The National tribune., 1910-12-08

! May. Margaret and John Boggins~ap.
pea!ed to President Taft, who wen
down in his own picket for the money
for medals for these four -year-old trip.
let's, who were born in Sewickley Pa.
|
Miss Anna II. Shortridge, law clerk
in the office of the Solicitor of the State
Department. has resigned her position
to go TO Chicago, where she will en-
gage in the practice of law. Miss Short
ridge is in a class almost by herself
she is native of Scotland and has
been in the employ of tho Department
of Justice since 1899. She had legal
talents of remarkably excellent char
acter making her so valuable that she
became one of the highest paid women
in the service of the Government
Mr.. Foss. of Massachusetts, seems to
think he owns the State Mr. Foss
properly bears off honors for the
chameleon-like manner in which he
1 could change his politics faster than
anybody else Mr.. Foss is comparative
ly young. He began his political ca
reer as a Republican. Then he saw a
chance to win some fame and notoriety,
and ran for Congress on the Demo-
cratic ticket, and processes to be a
! Democrat. He was elected. serving
DIltlly III lildt tSiiihiilN III Il DOTIlOn Dl
| the last session of Congress No trains
of fire or dews of blood were found
| in his trail as he hiked back to his
| wickyup down Boston way. He con-
cluded to run for Governor, and the
| Republicans of Massachusetts simply
/ let him have a walkover OF course,
| that is their funeral, but Mr. Foss is
not satisfied with the killing of Novem-
| Der. and is now sharpening his toma-
| hawk for the scalp of Senator Lodge.
! He in the first place ISSUED a demand
| to Senator Lodge to retire from the
| field. Strange to say, the erudite states
| man from Massachusetts paid no at
| tention whatever to this blast Now
| Mr.. Foss has started out on a personal
| endeavor to defeat Senator Lodge. SEN
| ator Lodge says: Il will not Withdraw,
| and l am perfectly satisfied with the
progress of my campaign for re-elec-
| ton"
And now the Humane Society of the
| District of Columbia is making the
welkin ring with its objection to the
| use of dogs for cancer tests, which it is
said the Department of Agriculture is
experimenting with now up in Maine.
dozen or more dogs picked up on the
streets of Washington by the dog
catcher were shipped to Portland, Me-,
where 1t is said they are to be fed can
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may be started and studied, and this
has caused the kick. Just as tho one
tiny life saved from the effect of this
horrible disease is not worth the lives
of million dogs, whether they are
high-bred, with blooded pedigrees or
whether they are just plain dog. Com
missioner Rudolph, who was tackled
by the Humane Society upon the ship
ment of the dogs. says: Il am strongly
opposed to anything that savors of
wanton torture, but I feel that an ex-
pertinent tending to make life securer
for the human race should be allowed
to proceed. The reason for such an
experiment as this is apparent, and the
object certainly makes the means to
an end worthy"
The horseback rider of the Admins
tration is Miss Helen Taft She is ar
IDENTIFY fond of the exercise, and may
be seen almost any morning and very
often for two-thirds of the time before
favorite horse, Achilles. Miss Taft rides
on side saddle and in the most prop
er kind of a riding dress.
ss's -.
Marquise de Fontenoy writes so volu-
bly, that 1t stands to reason she cannot all
the time get her facts on straight She
had very remarkable story in her hun
supposed recent difficulty between
Queen Mother Alexandra and some Bel
gian customs officers and about the re-
ception of the King and Queen of the
Belgians at the opening of Parliament
in which he said that the Queen Mother
had had all sorts of trouble with the
customs officers who searched her lug
gage and that the King and Queen of
the Beleians were hooted and Kissed
the other day in Brussels. Count del
Buisseret, the Belgian Minister to the
United States, says fatty that 1t is not
so. The Minister has just returned to
the United States from Belgium, where
he spent several months, and he de-
nounces the story as the rankest false |
hood.
And now the latest story is thati
former President Roosevelt and formerI
Chief Forester Pinchot do not love each |
other SO much. When the former Presi- |
dent was visiting his daughter, Mrs. |
Nicholas Longworth. in Washington.
Secretary Ballinger called on him in |
the most cordial fashion imaginable |
There was always a very chummy feel |
ing between Roosevelt and Ballinger, |
and they were the very best of friends
up to the time that Mr. Roosevelt left
the White House and Mr.. Ballinger the
Land Office. 1t is well known that Mr.
Pinchot took no part whatever in the
recent reception to Mr.. Roosevelt, and
that he has not visited him since the
Saratoga Convention. Nobody knows
what II is all about, but it is pretty safe
to say that Mr Pinchot thought that
when Mr.. Roosevelt returned from
Elba" he would again take up the part
of Mr.. Pinchot. Like Bolingbroke when
he came ito ope the purple testament
of bleeding war" for Richard II, "and
lay the Summers dust with showers of
blood run from the wounds of slaugh-
tered" anti-Roosevelts. So the cool
ness is on.
Washington has no room for Anarch-
lists. The other day the advance agent
for Emma Goldman, the chief female
Anarchist. came to Washington looking
for hall in which the Goldman wo-
man was to speak. He did not mention
her name until after he had about con-
cluded negotiations for renting the
hall. but Immediately the name was
mentioned the hall was not for rent,
and so it happened that there is no
place for the pyrotechnic exponent of
nigh anarchy to shoot off her bombs
in Washington. Maj. Sylvester, Chief
of Police, says that if ne finds it out
first she will not be permitted to speak,
any place within the District of Coz
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