The National tribune., 1908-05-28

Nothing particularlN,I brilliant. and
nobody has cared enough about the
speech to see whether erithese3Iscntences.I
like the crown of thorns and cross of
gold" were plagiarized from somebody
else or not. Z BTt
James X. Hackett called at the White
House the other day by appointment.
and presented his little daughter to-
President Roosevelt They 10th en-
joyed a brief but hearty chat with the
President, and he indited a photograph
to her. issf, f,It
The Postmaster-G General. by a recent
order, has reversed the policy of the
Post Office Department Of combining
all the post offices adjacent to large
cities and making them simply postal
stations. thus practically wiping out
their identity and sorely woundng local
pride. Under the new order postal sta
tons for the receipt and dispatch of
mails which are located outside the
corporate limits of cities will be known
as branch post offices and be separately
entered under their own local name in
alphabetical order in the United States
Postal Guide.
BY this method the Department will
be enabled to promptly and economical
ly handle the mails, quite as much so
as under the former practice, and yet
not wound the pride of the people liv-
ing at such places. who deeply resent
the idea of virtually wiping their towns
off the map. In the case of Cambridge.
Mass. for instance, which has hereto
fore been known as Cambridge Station
of the Boston Post Office. the patrons
were unable to have special request en-
velopes printed with a return card bear
ing the name of Cambridge, Mass. AS
Cambridge was a station of the Boston
Office, the return request had to show
Boston. Mass. as the name of the post
Office to which the return. in case OF
failure of delivery. should be made. I'm
der the new order Cambridge. Mass,
will be listed in the Postal Guide in its
proper alphabetical order. the Office will
have its own postmark. Cambridge.
Mass" and the patrons will be able to
have the name of their own city print
ed in the return request on their ell
velopes. The change viii! go into effect
when the new edition of the Postal
Guide is prepared. which is expected TO
be about the 1st of July.
Ye gods, Gadzooks! and various 9TH
er unIneanirg explanatory interjections.-
1t is announced that the financial fur
ry has made it difficult to wear much
style with society frills at Newport this
year. and so it Is going to be fashion
able to go to the National Republican
political conventions, In other words,
society women are going to flock to the
political conventions and make society
whirl out of them. Just how this may
plea SO the Presidential candidates Is
problematical While Secretary Taft.
Speaker Cannon. Gov. Hughes and Vice
President Fairbanks are all very cour-
teous to women, they are none of them
given to mixing women with politics.
1t certainly will be a queer sort of con-
glomeration. MIR. Bryan and Gov. john
son have never dallied long in Peacock
Allies nor have any other of the can
didates for political hea0rS. At a Ma
tional political convention. or State
one for that matter, a room with the
best brand of wet goods and some one
who can deal it out with ailavish hand.
some big rooms where cigars are dealt
out with generous hospitality, and so
blue with tobacco smoke that man
can scarcely recognize his best friend
at three PAGES, a mysterious room with
a mysterious "wad" in dim. mysteri
Gus light These are the usual adjuncts
of a political convention. with few
brass bands thrown in. To change from
this to a pink parlor with ,roseate cleo
trio lights, women in. silken evening
gowns, tea cups and angel food-oh,
fudge, Sf'r
Senator Platt. of New York. will
probably never again write an auto
graph for anybody. In the famous case
for divorce instituted some five years
ago against him by a woman named
Wood the signature which the Wood
woman showed to typewriter ac-
acknowledgement of her as his wife by
Senator Plat was very easily proven to
have been obtained for an autograph.
Two heaviiy-vaiied women called one
day. and asked for Senator Platt's auto
graph to add TO a collection which they
had been making. The two women pre-
sented TO the valet of Scaiator Platt two
blank sheets of paper. and he took
them in and got the signatures from
the Senator and carried them out to the
women. Now this autograph turns up
as a signature to love letter from the
Senator but the manner in which the
letter was gotten up proved that it was
u forgery.
A woman who Joined the Daughters
of the American Revolution was ban
tered about the number of her ancestral
bars, which reach clear from chin to
belt line half an inch apart. She de-
clared that she could furnish as many
more ancestors, but dared not, as theS
were tories. So it is with Washington.
Go back far enough and you find the
patriot wearing the scarlet uniform of
the British, but up to now there has
ben no authentic picture of him in the
red coat.
In tho banquet hall of WaShngton's
home at Mount Vernon. there hangs n
and four and half i'm width, represent
ing young and handsome man with a
daredevil eye and splendid carriage,
wearing the uniform of the British
army.
1t is picture of George Washington.
which has been recently hung in the
hall by the members of the Mount Yer
non Ladies' Association of the Union.
thru the courtesy of the officials in
charge of the art museum at Glasgow.
1t was painted while Washington was
a young man, Major on the staff of
the British Provincial Governor of Vir-
ginia, Robert Dinwiddle. The picture
was only recently discovered.
While the American Consul to Glas-
gov. r. w. Austin, was attending
lecture delivered by Thomas Layton
his attention was attracted by the ref
erence to a picture supposedly that OF
Washington, which had been brought
to Scotland from the, Dinwiddle resi-
dence in Virginia.
According to tradition. the picture of
Washington was pafntedhat the order
of the Virginia Governor, and was hung
in his house. When Washington Joined
the Revolutionary forces the picture
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