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

has been found by DIR. L. o. Howard
Chief of the Bureau of Entomology. De
partment of Agriculture. who has TO
several seasons sought some parasite t
make Roadway against the depreciation
of the beetle.
Six hundred of the parasites wer
bred by the Department and liberated
in the elm trees of the city. So destruc
tive did they prove. to the elm leaf beetl
that the latter has practically disap
peared. The parasite feeds upon thu
eggs of the beetle.
ambassador Reid gave a swell stas
dinner at Dorchester House, London
one night last week to the members o.
the American Monetary Commission. A
number of well-known financiers were
invited to meet the Americans. All the
Commissioners, Senators Aldrich, OF
Rhode Island; Hale, of Maine, and Dan
iel, of Virginia, and Representatives
Vreeland, of New York; Overstreet OF
Indiana, and Padgett. of Tennessee, ana
Prof. A. I. Andrews were present. The
other guests were Lord RIhschild, Sir
George Murray. Permanent Secretary OF
the Treasury; William Campbell, Gov
ernor of the Bank of England: S. H
land; Senator Smoot, of Utah; Repre-
sentative Dalzell. of Pennsylvania; ].
Pierpont Morgan, e. C. Grenfell. D.
Cady Herrick, Herbert S. Foxwell, Gen
Greedy. II. P. Dawson, of New York;
George B. Reynolds. of Chicago, and
w. Hampton Moore.
After the departure of their guests,
Mr.. and Mrs. Reid started for Scotland,
where they will spend a week with An
drew Carnegie at Skibo Castle.
Dear me, Brig.-Gen. Daniel H Ruck-
er, How far that carries back some
not SO many, for, don't
you know, there can't be such lot of
people living who were young with the
old war dog. He's 96 years old. you
know-or young, just as you like to put
it. His face is scanned and wrinkled,
but he walks with a good deal of vigor,
and talks like a man of so instead of
nearly twice that many years. Just
now he is in the limelight, because he
has been declared to be dead. Dead as
Cesar. don't you know. He won't have
it that way, and picked himself up the
other day. and went down in town to
give the New York Life Insurance Com
pany piece of a mind that has been
nearly 100 years maturing. He was in
sured in that company. He lived to the
end of their human calculations" and
then he cult paying anything on his
policy. Catch the New York Life doing
things for nothing! That great insur-
ance company just said, "Well, if you
amt dead you ought to be, according
to all calculations. so We shall just
mark-you so,' and dead" in great red
letters they stamped across his policy,
and then tod this corpse to come and
his Ahont the first time
anybody ever got even with an insur-
ince company, and the General rather
Enjoys the distinction. He has not paid
| dollar on the policy for many years.
Gen. Rucker has an illustrious career
Is a soldier. He entered the service in
1897, and fought thru the civil war with
lonors.
He displayed such gaIlantry that he
ose step by step, until 1882. when he
etired with the rank of Brigadier and
he brevet of Maior-General.
Mrs. Irene Rucker Sheridan, widow
# Gen. Phil Sheridan, is one of his
daughters, and he has a large circle of
elatives who are glad he is not dead
md hope he never will die.
Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter
If the late President John Tyler, Sc
ected her monument before she died,
md had it properly inscribed. leaving
flank the date of death. The date has
low been added. and the monument
AIKEN out of storage, where it has rest |
d here in Washington for many years, |
nd was set up above her grave in Bru-
on Parish, where her body lies, last
week. |
c. J. Erickson, of Seattle, Wash, has
'een notified by the Navy Department
f the acceptance of his bid of $685.
90 for construction of Puget Sound |
rydock. Mr.. Erickson was the lowest |
bidder, and was one of only two con-
ropriation of s2,000,0O0 made by Con-
ress Tor the dock.
Reports by the Division of Dead Let
ers during July would indicate that
he public has made a slight improve!
nent since last year in the care exer-
ised in dispatch of mail matter. At |
ny rate, 101,242 less pieces of mail |
iere received at the Dead Letter Office
eived during that month being 1884,
Is
OF the 932,983 pieces of nail re-
eived there were returned to senders
$1,000
1t was necessary to send to the Dead |
.etter Office for disposition during July
n aggregate of s4.62405, of which the
division was able to restore to the send
rs $3,7S6.1E.
After enlarging the free rural delivery
the Post Office Department
ow finds itself obliged to utter a warn
ne: that unless certain routes have more
atters to distribute the routes will be
ut back to a twice-a-week. delivery in
toad of a daily one, as now. This is
true of the Sussex County,
,el., route. Neither letters nor ncwspa-
ers are up to the requisite number to
etain the route.
In New York the other day Masano
Ianihara, Second Secretary of the Jap
nese Embassy, and social fayorite of
he Diplomatic Corps, was so severely
ljured from the result of daring rescue
( an American woman from a runaway
orse that he may suffer the conse-
uences for the remainder of his life.
he japanese diplomat was battered
nd bruised, and had his foot so badly
rushed by the horses hoof that ii will
e months before It is Eaaled. When it
remembered that Mr. Hanihara is
My an inch over five feet, his manag-
lg to stop the horse at all is q brave
hing to have done. The lady, whose
anne he will not give, was not hurt,
nd it was several days before anyone
new that it was Mr.. Hanihara who
ad performed the valorous deed.
l.
Here is a telegram from Attorney
ieneral Bonaparte to friend, and 1t is
ure the word with the bark on:
Have not the slightest intention of
before the end of present Ad-
Have denied this story so
ften that I think further denials on
iy part are unnecessary