The National tribune., 1904-09-22
U. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

SATURDAY, sept. IL. S,0UO,St4.O0
Monday, Sept. 10. ... 2,16S, 1O4 .43
ing girl of no particular parts, and her
husband is the same. He has money. The
chief interest in this item is that Miss
Cults is a grandniece of Dolly Madison
and niece of Mrs. Stephen A. Douglass,
and they both had blue blood to spare.
DR.. Thomas Herran is dead. DIR. Her
ran was the representative of Colombia
in the United States for a number of years
up TO the time of the Panama affair. He
was a splendid gentleman.
- The printers in the big public ''printery"
will lose a very good friend when Repre-
sentative Richardson, Of Tennessee, retires,
as he will next march.
1t was through the influence of Repre-
sentative Richardson, as Chairman of the
Committee on Printing in the 5Oth Con-
greSS, that resolution was passed
through the House and Senate giving the
employees of the printing Office Is days
leave of absence with pay.
Mr.. Richardson wants to do lot more
for the Government printers, however. lie
says: Il shall at the coming session
make another attempt to secure for the de-
serving employees of the Government Print
ing Office 30 days sick leave with pay.
The large army of Government clerks in
the various Departments, in addition to
their annual leave, are accorded by law a
sick leave not exceeding 80 days in any
one year with pay, and it is nothing more
than fair that this same privilege be ex-
tended so as to include the employees of
the Government Printing Office"
Representative Richardson, much to the
regret of his constituents. retires volun-
tarily from Congress in order that he may
devote his entire time and energy to his
Masonic work. he being the supreme head
of the Ancient and Accepted Order of Scot
fish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdic-
ton of the United States. He occupies
the most exalted Masonic office in the
world and is the youngest man that ever
held the position.
Arthur Ferguson, Secretary of the Phil
ippine Commission, who accompanied the
Philippine delegation on a tour of the
United States, has sent the following mes
sage to the SecretaryeOf War:
Before departing from the shores of
their mother country, the Filipinos send
greetings, and once again express graft
tude for the cOurtesies and favors received
in this hospitable land. begging you to make
known to the President these sentiments
All the water which will be used in the
Washington public schools for the next
few months is to be boiled. In each school
has been placed a gas-stOve and a five
gallon filter. and the $4,000 school children
of the District will be protected thus far
from infection by typhoid.
Insanity is increasing rapidly in the Dis
trict of Columbia. or else Washington is
made the dumpingground for cranks, and
there Is strong reason to believe that this
is true. There were 62 cases of insanity
in the District in 1903. and there were 90
cases in the months of July and August
to Sept. II, 1904:
DR.. Meador, of Washington. says that
he has performed 1000 marriage cere-
monies. but he never had anything happen
to him such as happened the other day.
Within half an hour of each other he was
called upon to marry two couples. Al
though they were four people. they had
ried a Mr.. Gordon to Miss Gordon and
Miss Lee to Mr.. Lee. Apparently the
changing the name and not the letter.
marries for worse and not for better"
had no influence on these four people.
big Tim Sullivan" 'Bowery Tim,"
Representative in Congress from the slum
district of New York, has tired of Wash
ington, and will retire from official life.
He is perfectly Disguised with Washing
ton life, says there is nothing in it. though
how he found that out is a mystery for
he was never here. Half q dozen times
and possibly half an hour at time is as
often as he was on the floor of the House
last Winter. He was a long time a MEM
hos Of ho Nn.,
he spent most of his time in Albany when
the Assembly was in session, instead of i'm
Washington attending to his Congressional
business. Congress won't miss him, and
neither will Tammany, for he did "nuthin'
fer nobody, nohow," while he was here.
Some of the country papers are print
ing picture of nice, plump old lady of
more than uncertain years, whose hair is
primly plastered down over her head, and
who wears very high-necked dress of the
vintage of the '70s. and have labelled il
Mrs. Mary Adelaide Fairbanks. wife of
Senator c. w. Fairbanks, Republican
nominee for Vice-President." 1t is really
very funny. The nice, plump old lady
isn't to be sneezed at by any means. She
is probably very excellent wife for quite
as excellent a man as Senator Fairbanks,
but just the same is old enough to be his
mother, is Mary Adelaide of the picture.
and possibly she is. Senator Fairbanks's
wife is known as "Cornelia Cole Fair
banks, PresidentGeneral of the Daughters
of the American Revolution" She is pref
ty as a picture, with dimpIes in cheeks
and chin, hair tossed in little curls in
and she has the very diyinest
shoulders imaginable.
President Roosevelt has sent his photo
graph, with good luck" salute and auto-
graph. to s. p. Swartwood and wife. Of
Mountain Top, Pa, who at so years of
age are the parents of % children, 20 Of
whom are alive.
Col. w. A. Gavett. we'll known in rail
way, civil service, and military circles, died
last week of an operation. He was born
in Hillsdale, Mich, in 1874. In the civil
war he served in the Engineer Corps, and
after the war supervised the construction
of National Cemeteries at Nashville and
Stone River, Tenn, and Camp Nelson and
Mill Spring, KY. From 1860 to 1879 he
served in the United States Internal
Revenue service in Kentucky and in De-
troit. Later he became a Director and
General Freight snd Passenger Agent of
the Texas & St. Louis Railroad. At the
time of his death he was Accounting
Agent for the Internal Revenue Depart.
nent. He was stationed at Omaha when