The National tribune., 1909-07-29

The NATIONAL TRiBU
acres. which is $50 times larger than
| the average farm. He owns another
farm of 100000 acres about $50 miles
| West
incidentally it may be mentioned that
Mr.. Taft is arranging one of the finest
1 golf links in the world for his brother,
/ the President, who expects to visit him
next October. Hunting and fishing ex-
peditions are also being arranged for
him.
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, not satis-
fed with bringing into the world de-
cadent specimen of manhood who has
been piing up costs for the court in
Pennsylvania and boundless quantities
of filthy literature. has now perpetrated
a booklet which is really the story of
| the case of her son. This book con-
tains some 5000 words and a picture
of Mrs. Thaw. There are many places
in the book in which Mrs. Thaw is hor-
ribIy bitter. and she arraigns in strong
terms men in high places whom she
claims were in league to prevent her
son securing a trial and declares they
were bent upon sending him to the in
sane asylum. She speaks of them by
the title of "blackmailers." "perjurers''
and the like. and, mother-like, she re-
| ferS to this reputable son as IAN aver
age young man with a chivalrous ma
ture, as shown by his efforts to break
up disreputable places" We have all
heard of men who tried to break up sa-
| looms by drinking all the liquor in them.
taken to do. When one remembers the
naughty, forbidding. aristocratic old
woman who used to think that she was
queening over society in Washington,
writing such book and then embellish-
ing it with her own picture, one almost
gets heart failure.
Sometimes the Secret Service men
| who trail the President have a hard
time of it. OF course President
means the Presidents family. and they
have the worst time with the family.
The Roosevelt youngsters We're always
losing something when they first came
to the White House, cat or a dog, a
| chicken. or some other pet, and the
whole force of the White House was on
such occasions turned out to hunt the
lost, and they usually found it. Miss
Helen Taft last week gave the Secret
Service men a task which they gave up
before they started. She was enter
tanning Miss Eleanor Rocker of New
port. who came over from Marblehead.
On the trip over she managed some
way to lose her trunk key. Miss Taft
called the Secret Service men and stat
ing that the key was lost somewhere
between Beverly and Marblehead."
asked them to ''go find it." Just like
that. you know. They went" but they
did not find"
Washington is so pleased with her
self and the way she showed up in the
auto parade on July fourth that she is
going to have another automobile pa
rade on September 30th. This parade
is to LAY all over" anything of the
kind that has ever been held in this
section of the country. 1t is to be
flower parade, primarily, but will be
almost anything in the shape of an auto
paraoe, with business concerns fantas-
tically represented, and all sorts of
trades unions. Such affairs stir up
civic pride as well as individual pride.
1t is true they cost money, but the
price is paid by those who can afford
it, and it goes to men who work to
earn 1t. and keeps money in circulation,
SO why not?
Mrs. Cullom, wife of the Senator from
Illinois, has been quite seriously i'll at
her Summer home at Atlantic City, but
il is thought that she will now recover.
Mrs. Cullom is afflicted with an internal
trouble, which may terminate fatally at
Senator Cullom was summoned to her
bedside. but she was better when he
reached her.
There is a mistaken impression that
a big stick is a part of the furniture of
the White House and that the stock
runs low and needs replenishing, but
that isn't true. President Taft has not
needed a big stick up to the present
moment, and there does not seem to b.
a probability that he ever will need
one. Just the same the big Sticks
keep on coming. He received six
foot, SO pound one the other day. 1t
came from J. E. Forbes, If Ottawa,
Kan. The cudgel is from a hickory
tree and is of remarkable growth, with
a large ball at the business" end.
Fastened 10 the weapon was a tag, upon
which Forbes had written:
1.-The Almighty probably grew this
big stick for some good purpose, and
] suspect il was to allow you to swat
the tariff bill and other deeds of GRIM
inal extortion."
The President carefully laid the
weapon away. He will have no use for
bludgeon during his Administration,
using instead, his friends say, concillia-
tory methods.
Rather a queer accident happened
mere laSI Hteh. n youHE LOOK
dive of ten feet into the Potomac,
and when he came to the surface he
said his 'haid felt sort o. QUAR-" Some
body examined it and found two oys-
ter shells embedded in his Uranium. IT
was necessary for him to go to the
Emergency hospital TO have them re-
moved and his wounds dressed. He
said he thought something had stuck
in his "haid." but was not at all dis
concerted when he found the some
thing" was oyster shells. He suffered
no shock from the queer accident, but
says that he will hunt a softer place
for a dive next time.
President Taft just hates to eat alone.
That great big White House is a cave
of gloom to him without family or
friends to enliyen it, and he has to re-
sort to queer expedients to avoid hav-
ing to dine in solitary grandeur. Last
Sunday he wakened to the fact that he
was without dinner guests. The idea
was insupportable. He ordered dinner
for at least half dozen, and ordered
ii served on the terrace. Then he or
dered his automobile and started out
to make up dinner party. He went
directly to the Longworth's, and there
he found Mick" and Alice" both of
whom are prime favorites, for they be-
| came engaged on the Taft trip, and he
also found Mr.. Wallingford, brother-in-
law of Mr.. Longworth. and Theodore.
Jr., who is visiting his sister. Then