The National tribune., 1910-11-24

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:! the murder of Senator Carmack. Col.
Duncan Cooper, his son Robin and
John Sharp were tried for the crime
year or more ago. Sharp was acqult-
ted, but the two CooperS were convict
ed and sentenced to 20 years each. Col
Cooper. the father, was pardoned, and
the State Supreme Court granted the
younger man a retrial, the indefinite
postponement of which leaves him free
to do as he pleases. Senator Carmack
was one of the most brilliant speakers
in the United States Senate. He was
tall. slender man, with thatch of
very curly red hair, and had a quick,
nervous manner and volubility of de-
livery that would have made him very
hard to follow in debate had it not
been that he spoke with peculiar dis
tinctness. He was a delightful man
/ personally, but quick-tempered, very
positive and dictatorial. His murder
in the streets of his home town aroused
his friends all over the country.
The Treasury Department had
fearful shock the other day, and called
in the Secret Detective Service of the
( United States to help soothe its nerves
and tell it what to do. It was fresh,
+ new-looking 81 silver certificate sent
being made that the bill had been de-
posted by a woman whom they were
keeping under their eye. The bank
! had labeled the dollar counterfeit. Sc
cret Service Chief Wilkie took the dol
/ lar in hand and examined it very care
fully. He brought his powerful MAX
nifying glass into service, and turned
| the bill over and over, trying to find in
/ it some error, but the error was not
There. He examined it diverse and re-
verse and on the edges. The bill did
not look just right; but, just the same,
not single flaw could be found in it.
After he examined it about an hour he
called his chief assistant, to whom he
turned the dollar bill over with the
trenchant remark, Its been washed,
that's ALL" and so there is no counter
felt dollar bill of that particular vint-
age.
Capt. Thomas Mason, of the United
States Revenue Marines, retired, died
at his home in East Orange, N. j., last
week He was on Admiral Farragut's
flagship, and took part in the battles
of New orleans and Mobile Bay and
the bombardment of Fort Fisher.
Mr.. Walter Winans, of Washington
and Baltimore. altho he was born in
Russia some As years ago, it not in
love with some Of our American fash
ions For instance, he does not like to
see women riding astride. He says that
the Queen Mother Alexandra vigorous
lly objects to women riding astride, and
he thinks that the better class of wo-
men do. He says he never would per-
NIT his daughters to ride that way. He
thinks that there is as much danger of
women being hurt by the pommel of
the saddle as by being caught in their
riding skirts riding sidewise fashion.
Ma hft,Jr hot off he oi-
pal reasons why a woman should not
ride astride is that she looks anything
but artistic from either front or rear.
Mr.. Winans says: Women are not
built to ride astride, because they have
not the power to guide their horses
with their knees and hold on"
One of the likable things about Mrs.
Taft Is her abiding interest In every
thing that is human. She loves horses,
dogs, bright girls, pretty clothes, mu-
sic, flowers, and, in fact, everything
that is likable. The Department of
Agriculture had it's chrysanthemum
finer exhibit of the Japanese chow
chow flower given. There were hun
dreds of varieties, many Of them new.
Mrs. Taft, accompanied by her sister,
Miss Heron, spent over an hour in
viewing the exhibit. One of the most
VI the has
been named for Mrs. Taft.
It has been discovered that the school
children of Washington have been
stunting their growth by smoking Gin
namon cigarets. In fact, il is said that
scores of the children have become
regular cinnamon cigaret fiends, and
are regular patrons of the stores where
the cigarets can be obtained. The Gig
arets are made to resemble tobacco
and are filed with cinnamon, and ply
scians say that the cinnamon, if any
thing, is more harmful than the tobac-
CO. Maj. Sylvester Chief of Police, in
vestigated. and rounded up the stores
selling the harmful things, and they
promised to quit. Probably there are
other cities where cinnamon cigarets
are slyly smoked by the children, and
parents will do well to investigate.
Representative Benjamin K Focht,
of the 18th Pa. District, was reelected
to Congress, but went busted" on it.
The day following election he filed in
the Federal Court voluntary petition
In bankruptcy. He alleges liabilities
aggregating s275.000 and assets
amounting to s175,000 only.
i The newIy-elected Governor of Con-
necticut, Simeon Baldwin, has reiterat-
ed his determination to teach former
President Roosevelt some law. 1t will
be remembered that Mr.. Roosevelt
turned loose some of his choicest vi
Imperative English on Judge Baldwin,
and that gentleman declared that after
the election was over he was going to
bring suit against him. He said that
the former President knows little law,
and he is going to teach him some.
In a speech made in San Francisco
by Secretary Of the Navy Meyer, he de-
clared that half the Navy Yards on the
Atlantic Coast ought to be closed, and
advocated a greater concentration of
repair and construction work This
speech created great furry in Wash
ington. as there has always been more
or less friction about the Washington
Navy Yard, great many of the high
brows declaring that it is a superfuous
expense. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Beekman Winthrop says:
The Washington yard is virtually a
gun factory, and as such would not fall
In the category of unnecessary plants.
President Taft has Withdrawn all the
pubic lands and lands in National for
ests in the district of Alaska contain
ing petroleum deposits from settlement,
location, sale or entry, and reserved for
classification and in aid of legislation
anecting the use and disposal of petro-