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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18
a New Law for Wandering wIIIIes.

FROM the West Randolph Herald
The new tramp law is evidently intended
to discourage the weary Wilies in Vermont,
who desire to evade the curse and eat their
bread in the sweat of somebody else's brow.
If transient person roves from place to
place, begging, living without labor or Wis
ible means of support, he is to be deemed
a tramp and punished by imprisonment in
the house of correction for the term OF six
months, so says the new law; and if our
wise Legislators had only included that
5enteel tramp, the book agent, in the SEN
tence, no fault could possibly be found with
so good statute. The travelling gentry
must also refrain from procuring food,
clothing or other property by threats or
by force, lest they find themselves regular
boarders from one to five years in the state
establishment at Windsor, where sufficient
exercise is provided for the inmates to
prevent their missing their customary
strolls.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18
Chronic Nervousness
Could Not Sleep, Nervous
Headaches.

Gentlemen:-I have been taking
your Restorative Nervine for the past
three months and l cannot say
enough in its praise. 1t has
Saved Fly Life,
for 1 had almost given up hope of
ever being well again. / was a
chronic sufferer from nervousness and
could not sleep. / was also troubled
with nervous headache, and had tried
doctors in vain, until l used your
Nervine. MRS. NJ. WOOD, Ringwood Ill.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18
Three Thoughts.
THEIR APPLICATION SOLVES MANY PROBLEMS OF
DISEASE.

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DISEASE.
How important it is TO everyone that the blood
should be kept in good condition, and yet how
few people there are to whom this subject seems
TO give any concern. We wish here TO empha
size these three points.
First, the situation; Health depends on the
state of the blood. The blood conveys all the
elements which go to make up the organs of The
body and carries away all dissolved and useless
material. Every bone muscle, nerve and tissue
lives upon what the blood feeds to il. Moreover
every beating of the heart every drawing of the
breath, every thought flashing through the
brain needs supply Of pure blood TO be done
rightly and we'll
Second, the necessity The human race as
whole is in great need of good blood purifier
There are about 2iOO disorders incident TO the
human frame, the large majority arising from
the impure or poisonous condition of the blood.
Scrofula, disease as old as antiquity, has been
inherited by generation after generation and
man tests itself today virulent and virtually I'M
changed from the ancient forms If are 50
fortunate as to escape hereditary impurities in
the blood We may contract disease from the
germs IN the air We breathe ths food we eat, or
the water we drink.
Third, the remedy: In Hoods Sarsaparila is
found the me 1icine for all blood diseases Its
remarkable cures are its louiest praise. No
remedy has EVER had so marked a success. No
medicine was ever accorded so great public pat
ed to its potent powers, blood poisoning and salt
rheum and many other diseases have been per
cures and for further informatio write to c. l.
Hood a Co, Lowell, Ma II you need good
blood purifier, take Hoods Sarsaparia.
To be free from sick headache biliousness. con-
stipation, etc, use Carters Little Liver Pills
Strictly vegetable. They gently stimulate the
liver and free the stomach from bile.
A W man who is weak, nervous and sleepless
and who cannot feel and act like a well person
Carters Iron Pills equalize the circulation, re
move nervousness and give strength and re st,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18

Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers can be
applied when at home, and is uniformly success
full in coloring brown or a black Hence its
great popularity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18

Deans Rheumatic pills absolutely cure
Theumatlsm and neuralgia Entirely vegetable
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18
DR.. Miles NerVine
Cures.

DR.. Miles Nervine is sold on a positive
All druggists sell it at 81, 6 bottles for s., or
it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt OF price
by the DIR. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18
For Sale,

y UILFORD FARM 100 acres, suitably divided,
kinds; house 116 story with l.; barn 60 by 81;
carriage house 20 by 80; hog house 20 by 40;
sugar house 20 by 20 buildings in good repair,
buildings mostly slated; house painted four
light windows. Cream gatherer goes right 10y
the door. Sets 500 buckets. good evaporator;
1000 cords of wood locust grove worth. $500;
running water TO h use and barn Price. S2SC0
2-3 MAY a CROWN
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18

W man who is weak, nervous and sleepless
and who cannot feel and act like a well person
Carter's Iron Pills equalize the circulation, re
move nervousness and give strength and re st.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18

To be free from sick headache biliousness. con-
stpaton, etc, use Carter's Little Liver Pills,
Strictly vegetable. They gently stimulate the
liver and free the stomach from bile.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18

$50 there you are; your son, Yankee
lad, born and raised beneath the shadow
of the green hills and the sunshine upon
the meadows of old Vermont, in land
noted for its simplicity and Puritan ideas,
has had the honor, one week before his
twenty-eighth birthday, to be received in
audience as the minister of the Great Re-
public by truly Oriental monarch, the
sovereign of Siam | went into his pres.
ence, however, prouder to be citizen OF
the United States than if could then have
been appointed his successor and heir"
The Washington times., 1895-02-10
SEWERAGE AND WATER SUPPLY.
Petition of the Citizens Committee Pre-
scuted TO Congress.

Petition of the Citizens Committee Pre-
sented TO Congress.
An address signed by the committee ap-
pointed at the recent citizens meeting at the
Shoreham, was presented to Congress yester-
day II embodies a petition for the extern
sion of the sewerage system and water sup
ply, and the signers are Justice Harlan, Gen.
Schofleld, W. ]. Boardman, Col. James G.
Berrett. Crosby S. Noyes, Frank Gallon, and
DR.. John S. Billings.
The paper says that the seriousness of the
situation, so lar as sewers are concerned
was recognized by President Harrison, and
board of sanitary engineers OF the highest
prominence and character was appointed by
authority OF Congress TO whom they reported
in 1890. From that date 10 this the substance
OF the report mas been constantly brought to
the attention of the proper authorities, but
without resulting in any action.
As to water, the paper says: Lime water,
be an abundant supply. the use of which
should be encouraged rather than restricted.
The taxpayers are compelled 70 meet
charges for maintaining the municipal gov
ernment, and yet are absolutely poweriess as
to the expenditure OF their contributions for
this purpose.
In conclusion the committee says that
'steps should be taken at once to remedy the
dangerous condition and TO remove causes
which are liable at any timeao result in a
largely increased death rate and bring terri
bic disaster upon the National Capital.
The Washington times., 1895-02-10
SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.
Remarkable Bill for the Creation of q
Legislative Assembly.

Remarkable Bill for the Creation of q
Legislative Assembly.
Senator PETER yesterday introduced, by re-
quest, bill to provide representative
assembly for the District of Columbia. The
assembly is authorized 10 recommend to Con-
gress legislation affecting the District, to
recommend TO the President candidates
for appointment as District Commissioners.
and to recommend to Commissioners candi-
dates for offices under the District govern
ment.
The number of representatives is to be
unlimited except when the assembly itself
shall deem it too large. and then il may re-
duce 1t. but not below 100 members The pay
of each representative is to be cent per month
for each Of his constituents as shown at the
first sitting of the assembly during the cur
rent month.
Citizens of the United States who have re-
sided year in the District shall be legally
qualified voters. provided they are liable to
read this section, or, if blind, to recite it."
Voters shall be entitled to withdraw their
votes for certain representative and vote
for another.
Among the officers of the assembly vot-
ing clerk is provided. who shall prepare the
official vote to be deposited by the voters. 1t
is TO be of manila paper, about the size OF
small postal card, and contain space Tor
the signature and residence address OF the
voter. 1t is to be deposited with the voting
clerk within thirty days after the passage Of
the act. and the voting clerk is to Dotify by
mail within ninety days after the passage of
the act each representative OF his election.
Elaborate and novel methods Of legislation
| are prescribed. and $4,000 is appropriated
from the revenues of the District for the SAL
aries of the members OF the assembly and
other necessary expenses during each fiscal
The Washington times., 1895-02-10
ANACOSTIA NEWS.

The Anacostia railway officials will put
men armed with shovels at work on the
tracks of the read this morning, while every
effort VIII be made to keep the sweeper and
plow in operation. This is tie first time in
the history Of the road that all traffic was
suspended.
The freight train which attempted to pass
through the town Friday morning, is almost
buried in snow about 100 yards from the
crossing.
Many reports of burst water pipes have
been given to the plumbers OF the town.
THE TIMES was the only paper that reached
Anacostia Saturday morning, and loud
praises of the papers enterprise were heard.
The Christian Endeavor Society will hold
a song service this evening at the N. E.
Church.
The Junior Epworth League will install
officers this evening at the Baptist Church.
Mr.. Bernard Sears is reported as being
quite i'll again.
The wagon of Mr. Thomas Nelson was
blown over yesterday evening while crossing
the bridge. Mr.. Nelson escaped with slight
bruises.
Miss Clara Barse is quite i'll at the residence
of her parents on Seventeenth street.
At least $50 persons were supplied with
food and fuel by Postmaster J. w. Tolson or
Sergt Charles Kirby yesterday.
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as in New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore.
She comes from the educated and refined
middle class. from which the best material
for all business purposes is drawn, the world
over.
Many a woman behind the counter has
seen an easier side OF life. In one store is
The daughter OF an ex-governor Of a southern
State. and another whose father had once
been IN Congress. Here also is woman of
rare culture. once a teacher OF languages, and
another member OF @ wealthy family, made
poor by the war.
Mr.. Woodward, OF the famous Boston store,
insisted no higher type of woman couIo be-
found In any store than were in his employ.
They are brave, true women" be said,
"scms Of them Of i6ne education; Christian
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should be left out of the account when work
is as well done by a woman as a man."
No one employed in this store has had
cause of complaint about salary for Mr.. Baum
treats his clerks as though all belonged to
one family, and that his own.
This clerk has stood behind the counters in
this store during her ten years service.
In regard to time Of service, in the Palais
Royal is Miss Boyle at the head of the silk de-
partment. She purchases silks and dress
goods Of all sorts, with their Innings and
trimmings, making monthly trips to New
York for that purpose. she has been In Mr..
Lisner's employ for ten years.
Miss Patterson. on the third floor, has a
very responsible position. She is also of
many years experience In this house.
Miss Prender, of the hosiery department,
and Miss Cassaday. in charge of umbrellas,
with Miss Hill in the underwear department,
are all experienced in their various depart
ments, having served from eight to ten years
in each.
There are over 100 women and young girls
employed IN Kings Palace.
Mrs. King, the mother of Messrs. King,
brought up her sons in the business, which
she conducted alone for many years. This
firm claims to have more old employees than
any other store in town. There Is no dis
tiuclAou udue III tnelr large miiiinely estaD-
Iishment between men and women's work.
Indeed, women have it pretty much all their
own way In millinery business, good
taste, style. and color sense being tbs
essentials Of fitness.
OF course, the average earnings OF the
great majority OF girls In stores is only from
$3.50 up to 81 or So, but was told in ons
there are girls who can live well and even lay
by little for the rainy day.
'sTHat girl over there, said clerk, .'boardi
The Washington times., 1895-02-10

marry, and her heart not being in her bust
ness, she is only in exceptional cases. as
competent as man.
"There is always the same probability of
the men employees yielding to Cupid's charms.
But in his case, he is the more likely to be
ambitious to get on for that very reason.
while she contemplates going into q new
business-the business Of housekeeping-an
thus loses her interest in the store.
''But if she remains heart free and takes
to business no man can beat her.
1--WE have $50 women employees in our store,
and twenty-five dollars week is the highest
salary paid to some of the best heads of our
departments. We rank our employees accord
ing to ability without regard to sex.
"Our second bookkeeper is a woman. We
find women equal to men in mental calliber,
and when there is no heavy lifting of stock.
equal to any service.
'iWe do not discharge our clerks from one
years end to another except lor incapacity,
nor do We cut down wages in slack seasons.
We give two weeks summer vacation without
pay"
At some of the stores, say Lansburgh's, for
instance, the girls are advised to dress plainly
and mostly in black-becausei it looks neater
and IS more serviceable. This firm, as well
as its neighhors, is exceedingly careful about
the character of their employees.
Salaries are paid weekly and promotions
are in order once or twice year.
The average salaries at Lansburgh's are
S10 per week, while S25 Is the highest rating
OF any they pay TO a woman.
Several of the larger stores have a nicely
appointed lunch room on the upper floor for
the use of the saleswomen. They bring their
own lunches and deposit hem in a little tier
Of boxes marked with each persons name.
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especially IL she has been saleslady some
where else, where she was not SO well
treated.
Miss Bolts has been in Mr. Baum's employ
for seventeen years. She is the daughter of
a recent governor of Virginia. She has
charge OF five separate departments, select
ing, buying and directing.
Another lady in this same store is also a
ten-year employe, and she says There ought
not to be that difference between the pay of
men and women on account of the possible
marriage for the single woman is often help
ing TO support an aged parent, or to educate
brothers and sisters. / am not complaining
of my pay in making this suggestion. for il is
good. but l think the question of marriage
The Washington times., 1895-02-10

ing department in satisfactory and busi-
ness-like manner
I'VE have in our employ several women
who have been with US for number of years
and who have worked for the modest salary
of s. or Sc per week, who have since ad-
vanced themselves to first positions and now
receive ten, twelve, or fifteen hundred dollars
per year. Indeed think usually the best
saleswomen work up from small beginnings,
advancing iy faithful and painstaking effort.
There is one very important thing with
regard to the employment of women. which.
IL you can get before them or impress upon
them, viii be o. incalculable benefit. 1t is
with the greatest difficulty that we can find
saleswomen who write a good hand and are
accurate in addition and multiplication. For
instance, show you here four lit le ex-
amples, the addition of four columns of two
figures each, and L assure you that one-half
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and perseverance are the watchwords of an
honorable life, and it shows that from
the smallest business man may become rich
and influential.
Mr.. Seaton Perry, the present proprietor,
son Of Mr.. A. E. Perry the senior member of
the firm, first entered the store in 1867 as a
clerk and, being ambitious and possessed of
the indomtable will which characterized his
father anu uncle, his advance was rapid; so
that in 1881, when. at the death ofthe surviy-
ing brother. he became the sole guardian of
the destinies of the ideal modern dry goods
establishment over which he now presides
Since "Perry's" represented one of the old
est and most highly esteemed establishments
and families IN the District, they always at
tracted people of highest social position and
old resident class as buyers. Always prudent
and conservative, Mr.. Perry did not adopt
The Washington times., 1895-02-10

number Of the large. strong fellows had TO
seek pastures new, for Messrs. Lansburgh,
and Perry. and shuster, the Bon Marche, and
pther leading merchants soon fell into line
BY the time Woodard and Lothrop opened
mp the old Boston store on the Avenue. and
Mr.. Lisner the old Palais Royal in the build
Ing where the Raleigh now stands, the new
regime was in full swing. The women had
got Into new business. and by their aptness
had come to stay. Possibly it was good
economy to employ them.
There is not a more superior class OF sales
women anywhere than in Washington, where
the average OF womanhood is so high.
The Washington saleslady is not drawn
largely from an enigrant or mechanic class
The Washington times., 1895-02-10
THE wAsH1NeroN TIMES. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY TO- 1895

in private family and has comfortable
room. To judge from the quality OF luncheon
she brings they furnish good wholesome
food and plenty of It, She tells me she makes
her own dresses and bonnets. and she ignores
superlous trimmings. She always wears
black in winter and white on pleasant days
in summer. | think she looks nice, don't
you?n
She was comedy girl with sweet and
sensible face, and she did look mice" in
neatly fitting black Henrietta dress. 1t
was up to date, for the sleeves made her
measure a yard across the shoulders, but
there was not speck of trimming about it,
even 80 much as a button.
"Oh, forgot" said the informant, "to add
she walks when others ride. She say the ex-
ercise does her good
The Washington times., 1895-02-10

Mr.. Perry's dry goods house occupies a
unique position, having been established since
1910, and is hence the oldest establishment in
the city.
About fifty-flve years ago when Washington
was but a village, Perry Bros. opened small
dry-goods store short distance from where
the Perry building now stands. The history
of these brothers, who began their business
career in such an humble way, is therefore
closely identified with the history OF the ma
tion's capital, and will prove a valuable les
son to the young man who is just starting cut
in business. 1t shows that truth, honesty.
The Washington times., 1895-02-10
The Perry Building.

mercal topics only in one OF the store
rooms, and all the employees are expected to
be present.
.'Since the custom was inaugurated.' he
says ''the uext weeks work shows the bene-
fiji OF it in better-kept books and discipline.
The information bureau of this store is
kept by young lady, and what she does not
know she is on the alert to pick up for next
time.
There are $50 employees in Lansburgh's
store, 160 Of whom are ladies. The differ
ences that exist between meA and women's
respective value arises here, as elsewhere.
from the fact that most women expect to get
married and quit the business sometime.
Mr. Baum's lady clerks cannot say too
much in praise of him as an employer. When
woman gets into a good place she knows it,
The Washington times., 1895-02-10

you decide upon these domestic matters, as
only about one man in a thousand is capable
of doing.
She is that modern institution, the sales
woman. Do you realize what an advantage
that is to the shopper?
In this city saleswomen in big and little
stores are numbered by the thousand. Twen-
tY-hve years ago there were only six women
clerks in a first-class store, that, the lace
store Of Z. G. Davis, on Pennsylvania
avenue. Even the women themselves re-
garded it then as a doubtful experiment.
But soon after Mr.. Baum also introduced
women clerks into his bazar, and there was
great cry from statesmen that women were
running them out OF business" goodly
The Washington times., 1895-02-10

wear and to place in their hands the buying
of goods for such departments, twelve years
ago. There were at that time. to the best of
our knowledge. only two or three women occu-
pying these positions. and these for New
York houses. Since that time the value OF
women in these lines has been appreciated
more and more. until EoW it is quite common
for large houses to employ women as buyers
and managers.
':While there is no question as to the taste
and judgment Of women as buyers Of many
classes of goods it was formerly contended
they had not the ability and capacity to buy
and manage department in a business-like
way, but the present almost universal ac-
acknowledgement of their value in these lines is
sufficient proof that this statement was not
well founded. 1t Is our experience that
women are in every way capable of manag-
The Washington times., 1895-02-10
cardinal to Administer Confirmatiou

Cardinal Gibbons will administer confirma-
ton at st. Aloysius Church this afternoon at
o'clock. The mission now in progress at
the church has been attended by immense
congregations, and promises much spiritual
fruit. The woman's mission will end to-day
at $50 o'clock, and the mission for men will
open at II o'clock with solemn high mass Rev.
Father Himmel will preach at IL o'clock. and
Father Campbell at 8 o'clock. The classes
for converts and adults were attended by
seventy-f1ve persons, twenty-five OF whom are
preparing to enter the church.
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wraps are provided for in another place run

Wraps are provided for in another place run
on the same plan.
The store furnishes the services OF cook
and coffee or tea at 8 or 5 cents cup.
There are I've different departments in
Lansburgha & Bros store where women are at
the head of the line of stock. They do their
own selecting and buying and Mr.. Cans Says
"Ihese women are worth every dollar they
get.'' sg
In all the larger stores some method has to
be adopted to instruct beginners in their
liyersa brief and PRACTICAL lecture on COM
The Washington times., 1895-02-10

the new system of dividing a store up into
departments until about eight or nine ye irs
ago, when the enlargement of mis- business
rendered the employment of saleswomen
practicable. He then began TO employ sales
women, and as he has always been most care
ful in mis- selections he lost nothing, but
rather gained by the change He now con-
siders that a saleswoman, in a cloakroom,
for instance. can excel a salesman every time.
Mr.. Perry Is not only particular in selecting
lady employees. but he is exceedingly consid-
crate Of their welfare while they are on duty.
Said Mr.. Kent. OF the Palais Royal, ''the
one thing which discriminates against women
getting as good wages for their work as men
is the probability that she will some time
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In these great modern department stores
you can enter in the costume OF a native OF
Terra Del Fuego and come out clothed from
sole 10 crown. Or, is it housekeeping you
wish TO engage in, you will find pretty much
all for furnishing your establishment under
the same roof where you get your wardrobe.
Besides this, YOU will find in every bazaar
a sensible woman TO wait upon, if not help