fer for all time. The grave of
Cushman X Davis is not neglected, and
It never will be.
The Agricultural Department has dis
covered new breakfast food 1t is
really about as old, if not older, than the
American civilization, and is confined to
small section of the country. This new
food is the seed of the Woeas lily, which
grows only in the Klamath Marsh on the
Indian reservation OF the same name up
in Oregon. The lily is described as being
very much like the common water lily
found along the Atlantic sea coast. only
that the Oregon lily develops a gigantic
eeed pod, which the Eastern lily does not.
The klamath Marsh, where the Woeas
and the seed product is said to reach mp
into the thousands of bushels.
The Indians who once used it as a sta
pie food gathered it and. stored the seed
pods for Winter use. Removing the hull,
the seed kernel was roasted. and is said
to have tasted. like popcorn with which
chopped hickory nuts had been mixed.
They also ground it into flour, after roast
ing its seeds, and made bread ofsiit 1t
ID said to he deliciously delicate edible
thus treated. Strangely, enough, it has
never been possible to propagate the Wo-
cas- outside Of she Klamath Marsh.
Shades Of Martin J.nther! Here'sa man
ID the CaBital Of the Goui,,sss- who Is. be
ing .spersecdted" for righteousness sake,
according to his belief. He is a Seventh
Day Adventist, and Saturday is his Sun
day. He is '.in Office" but objects to
working on Saturday. He has lost lu-
cratiye office which paid him $l.200 a
year, and has now a position which pays
only $720, but he may loaf Saturdays and
Sundays. He offered to work Sundays il
they would let him off Saturdays, hoping
thereby to hang eD to the bigger salary
but the Government isn't run On that
plan. One mans Sunday is no better
than any other mans Sunday in the eyes
of the Government.
Gen. William Brindie Is dead He
passed away in the hospital in Pniladel
phia last week. Gen. Brindle was one OF
the characters that we read about. He
was nearly 80, yet quite hale-appearing
for his advanced age. He was q veteran
Of the Mexican war, and spent a goOd
many years of his life trying to make Con
gress believe that he was the first into
sonic one of the strongholds down there
which Congress had first given some othel
man credit for. He figured in early Kan
sas history in a way that WIS not alto
gether pleasing to Free-State people, ant
SO he came East. He spent good dea
Of time in Washington, and was alway,
an interesting companion.
Name your pisen. To real ed-blo )det
American there is something supremeIy ri
dicnIous in the assumption that shop
keeper who can announce that he is pilr
veyer Of pipestems to His Majesty tn,
kfsg of Tinbuctoo has the call ON a deal
er who sells to the street sweeper tn,
same pipesten. An American woman
. wouldn't buy two-for-a- quarter handker
chiefs out Of the same case from whicl
Mrs. Roosevelt selected hers il she did no
believe that there was a certain qualit,
there for the money asked. She nigh
ideftly cut snip out OF Mrs. Roosevelt
damask curtains in the Red Parlor, /
she got a chance, but that would be
souvenir" and an entirely different thing
Just now the German EmDassy is the cen
ter Of one of these absurd quality
scraps, and ambassador Won Holleben i
likely to be called in to settle il.
"a When the German Emperor's yach,
Meteor, was launched, champagne wa
brGsen over her bow in the christening b.
Miss Alice Roosevelt and there was n tire
: mendons ovation, reception and much-a-d
generally. Now If appears that famou
champagne company has sued anothe
famous champagne company because Ct
No 2 has dared to announce that il wa
the good wine of No. that was waste
on the Meteor. Co. No. claims that
has contract with those who had charg
OF the launching to use the wine of NJ
l.. No. 2 is German company, and NJ
1, which claims the contract, a Erenc
company. Now there is lawsuit pene
ing in Weisbaden, Co. No. / suing Co. N,
2, and there is a regular Hoch-der- Kaise
time afoot, with the German Embassado
Herr Won Holleben, called as witness
II he dares to say thas he permitte
French champagne to dampen the Meteo
ON comes some German heads. We ma
have the Franco-Prussian war over agail
who can teil2 And all this is inst to \