The National tribune., 1904-07-07

a little vacation from the Santa Fe Rail-
road until the 4th of March, and that after
that date he will 60 back to the wave
less inland seas" again..
The FilipInos at st. Louis, the people
| fectly able to govern themselves and to es-
tablish civilized code of ethics, have so
offended public morals at the Exposition
In st. Louis, that the Insular Bureau OF
the War Department, through Col. Ed
wards, the Chief, has issued orders that
thing beside straw hat and a smile. In
other words, they must put on some
clothes. 1t was all well enough to write
about their half-civilized habits, and their
desire to live near to natures heart and
natures God, while they were yet in the
Philippines, and to declare that they
ought not to be forced to adopt our Gus
toms and habits when their own were so
much more comfortable, but now that the
untutored child of Belial has actually in
vaded the United States and exhibited
himself as natures God made him. even
the "antieS" have got to admit that the
guieess Filipino is not thing of beauty
when he poses in the altogether. and that
it is good thing that the United States
has the power to make him put on some
garbage.
that ostrich feathers lust plucked from
the bird and untreated' are dutiable. SO
now! My lady is going to pay a heap for
the feathers on her hat next year, for this
will make them very much more expen-
sive. To evade the high duty on finished
feathers, the rough plumage has been i'm
ported and dressed in this country. The
Customs officers concluded that this was
an evasion of the law, hence the new con-
struction. 1t may tend to increase the
production of feathers in this country,
however
There is a well-defned movement on
foot to take the Peace monument away
from the west front of the Capitol and
place it in Arlington. Congress ought to
take steps to do this. The Peace" monu-
ment is one of the monumental pieces Of
hldeOus extravaganza which dot the parks
of Washington. 1t is bad in conception,
worse in execution, and in place of being
enduring stone, the monstrosities which
pose as babies about the structure are
now discovered to be of some kind OF
plaster and the heads OF the kids are
falling full Of holes and the elements will
soon make way entirely with them. The
place where the monument stands is most
conspicuous, and really good piece of
statuary ought to be placed there. 1t is
said that the slave mart once stood on
that spot. Why not place there a statue of
Lincoln?
worth her weight in gold" How often
you hear the expression, yet how many
know just exactly how much the
weight" would be? 1t isn't nearly as
much as most folks think. You often read
in novels about heroes tramping through
the West, or putting up game fight to
and the sum will be given at from $4,000
to $4,000. Of course the novelist never
knows what he is talking about when he
makes break like that. A young hus-
band and wife were in the Treasury De-
partment, down in the coin vaults the
the lady to step on the scales and he
would weigh her with gold. She pulled
down $2S,G47 i'm gold coin. Her exact
weight was 1O6 pounds. Her husband
thought he did not care to sell her by
gold weight, as that was too cheap.
The hero who staggers around under
$1,000 in gold, if it is about his waist in
Il belt" is going to give himself dead
away. because it weighs about 1917
pounds. 1t must be admitted that that
much weight III a belt would pull down
considerably, but add to it another five
or ten thousand, and what would you
have?
Take silver dollars. and 800 Of them will
weigh 351a pounds. Take a ive-dollar
goldpiece and pile one-dollar bills in the
other scale, and it will take six and one
half Of the paper bills to balance the gold
piece.
There was found in junk shop in
Washington a few years ago a picture Of
the fighting McCook famiy-Daniel Nc
Cook and his nine sons. This picture was
painted on an order from the State Of Ohio
nl. hytf not fnd
for some reason. and the artist sold it to a
junk dealer. Some years ago John J. Nc
Cook found the picture in the junk shop,
bought it, had it repainted. and then pre-
sented it to Ohio. 1t now hangs in the
rOtunda Of the Capitol at Columbus, where
it was placed a few weeks ago. The fa-
ther and six of the sons and cousins lost
their lives in the war of the rebellion.