The National tribune., 1908-08-06

liner in earnest. He has joined the
secret society called Ak-Sar-Ben; but
you just spell it backwards, very care
fully and you WIFI see that he has not
gone into the grip business very far
The society name stands for business
men of Omaha. and for the most widely
known commercial society in the coun-
try.
Mai J. H. Russell. of the Marine
Corps. and IL enlisted men of the corps
recently We're bitten by a dog at Camp
Elliott. on the Isthmus of Panama. The
incident threw the whole camp into a
furore.
Altho the injuries of the men are
not considered serious, they have been
ordered North on a mail steamer to get
treatment at a Pasteur institute, as a
precautionary measure.
There is an old saying, them as has
gits." and it has proved true in many
cases. The very latest is in the good
fortune that has just come to Mrs. ST.
mon Guggenheim, wife of the Senator
from Colorado. She is daughter of
the very wealthy Mr.. Hirsch, of New
York, who made tremendous fortune
in the diamond business in that city
He recently died. and his daughters
portion of the Hirsch fortune is S10,-
900, 900, and possibly million or so
more. This will make her one of the
enormously rich women of the world.
as her husband, the Senator. has quite
that much money and gave up year
~ salary of nearly 100000 to come to
the United States Senate.
Rear-Admiral William Sheffield
Cowles, brother-in-law of President
Roosevelt and. Chief of the Bureau of
Equipment. Navy Department. was
placed on the retired list last week. He
will, however. continue to act as Chief
of the Bureau of Equipment, a post he
has held since February. 1906.
Admiral Cowles was born in Farm
ington, Conn. Aug. 1, 1876. and was
graduated from the Naval Academy in
1867. He served as aid to the Secre-
tary of the Navy from 1891 to 1892,
and was in charge of military affairs.
He was Naval Attache to the American
Embassy in London from 1890 to 1897.
Admiral Cowles, then a Lieutenant
Commander. was in command of the
gunboat Topeka. which captured Fort
Nipe during the Spanish war. From
1899 to 1903 he was Assistant Chief of
the Bureau of Navigation and Naval
Aid to President Roosevelt. He com
manded the battleship Missouri from
1903 to 1895. An explosion. caused by
a bareback during target, practice,
killed five officers and 25 men of the
Missouri in 1904, while Admiral Cowles
was in command of the vessel.
Work is to be commenced at once on
the Memorial to Columbus. which was
authorized by the last Congress. The
general scheme of the memorial will
consist of the figure of Columbus and
of the carayel prov. which will grace
the front of the central portion of the
memorials, the figures. lions, or what
ever may be decided on, which will
stand on the smaller granite pillars on
each side of the central shaft, and de-
signs for the ornamental lamp posts,
which will all be selected from various
designs submitted in competition. 1t is
to be erected on the Union Station
Plaza.
Two civilians who cashed the final
statements of an enlisted man of the
Army, discharged without honor, and
then learned that through an error
made in the papers they could not be
reimbursed. to the extent of about $50
for the ex-soldiers travel pay, to which
he was not entitled, have appealed to a
Congressman in the hope that the War
Department, would compel the Army
officer who made the error in the final
outlay The, War, Department has re-
fused any relief in the matter. 1t was
also charged that the Army officer prof
tied in some way by the transaction.
but it was found that no such condition
could exist.
Everybody is making suggestions as
to what shall be done with the beauti-
full columns which the iconoclasts have
at last forced out of the Treasury build
ing. The very latest suggestion is that
they be made posters for bed for
President Taft when he goes to oc-
cupy the White House.
The War Department has just been
informed that Santiago Hernandez. the
last survivor of the Mexican forces that
defended Chapultepcc against the
American army in 1S47, died recently
in Mexico City. Senior Hernandez, who
was a well-known artist in his coun-
try, was IS years old at the time of his
death, being only a little more than IA
years old when serving in the Mexican
| army. He was cadet at the Coiegic
Militar when the war began, and in one
Of the assaults on Chapultepec was
taken prisoner by the forces of Gen
Scott The American Commander ex-
pressed great admiration for the va
| lorous young soldier.
OF course it Is now the fashion to
talk of the msgnanimons offer of Mr.
| Bryan to Mr.. Kern, that in the event
| the Democratic ticket is elected Mr.
Kern shall betake himself and family
to live in the White House al>ng with
| the President. There does not seem to
be any good reason why the Govern
ment shall not furnish the Vice Presi-
] dent of the Emitted States with home
as well as SSe President, but It doesn't
and it spoils about two-thirds of the
salary OF the Vice President yeari,
| TO pay for the house he lives in, for il
must be large enough to do the honors
of high position to his friends and the
| high officials who, from time to time
sit at his table. But the White House
1 Now we all love that quaint old white.
/ washed buil6in but no stretch OF i'm
agination can it an ideal home
| 1t has one yer. large room. the Eas
room, and another at the other end o
the house. not quite so large. which i
| known as the State dining room. blu
I there are an hundred homes in Wash
4 ipgton that are larger. more commodi
Gus. ard much better fitted to the needs
| of the Nation than the dear old Whit
House.
! The White House is so small that j
barely accommodates the family of tn,
President when bis children are all a
home There are just nine bedrooms il
the White House, and each of these i
4 equipped with "a bath. In the attic
I which Is low ceilingcd and next til
roof, making " unbcarBbie in Summer
are eight more bedrooms with batl
or two, and when the White House ha
company, the boys are sent up into tn
attic to sleep and their rooms are req
uisitioned for the guests. Now ever,
i housewife knows that X is most unkin,