Show IN S ip r ft r not safe to miss an appointment with president aw washington it you havo have nn an appointment with the president preel dunt nt at the white house and fall fail to keep it you must have a mighty food good excuse or you may bo be considered guilty of lose less mn ma josto or what would he be more serious in this country you may lose a good IA piece of federal patronage do there 1 fim I 1 on tho the day doto date and hour ie is the ADE MY rule oin though sou may be kept X 61 N waiting in tho the anteroom for a time on a certain wednesday representative senta sont stive tive edward W townsend of 0 now jersey chammie fadden and his tits colleague representative E tuttle jr called at the white llouel by appointment to recommend to the p resident a candidate for unit od ed states judge thay were cordially received and the president proal dont listened attentively to td their argument in favor of their can candidate didato nut dut ho lie frankly told them that this particular judgeship roat igat tor yas was closed that ho lie already had made a selection nl though he spoke very highly ily of tho the man recommended by and tuttle dut but gentlemen remarked tho president good natu are you not a little lato into la in keeping your appointment according to my engagement book rou you were to bo hero here on tuesday and I 1 ara not aware that you called calle then it was up to ahle aers Toru townsond send and tuttle to explain and they laid the cards upon tho the table thoro waa was no uso use trying to fab out of it so they con freed townsond townsend said ho lie wont to the station to take a late train for washington from hie lilo homo home in newark hion monday iCay night und fell asleep only to be awakened by tho the station agent just ao au the tall lights of hie tits train were disappearing la in tho west ho lie had to wait for a day train next morning tuttle admitted that ho he had no excuse except that the engagement had the fact that the fourth of july had intervened and mixed him up on hie his dates the president listened to their with mith interest and showed no annoyance anno over them t wanted to know about george washington glick NEW ban has just b be n placed in statuary hall at the capitol it being A ANEW a likeness in atone stone of george washington glick of kansas when the other occupants of the hall of cramb hla been jockeyed around to make room for air mr lick and the latest addition jird boon been rolled into position ab the question asked by those who had noticed the nevy newcomer comer was who was glick A kansan could bavo have answered ho tho query off offhand hand but so fleeting la Is ramo famo hat that the average clatl con zon failed to identify george washington glick however senator thompson of kansas threw throw the do aired sired light upon tho the situation when he introduced anbo bonato a resolution providing for fitting exorcise appio to the ho reception and acceptance of the statue lie sald mr president there Is being placed in statuary hall today the statue status ot oi george washington glick under the law each state Is entitled to place two statues of its distinguished men or women in that famous hall about ten ago Kansas selected from her citizens as conf of the recipients of john james ingalls who was formerly a celebrated member of this body hody about ono one year ago kansas chose another of her citizens george washington glick tho only democratic governor the state ever had bad until the present administration to receive the same high honor aa As everyone knows senator ingalls was an uncompromising republican As an Is equally well known governor glick was as an uncompromising democrat these men man lived and died in tho the same town atchison Atch lson kansas and are burled buried la in the same cemetery it Is therefore very fitting that the statues of these eminent sons of kansas representing respectively two to branches ot of political thought and tho the two great political parties of the country should stand side by eldo side in the hall of farao fame I 1 some of the cabinet members are speed fiends ECRET AttY OP THE TREASURY MADOO Is an automobile enthusiast and he 1 is something of a speed lend at that though probably he be would not admit it ho lie drives a gray roadster and when he gets out on the good country roads he lot lots it out and I 1 tj wrecks all the speed made mcadoo ac and prodded by the state of claryl maryland and frequently his bride who was miss eleanor wilson the presidents preel dents daugh ter accompanies him on these spina and she apparently Is not alarmed when Sere secretary tary mcadoo opens up te gas throttle so far as known none of tho the law officers have hae yet captured the secretary of iho the treasury hen ho lie Is burning up the road but then getting pinched for speeding Is not no ii a serious atter for a cabinet officer I 1 generally vene rally the incident closes by the moto cycle cop apologizing for interrupting tho the burst of speed and telling the he cabinet member to go ahead check signing device Is a 13 great labor baver saver NTY L miles of signature Blen signa aurs turn half halt of the distance from hero here to baltimore la U T TWENTY la saved ie d by i S jones and william Adre adrela ori two pension office clerks every ear because they sign checks by machinery about chocks checks disbursing a tola total amount of ot pass un lr der the pens of these men during each I 1 ID D NEVER crr ie year of pension office business tho the r money Is to all practical purposes J 5 checked out over the signature sign aturo of guy it 0 tailor talor disbursing clerk of the bureau without the aid of machinery 0 it would mould tale ton ten years to finish the ha work every pension check that P leaves tho the office bears talo written signature of ono of these clerks tho the sig signatures matures of william adreon when measured straight from the tip of the first W to the tall of the a varies from two and a quarter to two and three quarters inches in length if be he signs half halt of the checks or checks ho he repeats bli his two and one half halmich inch signature aig big nature times which makes a total of 1025 5 inches of signature without the machine there are inches in one mile dy by a simple process of division wo find that were it not for the gun machine chine mr aaroon would have to write within a tiny fraction of 14 miles of signature each year that would be impossible and besides dire disease diseases like writers cramp would kill him or paralyze his arm in a month out but by be the aid of the signa graph the name Is written ritten with a wooden uck ten fountain fount aln pens sign ton ten checks simultaneously |