The National tribune., 1910-12-08

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pounds more than last year. People
! who are bowling about the high cost
| of living might sit down and think over
these figures little.
! President Taft. who made brief
| stay at cuba on his way north from
! Panama, IS the first President of the
/ United States who ever visited Cuba.
Mr.. Roosevelt was there in the brief
occupation of Cuba by the American
troops, but neEci went there as Presi-
dent. The President, aboard the bat
, tleship Tennessee. with his blue flag
/ iiying at the foremast. sailed into the
harbor amidst the booming of guns
from the cruiser Newark, stationed
there. His stop was made very pleas
ant by the officials.
Chief of Police Sylvester, of WASH
| ington. is fully determined that objec-
tionable postal cards shall not be sold
! in Washington. There is no doubt at
all that there are good many postal
cards placed on sale that might come
in the questionable class, but gradually
these will all he eliminated. One ar
rest has already been made. and the
vendor of the cards has been fined. 1t
is likely that there is almost nothing
more Immediately vitiating for youth
than indecent postal cards and pictures.
To see the indecency of a book you
must open it and read it, but postal
cards are alluringIy placed in promi-
nent places. where the public cannct
help seeing them. 1t is certainly a
righteous crusade.
Representative James A. Tawney,
Chairman of the Appropriations Com
mittee of the House of Representatives.,
has been with the Appropriations Com
mittee down on the Panama Canal in
specting the work that has been done
there incident to reporting to the com
ing session of Congress how much
money shall be needed for the fiscal
year Mr.. TaWney is feminist fortifica-
tionS on the canal. He says he has ap-
proved of no plan of military or naval
defense until the Nations OF the world
have been given an opportunity to ex-
press themselves. He wants the canal
made worldwide commercial success,
instead of a war measure by which
the country could be secure from an
enemy.
Albert w. Ports died last week.
While Mr.. Ports was good deal of a
Joiner" his chief fame lay in the fact
that he was the rigger for the Capitol
He bore the distinction of having
placed the Goddess of Liberty on the
dome of the Capitol When the God
dess of Liberty had her recent annual
cleaning Mr.. Ports put up the rigging
that enabled the workmen to reach the
years old, and had spent most of his
life in the service of the Government
as an expert rigger.
Secretary of Var Dickinson and Mrs
Dickinson were called away Thanks
giving Day by the death of their son,
Overton Dickinson, at their home in
who was 33 years of age, had been in
i'll health for over a year, and finally
succumbed to heart disease. 1t is said
his illness was directly due to the shock
following the death of his young wife
IA months ago. He was manager of
the Sscretarys stock farm, Belle Mead |
The Secretary and Mrs. Dickinson1
will withdraw from society and take no
part in the official functions in the Cap
ital at least until after Easter.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, wife of
former Vice President Fairbanks, and
former President-General of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
is seriously i'll at her home in Indian |
apolis. Mrs Fairbanks's health failed
before she left the Capital, and for a |
year previous to Vice President Fair
banks's retirement Mrs. Fair banks had
been forced to decline all social af-
fairs and remain quietly in her home. |
The Fairbankses then took a trip around
the world, and Mrs. Fairbanks returned |
very much improved in health. Her
present illness is said to be due to a |
heavy cold which she incurred at Mack
mac last Summer. While 1t Is not so
stated, it is understood among her
friends that her lungs are seriously af-
fected.
"A miss is as good as a mile" and |
that is what Charles Bennett Smith no
doubt is thinking of as he shakes hands
with himself because of being elected
from the 36th Congressional District of
New York to the National House of
Representatives. He was the opponent
of Representative D. S. Alexander, who
has served the district acceptably for
a number of terms. The two candi-
dates ran literally neck and neck and
when the ballots were counted 1t was
found that each had received 20,6S4
votes, making a tie. 1t was then dis
covered that there was an error in one
Of the tally sheets of one vote, and that
one vote was in favor of Mr.. Smith.
Col. Alexander reveals the fact that
neither of his secretaries voted If
they had been up to snuff politically
they would have cast their votes. and
Col. Alexander would have been re-
elected.
The American Red Cross Society will
adopt first aid to the injured work on
railways. beginning the 1st of Decem-
Der. when one car is to be sent out 1t
will be known as the American Red
Cross First Aid Car" This car will do
work in the mining districts, and will
also be available in case of mine disas-
Ter. The car was presented to the
American Red Cross by the Pullman
car Company. and the agreement with
he Pullman Company is that when the
,ar is in use the railroads over which
t passes will make no charge for haul
ng the car wherever it may have to, go.
t is fitted up as a first-class hospital