The National tribune., 1908-05-07

j cation to introduce a resolution Of in
quiry in Congress calling for all the
facts in the case. but this action was
: postponed on account of the fact that
Secretary of State Root has cabled tc
: Mr.. Leishman requesting information as
to his side of the affair.
4 Senator Daniel, of Virginia, has in
troduced in the Senate a bill providing
that the Government shall buy from
the jamestown Exposition Company 25C
acres of the site of the recent Exposi-
ton on Hampton Roads, in considera-
ton of which the company owes the
i Government on account of money ad-
vanced for Exposition purposes. is to
be remitted, and the company is to be
paid 100000.
The ground which 1t is proposed to
purchase includes that upon which the
principal buildings of the Exposition
stood, and the permanent improvements
thereon are to be embraced in the sale
The ground, if bought, is to be used as
a naval training and coaling station
and for any other purposes for which
/ it may be deemed suitable.
| OF the $3.50, GOO purchase price, $780,
| 900 is made Immediately available, and
the remainder is made payable on April
i 1 next.
| vasion last week in the shape of 600
i members of the National League of
| Women Workers who have been in the
| National Capital on a sight seeing trip.
/ These women were some of them of
| mature years. but the larger part repre-
sented girls 1S to % years of age.
They were factory girls, cashiers, shop
| girls, StenographerS. in fact they repre-
sented almost every calling in life that
| women take part in They were re-
markably well groomed. taking them as
a whole. and they were bright and in
| teresting as well as Interested. One
had but to look into their faces to see
| that each had a purpose in life, and
| that they knew how to take hold OF
| the worlds work and to make it go.
| They were received at the White
House, and the President made them
a little speech in the East room. He
| expressed his. approval of their organi-
| Zation as follows:
Il think it is highly typical of our
| people that we should be able to gather
together in organizations for social and
! intellectual betterment; and interested
| tho | am in such organizations of men,
/ am even more interested when they
are managed and controlled in the in
terests of women, and particularly
working women, working girls.
IF / were asked to point out what,
in my judgment was the fundamental
difference between the United States
and any European country, even the
most advanced, / should say that the
fundamental difference, in our favor.
was the different attitude taken here
| toward women; the greater chance that
the woman has for combining with a
life of duty the chance of self-improve-
ment
"Of course, in any movement for bet
terment there are always dangers.
do not know very much about women'S
clubs, girls clubs, but do know about
mems clubs; and thoroughly tho / be-
lieve in them, | now and then meet a
man who mistakes the means for the
end. whose life is led as an adjunct
to the club instead of the club being
an adjunct to his life. l suppose there
are occasional instances of this kind
in the women's clubs.
''In any movement II is always a lit
tie difficult to combine the two princi-
pies of doing your work well, and yet
of having as good time as Is compati-
BILE with doing your work. There are
always certain number of people
who never try to be anything but
drudges, and a certain number of 9TH
erS who make having good time the
be-all and end-all of life; and / think
these working women's clubs strike the
happy medium as well as any organi-
cations that L know. / believe In them,
with all my heart l am glad to see
you as representatives of them here to-
day, and | wish you all possible good
fortune and success in the future"
The Presidents youngest son is all
boy. he Is. He went to see one of the
great stage magicians one night last
week, accompanied by his mother, and
the instant the magician called for
assistants, Quentin climbed out of the
box in which he was sitting and was
on the stage in an instant. Mr.. Thurs
ton, who announced the egg trick"
called for two of the youngest children
inG the audience as volunteers. Miss
Florence Dixon, the Seven-year-
daughter of Senator Dixon, of Mon
tana, was first to come forward. Asked
to designate her assistant, little Miss
Dixon pointed rather hesitating finger
at Master Quentin, who was seated in
one of the boxes with Mrs. Roosevelt.
Miss Dixon received the eggs as they
were passed from the hat and handed
them to Quentin. Within few mo-
ments the youngest member of the
Chief Executives family had his pock-
cts and both hands and finally both
arms piled full. AS long as he had
each egg, and time and again he mur-
INJURED: 1T sounds real
When this company was here year
ago. Quentin assisted. He is venture
some little skeesicks and will do any
thing that is uggested If it has an ele-
Ye gods and little fishes, But you
jus otter a heard Senator Davis, the
Senator from Arkansas, the other day
Why the man was actually rabid and
raved Ike lunatic. ''Plutocrats'
seemed to be the bugs that were biting
him, and If the critters were not poison
ed by his venom they are proof against
everything. Davis is seeing things, he
is, and the end is in sight If he doesn't
do something. Do osteopaths work on
know? There is where they will have
to begin on Senator Davis
Senator Money (Miss.) has just dis
covered that he has had a broken neck
for a matter of 40 years, or ever since
the battle of Franklin, when he was
pitched on his head from the back
of his horse. He went to an osteopath
for neuralgia, and the doctor found
that what allied him was a broken
neck. He gave the Senator's neck a
back into place and now the Senator
from Mississippi is as good as new, if
you please. At least that is the story
they tell.
Vice-President Fairbanks will Off
cially represent the United States at
Quebec. Canada, during the visit there
of the Prince of Wales, July 22 to 20,
on the occasion of the celebration of
the 300th anniversary of the arrival
of Champlain. The Government also
probably the new battleship New
Hampshire, under command of Capt
WinslOw.
The decision to have the Vice-Presj-