The National tribune., 1907-11-07

'acond stroke of paralysis not long ago
! lie is fine old fellow, John Is. He NJ
| onger Stirs the House of representa-
| ives into roars of laughter at his stories
and wit, but he is just the same good
aatured, easy-going sort of person ne
| always was
Now the complaint comes from the
jamestown Exposition that its people
| do not know the difference between mai.
boxes and the trash-receivers, and thu!
| \ lot of valuable mail has been lost
| The complaint came a few months ago
| that the postals that were sent out by
visitors to the Exposition were not get
ting to their destination. An investiga-
| ton was made, and it was discovered
| that because there was such wad OF
! the postal card mail the carriers o!
somebody who handled it got tired and
sequestered thousands of the cards.
|
The President wrote Secretary Cortel-
you a very cordial letter of thanks for
the admirable manner in which he
handled the financial situation when the
squeeze came a couple of weeks ago.
| Maybe that might help Secretary Cor
/ telyou in the coming Presidential cam
paisn.
1 William NJ Birth, lacking only few
weeks of being a centennarian, died in
/ w NdSHlDSlOH last Weeh- ne Ndo pci IL
Washington. and has known every Pres
ident except Washington, John Adams
and Jefferson.
i Mrs. Rice has been in the city try
ing to organize it into clubs for safe
and sane" recognition of the Fourth of
July. She has not made much headway
except with those people whose "hearts
dry as Summer dust burn to the socket
Young people want the hip-hurrah
Fourth, just exactly as their mothers
and fathers had it, and their parents as
kids had before them even to the gen.
Grafton which heralded the first proc
lamation of independence. 1t Will be
remembered that President John
Adams, stern old Puritan that he was,
wrote his wife exultingly of the transac-
tions of July 2, 3 and 4, 1776, and added
in that famous letter that it was his
; belief that the day would come down in
!, history as an epoch-maker, and that it
would be celebrated with much noise,
the explosion of powder, firing of guns
and all that. Now, what is the use OF
trying to make the old gentleman out q
trouble maker? He knew that when
the heart is exuberant it finds best eX-
preston in noise, racket, bedlam, if you
will. He knew that when the grave
issues brought about by the Declaration
of Independence had been settled and
forgotten by later generations that the
jollity and joy of the occasion would be
remembered, and the spirit of patriot
ism kept alive in the hearts of the old
and inculcated in the hearts of the
young, when, but for the object-lessons
of powder burning and riot of flags all
/, interest in the natal day might die out
Some way, 1 never can quite give in to
a colorless Fourth of July. I remember
, too vividly the joys of the day when
trailing along with a father who on
that day was boy again, and "torpe-
Idoes," firecrackers and all sosts of noise
making things We're provided lavishly
by him. At night those wonderful sky
rockets, flower baskets and showers ol
stars and thingsi Who that has mem
cries like that would forego them oi
would not want other children to grow
up with like ones? safe and sane" is
! all right for flat-bred youngsters. who
t don't know much about life anyhow
e and never will, but for the real boy.
;. and girls who are going to know al
2 about how to live, the real live Fourth
8 of July is the only one.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt has a very bat
E sort of throat and a growth was form.
ing in her nose, but slight operation
= has helped both troubles, and never
stopped the happy young girl from rides
or drives.
= There is something absolutely pathet
a ic in the retirement movement nov
= on foot in the Army. The recent "rid
: ing stunt which was ordered by thu
: President is said to have been a goot
: deal of fake, as it was well known
e that most of the officers who were or
Z dered to take it were incapacitated, bu
: that if the proof were brought out tina
= they could not ride they could be re
s tired, and thus make way for a lot o
-s r1a~ boz oh 6rr ctr
n but no chance for preferment. Their
g is no necessity for retiring the officers
C not the slightest. They can do the desl
t work very much better than any Office
who comes to the Department fresh
but places must be made in these shell
f tered berths for lot of young favorites
d and this was the very best way to COM
e at it without seeming to be "harsh." o
: course, you know, if a man is incapaci
e tated-why, then, of course, he is an
e he must retire. Just the same, theS
Il officers will probably not have to noun
IL horse again in the next 25 years an
s more than they have III :!e past 10
o and il it was a necessity they could d.
: it and outride the President himself
l. 1t is little early yet for the politi
e clans who are patriots for political pur
poses TO begin to come to Washington
# but they are coming just the same. TIL
e place is filling up rapidly with "plac
S, hunters" who come on in advance o
IT the meeting of Congress to get in thei
y work for an easy job. 1t is really re
o msrkabie the number of people in tn
n world who are on the lookout for cas-
IS jobs. and in this country It is expecte
) that the easiest job can be procured O
ones Congressman. Government job
/ are all considered easy, when as a mat
d ter of fact no work is easy that is we
Is done Time was when man could tax
= Government job and farm 1t out whil
,fI he himself carried on a good bushes
,e entirely disconnected with the lob
id which he probably never saw, but thos
,e days are gone. If you work for tn
=, Government now you have got to wor
,e for your salary. But you can't max
IS those who are seeking easy work be
re lieye that.
Sc Gov Hoch, of Kansas. says that TIL
Sunfiower State Is for Roosevelt, an
right along on his heels comes Senate
n Long, of the same State, and declare
Of that Kansas Is for Taft Senator Lon
Of knows. and don't you forget it, He
ly the politician of Kansas, and he know
ar exactly what Kansas does want. Senate
ID Long is a close personal friend of th
y. President, and he keeps his finger O
IS the political pulse about as carefully 9
lie the next one.
IN Mrs. Rachel Jackson Lawrenc
ee granddaughter of old Gen. Jackson, no
he IS years old, entertained Presider
le Roosevelt at "the Hermitage" Gel
LII Jackson's old home, when the PresideI
hi was South recently. Mrs. Lawrence ha