The National tribune., 1906-11-08

Ex-Embassador and Mrs. Bellamy
Storer returned TO the United States
last week Mr.. Storer refused to talk
about his enforced retirement.
There is considerable social interest
in the coming of the new counselor OF
the British Embassy, Mr.. Esme How
ard, who succeeds to the place of MIR.
Walter Townley. recently promoted to
be Minister to the Argentine.
Mr.. Howard and his wife, the latter,
like Lady Susan Townley, an Earrs
daughter. and consequently in her own
right Lady Isabella Howard, are among
the best-known and popular of the
younger diplomatic circle on the conti-
nent, and will no doubt take a promi-
nent place in Washington. Mr.. How
ard is the fourth son of Henry Howard.
of Graystone Castle. Cumberland, and
consequently a member of the famous
Howard family of which the Duke oI
Norfolk is the head.
AItho coming directly from the Con-
sular Service at Crete, he has served as
Secretary of Embassy at several Euro
pean posts, as well as Secretary to the
late Lord Carnarvon when the latter
was VicerOy of Ireland, and to lord
Kimberley when the latter was Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs. He
has also the distinction of having Serv-
ed thru the Boer war as member Of
the Imperial Yoeman-y, and is pos
sessed of a comfortable private for
tune.
Mr.. Howard and his wife are both
Roman Catholics, Lady Isabella, who
in addition to her British title is an
Italian Princess, her father 5eing a
Prince of Italy, as we'll as a Peer OF
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English. having been brought up al
most entirely in Rome, where her faith
er occupies the Altieri Palace for the
greater part of each season.
"See-saw, here We go, upy, downey,
all aroundy, see-saw, see-saw." That
is the way the Japs are feeling. They
took for granted that when Americans
sided with them in the scrap with
Russia the United States was ready
to take all the little brown brothers in
her arms and sing lullabies to them
forever more. Nary, All we wanted.
at least all that those wanted who were
shouting for Japan, was to see the
surly Russians licked. Japan didn't en-
ter into the equation a little bit, only
so far as she was doing the licking act.
All that we wanted of Japan was To do
good job; then it was expected that
she would go back and be n hermit
SOHic Will ITO uiSpOSlllOl u
about the world and get acquainted
with some of her big brothers. But
Japan got some new ideas while she
was pounding the stuffing out of Rus
sia. She concluded that she would have
an '.open door," and expand ami be-
come world power. This does not
suit US. No, indeedy Some of our
people class the little brown brothers
along with the colored peoples nj the
world, and right now there is lust the
prettiest little race riot you ever saw
out i'm San Francisco over whether the
Japanese shall attend a white school or
not
The President of thu United States
has had to interfere, and he sent a spe-
ciaI agent, Secretary Metcalf, on TO
look over the situation and discover
whether there is any promise in it for
Japan Across the blue water the FIN
peror has taken the matter up with
some seriousness, and things have al
bristle up and look naughty when it is
suggested that Japan may be as select
about who her children shall associate
with as We are, and that China or ia |
pan. for that matter, and several other
Oriental countries could be included.
like to have their children associa.ing
with the pigs of Americans" We are
not the only oysters in the soup, and
there are others who can have rase
riots as well as We, and Wa are threat
ened that we can have them over there
If We just look cross-eyed. OH, my!
Experiments conducted by Or. H. W.
Wiley. Chief of the Bureau of ciicmis-
try of the Department of Agriculture,
On / 2 young men, familiarly termed the
poison squad" have been made the
subject of circular. The young in"n
voluntarily assumed obligations I'M
posed by the Bureau as to their man.
ner of living, and undertook to eat only
the food which was given them at the
hygienic table. The circular deals par
ticularIy with the effect upon the hu-
man system of salicylic acid and salicy-
iates used as food preseryativas.
DIR. Wiley finds from the data OBJ
tanned that salicylic acid and ;alicyiates
apparently exert an exciting influence
upon the activities which take place in
the aIimentary canal. stimulating the
organs TO greater effort, and that this /,
stimulation leads at first to Increased
digestion and absorption Of the foods
which are introduced into the stomach,
but, on the contrary, he notes that the
general effect upon the system is de-
pressing, in that the tissues are broken
down more rapidly than they are built
up. and thus the normal metabol:c
processes are interfered with in al
harmful way. The use Of salicylic acid,
ne further finds. causes general de-
crease in weight.
The final conclusion reached by DIR.
Wiley is that the unenviable position
which saltcylic acid has heretofore held
among pFeservatiyes. in being regarded
as the most Injurious of all, is perhaps
to certain extent undeserved. Lik
other ordinary preseryatives, it Is not
one which can be classed as a poison
in the usual sense of the word. When
used as medicine in many cases of
arrangement of health it is like the
other chemical preservatives, often
highly beneficial when properly pre-
scribed by a competent physician.
There appears to be no necessity for
its use food can be preserved in un-
objectionable ways without it's aid"
Truly, there's no art to find the
minds construction in the face" A
mother and daughter have just been
let loose from st. Elizabeth's who have
been confined there for two years. and
IL is now said that they have never
been crazy, and have thus been forced
TO spend two years in madhousc. 1t
is an awful thing to contemplate, and
there should be some punishment met
ed ou: to those who carelessly condemn
people to such association until they
are convinced beyond a reasonable
doubt that the reason is really upseat-
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