The National tribune., 1910-05-26

sion of the value of college education.
He believes that the common school
system, with high school course, gives
the average individual at least fair
equipment for practical success IN tusi-
ness or in the various CallingS that men
follow who live by the sweat of their
brows, and he believes that this is
about all that the average man will
utilize, and he says it is always ques-
ton as to whether the average student
will survive the spelling effects of a
college course.
/ And we have one foreign Consul less
in the United States The man that
was 1t, who hailed from Austro-Hun-
gary and was located in New York. is
Just plain, ordinary man to-day. His
name is Alexander Nuber Won Perckcd,
and he had been Consul from Austro-
Hungary for number of years. The
Imperial Count Guido Reichgraft Won
Auersperg, an admirer alike Of En-
peror William and Roosevelt. being in
New York City, visited the Herr Consul.
and in his own words he stated what
took place. Il talked with him of
things in general" he said. among
them of the distinguished Col. 3oose-
welt. My cousin, Count Carl Won AuelS-
perg. chances to have been one of the
military officers designated As guard
of honor for Col Roosevelt in my ma
tive land.
Without knowing of that the Con-
sui, Herr Won Pereked, said to me:
That Col. Roosevelt! Bah, He is
faker. blatherskite-an advertise
ment of himself!'
Washington heard about the affair,
and SO did Vienna. SO, incidentally,
did the New York Consul.
Right sensible, indeed, are the ac-
tions of quite a large number of young
women who are graduating from
schools and colleges in and about
Washington and from some of the hig
cided that there will be no friils. no
laces no ruffles and no fancy dresses at
Commencement this year. They have
also decided that there will be no jew
elry worn on fingers, cars or hair, and
that there will be no peek-a-boo waists
or open-work stockings And anybody
who says that that isn't a sensible and
pretty thing TO do is probably kicking
about the high cost of living"
Representative Charles Scott. Chair
man of the House Committee on Agri-
culture, states that all legislation re-
lating to the tax on O1eomargarine VIII
be postponed until the next session Of
Congress He says that the press of
legislation is so great that it will he
impossible to consider the dill earlier.
Ewing Herbert. editor of the Hia-
watha World, has been in Washington
hobnObbing with National legislators
and incidentally being entertained at
dinner by Senator Bristow. Mr. Her
bert is from Kansas, and Hiawatha is
one of the prettiest towns in the Sun
flower State. Mr. Herbert is unique in
and big of brain, and. like VIM. Allen
White, gives his imagination full play
without check or hindrance. but in pol
itics AIR Herbert is a regular of the
regulars. and I'm speaking of the InSur !
gents he declares: Why, bless your /
soul. Kansas is no more insurGent than !
Massachusetts, We are all regular cut I
there. lot of fellows have started "A
great hullabalOo. and have scared some
of the farmers, that's all. The people
out there don't really understand What
an insurgcnt is. If they did, they
would get after him with a sharp stick.
"A lot of these Congressman have
raised the howl to insurge. when thev
don't know what they are talking bout
most of the time. The KaT sans-sOme
OF them, at least-do not understand
that they cannot sell stuff at high prices
and al the same time buy things cheap
ly. The insurgents out there a"e trying
to make 'cm believe that they can, Non
sense! They are fooling the people.
kansas is really regular, but here
in Washington d few insurgent boosters
try to make everybody believe tnat the
whole State thinks the way they do.
It's the old cry of the East against the
West that they are harping on, but the
people are rapidly catching onto their
manuVers-"
O.
ceived permission of Congress and an
appropriation of 100000 70 raise the
Maine. We find that that isn't going to
be more than one-fOurth enough fer
the purpose. Chief Engineer Marshall,
of the Army, has Informed the House
thru Secretary of War DickersOn that
it will cost A heap sight :learer $500
900 than 100000 TO lift that pathetic
wreck from the water in Havana Har-
Dor. Gen. Marshall said that the best
policy would be to build cofferdam
around the wreck and pump the water
out, thus permitting the removal Of the
bodies from the wreck and thoro ex-
animation of the hull. Secretary Dick
erson makes no recommendation at all.
The Department of Justice is con-
/ fronted with a case OF trespass and
! depreciation. 1t is that of big cat,
which the messengers say belongs to
the household of Speaker Cannon, who
lives in the house adjoining. The cats
greatest weakness Is that Of devouring
rubber bands, one of the clerks recent
/ ly declaring that the animal ate % in
/ one day, and that on the same occasion
/ he devoured a piece OF pencil eraser.
In consequence of existing conditions
the suggestion has been made that At
tOrney- General Wickersnam sue out a
writ Of injunction against the Speak
er's butler, enjolning him from permit
ting the cat jumping the fence and Wis
itng the Department of Justice.
Clerks in the Department are willing
to make affidavit as to the feline's ca
pacity TO devour rubber bands, which,
at the high price of that article, the
officials say, is something to be consid-
cred.
The British ambassador, James
Brice, has cancelled all his engagements
to speak at the various Commencement
| exercises early in June on account of
the death of King Edward.
President Taft will visit Yale Uni
versity. his alma mater, June 21-22, to
see his son, Robert, graduated. Robert
Alfonso Taft will receive the degree
OF ID. A. for his elementary course. and
as he made Phi Beta Kappa and has
stood at the head Of his class and won
several scholarships special honors are
expected to be shown him. II will! be
rememb bered that Miss Helen Taft a
Mawr, and she is assiduously applying
IN bar atu5tac tbara no