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blI1f oid Adallral Porter nas fust on- hob
BY. and that = going early d bed AL his
life % has 5sen n r1o habit u retiring a.
0ciock and perhaps that accounts tor his
youthful appsaranes aud meutsl and pavsi-
al activity az nearly rour snore. The ad-
niral aas not even bald SPOT on hs bead.
the te~tn n hls Jaws are az hs own and
pretty soUnd teeth a. that AMI be declares no
. wiling 81 Nsger a oo1 Il cigars ~ can
thro~ any nan OF o. years In the country.
Ben Butler preferred catch-Gs catch-can- lie
SMOKES sboat twenty dorn-r.ic cigars day,
mlld 0'Is u very poor quality, and has been
dong 30 ance long befOrs the Mexican war.
Yet hs pakzl-1 the anti-tobacconists by con
tInulng % this very day - look Ike q hearty
and nessit-y of ~.
II peopls want % live long. and be ot
souns account in their old days SAYS the al
uiral IA MS hearty ~ay. they should 20 70
b~d early There ~as my good friend Dolly
Nsdsson- What a bale shs was what
social queen here IN Washington when the
oil town was a mere village IN swamp
Wei, Dolly Madison lived - green old
aye, and she always went % bed little after
dark I remember what time there was
here when some people who wanted 70 -
lashionable tried % start the custom Of Civ
NC late parties Ia those days there Couldn't
- any successful parties without Dolly Mad
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reading . O'Clock. she promptly sent her re-
zreEs. That killed the party and nobody
elsa rad the courage 20 try the innovation
til Dolly Madison's reign was at an end.
She believed in having parties begin az sun
down. and everybody at home aud in bed
long before midnight"
Government clerks here believe ia early
hours, too eariy hours for quitting work.
The average raVernnent clerk thinks himself
a much ab-~.. nan. because ~ has 20 sray in
his Office irom al O'Clock, and q move
mcat is uoV on foot % ask congress 70 make
3 O'Clock the quitting time. In some depart
rlents chiefs OF divisions are authorized 10 let
thelr clerks go nome at on oppreSsively hot
DAYS, and YOU may depend on IL al DAYS are
opprossiveiy not in these departments, Years
ago government clerks were required 10 work
only Till 5, or i've and a half hours daily
One winter Congressman joe Cannon, of
Illinois, found himself 50 hampered by this
early closing hour while looking after tbs
interests Of his constituents in the depart
nicnts that bs introduced bill extending
the departmental day 10 ! The government
clerks have never forgotten tee good old
tays. have never forgiven Cannon his sin.
IL Is a rather singular fact that Cannon finds
many Of the older clerks 4sing their influence
against him now that hs has becoDe a candi-
late Tor speaker all because be added an
hour 70 their days Dor.
Government clerks are queer people. any
way. They are wonderful gossipers. One Of
these long corridors in the treasury or in
terror department IL tue most perfect wills
pering gallery have ever been in. II is no
great strain upon the truth 70 say that intel
ligence travels faster Ia one OF these than on
the Atanuc cslole. This Is particularly true
Il the inteli gence concerns the removal Of
s1rne officials head or a shortening OF the
hours of labor A friend OF uine once tried
an experiment Of this sort lie went into the
west corridor Of The trnnsury and approach
ing n meszncer whom he Enew-one of those
se<1neis -ho guard the doors Of division
chiefs and assistant secretaries-wbispered
70 him. 81 have Just coma from the
White House. and while there I heard Secre-
tary WIndorl had resigned. Don't tell any
body. for i- rarns - me IN confidence, and
tel YOU only because YOU are 4 friend Of
mine Tacn my friend walked straight and
rapidiy through the middle corridor, aud on
arriving 10 the eastern end Of the building
accosted another messenger acquaintance
with Have you heard Secretary Window
IS gong % resign Yes, Snid the u1essen-
ger. heard that about a balf minute ago.
10 was whispered along tho corridor here just
as you came up.
The whiSper therefore had oorse around a
distance Of about an eighth of nile, while
tho originator Of the rsinnor had t.en walking
ffta that distance across the buiiffrg
EOBERT GRAVES