The National tribune., 1909-12-02

that the average American Embassy
radiates frost rather than warmth; that
the Embassy is purely private resi-
dence, and that once year only are
the common people permitted to cross
the threshold.
The cornerstone of every American
| Embassy to-day is a block of solid gold,
and the halls of these Embassies are
| colder than the marble columns which
decorate them. Altho the United States
of America is the matchless Republic,
| there is no imperial or monarchical
| Embassy which surpasses the Ameri-
can Embassy in its eXclusiveness and
plutocracy. 1nasmuCh as our fame
rests on being a Government for the
people, by the people, it is inconsistent
| that in Europe we are represented by
poorly paid rich men, who come from a
class of society that is not democratic
and that is aloof.
"I believe the evil can be rcmedied
only by Government ownership of these
Embassies, and these should be simple,
dignified buildings, and not sensational
palaces"
In the international aquatic sports in
New York -,ctween Germany and Amer
| ica the other day the husky crew from
the big new battleship Minnesota, which
has just received its silver and Flags,
came out winner as it might be eX-
pected it would. In fact, the Americans
| won nearly all Of the honors.
It is understood that the Democrats
up in North Dakota have agreed upon
Thomas f. Marshall, of Oaks, n. D.,
who is slated to succeed Senator john
son. It is understood that Gov. Burke
has agreed to his appointment.
Mrs. WhiteIaw Reid has brought
back to the United States a lot
of fine ideas on gardening and
flower culture which she intends to put
into practical demonstration in her gar
dens in Westchester. where the beauti-
full home of the Reids is situated. She
says that nowhere in the world are
there gardens such as they have in the
British Isles Some of the gardens in
London grow dahlias from bulbs which
cost from 500 to $500 each, and the
people who grow them are not million
aires, either. Mrs. Reid has ordered
some of these dahlias, which she in
tends to have in her garden She be-
iieves that women could make them
selves very happy If they would only
think so by getting close to nature and
cultivating gardens of their very own.
Mrs. Reid is q very sensible as well as d
highly cultured society woman, and we
hope that she will be able to impress
these things upon her society sisters.
VIM. A Clark, Jr., a son Of the late
Senator Clark, Of Montana, says that he
has made a find which will revolution
ize the zinc industry. Young Mr.. Clark
has been applying himself to metallur-
gical studies for three years. He dis
covered. all 10y himself, last June, that
the so-called electro or wet
process, which up to the present has
been used only on an experimental
scale, is the only means of getting zinc
out of ore containing other Variable
metals. To work out his discovery he
set a hundred men to work under his
direction. and says that his zinc mines
have so far turned out a tremendous
percentage of zinc with paying quanti-
ties of silver and gold deposit. If young
Mr.~Clark has really made this discOy-
cry he is going TO be more famous than
his father ever was.
Former Senator Lindsay, of Ken
lucky, died at his home recently. Sem
ator Lindsay was born in 1884, in Rock
Creek County, Va. He began the prac-
tice of law in 1858. At the outbreak Of
the civil war he enlisted in the Con-
federate army, and served thru the
various grades to the rank of Captain.
After the war he returned to the prac-
"
Der of the worlds Columbian Commits
sion in 1893, and afterward declined an
appointment on the Interstate Com
merce Commission rendered him by
President Cleveland. In 1888 he was
elected United States Senator TO fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
John q. Carlisle, who entered the Cab
| met of President Cleveland. The fol-
lowing year he was reelected for full
term. which expired in 1901. He was
appointed United States Commission
er TO the st. Louis Exposition, and was
! a Trustee of the Carnegie Institution
and a member of numerous clubs and
societies. Senator Lindsay married
| Eleanor Holmes, daughter of the late
DR.. George N Holmes
Mrs. Lindsay is one of the most thoro-
| iy charming women of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. In her
| ably pretty woman, for she is now as
/ fragilly beautiful as a piece of Dresden
china. Her whole life was bound up in
her honored husband.
While the Post Office Department
runs further and further behind in the
matter of finances, the Patent Office
has a surplus. The annual report of
Edward b. Moore, Commissioner of
Patents, states that his Office made $685.
476 more than its expenses last year.
The genius of invention seems to have
been alive during 1909, for there were
| 1900 more applications for patents pre-
lsented in that year than in the previous
year. Applications for patents on me-
chanical inventions reached total of
$500 and 35,215 were granted. The