The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-19

The mother went into the room few
minutes later. and the little thing
jumped mp. tottered across the room
and fell The mother picked her up
and she wiped her hand across her
mammals face as if to brush away
something; then her head sank and
her eyes closed. She never recovered
consciousness, and went from one con-
vulsion into another until her death
after three days suffering.
Dear me, Admiral Yashiro who is
supposed to be Commander of the Jap
anese Navy, is not at all pleased with
the suggestion that we are going to
fortify the Panama Canal. He very
emphatically attacked the United States
authorities on the subject at dinner
ON the Panama Canal, and it is thought
that international etiquet has a pretty
badly punctured tire because of his too
evidently champagned after-dinner
speeches at Panama.
The Southern Commercial Congress
will hold its session in Atlanta, Ga.
from March to 10, inclusive, and
President Taft heads the list of invited
speakers.
United States ambassador Reid and
Mrs. Reid are home from London on a
brief vacation. ErlbaSsador Reid has
no notion of resigning. He likes his
post, he likes his duties and is going
to stay in London just as long as Presi-
dent Taft will let him.
Dr. Harvey w. Wiley has been a
subscriber for a good many years to a
clipping bureau, with the laudable de-
sire of finding out what the newspa-
pers of the country think of the pure
food law. and his efforts to have the
same Endorsed. From hundred or so
clippings a week the announcement of
his marriage has sent these clippings
up to about a thousand week and
swamped the clipping bureau. All the
funny men of the country and would
be funny men have turned their lights
on DR.. Wiley's impending marriage,
and all she good old jokes have been
rehashed for his special benefit. Or.
Wiley gets lots of fun out of it, but it
is mussing up the clipping bureau
nightly to keep up with these clip
pings.
1t is now stated that Senator Depew
will eXpatriate himself after his term in
the United States Senate expires. and
he will hereafter make his home in
Paris. Senator Depew's stories and
after-dinner speaking stunts are begin
ming to show the wear and tear Of time
in this country. and across the water.
where they are not SO well acquainted
with Them, they may be rejuvenated
Mrs. Depew is more than half French
anyway, having spent most of her life
abroad and having been educated in
Paris. and she would find it very poky
in New York as the wife of a former
Senator. Abroad that past title ranks
almost even with that of one who is
yet in service.
Representative Swager Shirley, of
Louisville. KY, has had an operation
he has been suffering for a long time.
The operation was successful, and Mr..
Shirley is recovering.
It has been decided by the Spanish
War Veterans to bring the body of
Brighten. NJ. Emmett Urell to this
country for interment in Arlington.
Representative Victor Murdoch. of
the short-grass district of Kansas is
known as the Congressional Referee"
TO the baseball reporters. Representa-
tive Murdoch is very fond of the Ma
tional game. While sporting editor of
a Chicago paper he used to make re-
ports of baseball games that read like
romances written in a strange tongue.
He knows the rules of the game all
right, all right.
The Hawaiian Delegate, Jonah Kuhio
Kaianianaole. has the longest name OF
any member of Congress, and his sec
rotary is kept busy trying to pronounce
it for people who seem to think it is
something to "cnnjur" with. Most peo-
pie call him merely Mr.. Delegate"
The younger members of the feminine
persuasion call him Prince Cupid" a
name that was fastened upon him in
his island home. Kalanianaole is a
very goOd-looking gentleman and gen
tlemanlv gentleman. whom his con-
freres like very well.
Mrs. c. w. Morse, wife of the convict
ed New York banker, now serving his
term in the Atlanta Penitentiary, has
been in Washington for several days.
hoping to secure action from the De-
partment of Justice that will procure
her husbands release. but it is thought
that her task is hopeless one.
The National American Red Cross So
ciety. of which President Taft is Presi-
dent and Miss Mabel Boardman Vice
President, is asking the United States
600 to pay the expenses of the National
Convention, which is to be held in this
city in May of 1912.
Herman Bernstein, who translated
many of Tolstoi's books into English,
cannot understand why it is that Amer
leans have no interest at all in the Toll
stoi property. which he is DESTROYS of
converting into an international pre-
serve. He hilied himself over here with
the expectation that he fsas going to
interest Andrew Carnegie in the Vas
nai-POliana estate, and that he could
get American money to help him out
with his plans. He is a nephew of
Tolstoi, and felt very sure that the adj
mirers of Tolstoi in this country would
jump at the chance of helping Russia
TO a beautiful National park He slipped
up on the scheme. Tolstoi had it in
his power to have made this a Russian
National park himself, but the Tolstoian
doctrine is that there should not be
piled up wealth in wide, extended
acres At least, that is the doctrine
which he taught, and if he had had his
way his wife would long ago have
signed deeds dispensing even that small
patrimony
Those who would like to know how
very plain and simple Miss Helen Taft
is in her taste in dress can find out
from the following item taken from the
society columns of a Washington paper:
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