The National tribune., 1910-07-07
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Representative Butler Ames, of Mas
sachusetts, has formally announced hi:
candidacy to the United States Senate
to succeed Henry Cabot Lodge.
Maj. S. w. Snow, who had been g
clerk in the War Department for 80
years, died last week. Maj. Snow was
II years old, and was born in Burling-
ton, Iowa. At the outbreak of the wal
he enlisted in the 25th Iowa, and short
ly afterward became Adjutant-General
on the staff of Gen. Sherman, with
whom he made the march to the sea.
He took part in the battles of Shiloh,
Eicksburg, Atlanta and Chickamauga.
1nterment was in Arlington with mill
tary honorS.
Prof. Cyrus Thomas, of the Bureau
of Ethnology, died last week. Altho S5
years old, he retained active relations
with the Bureau almost to the end.
Thruout the scientific world Prof.
Thomas was recognized as an authority
on the early inhabitants of America,
making important and extensive contri-
buttons to literature. He wrote as well
on other branches of ethnology He
has been 80 years on the staff of the
Bureau of Ethnology. Prof. Thomas
was native-of Kingsport, Tenn, where
he was born July 81, 1925. The inter-
ment was at Frederick, Md.
A very threatening sort of story has
been going around that former Presi-
dent Roosevelt will be obliged some
time to undergo a surgical operation
on his throat. Just how serious the af-
fection that troubles him is no one has
been able to learn, and it is also denied
at his home that the operation is to
take place. There is probably a tuber-
cular taint in the former Presidents
blood, as he was not at all strong as a
young man, and it was for this reason
that he went into the Far West and
lived the rugged life of the frontier for
SO long time. He has had some seri-
Gus trouble of the same character with
his throat, as there is a very prominent
scar just at the edge of the collar, which
is very, noticeable at times. The fact
that the former President spends just
as much time outdoors as possible and
periodically goes on long tramps and
hunts would go TO prove that he has
no disposition to let the possible taint
ever get hold on his system.
A few months ago The National Trib-
une gave an account of the death here
in Washington of Comrade BIucher,
who in his own country was known as
Count Gebhart Blucher. Very few peo-
pie in Washington knew that the old
man was of noble blood, and he had
entirely renounced all claim TO his title.
He was scion of one of the Oldest and
noblest families of the Duchy of Meek
lenburg, and closed his eventful life of
II years in poverty, want and obscurity.
The hand of no kindred ministered to
him in his last days of sorrow and suf-
fering. He was laid to rest in the Sol
diers' Home Cemetery. The last chap
ter connected with the old veteran was
closed last week, when his two daugh-
ters. the Countess Ingebord Blucher and
Countess Ella Blucher, who live in New
York City. came to the city on informa-
tion which they had just received con-
cerning the death of their father. 1t
seems that his strange wife had taken
his two girls away from him, and he
did not know Of their whereabouts or
they of his Comrade Blucher, who was
a good deal of a soldier of fortune,
came to this country when war was
declared, and served as Lieutenant with
the Sth n. Y. After the war of the
rebellion closed he went back to Ger
many and fought in the Franco-Prus-
sian war in 1901; then he returned
to the United States and served term
in Batttry / and later in Battery H of
the I'd Art. He was only a non-com-
missioned officer. After he left the ser
vice he did newspaper work in New
York for time until his health broke
down. Here he was able to obtain the
most menial employment. His dying
statement concerning his family re-
vealed for the first time the high posi-
ton his family held in the Old World.
Il dropped my title long ago." he
said. 1T availed me nothing But my
family belonged to the nobility away
back in the days of the Crusades, and
bore arms of six keys above two fortress
gates. I have two sisters and two
daughters in the old country. My elder
my younger sister is Countess Esther
Blucher.
Congress has been and gone and done
Il again. In the Agricultural appro-
priation bill passed by Congress there
was this clause: Hereafter the legal
work of the Department of Agriculture
shall be performed under the direction
and supervision of the Solicitor" The
practical result of this order will be to
confine DIR. Wiley, Chief Chemist of the
Department, entirely to his work as
Chief Chemist, and to deprive him of
any initiative Of bringing any violators
of the pure-food law before the Depart
ment for examination, and any legal
authority he has heretofore exercised
in the way of prosecuting individuals
on the market articles of food, beyer-
ages or drugs which his examinations
show are detrimental to the public
health or fall below the standards fixed
by the Bureau. In other words the
effect of the order will be to make DR.
Wiley simply laboratory man, with
all his other powers transferred to the
Solicitor.
While Prof. Wiley now becomes prac-
tically a Bureau clerk" and the Chem
istry Bureau adjunct of the Agricul-
tural Department Is practically a little
faded flower, the Forestry Service comes
in for swat that simply tears the in
ards out of the organization to which
Clifford Pinchot did things which re-
suited in his separation from the SER
vice by the President. The clause which
gives the Forestry Service a black eye
is as follows: THE positions of law
officer, first assistant law officer and as
sistant law officer in Washington will
be discontinued, and the law work of
the Forest Service will be performed
under the immediate direction of the
Solicitor. Congress did manage to leave
alone the Bureau of Animal Industry
and the meat-inspection laws, the ami
NAL quarantine laws and the 28-hour
law relating to the watering and feed
ing Of live stock in transit remain as
before. Next session Congress will fix
II UP some more.
President Taft has appointed former
Gov. Curtis Guild, of Massachusetts, a
Special ambassador of the United States
at the celebration of the first centennial
of the Republic of Mexico, 10 be held
In Mexico City in September. The Pres