The National tribune., 1909-08-05


A sensational story has been sent out
concerning Senator Tiilman. of South
Carolina, in which he is stated 70 be
almost in a condition of mental collapse,
and that he will probably never return
to the United States Senate. ut Is not
So" his son states. He says that ms
father is not at home, but is traNeiinS'
and that he is in fairly sood heaith.
The Senate would lose one or IT'S most
picturesque characters II senator iii
man were to drop out.
The hazing at West Point is not
wiped out vet, and, furthermore. 1t is
not likely that it ever VIII be-
There died in Washington last week
Mrs. NJ Z. Jordan, a colored woman.
who has done much for her people and
for their advancement along every line
of education and culture. Mrs. Jordan
was born in Virginia March 25, 1884.
She came to Washington with her hus-
band, Henry Jordan, in June of 1866
with four children. and four were born
to her in this city. Five of the 10 chill
dren that have been born to her are
still living. One son highly distin-
guished himself in the Spanish Ameri-
can War. Another is Past Quartermas-
ter-Sergeant in the United States Army.
The oldest daughter, Mrs j. G. Col
lier, was a teacher in the city high
schools, and is nov married to pros
porous business man and has three
charming daughters. The third son is
a prosperous business man in the city.
A daughter, Miss Maria Jordan, who
never married, has devoted her life to
teaching, and is principal of one of the
public schools of the city. Both Mrs.
Collier and Miss Jordan are charter
members of P. o. Morgan Corps, i, OF
nf hn
Corps organized in the District of CO.
lumbia. They have long been ldenti-
fed with the patriotic work of the or
eanization, and have both filled high
Department offices, Miss Jordan having
been Department Secretary.
Mrs. Jordan was woman OF strong
character, impressive personality. en-
terprising, jealous and industrious. She
was herself a school teacher, and took
an active interest in public affairs, ana
was often sought for advice in matters
of public interest. She was member
of the Metropolitan A. M. e. Church.
It makes a fellow kind of jump, you
know. to be told that the President or
the United States goes to a five-cent
picture show. but he does, he really
does: at least he went to one five-cent
show OF course, one swallow does not
make a Summer, and this once Wouiu
scarcely stigmatiZe the President as a
ng-picture-show fiend, now would
| il I? 1t all came about this way: 1t viii
| be remembered that the President went
| to Petersburg short time ago to the
unyaiIing of a monument. The moving
picture men were there in force, ana
| they got the President--mostly in the
back, it Is true-but they got pictures
| of him getting off the train, getting In
his carriage, in the line of parade, re-
ut
lawn, speaking from the platform 10
| a wriggling mass of humanity, standing
under the Union and Confederate hagS,
and there are plenty OF Confederate
| flags in the parade and the decorations.
| The President doesn't look very pretty
| in most of the pictures. for he is usual
! ly speaking, and snap shot OF the
handsomest man alive when he is
speaking and his mouth Is wide open
| is not pretty. The picture story ends
IN with q moving picture of a 'possum
and her young. They climb all oveE
| her, and she does several stunts with
them on her back. At the very last Is
shown a large picture OF President ran !
| in a frame, standing on the floor. Al
| its two corners are two American flags,
and falling over it from above are two
| Confederate flags. The 'possum with
| her Young on her back tries to climb
up the side of the picture and eaten
| the Confederate flags, but after three
attempts has to give it up. The next
nicture shows Mrs. 'Possum climbing
down from above. She lands on those
| two Confederate flags. and yanks them
| from the picture, and tears them up.
| disclosing two American Flags when
were hidden by them, view that al
ways brings applause. The flags nave
no business there. They were the flags
used by a people for the purpose of
| 4 ha cnVprnment II is q
| flag that was shot at for four long and
bloody years. and was discredited and
eternalIy put out of business at APP
pomattox. 1t can have no legitimate
! place beside the American Flag, and II
| requires a good deal of cheek to put
II above the head of the President OF
| the United States, who would be de-
posed quicker than scat If he under
| took to recognize IL as flag that has
any right to exist except in memory.
|
"Afioat on the Mississippi"
"Afioat on the Mississippi''--"M Mark
Twain" Do these two expressions bring
a picture before your eyes? They are
near akin, for our picturesque litera
teur. Samuel Clemens, got his pseu
donym, Mark TWAIN" while afioat up
on the Mississippi as pilot on the bis
side -wheelers. That day is long. Ions
in the past, 20, 80, yes, 40 years! May
be more! And II isn't at all likely tina
the genial writer ever expected to TAXI
the wheel again. But the story now
goes that President Taft has formal,
laccepted an invitation to visit st. Loui!
in October, and will leave that city fol
New Orleans by the Mississippi Rive
route 1t is also said that Mark Twain
will be the pilot on the Mississippi Riv
er boat upon which the President viii
travel While it may be true that Mari
Twain will sit in the pilot house at in
, tervals, 1t isn't likely that that river
: various currents and shifting ssndbar
/. would furnish very enjoyable trip 70
the President or anybody else witt
= Mark Twain as the pilot. 1t Is YER
, we'll known that if you miss one trip il
. "a hours up and down the Mississippi
you might just as well lay off, for tn
channel is as peevish in its changes a
baby cutting its first teeth. Nay, nay
Mark Twain loves life too well to enjo
| himself, to say nothing of the President
, to Mark Twaining' in the pilot hous
of Mississippi River steamboat.
A Notable Career.
Gen Henry G. Worthington, who die
= !, at Garfield Hospital Washington. Jul
%, had quite an unusual career. He ws
g the last surviving pallbearer Mt the funer;
4 of President Lincoln. He was born of
:, prominent Maryland family, at Cumbe
. land, Nd, in 1928, and altho his fami
=. owned slaves, they were opposed
y slavery, and ardent admirers of Hem
Is Clay. after whom Gen Worthington WI