The National tribune., 1909-05-06

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every sanitary Improvement known t.
modern science. 1t will have bis
auditorium and amusement halls, rec
| reation halls and all that sort of thing
1t ought to be built, and it will doubt
less be tremendous success.
When Sothern opened the week il
Washington by playing "Richelieu'
President and Mrs. Taft occupied the
Presidential box. At the end of thf
first act Mr.. Sothern sent to Mrs. Taf
a great armful of American Beauty
roses, which was graciously received b.
the First Lady in the Land" Mr.
! Taft told the people in Atlanta wher
| he had his rat-tailed 'possum banquet
ter in 20 years. There has not been {
week since he was inaugurated that be
has not been at the theater.
| Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and hel
| three youngest children. Miss Ethe
Roosevelt, Archibald and Quentin, vii
sail for Europe about July 1. They
will go to Italy to stay month with
Mrs. Roosevelts sister. Miss Carow. who
spent many Winters in the White House
| with her sister. Miss Carow has q
| villa near Rome, where she spends
most of her time. Mrs. Roosevelt and
her children will go from there to
France and Switzerland. and will re
| turn to this country in November. in
stead of spending the Winter in Egypt
as at first planned. They will spend
next Winter at their home at Oyster
| Bay.
Gen. Daniel H. Rucker, retired, the
oldest living Army officer. and father
Of Mrs. Philip Sheridan, with whom he
| makes his home, celebrated his 9Ith
| birthday last wapE Sfaadv stream
of callers visited the house all day long
to pay their respects.
The General was born April %, 1872,
| at Belleville, N. ]. Seventy-five years
of his life have been spent in the ser
vice of the Army, either on the active
| or retired list, and he has been honored
repeatedly for his deeds.
| President TAFT fooled the people
again. He did not go to church at all
| Sunday. He had so much to do al
home that he stopped there, and Mrs
Taft did the family churchgoing, walk
| ing by herself just across Lafayette
Square to old st. Johns. Great crowds
! gather every Sunday to see the Presi-
dent enter church, we1l-dressed people,
mostly, and President Taft takes great
delight in doing the unusual thing about
getting there, which keeps the people
fooled most Of the time.
/
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has
been in the hospital recovering an op-
Grafton on the mastoid glands.
One of the funny things that police.
men do is to give opinions on cases Of
1 sudden DEATH" A man was found
dead here in Washington last week. His
| head was 10 feet from his body, and
| was right side up, as tho set down by
as tho it had been cut clean off with a
knife, and there was no sign of an in
strumenf with which the man might
have been killed, and his clothing was
not soiled, very little blood having is
sued from his body. The police gravely
viewed the body, and declared it a case
of suicide. That's what they did. The
man. they thought, had deliberately cut
off his own head! AS the head was 10
feet or more from the body, according
] to the theory of suicide advanced by
| the police, he must have set his head
down on the ground and walked away
1 from it. The man was lying close be-
side the railroad track, and It was at
once proven that his head had been
severed by the cars.
The Seattle Exposition people won
out. The Post Office Department un-
dertoolS to fix up an Exposition stamp
for them that had an iceberg and a
polar bear on 1t, and Seattle thanked
the Department politely, and Informed
| the august officials that up in that neck
of woods they raised a heap of things
beside polar bears and icebergs. and
they did not want the stamp. So the
postal authorities have evolved another
/ idea. portrait of William Fl. Seward
who as Secretary of State conducted
negotiations for the purchase of Alaska
|
James II. Cassidy. recently elected to
isucceed Senator Theodore E. Burton as
Representative from the 25th Ohio Dis
trict, was sworn in last week. As Sen
ator Burton had been much Interested
in the election of Mr.. Cassidy, who
formerly was clerk of the House Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors. of which
j Senator Burton was Chairman, Senator
Burton was in the House Chamber to
witness the swearing-in ceremony. Mr.
Cassidy was heartily welcomed to the
House by many of the members who
had known him during his long service
as clerk of the committee.
/ Mrs William H. Taft, wife of the
President of the United States, seems
to be whole lot of a woman in hel
own right. She is not bit obtrusiye
not at all exclusive. not at all ostenta
tious: but she knows what is going or
all the same. She has exhibited an in
terest in the working girls of the De
partments here, and taken so mucf
part in helping them as to write t.
their President, commending the actor
taken for their upiift. She is activel,
interested in the arts. in literature ant
in music. She has already aided ii
giving Washington a beautiful new
park. and takes pains to visit it the tw,
| afternoons that music Is to be heart
there, and she Is interested in polite.
, whole lot. Mrs. Taft spent one Who'll,
, afternoon at the Senate the other day
listening TO the forensic efforts of Sen
| ator Bailey et al. and never ono
yawned.
Secretary OF the Navy Meyer ha
just approved the sentence to militar,
. prison for seven years of John J. Lam
bert. Lambert's record is unique. i
: shows that he has enlisted seven time
: in the Navy in various parts of tn
1 United States. each time under a Oil
I ferent name, and after a few months
$ service he deserted each time. 1t |
: supposed that he deserted and re-er
8 listed for the purpose of getting tn
$50 clothing allowance given to re
cruits. His first enlistment was in Bos
a ton, 1905. He will need but on
: change OF clothing for a number Q
\ years. and that will be striped. II a
r "onrier" cuss than a deserter froI
: Army or Navy was ever born he is nc
|, known 10 history.