The National tribune., 1907-06-20

THE NATIONAL TRIB'
Many of the names found in the Pos
tai Guide are presumably descriptive
| of the communities which have adopted
them Some of then, are frankly cu-
| losistic. others quite as frankly dcpre-
ciatiory. Certainly alright. ILL.,, ana
| the towns in Kentucky. Mississippi and
South Carolina which have taken the
name O. X. must have a belief in their
own merits while Fashion, Ga. and the
Texas town of Dressy evidently dc not
mean 20 be classed with Dowdy. CD, ~
the utiltarian Overall. Tenn. One Gown
| in Ohio has the courage to call itself
| Dull. and the citizens of Looney. Okla
and Boozy. Va. go even further. flhe.
) y. y, and Fair, in Arkansas. are bet
tered by the % Edens and t;e
Ilo communities that call them
selves Paradise. while Famous. Mo.
Extra. Ky: Peerless. Ohio. and Exam
pie. Kan. follow the Biblical injunction
T, in not hiding their light under buShsl.
! The town of Surprise, Neb.. seems a
| ;ritie doubtful about its existence and
capabilities, as do Experiment. Ga. and
Deoyolente. Miss. and Bargaintown.
! y. J.. leaves some uncertainty as TO
whether it considers itself a good or a
bad bargain.
| Prosperity y. c.. and Success, Cal,
seem to invite immigration, and ~
| clone, Ark, and Starvout, Ore. to dis
courage it. while Santa Claus, lnd..
must certainly be the children's para
| disc. Lawyersville. n. Y: DoctortoWn,
| Ga: PreacherSville, Ky, and Artisan
| w. Va seem to furnish clue 10 thf
occupation of their inhabitants. an
the citizens OF Spoonvilie, cal. may De
presumed to be of a sentimental nature
The residents of Old Glory. Ariz. must
be patriotic ana those of New Jerusa-
| lem. Pa, and New Zion. 5. G. piouS,
while the citizens of Spotcash, va. are
obviously not entitled to credit Tor any
| thing at all.
Without a murmur of disapproval
| from the subordinates in the ONCE
Ralph w. Tyler the Ohio col pred man,
took the oath of Office as Auditor lof
the Navy Department. 1t is one OF the
hest offices held by a colored man IN
the Government service. After makihS
the rounds of the Assistant secretaries
of the Treasury, the Secretary being ap-
sent. TYLER went to his own office. me
employees were lined up to a man and
introduced to their new boss. Not even
a Southerner refused to shake hands
with the negro.
people never treated me better III
Ohio than ! have been treated here,
TYLER was coming into the Office some
TYLER was coming into the office some
of the dery-headed Hotspurs of the
sunny Southland announced that rather
than sit in the same office with the gen
tleman of color they would resign. fut
they didn't No. indeedy. When you
see a Government clerk resiSning NICE
fat Office small duties and life posi-
ton during good behavior, for little
thing like that you will see the pic
lures of Judas in church parlors.
Wallace Wachter. of Akron. Ohio.
one of the farmers who was visited by
President Roosevelt and Vice President
Fairbanks while in Ohio. during their
tramp into the country received three
autograph photos of the President, ac-
companied by the following letter,
signed by the President:
Il send you three photographs one
for yourself. and the other two 1 viii
ask YOU 10 give TO two IhonaseS at
whose farm / stopped. One of them
gave me a glass Of milk. and the other
had four such fine sons. Give my re-
CARDS to Your wife and all the Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomases and other friends l
met
When the President stopped at
Wachter's house he asked for the farm
ers card and promised THAT he would
be heard from soon. Wachter was the
most pleased man in Summit County,
it is said, and says he is for Roosevelt
for President for life.
President Roosevelt seems to be a
worshiper of fine physique, and none of
his sons will ever be very large. and
they are not strong. On the other hand,
Mrs. Longworth and Miss Edith are
pretty sturdy examples of young wo-
manhood.
Ex-senator Spooner was in Balti-
more the other day and reporter
tried to Interview him.
Il am out of politics and practicing
law. he said. you must excuse me
for being so unfertile in news, but 1
am not talking politics.
But on the National question. what
do you think of Roosevelt"
II am not thinking at all of anything
in politics.
"And the business that brings you to
Baltimore?"
rs purely personal business. and of
no interest to the public
Senator Spooner did not care to talk
about the Philippines. the Yellow Peri,
the state of Russia. the Panama Canal, |
tariff revision. Roosevelt's railroad pol |
icies, internal resources, irrigation pe
the arid West, river and harbor irr-
provement, the recovery of Galveston, |
rearing of ba bies or the price of pruneS. |
He did express one opinion, however.
what do you think about this |
weather for June?"
"Ahi Without committing myself. I
should say offhand that it is very cold
and disagreeably rainy"
]. r. Purcell, an ex-Confederate vet
eran who lives at Gainesville, Va, has
written President Roosevelt letter in
which he suggests that the Executive
use his influence toward the enactment
,ra for
ing Of the surviving soldiers of the lost
cause. Mr.. Purcell commanded the
Ewell Guards from 1862 10 1864, and
recently completed a compilation of the
record of the muster roll of that or
ganiZation. He is a stanch Southerner,
but he admires the President excess
siveiy, and has frequently shown that
he possesses the courage Of his convic-
tions by defending the Executive
against the political attacks of neigh
bors and friends who are dyed-in-rhe-
wool Democrats. He calls Mr.. Roose-
Welt "a com bina ton OF the Teuton and
the Southern sportsman and soldier
gentleman" and in his letter proposes
10 the President the toast, "Hoch soil
er leben."
Possibly Mr.. Purcclls pipe dreams
may come true. Congress has removed
al disabilities from recalcitrant South
has returned all the rebel flags,
81 that they can be used as object les
sons in teaching disloyal history; and
rebel flag for city flag-all the other
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