The National tribune., 1909-12-23

bSSsllAosi Hctt III W ESIllJlS
ton, while in New York last week wa
run down by an automobile and had hi
right leg broken. He was accomP panied
by Gen. c. n. Saria. Colombian Consul
General at New York, who llad his lef
leg seriously injured and WAS badly
bruised all over.
And still accidents happen in ou
''beautiful'' jail. Samuel f. Primrose
aged 40 years, was found in his cell a
2 o'clock in the morning lying upon the
floor with his skull fractured. 1t is sale
that II was done while he was trying Il
force his way thru the bars. There i!
hardly q week passes by that someone
is not SO seriously injured in this al
legged Jail that he dies. 1t is enough t.
make anyone commit suicide to be con
signed to it even for a day.
1t may not be generally known thai
Mrs. Charles P. Taft, sister-in-law oi
President Taft. is the third richest wo.
man in the world.
Mr.. Ho Wing Lee of the Chinese LIE.
cation, has been converted to Cathol-
icism, and was received into the Cath
oiic Church last Sunday by Rev. Father
Thomas A Walsh, of st. PaurS Church
The convert is the nephew of the Chi
nese Minister, DR.. WI Ting Fang. His
father, the Hon. Ho Mokkai. is an emf
nent and wealthy jurist of Hong Kong
and graduate with highest honors
from Oxford. Ho Wing Lee came to
the United States two years ago for the
purpose of furthering his education in
the American schools. 1t is said that
this is the first conversion of the kind
in the history of Washington, if not of
the country. Hereafter this new con-
yert's name will be Ho Wing Lee Fran
els Zavier. He Is now going back to
China IN nxfn oaxyt
year.
We don't any of us hear much of
Judge Horace II. Lurton, of Tennessee,
who has been appointed by the Presi-
dent to the United States Supreme
Bench to succeed Justice Peckham who
died few weeks ago, but IL he looks a
bit like his pictures he will be the first
fiat man. to take his place in that
grave and reverend body In a good
many years. He looks as tho he might
wear collar as big as Cleveland's and
easily put it tower his head. But, Of
course, you can't always tell by pic
fures.
Judge Lurton was born in Campbell
County, KY, Feb. 26. 1874. He attend
ed the Douglas University in Chicago
and later the University Of Chicago.
When the war broke out his collegiate
training was cut short, and he hurried
Union and the Flag. After the war
Judge Lurton began the practice of law
IN ClarksFilie. Tenn. When President
Cleveland came in the second time he
appointed Judge Lurton to preside over
the Sixth United States Circuit.
When Speaker Cannon was asked if
he was going to retire from the Speak
ership at the close of the present Con-
gress he said: Il am moi crossing
bridge before come to 1t. A man may
retire from politics; a man may refuse
the Speakership; in fact, man may
retire from anything. 1 have nothing
more to say on the subject" Which.
of course, means just exactly what The
National Tribune said it would mean.
that Mr.. Speaker Cannon is dead sure
of job just as long as he wants to
hold it.
Secretary of War Dickinson has in
formed the House Committee on Mill
tary Affairs that the United States has
not yet asked Cuba to reimburse this
Government for the nearly $4,000, 600
expended in effecting the military occu-
patton of the island. The claim will not
be urged, according to the Secretary's
statement, until the United States Gov
eminent is satisfied that the Cuban
treasury is able to pay.
Senator Rayner, of Maryland, is an
ex-Confederate, and he has been trying
by his fiery speeches to force the rec
ognition OF Estrada as against Zelaya
I'm the Nicaraguan complication. He
CALI Zelaya a highwayman, a tyrant
and an assassin, and declares that Con-
gress should authorize the military
guard to penalize him for Staying the
two Americans, and declares that the
truth is moi half known.
Carrie Nation, the saloon smasher.
tackled the saloon in the Union Station
pne day last week. and what she did to
Il was good and plenty. The men in
that gilded and bedecked place of raw
whisky and its various compounds fed
when Carrie got busy with her hatchet,
and IL was not until e policeman out
side heard the racket and rushed in
with his club that the destruction was
Stopped. Carrie was arrested and put
In jail, and later was fined 500. She
Stated when asked to stand sentence:
"Oh, that amt SO bad. 1t could have
been worse, but / will never pay that
sundred-not me-"
After all, why should it be considered
hat Mrs. Nation is any more obstreper-
,us and undesirable as citizen than
he bfoomin' suffragets, headed by a
<ew York society woman in the person
lf Mrs. Belmont?
In one sense OF the word Mrs. Ma
non's hatchet is really making for NOR
u reform and good citizenship, and we
ban't be so sure that the suffragets are.
The new battleship Nebraska has
,ome to be the hoodoo of the Navy.
fhe is always and eternally getting into
trouble. She made a miserable showing
b. target practice as compared with
bome of the other battleships. and in
lFrana 70. l... unly
Bheep among the battleships. Nobody
wants to command her; the marines
10 not like to be assigned 10 her, and
there is likely TO be a court of inquiry
Is to what the Nebraska was trying to
10 when she rammed the Georgia the
bther day.
DR.. Wiley, Of the Department of Agri-
eulture, has scored another victory.
Eome months ago 90 cases of preserved
tgss. belonging TO St Louis firm, were
IelZed, and Judge Humphrey, of the
United States Circuit Court at Peoria,
Ill, has ruled that the eggs are injuri-
ous to health. and the firm has been
forbidden 10 transact further business
In Illinois.
DR.. Wiley says Of this decision: 'It
Is certainly great victory for the Gov
ernment.' He also stated that boracic
acid was used in the quantity of two
pounds for every 100 eggs. which
amount is considered deadly. Judge
Humphrey said that the proof was
overwhelming that the eggs were in
furious and that fheir ne ,,,,,,t I,a