The National tribune., 1908-10-22
,nce by the native children of Alaska.

de says:
Experience has shown that in many
sections of Alaska regularity of attend
lnce in the public schools of natives
cannot be maintained without legal
penalty for truancy. The passage of n
dill requiring the attendance Of all chill
1ren of school age, unless mentally or
physically disqualified, is desirable.
Failure to comply with the provisions of
| this bill should be made misdemeanor
upon the part of the parent or guard
IAN"
Bris. Eppa Hunton, one of the
| few surviving general officers of the
Confederate army, died last week at the
home of his son, Eppa Hunton. Jr., in
Richmond. Va, aged Sc years. Gen.
Hunton, altho vigorous old man, had
been blind and deaf for many months.
Gen. Hunton was known as the hero
| of Balls Bluff. He was a member of
the Virginia Secession Committee. and
voted for the secession ordinance. He
was also on the Military Committee to
prepare Virginia for defense. He re-
signed as Brigadier-Genera1 in the
State service to enter the regular Con-
federate army. He was promoted to be
a Brigadier-General after the battle of
| Gettysburg. where he was wounded fol-
lowing Pickett in his charge up Gene
| terry Hights. He served several terms
| in Congress.
United States Senator Knox, who was
| abroad all Summer, and who got pretty
] badly bruised up in All automobile ac-
i cident in France, has been back two
weeks, and has been recuperating from
| his bruises at his farm at Valley Forge
He looks for Taft majority in Penn
| sylvania of 100000.
Col. William III. Crook, Disbursing
| Officer of the White House. sustained a
severe accident at his home last week.
In passing from one part of the house
| to another in the dark he mistook his
surroundings and fell down a flight of
| steps, breaking two ribs and sustaining
severe bruises. After treatment of a
day or two by a physician he pluckily
| returned to the White House, and was
able to pay off the Executive Office
| force. He will return to bed after this
work is done. Col. Crook entered the
White House in the service of President
| Lincoln, in 1864, and has been there
| ever since.
Robert J. Wynne. United States Con-
lsul-Gencral at London, is on the high
seas on his way home to vote.
|
Official delivery of the aeroplane built
by A. M. Herring, of New York, for the
| united States Army, was made at Fort
Myer last week, in the presence of the
Aeronautic Board of the Signal Corps
which will go to the fort for the pur-
pose. The inventor, with one assistant,
| arrived in Washington, and personally
Isuperintended taking the apparatus to
the fort. 1t is so small and so compact
| ~ punt that 1t is contained in one trunk
and two suitcases.
| MIR. Herring's delivery of the aero
plane is to be technical one, and after
| the parts nave been examined by the
Aeronautic Board it is to be repacked
Ior Shipment to secret experimental
a Fn 49,
objection to this procedur> on the part
OF Mr- Herring. The official flights are
to take place at Fort Myer within a
| month. according TO the contract, and
an officer, of the Signal Corps will be
detailed to accompany Mr.. Herring to
ms nu,s EXPERIMENTAL pc 1 ground to observe the
work of the machine.
1t is pretty hard to keep I'D with
the Elkins-Abruzzi affairs, but The Ma
tional Tribune Is bound to do it If it
takes special issue. The very latest
STORY, direct from the Royal Palace
II you please, is that the Italian King
has given his consent to the marriage
of the Duke OF Abruzzi and Miss Ell
klns. To get around Miss Elkins being
a piebeian-think of that, will you, for
this young American beauty, who is
worth just the whole diseased court Of
italy-to get around the fact that she
which to emblazon a bar sinister which
does not exist in the Elkins family
just mark the paradoxes-Miss EIkins
IS to be "ennobled" before she lands in
Italy! Glory be- Katharine Elkins
"ennobled' by any old world process.
Why, she's nobler. brighter, better.
handsomer than the whole bilin' of
? Kings and Kingesses in the whole of
the eastern hemisphere, and we have
several million just like her. 1t is I'M
fortunate, if this splendid specimen of
young womanhood has lost her heart
to a dago, but he is said to be a par
ticuiarly fine specimen of manhood.
with clean life back of him. and so
that's a little different. But if the
lyoung lady finds that they are going
TO make light of her sturdy old father
and handsome mother after she gets
over there, she'll make them wish they
had never heard of Steve Elkins and
his family. She will, indeed.
1t is now stated that the President
VIII be connected with the Outlook
magazine after he retires from office.
The report is probably not true.
Mrs. Roosevelt has always been in
terested in play grounds for children,
and has helped in every way possible
to establish them in Washington. Her
latest efforts in this direction were
highly successful. Last Friday and
Saturday the White House lawn was
given over to the Ben Greet woodland
players, the proceeds from the sale of
tickets, after giving the players half
to go to the Washington Play Grounds
} Association. The plays given were
, king Midas" and "Pandora's Box,
, They are simple little plays, adapted
: for outdoor rendition, and were pre-
sented in Greek costume by a capable
company. OF course, everybody knows
that Ben Greet and his players are
: about perfection. But surely-surely
no outdoor play ever had more beau
tiful setting. The scene of the play
was midway between the White House
and the big fountain, which is as large
as city lot and throws its myriad
spouts OF spray so feet in air. The
low, gentle slopes lie between two nat
ural hills of 20 feet hight. The plat
form or stage was erected on one of
these hills. 1t was covered with green.
and seemed to melt right into the
green grass behind On the gentle slope
, in the background of the stage We're
! beautiful growing pines, palms and
towering shrubs, and wonderful chest
, nut, oak and maple trees in autumnal
: glory. and the action of the play in