The National tribune., 1906-11-29

States Senator Joseph w. Bailey. died
Nov. 19 at the family home at Crystal
Springs. Miss. She was IS years old.
Senator Bailey and other children We're
at the bedside.
The anti-canteen law has confronted
the military authorities in peculiarly
acute form by the belated discovery
that a hotel, more or less of the Sum-
mer variety, situated upon a certain
tract of land owned by the State OF
Massachusetts,, and included within the
precincts of the town of Nahant-
where Senator Lodge lives sometimes
possesses that source of refreshment
comm only known as bar.
1t is not so described in-but that is
what is meant ty-the formal report
submitted by the Army officer whe is
in charge of, or who has something to
do with, this particular plot of ground,
which has been leased by the War De-
partment for military purposes" the
idea being to eventually establish some
fortifications there as a part of the
harbor defense of Boston.
The War Department authorities
have taken up the subject, and have
come to the conclusion that the main
tenance of the bar of the hotel is vio-
ed or the lease by virtue of which the
hotel occupies a place on the tract
revoked.
When the cats away the mice Will
play. Perhaps it is not really nice to
refer to the President or Mrs. RGose-
welt as a "cat," but it is just a meta
phor, you know. To continue, while
his father and mother are away, Mas
ter Archie Roosevelt is turning the
White House grounds into an athletic
park. Football is the fayorite. On the
campus where during the Summer
months the Marine Band gives its
weekly concert the real strenuous arti-
Gle is now exhibited four afternoons in
the week.
The leader, captain of one of the
teams and the big fellow of the bunch
of little fellows, is Archie Roosevelt,
son of the President His playmates
are 80 boys of his own age from the
Friends School.
Temporary goal posts have been ar
ranged for the youngsters. and soon
after the close of school in the after
noon full-f1edged game is under way.
Each of the players has a regulation
uniform. While all of the plays per-
haps are not scientifically carried out.
a great deal of enthusiasm is expended,
to say nothing of the noise.
nave Dtell dSlOfllSntu at lilS
sight OF boisterous boys whooping and
slugging in the shadow of the Execu-
tive Mansion.
The only spectators at hand are the
policemen and a few attendants about
the place.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, under the
chaperonage of her nurse, is also doing
things in the absence of the President
and Mrs Roosevelt. She gave luncheon
at the White House the other day to a
lot of young ladies of her class, and
attired in dream of red crepe with
red roses entertained with the grace of
her distinguished sister or mother. Miss
EthelNMiss Roosevelt, if you please
bids fair to be a beauty, which Mrs.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth is not, and
she carries things with a dash. She
will not come OUT before next Winter
however.
Chewed-up matches, a rat and fire
company formed an exciting episode in
an eating house in Washington the 9TH
er day. An empty room, single box
Of matches known to be on the floor
and a door that was locked was suffi-
cient evidence that the predatory ro-
dents had "done the business" Moral.
Don't have about your house matches
that scratching on a common surface
will light.
Altho it is the smallest political sub
division in the Union, the District OF
Columbia outranks rs States and Ter
ritories in point OF wealth This fact
is disclosed by the Census Bureau.
which has just completed census Of
the wealth of the entire country.
The case cf Capt. Carl Reichman, OF
the 18TH Inf hao hean hypr0ht n tho
attention of the military authorities.
and it is stated that the officer will be
called on to explain his alleged infrac
tion of the articles of war.
Capt Reichman is now with his regi-
ment at Havana, Cuba, and it is alleged
that he recently wrote letter to a
friend in New York, which was subse-
quently published, in which he is said
to have charged that he had been de-
MED membership on the General staff
because of his German birth, and also
that he had been otherwise discrimi-
mated against by his superiors in the
Army because he is not native Amer
ican.
There are honest men left in the
world, lots of 'em, and here is one. Be-
cause he had drilled a well 300 feet
deep, when 20 feet would have been
sufficient. his contract providing he
should go only TO depth necessary to
obtain water. an Illinois man recently
returned s400 to Capt L. NJ. Kelley
Second Deputy Commissioner OF Pen
sions, saying he could not keep the
money
The well in question was drilled sew
en- years ago. and the money paid for
the work since that time has doubtless
caused the contractor many nights OF
restless sleep. Capt. Kelley. as well as
being prominent politician in Illinois
was elso an extensive landowner and
breeder OF fine Jersey cattle. He still
maintains his large stock farm
When he decided he should have an.
other well on the farm he wrote TO the
man who has just returned the money
whose name he refused to diyulgc
contract was made for sinking the well
The well was completed and Capt
Kelley, altho somewhat surprised a
the amount, sent a check TO cover tht
cost of drilling.
The incident had long ago been for
gotten. when recently letter bearing
an Illinois postmark, and the address
in handwriting not altogether un
familiar, found it's way to Capt Kelley
desk at the Pension Office. 1t wa
opened, and four post-office money or
ders, each for 500, dropped out Bein,
busy, and thinking they were adver
tisements of some sort, Capt, KelIe,
brushed them aside to examine at
more ODnOrtIIne tirna fo,, t1o,.