The National tribune., 1910-09-15

for the soldiers of a faVorite regiment.
That type of sleeping garment was new
in those days, and the relatives of the
soldiers were determined that every
man in the regiment should have the
most stylish thing obtainable in a robe
de mutt, as the young lady from
Washington boarding school said.
NV boys has always worn night
shirts said an cid lady, busiiy stitching
on the modern garments. I hope they'll
know what to do with these.
The parcel was duly sent to Cuba,
but no word reached the ladies from
the supposedly grateful wearers of the
robes de mutt They waited month,
and then wired Col. A. X. Mcclure, who
hailed from Conshohocken:
Anxious to know if you got the
pajamas last month
The Colonel read the telegram and
marveled. He was q whole-souled citi-
nightshirt when he slumbered. He
would nip SANDER in the bud; his
wire read
Story is a lie out of whole cloth,
probably fabricated by enemies to ruin
me politically. Admit am not total alb
stainer, but never had pajamas last
month or any other time
The only q. S. Senators now serving
who were in the Confederate service are
Bankhead and Johnson, of Alabama;
Bacon. of Georgia; Foster. of Louisi-
ana; Money, of Mississippi; Martin, OF
Virginia, and Tillman, of South Caro-
lima. Taliaferro, of Florida, was Con-
federate soldier, but he has been de-
feated for the denomination, and Will
leave the Senate very soon. Senators
Bailey, Clay and Culberson were all
babies ct the time of the var.
There is in the United States Treas
ury Department very fine painting of
Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary and
organizer of that Department. The
Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
that this painting be built into the
mantle piece in the Secretary's private
office. Above the painting, which is a
copy of the original, a wooden eagle
will be carved. Paintings are kept in
retary of that Department, but this
painting of Hamilton always has occu-
pied first place.
The bronze doors which have arrived
at the Capitol and which are to be in
stalled during the next few weeks to
replace the plain wooden ones on the
west entrance of the building, from an
equaled. The doors were designed by
Prof. Louis Amatels, naturalized Ital-
ian, who has spent the greater part of
his life in this country.
The two doors and transom depict
scenes typically American. They are
nearly eight feet in width and more
than 13 feet in hight. In the eight
proper. are scenes depicting jurispru-
dence. science. art mining. agriculture.
iron and electricity, engineering and
naval architecture and commerce. On
the sides of each panel are statuets of
famous Americans, and at the corners
of the panels are medallions of other
Americans who have contributed to
their country's fame.
The doors have beer attracting much
attention, since they were shipped to
Washington, and artists and sculptors
from this section of the country have
been to the Capitol to view them.
Gifts of wine to warships of the
American Navy are not to be tabooed,
despite the protest of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, which re-
Gently protested to the Secretary of the
Navy against the presentation of 100
cases of California wine to the cruiser
California by an association of Califor-
MIA wine men. Acting Secretary Win
throp states that he has been unable
to find a regulation referred to him by
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of San Francisco, issued by
John D. Long, former Secretary
of the Navy, forbidding use of wine.
on warships. The women had pro-
tested against such gifts, and asked
that further drinking of the wine be
stopped.
The Navy Department Recently took
cogniZance of an indecent affair given
factory at Newport, r. 1. The recep-
tion, or. rather, the ball that was given.
was called "a splash;" in other words.
the splash" One of the numbers of
the entertainment was dance by
very scantiiy-clad young woman, whose
only raiment was an American Flag,
which she gradually urwound with
rather startling results When this af-
fair was reported to the Navy Depart
ment an order came for the torpedo
factory people to hold no more such
entertainments, and the Commandant
was told to inform the employees that
should similar performance be re-
peated those connected with it would
be fired.
An illicit whisky still almost in the
heart of the National Capital Now,
what do you think of that? The reve-
nue. officers made the discovery a few
days ago that in the southeast section
of the city is an Illicit still with a ca
pacity of 100 gallons of whisky day,
and it has been there for nearly a year.
Some important arrests have been
made, and it has been discovered that
several of the wholesale liquor houses
in this city were getting their supply of
whisky from this still.
DIR. John Wells Bulkley, the Oldest
physician in point of years and estab-
lishmcnt in the District of Columbia,
died at his home in this city Aug. "a
He was graduate of the Berkshire
Medical School of the class of 1874
and at the time of his death the oldest
surviving member of that class He
was also one of the three oldest surviv-
ing graduates of Williams. He was
born in 1928. During the war DR.. Bulk
ley was Surgeon in charge of the Pat
ent Office Hospital, and one of the first
physicians to examine President Lin
coin after he was shot, remaining with
him until after he died. DIR. Bulkley
belonged to many medical associations
and scientific societies. and was the old
est living member of the Sigma Phi
| fraternity. His wife and two sons,
Robert w. and Barry Bulkeley, survive
him. Interment was in Arlington.
While the insurgents are fighting to
drive Uncle Joe" Cannon from the
| Speakership OF the House of Represen-
tatives, their wives would feel very
sorry 10 have Uncle Joe" driven from
! Washington. They are fond of Helen
Cannon. the Speakers daughter, and
they frankly confess they do not wish