The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-03-19
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panied it was also sold, and brought $40.
1t was matted in soft gray and framed
before placing it on sale. The Roosevelt
piece of cotton thus Melted the Kinder
garten S131, more than was gained from
any other article contributed, so the
Dallas papers say: the "Narina Jefferson
Davis" handkerchief, $91.20. Oh, chiv-
airy! Art thou dead?
; As predicted William r. Mer-
RAM. Difector of the Census. and
former Governor of Minnesota, has ten
dered his resignation to President Roose-
welt. to take effect May 10. He will go to
New York to take the Nice-Presidency OF
the International Mercantile Agency,
corporation organized for the purpose OF
rating credits in the United States and
Canada.
1t is thought that David II. Mercer. Of
Nebraska, one of those Nj. C.'s who fell
by the wayside in the last election. and
Chairman of the Committee on Public
Buildings in the late Congress, will re-
ceive the appointment. The President has
Il good many lame ducks to care for.
ont of the Congressional debris, and he
may have trouble in placing them all sat
isfactorially, but Mr. Mercer seems to be
it in this instance:
Paramount Blount is dead He is the
Georgia Statesman whom Cleveland made
his Paramount" Commissioner to
Hawaii and ordered him to pull down
the American Flag. and put Queen Lii
back on her crumbling throne. Mr.. Blount
was a nice little man who had served 20
years in Congress and who had never been
anything brilliant, but was well thought
of. up to that time. He did his masters
bidding. and it killed him politically. lie
went back to his Georgia home and was
forgotten until the news came over the
wires the other day that he is dead. The
prize package of 100000 which Queen Lii
expected to draw out of the United States
Treasury failed to get the Presidents
frank. and this disappointment may have
broken the Georgia mans heart He was
devoted to the cause of the dusky queen.
BY the way Prince Cupid, whose real
name makes the linotypes stutter, he of
the dusky-hued skin who comes to repre-
sent Hawaii in the House, is bringing coin
of the realm with him. it is said. and in
tends to spend it royalty, entertaining here
in Washington. How will he be accepted?
He is of pure Kanaka blood, Prince. if
you please. but-he belongs to the dark
races, just the same.
Over in Paris. so bright American girl
writes to Washington friend, the critics
refer to the 'cake-walk" which has taken
that city by storm, as 4 'semi-barbaric
dance" Well now!
One of the charities in which the wom-
en- of wealth in Washington interest them
selves is in caring for homeless and
friendless cats and dogs. Friendless dogs
are having their day just now. Last week
at the home of Mrs. James Il. Henderson,
known as Boundary Castle, the friends of
the Society for Friendless Dogs held their
first meeting of the Spring. 1t has among
its patronesses Mrs. mcfarland, the wife
of the Commissioner of the District of Co
lumbia; Mrs. Stephen b. Elkins, Mrs.
Spooner, and Mrs. Chandler, wives of men
of National fame. The President Of the
Society is Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, and one
of its warmest supporters is the Countess
Cassini, daughter of the Russian Embas-
sador.
The meeting was large one. and Mrs.
Henderson, threw open her fine art gal
lery for the company which had gathered
to hear Mrs. Helen We'll. Of Cambridge,
Mass, give her readings from Tennysons
ldyls of the King, Lancelot, Guinevere
and Elaine being the theme. The reading
was a rich treat, but best of ALL perhaps.
was the gathering of women who stopped
IN their busy society career for an hour to
help along by their presence the kindly
charity.
The society was organized in the home
of Miss Anna p. Thomas, a New York
correspondent, who resides in one of the
quaint old Georgetown houses. Its aim is
to establish kennels in the outskirts of the
city where wandering dogs. sick dogs,
dogs turned out to starye and die by heart
less masters and mistresses, who go away
on Summer trips: dogs good, and dogs bad.
n menace to people everywhere, and espe-
rim IIt-f oh, x,-I,n
cared for till their owners claim them or
they can be disposed of to people who will
take care of them properly. If the dogs
picked mp are found to be wholly WORTH
less, they are put out of the way as easily
rs possible. The visiting physician" is
noted veterinarian. and a very good wom-
an cares for the kennels. Her husband
was once master of the hounds to some
English Lord
The Society had a very nice location
down in town, but some crank insisted
that the dogs howled and disturbed his
slumbers, and the kennels had to be moved
further out.
Poor Miss Roosevelt 1t isn't such fun
after all TO be the daughter of the Presi-
dent of the United States, especially if
you are young, handsome, and have mon
ey in your own right, for these seem to
only serve the purpose of letting the
world know how many various kinds of
fools there are in it. and to make il EN-
barrassing for the daughter.
Miss Roosevelt wanted to 90 to the
Coronation. She was just "craZy" to
go. as the girl of the period puts it. She
might have had glorious time if the peo-
pie who talk so much with their mouths
had let her alone, but they wouldn't. Some
, idiotic Jenkins" proceeded to exploit
. what would happen in n social way to
/ United States" when she visited the
''Soyereigns" of the old world. The
, American girl was to be introduced Mt
: Court. Nothing much to that. Any we'll
bred girl who can buy material for n
Court train and three ostrich feathers
for her hair can be introduced at Court.
, There are plenty of titled" paupers over
, there who are lying in wait to gather in
, American shekels by presenting girls who
) have money to pay for it.
The American girl would be treated ms
, 4 princess of the blood said Jenkins.
e ''and all Europe would be at her feet"
, metaphorically speaking. About that
0 time. the President her father. plain,
practical. leyel-headed American, got
8 blood in his eye, also speaking metaphor
! ically, and said that if his daughter
t couldn't 20 abroad with her aunt and have
4 nice, quiet time seeing the sights and
!. would, she should not go at all, and SO
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