The National tribune., 1910-08-04


ago. and he is just as peculiar now as
ne was when Bret Harte wrote his
poem. The Department of Commerce
and Labor has just made the discovery
that the United States Government Is
being mulcted to the extent of several
thousand dollars each year by this clev-
er heather Chinee. They come into
Mexico and stay until they get tired of
it down there, and have earned enough
money to keep themselves in emma,
then they steal over the line into the
United States, let themselves be arrest
ed by Uncle Sam, and he very kindly
and generously sends them back to
China. Each Chinaman so shipped to
his native country costs the United
States $50. So Mr.. Chinaman gets back
home with no expense to himself. Inc
United States is wiser now, and instead
of shipping these Cinnamon back home
just fires them back over the border
into Old Mexico. The Department of
Commerce and Labor estimates that
about so Cinnamon are being landed in
Mexico from every Pacific steamship
every week.
Not very long ago one of the most
prominent and wealthy men in the Dis
trict of Columbia, whose wife holds a
high social position in the exclusive
cliff dweller and Southern set, was ar
rested and tried for having put upon
the market an abominable headache
powder, in which there was cocaine and
much other truck that would soon have
made a physical wreck of anybody ad-
dicted to taking them. It is true they
stop headache all right for the time
being but 1t is absolutely criminal for
anyone to put such thing upon the
market. Now there comes a case from
New York City where a trained nurse
has died of the irritant poison contained
in headache powders, which this lady
was in the habit of taking. 1t is quite
safe to say that there is not headache
powder on the market that is all right
for any human being to take into the
stomach. To stop pain they are obliged
to deaden feeling, and the only way to
do this is by means of morphine, CO.
caine. opium and vile drugs Of that
Kind
veteran last week when Albert ]. Carew
died Comrade Carew was born in
Rochester. n. Y, in 1S43. He enlisted
at the outbreak of the war in Battery
3, I'd n. Y. Field Art, and served until
the close OF the war. He was appoint
ed upon the letter carrier force in 1866,
and served continuously up to his last
illness. In the course of his connection
with the Washington Post Office he
served under - successive Postmasters.
Again comes the report that Senator
Frye, President pro tenn of the United
States Senate, is going to retire because
of i'll health. Senator Frye again de-
MES that he is going to retire, and dur
ing the denial said that he had just
gotten back from a 30-mi1e automobile
ride, and that that same evening sat up
until midnight with friends over many
rubbers of bridge. He is now at his
home in Lewiston, Me, where he will
spend the Summer, and is in the very
best of health.
It costs great deal to run big city.
and ii costs nearly as much for waste
as it does for use of things. For in
stance. it has been discovered that de-
fective service pipes connected with
business houses and residences in
Washington were responsible during
the last fiscal year for the loss of near
" 100000 gallons of water a day.
There was an awful kick in Congress
over paying for water register and
for Inspectors, but the Inspectors visit
ed 21,642 houses during the year, and
found leaking fixtures in 1906 of them,
and underground leaks were discov-
cred, saving to the water-supply sys-
lem over 6,364,190 gallons per day.
That amount is equal to one-tenth of
he total daily water consumption of the
District of Columbia.
Col. Alvin L. Reed, for more than 40
gears connected with the passenger ser
vice of the Atlantic Coast Line. died in
this city, where he was born, last week
During the war he served as mounted
messenger under Gen. d. H. Rucker in
the Quartermaster service.
Representative Samuel L. Gilmore, of
tho Sacnnn T,Onioipnp district diaH at
his home at Albina Springs. La. last
week. For nearly year Mr. Gilmore
was unable to perform his duties in
Washington. He was elected to the
61st Congress to fill a vacancy caused
by the death of r. c. Davey.
The newest addition to the Pinchot-
Ballinger controversy has been made
by the wife of Lewis r. CLAWS. whose
charges against Secretary Ba1linger
2recipitated the wretched controversy.
Mrs. CLAWS has sued her husband for
divorce. and she alleges that her hus--
~oand offered her Government posi-
Zion and attorneys fees IL she would
consent to divorce. Her brother.
Charles w. Haas. has filed an affidavit
confirming the story of Mrs. CLAWS.
AItho millions Of names are collect
ed by the Census Bureau at every CEN
BuS II Is Impossible for the Dff1cfaiS to
satisfy the requests of many persons,
who are under the impression that the
Bureau is admirably fitted to locate lost
persons.
Letters are daily pouring In from all
parts of the country asking for news OF
individuals who have deserted their
wives and families and who are being
searched for by relatives. While the
Census Office Is for statistical purposes,
the names are not arranged alphabeti-
calIy, and the labor would be too great
in searching for individual names.
Two schools of baking and cooking
are to be established in the United
States Army, one at Preside, San Fran
CISCO Cal, and the other at Washington
Barra cks. with the view Of teaching
Uncle Sans soldiers how to cook.
The term is four months, allowing
for the graduation Of those especially
qualified, IN three months. According
to orders issued, regimental command
graduate baker is available with each
regiment, and the highest graduates Of
the schools viii be kept as teachers.
There is proposition afoot in the
Quartermaster's Department Of the
Army to brand horses in the United
States service by tattooing the brand on
the lips of the horses. Very naturally,
a great howl has gone up over this.
There is always an objection to brand
Ing horses with branding iron on the
belly or the hips, because it spoils the