The National tribune., 1910-09-22

not letter box, and you just ought tC
have seen the way that Rube scratched
the melon rinds, orange peel, peach
seeds, etc, out of that box. He rescued
his letter all right, but it didn't look g
| bit pretty.
u. S. Senator La Toilette has broker
down again. and it is thought that he
will eventually retire from the cam.
paign. His physician assures him thai
a complete collapse if not death lies
right in. front of him if he does not
take a rest.
Emiel Rebel died at his home in Fort
Plain, n. Y, last week. He was g
prominent Republican, and was Post
master at Fort Plain under President
Mckinley. He has been for many years
a Doorkeeper of the House of Repre-
sentatives. He was personal and po-
litical friend of Vice President Sher-
man and former Representative Lit
tauer.
Miss Rose NJ. Seton. Senior Vice
President of Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey
Tent, 1, Daughters of Veterans, is rep
resenting the Tent at the Convention
of the Daughters of Veterans at Allan
tic City, n. J., during the week of Sept.
10 to "a, 1910. Miss Seton is the
daughter of the late Col VIM. NJ. Sef-
ton, Past Commander of James A. Car
field Post, z, and who for 40 years held
a position in the Adjutant-Generars Of
flee, War Department. Miss Seton is
a pension and claim attorney, and prac-
tees before the Government Depart
ments, and says that if any persons on
the face of this earth need the help of
! the younger people, it is the dear old
veterans, and we will never have a bet
ter opportunity to work for the veter-
ans than at this Encampment."
|
The second of two of Americas fam
Gus old women is gone. DIR. Emily
Blackwell, who was the sister of the
late DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell, died last
week. DR. Emily Blackwell, who, like
her famous sister. was EngliSh-born,
| founded the New York Infirmary for
hospital in America. She died at her
home at York Cliffs. Me. DIR. Blackwell
had conferred upon her by the Western
Reserve University the degree of doc
tor of medicine in 1854, one of the very
Jew conferred at as early date as that.
Miss Marion Oliver, daughter of Gen.
Robert Shaw Oliver, Assistant Secretary
of War. has just completed a ride that
| would wear out four-fifths of the men
| who undertook it. She rode l53 miles
| over the ragged Indian trails of Arizona
and New Mexico with her father, who
was on a tour in inspection of South
western posts and sarrisons. Anyone
who has ever seen that country knows
how broken it is and how difficult
feat Miss Oliver performed. The trip
was made in less than four weeks. Mrs
Herbert Wadsworth accompanied Gen.
Oliver and his daughter. Mrs Wads-
worth had herself just completed a ride
| of 212 miles in 20 consecutive hours,
which is record so far as any woman
equestrian has been recorded
Post Wheeler, First Secretary of the
American Embassy at st. Petersburg
has returned to the United States in
very ill health, the principal trouble
being appendicitis, for which he has
Ebeen operated upon. He made the trip
of more than 5000 miles for this par
ncular purpose. He was met on his
arrival in New York by his wife who
| was Miss Halle Erminie Rives, the
novelist. Mr.. Wheeler was Second Sec
| retary at Toxic before going to St
Petersburg, and this makes his second
visit home in six years. He will prob
ably remain until December.
Bridge whist and vanity are the
causes ascribed by Washington doctor
and by the principal of fashionable.
Washington girls schof for retiring
from the seasons social Marathon of a
dozen leaders of the ultra-fashionable
set.
Mr.. LagercrantZ, Swedish Minister to
Washington, has been recalled He as
serts that this was due entirely to his
own personal wishes, but it is the com
mon belief that the real reason for his
retirement is to be found in speech
which he delivered in New York, and
in the course of which he is reported
to have toasted the possible success of
the Republican Party in the coming
campaign. Mr.. LagercrantZ was very
well liked in the United. States. and it is
with sincere regret that his friends
learn of his return to Sweden.
The end has come, it is stated, to the
Mexican War Veterans Association.
| Mrs. Moore Murdock, who has been the
secretary for great many years and
practically the head and front of the
organization, stated at the meeting in
Indianapolis that it had now become
her sacred duty to adjourn the National
Association of Mexican War Veterans
She then called upon the survivors pres
lent to rise and declare the National
Association adjourned forever The 28
survivors are too old. it is felt, to keep
the organization together. None of the
delegates present were under 79 years
of age.
Commissioner of Fisheries George
w. Bowers is making arrangements for
the transportation of 20 fur seal puDs,
which will arrive in Seattle from the
Pribilof Islands, off the coast of Alaska.
within the next 10 days
| In October last MIR. Bowers caused
to be brought to this country two fur
seal pups for the purpose of making
an experiment as to whether they would
! iive and thrive outside of their native
salt cold water off the little islands
winch form part of Alaska
| So successful has been Mr. Bowers's
experiment that it was decided to bring
10 additional male and 10 female pups
from on the rookeries and place them
IN dincrent parts of the United States
10 complete the experiment
! Again the report comes from ItaIv
that Miss Katherine Elkins will marry
Duke de AbruZzi in February, and it is
added that she is to be made a Countess
and a whole lot of fiapdoodle which
| Will enable her to be received at the
Italian court Oh, yes. She is also to
I be made a Catholic handmade sort
of one. you know. That was what
came over from the other side. What
came from this side, with embellish-
ments, was as follows: "All these things
were denied two years ago, and there
Is no more truth in the rumors now
than when / declared that / preferred
that my daughter would marry an
American" And Stephen B. Elkins
was the man who said it, and when he
talks it counts.