The National tribune., 1910-12-08

The White House calf is dead. H,
was the son of Pauline Wayne, tht
celebrated White House COW presented
the President from the blooded stocl
owned by Senator Stephenson, of WIS
consin. Pauline is a pedigreed Hol'
stein. She gives the richest milk anc
the most OF it of any COW known II
this section of the country. When hel
calf came it was one too many in the
family, and the President gave 1t to
one of the Washington correspondents
who has a farm in Maryland. Ihe cor
respondent bought fancy new COW 10
serve as a foster mother to Pauilhe
son. but the little fellow could not sur
vive the treatment he got at the hahus
of the Presidents visitors. he was
named Big Bill by the newspaper cor
respondent who is in the John l.. Sui
Ivan class himself. and it would be
difficult to decide who had the most
visitors President Taft or the baby
calf. The little fellow had too much
Federal supervision, some OF the White
House attendants said. At any rate, he
died. and the Washington correspond
snt is mourning.
There was a fire in the Kellogg Build
Ing, on F street, one day last week
which was pretty largely confined TO
me dIllC anu "HlSIl SehuSSN iSSS $4,000
$4,000 damage, but it disclosed mys-
tery. That is, nobody has been able
10 explain it away so far. The hre,
which was from spontaneous comDus-
ton started in a mess of papers IN the
attic. and when the firemen began 10
pull the papers out of the boxes 1t was
discovered that they were stamped en-
yelopes containing CIRCULAR letter in
tended to have influences bill then
before Congress for the ,2lfef of tele-
graph operators who hae service LOT
the Government during ths war OF the
rebellion. Every one of those circu-
lar-bearing envelopes was addressed,
and the names on them wore OF mem
bers of the House of Representatives
and of the United States Senate of the
wear of 1889. Nobody seems to know
ANYTHING about them, how they came
to be written in the first place or why
they were stored and then forgotten.
They must have cost a lot OF money.
The people of Washington are not al
crazy on the germ theory as some peo-
pie might suppose. Some time ago the
Treasury Department concluded that 1t
would have individual cups for the en-
ployes to drink out OF. Waxed paper
cups were placed in long glass tubes,
and the tubes placed beside every ice
water tank in the building. 1t was a
penny lliS-S1cl DuSiuSSo, ohA IL ~
wanted a drink of water you put your
penny in and the paper cup dropped
out II may or may not have been
sanitary. OF course, it was expected
that il would be sanitary, but after
these paper cups had been handled
three or four times over to get them
into the glass tubes it must be that
there are more or less microbes stick
ing on these paper cups. Anyhow, the
cups are all right there, and none OF
the Treasury clerks have lost any PEN
nies UP to the present time.
Senator Nathan B. Scott, of West Vir-
ginia. is quite seriously i'll at his apart
ments at the New Willard Hotel. His
trouble is severe nervous breakdown
and ulcer Of the stomach He was
compelled to bear the brunt of the
strenuous fight in the State during the
recent political campaign, and the
strain exhausted his vitality.
Charles Landis, former Representa-
tive from Indiana, in accounting for
in that State said for Indiana what
VIII Allen White did for Kansas.
Charley" Lands. as everybody calls
him, was one of the brightest and best
men that Indiana has sent to the Ma
tional House of Representatives in
many d long u6y- ne lS sSuidi anu
companionabie and everybody likes
him. Somebody caught him at his ho-
tel and said to him: Say, Charley,
what is the matter with Indiana" Mr..
lands replied:
'What was the matter with US? Why,
the same thing that was the matter
everywhere else--in New York, in
Maine, in Ohio, in New Jersey. The time
had come apparently when the people
wanted a change for the sake of a
change and voted FOR it, without rea
son and without stopping to think what
their votes meant What's the use of
attempting TO explain it? That will do
no good. One thing is true, tho, and
that is that the Republican Party is not
down and out. That old party will still
be doing business, and the score of a
fortnight ago will be evened up in good
time. The people have fashion of
coming back to the Republicans to
long before the voters, aroused once
more to their senses, will restore the
Republican Party to power in the
House of Representative.
Mrs. John Hay, wife of former Secre-
tary of State Hay, has just presented
TO the Wright Memorial Dcrmitory
Committee a. Yale University the sum
of $1,000. Sna contributed the money
for a memorial suite of rooms in the
dormitorg in memory of her sen, 1.del-
bert S. Hay, Of the class OF 1898. 1t will
be remembered that voIng Mr.. Hay
fell from a window of the New Haven
house several years ago while in New
Haven for class reunion at Yale.
It sounds right funny to hear the
erudite and gifted Senator from Maine,
Mr.. Hale, say that the Republican Par
ty will come back" OF course, Sen
ator Hale means ii in all earnestness,
but i'll view of the use of the term since
the Johnson-J fries fight it sounds Just
n little slangy. Senator Hale expresses
the opinion that the party perhaps
needed a good spanking, but that while
1t was beneficial it must bear Up as
we'll as possible, and that in the end il
will come back
There is a heroic young man, a blue
Jacket of the U. S. $. Pennsylvania in
1908, who is due to get Il medal and
with il a good, substantial reward, be-
cause ne saved the life of Lieut. NJ. L.
Smith in the Mediterranean Sea, and
this young mans wealthy father is now
trying TO locate the bluejacket VIM. |
w. Spurrier, that he may reward him
as he deserves Spurrier's enlistment
ended a year ago, and he was for al
short time in Anderson, N. C. Later