The National tribune., 1906-04-05

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
SO It looked az though he would have
to give up the girl or the job. Finally
friends went to Postmaster-General
Cortelyou and told him the story, and
asked him to transfer the young man
from Chicago to Cleveland, and would
you believe It! 1t really looks as though
this would be done.
| Two Russians whose names do not
| matter, for you couldn't pronounce
them II you had them spelled out for
you, deserted from the Russian army
and got over to San Francisco about q
month ago. where they have been ma
rooned for several weeks. They were
refused a landing, because they were
both suffering with trachoma, that ter
rible lth-and-poverty sore eyes fol-
which there is no cure. Now, under
/ our law those two poor men have goi
to go back. All sorts Of intercessior
| from Jews, Gentiles, high sources and
some not SO high have been invoked
for them, but the President is ada
mant. and back they go to the port
and sudden death. The Russian au-
thcrities will see to that.
|
| A sweet job the Government has on
| its hands now. 1t has vacancy for
| Chief of the Sugar Laboratory, Bureau
| of Chemistry. Department of Agricul-
ture. The place pays $4,000 year. The
applicants must be more than 20 years
old. and the subjects they will be ques-
| toned upon will be education and
| training in general and agricultural
chemistry. postgraduate training and
| instruction, practical experience and
variety of it, and thesis on subjects
connected with the chemical or tech
nical problems involved in the study of
| carbohydrates or industries relating
| thereto. All for $4,000 year and fired
at Go or thereabouts.
There was a leak in a gas main in
a big fiat apartment here one day last
| week, and man hunted the leak with
match. He found the leak! He also
established the fact that the fools are
not all dead yet.
The Senate seems not to be good
paymaster. Ex-senator Tnurston and
ex-senator Anthony Higgins, it will be
remembered. defended Judge Charles
Swain. of Florida. in the Impeachment
proceedings against him last Winter,
and they have not been paid yet. They
sent a gentle reminder of the fact to
Vice President Fairbanks the other
day, which is the second time they
have asked for their fees.
prince Cupid. otherwise known as
Jonah X. Kala cianaole, of Hawaii,
whose seat as d Delegate from that
Territory has been contested, has been
declared by unanimous vote of the
committee entitled to his seat.
And now It is said that Secretary of
Var Root is the Administration can
didate for the United States Senate to
succeed Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew;
that Representative Longworth is the
Administration candidate for Governor
CT Ohio. and that Uncle Joe Cannon Is
to be the next Republican candidate
for the Presidency-not the Admins
tration" candidate, but the "Republi-
can" candidate, mind you. 1t is well
known that Secretary Taft has had
Presidential aspirations, and that one
reason he did not wish to go upon the
Supreme Court Bench was because he
knew or knows that 1t will be death
to his ambitions for the highest office.
He rather anticipated being Governor
Of Ohio first, and making that pave the
way for the Presidency, and now comes
the son-in-law of the President with
that tremendous backing to spoil his
well-laid plans. 1t is said that Secre-
the wall, in the anxiety Of the Presi-
dent to place him on the Supreme
Bench, will ultimately accept the life
office and let the Presidency go. also
the Governorship of Ohio.
Secretary Root is simply Catching
it, from the disgruntled Americans In
1t would not be just the thing to say
that, either. for the gentlemen who are
raising all the fuss seem to be citizens
of Cincinnati. They have a petition
signed by a number of people which
declares that the War Department, un-
der Secretary Root. permitted Itself to
be guilty of great lapse of duty, and
let the American Flag be pulled down
from over the Isle of Pines; that NJ
efforts were really made to find out
how many American citizens there
were on the Islands, or what their
wishes in the matter were. They al
lcge that there was Il campaign of mis-
representation to keep the Island In
the possession Of Cuba, and that the
present administration OF the little
Island is inefficient, eXtravagant and
burdensome." And what has all that
got to do with citizens of Cincinnati,
pray tell?
Mebbe-so Postmaster-General Cortel-
you is going to be an angel in disguise
for the gullible part Of the public
which has small regard for its internal
arrangements and believes all that il
reads-of the powers of patent nos
trums which are now known to be
three parts poor whisky or viler alco-
hol. And there are those other fiend-
ish concerns which send out question
able circulars of a kind of still more
questionable practice All these Gen.
Cortelyou is cutting out from the Unit
ed States mails just as fast as he ca:
Last week 81 such concerns were cut
in New York and Brooklyn alone. Con-
Germs which operated from there. A
year ago 80 of these concerns were
shut out in Boston alone, and last Sep
tember 13 were shut up in Philadel-
phia. OF course, these concerns could
not operate at all except through the
mails. They are closely watched, and
if they try to locate under another
name in another city or State are i'm
mediately pounced upon. 1t Is surely
a great and good work.
Senator Watson, of Indiana. is about
to figure as n world reformer. He has
introduced a bin levying a tax of one
cent on each 100 sheets of cigarette
papers. These papers ordinarily retail
at five cents a hundred, and all of the
manufacturers OF smoking tobacco give
away with each package a book of
these papers, made, however. of in
ferior material.