The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-29
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Aguinaldo is learning. He has mad,
application to Secretary Root for Il loa,
of S100,000,000 to start n bank for hi,
starving compatriots. Let's see. Didn'
Aguinaldo act as banker once before fcl
a goodly sum of money? What became
of the loot?
Ho5son is to lecture. Really. it would
have been better to let him resign and &c
into politics-Cet elected to Congress. say
The House Rules would hold AHA in check
n little. He says that while he is tellta
lively assigned to Bremerton, that awful
place up on Puget Sound. te has an ar
rangement whereby lie will be permitted
to lecture as long as he likes.
1t is said ut the Dead Letter Office that
half Of the letters and packages that come
to that office are deficient in the address
1t would astonish the uninitiated to know
how many thousands of letters each ;caI
find their way to the Dead Letter Office
through being mailed without n single let
ter of address on the envelopes. Then.
senders often place the name of the party
on the envelope and mail it without city or
dress is absolutely illegible. The only
wonder is that the postal service of tie
country is as good rs it is when the peo-
PIE who write are so careless.
Put this in your pipe and smoke it. The
returns from the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue show that during the past
year about 100000 cigars have been
consumed in the United States each day
of the So. making a tnta; for the year
of 6,905. 149.9GS The cigar bill of the
fp.. tb.. tod n
6,000GG0. which is more money than
the British Government spent in fighting
US the eight years that we were struggling
to establish our Independence.
That was for cigars alone. 1t did not
represent one-third of the tobacco con-
sumed by Americans. Last year they
burned 2.65S, 1I6, $50 soui-destroyins Gig
arets, and used, in addition. 315,T19,4T5
pounds of tobacco and snuff in pipes and
snuff boxes. This vast tobacco traffic
brought the Government $I0,500,0G0 in
revenue.
We are called the most temperate peo-
pie in the world, but are we? Gaze on
these figures. Between the two censuses
1890 and 1900 we gained % per cent. in
population. but the consumption OF cigars
alone increased 30 per cent. There is also
and insanity in the United States. accord-
ing to the figures of experts. After all,
is there much difference between alcoholic
poisoning and nicotine doping?
Some of the Democratic Consuls sent
abroad must be pretty tough customers,
according to the stories the Democrats tell
on themselves. Representative Slayden,
of Texas, said the other day that one Con-
sui sent to Mexico by Cleveland got on
hilarious old drunk, and pawned the Lee
CATION Flag for more whisky. 1t is just
barely possible that Mr.. Cleveland had
duplicated his Hawaiian paramount or
der to haul down the Flag and that the
Consul referred to was exercising his right
to dispose of condemned" property.
Washington school children are "enjoy-
ing" an epidemic of childish diseases, such
as whooping cough, measles, chickenpox,
mumps, and sore throat. There has been
some discussion as to whether it would
not be wise to suspend the primary grades
for a week or two, till the period of con-
tagion, if these things are contagious, has
gone by.
Lady Henry Somerset, who is at the
head of the Worlds w. G. T. u, says
that Watts Love and Life" is one of
y.
its sentiment is tender and beautiful. She
says that Francis Willard said tEe same
thing of the painting when it hung in the
Fine Arts Building in Chicago. Lady
Henry Somerset may be all right rs to the
sentiment that the artist wished to con-
vey, by the canvas, but, just the same, the
figures look like couple of Flathead In
dams after long fast.
Representative Livingstone, (Ga.,) who
came to the sd Congress as the King
Bee of the Populist Party in his State,
although rock-ribbed Democrat, sees a
horrible financial panic ahead, unless the
5lth Congress enacts some kind of curren-
cy legislation. Mr.. Livingstone saw
chants" from 1861 to 1865, while serving
in the rebel army, and he saw sights and
ance and Populism were cavorting around
in the political world, trying TO make the
people believe that with them Grace would
depart He seems to be still at it.
Senator Quay is playing game of
''Freeze-Out' on the Senate with his
Statehood bill. There are times when
some of the grave and reverend Senators
who set precedent alongside the Dec
alog. long for some Reed Rules, with
which to break the backs of other Sena-
tors who have very little regard for Sen
atorial courtesy, and if they have some
thing to push, take every advantage of the
old-fogy rules of the Senate which have
prevailed since the elder Adams used to
meander mp TO the Capitol to deliver his
Annual Message to Congress in person.
A magnificent new piano now graces the
East Room of the White House Its esti-
mated cost is $4,000, but it was a pres
ent from a piano firm. 1t stands on the
backs of three eagles with outstretched
wings, and on its gold embazoned sides
are the seals of the - original States.
The Illinois Legislature long time ago
voted the sum of $1,000 for n statue of
Frances Willard to be placed in Statuary
Hall, under the law granting to each State
the right to place in the Capitol of lie
Nation, two statues of those whom ne
considered her most distinguished dead
The time for the appropriation TO be made
available has passed, and the statue,
which Helen T.. Mears, of Wisconsin. is
nj work upon, will not be completed for
some time. Meantime, the Illinois Legis-
iature is to he appealed to to make the
appropriation available by special enact
ment.
1t IS qHite fad to get from the Presi-
dent the rcn with which he signs bills os
great pu; lie interest. The signing of the
Militia Bill brought about the President
all Tie members of his Cabinet and several
invited guests. Among them were The Adj
lutants-General of Iowa, New Jersey. New
York and Illinois. One pen would not suf-
flee, as the Adjutants-General of New
York and Illinois wanted each a pen, SO
two were provided. The President wrote
Theodore with one pen, and "Roose-
velt with the other, and both men were
satisfied.