The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-02

i Blanca, Rosalie, Evans's, Pixies, Yale
Harvard and Mount of the Holy Cross
while farther to the north may be see
the Medicine Bow range of mountain
in Wyoming. Wild flowers and mosse
grow in profusion by the side of tn
snowbanks
/ THE mining industry is almost tn
sole support of this district More thai
S45,000,000 has been taken out of tn
Silver Plume mine alone. Gold wa
! first discovered in Colorado at Idah
Springs, and the first silver mine work
! ed in the State was on Mount McClel
Ian. The subterranean ice palaces o
Mount Mcclellan, which are among tn
greatest of Colorado's wonders, are tn
only ones in the world that are accessi
BILE. They are said to be on the site o
a deserted mine Great masses of crys
tails crowd every inch of the rocky wall
and roofs To witness sunrise or sun
set from Mount Mcclellan is wortl
travelling thousands of miles. There i:
! nothing more sublime to be experienced
| in all the world. Contrasted with thi!
the stuffy, smoky cities of the East seen
| like cells
Picture post cards are henceforth Il
have the proud distinction of being free
from DETACHMENT by pOstmark on the
adorned side, by order of the Postmas-
ter-General. To insure this immunity
to these objects of high art, the ordi-
nary variety of post card, intended Only
for the transmission of messages, is aIsl
to be put in the n-postmarked class
This order applies only to the pestmark
of the station where cards are mailed
This will be omitted altogether, but
receiving stamps will be put on at the
station of arrival
Postmasters have found it extremely
difficult, in fact, impossible, to have all
cards reversed so as to prevent an occa-
sional "baekstamp" on the side opposite
to the address, particularly at Offices
where backstamping is done by cancel
ing machines, and letters and cards re-
ceived together in packages must be
rapidly handled. In some cases cards
properly faced for backstamping have
been defaced by ink from the roller in
The machines.
The discortinuance of the backstamp-
ing of cards is particularly timely in
view of the recent order of the Post
master-General, whereby messages may
be placed on the address side without
subjecting the cards to additional post
age, and the fact that messages so
placed can hardly escape DETACHMENT
when the postmark of receipt is placed
on the address side.
At last! AT last! We are to be rid of
the hideous statue of Washington which
was perpetrated by Greenough half a
hundred or so years ago. " Washington
was depicted by Greenough as the
modest Roman of them ALL" aid he
was stripped for the ring, so to speak.
He wore Roman toga. or wore at it.
The thing was '.sculped'' so that it was
draped about the lower part of his bods'
as he sat, and the torso WAS as bare as
when born. oh, il is simply an awful
caricature of a truly great man, who
ought to have been depicted in knee
breeches and ruff, with huge shoes and
huger buckles on them and fancy frills
on his shirt front. The Smithsonian, by
order of Congress, will get the great
mass of tortured marble, and hereafter
who wants to look at it will
have to hunt it, 1t has stood for years
on the Capitol plaza, the delicacy of
the marble being eaten into by our hard
Winters. At last an unsightly shed,
known as "Washington's wooden over
coat" was constructed especially to fit
the statue. and as soon as freezing
weather came it was always shut down
over the Statue and remained there I'M
til the tulips bloomed. in the Spring.
On the face of the returns Senator
of North Dakota, has beer
defeated in the Republican primaries,
and will not be returned to the United
States Senate ,-;..-f s.-s(,
Secretary Cortelyou says that he had
no intention of taking any immediate
action whatever as to the three per cent
Spanish War bonds of 190S19lS.
These bonds, now outstanding to the
of SEA mn non redaeTna hla
at the pleasure of the Government after
Aug. ] next, and for the present at
least the Secretary will take no action
looking to their redemption or CONVEX
sion. This issue, which originally
to nearly s199,000,000. was
made as popular loan, and the bonds
We're largely subscribed for by private
parties as an investment.
With the exception of about s17, 590,-
900 now held by the Government as
curity for circulation notes and public
deposits. these bonds are, to a large ex-
tent, held by the original subscribers in
all sections of the country, and their
forced redemption at this time, the Sec
rotary thinks, would serve no useful
purpose.
The child labor law of the District o.
Columbia goes into effect July 6. The
of age working for money or any other
purpose unless. under exceptional city,
the Judge of the Juvenile
Court shall issue permit allowing such
work.
No child under 16 years of age shall
be allowed to work in any factory or
other establishment unless the proprie-
tor of the establishment keeps on ex-
hibition an age and schooling certificate,
and keeps complete record of all such
children employed by him.
The Superintendent of Schools, or
person authorized by him, shall issue
all schooling certificates, and the age
certificates shall be made from the birth
or baptism records of the children af-
fected.
Whoever employs a child or allows
child to be employed against the pro-
visions of the law shall be deemed
guilty of nisdemeanor, and fined not
more than $50. Whoever continues to
violate this law shall be fined $40 for
each day that tfh continuance exists
This is certainly a righteous law. Far
too many children are denied their
rightful heritage of health and child
hood pleasures by the desire of parents
to make them earn their keep" 1t is
the right of childhood to be kept" and
the parents who bring children into
the world should be made to under
stand this. They ought to know it, any
how, but if they do not it is then best
TO have laws that teach them what is
right One reason for stunted growth
and imperfect mental and physical de-
velopment is that children who should
be growing in mind and body and doirg
little else are put to work where they
cannot exercise properly. breathe i'm