The National tribune., 1906-05-31

! Gently made an appropriation to pro-
/ tect them from decay and demolition.
| Mr.. i. I. Whittemore was made Gus
| todian. While making some improve
/ ments around his own house lately, Mr..
| Whittemore discovered the imprint on
one of the blocks or large bricks of the
| ruins, and sent a cast of the find to
/ Washington. together with a small col
lection of other relics, including black
lava image of mountain sheep, recog-
nized by Washington chronological spe-
cialists as remarkably peculiar in treat
ment and workmanship. -
The ruins were already old and de-
serted when first encountered by the
| Spaniards 500 years ago, and then, as
now, other architectural remains re-
! ferable to the same civilization as that
| which produced the Casa Grande had
! been reduced by the decay of centuries
; to mere shapeleSS mounds. All that is
| known of the people is what recent ex-
| ploration. still in progress, has diScloS-
| ed. These explorations show the ruins
and the extinct race to be one of the
most remarkable in the country. They
indicate very populous, very indus
trious. very artful Nation, which had Il
| ihighly-developed system of irrigation
| and navigation canals having a total
| VI VI IlllieS III eNlSIt-
| They had been projected with the ac-
curacy of modern civil engineering,
were constructed of re-baked blocks,
| and had regular enlargements to per-
! init the passing of boats.
Mrs. Roosevelt will remain in the
| city until the President can go to Oys-
| ter Bay, and that will not be until Con-
gress adjourns.
When"
Oh. well, now. don't ask impertincnt
questions Congress will adjourn when
| ii gets good and ready and not before.
The Roosevelt children will go to Oys-
| ter Bay about June Z. 1t is very prob
able that the President and Mrs. R0ose-
welt will go to their Virginia cottage
for the weekend each week after the
warm weather sets in. if they do not
fly off in the Sylph for breath o. salt
sea air.
Here is a story they tell on Quentin
Roosevelt, the Presidents youngest
hopeful, who is regular Buster Brown,
if you did but know it. The teacher
was trying to impress on her pupils the
values and injuriousness of certain foods
and drinks, and wanted to find out how
| many of the kidlets INDUCED in coffee.
Just few hands went up in reply to
this question. Then she tackled them
| on tea. A half dozen or SO induIged in
tea. Just then she was called from the
room. Here was where Quentin got in
his work. He waltzed himself up to the
platform and said: Now, all you kids
who drink champagne stand on your
heads!"
striking illustration of the superior
endurance of modern artillery using
n 1l lac
guns which burned the old brown pow
der, is Afforded by two vulcanite casts
received at the Ordnance Bureau of the
war Department, showing the interior
of two 12-inch guns. The first is that
of a piece which had been fired ESQ
times with brown powder and wigs then
refined The bore of the gun was so
deeply pitted that the cast resembled
the bark of the toughest of old oak
trees. and the cavities were deep enough
to contain walnuts. and the rifiing had
completely disappeared. The second
cast was made from gun which had
been fired 200 times with smokeIess
powder. There was some erosion, but
not enough to destroy the lands of the
riffing. and the interior was fairly
smooth. The gun had been ordered re-
lined. however, because much more i'm
portance is now attached to a smooth
bore than formerly. The cost of a 12-
inch piece Is more than $4,000.
President Roosevelt is greatly dis
pleased over the action of the Senate
Committee on Interoceanic Canals in de-
Gliding to recommend the sea-level type
for the Panama Canal. He said that
should Congress adopt the sea-leyeI
canal bill ii would throw everything into
chaos and probably postpone the con-
struction of the canal for quarter of
century.
everything now but a cabin and a noun
tain spring from the Carolinas. The
very last present was god" The
Yankees call the thing "go'ud'' West
erners who never see it. but know tie
value Of the letters of the alphabet, call
1t as it is spelled, ''gourd." The gourd
comes from South Carolina and is sure
a sight. 1t will hold two gallons Of
well. we will say fluid" and Uncle Joe
can put in it what he likes so long as he
has no spring to hang it up by 1t has
a handle nearly three feet long and is
altogether just about the finest specimen
| OF gourd. Burned into the gourd is
| the inscription. With which to drink
from the Fountain Of Immortal Youth
To Uncle Joe on his 10th birthday"
Vice President Fairbanks was attend
ing Methodist Conference down in
Alabama last week and made a speech
| In 1t he made the following allusion to
| undertaking:
I'VE should beware of the blighting
effects of hysteria. We should avoid IL
IN either the enactment of our laws or
| in their enforcement. Our interests are
too mighty and our destiny too great 20
give ourselves over TO the unthinking,
| to the opportunist. to those who take no
| thought of to-day and tomorrow. We
| have attained to the leadership of the
! world because we have been great.
| level-headed. conservative people: be-
| cause we have deliberated upon the
great questions of humanity, of trade
| and commerce; because we have mas
| tered them"
Among the Kaiser's guests during the
yachting week at Kiel at the end of
June will be Mr.. and Mrs Nicholas
Longworsh and ambassador Charlie
magne Tower.
| For a number of years the Post Office
Department has endeavored to impress
upon the public the Importance OF exer-
cising care In writing addresses on let
ters, etc. sent through the mails. AL
though this campaign of education has
been effective in a measure, the fact
that more than IL ,000. 900 pieces of nm
delivered matter were handled in the
Division of Dead Letters during the year
1905 indicates that there is still consid-
cradle carelessness in this respect,
They are telling a story on Speaker
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