The National tribune., 1909-01-28

parently no good reason, which led tc
his unfortunate alliance with thu wo.
man who became Queen Draga. Fol-
her last offense her father has tenn
porarily banished her from his King
dom: that Is. officially. In reality his
royal mandate amounts to nothing more
unpleasant than an enforced period OF
travel. Just ut present the Princess Is
In Paris having the time of her life,
| shopping, attending the theater and
opera and being entertained by the gay
and fashionable society Of that fas-
cinating city. As most Of her life has
been spent in the mountains of Monte
negro, leading the simple existence of
country girl. 1t is easy to imagine
what effect the gay, exciting life of
Paris would have upon her. 1t IL to
De feared that she has not put in much
time in sorrow for having caused her
royal papa trouble.
On Jan. 1 England began paying a
pension of Eve shillings a week. or
about S1.25 in our money, to all her
poor people 70 years of age and over.
England's poor Is one of her great
problems, and one she has earnestly
been trying to solve for some time past.
The greatest difficulty in the working
out of this new philanthropy has been
in getting the necessary proof of the
required age of the pensioner One
old man won his pension by vaccina-
ton certificate dated in 1897, which
was IA years before vaccination was
made compulsory in England. All sorts
of queer, long-forgotten incidents were
resuscitated from the dead and gone
past for this-purpose. One old woman
proved her claim by calling to mind
the appearance of a pig of phenomena
size which appeared in her village in
her youth; another produced the sam
pier worked by herself when girl,
another bundle of love letters, and
an old oxford widow, who had forgot
ten her husbands Christian name and
his calling, remembered, after much
thinking. that he had made a pair of
boots for the grandfather Of the pres
ent Duke of Marlborough, which was
sufficient to establish her claim.
There is very unpleasant sugges-
ton in the bill lately introduced In the
Nebraska Legislature by Representa-
tive Sink. His bill provides that the
hotels in that State shall be given a
good overhauling once q year. that the
bedding be aired at least every three
months, that each guest of the hotels
he given a clean towel, as we'll as
bed with absolutely fresh linen. Things
must have been pretty bad to have ne
cessitated legislative action, and one
wonders how it is that the Nebraska
hotelkeepers have escaped so long. In
this day of almost fastidious personal
cleanliness the idea OF being put into
a bed in a hotel the sheets whereof
had not been changed since the last
occupant. is unthinkable. It is certain.
ly high time that Nebraska had its Mt
Sink
It is perhaps owing to the tender
heart of Mrs Greenough, who has Just
dfad IN New York that the horr1re, Of
the civil war we're not nlsds more
dreadful. She was the wife cf Prof.
Benjamin Greenough. cherist. who in
his experimenting stumbled 1pou the
secret Of the old Greek fire which the
ancients used with such deadly effect.
This was during the civil war. and the
learning OF his discovery or
invention procured some shells loaded
with the infiammable material from