The National tribune., 1906-05-31

When Countess CasSint, adopted
daughter Of the Russian ambassador.
left this country for Russia, she gave
q fine Russian hound into the keeping
of a friend until she should send for the
dog. The hound was a present from
the Gear, and is valued at $1,000. He
is non est, and valueless so far as the
friend is concerned, or the Countess.
The dog disappeared the other day, and
81 900 more or less of dog flesh may be
trapsing round at the tail end of some
colored gemman's cart about now.
Mrs. Diana Kearny, widow of Gen.
Philip Kearny. died at her home at
Cape May last Monday at the age OF
lS7. Mrs. Kearny had been i'll for a
year. She had long been noted figure
| in the social life of Washington, and
was known to large circle both in this
country and Europe. For 40 years she
had spent her Summers in the house at
Cape May in which she died, and men,
bers of her family had homes near her.
Until last year she had spent her Win
, ters in her Washington home or In
Europe.
Mrs. Kearny, who was a Miss Bullitt,
of Louisville, KY, met Gen. Kearny
while on a visit to relatives at Fort
Jefferson. She was grandniece OF
Lewis Clark, of Kentucky, and was edu-
Gated. with many other daughters of
distinguished Southern families of that
period, at Nine. Segayne's school in
Philadelphia.
Her surviving children are John
Watts Kearny, now a resident of Wash
ington: the Countess de Karmel. and
Miss Elizabeth Kearny. Mrs. Kearny
will be buried in Kentucky.
Senator Beveridge has introduced n
bill to protect the public from tainted
and diseased meats. He has given the
subject much attention, and Is con-
vinced that there is a great opportunity
for beneficial legislation along this line.
After consultation with Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson, Attorney General
Moody and Commissioner Garfield, Of
the Bureau of Corporations, he has pre-
pared a bill of 20 sections which pro-
vides for rigid inspection of livestock
before slaughter and of meat after the
animals are killed, and which also regu-
lates canned goods.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of J. Martin Miller. of New Jer-
sey, to be Consul at Rheims, France.
The nomination has been pending since
Congress met in December. Mr.. Miller
was first named about a year ago as
Consul at AK la Chappelle, but the
German Government refused to grant
his exequatur, because of criticisms of
it by Mr.. Miller in his writings. He
was next named as Consul to Auckland,
New Zealand. but before he could reach
his post he was transferred to Rheims.
when ought a politician to retire p"
said Senator Thomas c. Platt in New
York the other day in response to a
question by an American reporter. HE
ought to retire when he feels good ana
ready.
81 presume you put that question
to me as hint that I ought to retire
from the Senate. Well. 1 would like
to. My senatorial term, however. as
you know. won't expire for some con-
siderable time, but when 1t does I'll
be glad to step down and out"
Aside from the political life, how
ever, Mr.. Platt believes THAI in large
cities. where competition Is keenest
the business or professional man who
mas reached the age of so and has ac-
cumulated a bank account yielding him
an income of $4,000 or 1900 a year.
or even less, ought to retire so as to
make room for others.
I'm the large cities of the country,
said the Senator. there are thousands
more workers than are needed. and for
that reason the young fellows should
not be hampered by the old ones"
AT last IDfl ATJHuF, lexdS, Is TO De Il
port of entry, for Congress will so de-
eide. undoubtedly. All things come to
him who waits-and works. Years and
years ago. not in the city of Seville, but
in little country town in Kansas. the
plan was made to construct to some
point on the Gulf of Mexico new rail-
road, and to have that railroad end in
town that should be a port of entry.
The railroad went through to Port Ar
mort
then built canal and connected PeTt
Arthur with the sea that way. and then
began to tackle Congress to make it a
port of entry. Sabine Pass also wanted
the title. That scrap has been going oh
for 10 years, nearly. Now Port Arthur
has won out. Gen. Mackenzie. Chief o:
Engineers: Col. Bromwell. of the Enisi-
neer Corps. and Chairman Burton. of
the Rivers and Harbors Committee. told
the Ways and Means Committee last
week that Port Arthur was more favor
ably situated. all things considered. than
Sabine Pass to be made a port of entry.
and SO Port Arthur is it.
Patent attorneys here and through
out the country are aroused over the
decision of Commissioner of Patents AL
len In again suspending the business OF
his Office during July and August. and
in view of the numerous complaints
which have been entered against the
official 1t is said that Secretary Hitch
cock has been appealed to to take ac-
ton.
Since becoming Commissioner of
Patents, Mr.. Allen has taken two
months leave of absence each Summer.
and before his departure issued an or
der directing that no cases should be
docketed or heard by the Assistant
Commissioner.
not been inside of the White House or
Senate when the Senator from Rhode
Island flung the Presidents pet measure
into the hands of the Presidents pet
aversion. Senator Tillman. until last
Thursday. whea he called at the EXecu-
tive Mansion and conyersed with the
President for an hour. Now, what's in
the wind, everybody is saying.
The Chinese Minister. Sir Chentung
Liang Cheng, in an interview in San
Francisco, declares that his people have
not been Disseminated against, and that
they have been just as well taken care
of as anybody else during the woeful
times in that stricken city. Well, what
did he expect? We are a humane peo-
pie, and we treat with the tenderest
care even our worst enemies if they are
sick and suffering. There was no
necessity even for the letter of the Presi-
dent asking the committee in San Fran
cisco to be kind to the Chinese. II is
not possible that a single citizen of that
whole great city would have thought OF
being anything but kind to the meanest