The National tribune., 1906-03-22

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]. Frank Ashe who belongs to one
| of the oldest of Philadelphia families,
has struck upon O new field of effort
| to support himself while waiting the
settlement of the estate of which he is
one of the heirs. He is q skillful cook,
and ne proposes to engage with a lin
| tied number of families TO do their
cooking on the days when the regular
cook is out. Mr.. Ashe has taken up
this vocation with an entirely free will.
| since he is n graduate of medicine and
| pharmacy. u fine pianist, master OF
several languages, and has been dra-
matte and musical critic of daily news
papers. He can resume any one OF
these employments. but takes this
choice. He is now 50 years old.
! The old man in the Senate-Senator
Pettus, of Alabama-is 81 years old
He was asked what he would do if he
had his life TO live over again. He
replied: "Pd get out on the middle
of big farm and stay there"
1t appears that Ge2 KuroIli is really
a Chilean. His father was a fisherman
| who migrated 10 Japan. where he
made fortune. Letters have been re-
! ceiyed from Gen. KUroki, in which nc
| says that he never forgets his native
| of his boyhood. When he gets Chilean
papers he simply devours them. 1t
| will next develop probably that he Is
really an Irishman, and belongs to the
| O'Kcy family.
| George C. Allen was killed in q run
away accident while visiting his broth
| er at Whittier, Cal. Comrade Allen
| served in Co. G. 129ih' H., and took
| part in the Atlanta campaign and in
| the march to the sea. He belonged to
| the G. A. X. and the Masons.
Ex-Gov. B. j. Odell resolutely re-
fuses to have funeral ceremonies over
him, and at the annual dinner of the
Legislative Correspondents Association
he proved the principal attraction,
making one of his characteristic
speeches with epigrams about people
who forget their friends and forgive
their enemies. He said that he pre-
ferred to go down to defeat with his
friends rather than lead to victory
those whose only interest in the fight
is what they can get out Of it.
Geo. II Stephens, who mas been con-
victed of counterfeiting in F1ori Ia, is
an illustration that something more
than education is necessary for man.
He is a graduate OF the good old Pres
byterian University of Princeton, and
was at one time professor in the La
fayette College of Pennsylvania. There
he got into quarrel with the President
and another professor over some edu-
cational question, and took his revenge
by cutting and destroying some rare
and ancient vines over the college
buildings, threw valuable books into a
well, and smeared the college Bible
with tar. He wound up by setting fire
to Pardee Hall, for which he was sent
n thp napitnntiarv for q Of
for arson.
The last act of the late President
Mccall, after receiving the sacrament
was to write letter excupating An
drew Hamilton from any Wrong-doinG
in connection with the funds of the
New York Life Insurance Company.
A yellow paper started story that
Harry Roach, for eight years private
secretary to Jas. G. Blaine, and now
living hermit's life in the West, has
been engaged for eight years upon
manuscript that will startle the world
upon its publication after his death. 1t
viii contain true story of many Wash
ington scandals, and is kept in a ce,
ment box, lined with zinc, in the floor
of his cabin. Mr.. Roach writes: II
never was interviewed. never gave out
a statement. never was qualified for
private or any old kind of secretary,
never wrote a manuscript. never owned
g zinc-lined cement box, have no ex-
posures TO make against Washington
society or the social customs Of any
other place. Near the Osier dope age
and trying to live quiet simple life"
The French courts have granted
six months delay in going to Jail to
Elliott F. Sheppard, convicted of run
ming over and killing a little girl with
his automobile. This is regarded as an
abandonment of the imprisonment part
of the sentence. which will be changed
to an additional fine.
The friends of Mrs. Mary McKittrick.
Cniontown, Pa, celebrated her 1OSth
birthday with merrymaking, in which
she took an active part.
Miss Serepta Pratt. OF East Brook,
y. Y. is sc years old. and one of the
liveliest and most successful travelling
saleswomen i'll the country. Her spe-
cialty is shears.
Tom Lawson has broken out In q
new spot. He has written a letter to
the President charging that the Ma
tional Banks are endangering the peo-
Pies savings by guaranteeing brokerage
firms against loss by stock gambling
swindles such as The Copper Butte and
Coalition North Butte, which involve
over $100,000,000.
John Alexander Dowie claims to have
almost recovered from his stroke of
paralysis, and has started from ia
maica for Mexico. The banks recently
refused to cash his drafts on Zion.
Pay Director Joseph Foster, u. s. ".
retired, has married an EnglishWoman
whom he met 10 years ago. He served
in The South Atlantic Squadron during
the war.
1t begins to look quite certain that
Charles Nj. Schwab is planning to be
Senator from Nevada. He has said so
himself. and given earnest of it by buy
ing some more mining properties and
$4,000 house. He says that he is
going TO build the finest residence in
the State. His recent trip was for the
purpose of establishing residence in the
State. While SchWab has never shown
any evidence of StatesHanlike or even
political abilities, he is probably no
better nor no worse than many SEN
ators who have bought their way in
from the mining States.
Johann Most, the noted Anarchist,
died in Cincinnati March II, from cry
sipeias. Most was born in Bavaria, in
1915, and became prominent in 1871
in Vienna as Socialist agitator. Hell
speedily got into trouble, was put in
prison, and after release forced to leave |
one country after another, until he set |
tied in England, and began the pub
LEGATION of Die Freiheit, which he made
ferociously anarchistic He was so in
temperate that he was finally impris-
oned for 16 months for melting mur-
der and capn n New Vorl.