The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-02-05

foolish little girlEwell. she will be wise
a few years hence. But she will probabl,
pay dearly for it.
The Iowa delegation has suffered Sc
we're loss in the death of Representative }
INV. n. RumpIe, who died Of cancer Jan
30. Capt. Rumple was a native OF OHIO
and when just youth in his teens enlisted
in Co. III, ID Iowa Cav, as a private. Ill
participated in some of the severest battles
of the war, notably Island No. III, New
Madrid, siege of Cornth, Sheridan's bat
tie of Rienzi. charge at Pennington, luka
Corinth. Grierson's raid, Tupelo, in from
of Hoods advance on Nashville, Franklin
Columbia and Nashville. He was mus
tered out as Captain O. his company
Capt. Rumple was a stanch Republican
and man of sterling worth.
Prof Totten, formerly of Yale. at {
| "Carnation League" meeting in New Ha
ven. the other day, gave voice to an ole
superstition which one would scarcely ex
pect to find exploited by 10th Centur!
man. . He said, first. that three President:
had died by the assassin's hand, and 9
fourth would be added, he had not doubt
He then referred to the fact that all Of
these had met death on Friday, and tina
they had been buried on Friday. He alst
predicted second National war, and va
rious other calamities. This bird of evl
should stop his croaking.
The correspondents have run up against
a circumstance in the Pension Office. Com
missioner Ware declines to talk for pub
LEGATION! 1t is such jolt to those who
running out of anything else to write about
have been in the habit of tearing down te
the Pension Office to get good, juicy
scandal of one sort or another, that they
scarcely know how to get along.
A Polish couple in Toledo, Ohio. whose
name exlausts the alphabet and induces a
fit of sneeZing, are the proud possesSOrs OF
quadruplets, two boys and two girls. One
of the children was Immediately named fol
President Roosevelt, and he was so in
formed. The President sent the parents
an ACKNOWLEDGMENT. and in his letter
he said: 81 am very much interested in the
children, as one of them is named after
me, and 1 believe in large families"
Hawaii, like Ireland. is supposed to be a
real Eden, in which ''the trail of snake
has niver set its fut." But no sooner dc
we get hold of these famous islands than
they proceed to develop whole lot OF
things that nobody ever heard of before
The National Museum is just in receipt OF
a "sea SNAKE" which was found in the
driftwood on the beach. ID miles from
HiIo. There is no word in Hawaiian fol
snake. so the man who found the was a
simple fsherman-could not name the
'sbaste," and was half frightened to death
by his catch. 1t is thought that the snake,
which is curious reptile. is the product of
tropical Asia, which got over to Hawaii
in some mysterious way.
The Museum has also been enriched the
past few days by two tiny "mouse DEER
sent from the Island of Java by Consul
Rairden. They are an entirely new spe-
cies of deer to our biologists, and are very
interesting.
The foreign ambassadors and Ministers
who make their homes in Washington have
all of them a very pretty custom of cele-
brating by dinner, banquet or ball the
birthday anniversaries of the rulers of the
various countries At the British Embassy
the birthday of Queen Victoria was al
ways celebrated with great pomp. Since
her death :there has been no celebration,
because OF Illness, death and changes that
have been taking place. At the German
Embassy last week dinner was given in
honor of the Emperor's birthday. The
idFSe poItrditS OI the emperor ana EN-
press, which were presented to the En-
bassy by them, were hung with wreaths of
laurel and decorated with roses, and the
menu was made up of exclusively German
dishes.
The steamship "Gulf Stream" plying
between New York ana PHILADELPHIA,
grounded on the bar opposite Latham's
Life Saving Station, off the New Jersey
Coast. Thursday night, Jan. 20, and will
be total wreck. The item does not mean
much to the casual reader, but there are
many who will remember the old boat I'M
der her other names.
The steamer was the former blockade
runner and Confederate warship Victory.
The "Gulf Stream" was built in PhiIadeI-
phia in 1861, and started her voyages I'M
der the name of "North Carolina" After
ward her name was changed to "Victory.''
When the Federal Government got hold
OF her she was renamed the "Queen."
Subsequently this was changed to her
present name, the 'Gulf Stream"
The American National Red Cross As
ISOLATION is likely to get into Congress, or
hot water, and maybe both. 1t seems that
a good many of the members do not like
the autOcratic power of the President,
Miss Clara Barton and wish to have her
shorn of at least a portion of it. They
have appealed to the President and to
Congress, as the Red Cross of the United
States was Incorporated under an act of
Congress two or three years ago.
The Knockers are Gen. John M. Will
son, Richard Olney, John w. Foster, Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey, Mrs. Judith Ellen
Foster, w. ii. Michael, and Simon Wolf,
all members Of the Executive Committee,
and about half dozen others. The sign
ers all walked out of the Convention held
here few weeks ago, when the new Con-
sttution was presented to the Convention
and carried over the heads of the pro-
testants by large proxy vote, which they
declare was procured by misrepresenta-
ton. This new Constitution made Miss
Barton President for life of the American
National Red Cross Association. It is
this clause that the signers of the petition
particularly object to, and the supreme
power which other clauses of the Consti-
tuition confer upon Miss Barton in that
capacity.
When the merits of the case are at last
| settled, it will probably find Miss Barton
still camping on the trail of the Presiden.
cy. She has a fashion of doing exactly as
she pleases, and she will probably get to
do as she pleases with the Red Cross while
she lives. If it had not been for Miss
! Barton there would have been no Ameri.
can National Red Cross Association. She
| was the whole Association for 30 years OF
more. She labored for 20 years to get the
United States Government to recognize the
Association and become a member of the
| International Association. She was at last
victorious. She has been so long at the