The National tribune., 1907-06-06

tlonal Red Cross Conference from the
10th to the 18th of June are already
imaking their way to London, England,
which is the place of meeting. Miss
Mabel I. Boardman sailed from New
| York last week and a day or two later
ISurgeon-General O'Reilly, U. S. A.;
Gen. VIM. Cary Sanger: Medical Director
Wise, Z. S. N, constituting the Central
Committee of the American Red Cross
and VIM. Bicknell. of Chicago. prom
inent member of the association, de-
parted.
The International Conference meets
once every five years and the preced-
ing meeting was in st. Petersburg. The
CZarina has always taken the deepest
interest in the conferences and has
Icnarged the one about to meet with the
task of examining the devices expected
to be submitted in answer to her invi-
tation offering large money prizes for
the best means of transporting the
wounded from the field of battle. 9th
erwise the conference is devoted to
bringing up to date the Red Cross
methods of relief in time of war and
peStilence and natural calamities,
which will doubtless find expression in
certain recommendations that will be
laid before the approaching Hague Con-
ference.
At last there is in Washington what
is supposed to be an authentic copy of
the constitution adopted by the recent
constitutional convention of the pro-
posed State of Oklahoma. 1t was re-
ceived last week by the Department of
Justice.
Attorney General Bonaparte will give
the instrument careful scrutiny in or
der that he may answer several queS-
lions the President undoubtedly will
ask him concerning some of the pro-
visions the constitution is understood
to contain. The legal opinion of the
head of the Department of Justice on
a number of mooted propositions con-
tained in the constitution will be es-
sential before the President can reach
a conclusion whether the istrument
conforms to the requirements of the
enabling act.
1t is likely that some time will elapse
before the document can be digested,
and the President given such Informal
ton as will enable him to discharge his
duties in connection with the proposed
| constitution.
| BY the end of this week, if not ear
| lier. all the woodwork of the old wood
en- Long bridge will be down. and the
contractors will then start the work of
| removing the stone piers of the old
| structure, which for over a half GEN.
/ fury was the connecting link between
the North and South. A few days ago
| the last stick of timber that formed the
standing spans of the old bridge was
removed from the span at the Virginia
end of the bridge. and was taken ashore
to be sawed into lumber. Now the
worlImen are employed on the old draw
span. and it will soon be completely
removed.
Under the contract, the stone piers
are to be torn down, those in the
channel to the bed of the river, and
those in the shoal water on the flats on
each side down to low-water mark. The
massive granite blocks of which the
piers are built will be removed intact,
and Will be turned over to the United
States Army Engineers to be used in
public works about the river. Some of
the stone will be used in building a
seawall about the portion of the East
ern Branch which will shortly be re-
claimed, and it will also be used in
seawall building about Potomac Park.
D. r. Anthony (Republican) has been
elected as representative in Congress
from the First Kansas District to sue
coed Charles Curtis, elected by the last
| Legislature to succeed Alfred W. Ben
| thony was unopposed
Daniel r. Anthony is editor Of the
Leavenworth Times, and has been
prominent in Kansas politics for many
years. He is a son of the late Col d.
r. Anthony, the famous Kansas editor,
who was a brother of the late Susan
B. Anthony, the woman suffrage advo-
cate.
d. r. Anthony is the son of his ia
thor that
"Old" d. r. Anthony was one of the
pioneers of Kansas, one of the most
aggressive men who ever trOd shoe
leather. and to him is due the credit
for having largely helped to make Kan
sas 50 prominent. He was one of the
best newspaper men produced by The
Great West, stanch friend. a bitter
uncompromising enemy. He had all of
his noted sisters qualities intensified,
and was a rabid Republican, partisan
TO the limit, n hater of sham, withal
genial and personlly kindly, whole
souled gentleman.
Women are surely doing things At
least the Census Bureau has found that
last year they did, and it is probable
that more are doing the same things
this year.
Last year in continental United States,
| ny winch Is meant the United States CX-
elusive of Alaska. Hawaii and other
outlying possessions. the total number
of women Is years of age and over was
23.4S5,559, while those at work num-
bercd 1888 $50 Most of the women at
work were young: 6S.4 per cent being
under thirty-fiye years of age: 44.2 per
cent under twenty-five. and 25.6 per
cent had not reached the age of twenty
one; 1873 per cent were married; III
per cent we're widows and 1.3 per cent
were divorced.
In 1900 women We're represented in
al but nine of the 3e3 occupations in
which breadwinnerS of the country
We're engaged. The returns showed
among other things, that five females
We're employed as pilots; on steam rail-
roads ten Were employed as baggage
men. 81 as bralIemen, seven as conduc-
tors. As as engineers and firemen, and
&c as switc'ilmen, yardmen and flag
men; AZ were carriage and hack dri-
vers: six We're reported as ship carpen-
ters and two as roofers and slatnrs:
lS5 were returned as blacksmiths md
sos as machinists: eight were boiler
makers. 81 were charcoal, coke and
lime burners. and l. were well borers.
Two women We're reported as mo
tormen." Almost one-fourth of the
total number of women at work were
servants; 456,405 were farm laborers
96S per cent of whom were from the
Southern States, and 361.S0i were ne
groes. There were 33S.144 dressmak-