The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-08-20
BURLESON UP
AT EARLY HOUR
POSTMASTER GENERAL IS PUNC-
TUAL IN HANDLING HIS
WORK.
Interesting Gossip Concerning Official
Life ut the Nations
Capital.
BY Burton n. Standish


WASHINGTON, Aug 2O.-Postmas-
ter General Burleson is one Of those
"early to bed, early to rise" fellows
When Frank H. Hitchcock was post
master general, he never got down to
his office before noon, and he never
left there until the wee sma' hours OF
the morning. Burleson has reversed
the process.
81 get up every morning about B
o'clock" said the former congressman,
and have been retiring at nine o'clock
about an hour after my dinner
Anyone who wants to see me in
the evening has got to come to my
home after dinner. I've done this all
nv life. To be sure, l don't always
go to sleep Immediately on retiring.
Often l read in bed until IL o'clock,
but I'm in bed all the time, and rest
ing. AS soon as get up in the morn
ing, read the papers and eat break
fast at o'clock. By nine l am in my
office. l never eat lunch and work
right through until 5 o'clock when l
call it day unless something detains
me. Apparently the system is good
one, because l thrive on it.
Burleson is now wearing his justly
famous crinkly summer clothes.
When he was in congress his col
leagues used to remark that they
ahdn't thought possible for a man to
get so many wrinkles in light linen
suit as Burleson did. However cool
the Texan may look in his airy clothes,
the effect is destroyed by his persls-
tent wearing of black felt "pill-box'
sort of hat.
Stephenson Writing Memoirs.
Senator Isaac Stephenson Of Wis
consin is writing his memoirs. That
is, the senator, who admits that he
could never star as literary person,
has employed an able assistant to
write them for him.
They should prove interesting
copy when completed, for Stephen
son is the Croesus of the senate, it's
Oldest member, and the last of the
old lumber barons of the northwest,
who went into Wisconsin and Mlchi-
gan woods penniless and came out
rich beyond the widest dreams.
Stephenson is IA years old, a fact
about which he is proud to boast. he
is always ready with advice to young |
men on how to get rich, but his ad-
vice is of the sterling, pioneer KIND
which includes course in back TO
nature" and some regular muscular
work.
He never does much work around
the senate, although he is on the JoD
regularly. He slumps in his chair,
chews tobacco faithfully during his
waking moments, and votes aye on
any question that the old republican
guard favors. Back home in MARI
and couple of lumber
factories. At various places in the up~
Der peninsula and in Nennah, WIS. ne
las paper mills and other plants.
And all of these including a giant
office building in Milwaukee, came
rom lumber. Senator Stephenson
started as a cookie at SIS month IN
lumber camp, sixty-two years ago.
Today he doesn't know how much
money he has-and brags about his [
ignorance. s
Attorney General Single.
The single blessedness of Attorney
IcReynolds is worrying capital ma
rons with manageable daughters
ot little bit. Over their teacups ..
hey say, 1.-THE attorney general is :
andsome; he has an assured social /.
osition and he apparently has all the !.
euuirements that go to make a good
ushand. Why hasn't he married?