The National tribune., 1910-01-20

has served since December, l9o2. lhef
Iwere several little come dies enacted Ii
the Diplomatic Corps about that time
SO many of the old members of IN
Diplomatic Corps had retired or beel
sent to other locations. and there wa
quite a rush among three or four nev
ones who came in about the same TIM
the returning Italian ambassador dit
to reach the deanship before he did
Russia really felt little agGrieved tha
her brilliant Baron representative wa
so outgeneraled by little Italy.
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Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, wht
is himself no longer a young man. ha:
recently been called upon to mourn
the death of his stepmother, Mrs. JohT
Wilson She lived at Traer, Iowa, anC
was pioneer of that State. She hao
passed her goth birthday when she
died.
Sometimes We think the world is {
very small place, and then again We
are suddenly struck with the immensity
of it. Mrs. John A. Johnson, wife OF
| former Gov. John A johnson. of Min
nesOta, has just received a letter from
| former President Roosevelt, under date
| of Nov. Is, when he wrote from neal
Mount Elgon in Central Africa. He
stated that he had just received notice
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death had occurred some two or three
months before. and hastened to send
a letter of sympathy to Mrs. johnson
A sentence or two from former PreSI-
| dent RoOSevelts letter showed how
greatly he admired Gov. Johnson. He
wrote of him as IAN upright and hon
orable public servant and as one OF
those Americans whom we like 20 be-
| 1ieve are typical of our people as a
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good citizenship"
Mrs. Thomas ]. Buford mother of
Mrs. J. Franklin Bell, died at the Bell
home at Fort Myer last week. Mrs.
Buford was IS years of age and ma
tive of Massachusetts, but spent all of
her married life in Rock Island, Ill.
She lost her husband in August, and
had come to make her home with her
son-in-iaw, Gen. Bell. At the time of
her death Gen. Bell was himself in a
hospital at Baltimore.
The usual epidemic of scarlet fever
is going the rounds of Washington
schools. Last Wednesday there was a
total of 22S cases of scarlet fever just
in the District, nearly all of them be-
ing children. OF this number more
than 200 were discovered to be in
school. Most of the victims are chill
dren between six and is years. While
the epidemic is comparatively light,
there have yet been a number of
deaths.
Bicycle Policeman L. A. Carlin per-
formed a wonderfully heroic deed the
other day, when fire broke out in a
three-story house and cut off from es-
cape thru the burned part of the house
of Mrs. Mary New, 63 years of age. He
saw the fire, and finding that it was
impossible to reach the third story thru
the burning building, rushed into the
house adjoining and up to the third
story of that house. and threw himself
across the span between the two
houses, bracing himself by his two feet
He took Mrs. New from the burning
house and showed her in thru the WIN
dow of the adjoining house, and then
released himself from his perilous posi-
ton. 1t was brave thing to do.
On Tuesday evening, Jan. II. the
Hamilton National Memorial Associa-
ton held meeting in the small hall
room of the New willard. This associa-
fund of $4,000 for a statue of Hamil
ton to be placed south of the Treasury
Building. OF the necessary amount
$4,000 for the pedestal of the statue
has been provided by Congress and
little more than $4,000 for the figure
itself has been raised by subscription.
VIM. Harder, a former attendant to
German nobility, ended his life last
week by inhaling gas with suicidal in
tent. Harder was born in Germany,
and entered the profession Of servitor
to noble families of Berlin. His djscre-
ton and aptitude soon won him recog-
milton, and he became a confidential
servant to the Empress Augusta, grand
mother of the present Emperor of Ger
many. He knew ali the secrets of the
imperial household, without doubt, but
he never divulged any OF them. He
was favored by the Empress, and she
called him by his given name in recog-
milton of his services. His store of Sc
crets gained as a butler in the imperial
family would have made literary food
for score or more of fictionists, and
no doubt he could have made fortunes
if he would have given these secrets
away. But he never did, not even after
he had fallen from grace. Just what
caused his fall from grace is not known;
he never intrusted the secret to friends
whom he hOnOred and trusted. He was
yet a young man when he came to the
United States. He worked as a waiter
until he learned the language, and then
opened a restaurant on Broadway and
Goth street, in New York, but his busi-
ness was not success. He went to Los
Angeles, Cal, where he lived for many
years He frequently came to Washing
ton, where he was well known. He re-
turned here last May, and obtained a
position as waiter in a restaurant on
Pennsylvania avenue, and it was there
that he met his fate after having lost
his position. He was penniless, and,
brooding over his position, concluded to
get out of all his trouble.
DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, the Govern
ment Chief Chemist and pure food ex-
pert, has been elected President of the
Cosmos Club, which is made up of sew
eral hundred scientists and literary
men. Herbert Putnam. Librarian of
Congress, was elected Vice President,
and G. r. Putnam, of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey. Secretary.
Eufaula Harjo, who is the represen-
tative in Washington of the four tribes
of Indians in Oklahoma, is in Washing
ton trying to induce Congress to take
some action to protect the Chickasaws,
Cherokees, Creeks and Choctaw Indians
in Oklahoma from the operation of
Oklahoma laws, which make the In
dians citizens of the State. Mr.. Harjo
declares that his people do not want to
be citizens. He says they want to con-
tinue to be wards of the Government
He says:
The red man is not fitted for citi-
Zenship. This Government takes far
more care to guard the rights of the