The National tribune., 1907-09-12

off a strip of flag left from the Fourtf
| of July decorations and wiped his Ia
| BILE. The proprietor, who was MeXi-
can. thought the affair an insult to thf
United States, and had the fellow ar
rested, who was promptly dealt with
by the city authorities.
A few days ago, thru the medium OF
the papers it became known that the
| great-granddaughte of Paul Jones, and
the only living descendant of the fam
| Gus Admiral, was living in want IN
| Paris.
on hearing this Cen Lawrence wen,
to call on the aged lady and promised
10 help her. She offered to sell him
some of the relics of Paul Jones, which
We're still in her possession, including
an old sword. some letters and in par
ticular a document in the handwriting
of Paul Jones to the Congressional
Committee, giving details of the ex-
pense of fitting out the Ranger at Ports
mouth.
Gen. Lawrence has interested num-
ber of other Americans in the old lady,
who now in her declining days is saved
from want.
Under the age limit Prof. Aaron n
Skinner, United States Navy, retired
from active service the other day, after
and professor of mathematics in the
Navy since 1S9S.
Prof. Skinner is a native of Boston,
Mass, and was educated in the public
schools and Beloit College. After a
special course of astronomy at the Uni
versity of Chicago he was appointed as
sistant astronomer at the United States
Naval observatory in 1870, and has
since been astronomer in charge of the
nine-inch transit circle.
In lS9s-95 he determined places of
S.6S9 stars in zone Il degrees to IS
degrees south declination as contri-
button TO the great star catalogue of
the German Astronomical Society.
Prof Skinner has discovered a num-
Der of variable stars, and has been
active in all meridian circle work of
the observatory since 1871. He was in
charge of the expedition that observed
the eclipse of the sun at Sumatra in
1901.
Prof. Skinner will remain at work
at the observatory for some time, en-
gagged in finishing some work he has
yet on hand.
Col. Frank H. Phipps. of the Ord
nance Department, retired from active
service last month, upon reaching the
age of 64 years. He was one of those
of the longest service on the active list
at the time of retirement. He was ap-
pointed a cadet at the Military Acad-
emy at West Point, on July l, 1859,
and was commissioned a First Lieuten-
ant of Ordnance on July IL, 1868. He
was brevetted Captain on March 13,
1865, for faithful and meritorious SER
vice in the Ordnance Department dur
ing the civil war. The retirement OF
Col. Phipps results in the following
promotions in the Ordnance Depart
nr ID
to be Colonel; Maj. ]. Walker Bene, to
be Lieutenant-Coionel, and Capt. Sam
uel Hof, to be Major Col. Phipps, at
the time of retirement, was in COM
mand of the Springfield Armory, Mas
sachusetts, having been on this duty
since May, 1899.
In diplomatic circles the most inter-
esting event in the past few days was
the christening of the baby daughter
of the Peruvian Minister and Nine
Pardo, the little stranger making her
appearance two weeks ago, at Over
ledge, the cottage in Manchester-by-
the-Sea that the Minister has leased
for the Summer.
The baby was christened Anne Te-
re.sa, by the Rev. MIR. Powers. of the
Sacred Heart Church of Manchester
Only intimate friends were present at
the christening
Nine. Pardo came to this country
two years ago bride of 10, the Min
ister having just been appointed to take
the place of the former Minister, Mr..
Calderon, and they made their first
social appearance at one of the White
House receptions, since which time they
have been continually adding TO their
circle of friends. They are both men,
bers of two of the few pure -blooded
Spanish families of Peru, there being
less than dozen such families.
California is terribly sot in her ways.
She welcomes all Caucasians but no
others need apply, and that's all there
is of it.
Some weeks ago Chief Terence V.
Powdcrly asked Gov. Gillette, of Cali
fornia, what class of labor was needed
in that State, the wages offered, and
the nationalities preferred. The Gov
eTnor, thru the Secretary of the State
Board of Trade, replied that California
now has population of less than -
100000, but that there was room
enough for about 100000. Continu-
ing, he said:
"All Caucasian races are welcomed
here. The feeling toward the Japanese
is much the same now as it was toward
the Chinese at the time the exclusion
act was passed. In fact, the time has
come when. by many people, the Chi
nese are preferred"
The California Commissioner of La
Dor Statistics wrote that unskilled la
Dor was much in demand in that State
but that the supply of mechanics was
in excess of the demand.
AS long as it was only women who
made bread they could mix it with
their hands or any old way. AS soon
as men came to be bread mixers ways
or doing it by machinery were at once
invented. 1t is probable that dough-
mixing machines VIII be adopted az
part OF the subsistence equipment of
Army posts, as the result of service
tests of these machines which are now
being held. Eleven of the machines
were sent for experimental use to Forts
Smelling. Mimi; Riley, Kan; Sheridan.
Ill; Totten, n. Y; Myer, Va: Des
Moines. Iowa; d. A. Russell. Wyo.:
Douglass, Utah. and Monroe, Va. aud
Columbus Barracks. Ohio, and Van
couver Barracks Wash. Preliminary
reports have been received from off,
GERS who have been supervising the
use of the machines. and 1t is stated
that the machines result in the produc-
tion Of better bread, more bread from
a given amount of -four than under the
old method of hand-kneading, and in
economy of labor. They are driven bv
electric motors. and their operation is