The National tribune., 1910-12-29

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members who do not obey the gavel
Representative Clark is said to be ons
of the best Latin and Greek SCHOLARS In
the country. He can recits b you ths
whole of Horace or Virgil word for
word: that Is. II you wanted to listen
to him. Not SO very long ago some
member of the House undertook to
quote Horace in the original and did il
horribly, when Clark. with grin on
his face. rose In his place. and gave the
! lengthy quotation in perfectly classic
Latin. Mr.. Clark observed that If one
must quote Latin. he for one must In
sist that 1t be given just as it was in
| the book.
Former Gov Joseph NJ. Terrell, OF
Georgia, has been appointed United
States Senator from that State, and this
brings to the front a little story that
probably never got into the press until
now. During the manuvers at Manas-
sas. Va, of the United States troops
and the National Guard from various
Eastern States few years ago Gen.
Corbin, now dead, was in command of
the field. The Georgia Governor at
tended the manuVers, accompanied by
his staff and the Georgia National
Guard, and you never saw so much gold
braid and so many brass buttons in all
your life before as the staff of the Gov
ernor wore. Gov. Terrell was then oc-
cupying the Gubernatorial chair in
Georgia, and. accompanied by his staff,
all in full-dress uniform, rode up to pay
an official visit on Gen. Corbin at his
headquarters. The big General had
around him A number of the members
of his own staff and few other guests,
and very naturally presented them to
the Governor of Georgia. When he
called the name of Col. Mann, of New
York, a Colonel on Gov. TerrelrS staff
asked: Col. Mann, are you the editor
of Town Topics? ?'' The bediZened Col
onel replied with some suavity that he
was. Then the Georgian Jumped for
him. you are the - rascal l have
been looking for for all these years" :"
yelled the Georgian. Il am going to
kill you right now" With that the
irate Colonel yanked a pistol from his
hip pocket and rushed toward the ed
itor. He did not quite reach him, how
ever, as the men seized him and held
him until Col Mann escaped. The
matter was hushed up and never came
out until now. The reason for the Geor-
gia Colonefs wrath was that, according
to his story, an Infamous statement had
been printed in Town Topics concern
ing woman who was a member of his
family.
Alexander T. Stuart was reelected
Superintendent of the Washington pub
lie schools last week, and all loyal peo-
pie in the District are very glad. Mr..
Stuart has three or four times been
elected to this responsible office at the
head of the public schools, and always
he has brought order out OF chaos, and
chaos which had made it necessary for
somebody to take care of it, somehow.
Mr.. Stuart was at the head of the pub
lie schools in Washington in 1895 when
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball took up the
work of placing flags on the school
houses, which had just been added to
the curriculum of the w. r. C. Super
intendent Stuart very loyalty supported
Mrs. Ball, and fine patriotic programs
We're given in the schools and f.,gs dis
played on all patriotic holidays, and a
little later Congress was induced to pass
a bill appropriating money for flags for
all of the school houses. Now every
school house in the District of Column
bia observes Flag Day. Lincoln's.
Grants, McKinley's and Washington's
birthdays, Memorial Day and such 9TH
er days as may be set apart for pa
triOtic observance. Undoubtedly much
of this display of patriotism is due to
the sturdy independence and practical
horse sense OF the Superintendent of
Schools of the District.
James J. Hill, one of the greatest
railroad men in the world, certainly
cannot think very much of formerl
President Roosevelt. In an interview
the other day ne said: Theodore
Roosevelt, poor fellow-I know him
well-he has no control of himself"
Just like that he said it, don't you
know, and then he continued: "Roose-
welt has always been pleased to get a
big crowd together to hear them shout
and hurrah. Facing one of these cheer
ing crowds he loses hold of himself ab-
solutcly. In fact. / do not believe
Roosevelt has had continuous control
of himself for a week at a time since he
became a National figure. but he sim
ply can't help himself
Senator W. A Clark, of Montana
who has fitted up one of the most sump-
tuous homes that oversumptuous New
York has ever seen. has a complete set
of gold plate which is said to contain
900 pieces. 1t Is designed for a dinner
of "a persons and cost $4,000, which
comes mighty near being as costly as
the gold plate made famous in Queen
Victoria's reign.
The newspaper man, Thomas w
Brahamy, member of the Washington
staff of the New York Tribune and cor
respondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel,
has been appointed Executive Secretary
is only 45 years old, came to Washing
ton as secretary to Senator Quarles. of
Wisconsin. in the seth Congress. He is
regarded as one of the friends of the
tariff, which is one of the reasons for
the appointment of very excellent mani
to so responsible position.
Mrs. Booker T. Harmon Washington
was the guest Of honor at the colored
y. NJ. c. A. in the city last week, and
addressed the vesper services one
evening. She gave graphic talk, ex-
planning the work of Tuskegee for the
betterment of the negro race in the
South, and declared the salvation of
the negro depends on his ability to
adapt himself to conditions along in
dustrial lines in general She believes
in talking less of politics and more of
industry to the colOred people, and
believes the fact that they listen to the
industrial talk Is one reason why they
have advanced so much during the
years since the war.
Miss Helen Taft is going the pace
that would lead to nervous collapse II
she were not very strong physically.
Morning, noon and night she is break
tasted, lunched and dined by as many
different people. and very often is the
evening, when midnight spreads are
favorite color seems to be a sort of a
rose pink. and her flower is the orchid,
sometimes white, white with a pink
center or purple. She seldom wears
white in the evening unless II has color
added to il by flowers or draDeries.