The National tribune., 1910-09-01

American eagle flying over it, all of i
| in very much faded characters. A rela
tive, Miss Sarah Taft, lives in this ole
house yet, and showed him room IL
which Washington once slept 1t ha(
the usual four-posted bed with can
opy, and the statement was made tha
the bed had not been disturbed sine
| Washington's time. Ugh,
Every once in awhile names come on
| of the past to Startle one. Once upon
| time ]. Donald Cameron served as Sec
retary of War under President Grant
and then served PENNSYLVANIA for Il
years in the United States Senate. Sen
ator Cameron is in his 18th year, ant
left the Senate 13 years ago. He say:
that he is farmer now and enjoys it
knows nothing whatever about politics
and he expects to die farmer, tho ht
proposes to live good many years yet
My, but the Oregon people are proud
of their State. and in all probability
they have a right to be. Ben Berger
business man of Portland, Ore, who
has been in the city, tells you some
rather startling things about Oregon
He says that few people, in this part OF
the world at least, know that Portland
Ore, is the second largest wheat-ship-
ping point in the world Mr.. Berger is
wallpaper man. and speaking of busi-
ness in oregon says:
Business in my line and almost
every other is fairly humping itself. The
farms out there are producing fine crops
of wheat, and the farmers are prosper
Gus. / will tell you another thing:
Portland is now a modern city of sky
scrapers, wide, paved streets, one of the
finest street-car systems in America, and
is right in the front along all modern
city Improvement Portland has about
100000 people, who enjoy one of the
finest climates on the North American
coast. You may not believe it, but re-
Gently in New York l paid so cents
apiece for the famous Hood River, Ore,
apples. These apples are among the
largest and finest raised in this coun-
try, and they are such a curiosity in
New York that that is the price they
bring there regularly. Portland is also
known as the Rose City," on account
of the great abundance of beautiful
roses raised there. During the month
of June the famous rose carnivals are
held. Portland is one of the few cities
that have profited from Worlds EX-
position, the Lewis and Clarke EXposi-
ton in 1905 having proved the making
of the city. We are one of the few Re-
publican States to send good Democrats
to Washington. think Washington and
beautiful cities in the United States
This is my first visit to the. National
Capital, and 1 must say that it is a
modern, progressive and beautiful
city"
The District authorities-in fact, the
people of the whole District-are very
much puzzled over the almost incredible
number of suicides inside of the 10
10 afab ~,
tory of the National Capital. In six
weeks time exactly there were 5 self
inflicted deaths and some half dozen
other attempts at suicide. 1t is said
that the suicides here are not attribut-
ed to hot weather, nor can they be at
tributed in even half the cases to pow
erty. 1t is also stated that nearly all of
the suicides take that route by way Of
carbolic acid, and the strange feature
In it is that this stuff which causes such
intense suffering and yet is not always
efficacious has been selected by one
half the suicides when there are so
many easier methods of ending life.
One of the suicides hung himself. one
took -rough-on-rats, another bichloride
Of mercury, one cut his throat and one
took laudanum. Another jumped from
the fourth story of building Most of
he other 5 took carbolic acid
The creation of an army of 10, 900 no.
taries public has been authorized by the
Post Office Department, in accordance
with legislation enacted during the last
session of Congress All carriers of the
rural delivery mail service are now re-
luired by the Department to execute
vouchers for United States pensioners
residing on their routes, for which SER
vice they are to receive 25 cents for
each voucher executed.
Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, U. S.
Army, commanding the Department of
bined Army and Navy manuvers at
Pine Camp, n. Y, has declared en-
against the canteen He says:
When l say / think the canteen is
better left out of the Army believe 1
am taking the correct view. Take this
camp, for example. Many people have
the idea that where there is no way
under the present law for soldier to
get liquor within camp limits, dives
and low saloons about the skirts of the
camp must thrive. Such is not the
case, as l have taken care to learn.
THE other night l made a round of
all the outside grOgshops. and I found
that wherever there were customers
they were generally civilians Wherever
/ found a soldier he was almost always
a militiaman and not a Regular
This may be partly due to the fact
that pay day had passed and most of
the troops had spent all their money,
but I do not think that is the whole
reason. The fact that good many of
these places have gone out of business
purely because they could not get cus-
enough shows that my infer
ence is correct"
The United Master Butchers of
America, which were in session in Chi
cago week ago, gave Government
clerks a fearful slam. They adopted
resolutions aimed toward the introduce
ton in Congress of a bill creating a
garnishee law to cover all Government
employees. The butchers in their dis
cussion declared that it was exception
ally easy for the Government employees
to get cf edit, and then further declared
that 1t Is very nard to get them to pay
promptly. In fact, they said that of all
deIinquents on their credit list those on
Uncle Sans pay roll are the very slow
est pay, when IL comes to settling bills
for meat, at any rate One of the rea-
sons assigned for high prices of foods,
clothing and other commodities in the
District of Columbia has several times
been stated to be the uncertainty of
the tenure of office 1t is said that hun
dreds of men and women come to
Washington to enter Government en-
ploy and do not make good; that is,
they do not give satisfactory service to
the Government or else they tire of
Government service, and when dis
charged are usually without money,
and If they quit of themselves do not
care to use their money in having