The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-03-19

rooms in the Governors Palace repapered,
recarpeted and refurnished entirely for:
the the use of Miss Roosevelt. Here
comes the Princess idea again. 1t is the
custom in the East to entirely refit any
house in which royalty" is to be lodged,
even for the briefest space of time. The
next fairy story is that the Secretary of
the Navy. Mr.. Moody, will soon follow
Miss Roosevelt to San Juan, stopping
there while cruising around in the Dol
phin. Mr.. Moody is bachelor.
Senior Corea, the Nicaraguan Minister,
is arranging to have 10 young men come
from that little South American State
to study at the Agricultural Colleges in
the United States.
''The Society of American Wars" is
one of the very latest among patriotic
organizations. 1t was founded in 1877,
in Minneapolis, and Mr.. Edward J. Ed
wards was its first Commissioned.
The object of the society as set forth
in the Constitution and the Bylaws is
for the promotion of fraterDal spirit and
the perpetuation of the patriotism of the
forefathers. To be eligible to member
ship in the society person must have
served in some war in which the interests
of the United States were involved, or be
the direct descendant of such person.
4 descendant of Colonial Gov
ernor or other high official of
that time is also eligible. Not only
is it necessary to have served in a
war, but a person must have served under
Il commission.
The present head of the National or
ganization is Rear-Admiral Glass. with
the title of Commander General. Archi-
bald J. Treat is ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. A
committee is at work at the present time
designing an insignia for the society.
Because of one baby face, all children to
him are dear" All the money of the great
oil magnate John ID. Rockefeller could
not keep by his doting grandfather, lit
tie "Jack" Rockefeller Mccormick. and
that terror of child's first Summers.
cholera infantum, carried the little lad
away from the clinging arms of the
grandfather. Shocked beyond measure
that for that common scOurge of baby
hood, Summer complaint there was no
known remedy. Mr.. Rockefeller put up
the sum of 100000 for anybody who
would discover the germ of the disease
and a remedy for it. 1t is now announced
that two young students mt the Rockefel-
Ter Institute. University of Pennsylvania.
have discovered the germ. and that the
disease will never hold any more terrors
for the mothers Of little children in their
first years.
To commemorate Washington's Birth
day Anniversary, the Regent of one of the
swell ID. A. r. Chapters Of Washington
gave a large reception. and one of the
chief speakers was Senator Hopkins. of
Illinois. His theme was Washington the
Man. BY the time that Senator Hop
kins got through with the Father of His
Country, he had made the old gentleman
quite feshlv. He told the people assem-
bled that Washington had no wings, and
no place to put them. That he was
very human man with all the faults
and foibles that most strong natures are
subject to. He said he would not tell
them about the good traits of Washing
ton, for with slose they Were already
acquainted. but the things they didn't
know, and ought to know about him.
We're those which showed that he was a
man very much like other men, only
little more so.
Well. now. that address was n cOrker
Senator Hopkins had his facts down fine.
and he either couldn't or wouldn't see the
dismay of his hearers. The patron Saint
of the Daughters of the American Reyo-
luton is George Washington. or at least
he was mp TO Saturday evening, Feb. 81.
1908. But as the Continental Congress
which met the following week voted to
change the time for the assembling of the
| Congress to April, it may he that Senator
Honkins's address had its effect. 81 @.
sH y e.
The Regent of the Chapter who gave
the reception went to bed with nervous
prostration the next day, and was unable
to attend the Congress.
Baron Carl Won Giskra. Secretary of
the Austrian Embassy. at Berlin. has been
transferred to Washington, where he will
| succeed Mr.. Won Callenberg. Baron Won
Giskra's appointment to this post will add
to the Diplomatic Corps here another
American woman. as he was married
some years ago when serving as an attache
of the Austrian Legation at Berne ~ Miss
King. daughter of the late John King. If
New York, at one time President of the
Erie Railroad
President Roosevelt has appointed as
Cadets in the Naval Academy Ralph
Earle Sampson. son of the late Admiral
William T. Sampson, and ]. Woodward
Philip. son of the late Admiral John W.
Philip, of the Texas. 1t was Admiral
Philip who commanded the Texas, and
who gave utterance to the words which
| will be remembered as long as time lasts:
Don't cheer. boys; the poor devils are
| dying"
The members of the Pittsbure Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution.
called upon the President last week and
| presented to him fine framed picture of
the Blockhouse Mt Pittsburg. which still
stands, though it antedates the Revolu-
| ton, having been built in 1854.
Mr.. Roscoe c. Mitchell editor of the
| North Caroinian. the Oldest Republican
newspaper in the South, and printed at
Elizabeth, n. c.. has been saying things
ahOnt the President while here Oh n
| visit. Mr.. Mitchell says that President
| Roosevelt will get a very small vote in the
| National Republican Convention next
year from the South. He puts I'D a ticket
after this fashion: For President,
Charles w. Fairbanks, now Senator
| from Indiana; for Vice-President. Jeter
| c.. Pritchard, ex-United States Senator
from North Carolina Mr.. Mitchell
seems to think that ticket would be a
| winner.
A graft that works well and brings lots
of money to those who are using it, has
been played on some Washington people.
and it would be well for others to be on
| the lookout. Letters come from some
man in Spain. apparently. saying that he
is in prison, is an American citizen, and
that as he has been put in for debt he
cannot get out, and needs $7756 to pay the
debt. He offers to give to anybody who
| helms him Onp-third of S1GD O00 W hicb bo