The National tribune., 1908-01-23

and wonderful discovery absolutely free
miles when they called for tellers on
that old Ku-Klux bill"
Congress once passed a drastic law
against anybody but officials. and Off
cials on official duty at that, using car
riages provided by the Government for
the various bureaus.
To make assurance doubly sure II
further provided that all wagons be-
longing to the Government should bear
in a conspicuous place the name of the
bureau or the department to which
they belong.
These provisions We're effective for q
time, but gradually the Government
owned and maintained equpages de-
voted to social and personal uses, has
returned. Every Army and Navy Off
Ger, who has pull enough; every bu-
reau chief sufficiently astute to find
a general appropriation anywhere has
a strong-limbed driving horse or two
and coachman who is on the Gov
ernment rolls as 4 messenger. These
carriages crowd the shopping districts
and are numerous at every tea and re-
ception.
The required lettering is somewhere
on the box of every such Government
carriage. Generally one must have a
microscope to locate it. The charac-
ters are so small as TO escape observa-
ton. Quartarmaster officers of the
Army have devised an additional
scheme. The legend ~. S. Quarter
masters Department" is printed upon
the rubber-tlred, magnificent broug
hams, which the officers of that corps
command. but 1t is a maroon that
shades into the ebory black so per-
fectly as to be triumph of the car
riage painters art.
Here is war story that Senator
Foraker told in the cloak room the
other day. u jfu
Senator Foraker tand Senator Over
man We're discussing civil war expert
ences. and Senator Foraker told how,
while he was marching through the
South, he took occasion to question a
number of stragglers whom he met as
10 their political status Invariably.
he said. the Investigated native de-
clared for the Uni6n. They were all
Union men, h3Iat4t
But then he crossed the North Car
olina border. and he had not been in
the territory of that State very long
when he met. in the Cape Fear section,
a tall. lank Highland Scot.
WELL" queried the future defender
of the Brownsville sfboters-up, chow
about you? Union man. l suppose p"
"No-o-o, subj" was the emphatic re-
''oh: then you must be a secession
ist"
mot a bit of ii, suhl"
Huh! What are you, them"
Il, suh,'' replied the stranger,
stretching himself proudly to his full
hight, "am just damned rebel sub.
from my toes up
Senator Foraker said he passed on.
without molesting the man, for he
didn't think such an out-and-o outer
would stay prisoner long, even if he
were captured.
Over in China they are making
money out of discarded horseshoes.
which the average American is wont
to regard only as an omen of good
luck. According to Vice Consul Voll-
mer, one of the constantly growing i'm
ports into the Chinese province of
Shantung is old horseshoes. The mar
ket for these wornout shoes Seems to
be unlimited. 1t is claimed by the
Chinese that the temper OF this class
of iron makes 1t the best obtainable
for knives and cutlery, and also good
for other tools.
The reason ascribed for this is that
ceived under the feet of horses has
given them a peculiar temper. abso-
lutely unobtainable in any other way,
and that tools made from them are su-
perior to all others.
Gen. l. R. Sherwood has introduced
Il bill looking to the reduction of the
Army
His bill provides that there shall be
hnt 2E G00 in hn A nf VIII
10000 shall be members of the Coast
Artillery. He provides for the reten-
ton from the present officers, by the
Secretary of War. for enough to man
10 regiments. This includes field and
line officers. and the provision is that
they shall be termed emergency Off
GERS.
He estimated that the reduction
would result in saving of 100000 900
annually, which amount he would de-
vote toward pensioning civil war vet
Grams at the rate of 81 day.
Representative Roberts. of Massa-
chusetts, has introduced a bill pro-
viding for the relief of the widows and
children of mechanics labOrers, and
other employees of the Federal Govern
ment who shall. by no fault of their
own, be either injured or killed while
SO employed. The bill provides for the
payment of not more than $4,000 in
the case of permanent injury. nor more
than $4,000 in the case of death.
The President has signed a procla-
nation designating, as a National
Monument" the jagged peaks known
as the "Pinnacles,' situated in Cali
fornia.
The peaks will now be protected in
every way from unsightly exploitation.
Mrs. T. P. O'Connor. wife of the
Irish member of Parliament, Is spend
ing few weeks in this country. Mrs.
O'Connor was prior to her marriage
Miss Bessie Paschal. daughter of
Judge George w. Paschal. Mrs. O'Con-
nor is beautiful and a brilliant wom-
an, and Is being entertained extensive
ly by her friends in Washington and
elsewhere.
Wooden legs worn by disabled vet
Grams Of the civil war are wearing out.
They need new ones.
Representative O'Connell has intro
duced in the House bill providing
that every soldier who was disabled in
the civil war and who was provided by
the War Department with an artificial
| limb or apparatus for resectiOn shall
be entitled to receive a new limb or
apparatus as soon as possible.
II the disabled soldier chooses, he
may take the money that the wooden
or cork leg would cost. not to exceed
$75.
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