The National tribune., 1909-08-12

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royal descent Altho It hasn't excited
Mr.: Davis very much, 4 Mrs Richards,
Of Baltimore, who has been making re-
across tho in{ofmatioq which shows
that senator bavis's forefathers can
trace their dssespt back to the time Of
charlemedne In s14 thru many genera
tions Of italian Kings The proofs she
submitted TO Hereld's College in Lon
don, and they were passed as positively
impsccable. and the proofs now form
part Of the official records. Neither
Senator Davis nor Senator Elkins. his
son-in-iaw, nor any member of their
families had known these facts.
My, but isn't 1t enough to make old
Susan B. Anthony turn over in her
gravel Just think of all the years that
strong, magnetic, intelligent woman
spent in the struggle for equal rights
for women, and scarcely knew from
one weeks end to another whether
there would be funds enough to carry
on the woman suffrage movement And
now, just think of 1t, Marble House,
that wonderful home of Mrs. Oliver H.
P. Belmont, is to be used as meeting
place for the leading suffragists of the
country! Just think of the monkey
orgy society having to submit to the
most beautiful house in it's select cir
cles being used for suffragists. The first
meeting is to be held Aug "a and the
next Aug. %. Mrs. Belmont when
abroad last Winter became very much
interested in the suffrage movement,
and has taken it up with vigor since
her return. 1t is dollars to doughnuts
that she will get tired of their doings
and fire them out before they get thru.
But the suffragists ought to make hay
while the sun shines.
Everybody will be trying it now; that
is, to find out whether he is crazy or
not Won't it look funny to go along
stop, shut his eyes, and then try to
touch his nose with the forefnger of
his right hand? A Police Magistrate
in New York City seems to imagine
himself an "alienist." Mrs. Harriet r.
Berry, trained nurse, was brought in
to his court on a physicians application
that inquiry be made into her mental
condition. Without any preliminaries,
after the lady was presented before
him, the Police Magistrate said: "Close
your eyes, and see if you can touch
your nose with the forefinger of your
right hand" Oddly enough, Mrs. Berry
tried several times before she was able
to touch her nose with her forefinger,
and the Magistrate at once committed
her to Bellevue Hospital for observa-
tion. There may be plenty of people
who can do 1t, but certainly there are
a lot Of people at large who ought not
to be allowed to do 1t, except behind a
stone wall.
Attorney-General Fred Jackson. Of
Kansas, has attained fame in one
alleged soft drink named for him.
1t is called the Jackson cocktail.
1t is composed of cider and gin
ger, and as the ginger is composed
chiefly of alcohol you may readily see
that an old topper can take this drink
and be calmly contented. 1t goes to-
with an energy that is surprising, and
it is said chat while two drinks will
make man very funny, three will
cause him to rob his own pocketbook,
and five will make him unable to differ
entiate between a board and a feather
bed.
A peculiar case is coming before the
Navy Department for adjustment. The
negro on board the battleship Vermont,
was killed in a prize fight with another
member of the crew. The real story,
as stated by Admiral Seaton Schroeder,
is that 'it was not prize fight; or a
bout, but an exhibition for a moving
picture machine" Just how the. craze
for moving pictures has come to lead
the Navy Department to permit the
ue-jackets and marines to make a
holy show of himself" to make a
holiday for the bowling mob has not
been made quite plain. At any rate, it
seems that two men, of which Foster
was one, went six rounds. Then, as
prearranged, Foster took the count.
That night Foster complained of pains
in his head. and was taken to the sick
room and the next night he was dead.
The autopsy showed that cerebral hem
orrhage, caused by blow or fall, had
been the cause. And now the Navy
Department is investigating.
The last Peary relief ship. JEANNE,
carrying so tons of coal and food sup
plies, sailed for the Arctic regions from
Newfoundland last week. She was
commanded by Samuel w. Bartlett, old
est of Northern veterans, and has start
ed out to find Peary and his cCmpan-
ions, who are in search of the North
Pole. Il is expected that they will take
up IedIy dt LpdlN, JTecHldnu he
says that II Peary does not find the
North Pole this time he will never try
again; that his age and the exposure
to the inclement Northern climate will
not permit. He has given the best
years of his life and spent almost su-
perhuman energy In keeping up the
courasa Of his men during the long
arctic Winters, and then making dashes
for the pole in the early Spring. Capt.
Bartlett carried with him on the jean
ME Meni, the Esquimo, whom Peary
brought back with him years ago and
tried to make man of. The kid has
learned to smoke cigarets and wear fine
clothes and disparage his rescuer. II
certainly was not worth while to try
to save the soul of this little Indian
He has been telling that in two years
he will return to civilization, preferably
to England. which he loves far more
than the United States, and says that
he will himself find the North Pole His
home is 200 miles north of Epath. In
all probability Meni will be glad to
come back to the United States, as he
has acquired a number of habits that
will not be acceptable to the children
of that ice region.
Only in "reminiscences 10 we find
such cases as happened at Melilla re-
Gently. A Spanish regiment was almost
annihilated and Col. HaneZmarln, its
commander, was wounded, and, know
ing that he would fall into the hands
of the Moors and be tortured, he or.
dered his Sergeant to kill him. The
Sergeant, with true military heroisnl,
sent a bullet into his heart.