The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-01-25
PERSONAL.

Elias Brookings, of Springfield
| Mass, is claimed to be one of the old
est active teachers in the country and
| has rounded out so full years in thi.
arduous vocation and is still in active
service as Headmaster of the Contra
| Street Grammar School, where ne ha:
taught for SO years. He proposes to re-
| tire Feb. 1. One Of the results Of hi:
| experience is the inefficiency OF the ole
method of thrashing boys to secure
| obedience and attention to studies
Where years ago he had to administer
| 80 thrashings a month now he gets
| along with about two. He finds other
punishmentS more effective, such as
obliging a boy TO stay in after schoo
| or write n single word so times. Com
rade Brookings was born in Woolwich
| Me-, Jan. l, 1886, and graduated from
Colby University in 1862 and assumed
| the position of Principal in the Acade-
my at Cherryfield, Me. He rode So
| miles In bitter cold weather to enlist
| in Co. H, 31st Me, in which regiment
he rose to the rank of First Lieutenant
| and participated in all the battles OF
the Wilderness and the siege Of Peters
burg. He was wounded in the foot and
| was prisoner at the time of Lees sur
| render. He was mustered out Of SER
vice in 1865 and resumed his position
as Principal of the Cherryfield
Academy, where he remained until he
a great traveller in his time and has
crossed the ocean 10 times.
Commander Daniel E. Denny, who
| has closed two years Of administration
| of George III. Ward Post. Of Worcester
Mass, has made record that the COM
rades think is unequaled by that of any
other Post Commander. There have
been $50 new members admitted by
| transfer and reinStatementS, "a by APP
| plications presented by the Commander
and $40 associate members from whom
there were contributions to the amount
| of $1.240. There was $575.25 raised for
| the Spanish War cannon placed in front
of the armory. making altogether
$1,775.25 raised by the personal work
Of the Commander. The Post has now
756 members in good standing and
turned out 800 men on the National
Encampment Parade in Boston.
After all the talk the resolution In
the New York Senate to request Sena-
tor Depew to resign was defeated by
a vote Of "a to one. Only Senator
Bracket, the author Of the resolution
seems to have voted for it. The Demo-
cratic members announced that they
had no responsibility in sending Mr..
Depew to the Senate. and the response
bility of his being there must rest upon
the party which elected him. In Sem
ator Brackets speech he bitterly ar
hence in system of loot and public
debauchery.
Senator Alger has formally an
nounced, what has been known for some
time, that he was distinctly in the race
for reelection to the Senate. 1t is not
likely that he will have any strong op-
position.
Peace reigns in North Carolina. AS
| usual in the Southern States the Re-
l - Hoo fI.rI.s fraxw
another savagely, but at last Repre-
sentative Blackburn and Chairman T.
S. Rollins have come to an agreement
that Claudius DOckery shall be ap-
pointed Marshal for the Eastern Dis
trict, and in return Representative
| Blackburn shall have the naming of
the appointees in his district.
Senators Allison, Lodge and Piles
| with Ex-Gov. Swineford and r. s.
Ryan. are strongly urging the appoint
ment Of w. T. Perkins, of Nome, for
Governor Of Alaska, in the event Of the
resignation Of Gov. John G. Brady.
Ex-senator D. B. Hill urges that a
committee of the New York State Bar
Association should investigate and re-
port upon the annual retainer of $4,000
| a year paid him by the Equitable Life
Assurance Co. He says that 1t came to
him unsolicited after he had retired
from the office Of Governor, but it was
very welcome, as he had left that office
| a poorer man than when he entered 1T.
He earned the retainer every year by
frequent consultations, in furnishing
opinions in litigations and as to the
constitutionality and Interpretation of
statutes. His position was no sinecure,
and he never received any money from
the Equitable for political services or
purposes.
The latest outbreak Of Gov. Varda-
mans negrophobia is recommended
ton to the members of the Mississippi
Legislature that the body of Charles
Lynch, the negro Lieutenant-Go Governor
of Reconstruction days, shall be taken
from the grave in Greenwood Gene
terry, where it was buried at the expense
Of the State, and reinterred in some
negro graveyard. This performance is
as silly as unnecessary. and when the
proposition was once before made it
was killed by negro member of the
Legislature saying, "The niger and the
white folks get along better out there
in the cemetery than anywhere else"
Edward H. Tufts. millionaire and
mine owner in Montana and elsewhere,
has been found guilty Of perjury in the
a new trial will have to serve a sem
tence of from one to IA years in the
penitentiary. The perjury was COM
mitted in q divorce suit against his
wife, whom he had married while he
was q ''cOw-puncher" on a Western
ranch.
Jan. Is Frank Frantz, who was q
member Of the Rough Riders In the
Spanish-American War, was inaugural
ed Governor Of Oklahoma at Guthrie.
The enemies Of Justice Warren B.
Hooker, of the New York Supreme
Court, are again moving. A resolution
has been introduced In the Legislature
representing that the former investiga-
ton and trial was a technical failure
only, and that the Justice should be
removed. In the present Legislature
Justice Hooker will lack some power
full friends that he had in the last, and
consequently he is thought to be in
jeopardy.
Commodore William p Mccain, u.
s. A.. retired, died at New Rochelle,
N. T., Jan. Is, at the age Of 75. He was
born In Kentucky. appointed from that
State, served during the war in the
Gulf Blockading Squadron. and was re-
tired May I, 1892, after 10 years OF sea