The National tribune., 1908-06-18

the coveted right.
Judge Rodey says:
The Foraker law, under which the
United States governs the island, is an
admirable piece of legislation Under
it Porto Rico practically is given about
s1.000,00O q year. With this money
coming into her Golfers. the island can
not help but be prosperous and care
free
1.-The only fault with the whole sys-
tenn of Government, so far as L can
see-there is no graft at all, or of such
petty proportions as to be insigniil-
cant-iS that not enough money Is
spent on the schools. The best way in
which 10 make Americans is to have
American schools, and you cannot get
American teachers to go down to Porto
Rico on practically the same salary
as they receive here"
Judge Rodey said that one of the
most remarkable facts about Porto
Rico is the difference in conditions up
on the northern and southern portions
of the island A mountain range about
1000 feet high divides the island in
half. On the northern portion of this
range, he said, there is plenty of rain,
and there Is 40 necessity whatever Tor
artificial and in the raising of crops.
On the southern slope of the noun
tains, however, the conditions are al
most opposite. there being but little
rain, and irrigation being resOrted to
to raise crops.
Miss Flora Wilson. daughter of Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson, several
years ago forsook society life in Wash
ington, where she figured among the
Cabinet women, and stood i'll line at
State receptions at the White House,
IrA rt, hA fIn nf
Cabinet officer. She went abroad with
friends and Travelled for year. Then
she seemed to drop out of sight for ii
time. The next that was heard of her
She was studying Music in Paris. Then
she became til pupil of Jean de
Reszke. Now the word comes from
across thei water that she has made
her debut in grand opera, and VIII
adopt musical career on the stage.
It is said that she has beautiful voice.
which has been carefully cultivated,
and of a pleasing quality. While 1t
looks a little odd, it is nevertheless true
that Miss Wilson is infinitely happier
at work than she would have been PLAY
ing hostess in high society here in
Washington. Miss Wilson used not to
be particularly pretty. tho she had nice
ways and a good face. She was very
thiE to angularity and fair
After Bryan found somebody TO take
his dare, in the person of his brother.
who said that the $4,000 was Ryan
money and given by him to the Demo-
cratic campaign, he began to hedge. he
had declared emphatically that if it
money with $1,000 added had come
from the Golfers of T. +. Ryan he
would pay it back. The proof was
furnished Now Mr.. Bryan says. IF
it can be proved that 1 knew anything
about that $4,000 I will refund it"
Now, you know, William Jennings
Bryan is about the only one who would
really know about that, and he de-
cIares that he did not know anything
witness, one Sheehan, who declares that
Mr.. Bryan does not know about that
1000. Mr.. Bryan loves to make
money, and he loves to keep it.
Much interest has been aroused in
Army and Navy circles in Washington
by the finding of a number of cases OF
old projectiles of type obsolete many
years ago in Il well on the site of the
new Marine Barracks Building, near
the Navy Yard. The existence of the
well was not known, and there is no
record of the shells. official or other
wise Examination shows that they are
probably of American manufacture of
a type formerly used by the Marine
Corps and the Army
Representative Sims, of Tennessee.
has been designated by Chairman
Mann. of the House Special Committee,
to investigate the paper and wood pulp
industry to look after the inquiry rel
alive to the wood pulp business of
North Carolina, Virginia and Tennes-
see.
/ There are pulp mills in North Caro-
lima and Virginia for which East Ten
nessee furnishes much of the wood
used in the industry.
A great many newspaper writer's are
much exercised because they fear that
the relics and historic furniture, old
coach and "sich' which are ticketed at
Mount Vernon as being genuine Wash
ington relics are not real" relics. but
| only near ones. 1t may be that in
many instances the near" relic is pre-
dominant, but where's the diff. as the
| boys say The things there are at least
| Il century and quarter old, and they
| look to be older. They do belong to
Colonial days, most of them. and they
have a welI-authenticated pedigree, so
| why kick up a row about them. Wash
ington could have used them, don't you
1
ter of fact, however, those things al
Mount Vernon which are stated to have
| been in the Washington family We're
and you can just bank on it. These
cliff dwellers down here are not par
| ticuiarly fond OF change, and they think
a number of times and then again be-
| fore they change fine old mahogany
| furniture of Colonial days for the mis-
cradle little machine made gim- crackS
! stuff that the new rich woman litterS uI
| her rooms with. There are people ir
/ the District of Columbia who take
boarders for company and feed them
| from hand-carved rosewood dining ia
| bles that are worth their weight II
i gold. and the boarders eat with silver
so heavy that il tires them TO use il
l There are old mirrors in which YOU
could see 10 generations of faces. anC
rare antique sideboards from which two
centuries of wines have poured theil
i libations--oh. but il makes the hear
of an antiquarian leap with joy just t.
gaze on these antiques. But the elf
dwelIer keeps her family heirlooms anC
goes on taking boarders. Sometime
i yes, often--she gives the stuff to some
historical society, but sell it? Well. no
i Just nowl The cliff dweller thinks i
simply sacrilege to sell any of thes
historic belongings, but that it is pa
! triotic to give them to societies that will
: keep them for all time.
. o. P. Fl. Belmont is dead When tn,
books are made up his raing will no
be high, yet he started in life Will
> rich premise. His grandfather wa
Matthew Calbraith Perry, the ~ommo
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