The National tribune., 1908-10-22

| TO the Dead Letter Office, as l should
where it would have been sold. l now
send $1.5o restitution money
The Presi dent by an order made last
week blanketed about 700 more places
into the Civil Service. The places are
mostly in the Indian Service, with a
few IN the Department of Justice.
The old Aqueduct Bridge across the
Potomac at Georgetown is now de-
clared to be Shaky and insecure. Divers
have found that the piers are crumblng
under water. and the probability is that
the old bridge will have to be pulled
down and a new one built.
New shipments of garden seeds of
| this seasons gathering are being sent
| to the Isthmus of Panama by the De-
partment of Agriculture, under the
plans adopted some time ago by Secre-
| tary Wilson to encourage the Amerl-
cans and natives along the Canal Zone
| to grow their own fresh vegetables
Experiments have proved that this
can be done, and the crops are partlcu-
larly valuable in the Winter time, when
none can be shipped from the United
States.
An effort is now being made to in
| terest the natives of the little Republlc,
and some progress has been made. The
seed sent at this time go to an official,
who will distribute them. The ship
ments include all varieties of vegetables,
and of the type which experiments
have shown thrive better in the tropics.
|
Former Representative Joseph A.
Scranton died last week at his home In
Scranton after an illness of year. lie
was SO years of age. He was elected TO
ICongress in 1880, and reelected to the
49th, 51st, 53d and 54th Congresses.
Mr. Scranton was active in the Lin
coin campaign of 1860, and was made
Collector of Internal Revenue in 1865.
He was Postmaster of the city of Scran-
ton for eight years and Treasurer OF
Lackawanna County for three years.
He attended Exeter and Yale.
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. who was
operated on at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, some weeks ago, has recov-
cred sufficiently to go to his home in
Los Angeles, Cal. Gen. Otis, who is a
distinguished soldier and the publisher
of the Los Angeles Times has been an
interesting visitor to Baltimore. While
he has been a patient during most OF
the time, he has taken keen interest
in current events, and has been the OBJ
ject of social attention.
| Last week. while Vice President Fair
banks was in the city, he expressed a
desire to see his old California friend
and went TO anu lidu q
pleasant chat with him.
Sweden's Legation in Washington is
now located in 10th street northwest
in one of the Two handsome Spanish
renaissance houses just completed fol
former Senator John b. Henderson
The Swedish Minister, Herman de Lag
ercrantz, moved into the new home OF
the Legation last week. The house is on
the west side of the street, Immediately
north of the Venetian house occupied
by Secretary Straus, of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, and the
French Embassy
Two Washington women-Miss Ethel
A Colford and Miss Florence NJ. Col
ford, twin sisters-were admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court OF
the United States last week.
The. Misses Colford have been prac.
| ticing law in this city for several years
: and have been associated with theiI
uncle, Clarence Colford.
They were born in Halifax, Nova
: Scotia, but received much of their edu-
cation here, graduating from the Con-
. vent of the Visitation. Their iega
studies were pursued at the Washing
! ton College OF Law, from which they
graduated in 1903 as bachelors of law
| The following year each received de-
! gree OF master of law. Last year George
Washington University conferred upor
each of them the degree of master OF
patent law. this being unique distinc-
ton, as they are the only women who
hold that degree.
Shortly after graduating from the
Washington College of Law, they were
admitted to practice before the SUI
| preme Court of the District of Colum-
bfa and Court of Appeals. They are
members of the Washington Legal Ait
J Society.
A bronze tablet to the memory o.
John w. Ross, former Commissioner Of
the District OF Columbia, who died {
, few years ago, was set in the wall o.
! the vestibule of the new Municipa
: Building last week.
| The President and Secretary Loeb
J both of whom vote at Oyster Bay, are
, not. obliged to register this year. A new
/, law says that new registration is no
; necessary in towns under 5000 inhab
, itants AS Oyster Bay is not nearly 81
! large, the President does not have t.
make the exhausting trip to put hi.
name down on the roll books, so that HI
may vote for his friend, Mr.. Taft. Th'
President and Secretary Loeb will star
; for oyster Bay the night before elec
at 6 o'clock of election day. 1t will b,
. seen that the trip is tiresome one
! and mighty costly, but President Roose
: Welt, when Assistant Secretary of th'
t Navy, President of the Civil Servic,
Commission and as Vice President ha!
always gone to his home to vote il
every general election He believes
the duty of a good citizen to do so.
Col Stewart, the officer of ''tempera
mental difficulties" who commanded al
abandoned fort out in Arizona for sew
. eral months on order of the President
I is out-way out. He was ordered I,
Washington to take an examination t
discover If he was able to take the lon;
] ride that all officers must take If they
$ remain in the service. He was exam
ined, and his heart found weak. From
that decision to being set outside tn
= breastworkS as an Army officer on tn
retired list was a matter of about 1.
[ hours or SO. 1t is stated for fact b,
2 Army officers who have known Col
e Stewart well, that while he was a fin
soldier, he had in him elements tina
] were all for trouble" especially at
E fort or post, and that he was extremel.
= irascible.
e And now we have the military foot
\ Maj. Edward l.. Munson, an officer o
the Army Medical Corps, has submitte'
= to the War Department a report whicl
gives his personal observation of tn
foot soldier. AS Mai Munson is tn
d author of an accepted work on mill
a tary hygiene, he Is qualified to speal
e on almost any matter of import to tn
e health and well-being of the soldiers
d Maj. Munson points out that from con
L Stant marching the feet of soldiers hav