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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16
WOMEN IN THE TREASURY.

No one who has lived in Washington
but knows that majority of the female
clerks comes from the better families in
the country; that is, from the circles of
what is termed high society. 1t was in
the Treasury that Governor Fairchild
of Wisconsin found a wife, and she
was the beautiful daughter of a distin-
guishcd public man. The present
United States District Attorney for
South Carolina wooed and won the
beautiful Alice Ingersoll (whose father
once occupied the high position of At
torneyGeneral of Massachusetts, from
the Office of the controller of Currency,
and we might go on for pages telling
who is and who has been there. Rob
ert j. Walker, once Governor of Miss
issippi, Secretary of the Treasury, and
retained as an able lawyer in all prom
incnt cases, and once Governor of the
Territory of Kansas, now has fair
young daughter, who has recently be-
come an orphon, and is earning her
own support in the Internal Revenue
Department. Mrs. Mary johnson,
daughter of Col. Albert, who fora long
series of years was head of the Iopo-
graphical Bureau, has for ten years
been clerk III the Treasury. Her
husband was Consul to Florence, and
died there u short time before the war.
Not long afterward her father died, and
as she had two sons to rear and edu-
cate, she was obliged to lay aside her
pride and become Government clerk
or, to be precise, female employe, for
the civil service masters say, inasmuch
as women are not clerks, they cannot
compete for the 81, POO, Or ST 400, or
any but the 5000 positions There is
chivalry, justice, and all the high-fo
sentiments of man to woman, expressed
Mrs. Johnson's boys are growing up to
be worthy young men, and the Oldest
is about entering the Naval School at
Annapolis. Mrs. Tilton, sister of Gen
cral Robert Ould, is an employe in the
Internal Revenue. The widow of Cap
tain Ringgold is there also. And the
widow of Major Heap. There are
many illustrious names to be found in
in all the Departments. The life these
ladies live is hard enough at best, with
out the tongue of detraction adding to
their trials. One of their trials is, they
are constantly stung by the injustice
done them in the difference to pay be-
tween them and the men, while they
are held to even more rigid accounta-
bility. There is q constant attempt to
defraud them of their salaries for any
absence, while men can frequently be
called away.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

A SAD CAsE.-A very touching case
of mental alienation in charming young
lady is described by careful observer.
Not long ago her mother found her in
her room energetically darning stock
ings, and soon after appeared in the
kitchen and assisted that wondering
dame in making and baking bread and
pastry. Alarmed by these fearful signs
of intellectual disorder, her fond par
ents Immediately sent for skillful phys
ician, who watches her through q key
hole while she sewed buttons on her
fathers garments and mended those of
her little brother. Much affected the
venerable man remarked that never dur
ing medical practice Of twenty-five
years had he known any young person
to manifest such symptoms as these.
The most heart-rending phase of all,
however, was shown the other day,
when her kind father, with faint hope
of rousing her from her state, gave her
5000 and told her to buy new dress.
Alas! twas useless. She instantly OBJ
served that she didn't need new dress,
and if he would let her keep $25 to pay
poor widows rent she'd much rather
he would take the rest of the money
for himself. For few moments that
grief-stricken old gentleman gazed upon
his hapless child then hiding his face,
muttered between his sobs, d" Her mind
is gone! her mind is gone!'
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

SERRANT AND MISTRESS -"Maria, said
a lady to q colored chambermaid, that
is the third silk dress you have worn
since you came to me; pray how many
do you own?"
Only seven miss, but rs saving
my wages to buy another"
"Seven? What use are seven silk
dresses to you? Why, don't own so
many rs that"
"'Specs not, Miss" said the smiling
darkey;" you doesn't need 'em so much
rs I does. You quality white folks
everybody knows is quality; but we bet
termost kind oh colored pussons has to
dress smart to 'stinguish ourselves from
common niggers."
-. So, critics, who denounce the present
style of dress, be lenient, and when the
paraphernalia of hoops and Aounces,
silks, velvets and laces, is very astound,
ing, think-Well, poor things, they
must do something to distinguish them
selves from common folks.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

How GREENBAcK" PAPER IS MADE.-
All the paper money issued by the
government is manufactured on C2
inch Fourdrinier machine, at the Glen
Mills, near West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Short pieces of red silk are mixed With
the pulp in the engine, and the finished
stuff is conducted to the wire without
passing through any screens, which
might retain the silk threads. BY an
NJ rangcments above the Wire cloth a
shower of blue silk threads dropped in
streaks upon the paper while it is form
ing. The upper side, upon which the
blue silk is dropped, is the one used
for the face of the notes, and, from the
manner in which the threads are ap-
piled, must show them more distinctly
than the lower or reverse side, although
they are imbedded deep enough to re-
main fixed. The mill is guarded night
and day to prevent the abstraction OF
any paper.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

MARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. Tho fol-
lowing item from the Philadelphia Press
will be of interest to our people, who
are about t, enter upon the enterprise
of constructing q narrow gauge railroad.
1t will be seen that the estimated cost
Of narrow gauge is but little over a
quarter that of the wide guage. As to
the remark about the capacity of the
narrow gauge for new country, we
wonld say, that there is not railroad
route upon the continent where mar
row gauge road would not be equal to
all the demauds for transportation, as
abundant experiments and comparisons
have demonstrated:
"There are now fifteen narrow gauge
railroads in the United States, having
seven hundred miles of track and there
are no less than one hundred and twen-
ty organizations and one thousand two
hundred and fifty miles under construc-
ton. These roads have been planned
and constructed within the last two
years despite the prejudces which have
bocn urged against them by the advo-
Gates of the wider gauge. The cost
through level country is about S1O,-
600 per mile, including fair equip
ment of rolling stock, while the foot
s! inch gauge costs from $35, 900 to
$45, 900 per mile. In the West, where
the traffic is rot large, the narrow gauge
road pays better on the amount of mon
cy invested than does the 4 foot 81 inch
guage, and the actual expense of trans
portation per ton per mile is much less
in the same manner rs it was proved
the wide 6 foot guage could not COM
pete with the 4 foot 8! inch guage."
rate of two hundred a month. The
tubes are perfectly straight, and the
archingis accomplished by slightly bow
ing the tide ends. They are to be fit
tod together perfectly, the joints being
secured by cast steel hammered clamps,
with Stats cut in the inside to cores
pond with series of turned cellars on
the tubes. The st. Louis approach,
composed of trestle and iron-work will
be. completed in about three months.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

PRESERVE It.-Few readers can be
aware, until they have had occasion to
test the fact, how much labor is often
saved by such table as the following,
the work Of ono now in his grave. If
history to poetry, then here is "poctry
personifed:'
1907, Virginia settled by the English.
1Gl4, New York settled by Dutch.
1920, Massachusetts settled by the
Puritans.
1924, New Jersey settled by the Dutch.
1927, Delaware settled by Swedes and
Firms.
1885, Maryland settled by Irish Cath
olics.
1886, Connecticut settled by Puri-
tans.
1859, Rhode Island settled by Roger
Williams.
1850, North Carolina settled by Eng
lish.
1910, South Carolian settled by the
Huguenots.
1852, Georgia settled by General
Oglethrope.
1901, Vermont admitted into Union.
1892, Kentucky admitted into Union.
1896, Tennessee admitted into Union.
1902, Ohio admitted into Union.
1911, Louisiana admitted into Union.
1916, Indiana admitted into Union.
1918, Illinois admitted into Union.
1919, Alabama admitted into Union.
1920, Maine admitted into Union.
1921, Missouri admitted into Union.
1880, Michigan admitted into Union.
1896, Arkansas admitted into Union.
1S45, Florida admitted into Union.
1916, Texas admitted into Union.
1S47, Iowa admitted into Union.
134S, Wisconsin admitted into Union.
1850, California admitted into Union.
1859, Oregon admitted into Union.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16
e. Miss Anna r. G.. Nicols, VI

AZ Miss Anna r. G.. Nicols, who
graduated from the Salem Normal
School in the class of January, go, has
been appointed Third Assistant Exami-
ner in the U. S. Patent Office, on a sal
ary of 81 400 per annum. This is the
first and only such appointment ever
given to lady, and is one of the re-
suits of a competitive examination in
which thirty-eight men and seven wo-
men took part. But five of the men
passed the examination-which was of
a general scientific nature-as well as
Miss Nicols.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

LEARN 4 TEADE.-The prospect for
wealth and position to-day is brighter
to any young man of ability and ambi-
ton, who will learn well and thoroughly
good trade, than for any one who at
tempts to crowd into the professions.
The country is sadly in want of mechan-
les who who combine skill with intelli-
gence. Not "a work shop rmanufactory
can be found to-day where they are not
needed. Not manufacturing or me-
chanical establishment exists in the
country which is not deficient, some
way or other, in skilled assistance. It
is the skillful, intelligent mechanic who
is most in demand, and hence none of
them are to be found who are not prof
itably employed. Wealth is rapidly
accumulated by such men, who devote
themselves to various mechanical pur-
suits, or to the production of articles
which are regarded in the sense of nee
cssitics by the community. The press
ing demand of the day is not for mere
ornament, but for those who, by the
labor OF hand and brain combined, are
able to make capital productive. Our
advice to young mon is to earnestly ap-
ply themselves to the acquisition of
such knowledge as will enable them to
supply the ever-incrcasing demand for
skilled labor, thereby not only laying
the foundation for future personal
prosperity, but at the same time rem
dering high and permanent benefit to
the community.-Boston Globe.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

W" Susie, said teacher to ono Of
her pupils, "You shouldn't make
faces. You'll grow up homely if you
make faces"
Susie looked thoughtfully in the
teachers face moment and then inno-
Gently asked =,
"Did you make faces when you was
little girl"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

& 1t will not be long before oil the
small postofices throughout the country
VIII be under the control of women.
Within the last three months over thirty
appointments Of the kind have been
made.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

pSs' DR.. Mary Walker has been ap-
pointed to clerkship in the Treasury
Department at Washington. Her pants
pockets will now be subjected to little
change, quarterly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

CT There is a good deal of sound
wisdom in the suggestion of the ia. .ner:
" Ifyou want your boy to stay at home,
don't bear too hard on the grindstone
when he turns the crank"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

rI~ The Presidents daughter, Nellie,
is said to be at work on summer book,
to be called "Sketches from Life at
Long Branch"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

rsr The Mormon colony in Arizona
IS failure, and the 700 saints are on
their return to Salt Lake City.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

@ The Eaglisl,coman's Domestic
Magazine is out in favor of dressing
young girls in trowsers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

@ 1t is because we are dissatisfied
with ourselves that we are so anxious
to have others think we'll of us.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16
SHNGTON TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 16 1S73
ONE OF THE SWEETEST EXPERIENCE.

ONE OF THE SWEETEST EXPERIENCE.
Breathes there q man with soul SO
dcad,' who has never swung on gate
with a pretty girl? If there is such an
unfortunate, pity him from the inner
most recesses of my heart-I pity him
as one who has missed sensation, one
of the best of our imperfect naturesl
have swung that way with great
many girls in my time. I am going to
swing some more if I get the chance
for if 1 do not I shall mourn for u lost
opportunity.
Coming home from church of a
moony" night, and bathed in the
mellow light, little hand clinging con-
fidingly to your manly arm and pref
ty face bewitchingly close to yours;
bright eyes looking an unutterable
sweetness, ripe-red lips moving to en-
chanting small talk-celcstial small talk
to man in love-you reach that we'll
remembered gate. You open the gate
for her to pass in, but before she does
that, something unsaid must be remem-
berod, and she stops to retail that petty
gossip. You are hardly concious of her
words, but you arc in that stage of the
tender passion when her voice is the
soul ofmusic and all you want is to keep
her talking as long as you can.
Tho lamps are out in the house in
front; the old folks have gone to roost
and you have the field all to yourself.
At last she passes in after
A CERTAIN CONCLUSIVE SOUND,
has taken place under her bonnet.
You dream of your first stick of candy,
of maple sugar. of Charlotte Russo, and
all sorts of liquids and solid sweetness,
and You think them stale, flat and UNI
profitable, compared with that kiss.
Is she going to leave you, now that
the gate is closed? Not if I know any
thing of female nature, and 1 have had
something to say to contiding females
of all classes, and they are alike in this
respect, they delight in the company Of
n passable young man by moonlight;
and in that they show their good taste.
I have heard it said that there are fe-
males differently constituted, but new
cr met them, and am glad of it. hope
l never shall.
Something more to tell. She returns
to the gate and leans upon it. Your
lips are rather close to hers, and if you
do not kiss her then I have no respect
for you, unworthy as you are of the
name of man. You talk about the
moon, about Tom Fellows at sea, about
the moon again, about the weather.
about the sermon-not much--the moon
again. Jenny Lees bonnet, that hor-
rid old maid, Miss Virginia, Juno and
her SANDERS; the weather again, the
dance at the Knight Templars, the
moon once more, with slight sprink-
ling of kissing thrown in by the way of
spice. Some ancient persons of either
sex may say this is all very silly. Bah!
You have done the same in your time if
you ever amounted to anything.
Bull all things must have an end, and
partinss must come. The lips cling
together in a long parting kiss, and you
go home through the mellow light, full
of thoughts, as happy as young man
ever is in this world Of duns and debt
ors. Let's have more of it-this swing
ing on the gate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

AZ It is said that thirty women are
employed on the daily press of New
York city, at salaries varying from
twenty to fifty dollars per week.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

The movement commenced in
Cincinnati, to give working women
holiday on Saturday afternoons during
the Summer, bids fair to be successful.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

81 Sincorityis speaking as we think,
believing as we pretend, acting as we
promise, and being as we appear to be.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

~ People who are always wanting
something new, should try neuralgia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

, The dressing gown is the most
lasting OF all garments, it is seldom
worn out.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

@ American girls are said to expose
the biggest braids at the Vienna Expo
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-08-16

bJ- Patrons of Observation-Disclosures
with marriageable daughters.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15

SWEET Theodore Parker
says J. never saw garment too fine
for man or maid there was never u
chair too good for cobbler, or cooper,
or king to sit in; never house too
fine to shelter the human head. These
elements about us, the gorgeous sky,
the imperial sun, are not too good for
the human race. Elegance fits man.
But do VIC not value these tools of
housekeeping little more than they
are worth, and sometimes mortgage a
homo for the mahogany We would
bring into it? | had rather eat my
dinner off the heard OF barrel, or
dress after the fashion of John the
Baptist, in the wilderness, or sill on a
block all my life than consume all my
self before | get to a home, and tako
NO much pains with the outside that
the inside was hollow as an empty
nut. Beauty is a great thing, but
beauty of garments, house, and furni-
ture is a very tawdry ornament com.
pared with domestic love. All the
elegance In the world cant mako n
home, and | would give more for o
spoonful Of real hearty love than four
whole sbiploads Of furniture, that ali
the .upholstors of tho world could gath.
or together.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15

a GERMAN PaopHEoY Cincin.
natl Commercial has been shown an
old almanac printed in Nuremberg 10
the year 1900, in tho German Ian.
guage, edited BY D. Maurito Knauren,
IN which II is stated that at that timo
there was raging in portions of Ger
many and throughout the Holy Roman
States nn epizootic OF horses and cat.
tle. Tho good Abbo then proceeds to
predict that under the influence of
the planet Mercury, which then rcign.
cd, there would be occurrences of this
disease in the years 1872, 1870, 1886,
1892 and 1900. He also gives an ac-
count OF the trestment then used
Some Of tho remedies be mentions arc
now in use. In predicting this sick
ness in 1872 ho says: "Tho sick ess
will be great in that year, mostly
late In the Fall"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15
Power of Comprehension.

II was said OF Thoreau, we believe,
that he could take up any given mum.
ber of lead pencils without counting.
A celebrated trapper once assured us
that he could tell how many balls be
had 10 his bullet pouch by placing his
hand on il, without stopping to count
thom, and added: ~ can tell the num-
ber Of bullets instantly, without stop
ping as you pronounce word with
out spelling it," Southey was accus-
toned 10 taKe in the substance of u
book in turning the leaves over con-
tinuously, glancing down the pages.
Houdan, tho magician, trained him
self to quickncss of perception, when
boy, by running past a show win
dow at full spead, and then trying TO
tell what was in it. We once saw q
man on canal boat who was anus
ing himself by going from passenger
TO passenger and telling almost every
one where he had seen him before Oh
such train, in such hotel, in such
street giving date and place to peo-
pie With whom he had never exchang-
cd word. This training of the fac
ulties in particlar directions is carried
10 a marvellous extreme oy back
woodsmen, trappers and men who
guess the weight Of animals. Perhaps
the most, remarkable instances are
the markers who leap from log 10 log
at the mouth OF boom, standing on
tho log, and translating instantly an
old mark into new one, remember
iLg what equivalent to give for each
of hundred marks, and chopping it
upon tho log in tho time that it floats
its length. 1t is said that Thoreau
knew the relative order of towering
Of all plants in the Concord woods,
and knew the note Of every bird, and
q thousand out-of-the.way things be-.
sides. s.--Hedrth and Home.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15

BARGAINS IN MUSICAL IN
ID sTRUMENTs | - Organs, both new and
second hand, at the Music store, opposite Gulich's
Furniture Store. All persons interested are invi-
ted to call aad examine . ues style Of 0rsSn now
on exhibition. Sheet Music aud Music Books
eonstsn,l, on hand spi3t.',u
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15
Kidney 4 Blnddcr Complaints,

Urinary. and womb diseases Gravel Diabetes. Dropy,
htoppaxr Of Water, Inconlence u Urine, Brishts Dis
eare. AhaminurA aud In all where there brick
dua deposits the wsier Is thick cloudy mixed with
sabfaaeesiiks the white OF threads like white
sk or there IL morbid, dark. bilious appearance, and
vhite bone-dust deposits and when there L phekinr
burning sensation when passing water. and pain In s
Small ot The Back and along the Lolns. Priee sI.oo.
WORMS. The only tnOwH sne sure REMEDY
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15

THE DEMOCRATIC ALMANAC for iscs
i 1887 and 1858 Tor sale at the Poet ofHce
rree - 90 rIs. Nailed to sny sddres.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15
Soldiers Bounty Land Bill.

On the 18th inst. the House passed
the following bill, relative TO soldiers
bounty land !:
Sro. 1. That vyery priyatc soldier.
musician and officer, who served Ia
the army Of tho United States dur.
ing the Into war for ninety days
and was honorably discharged. in.
cludinr the troops mustered into The
service of the United States by yirtue
of the third section of tho act entitled
an aAct making annronriations for
completing the defensos of WASHING.
ION and for other purposos.n approved
Eebruary 18th. 1862. and every sen.
man. marine and officer and other per.
son who served in the navy of the
United States or in the marine corps,
during The lato war for ninety DAYS
md was bonorablv discharged. and
the widow of any such soldier. musi-
clan. seaman or officer. or If there be
no such widow. his orphau children
under twenty.one years of aye, shall
be entitled to enter quantity of the
public lands n OF mineral. not exceed.
ing l60 acres, Cor one quarter section)
which shall be composed of continu.
ous tracts, according to the legal sub.
division, including the alternate re-
served sections Of the public lands
along the line of any railroad or other
public highway, or other lands subject
to entry under the homestead laws of
tho United States, and receivoa certifi.
cate of such entry without tho pay
mont of any government fees.
SEC. 2. That such entry. shall bo
made in the name of the person en-
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15

Tho Surgeon-General's report shows
that while ono whito soldier in Eve
costs the country doctors bill every
single colored man in the service does;
and while one white man out Of sixty.
nve dies the mortality among tho
blacks 10 one in fifty.6ye.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-15
GROCERIESl

rHEAP GROCERIES,!
~ LUMBER CITY, PA.
The undersigned announces TO his old friends
and patrons that he has opened good limo Of
GROCERIES, A PROVISIONS at the old stand
OF Kirk 4 Spencer, for which he soliele a liberal
patronage. II. W. SPENCER.
Lumber City, Pa, March so-u.