The National tribune., 1909-09-30

Union Station are the most wonderful
perhaps the railway stations now
lcourse of building in New York may h
more beautiful when completed tha
what you have here, but / am sur
There is nothing abroad that can com
pare with the station in this city. TIL
nearest asrroach to it is at Frankfort
on the Main, in Germany and Will
| the latter is remarkable work Il
architecture, it is not nearly so larg
and splendid. I shall take back to Aus
tralia a very good impression of Amer
ica. and her people, and / can say will
truth that 1 would rather have missed
any other country in my tour than tht
United States"
And certainly this is high praise. fol
Melbourne itself is considered a beau
tiful city.
Consul General Hanna, at Monterey
has been authorized to draw on the
Department of State for $1,000 for the
relief of the flood sufferers in Mexico
The money has been procured by the
American National Red Cross. This is
the third remittance to Mr.. ESz2.'a, and
makes the total sum $4,000.
|
| There was an aggregate increase of
| 81, 1,190,037 in internal-revenue receipts
for last month, as compared with the
corresponding period of 1908. The
August 1909, receipts aggregated $780,
| 2S4735.
| For spirits the total revenue was S9,-
319,S12, which is an increase of over
| S2S5, ,000, as compared with the receipts
| for the same month of 1908; tobacco
receipts aggregated S140.0S3, which is
an increase of almost 100000; fer
mented liquors, s6.0TS.540. which also
is a gain of nearly $4,000 The reve-
Ia nl riga ri
an increase of $11,643.
Other figures include adulterated but
ter, $3,21S, an increase of over $1,000;
process or renovated butter. S11, ,269, or
almost $4,000 increase; miscellaneous,
s79,349. or an increase of over $500.
The total increase for July and August
over the same months in the last fiscal
year was s2,T29,2s3.
Quite a number of Midshipren who
have been dropped from the first class
in the Naval Academy have complained
to the authorities in Washington, who
investigated 1t was found that the
word ''inaptitude" charged against
Midshipman always cut short his pros
pective naval career. Inquiry was made
as to what "inaptitude" might specifical-
iy mean. as it was rather broad in its
usual acceptance. The report of one of
the flag officers of the practice squadron
explains ii fully. OF one of the middies
who have been dropped he predicted
that this man would, If he remained
in the service. probably cost the Gov
.ernment thousands of dollars, thru run
ming some ship on the rocks" And that
Is what ''inaptitude" means.
Horace G.. Knowles, formerly United
States Minister at the Courts of Servia,
ROumania and Bulgaria, has received
from King Peter of Servia the cross and
star of the Order of st. Ssva, the high
est compliments royalty in that country
can pay to a foreigner.
Because of a provision of the Consti-
tuition, the presentation was delayed sew
eral months, and even now. while the
emblemS are the property of Mr..
Knowles, he cannot wear them. Mr.
Knowles is now Minister to Nicaragua,
and the provision is to the effect that
no representative of the United States
Government may receive gifts from for
eign rulers as long as he is in the Fed
eral service, except by special permis
sion of Congress. However. Ministers
are permitted to receive gifts, provided
they deposit them with the State De-
partment until they are no longer in
the Government service. Mr. Knowles
has complied with the requirements.
Presentation of the emblems was
made few days ago by Bovivoe v.
Belfoyitch, who was sent to this coun
try as a Special Envoy by the King to
bear them to Mr.. Knowles. When he
this country Special Envoy
Bckovitch had trouble with the customs
at New York. who insisted that
he pay duty on the ensblems, and |
threatened to take them from him if he
refused. The Envoy was unable to
speak English. and the customs officials
could not talk Servan- An interpreter
finally explained matters.
President Taft's idea of what really |
counts in life is epitomized in his talk in |
the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. He |
said
I'VE are a great race We have ac-
wonders in hammering out |
aga INST odds that seemed insurmount- |
able the principles of civil liberty and |
popular government. and making them |
practical and showing to the world their |
special benefits.
"But in so doing and in the course of |
our life it seems that we have ignored |
some things that our fellows of South
ern climes have stud ed and made much |
Of. and that is the forms of speech and |
the method of everyday treatment be- |
tween themselves and others.
THE truth is that mans life in his
family, with his wife. his children. his |
WITH MS HeIBnDOFS, lS not Tlduc
up Of grandstand plays and defiance of
the elements and all that sort of thing.
1T is made up of a series Of little
acts, and those little acts and little self
are what go to make up the
mans character.
so | say that our friends of Southern
climcs have touched point of philoso-
ply, the philosophy of life, that we may
learn from them, of more courtesy and |
more politeness, more real genuine de-
sire to make everybody happy by the
little things of life. which, after all,
nearly all there is in life"
Another splendid thing uttered by the
President might well he taken home by |
all of u.s. He said in that same speech:
We ought to avoid this acrimonious
discussion that cOnsigns everybody who
is opposed to our views to pcrdit on and
to having the most corrupt motives and
iscribe 10 those who stand with us only
the purest.
Life is too valuable to waste in
anger and hatred, and the charging and
lenunciations of our fellow-men when
they don't deserve it,
The White House on frei Yes, in
ieedy! Caught fire from q defective |
hue just exactly like any other common
house. you know. But the flue was not
an old one. 1t was the flue to the new
ONCE bu lding: that is. the old new one.
An addition is being made to that par
ticular end of the White House. Work
is being rushed to make it all ready for |
the President on his return. A fire was