The National tribune., 1906-12-13

what use to get 'em? Here is story
apropos of the flower giving to M. C.'s.
1t happened-welL several sessions
agone:
A very popular member from New
York got a tremendous great basket of
American Beauty roses, which repre-
sented. basket, sash ribbon and roses.
an outlay OF something like 800. 1t
came from the Tammany braves. and
1t was a sumner all right. with roses
that were at that particular time SELL
ing at $12 a dozen. The basket was
placed on his desk. and hid three mems
desks. it was so big, and he got piles
wife sat In the gallery and saw all the
flowers, and she, being frugally in
clined, made up her mind that she
wouldn't buy any flowers for her re-
ception, which was to take place that
night. but would just display An
drew's" flowers. A little later she came
down to see the flowers. which had
back of the House.
There were carloads of the fragrant
beauties in that corridor, and 1t was
difficult to get around, but that basket
of beauties loomed above all else, and
she went over to admire 1t at closer
range. She spied down close to the
roots card with an address on it, and
pulling at the string which tied it to
a rose stem, brought to light an sd-
dress-but 1t wasn't hers! No. in
deedy! 1t was addressed to a Miss"
and to street and number much
grander In every respect than that
where the NJ. c. and his wife resided.
but the young lady was on her visiting
list. Mrs. M. C. didn't hesitate sec
ond. She quietly pulled that card off
the string, and taking her own from
her card case tied 1t in the place of TIL;
one removed. Then she picked out the
modest bunch of carnations which she
herself had sent her husband, took off
her card to him and placed in the cen-
ter of the bunch the one addressed to
the Miss" Then she looked over the
other floral offerings. but found that
they were all to be sent to her. AS she
stood near admiring some of the other
House intrusted with the distribution
of the flowers came bustling in.
"Say. Jim. where's that laundering
great big basket of roses that Repre-
sentative particularly ordered
sent to Miss p" asked one of an
other.
CdH lilIu Tie tHllB. Te-
piled the other. Here's one, but 1t IS
addressed to Representative IS WIFE,
Reckon he changed his mind and did
the decent thing"
"Must've, since there amt no other
here"
''say, Jim. by gosh, his old woman
must've caught on, cause here's her
carnations marked to send to Miss -.
and here's the roses with her own card
~, ioh eylo
have to be there when he sees them
roses setten' on his wife's tablet"
And the wife, who smiled, and the
newspaper woman who overheard the
conversation, and who had previously
seen the exchange of cards. moved in
opposite directions.
The United States Supreme Court has
reversed the judgment of the Federal
Court in Florida in awarding to the
heirs OF John Forbes some 1900, 900
acres OF land in that State, claimed
under the grant made by the Captain
General of Cuba, in 1918. before the
cession of Florida to the United States.
The lower court found in favor of
the claimants for the 1851 acres of
land within the grant still belonging to
the Government, and ordered scrip to
issue for 1,1S0,495 acres to be selected
from any public land in the United
States, the whole award being worth
about $25. 900, 900.
This judgment was reversed by the
Supreme Court, which held that. the
grant was void. and that 1t could not
be revived by the act passed in 1869.
authorizing the determination of such
claims.
In deciding the case Of Paul Heyman
VS.. the Southern Railway Company the
United States Supreme Court held a
railroad company becomes an insur-
ance company to its freight patrons.
Heyman Is wholesale liquor dealer
in Augusta. Ga. Some years ago he
sold and shipped two consignments Of
whisky to purchasers In Charleston, s.
c., where 1t was Immediately seized by
the State authorities and destroyed, in
pursuance OF the South Carolina dis
pensary law, while still in the ware
house in which 1t had been placed by
the railroad company.
Heyman was compelled to return the
purchase price to the consignees, and
then sought to recover from the rail-
road company on the ground that the
company had insured the safe deliv-
cry of the goods.
The Georgia Supreme Court held
that as the property had beer seized
under legal authority tho company
could not be held liable. The opinion
of the Federal Supreme Court was de-
livered by Justice White, and reversed
the finding Of the lower court.
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When folk stare as Mrs. Henry Cabot
Lodge drives along Washington streets,
1t Is not so much the Massachusetts,
woman that draws their attention as
the tiger sitting behind her Mrs. Lodge
used to be one Of the least pretentiousl
women in official society. but she turned
to elaborate show. Her cartl
Is high and Is painted Prussian blue,
with black trimmings Being an OK
pert whip, Mrs. Lodge drives. The
tiger Is the most English-Iooking chapI
seen since Lieut.. William 8. Clark, STEP
son Of Bishop Potter. imported one.
boot in the same shade of blue that
adorns the trap A more unemOtionatl
could not be found upon
a wooden Indian. Washington SMALL
boys. who insist on retaining their
democracy despite the air OF that place, |
delight in hurting gibes at him. Mrs. |
Lodge. when driving. usually wears O !
sapphire blue corduroy walking suit,
with a small black toque trimmed with
peacock feathers.
A brass inkstand made from French
left on the Isthmus, and a |
cane of black palm wood, with q carved
vegetable ivory head. were presented
to President Roosevelt last week by
Chairman Shonts on behalf of the em-
ployes of the Isthmian Canal Commits
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