The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-02-26

ington recently in company with his wife,
a very bright helpful woman. He was
very successful in farming in Iowa, and
no doubt will make his Virginia farm an
object lesson to his neighbors.
William J. Bryan has been in WASH
ington for several days, and the gold
ball on the Treasury Building still drops.
Mr.. Bryan can now walk the streets of
Washington or loaf about the Capitol as
unnoticed as any ordinary citizen. He adj
dressed the Georgetown University Law
School Saturday evening on the value of
An Ideal.' His ideal is still made of sill
yer. He confessed as much.
The University of Pennsylvania has
conferred on Gen. Leonard Wood the de-
gree of LII. D., or Doctor of Laws"
And now it's sheepskin that is no good
For many years we have been hearing
| that the paper used in printing our books
and newspapers was 10 good at all, and
| that in few years it would crumble into
dust. The ink also is very bad, and fades
with time TILL if the paper does hold out,
the ink upon it will be illegible. Now the
story comes from the Government Print
ing Office that the sheepskin used in bind
ing the Government publications is de
fusion. and scarcely pays for binding, as it
has soon to be renewed. Surely the tam
ming is no longer what it was when the
greatest General of the age worked at
his little tannery in st. Louis. 1t is now
recommended that good. strong cloth
makes more lasting binding than leather.
s'The American Academy in Rome is
the title of company of milionaires who,
while living in the District of Columbia, |
desire to institute and promote the study
and practice of the fine arts and to aid
and stimulate the education and training |
of architects, painters, sculptors and other |
artists, by enabling such citizens of the |
United States as shall be selected by COM
petition from among those who have pass
ed with honor through leading technical
schools or have been equally well qualified |
by private instruction or study TO develop
their powers and complete their training
under the most favorable conditions of d.
reciion and surroundings. The new cor
pOration is to send report annually to
Congress.
Capt Charles D. Sigsbee, formerly
Commander of the Maine. which five years
ago was blown up in Havana harbor, is
now to do shore duty and has been as
signed to the League Island Navy Yard as
Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Comrade Geo. W. Butterfield. who went
out in the Odd Mich. but served the most
of the time in the Signal Corps, accom-
panying Sherman on the march to the sea,
and through the Carolinas, where he was
to Gen. Slocum's headquarters,
was in the city last week to attend a
meeting OF the officers of the National
Letter Carriers Association, of which he
is Treasurer. He resides at Bay City,
Mich, is in good health, and an active
q. A. Il. man.
The death of ar. Abram S. Hewitt,
in New York, recalls the fact that
while member of Congress, years ago,
and long before the present magnificent ,
Library of Congress was constructed, rec
ognizing the fact that new Library would
soon be necessity, lie suggested the !
raising of the roof of the Capitol, and the ;
addition of another story, to accommodate ,
the Library. Mr.. Hewitt always insisted :
that the Capitol had squat" appeav- :
lnce, and that the dome was much too {
high for the rest of the building, and the !,
addition of another story became a mania !
with him. He, even wenr so far as 70
have plans drawn mt his own expense, :
showing how it could be done and i'm :
prove the appearance of the building. OF :
curse his plans all came to naught. 1t ,
s not at all probable that the National !;
capitol Will ever be patched up to make
t modern. as the National Executive Man
Mr. Daniel Y. Colclazier, who celebrated Z
rs SSth birthday anniversary on Feb. :
D. IS the sole survivor of President Lin
ON bodyguard and enjoys the distinction {
4 having been born Feb. 10, 1915, the !
lay that the news of the declaration of :,
i peace between Great Britain and the :
United States reached this country at the :
ives IN Washington with iiis son. Henry l.
;. Colclazier. At his recent birthday ceIe-
ration he entertained many of his chill
rem and grandchildren with "reminiscences
+ Washington during the days of the
wi war, when he was so intimately as G
ociated with President Lincoln. T
Gen. Miles entertained at luncheon Mt 6
us home in Washington last Saturday r
;h,ef Joseph, Of the Nez Perces, and two q
;h,efs who accompanied him. The old o
elbows were decked i'm war paint and II
Gathers, buckskin and blankets and were h
icturessquely dignifed. The host and
uests bear the relation of conqueror and n
onquered, for it was to Gen. Miles that n
he Nez Perces surrendered in 1877. The Il
Ieneral wore an immense bearskin over I,
oat the day of the surrender, and has &
yer since been known by the Nez Perces a
S Chief Great Bear Coat" :,
"
One Of the saddest of all the sad things ~
hat President Roosevelt has had to do a
ince he came into his high office was to :,
eremptorily refuse Mrs. Bird a pardon r
Or her husband, who is sentenced to hang p,
! Sitka, Alaska, next week, for an afro II
lous, premeditated, cold-blooded murder. Fl
lie deserted this little woman and her five a
hildren, leaving them in restitution in n
lew Orleans, and went off with another n
'oman, for whose sake he is said to have r
murdered his partner. Then the woman