The National tribune., 1909-06-24

Mr.. Bryan. William Jennings, says he
Is not a candidate for United States
Senator. And he ought to know.
A granite obelisk 100 feet high and
costing s50.090, according to the pres
ent plans of the Arlington Confederate
Monument Association. will be erected
soon in Arlington Cemetery to the MEM
ory of the Confederate dead. Work is
to begin, it is said, as soon as the sub.
scriptions reach $4,000. More than
half of this amount has been SUBJ
scribed. and organizations have been
perfected thru the Southern States
which are sending in an average of $500
per month. There is no monument in
Arlington to the Union dead. 1t is eX-
pected that Congress will appropriate
at least $4,000 for the Confederate
monument.
The United States Senate is commit
ted to lemonade. 1t usually has it on
tap in all of the principal committee
rooms during the hot weather sessions
of Congress. This year. however, lemon
ade can be procured only in the cloak
rooms. Senators or their friends. or
both, were careless in former years,
and spilled the lemonade on the costly
carpets and rugs in the committee
rooms. running them. superintendent
Woods concluded to be little sparing
in his distribution of lemonade this sea-
son, and then he wouldn't have TO put
down new carpets and rugs for next
Winter.
Secretary of State Knox, accompanied
by Mrs. Knox and his son, Mr. Hugh |
Knox, are now in Europe, and viii re-
main there for at least two months. The |
Secretary of State is seeking complete |
rest
), J. E. EHerbe one of the Representa- |
tives from South Carolina, had a curl |
Gus and painful accident few days |
ago. He was sitting in the lobby of the |
Metropolitan Hotel. where he lives
when in Washington. In rising from
his chair it slipped, and he fell heavily |
on his right leg, breaking 1t short OIL |
He is recovering rapidly.
The Treasury Department had a pret- |
ty serious piece of. work last week. An
old lady somewhere out West, not |
trusting to banks. put her little all, |
$500. in the oven of her cook stove and |
forgot all about It. She made up fire |
the other day to bake pies. and when |
she opened the oven door the $500 In |
greenbacks was charred "a beautiful |
black. She screamed, and her daugh- l
ter came running to the rescue. think
{ns her mother was attacked. Learn
ing the situation, the daughter care
fully removed the greenbacas, and, put
ting them in box. forwarded them to
the Treasury Department for identff-
cation and redemption if possible. The
people are right poor, and it was a
vital matter to them that the savings
of a lifetime of hard work be rescued.
They were. The Treasury Department
put one of its best women at work on
the bills, and she was able to identify
every one of them, charred as they
Nd mid mil erof har
savings intact in brand new bills. Safe
to say she will not make bank Of the
oven next time. Mrs. Minnie Brown is
the expert who examined the bills and
found them all there. She said it was
the hardest piece of redemption she
had tackled in many year.
AS matter of imperative necessity,
Postmaster-Genera1 Hitchcock has de-
cided to discontinue the new green spe-
cial-deliyery stamp and return to the
familiar blue stamp showing special
delivery messenger boy mounted on a
bicycle.
In the great rush with which. the
mails must be handled many letters
bearing the new stamp have escaped
treatment as special-delivery matter,
because of its similarity in size and
color to the one-cent stamp. In some
instances delay in delivery of such let
1
lie and embarrassment to the Post Office
Department.
The old design, with the boy on a
wheel, is distinctive and SO well known
to post office and railway mail clerks
that II attracts instant attention, and
letter bearing it is expedited by every
employe of the Postal Service who han
dies It. The issuance of the blue stamp
will begin at once.
The United States Senate does not
look natural without Senator Hale, of
Maine. He has been SO long member
Of that body. SO long its mentor and its
the Chamber seems empty when he is
not there. Senator Hale has been Ill
for a week. It Is said that his Illness
IS caused by tonsilitis, but 1t must be
more than that to keep him away for
q whole week. When he has been there
Of late. too. 1t has been noticed that
he did not "scold" the raw members
as much as usual, did NOT lecture any
body at all, in fact, and that is not a
pleasing sign. Senator Hale is no long
er young. and that is what is the mat
ter. Senator Hale never does much
speaking in the Senate, but does most
Of his work in the committee. He Is
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Appropriations and member of the
Committee on Finance, and. of course,
has worked very hard. There are not
many of the old wheel horses left.
kA
2 Secretary Wilson is said to have more
Invitations to speak thruout the coun-
Try than any other member of the Cab
met. He has dozens where any other
member has one. Farmers clubs, in
3titutes and agricultural colleges from
Alaska to Florida are begging him for
his presence. Secretary Wilson is very
bbliging, and goes when he can; but, of
fourse, he cannot accept half the in
yitations he receives.
!, Commander Cameron McRae Wins
low, of Spanish War fame, is confined
In the hospital in Newport News recoy-
ering from an operation for hernia.
Miss Flora Wilson. daughter OF Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Wilson. is one of the |
Cabinet hostesses who finds that life
dull. hollow and not worth living. Feel
ing this way, IL was not surprise when
she left her father to keep bachelor
house, while she went off to have a
career of her own which should not
consist OF standing Up two nights in
the week to shake hands with a thou
sand or 5000 people whom she did
not know and did not care to know.
Miss Wilson studied voice culture un-
der the best singing masters in the Old
World. and has returned with honors