The National tribune., 1910-01-27

The Forestry association was knocked
Isilly for the time being, and did no
know how to come back at Prof. Moore
but the day after, having gathered il
their scattered and benumbed wits
ithey proceeded to reaffirm their formel
belief that in the course of a few mil
lion years the world would be bally
| sand pile. don't you know? Meantime
we will go right on making Christina:
, trees of the baby pines and firewood OF
walnut and hickory and trust to luck
for the rest But la, what's the use
We will all be dead a million years
hence, and our offspring may be in
habiting Mars and not need firewood
or any water, either.
They talk of trading Uncle Joe Can
non for Ex-President Roosevelt for
Speaker of the National House of Rep
resentatives. Gee!
The President and Mrs Taft enter
tanned the Governors at dinner at the
White House last Wednesday evening.
Many of the Governors were accom-
ipanied by their wives. Mrs. Taft was
not able to appear at the dinner, ana
her place was taken by her sister Mrs.
Charles Z. Anderson, of Cincinnati. The
floral decorations We're pink carnations
land ferns.
Senator Dixon, of Montana. is differ
/ cnt He wants no bolts and bars. no
'this-is-mv- -busy-day" signs about him.
! on his Office door in the Senate Office
Building is the startling sign: Mr. Jo-
IScph DiXOn-Walk in on most of
I the other doors you see the sign. "Pri-
IVatc" and have to go to the next door.
and when you get to the next door
YOU butt into an important subclerk,
/ who sweIls up and asks if he viii not
do when you ask for the man whose
name figures on the door. Senator
Dixon keeps his doors ajar so he is
different.
Then there is sunny Jim" more
properly speaking, the Vice President
of the United States. His door stands
wide open at all times, and he also
wears the smile that does not come off.
The Vice President of tn" United States
is one of the easiest men in the world
to get at and there is never any cir
cumloctiOn in his manner of answer
ing questions. He says yes or no
at once.
The Countess Cassini, adopted daugh-
tier of Count Cassini, former Embassa-
dor from Russia has gone upon the
operate stage. The young lady was
rather n rapid piece of baggage when
in Washington. and led the young
ladies of official society a pace which
made their mothers sit up and take no
tice after n time, and finally drop the
young Countess from their calling lists.
Countess Cassini was quite young when
she first came to this country with the
ambassador. who had lost his wife. and
had attached to his encourage the young
lady who was then just a plain Miss
Cassini and said to be the daughter
of the Counts brother. The uncle
Embassador undertook to place Miss
Cassini at the head of his household,
in which position she would rank every
other woman in Washington society,
for he was at that time Dean of the
Diplomatic Corps, or nearly so. The
wives of the diplomats raised such
row over it, and the President refused
so emphatiCally to recognize the young
niece in that capacity that Embassador
Count Cassini gave 1t up. But he got
even later. He took out formal papers
of adoption in Russia, and Miss Cas-
sInf' Immediately became the "Coun-
tess Cassini," with legal right to pre-
side over her fathers table and
household as its legal head after that
father. 1t made q vast difference in
Washington society relations also. The
young lady as a Countess" was to be
reckoned with as a social feature,
whether the Prudy Prims of Washing
ton liked il or not. About this time
she became the bosom friend of Miss
Alice Roosevelt. and the two, with sew
eral other Cabinet girls, cut good
many high jinks in the way of college
girl tricks, and this disSusted President
Roosevelt, who put sudden end to the
intimacy. Then. mighty sudden like,
the Enbassador was recalled and given
another post of duty, and the same
was not up to his dignity, it was sa' d.
Tho next thing that his American
friends heard he had retired from
office. Then the word came that the
Countess was going on the stage. And
now she has went" in the language
Of the vernacular. The Countess was
not particularly pretty. but was tall and
slender, with a splendid seat on horse,
n nerve like iron on the strings of her
tandem team. danced like a sylph, and
sang quite well in a rather thin voice.
She had nerve and abandon like Bern
hardt, and was well liked by the men.
An amendment to the Constitution is
proposed in a resolution offered re-
Gently by Senator Overman, of North
Carolina, which would extend the limi-
tations upon the judicial powers of the
United States so as to prohibit any
State or foreign nation from suing an
other State or foreign nation upon mat
ters Of contract entered into between
the States by consent of Congress.
This proposed amendment, offered in
lieu Of the eleventh amendment TO the
Constitution. is intended to prevent suits
by States for the collection of what are
commonly called the carpet bag
bonds" issued during the days of re-
construction by Legislatures of the
Southern States.
These bonds have been repudiated or
compromised. but the holders are still
endcavoring to force their recognition
at face valuation.
Vice President Sherman has pre-
sented petition to the Senate from the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science. praying for the ap-
pointment of an eminent astronomer to
take charge of the United States Naval
Observatory. At present this position
IS helG by q naval officer.
l.. o. Howard, who transmitted the
petition, also inclosed a set of resolu-
tons from the same organization urging
the establishment of a bureau of mines
in the Interior Department.
Senator Hepburn, of Idaho. wants to
know things He wants to know whv
the Secretary of the Treasury ordered
the closing of the Office of the Collec-
tor of Customs at Newport News on
Lees Birthday. 1t is said that Senator
Hepburn, who is enraged at the pres
ence of the statue of Lee under the
Capitol dome, and who has given utter