The National tribune., 1909-02-11
D. THURSDAY FEBRUARY H.

and he gets all the invitations tha
come the way of any of the Ministers
but that is about all And now prett!
India Belle is to become the wife of {
lawyer. Minister Corea has decided tc
give up diplomatic life and settl,
down to practice of his profession. The
Coreas will be happy enough, bu
Mamma Fleming!
Senator Nathan B. Scott, of Wes
Virginia, managed to get two 'possum:
the Other day, and had the two rodents
roasted and served at dinner which
he gave to several friends. There wert
several other things served besides pos
sum. The several other things wers
greatly enjoyed. by all the guests. but
the possum-well, the least said about
that the better Suffice to say that
'possum dinners will not much deplete
the census of 'possums in the United
States. We bar the Chinese because
they eat rats, for one thing, and ther
we go about trying to popularize their
first cousins. 'possums, as an article OF
epicurean diet. We are a queer peo-
ple-sometimes
! Gen. Aleshire. Quartermaster-Gene
of the United States Army, is no lover
of the automobile for Army use. He
loves horse. and he thinks that horses
should be used by the Army. He has
given orders that when the automobiles
| now in use in the War Department
| have worn out they shall be replaced
| by horses and carriages. His aim is to
substitute horses for automobiles; first,
| because they are cheaper than auto
mobiles. and then because he is a friend
of the animal, and does not care to see
| the horse deprived of his rightful place
| in Army circles.
At present there are eight automo-
biles in Army use in the city. One is
| in the possession of the Signal Corps,
purchased at the time of the aeronalI-
Tic manuvers for the purpose of chas-
ing airships. With two exceptions the
cars are small One exception is the
touring car kept for the exclusive use
of the Secretary of War and turned
out only on his personal order The
other is the car used to carry officers
from the Department to the War Col
lege.
Such funny things do happen some
times. For instance. President Roose-
welt has been offered a salary. of $10,-
900 a week for a 3o-weeks tour of the
country at the head of a Roosevelt
Congress of Rough Riders Now, can
you imagine any sane man making the
President such an offer? AS for the
$4,000 a week, the man would be very
L
dent to accept it, for the owner of
combination such as the Roosevelt
Rough Riders with the President at
the head, would simply coin money.
The crowds he would have would only
be limited by the capacity of his canvas
But there wont be no Roosevelt
Rough Riders"
There is a town up in New York
which evidently believes that President
Roosevelt is all right, and all that he
does exactly the things that should be
done. They think it. and why not say
it? They did say it the other day in a
letter They expressed their trust and
confidence in his attitude on all ques-
tions, despite criticism that has lately
been directed against him. The town
that sent the letter is Holland Pat
ent." The letter was signed by prac-
tically everybody in the village, and
was received with much satisfaction at
the White House.
In reply directed to Elias M. Jones,
President of the village of Holland Pat
ent. the President says:
81 wish l could thank each in person. |
May I. thru you. tell them how deeply |
1 feel their trust and confidence? II
assure you that will never willingly |
do anything to forfeit this feeling. and
that to have such an expression of good
VIII lIOHu tn-Ui CounteTDdtdHCeS
thousand times over all the attacks |
made upon me-"
Construction on the largest wireless |
telegraph station in the world will be |
begun here very soon. 1t will be erect
ed by the Navy Department 1t is to |
be $50 feet high. and will be construct
ed of steel and stone. This will be about |
the tallest structure ever built by man.
OF course, the Singer Building, in New
York. is The highest building in the
world that Is Inhabited" its hight be- |
ing about 625 feet. The Washington |
Monument was the highest structure /
in the world until the Singer Building. |
The monument is 555 feet high.
Not very many to-day remember |
capt. Jack" and his murderous bands |
of Modoc Indians. but there are still |
some survivors THEY numbered 217
in 1874, when they treacherously mur-
dered Gen. Candy and his men. and |
were exiled to Indian Territory. White
men would have been hung for the |
deed. That was about a third of n |
century ago. Now there are but 40 of
them left. and they have been for
years begging to be taken back to the |
old reservation. and Congress is about |
to return them to the "lava beds of |
California and Oregon. For many |
years the people of that section de-
clined to have them returned, but it is
stated that those who are left are good |
workers, do not drink and that they |
have grown careful and economical. |
Maybe they have, but the murderous |
villains didn't look it once upon time |
Senator Foraker has introduced a |
bill asking an appropriation of money
to erect statue to the memory of the |
late Senator John Sherman. Senator |
Sherman ought not to be hard to get |
a lifelike statue of, for he looked like |
one himself, and a very ungraceful
one. He was brainy enough-oh, good
ness, yes-but he was as slim as n |
match. stopped. shambled in his walk |
and in his speech. He looked like his
brother, the General. The
space that should go for a statue to-
John Sherman has been appropriated
for the great statue of Gen. Sherman,
by the way. For some inscrutable rea-
son it has been pokcd out in front of
the Treasury Building. where the very
fine horse which the General IS mount
cd upon looks to be beheaded. as you !
come up Pennsylvania avenue from
the Capitol. That would have been
Sherman. the financier, right in front |
of the Treasury Building. The people |
who locate statues in Washington must |
draw straws for n location, for most |
of them are planted exactly where they
should not be.