The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-08-20

Hon. Henry White, ambassador t
Paris, has made representations to tn
French Government because of a threat
ened embargo by France upon Ameri
can exports of<tiried fruits to that coun
try.
The French Government objects t
the American exports, because it
claimed they have been treated witt
sulphur in the process of drying o
evaporation. After considerable CORE
spondence on the subject. the Agricul
tural Department recommended to til
! State Department that the United State
resort to reprisal by refusing to permi
the entry into the United States o
French wines, which, it is asserted b.
the chemists in the Department of Agri
culture, have also been treated witt
sulphur, and are, therefore, not eligible
to admission under the puTe-food law.
The controversy has been suspended
temporarily at the request of the State
Department, pending report from tbs
Remsen Commission of pure-food eX
perts. of which Prof. Ira Remsen i:
President This Commission has beer
Instructed to report fully upon the
American exports to which objection i:
made, and also on the French wines
which are being imported into the Unit.
ed States. showing the proportion OF
SupSldhNtS tsiIl
Why the confusion of tongues But
1t seems that it must be so to the end
Esperanto has been recognized Off
cially by the United States Government
in the recent appointment of Maj. Paul
F. Straub, of the Army Medical Corps,
to represent this country in the fourth
international Esperanto Congress, TO be
held in Dresden, Germany, Aug. 1922
1908.
Esperanto has taken firm root thru
out the world, and its advocates claim
ii is destined to become one of the most
important factors in the worlds prog
ress. At the end of December, 1907,
the total number of Esperanto schools
and societies turnout the world was 1853.
At the present time the total is prac-
tically 1000.
In Bohemia the Postmaster-Gener
has authorized the use of Esperanto in
kilograms on an equal footing with
European modern languages. In Japan,
Count Hayashi, Minister of Foreign At
fairs, has accepted the honorary Presi-
dency of the japanese Esperanto Asso-
citation. and in a public letter has rec
commended that his countrymen take up
Esperanto, which he calls the gospel of
the world.
Some folks have been trying to run
Serenot Payne for Governor of New
York. but he does not rise to the bait.
He sa, S there's nothing in it for him.
He wants to serve in the House for the
rest Of his natural life, and particularly
does he want to come to the next Con-
gross to help revise the tariff.
There was pathetic burial here the
other day, when a man was laid to rest
in a little old-fashioned roadside ceme-
terry, while his sepulehre ought to have
been beside royalty. 1t was the old. old
story of man who forgot his honor in
the army, was divorced by his wife,
married again beneath him, and was
cast off by everybody. and died at last
in poverty and oSscurity. The man was
Baron Alexander de Pury-Herve, a scion
of one of the Oldest families of Ger
many, and the final chapter was written
in a pathetic story of real life. The
Baron was a friend and comrade of
Bismarck, to whom he was once Aid
de-Camp, was an officer of the German
army in the Franco-P russian war, and
was married to Princess of royal
blood; but % years ago he committed
fault and rather than endure the
scorn of those among whom he asso-
ciated he quit the army and came to
America.
Shortly after leaving Germany his
Princess wife divorced him. In New
York he married an actress. and this
led to the cutting off of the $500 a week
allowance he had been receiving from
his family. Subsequently he worked
for German newspapers in New York
and elsewhere.
He requested that no flowers be
placed upon his coffin other than two
lilies and a red rose. these flowers con-
shutting his ancestral coat of arms.
This request was complied with.
Only a few friends and but one rep
resentative of the German Embassy at
tended the funeral services.
The Baron left no money, his savings
having been consumed to defray ex-I
penses of illness. When he died the
German Embassy was appealed to. and
Count Hermann Won Widen
burg, Charge dAffaires, who is at Bey-
erly Farms, Mass. directed Hans An
derson. Secretary, to represent his |
Government Later, it is thought, the !
a grave on. the ancestral hillside of
Neuchatel
The Republicans in Washington are
slow. The very first banner to be raised |
here was put across the Avenue by the |
Virginia Democratic Association. 1t
bears alleged pictures of Bryan and
had to be really introduced to voters by |
means of those caricatures votes would
be lost rather than gained. They are
the limit.
Rear-Admfral Robley D. Evans, for
mer commander-in-Chie of the Allan
tic battleship fleet, will be placed on the |
retired list on Aug. IS. Orders direct |
ing this action have been issued by
Rear Admiral John +. Pillsbury, Chief
OF the bureau of Navigation and Acting |
Secretary of the Navy.
Admiral Evans is the senior Rear
Admiral and ranks next to Admiral
Dewey. He entered service on Sept. 20.
1860. and reached the grade of Rear
Admiral in February, 1901. Admiral
Evans commanded the Atlantic battle
ship fleet for several years. and took it
around South America from Hampton
Roads to San Francisco He was re-
lieved from command on May s. and
assigned to duty in connection with the
General Board of the Navy.
His retirement will make Rear-Ad-l
miral Caspar +. Goodrich, Commandment
of the New York Navy Yard, Senior
Rear-Admiral of the Navy. Admiral
Evans is recuperating from an attack of
jnfiammatory rheumatism at Lake Mo-
honk, n. Y.
Here is something that sounds pretty
Tough on the railway postal clerks. who
do not walk on plush at any time, and /
railway mail clerks are aroused over
the Post Office Department ruling,
which not only holds them responsible
for injuries to persons struck by mail
bags thrown off at stations from moy-
Ing trains but also imposes a fine in