The National tribune., 1909-08-19


The children of Mr.. Hammond, who
was an aspirant for the vice Presl-
dency, entertained the son of the Presi-
dent and the two daughters of an ex-
President. The party consisted of the
Misses Esther and Marian Cleveland,
Charley Taft and the two Hammond
BOYS, Richard and John, Jr. Charley
Taft who has quite reputation for
gallantry, is a devoted attendant upon
the Cleveland girls, and with Dick"
Hammond they have taken the girls on
yachting trips, excursions and daily
rambles. Miss Marian is 13 years old
and Esther is 16, and they are very fond
of outdoor sports of all kinds.
Judge Kimball, of the District of Co
lumbia Police Court, has ways of his
.. own to find out whether the prisoners
that appear before him are telling him
the truth or not On the end of his
desk Judge Kimball has placed
searchlight, and when Mr.. Prisoner ap-
pears His Honor turns on the light fuii
in the face of the culprit, leaving the
Judge in the dark From this point OF
vantage he studies the countenance OF
the witness, reading every twitch of the
visage of the prisoner, and under the
glare the prisoner seems stunned TO
u such an extent that the rays seem TO
bring to the surface his very inmost
thoughts. Judge Kimball thinks he has
a great invention, and he believes that
he can detect almost instantly perJured
testimony.
The ever-popular WI Ting-Fang. the
Chinese Minister to the United States
has for the second time in his diplo-
matte career been recalled from WaSh-
ington to Pekin, where it is probable
that he will be assigned for other and
more important work DR.. Wus sue
cessor is Chang Yin-Tang, who is re-
garded generally as man of wide
experience, having been in the diplo-
matte service in India, England, Tibet,
and the United States. The retirement
of Wu Ting-Fang removes from WASH
!ngton a picturesque figure. He is
popular talker and is probably the best
known foreigner in the United States.
He is witty and able. During his last
term here in Washington he has been
the means of creating considerable at
tention to vegetarianism, which he has
been ever ready to exploit. He recently
said that he was going to live over
hundred years and that he is going to
do it by giving up meats and eating
vegetables. During the Boxer trouble
in China in 1901 is was thru him that
a message was delivered to the be-
sieged American Minister and his col
leagues, whose fate was matter of
great anxiety to the State Department
here, and there is no doubt of his SYM
pathies with the United States at that
time.
Every once in awhile some one jumps
up and shouts that Speaker Cannon is
going to retire from the Speakership.
Now they say that he will retire at the
expiration of the 61st Congress, but 1T
seems that they have not consulted
Uncle Joe about the matter, for when
he heard of it he planted his cowhides
down firm and hard, and said he'd be
dashed if he intended to do anything of
the kind.
Poor old Bob Wonaack is dead at
Colorado Springs at the age of Sc.
Bob was a remarkable man in several
ways. IT was he who discovered gold
= at Cripple Creek, paid, in sense
$3.50, ,000,0 600 for one spree, and made
mint out of a COW pasture. Bob
sunk his shaft and struck gold, but
he couldn't stand prosperity. As socn
as he opened up his mine he struck
out for Colorado Springs, Went on
spree and sold his bonanza f1r $500.
Then, crazed with drink, Bob mount
ed his bronco and rode thru the
streets, brandishing his six-shooters
and proclaiming his secret to the
q, world. When Won1ack sobered up,
two or three days later, he found that
the best mining claims had been taken
up by others. He staked out a claim
or two, but they proved worthless,
and soon he was compelled to go to
work at day wages. Since then $780,
100000 in the yellow metal has been
dug out, but Bob got none of it, In
his later days he was dependent upon
the charity of those he helped enrich.
Chas. P. Taft, of Cincinnati, o.,
brother of the President, recently pur
chased at the cost of S500,0Q0 a Rem
brandt painting. which has been in
the possession of the Pourtals family,
of Paris, for more than a hundred
years. The title of the picture is "A
Young Man Rising From a Chair"
Peter Leibuch, insane from hunger,
was arrested at Pittsburg last week, and
= In his dirty hoveI was found upwards
of 100000. He lived alone IN the hills
back OF Allegheny and was a peddler,
boarding every cent he took in. He be-
came violent and attacked some little
children. which caused his arrest He
fought like maniac. and ii took six
,fficers to overpower him. When the
police entered the place they found a
box on the table with 35 pennies in it,
and on another table was an envelope
stuffed with bills amounting to about
$500. Old, ragged clothing. which
hung on the walls, was filed with bills
and coins. and an old trunk which stood
IN corner was SO heavy that two men
could not lift il, owing TO the weight OF
the money it contained. 1t was level
full of coins of all denominations After
they put the money on a wagon to take
1t to the bank the horse stalled owing
TO the great weight of the coins.
Two people at least have gone away
up in the world in the last week. The
Duke of AbruzZi has established new
record in mountain climbing He as
cended Mount Godwin-Austin TO a
hight of 24,600 feet Godwin-Austin is
Himaiayan peak. and was named by
the Royal Geological Society in 1883 in
honor Of the first explorers, and is the
highest known summit in the world
except Mount Everest, which is 1926
feet The other man is NJ Spelterine,
who succeeded in flying over the Alps
in an airship. The balloon in which he
and three others made the trip trav-
ersed Mount Blanc, scared over the
Aiguille du Dru and the Aiguille Verte
The highest altitude attained was 49,.
d 3I3 feet. One other successful trip
over Mount Blanc and the Alps was
made in November. 1906, by two Ital-
Ian aeronauts. They reached an alti-
tude of 20,500 feet, and the rarefied
atmosphere made them resort to a
supply of oxygen to keep them alive
They covered 175 miles in three hours
record for hight in the balloon. how
ever, was not reached by either of these
aeronauts who sailed over the Alps.
That distinction belongs TO two Eng
lishmen, Coxwell and Glaisher, who as