The National tribune., 1904-09-08

does not make business of it. but in the
moments when others are talking, or when
her hands would otherwise be idle, Mrs
Foraker has the blocks of her silk quilt at
made was for the small grandson, and it
was of pale pink. blue. and white.
"His Majesty. the Lord Mayor of Wash
ington!' Now. isn't that perfectly killing
| title! That is the way that some little
President of the Board of Commissioners
of the District of Columbia. They live in
Xii, Japan, and are eager to make money
to help along the japanese Red Cross Hos
pital work. and to help the families of those
killed in the dreadful war. These little
boys found it very hard to raise money over
there, as they and their friends were
poor. and there was so little that children
could do to raise money. He, Tajima Hisa-
kichi, who did the writing, said that Japa-
nese boys were fond of collecting postage
stamps, and it had occurred to him and
some of his mates. who were owners of
large collections of stamps, that American
boys and girls might like to give good prices
for japanese stamps, particularly for the
rare issues.
Acting on this belief. Tajima, for him
self and the other boys, sent a whole batch
of stamps to ''His Majesty. the Lord Mayor
of Washington" hoping that he, in the in
terest of suffering Oriental humanity, would
take an interest in the matter and sell the
stamps. Mr.. Mcfarland has accepted the
commission, and intends to sell the stamps
to the highest bidder, SO anybody who feels
interested in Tajima can write Ills Ma
jesty" here in Washington and find out all
about the collection, which is said to be a
very pretty one.
Gen. II. III. Pratt, who was the "original"
Indian educator, and who made Carlisle
the greatest educational institution in the
country for the Red Man, and who was its
Superintendent from it's foundation up to a
few months ago, resigned because he didn't
think the Government was doing the right
thing by the Indian boys whom it had ed
ucated. He is now free to talk as he
chooses. and the way he is blstering the
Indian Department, the Government, and
various others is a caution. 1t certainly is
Gen. Pratt takes a scalp every time he
reaches for it.
This is the season for tourists to come to
Washington if they want to see the White
House. Every part of it, except the sleep
ing-rooms upstairs, is open to the public
The walls are swathed in linen to protect
the velvet, and the furniture is covered
away from sight, but the big, beautiful
rooms in which SO much of historic interest
has occurred are there, and that is about all
the people want to see, anyhow. The fur
niture is all so blisteringly new that no
interest centers about it, anyhow. The
White House never looked prettier than it
does now, standing in among the great
elms and oaks, but it seems an awful pity
that the structure is not of white marble
1t ought to be, and it could be, even now,
sheathed in marble: When you get close
to it you can smell the paint which has
been put on the pine and stuccO to initiate
marble. And it cost the Government $780,
oOo for this very poor imitation.
The colored friend and brother is getting
into politics with both feet. The 'Repub-
lican Interstate League" with headquar-
the work of the campaign. 1t has publish
ed brochure entitled Supplementary Re
publican Text Book, 1904: The Negro and
the Republican Party" The introduction,
which is over the signature of Judson w.
Lyons, a prominent cOlored politician, says
that the book is designed to encourage the
colored Republican voters. The publica-
canism vs.: Democracy" leading, and con-
cludes with statistics showing the progress
of the colored race.
DIR. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chem
istry, who is the original Pure Food"
man, is also holy terror. Why, he won't
leave us thing to eat but hog and hon.
with one dash of his pen all our interest
in pate-de-foie-gras. We wanted it with
pie for breakfast. pancakes for lunch, and
ice cream for dinner, and now we do not
want it at all, because it is not what it
seemed, but base imitation. We thought,
don't you know, that we were all the time
| eating spoiled goose Hvers and nice succu-
lent things of like character every time we
paid " pound for our pate de-foie-gra
But, shades of Sidney Smith, the salad
maker! Pate-de-fOie-and-so-forth is really
made out of very tender veal or beef, pre-
| sumably spoiled to "ripeness," and it costs
the makers only ID cents a pound, though
we go right on paying our little old 81.
Then, DR.. Wiley has also blasted our
taste for Scotch Mghballs." He declares
| that there is not a barrel of straight Scotch
whisky in the United States, and that, in
stead of that fine old smoky beverage, we
have been taking with our pate-and-so-
forth, drink which is doped with creo-
our tallow-butter, peach-leaf-tea, roasted
| navy-bean-coffee, sawdust-mustard, Full
Observation-Disclosures, wooden numegs,
pumpkin-cherry-jam, tomato-strawberry-
preserves, and geiatine-jellies, with a few
| hundred other imitation foods, the only
Unlns Inat really remains true is, as we
have said, "hog and hominy." Nobody has
ever tried to initiate either.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Gridley and her grand
daughter, Miss Helen Gridley, were very
| handsomely entertained while in Boston at
tending the National Encampment of the
| Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Grid
| ley is the mother of the late Capt. Gridley,
Commander of the Olympia at the battle of
Manila Bay, and grandmother of Lieut..
Gridley, who lost his life on the Missouri
in the explosion last Winter Mrs. Gridley
was one of the best beloved of the Volun-
teer Army nurses during the war of the
| rebellion, and is always sure of warm
welcome when she goes among the veterans.
The young Filipinos attached to the Fill
pino exhibit in st. Louis have been taken
in charge by the Bureau of Insr,lar Affairs
at the War Department, and will be placed
in some institution Of learning in the
| United States at the opening Of the An
tumn schools: They will spend the Sum
mer at the Exposition, and when thew are
placed in school will take a four years'
course. They have been brought to This
country under the plan of the educational
authorities of the Philippines, to educate ms
as well as the Filipinos. 1t is said that
the inhabitants of the Philippines appre-
Gated as they have no other undnrSa Lino ~