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The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01
WOMEN DOCTORS ABROAD
Admitted to Practice In the Glasgow
InfirmaPies.


special Correspondence
IONnON -. Two woman Oradu a toe
of the New York Eclectic College of Medi-
cine, Dr.. Emma W. Kigley and DR.. Chase,
created something of a sensation in Glasgow
recently. by being the first women doctors
ever admitted to practice in the Glasgow In
frmaries There are two colleges and in
f1rmaries there, the Western, connected with
the university, and the Royal, the largest in
Great Britain and over 100 years old DR..
Higley devoted herself to the surgical wards,
while Dr. Chase chose the medical wards
The chief surgeon of the Royal had never
even seen a woman DOCTOR though he re-
ceived them with great courtesy. The
gawky Scotch students were respectful, but
dumb with amazement In external ap-
plications the Glasgow doctors are believed
by many to be far ahead of Americans, but
in internal treatment they haven't gravi-
tated a great distance from the dark ages
Dr. Higley was a resident of Cincinnati
during several years. She is the wife of
Warren Higley, who was judge of the police
court there. Less than three years ago the
Higleys located in New York, the Judge de-
voting himself to the Law, while Mrs Higley
took up the study of medicine, and in two
winters in college accomplished what usually
takes a student three and sometimes four
seasons to acquire. She is now abroad, de-
voting herself to hospital practice, and in
the coming autumn will open an Office In
New York for the regular practice of her
profession.
She does this from love of the practice of
medicine, not from necessity. 1t is notice
able and significant fact that the women who
are the growth OF the present day, as it were,
take very strongly to careers of activity in
the professions They are fond of lanrels,
and go honestly to work to win them. To
times are more propitiatory for them than
ever before. Public sentiment is broadening,
and avenues are opening to women that have
long been open only to the sex CT bifurcated
moves G. T. L
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Genevieve Ward has scored another good
success in the Queens Favorite."
Modjeska will open her season at the Union
Square theatre, New York, Oct. 25.
"Harbor Lights" is still illuminating Boston
with profit and pleasure to its owners.
Minnie Maddern has fourteen people in her
company, and not novice among them.
Clara Morris health is much improved, and
she expects to fill longer season than usual.
Miss Myra Goodwin has begun her second
starring tour in Mr.. Kidder's comedy, called
isis"
Dixey says he does not expect to play any
thing except "Adonis" for number of years
to come.
1t is now announced that Miss Emma
Thursby is getting ready for heightened
tour in Australia.
marta" Aimees new play, scored a failure
at the Union Square theatre, N. Y, and will
probably be shelved.
Kate Claxton thinks she would come to the
front of the profession again if she could but
find suitable new play.
Joseph jefferson is about to give twenty
consecutive weeks of old comedy, for the
most part in New York city.
Marguerite Fish, the Baby Benson of by
gone years, viii open at the Thalia, New
York, in December, in "The Lucky Angel"
San Francisco correspondents say that Lii.
liam Russell has not shed tear over Teddy
Solomon's matrimonial troubles in England
Mime. Janauschek says there is no happi-
ness on the stage; that it leaves no time for
domestic or social pleasures; no time for any
thing but work, work, work.
Modjeska has three novelties, "Les Chou.
ans" a new piece by Julian Hawthorne and
George Parsons Lathrop, yet unnamed, and
"Deniela, an adaptation from the German
Nat Goodwin says that es he grows older
he is losing that mimetic faculty which en-
abled him to give srlch remarkable limitations
of prominent actors and actresses, but he is
going to try his hand on WikOn Barrett.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01
CHURCH NOTES.

In Ten years more than $4,000 people have
embraced Christianity in the Samoan islands
The American board announces the total
receipts of the year from donations and lega-
cies at $491 ,4S9
The next session of the Freewi1 Baptist
general conference viii open at Marion, O.,
on Thursday, Oct. IA
Churches in this country are estimated to
use 10000 gallons of wine every year for
sacramental purposes.
Rev. John Rodney, of Philadelphia, born
in 1796, is the Oldest clergyman of the Episco-
pal church in America.
The national council of the Congregational
church is to be held in the Union PARK church,
Chicago, beginning Oct. 13.
At the general conference of the Methodist
church, held at Toronto, it was recommended
that non-alcoholic wine be used in the Lords
Supper.
The Christian Intelligencer refers to the
next general missionary conference, which is
shortly to be held in New York, as one Of the
greatest moment to the church
The Indiana Methodist conference has con-
demned the use of tobacco as uncleanly and
unhealthy, and the delegates promised to
preach against it once-e each year.
The gain in the number of Congregational
churches in Michigan during the last ecclesi-
astical year hes been thirteen. There are
now 282 Congregational churches in the state.
When, fifty years ago, the first church
service was held in Melbourne, Australia, the
white population did not exceed fifty persons
To-day Melbourne, with Victoria on its cir
cult, has 4S0 churches, 81 preaching places
and two colleges
The Chinese government has very promptly
paid $4,000 to the Canada Presbyterian mis-
sion in Formosa for property destroyed in
the Franco Chinese war The mission now
has thirty-eight stations, with ,273 converts,
all the result of fourteen years labor
At y recent revival meeting down in vir-
ginia an old farmer arose to his feet and
paralyzed the congregation with the following
preface to his Hexperience:s aDear friends,
am glad to have this opportunity to mingle
together and to spend these happy hours
where couldn't il wasn'tp
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

The women do the bulk of the dead letter
office business, and it is wonderful how
much this business amounts to. During the
past year 4, 500 600 letters were received at
the dead letter office, making an average OF
15,000 for every working day. Nearly
4, 900. 900 of these letters were never called
for at the rostof1ces to which they were
directed, and 112 900 of them were sent to
hotels and reached there after the guests for
whom they were intended had left The
ladies of the tead lett r Office look over these
IL, 600 letters which come in daily. One set
does nothing bus open the letters, another
reads and sort them, and another examines
and redirects them TO the proper places
A great many of the letters are mis-
directed, 1000 Of this kind come to
the office every day These misdirected
letters are ciphered, If possible, without
opening and sent to the persons for
whom they were intended Women who un-
derstand foreign languages are engaged in
this business, as many OF the letters are
written by Foreigners Many of the letters
contain money, and last year there was
$33 900 in cash among them, and more than
81, 500, 600 worth of drafts and money orders
Eighty-four thousand etters contained post
age stamps, 80, 600 photographs and 25.00O
articles OF merchandise Ali Of this matter
must BE- returned to the owner, or, if that is
not possible, the money is covered into the
treasury and the merchandise is sold at aac-
ton
In 1884 there were q male clerks in the
dead letter Office, and 7s female clerks The
annual pay roll Of the mael clerks was
eS7, 400, an average OF 81 Al per day Tue
annual pay roll OF the rs female clerks was
$7s 40, or an average Of ss.31 per day. The
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01
THE WORKSHOP.

The foundation plan OF instruction Il the
combination Of manual labor with book
study and experiment. The young men who
graduate here will be able, not only 70 map
out and draft things an @boss" other work.
men, but will be fitted to actually take hold
with their own hands and perform the labor
of their trades If required In this respect
the Rose institute is equal to any in the
world There are woodworking shop, me-
chine and blacksmith shops. brass foundry,
chemical laboratory, etc TIE mechanical
engineering department has already invented
and put upon the market several Bcrew-cut-
ting turret lathes and other pieces Of iron
working machinery.
The course of instruction lasts four yeara
To be admitted, boy must be 16 years old.
of good charae ter, and be able TO pass ex-
animation in grammar, geography, history
of the United States, arjthm Atic, and sIgs.
bra to quadratics. The next commence
ment will be June "A. Then q ans young
c.ass of six cen viii be prepared to give tbs
world the beneit of their trained brains.
eyes and fingers The difference between
these and the ordinary mechanic win ba,
that while he is good for nothing ousside Of
one little narrow line, they viii be fertile In
resources, and equal to all lines Of their par
kfcr,Ior h1,S{vaec
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

The Rose Polytechn institute has an in.
dependent endowment fund 4 $500, O00
That, besides its ample and thoroughly
equipped building and grounds 1t is said
TO be as well fitted up in ell the requirs-
ments Of a scientific school as any Of the
older polytechnic insii utions Of the eastern
states
1t contains library of 5000 volumes Of
choice scientific works Many Of these werO
the gift of Josephus Collett. ESQ, president
of the board of managers.
To be exact, the institute is school VI en-.
gineering It gives instruction in mechan-
ical engineering civil engineering, chemis-
try, physics and drawing. A department of
mining engineering is to be added Then the
establishment MiIl ba nnmnleta- w ben thase
carry it out with liberality and a thorough
ness that puts the east often to the blush.
The equipments for the study OF electrical
engineering are especially complete. Here
is machinery to grapple with the whole
problem Of electricity in the field of study
and experiment. The ultimate outcome Of
electricity is the one great question now,
both in the industrial and scientific world
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

LEAVING THE TREASURY BUILDING
1t is amusing to watch the characters.
Here goes a dashing young lady with a
lunch basket it i'll her hand, dressed in the
latest fashion, and with new spring bon
net resting jauntily above her banged curls
Beside her is a gay young man in Derby,
who chats with her almost lovingly as they
pass out together. In front of her is a
plainly dressed old woman, who probably
keeps family out of the $72O a year which
she makes by copying papers all day long,
and back of her is long thin dude with
collar as big as shirt cuff, and pair Of
enormous ears Further back, there is a
widow in mourning, and as you look
at her you wonder whether her husband
was soldier In the same crowd there is
a well-dressed man in eyeglasses, who has
pink face and hair as white as frosted
silver He might be diplomat, if you met
him anywhere else than in that crowd of
clerks But you know that he has been in
the government service since the days Of
jackson, and that he has had relatives for
years among the statesmen of the land.
Then there is the young man who is always
reading a paper, and getting therefrom the
gossip which he will vend about the hotels
in the evening, and in the crowd behind is
the stately looking old man in stock and
old style hat, and the hard-featured clerk,
who was probably a political striker, and
who has gotten his position through infu-
ence
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

IN CHARGE OF THE REGISTERED LETTERa
1t is fairly well paid set OF troops
Fifty eight hundred of its number receive
salaries which range from $500 to 81, 500 a
year, and all, from chiefs to privates, are al
lotted a vacation OF one whole month, at
almost any time of the year they choose to
take it. Many of these clerks receive higher
than 81, 800 a year, and some range as high
as $1,000 The cabinet minister gets this
and he is nothing but clerk of the highest
grade Many of his assistants or lieuten-
ants receive from 81, 600 to $4,000 and there
are a great many clerks who are paid by the
day, and whose fees are as much as a con-
gressman's salary.
This army of clerks never strikes. 1t Is
content with its wages and it has no reason
to complain of its hours of work. These
hours are practically only six daily. The
departments open at 8 o'clock, and the
clerks are expected to be at their desks at
that hour. They work steadily until noon,
and then take usually an hour for luncheon.
At O'clock they are back at their desks,
and at their days work is done
The treasury contains between 5, 500 and
1900 clerks. 1t is the largest department of
the government and the scene at its doors at
4 p. m. is one of the sights of Washington.
At this moment four human streams pour
forth from its various exits and the streets
become crowded in n moment
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

clerks. 1t is not that the girls are not good
looking, nor that they are not good, neat and
intelligent And it is not that the men are
not noble and attractive Washington liv
ing, however, is expensive, and it is contrary
TO the rules of the department that
two members of the same family should
hold positions under the government.
The ladies in the departments earn
enough to keep them respectfully, and
they do not care to marry man who has no
larger income than themselves and have in
the end not as much pocket money as before
Many of the marriages which do take place
are with men outside of the departments,
and it is not an uncommon thing here for
good looking clerk to marry a congressman,
senator, or IA newspaper correspondent.
Mrs. Theaker, who is to be Stanley
Matthews wife, was a government clerk
when she met and marriel Judge Theaker,
a former commissioner of patents. Stephen
A. Douglas married department clerk, and
Attorney General Brewsters' wife, although
she was Robert j. Walkers daughter, was
working in the departments when he fell in
love with her.
I don't think women are justly treated in
the departments Men who do the sama
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

class of woFF p6ten tfrINas receiYe Rgher salaries
than the women, and 81 400 clerk and q
81, 600 clerk are employed ON the same work
at times, and the 81, 900 woman perhaps
does the most 1t was in 1862 that women
entered the service as copyists and counters
at salary of S720 per year. They were not
eligible to clerkships. At this same time the
men appointed to clerkships received 81 ,2OO
a year, and later, when the salary of such
women was raised to 5000, men doing the
same work were paid as high as 81, 200 and
81 600 per annum In 1870 women were
made eligible to clerkships, and since then
they have been promoted until now two re-
ceive 81, 800 a Year But the high priced
women c.erks are very few, and men who
do as good work receive as rule better pay
and are more certain of holding their posi-
tions
The young men, in the departments, as
a rule, have no one but themselves to care
for, and if you ask them why they are not
married, they will tell you that their salary
is not large enough for them to support
wives Nearly all of the single women in
the departments have others depending
upon them Many of them send thsir
sisters or brothers to school, and many of
them are widows, who in this way support
and educate their families.
Some of the old lady clerks are very fine
looking, and some of them had noted careers
in society before going into the depar ments.
One I know who had jefferson for an ances-
tor, and another. perhaps the most beautiful
of the white haired ladies of the treasury,
was the wife OF an Ohio governor who was
great friend of President Lincoln. Another
Ohio governor has a daughter in the depart
ments, and one of the fine old ladies of the
pension office, now great grandmother, is
Kansas woman, who was the first woman
clerk ever elected by legislative body in
this country These old lady clerks dress well,
and among them are some of the most agree
able takers in Washington. Their hearts
are young, though their hair is white, and
they are almost as fascinating now as when
the bloom was on their checks and they were
the bellies of their native states.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

But his greatest and best achievement wAs
the Rose Polytechnic institute at Terro
Haute, Ind He saw, more clearly than
many of our alleged college professors do,
that the great need Of Amer.ca is advance
ment in the industrial arts. Our people have
plenty of brains When they learn the tech
nical, and scientific. and industrial ar.s, as
these are taught in Europe they will be able
to stand up against the world 1t Is not
Latin and Greek we want, or the history o.
the twelve gods OF Olympus We want scien-
ti1c silk makers, and mining engineers, and
adept chemists. We want expert draughts-
men, and map makers, and machinists
When we have men who know how TO build
railroads properly, then we shall not have
our insides bumped out OF US every time W.
take railroad journey OF a thousand milea-
To supply these wants the broad, minded
and far-seeing Chauncey Rose founded the
institution which his grateful fellow towns
men insisted on naming for him, willy ally.
In all he gave away m re than 81, OO0, 0Oe
for benefcent purposes
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men did practically the same work as the
women, but they received 81 more a day
for 1t, and had the mems work been done
by women, the government would have
saved $9,31L Had the men done all the
work at the above rate, the pay roll would
have had to be increased $24, ,155. Il would
seem that an equalization board ought to be
appointed, and that Uncle Sam at least
should give his nieces the same pay as his
nephews when they do the same work
Is the civil service of the government a
good place for womenf
1t seems to me that it is The hours of
labor are short. the work is not such that 1t
overtaxes the system, and the labor Is hon
orable The salaries are better than women
can make in almost any other occupation,
and the associations are what the women
choose to make them There used to be an
idea that women in the departments were as
a rule questionable characters; that they
were indebted to politicians solely for their
appointment and that the appointments
were often given in the way Of bar
gain for questionable relations with such
congressman. There may have been in
stances Of this character, but they are by
no means common, and ninety-nine hun
dredths Of the women In the departments to-
day are as pure as any in the country. The
civil service reform has remedied the
chances for an evil which has always been
exaggerated, and no woman who wishes to
be honest need fear that she will be insulted
without cause while working for the govern
ment
The government clerks stand well in
Washington city. They are far above the
average of the intelligence of men doing the
same character Of work which they do
throughout the country, and association
with them can hardly be detrimental to
women. Washington is a pleasant place in
which to live. 1t is expensive or cheap, as
one wishes to make it, and it is to be in the
future the great educational, social and lit
erary center of the country. There is no rea-
son why women should not undergo the
civil service examination and partake of its
advantages. FRANK GEORGE.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-01

COUPLE OF ELDERLY CLERKS
There are 1900 women in the government
departments at Washington, and among the
best looking and most intelligent ladies Of
the capital are so employed They come, as a
rule, from good families. Many of them are
the widows of noted generals, the daughters
Of ex-governors and dex-congressmen, and now
and then you will find the relative of presi-
dentor cabinet minister. Many Of them have
trave.ed widely, and the great majority are
educated and refined ladies' They do all
kinds of work. and receive salaries ranging
frcm s79O to 1880 a year. As money
counters they are much more expert than
the men, and the rapidity with whick they
can count thousands upon thousands Of dol
lars without making a mistake makes
your brain whirl as you watch them.
These money counters get about s75
month, and they count millions
Of dollars every month. At one side of each
A4e on the table lie great piles Of greenbacks,
done into packages as they come from the
press. am speaking now of the redemption
bureau Of the treasury These bills are old
and dirty. The strip Of paper around each
package Of 100 bills states where they came
from, and who counted them in the country.
The young lady takes this of, and, moisten-
Ing her fingers with wet sponge IN 'front.'
Of her, she counts the bills like lightning,
and, If the package is not right, she reports
SO to the chief. and the banks from which
the bills came must stand the loss. The
girls seldom make a mistake, and if
they do so or pass a counterfeit without
noting it, they must make the mistake good,
and the amount is taken out of their salary.
They can tell, however, Rad bill simply
BY feeling it, and bank cashier viii make
hundred mistakes where they make one
Not long ago one Of these young lady
counters was engaged upon lot Of s1Oc
notes She had been dropping the scraps on
the floor beside her IN a pile. after verifying
the count MI bile she was counting pack
age she would lay this scrap marked with
the name Of the bank which sent it on the
table beside her At last she came to a
package that cons aimed only ninety-nine
notes. and on looking for the scrap was ter
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rifed to fnd tnat It Aad fallen among the
others She was sure she knew the name Of
the bank, but she could not prove it The
bank was notified and refused to aeknowl-
edge the mistake and the poor girl was
forced to pay the Sl00
Both sexes of clerks az Washington work
in the same department, ard it is often the
case that young men and young women
have desks side by side. There is no
restriction as to their S, cial intercourse,
and it IS matter Of surp Use to outsiders
that so few marriages occur among the
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FOR PUBLICATION.

UEU. W. MUNRUE, KegIs
First publication. Oct. 9th, 1885.
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They win be fitted to take responsihls
places In machine shops and factories aEd n
me construction Of railroads and - me-
chanical craftsmen
In chemistry there Is q large amount Of
laboratory practice In mathematics tee
course includes the calculus Sanitary en-
gineering IS another feature to which especial
attention Il paid Wherever the Rose young
men go to build houses we may hope that
typhoid fever win not be suckel up through
the kitchen sinks of their handiwork
The first president Of the institute was the
lamented Charles O Thompson He was an
enthusiast, and gave his whole soul to the
work Of forwarding industrial science. But
be died year ago. The venerased founder
of the school did not live to see the blossom
Of bis work He died in 1877. and the i'm
s :: was inaugurated In 1sS2
said that an economical your5 m.an
can n. end the Rose institute for $500 year.
TSi tion is free TO res dents OF tie county sa
which Terrs Hauf Is situated.
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PROPOSALS WANTED.-Notice is
Il hereby given that sealed bids will
be received at the County Clerks office
In Bozeman city, for County Physician
for the succeeding ear. Said physician
to furnish medicine and medical attend
ance for the sick, poor and infrm of the
county, and inmates of the county poor
house and county Jail, and attendance on
the sick, wounded and INDECENT persons
within the county of Galatin, who are
or may become charge upon the county.
Bids to be opened at the regular De-
cember term, 1886.
JAMES GoURLEY, County Clerk
Bozeman. Oct. s, 1886.