The National tribune., 1906-12-20
PEOPLE.

I ii'i fNFtutipll tlte queen gave IL 10 one
of her ladies i'll waiting The daughter
of this lady gave it in turn to a Portu-
! SUeSe. Frietas De Branco who in lS4O
was Portuguese Minister to France 1t
! passed down 10 one member after an
/ other in that family until IA years ago,
when it suddenly disappeared. After st
! long and unsuccessful attempt to find
/ the watch it was finally located in the
/ possession of q Portuguese longshora-
man in Brooklyn. One of the De Brou-
COS came over, found the longShoreman,
and by promising not to have him pun
! shcd obtained the watch. The watch
! IS an exquisite thing, very small, and the
case is of Venetian mosaic set with
! pearls.
| The Metropolitan Opera House. of
( New York, which has held urdisputad
sway for so many years, has rival this
! Winter in the New Manhattan Opera
/ House, venture of Oscar Hammer
/ STEMS. Mr.. Hammerstein has spared no
expense. He has scclred a beautiful
/ building. and has 4 very high-priced
company. His great card is the Neapol-
/ itan, Alessandro Bonci. the famous star,
who is said to rival his compatrot, Ca
ruso. in purity of tone and exquisite
! phrasing. Both are tenors. 1t is said
/ Mr.. Hammersten has spent $4,000, 900
! in the venture, and whether New York
can support two opera houses of this
character remains to be seen.
one of the greatest literary discover
| les of recent years was found recently in
| the collection of Rosenbach & Co, of
| Philadelphia. who deal principally in
! pictures. The find was a complete set
! Of The Spectator. 635 numbers, some
thing the British Museum has been try
! ing for years to get, but has never been
able TO find. The set belonged to Mr.
I ,ry,f Of .1 t,.t,o
over for sale to the before mentioned
firm. a Harvard man got track of it.
! informed the authorities at the college,
and the priceless set was purchased for
| the college library for the small sum
of $500.
And a little child shall lead them"
Bertha Landau, a little girl only IL
Years old, got herself so worked up over
the wrongs of the poor that she started
a revolt against the unjust raising of
rent by the landlords on the East Side
of New York City. She has gone from
house to house. urging the people to
join her and make a stand against the
| landlords. About 200 families have
united with her. and meetings have be IN
held. denouncing the landlords, and dis
cussing means of preventing further i'm
position in the way of increased rent.
Father Albert Nagahnquet, of Kan
sas, is the first full-blooded Indian to
become a Roman Catholic priest He
belongs to the wariike Pottawatomies,
and was born on their reservation near
st. Marys, Kan, in 1877. His parents
soon after moved to Pottawatomie
County Okla, where the Roman Catho-
lies had established schools, and he was
brought under their influence. He at
tended their schools. and proved to be
a scholar of unusual promise. Mother
Katherine Drexel, daughter of the mil
lionaire banker of Philadelphia and an
ardent Romanist, in visiting the school
took particular notice of this Indian
boy Later on she sent him to Carlisle.
Pa, and still later he went to the Cath
Ollie College at Washington, d. c.. where
he fitted TO become a priest. He after
wards went to Rome. where he studied
philosophy and theology in the Propa-
ganda College. Just before Father Ne
gahnquet left Rome he was required %
give an address in his native tongue.
Since his return to this country lie has
labored among his people IN Oklahoma
and Indian Territory. He Is a quiet but
very enterprising young man, disliking
notoriety and possessing in a conspc1-
Gus degree that dignity of bearing which
has always been striking characteristic
of the Indian.
The German Emperor has dissolved
lne lttltiiStGS Oh account OI It's TtIuS6ti
to appropriate the 29,220,00 marks re-
quested by the Government to carry on
the war against it's rebeliious subjects
in German southwest Africa. There has
been considerable dissatisfaction with
the imperial policy for some time, and
lately it seems to have been directed
particularly against the war In Africa,
which has cost the Government much
money and has been entirely without
glory Won Buelow, who denied that
he was merely rejecting the ideas of
the Emperor. made an impassioncd
speech for the passage of the appro-
priatiOn bill, In which he said that if
the money was not forthcoming the
colonies would have to be reliuquished,
which would greatly jeopardize Ger
many's standing in the eyes of other
Nations. The bill was defeated by the
powerful Center. Interest now CenterS
in the composition of the new Reich
stag If the Center is returned with
undiminished numbers the real duel
between it and the Government will
begin Possibly the recent discovery,
reported by the Director OF the Colonial
Office. of diamond fields in the German
southwest African possessions may
change the popular idea with regard to
the colonial policy.
DIR. Meachen, of London England
tells us that music has distinctly heal
ing power; that there is an undeniable
connection between music and medi-I
cine. He says that when We are lis
tening to good music or music that ap-
peals to us at least, that the blood ves-
sells are enlarged, the blood flows more
freely and the digestion stimulated. He
quotes cases where music relieved a
child of fits. soothed and quieted the
insane. and says that in three days
banjo playing cured what was thought
to be hopeless case of nervous pros
tration. Different tunes have different
effects. says the doctor; for instance.
Chopin Nocturne in e fiat will quiet
the most excited brain and produce
sleep. while Mendelssohn's Wedding
March" has absolutely an unbroken
record for quickening the heart-beats
in young and susceptible women ali
over the civilized world.
The courage of the Lamprecht girls,
of Montana, is really staggering. Thirty
years ago one James Craven, a remark
ably single-minded youth, az was after
wards shown, met, loved and wed Nora
Lamprecht, the eldest of six good-look
ing sisters Nora, it seems, had caught
the appreciative eye of half-breed In
dian, who, infuriated at her marriage.
shot her dead only a few weeks after
her marriage AS soon as the funeral
baked meats were cold, Craven paid
the Lamprecht family the compliment
of addressing Marie, the next in senior
ity. who accepted him, and they werel