The National tribune., 1908-11-12

to the White House and his impossibl
squash the distinguished gentleman.
| The Roosevelt children all attend tn
| Episcopal Church-the church of thei
mother. Mrs. Roosevelt is impartial i
her attendance, going sometimes to on
| church and sometimes to the other, bu
is most often her husbands companio
at the Dutch Reformed. Mrs. Roose
welt dresses very plain for church. Sh
wears soft white muslins in Summer
and generally a black dress in Winter
| She never by any chance wears man
frillS to church or on the street whe
shopping. and never scrap of jewelr
| do you see on her at church or whe
she is shopping. She abhors such tast
as you see displayed by many would-b
| smart" women, who wear diamon
rings, diamond earrings and diamon
collars with shirt-waist suit to luncl
at department store. Miss Ethel care
nothing for dress. She wears most o
| the time this Autumn white wool two
piece suit, skirt and jacket, with mul
waist, exquisitely embroidered, and
wide brown felt hat with lot of mir
ror silk twisted around it. She usual.
wears brown gloves. She does not wea
lace stockings on the street, either. Tha
is another shoddy idea that Mrs. RooSe
welt abhors. Both she and her daugh
ters wear hose of solid stitch and colo
on the street.
Mrs. Elihu Root, wife of the Secre
tary of State, who returned to hel
Washington home TO receive returns o.
the election at the White House, ha:
been recalled to New York on account
OF the death of her mother. Mrs. Salem
H. Wales. Mrs. Wales had been a fre.
quent visitor to her son-in-law and
daughter in Washington. and her death
has been the cause of much sympa-
thetic comment among their friends
home of the Roots into mourning this
Winter.
Orders for the final abandonment by
the military authorities of Fort Keogh
Mont, have been issued by Gen. Edger-
ly, commander of the Department OF
Dakota.
The troops were withdrawn from
this post year ago. and in June last
the reservation was turned over to the
Interior Department, subject to the de-
parture of a small detachment consist
ing of one officer and six enlisted men,
who had remained behind to break up
the post-that is to say, ship away to
other forts in the Dakota Department
everything serviceable except the build
ings, which are TO remain for the use
of the Interior Department as Indian
schools and homes for the teachers, etc.
Fort Keogh is the last of the old
reservations in Montana to be aban-
doned. 1t was established closely fol-
lowing the Custer massacre, in June,
1876, and consisted of $500 acres. 1t
is situated on the Yellowstone River,
three miles from Miles City, and the
land is for the most part cleared and
of very fertile soil. II will soon be
opened by the Interior Department to
settlers, and eventually will become
one of the finest farming sections in
southeast Montana.
The detachment of troops now at
Fort Keogh goes to Fort Lincoln, near
Bismarck, y. d.
A young lady who is playing with a
theatrical company in Washington is
very much aggrieved. She made a bet
On Bryan. If she lost She was to sweep
the steps of the east front of the Capt.
tol. She lost. She appeared on the
east front of the Capitol with her little
new broom, and there was stopped and
stayed by q Gordon of Capitol police,
who were "laying" for her, SO to speak.
Her bet is not paid, and never will be,
duty bound to prevent her carrying out
her design of sweeping those great stone
steps. Anyhow, it would take her a
week to do it with dolls broom, and
that was what she was provided with
in the shape of a sweeper"
Indian superstition will be respected
by the United States Government, and
the body Of Sitting Bull, the famous
chief OF the Sioux tribe, will be allowed
to rest In its original burial place at
Fort Yates Recently an order was is
sued for the removal of the remains of
several Indians from Fort Yates to
Keokuk, Iowa, but in the belief Of the
Indians this would disturb the peace of
the departed ones in their enjoyment
of the happy hunting grounds. Friends
of Sitting Bull raised such a protest
that the order was rescinded as far as
his remains are concerned Fourteen
other bodies were taken to Keokuk.
Representative Charles G. Edwards,
of Georgia, was operated on a few days
ago for appendicitis, and the result is
yet in doubt. Physicians who have at
tended him for several days diagnosed
his complaint as acute Indigestion, and
he has been near to death several times
recently.
Relatives We're summoned, and he
was placed on the operating table.
Mr.. Roosevelt still adheres to the
opinion that Congress should authorize
four battleships every year, and ne will
make recommendations to this effect in
his forthcoming message, notwithstand-
ing the fact that at the last session Con-
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two. and that the Chairmen of the Ma
would be the policy of Congress in the
future, as far as they We're able to in
fiuence legislation.
Last year the President made known
his recommendations thru Mr.. Bever-
idge in the Senate, and Mr.. Hobson in
the House, thereby ignoring and antag-
onizing the Chairmen of the Naval
Committees, Senator Hale and Repre-
sentative Foss. 1t is doubtful that Con-
gress will authorize more than two bat
tleships at the next session, and the
only chance for four is that Mr.. Roose-
Welt conduct his campaign for them
thru the Naval Committee ChairmeD,
1t Is rare occurrence that a civilian
appointee who passes the examination
for commission as Second Lieutenant
in the Army refuses TO accept his COM
mission, but this is the case of Bright
MarSton, who was recently appointed
to the infantry. A recent appointment
was issued to him in the regular form.
and he was called upon to file his ac-
ceptance. 1t then appeared that he
had married since his examination, and
he indicated that, if it were not for his
marriage, which he understood to be
nj General hn a