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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-11
A LITTLE woEKBox.
Designed for Dolls DressmakinE - a
Dainty Continuance.

Designed for Dolls Dressmaking - A
Dainty Continuance.
A two-pouud candy box makes the
foundation for the dearest little workbox
in the world, and any little girl can do
the folding and sewing.
Take it to pieces so that each side, the
top and the bottom are separated. The
strips that edge the lid may be thrown
away.
Cover each retained piece on both sides
sides with some figured stuff-silk, Gre
tonne, satin or silkoline, overhanding
the edges neatly. Then overland each
side in its place on the bottom. Then you
will have fat figure something like the
diagram.
At each tiny cross in the diagram sew a
quarter OF a yard of narrow ribbon match
ing the covering of the box. When all is
done these ribbons are to be tied together.
as you fold the sides up into place. In
this way, by untying the workbox can be
easily brushed out or packed fiat in q
trunk when you go away from home.
On both OF the long sides fasten bags
made by running elastic through a shir-
ring on strip of goods, top and bottom,
then sewing the two ends against the side
In these bags can be kept the thread
needed for dolly's sewing, which will be
a spool each Of numbers fifty, sixty and
seventy white cotton, and one spool of
sixty black.
On one end piece is tiny pocket made
for tfimble and a paper OF needles
marked s'5 to TO-" The thimble may be-
of silver, which you can get very cheapIy
now, or Of the new, very light metal,
aluminium. With that sort on the finger
you will scarcely know you have thimble
at all.
On the other end piece fasten some
strips Of elastic to hold scissors, bodkin,
etc.
A piece of the very tiniest tape, useful
In making draw strings for doIl's clothes,
paper OF fine small pins and small pin
cushion laid in the box, complete the out
fit.
The sides are tied up in place aud then
the cover is fastened on by two ribbons
sewed to the box, and TWO sewed to the
lid.
set in the middle of the opposite sides
will enable you to fasten your work box
suugly when you wish to carry it to some
friends house to spend the afternoon in
dolls dressmaking. II the rim of the
cover is kept on. fasten by two long rib
bons around the box. 1t will look very
pretty and dainty when all the bows are
tied.
A piece bag about eight inches long,
made perhaps out OF the same goods as
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EvoLurIoN OF THE CADET.

All About ssBeastsa and ssPlebs'' and Other
Members of the Military Academy.
Correspondence OF THE HERALD.
WEST PoINr, June 5.-West Point
graduates ff,y-one cadets from its mill
tary academy en- June Il, and about June
10 ike number of verdant youngsters,
who in the classic parlance OF West Point
are to be known for the next year as
'sbeasts, later as 'plebs,'' will appear
on the scene at the Point to fill the vacan-
cies caused by graduation.
To look at these graduates destined to
become, so ii is annually hoped, the flower
ana pride, if indeed not heroes of Uncle
Sans military forces. and then run an
eye over the awkw 'anky, shambling,
self-coDscious lc' Of gre N boys just ar
rived, leaves an impression on the mind
untutored in til ways of w est Point tt at
it is hopeless case to expect the evolu-
tion of finishes cadet rom such raw
material.
The West Point cadet is such a manly
young man on the average, so well set up
in mind and body with such a self-relient
spirit, such boundless ambitions and is
such q reasoning creature Withal that the
girls should be granted absoIution for
joining his train. No wonder that 40
boys took the examination because they
aspired to attain the superior heights of
the West Point cadet. And although
only about 60 succeeded in passing both
physical and mental examinations, that
Is quite sufficient to educate up to the
mark in four years.
But it viii be done. a member Of the
West Point faculty says: 'sSend as
boy of character and we will turn out
what the country needs.'
The process, however. includes such q
mass of instruction that itisa wonder the
boy is left to tell the tale at the end of
four years. The hours are study, reel
taIion and drill from 8 O'Clock every
morning till ten at night; and one young
lieutenant who has returned as tactical
instructor declares that he was sleepy the
entire four years at West Point, and two
months solid sleep on furlough didn't
remedy the case much.
The fifty young men who start On four
years this summer go into camp the first
thing. The first lesson they get is in
pitching tents. These are the awkward
squads. indeed their usual title about this
time is 'beasts, > and when school opens
in September they become first year men
or "plebs.' Third class men are pro-
NOTED to the dignity of 'yearlings, and
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Mrs. MCGUIRE
A DOG THAT WORKS.
How He Is Employed by Great Electric
Company.

How He Is Employed by a Great Electric
Company.
The little fox terrier whose portrait you
see here is one of the cleverest dogs in the
world.
Just as some of the performing animals
at circuses are taught tricks, dancing,
jumping through hoops, and all that, this
little dog, whose name is Strip, has been
taught to lay down electric wires, under
ground.
His master, the foreman of some big
electric works in London, told me all
about him, and gave me his photograph,
which is a capital likeness. Strip is a
pretty little fellow, with white head,
body and legs, and tan markings, and
such bright, knowing face.
Strip began to earn his living when he
was a puppy, and this is how it happened:
One day Strips master was very busy,
helping the workmen to poke the electric
wire along through the pipes which run
ander the streets. Strip sat there watch
ing the men poking away with their long
poles. Suddenly one of them exclaimed:
ssWhat pity this little fellow couldn' t
help usi''
Strips master, struck with the idea,
looked at the dog, then at the hole; the
pipe was quite large enough for the dog
TO get through.
'fWell, we viii try" he said, ''and
see whether we can make Strip under
stand what is wanted. ~
So he fastened the coil of wire to rope,
and he tied the rope to the dogs collar.
Then he took him to the opening in the
pavement. Strip wagged his tail intelli-
gently, and stared down into the opening,
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don't know how long it took him to find
out what was wanted, but at last he gave
up trying to go to the right and turned
round and started on to the left on a
brisk trot.
1t was not long before he learned to do
exactly what was wanted, for Strip is as
clever little dog as can be found. For
ing down the electric wires under the
streets of London.
OF course things do not always go
smoothly, and Strip, feeling lazy like
every one else, sometimes curls himself
up and goes to sleep in the pipe instead of
running along with the rope, or the rope
gets loose and he arrives without it. Still
Strip is fond of his work. and no doubt
when he gets a crowd of other dogs round
him he boasts of his performances and
holds forth on Underground London. -
As soon as the rope is fastened to his col
lar now he knows what he has to d., as
he Jumps into the hole and sets off down
the pipe to the point where the workmen
are waiting for him. It only takes him
now few minutes to do what before took
hours and hours.
Strip is not quite the first dog who has
ever done this work, for the firm who
employ his master once used a retriever
dog, but this dog was not nearly so clever
as Strip and did not care for the work.
Sometimes, when the electric wires have
to go in very awkward places, and when
the openings are too small for even Strip
to squeeze through, the workmen have
fastened the cord to the tail OF a rat and
sent that down the pipes.
Rats, though, are not to be trusted like
dogs. They do not seem to feel the re-
sponsibility of their position, and they
certainly do not take a pride in their
work as Strip does, but ism t it wonderful
that rats can be made to do it at all?
In the picture you see Strip Just coming
up after one of his underground journeys
and waiting for the rope to be united.
A. GRAY
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Thus Mr.. Weeds career is worthy of
study by any young man who desires to
be an influential politician for his career
shows that one may become such without
holding Office, and that the sense OF pow
er is greater with man who names pub
lie officers than it is even to those officers
themselves.
In his old ageMr. Weed used sometimes
to think that perhaps the most graft
flying of all his efforts to start young men
upon political careers was the case OF a
man who became peculiarly famous dur
Ing the war of the rebellion and for some
years after. And there is q very romantic
story connected with this mans career
which shows how by pure accident some
times lad S fortune is made.
When Thurlow Weed was young man
and before he had any idea that he would
become famous politician, he fell in love
with very pretty girl. She was the
belle of the little village. Her father
was well off for that community.
Young Weed, on the other hand, had
just finished term as printers ap-
prentice. He set type, and he pulled
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the moment sbeast" enters, "truth'
is held up to him. He gets black marks
when he fbs, and in time it gets to be
habit, and the longer a man stays there
the more he prizes his word of honor. No
matter what he may do afterwards, most
of the cadets live up to this idea while at
West Point, and if they depart why other
cadets rather ostracise them. This is
largely aided by the system of self-gov-
eminent used on the cadets.
While tie larger part of the graduates
are recommended to President Cleveland
for cavalry and infantry service and
others for three or four branches, half O.
dozen annually succeed in fitting for en-
gineers, ordnance, artillery, cavalry or
infantry, and as many more for ali but
the engineers.
In four. years, cadets are given courses
in natural and experimental philosophy.
modern languages, drawing, mathe-
mates from plain arithmetic through
calculus; chemistry, electricity, me-
chanics, mineralogy and geology, history,
geography and ethics, civil and military
engineering. military tactics, including
cavalry, artillery and infantry; law, and
practical military engineering, ordnance
and gunnery-
There areminor things worked in and
incidentally cadet has been taught to be
a gentleman beside. 1t is altogether an
exhaustive study, but so carefully is the
cadets living regulated that few break
down under the strain of fifteen hours
work daily.
M1c
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but am sure he must have felt very
much puzzled, and probably he was
rather frightened, too, when he was put
inside and could see nothing but long,
narrow, dark passage, stretching away to
the right and to the left with just the
faintest glimmer of daylight showing at
either end.
l don't know whether he sat down and
howled or not, but I should not be sur
prised if he did. After time he must
have thought that there might be way
out at the place where the light ahead
showed at the end OF the passage, for he
started off down the narrow opening on
his right.
There was not much difficulty in get
ting along at first. but by and by some
thing hard and cold seemed to block up
the path; not quite up, though, for by
squeezing and jumping Strip got over 1T.
Poor little dOgl those great big things
which stood in his way, which are called
s'insulator bars, - must have been great
trial to him, especially as he did not
know that they are used to prevent the
electricity from escaping.
There were ten of these bars to be got
over before he could reach the CLEAN OF
daylight, which grew brighter and
brighter as he went on. fancy il one
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The orderly is responsible for every mis-
placed boot or every clothes bag or piece
Of underclothipg misplaced.
The summer in camp is very lively.
The new veteran class has advanced out
door demonstrations. They take long
cavalry marches and are taught the
science OF roads. The infantry classes
are sent afoot on long marches about the
country. The engineers survey the
country. There are Notifications to be
built every summer and the boys who are
arfayed in summer suits have to ply axe
and shovel, pickaxe and crowbar. The
artillery classes lombard all West Point,
and there isn't much in the way of prac-
teal warfare but what the cadets get
taste of in mimic strife In the three sum-
mers they appear in camp. Indeed they
are supposed to put In practice what has
been studied the winter before In books.
The annual illumination occurs just be-
fore the order Tor striking tents is given.
The streets in camp are arched and hung
with lanterns, and all the men try to
surpass each other in the decorations of
their tents, which they open to visitors.
The narrow cot beds on which daily the
cadets fold back bed and bedding, accord
ing to army regulations, become divans
almost luxurious. The woods are
stripped for decorations to turn each tent
into bower, and when the night comes
the cadets look at the oecoraIlons ana tell
the girls all about them.
Another event of these last days is the
theatrical performance given by the boys.
The little play is compounded by some of
the cadets who fill all the roles.
A camp scene shows q tent full OF cadets
engaged in the various occupations that
fall to cadets lot A lazy or sick COM
rade is the center piece, and while one
cadet is engaged in the praiseworthy oc-
cupation of sewing bell bIttons on his
best coat, another polishes his sabre to
the tune CT the light guitar which another
deft-fingered cadet is picking. The coats
and garments are hung in prescribed or
der, while the cologne bottles and soap
benches are in their proper position,
sid If they hadn't been so at 0:30 in the
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great number OF beautiful birds have their

homes.
Suddenly, after 1 had been for some
time quite still and silent. there came to
my hearing the soft, musical hum OF
wings, and an arc of ruby light cut my
vision.
OF course I was instantly all attention,
for when did bird ever fail to interest
me?
An oak tree, short of stature but large
of bole-girth and finging out massive
limbs short and gnarled, was rooted at
the foot of my cliff, its first triple crotch
expanding exactly on level with my
rock bed. A ruby-throated hnmming
bird was swinging pendulum fashion
above one of the boughs. Actually the
fat arc-segment of it's swift. Migratory
fight looked like nothing else SO much as
like the flash of a slender, highly polished
Damascus sword blade.
1t was perhaps by stark accident that
my first glance discovered tiny, rudi-
mentary ring of lichen fragments set
on the body of the bough Immediately
under the apex of this arc, but I knew
at once that here was the beginning of a
nest.
lay breathless almost, for fear might
frighten the mite OF bird away. Hap
PLY thin fringe of sedge veiled me some
what.
A WORK OF MANY DAYS.
Day after day crept back all unseen to
the spot and noted every detail OF the
dainty work as it progressed.
The exact spot chosen for the nest was
on top of the bough's body and close be-
side low gnarl, which protruded like a
wart or wen bossed with fungi and
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HIS LOVE MEssEN GER.
A. Story of Thurlow Weed and Genera.
Spinner.
IBy E. Jay Edwards. |


There was one very great politician in
the United States who never held an Of
fee after he was % years of age, and that
was not because he was not able to get
one, but because he decided when he was
very young man that he would never
ask for public Office or accept one if it
should be offered to him.
He might have been governor of
New York or a senator in Congress.
He was more than once asked by presi-
dents to go to Europe as representa-
tive of the United States at one of the
higher courts. But he always de-
clined, and when he died, almost 80 years
of age, it was said of him that while he
had probably procured Offices for more
men than any other American from the
beginning of the government, yet with
the exception of a term in the New York
legislature when he was a very young
man, and before he had decided never to
hold office, he was for more than sixty
years nothing but private citizen.
That man was Thurlow Weed, who was
SO poor in his early life that he went al
most barefooted through the snow in
search of a place as printers devil. He
was d pIiuIer All his LIE, bndt WAS bne
business by which he made his living,
and he became a famous editor, al
though he never had altogether
more than two or three years.
schooling. Although he was private
citizen, he certainly made one president
Zachary Taylor; and but for him Mil
lard Fillmore would never have become
vice. president, from which Office he sue
ceeded to the presidency on the death of
General Taylor. He made a number of
men senator's; four or five governors OF
New York could not have been elected
without his aid; and good many foreign
ministers were named by him, also csbi-
net officers.
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could ask Strip what he hates most in
this world he would answer-not cats
not rats-not children who pull his tail
but "insulator bars.''
At last he reached the end of his journey,
with his rope dragging the wire behind
him.
When he was safely out the men began
hauling at the rope until the electric wire
was pulled along through the pipe. Then
Strip, over whom every body had been
making great fuss, had the cord tied to
the other end of the wire and fastened to
his collar again; and he was put down
the same opening into the pipe, to carry
the wire to the other end of the passage.
This was the most difficult part of all,
for of course Strip wanted to turn again.
But various jerks at the rope from above
told him he must not go that way.
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when the graduating class goes away,
asst years. s'yearlings,' who are eIe-
0ated to the rank of ''second class men, .
get their trunks, puton their store clothes
aud get them to their homes on stfur-
lough.'' Plain citizens call it q vacation,
but cadet scorns to say anything but
furlough. and furlough goes.
The fifty new men will be taught to stand
erect, how to hold their heads. hands aud
bodies; how to use their eyes, how to hold
z gun. That's funny, too. Lots of the
boys hardly know one end of gun from
the other. Then they are shown Just how
to wear their clothes after the tailor of
the post has turned out their new clothes.
These new clothes make big difference.
A "beast's'' first ball buttons makes him
brace up immensely. He has to De taught
to ofiicjate as room orderly. Two men
occupy a tent in summer or room in
winter quarters together, and they take
turn about In acting as room orderly
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one OF those old-fashioned hand PRESET
which were as long in printing zoos
sheets as some of the giant presses 90
today would be in printing 1000.
Weeds hands were black with printers
ink, and he was very poor; and altogether
it is not at all remarkable that his sweet
hearts father did not think 1t wise that
he should make love to his daughter. He
had no objection to Thurlow Weed, ex-
cept that he thought that it would be 8
long time before the young printer would
be able to earn enough to support wife.
But young Thurlow was bound to win
the girl, though he promised to give her
no annoyance, or her father, by person
ally pressing his suit. He would, he said,
work hard until he had earned enough
to be able to set up housekeeping, and
had secured a place where he would get
good wages.
But he was very cunning then, too, as
he was afterward in politics. He said to
young woman of that town, tNow let
you and / make a bargain. want to
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tics in the air. Sometimes while his de-
mure little mate was lowering by the
nest he was swinging back and forth
through the curve, already described,
barely missing her with his cleaning
wings at the lowest point of the arc, max
ing meantime sharp, criket squeak at
each sweep.
OTHER HUMMING-BIRD NESTS.
As far north as Indiana the humming-
bird builds late IN May and early in June.
the tulip tree being its favorite nesting
l found beautiful and perfect nest on
low bough OF an old pear tree; this was
built with an outer rim of small bits OF
lichen- covered bark, while within it was
lined artistically with g superfine vege-
table fibre mixed with what under a glass
appeared to be the softest down-like fur
of hare.
Within the confines of the old town OF
st. Augustine, Fla, friend and were
examining the body of an immense twist
ed and knotted rose bush, and there be-
tween the gnarled prongs / discovered a
ruby-throat's nest, though it was mid
winter, perfect in all its parts. Into this
nest some strands OF Spanish moss had
been woven along with the dry leaves of
tree fern and some threadlike palmetto
fibres.
MISTAKES OF NATURALIsTs AS TO FOOD.
have never seen humming bird Of
any species land have closely observed
number) make the least effort to cap
ture an insect; moreover, the saliva the
birds use in gluIng their nests has, when
first laid on, peculiar honey fragrance
not unlike the sharp aromatic smell of a
bee or wasp when disturbed.
In Indiana l have clearly recognized the
perfume OF the great tulip flower, the
bloom of the liriodendron tulipifera when
handling new made nest. In the south
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the smell is not SO easily referable, save
that the keen, pleasant pungency OF
liquid amber gum is frequently present;
and this brings me to the point of saying
that in my opinion the viscous substance
used by the humming bird in gluing its
nest is partly a glandular secretion and
partly tree gums and juices Of plants and
nectars of flowers. have seen the ruby
throat eat, or rather drink, the sweet sap
of trees tapped by woodpeckers. Pollen
of flowers is eaten by it; but whether
purposely or by the accident of taking it
up along with nectar cannon be sure.
The old bird brings the food in her
mouth and gives it to her babes so adroit-
ly and so quickly that it is quite impossi
bic to know just how it is done or wha
the substance is.
Still, 1 have seen her fly directly from
bed of flowers to the nest and Immediate
ly go through the process OF feeding the
nestlings. A peculiar, semi-rank honey
like smell may be observed after each one
of these food bearing visits. This had
the best opportunity of confirming when
found nest with its two comical look
ing little ones in it on the next to the top
rail of a worn fence near an old flower
| garden in Kentucky.