The National tribune., 1911-01-12


Ii. rar..t ple.sa,irr. to Walk and walk
50 Capt Russell obtained the fnHredi.
ents and applied them beautifully to his
pedal extremitiss,, with the, result thai
he has not been able to, walk q step fol
Q week When he gets up and around
that practical Joker friend will prob.
ably get all that II coming to him.
William Jennings Bryan, who is now
practically q resident OF the State OF
Texas, and whose broad acres lie near
Mission, Tex, he's taken to killing also
He has been out on long hunting trip
from which he returned last week load
ed down with game. His companion on
his hunting trip was B. F. Yoakum
Chairman of the Frisco Railroad Ex-
ecutive Committee. Mr.. Bryan is con-
sidered very good shot.
Mrs Whitelaw Reid, wife of our EN-
bassador to Great Britain, has Just given
q million dollars to endow hospital in
father. the late B. o. Mills, who left her
tremendously wealthy. She will be
joined in the endowment by q niece,
Mrs. Lewis Monteagle.
April last the railroad men OF
North America were represented in
Washington by an imposing committee.
who came here for the purpose of pre-
senting a gold badge of their particular
order to the President of the United
States. The badge was supposed to be
Of solid gold, and Worcester, Mass.
man was paid $500 for the same The
badge Is about five inches long. and
bears the monogram of the Railroad
Mems Union. Now it seems that these
I,oI .I
badge. From Worcester, Mass, comes
the word that the badge was made by
convict labor in the Worcester County
Jail, and that it is brass covered with
a thin plating of gold. The story IL told
by A. f. Hutchinson, who says he en-
graved 1t. The badge was presented to
the President in good faith, and 1t is
said the railroad men will make it good.
The Institute Of Dental Pedagogics
has been In session in Washington, and
some very bright men were delegates.
DIR. J. G.. Bryan, of Indiana, who is
the President in his opening address
said that the institute should deem 1t
a duty and privilege to recommend
changes that would attract men with
college educations to the dental calling.
He, with many other of the delegates.
declared that many dental faculties had
too narrow a view of education, and
that students should be given credit for
knowledge attained before matriculat-
ing at dental colleges. In other words,
the institute seems to be of the opinion
that there are good many takers In
the dental work, and that a college
education should be made d prerequi-
site.
There died in New York the other
day WashingtoEian who was a close
personal friend of President Lincoln.
His name was Aaron Homer Byingtof,
and he was 81 years of age. Mr.. By
ington, altho born in New York, be-
came an adopted son Of Connecticut,
and was a delegate from that State to
the convention that nominated Abra-
ham Lincoln for President He was at
that time editor and publisher of the
Norwalk (Conn.) Gazette. When the
war broke out Mr.. Byington came to
Washington as correspondent. for the
New York Tribune. This brought him
in close contact With MIR. Lincoln, and
they became warfil friends.
Mr.. Byinston helped to organize the
Washington, Clay Giaard, AN crganiza-
tiou which was mustered to protect
Washington when It was feared that
the CoEfeiet atss would raid the city.
Colorado Marble.
o. A. Murray. of New. York, who has
recently made u tour of the world. has
been examining the white marble build
ings in Washington with a critics eye.
marbles. and he says that within a
very few years Colorado will be supply
ing the world with the finest kind of
maTble-marbIe which he believes to
he equal to any that Is found in Italy.
He says that there Is not a building in
Washington that can compare with the
new marble, post Office in Denver. With
regard to his trip abroad and of the
marbles he had seen there, he says:
The Parthenon is considered the
wonder of the world in
the pure beauty of it's marble columns,
yet none of the columns was construct
ed of single blocks. Each was built OF
from five to SIX separate blocks or
drums There are 46 of these pure
white columns, each "a feet in hight,
and little more than six feet across at
the bssc. Labor was cheap in these
days. and no thought was given to the
ultimate cost of construction. The
Greeks took great pride in their struc-
lures. and could such thing have been
possible every one Of those columns
would have been cut out of solid mar
bic. Were the Parthenon to be rebuilt
to-day in Colorado, not one of those
columns would be marred by mortar or
cement.
Heretofore builders have depended
on Vermont and Georgia to supply the
marble necessary for the construction
of great buildings. The discovery of
the Colorado Guarries will do much to
promote the erection OF stately build
inSs in every city of this country"
An Ounce of Prevention. :
The National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis an
nounces that in 1910 nearly S15 900, 900
was spent in the fight against tubercu-
losis, as opposed to $4,000. 900 spent in
1903. The largest item of this expense
was for treatment in sanitaria and hos
pitfalls, $lf,376.500 being spent for that
purpose. also being double the amount
for 1903
1t is now said that the horrible dis
ease, tuberculosis, causes half or two
thirds of the deaths in the world, and it
is simply appalling to know that great
many of these deaths, probably a ma
the well-to-do and wealthy, and just as
daughters to parade the streets in the
cold and wind with their throats UNI
covered in sailor fashion and wearing
the thfnpest Of silk stockings and low
shoes, there is going to be tuberculosis
coed sense must be confined to the poor
die class and well-tO-do are trying to
see just how far.tlley can dare this hor-
rible disease. OF course; girls will say
haU al,