The National tribune., 1908-05-28
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be followed in this country with great
benefit. Emperor William is man OF
great force and wonderful resource. IL
| is largely due to his remarkable faculty
| for doing things that Germany is the
| leading workshop of the world. One
of the marked characteristics of the
Kaiser is his love for America and
Americans. He courts the acquaintance
and friendship of leading Americans
who visit Europe, so much SO that IL
| has made some of his own people
| jealous"
Quentin Roosevelt rad the time of
| his life the other day when Buffalo Bill
was here with his Wild West show. oi
course, everybody knows just what Is
done in the Indian attack on the stage
| coach, and that il all looks very reals
| tic, and that il is also pretty rough ana
tumble. so to speak. Well. Quentin was
permitted to ride in the stage coach
with the people who were to be at
tackled The rickity, bumpy old thing
started on schedule time. and the In
dans attacked it. Quentin nearly had
Mysteries in his delight, but he was not
quite happy. because he did not have
a gun. He begged and implored the
attacked" to loan him one of the guns
they had, but the law had been laid
down before the President would per-
NIT Mr.. Quentin to take the risk OF
that ride. and he couldn't get gun.
He scornfully yelled as he frantically
shook his hat out of the coach window
that the old guns were only loaded with
blank charges. anyhow, and then got
off a regular Comanche war whOop. He
said when the raid was over that he
never had SO much fun in his life.
Representative Lilley, of Connecticut,
is sure in trouble. He started things
by making trouble for other people,
and then, it seems, could not make
good. Now it rebounds and gives him
bodyblow. Maybe he can stand from
under, but it looks "tuff'' just now. The
facts seem to be as follows: He started
in to prove fraud by certain members
of Congress in connections with the sub
marine boats that were authorized a.
year or two ago by Congress. He was
unable to prove much of anything, and
after the House had gone to work to-
investigate his charges il concluded toI
investigate Representative Li1ley him
self, and appointed a committee for
that special purpose. That committee
has reported, and the report is a roast
ing arraignment of Mr.. Lilley. 1t is
said to be the seyerest arraignment of
a man ever filed in Congress. The pros
pect is that unless Representative Lii
ley can purge himself of the structures
placed upon him by the committee he
VIII find himself expelled from the
House of Representatives"
Senator Beveridge is at it again. The
real nice little Senator from Indiana
wants timed meats labeled with the
IN, birl ~
what on earth does he want that for 2
Timed anything, no matter whether it'll
is meat, fruit, fish, fowl, corn or beans,
will keep till the crack of doom if no
mischance lets air into the can. If the
tiniest airhole develops, of course, the
can of stuff is ruined, and, furthermore
that can Of spoiled stuff will make its
presence known, right away off. quick.
If you do not pitch it into the garbage
pile it will probably burst with sorry
consequences to surroundings On the
other hand, so long as the can remains
air-tight, the old labels-if the year of
canning is put on-can be washed off
year after year. and a new label put
on. There are plenty of ways to avoid
such a law as that. But the principal!
thing is what does man know about
the keeping qualities of canned things.
anyhow? With all their chemistry
their experts and their theories, those
who were condemning the canned meats
of the packing companies never did find
out what any housekeeper could have
told them in exactly one minute and al
half. and that is that if meat is spoiled
before il is put in the cans there is no
art on earth that would keep the stuff
in the cans after about three days IT
would burst the can, and put an end tol
that. If the meat was good and no
airhole developed, can Of meat would
keep forever. That is true of all canned
stuffs, except that some acid fruits viii
change color slightly if put in tin cans;
but they do not "eat thru" the tin. as
was suggested in the hearing, unless
the outside agency knocks a hole in the
can. The agency never comes from
inside the Theoretically sealed can. SEN
ator Beveridge may know a lot, but any
housewife can tell him more than he
ever dreamed of about canning and pre-
serving.
Here is story that Cushman and
| Bede are telling on themselves, so IL
| ought to be true, even if it isn't It
has beer told on a million different
men during the ages:
On Delaware avenue, near B street,
there is a parrot This parrots cage is
not in full view of passers-by. 1t is a
| whistlng parrot. with a whistle sound
iHS InucH IKE DIdSt from d young
Americas puckered lips. Representa-
| tive Cushman with the abbreviated jOk-
! er. J. Adam Bede, were passing up the
street on their way to the scene of their
| labors. Cushman was evidently telling
Bede story, for that gentleman had "a
graveyard smile on his otherwise il
| Illuminated countenance.
| All at once there was shrill whistle
The statesmen hesitated, stopped and
| turned around, but no one was in view
Cushman looked at Bede and Rede at
Cushman. They proceeded farther,
when again the whistle was heard The
prize beauties of the House were nom
| plused.
who is that whistling. Bede?" said
| Cushman.
| Don't know, Frank. | can't see any
! one"
1 Just then the parrot called out:
| Pretty PollI' Not guilty." chimed
Frank and Jadam; you've got the
| wrong Eame."
1 cusffTnan's story remained unfinished
|
| Describing the tour of the 81 Japan
| ese who recently crossed this continent.
| Mr. Sugimura, foreign editor OF the
Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. recently said in
London, referring to their stay in Wash
ington:
\ But nothing during our stay in
l America gave us more pleasure than
our visit TO Washington. President and
Mrs. Roosevelt awaited our coming TO
the Wtt;e House, and shook hands with
each of us, the President saying, as he
did SO, L am particularly glad TO see
yeu here, and the emphasis on the
word particularly was most marked
TO the three ladies of our party Mr.