The National tribune., 1910-09-22

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
to belong to the Order of Sons OF Vet
Grams, and he believes that 1t would be
the proper thing for the q. A. r. to
Sons. There IL one change. however,
that should be made In the title. They
should call themselves Sons of Union
Veterans"
Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine Mendel OBJ
Iserved their golden wedding anniver-
sary Aug. 26 at their home in this city.
There was a family reunion all day,
land in the evening Comrads and Mrs.
Mendel received their friends from all
parts of the city. They had with them
all of their children, two coming from
Iowa, one from Washington and one
from Los Angeles. Cal A great many
beautiful presents were received. Com
rade Mendel was a member of Co. 8,
9Th Iowa, and served three years. He
is ~ years of age. Comrade and Mrs.
Mendel came to Washington from Iowa
| in 1898, when Comrade Mendel took a
position in the Government Printing
Office, after having been editor of the
Abba Uowa) Union for s years. One
of the features of the celebration was
the presence of Mrs. Menders twin
brother, Mr.. L. A. Clapp, of Iowa.
Uncle Sam does not deal in small fig
| ures.
According to the Comptroller of the
Treasury bill of 55 cents is too trivial
a matter for the Government to cOnsid-
| or. Such decision was made by the
Comptroller in the case of George w.
Lambert, a discharged private of the
26th u S.
On his discharge from the Army in
1904, Lambert claimed the Government
was short 55 cents in his pay The
| claim was disalloWed on the ground
that, in accordance with the established
practice of the Government, the amount
is too small to warrant a settlement.
! Embassador Bacon, who represents
Us in Paris. has just been let in for the
sum of $4,000, which he probably viii
never get back Casper Whitney the
author, has filed voluntary petition in
bankruptcy, in which he says that Rob-
ert Bacon. Embassador to France, has
loaned him $4,000:
The goat man is dead. Capt. B. Ed
wards. of San Diego, Cal, who reached
| this city in July, having a team of four
angora goats from his California home,
died i'll Uniontnwn, Pa. last week. He
| made the "trip to Washington in 257
days, and expected to decrease the
time by at least 100 days on The return
trip. He was lame and unable to walk.
On his way to Uniontown Capt. Ed
wards became i'll of pneumonia, and
he succumbed in a hospital in that
town.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. B. Pumphrey, of
this city, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary Sept. 13. A large
number of their children and grand
children as we'll as friends were present
Tl1nxr
ents, very largely of gold Comrade
Pumphrey is a veteran of the civil war,
and has been a resident of Washington
all his life. Mrs. Pumphrey was born
in Alexandria, Va.
Such funny stories as do come out of
the Treasury Department. The last is
tale of goat and a $40 bill. The
story blew in from Detroit Mich. A
lady in that city wanted a new hat and
drew SO bill from the bank to pur-
chase it. gust of wind whisked it
out of her hand. Then began the other
part of the story. 1t is a mix-up of
small boy and nanny goat. AS the
money flew out the goat grabbed it. The
woman Ilew up and grabbed the boy.
She charged him with stealing it. BY
the time she had the boy bIubbering
good and hard policeman arrived, but
the goat had swallowed the bill The
bOy piOHti HIS illlDtbIte, DuI lfe SD1L
was killed TO recover the SO Now the
woman has a new SO bill. but the boy
hasn't any goat and he wants TO know
where he comes into the game. The
chewed-up money was sent to the
Treasury Department, and was there
easily redeemed. and the new bill sent
back to the woman.
Joke.
Just a silly little joke which a preach
er evidently did not understand brought
to the front an opposition candidate to
your Uncle Joseph. The opposition was
DIR. Henry b. Downs, a Methodist min
lster. He says that he was always a
standpatter until he saw displayed in
Cannon parade two years ago banner
bearing the strange advice, Drink Joe
Cannon whisky
Away back in war times Gen. Grant
had some bitter enemies. If there was
anything hateful that those enemies did
not speak of Grant, it was just because
they did not think of it, and the ieal-
ousy reached its hight just after Donel-
son, Wnen some high officers went to
President Lincoln with the tale that
Grant was under the influence of whfs-
KY in that fight, and demanded that he
be deprived of command Lincoln
waved the officers away with one of his
sad smiles. Gentlemen" he is record
ed to have said, ''if you can find the
brand of whisky that Gen. Grant drinks
] wish you would bring me some of it.
! need 1t to give to some of my other
Generals. Gentlemen, / can't get along
without Gen. Grant. He does things"
OF course, this story has been told
probably ever since battles were fought
of first one commander and then an
other but it always seems to fit in, and
this is what the banner meant carried
in the Joe Cannon parade, and the
preacher did not know it; that is all.
Paint and Varnish,
The Capitol has been undergoing a
thoro housekeeping and renovating.
over zoo Workmen have been laboring
with paint brush, mallet and chisel for
months to improve the building Among
the numerous big changes is that of
using the power plant of southeast
Washington, which will transmit heat
and light thru more than a mile of tun-
mel to the Capitol the Office Building
and the Congressional Library
All the rooms, stairways, etc, have
been painted and vanished. For year
after year paint and varnish have been
put on the walls and stairways until it
Will no longer stick, but peeis off, leav-