Evening star., 1909-05-27

army-Grant, Bell Duval, Barry. Carter,
Bliss. Mills, Edgerly, Pershing. Thomas,
Morton. Brush. Kerr. Smith. Hall. Gar
lington. Davis, Aleshire. Sharp and Mar
shall-are graduates of West Point: nine
Macarthur, Wood Weston. Funston,
Myer, Hodges. Wotherspoon. Potts and
Ainsworth-are not.
There are now on the retired list OF
the army five lieutenant generals-Mlles'
Young. Chaffee, John C. Bates and Cor
bin.
There are twenty-six major generals
Sickles, Howard. Merritt Merriam. Otis
Wheaton. Brooke. Hughes. Breckenridge,
Ludington. George w. Davis. Kobe, Sang
err Alfred E. Bates. Randolph. Gillespie
Story, Randall, Sumner, Lee, Wade. Hum
phrey. McCasky. Greedy, Hall and Mac
kenzie.
There are 262 brigadier generals. 20
colonels, 81 lieutenant colonels and 17o
majors on the retired list.
Canadian Waterways Treaty.
l am asked to explain why the treaty
recently negotiated with Canada concern
ing the waterway boundaries between the
two countries Is held up
A treaty that was satisfactory to the
Canadian government was negotiated by
Secretary Root and Mr.. Bryce, the British
ambassador, last February, and 1t was
ratified by the British government, but
the Senate of the United States. fear
ing lest the water power at the 500 was
not sufficiently protected in the interest
of American citizens. added an amend
ment which made it necessary to re
viva the negotiations. The amended
treaty has been sent to Ottawa, and the
changes are now under consideration
there. 1t is confidently believed that the
Canadian authorities will finally accept
the amendment and ratify the treaty;
but they have not yet reached de-
cision.
Hanging over the mantel in the larg-
est room-the Lounge" of the National
Liberal Club. in Pail Mall, London-is a
fac-simile of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence adopted by the Continental Con-
gress OF the American colonies to assert
their separation from the remainder of the
British empire. Beside 1T hangs rae
simile of the Magma Charta granted to
the people of England by King John.
Upon the walls are portraits Of George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses >.
Grant, William E. Gladstone and John
Bright. 1t is quite remarkable collec-
ton. :,
The shortest and busiest street in the world
is Mansion House street. London. 1t is
only SDout five hundred feet long, ana
runs between the Mansion House, the Of
hcial residence of the lord mayor and
the Union Bank of London. and every
thing and everybody that passes between
"the CITY," which is the ancient section
oe the metropolis, and the rest OF Lon
don has to go that way. II is IKE the
throat Of a man, the passage between tne
head and body. and is always crowded.
~ OF long ago policemen were stationed TO
count the vehicles. two on either side.
They were relieved every hour, because
counting Is very tedious work and acts
upon the nerves. 1t is not strange that
their reports did not exactl~ tally, and IT
| is quite remarkable that they were so
nearly exact. One set of counters re-
ported 1882 vehicles: another set count
| ed 1886, and the other two relays re-
ported totals between those two eX-
tremes.
!. witty woman said the other night at
a Washington dinner table that the rea-
son why so many Boston people are Uni
tarians is that having been born in that
city il is not necessary for them to be
The late senator Hoar once said that the
difference between the Universalists and
the Unitarians is that the former tnlnk lias
| that God is too good to damn them, Whiie
the latter think they are too good to DC
damned
A Tragic Welsh Story.
| Last summer while in Bangor. Wales
| I heard a tragic story concerning
| Penrhyn family. which consisted o.
| one son and two daughters. The former
becoming of age, decided to spend severa
years in travel before settling down tt
business Before starting upon nj!
tourney he placed a needle between ont
of the joists in the ceiling of the kitchen
OF the house and drove the tooth of {
| harrow into a pear tree In the garder
back OF the kitchen. After wandering
| in foreign countries for many years, hk'
the prodigal in the Scripture story ~
decided to return home. and begged hi
way from place to place. He had no
written to his family for a long time
and, resentful of his neglect. they hat
ceased writing to him. When he final!
reached Penrhyn he found his parent
were dead and his sisters in possession
of the valuable property. They refused
| to recognize him. They declared tha
their father had received conclusive evi
dence of his death, and That he wa
trate of the village and offered to prov
his identity by the needle and the har
row tooth, which were found In place
| which he named. But in spite OF this, HI
sisters refused to acknowledge him an
drove him away from their home.
Their heartless treatment was con
demned by the neighboring cottagers
who received the wanderer kindly. an
after a time became convinced OF nj
identity He accepted their hospitalit
for several months. but suddenly an
without warning disappeared. The en-
tire population joined in the search, with
out avail. Although foul play was sus
pected, there was no proof; no one eve
saw MIN again, Ioi Wcio any lungs
received of him. and the mystery OF nj
disappearance was not solved until a fey
years ago. when Mr.. Hughes. still
resident of Penrhyn, while quarryin
stone for a lime kiln. found his skeleton
perfectly clothed. tightly jammed in tn
fissure between two great rocks. 1t
believed that the outcast fell into tn
gap accidentally and was unable to re
lease himself. There he must have lai
until he starved to death. and the bod
remained undisturbed more than a hun
dred years before il was found. Tn
sisters never married, and, having n
heirs, their property went to the state.