The National tribune., 1911-03-23

! ciaI brands or Oi=aIvIS WIN matches
!. and eli the other paraphernalia, and
4 they can get anything on earth the!
want TO drink.
i DR.. l.. e. Kebler, of the Department
i of Agriculture, gave very stirring anc
Il striking lecture before the Mothers
j Congress of the District recently at the
Arlington hotel. DR.. Kebler said that
i medicines which contain alcohol and
j opium are harmful, and that the enor-
| nous fatalities among children arc
largely due TO soothing sirups given in
i infancy. He said that the United States
i imports $50, GEE ounces of cocaine year
u ", when $4,000 ounces should be sufti'
cient for a much larger population than
4 this country has.
There was another big slide of earth
at the north end of the Gatun Dam of
the Panama Canal last week. Three
men were instantly killed by the slide
and a number of others injured. The
mass of earth buried steam shovel and
good deal of other machinery. 1t be-
gins to look that the only way to get
rid of these landslides in Panama is to
4 slice down the mountains. The land
slides are costing pretty nearly as much
as the original estimates for the con-
struction of the canal.
i Miss Catherine Elkins. who is now
in mourning for her father. the late
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Nir-
ginia, has been cruising in southern
waters with Mrs. Joseph Letter, of Chi
4 cago, in her yacht. They were for
long time in the bayous of the Atchafa-
laya swamps, and among the trophies
/ of Miss EIkins was big alligator, 10
feet in length, which she herself shot
and killed. She intends to have the
skin tanned for her own use. Miss Ell
kins uses two double-barreled shotguns.
and shoots as fast as an attendant could
| load for her. On this same trip she
bagged 500 ducks in one days shooting.
Miss EIlIins descended into the famous
salt mines on Avery Island, Iberia Par
ish, and had her picture taken sitting
on a huge lump of salt. The other
members of the Letter party were Mr..
and WIS Blaine Elkins, James Mackay,
John Diamond, Jr., wealthy sugar
planter, and Mr.. and Mrs. Hyans, of
New Orleans. They cruised about for
day or two in the famous Evangeline
country. Altho Miss Elkins was in New
Orleans during Mardi Gras week, it was
not known, as she kept herself very
quiet.
the Fourth Texas District, has an
nounced himself as candidate to sue
coed Senator Bailey in the United States
Senate when Mr.. Bailey's term expires
in 1913. or earlier if Mr.. Bailey still
clings to the resigning habit.
Vice President James s. Sherman in
an address at the banquet in Baltimore
of the Baltimore Chapter of the Amer
lean Institute of Bank Clerks, showed
his intense Americanism. Among other
things he said: THE United States has
a Government SO great and so self-sus-
tanning that it does not have to ask any
odds of any other power. but it is not
going around with chip on its shoul-
der, and" he added, Its object is to
advance the ii..crests of international
peace turnout the world" He also said
that there should be such modification
of the procedure in the United States
Senate that the country would not wit
| ness again the spectacle of one, two or
three men controlling things by filibus-
tering tactics. He also deplored that a
member sitting silent in his seat should
be considered absent, tho absolutely
there. While Mr.. Sherman was very
active while a member of the House
and is himself good parliamentarian,
he has no power whatever to inject any
House methods into the dry-as-dust
Senate.
oldlu Olu ARMY CliClcS were very
much surprised the other day at an H.
Illustrated Army order from the Office of
Ma. -Gen. F. G. Ainsworth, Adjutant-
! General. This is said to have been the
| first time in the history of the War
Department that an Army order has
been illustrated. The order was No. %.
and contained a small haif-tone cut of
a fine-Iooking thorobred horse suitable
for use Of an Army officer. The follow
ing description of said picture horse
| followed:
Suitable mount (charger) is hereby
| interpreted TO mean a horse with a
minimum hight of Is hands two inches
and with minimum weight of 975
pounds. The horse should be of good
appearance and of such breeding and
substance as will enable him to carry
his owner over jumps of reasonable
S'' The order also prescribed the proper
method OF riding. partly as follows:
i THE body and head erect and, square
to the front, without stiffness. with chin
slightly drawn in. and with shoulders
above the withers, with the forearm
nearly horizontal; the right arm hang
ing naturally, the elbows close to the
/. body, without pressure: the thighs we'll
down and fattened against the horses
sides; the knees slightly bent, go that
TIE lONtF Willie uHufsT tNOfO con-
troll for use as aids drop nearly verti-
caily: the stirrup feathers to be adjust
ed so that, with the feet in the stirrups
the heels are slightly lower than the
tread: the feet nearly parallel to the
horses body"
/ So now you know just exactly what
kind of horses the United States Gov
eminent uses.
! The School Board of the District OF
Columbia public schools has authorized
the Superintendent to name a day To
, be observed as Arbor Day Heretofore
this has been a movable feast. Wood
; ward * Lothrep. two active business
men Of this city, offered to give to each
school pupil catalpa tree and a seed
ling for planting on Arbor Day. The
; offer Is now TO be accepted, and Arbor
Day Will be established.
Il Dr. Edward A. Steiner, Professor OF
Philosophy and Sociology at Griddell
/ College, of Des Moines Iowa, was one
: of the speakers at the Interstate Asso-
| citation of the Y. NJ. C. A. organizations
in this city last week. and the way he
went after the Washington Y. NJ. C. A
!, was sure fierce.
you young men," said DR.. Steiner
/ with high collars and gloved hands
; who work only among your own kind
/ and do not seek to go out among the
Z men who really need you, are on the
wrong track. II is a world-old habit OF
people of all Nations to do good only
{ among their own kind. You mean well