The National tribune., 1903-04-02

| Agey might be. induced to come II the
purse offered him was big enough. He
what has become of Aggy? The Antics
seem to have dropped him.
| Mr.. j. X. Richards, the retiring Solici-
tor-General, who goes to take position as
i United States Judge in the Sixth Judicial
District was presented with a magnificent
silver service last Friday. 1t came as a
partment of Justice, and the presentation
was made by Acknowledgement Knox.
The body of the late Gov. Alexander
Shepherd is to be brought from BatOpolis,
Mexico, to this city for interment. The
escort and body will start from Mexico
the first of this month, but the trail is
by. foot OF donkey:.back over the noun.
tains, and extremely difficult, so that 1t
is not probable that the. body will reach
Washington before May list.
President Roosevelt addressed the So
ciety of American Foresters last Thurs
day, on the subject of Forest reserves
and the policy of their management"
He commended the scientific labors of
| the society.
This is the manner in which a member
of the Wisconsin Legislature gets after
the University of Wisconsin for inviting
Senator Tillman to lecture before that
institution, and who shall say that Mr..
Evans is not right? He spoke to the
Wisconsin Legislature, and some of its
members were not too well pleased with
his remarks, but there certainly is lot
of truth in what he said:
1.-The University of Wisconsin said
Mr.. Evans. recently invited to address
its students in a building erected by the
State a brute in the bodily shape of
man, elected to the United States Senate
from the State which first shot at Old
Glory-a villain. an unrepentant traitor;
a murderer in his heart; a beast in the
shape of man with a white skin-whO
stoo upon the platform. and said that
WI lie race of 100000 human beings
should be and would be eXterminated if
they simply stood for the rights of every
man. A State institution which pays such
a brute and ruflian to address its students
ought to be cut off from State aid for
inviting the preaching of hate and murder
in its buildings"
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan, widow of
the late General, who has been spending
the Winter in Washington, has returned
to her home in Philadelphia, and little
later will go to Paris to join her daughter,
Mrs. Paul Desprez.
Thomas J. Leary, Door Keeper of the
National House of Representatives for
10 years up to the election of President
Harrison, dropped dead at his home in
Dorchester, Mass. last Friday.
The next National Convention of the
Woman's Suffrage Association will be held
in Washington during the month of Feb
ruary, 1904
Is Guayaqul hoo-dooed? 1t certainly
does look like it. We sent Thomas Mast,
the most famous caricaturist of the world,
down there and he died of yellow fever
within a year. We sent another man
down there, who sauntered around the
town for a couple of hours, then climbed
on board the ship and came back to the
United States. He turned the white
feather when he met up with Yellow Jack
conditions down there. and concluded
that life in the United States on a little
less salary was preferable to Ecuador
and q wooden oyerc0at at so much per
annum and buy your own cemetery lot. |
Then DR.. William Shaw Bowen was APP
pointed and confirmed by the Senate, only
to be condemned by Admiral Dewey.
who says DR.. Bowen, while acting As
sistant Surgeon in the United States
Navy from 1865 to 1873, did some very
discreditable things, which brought ON
a court-martial trial. and DR.. Bowen
avoided a sentence of dismissal from the |
service by anticipating it and resigning.
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The Navy is very punctillious about |
such matters, and it seems that if Adj |
miral Dewey, for instance. were to visit |
the Port of Guayaquil while DIR. Bowen |
was there, there could be no exchange of
courtesies such as etiquet demands, be-
cause Admiral Dewey could not receive
on an equal footing man who had once |
been nearly dismissed in disgrace from the |
Navy. Admiral Dewey thinks that if |
DIR. Bowen were to be sent to some in
land town, it would not matter so much.
Miss Ruth Hanna has been very i'll at
the Hanna home in Thomasville. Ca.
and it locked for time as though Sena-
tor Hanna would have to give up the
Cleveland campaign and go South. Miss |
Hanna is now improving in health.
An anti-spitting crusade has been in
augurated in Washington. Some of the
Commissioners want to make splitting in
the street a misdemeanOr punishable by |
q fine or Imprisonment. Strangely enough |
Il good many physicians are Directing to |
such a law, and say it is absurd. They
say that if women would wear short skirts, |
thai there would be no danger of disease |
from splitting on the sidewalks! Just |
as though women were the only disease
carriers. Long skirts are nuisance, it |
is true, but they are not to be compared |
with the filthy habit of splitting all over
the sidewalks and streets, in the street |
cars, depots, and even stores. We have !
simply to acknowledge that the American
people are, in this respect, the fithiest |
people on earth. The splitting habit is
one which foreigners comment upon the
oftenest. A cuspidor is a common article |
of house furniture in this country, but |
abroad you will not see one in a year.
BOurke Cochran, the cyclonic Irish |
orator of the sd Congress, lies i'll in |
Egypt, his lungs being seriously affected |
Mr.. Cochran made a strong plea for free
diamonds when the Wilson tariff bill was |
up. He said it was shame to raise the
price of diamonds by putting a heavy |
duty on them. as it would debar many |
servant girls from purchasing them.
There is a general movement on foot to |
erect in the National Capital a memorial |
to Lincoln. Just what form it shall |
take has not yet been settled, but the |
general desire seems to be to make what |
ever is done vie with the Washington |
Monument in cOstliness.
It is stated by Mr. Austin Chief of the |