The National tribune., 1910-02-24
THURSDAY FEBRUARY "a 1910

with him in his treaSenablstw tworls. They
have been on exhibition at the Aias!ta-
YukOn-Pacific Exhibition. and are now
on their way homS.'"
The verdict of the jury SAYS: I'VE of
the jury find that, Aaron Burr is not
ment by any evidehce submitted to us
We therefore find him not gailty" TIE
words proved to be- Were interined.
and seemed to have been inserted as an
afterthUught
| Representative McCrearo of Pl1ila-
dclphia. was one of the speakers at the
| Gospel Mission last. SUNDAY.
| 1t seems that Washington has been
lharboriug a snug little nest of counter
| fefters for some time. The money that
! has been passing about the city has
fallen into the hands usually of news
i boys. fruit dealers and that class of
easiest prey to deceive with small
change The dimes and nicEels are so
crudeIv stamped that they ought not To
deceive child. and yet it IS thought
that the passage of this class of coun-
terfeit money had reached large pro-
portions. The other night the blood
hounds of the law. the police and Secret
Service detectives, started out on n
roundup, and in little back room in
the southwest part of the town they
found metal plaster of paris molds,
dyes for small coins and all the other
paraphernalia of the Illicit traffic. Then
they wandered out and picked up on
the streets two foreigners with lot of
the dimes and nickels in their pockets.
The counterfeiting outfit has been con-
iiscated, ana the Italians are in Jail.
And here you have il from high au-
thority. Mr.. Carnegie says: Roosevelt
is one of the greatest men in the world.
1 admire him intensely / am going to
London to meet him on May s. Roose-
welt is not only statesman of rare
wisdom, but he is absolutely without
guile. Taft is following out the Roose-
welt policies. Taft is of a different dis
position and gets at things in different
way, but Roosevelt knew Taft could be
relied upon to pursue the same political
course
Funny things happen, even in the
corridors of the Capitol among those
men who have been longest there One
Of the messengers at the Capitol is John
P. Hamlin, who for more than 80 years
has been messenger about the Senate
corridors. The other day Senator AL
drich, of Rhode Island, was positively
held up in the corridors and refused ad-
mission to the elevator by a messenger
who had served the United States Sem
ate longer than Senator Aldrich has.
Mr. Hamlin, who is very old and does
not see any too well, said. Are you a
Senator" Squaring himself across the
entrance to the elevator which is used
only by United States Senators.
Yes said Mr.. Aldrich, entering into
the spirit of the situation aud hesitating
a moment
l,a goil
lin, talking moro to himself than Mr..
Aldrich. sa
We'll. hardly that" said Mr.. Aldrich,
chuckling. My name is Aldrich."
The poor old messenger almost fell
in his tracks. and Senator Aldrich for
almost the first time in his life laughed
out loud
Poor Messenger Hamlin will hardly
recover from his panic. He is past 80
years of age, and was foreman of the
jury that convicted Gitteau of the as
sassination of Garfield.
Iowa has made her first contribution
to the Hall of Horrors. which is fine
bronze statue of former U. S. Senator
James Harlan, of Iowa. and is of heroic
size, standing something over eight feet.
Senator Harlan was the predecessor of
1owa's great Senator Allison,> and served
two full terms in the Senate and a part
of a third. He was defeated by Senator
Allison for the fourth term. He was
first elected in 1855. He was Secretary
of the Interior for President Lincoln
and served in that capacity for John
son when he became President. He
resigned from the Senate to enter Lin
coins Cabinet. The statue now stands
between the Missouri statues of Benton
and Blair, and is to be officially dedicat-
cd in very short time.
A short time ago Italy sent to the
United States a set of copies of very
valuable prints and engravings in cop
per which exist in the Royal Copper
Plate Collection of Italy The gift was
made for deposit in the Library of Con-
gress as an expression of the gratitude
Of Italy for the action of Congress and
Of the American people in behalf of the
Italian earthquake sufferers. The House
has adopted a resolution of thanks, and
it was passed by the Senate last Friday
The Minneapolis, Chicago and Balti-
more Boards of Trade are kicking like
bay steers over the clause in the Nc
cumber bill providing for Federal in
spectiOn of grain so as to establish uni
form grades in every market. Repre-
sentatives of these Boards of Trade ap-
peared before the Committee on Agri-
culture to protest, and il is said that
the grain markets of the country now
having their own separate systems of
grading grain are opposed to the pend
ing bill on the ground of its paternal
character and the question of constitu-
tionality.
Miss Bleck, personal secretary of Mrs.
Taft, is soon to be married to Lieut..
Wainwright. and will be obliged to re-
lnquish her duties as social secretary
at the White House. Her place will be
filed by Miss Mary d. Spiers. Miss
Spiers is Southern girl of charming
and distinguished appearance.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, accompa-
MED by Miss Ethel. started from New
York last Wednesday on their long trip
to meet Col. Roosevelt.
Washington is just now very much
tumbled up and down in its mind as to
what it is going to do about its milk
and cream supply. The city has pretty
fair inspection law working inside of
the District, but, of course, can control
nothing outside, and it is now stated
from dairymen of New York. Pennsyl-
vania and other nearby States outside
the zone of dairy inspection by the
health officers of the District are ship
ping their cream into Washington with
out the required license. These are
called milk smugglars, and it is said
that the stuff they are shipping in under
the title cream" is pretty rank. They
run an underground railway" between
Northern farms and certain cold-stor-