The National tribune., 1906-05-24


for Instruction in the Revenue Cutter
Service.
Mr.. Shaw said: 'Therc is nothing
that will take the native capacity out of
a man so quickly as employment in the
Army and Navy. If l wanted to make
a preacher out of a man 1 would send
him to West Point. 1t is the best school
on earth.
But in one branch of the service-I
won't say which-if a man has a good
idea they court-martial him.
The Chief of Police of Washington
recommends that women go armed with
hat pin. The law does not permit the
carrying of weapons of defense. but
Major sylvester seems to think that q
hat pin is as good weapon as a woman
needs A hat pin has been known to
do effective service. In a big crowd
where the people in the rear are in
clined to crowd upon one, q hat pin
judiciously poked under the arm, point
to the rear, will make hole all around
you, as well as create CONSERVATION and |
a racket if rammed home hard enough. |
1t is true, too, that a jab from a hat
pin, half a dozen of which woman al
ways has around her, will drive most
anybody away who is not possessed of
a CaStiron hide. Yes. a hat pin is all
right in the hands of n brave woman |
in Washington just now. There has
been perfect storm of pocket-book |
snatching of late, and the whole city |
has become alarmed. The police force |
of Washington. while really of the fin
est. is also ore of the smallest for the |
size of the city. 1t takes such a large
number of the police force to guard |
the White House and grounds that it |
cuts down the available number for
the protection of the parks. The Sug-
gestion has been made that the United |
States Government should furnish its |
own guards and that these should be |
selected from among the troopers at
Fort Myer. This would add glory and |
glitter to the retinue of Army and Navy |
attaches who are already there, and |
possibly be more in keeping with the |
surroundings.
Congress has been importuned to give |
larger appropriation for the Police De- |
partment, but has failed to do SO, which |
is certainly penny-wiSe and Million |
dollar-foolish proposition. 1t should be |
remembered. always. that the District |
of Columbia more than pays itself for |
every dollar that Congress appropriates |
for it. In the first place, the Govern |
ment does not pay a dollar of taxes, so |
that the people of Washington who own |
property have to pay much higher taxes |
In proportion. and keep things III |
proper order for the Government All !
the taxes of the District are turned into |
the United States Treasury every penny |
of them. Then when the District wants |
money it has to ask Congress for it. !
The Government pays $1,000 for every
one which the District puts up, half |
and half, you see, but the Government !
does not, even in this way. pay a quar- |
ter of what would be assessed against |
its property if such a thing were pos
ssiI lfefp
lar unless it is appropriated by Con-
gress. despite the big sum she pays into |
the United States Treasury: so it is |
not fair for the country to howl every |
time an appropriation is made for pub
lie purposes in the District.
The body of the late Carl Schurz was
laid to rest in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
at Tarrytown, y. Y. last Friday.
The Post Office is having trouble |
again. Down in Raleigh, y. c., there |
is free-delivery carrier who happens |
to be of black skin. though he seems to |
have very white kind of brains The |
people of that section. however prefer |
not to get any mail at all to getting it |
from the colored man. And so the poor |
fellow is to lose his job
The way of the scientist after he gets |
out of the United States is sometimes
pretty rocky. There is noted Wash |
ington scientist, Prof. Mckinney who !
has been engaged by fruit company
down in Bocas del Toro to hunt out |
and rout the banana pest He went
vigorously to work ard found that in a |
lot of huts the pest seemed to be pro- |
pagated, so he proceeded to burn the !
huts, in which he declared no human |
being could possibly live, anyhow. |
Well. whether they can or can't they |
do. and so Prof. Mckinney was arrested |
by the owner of one of the huts and |
thrown into prison for arson. The COM |
pany by which the Professor is en- |
p1oyed protested to the little Govern |
ment of Bocas del Toro that the huts |
belonged to them and they had a right |
TO have them burned, but the Professor |
stays in Jail. Gen. Gardia, Secretary
of War and Minister of Foreign Affairs, |
issued an order that he be released. but |
the Professor is still in Jail, and so the |
United States has been informed. The |
President may have to order warship !
down there TO secure the release of this |
American subject.
Michael Davitt, the great Irish leader, |
lies at the point of death. He has a
devoted sister in the Treasury Depart !
ment here in Washington.
II was given out at Yale last Thurs
day that Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew
had received the necessary % votes of
Yale alumni to put him in nomination
for the corporation for another term
six years. The election will be held on
June &c, commencement week. Mr.
Depew's term expires then.
Gen. Greedy, in telegram to the War
Department, declares that the reports
that n large number of persons were
killed in San Francisco by the Army
are incorrect and misleading. He states
that not a single person was killed Dy
a Regular soldier. and that the Coroner
Chief of Police, Board of Health, and
military commander have found only
four persons who met death by violence
After five years of labor civil scry-
fee retirement bill has been perfected
by the United States Civil Service Re
tirement Association. 1t was introduced
in the House by Representative Fowler,
of New Jersey, and in the Senate by
Mr.. Perkins, of California.
The purpose of the bill is to provide
for the retirement of employees in the
classified civil service, and to create a
fund therefor at their own expense In
order TO create this fund per cent of
their salary is to be deducted monthly
for the purpose of paying retirement