New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12


the officer who. while he IS racing horse -
quarter OF a mile, can estimate how many
leaps Of the animal II would require 10 carry
him from Washington 10 the Polync-lan
Islands. # the SEA dried up and trail could
he laid across the valleys and hills that are
now buried under the ocean.
Is q hgurcr. he IS a Chyan'hamum
LcuCanthcmum.
NELSON W. ALDRICH who used 10 DE-
~ the boss Of the United States Senate,
has been famous always for his Indifference
10 what newspapers and magazines printed
about him. The most vitriolic abuse or the
most Parnassan praise had not the slight
est effect upon him Only recently maya
zine writer turned out an article about HIM
and wanted 10 know what the great man
had thought Of it. He asked Jackson ,.
Elliott. chief Of the Washington bureau Of
the Associated Press, who IS one oil MT.
Aldrichs closest friends, 10 report.
Elliott did not want 10 ask Aldnch nm.
self about the roasting article; but he did
ask Arthur Shelton, the former Senator
secretary Elliott expected Shelton TO say
that AdrCh had not even seen the article.
"Oh. YES said Shelton, Mr. Aldnch
saw that stuff and it disgustcd him.
"Whv did he object said Elliott.
~Oh. he didn't read the article, explained
Shelton: "but ne saw the irontisplccc Of the
magazine. They had a picture Of the Sen
ator wearing a bright green vest. was the
vest. not the vitriol that made him sore.
DOIES PENROSE, United States Senator
- from Pennsylvania, owns one OF the last
est Yachts and one Of the sIOwcSt driving
horses known to modern times. One morn
ING Senators Murray Crane and Reed Snoot
were in a hotel elevator with Pcnrose, and
the three were bound for the Capitol.
go up there with me, invited Pcnrose
cordially. "I1l take you up.
How" asked the monosylIabic Crane.
an nv carriage" explained Pcnrosc.
"Look hcre" said Smoot. "iou don get
MS behind that old nag. We want to get up
there today.
MRS. CHAMP CLARK is very proud
lNl ofthc Missouri ham she serves at some
Of her dinners c,l -,
Sneakers daughter, received this compliant
from girl friend; A..
Its q strange thing, GcnevlcVc, that
despite the many llllcS Hd|C ~" "' D''i
mothers teas have never tasted any ol that
Missouri ham. -r c,
We'll. YOU are luckicr than |, Miss Clark
rcnlicd quickly. Mother has ham at her
Wednesday dinners. and then 1t takes the rest
Of the family a whole week to eat 1t up.
THIS is the story as it IS told by Miss
L Lucv Hokc Smith, the daughter OF Sen
,tor Uoke Smith Of Georgia:
There was a hot election IN the Congress,
s;onal Club. and every woman was besieged
hy friends Of candidates for their votes.
The daughter Of a congressional matron eS-
rn,ecd one womans cause with great en-
ihusiasm and ambition.
Sometime later there was a tea at the
ch,h and the congressional daughter met
', o'T woroan who talked to her for sometime.
Whcn the subject Of the election was brought
m the daughter, who had done electloneer-
inc , crew eloquent on the vices OF the woman
, mib, had won the fight against her candidate
"Mother and l." she said conlldentlally;
acan't see why in the world that ugly ora
hag Mrs. Blank should have beaten that
sweet, ladvlike Mrs. Dash, DO you;
Tbc listener looked at her haughtiIy a
moment. while the temperature ieli 70 ''e
freezing point with thud. =,
81 am Mrs. Blank, was all sfe Said'