The Washington herald., 1907-10-30

funny as it sounds, especially If YOU
happen to be the shoeless person. as Miss
/ VIII Allen Dromgoole, the Tennessee,
/ author, can testify. For that is Just
what Miss DromgOle did. She was on
/ her way 70 a Southern town while ON one
/ OF her reading tours. and when she
stopped over a little while in q West
Tennessee city TO change ears the loss
/ OF her footgear was discovered. The story
leaked out through a cIubwoman who was
hastily called from her breakfast 10 the
telephone 10 hear a sweet, faint little
voice asking. rs that Mrs. Y? Oh. Mrs
y, this is VIII Allen Dromgoole; 1
want but the club member here in
terrupted with, Il didn't know you were
in town. When did you come? Can't
YOU come over and see me?' No. I cant
come anywhere" came the forlorn an
swer. Il am in trouble and want your
help why, certainly my dear. what
IS it, was the ready response. .Tben
please send me a pair Of shoes" was the
startling answer. Shoes. shOesr" par
roted the club member, and then Miss
Dromgoole explained that her shoes had
been spirited away the night before when
the sleepy-headed porter had taken them
into the rear car 20 clean. and had been
switched OFF somewhere up in Kentucky
The laughing club member Immediately
called her carriage and drove post haste
TO the depot, taking shoes 10 the dis
consulate little writer; not the club mem
ber's own shoes, however, bat a pair
belonging TO her little ten-vear-oI5
daughter, for Miss Dromgoole's Zoo; is
one that Cinderella herself might envy
The depot was reached before the south
bound train left. The author douned the
little girls shoes. while the benevolent
club member drove laughingly home and
wondered If Miss Dromgoole would have
time to make connection with her trunk
before her lecture that afternoon or
have to appear on the stage in a pair of
child's pumps.
That It pays TO write your name in
hurry sometimes is illustrated in the case
Of Third Assistant Postmaster General
Lawshe. lie entered the government
service years ago, and went in the Office
OF the auditor for the Post-offica Depart
ment- He was able TO sign his name
with such speed and IegibHlty that he
managed to have his stun off before anv
Of the others OF his associates. This
spelled promotion for him. and later he
found himself going 10 the Philippines I'm
the capacity of auditor. So we'll did he
do his work that when the administra-
ton concluded that Edwin G. Madden
had better be parted from his Job as
third assistant, Lawshe was the man
they chose 10 take his place. And il
was his ability to sign his name I'm a
hurry that got him the promotions lead
ing 10 his present position. He is to-day
about the most rapid signature writer of
all those higher up IN the government
service.
Signing ones name once or dozen
times does not mean much But writing
u many hundred times a day become. a
burden, and government officials try to
shorten IL as much as possible. since
they cannot delegate the task 70 another
WIN per 90 il. neither can they
use rubber stamp. When President
Roosevelt came into the White House he
signed everything out to its fullest
theodore Roosevelt. But the Job gradu-
any grew lTksome even TO him, and now
except IN most important documents. he
puts it down T. Roosevelt.
when telegram from the President
and a cablegram from Secretary Taft nut |
stop 10 the Grant Memorial Commits /
sion's plan of cutting down the famous
Crittenden peace oak in Washington
there was no happier man in the ritv
than William R. Smith, superintendent |
Of the Botanic Gardens. There are fav
trees so dear TO the ardent Scotchmau's |
heart as this one, and he admired few
men as ne did John j. Crittenden. the /
KENTUCKY Senator who gave him the
tree. FROM time TO time favored ones /
nave received young plants raised from
the acornS Of this tree, and all through /
out the country there are bits of shade /
that owe their origin TO his forethouebt
or to his wish for perpetuating everv- /
where the memory Of his friend.
When the first trees We're being dis
tributed, a certain Southern Congress /
man, whom Smith cordially dislfked in /
sisted on having some trees. and ever.
after they had grown UP he was con /
stantly bombarding the Botanic Gardens |
with queries as TO their care and culti- /
7ation. When they bore the first acorns /
Smith was asked by the irrepressible /
Are the acorns good for /
pigs TO eat?'i And my patience was en- 1
says Smith, in telling the 1
story that il was all I could do to keen /
rom answering, Yes, eat EN-. Eat
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