The National tribune., 1906-12-06
WASHINGTON THURSDAY

clothes at the commofieSt tasks and
indeed. one felt like giving him tip
for any slight service. But when the
daughter of this worthy msih was mar
ried, she brought to herr husband dot
OF $4,000 francs. How many English
or American fathers of that class would
be able To give an equal doSry?
The saving habit and the industrious
habit go hand in hand in France, and
the sirls are trained inoboth from their
earliest childhood. The French woman.
indeed. has many admirable virtues.
Her education being oncprnctical lines.
she almost always makes a good wife.
In business affairs she is apt to be quite
as clever as her husband. and very fire.
quently superior. When an Englishman
or an American says, In relation to an
important affair. I will ask my wife
about it, he means it as joke. where
as the Frenchman utters the same say
ing in the utmost seriousness. Not one
Of them would take 4 step, unless of
minor importance, without consulting
his helpmate. for he knows she IS capa-
bic of giving the most judiciouS coun-
sell"
Now. out of that little story the i'm
pecuniouS Government clerk could draw
a great big moral but "he" wont,
neither will She 1t is not what yon
earn that makes you rich, but what
you save. There are clerks in Govern
ment employ in Washington who get
$1,000 year, and their grandfathers
who never got over that in long lives
died rich men. The Government clerk
however. has a position TO support;
and it takes each year just a little more
than they make TO keep up appear
ances." and the first thing you know
they are helping to swell the fat Golfers
of the loan agencies. and from that
time on arc worse off than paupers.
The man in debt is slave. Then he !
marries and makes 4 slave out of his |
wife, for she has to plan and skimpl
and save, and has the burden and the |
care and worry of making both crds
meet. We could learn lot from the
French methods
When the Vermont man. Redfield |
Proctor, was War Secretary there wasi
an Army regulation making it compul |
sorry on the soldiers to attend tattoo |
roll call. Tattoo sounded at o'clock, |
and in the Summer. when the sunset
was late, there was little more than an
hour between dress parade and the next |
formation. The result of this was that
the soldier had no time to make call
OH his sweetheart or to. visit the village
near the garrison. Secretary Proctor
issued an order doing away with COM
puisory attendance at tattoo, and sub
stitu;cd therefor a rule that the men
must be in quarters at Il o'clock at the
latest. The change was boon TO the
men and q service to discipline. The
oldest menrofTthe, United States Army
regard Redficld Proctor. now a Senator
from the State of Vermont, as a sort
of godfather to tire service.
Miss Katherine Elkns. daughter of
the Senator from West Virginia. WAS
one OF the most prominent ana attrac-i
tive figures at the New York Horse
Show. Miss E,lkins is ore of the skilled
whips in Washington sbciery, and like
wise olc OF the best dudgns of horse
flesh. She has made the rounds Of the
Virginia horse shows. And has recently
DelapIaInes, n. Y. whore the sport was
fine. and where she did seme of the
most skilled riding. |
Gov. Hnggatt the very Young Gov.
7rnor of Alaska, who sccnis to be max
ng good. is In the city4andf was among
hose to first greet the President on his
return, President Roosevelt appointed
Co.. IIosso,t IN pursuance of his plan
% get as many young mon into Gov
Office as possible.n Co.. Hog-
odAt S'l9 - VI Aitskd.
1T Is just entering OH the best era of
is history. 1t will, ere many years, be
he worlds biggest producer of gold.
is mineral wealth has as yet been bare
Y touched, and when.its vast stretches
IF undeyelopcd country are opened to
settlement by construction of railroads
We will see an annual gold production
hat will not, fall short of s100. 0.O00. 900
L is also country of great agricul-
~ a h l., ..tl
ruits and vegetables grown i'm the Ter
'itory as could be raised anywhere in
he States, and that some day it will be
great cattle country is certain. 1t is
he best part of the habitable globe for .
'rung men who are willing to work
md endure temporary hardships, and
is going to be the future breeding
round of a multitude of miIlionaires." {
Senator Plat. of New York-"Me, /,
co.. Platt-will resign, it is said. but :
lot until after Gov. Higgins has thrown
lis to2a over the shoulders of Gov
iughes. To the bitter end, and as lonsl
s life gives him the chance. Senator |,
'latt will devote himself to getting even
with his political enemies, OF which =
iov. Higgins is one of whom.
An early decision by the United
tates Supreme Court as to the con-
of the rate-making prof.
ision of the Hepburn law will probably
e one of the results of the. action of
ne Interstate Commerce Commission in
what is known as the live
tock rate case. This case is based onj
complaint filed by the Cattle Raisers'1
ssociation of Texas against rates onl
attic from the Texas ranges to the
'orthern feeding grounds and rates
rom Texas and the Northern territory
, the markets in the meat packing
tiles --,--sTl
Practically every rate on cattle in the
hole region west of Chicago and theI
Mississippi River and between theI
'orthern Pacific Railroad and thei
exaS quarantine line is involved, eitherI
irectly or indirectly. and all the i'm
ortant railroads in the West except the
Orthern Pacific and the Great North
rn arc made defendants.
Thiriy-seven years ago Joseph Sea-
Y, Chickasaw Indian, filed a claim in
lie Interior Department for losses to
is property in the Indian Territory in
irred thru the depredations of menu
ers of the KiOwa and Comanche tribes
ealey was friendly red man when|
le Kiowas and Comanches We're on the
arpath. That gave his case standingl
efore the Government 'D -
Sealey asked for endorsement in
s69. but it took the officials of the In H.
rior Department exactly 81 years to 81
ZACH his paSe and than ha hod haa,,