The National tribune., 1904-03-24
u. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

if Uncle Joseph should really "get there
some sweet day by-and-byT Then how
about all these promises?
"Aunt Anna Waters" Of Maryland.
has just received pension. She is the
widow of a soldier of the War Of 1912,
aged 90, and is thought to be the oldest
person ever pensioned by Congress. She
was getting $12 month and her pension
was increased to $2!.
Representative Sibley Pa.) is an auto
mobile enthusiast. He has one of the
biggest and finest RED Devils" in the Ma
tional Capital, and he dearly loves to
take his friends out footing" in the giant
machine. Somebody asked him the other
day how great record he had ever made
on the road. WELL" he replied, up in
Pennsylvania last Summer rode so fast
along a narrow road with a field of corn
on one side and on the other field of
beans, that my auto was literally covered
with succotash at the end of the trip"
Mrs Miles, wife Of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, is again dangerously ill. Her trou-
BILE is an affection of the heart.
The Mormons are catching it all around
The Sultan of Sulu hasn't been living up
to his promises any more than some other
people of whom President Smith is the
spiritual head, and so Mr.. Sultan of Sulu
is to be brought to time. The War De-
partment has issued an order breaking the
compact with the dusky gentleman of the
numerous wives, and so he and his wives
and his other subjects will from now on
annuities are cut off. They are now de-
clared to be subject to the laws enacted
therein under the sovereignty of the United
States. Gen. Wood has been set OH their
track. This is exactly as it should be;
there is no sense of making fish Of one
and flesh of another tribe in the Philip
pine Archipelago.
The District Commissioners are going
to try again to have the date for Inaugu-
ration changed. The 4th of March this
year was a cold, blustery day, unfit for
anybody to be out unless the severest
stress of business took them. 1t has been
so for number of years, not single de-
cent day on that date. The day ought to
brought to bear to have this done. There
is no sense in saying that it will demand
Constitutional amendment, because the
date for Inauguration is not mentioned in
the Constitution. Washington was inau-
gurated April 30, the first time. He
started from Mt. Vernon, fully expecting
to be inaugurated earlier. but the method
vi iOCOuiOllOu anu Lile IcdElul TOduS ultl-
dered him. Nobody questioned his right
to sit, however, because of the delay.
Two Presidents. James Monroe, 1925,
and Rutherford Il. Hayes, 1881. were in
ausurated March 5. and if the Inaugural
ton can go over one day it can go over go
days while the country is adjusting itself
to the new condition of things. 1t is cruel
to subject thousands Of people who enjoy
the pomp and pageantry Of an Inaugural
parade to the stormy weather of March
4 as We experience it in this locality. The
date should be changed.
The Library of Congress is "put to- in
its efforts TO supply its readers with books
about Japan. Russia simply isn't in it
along with the little brown brothers" of
the Sunrise Kingdom" so far as the
Washington readers are concerned.
DIR. Wiley gives Potomac River water
great send off 1t is so muddy that you
have to strain it through your teeth before
You can quench thirst with it and it simply
will not boil. The mud settles to the bot
tom and makes perfect cake. Prof.
Wiley says that this water is perfectly
healthy, because it is so muddy that
ever hear such theory as that advanced
before?
The Internal Revenue Bureau OF the
Treasury Department has handled G,00O-
600 900 stamps in the last three years,
representing nearly S1.OOO.OOOOOO in
money, and the committee which has been
examining the vaults reports that not a
single error has been made in this vast
output and that everything is correct to a
dot. Over $4,000, 900. 600 worth Of stamps
have been made in that time, and all are
accounted for to ha'penny.
DIR. Mary Walker is a most repugnant
sight in her mannish garb, but it must be
confessed that the little old woman-m
has all her wits about her She was on the
street one day last week when a man who
was putting i'm a large plate glass fell and
cut the artery in his wrist. The blood
began pumping out at lively rate, and he
would have been a goner in few minutes
more. DR.. Mary yanked out her pocket
handkerchief-and glory be. she had
pocket and she knew just where to find it
in those nondescript garments she wears.
She tied the handkerchief round the poor
fellows arm and with leadpencil. also
distracted from one Of those pockets. made
a tourniquet and saved the glaciers life
DIR. Mary is the only woman who pos.
sesses the Congressional Medal Of Honor.
1t was given her for exactly such good
common sense exercised on the field of
battle.
Gen. Leverett NJ. Kelley. Second Dep
uty Commissioner of Pensions. has been
elected President of the Illinois Republi-
can Associa ton, high honor handsomely
bestowed.
Representative Stevenson (AIinn) feels
that the dignity of the House of Represen-
tatives has been sadly impaired by the
Post Office report which was made TO
Congress. He declares that member of
the House can't go to the Post Office
Department any more because of the ridi-
Guile heaped upon him by the clerks there.
when a clerk sees a member Of Con-
gress in the corridors or in the Offices. he
simply laughs" declares Mr.. Stevenson.
Architect Won Herbulis, of Washington,
has been selected to rebuild the great
Catholic University of Ottawa, Canada.
which was burned a short time ago. IT
is to be one Of the most imposing struc-
lures to be found OIL the American Con
tnent.
Representative Hearst is making his
colleagues think-his Democratic col
leagues, that is. His Presidential boom
is bilowing out. Now wouldn't it be in
teresting if the millionaire newspaper man
should rout the whole Democratic party !?