The National tribune., 1903-08-06

| while she was gone was in trampin:
round over the graves of dead Yankee:
on Memorial Day in the National Gene
| terry near her home. This young lady /:
one of those who object to having the Has
around very conspicuously. and who likes
to boast that she is Il rebel" The young
! lady was indiscreet enough to make the
| remark in the hearing of Il sister-in-laW
of Gen. Corbin, who works in the same
Department, and she Immediately re
ported the story to the Chief of the Bu
reau.
George III. Thomas Post, G.. A. r.. hear
ing of the remark. took the matter up and
appeared before the Secretary of War
protesting against women of such diSloyal
sentiments remaining in the Departments.
The young lady was called before the See
retary of War and denied that she had
made the remark that way" He repri-
manded her and turned her loose. That
is the way that disloyal sentiments are
very apt to be treated in the Departments
here, but the young lady was indiscreet
again. She came back TO the bureau and
told how she got around the Secretary of
War;" and that her Influence was strong
enough to keep her in the Department,
no matter what lies were told about
her. Then Gen. Corbins sister-in-law
went after the young lady. She said that
she did not propose to have her name
banded about as having told what was
not so. and she went TO the Secretary of
War and told him that the young lady
was annoying her by making her a falsi-
fer, and that she proposed to have the
young laGys mouth shut, or she would
carry the matter higher. The young lady
was called before the Secretary of War
again. Just what happened is not known.
because this time she did not care to talk
about her Influence" but it is known
that her eyes were suspiciously red. and
that she has not talked about walking
over the graves of dead Yankees since
but she is still drawing 4 good salary from
the Government.
OF course. George II. Thomas Post was
turned fiat down. 1t is notorious fact
that there are hundreds of people in the
Governmental Departments who are
avOwedly disloyal. They openly sneer at
the display of the Flag on patriotic days,
and declare it a flag of force" and ''vio
lence." The wives and daughters of rebel
soldiers receive promotion over those of
loyal women better qualified, and if the
matter is mentioned to one of the heads
of the bureau he grows pale and declares
it would be as much as his position was
worth to not promote them.
The clerks who have to work with some
of these rebel women tell some funny
stories about them. One young lady who
dresses extremely we'll and becomes her
clothes, spends a good deal of her time
this humid weather tanning herself and
bemoaning her lot in having to come
down to work. Il was raised lady,"
she tells. "My people We're slave holders,
and I've always had somebody TO wait on
me-" When one of the clerks in the De-
partment declared that she was tired of
having to do this young lady's work over.
the Chief of the Bureau responded that
he felt sorry for this young lady, because
it was very hard for her to be so reduced
that she had to work, and let it go at
that.
The lady who objected to the ,aziness
Of the young woman had been wealthy
herself, came of one of the big slave-hold-
ing families of the South. and is the
widow of Union Army officer, she hav-
ing always been loyal, but this the Chief
did not know. 1t happened that the
clerk went to the vicinity of the
young lady's home, to spend her vacation
on her own ancestral acres. While there.
a neighbOrhOOd name struck her as yery
familiar. and she Immediately connected
it with the young lady. 1t now develops
that the young lady's relatives have been
prominent in history. but not as rich plan
tation owners. Her uncle was the slayer
Of Ellsworth. Another uncle kept lit
tie wayside tavern. Her aunt, Belle Jack
son, was the notorious rebel spy. Her
own father kept little tavern on the Vir-
ginia side of the Chain Bridge, up to the
breaking out of the war, and it is said
that not one of the lot ever owned so much
as a single slave.
Has the widowed clerk told the story
on the young lady at the Department?
No, the widowed clerk is lady born and
bred. but she as the wife of an old soldier
goes on working hard for her bread. and
the niece of Jackson, the slayer of ELS
worth. fans herself and bemoans her hard
lot-which as it now develops would have
been to end her days in the little tavern
Or inn across the Chain Bridge.
The Labor Unions and the Government
Printing Office officials are after each
other tooth and toenail." the trouble CEN
tering in the man named Miller, who was
fred by the Government Printer. because
ne had previously been fred by the Labor
Union. The President informed the Labor
Unions that they could not run the
Government service, and ordered Miller
-einstated. The Book binders Onion has
taken umbrage at this act of the Pres- |
lent, and threatens to get busy doing
-hings to Miller and to the President very
soon.
1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody good. |
The scrap that has been going on over
Miller has drawn attention to the fearful |
y antiquated methods OF setting type in |
he Government Printing Office. and it is |
more than probable that typesetting ma
.hines will be introduced in this greatest
in the world. There are now |
lbout 5000 typesetters employed in the |
Government Printing Office It is said |
hat the work could be done by quarter |
hat many by the machines. OF course. |
he President has the best of the situa-
ion, but it will be interesting to know
lust what the Bookbinders' Unions will |
10 about it ALL
There are wise ones who say that the |
md Of the clutch that the La Dor Unions |
lave held on the Government Printing |
Office is in sight There is no doubt at |
Ill that the Unions have kept many good |
men out of the Government Printing Of |
ice, which ought not to bar them from |
he printing office, but was taken by the |
Public Printer to act as a bar Now all |
his has been changed. One reason for |
that the change is working is |
hat the women bookbinders, who have
formed Unions of their own ara pnu- Jro,, |