The National tribune., 1907-08-01

requested that no extra arrangements
be made iur mis- conf.rs lie viii STEEL
and mess with the officers. and viii bt
given lis picn of the line horses foi
winch tie 18th is famous. The an.
nouncement that he was to make the
trip caused i stir in military circles. and
wires are being quietly pulled TO get the
young man for Il guest. First Lieut.
Sherard Coleman, 9th Cav, who ed
/ in the Rough Riders under President
Roosevelt, will request the privilege oi
entertaining the son of his old comman-
der
Capt Fitzhugh Lee. son of Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, and grandnephew of Gen
| Robert Z. Lee, the two Confederate wal
horses. and Lieut.. Phil Sheridan. sor
of Little Phil the dashing cavalry
| officer of the Union forces. will be mem
bers of the outfit. Both served at the
White House, and are strong friends OF
the Presidents son.
| Kermit is the most attractive of the
Presidents sons, and by long odds the
| best looking.
At the Raleigh last week was Wong
kwang. an engineer of Hankow, China
who is making a tour of the world for
the purpose of examining into engineer
ing conditions. and also with the view
to getting points in improved machin-
cry which would be useful in the big
engineering works of China. He is not
so particularly enamored of American
life. or else is more honest than most
foreigners.
Il haven't found anything SO far that
we could use with advantage in China
said Mr.. kwang. There are many i'm
plemcnts that we could use there, but
they require experts to handle them,
and this would cost more than they are
worth to us. That is the trouble with
the United States. Everything made
here Is too expensive for use in my
country. America could extend her
trade in other countries if it were not
for the fact that many of its manufac-
lures are too dear. Consequently we
have TO go to England and other coun-
tries where labor is cheaper. You don't
find tie United States making any war
vessels for other countries, but even in
China we are building ships for other
nations. Here you do not construct any
battleships except for your own use"
Mr. Kwang speaks English very well,
which prompted the inquiry whether he
an American or English school.
no" said Mr.. Kwang. Il learned
English in China, and l would advise
every Chinaman to stay there if he
wants TO get an education, rather than
to go abroad. Since coming to America
have visited several of your universi-
ties and / found that the advantages
China, and If a Chinaman wants to en-
ter business in his own country, he
cannot get nearly so practical Il training
as he can right i'll China. The whole
theory of the Western universities and
schools is built on a plan which gives
the graduates ideas that cannot be car
ried out in the East, because they cam
not apply them to the cheaper labor
The Postoffice Department has sue
ceeded in finding claimants for nearly
all of the 81 letters which were recently
returned from Mexico. where they had
been held more than 80 years. In many
cases either writer or addressee. and in
a few instances both writer and ad-
dressee, had been dead for years, but
the letters were delivered to surviving
relatives.
The letter with the most interesting
history was mailed at Lavirk. Norway,
Nov. IS. 1875, addressed to sailor at
Mexico, where he had gone
when a boy of 8 years. When the let
ter reached Mexico the addressee had
gone to South America, whence he later
to Norway without having re-
ceived the communication. A quarter
Of a century ago he came to the United
States.
During all these years the letter had
remained in the Mexican postoffice, and |
when it was turned into the Division of |
Dead Letter sit was sent to the place of |
origin in Norway, and from there back |
% this country, and finally delivered to |
he addressee at Stanley. Wis, where |
ne is prosperous citizen with fam |
Iy.
NJ. Theobald Chartran, the eminent !
French painter. died the other day in |
Paris. He is chiefly known in the !
United States for some very bad por-
rats of Mrs. Roosevelt and the Presi- |
lent. and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth.
These portraits were exhibited for the |
irst time at private view at the home
If NJ. CambOn, at that time the French |
The French Government
bought the pictures of the Presidents
wife and daughter, presenting the one
If Miss Alice to the President and the
me of Mrs. Roosevelt to the United
states Government for the White House
So long as the painter had to die so
oon. it is pity that he could not have
,een called before he left these por-i
rats as sample of his handiwork The
portrait of Miss Alice, as she was then,
las never been displayed in the public
'art of the White House. and if it is as
,oor portrait of the fair young natron
t can easily be understood why the por-
rait is not on exhibition. The painting
# Mrs. Roosevelt is life size, and rep
esentS her in outdoor clothes. light and
Iuffy, with har on, and parasol in hand,
itting on bench in the White House
rounds, in Summer. The detail of
ench. dress fripperies, and foliage is
n the best style of Chartran's art, but
he portrait itself, the pictured face |;
'ears but shadowy resemblance of Mrs
Roosevelt. The style of the picture is
frivolous, and no one on earth
rould ever accuse Mrs. Roosevelt of
Ooking frivolous. The canvas of the
PRESIDENT gives him the head of a Nep-
une. and the body of Hercules In
ther words. the head isn't big enough
or the body by about two sizes of a
at The President is not herculean in
rame at all, and he has got a good
ead on him.
The lectern which President Roose-
elt Will present the old BrutoE Parish
at Williamsburg, Va, to support
he Bible which King Edward will give
las been completed and accepted. 1t is
he work of Mr.. j. Stewart Barney, Of
Sew York.
Rising from a symbolic base is the
NIGEL of peace, draped female form
whose upraised hands and folded wings
upport the desk of the lectern The
gure stands on a globe. with one foot
esting on Great Britain and the other :,
n the United States. The globe itself
) supported by the British lion and the
merican eagle Retween fhaga fipurec