The National tribune., 1906-05-03

was on the high seas word was wired
to Paris that Embasssdor Porter was
First Special Embassador' 30 perforr-,
the duties assigned TO III. eI1eciaI. etc.
LOOMS. WH,., wnen Gen. Porter en-
rered the auditorium at Annapolis the
people there assembled nearly raised
the roof with their prolonged cheering
1t must have been incense to the soul
of a man like Gen. Porter. for it said.
well done, generous sone," and that
is the highest praise man of his fine
ness Graves. And his speech. All. if
you could but have heard it. Gen. Por-
ter is an orator, but there was no effort
at oratorical graces He was simply
full of his subject. and he spoke as one
inspired. Full-chested, -throated
as he is. his voice is like the notes of a
deep-toned bell No great man ever
had a finer eulogist. And when at the
end he leaned far over the desk and.
looking down at the casket, said.
"Good-by. thou great Achilles of the
ocean," tears were in his voice and
eyes, and i'll those of the President and
the Cabinet officials, and in everybody's
eyes.
After his return to Washington.
President Roosevelt sent the following
message to the President of France:
white House, Washington, April "a.
ITO the President of France:
"On the occasion of the formal re-
ception a. Annapolis of the body of
John Paul Jones, l wish to thank YOU
and, through you. the great French Ma
tion for its distinguished courtesy i'm
connection with this event, courtesy
of a kind which serves to keen even
more vividly before us the Invaluable
aid rendered by France to this country
at what was well-nigh The most critical
period of its history. France holds q
peculiar place in the heart of the
American people, and on behalf of that
people ! wish all success, prosperity
and happiness to the mighty Republic
over which you preside"
Isn't this a grand eulogy of the
American people, coming as it does
from the lips of foreigner who visits
us for the first time. Signor Caruso, the
world-famous tenor. who with the
Grand Opera Company was wrecked
in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco?
Ihis American people" said Sig
nor Caruso, "is great people. l
thank God that the disaster was not in
Europe. In Italy my people would have
said. 'Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai. what do. what do?'
But these American people were all
quiet, nobody crazy, nobody cry out
We saw people carry the dead, and
always we moved on with the crowd
When the earthquake first came my
door was locked. The lights were out:
the shock made them light up some
now l could not open my door. I
waited till the house was quiet Then
the door was very much opened and
the ceiling down and the furniture i'm
a heap. When / got to the street /
thought L had lost my voice, and I
sang as they said in the papers I
would have been more scared, but
everybody around was so quiet When
we got to the park / had nothing to
eat all day until midnight, when some
one got pitcher of milk and some
cake. Oh, very fine milk! 1 liked 1t
very much.
Then these Americans got our spe-
ciai train and we slept on the train at
Oakland Thursday night. In Europe
do not think we could have had these
trains"
There is such a difference in people.
Gen. Funston, i'm supreme command
until Gen. Greely got back to San Fran
cisco. ordered troops to come and go
as ne wanted them, set them to doing
exactly the thing which it seemed best
to do, and then wired the War Depart
ment that he had done so, and trusted
that his actions would be approved, and
they were. Gen. Greely looked over
the situation. found 1T good, approved
all that Gen: Funstont had done, and
then. like the veriest Bureau Chief,
wired the Secretary of War that he
would like to have $500 or SO more
troops. and, of course red tape got
knotted up at once and IT was four
days before Gen. Greedy got his order
for those troops. The Secretary of
War refused them and the President
objected to sending them: thought they
would not be needed. But Gen. Greely
got the troops finally. Gen Funston
would have ordered them into San
Francisco. and then opened communi-
cation with his superiors and asked
their approval There's such a differ
ence in men.
Hobson will get there this time-in
fact, he has got there. having been
nominated for Congress over Mr.
in the Sixth Alabama Dis
trict. Hohson is an untried quantity
He fiunked Oh the Navy, and after the
Spanish-American War gave nobody
any peace until he got out of the NAVY
10 enter politics. He does not seem to
be much. and he has but one idea. a
greater Navy, and on that he is being
sent to Congress over Mr.. Bankhead
who has served his district admirably
i'i ~ ytdiS. ne lS one OF the working
members of the House. and Il valuable
man. Alabama has let go her bird in
the hand, and it may not be that she
has secured as good as two In the bush.
On Memorial Day President Roose-
welt will make the address at the Ma
lonal Cemetery at Portsmouth. He will
go down on the yacht Mayfiower. drive
old Portsmouth, deliver his ad-
dress, and return at once to the May
flower. 1t is safe to say that the rebel
flag will be in evidence everywhere. and
that there will be good deal of inter-
mingling OF blue and gray-in talk
Admiral Schley is not so bad as a
Speaker, and when he does it this way
he is sure of plenty of admirers He
was responding to a toast, "The Amer
lean Women and said:
Our arms are their defense and their
arms are our recompense. Nothing that
can be said of woman will meet her
merit l am her deyotee and am ever
at her feet"
He said the men of to-day are as
knightly as they have been in any of
the periods past, for a knightly man.
hood is sure to accompany a fair wo-
manhood, and the women of the pres
ent are az roy and attractive as in times
of more osrentatious chivalry.
Representative T.. Spencer Black
burn, of North Carolina, was acquitted
of the charge of illegally accepting fees
from clients for appearing for them be-
fore the Internal Revenue Bureau and
other Departments in Washington. His