The National tribune., 1909-05-27

There Is no malaria, nothing of the
Mind. down in the Canal Zone, but when
you learn that in that little strip of
land more than a ton and quarter
of Quinine was issued by the Depart
ment of Sanitation of the Isthmlan
Canal, You think it time to sit up ana
take notice. The average number OF
employees during the year was 4a,s9o
and the average amount of quinine IS
sued to each one was 975 ounces in the
fight against malaria.
Quinine is dispensed free on the
Isthmus to any one who applies for it.
whether an employe or not, because
the fight to keep the canal force
healthy is greatly aided by the de-
crease in malaria among the people
living in the zone.
A good deal of maudlin sentiment
has been worked up here by the child
wife, tragedy that occurred last week.
A girl of Ii was permitted by her par
ents to marry man of 40. A hint OF
shame back of the permission of the
parents makes the case sad one, and
then it was further intensified by the
man taking the child-wife away from
her home to make a home of his own,
when he had promised, SO it is said,
that If permitted to marry the child,
he would not take her away from
nOIf1c I'LL size WIS 10. lHe hiIltu
the husband. Just how much sense
the child-wife has is shown in her re-
ply to the question of reporter as to
whether she realized that she is a mar
ried woman. She replied with CO.
Quettish air, 81 am a merry widow
now" and this when her father IS
likely to go to prison for life for mur-
der of the man who left her a merry
widow" Sentiment is wasted on girl
like that She says she wanted luNur-
les, fine clothes, piano, automobile.
and good time, has wanted them all
her life, and she thought she might be
able to have these if she married. The
mother and father are to blame, pri-
Inarily; for a girl like that needed
spanking. sent to bed without her sup
per. and made to sweep floors, wash
dishes, make the beds and learn to
cook. This girl says with shy uplifting
Z. of very pretty brown eyes that she al
ways had dreams" and never was
happy IN her sordid surroundings.
Girls with dreams" should be put to
work and make those dreams realiza-
tions. If this girls mother and father
had kept her home nights, and seen to
II that a none too strong mind was
butressed with parental care and adj
vice, instead of saying "Oh, it's too
much trouble to fight with her." there
might not be tragedy which the girl
can never live down, and which she
does not seem to mind very much eith-
er. The girl in question is very pretty.
but seems not to be over-gifted with
brains, hence she needed a strong
hand to keep her straight.
The Olympia, Admiral George
Dewey's flagship at the battle of Ma
Rila Bay, is now at Annapolis, and it
is to be used by the Middies on their
Summer cruise and practice.
:. DR.. Harvey w. wiley-who, by the
way, is a bachelor-sailed last week for
London to attend the Seventh Interna-
tional Congress of Applied Chemistry.
At the request of Sir William Ram
say. president of the congress. DR.
Wiley organized the American commit
tee, comprising 80 members and COW
ering every branch of applied chemis-
try. About 100 scientific papers have
been contributed
Dr. Wiley, in connection with II other
official delegates, appointed by the
State Department, will convey to the
congress an invitation from the Presi-
dent to hold its next meeting in the
United States. this invitation having
been authorized by Congress at the
last session
A1ieng the official delegates are DR..
A. s. Cushman and DIR. Frank ".
Clarke. of Washington; Dr. W. M.
Dudley. of Vanderbilt University: DIR.
E. NJ Houghton, Detroit. Mich; and
Drs. Baskerville, Loeb, Plant, Toch,
Wyatt. Baekeland. and Nichols. of New
York.
With loving remembrance. and sim
pie ceremonies, the District fireTen last
Sunday held their Memorial Day exer-
cises over their dead comrades. They
placed on each grave small American
Flag, and wreath of flowers. It took
three large wagons to hold the floral
tributes.
The old black rubber ponchos have
been discarded by the Marine Corps.
and Donchos of khaki color have been
substituted. Issue of the new articles
will be commenced July 1. Samples of
them recently tested by chemical ex-
perts were found satisfactory. The prop
osition 20 change the rubber hat and
coat of marines TO khaki color is now
being considered. The proposed ma
teriai is lighter and of better rubber.
How are the migfit:- forgotten, There
was once a period. and il lasted for 20
years and more, when Matthew Quay.
q United States Senator from Pennsyl-
yania, had to be reckoned with from
the smallest TO the largest political Of
Gce. He was BOSS Quay" boss of
Pennsylvania politics, and boss of Ma
tional as well. Last week the joint res
oiution to place the Quay statue in the
rotunda of the Capitol. which was
passed during the closing days of the
Legislature was overlooked in the great
mass of bills sent to the Governor, and
became law without executive ap-
proyal.
The resolution does not appear in the
list given out at the Governors ofhce
as approved or vetoed. Whether this is
by design or oversight cannot be said.
as no one at the Executive Department
will talk about the matter.
It is thought. however. that the Gov
ernor preferred not to sign the resolu-
tion, and allowed 1T to become effective
without his approval.
The ice trust has put that cooling
conpealation so high that IL is now pro-
posed that the Government shall have
an ice plant of its own, and make ice for
the various Departments of the Gov
ernment, and thus escape the exactions
of the ice trust. A better way would be
to "bust the trust" and give the people
a chance for their white alley in the ice
business.
Mrs Taft has been going the pace
sinceF the social season set in and has
at last broken down. She finished up a
month of mighty strenuous social func-