The National tribune., 1908-11-05

committee of the men sent the follow
ing message to the President Monday
night:
THE enlisted force of the Navy al
| Newport r. l., extend hearty congratu.
lations on your 50th anniversary
l. In answer the President sent the fol-
lowing message to Rear-Admiral John
p. Merrill, President of the Naval WaI
College: 49,. -.
"Of all congratulations there was
none appreciated more than this from
the enlisted force of the Navy at New
port, and thru you desire that this
telegram be made public, with the as
surance of my warm thanks"
The President got enough flowers to
decorate the White House for a State
reception. They came from city friends
warm bright afternoou-the President
| dressed himself in kahki riding togs,
and went for a hard run in Rock Creek
Park. The President seems to be in
the best of health and spirits Some
body wired him that computating by
things he had done he ought to be cele-
brating his 150th birthday anniversary,
which made the President laugh.
| oFNllle w TfSflt, tHe dNldtOT, Nilo Wds
so badly hurt, and whose partner, Lieut..
Selfridge, was killed by the breaking
and fall of his aeroplane two months
ago, is now trying cFutches, upon which
| he will have to go for many weary
weeks. Mr.. Wright is improving as
rapidly as could possibly be expected,
and hopes to recover even more rapidly
when he goes to his home in Dayton.
| He will be accompanied there by his
| faithful sister, who has been at his
bedside all during his suffering with
knitting bones. Mr. Wright has made
no plans, for further experiments in
aeroplanes, and probably will not for
some time to come. He simply says
that he will go on with his aeroplane
when he is able.
They are telling a pretty little story
about Katharine Elkins, who may be
| a Duchess some day. She loves her
horses as very few women do. A year
| or two ago she went over to Italy for
| a year-and it was then the romance
with the Duke de AbruZzi began--and
while she was absent the foreman of
| the Eikins place up in West Virginia
| sold fer saddle horse. He was her
favorite cross-country horse, and Miss
| Elkins was heart broken when she
| found that the animal had been sold
He WAS out of the running in some
way and no longer able to carry her,
and was to have been retired for q new
animal, but she did not intend to have
/ him sent away She set out to find him,
but learned that her pet had been sold
| to a stranger. who had taken him out
of the State, and she had to give up her
quest. Last week Miss Elkins was rid
ing a new horse thru her home town.
and saw a horse standing at a post
whom she Immediately recognized. She
Il ion. tod nd ln1n
ture, calling it by name. 1t threw up
its head with a whinny, and every evil
dence of recognition. It was the pet
horse He had been bought back into
the neighborhood by saloonkeeper,
who did not know his pedigree. Miss
Elkins bought her favorite back with
pretty penny, and now he is turned into
the pasture to Craze for life. He will
never carry his beautiful mistress
again. 1t is said that Miss Elkins Is
making life arrangements for her string
of horses, which would seem to indi-
cate that she does not expect to again
ride them at Elkins, and does not care
to take them with her-abroad, may
hap
Washington bakers have it all their
own way. Some smarty drafted bill
which passed Congress- saying that the
bakers of the city could make bread
of one weight, and of one weight only
That was IS ounces. 1t WAS prepos-
ferrous law. of course, for it would not
permit of making a loaf over 1S
ounces, while it prohibited him from
making one Of less than that. Judge
KimbalI has now decided that the law
is unconstitutional, and as flour Is high
bakers can now make ioayeS of eight
ounces and sell them for a nickel, il
they like, as there is no law to prevent
until Congress again acts.
Washington is in for a session with
the suffragettes. This new type of pes
tiferousness is English born. and it
was hoped that it would stay on the
ether side of the water. The suffrag-
cites are a kind of a Carrie Nation
would-be voters. They believe in fol-
lowing up mems organizations, Legis-
latures, Parliament and that sort OF
thing, and smashing down doors and
getting right in on the ground floor
They can't do anything after they get
there. and there was never man on
earth who would give woman any
thing when she goes after 1t that way
But the try is to be made. Tennessee
Claflin, that used to be before the war,
| Lady Cooke that is now, is going to
head the onslaught on Congress. MY,
| but won't it be great fun to see them
| kick in the doors of the House and
Senate, rs KiIgore, of Texas. did? Won
der what will happen, anyhow, when
| they do and dare? The organization
is called the "Woman's National Pro-
gresslve Suffrage Union" for short.
! Lady Cooke and 4 picked delegation
of suffragettes will come to Washington
early in December and proceed in a
body TO the Capitol. She has pre-
| pared a memorial to Congress which
| she is sure she will be allowed TO read.
That eminent Psychologist. +. c.
| Whitehouse, better known as Cope
| Whitehouse, thru the State Department
1t washington, lays claim to valley
| in Egypt worth perhaps $50.0OO,O0O.
! MIR Whitchouse claims this valley was
] the original reservoir for the irriga-
/ ton Of Egypt, and his ambition is not
to make money out of il, but to see
| Egyptian prosperity restored by its use.
| Mr.. Whitehouse is probably the only
man on earth who can be proved by
judicial evidence to have been in Paris
and New York on the same day. lie
was interested in some litigation over
property, and returning from Europe
was startled to find that the records
showed he had appeared personally in
New York City and abandoned his
claims in the suit on a day when the
records of the French Institute vii
show he read a very able paper or
Egypt before that institute in Paris
The matter was laid before the Judge
who had certified to Mr.. Whitehouse's
appearance in court, but he threatened
fn1 n1prieonment for contempt of court