The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-02-06

tends toward the betterment of the con-
dition of the family. A man in Brock
ton, Mass, who has some means and a
mind for doing things, has decided 10
build an apartment house on generous
plan and the most approved fainiiy
MOD !. the same designed to house tam
lilies of children-their parents included,
of course. 1t was such a wonderful
thing that the newspapers have mace
a good deal of it, consequently the fact
came to the ears of the President, and
he wrote the following letter to Mr.
Bartlett:
white House, Washington, ID. c.
MY Dear Mr.. Bartlett: l am in receipt
of notes and clippings concerning your
attitude toward children, and must sehd
you personal line to say how all good
citizens should appreciate what you
have done. With kindest regards, be-
Iieve me, sincerely yours.
ct Roosevelt
Washington is now connected with
Annapolis by electric cars which run
every hour. A month or two later the
line will be extended to Baltimore.
Goodness gracious! OF course, one
might expect something to happen when
Oklahoma came in as a State; some
thing out of the usual in society ways
as well as political. Oklahoma has
made good in the political phantasy all
right 1t is now making good on the
social line Representative Bird S. Nc
Z CURE gave a reception the other day,
or Mrs. Mcclure did, and she was as
sisted by the ladies of the Oklahoma
delegation, as was right and proper. But
there were some also assisting, and
the names, the Indian spelling OF them,
would not tell you anything. big
,;..g rnr.'f &c no yN-1x
names gets into United States. Big
Chief Tiger is the successor of Chief
Pleasant Porter, and is full-biooded
Crete Indian. Also assisting was Capt
Haines and his daughter, Miss Stella
Haines, both full-blooded Crete Indians.
Unfortunately for the picturesqueness
of the affair, the receiving Indians and
their men attendants were all robed
a la English-one couldn't exactly say
American" you know, because these
were some of the ''aboriginaF Ameri-
cans, the aristocracy OF the country,
and the really and truly American
style which they set in an early Gay
would have called out a protest from
Anthony Comstock had they donned the
undress of that period. As a matter
of fact, it was a properly and elegantly
gowned receiving line, if you must
know. and Oklahoma didn't make any
show of herself at all, at all. Okla
homa is all right.
THAT it should come to this,
But two months i tn Senate! Nay,
not so much, not two;
"A little month; or ere those shoes were
old,
With which we followed Davis to the
Senate
L, %I,a fnoyoinl 81
tine, and stomp the Octopus into the
Senate carpet and grind it in fertilizer
meath his high-heeled boots. like
Niobe, all tears over the wrongs of
his country--his piece of the country
the R-r-u-u-i-n of the R-e-p-u-u- bic, |
sub. and all that sort of rot.
within MONTH
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous
tears
Had lett the flushing in our CALLED eyes, |
o, most wicked, speed to post |
With such dexterity to shining broad
cloth,
To patent-leather pumps and other
frivols
'Gainst which thy phillipics have been
hurled
Since manhood met theei"
Doubtless one day when ShakspereI
was having Indigestion he might have
blank versed thus had he lived till now,
and seen JEFF Davis, of Arl1ansaw, APP
pear in the Chamber of the United
States. Senate in true Senatorial garb-
age, leng-tailed black broadcloth coat
of exquisite fineness, low-cut wesket
and pumps, Ye gods, And he had
sworn never, never sub, to yield to the
influences of the octopus, the haber-
dasher and Senatorial courtesy. Well,
We'll Welt Of course, the country has
got to stand it, but the moths won't get
much chance at the pepper-and-saft
business suit which little Willie has laid
away, ma, for he can pull it out when
he goes down home to distribute the
copies of that first speech in the Sen
ate.
Congress is a queer congIomeration
when you come to think of it, and that
statement is not meant invidiously. eth
er. Men are just great big children,
and can be swayed pretty much as you
please il you manage to strike the
chord Just right. Now, who ever heard
of applauding plea to the Almighty
outside of the nails of Congress? One
morning last week the blind Chaplain,
Rev. Coudon, who is loved as men can
love each other when they like, closed
his morning petition TO the Throne OF
Grace as follows:
Good Lord, deliver us, We beseech
Thee, from the lingo. the demagog, the
bigot and all other undesirable citizens,
and give us instead the patriot, the
statesman, the broad-minded, generous
hearted manly man, that Thy kingdom
may come and Thy will be done on
earth as it is In Heaven, for Christs
sake. Amen.
Hardly had he concluded the unusual
supplication when the House rang with
applause and not little laughter, but
it wasn't the laughter of the scoffer
Not bit OF it. There just seemed to
be a sort of satisfaction in the ripple
of amusement, that at least one man
in the House had a right to say what
ne thinks, and nobody dare talk back
at MIN. 1t happened 10 follow upon
the visit OF William Jennings Bryan to
the House on the day before, when he
hid been right royalty received by his
friends and some Democrats objected
TO the prayer, saying that the Chaplain
was taking politics into the pulpit.
Shucks. What's the use OF talking that
way?
Surely they viii all be recorded some
day soon--the women who refused the
hand of President Lincoln. Another has
lust died. This time Ii is Mrs. Mary +.
Reilly. of Sioux City, Iowa. She says
that Lincoln proposed to her in 1880.
AT that time she must have been under
Is years of age, as she was 81 at the
time of her death. Rather young for as
mature a sweetheart as Lincoln was