The National tribune., 1909-10-07

toften gives exhibitions Of his skill as q
drummer boy. his wrists and drumstick;
having lost none of their suppleress.
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The profile portrait of Secretary ol
War Jacob NJ. Dickinson has beer
painted by VIM. Welch, Chief Drafts,
man in the office of the Chief sigma
Officer of the Army, and it is regarded
as the best painting of the War Secre-
tary of all the works that adorn the
office of the head of that Department
Mr.. Welch is considered to have almost
been presented to Secretary Dickinson,
and he may in turn present it to the
War Department.
Mrs Grover Cleveland accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. III. C. Perrine her
husbands niece, Miss NJ. l.. Hastings.
and her children, Esther. Marion. Rich
| ard and Francis, sailed last week on
the Berlin for Genoa, Italy. The party
may spend a few weeks in Italy, and
from there will go to Switzerland, where
Mrs Cleveland will enter her children
in school at Lausanne. Mrs. Cleveland
has entered very little into American
life since she left the White House. She
entertained infrequently in Princeton
of course, none at all since his death.
She has never figured in any way in
fashionable society. and her voluntary
eXpatriation is not to be wondered at.
Mr.. VIM. A. Greet, an employe of the
post office in Chicago, who has been in
Washington recently, talked very inter-
estingly of the Postal Service and some
of the queer things that other Nations
do. In Belgium. for instance, he said
that an order was recently issued re-
questing the public to use colored en-
velcpes to distinguish the destination
of letters Red covers, il was requested
would be used for letters sent to per-
sons in Brussels, yellow covers for let
ters mailed to the Provinces and green
covers for letters sent abroad. In Great
Britain. he said. the post office can by
law refuse to deliver red envelope.
tho. of course, tbs rule is not strictly
observed. Il know of one instance"
he said, where a firm sent out a bunch
of communications in red envelopes, and
every blessed one of them was re-
turned" Under the British postal regu-
lations any sorter of letters who finds
red envelope in the mails can throw il
aside and thus delay. if he cares to-
the delivery of the letter. Just imagine
what the people OF this country would
do if the Post Office Department were
to prescribe any such rules as are in
vogue over there, Ny, but wouldn't
there be a howl?
The Duke of Abruzzi. who is remem-
bered in Washington as a fine fellow of
high honor. cables to deny that he tele-
graphed Explorer Peary t nc ap-
proved the campaign tha' ary Is
waging against DIR. Frederick y. Cook.
He says that both men probably reached
the pole.
Oklahoma is fast taking the place of
Kansas as a State of surprises. OKLA
homa is the worlds new wheat lield.
according to ]. E. Conners, of OKLA
homa City. who has been in Washing
ton on a visit. When oklahoma came
in as a State. Oklahoma City was made
the temporary Capital, with the provi-
sion that in 1913 the permanent Capital
would be selected. On this condition
of affairs Mr.. Conner says that manv
of the cities of the State are candidates
for the honor, and every one is striving
to prove that it is. the only logical place |
for the seat of Government. The fol-
lowing plan has been suggested, and is
novel enough, but it probably won't
work out:
THE proposition is this" said Mr.. |
Conners. that the State of Oklahoma !
ct al. acquire title to certain number |
of square miles of land, preferably un- |
occupied prairie land, this section to be |
laid out as a future city, with streets |
and residence lots, sewerage and other |
public conveniences. PIats will be set |
aside for the Capitol and other public |
buildings. The lots will be put up for |
sale, and the proceeds derived there |
from be devoted to the building of the |
Capitol"
There is to be a decided change in |
the conditions of the Omahas in Ne |
braska. These Indians have been a |
great trial both to the State and the |
Nation in many ways, and the Indian |
has now decided that they |
must be transferred from dependent |
wards of the Government to independ- |
ent citizens of the State. All of the
Omaha Indians who are competent will |
be placed in complete possession of
their lands and money, to both of which |
they are now entitled, but the interest |
on which has been doled out to them |
by the Government. 1t is said that 1t |
would not be right to make all the |
Omahas responsible, as there are some |
incompetents. and if they were freed |
with the others from Government con- |
troll it would leave Nebraska an Indian |
pauper question on her hands, and |
would simply transfer the Indian prob |
lem from the Nation to the State. A |
committee has been appointed, with |
Commissioner Valentine at its head, to |
make investigation into conditions and
report.
Now, what do you think of this? |
Prof Geo. l.. Raymond, of the George |
Washington University, of this city, has |
been revisiting London after Al years. |
and he brings back the report that he
is more firmly convinced than ever that
the purest English is spoken in Ameri |
ca. He said. to quote him directly:
II find that England is still full of
dialects, and that Englishmen of educa-
ton mispronounce the English Ian
guage. In Westminster Abbey 1 heard
preacher mispronounce four words
within five minutes. In America we
keep to the standard of the language.
We pronounce according to the diction-
airy, to which everybody refers. In
England IL seems to be a common prac-
tice to mispronounce words deliberate
ly."
The Duchess De Chaulnes, who was
formerly Miss Theodore Shonts, is now
in this country visiting her parents.
Miss Shonts is well remembered in
Washington, where she had a brief
but glorious career as bud and belle,
the brevity of the career being caused
by her marriage to the Duke De
Chaulnes. Her married life was as brief
as it was said to be happy, the Duke
suddenly dropping dead. A son was
born to the Duchess some six months
after the death of the Duke, and this