The National tribune., 1903-07-02

THE NATIONAL TRlBUN
detail. Every window is marked off, and
the 'E Pluribus Unum" above which the
Goddess of Liberty rises can be read with
lease. The location Of every one of the pro-
posed 80 rooms is shown, and altogether 1t
is an exquisite work of art.
After the little plaster Capitol has
served its purpose to show legislators
what is proposed to be done, 1t Will
the exhibits of the Louisiana Purchase Elk
position, and thereafter will probably go
into the Congressional Library Exhibition.
Charles f. McKim, the architect who
spoiled the White House, has finally re-
ceived his gold medal awarded by the
Royal Society for Architects at London.
The dispatches very carefully state that
the medal was bestowed upon Mr. Mckim
ION account of the excellence of his de-
signs of many public buildings in the
United States, and of his being President
of the American Institute of Architects,
and also in order to do honor to the great
progress of architecture in America
Americans who loved the old White House
are very glad that it is not mentioned in
connection with the bestowal Of this
medal.
Now wouldn't it jar you? The Louis
| lana musketOes have forced a Government
surveying party to abandon their work and
flee for their lives. A United States Coast
and GeOdetic Surveying party had been
down in Louisiana to survey the oyster
reefs on the coast. After spending many
days aloug the coast in the schooner Ma
jestic," Prof. Baylor made up his mind
| that the lives of the members of his party
were at stake because of the pest muske-
toes, and was obliged to abandon the sur
veying until next Winter.
The following is the song which got
Miss Martin. of the Phoebe Hearst Cathe-
dral School for Girls, into trouble:
"Phoebe Hearst she built school in nine
teen hundred and one;
And gave it to the Bishop with Bangs
and Wilton to run.
They made an awful mess of it, as you
have heard, no doubt,
Until man came in and put both
Bangs and Wilton out
"'Twas Mr.. Dooley, twas Mr.. Dooley.
The smartest man in the country ever
| knew;
The teachers blessed him; the girls ca
ressed him
This Mr.. Dooley-ooley-ool ooley-
Gamma Jackson was the teacher of gym
nastics in the school,
She didn't look intelligent, but she
| wasn't any fool;
She umpired baseball game in a most
| remarkable way,
| Until man came out and showed the
| other teams could play.
"'Twas Mr.. Dooley, twas Mr.. Dooley.
He said, the umpires blind We must
| have two
She said, oh please sir, you don't love-
SIR
o Mr. -ooley-ooley cooley
Dr. II. W. Wiley, of the Agricultural
Department, has given his squad of
'pisen" eaters a respite of few weeks
before they take up new brand of poison
diet. While the Doctor is not willing to
talk, it is quite generally understood that
he is very we'll pleased with the progress
| of his experiments. The young men who
are boarding at the Governments expense
for the purpose of testing the action of
borax and bOracic acid in their internal ar
rangements, have been getting along very
nicely, and no bad results have followed
the diet placed before them by the Govern
meHt cook. Every mOuthful of food given
to each man was weighed with care, and
the young men were pledged not to eat
anything except at DIR. Wiley's table, and
measures We're taken to see that their
pledges were kept. DIR. Wiley undertook
his research to find out how much harm
was done to people fed on food in which
borax and boracic acids were used as
preservatives, and to see if he could not
demonstrate that the European powers
were wrong in shutting out American
meats on account of the use of these pre-.
lservatives.
This class of young men will now be
Ipermitted to eat any old thing they want
to. On Oct. 1 they will return to the
poison diet, and if they survive the expert
ments will be concluded sometime in the
Winter. The experiment with salyclit
acid is to determine the injurious qualities
of that drug as a preservative. 1t is used
wine used in churches and in cider ant
grape juice for the Same purpose.
j Word has come to the War Department
from Manila that the constabulary ant
Philippine scouts will be represented a
the st. Louis Exposition by two or three
companies of each organization, in ordel
that the Americans may see the character
of the natives who are assisting in thu
Americanization of the archipelago. The!
will be accompanied by the constabular!
band, composed entirely OF native musi
clans, and will be one Of the picturesqu,
features Of the next years Exposition.
The White House for a few days afte
the arrival of the President from th'
West looked like an old curiosity shop
: Everybody who spoke to him must hav'
given him present, from the wagon load
of truck that have been deposited unde
the White House porte-cOchere. One o
the bulkiest of the inanimate presents il
a chair made Of Elk's horns. There is
/ big elk in the Park at Tacoma, Washing
, ton, which sheds it's horns annually. 1t i
[ a very large elk, and the horns are abou
the largest that have ever been seen. Thes
/ have been saved from year to year, and i
was out Of them that the chair for tn
l President was made. 1t is so heavy tha
it takes two or three men to lift and NOV
: it about, and it is big enough for two o
three such men as the President.
7 A pair of totem poles, the combination
l grave stone and family tree of one of tn
t Alaskan Indian tribes, is another quee
E present. These poles erected over Indial
graves contain curious characters, whic
furnish history of fhe dead and of th