The National tribune., 1906-03-22

and which is now in frequent use in
the culinary department of the White
House, says a correspondent: Melt
an ounce of butter in a saucepan. and
in it stir two spoonfuls of -four. Use
one pint of beef stock, half a dozen
good-sized mushrooms. half dozen
whole peppers. Season with salt, pep
per, a dash of nutmeg, and cook for
20 minutes. When done. add half
pint of shrimps, three fresh peppers,
chopped fine, and let simmer for FIVE
minutes. Prepare plain omelet and
pour in the mixture before it is turned
over. Serve on hot plates"
Now. you careful Marthas who look
well to the ways of your household, try
all those peppers If you dare. Half a
dozen whole peppers, understand, as
starter, those little cornucopia things,
you know, that have more fire to the
single seed than cord of hickory wood
that's been drying all Summer. Just
round half dozen to start with. One
taste of that stuff would make a man
think he had swallowed Mount Popo-
cataptel in full eruption. and after the
three fresh peppers are added, those
dear shiny, elongated cones of red
peppers, you know, he would swear
that the lake which burneth with fire
and birthstone prepared for the devil
and his angels an episode in the trapped
regions of the North Pole which Wal.
ter Wellman can't find. II that is the
kind of stuff the President feeds oni
But, then, you know, that little recipe
WAS written by a mana man who
didn't know what he was talking about,
and had to fill some space with White
House news.
L.ieut-Col. Charles f. Powell, Corps
NJ i1 N 11rnIn0tp1
grade of Brigadier-Generai and retired,
before the name of John W. Bubb is
sent in for confirmation by the Presi-
dent.
Col. Powell is reported in bad health,
and should he be retired now, II would
be only with the rank and pay of a
Colonel, while it is known If his health
would allow him to remain in the SER
vice he would shortly attain the grade
of Brigadier-ueneral. His name will
be sent in with the other four Lieuten-
ant-Colonels who are 10 be promoted
and retired before the vacancy is filled
by Col. Bubb.
Col Powell is civil war veteran,
having served in the 5th Wis. He was
afterward appointed TO the Military
Academy from South Carolina, and,
being star graduate, was assigned to
The Corps of Engineers. During the
Spanish war he served as Engineer
Commissioner of the District.
A Mr. Jacob Riis, a resident OF New
York City, a friend OF the President, q
reforIner and a writer, came to Wash
ington year or so ago and went
around among it's "slums." Then he
Iectured on Washington "slums" here
in Washington, and told US we ought
to clean up, and all that. But he did
worse. He went off and said hateful
things about the 'slum" conditions of
Washington. Now, be It known, Wash
ington hasn't any slums-not slum.
We have here the widest streets in the
world. We have here the cleanest
streets in anybody's civilized country.
We have here the fewest tumble-down
houses, the most rigid inspection, the
most Independent poor people of any
city in the world. So, there! This IS
absolutely true, no matter how much
you may like to doubt it. What Mr..
Jacob Riis, reformer, took for slums
were the negro shanties of Washing
ton. We have almost no poor people
except among negroes. But, now, mind
you. those shanties are not fair ex-
hibit of poverty for, miserable as
many of the sh&cks are. their inmates
make money and have money. Fur
thermore, they own the valuable land
on which the tumble-down shacks ex-
fst and could sell for good round sums.
But will they? No, indeedy You ap-
proach one of these landed" colored
people with an offer of $4,000, say, for
q shack that must be burned and little
bit of ground, and the owner will say
nonchalantly: IF yo'-all thinks it wuff
$4,000 to yo' It's wuff mo- to we-alls
kaise 1t er heap O. trubble to move
And you don't get the land. See?
These shacks, once good houses, be-
longed to some "ol' Marse or OIL Miss
befo' de wah," and are sacred, and
there is always an awful row when
any of these are condemned and torn
down by the authorities; but, some
way, 1t Is the nature of the old colored
auntie and uncle to want to live just
that way. If you were to put them In
a fiat they would have it hung with
rags, old shoes, red peppers, clothes
lines, harness and the like, and inbab-
fted by cats, dogs, pigs and chickens, ir
less than a month. These old colored
people are respectable just the same
They are not to be compared with the
offal of Latin people which drifts &C
our shores and filters up New York
with Little Italys" and vicious rus
sian settlements and Polish quar-
ters." Nay. nay! When you start oUt
10 hunt slums. don't bide in Washing
ton. They are not here.
DID anybody suppose that Senator
Tillman could be bribed to keep hand:
off of the President IL he got a goot
no; not this time, anyhow. He jus
literally lambasted the President las
Saturday for his comments on trus
inquiry. He made one of the mos
caustic and cutting speeches he hai
ever made. He said in the beginnnl
that he regretted the necessity which
caused him thus early TO disagree will
the President. "The fates have enlist
ed me as an ally OF the President il
getting an adequate railroad-rate bill
and / regret very much to have any
thing come up which would occasion
any disruption of the amicable rela
fions that now exist, or appear to exist
between us" Appear 10 exist i
good. For let me tell you that is as IA
. as It goes-the appearance"
This statement provoked smiles ant
audible chuckles from both sides Of tn
Chamber.
But there are some things that as
Senator 1 cannot put up with patient
ly,'' he declared, and then said that tn
Executive contempt and ridicule of tn
resolution seemed to charge that h
had been ignorant Of what he was do
ing in Offering the resolution. and b.
the same token that the Committee ol
Interstate Commerce, which had adopt
ed the resolution unanimously, as ha,
also the Senate, was likewise ignoran
and slipshod.'
Senator Depew has been quite seri
ously i'll at his New York home. HI
niecsT Miss Anna Paulding, is with him
hrs. Depew is in Paris with her moth