The National tribune., 1903-05-28
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President. and the Architect has been told
that hereafter he will make no changes OF
any kind about the White House without
first consulting the President and his wife.
This sounds rather odd. as the Architect
has repeatedly said that every change
that has been made has been after CON
sultation with and consent of both the
President and Mrs Roosevelt. Just the
same it is known that the President gave
the Architect 4 pretty bad half hour just
before he left for the West, and that he
told him straight from the shoulder what
he thought of some of his high-handed per-
formances. Since then, Mrs. Roosevelt has
had occasion to call the Architect down on
several propositions.
Just at the present time some of the
people in Louisiana. Mississippi, Tennes-
Sc, Alabama and several other Southern
States are amusing themselves by send
ing to a chambermaid in Indianapolis
checks in varying sums, as reward OF
merit for not doing the work that she
was hired to do. She was engaged as a
chambermaid at the Hotel English. which
is the property of the English estate. Ev-
erybody remembers "Old Bill English, the
stingiest man in Indiana" who ran on the
ticket with Hancock for Vice President.
This young woman in the round OF her
duties of making beds in this hostelry,
found that Booker Washington, who
might be termed both the Moses and Sol
ONION of his race. had occupied bed in
the hotel, and she promptly asserted that
she had aristocratic Southern blood in her
veins. and would not make bed for n
negro. Whereat her employer promptly
discharged her. Not because Of her ariS-
tOcratic blood. but because she refused to
do the work she was getting wages to do.
Pouf! What breeze this young wom-
ans action did raise in the South. I'M
mediately money began to pour In upon
her and her bank account is how swellcd
to $4,000 or more. APropos of this money
which is pouring so lavishiy into the
North comes the thought that it might
better have been kept at home, and used
in thoroughly patriotic manner by help
ing the Grand Army of the Republic and
the Woman's Relief Corps to decorate the
graves of the Nations dead down South.
1t costs these organizations thousands of
dollars every year to decorate the graves
of the soldiers who sleep in the National
Cemeteries in the South. Not flower
can be procured in some localities, except
they are paid for at good round sum.
This seems hard, very hard, to loyal peO-
supposed to be lowering over the land. but
this lavish applause of the young lady"
chambermaid is the keynote of the situa-
ton. When the South ceases to do things
of that kind we may look for change of
heart, and not till then.
Mark the prediction. This change of
heart will never come so long as the rebel
flag is f1aunted on every occasion down
there, as it was in New Orleans last week
at the National Encampment of the reb-
els. The American flag with all its men,
0ries took sneak, while Gen. Gordon
held the gayel in that Encampment, and
the Stars and Bars of the defunct Con-
federacy, with its complement of red and
white bunting, filed the air. 1t did not
appear over the Custom House, however.
Gen. Butler taught the denizens of New
Orleans that it would not be healthy to
put a rebel flag up there, and flung out
the Stars and Stripes, and they have float
ed there ever since. 1t is said that this was
the only American Flag in the city during
the week. 1t is also said that some imbe-
cile, in a mighty effort to bring peace.
tried intertwining an American Flag with
a rebel rag up in Ohio the other day at a
District Encampment.
There may come time when the Chris
tian people will become so forgiving that
they will twine the pictures of Judas Is
CARROT with "sad pine and mourning yew,
in token of Glowing remembrance" but it
will be so many million years hence that
it will not matter to a soldier of the
Union, mustered OUT" but until such an
a healthy proposition for any man. be he
priest or President, swho would dare to
twine those two flags together.
1t seemed incredible that Gen. Baden
Powell sheuld go back to England and
talk about our splendid Regulars as he
is quoted as doing, because he seemed to
be good deal of a man, though he might
be termed a pocket edition." no bigger
than the proyerbial "pint of soap," and
now it seems that he spoke of us only
in praise. He says that he was not in
terviewed by newspaper reporter while
he was in this country, SO that the nasty
things he is reported to have said about
us were made out of whole cloth. He
says in answer to these same unkind re-
ports:
'Had / considered anything about them
to have been bad it is not likely that /
should have been so wanting in courtesy
or tact as to have said so openly. Nor
was l in a position, from merely seeing
one or two squadrons for a short time, to
judge of your cavalry as d whole and so
to pass disparaging judgment on it. As
matter of fact, such impression as
had in my own mind, from what / saw,
was Of unqualified admiration Of both the
cavalry and the artillery in every detail
and particular"
| At the 4th of July celebration which is
to make the echoes ring in Washington
Admiral Dewey is to be asked to read the
| DeclaratiOn of Independence.
| The President will have regular
II enagerie by the time he gets back to
Washington. He has been presented with
big bears and little ones. Coyotes, prairie
dogs. owls, wildcats, badgers, coons, rab
bits-there seems to be no limit TO the
ridiculous things that the people insis
upon shewering upon the poor man, who
is not in position to refuse any of them
He is sending the beasties back to Wash
ington in carload lots, and such as arr
worth while caring for will find hom,
at the Washington Zoo. A few. of tn,
/! smaller pets are given to the children.
The little monitor Arkansas didn't hay,
to remain very long in limbo. The storms
up in the headwaters OF the old Missis
sippi came down the other day and gent
ly Eftad tho I;ffIa fybf;Dr ft al,