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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-01

Gus beauX you are going around with,
to separate us. know who it is, and
! know Why. LEONE, dear, we must
outwit these plotters. Whisper. dear,
and the interview wound UP in an ex-
cuIsion to a near by city, and then
Vane went bGck to his work.
About tnQt same time, too, in a
/ gleeful chuckling way Lawyer Thack.
er informed Mr. Trench that the
track was clear" that young DensloW
had broken with his tiancee, and
everything was coming their way"
Their way" meant the introduc.
ton one evening at the sumptuous
Trench home Of Vane to his uncle's
ward, Miss Dolly Nellis. Vane found
her to be dear little doll of a child,
who knew little Of the world except
seminary life and her dear, dear girl
friends! Old Trent chuckled gaily as
he managed to leave them alone in
the garden. He rubbed his hands
gleefully. 1t meant good many
thousands a year to him to keep the
Nellis estate in the family.
Dolly made sure chat her guardian
was out of hearing as she sat down
on a rustic bench. She was very pref.
ty, had a gentle, confiding nature,
but was gushing and somewhat affect
ed She clasped her hands suddenly
and fixed her dove-like eyes on Vane.
"Mr. Denslow," she whispered in
flutteripg tone, "are we all, all alone"
II think we are, Miss Nellis." re-
piled vane wonderingly.
Can I tell you q dreadful. dread
full secret?" she wavered.
II shall be honored by your conf
dence," intimated Vane.
"Then-then, oh, dear! hope 1t
won't break your heart, but IL am
engaged"
II must congratulate you"
"Oh. l am SO glad" gushed the fair
Dolly. you are all that Guardy said,
a splendid handsome young man. but
have promised my dearest school.
girl friend, Nettie Danvers, to marry
her dear brother, Reginald, and think
how disappointed she would be II I
backed OUT"
you musn't-don't think Of it," ad-
vised Vane forcibly II see you know
Of Mr.. Trench's scheme to have me
marry your fortune. I will tell you
secret, dear Miss Nellie. am already
married."
II could almost kiss you for de-
light" cried Dolly. Il will your wife,
when I meet her. Oh, am SO lap
py!"
When old man Trench learned how
his nephew had outwitted him through
a secret marriage to LEONE at the
time his emissary Thacker was plot
ting to separate them. he wrote an
awful letter to Vane.
In a dignitied way the latter in.
formed him that the business he had
given him barely made up for what
he had robbed his father Of. If, how.
ever, Trench, Thacker & Co. felt that
they had in any way been circum-
vented, resulting in loss to their
prospects. Vane would set aside the
profits Of the business he had man
aged to build up wonderfully, and
would restore the original Investment
to his money loving relative.
Trench quieted down after this. As
to Dolly and Reginald, they eloped
under the very nose Of the old man.
go 1t was dire retribution for the
crafty schemers all around.
Copyright. 1918. by w. q. Chapman.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-01
Lesson of ExperIenca

I'll bet that that bridal couple
have been married before"
"Why?"
They've been living In the fat
above us for two weeks now and they
haven't started quarrel about each
others relatives yet"
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Each day there comes direct to the
Secretary's Office bag Of mail from the
White House. In usual practice mail
from the White House is not dealt with
directly by mails and files. 1t is con-
sidered a bit sacred. 1t Is the duty of
the private secretary to go over it with
care.
When Congress is i'm session probably
the most important matter in the presi-
dental bag will be bills which have pass
ed Congress affecting the department,
and which have been sent to the Presi-
dent for his signature. Before signing
he wants the departments view. So the
private secretary has the record of each
bill looked up and the report which the
department made on the bill examined.
II the bill is as recommended by the de-
partment all that remains Is for brief
approving report to be made to the Pres
ident; II 1t goes contrary to the depart
mental ideas a memorandum is prepared
setting forth the departments objections.
The Secretary has all this laid before
him and determines whether or not he
should ask the President to interpose a
veto. If he decides in the affirmative he
gathers up the record and goes to see
the President about it.
Other material found in the daily bag
from the White House will be for the
most part freak letters written to the
en- Of the insane. many Of them ad-
dressed to your Gracious Majesty"
but all referring in some way to the
business of the department to which
the White House has referred the
epistle. In all departments no matter
how freakish the letter, a serious and
courteous reply is sent to the writer
by minor of1cial. Occasionally a let
ter will be of sufficient consequence to
have a a., memorandum .an prepared on
can prepare a letter for the Presidents
signature, or for submission direct to
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to prevent a Secretary signing anything
he should not sign.
But even with these safeguards, things
go wrong occasionally. There. for ex-
ample was the incident during the first
week of the new administration when
Secretary Bryan affixed his signature to
a telegram congratulating the American
ambassador in Mexico, when Secretary
BRYAN had no desire to do anything OF
the sort This incident was the result
of a lost ''red tag
The red tag is in use in most depart
ments, although in some 1T has been
abandoned for a penciled note to the Sec
rotary attached TO the document to be
signed A red tag affixed to a letter by
a clip is a danger signal. 1t means:
stop. look. read before you sign, for
this is something that might get you In
bad unless you know precisely what 1t
is all about" In the Bryan case the
clip slipped and the red tag was lost.
The new Secretary of State signed the
telegram unknowingly along with lot
of routine documents.
X Il
one Visiting one of the executive de-
partments of the government. or even any
one of the bureaus into which each de-
partment is divided, might Well imagine
that most of Uncle Sans business IS
done directly with the persons interested.
Especially IL TINS true dt tliilc WHEN @
new administration has taken charge and
many patriots are on hand seeking con-
nection with the pay roll The swarm or
people to see the Secretary or the bureau
chief fills the reception room and some
times oyerfiows into the hall.
But the business done by personal In
terview is but a fraction of the business
done by mail. This is a government of
letter writing. The art of correspond
ence might be a lost art in private life.
but in public life it is much practiced
In each department there are expert let
ter writer's. who can do marvellous things
with the English language. Some of them
can write a perfectly good tWo-page let
ter without saying single thing. In
Justice however, il must be stated that
such letters are now rarity. The mod
ern tendency in all departments is to give
sidestep. Sidestepping entails prolonged
correspondence.
As a matter of fact, the most impor-
tant business the government, through its
executive departments. does with the citi-
Zens is by correspondence. Personal caHs
in most cases result finally in letter writ
ing, for ii is automatic that all important
transactions should be reduced to writ
ing.
In the early days of the government a
cumbersome system was introduced of
copying by hand in books all letters re-
ceived and also copying in books all an
swers. Mechanical copying processes
succeeded this method and bit by bit
modern fling systems took the place Of
old and complicated schemes in vogue in
the different departments.
But business increased at more rapid
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followers. had hell wherein the
wicked soul was spread prone upon a
bed of blazing embers, with bedclothes
or the same material When the soul
Of red-hot iron
The Buddists of China and Ceylon
were content with no less than q multi
phcity OF hells, six Of which were re-
served for the peculiarly wicked, pre-
sumably those SHINING against the holy
rites.
In the Zoroastrain religion, the DOOM
eu SOUS were condemned to sit for
ever In cold, dark lane. played over
py numberless Shiny scorpions.
future punishment as viewed in the
ciassice ages. was most vague: neither
bfeeh nor Roman, il would seem. had
any very definite ideas on the subject.
vi course, there was "Hades'-"the
place OF sishtlessness" or darkness.
winch was located somewhere be
meath. Tartarus was another place,
equally vague except as to it's locality
which is just 100000 miles below
New York. for Hesiod, oldest of Greek
poets. placed it at 81 000. 900 parasangs
'aoout two-thirds of mle) below the
earth. One had to cross a river to
get there. 1t is noticeable. by the way,
mat all hells, except the Christian,
have river in front of them. This
or penitentiary reserved for the pun
lshment of those who had offended
against the gods; mere ordinary sin
ners had no place there.
The hell of the ancient Hebrews was
somewhat extensive. 1.-The Land OF
Egypt" says Gedaliah, an ancient wise
man of that race. rs 400 square miles
that is. one-sixtieth the size of Ethiopia,
which Is one-sixtieth the size of the earth
The earth Is one-sixtieth the size of the
Garden of Eden, and the Garden of Eden
but one-sixtieth the size of gehenna,"
or hell. Reduced to modern equivalent.
that means that hell is about 800 times
as large the United States, The
cabalists held that this extensive tract
lay far to the north, and here lodged
devils and the souls of departed sinners,
together with earthquakes and thunder
storms There are five different vari-
cites of fire I'm gehenna, according to the
Talmud. each nicely adapted to the par
tcuiar kind OF wickedness affected by the
sinner while on earth. For those who
had led exceptionally evil lives there We're
provided two giant angels, stationed at
the opposite corners OF gehenna, who per-
petually tossed the souls of the hapiess
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tary-treasurer of the United Mine Work
ers of America, which position he held
for eight years, being reelected unani-
mous,y each year. John Mitchell was
president of the organization i'm those
days; Mr.. Wilson, the man who found
the ways and means TO prosecute the
work. How well he accomplished the task
Is history in labor circles.
-.
In 1906, while still holding he position
of international secretary treasurer of the
L. NJ. w. A.. he was elected as a demo-
crat as representative in Congress from
the fifteenth district Of PENNSYLVANIA.
comprising the counties of Clinton. Ly-
coming. Potter and Tioga. He was re-
elected in 1908 and 1910, but defeated in
1872
HIS defeat was one of those curious
freaks of politics, coming in an election
when democrats generally were succeed
ling republicans instead of a republican
succeeding democrat. 1t Is explainable
on the grounds of multitude OF candi-
dates and tickets i'm a district always
close. Mr.. Wilson was the candidate OF
the decorate and keystone parties; Mr..
kiess the candidate of the republican and
Washington parties.
While Mr.. Wilson received a total of
more votes than he had received i'm the
election of 1910. where he won. Mr.. kiess
received 56s more than he did, the re-
spective figures being: Wilson, 1855;
kiess, 14.211; the socialist candidate,
2,2s2. and the prohibition candidate S14.
While the Secretary takes a deep inter-
est in the work OF the bureau of naturali-
z&tion. he is inclined to talk less of that
than Of the activities of the bureau OF
labor.
1.-The immigration question" said he, lis
distinctly a labor question, since the inn
migration l. VS. are made not with refer
ence to the idle or rich persons who come
to this country, but with respect to the
workers. But in dealing with immigra-
ton matters. especially with the relation
to the admission or rejection of immi-
grants at our ports the Secretary sits in
what amounts to a judicial position. Ac-
cordingly. it would be unbeeomng for
me to talk a. this time of that subject"
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the President to let him dictate his
own letter.
1t will be noted that in all this sys-
tenn of handling incoming mail the
CHIEF effort has been to weed out the
wheat from the chafr. to keep from
bothering the head OF the department
with matters not I'm shape for final ac-
ton. This is absolutely necessary, for
there Is no harder worked man In the
country than the conscientious cabinet
OFFICER. There Is 30 much business that
requires action-aud Intelligent and
well-thought-out sction--by him that
the public service dstna uds that he be
relieved Of routine as much as possible.
Now as to outgoing mall, Not until
late in the day docs a secretary get q
chance to sign the matter which de-
mands his signature. Systems vary In
the departments, but the general rule
is as follows:
All day bureaus and subordinate
bodies in the department have been
sending In to the Secrstary's office let :
ters, papers. orders, reports and all the
many documents that require the
signature OF the Secretary In perron.
Some Of this has Original ted In the btu :
reau itself. some of IL liz merely In re-
Spouse to outside official or unofficial
inquiry. Each letter bears the initials
OF the man who dictated IL and OF the
officials who have approved II.
The private secretary carefully goes
over every item In the pile He finds
here proposed order submitted by bu-
reau chief that he suspects Is to further
the interests of that particular bureau
over another. He starts an inquiry on
this. Here is a letter prepared for the
Secretary's signature which is contrary
to what he knows to be the Secretary $
policy. He sends this back for revision
either with a memorandum or after a
telephone talk with the official respon-
sible. Here is a document which should
chief to the Secretary before the Secre-
tary signs. He consults with the chief
and fixes an hour for the conference
Here is another document which should
not be signed until there has been further
conference with another department He
arranges for that.
On what is left he posts himself thor
oughly, so that he may be able to eX-
plain to the Secretary, or to produce the
files and the necessary documents, all
about the matter.
Then, as the stream of visitors trickles
out. he takes the pile to the Secretary's
desk and they start work What about
this?" asks the Secretary. If the private
secretary's explanation is not satisfac-
tory the matter is laid aside until the
required information can be obtained.
In some departments this system is
varied. When signing time comes each
bureau chief comes in and explains every
paper in his own pile which he wants
the Secretary to sign.
The Secretary must be a man Of quick
decision IL he Is to be a success. He
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power has worked no change in his man
ners or habits. He lives simply and
little farm home at Blossburg. Pa. is
more attractive to him than the gayer
and statelier atmosphere Of official
Washington.
At Blossburg live his wife and nine chill
dren. Part of the time they spend in
Washington, but Mrs. Wilson's health is
not such as to permit her to remain here
permanently. One of the Secretary
daughters, Miss Agnes, however, is with
him much of the time. She was his sec
rotary when he was in Congress and al
ways has taken a deep interest in labor
matters and especially her fathers work.
Born at Blantyre, Scotland. Secretary
Wilson celebrated his fifty-first birthday
April last. When he was eight years
old his parents brought him to the United
States and settled in Tioga county, Pa.
When he was nine years old-in March.
lS1l-the Secretary became wage Garner
going to work in coal mine. When he
was eleven years old he was admitted to
half membership in the Mine Workers
Union. Thus he has to his credit halt
century of work for unionism.
He became leader among the miners
even before he reached manhood, and was
a national figure in the Miners Union as
early as 1885. In 1899. on behalf of the
miners of Tioga county, he took charge
of the situation resulting from a pro-
longed lockout. A change of managers
of a mine property and the abrogation by
the new maganer of the conference sys-
tenn, the establishment of which Mr.. Will
son had previously secured, resulted in a
lockout. For eight months and three
days the men were denied employment.
1t was long and bitter contest. Mr..
Wilson, steadily earnestly, wholeheart-
edly working to bring the opposing forces
together and to obtain the re-establish-
ment of the mutual agreement plan, at
times lost the confidence of some of the
more radical of the men he was leading.
Often this is the lot of the leader. But
he persisted and finally won-wOn for
himself and for the men as well. Since
then his position as one of the great rep
resentatives of organized labor in the
nation has been fully established.
In 1900 he became international Secre-
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must be able to look at every question
from all sides. He must not be the tool
of bureau chief. Bureau chiefs are
loyal. patriotic, earnest men. as a rule:
but they are human. No good bureau
chief but is firmly convinced that his
bureau is the most important bureau in
the government He wouldn't be a good
bureau chief IL he didn't think so. But
just as he has to keep his eye on his
own loyal division chiefs and have a
broader lookout on the work OF the bu-
reau than they have. SO must the Secre-
tary have a broader outlook on the work
OF his department than a bureau chief
can have
So much FOR the CORES pondence rou-
tine. The face-to-face business Is large
and important part OF departmental work
Aside from the office seekers, the Score
tary has To see frequently his own sub
ordinates for consultations; not "A DAY
PASSES. whether Congress Is in session or
not. that he does not have TO see a num-
bcr Of hardworking and energetic sena-
tors and representatives who have learned
that they can give much good service
10 their constituents by departmental as
by congressional activity.
Then there are private citizens who
have business OF large importance before
the department that requires personal
consultation. This government Of ours
touches the people on many sides and
intimately, and this brings many of them
to the capital. Conferences. hearings OF
contending interests some matter OF
departmental action, consultation with
other officers of the government and
finally, the daily, or twice a day talks
with the newspaper correspondents make
up busy Secretary's working hours
Senators. representatives and fellow cab
met officers have precedence in seeing A
Secretary always, they being "A part Of
the government. Most Secretaries work
in large rooms that permit the herding
in OF all these having precedence A few
Secretaries, however work in small rooms
and see only one at a time, but the mod
ern tendency is toward the large work
ing room.
The ordinary visitors. or those waiting
the hour of appointment. sit in an
outer chamber, where the private secre-
tary presides and when the press OF
callers is great weeds out the important
from the unimportant. 1t is no easy
task
Day after day the same sort of a throng
passes through the rooms: every visitor
with a distinct and earnest want and
most of them fated to hear the necessary
mo- from the Secretarys lips, If the Sec
rotary be ION the job" II is q throng
that grows embarrassing after n time
but the man-and there are some i'm Con-
gress like that-who can bring an atmos-
phere of good nature. a sympathetic un-
derstanding of departmental work, and
possibly a good, new but short story to
cheer the busy Secretary, into the place
always gets welcome His personality
relieves the tedium of the days toll.
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resentative Of organized labor in the
cabinet. No secret is made of the fact
that he was appointed very largely on
the recommendation OF Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation Of
Labor. But it is not as mere repre-
sentative of labor, but as the representa-
tive of the government in labor matters
that Secretary Wilson desires to be
known.
1.-The Secretary of Labor he declared.
"by the terms Of the act creating the
department Is empowered to act as me-
diator in disputes between labor and en-
here during my administration will be
to do all that I can to bring labor and
capital together in mutual conference.
such as have indicated. so that they
Secretary Wilson is q burly. big man,
clear-eyed and, full of health and
strength. In face and figure he would
make splendid model for Longfellow's
village blacksmith. In the eyes there
lie as brooding, thoughtful look. found
in the eyes of all those to whom the
Ills of humanity make an appeal. He
has been called practical idealist, and
the strong but tender expression of his
countenance shows why.
His gray hair kinks and curls close to
his scalp. The face Is round. with high
lights glinting of the polished rosiness
Of his high cheek bones, and with keen
blue eyes that carry a hint Of his Scotch
ancestry. Huge, muscular arms and
shoulders bulge under his coat, but he
carries himself with the lightness and
ease of the athletic, not the muscle
bound, man.
He is thoughtful in appearance, and
slow of speech. In his temporary Of
fees. behind door which bears a simple
linked sign Secretary" he sits and Is
tens to callers. His common attitude is
listening, not talking. He lets the visitor
do all the talking first, and then. not hur-
has to say.
All his life he has been a worker. His
recreation has been more work-for 9TH
ers, in his efforts to better the labor con-
ditions in the country. Simple Of life
and tastes, the acquisition Of place and
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sioner at it's head. The old bureau of
labor has become the bureau of labor
statistics, also headed. as formerly, by
d commissioner.
According to the Secretary's ideas, the
new department might well be called the
department of human effort. So broad, in
his opinion, is the labor question that it
takes in every effort of man.
industrial peace he said in further
explanation of his answer to the question
which opens this article, 'is both an
economic and sociological necessity. It is
not an idle dream. but a practical
possibility. The chief requirement in
achieving it is ability on the part of those
dealing with issues as they arise to put
themselves in the other fellows place: to
view the question from all sides fairly
and justly.
ITO a degree there is a partnership be-
tween labor and capital. Their interests
the maximum production with mini
mum of effort. Beyond that point their
interests diverge. for then comes the
question of a division of the profits, with
the other side at first is willing to con-
cede.
AT the point of divergence the practi-
cal, sensible thing to do is for capital and
labor to sit down quietly as business men
and argue the thing out. Mutual conces-
sions must be made. And it is much
easier to secure mutual concessions after
discussion when each side has secured the
point of view of the other side
Here Secretary Wilson illustrated his
point by describing the annual conference
held III the bituminous coal mining bust
ness. In his long years of work as an
officer of the United Mine Workers of
America he stood for this principle of
conference and agreement and now sees
it applied to the great majority of the
bituminous coal mining operations in the
country.
The plan,' said he sis simple It con-
sists merely in assembling together the
representatives of the operators and the
representatives of the miners. usually at
Indianapolis. Some 400 representatives
of operators attend. and some ten or
twelve hundred representatives of the
miners.