The National tribune., 1910-09-22
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President Taft is one of the quickest
men to recognize true heroism that ever
sat in the Presidential chair. The other
day he presented a gold watch, chain
and pendant to Capt Danielsen, of the
Norwegian steamer Hippolyte Dumois.
1t bore the following inscription:
Prom the President of the United
States to Capt. w. Danielsen, of the
Norwegian steamship Hippolyte Dumols
for his humane services in effecting the
rescue at sea, Oct 4, 1908, of the Cap
tain and crew of the American schoon-
er Mayfiower."
The rescued crew was made up of
young Harvard and Yale University
men, who had fitted out an expedition
to seek treasure that was reported near
Pedro bank, in the vicinity of Jamaica,
but were shipwrecked in hurricane.
The outer case of the watch has en-
graved upon it the coat-of-arms of the
United States.
Returns show that United States Sem
ator Burrows was beaten by $4,000
votes for reelection to the Z. S. Senate
Senator Burrows has been a conspicu-
Gus figure in National politics, first in
the House and then in the Senate, for
the last 33 years.
Last year 90 monkeys were imported
from tropical countries by the George
Washington University, and were used
for experiments in psychology. Prof
w. P. Shepherd was in charge of the
experiments for about six months. He
declared that a simian's faculties of per-
ception, sensation and memory are Su-
perior to those of a man, but that mans
faculties of reason, judgment and i'm
agination are far superior to a mon
keys. When the experiments att the
university laboratory were finished
Standard turnod I Of ha
monkeys over to the Government Hos
pital for the Insane. The experiments
there have been conducted by DR.. S. j.
49, Franz, Government expert in psychology
at the hospital, and now it is stated that
the II monkeys are all insane. The
attendants say that they could not re-
Gist the mental atmosphere surround
ing the institution. and one by one went
insane. each dying very soon after los
Ing i9 mind.
DR.. A. M. Stimson, who has made a
thoro investigation into the subject. de-
olares that hydrophobia is a reality and
not a dream, and that it is practically
tncurable, but not impossible to pre-
vent, and that it is a respecter of no
particular season or species of animal.
Dr.. Stimson has been making research
in the interest of the Public Health and
Marine Hospital Service.
1t was only an Insignificant little bug,
and nobody ever will know just exactly
what kind of bug it was, but probably
a mosketo. 1t was buZZing about the
ears Of Wilson Fl. Lambert, night
watchman of the 18th street car barns
of the Washington Railway & Electric
Company. He had brushed this bug
away a number of times, and finally
began to swat it around his Office, and
in the swatting and whirling about he
struck the glass OF the fire-alarm box,
and a very few minutes later there
came tearing down the asphalt three
fire engines covered with half-dressed
firemen. The firemen were pretty
mad lot when they discovered that they
had been practically called out to kill
bug. and incidentally it cost the Dis
trict of Columbia s12o to make the run.
They are doing things at the O. S.
Treasury just now. Nobody knows just
why, but it has the appearance of max
Ing place for the fayorites of some-
body. Secretary McVeagh has suddenly
taken notion to denote quite a num-
ber and to advance just as many 9TH
ers, and the first one to be denoted
was w. w. Ludlow, who has been Chief
Clerk of the Treasury Department since
1895. He has been transferred from
a $4,000 position to an $500 one in
the Division of Printing and Stationery.
Mr.. Ludlow insists that he was trans
ferred at his own request but it is not
very often that a man who is not rich
asks to be relieved from $4,000 place
and sent to an 81, 800 one. There have
been half dozen other demotions in
the same Office, and everybody is won-
dering why, as those who occupied the
offices were considered thoroiy efficient
1t is said that Mr.. Ludlow did not fit in
with the Administration plan of reor-
ganizing the Treasury and other De-
partments. and, of course, that was
sufficient reason for proceeding to get
rid of him in this delicate way.
By the way, denote is said to be
an invention of Secretary MacVeagh's.
While this is not exactly correct, for
denote" is dictionary word, it may
be correct to say that it was first put
into lively use by Secretary MacVeagh,
and it means to 'let down easy from
high salary to a lower one.
In the near future the Treasury De-
partment will make another reduction
of its expenses by clipping off the ex-
press charges on banknotes sent from
the Chicago and St Louis Subtreasuries
to Washington for destruction. This
will be done by installing machines of
the same type used with such success
In the Subtreasury in New York. Worn
out banknotes then will be Cancelled in
the Subtreasuries instead Of at WASH
ington
me saving IN express charges, which
Will amount to thousands of dollars
every year, will be made in this way
The Goyernment's contract with the
United States Express Company COM
pels all shipments of money over the
company's lines. Even if the Govern
ment chooses TO transfer money from
one point to another by mail, or even
by telegraph, the terms of the contract
require the Treasury 10 pay the same
charges as would have been made If
the money had gone by express
Treasury officials have about decided
IS that cancelled banknotes are not money
but merely waste paper. BY installing
canceling machines AT New York and
St Louis notes will be Cancelled there
and sent TO Washington by registered
mail
The Democratic nominee for Con-
gress in the Ninth Virginia District is
liable 10 be defeated, it is said, because
of his wife'S wardrobe. Several weeks
ago Col Stuart, his wife and daughter
arrived in New York from Paris, and
25 pieces of their baggage were seized
for nonpayment of duty Mrs Stuart
had been abroad two years, and in that
time there had been changes in the
laws of which she knew nothing so
she had not declared everything when
she arrived, and Secretary LOeb'S eagle
eyed inspectors landed on those trunks
with fearful force. OF course, Mr.
Stuart paid the duty on the baggage,
but the politicians in the IA Counties
OF the district have taken the matter