The National tribune., 1909-12-09
In Honor of the Dead
An Inspiration for the Living
LINCOLN ,
MEMORIAL TABLET
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CHARLES BURROWS s
RUTHERFORD, N. j.

f make demands of them that the new
\ comers cannot quite comprehend. IL
, Isharp contrast to all these ogres She
I says:
THE Board of Education shines be
| nignant and bland. Here is power
, making itself manifest in the form o.
. young ladies', kind of eye and speech
, who take a sweet and friendly interest
, in the children and all that concerns
them. Woman meets woman. and nc
policeman interferes. The little ones
are cared for, instructed and kept out
of mischief for five hours day. Doc
, tors attend them, nurses wait on them
and the teachers sit down beside the
mothers and take counsel with them
American newspapers to their parents,
land the whole family come to under
lstand what is meant by our glorious
American institutions. "
Among the throng of spectators at
the cavalry drill at Fort Myer last week
were Lieut-Col. B. r. James, Military
Attache of the British Embassy, and
Mai. S. c. Beresford, of the 7th Regi-
ment British Hussars, who competed
successfully in the recent contests at
the horse show in New York. They
were guests of Col. Garrand, command
ing the post at Fort Myer.
Representative Ernest w. Roberts, of
lChelsea. Mass, is under quarantine,
which prevented his appearance in the
House to take his seat at the opening of
Congress on Dec. 6. His 10-year-old
daughter, Dean Roberts, is ill of scarlet
fever, and altho she has been in quite
a serious condition, is thought to be
Slightly improved, but the quarantine
cannot be broken for a couple Of weeks
yet
A new Baby Grand piano arrived at
the White House last week and was
placed in the Blue Parlor. One of Mrs
Tafts first Transforming touches to the
house shortly after beginning her resi-
dence there WIS the placing of piano
| in this most formal of the state apart
ments The new instrument has a case
of white enamel finished with dull gold,
and harmonizes well with the mantel
near which it is placed, and which has
adorned the room for many years. Mrs.
Taft, who is not only lover of music,
as were many of her predecessors in the
White House. but an accomplished mu-
sician, is devoting more time to prac-
tice these days than she has had either
leisure or opportunity to give to it in
several years.
| Col. George Andrews, U. S. Army,
IAdjutant-General of the Department of
the Lakes, with headquarters at Chi
cago, has been ordered to Governors
Island, n. Y, for duty as Adjutant-Gen-
eral of the Department Of the East,
succeeding Col. Henry o. s. Heistand,
who has been ordered to Manila as Ad-
jutant-General of the Philippines Divi-
sion.
Maj. Harry C. Hale, Adjutant-Gen-
eral of the Department of California.
has been transferred to similar duty at
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Mr.. II. N Moulton, of Philadelphia,
who has been investigating business
conditions in China, believes that China
offers great opportunities in the coal,
iron and steel industry. He says that
in the Province of Shan 81 are the
greatest iron ore deposits in the world,
and that there are immense coal de-
posits in the same region. He says that
all il needs is the skill and capital to
develop the richest mining section on
the globe. He says that the amount Of
iron and coal in that immense region
cannot be computed. He believes that
there is enough to supply the world for
ages. He says that when China really
wakens from her ages-long lethargy
and begins to build railroads thruout
the country this coal and iron region
will make all the steel rails and locomo-
tives that will be needed. He thinks
ludl IL WI lot We iouS DtAoit we DN5ih
to hear much of the coal and iron in
dustry in China.
Truly, truly, Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of our men,
bers of the U. s. Army. The edict has
gone forth that the underwear for SOL
diers in the Philippines is to be orange
colored, as it is considered that this
color breaks the rays of the sun. IT
certainly cannot be that they selected
it because of the artistic effect. Quar-
termasterG General Aleshire says that
the orange-colored clothing proves to
be very much cooler than white even.
with his orange-colored underwear
and his olive-drab outer clothes" said
Maj. J. III. Halsey, who has the matter
in charge, "the American soldier may
look strange to eyes used only to the
Federal blue, but 1t is best. The orange
keeps him cool, and the drab makes IL
impossible for an enemy to see him at
a distance. In fact, he passes from the
view of the eye in less than a mile, on a
dusty background. whereas the old blue
could be esen for miles. With the long
range guns of to-day blue would be a
fatal color. However, it Is retained in
dress and some of the other uniforms"
"All Army wagons have been painted
olive-drab, instead of blue, as in the
civil war, for the same reason. So has
the field artillery, and plans are under
consideration for painting the coast ar
tillery weapons the same color"
Headache Powders.
The Bureau of Chemistry Of the Agri-
cultural Department is doing everything
that it possibly can to break up the
drug habit and the use of headache
pills and powders. Warning LIS given
not only against the possibility of imme-
diate injury, but also against the habit
which, II Is said, "is acquired thru the
use of the remedy, without the advice
of a physician, for the relief of minor
aches and pains, principally headaches"
The bulletin does not deny the proper
use of these drugs, acetanilid, antipyrin
and acetphenetidin, but protests against
their indiscriminate and promiscuous
use by the laity. The Government in
vestigators report that whereas there
were numerous cases of poisoning i'm
mediately following the advent of aceta-
Mild as a medicinal agent in 1886, the
number decreased as physicians became
better aware of the toxic properties of
the drug. But in time the discovery OF
the drug became commercialiZed, head |
ache cures became more numerous and
the investigators find that there has
been "a notable increase in the number |
of cases of poisoning and DEATH" which |
they explain by the fact that "the use of
acetanilid as a remedial agent has
passed from the hands of practieing
physicians to those of the Iafty.' Pro-
prietary cures, available for promiscu-
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