The National tribune., 1910-08-11

makes the percentage of such DEGREES
all the more startling
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich has
awarded contracts for the erection of
a country home which is to cost over
100000, and will be on his property
at Warwick Neck, r. l. The house will
be three stories, nearly 800 feet in
length, and will be of the old-fashioned
country-home type. The house Will be
built overlooking the water, and land
scape gardeners are already at work.
There are several hundred acres in the
property, and there will be a large
garage, stable, servants quarters, gate
houses and lodges. 1t will be work
of art, and yet the style of architec-
ture of the house will be simply farm
house with modern conveniences.
Champ Clark, the Democratic minor
ity leader, is finding his campaign to
get back to Congress pretty costly. He
has had to cancel all his Chautauqua
dates, and as these would net him $500
a speech it must have CALLED him con-
siderably to give them up, so as TO be
able to tramp around over his little old
district to collar Democratic votes.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son announces that he has taken per-
sonaI charge of the Forestry Service,
and declares it his intention to open
up for settlement all lands now within
Government forest reserves which are
suitable for agriculture and do not run
over 1000 feet of timber to the acre.
1--WE are not trying to set men up in
the timber business" said Mr.. Wilson,
but where the soil of any tract is good
and does not carry more than 1000 feet
of timber to the acre, we are willing to
let the settler have it under the act or
June IL, 1908.
The forest reserve Withdrawals were
hastily made, and there is much land
within their boundaries, as they at pres
ent exist, more valuable for agricul-
tural purposes than for timber. Five
or six million acres of this class of land
will be eliminated this Summer as fast
as maps can be prepared and proclaim
atiops prepared for the signature of the
President
'It has no trade or commerce of its
own, having little or no population be-
yond the President and his establish
ment, the members of the Legislature
who reside there during the session,
the Government clerks and officers en-
ployed in the various Departments, the
keepers of the hotels and boarding
houses and the tradesmen who supply
their tables 1t is very unhealthy. Few
people would live in Washington, take
1t, who were not obliged to reside there:
and the tides of emigration and specu-
lation, those rapid and regardless cur
rents, are little likely to flow at any
time toward such dull and sluggish wa
ter.
"It is sometimes called the City of
Magnificent Distances but 1t might
with greater propriety be termed the
City of Magnificent Intentions
Probably Dickens's sneer was pre-
cious near the truth when he was here
in 1912, for it is really within the last
25 years that Washington has COM
menced to develop. and it is only with
in the last 10 years that the country
has awakened to the fact that Wash
ington is one of the most beautiful, if
not the ,,iost beautiful, of all cities in
the world. We do not say this our
selves, but our friends from abroad say
it for us: 1t is called the Paris OF
America, but those who have lived in
Paris say that 1t is even more beauti-
full than the famous French city. 1t
should be. The public buildings in
Washington, being the heirs Of all the
ages of architecture, ought to be the
most substantially artistic and scien-
tifically perfect in the world. We are
a great and growing Nation, and we
should build for the century to come
and not for our little old present There
should be no niggardliness in appro-
priations for the housing of the Gov
ernment Departments, nor should there
be any pennywise foolish expenditures.
1t is now stated for a fact that Ker-
nit Roosevelt has gone back to Europe
to be treated for heart disease 1t
~ %t1 1fe, Oh hA fy~t,n .f
one SO young and of such great prom
Use, and yet his family and friends
have been forced to admit that it is
true. It is not an organic trouble, but
only temporary, and it is thought that
when Miss Margaret Rutherford.
daughter of Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, says
Yes that the proper medicine will
have been administered and Kermit
will speedily recover. At any rate, he
is over in Paris visiting the w. K. VAN
derbilts.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor has adopted for the use of its
Secretary a flag IL feet fly and seven
and a half feet hoist, of blue bunting
with seal of the Department in the
center on a white field and a five-point-
ed star in each corner. This emblem
Is to be displayed on vessels of the De-
partment whenever the Secretary is on
board.
The Trustees of the Grover CIeve-
land Memorial Fund, appointed to Sc
lect suitable type of memorial to the
late eX-President and site therefor,
have reported that II had been agreed
TO erect a tower in connection with the
new granite building on the grounds of
Princeton University. OF 500, 900
needed, $4,000 has been raised, and
the balance is assured.
Former Representative Frank c.
Wachter, for four successive terms a
member of the National House of Rep
reseh.atives and one of the best
known Republican politicians in Mary
land, died at his home in Baltimore
recently. He had been for several years
sufferer from locomotor ataxia.
ambassador Whitelaw Reid is very
much impressed with the toast which
the lc val Englishmen drink to the health
of the British King. liking i very much
better than the manner in which we
toast the President of the United States.
In speaking at a banquet given by the
Institute of Mechanical Engineers to
Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mr..
Reid said:
There is a good old custom in this
country of responding to a toast to the
British King with the exclamation: The
King, God bless him. Now, / sometimes
think we Americans might wisely adopt
the Sa me time-Eonored custom in toast
ing the President, and similarly say:
The President. God bless him For we