The National tribune., 1910-08-11

| rnatics;" can run bev as Well as he
| avnr could and is neither an invalid
| nor Il cripple. ThcIhumorous comrade
| IS drite sure that the comTadcs would
| like, to see the item, and so Il is given:
II have lived in the County for more
| than quarter of ,ae century. An a
native of South Carolina. Am a Con
| fed fought. bied, flickered and fled
from Richmond to APPROXIMATIONS 1t then
Iappearing that further hoSdlities We're
| as useless as it WAS unpleasant, we de-
cided to capitulate-me and Mr.. Lee
| both. he riding sadly away. while I had
/ to walk home afoot. Considering that
i the matter had been. satisfactorily set
| tied to the other fellow. ] beat my
sword into a plowShare, and have been
| following in the furrOw since. Am still
able to make living, but have reached
| the age where it is desirable to make
! il along lines of least resistance, and I
thought that If the good people will let
me assess the taxes it Will help some.
! | have no special claim on the County
on account of being an invalid or a
cripple, for which i am most thankful
Am just an ordinary mortal with the
'roomatics.' which makes me limp
some. but think ] can run a pretty good
race. Have never held County office
a misfortune for which / am not per-
sonally responsible, for / ram but not
quite enough voted for me to make
my race successful. l had thought that
perhaps the people had changed their
minds, as wise men sometimes do.
hope to get a majority of the votes,
and since my opponent is such a nice
man, / hope he will get the balance"
"OIivia" Dead.
There died in Washington the other
day a very famous woman in a very
quiet way Her name was Mrs. Emily
E. Briggs, and she was Washington
correspondent way back in the early
SOS. Mrs. Briggs was contemporary
with such writer's as Grace Greenwood
and Mary Clemmer Ames. While Mrs.
Briggs wrote several books, she was
better known as newspaper corre-
spondent under the title of OLIVIA -
These letters show her a very brilliant
woman. She wrote for the Philadel-
phia Times and for the Washington
Chronicle, also for the Philadelphia
Press. Her father was Robert Edison
Briggs, who emigrated from Vermont
in 1914 to Benton, o., where he lived
until 1854, when he moved to Chicago.
There he owned a great deal of real
estate, with the rest what is now the
site of the Chicago Court House. Mrs.
Briggs lacked but two months of being
to Chicago for interment With the
death of Mrs. Briggs the last one of
the old coterie of brilliant newspaper
women is gone. Washington corre-
spondents now are very little more
than reporters. Nearly every bit of
news that comes out is handled by the
various press associations, so that all
that is left for the Washington corre-
spondent is such sensations as he may
be able. to stir up. and he has to get
up early and go to bed late to secure
anything of this kind, and if it appears
in morning papers the afternoon pa
pers are very apt to prove 1t false.
"Olivia" was very proud Of her news
paper experiences, as she was really
newspaper work in Washington and
she had very little patience with the
class of women correspondents who
came after her and were not, she de-
clared, entitled in any way to be called
correspondents. Mrs, Briggs was al
ways very kindly disposed toward Mrs.
Isabel Worrell Bah, the only woman
who was ever admitted toI the press
galleries of Congress on terms of equal
ity with men correspondents. Mrs.
Briggs said that Mrs. Bail's methods
were more like those of Mary Clemmer
Ames, Grace Greenwood and her own
than any other woman who, had ever
done newspaper work in Washington,
which was indeed high praise coming
from the lips of a7swoman who had
made a fortune in legitimate newspaper
work in which there was no taint of
scavenger work or yellow journalism.
OLIVIA" was gentle and serene in
ordinary conversation, dainty little
woman, with many graces of manner
and voice, and on occasion she could
wear beautiful Iacas and old Jewels
a ~ mil to
be female Raffies. At the same time
she had vigor of utterance, concise
and commanding. that was almost mas
culine. in her grasp of the great ques-
tons of the day.
To the Scrap Heap.
Do you remember how proud we
were of our Spanish warships? And
now they are all in the scrap heap
The Boston. the Concord, the Winslow
and the Detroit have all to go, as they
are no longer fit to cope with modern
ornaments on the high seas. storm
of protest has gone up in Washington,
but 1t is not going to help matters a
single bit. The United States Govern
ment cannot afford to hang on to the
old battleships, even if they are dear
in memory. 1t will be remembered
that the Boston, a protected cruiser,
and the Concord, a gunboat, were in
Admiral Dewey's fleet at Manila. 1t
was on the deck of the Winslow dur
ing the hottest cannon fire of the war,
that Ensign Worth Bagley was killed
by an exploding shell. One of the
achievements of the Detroit was the
capture of the Catalina 20 the west
ward of Havana, and she took active
part in the bombardment of San Juan.
Every man who Joined in the move
ment for Cuba's freedom views with
sadness the passing of these four bat
tleships. Accompanying the condemna-
ton of the four Spanish War vessels is
the passing of the old sloop of war
Portsmouth, forming the last chapter
In the history of what is believed to be
one of the most interesting ships in the
old Navy.
Lanched before the beginning of the
Mexican War, the Portsmouth took an
active part in that struggle, participat-
ed in the suppression of the African
slave trade, fought in Chinese waters,
and had large share in the operations
in the Gulf OF Mexico during the civil
war.
The Portsmouth was built in 1S43,
and after voyage of one year and a
half arrived in San Francisco to pro-
tect the American citizens. War was
declared soon afterward, and her men
took possession of San Francisco and
hoisted the Stars and Stripes there for
the first time. ~ J.
At present she is with the New Jer-
sey Naval Militia, but in a. few days
will be towed from, Hobpken to the