The National tribune., 1906-08-23

! Gov. Cobb, Of Maine, will go to Cam
| den on Aug. 80 to attend the unvailinS
| of a memo -ial in honor of William Con-
| way. sailor in the Navy. who at the
| breaking out of the civil war refused to
| haul down the American Flag at the
Pensacola Navy Yard when all the Off
GERS there renounced their allegiance to
! the Union.
The memorial is the joint gift of the
| people of Camden. Conway's birthplace
and the Maine commandery of the Mill
tary Order of the Loyal Legion. 1t Is
n large boulder. with bronze tablet
bearing an inscription telling OF Con-
ways patriotic deed.
It is expected that several warships
will be anchored off the port. and that
their crews will march in parade. Sec
retary Bonaparte, Gov. Cobb. Gen.
Joshua l.. Chamberlain. Senator Hale,
and others are announced to speak. Tne
tablet will be unvailed by Gen. Rich
ards. Commander of the Maine Loyal
Legion. and 100 members OF the Order
are to be present.
Through the efforts of Gen. Anso- G.
McCook. of the New York Battlefield
Commission, Smith Zelie, of Whites
boro. y. Y, an old soldier. had returned
to him in his old age badge which lie
had lost on the battlefield of Antfetam
A years ago.
Zelie enlisted at Albany in 1861 in the
44th n. Y, otherwise known as the
Ellsworth Avengers. He took part IN
the battle of Antietam. and during the
fierce engagement he dropped his iden-
tification badge.
A farm laborer in 1902 was digging
on the battlefield and unearthed the
badge in question. selling it to guide,
o. T. Reilly. who worked on the battle
field. When Gen. McCook and his Com
mission made their official visit to the
old battle-ground this year the guide
showed him the badge. Gen. McCook
purchased it from him. and advertised
the badge far and wide.
Mr. Zelie saw the advertisement, and,
upon application, had the badge return
ed to him.
The Quartermasters Department
shows that the Government sent sup
plies and other materials to San Fran
cisco amounting to s2,26S,47S.
Typhoid is alarmingly prevalent in
Washington. smallpox in Panama and
cholera in the Philippines. Which is
the worst?
Mr.. French, Of Washington. makes a
noise like a man with the hydrophobia.
He has written to the Commissioner of
the District saying he wants the tax on
dogs raised to 800 head. He says:
"A dog is not a necessity and he is
dangerous nuisance. He is burden to
the poor, and if the rich must have
dog to lavish their affections upon, let
them pay for the nasty brute"
A man died in indianapolis the other
day, and few even remembered his
name, and fewer knew where he was
born. yet there was a time when his
name was in everybody's mouth, here
and across the water. for he was one of
the attorneys In the most celebrated
case in the last century, in all probabili-
ty The man was John w. Clampitt.
who with Beverly Johnson defended
Mrs. Surratt following the assassination
of President Lincoln. He was born n
the District of Columbia in 1893, and
was for many years connected with the
Post Office Department.
Leut.-Gen. H. c. Corbin has returned
to the headquarters of the Northern
Division at st. Louis. after his visit 10
Washington, where he came to preside
at the head of the deliberations of the
Board of Army Officers that was con-
vened by Secretary Taft for selection of
officers to fill vacancies on the General
Staff. Beginning in a few weeks, the
ranking officer of the Army will make
series of inspection tours, which will
occupy his time to the date of his re-
tirement next September. He will make
visits to the three camps Of instruction
that are located within the limits of his
divisional command.
The Japanese ambassador and Wis.,
countess Aoki are anticipating an early
visit from their daughter, the Countess
HatZfeldt. The Viscountess before her
marriage to the ambassador was the
widow of a German nobleman, and met
the Viscount while he was serving as
japanese Minister to Berlin. The Wis
countess is an exceptionally intellectual
woman. and speaks English almost as
perfectly as her native tongue.
The Navy Yard employees of Washing
ton did a beautiful thing recently. They
provided a days outing for 500 of the
poor children of the city. They char
tered a steamboat and took those kids
and a lot of working mothers with
babies down to River View. where ev
erything in sight IN the shape of amuse-
ment belonged to them for the day. All
the shoot the chutes, the swings. the
flying horses. croquet. baseball-all be-
longed to those youngsters. and how
tney did enjoy IL all. Inen they had
lunch and supper down there-and
stomachache. They had rolls and but
ter, cheese, fruit, ham, candy and lem
onade. Lots Of them were so unused TO
getting enough to eat that they overate
and got sick. but were easily cured. The
whole entertainment was provided by
the men employed at the Navy Yard,
and il is safe to say that they got as
much enjoyment out of it all as the
children did.
Commissioner West. of the School
Board of this city. has refused to stock
up the library of the school with novels,
no matter how excellent they may be
called. He says that in his opinion a
school library should be made up of
reference books, histories. biogra phies
and that sort Of thing, and If school
children want novels they can so 60 the
City Library or the Library of Congress
for them. Commissioner Vests head is
always level In the first place, boys
and girls in school have no time for
novels. anyhow. They read altogether
too much trash OF all kinds. 1t isn't
improving: II isn't enlightening; It isn't
even amusing most of the time. The
novel-reading school girl or boy should
;.s sent outdoors to clean up the yard.
to play ball. go on crrands. anything
that will be employment and keep them
from filling their heads with the trash
that goes to make up the popular novel
of to-day.