The National tribune., 1906-11-08

best of him by SO. and were both OF
us coming back"
! A man who spells his name "'Dever-
eauS" favors the Presidents reform
| spelling, but he does not begin on his
own name by spelling it Devero. any
| more than the President spells it Rosa
| felt.
And so it comes about that Virginia's
State flag, with it's "Sc Semper Tyran-
MIS- is no more a legal flag than the
stars and bars once affected by that
Commonwealth Neither has ever been
legalized by the Legislature. 1t was an
awful blow to the VirginianS when they
found that all these hundreds of years
they have been worshiping a flag that
has never been legalized. But don't
think for minute that Virginia will
give up that flag. No, indeedy. The
Petersburg Index-Appeal says:
But whether the authority appears
on the statute books or not, it is au-
thorized by the higher law OF the pub
lie sentiment, and woe be the icono-
elastic legislator that should dare to
offer substitute for it.''
''Since landing in the United States l
have been agreeably surprised in noting
an entire absence of drunkenness
among your people," said Mr.. James
McRitchie, of Glasgow, Scotland.
II have been intensely interested in
the temperance question at home. be-
cause 1t is of vital Importance with u.s.
Drunkenness is prevalent in our COM
munity, and the evil Is rampant among
both sexes. Women with nursing chill
dren in their arms go into the public
houses without the least shame,
thing which / hear is almost unknown
in America. AS long as your women
ance I do not think the Nation is in
any danger"
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Beveridge think
ing think exactly together,
Senator Beveridge has been quoted
as saying in Washington not long ago
that what we need in this country is
moral regeneration in both public and
private life. and says the Investigations
that have taken place in the last two
years show moral degradation in both
business and political life. All over the
country there has been an attempt to
purify politics.
And Mr.. Bryan says, "Them's my
sentiments, too"
The statue to the memory of Gen.
Geo. B. Mcclellan is to be unvailed
here next May.
The National Red Cross has remit
ted. thru Minister Hicks at Santiago.
the further sum of $1,000 for the relief
of the Valparaiso earthquake sufferers;
making total to date of $1,000.
President Roosevelt has cabled to
Mccormick designating
Secretary Vignaud, of the American
Embassy, to represent the United States
at the Congress for the suppression of
the white slave trade" The primary
object Of the Congress was to secure
the effective cooperation of the vari-
Gus National Committees especially for
the protection of emigrant women at
the ports. and also uniformity in legis-
lation providing for the punishment of
in white slaves
Senator Warren, of Wyoming, is
much gratified at the elevation of his
Gen. Pershing, but just
mark this, a Brigadier-Generalcy isn't
in it along with the first grandchild,
who calls Gen. Pershing dad" or att
least it will in the course of two years
or so. and Senator Warren is the grand
pa.
Perry Belmont is urging the Chair
men of both National Campaign Com
mittees to make public as soon as pos
sible the amount of money received
and the amount expended during the
campaign just closed.
Mr.. Frank n. waskey. Delegate in
Congress from Alaska. and his wife
have arrived in Washington, and have
taken house on Florida avenue north
west for the season. This is Mrs Was
keys first visit to Washington, and she
finds it a most attractive place, but
speaks of the Summers in Nome as
being very beautiful. Mrs. Waskey
was born in Wisconsin, is a bright and
woman and is bound to make
many friends.
Mr.. Waskey hopes to do much for his
Territory. He was elected as Demo-
crat but he says that he will be bound
by party ties only to the interests Of his
people. 81 am here to do what I can
for Alaska" he said, land do not con-
slider that ] really belong to any party
in the political sense of the word. There
Is much in the way of legislation that
Alaska needs to set her on the path to
great prosperity and a brilliant future"
man in this town is petitioning the
to have the numbers on
the houses placed on the lower part of
the doorstep instead of above the doors.
-
having them so high up that one has
to get stepladder to see them in the
daytime and searchlight to find them
at night. Street signs and house num-
bers are delusion and snare.
"More than 100 inventions i'm thel
shape of arms to remove mailbags from
fast moving trains" says Second Assist
ant POstmaster-General Shallenberger
have been presented to the Post Office
Department within the past five years.
Some of them seem worthy of investi-
CATION, and IL Is for this reason that a
special commission to examine and test
the apparatus has been appointed. The
which Is composed of
Post Office officials, will inspect inyen-
tions all over the country. and will re-
port and make recommendations tol
me-"
The problem of removing the mails
from fast mail trains always has been
a problem to the Post-Offic Depart
ment. For want of better scheme, II
is now the custom of the railway postal
clerks to toss the bag out of the car
door. Sometimes 1t lands near the sta
ton. and at others it is 100 yards or
more away. Often the bags are lost
1t is thought possible that some of
the contrivances now offered to the
Government viii prove efficient in
handling the bags. If some lucky in
ventor should hit IL right, a fortuneI
awaits him at the hands of the Govern
ment.
Elk steaks are not such awful good
eating, don't you know. but at the