The National tribune., 1907-01-17

| loEuey SUlyIn says. NO OH0 really
knows what the defense will be. That
Harry Thaw has been insane for the
past three years or more many people
| frmly believe, and his family have
been kept in constant dread of his kill
| ing someone. He Is said to have had
the same feeling for two prominent
New York lawyers he had for White,
but that his wrongs with regard to
them were entirely fancied. A report
| is that Senator Knox has advised Mrs.
Thaw to allow her son to believe he IS
| to be tried under the "unwritten law"
plea, and then at the last moment have
commission adjudge him insane,
| whisk him OF to an asylum, and keep
him there until the case is forgotten.
a new trial. The Countess of Var
mouth. sister of Harry Thaw. and said
to have more influence over him than
any other member of the family, Is on
her way to America. The prisoner has
been suffering with an attack Of ton
silitis lately.
1t Is pretty hard keeping up with the
bright American girls and women who
are stepping into positions Of
trust nowadays. Margaret Foerder-
er, an unusually good-looking. attrac-
tive girl Of II. has Just been given the
position of private secretary to the
Mayor Of Philadelphia. Altho Miss
Foerderer fs remarkably feminine in
her appearance and manner she pos
sesses in an eminent degree the quali-
ties for such an Office, tact and practi-
cal knowledge of men and affairs. Her
predecessors have stepped from the
Mayors office to positions commanding
from $1,000 to $4,000 a year. When
Mayor Weaver appointed the young
lady, he Is said to have remarked that
If she wasn't girl she might be Mayor
some day. Who knows but she may
be?
The Shah of Persia has been gath
cred to his fathers The flip-fiap of his
heelless slippers will no longer be heard
on the marble floor Of the council
chamber. The famous peacock throne
studded with millions of dollars worth
of precious gems will not longer set
OF his manly beauty, and the wall of
so widows Is heard in the land. He
had been in poor health for a long
time, and seriously so for the past
month. The Shah was a comparatively
young man, being only SO, Of an easy
going, amfable disposition, which, how
ever, did not make him very popular
with his subjects. In the midst Of the
Oriental splendors which surrounded
him he lived a life of democratic SIM
plicity, most Of the time dressed in a
loose jacket with his trousers turned
up, a good deal more interested In
digging in his garden or taking snap
shots with his camera than in anything
else. He was a small eater, his favor
ite dishes being rice cooked in fat,
fricasseed chicken, and chops, and he
never took wine. His dessert usually
consisted Of lemon preserved in syr-
up, which delicatessen strikes the Oc-
cidental mind most favorably In
August last the Shah gave his people
Constitution, with National Assembly
and other reforms. being forced to this
action by serious disturbances in his
country. He Is succeeded by his eldest
son, a young man of "a years, who has
already given evidence of great energy
and ability. He was educated prfnci-
pally in Europe, and is a man of pro-
gressive ideas, very fond OF motoring
and hunting. "Vive le Roll"
Mary Anderwuk enjoys the distinc-
ton of being the richest Eskimo woman
in America She has cornered the REIN
deer market so to speak, and has
things generally her own way. Mary's
fortune lies in her 500 reindeer, which
animal being absolutely necessary to
support life in the Arctic regions, makes
her really an uncrowned queen among
her people. Mary Is not bad looking,
dressed in her skirt and long coat Of
reindeer skin, on her head a hood
trimmed with soft, white fur. She has
Russian blood in her veins, and her
face, with its nice brown eyes, has a
pleasant, bright, kindly expression.
She came by her big herd Of reindeer
by good management and attention to
business. Her first husband. for she
has had two. was reindeer herder for
the United States, and for his faithful
service received a number of deer
from Uncle Sam. Mary inherited these
at his death. and under her excellent
management they have increased from
year to year until she is now the pos
SCISSOR of 500. She, of course, has had no
education. but knowing several Eskimo
dialects, picking up considerable Eng
lish from traders and missionaries, the
U. S. Government has employed her as
interpreter. This, added to her wealth,
has clothed her with a certain dignity.
and made her a person of tremendous
of her Arctic home. She has no chill
dren of her own, and has taken several
orphans. whom she is raising with
great care and pride, educating them
at the Eskimo school established by
Mr.. Jackson. These children form her
real ambition IN life, and, like Cor
nelia, the noble Roman matron and
mother of the Gracchi, she points to
them as her real jewels.
In this day Of liberal donations by
millionaires, Pedro Alvarado, one Of
the wealthiest mine owners of Mexico,
stands well to the front. He Is the
Andrew Carnegie of Mexico. and, like
him, seems determined to die DOOR.
A little while ago he offered to pay or
Mexico's National debt, but the Gov
ernment was too proud to allow him
to do so. Don Pedro was not to be
deferred, however. from giving away
his money, and has recently announced
gift of $10.000,0O0 to the poor Of
Mexico. No part of this will be given
outright to any applicant, but any one
found worthy will receive a small farm
or home, or be helped to start busi-
ness. Free schools are also to bs
opened with the fund, and struggling
churches assisted President Dfa1 il
now looking for the right men to dis
tribute this vast sum. Altho the Pal
milo mine could easily be made to pro-
duce S1,000,000 month, Senior Al
varado contents himself with much
less than that amount seeming, indeed,
to be quite Indifferent to the mere
making of money. He says In justifi-
cation of his moderate methods that
he does not want to dig all his silver
out at once, as he might spend it all
and be poor Don Alvarado has one
exceedingly rare trait of character; in
deed he might almost be said to stand
alone, unique, grand, inscrutable in
this respect. He loves his poor rela-
tions. His house is full of them, and
al uyOna wh, can cfa i'm, LipcJ,in NO m f.