The National tribune., 1903-06-18

medal only King Edward knows, and he
won't tell. There are no gold medals IN
the horizon over here for the man who
made our grand cd White House howl
ing wilderness of common pine, bizarre
marble, plaster of paris and cheap paint.
It has been decided that the new mone-
tary system for the Philippine Islands will
not be put into operation until Sept. l, al
though between six and seven millions Of
pesos have been shipped from the mints
of the United States, and will arrive at
Manila before July 1. Failure to provide
a system Of redemption for the old Phil
1t is said that before redemption can be-
gin, the Philippine Government must have
on hand enough gold for the redemption
of the pesos paid out. When operations
begin, Mexican money now in use will be
called in. Mexican silver remains legal
tender until Jan. 1. 1904.
The Goddess Of Liberty up on the Cap
itoI is getting a new gown. She is made
of bronze-is the Goddess Of Liberty-and
not since she was perched up on the dome
of the Capitol has she had bath, except
such as nature affords in the cOpious
rains which visit the just and the unjust
alike. They don't do Miss Liberty any
good, either, for they turn her green. Old
Miss Liberty stands 1914 feet high, and
weighs 14,9S5. She was placed on the
dome about 1865.
When Jeff Davis was Secretary of War,
and the statue on the new dome was under
discussion, Davis objected to statue Of
Liberty, and was bitterly opposed to the
cap. He was overruled, fortunately. The
statue is pretty well covered with a coat
Of verdigris, which it is said will take at
least two weeks to get rid Of Then it
will take at least two weeks more to var.
nish her up SO that the elements will
have less chance to spoil her beauty.
The Confederate societies of men and
women held Memorial Day exercises in
Arlington last week. They could not join
with the yankees" on May 80. There are
264 graves of Confederates buried in Ar
lington, having headstOnes with name and
service upon them, erected by the Govern
ment. The Woman's Relief Corps, De
partment of Potomac, has been decorating
these graves for number of years, but
though the graves were all made before
1863, not a Confederate organization has
ever placed a flower upon a grave there,
nor was there even a movement made to
cut the grass or to keep the graves in
repair. The Womau's Relief Corps COM
planned that as long as the graves were in
Arlington they should be kept up, so the
War Department finally took the matter
graves exactly like those above the graves
OF the boys in blue who laid down their
lives for the Flag:
Now that this has been done. the Con-
federates have concluded to decorate"
The principal decoration was a huge Con-
federate flag made of flowers, which was
set in the center Of the Confederate plat,
all covered up. 1t was then unvailed with
great ceremony. II there was an Amer
ican Flag in the possession Of any of the
decorating party, it was not placed on
view. The party placed a shield of flow
ers upon the tomb Of the Unknown Dead,
and this was photographed. The picture
shows the pretty silk flags that were
placed about the tomb on Memorial Day
by the Grand Army Of the Republic.
Senator Depew says that Roosevelt
ism" has charmed the people. He also
speaks of the Presidents swing around the
Union as an ''audacieus campaign"
American girls are achieving fame In
new feds. The Hon. Mrs. Scarlet Synge,
NJ. D.. of London, has been appointed by
Lord Miner, the British High Commits
sioner of South Africa, to be the med cal
uIitti VI thc SOistr,e
of Bloemfontein and to the High Schooi
for girls there. She is a granddaughter of
the late Commodore George Allan Magrn-
der, U. S. N. Mrs. Synge, who was very
brilliant, and had money to burn. soon
tired of Mayfair and its fat, stale and
improbable society CAD and CAB, and took
up music. She studied in Germany under
the best masters, and became wonderfully
proficient. Then she took up medicine,
and became just as proficient in that. She
got her first diploma at Brussels, and
second in Dublin. and finally became a
member of the British Medical Associa-
ton. She finally became the household
physician of the ladies of the family of
the Emperor Of Korea. She has had ex-
Periences enough to supply a novel foun-
dry with plots.
As is well known, the District of Co
lumbia has no representative in Congress,
not even a delegate, as the Territor-
les have. The whole Congress legislates
for the District, but not very graciously
sometimes. Representative Pearre, of
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