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INNOCENT ON ONE COUNT.
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wasn’t goin’ to do no work for dat
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Benny on Benevolence.
Benevolence Is a great thing. When
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until you do something to make other
people feel grateful to you. The other
day my mamma went up into the attic
to find a lot of old clothes to give
to poor people who could not afford to
buy any clothing for themselves.
While she was hunting around she
found a gold-headed cane worth $25
that grandpa had put up there 18
years ago, and forgot all about Thus
___ we see, dear friends, benevolence
*** brings Its own reward.—Benny.
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PRESIDENTS DA IL Y MAIL
IS SOMETHING IMMENSE
Washington Correspondence of the Tran- 1
script. 1
Letters and more letters are received j
every day at the executive offices. Some .
days there may be about 100; again ,
the total of 1,000 has been reached. A i
fair average, day In and day out, would 1
probably be 200. Mondays and Tues- 1
days are the lightest days of the week, j
due perhaps to the fact that compara
tively few people take their pens In |
hand on Sundays, the Sunday mall ,
ordinarily arriving here on Mondays
and Tuesdays. Of these hundreds of ,
letters, an unusually large number Is ,
brought, In a direct way, to the per
sonal attention of the president. In ,
fact, the assurance may be given freely ,
that every letter receives exactly the
attention It deserves. ,
A perusal of the dally mall offers a :
liberal education in Itself. Senators ,
and sinners, editors and ethnologists,
ministers and marketmen, diplomats
and dipsomaniacs, officeholders and ,
ofliceseekers, athletes and atheists,
millionaires and murderers—all at
some time or other, all sorts and con
ditions of Individuals, find it necessary
tp address themselves personally tp ttys
chief executive or the hatlori. Be Its
source ever so humble, no scrap of
correspondence Is ever entirely neglect- ,
ed. If it doesn’t call for anything else, ;
U calls for an acknowledgement from
sortie White House functionary, wheth
er it be the president In person or
merely one of his clerks,
Sorted on a Bread Table.
Three time a day a special messenger
brings the White House mail to the
executive offices. It Is received In the
basement, spread out on a bread table
and Immediately sorted. Most of the
letters fall naturally Into two piles,
one for the president, the other for
Secretary Norton. But then also there
Is a large mass of personal correspon
dence of Mrs. Taft, for instance, which
is sent to her secretary, and that of
the attaches of tho office. Occasional
ly there is mall for some one not at
the White House with the request that
It be forwarded. There was a letter,
for example, not long ago, from a
man In a northwestern state who want
ed to sell the president some calves.
Not satisfied with making a bid for
White House patronage the enterpris
ing westerner enclosed another note,
designed for former President Roose
velt, with the request that It be for
warded.
Four Summaries.
The first distribution of the White
Hpuse mail is completed by 8 o’clock.
The second arrives at noon, the third,
which Is usually small, at 8 p. m.
The first step to be taken after sort
ing Is the opening of the mall. The
clerk who Is put at this task has been
at It for more than 10 years and he
carries more confidential correspon
dence In the back of his head than
any other man In the country. If
the letters contain enclosures, such as
stamps, pins, photographs, souvenirs,
etc., these are properly accounted for.
Each letter Is stamped “The White
Efouse—Received," together with the
date. If the letter is on a purely tech
nical subject, the receiving clerk marks
It for the department to which It
should be referred, such as “P. O.,”
tossing It into the box with the other
papers that are to go forward to the
. postofflce department that day. But
if there Is anything personal In the
letter, or anything In which the pres
ident might be expected to take a per
sonal interest, different disposition is
made of It. It Is handed over to an
other clerk, who reads It carefully, and
hen prepares a summary of Its con
ents. Of these summaries he makes
hree carbon copies, which are sent
o Secretary Norton—one for the pres
cient, one for Mr. Norton and the third
or Assistant Secretary Latta. A fourth
emains on the desk of the clerk for
.qrposes of record. On it Is marked
he disposition of each letter, sO that
it any moment of the day It may be
iromptly produced If desired.
The semi-daily bulletin of the con
ents of letters thus prepared may
ead about like this:
A. C. Clark, lawyer, New York city,
ecommends X. Y. Z. for the supreme
•ourt bench.
Senator Cummins writes in re post
nastershlp at Blank. Refers to recent
orrespondence.
P. L. Neall, editor of the- Mag
izlne, asks the president’s opinion as
egards probability of a permanent
arlft board.
D. O. Burns writes personal letter. .
N. L. Nelson, secretary chamber of
lommerce, Invites the president to an
mal banquet at-, on January 12.
Recalls that .president refused year
>efofe.
Laura Chanler, aged 18. asks for
dr. Taft's autograph.
What Yellow Tag Means.
And so on. Perl^ps half a dozen
etters of each mall will be sent In
vlth the sumraaYles. These are the let
ers of purely personal qharap^er, or
‘amlly letters or letters requiring' im
nedlate attention, which can be given
hem by no one except the president
>r his secretary. Marked with a yel
ow tag, they are easily distinguish
able from the others and are certain
o catch the first glances of Mr.
Slorton or the president. This kind
>f mall, to which the president gives
its personal attention, is more bulky
:han it was under any of his prede
■essors. Mr. Taft takes up many mat
:ers In person which those who pre
ceded him thought they could well af
’ord to leave to others. Under Mr.
Roosevelt, to Illustrate, all mail deal
ng with recommendations for places
:>n the federal bench went direct to
:he attorney general. Mr. Taft wants
Irst look at all of these.
While the president and his secre
:ary are wrestling with that part of
:he dally mail which most concerns
and Interests them, the "correspon
lents” In the staffroom are busying
iliemselves with the remainder of the
?rlst. Each correspondent—that's what
they call the men who frame replies
which the president or the secretary
ire called upon to sign—is preparing
the answers that are to be sent out
before the day Is over. It Is worth
bis while to get things just right, for
unless he is accurate, painstaking and
beat, his letter will be returned or
"edited,” either by the president or
the secretary. From 10 o’clock on un
til 1:30 the disposal of the morning’s
mail keeps all these correspondents
busy at top sp°ed, and the merry click
bf the typewnters resounds through -
uut the staff rooms of the White
House. The mall which the secretary
br the president is required to handle
personally receives a reply dictated by
them. The stenographers’ notes of
these dictations are arranged and typed
In the staff room and returned for
signature.
Such is the very complete and pain
staking machinery for the handling of
the president's mall. Every letter Is
accounted for. Every letter Is acknowl
edged, receives the attention it mer
its. It’s more than a day’s work at
times for the clerks in the executive
offices. Therefore It Is that the lights
burn late on executive avenue.
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A HUSBAND'S *JUNK"
------
From the Idler.
"Friends! trust not the heart of the
man for whom old clothes are not ven
erable."—Sartor Resartus.
"My wife,” writes an old friend, '“still
complains that our closets are filled to
overflowing with clothes which I never
wear and which I will not permit her
to give away. She says that she has
no room to hang up her own finery,
the hooks being given over, one and all,
to my worn-out suits; while the floor
Is littered with broken boots, and the
shelves are cluttered with hats which
have long since lost all claim to re
spectability.”
Truly, a common complaint upon the
part of the neat housewife, to whom
a lot of cast-off clothing seems as
needless and as offensive an acumula
tlon as a pile of dusty and out-of
date newspapers. Women are far more
particular about the appearance of
their closets than men are about the
condition of their desks. A woman
takes great pride In her closets. The
first thing she asks to see upon inspect
ing a new house Is a closet, and she
will pay no attention to the plumbing,
the lighting or the heating, until she
has satisfied herself that the closets
are large, light and airy, with plenty
of hooks and some shelf room. She
will put up with a cramped and poorly
lighted kitchen before she will endure
a closet which does not come up to her
notion of what a closet should be. And,
being so much attached to her closets
it is but natural that she should resent
their being converted into store-houses
for ancient apparel.
Once a suit has been worn its al
lotted time and has become shapeless
and threadbare, she sees no reason why
it should not be handed on to the first
wayfarer who begs for cast-off raiment,
she cannot understand the reluctance
with which a man parts from his old
clothing.
“She says,” continues my friend "that
there Is no sense in my keeping such a
lot of rubbish about the place, and that
I ought to be ashamed of myself for
messing her closets with such a col
lection of useless stuff—‘Junk’, I think,
she called It.”
JUnk! Ah, madam, ’tls little you un
derstand the heart of your husband!
Much has been written and said of the
Inability of man to solve the riddle of
a woman’s nature; but how little wom
an, the self-confessed enigma, knows
of the sentiment which prompt the
whims of her husband! She may live
with him for years and never suspect
that his apparent foibles are but the
expression of his secret nature which
none hut one of his fellows can hope to
understand.
"I cannot bear the thought,” says my
friend, ”of another man wearing my
clothes. It is almost as distasteful to
me to think of another man wearing my
clothes as It is to think of myself wear
! lng the clothes of another man. There
Is something personal about a suit of
I clothes I have once worn. When I see
a suit In a window, It Is Just a suit and
nothing more. At my tailor's, even
when trying It on. It Is Just so much
cloth. But once I have worn It, It be
comes a part of me.
“I could not contemplate with a calm
mind the spectacle of a hand-organ
man grinding out his discords while
clad in the suit that sat with me In
the balcony when 1 heard my first
opera. That tweed, of which I was so
proud the day It came home and which
has bung in the closet these three years
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past—could I bear to meet It begging
lima upon the street?
"Last spring I foolishly yielded to my
wife’s Insistence and let her give away
that striped flannel which I wore to the
seashore, and which proved such an at
traction for months during the winter
months that It was quite plain I could
never wear It again. And a few days
afterward, while I was passing a more
disreputable groggery, a blear-faced
loafer staggered out of the swinging
doors, vainly striving to Ignite a match
upon the seat of those treasured trous
ers! I give you my word, I could scarce
refrain from assaulting him, and had I
not feared to add to the Indignity al
ready suffered by those precious panta
loons, I should have kicked him.”
And served him right too! This hat
which has so often protected my head
from sunstroke; the coat which has
stood between me and the blasts of
winter; those shoes which have eased
my feet for many a weary mile; do
they deserve no better reward than be
given to an unkempt beggar?
“I have promised her again,” he
writes, "as I have so often promised
before, that I will clean out the closets
and save only such garments as I
may find of use in working In the
garden or In going fishing. But hav
ing gone through the lot of them, I con
fess I do not believe I shall have the
heart or will to part with them yet. I
cannot explain to her how I feel about
this, for she thinks It foolishness. 'Silly
sentimentality she calls it.” Silly sen
timentality, Indeed! But what have we
here In madam’s bureau drawer? A
bit of ribbon; a tiny glove, much too
small even for madam’s little hand;
and—of all things!—a yellow curl. Why
do you keep these things hidden away
hero, madam? Why keep an old curl
and scorn an old hat? It Is silly to keep
an old hat, you say? Then you have
never seen an old soldier of France
stand In the Invalldes and blink through
tear-dimmed eyes at the famous faded
hat of the great Napoleon. But why
keep an old curl?
Keepsakes, you say? Keepsakes? Just
so! And come with me Into your hus
band’s closet. Here upon the first hook
hangs that suit he wore when first he
met you, and which yo uadmlred so
much then. Out *of style? Of course
It Is. That was some time ago if you
remember. These cracked and tarnished
shoes are the very shoes In which he
shook when you stood together at the
altar. Do you see that old felt hat yon
der? Stained It Is, and torn. But
every stain is ,a memory; for this Is
the hat in which he has so often gone
a-flshlng with his old comrades. Here
is the faded smoking-Jacket of hie
bachelor days. Step closer and you
will find that It still exhales the odor
of his favorite pipe. Here Is that fun
ny, fuzzy, old white-top hat he wore
In the political parade the year he ran
for alderman. Here Is the overcoat you
helped him to select the first fall you
were married. Here Is the coat he tore,
In his haste to get the doctor the night
the baby was born. There Is the dress
suit In which he made his first public
speech.
Warranted.
"Have you heard about Brown?"
"No. What ?"
“A screaming success.”
"Is that so^- What Is It?”
"Oh, a boy.”;’
In one month a cateplllar will eat
6,000 times Us own weight in food.
NOT PAGE FROM A ROMANCE
Conversation, However, Reads a
Whole Lot More Like a Scene
In Real Life.
“And so your father refuses to con
sent to our union?”
“He does Rodolphus."
The sad youth swallowed a sob.
“Is there nothing left for us. then,
but an elopement?” said he.
“Nothing.”
"Do you think, Clementine, that you
could abandon this luxurious home,
forget all the enjoyments of great
wealth, banish yourself forever from
your devoted parents’ hearts, and go
west with a poor young man to enter
a home of lifelong poverty and self
denial?”
"I could, Rodolphus.”
The sad youth rose wearily and
reached for his hat.
“Then,” said, he, “you are far from
being the practical girl I have all
along taken you to be.”
And with one last look around on
the sumptuousness that some day he
had hoped to share, he sobbed and
said farewell.—Browning’s Magazine.
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