The National tribune., 1908-12-03

Legislature in january. Brandegee is
also making a fight for reelection.
Representative Hill has mailed let
ters to every member of the Connecticut
Legislature, making a personal appeal
for support. He says he is a Roosevelt
and Taft Republican.
Private Dalzell.'' known in his home
as James NJ Dalzell, who halls from
Ohio and who is equally versatile on
the stump or with his pen, announces
that he lis in the hands of his friends
for the United States Senatorship of
Ohio to succeed Senator Foraker. Prl-
vate Dalzell is wont to say that he is
the only man who has dared to admit
that he held no office in the war of the
rebellion He halls from Ohio. and
stands about as much show for the Sem
atorship as a snowflake has OF shape
on a hot griddle, but he will have some
fun out of it. Private Dalzell looks
like a melancholy poet, but he is chuck
full of ideas and fun.
Thomas J. Hobbs died in washington
last week. Thomas j. Hobbs was to
fortune and fame unknown, but death
disclosed that, like many another, fame
came after death. He was the man
longest in the employ of the Govern
ment. 1t was found that he was ap-
pointed to the Treasury Department in
1858 by President Pierce, and for So
years he went. be it rain or shine, to
the Treasury Department He was ap-
pointed one of the two Disbursing Off
GERS after service of 10 years, and
for A years has filed that position. He
died in the harness. aged 81.
Fighting Bob" Evans is to become
a builder of railroads and a developer
of harbor waterways. 1t is announced
the retired naval hero has been chosen
Chairman of the Directorate of the Los
Angeles Harbor Company, which is
Pedro Harbor to points in southern
California.
Lieut-Gen. Chaffee, now a city Off
cial of Los Angeles. and other Army
and Navy friends of Admiral Evans
urged him to come to California after
his retirement
J. J. Parker, amateur athlete of St
Paul, called upon the President the
other day, and tho it was 81 years since
they had seen each other in the West,
the President Immediately recognized
Mr. Parker They had had several box
ing bouts while the President was on
his ranch in the West. Mr.. Parker
carried away with him signed photo
and said that he considered he had a
prize package.
It is going to cost more to clean our
dancing pumps after this, just because a
nasty trust controls all the fuller's
earth on earth. At least that is what
Gen. Robert J. Wynne, Consul-General
to London, says in his report Well,
no, he does not mention dancing pumps,
but he implies that that is what will
happen. He says that the deposits of
fuller's earth exists chiefly at Bath,
Nottinghamshire and Maxton, in Scot
land. in addition to the deposits in the
LONDON district, and the industry is
practically controlled by combine
which strictly preserves the methods of
preparation of the earth.'
Gen. George B. Davis, Judge-Advo-
General of the Army, in his annual
report expresses disapprova1 of the
abolishment of the canteen from Army
Posts. He says it has encouraged the
establishment close to the Army posts
of the most disreputable saloons where
crime breeds on bad liquor. He says
| the resorts are beyond the control
| of the military authorities, and he
| traces half the crimes and misdemean-
ors which bring on costly court-mar-
| tials to these same low groggeries. He
! is quite sure that morals of Army posts
would improve with the canteen re-
stored.
During the past fiscal year there were
Abs trials by general court-martial, an
| increase of 223 as compared with the
preceding fiscal year. Twenty-nine off,
GERS were tried and 21 were convicted
Three officers were dismissed and one
is under sentence of five years inlpris-
onment. In the case OF enlisted men
1850 were convicted and 257 acquitted
In addition there were 40,86S trials oi
enlisted men in summary courts and
2S4 trials by garrison courts-martiai.
The President had narrow escape
last Sunday from being run down by &
bicyclist-a boy who laughed at the
Presidents dismay and rode off. Th'
President was walking across the stree
when the boy, with both hands full
dashed around the President from thu
corner. The President started back
threw up his hands and yelled at thu
boy, but he rode on. to fall into tn.
hands of a policeman, who arrested
him. He forfeited his collateral, ant
was not punished. The President ough
to have spanked him with the soft sid
of young clapboard, aud taught tn
: kid some sense.
} Mrs. Henry Corbin, wife of Lieut..
Gen. Corbin, is among the largest con
tributors TO the Republican cdmpaiGl
, fund, having given $4,000 10 the Ma
tional Republican Committee. Mrs. Cor
bin, who is n very handsome woman
2 was one of the rich Miss Pattons." wh
: for many years dispensed hospitaiii
from one of the largest homes in Wash
: ington. There were several sisters, an
they seemed never to be in n hurry I
marry. They do a tremendous amour
of charitable and philanthropic wort
but no one suspected Mrs. Corbin {
political tendencies before.
Vice President Fairbanks announce
that he is not contemplating an Embas
!. sadorial position, has not asked for on
D and no friends of his have asked fo
one for him. He gays that he will s
back to his home in indianapolis an
again take up the practice Of law.
When Magness. boy husband OF Mi
:, Ada German, went to prison from Phi
:. adelphia, where he was tried and ser
fenced for being a deserter, he rode
a Pullman car. and was accompanie
- by his wife. His custodian was q Ma
!, of the receiving snip Lancaster. Ma
- ness viii be confined in the Portsmout
!. Penitentiary. and his wife viii live thel
y during his confinement, so as to |
\ close to him.
The foot and mouth disease has bro
en- out so badly in several States TIL
sr il has been necessary for the Agricu
Z tural Department to step in and d
y. clare a special" quarantine. The Stat