The National tribune., 1905-11-09

MS JOB:
Il find it both interesting and alb
sorbing,'' was the reply. 1t is SO
absorbing that 1t takes all my time, all
my energies-everything that is in me.
Indeed. it seems to me the only real
job 1 have ever undertaken. l did not
realize how big it was until l attempted
1t; but with time and work it will be
accomplished"
Mr.. Shonts says that there are about
10000 men at work on the canal,
mostly natives or negroes from ia
maica. with few Americans and those
of other nationalities. They are pay
Ing about so per cent more wages than
Is paid for the same class of labor in
the States He thinks that it pays a
man to go there to work. He says that
a young man can save money there.
and that one may live we'll on from
S35 to $40 a month. He reports that
the engineers are working testing the
different parts of the canal route, making
boringS and other experimental inYeSti-
cations but no real excavation is going
on. He thinks that 1t was a mistake
that We got all the old French junk, the
baby cars, tiny engines and all that.
He has ordered steam shovels which
take out more dirt at one bite than one
of the baby cars can carry, and he has
to wait till all this new and stronger
modern machinery arrives. and new
tracks are laid before excavation proper
can begin; and besides he does not want
to begin until he knows whether he is
to dig a sea level or lock canal. That
will probably be known very soon now.
Here is the truth, direct from the
Custom House, as to the size, number
and variety of the packing cases which
contain Miss Roosevelt's gifts received
while abroad. and which will be exam
lned and passed upon at the Custom
House in Georgetown.
The gifts received by Miss Alice
Roosevelt in her tour of the Orient
were taken from the hold of the Pacific
Mail liner Siberia at San Francisco and
transported to the ferry for shipment
1t took a cOmmOdiOuS express wagon
10 convey % cases bearing the name of
Miss Roosevelt They were of all sizes
IL feet in length and the smallest two
Ieet square. All the packages were
marked presents to Miss Roosevelt"
OF the contents of the many cases
nothing is known by the San Francisco
Custom officers as the gifts were Ship
ped to Washington in bond. Several of
the cases were marked glassware"
One of the cases contained a large
wicker chair from Manila.
China in the words of the old song,
lis just a little Slow The Dead Let
ter Office has just received from the
Dead Letter Office of the Chinese Gov
lrnment a letter which was mailed at
Rochester, y. Y, in 1856. in May. The
letter was addressed to the manager of
J steamship company in Hong Kong.
The authorities have been holding it for
L. years waiting for the man to whom
1t had been sent to appear and ask for
t. But as he has failed for nearly two
lecades to call for his mail, the Chi
lese authorities were afraid he might
De ailing or something, and SO they
rave sent the letter back to our Dead
Letter Office. The Postal authorities
will try to find the man.
The man who was to have been hung
Ind who had good grounds for re-
prieve would have stood poor show
the four days that the President was
pm the high seas. AT time when an
hour is precious, as in the case of
man who is to be hung, it would have
been a pretty lonesome proposition to
know that life would be snuffed out at
IL, unless the President could be found.
and he at least 80 hours away and all
connections cut.
1t is getting to be a crime to
be consumptive. The camp-meeting
grounds Of Washington Grove. a far
AWAY suburb of Washington, are barred
TO consumptives. Not one will be al
lowed on the camp-meeting grounds,
which is to say ''tuff."
Arrangement is being made by the
Pension Office to change the method of
paying pensions to persons living in
foreign countries. There are more than
5000 names Of persons on the pension
list who are now living abroad. 1t
has been the custom to mail the vouch-
ers to certain pension agencies to be
paid to foreign pensioners" 1t has
been decided to pay the foreign PEN
Bioners through the various American
consular offices.
George Washington Murray, colored,
once admitted to the counselS of the
Nation as a member of Congress from
South Carolina, will have to spend the
next three years cracking rock and
bodybuilding as a member of the chain
gang of Sumter County, Ga, though he
u the largest landowner in that Coun-
ty. The Supreme Court denied the ap-
peal Of his attorneys for a rehearing
His punishment is for forging the
names Of ignorant negroes to land
leases.
Miss Alice Roosevelt emphatically de-
MES that she is engaged to be married
TO anybody, and that ought to settle 1t
with all fair-minded people.
Mrs. Joy, wife OF ex-Congressman
Joy, OF Missouri, is at the head of a
crowd that will build university to
hunt for the SOUL 1t is to cost ST.
100000 building, not the soul
Ind will be termed the New Thought"
Il will be a psychic cult of some kind
hat will be taught in this expensive
Dearch for the soul. If the promoters
" this new thought idea will just work
Ip the old thought a little and expend
bome OF that million dollars in taking
Up the duties which lie right at their
hands in the Submerged half" of the
world they Will find soul and to spare
Dprouting right In their own hearts II
We would all give our own souls a lit
lie chance to grow we would go a long
way on the road to make this dizzy
pld world a heap better. We need not
build great piles Of stone and marble
10 shelter us while letting our souls
yprout. either What we need to do is
10 go about the Masters business and
forget ourselves. Then Is when the
Boul grows fastest.
President Roosevelt says mo next
term for me- Some one said to him,
But what IL you are nominated?" And
the President quickly and SfernIy re-