The National tribune., 1904-08-11

Fred Rhodes. Private Secretary to Chief
Clerk Mills.
And now the order is said to have gone
forth from Tammany that Mr.. William
Hearst must be turned down. Mr.. Hearst
is Il Tammany member of Congress. and
editor of various newspapers. who thought
he was running for the Presidential nom
nation on the Democratic ticket. and in
sisted and persisted i'm that thought when
it was well known that Tammanny did not
want him and would not have him under
any consideration. Mr.. Hearst may have
something to say in the matter.
| Soldiers in the United States Army are
| to be taught to cook: not how to make
angel food and ice cream. but how to cook
Army beans. nice and Clean" and the ac-
companying fat pork, which in common
soldier parlance is known as ''s0w-belly.'
and rice. and the other camp food stuffS,
and how to make coffee properly. 1t is a
splendid move. The soldier in camp has
to depend upon his own skill in cooking,
and if he knows how to prepare the mate
rails dealt out to him generously by Uncle
Sam. he runs about a million fewer
| chances of making himself i'll of intestina
troubles and indigestion. sure to follow
commanding the Department of Colorado,
is the first to put the soldier cooking
school into practice.
| Secretary Moody promulgated an order
just before he left the Navy Department
which is causing a good many Naval Off
GERS to hustle to avoid disgrace He said
in the order that officers who could not pay
their bills would not be needed in the
service: which is tough, don't you know.
| The old code used to be- BE just to your
| equals. recognize no superiors. and be gem
| erous to your interiors if you happen to
| have the money: if not. interiors don't
! count. Secretary Moody's order upsets
all this. and it must be considered an ex-
| cellent order, too. One young officer who
persistently refused to pay his debts. and
rather than force courtmartal in which
| he knew he would lose out.
| At the Post Office Department the Mis-
sissippi incident is considered closed. with
the Post Office Department on top. The
citizens of certain place in Calhoun
County pcttioncd for post office at that
point. and asked that the place be named
"Nardaman." in honor of the Governor of
the State. The Post Office Department. on
direct order of Secretary Payne. turned
the name down fiat. The post office was
| established and given the name Timber
ville,' which was one of the names sug-
gested by the petitioners. along with Var
daman and several others.
When the news was carried to MissiS-
sippi, the deiiizens of that State got right
up and howled. They certainly did. and
the way they besieged the Postmaster
General was sure sin for this hot
weather, when everybody is advised to
keep cool Secretary Payne stood it n
WI thon in, 4
interview on the matter, which seems to
be conclusively explicit. He says, among
other things
Immediately the usual investigation
made by the Department as to the neces-
| sity for the establishment Of the office
was undertaken. Pending the inquiry.
copy of the Daily Clarion-Ledger' a
dated Aug. %, 1903, was filed with the De-
partment, conta lining an article to which
the Departments attention was called.
This article was copy of an editorial
printed in the Commonwealth under date
of Jan. 10. 1903 which paper is published
and edited by Governor Vardaman.
The article in question was so vile
and indecent in its statements concerning
! the mother of the President of the United
States as to be unfit for reproduction. The
| Postma master-General did not esteem it
proper to give a post office the name of any
man who had used such language regard
ing any woman. The post Office i'm aues-
tiOn has been ordered established, and
given the name of Timberville. In exer-
cising the discretion given him by law.
the POstmaster-General frequently rejects
names suggested for proposed post offices.
lie has never been clearer as to his duty
than i'm this ease. 1t is proper to say that
President Roosevelt had no knowledge Of
| the incident referred to-
There doesn't seem to be much left to
say after such an exposition as that ex-
cept to applaud the action Of the Post
| master-General.
The President had some picturesque
| callers the other day. They We're Pawnee
| They were among the very few who
were with Custer and escaped when
his command was massacred and
the gallant General killed at the
| fight on the Little Big Horn. They
| think that because they got away they are
entitled to pensions. Those who escaped
| and are i'm Washington are Fearing Bear.
Mad Bear and Eli ShotweIl They ap-
| piled for the pensions over dozen years
| ago, and say they have heard nothing from
| them since. For getting money out of the
Government. the Indians can beat any
thing living to-day.
The Library Of Congress has been a
pigeon loft for the last month or two. 1t
wasn't the Governments fault by any
means; some pigeons took possession and
| that was all there was of it, until the Coy
ernment could dispOssess them, which was
not an easy matter. Since the warm
weather began the transoms away up un-
der the dome have been left open, and a
pair of ring doves wandered i'm one fine
day and concluded that the splendid gilded
book palace would make quite a satisfac-
tory roof tree and proceeded to build a
nest. 1t was very noisy process, and
such scrapping you never did see. Any
body who thinks that pigeons have no
temper ought to have been able to watch
those two making a home.
Before the nest was quite finished do
mestic infelcity became so marked that
the readers in the Library could scarcely
think for the racket. The cause seemed to
be another lady pigeon who had stolen the
affections of the father householder. At
any rate, the matter came to q head one
day when one Of the pigeons in tempest
of wrath tore the newly-made nest to tat
ters and dropped strings, bits of paper,
straw, old leaves and the like over the
head DIS Of the readers 900 feet below Then