The National tribune., 1908-10-01


have helped him quite good deal, for
he was homesick. Now that real med
ical opinion had got to work on Mr..
Early, it seems that cold, hard common
sense has asserted itself, and medical
opinion says, you should have quietly
shipped Mr.. Early back to North Caro-
lima. where he was born and lived all
that he had loathsome disease"
Of course, the public was aghast at
the idea. Would not that have been
cruel to the public?" it asked, with
hands held up in holy horror.
NO" was the cold-blooded answer.
'Leprosy is neither contagious nor in
fectious, except in a small degree. Hun
dreds of lepers walk the streets of New
York City, and nobody pays any atten-
ton to them" And so DIR. A. e. john
son, Past Surgeon-General of the Grand
Army of the Republic, is amply sup
ported in his theory. He said it was
hysteria, and hysteria 1T proves-very
costly hysteria also for the District,
which is paying about $40 day, more
or less, to keep the leper in idleness
when he is better able to work right
this minute than thousands of war vet
Grams who do a full stunt each day for
the Government The District has got
this man, his wife, her baby and her
and now the District is begin
ming to count the cost of three suspects,
to say nothing of the one man who it is
decided is a pariah.
President Roosevelt probably sat in
his pew at the little church in Oyster
Bay for the last time as President last
Sunday week. He does not usually go
to church on his last Sunday at Saga
more Hill, because he is much averse
to saying good-by, but he did this time.
He went to church early, and went into
the choir room to shake hands with
the singers-boys and girls-and gave
everybody a handshake who wanted it.
Former American ambassador to
Austria and Mrs. Bellamy Storer, uncle
and aunt of Representative Nicholas
Longworth, who have been in London
since the opening of the Eucharistic
Congress, have returned to their place
in Versailles. They will return to Amer
lea some time next month, and spend
the Winter at their home in Boston,
recently purchased.
A horrible thing happened at st. Eliz-
abeths Asylum last week, but it is one
OF those things that might happen at
such place at any time. A negro trusty,
who has been in the asylum for years,
only mildly crazy, and apparently trust
worthy, went suddeAly violently insane,
killed his keeper, a woman, and serious
ly injured another woman who may die.
The negro himself ran for miles before
he was caught, and was shot full of
buckshot before he could be caught
and conquered. He is not seriously hurt,
and is now as sane as he used to be,
with no desire to hurt: fly. 1t Tgili
always be questionable whether per-
son whose mind is warped in any "ay
should ever be permitted 20 roam at
large. 1t is said that the "insare bug
Turks in every mans mind all the time.
and only awaits the touch that will de-
veIop the mania. 1t is well known that
Otherwise level-headed people have
often periods Of insanity when they
would like to kill and paim, SO what
can be expected of those whose we'll
known "crazy'' streaks lead them to do
such strange things2 "Canst thou not
minister to mind diseased?" implored
Macbeth, and then, feeling that having
once "eaten of the insane root that
takes the reason prisoner.fi all hope is
gogs: goes: RI nfl GrG none of it! K IS cry or as as
old as Old Time, and so it would seem
that it is q dangerous thing to make a
"trusty'' of a man whose reason has
when those kinks may cross, and muir
der be done.
Judge w. A Kincaid, of Manila, Phil
ippine Islands, is somewhat disgusted
with the narrow idea which he thinks
great many Americans hold of the
Filipinos. He says they are much finer
people than we imagine, much more
highly educated, and should be better
treated by us. He says:
"Our industries-that is, the sugar,
tobacco, hemp and cocoa industries
are not as prosperous as they should
be, or as they might be, IL America
would allow them free entry. There
should be free trade between The two
countries. 1t is nonsense TO argue that
the free admission of sugar into the
United States would do harm to the
American sugar planter. The Same
| thing applies to tobacco. They do not
| produce enough sugar or tobacco i'll the
/ Philippines to offer serious competition
| with the American product.
There SENS TO be misapprehension
among American people regarding the
Philippines. Many Americans who &c
to the islands and visit Manila, after
| being banqueted and dined, go to the
outlying places and see few Negritos
or Igorrotes, and jump at the conclu-
| sion that they form the large part oi
the population. The truth is that there
are only about 100000 non-Christians
out of population of nearly 100000
The average Filipino is as highly civil
ized as any other Christian.
| They had universities and schools
in the islands long before many of the
so-called civilized countries had them
The Filipino is of a highly sentimental
poetical and artistic nature, and is po'
| lite and loyal. What is needed in the
i Philippines is American capital to ex
plot the natural resources. We have
coal, iron and copper; we have farms
the best farming land in the world
| There are farmers there who in a few
a wonder to me that the influx of Amer
it has.
i If any fellow has an idea that h
would like to break into the United
States Treasury he now has an oppor.
tunity to try it, tho he would probabl!
4 find himself broken before he got int
the old gray pile of stone. For weeks
the process of peeling off the old soft
Icolored sandstone which had been kissed
into a pink-gray pastel color by tim'
has been going on, and also the taking
out and putting in of the granite col
umns has been in progress, leaving th'
4 building a heap thinner on the side thai
is being patched up. While there ha'
: been an often expressed fear that tn
d United States Treasury might be at
! tackled by a mob, and this fear wa
often emphasized into grave DANCE
during the war, the fact remains tina
!, nobody has ever been SO. foolhardy a
to attempt the thing. Secret Servic
men say that many of the noted cracks