The National tribune., 1905-10-05

show that the accused ofncer was with
out pay for q period OF two years, In
which time he was obliged to pay his
own way through life and obey the
orders Of superior authority at his own
expense, even when there was necessity
for travel. Many other officers have
found themselves similarly situated
and the President is said to favor some
arrangement by which there can be
partial instead of total stoppage of pay,
and it seems likely that this idea will be
carried out, although it will require
legislation to accomplish it.
1t is said that brother of Secretary
Of War Taft is after Senator Foraker's
seat in the United States Senate. A
long way after. probably, if Ohioans are
wise. Secretary Taft's brother may be
all right, all right, but he's got to grade
A No. 1, and then some, to get into the
Foraker class. so he has.
Senator Hepburn Udaho) was taken
with an attack of appendicitis on his
way to Washington from New York the
other day, and Is quite ill at his home
here at Stoneleigh Court. No opera
ton has been performed, and the at
tending physicians are hoping to avoid
an operation.
Senator Tillman is reported to be in
dire straits for fence material, and liza
BILE to get walked all over in his at
tempt to be returned to the United
States Senate. Tillman was once the
god Of the people of South Carolina.
He sprang from the people, not from
the middle class, but from the lower
class. At the same time that he be-
came Governor, and practically Dicta-
tor of the State, the people voted for
prohibition in South Carolina, and 1t
carried by a big majority. Governor
q niSf To
believed that 1t would never be possible
to prohibit people from drinking, and
that the liquor traffic could only be con-
trOlled by license or something of that
character. He thought that as long as
liquor was to be sold the State should
reap the profit, and managed to get
through the Legislature as substitute
that Winter bill for a estate Dispen-
sary." This law made the State of
South Carolina a salOon-keeper, and
such 1T has been ever since. The people
90 not like this law, and it has been in
disrepute ever since established Now
the people are turning from the man
who foisted the obnoxious law upon
them and who choked off prohibition,
which the people had voted for and
carried at the polls. They think that
man little less self-centered, and one
who will bow little more gracefully
to the will Of the people will be more
valuable to the State in the United
States Senate than Tillman. The United
States Senate will not weep if he is
turned down.
Hon. Willis Sweet, of Idaho, has spent
several years in Porto Rico, and after a
year at his home in Idaho. is going back
to Porto Rico. He thinks our new pos
sessions of great value.
Porto Rico has a great future, prob
ably greater future than Cuba" said
Mr.. Sweet Sugar planting is COM
ing to be the principal industry of the
island, and great many Americans are
going there to engage in the profitable
business. Pineapple raising is develop
ing also. Cuban pineapples are subject
to duty in the United States, but the
Porto Rican fruit is not, and the infant
industry of the latter will, therefore,
strive successfully in the competition
with that of Cuba. A very successful
experiment in orange growing is being
conducted by Americans who were dis
couraged by the frost conditions in
Florida. Everywhere throughout the
island the people are contented. They
are fine people, too, and delightful to
live among. The only trouble is that
if a man remains in that sort of climate
he soon loses his energy. The only
remedy is to return to the northern
part of the United States and get a
couple of months invigoration; then
one can stand the tropical climate for
a long time. Where there were but
the American occupation there are now
fully $4,000
Here's one way to find people who go
in debt and then slope without paying
the same: In order to obtain the adj
dresses Of delinquent debtors of a pub
fishing house. the Globe Parcel and De-
Cnnn9nV Of al iC
alleged to have resorted to such meth
DDS that after an investigation by the
Post Office Department a fraud order
was issued against the concern. Ac
cOrding to the Postal Inspectors report
this company used the guise of a parcel
company in order to obtain the ad-
dresses of men and women who owed
money to the publishing house for
which they collected, and who tried to
conceal their whereabouts. The scheme,
it is alleged, consisted in mailing pos
tai card to the former addresses Of the
debtors, notifying them that packages
were at the companys office addressed
to them, and that they would be deliv-
cred, charges prepaid" if the debtors
would furnish their correct addresses.
1t was found upon investigation that
the Parcel Company" had no existence,
and that the statement in regard to the
package was a deception.
flee held that the scheme was fraudu-
lent, and recommended the issuing of
the fraud order.
Mrs. Frederic Schoff, President of the
National Congress of Mothers, is about
as big as pint Of soap-a little wider
out, perhaus, but not much-and she
smiles like an angel and talks like a
saint. She's all right, but as the little
boy says, "gee whiz" but she is a terror
to the evildoer. Grim death isn't in it |
with her. She's been after the Nor
mons for two years now. Never has let
up for an instant Sherlock Holmes
would have to look to his laurels as a |
sleuth, and as for paying vengeance. |
she simply makes herself the Lieuten- |
ant of the Lord in melting 1t out to the |
against women and children. |
She has been out in Utah camping on |
the trail OF the Mormons this Summer. |
and she declares that she has the evil |
dence to lay before Congress to prove
that the Mormons have banded togeth- |
er to make way with ex-senator Frank |
]. Cannon, and she also says that she |
has at last secured the whole of the |
Endowment House ceremonies which |
last for eight hours and which she |
as "beastly." She will show |
them up in the East when practicable. |
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