The National tribune., 1909-01-07

bulk of John Turner is his death war
rant, altho he is now regarded as il
good health. The length of body of tn,
giant, say the physicians, is in invers
ratio TO his length of life, Just as tn,
dwarf has been found to be a very long
| lived creature
| And so John Turner, afflicted with
giantism. seems fated to die at an early
| date, if the opinion of physicians whc
| nave diagnosed his case can be ac-
cepted.
The President gave a luncheon last
week in honor of James Ford Rhodes
| the famous historian, whose home is in
Boston. The other guests were Secre-
| tary Root, Associate Justice Holmes, OF
the United States Supreme Court; En-
bassador James Bryce, Senator Lodge,
| of Massachusetts, and Prof. Lawrence
Lowell, of Boston.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
the foot and mouth disease, which
seemed to have Pennsylvania, New York
and Michigan in is grip. is letting up a
bit. In fact,-he thinks it is pretty well
stamped out by now.
The lifting of the quarantine now
permits the shipment out of New York
of hay and hides; in Maryland, except
ing two Counties, of hay and hides and
cattle for immediate slaughter and the
same is true in Michigan, excepting in
five Counties. The Department is con-
sidering the advisability of modifying
the quarantine in PENNSYLVANIA.
The Department has had q force of
150 veterinarians and as many more
non-profeSsional men engaged in the
work of eradicating the disease, the cost
of which, it is estimated will be fully
half a million dollars in the four States.
The total number of animals slaugh-
which the Federal Government will pay
two-thirds and the States affected one
third
Representative Dawson believes the
United States Government should take
some official notice of the coming GEN.
tenary of Abraham Lincoln. With that
end in view it is his intention to intro
duce a joint resolution authorizing and
directing the Post Office Department to
issue a special set of postage stamps
commemorative of the birth OF the great
War President.
While Mr.. Dawson has not worked
out his plan, he believes the stamp
should comprise series of the differ
ent denominations, portraying the most
eventful scenes in the life of the mar
tyred President. 1t is not believed there
will be any opposition in the Post Office
Department to this proposition.
Mrs Beveridge, wife of Senator Bev-
eridge, of Indiana, lost her mother, Mrs
Augustus NJ. Eddy. last week. She was
afflicted with an incurabIe disease.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt is sure going the
the pace for a debutante. She is invited
In Hn.sf, IN m
dinners and finishes .p with ball, |
where she dances most of the night. As
a matter of fact, the days have to be |
crowded. because there are only just |
so many of them before inauguration,
when the young lady will be just Miss
Roosevelt" and another young lady will
be the young lady of the White House. |
When Mr.. Carnegie was here recently |
he went about in the democratic way |
that he usually does, taking street |
EAR or walking. and managed to get
pretty badly lost between the avenues
and circles. He started out to dine with |
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot one evening, and |
got so mixed up on his location thru
getting off at the wrong angle of the |
avenue that he had to call on a police |
man to help straighten him out and di- |
rect him to the house where Mr.. Pin !
chot lived. And worst Of all, he almost |
missed his dinner.
Secretary Newberry has put into ef-
feet portion of his plan of reorgan-
izing three important Naval Advisory
Boards of the Navy Department by
adding four officers to the Board of
with one yet to be ap-
pointed. He thus gives that Board a
of nine instead of four.
He also recommends to the President
that no successor to Rear-Admiral Bar
ton, as Chief of the Bureau of Steam
Barton has been placed on the retired
list for physical disability. According
TO Mr.. Newberry's plans. that Bureau
will soon be merged with another Bu-
reau.
The new Board on Construction is
of the following members,
there yet being one vacancy: Rear-Ad-
miral George A. Converse (retired),
President: Newton E. Mason, Chief of
the Bureau of Ordnance, and William
S. Cowles, Chief of the Bureau of
Chief Constructor w. L.
Capps, Chief of the Bureau of Con-
and Repair; Rear-Admiral T.
C. Mclean, President of the Board of
Inspection and Survey; Rear-Adnliral
VIM. w. Kimball. member of the Naval
and Retiring Boards; Capt.
Sidney A. Staunton, member of the Gem
erei Board, and Capt. I. S. X. Reeves.
OF the Board of Inspection and
Survey.
Senator Bois Penrose of Pennsyfva-
MIA, has just lost his father DIR. r. A. +.
Penrcse, who died of pneumonia. aged
50. His home was in Philadelphia. DIR.
Penrose was born in Carlisle. Pa. and
was well known in the medical literary
world, having contributed many papers
on q variety of subjects. He was a
graduate of Dickinson College and of
the Medical Department of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. He held q pro-
in the latter institution for 26
years DIR. Penrose was connected with
many OF the hospitals and charitable
of the city.
Now, what do you think of that!
President-eleca Taft declines theater
party. II do not go .o the theater," he
just like that. He says that
the last time he was at the theater was
about 20 years ago, and theh he went
to see an Uncle Tom" show. 1t comes
as great shock. for the Roosevelts are
all very fond of good play and of the
opera, being pretty fair first nighters.
Consul and Mrs. Arthur B. Cheney,
who were housed in the Consulate at
Messina, were both crushed to death, 1t
is supposed, in the earthquake which
toppled over the houses in the Sicillian
town. One of the sad feature of the
uncertainty of how they died was
brought forcibly to mind the very day
the report of their untimely taking Off