The National tribune., 1909-07-22

ber of persons killed by boiler explo.
sions in 1908 was 2S1, against $50 in
1907. 235 In 1906, 3SS in 1905, and 220
in 1904. The number of persons iu-
jured. not fatally. in 1898 was 53i,
against APO in 1907, 467 in 1906, SIS in
1905, and 394 in 1904 The record of
boiler explosions in the United States
for IL years and three months, or since
Oct. 1, 1867, shows a total of 1O,051, in
which 10.8S4 persons were killed and
1854 injured.
Obiect-lessons in tariff are being used
as object-iessons in free silver once
were In free-silver days they pointed
| you to the man who was getting s7e in
gold each month. and it took $3.50 in
silver dollars or silver change to make
the salary "as good as gold" When the
real tariff discussion began in the Sen.
ate, which was on or about June 4
Senator Gallinger asked for lemonade
| in the Senate water coolers and got it.
| At that time the Senate thru the Gov
| ernment. was paying $3.50 a box for
lemons. Before the tariff bill passed
the Government was furnishing lemons
to the United States Senate at 81 q
box. just twice as much as they were
a month earlier. Now some of the
Senators are saying that if this is the
effect of prospective increase IN the
w
on lemons when the higher rate is ac-
tually operative? Apropos of lemonade
in the Senate, it has cost about SIS a
day to wet up the dry thrOatS of the
Senators since June 4. 1t has takefi
nearly $4,000 lemons and 10 barrels of
sugar. There are no "sticks" In the
Senate lemonade, unless a Senator puts
it there from his own private store. for
no liquor is sold in the National Capt.
tol. The day has passed when a Ma
tional legislator can stand in either
body of Congress and with thick tongue
and wavering legs make a blithering
IDIOT of himself on the tariff or any 9TH
er question, as he drinks beef broth
from a teacup which sends its alcoholic
fumes to the very ceiling of the cham
ber.
Mrs. Levi q. Letter was the first
hostess to any Of the Tafts at Beverly.
She gave a delightful luncheon to Miss
Helen Taft one day last week, the din.
ner being preceded with tennis game.
Miss Taft is very fond of tennis.
Just now the newspapers are full OF
Condolences for the wives of United
States Senator'S members or the House
ard Cabinet Ministers who are brave
ca ,ugh to remain in the city and share
the fate of their husbands, rather than
fit to sea or mountain resort to seek
cooling breeZes. What particular cour-
age it requires for wife to remain in
her home and look after the ways of
her household for the "breadwinner" is
not stated. The sentiment is maudlin
and mawkish. to say the least. If the
men can stand the Summer months in
sessions of from six to eight hours IN
that hot box Of Capitol, surely the
women of their households can endure
it in their cool homes, with nothing on
earth to do but seek a comfortable spot,
put on clean clothes, take innumerab1e
baths. and read, ride, eat and sleep. 1t
isn't half as hard on these pompadoured
darlings of fashion and official position
as it is on the middle-class woman.
She has to cook, wash. iron, brew and
mend for her husband and two or three,
perhaps half dozen kids, and about
all the fun she gets is an occasional
picnic in the park. where she spreads
for the children and her husband a
delicious lunch, which she has had to
steal time from other duties to prepare
or a street car ride. which causes her
two or three hours extra work to wash,
iron, comb, scour and dress those same
kids 10 have them looking as nice as
"other peoples children" Does she
kick and mourn and weep because she
has to remain in the city in hot wealth
er? Never! She says with pardonable
pride that her own home Is cool, with
its well-swept and freshly -mopped
floors, from which she has taken her
body Brussels" carpet and with the
screens in there are no flies or mosketos
to bother, and home is the best place
in hot weather. anyhow. That Is what
the dear. oyerworked middle-class
mother says. If those wives Of promi-
nent officials really and truly want to be
Iirfll Daf al VI InC
years Summer wardrobe when they
finally get away to the mountains or
sea. and give the money that that ward
robe would cost to the Fairgrounds
fund or the Summer camp for poof
children or the tuberculosis camp. In
such an act there would be real hero
ism.
ambassador Takahira is to leave this
country for Japan next week. and again
the rumor comes that he will not re-
turn, and again the ambassador de-
clares that he knows nothing Of his re-
call. The ambassador is one of the
most astute statesmen japan has. When
he was simply Minister here he was
recalled to help in the war crisis at
home. When he came back 1t was with
tremendously enlarged powers, for he
came as Embassador. Japan has the
utmost confidence in the little gentle
man. and il he is recalled it Will doubt
less be to do him higher honor AS for
us, we like him.
Miss Taft is very matter-of-fact and
reserved young lady, who thoroly de-
tests being made conspicuous. She is
suffering for being the daughter of her
father just now, and the suffering is
likely to increase rather than decrease.
An electric runabout took her from
Mrs. Letters to her home the day she
dined with Mrs. Letter, and as she
stepped into the machine under the
porte cochere half Il hundred cameras
clicked, each and every one leyeled up
on the young lady. She looked at them
for moment with an air of resigna-
ton. and then said. Well, 1 suppose I
shall have to run the gantlet" and
Strengthened. her shoulders, and, with
head up. ran by the long line of curious,
not to say impudent. people, who were
bent on having a picture of the first
young lady in the land" It is one of
the penalties OF being near the throne.
William A. Rublee, of milwaukee,, the
retiring American Consul-General at
Vienna, Austria, last week underwent
vate sanitarium for the relief of a
stomach trouble of 10 years standing.
1t was found that Mr.. Rublee was suf-
fering from gastric ulcer that had af-
fected him for a number of years.
There was no sign of cancer. A per-
foration of the wall of the stomach oc-
CURED early the day before the opera
ton, and an immediate surgical opera
tiOn became necessary. HIS chances