The National tribune., 1907-10-24

just prepared for the Department of
Agriculture that 10 cents worth of pea
nuts contains more than twice the pro-
tein and six times the amount of energy
contained in a porterhouse steak. The
work of Prof. Jaffa in this instance was
carried on in answer to a request from
the United States Government.
There was CONSERVATION at the Bu-
reau of Printing and Engraving the
other night. A Gle used in connection
with printing National bank notes got
lost. The die bore only the word 'Mul-
1en," and was used to fill in on a plate
the line of THE National Bank of -
borne on such notes. The die was very
small. 1t was taken from the vaults
in the morning, and charged by the
employe who gave it out to the man
who took it, but not to himself as the
deliverer of it. When the books were
balanced at o'clock in the afternoon
the die could not be accounted for, and
Mr.. Thomas J. Sullivan, Director of the
Bureau, held all the employees of the
Engraving Division while a careful
search was made. At 6 o'clock no traces
of the die had been found, and permis-
sion was received from the Treasury
Department for the employees to go
home, continuation of the investigation
being put off until morning. The die
was valueless, but no part of the equip
ment of the Bureau, however slight its
Importance may seem, is permitted to
remain unaceounted for, hence the
painstaking nature of the search.
And now it is Brig. Gen. Franklin
Bell who is at the famous Muldoon rest
cure fad getting himself fixed up for
the Winters strenuous labors. When
Gen. Bell reached the sanitarfum he un-
dertook none of the active routine, COM
plete rest being the only treatment pre-
scribed for him. AS he improved he
took the lighter forms of exercise. and,
according to word from the sanitarium
he is now going thru all the PAGES set
for the more vigorous patients. He oc-
cupies the apartment that was used
last by Secretary Root.
Gen. Bell was ill only from overwork
it is reported, and the hardening process
he will undergo the next two weeks
will put him in fine condition. Gen
Bell is in his SD year, and is at the
head of the Army list. He will remain
at the sanitarium until Nov. l.
Hereafter the jack-tars of Uncle
Sans Navy need have no fear that
the food and rations which are doled
out to them will be anything but the
DcSl- lUdl sotdtcS may
be assured of having nothing that is
not absolutely pure on their mess ta-
bles. Secretary Metcaf has made ar
rangements with that enemy of disease,
DR.. Wiley, for food tests to be made by
the Department of Agriculture on naval
supplies similar to those made for the
bettering of mess conditions in the
Army.
Paymaster Du Bois has been called
from duty on the battleship Missouri
for duty under DR.. Wiley. He will take
a course in food chemistry under the
Governments food expert so that he
may know all the ingredients contained
in the supplies purchased for the Unit
ed States Navy.
The Turkish Legation is to be raised
to an Embassy with the arrival of the
newly-appointed Minister Mehemet Ali
Bey, who will succeed Chekib Bey. The
latter has been in Washington for six
years. Mehemet Ali Bey is expected to
arrive in Washington some time before
the opening of the season.
Mr. Lemuel Eli Quigg, who has made
himself famous by acknowledging that
he spent nearly a quarter of a mill
lion dollars to accelerate" public
opinion in New York in regard to the
subway, is well remembered in Wash
ington. He first came to the House of
Representatives in the 54th Congress,
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