The National tribune., 1908-01-16

bright, Win nankeTIrS for tHe staSe:
it is said. She can make good money
during the next year on the stage. espe-
ciaIly if her father is a Presidential can
didate 1t was announced short time
ago that she hoped to be delegate to
the National Democratic Convention al
Denver her home town. and IL so Woulc
nominate her father. which is. of course.
foolish to say the least. 1t is announced
that Mrs Leavitt, who is travelling
abroad with her mother, will make her
home with her parents in Lincoln, Neb.,
on her return to this country
The temperance women of the Dis
trict OF Columbia called upon the Presi-
dent the other day and petitioned MN
to assist them in making the District OF
Columbia dry and the President as
sured them he would do all that he con-
sistently could to help them in their eff.
forts.
What next? Representative Simms,
of Tennessee, has introduced a bill to
prohibit rural free delivery carriers
from delivering mail packages of wet
goods" in other words, alcoholic re-
freshments. And this just as the drink
ers in the Prohibition States thought
they had things all fixed up.
Judge A S. Berry, former Represen-
tative from the Sixth Kentucky District,
died of pneumonia last week at his resi-
dence in Newport, KY, after brief i'll
ness. While in Congress Judge Berry
was the tallest man in either house, and
was known as "the Tall Sycamore of the
Licking"
On the ground that where RESPONSE
bility is incurrable the power to dis
charge it should be vested Representa-
tive Sherley has introduced a bill so
amending the Federal Statutes that the
United States shall have authority to
punish ."any person guilty of conSpi-
racy to injure or intimidate an alien.
The law as it stands provides for Fed
eral punishment of "any citizen" of this
country merely.
Thus said Mr.. Sherley, discussing
his bill, Gin the case of the Malta riots
in Louisiana the United States was call
ed on by the Italian Government for in
demnity on account of Italian slain, but
this Government was powerless to pun
ish the guilty. they being amenable to
State law only The same circumstances
obtained in the later anti-Chinese riots
on the Pacific Coast, and might rearise
as a result of anti-Japanese sentiment
there. Where the Government is re-
sponsble to other Governments for
acts of conspiracy, such as mob vio-
ltHCc, tHc DONti " PUNISH liiC 6uifts
should be centrally vested
The woman with he "heaven-given
talent" to write books which are
promptly excluded from library shelves
which are open to the young is in WASH
| ington. "She" is Mrs. Elinor Glyn, an
English woman, who tries to write of
Italian immoralness like a Frenchman,
and fails to do anything but produce a
commonplace book about an abnormal
| woman. She is talking, of course. She
says her critics do not understand her;
that they are crude. 1t certainly would
be @ fool who did not understand the
sentiment expressed in her book, and
| it's all crude enough, goodness knows.
| Mrs. Glyn is very pretty, with quantities
of reddish-brown hair and a certain sort
| of MY Lady" style, but she's English
| to the backbone. She threatens to write
a novel about Americans that will make
| them sit up and take notice, but there
are others. Thackeray rather roasted
us, Dickens took US off in an unpleas-
| ing way, but we deserved it, and Moore
wrote poetry about some of our South
| ern statesmen that rankles with them
| yet, tho the practices to which he re-
| ferred have not been much abated
since slavery days. But we are used
| to people writing about us. 1t adver-
of Mrs Glyn's book has added tenfold
to its circulation.
And now it is said that Takahira is
coming back to us. Japan might have
left him with us when we had him, be-
cause we liked him. Aoki was a fine
gentleman, courtly, suave and Ndiplo-
with him; but, then, what was the use
of changing?
1t was an Iowa man who at last won
out on the reading contest in the Sem
ate. Crockett is his name, but he is no
relation to the only and original "Davy,"
| tho he did bring down the coon;" or,
in other words, he won out on the read
| ing contest against 65 others. The test
was for volume of voice, carrying quail
tiles, pronunciation, enunciation, rapid
| ity in speaking with ciearness of tone,
and for physical strength to endure long
stretches without firing out. Mr.. Crock
EFT halls from Iowa. The reading test
| for e. clerk in the Senate has been going
on for month, and the winner has a
place for life-during good behavior, of
course.
| King Edward is not at all vain of his
| hight, and when he has a picture taken
in standing position, with others stand
ing about him. he always stands on a
bit of ground higher than the others, Oh
on a step above those about him, SC
i that he appears as tall as anybody
when it is well known that he is short
and very stout. President Roosevelt
seems to have caught onto this fad also
for while he is not more than five feet
seven at the utmost, in pictures he tow
ers up with Fairbanks and the other
i tall men.
| The other day personableappea
ing young man presented himself at the
4 Office of the Vice President, and an
nounced himself as Charles Warren
Fairbanks" and Immediately there was
lscurrying for adequate protection of the
Vice President, whom il was immediate
I ly assumed was being faced by mar
who was mentally unbalanced. But he
wasn't. He was just a plain, gentle
manly citizen hailing from Concord, N
H., who had been named by the Presi
dent for Pension Agent in that little
| Capital. He had called TO talk the mat
ter over with the Vice President, as hi!
nomination had to be confirmed by the
!, Senate, and tho he and the Vice Presi
dent worked hard at it comparing Fair
banks family tree, they couldn't pos
sibly rake up relationship.
Representative Goldfogle. of New
, York, was going thru the new Hous,
seeking desirable quarters for himself
have. When he reached the secont
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