The National tribune., 1910-05-26

Ter ldu Deen the tolDnel OF Il nSSTt
iregiment during the war. Secretary
Ballinger declared that the color line
will disappear as the Colored race adj
ivances morally, religiously and educa-
tionally.
Mrs Taft. wife of the President. is
now a full-iedged member of the
Washington Humane Society. Mrs
Taft has always taken a great interest
lin humane work, and has evinCed a
great deal of interest since coming to
| Washington. so she wrote a personal
letter to the officials of the society. in
closing her application for member
| ship. and she is now regular member.
The Roosevelt hunting trip to Africa
will cost the country pretty dear after
all. 1t is going to cost at least $4,000
simply to pay the expenses of prepar-
ing and mounting the specimens of wild
beasts killed by Mr. Roosevelt. to say
nothing of what it cost to send repre-
sentatives from the Smithsonian 1nsti-
tuition with him on the expedition.
The Suggestion that Mississippi will
send a statue of JEFF Davis, President
of the so-caIled southern Confeder-
acy." to stand in the Hall OF Horrors"
beside that of Robert f. Lee is already
creating a stir in Grand Army circles.
\ number of the Posts have decided
that the time to do a thing is now, and
that a good way to keep the statue out
$ to prevent its ever being put in. VIM.
II. Gibson Post, 81. Department of
Ohio has sent an earnest petition to
against the entrance of the jeff Davis
statue. and also against the acceptance
of the statue of Robert Il. Lee.
The death of King Edward has been
responsible for social d;sappointmentS
thruout the civilized world. 1t would
hardly be supposed that il would affect
Washington so seriously. yet it has, as
all THE diplomatic homes were closed
until after the funeral ceremonies, flags
half-masted, and all entertainment that
had been arranged Tor given up. At
Bryn Mawr a very elegant entertain
ment had been planned for the COM
mencCment exercises in honor of one of
its most distinguished alumnists, Ba-
roness Uchida. The Baroness was to
have attended the commencement cx-
ercises. and Miss Helen Taft. daughter
of the President was to have conveyed
the greetings of her alma mater to the
RaroneSS, and the occasion would have
been a very interesting one The Ba-
roness. however. after the death of the
King. recalled her acceptance, and will
not attend at all.
Speaker Cannon arrived at the 74th
anniversary of his birth May Z, and it
was remembered by the Illinois delega-
ton. He received a magnificent tribute
of flowers personally, and the delega-
ton then presented to Miss Helen a
portrait in oils of her father. The
flowers were beautiful, but the picture
wasn't. OF course, the picture of Speak
er Cannon, if true TO life, could never
be called beautiful, but the truth is the
picture isn't half as good looking as
the Speaker.
In all probability it is not generally
known that the prevalence of the dog
collar" which society women are so
fond of wearing about their necks. is
the invention of Queen Alexandra, and
that she has worn it for 40 years or
more. either that or a very high col
lar. Probably no living creature out
side of her family has ever seen her
without either one or the other-the
dog collar or a high collar OF jew
els-and she wears it because she has
that scourgc Of nearly all of the royal
families Of Europe, scrofula Of the
blood, which made a frightful scar on
her neck, which the dog collar" ana
strings of jewels cover up.
The President and Mrs. Taft recently
attended the christening of the 10
months old son of DR.. and Mrs. Gilbert
II. Grovner. Of this city. The baby is
the fifth child and second son of the
Growers. and was named Alexander
Graham Bell for his maternal grand
father. He is the third cousin of the
President.
Speaker Cannon doesn't seem to be
sanguine as to when Congress is going
to close He has wired the Chautauqua
that he will have to decline
all invitations to speak:
If / were foot-loose," he wrote, 81
would gladly accept your invitation,
and discuss matters of public interest
on your Chautauqua platform. How
ever, there is no telling when Congress
is going to adjourn, and / win be COM
PEELED TO cancel Chautauqua dates which
would keep me constantly busy for 80
days"
Senator Tillman, who is at his home
near Spartanburg, S. c., is able to be
about, but is very weak and walks with
a stick and very slowly His voice is
no stronger than his body, and one is
forced to the conclusion that Mr.. Till
mans best days are over.
Two equestrian statues were unVailed
in Washington last week, one to Pu-
laski and one to Kosciusko, both being
immortalZcd in bronze and both occa-
sons hOnored by the President of the
United States as speaker. Mrs. Taft
and Mrs. Sherman, wife of the Vice
President, assisted at the unvailing. The
unvailing of the Pulaski statue took
place at 3 O'clock, and then a magnifi-
cent parade passed before the Presi-
dent in review and on over to Lafayette
was unyailed.
Count Francis Pulaski, lineal de-
scendant of the Revolutionary hero,
who came from Poland for the pur-
pose, was one of the speakers.
The cords un4ailing the Kosciusko
statue were pulled by Julian SZajnert,
of Minneapolis, who 40 years ago as
sisted in the formation of the National
Alliance of Polish Societies. 1t Ia esti-
mated that there were fully 1000 peo-
pie in the parade, among them num-
ber of Polish societies which came
from all over the country for the occa-
sion.
The statue of Gen. Pulaski is a very
picturesque thing, as the General is
clad in the Polish Hussar uniform
which he wore all during his service
and in which he won command OF a
brigade of Washington's cavalry for his
gallant conduct at Brandywine. He
fell at the siege of Savannah in 1873,
and died on the United States brig-of-
war Wasp in the harbor two days after
ward.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said:
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