The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-12-21

habby muscles and early decay. Care
Kills many grown people. Think Of the
deadly effect upon the little child that
has neither comprehension. Judgment
nor experience to guide II and only
knows that upon it's SHOULDERS are laid
weights that it's elders shrink from
bearing. 1t was never meant that chill
dren should work outside of the home,
and it is only the tendency OF this
cruel. grasping age that has showed
them out. AS one the whole Nation
should rise up against this thing
which means weakling men and women
to come and degeneration Of the race.
Former Fourth Assistant Postmas-
ter-General Joseph T.. Bristow was n
caller at the Post Office Department
last week. 1t is stated that Bristew in
tends to try for the seat OF Senator
Burton. This seat is not desirable, and
Senator ingalls, so fully believed this
to that particular seat he refused to
run One of the first men to fill it was
j.. @. Ross. A good enough man, but
'sot." He did not believe Andy john
son should be impeached Kansas did,
and ordered him to vote for impeach-
ment. He funked. Kansas turned him
down, and he has never had a prosper
Gus day since. being today poor
Journeyman printer in Western Ter
ritory. Before him. Jim Lane killed
himself, and after him Pomeroy filled
tainted seat which he was forced to
leave. Alexander Caldwell bought the
same seat and resigned to keep from
being fired out. Perkins filled it for
brief space, but failed of reelection,
and died shortly afterward. And so it
has been from the first. Bristow does
not believe in hoodoos, and maybe he
can break the banshee's dread circle.
That seat has been from the very first
connected with crookedness, and that
lingering atom of superstition which
clings to the most enlightened and
crops out most Unexpectedly, attaches
to this Kansas Senatorship a kind Of
evil eye. Just the same it looks as
though there would be a whole bunch
of mavericks ready to take the brand
Of that particular seat when Senator
Burton vacates it.
1t is estimated that although Wash
ington is the cleanest city in the world,
that there are at least 10000, 900 rats
born in the National Capital each year.
The White House has a pest Of them
every little while and has to have a
regular Ferrit of time getting rid Of
them, while in the great white build
carnival the whole year round. There
is constant war on them, no less than
a dozen men keeping kennels of ferrits
to hunt them and making high wages
at the business, but the horrid rodents
multiply and increase in spite Of this
Secretary Root sent to Congress the
other day an invitation from the Ital-
ian Government to the United States to
take part in the Milan Exposition in
1906, in celebration Of the completion
Of the Simplon Tunnel. In case the
recommends an appropriation of $40,-
900 for expenses
In his annual report, for the fiscal
year ended June go, the Commissioner
OF the General Land Office recon-
Of Public Moneys in the local land
offices be abolished, as it is deemed I'M
necessary to have two officers Of CO.
ordinate Jurisdiction.
It Is shown that these Receivers were
paid $285.S35 last year, and that the
proposed action would result In an es-
timated saving of $250,000 per annum,
and an improvement in the manner of
handling public business.
During the period stated, 17056,622
acres OF the public land were disposed
Of. The receipts from all sources ag-
gregated $7,017.S11.
The aggregate expenditures and es-
timated liabilities of the public land
service were $1,988,389,; leaving a net
surplus in the United States Treasury
of $5.029,422. There were issued 104
patents to railroads, with an area Of
1.435,326 acres.
ton, who was attorney for the late
Senator Mitchell, Chief Justice Fuller
on behalf Of the Supreme Court of the
United States, directed the issuance Of
an order dismissing the appeal OF the
late Senator In the case against him
tot h InA
Court for trial. The action was brief
enough. Senator Thurston appeared
before the Supreme Court, every JUS
tice sitting, and announced the death
OF the Oregon Senator and moved the
dismissal Of the case. In directing the
marked that this was the usual Gus
tom. And thus ends the long day of
a man whose end should have come in
the golden glow Of q splendid evening.
but whose sun went down behind om-
nous clouds. and whose friends had
fled. It was his own hand that worked
his undoing, and at no mans door
more than his own lies the cause. In
the United States Senate his death was
not announced, and no one asked the
Senate to adjourn, nor did any one ask
that a committee be appointed to es-
cort the dead Senator to his last, long
rest. The Flag on the dome and the
the Senate Chamber was half-staffed,
but on the House 1T few at the peak, as
though nothing had happened, for the
House does not know officially that a |
man long familiar among habitues will
come no more. 1t is a pitiable ending.
1t should be lesson for many to learn,
but 1T will not be learned. The late
Senator Mitchell probably does not
stand unique in wrong-doing, his chief
crime consisted in being found out"
We are promised a visit from a hero
next year, this time from the Orient!
Admiral Togo has signified to our Min
lister to Japan that some time next
year he expects to make q visit to our
ports with his fleet. Well, we will give
him a hero's welcome.
Commander Wilson, in charge Of the |
recruiting service of the Navy, has de-
cided that while 1t is rule now that
only Americans may be enlisted in the |
Navy, 1t is just as well for recruiting |
officers to close their eyes to the fact |
that according to the decisions Of the |
courts a Porto Rican Is neither a citi- |
zen nor an alien, and enlist all desir- |
able aliens who may apply.
The question arose when John 8. |
David, a native of Porto Rico, applied |
to the recruiting officer at Baltimore. |
The recruiting officer knew more about |