The National tribune., 1907-08-08

uation from Columbia University was
in 1898. and from West Point in 1902
His first service, of nearly three years.
was in the Philippines, and his ap-
pointment as Military Aid to the Presi-
dent followed his return. He makes a
strikingiy handsome soldier. inherltlng
his good looks from his mother. VINO
was Miss Ida Honcre. sister of Mrs
Potter Palmer. Lieut.. Grants sister is
the Princess Cantacuzene, of Russia
His father is shortly to be relieved from
his present station at Governors Island.
The silver namc-plate that once
marked the casilet in which were plac-
ed the remains of Salmon P. Chase.
Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabi-
net of President Lincoln and afterward
Chief Justice of the United States.
has been discovered in a Washington
pawnshop.
Its whereabouts for the past 21 years.
since the removal of the body from
Washington to Cincinnati. o., has re-
maincd mystery. The plate bears the
following inscription:
S. P. Chase. Chief Justice; born jan
IS. 1905; died May I, 1873.
Some days ago n man describing
himself as the undertaken who acted
at the removal Of the remains of Chase
from the cemetery i'll this city 10 the
one in Cincinnati took the plate to a
pawn shop and offered It for sale. he
said the plate had been in his posses
sion a number of years. and. as it was
of no use to him, he wished to dispose
of it. The firm refused TO make the
purchase. because, except for its his
toric value, the plate, tho of sold sii-
yer. was of no use.
A man in the Office on business of his
own became interested in the me'uen-
10. He bought it from the ss.pposed
IL
placed it in the hands of the pawn
broker to be disposed of purely as z
business Investment. believing that its
historic value would add to its intrili =
sic value.
Some of the observers who are in
tercsted in the reduced-fare contest in
North Carolina seem TO assume that
Judge Pritcfard is Democrat because
he is Southerner and represented
North Carolina in the Senate This Is
not the case. Judge Pritchard is Il Pc
publican. and always has been. 1t was
as result of the so-called ''co-opera-
ton movement in 1894 that he was
elected to the Senate to fill thH uncx-
pired term of the late u. B. Vance. H,
was reelected in 1897, and served the
full term until March 8, 1908. Pres
dent Roosevelt saw to it that he was
not out of public Office loEg. and cn
March 80, or less than a month after
Pritchard ceased TO be Senator. ap
pointed him Judge of the Supreme
Court of the District of ColumbiG in
the following year he was advanced to
a United States Circuit Judgeship, the
position which he now holds. His rec
ord on the bench here wa; exception
ally fine, and the Washington bar holds
him in high esteem.
Jeter ConeIIy Pritchard, 10 give him
his full name, was SO years old this
month, and is a native of Tennessee.
After receiving a common school edu-
"..tion at Martins Creek Academy, he
became an apprentice in the office OF
the Joncsboro Tribune II Hcraid. He
moved to Bakersville, n. c.. in 1873,
and was joint editor and owner of the
Roam Mountain Republican until 1887.
when he was admitted to the lar and
removed to Marshall He was Il candi-
date for Congress in 1892.
James Paxton Voorhees,, poet. sculp-
tor and dramatic reader. IS going to
run for Congress in Indiana. He has
recently been living in Grcencastla, but
he has kept his residence ut ?'erre
Haute. and there vii. shy his castor
into the ring as aspirant f0r Il seat in
the House. He is well known In WASH
ington, having served as ;ecrctary 10
his distinguished father. 'Ihe tall sea
more of the Wabash" L, VIII be re-
called that he was an earnest champion
of great thcater to be esta blishcd mere
by the Government. He has n:i,i,A bus.s
of Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson and
Charles H. Cramp. besides a bust of his
father. which is in the Capitol. james
Paxton Voorhees, is now 81 years old.
and says: Il am product Of my own
capacities, working in my own peculiar
way. | was born at CovinSton, on the
Wabash, and love TO state the fact
There were not ;Gany pa1p!e ihcle at
that time, or the catastrophe might
have been ayerted. I was born of poor
but honest parents-being honest the,
were poor, all right-and they started
me in life sure dead honest. They got
me a job in Congress as secretary" Ee
was partly educated at Gco-gctoTn
University. Owing to the reverence ir
which his fathers name is held thru
out Indiana. .ifere is little doubt that
The son will cut figure in paIitics ont
voorhees,. formerly represented Il dis-
trict of Washington State in Congress.
The body of John Endicott the only
son of Rear-Admiral and Mrs Nor
decai Endicott. who died last Saturday
in Colorado Springs. was taken last
week To Mays Landing, n. j., where
colt was 26 years old, and a sufferer OF
tuberculosis. He had lived in Colorado
eight years in q vain endeavor to re-
gain his health. Several years ago he
visited his parents and sisters here, ard
then returned to the mountains, witt:
only the longing to live. The mother
arrived at the sons bedside only i few
hours after he had passed away.
Representative Champ Clark. of Mis-
souri,, told a story about former Rep
resentative Henry u. johnson, oe In
/ diana, in one of his Chautauqua lee
lures recently. Altho Mr.. Johnson came
| to Congress as a Republican, he and
! the Missourian were very good friends
and Clarks admiration of the Indianian
continues to this day. In his lecture he
spoke of Johnson's skill in debate, and
| told the story in connection with that
characteristic of his friend.
! MIR. Johnson" he said, was engaged
| in a debate with an Illinois Congress.
man. and called him an ass. This wa.
unparliamentary, of course, and had t.
| be Withdrawn. Pursuant to the ordel
of the Speaker Mr.. Johnson said:
| "I withdraw the language 1 used
Mr.. Speaker. but / insist that the gen
tleman from Illinois is out of order
| How am I out of order?' demand
ed the Illinois man, with considerable,
heat.
i Probably veterinary surgeon car
toll Won rptOrtpd Johnson ra,