Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19

up reports OF different phases OF sociology One of
his achievements, it is now recalled, to insert
an advertisement in newspaper soliciting CORE
spondence The letters received by him formed the
basis OF much interesting speculation; but the Gov
subsequently recalled The official title of the
author was that of specialist in education as
prevention of pauperism and crime" for which
work he received salary OF eighteen hundred
dollars year.
A man of great value to the Government is the
ink maker, attached to the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing whose duty it is to experiment with
samples and produce an ink which will answer the
purposes in printing paper money and Government
stamps
Then there was until recently an artist in
the Navy Department who made pictures of war
ships IN water color and oil. Some of these were
framed and exhibited in the various bureaus of the
department; Others were used in illustrating of
fetal reports notably the Records of the Union
and Confederate Navies of the War of the Re-
beion.''
A Writer of Death Notices
THERE is other work of an unusual character
j upon which Government EMPLOYEES are engaged
list of these positions which out of the ordinary
would not be complete unless included the obituary
writer of the army, formerly actively employed
the general orders annonen Nc the death 5ne o.
nent officers and compiling bulletins describing the
career of those entitled to the Distinction the picture
book man, army officer who has been compiling
Photographic history of the War with Spain,
who had charge of a well equipped photographers
plant for the reproduction of innumerable snap
SuOCS, Lie press agents VINO are aLLacneQ 10 the
various executive departments who usually in con-
junction with other work. make abstracts of reports
and prepare statements which desired for crcu-
latlon through the newspapers.
Then there is the one entitled the Father Time =
OF the Government the keeper of the clocks who has
the contract to make tour of the departments and
keep the timepieces in repair and up to standard
OF accuracy; the official Beau Brunmel, usually an
attache of the State Department who settles all the
exacting questions of personal and official prece-
dence, and keeps the President, cabinet members.
and Others who must entertain from making awl-
ward errors; the scrapbook makers who read the
newspapers, and clip out articles and paragraphs of
interest to the departments where they employed
and preserve the clippings for reference in ndexed
volumes.
Another list OF employees might be known as the
human megaphones of the Government, those
vociferous men who are officially known reading
clerk of the House of Representatives and Senate.
whose duty it is read the bills and reports to the
legislative assemblies, and to whose clarion notes
nobody usually pays any attention; the manager
OF the bug factory the expert who cutvates insects
in the Department of Agriculture with view to
determining which of them are menaces to farm
and forest, and ascertainng the best and quickest
means of DISCRIMINATING the pest; the chair DOCTOR
who is employed to exercise his trade of carpentry
in restoring damaged furniture to usefulness, and
who probably in his modest way saves many times
his honest wage