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sively. A few years ago these stores used
to employ boys, and cash girls were sell
dom seen. But in course OF time the cash
girls came more and more popular,
until the cash boy is now the exception,
while the cash girl is the rule.
Much the same transition is predicted
in the ranks of office boys. The old
fashioned office boy, who swears, smokes
cigarettes and is pertinent usually, and
reads dime novels in a corner or loafs
when he is sent on some important er-
rand, is fast disappearing, and 1t is pre-
dicted that in course Of time the office
girl will have entirely taken his place.
Office girls are now employed in num-
Der OF the offices in the big buildings down
town. The success Of their sisters has
suggested the idea to other girls oil inyad-
Ing the field hitherto monopoliZed by their
brothers and earning more wages than are
paid to the cash girl. Every now and then
man who has put an advertisement for
an office boy in the paper finds among the
applicants letter from a girl, or if he
asks that the boy apply in person one or
more girls ire apt to be among the score of
youngsters who answer the advertisement.
At first the man does not take kindly to
the idea, and the would-be office girl finds
it difficult work to secure place. The
men are prejudiced against the idea, just
as at tlrst the men were prejudice against
the idea OF employing women as steno-
graphers or typewriters.
Those who have had Office girls in their
employ are, however, very well pleased
with them, and most of them who have
tried Office girls declare that never again
will they have an office boy around the
pre- misses.
Most of the Office girls are am bilious.
They are like the office boy OF genera
tion or two ago who entered the employ
of his master with determination to rise
to the topmost notch. They realize that
in this day every occupation is open to
them and that they themselves may be
lawyers, bankers, brokers, insurance
agents or anything else, if they are able
to master the details of the business.
They therefore keep their eyes open and
learn all that they can about the business,
that they may put the ideas so gained into
practice when there shall be an opportu-
nifty, some years in the future, for them to
go into business.of some sort for them
selves.
Most o. the Office girls Immediately be-
gin to qualify themselves for promotion.
They practice on the ty ypewriter when they
have a few moments to spare, and SO
qualify themselves for situations as stem
ographers. Some of them have already
learned enoueh typewriting to gain an in
crease of salary and position which calls
for more typewriting and less of the Office
boy duties. Times Herald.
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NO BOTTOMLESS LAKES.
The Deepest Arc Less Than $500 Feet,
and One OF Them Is in OREGON.

The Deepest Are Less Than $500 Feet,
and One OF Them Is in Oregon.
The deepest body of fresh water in
America is Crater Lake, Oregon. Only
lie lake in the world-Lake Baikal-ex-
ceeds it in depth, and is only 400 ieet
deeper. Until recently it was asserted
Crater Lake was bottomless, but sound
ings have shown its greatest depth to be
1000 feet. 1t is five miles in diameter,
nearly circular, and occupies the crater OF
an extinct volcano.
No fish ha, ever been known to exist in
Crater Lake. Recently club of mountain
climbers, with headquarters at Portland,
sent to Washington u request that Crater
Lake be stocked with trout, and the Gov
erpment experts are going to find out If
such a scheme is practicable. IL is easy
enough to put trout into the water, but the
question Is If there is sufficient food in the
water to nourish them after they are
there. The experts will tow small gauze
nets over the water at all hours OF the day.
Animaicul8 will catch in the gauze and
from its abundance or lack IL can be ascer-
tanned if the water contains nourish-
ment.
An interesting series of experiments
Will be undertaken to ascertain the tem-
perature of the water at various depths.
No such observations have ever been
taken OF fresh water so lar down. With
this end in view full equipment OF self
registering thermometers and supplement
tary apparatus will be taken along and let
down by sounding lines. There are very
few places in the lake where the depth is
less than 1900 feet and no lake on the
western hemisphere approaches this.
1t is no wonder, then. that Crater Lake
was supposed to be bottomless. However,
the truth is that all lakes over $50 feet
deep possess similar reputation. ANY
body of water that is deeper than the
length of the longest fceling-line is sure
to lack bottom in the popular belief.
A hrst-rate example of tEis sort of
delusion is afforded by Fayette
Lake, in Idaho. It was formerly i'm
agined to he bottomless, and later its
depth was officially stated to be 1000 feet.
Recent investigation proves that its great
est depth is 305 feet. They are no data on
which to base guess as to the bottom
temperature of Crater Lake. but the sup
position is that it will be very little above
freezing. The temperature of the ocean
remains at about 40 degrees Fahrenheit
all the year round, even in the tropics.
Nevertheless, some volcanic heat NAV yet
remain to warm the waters of Crater Lake.
Chicago Daily News.
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THE REBEKAHS.
Close of the Ses nstaliatior
of the Ele cted and Appointed
Officers.


of the Ele cted and Appointed
Officers.
The State assembly OF the Rebekahs
closed its session at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, ana in the language of Secre-
tary Mrs. Mary E. Donoho sit was ses-
sion that has been extremely beneficial to
the order, for we obtained all that we
asked for"
During the day there was considera ple
discussion on matters strictly within the
order, the result of which will be trans
mitted to the lodges through the proper
channels.
OF the Grand Lodge of Washington paid
the assembly a visi: and delivered very
interesting and entertaining address.
Just before the close of the afternoon
session James J.. Benson, an old-time Odd
Fellow, was admitted and the Assem- bly,
degree was conferred upon him.
The following named officers were duly
installed:
Mrs Minerva Karsner OF Oroville. president:
Dell c. Savage Of Livermore, vice-president; !;
NJ Carpenter OF Ukiah. warden; Mrs Mary E.
Donoho of San Francisco, secretary; Nellie
Mitchell of Grass Valley, marshal; Alma l.
Jensen of San Francisco, conductor; ANNE T.
Crocker OF Snisun, chaplain; Mrs. Wollp-
heimer of San Diego, inside guard; Mrs. Abbie
Davidson of Fort Jones, outside guard.
The following committees were named !:
CreGentials--Mrs. Wycof Julia Bartels
Abble Z. Drew.
State OF the Order-Carrie A. Kingsley, Mrs.
Granger, Martha Snow.
Legislation-Miss Fannie Benjamin, Carrie
Aiken, Nora Osterhout, Kate Talbot, Cora c.
Taber.
Petitions-Jennie Eardley. Alvara Pope,
Alice Lockwood, Elizabeth Coster, Josie
Shields.
Finance-Anna Forbes, Lydia Stee ,Mollie
E. McCollister, Minnie Dewitt, Susan J. Nina.
The retiring and rew officers were each
presented with punches of beautiful fow-
ers after which the session adjourned.
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him in the somewhat noted litigation in
volved in the settlement of the William
z. More 81, 100000 estate, IN which John
+. More appeared as one of his heirs.
Mr.. Whitworth so ably represented the
interests OF his client that he secured the
appointment OF said client as general ad-
mlnlstrator of the estate of Alexander Z.
More. position that will yeld good fees;
yet said client has paid only $4,000 as al.
torney's fees, and though often requested
TO do so has declined to pay any more.
He vii! be called on 10 justify his refusal
in court.
John H. Wise was not able to agree
upon the ice demanded by Joseph Rotas-
child, his attorney, in ,ome important
litigation and so suit has been brought on
behalf OF the attorney TO collect the debt.
Mr.. ROthschild GLAZING SI5OO.
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GIRLS AS OFPICE-BOYs.

They Are Crowding Out the Dime
Novel Heading YounEster.
The rising generation Of femlninity has
been invading fields hitherto regarded as
peculiarly those OF the boy, just as her
older sister, the new woman, has been ac-
ceptably filling positions, situations and
professions which were formerly regarded
as suitable only for the male sex. The
office-grl has appeared in Chicago the
last few months to take her place beside
the army of women stenograrhers and
typewriters.
No ore knows exactly who began the
innovation. Perhaps the idea was Dor.
rowed from the big department. stores,
which employ cash girls almost exclu-
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THE SARMAZAOHY GOSPEL.
A Sixth Century Greek Manuscript In
the st. Petersburg Library.

A Sixth Century Greek Manuscript in
the st. Petersburg Library.
The other day the Emperor Nicholas II
made the Public Imperial Library at St.
Petersburg very valuable present, VIZ,
the Sarmazachy Gospel, written on pur-
pie parchment, a Greek manuscript gos-
pei OF the sixth century, not whit infe-
rior in scientific value 10 the Sinai Bible of
the fourth century, which is one of the
older treasures OF the library, or to the
Ostromir Gospel of the year 1857. Till
lately it has been in the posses sion of the
settlement Of SarmaZachi, near the Cap
padocian C9sarea, in Anatolia.
In 1895 the Russian archaologlst Smir-
nov travelled in Anatolla, saw the gospel
and reported on it at once 10 the Russian
Archaeological Institute in Constantinople.
II aste was nece, ,sary, for Englishmen and
a m ericans had intended for four years
past to buy the rare manuscript, and had
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MAKE-BELIEVE MATERIALS.
Marble That Is Not Marble and Carved
Wood That Is Not Wood


Shams and limitations OF all kinds are
placed upon the market, and the imita-
tions range in all branches and lines of
business, from skim milk which mas
querades as cream TO the piece of glass
which has to do service as ''real dia-
moDd." These frauds are transparent TO
a great part of the population, and the
sham iewelry, sham fur and the hum bugs
generally are palmed off on that class of
the population which would rather have
an imitation than nothing, or upon the
rural visitor who lives in blissful ignorance
of many tricks of the various trades. But
some of the great metropolitan buildings
which have been erected recently have
within their walls shams in the way of
decorations, which are so we'll made, so
artistically constructed, that they are
looked upon as genuine by men to whom
the average sham is an open book. In
building which was recently erected in the
resident part of The city there are groups
and columns which look 10 the casual OBJ
server ike shafts of highly colored marble.
scanned and veined SO in,ricately and
colored so harmohiously that a person
with appreciation for the beautiful coulQ
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CURES TELL.
What Has Been Done for Others
Can Be Done for You.

A
mostm
tifpoterea
n
Of
chances making experiment. When the
health
bv his new
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4 MAN WITH
HIS THROAT CUT
Breathes Through a Pipe
That Opens Under
His Cravat.
Has a Tube in His Side for
Carrying Food to HIS
Stomach.
Peculiar Predicament of an Inmate
Of the Almshouse Who Sought
10 Commit Suicide.

Captain Reddy has an exceedingly in
teresting subject under his charge at the
Almshouse IN the person of Daniel
Bayha.
Daniel Bayha is tall, slim, very pale
and not unlikely looking young man Of
so years. Two years ago he was working
on ranch in Yolo County, became de-
spondent, tired of life, as he says, and
drew knife across his throat. The wind
pipe was severed. What medical service
the neighborhood afforded was called.
and his life was saved. He was afterward
taken to hospital up there, where he lay
about month. He was in a bad way.
Recovering sufficiently to admit of trav-
cling, he was brought to this City and
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The Once Lofty AIIeghanies.

1t is well known that our Appalachian n
Mountains were once very much higher
than the Rocky Mountains of to-day, and
that the reason why they are now COM
paratively low mountains is simply that
they are very old, and have been worn
down by denudation. The same destruc-
tive influences are still degrading them
very slowly as We measure ordinary time,
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TWO LAWYERS, BILLS.

Attorneys Whitworth and Rothschild
Sue Former Clients for Fees.
Attorney John M. Whitworth thinks
that his client, John f. More, has not
been sufficiently liberal in the payment
of fees and has sued for a balance OF
$12, 02l 40 alleged to be due.
Mr.. Whitworth has assigned his claim
to Lloyd P. Larue for collection. 1t is
alleged in the complaint that Mr.. More
employed Mr.. Whitworth to represent
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Honesty Rebuked

After cable-car conductor had passed
me several times without asking for my
fare l touched his arm and gave him a
nickel. A few minutes later as l left the
car / found him on the rear platform
alone. Don't ever do that again." he
said. "If conductor misses you don't
hunt him up. He doesn't want you to do
it. II l miss passenger the chances are
about even that no one will notice it ex-
cept the fellow himself. But when he
rushes up to pay fare ] have missed
every body notices the fact that l have
been Negligent, and if there is 'spotter'
aboard | lose my job. The next time save
your nickel; it may help me save my po-
sition."
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failed
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oo
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DONE FOR OTHERS, WHY NOT YOU?


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shaverue Chicago
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me of
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Eight
in h eby Electro
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By using electric lights at night on beds
of lettuce, radishes, spinach and similar
vegetables they are brought to maturing
much faster than when this stimulant is
not employed.
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ADVANCES made on furniture ana pianos, with
'r without removal ]. Noonan, l0l7- 1923 Mission,
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RECORD OF HOME CURES SOMETHING ENORMOUS.


If no tdeprey Of
O
DAY
ivns made. plain O
wrti
STATE ELECTRO.MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Market, Powell and Eddy Streets Eddy Street
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-02

lin the diagram, folding it on the shout
ders. Then, preferably of a different
color paper, cut out the legs and feet
double like Nos. and and if desired
black the feet with ink.
The hands should be cut out like No.
and if a hat is wanted No . is the
pattern, folding it on the dotted lines.
70 make the head, take piece of the
tissue paper (uncolored), and in the
center place a piece of the cotton and
a toothpick. Fold down all the sides OF
about the shape in the picture of the
finished Chinaman.
Take long piece of the thread, double
1t several times. divide in three and
braid it, tying the end with a single
piece. Insert the end of the pigtail in
the fold at the back of the head and
tasten there with glue or mucilage.
TO put the Chinaman together, slip the
shirt over the head and glue to it, put
the hands in the sleeves and glue in
place, paste together each folded leg
and foot and insert the upper edge of
each beneath the ends of the shirt and
fasten these with glue. Glue the hat
over the top of the head
Draw two slanting eyes. a nose and
mouth and curved line for the chin with
pen and ink or black crayon and the
face is done.
1t is best to fasten together all the
edges of the shirt with mucilage. Red,
blue, yellow. green, brown and all cot
ored papers may be used, and gold and
silver paper also. The buttons down
the front here are marked with a pen,
but little round pieces of another col
ored paper pasted on each give much
better effect
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-02

him in all the racket behind the engine,
and let up on the whistle long enough
to holler ahead to me to look out and
not run over him; but there was small
fear of that, for he beat us by half a
block all the way to the fire.
when we got there we stretched
in and stood fast as we call it, which
means we stretched in the hose, and
got ready 10 go to work when so or
dered; but they didn't need us, for the
fire was pretty we'll out then, and the
third alarm had only been sent out as a
sort of precaution; so in a few mo-
ments the chief ordered US back to
quarters.
when we were picking up or put
ting the hose back in the wagon, Peter
was around among us like old times,
and every one of the gang had a kind
word for him. He was cut bit about
the back with glass, so the captain
says: Throw him in the wagon, boys,
and Wen take him back to the house
and mend him up. I'll put him on pro-
baton; and if he acts right he can
stay with us as long as he wants. And
then he adds: But you fellows will
have to chip in and pay for that pane of
glass And we ali laughed; for we
were willing to pay for whole show
window to get Peter back again"
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ADJUSTABLE HOG TROUGH.

es or so off the square. At each end,
after the main ends of the trough are
nailed in place, another piece of plank,
a, is nailed to it with slot, cut in it for
a 3x4-inch scantling, C, or round
straight pole four inches through. This
pole or scantling should have a hole
bored in each end so pin may slide
through it and the upright plank, a, 10
keep the pole, c, in place. The pole can
then be raised or lowered to suit the
size of hog. In the pole five-eighths-
inch holes should be bored Z, 81%, 10 and
11R inches apart, in which is placed a
one-half-inch iron rod I'D, two feet
long, pointed and driven slightly In the
plank on the front side of the trough.
These rods never become loose in my
trough but when they are to be shift
ed, as the hogs size requires, two or
three slight taps with hammer loosen
them and they can be driven into the
next width of place. My trough is l6
feet long About 30 inches of one end is
partitioned off and kept filled with wa
ter, but has the rods in front so the hogs
cannot get into it in hot weather. The
rods are driven into the trough about
one inch from the edge as at and are
pointed from ~ inches back. The
front edge of the trough, f, is rounded
so that it will not chafe the hogs
Marsden Smith, in Farm and Home.
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A FEW DOMESTIC HINTS.
Some Useful Suggestions for the
Housewife.

Housewife.
For prickly heat make water slightly
slippery with soda and battle in it.
All cold vegetables left over should
be saved for future use in soups and
salads.
Silver gilt spoons with flower handles
enameled in natural colors make a pref.
ty show.
The one thing for which lace paper
may be used and be considered good
form on table is for cheese.
Wrap your fruit jars in newspaper
ard set in cool, dark place. The wrap
ping will prevent the fruit from bleach
ing.
Pretty ireproof china dishes in THEN
silver wire mOuntings testify to tn.
popularity attained of late by casseroles
soutfieS, etc, on our menus.
The candelabarum is to the fore as a
dinner table decoration. The lights.
softened by colored shades, enhance The
beauty of the shining silver and glitter
ing glass.
For tired feet put handful of com.
mon salt in four quarts of hot water.
Place the feet in the water while it j.
as hot as can be borne. Then rub the
feet dry with rough towel.-American
Queen.
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POINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Don't keep more horses than you
need.
The offspring from mature SOW i.
stronger than from a young one.
Swine need bulk in their feed.
Don't feed on concentrated foods alone.
Pork is one of the very best of meats
if swine are properly fed and cared
for
The selection and steady use of the
best of even common scrub stock will
lead to improvement.
Sows eat their pigs because their sys-
tens are out of condition. the result of
improper feeding and bad management.
1t is dangerous to inbreed swine. IL
there are family defects they will APP
pear in the offspring in an exaggerated
form.
On the whole, the horses would be
better off, and so would the owner. if
the whip-making industry were abol-
ished
There is too much talk and not enough
action in the matter of reviving in
terest in the Morgan horse. The Nor
gan will revive itself if given half a
chance.
Sell half the scrub herd, if necessary,
and buy thoroughbred bull. If cattle
must rough it take the Hereford, Pulled
Angus or Galloway. If well cared for
the shorthorn is prize.-Westcrn
Plowman.
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NEW YORK'S FIRE-DO0.
Broke Through n Bakers window to
Run After His Engine.

st. Nicholas has been publishing a
series of articles about the fire depart
ment of New York, written by Charles
L. Hill, the artist. In late issue Mr..
Hill tells about Peter Spots'-Fire-
man." dog that belongs to one of the
engine companies. The dog once fell
into disgrace by playfully swapping at
the heads of the horses when they were
running to a fire and causing them to
balk. SO he was given to a baker who
lived far from the engine house. Mr..
Hill gives the following account, in the
language of one of the firemen, of the
manner in which Peter Spots" came
back TO the company:
I'VE had almost forgotten about
Peter, and got used TO not having him
around, when one day a third alarm
came in that took us out; and in get
ting to the station l had to drive
through the street the bakers place
was on. l never thought of it myself,
but on my word, Peter hadn't forgot
ten us; and when we made our appear.
ance he showed up pretty quick The
pHhNt bOltL llC al dOOul II dlltlN dlu,
and this was the way it happened:
Peter was lying asleep beside the stove
in the center of the bake shop, when all
of a sudden he pricled up one ear,
and then jumped to his feet and gave
a bark. The baker was making out
some bills behind the counter, and
thought nothing of it until the next
moment Peter gave jump, and was
in the show window among the pies
and cakes and such like. The baker
hollered to him to get out; but Peter
began to claw at the window and bark
and howl. You see he could hear our
whistle and bell and had recognized us.
Then the baker made up his mind that
the dog had gone mad, and got fright,
ened and got up on a chair, and began
to holler himself; and what with the
baker and Peter, there was a high old
time in that bake shop for awhile,
Every time Peter gave kick he
knocked a pie or a pla[e full of cakes
out of the window until he had it clear
of everything. Then we hove in sight;
and through the side of the show
window he saw us and recognized me
in the seat, and that settled it--no
bake shop would hold him then. He
jumped back in the store, braced him
self plump in front of the pane of glass
in the door, and when we were Just
about opposite he gave one last howl,
and crash. out he came through glass
and all.
~ heard the racket, and turned
my head just in time to see
him come flying out. l under
stood it all in a moment, and expected
to see him roll over dead in the gutter;
but not much! He came through so
quick he scarcely got scratch and
away he went, down the street ahead
of us, barking at everyone, and clear
ing the way just as he used to, and run
ming around in a circle and jumping
high in the air and cutting up gymnas-
tics-and happy ?-well. | just guess
he was happy! Even the captain heard
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-02

Pennsylvania boasts of a wonderful
blind pig. 1t was born blind, and at the
tender age of three months was sold &c
a neighboring farmer, who took il
home in his wagon. The road was not
only crooked, but was cut by several
crossroads, and it passed through 8
village with dozen cross-streets, the
entire distance being two miles beyond
the village. The pig was turned into a
small lot, and the third day afterward
the little blind fellow was back with his
former owner. There was no other way
for the pig to return home than by
following the road over which he waS
carried in the box. STILL as durb an.
imals perform these feats by instinct
blind pig would be on an equal foot
Ing with any other.