The public records of tho government are
not kept In good and safe places. Several
years ago congress authorized the classification
of theso records. Tho gentleman who
was charged with this duty found that It was
Impossible for him to complete his work on
account of the resistance to tho object of his
task by the heads of the departments. He obtained
access to the records of tho treasury
only after great trouble He found the most
valuable records' of tho department piled up
In enormous bundles and in dustoovercd
heaps. Ho found under a mass of documentary
lumber the original doed of Louisiana to
the United States by Napoleon. In tho state
department bo could obtain access to the documents
there only through stealth. The
watchman In charge Is a very eccentrio old
man, who would not let him go In the room
even upon on order from tho secretary. The
officials there used to let him in when tho
watchman was away and lock him in. Then
thoy would not call for him until after the
watchman had gone off duty. Washington
Cor. New York World.
A Had Kind of a Memory.
There will always be, in this world, tho
peoplo who remember tho things you try to
forgot. Thoro will always bo pooplo whose
memories aro not storehouse but cesspools,
holding only tho refuse, tho garbago, the
waste of mon's lives. In God's namo, my boy,
don't cultivate that kind of a niomory. You
will probably havo your hands and heart full,
remembering, or rather, trying to forget
your own wickedness, and if you charge your
mind in addition, with that of othor men,
your memory will be a sower, Bob Burdotto.
Lend Production In This Country.
