The National tribune., 1904-06-16

such accidents as happened on the MIS-
souri, in April. Secretary Moody has issued
some very stringent rules for the guidance
of those who handle the big guns on ship
board.
Col r. J. Hinton, formerly of Kansas,
died i'm London in 1901, very suddenly.
and his body was placed in a vault wait
ing for removal to the United States. The
remains We're brought home last week,
and the body inferred in Arlington with
full military honors. Col. Hinton was a
writer of note and i'll many ways Il rare
sors of a genius. His mind was a store
house of knowledge. and when you needed
information any known subject. Col.
Hinton could just reach into that ponder
ous clutter closet and bring out for you
exactly what you needed.
My goodness. but Mr.. Melville Il. Stone
did stir up yeast-powdery mess when he
declared at st. Louis that women were re-
sponsible for yellow journalism. Tempest
in teapot, Why, there are whitecaps all
along the main and just as far out as YOU
can see till the horizon butts in on the
clouds. There isn't woman editor in the
country who isn't Indignantly denying tina t
such thing is possible. Mrs. Clara Be
wick Colby. editor of the WomanS Trib-
une. who actually heard Mr.. Stone make
the statement. has been in a perfect fer
ment ever since and she openly denounced
the statement as untrue i'm a public meet
ing of the Womans Press Club here i'll
Washington.
While Mr.. Stone may have made his
sta atement pretty broad, the writer of this
desires to go on record as one woman who
knows. positively knows. that women take
far too much interest in yellow Journalism.
When prominent women of the great wo-
mans organizations permit themselves TO
be interviewed. posed and photographed
for yellow journals. they set the stamp of
their approval upon them. They buy these
same journals and send them broadcast
among their friends That is the very
highest approval What can you expect
of the middle half of the feminine world
if the upper third stamps with its ap-
prOval in this fashion the sensa tiOnal and
unhealthy literature that is sandwicbed in
with their pictures in undreSS uniform! :!
Mr.. Stone has been a newspaper man for
great many. many trOublOus years. and
he isn't given to making sensational
statements.
Miss Alice Roosevelt had a narrow es-
cape just as she had reached home after
her st. Louis trip. She was met by the
White House carriage and was driven to
within two blocks of home when the big
horse attached to the carriage stumbled
and got himself all tangled up in the har-
ness He finally kicked himself up and
then in his fright would have made splin-
ters of the carriage. had he got started.
but policeman got him down again and
sat on his head while Miss Roosevelt and
her maid. each carrying a suit case, got
out of the carriage and footed it to the
White.
Word comes from Portland Me-. that a
massive granite shaft now marks the
grave of Thomas Bracket Reed. late
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Beside finely graved laurel wreath and
the name of the dead statesman the fol-
lowing epitaph is carved upon the endur-
ing granite. His record is with the faith
full. the brave. and the true of all Nations
and all ages.
And now Mr.. Barrett goes free! Mr.
Barrett was formerly Assistant Attorney
in the office of the Assistant Attorney
General for the Post Office Department
and was recently tried jointly with Gen
James y. Tyner for conspiracy to defraud
the United States. and both were acquitted :
now Mr.. Barrett has been acquitted
prosecuting officers. after carefully going
over the matter. reached the conclusion
that it was no use to try Mr.. Barrett on
the other charges. as they depended upon
the discredited conspiracy testimony for
their strength.
Mr.. Ainsworth r. Spofford, Assistant
Librarian of Congress. who is abroad for
the benefit of his health, and for research
among the libraries of the old world, is
now the guest of Prof. Pals, Director of
the Museum of Naples.
Admiral George Dewey laid the corner
stone of the new Naval Academy at the
closing of the exercises of the June week
He laid the first trowel of mortar, applied
the square, and struck the stone with the
mallet pronOuncing it well and truly laid
do tha aI1
SAIL among many other interesting things.
is not splendid ships and guns that
a navy, but history records that it
m st always be the men who use>> them.
1t IS not in learning seamanship and
strategy and gunnery, however important,
but III character here inculcated that we
must look for the maintenance of the
standard for our future navy" This is as
true of the army as of the navy That is
what makes our army the greatest fight
ing machine in the world. and absolutely
1nvincible. Our men fight for principles
as old as the Flag. and a long way older
than the Constitution. Those principles
were finally crystalliZed in the Consttu-
ton, the most wonderfully clear, concise,
and comprehensive State document i'm ex-
istence to-day.
There is some disappointment among
Senator Quay's immediate friends that
Dick Quay was not mentioned for ap-
poHltHltHt 10 the snort unexpIred term for
which his father was elected. Young Dick
Quay would have taken it if offered. bnt
his name was not even suggested by the
politicians. In the House. several sons
have been elected TO succeed their de-
ceased fathers, but the Senate has not
seemed to fill up that way. Pennsylvania
politicians realize that they cannot afford
to play In the Keystone State the
United States Senator's have distinctly
business proposition before them. They
do not cut such a lot of ice i'm the daily
events and occurrences of the Senate
chamber, but they manage to shave q
whole lot OF the congealed comfort fOl
their constituents during the term Young
Mr: Quay has evidenced no aptitude foi
politics. so ii was not thought worth while
TO throw away upon him as excellent an
opportunity as now offers. just for the
sentiment of the thing. PENNSYLVANIA j,
not III politics for sentimental purposes.
Washington has n new and somewha
UNIQUE organization. Ii is titled 18th,
Old Boys Club" and its membership i,
comprised exclusively Of men who votet
Tor Fremont or Lincoln. 1t was orga