The National tribune., 1908-02-27

| from those near and dear to her; this
| beautiful rug from favorite aunt, TINS
| shining silver and glass from various
members of her family, this picture
from the dear friend with whom she
visited the great galleries of Europe,
these books from kindred literary spir-
| its, bonds of strongest friendship be-
| tween them. the useful or ornamental
article here and there, each one full
of particular significance and all OF
which grow dearer and dearer as the
years roll by, becoming, as they do, a
part of the SacrednesS of the nome. II
would be too bad for any girl to cut
herself off from this, which, of course,
| is not what Miss Batch has done. She
has simply saved herself from the I'M
willingly given and unWeIcome gl1ts,
and she is quite right.
Four attractive young women must
clans under the patronage of the Gov
eminent have sailed for the Isthmus to
give a series of concerts for the amuSe-
ment of the diggerS of the Big Ditch.
Life is rather dull for the poor men
down there, as far as diversion IS con-
cerned, tho Uncle Sam is doing all he
can to provide agreeable ways of Will
ing away the leisure hours. He has
spent $35, 900 already in building four
fine clubhouses for the Young Mems
Christian Association of the 1sthmus,
and there is talk of building more. When
the plan of giving these concerts was
being formed the organizer was special
| ly requested to bring pretty girls down
with her, and while in making her Sc
| lections she was careful to pick out
girls who understood their business. she
was also particular to choose those who
were good to look upon. One of the girls
plays the piano, another the violin and
| two sing, one having a soprano and the
| other a contralto voice of power ana
sweetness. They profess to be actuated
largely by real first-class patriotism in
making this trip, tho they are not IN
different to its pecuniary advantages.
The chances are they will have the time
of their lives, be treated like Queens by
the Canal Zone fellows, and have more
proposals of marriage than a society
belle.
/ How many people realize that one of
our principal sources of national wealth
lies in the live stock of the farms? Most
of the crops grown go to feed the hogs,
cows, sheep, poultry, ETC., of the farms,
and is planted and harvested for this
purpose. The total value of the live
stock last year was $1,000. 100000, and
the total number of animals in the
country three times that of the total
population. The money obtained from
the sale of animals, alive or slaughtered,
was nearly twice as much as the cotton
crop brought, while the products of the
dairy were worth $S00,000,000, or more
than any crop except corn. Farm ami
mails are more easily turned into money
than anything else, and the country,
therefore, that has the most first-class
stock farms is the richest, and bound
Ito be the most powerful and progressive.
Little Abe Hummel, the shyster law
yer of New York, is about to step from
his prison cell out into the world again
a free man. He has behaved SO well
during his incarceration that he has
been cIassed as a model prisoner" and
the advantages resulting from good be-
lhavior have been accorded him. All the
stories told of his wearing the striped
garb of the prison, of his being put at
hard work, of his being ill and crush
ed wreck of his own dapper little self,
it seems, were false. He has had very
easy time of it, worn what he pleased,
and been compelled to do no work. He
| is in much better condition physically
1 than he was when he entered, as the
plain food, good air and early hours for
retiring have done much to build up
the system, which was SO reduced by
the body and nerve-racking life of New
York. Tho he may have, missed his
first nights" the little lawyer undoubt-
| edly owes increased longevity to his en-
forced removal from the scene of their
mptation.
/ The suffragettes Of England are GER
tainly having hard time of it. 1t has
become part of the regular program
now to be arrested and confined for a
! longer or shorter time in Jail, and those
who have met this fate are regarded by
their sisters as martyrs in great cause
, and almost objects of envy. The in
| cd IN nv 9heGp women 10
secure a hearing is worthy of the sex
In order to prevent being dragged off by
the police, and their meeting broken
up, they padlocked themselves to a
> fence not long ago, which truly feminine
: trick did not succeed very well. Then
in order to gain admission to the House
of Commons for, of course, every effort
: has been made to keep them out, lo1
of them bundled into an innocent-look-
ing furniture van and were driven tc
the very entrance of the Commons
when they expected to get inside by q
grand rush before their presence was
discovered. But, alas! here they also
met with ignominious defeat for the
police spied and arrested them before
$ they were able to storm the doors. They
r have succeeded by their persistency, GER
1 tainly, in forcing the public to sit uT
and take notice of them and their cause
I and it is said that Asquith, whom they
V particularly dislike, never ventures ou
4 without two detectives, and that tht
4 Cabinet Ministers generally live in feal
= and trembling 1t is q situation no
2 without its humorous side to OnloOker.
: in other countries, but England fails t.
2 see much of a joke in it, and Parliament
g has already admitted that it is unable
: to suppress the movement. The suf
: fragettes feel that If they can only keeI
). this sort of thing up long enough thu
, men will give in to them just to get rio
r of them. and they may be right. Attic
= their fight is against the Lords of Crea
e ton" they have found individual MAJ
/ quite handy in their business on severa
: occasions, notably when the husband o
= one of the arrested furniture-van wo
Y men bailed out the whole lot. One O
: their leaders says she is well aware the!
: have made themselves ridiculous, blu
r that they have been compelled to d.
e things out of the common in order L
e gain public attention, otherwise tn