The National tribune., 1909-04-01

sight of three Street-car lines. she nevel
rode on one in her life. She abomi.
mated them and gas and electricity. Sh,
said a carriage and horses with can
dies and sometimes coal oil We're goot
enough for her.
Pref. Wiley warns parents that theil
children are acquiring the drug habi
thru drinking "doped" soda water
whereupon several million people rist
up and say he is a horrid creature. and
that soda water is all right He say:
that caffeine. the active irritant of tea
and coffee, appears i'll many of the soda
or so-called soft" drinks. and that they
are more insidious than drinking tea
and coffee, which the same parents
deny the same children, because the
home drinks are Injurious This writ
er has heard her favorite physician say
that when he is very tired and has to
go little while longer, that he takes Z
glass of a certain drink at the soda
fountain and it braces him up for
an hour or two. He also says that il
he were a young man he would not
touch that particular soft drink. That
is whole story in a nutshell. That
same PHYSICIANS daughter says that
when she can't get home in time Tor
dinner, or has not time for lunch she
takes glass of this same soft drink,
and it makes her feel fine She is
taking a tonic at home. because she is
so tired and good for nothing when
she gets there. There is another story
in a nutshell Prof. Wiley comes near
being right nine and a half times out
OF nine and three-quarters.
According to a report of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, the Department
during the past year obtained and anal
wed 1,471 samples of seed. and of these
102 samples were found to be adulter-
ated or misbranded.
Under an act of Congress the Secre-
tary is directed each year to obtain in
the. open market samples of seeds or
grass, clover or alfalfa, test them, and
if any of such seeds are found to be
adulterated or misbranded, or any seeds
of Canada blue grass are obtained un-
der any other name, to publish the re-
suit of the tests, together with the
names of the. persons by whom the
seeds were offered for sale.
The Secretary appends to his report
the names of twoscore or more dealers
who sold the misbranded or adulter-
ated seed. He states also that there
has been distinct falling off in the
trade in adulterated seeds since the
tests were begun by the Department.
vice President stevenson VIII not be
Governor OF Illinois. The contest was
very close, and he wanted a recount
of the votes. This has been denied
him by the Legislature. which decided
thHt he had not made a good case in
asking for recount.
The Washington friends of Miss Lii
liam Lockwood were sadly shocked to
learn of her death from appendicitis.
word came that she had passed away.
after the very necessary operation had
been performed.
The services were private on account
of the fact that Mrs. Lockwood has been
under the constant care of a physician
since her daughters death.
Miss Lockwood was business manag-
er of the American Monthly Magazine,
the official organ of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. She had been
busy of late with various
matters connected with the publica-
ton, and it is said her devotion to her
work weakened her powers of resistance
just before she was taken i'll. The local
offices of the D. A. r. were closed in
respect to her memory.
Miss Lockwood was to have been
married soon to Mr.. Henry Van Dyke,
a prominent young attorney of Wash
ington, who had formerly lived in New
York City. Miss Lockwood was CHEEKY
little body. with clear dark eyes and
pretty brown hair, and everybody liked
her. The sympathy of all will go out
to Mrs. Lockwood, who is thus left
alone in the sunset of life. Mrs. Lock-
wood was one of the founders of the
of the American Revolution.
1t was her pen which did the work of
calling the first Daughters together,
and they met at her home. A very
handsome diamond-studded medal was
presented Mrs Lockwood by the d. A.
r. few years ago.
Robert McCulic. full-blooded AS
Indian, was sentenced TO serve
20 years in the penitentiary on his plea
of guilty to second degree murder. The
sentence is the minimum under the
law.
McCulic was indicted for murder in
the first degree in connection with the
killing of Carl Fink Oct. 3 last by hit
ting him over the head witk billet of
wood.
On the advice of his counsel, Attor-
ney Thomas C. Taylor. the Indian with
drew his plea of not guilty to the in
dictment and pleaded guilty to second
degree murder. The tribe to which
McCulic belonged is known as the north
ern branch of the Sioux Indians. Nc
Culic had been drinking at the time
of the trouble with Fink. McCulic is
said to be the first Indian ever ar
raigned before the bar of the local
Criminal Court
He is So years old. stands six feet
two inches high and possesses a power
full physique. His hair is streaked with
gray. He speaks English fluently, and
has been in the Government service for
nearly 80 years. He served in the civil
war and the Spanish-American War.
He was in love with a young lady
much younger than himself. and Fink
had advised the girl not to marry the
Indian. McCulic came 10 see the girl,
and found Fink asleep in her room
He rushed out and got n fence paling
and struck Fink. from which he died
later McCulic is said to have declared
that 20 years was not much, and that,
Il no marry girl. Fink no marry, eth
err" and so seems to be satisfied.
without any doubt at all, Mrs. Taft is
the most travelled woman who has ever
been hailed First Lady in the Land"
She knows her own country like "a book
and most wives of Presidents know but
very little about it. Mrs. Taft has sailed
the Atlantic many times and oft, and
she has spent many g. moonlight night
gazing upon the broad waters of the
Pacific. She has had many a sleigh
ride across the Russian steppes. knows
her Japan and China as she knows
Washington. Continental Europe is like
home to her, and long residence in the
Philippines added to her knowledge of
student of human nature, and she
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