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A MONG the appropriations made for
y S'51s ss 2 ,e' e q: sa
department where the greatest
amount OF money is used for print
ing. progress has been made in prac-
teal reform the machinery for the
reform being wel-organized and
capable division Of printing or publ
cation The consolidation OF all the
publication and printing work was one of
the ideas that the first Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor had clearly in mind AS
IL well known, the department is younger
than some OF its component parts. many Of
its bureaus having long exercised some
OF the most important functions of the
executive branch OF the government. 1t
might well be called the department OF
economy and sociology, for the bureaus of
the census statistics, labor, immigration.
navigation, corporations and manufactures
collate the facts that are basic in true
study of the nations growth. and without
which intelligent legislation or social reform
would be impossible.
The printing reform which would cut
down the publishing b.ll OF such bureaus
without discriminating carefully between
the valuable and the superfiuous would
be penny wise. Cheerful cooperation on
the part OF the bureau chiefs is absolutely
essential, and Secretary Metcalf has IL In the
printing work OF his department. Otherwise
the publishing bill would not have been cut
from 100000 TO $4,000 In 1905 and to
$3.50 600 In 1906 The agency through which
this saving is accomplished is the division
OF printing, which keeps g careful watch on
all the printing work OF the department
Printing in this sense means not only the
books and pamphlets which are handled by
the public, but also the printed stationery
blank books and forms that are necessary
I'm an establishment with 10000 employees.
The requisites for chief Of such d.
vision are that he be a practical man in
the double sense OF being an experienced
printer and the possessor OF that most
uncommon OF attributes called common
sense" In DR.. George c. Havenner the
position found the man, and be was called
TO organize the division OF printing In April,
1908 II is said to be one OF the hardest
worked divisions in the executive civil
service yet IL Is the verdict of the men
who are best acquainted with II that the
work Is uniformly well done.
Work in the division of printing Is divided
into editing, supplying printed stationery
and blank forms. and keeping track OF the
departments expenditures for printing
and binding The editing is done by men
who have served apprenticeships In the
school OF experience. From the hands of
the experts in the bureaus copy comes to
these men VINO are specialists only In the
typography and common sense. In other
words, copy here undergoeS such scrutiny
the printed page cannot escape at the
hands or the public. and of the more criti-
cal readers who pass Judgment on the gen.
eral character OF publication before
deciding what credit 10 give it's
statements OF fact IL is one of the
commonplace OF literary and scientific crit
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printing in making its recommendations for
future publications. Study and work are
the components of any real reform or ad-
vance, and the editors are not only doing
q great amount of work, but they are
doing 1t inteIligently, for they are study
ing ali the time the principles of real econ
onay in public printing.
All the printed stationery, printed forms
and blank books used by the bureaus in
Washington and the offices of the naviga-
ton. immigration, steamboat inspection and
lighthouse services outside the city; as
well as the blanks for returns to the Vari-
GUS bureaus, are sent from this division.
Excepting the bureau of the census not an
"em'' of printing is done for the depart
ment, but passes through the division or
printing and is kept track of there.
*
Any one who has tried both plans knows
that there is no more effective check on the
expenditure of money than keeping
"cash account" In the departments this
rule for the individual is magnified into
one of the utmost Importance. Congress
appropriates a certain amount of money
for printing and binding in the Department
of Commerce and Labor, and out of that
amount Secretary Metcalf must apportion
the shares of each bureau. Every week
new conditions arise that make necessary
some change of plans for publishing, ana TO
meet these exigencies definite icea or now
much money has been spent is highly inn
portant. BY the system in use in his de-
partment, Secretary Metcalf can know at
any time Just how much money has been
spent for department printing. what 1t has
been spent for, and what the work planned
in advance will cost The value of such
plan Is evident to business man, and the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor and the
chief of his division Of printing seem TO De
business men.
The work of the division of printing of the
department of commerce and labor IS
praiseworthy not only in ITSELF but in hav-
Ing blazed the way for economy In de-
partmental printing.
The thing that makes 1t possible for
my division to do good work, and that
makes hard work g. pleasure" said DR..
Havenner, is that we have the strong
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A NEW REFUGE
FOR EMBEZZLERS
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS. July %. 1906.
T HE waiting game" is still a pop
ular policy with the French po-
lice. Some months ago Paris de-
tectiyes chased young French embezzler
into Greece. and found him protected from
extraditiOn by the authorities, whom NJ
paid well so they quietly sat down and
waited for the criminal TO spend all his
stolen money. Then. when he had 20 move
away and crossed into Italy. the detectives
arrested him and brought him here.
Ferdinand Bolle. aged twenty-four, was
a clerk in the Societe Generate Bank II,
received notice Of discharge just at the
time thai every one was talking Of JcaT
Galaxy, the bank clerk baron" and Nile
Mehelli. Bolle said to himself: "YYhy should
l not initiate this Gallay?' So he began
to fill in checks and forge signatures IN
few days he cashed in $4,000 Then he lef.
Paris with his mistress. The couple fed 70
Corfu and took a charming and luxurious
villa: They began to have gay time.
Bolle foolishly wrote to some friends H.
Paris. detailing the lively life he was lead
ing The police were waiting for jus, such
letters, and two detectives. armed witt
the necessary papers, Immediately went L.
Corfu.
When they called on Bolle ne introduced
them to his fair companion and feted them
But he refused to return to France. Tn
detectives. when they tried 10 eXtraditc
him, found that the authorities were pro
tecting Bolle. They appealed TO the Greel
minister Of the interior and to the chief o.
police of Corfu. but received only promises
Then the French ambassador took a hand
This resulted in Bolle and his companion
being expelled that particular village the
authorities OF which were dismissed.
But the fugitive merely moved on TO tho
next village and took another villa. Tho
French detectives thereupon telegrapheG
that until Bolle had spent all his money ar
arrest was impossible. They were then
ordered to wait. like patience on a nonu
ment. until the bank clerk had run through
his last dollar. Bolle was spending mones
like a Millionaire. and for five weeks the
two detectives went fishing. smoked and
slept and enjoyed themselves.
When Bolle finally came to the end O
his stolen spoils he and his companion took
a little coast steamer to Brindisi. The de-
tectives awaited them on arrival arrested
Bolle and quickly got extradition.
On arrival in Paris Bolle and the detec-
tives told their stories to Examining Mag
istrate Berr. Bolie made full confession
He declared tat the Greek authoritiea
knew he was thief. and made him pay
a heavy sum each day for protection from
arres.
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Winners of Prizes.

him to her own particular man. Then
everything he does and says becomes of
Importance to her She Is careful not to
miss word" For the same reason he
sees to 1t that his heroine has a bit of
every girl in her. Generally speaking she
is a cross between Romola and Dora Cop
perfeld. His novels command enormous
sales. The women say he draws a man
to life but does not know much about
women. The men like his women, but
think his men are stupid. OF another ia
nous author no woman of my acquaintance
is able to speak highly enough. They tell
me his knowledge of their sex is simply
marvellous; his insight, his understanding
of them, almost uncanny. Thinking 1t
might prove useful, L made an exhaustive
study of his books. 1 noticed that his
women were, without exception, brilliant,
charming creatures, possessed OF the wit
of a Lady Wortley Montagu. combined
with the wisdom of George Eliot. They
were not all of them good women but all
of them were clever, and all of them were
fascinating. 1 came to the conclusion that
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Queer Story of a
Shattered Mausoleum
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, July q, 1906
TNGLAND's quaintest and perhaps old
r est church came into the lime
light of news last week through
al ecclesiastical suit brought against the
rector, who is charged with selling burial
plots in his garden and pocketing the
money
Perivale Church Is near Ealing. It is
tiny structure, built soon after William the
COnqueror landed in Britain It's records
run from the twelfth century. There are
only five houses In the entire parish, and
the population, including the rector and
his family and servants, numbers only
forty-sixs The rector's garden adjoins the
little cemetery, which has room for 1882
graves, all Of which have been filed, and
SO2 Of which are distinctly visible
There is a little story connected with one
OF the graves. A Countess Of Castle Bar.
who lived some hundred years ago, was
decidedly lively woman. In fact she was
called wicked, and all the people said she
would never reach heaven. On her death
bed She ordered a tomb of huge block OF
stone to be constructed over her grave
and told her friends to watch Ii. II mes
sages could be sent from the hereafter she
would signal them by means of the tomb.
If she went to heaven 1t would remain in
tact, but IL she got to hades the tomb
would be split asunder. The tomb is still
to be seen in the churchyard 1t Is a ruin.
The gigantic stones split asunder and
trees are shrubs are growing In the cracks.
According to the tale, these cracks first
appeared soon after the countess was
buried.
The case of the rector and the graves
came before consistory court held In St.
Pauis Cathedral by DIR. Tristram. chancel-
Tor of the diocese of London. The charge
was made in a most roundabout way, for
1t was brought out in an application TO
confirm the grant of burial space in
Periyale churchyard 10 Nine. Emily de
Romano. a non-parisfhoner. The rector
proved that the custom OF allowing nom
parishioners to be buried in Perivale dated
back several hundred years. He also
showed that the garden and grounds were
the absolute property of the rector during
his incumbency. The churchyard being
full he cut of a poidon Of the back gar
den and added Il as graveyard
His opponents said he had made mar
ket of the burial ground for years, and
had pocketed thousands of dollars.
The chancellor sent the case up to the
highest ecclesiastical court. because he said
ii was an important one. and the first or It's
kind in the history of the church in Eng
land.
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and usefulness Is the motive of all the
work done by the department editors
When one of the editors is convinced that
the publication can be bettered by some
radical change, he makes a recommended
ton to the chief of the division who takes
the matter up with the bureau, sending in
the copy, or with the department committee
on print ting, composed of Assistant Secre-
tary Murray, Chief Clerk Rossiter of the
bureau of the census, and DR.. Havenner.
The result is usually satisfactory to all
concerned, and 1t seldom fails of being
more economical than the plan of publica-
ton first proposed. 1t is not alone on the
copy for new publications, however, that
the division of printing bases It's recon-
mendations for economy. Every book is
sued by the department Is closely
studied and data are compiled to be
used by the department committee on
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childish thoughts. his great longings would
have been impressed upon you. The father
might have had a dash Of humor in him
The mothers early girlhood might have
lent itself TO pretty writing. For the ice
we would have had a mysterious lake II
a wood-said to be haunted. The 10,
would have loved o twilights 10 stanL
upon its margin He would have hearl
strange voices calling to him. You woulC
have felt the thing was coming. So mucL
might have been done. When / think o.
that plot wasted I'm nine words IL make.
me positively angry And what is to be
come of US writers If this is TO be the new
fashion in literature? We are paid by tn,
length of our manuscript at rates from.
half a crown a thousand words and up
ward. In the case of fellows like Doyl,
and Kipling / am told II runs into pounds
How are we to live novels the sera
rights of which TO most of us will work GU;
at four and sixpence? II can't be done
1t is no good telling me you can see No
reason why we should live That's no an
swer. That's silly. I'm talking plain bust
ness, and what about book rights? VINO
is going to buy novels of three pages
They viii have to be printed as leattet
and sold at a penny dozen. This thing
is worrying me.
JEROME X. JEROME.
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seeing it is stated that she is a girl. But
navbe this is carping. There are young
girls and old girls Perhaps it is as well
to have il in black and white. She was
Young. She was an American young glrl.
There is only one American young girl IN
English fiction. We know by heart the I'M
conventional things that she VIII 90. the
startlingly original things that she VIII
saw the fresh, Illuminating thoughts that
viii come to her, as clad in a loose robe OF
rorna soft. clingfng stuff she sits before
the FIRE in the solitude OF her own room
To complete her. she had an elusive ex-
nression.' The days when we USED 10
Catalogue our heroines points are past
Formerly it was possible. The man wrote,
nerhaDs some half dozen novels curing
the whole OF his career. He could nave
DARK girl for the first, light glrl LOT the
second picture you a merry little wench
for the third and draw you something
sto4eIv for the fourth. Nowadays, when a
y1a1 turns out novel and six snort stories
once q wear description has 10 De vague.
II fs not the fault of the author: Ihere
is not enough variety In the sex we USED
- Introduce her thus: Imagine TO your
self dear reader. an exquisite ana gracious
creature OF five feet three-her golden mar
~ tbat necIliar shade
1Jare would follow directions enabling the
a. 10 work it out for himself. lie was
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his lady critics were correct. He did I'M
derstand women.
x
The second chapter. it appeared, trans
ported us to Yorkshire. where Basil Long
Heat. a typical young Englishman. lately
returned from college, resides with his
widowed mother and two sisters. They
are a delightful family" What a world Of
trouble to both writer and reader is here
saved. "A typical young Englishman." The
author probably wrote five pages elabo-
rating that youth. The subeditor with Ave
words presents him to me clearer. i see
him positively gllstening from the effects
of soap and water. I see his clear blue
eye. his fair, crisp locks. the natural curli-
ness of which annoys him personally.
though alluring to everybody else his
frank, winning. boyish smile. He has
lately returned from college That tells
me that he Is a first-class cricketer and
first-class rover. 1t doesn't tell me much
about his brain power, / confess. The de-
scription of him as a typical young Eng
lishnen'' suggests more information In this
particular point One assumes that the
American girl with the elusive express
sion" is going to have sufficient for both.
They are delightful family"
X
The subeditor does not say So but I i'm
agine the two sisters are likewise typical
young Englishwomen. They ride and shoot
and cook and make their own dresses.
The third chapter is taken up with the
humors of local cricket match" Thank
you, Mr.. Subedltor; l feel | owe you graft
tude. In the fourth, Ursula Bart II was
beginning TO get anxious about herr turns
up again. She is staying at the useful
Lady Mary's place In Yorkshire. She meets
Basil by accident one morning while riding
alone That is the advantage Of having an
American girl for your heroine Like the
British army she goes anywhere and does
anything In chapter i've Basil and Ur-
sula meet again, this time at a picnic. The
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King Alfonso and the Anarchist.

From lie Figaro. Paris.
King Alfonso entered a tobacco shop al
La Granja the other morning TO buy sonne.
cigarettes. In the shadow he perceived
one OF the anarchists who had been ar
rested for the outrage In the Gale Mayor
and addressed him smilingly. The an
archist, who was very confused did not
know what to say. but the young king
completely treasured him, pressing his
hand, and excusing the police. who often
he said, arrested innocent people. Then
King Alfonso took rose from the queens
bouquet and offered il to the poor devil.
who was melted In tears.
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Candidate with "a Divine Call. .

Hoke Smith is suspected of having lot
of hired whoopers travelling over Georgia.
trying to work up fictitious boom for him.
Athens has received several visits from
thes paid rooters, but they are soon spot
ted Some pretend to be book agents or
peddlers; but II you will remain quiet you
will see them lose no time In branching out
on Hoke and telling you how he IL going TO
carry every county in Georgia. These mis-
cradle creatures are paid to circulate false
Information and try to mislsad and bamboo
NE the people
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THE BRIGHT AND INTELLIGENT
SUBEDlTOR.
Il down with the Idea OF seeing into how
many different forms ii can be made to go.
II looks clever. As a matter of fact, it is
extremely easy. BE virtuous and you
will be happy" She jots down all the
possible variations. BE Yirtuous and you
will be unhappy" BE vlrtuous and your
friends will be happy, II you are not"
Better but not wicked enough. Let's try
again: BE happy and people will jump
10 the conclusion that you are virtuous."
That's good. I'll try that one at to-
morrow's party" She IS a painstaking
LADY. one feels that. better advised. she
might have been of use In the world.
There is a disgraceful old peer who tells
naughty stories but Is good at heart. and
a very rude person. Occasionally a slangy
girl is included, and clergyman who takes
the heroine aside and talks sense to her.
favored with eplgram. All these people
talk a mixture of Lord Chesterfield and
Oliver Wendell Holmes of Heiue, Voltaire,
Nine. de Stael and the late lamented II. ].
Byron How they do II beats me-" as l
lady confess to her friend while witness
ing the performance of troupe OF contor-
tionists calling themselves The Boneless
Wonders OF the Universe
*
1T is at this gathering" the synopsis
added, that Ursula Bart, charming and
unsophsticated American girl. possessed of
an elusive expression. makes her first ac-
ouaintance with London society" Here
you have a weeks unnecessary work on
the part of the author boiled down to its
essentials. She was young One hardly
expects an elderly heroine. The young"
might have been dispensed with, especially
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DIVISION OF PRINTING IN
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

ieism that errors which escape the eye OF
the author or compiler are readily detected
by a reader who relies entirely on the text
for his Information on the subject dis
ci,ssed Critical reading of manuscript by
the division of printing has frequently re-
suited in pages and sometimes sections be
ing condensed or entirely omitted from vol
Ilrnes as published. In every instance the
effect has been not alone to save money on
the printers bill, but also TO strengthen the
publication. This double idea of economy
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subeditor does not wish to repeat himself
otherwise he probably would have summed
up chapter by saying It Was taken o.
with the humors OF the usual picnic II
chapter something happens. Basil
returning late one day. comes across Cr-
sula Bart In a lonely part OF the moor
talking earnestly 70 rough-looking stran
ger. His approach across the soft tar
being unnotieed. he cannot help overhear
ing Ursulas parting words: Il must
YOU again. Tomorrow night at half-pas
9. In the gateway OF the ruined abbey
Who is hef And why must Ursula NEE
him again at such an hour. In such spot
-
So here, at the cost OF reading twcnt
lines. l am landed. so to speak. at a..
beginning OF the seventh chapter. ~
for taking the trouble 10 read 1t throug
for myself my kindly guide. the subedlto;
has spoiled me You read IT, l want
say to him. Tell me what It's all aboJ
tomorrow Who was this bOUnder2 Wa
did she want 10 see him AGAIN. WI
choose a drafty place? Why half-past .
o'clock at night. which must have been a.
awkward time for both OF them-like &
lead to talk? Why should l wade throug
three columns and a half? It's your Wori
What are you paid forT' My fear Is tina
this sort OF thing viii lead TO a demand o.
the part of the public for condensed novels
What busy man is going 20 spend wee.
of evenings reading a book when mic
young subeditor is willing IN five minute
to tell him the whole history Then Their.
will come a day. feel it-when the bus
ness-like editor will say to himself; VIVA
in thunder is the sense OF paying one man
to write story Of G0Oo0 words and an
other man to read II and tell it again ia
1900? We shall be expected to write Oh
novels in chapters not exceeding twenty
words Our short stories viii be reduce.
to the formula; Little boy Pair of skates
Broken ice. Heavens gates.
Formerly an author commissioned 20 sup
ply child's tragedy OF this kind for Say
a Christmas number would have spun
out into 5000 words. Personally. 1 should
have commenced the previous spring am
given the reader the summer and the au-
tumn TO get accustomed to the boy. H.
would have been a good boy. the sort o.
boy that makes a Decline for the thiuncs
ice He would have lived in a cottage.
could have spread that cottage over two
pageS-tne things that grew in the gar
den, the view from the front door. No"
would have known that boy before l hat
done with him-felt that you had know
him all your life His quaint sayings. his
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backing of Secretary MetcaIf and Assistant
Secretary Murray, and the hearty co-opera-
ton Of all the bureau chiefs
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Nowadays we content ourselves-and our
readers also, 1 am inclined to think-da sh-
ing her off with a few bold strokes. We
say that when she entered room there
came to one dreams of an old world gar
den, the echo of far-off bells or that her
presence brought with it the scent of holly
hooks and thyme. In the case of the home
ly girl / don't see why we should not Dor
row from Mr.. Pickwick's experience and
define her by saying that in some subtle
chops and tomato sauce If we desire to
be exact we mention, as this particular
author seems to have done. that she had
an elusive expression" A wise friend
OF mine who knows his business describes
his hero invariably in the vaguest terms.
He will not even tell you If the be
tall or short clean-shaven or bearded.
Make the fellow nice" is his advice.
LET every woman reader he able TO liken