The National tribune., 1908-03-26

however that horror has stirred up al
the school authorities in the country
and a thoro overffauling of schoo
houses is to be the result. In the Dis
trict of Columbia are lot of old tum-
ble-down houses that would disgrace 8
backwoods country town. The people
have been trying to get new schoo
houses, have petitioned for them
begged for them, demanded them, but
we needed new jails and more reforma-
tories, and that sort of thing, so the
school houses have been permitted to
drop into the background. The author
tiles have been looking into the condi-
ton of the school houses the last week
however. and the Superintendent re-
ports that there are a number of these
school houses that are old and all built
OF wood. Those structures which are
two stories high lack all modern con-
veniences, and would burn like box
of matches. There are others that are
high, Wfb1 narrow halls, wooden stair
ways and regular firetraps in every way.
OF course, there will be an effort made
TO patch things up some, but if new
and modern school houses are suggest
ed, you mark this, there will be an
awful howl about cost of school build
fngs. A couple of hundred school chill
dren to bury after a holocaust like that
in Collinwood will cost more, however.
The Government hereafter will equip
Army officers quarters with furniture,
thus decreasing the expenses of future
Generals. Standard designs have al
ready been adopted for the dining-room
and library furniture. The wood to be
used will he of mahogany, simple in de-
sign and well constructed. A quarter
of a million dollars has been appro-
priated, and it is estimated. that another
million will be expended before these
homes are completely furnished.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, de-
ciares that Senator Aldrich, Of Rhode
Island, is the 2blest fin.nce authority
in the country.
The site of the jamestown Exposi-
tion would make an admirable location
for a naval training station, according
to statements made before subcom-
mitree of the Hnlse Committee on Ma
val Affairs by Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Newberry and Commander Will
son. of the Bureau of Navigation.
The subcommittee has under consid-
Grafton the bill that the Government
shall purchase tho jamestown Fair
property.
There's a man in Bloomington, Ind,
who talks like Copperhead-the crit
ter whom the North hated and the
South 5ust tolerated during the war. He
made speech the other day, did this
Rev" DR.. A. NJ. Hall, before the his
tory class in the university, and he
made use of the following:
Abraham Lincoln was nothing more
than a ward political boss, and did not
associate with the better class of people
in his home town.
DR.. Hall was at one time in charge of
a church in Springfield, Ill. According
TO him, Lincoln spent his early life
dabbling in politics with the ''undesir-
ables" of the Illinois Capital.
There was a time when they tarred
and feathered such men and rode them
on rails. AS that is a twin relic of
barbaTism, the next best thing will be
to make the environment so hot for
him that he cannot live there any long
er. The insane asylum is really a very
good place for man who would make
use of such expressions in this day and
age. One might expect it of a daughter
of the Georgia Confederacy, who would
1aud WirZ, but not of a gallant rebel
soldier. And for Northern man-oh,
well, the vocabulary fails.
Charles Dwight sigsbee, son of Rear
Admiral Sigsbee, has been appointed by
{
about IS years Of age. Young Sigsbee
viii be ordered to Annapolis for exam
ination.
The Admiral's son is now a student
at the Army and Navy Preparatory
School. He is a graduate of Tome In
stitute. having received a course at
that institution after a couple of years
training at the local high schools.
: Il am deeply grateful to the Presi-
dent for his action ~ III x-Oura Ciashaa
81 shall make every effort to pass the
examinations and to follow in fathers
footsteps. The Admiral is very anxious
that / become a naval officer, and il is
my intention to study hard and play
little until 1 have eventually come up
TO his expectations
The Cherokee Indians are to get an
other fat slice of pork in the distribu-
tion of 100000, which the Court of
Claims has decided must be divided
among the descendants of the Cherokee
Indians who were not removed West
at the time the greater part were trans
ported, but remained in North Carolina.
These Indians have been lost sight of by
the general public, but every little while
something occurs to bring them to no.
tice. They seem to be a quiet, nom
progressive people. who. hidden in the
mountain coves, pursue the even tenor
of their way without receiving the
slightest influence from the civilization
of the country. The only thing that
has stirred them UP since the removal
Of their brethren was the war The
Confederates got quite a number of
them into their service, and used them
to harry the East Tennesseeans.
March 10 Senator Warner, of Mis-
souri,, introduced the Administration bill
providing for the re-enlistment of dis
charged negro soldiers of the 25th Inf
who can establish to the satisfaction of
the President that they had no par
ticipation or guilty knowledge of the
affray at Brownsville Tex
The bill gives the soldiers one year
from the time of the approval of the
act in which to establish their inno-
cence. The pay and allowances of such
men az are restored to the service will
date from the time of their discharge,
just as tho the re-enlistment had been
made at that time.
The measure differs from that intro
duced by Senator Foraker in that his
bill provides for the re-enlistment OF
the former soldiers upon their making
an oath that they were not involved in
the affray.
Shortly before his illness the late
Senator Bryan, of Florida, asked the
President that one of the new battle
ships be named in honor of that State.
The President did not give conclusive
answer, but it is now announced that in
view of Mr.. Bryan's untimely death the