The National tribune., 1907-09-12

When the kittens were finally rescued,
scared out of eight of their nine lives.
| and the dog brought up before the high
court of Miss Ethel's displeasure, great
was her sorrowing INDICATION, but
quicker was her humor.
| Il had meant to call you by doggy
name" she said severely to the un-
| abashed pup, but in view of the way
in which you seem disposed to follow
! the Stars and Stripes, L just suppose Eli
have to call you either Constitution Or
or else maybe Cocktail" she added de-
| Inurly, glancing round to see whether
the comment had reached maternal
| ears.
|
Some time next year it will be pos
sible TO communicate by Government
wireless telegraph stations from San
| Francisco and Seattle to Nome and st.
Michael, Alaska, arrangements having
been made whereby the War and Navy
Departments will cooperate in trans
mitting messages between these places.
The Navy already has stations at North
Head, Table Bluff. and C,pe Blanco,
between San Francisco and seattle, and
at TatooSh Island and Sitka, Alaska,
which is about 1000 miles from Ia
toosh. A Navy wireless station will be
established at Valdez, Alaska about
$50 miles from Sitka Next year the
IIil vi DS VI TIE -ATillN Will eSldDiloil
wireless station at Fort Gibbon, which
will complete the chain between Valdez
and the Army stations now working at
Nome and st. Michael.
The number of employees in the Gov
ernment Printing Office is smaller than
it has been for several years. due in
part to the fact that the installation of
new machinery Is causing more work
to be done automatically. Folding is
now done largely by automatic ma
chimes, as well as stitching, pasting and
gathering: In printing bulletins for the
Department of Agriculture the big web
press prints, pastes and folds the
pamphlets. and run of 100000 copies
on one of these machines is not con-
sidered an exceptionally large number
The difference in the number of
workers at the big printery is said to
be quite noticeable. The number of
employees is now less than 3,700, the
first time in several years that it has
fallen below the 1000 mark.
He is commonly called Teddy as
one of the endearingly familiar terms
which people apply to those they like,
but 1t is at the same time a heap more
familiar than the designation ever be-
slowed on any other President. THE
Father of His Country" was the most
familiar name applied to George. Wash
ington, tho he was also called by the
classical-minded of his day Americas
Fabius,'' The Cincinnatus of the
West" ATLAS of America" Flower OF
the Forest" and savior of His Coun-
try" Lovely Georgius'' was an ap-
pellatiorf applied to him in derision by
the British soldiery. President Adams
was called THE Colossus of Independ-
ence." Thomas Jefferson was The Sage
of Monticello" President Monroe was
The Last Cooked Hat" j. @. Adams
was ''The Old Man Eloquent" Jackson
was "Old Hickory" and Hero of New
Orleans" Van Ruren was THE Little
Wizard" and king Martin the First,
Tyler was Young Hickory and The
Rough and Ready" old Zach" and
"Old Ruena Visit Fillmore was The
American Louis Philippe Later
Presidents up to Theodore Roosevelt
seemed to have escaped nicknames, al
tho Grover Cleveland-after his first
term-was dubbed by Dana THE
Stuffed Prophet
1t surely does look as tho the limit
of human endurance has been reached
with the snobbishness of some of our
American people. 1t is perfectly useless
70 say that this snobbishness comes
from the noyeau richie, because 1t
doesn't by any means The middle-clasS
people, who are supposed to have some
sense, because they, after all, do the
great business of the world in an in
dustrial way, are getting more snobbish
than the plutocrat American girl who
gives her money for a title. The rich
girl pays for what she gets and takes
the chances. The middle-class woman
takes her chances and pays nothing,
just in hope to touch the hem of the
MT Of I1n ri1 ha aa L
famous or Infamous, as you please to
put il. The very latest outrages of this
character were perpetrated upon Prince
Wilhelm and upon the son of the Presi- |
dent. Prince Wilhelm was guest of |
this country, in one sense of the word, |
and he should have received the same
courteous treatment that he would have
gotten in the house of a friend. Instead |
he was all but mobbed when he tried
to be pleasant to people, and when he |
the great American society |
gang on board his ship they carried off |
about everything movable but the slop |
jar in his cabin. 1t was outrageous
treatment, and goes far to make Amer |
leans odious abroad
Right on top of that comes the word |
that Kermit Roosevelt, son of the Pres
ident, who with boyish ardor started
on the trip with the cavalry from Fort |
Riley to go to Fort Sheridan, and who |
after two weeks of it has been driven |
away by fool women, who invaded the |
privacy of his closed tent when the lad
was asleep and tried to kiss the dear, |
good boy" Kermit, who is quiet man.
y young fellow, with good sound sense,
and all of a boys dislike of fuss and |
couldn't stand for anything OF
hat kind, so he sloped, he did, and went
on q hunting trip up in Dakota. He
simply would not put up with the vul-
gar curiosity of the people, who were
not content with looking at him, but |
must get close to him and put their
hands on him. That is something that
The average boy would resent with his
doubled fists, but Kermit was too much
Of a gentleman to resent the curiosity
that way, so just concluded to get out
Of the horizon entirely. He was well I
liked by the troops, who would have
done anything fo9 him. and they sin
cerely regret that anything should have
happened to spoil the pleasure of the
boy in the trip.
Word comes from Dakota that Ker-
nit is up there hunting with the sons
Of some railroad officials. and that he
Is bagging lots Of game and having
good time, but that he regrets having
lost the continued pleasure with the