The National tribune., 1910-09-08

electric current was turned on. Inen
the hoist was raised, and the magnet
emerged from the water with twoN or
three kegs of nails sticking to it. This
operation went on for days. | stood
watching the work for an hour before
could tear myself away"
A most remarkable tribute was paid
to the memory of the Chilean President,
who died suddenly abroad last week.
The President ordered the flags on the
Government buildings half-masted for
three days as mark of respect to the
late President, Pedro Montt. Even the
flag on the White House was raised at
half mast, and the flag is never sup
posed to fly over the White House at
all excepting when the President is
in it.
Gov. Charles Z. Hughes, of New
York, who will come to Washington
oct. 1 to assume his duties as Associate
Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, has
finally found a house with room in it
which he can turn into a library. The
Hughes prerequisite for a house to live
in is, in the first place, yard for the
kids to play in (and there are quite a
number of them), and, in the second
place, a library, and they had a big
hunt to find it The "to-be" Associate
Justice has rented a house at the cor
ner of oath and Massachusetts, avenue
northwest, which has a spacious library
and reception hall and plenty of room
at the top for indoors play. Associate
Justice Lurton has leased a house at
1871 1 street northwest.
Gen. James H. Berry, Commander of
the Department of California, in his
annual report to the Secretary of War
recommends the purchase of two large
reservations on the Pacific Coast at
Atascadero for the field training of the
Army on the Pacific Coast, and he also
asks for additional barracks quarters
for all branches of the California De-
partment.
Washington has had at least two
deaths from that awful plague. disease
or whatever it may be called, pellagra.
A Mrs. Sallie Graham. of WarrentOn.
Va, was the second victim, and she was
brought to the District and treated in
the Georgetown University Hospital, but
grew gradually worse until she died last
week. She was SIS years old, and when
stricken with the disease was in the
best of health. She was only ill about
three weeks from the time the first
symptom occurred. Her strength grad
ually waned, her flesh seemed to be alb
sorbed, and when she died the only
thing that held her bones together
seemed to be the skin. She is said to
have been a horrible sight because of
the tightening of the skin like parch-
ment. No one knows yet just what
causes the disease. but it is supposed to
be what is called pellagra, because the
symptoms are all the same and the dis
ease wastes the body until the skin be-
comes parchment
The Navy Department has announced
that President Taft. who is going to
Panama to look over things before he
returns to Washington, will use the
armored cruiser Tennessee 1t will be
his flagship for the trip in November.
The Montana, a sister ship, will go as
escort, carrying the newspaper corre-
spondents, magazine writers and engi-
neering experts. President Taft expects
to be gone about 20 days. The two
warships are now at Portland, Me-,
undergoing general overhauling
Senator Curtis was entirely cleared
of the charges that were laid against
him by Senator Gore in the matter of
Indian contracts. Now Bird Mcclure,
of the First Oklahoma district, has been
completely eXonerated by the commit
tee as well as~Vice President Sherman.
There is not anybody who had modi-
cum OIL sense WHO Dtlltkeu ltidl any OHt
of the three was mixed up in any way
whatever with criminal activity in the
Indian tracts. Somebody told Senator
Gore SO and he believed it; that was
all.
President Taft, in little talk which
he gave to the trustees of Hampton
School, of which Booker Washington is
President said:
II do not like to go into politics or
discuss the fact, but 1 do believe that
the present situation in the South is one
full of hope for the solution of the ne
gro question, because politics is largely
out of it, and now that the Southern
white man and the Northern white man
and the Southern negro and the North
ern negro are all uniting in this move
ment to teach the 10000, 900 negrOs
! how to support themselves, as ii is be-
+ ing demonstrated, the race question
will have its solution No one can read
the lectures that Booker Washington
has delivered to his own people without
realizing that he is one of the greatest
men of this century. and that he dares
TO tell them the truth in order that they
may begin to build up their lives on a
sure foundation"
We often hear of the "Apaches" of
Paris. but nobody wants to think for a
minute that tney are Apache Indians,
and from all we can hear they are just
about as much worse than the cruel,
treacherous, bloodthirsty Apaches of
the West as serpent is than the mod
est flower that mods above il. Adolph
Stern, of HaVre, France, who was in
the city a few days ago, says that all
cities had their roughs and tOughs, but
that none of them were to be compared
with the Apachcs of Paris.
THE Apaches of Paris" he said "are
/ in a class by themselves. They are alb
/ Isolutely merciless. and the citizens in
certain sections of the Capital are in a
state Of terror when they are obliged to
go on the streets at night
/ The Apache seems to glory in crime
/ merely for the sake of committing it,
! Often robbery plays no part in his at
tack on an unoffending person Appar-
emily he just wants to establish repu-
tation as "A murderer. But the police
are the especial objects of the Apache's
/ hatred. If he can kill a gendarme he
Is raised to the pinnacle of glory in the
eye of his companions
: so far as l know the Apaches have
no close organization. They are not
members of a society. If one of the
young criminals of the slums starts out
on a career of wanton bloodsised he be-
comes an Apache. and he is received
into the ranks of the men of the same
type as a worthy companion. And these
men do not use their fists in fight II
is always a knife or a revolver.
Il am sure that, even in New Yorl,
you have no criminals as bad as tho
Apaches, altho ] have heard that the
uOlicp of that city haV. thar l.,,l. -,