The National tribune., 1909-10-28
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One of the wisest provisions that has
ever been made, SO far as the Govern
ment clerks are concerned, has just
been promulgated by the Department OF
Justice. Attorney-General Wickershau
has issued orders that the employees OF
that Department are not to receive ad
vances on their salaries between pay
days after Nov. 1. He thinks that en-
ployes ought to be able to get along
with their two pay days lnonth, as
provided by law, and he says that this
thing of running shy OF funds just after
pay day is not just the proper caper
and hereafter payments on account OF
salaries between pay days must have
the approval of the Attorney-f1eneral.
TNere seems to be an increasing dis
position in those who have stated sal
aries to allow themselves to run in
debt, knowing that they are bound to
have money enough to pay up on pay
day. When sickness comes and they
are laid up or when unexpected misfor-
tune desceDds upon them, then they
have nothing to fall back upon and run
deeper IN debt. If this matter OF paving
In advance were made the rule with
every Department clerk they would
soon learn to live within their salaries,
and would not have so much horror of
the stalking ghost. the loan shark" 1t
Certainly would be good thing for
everybody concerned II this practice
should be widened.
The Hannas-that is, the Mark Han
ma crowd-seem not to be altogether
happy in contracting their marriages.
1T Will be remembered that Dan Hanna
married and divorced his wife two or
three times, or she got a divorce. it
doesn't matter much which, and now
their son, who Is not OF age, has mar
ried very much against the wishes of
his mother. who has instituted legal
proceedings to annul the marriage.
Xoung Carl Hanna says that he Is going
age and his mother can cut off the sal
arled allowance, In all probability he
will wilt.
Countess de Buisseret. wife of the
recently appointed Minister from Bel
$ium. and the daughter Of Gen. John
p. Story, u. s. Army, has the most In
tsresting group Of children in the Diplo-
matte Corps. There are six sons, rang
ing from IS to three years, and all bear
historic titles, which have come down
20 their house from the day of Robert
Of Flanders. The Countess is remark
ably youthfuf-leoking. and is one of the
cleverest of the numerous American
chatelaines IN the foreign establish
ments of the National Capital. She is
G. convert to the Catholic faith. The
Belgium Government is about to build
handsome new legation house, and
she Will make a graceful hostess. Bel
sium is now one OF the few Nations
owning its establishment.
Word has just been received in this
country that Henry L. James, Secretary
of the American Embassy at Rio de
Janeiro, has married In Valparaiso a
Chilean woman noted for her beauty.
They sailed directly for the United
States.
The Agricultural Department is per-
fectly- competent to give everybody else
advice on how to raise corn and pota-
toes, grass and grains. watermelons and
watercress and all that sort of thing.
but 1t has not yet been able to innocu-
late the soil around the United States
Capitol SO as to make grass grow there.
There are portions of the Capitol lawn
that look like green velvet, and then
there are other portions of 1t that look
like the red clay knobs down in Geor-
gia, where the land Is so poor that 1t
won't even grow pines. For a number
Of years the Agricultural Department
has been recommending one thing and
another as fertilizer for this particular
strip of lawn. bnt nothing seems to help
the hard ground and make grass grow.
It Is now planned to plow all this land
Up this Winter and plant it in cowpeas,
70 put humus in the soil and tighten it
up so that grass will grow. so next
Spring the Government will have q fine
crop of cowpeas to harvest and sell.
After getting rid OF the cowpea crop
grass will be sown In the hopes that by
that time 1t can be made to grow.
Col. Henry r. Harris, eN-Representa-
tive in Congress and Third Assistant
Postmaster-General during the first
Cleveland Administration, died at his
home at Odessadale. Ga, last week,
after a lingering Illness. He was 81
years old.
Mrs. Taft. wife OF the President, has
arrived at the White House She was
accompanied by her sister. Mrs. More,
of California, and her physician. Mrs.
Taft is much improved In health, but 1t
will be several months before she is
really strong again. She will take very
little part In the early society festivities
at the White House. II is thought that
her sister win remain with her, and lift
most of the responsibility from her
shoulders Mrs. More can easily do all
this, and she Is very well liked in Wash
ington society. but she cannot stand in
line with the President at the State
functions. Mrs Taft must take that
place herself. OF IL goes to the wife of
the Vice President Mrs. Taft was able
to walk across Lafayette Park to st.
Johns to church Sunday morning and
She attended the tfIeater Monday night.
Is visiting the National Capital. Is the
kind of a man who stands up for home
Industries. He Is in love with Portland,
and he wants the world 10 know It
He talks right Of the bat about Its Inn
portance as a city, its growth and Its
wealth, as well as It's climate and its
beauty. He says:
''3ss s3se ceasas az 2S9a Portland was
given q population OF $4,000. Accord
ang TO three different sources of in
formation, Portland to-day has q pOpU-
lati0n of 3ee.0o0. These sources are
the City Directory, the Post Office and
the Public School Board. This great
increase in the growth OF Portland will
give you some idea of the way the city
is booming. The Portland Exposition,
of course, had a lot to do with the big
increase in our population, and the
Seattle Fair has helped also. as 1t hak
every other city on the Pacific Coast
Once a person goes into that country
he doesn't want to live anywhere else
I went from New York ~ years ago
and 1 shall never leave the Pacific