The National tribune., 1910-02-17
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would have been 80 years old on the
| 1st day of June, and died at her home
| in Somerville, Mass.
| Mrs Francis Scharff, widow of the
| late Christian Scharff, who was a niece
of VIM. H. Seward, Secretary of State
under President Lincoln and we'll known
in Washington during wartimes. is dead.
She was IA years of age, and died in
| Goshen, II. Y.
Mrs. Robert E. Peary, wife of Civil
Engineer Peary, has made a snug little
fortune out of the three meteorites
brought from the Arctic region by her
husband. Herman C. Bumpus, Director
of the American Museum of Natural
History, where these meteoriteS have
been deposited, stated that the largest
one weighs about 40 tons and the other
two about five tons each. They all show
marks made by Eskimns. who for many
years Clipped from them the chunks
out of which they made heads for THAR
arrows, and this, it is said explains how
| it is that the Eskimo has iron arrows
and spear heads in a land where there
| is no iron. Mr.. Peary evidently did not
care to sell the meteorites himself, but
! gave them to his wife,, and she sold
| them for something like $4,000. rhey
are the largest of iron ore composition
ever found. it is said. They were pur-
chased by Mrs. Maurice X. Jessup, who,
| it is said, aided more than any ether
| individual in the financing OF Engineer
Peary's trip to the North Pole.
And now our kissing plant is catch
ing it mighty hard at the hands of writ
ers and the tongues of members of
Congress. Even Secretary Wilson. tree
expert, is out in an attack upon the
mistletoe, and has expressed himself in
a pamphlet of about 40 pages, entitled
The Mistletoe Pest in the Southwest"
in which he calls the Christmas kissing
bough some hard names, and accuses
it of doing considerable damage TO trees
in the Southwestern States and Terri
tories and particularly in Texas. One
of the names it is called is 'Phoraden-
dron," which when translated is Tree
thief"
And now it is Mississippi that is 60
ing to fiaunt the flag of treason in the
face of loyal people. State Senator
Anderson, of Jackson, Miss, has intro
duced concurrent resolution in the
Senate of that State, serving notice that
Mississippi is going to offer to the Hall
of Fame a bronze statue of jefferson
Davis, former President of the South
to the fact that there are some persons
in the North who do not know that the
war is over, as they have protested
against the placing of the Lee statue
in the Hall of Fame, and he expects
that they will offer similar objections
to the statue of jefferson Davis The
resolution also declares that Mississippi
has laid aside its sectional feeling and
would let the dead past bury its dead. !
but pledges the State to forever let the I
niche representing Mississippi remain
vacant unless the statue of Mr.. Davis is
accepted.
There is a very large query in the
minds of our lawmakers as to whether
the Southern States have really any
right to place statues of any deserip-
ton in the Hall of Fame, otherwise
known as the Hall of Horrors (aud
with this statue we have a hall of ac-
cruing horrors). as none of these South
ern States, according to their own state
ment, were members of the Union at
the time that the statute was passed
authorizing the States to place statues
in the Capitol. 1t will be a very pretty
point for the Supreme Court of the
United States to settle some time.
Former President Roosevelt is TO re-
ceive homecoming reception which
will certainly warm the cookies of his
patriotic soul when he again sets foot
on American soil. The League of Re-
publican Clubs of New York is arrang-
ing for this reception, which is to be
stupendous in its proportions. with the
President as welcomer in case he can
find ii possible to accept. John A.
Stewart, President of the League of
Republican Clubs of New York. states
that Mr. Roosevelt told him before he
left that under no consideration what
ever would he run for Mayor of New
York, United States. Senator or for
President of the United States in 1912;
that he thought Mr.. Taft entitled to a
second term, and that he believed he
could get it.
DR.. Fl. W. Wiley, Chief of the Bu-
reau of Chemistry, says that his labora-
tory has saved to the Government fully
S12.00O.O00 in 10 years, and he has the
figures to prove it. He, says:
In the II years / have had charge
of the microscopic tests of sugar at the
various ports. under an arrangement be-
tween the Secretary of Agriculture and