The National tribune., 1909-06-03

ing about their little bran-new Princess
whom they lovingly speak of as the
"Orange Bud" The baby is fair-haired
little creature with blue eyes, true
Scandinavian, and has been named Ju-
Llama Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina,
which is quite enough name for anyone
to carry along thru life. AS Juliana is
not often heard in Holland, it was Won
dered why it was made the first fore
most and most prominent of the baby's
names. This has been explained by the
fact that one of the little Princess's
most illustrious ancestresses, ard for
% whom she is so called, was Juliana,
Countess of Stolberg, the mother of
=" William the Silent, of blessed memory,
since it was he who did SO much to free
Holland from the yoke of Spain. The
baby'S second name was given her for
much the same reason, since this parti-
2 cular Louise was Louise de Coligny,
William the Silent's fourth wife. Both
these royal ladies were noted for their
piety and charity. Altho the pretty and
poetical pet name of Orange Bud" has
been given the little lady, she is not
the Princess of Orange, as many seem
TO think, no one but the wife of the
Prince of Orange having the right to
that title. When the happy event came
Off the other deg the baby was carried
at once to another room, where the
Minister of Justice waited to certify to
her birth. This is the remnant of that
custom which prevailed for many years
in Europe of having number of actual
witnesses of the birth of a royal child.
The practice arose, it is said, in medic
val times, when the attempt was not
fnfrequently made to foist off one of
lowly birth for royalty, and consequent
ly it was necessary, in order to satisfy
the people, to have the testimony of
several who had actually been in the
rnVa1 rhan her fhQ critical time His
tory tells us that when the Comte de
Chambord was born, whose mother was
the Duchess de Berri, the daughter-in-
law of Charles x, then King of France,
that one of her waiting women ran thru
the palace collecting crowd of wit
, nesses, even pressing into the service
some guards of the palace. Picture the
scenei Twentieth century civilization,
r with all its imperfections, is an inn
provement upon a custom like that,
truly.
The American bluejacket has GER
tainly a stanch friend in Miss Helen
Gould, whose 100000 Y. NJ. C. A.
Building, erected for the benefit of sail
ors at the New York Navy Yard, has
proved such blessing to them. Mrs.
Russell Sage has also been very much
Interested in the work, and has just
given $350,e00 for an addition to the
building to extend the line of usefulness
of this philanthropic movement. The
gift was dedicated the other day, with
Admirals Cowles and Schroeder and
Miss Gould present. President Taft
and Mrs. Sage were expected to be, but
were unable to keep this engagement,
much to the Disappointment of the
large assemblage gathered for the dedi-
catory exercises.
On what a slender thread sometimes
rest events destined to produce cata-
clysmic resultsi When it is too late.
how often is 1t found that the simplest
action would have prevented the most
dire calamity Illustrative of this is
the tragic bit of history which is re-
veafed by the death of an old man who
died the other day in some hospital The
story, which may or may not be true,
is this: On that fateful night in April,
1865, when, all unconscious of the tragic
fate in store for him, President Lincoln
went to the theater, giving himself up
at last to a little innocent enjoyment, a
soldier stood on guard at the Anacostia
Bridge leading into Washington Pres
emily out of the darkness a horseman
approached, who, to the sentinefs chal-
lenge, answered mockingly and rode on.
For a moment the soldier hesitated
Should he shoot or not? The war was
over. Why should he add to the blood
shed already? And SO the opportunity
flying from mis- deadly work
Some very beautiful words of praise
of the late Henry Rogers We're spoken
by the aged Robert ColIyer at the fu-
neral of the former recently. Mr.. Rog-
ers was friend of many years stand
ing, and Mr.. Collyer saw much of him.
He was regular attendant at church.
but sometimes he would be absent, and
when questioned by Mr.. Collyer as to
this would say that he had been down
to Fair Haven to see his old mother,
who treated him Just as If he were still
boy, feeling that he needed her care
just the same. Never did Mr.. Collyer
in all the long years of their intimate
acquaintance hear bad or coarse word
pass Mr.. Rodgerss lips. In speaking OF
his early life, when he was working in
the oil country, he told Mr.. Collyer thai
the sweetest memory he had was of the
light in the window of his modest home
which would greet his eyes as he ap-
proached it after hard days work
while within he knew there waited Il
welcome him the happy young wife and
growing baby.
We may not have ivy-covered castle,
I'm picturesque ruin to show our v.sitint
foreigners, but we have some seener,
we are not ashamed of, and we har
some people we could trot out for thei
pltaSuTe ana pTOflt with entirely 1uSti
fable pride. Among the latter is Mrs
Julia Ward Howe, who has just cele
brated her goth birthday, and whom
We stand reach to match with any wo
man of any country. Mrs. Howe mad
beautiful picture the other day as sh,
received her friends, dressed all ii
white, with her lovely soft, white hai
framing her dear old face, seated OF
her throne" behind which had beer
placed uge bunch of lilies of the val
ley. She has been leading very quie
of her extreme age and the natura
infirmities of the flesh connected witt
II, but for many years her voice wa
heard in the land, clear and strong eve
raised in appeal for the weak agains
the oppression f the strong. Mrs How
was one of the first women to espous
the cause of the slave, and became
with her husband, DIR. Howe one O
the most earnest Abolitionists of tn
North. She also took up and energetj
cally championed for many years tn
cause of woman's suffrage, appearin,
on the platform constantly to he'll
along this movement. Mrs Howe is
woman of high mental gifts, and ha
found time in her busy life to contribut
several books 10 our literature Thes
may in time be forgotten, but long afte
Mrs. Howe has passed on to that othe
world. when her name and the memor
of her strong, intellectual dominatin
personality, her life of unimpeachabl
virtue and good works shall have fol