The National tribune., 1909-12-30

Don't forget that every Red Cros
stamp you buy is more than three-quar
tiers of penny gone toward the stamp
ing out of tuberculosis. Miss Mabe
Boardman states that the donations thi:
year are estimated at more than S30O,'
600, which will be greatly in excess oi
what was secured last year. People
are often told that IL they viii save
the pennies the dollars VIII take care
of themselves; but, after all, they are
far from realizing what a large amount
the pennies will make in tma. Fol
instance, it is said that last Summer
lover 100000 people made 10000 trips
to Coney Island, and they spent S4O,-
100000, mostly in nicSels and dimes
The total sum was three times what
the United States paid for Louisiana
and six times what it paid Russia for
Alaska, and yet in one brief season the
people paid that tremendous sum in
punches of five pennies each. A deter
mined effort on the part of any person
to lay up the pennies, nickels and dimes
will always produce astonishing results
Just in this way, and then think of the
tremendous benefit that these PENNIES
will be to the human family in the
stamping out of that awful disease, tu-
berculosis and consumption.
Senator Aldrich, from the Senate
Committee on Committees, has filled
the vacancies as follows: Senator Nc
Cumber, of North Dakota, goes to the
Committee on Public Lands and Sena-
tor Crawford, of South Dakota, to the
Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
Representative Bartholdt of Mis-
souri,, has introduced a bill in the House
calling for an appropriation of $4,000
for modelling a replica of the statue of
Baron Won Steuben, to be presented to
Emperor William and the German Ma
ton. The original statue, which is now
nearing completion, will be placed in
Lafayette Park, opposite the White
House, and Congress appropriated S5,-
900 for this particular work. In urg-
ing the passage of the bill Representa-
tive Bartholdt says:
America and France have both been
the recipients of tokens of good will in
the form of statuary from their respec-
tive Governments and peoples. Some
important statues presented by Ameri-
cans to France and erected by them in
Paris are: An equestrian statue of
Washington, by popular subscription,
and an equestrian statue OF Lafayette
by subscription of the school children
in this country; statue of Franklin,
etc.
NO return has thus far been made
to the Germans Emperor for the pre-
sentation to this Nation of the statue
of Frederick the Great, fronting the
War College in Washington. On other
occasions the Emperor has shown his
good will to America and its institu-
lions, as, for instance, the gift of casts
to Harvard University and a bronze
bust to one of our military schools 1t
seems fitting, therefore, to show our
appreciation by some appropriate gift
in return"
Apropos OF statues, PENNSYLVANIA is
desirous of having the country erect g
statue in Harrisburg that is to cost
$4,000, to commemorate the name of
Conrad Weiser, who rendered distin-
guished services prior to the Revolu-
tionary War in preventing several pow
erful Indian tribes from coalescing with
an enemy of the United States
sIrs. Robert Bacon, wife of Mr. Rob-
ert Bacon, whom President Taft has
nominated as the next United States
Embassador to France is as fond of
sports as her husband, and is particu-
larry fond of river sports. She has just
Informed the Harvard crew of 1910
that they can count upon her for new
shell Tor their races next season. The
boat already has been ordered from
makers in Putney, on Englands
Thames, within few minutes walk of
the point at which the annual Oxford
Cambridge inter-'varsity boat race
starts. The shell In which the Harvard
crew raced last season was a present
from Mrs. Bacon, and next seasons
craft Will be built on approximately the
same lines making allowances for GER
tain notifications that may be necessi-
tated by the weight of the crew. 1t is
planned to have Mrs. Bacon's new boat
completed early in March, in readiness
for the crew as soon as they take to the
river. OF course, Mr.. Bacon is himself
q Harvard man.
We get SO in the habit of thinking
that Mr.. Speaker Cannon is a tyrant.
a watchdog and even a Car that no.
body ever stops to think whether he
has softer side to his nature or not:
but ne has, and it's mighty soft toward
children, and particularly so~toward
certain special children, and they are
his granddaughters. He has one grand
daughter here in Washington in school
OF whom he is particularly fond and
just before Congress opened the Speak
er happened to bethink him that this
granddaughter would like to witness |
the opening of Congress, so he wrote |
her little note to that effect Imme- |
diateIy he received reply, in which
the young lady said: Deed l would, |
and / will come and bring the whole
lar friends, and when the bunch" ar
rived there were about dozen, all
logged out in the very prettiest of at
tire, and they crowded the Speakers
seat in the gallery like the mischief.
IL was not Speaker Cannon's inten- |
tion TO go back to Illinois on Christmas. |
but the little grandchild at home with |
her mother, Miss Helen LIE Seure or
dered the Speaker to come home forth
with. He had written requesting his |
daughter to bring her family to Wash |
ington for the Christmas holidays, but |
little Miss Helen said most emphatical- |
fy No" She said the chimney in the |
Speakers house wasn't big enough for |
Santa to get down and she wouldn't |
spend Christmas there, and she had TO |
have grandpa help her receive Santa
Claus's Christmas presents So the |
great Speaker of the great House of |
Representatives turned over his gavel /
TO Representative John Dalzell of !
Pennsylvania, and hiked home to Dam
Vile just as fast as the fastest train |
would carry him, to obey the orders of |
this dear little grandchild.
Colorado is after the body of Gen. |
Zebulon Montgomery Pike, the discov-
erer of the great mountain in Colorado |
which is named Pixies Peak after him. |
The old pathfinder sleeps in the ceme- |
terry in Sackett's Harbor. n. Y, and |
inf Of