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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22

homes. then to the streets, impressing the
necessity OF cleanliness for health and
prosperity. That is our strong point
prosperity-though of course we don't use
that particular word. The majority OF
East Siders are Jews and consequently
never too young to understand what saw
ing money means.
We teach somewhat after the manner
of the house that Jack built. If you throw
dirt in the street. then the city has to
clean II up. it costs money to clean the
streets. so the city has to tax your land
lord. If your iandord-they all know
what that word means-has to pay high
taxes then he has to charge high rents.
II your father has to pay high rent. then
he has less money TO buy your clothes or
shoes, or candy. You must help the city
keep the street and report when there is
sickness in your tenement.
Each child is furnished with blanks,
such as these" said Miss Gallagher, ex-
hibiting a sheet of legal cap paper with
printed questions and spaces for answers.
AT the end of each week they are re-
quired to have them filled out, telling what
they have done during that time toward
keeping the streets clean.
This is the report of little girl ten
years old. Yes, Of course the report must
be written entirely by the child. l will
read you what she says. On Monday l
saw banana peel on the street and | put
it in the ash barrel. On Tuesday l saw
lady emptyiHg ashes in the street. and
said, Lady. don't empty them in the
street, put them in the ash barrel" She
said, What have you got to do with it?''
and told her that belonged to the Street
Cleaning League of the City of New York,
and she put the ashes in the ash barrel.
On Wednesday I swept the sidewalk in
front of our tenement with my mothers
broom. On Thursday / picked up some
broken glass on Avenue and put it in
the ash barrel. On Friday l told some
little boys that they must not build a
bonfire on the asphalt. and they said
Mind your own business" and told them
it was my business, for 1 belonged to the
Street Cleaning League, and would report
them. / showed them my badge and they
stopped. On Saturday ! reported the water
closet in our tenement, and 1t was fixed
This is a fair sample of the reports.
The children who do something each day
in the week are allowed to wear button
the next week Those who do something
each day for a month are given prizes,
besides being allowed to wear a button
SO you see it gives them something tangi-
BILE to work for
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Courtesy 10 Servants.

\ great many have tried the morning
greeting to servants, and have failed, sim
ply because they were not sincere enough
II you say Good morning to servant
one day. and do not the next, she must,
of course. keep silence and then become
the victim of whatever mood you may have
been in when you treated her so unjustly.
A servant soon comes to know whether
any little attention shown her is prompt
ed by a kindly desire to do the right thing.
or because il Is a conventionl thing which
you ought to do at least when you feel in
a pleasant mood.
II servant is treated one day as a
respectable member of society, and the
next day utterly ignored, IL she has any
selfrespect, she will resent 1t, and that
kind of courtesy will always fail of sue
cess.
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SERVANTS OF THE 400.
New York FashiOnables Gather
Them From All Nations.

Them From All Nations.
New York, Jan. 21.-It requires nearly as
| many servants TO help the rich, fashionable
| American woman through her daily tasks
| as the state of Queen Victoria or the En-
peror OF Germany demands. The average
household exacts the services of six to
eight women on wages, and now the really
! active social leaders have discovered. in
New York at least, that 1t is necessary TO
be provided with valet. The Vanderbilt
Aston, Goelet and Gerry ladies never trav-
ell without their Wallets, and the man who
serves them is a person OF many accom-
plishments. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilts
valet is an Engishman who once served
royalty, who knows every inch of Europe,
North Africa and Eastern Asia, and who,
when the family is living in town. acts as
sort Of upper butler or secretary. He
speaks many languages, and when the
Vanderbilt ladies wish to travel they mere
ly tell him when they wish to leave, and
he does all the rest.
Mrs. Oliver Belmont, who has the best
| and most snowy and expensive servants in
America, employs an East Indian as her
head butler and valet. He is a magnif-
cent, capable fellow, who learned his bust
| ness in the household of the Viceroy OF
! India who preceded Lord Curzon. and at
| dinner parties, in a gorgeous embroidered
| robe and lofty urban, he stands behind
Mrs. Belmont's chair and serves her only.
In the household of Mrs. Seth Barton
French a noble looking Cossack, who
wears his native dress is the valet for the
| ladies and the major-domo These fierce
| looking warriors from Eastern Russia are
| coming into great popularity in New York
| for. despite their savage beauty, they are
| the tenderest nurses, devoted to children
! passionately faithful and grateful for kind
| ness and so enormously strong that they
can carry heavy men around easily in their
| arms Better than all, however. these
servants, in their foreign costumes, lend a
| picturesque beauty to a fine house and
posing about at great functions they are
| more ornamental than the costliest bric-a-
' brac
The bicycle is a dead lion among the
| wealthy and fashionable women in New
! York as well as London. The great and
! sensible public may be as devoted to II as
ever, but the sporting instinct of the easily
| ennuied American noblesse has turned
| again to horses, and anyone who is in
/ Fifth Avenue or in Central Park in the
/ afternoon Will not fail TO observe a quiet
/ but none the less sharp rivalry on among
| the carriage riding women.
4 year or two ago the desire OF the go
! cial leaders was 10 own pair of perfectly
matched brOugham horses, whose skins
were like satin and whose action was ex-
! aggerated, nervous and coquettish TO the
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SOCIETY SLAM &.

personally. but very proftably on her big
stock farm.
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as habit among their sex. But mutual
confession it was found that 1t is custo-
mary to say something far stronger than
Bother when you can't find your skirt
pocket, and that good round oaths are the
habit when a tete-a-tete with best
young man is broken in upon. A sweep
ing reformation was ordered, and the COM
mttee broke up. having registered good
resolutions Even if woman foozles a
bali three times and then drives it into the
nearest hazard. or a clumsy man ut Il
dance rips Il whole train from its moor
ings. no swearing, at least no audible pro-
; family, is countenanced by the committee,
who pay fines for infringement of the rule,
and who will devote the sum of their fines
At the end Of the season to charitable work.
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with their caps. gloves, leggins, muffs and
cloaks made of white cats fur, the furry
side turned out. Cats fur is not too heat
ing for tOddIers and it sets off their deli
cate tinting TO perfection. Aside from
mere beauty. white cats fur is not expen-
sive. and it cleans quickly under amateur
efforts.
Small boys who skate use fur trimmed
coats, the tails of which only fall a few
inches below the hip line, and the little
girls who skate wear coats like their
brothers, the big fur gloves in place Of
muffs and if not fur caps then smart little
capotes OF knitted brown wool, with a
couple of quilts thrust in one side. These
capotes of zephyr, by the way, have been
largely adopted by wise mothers for their
little daughters school and play wear, for
the knitted cap keeps the head warm, but
ventiIates it as I felt hat or fur cap
never can.
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measure, reach their ignorant parents
and mold the future citizen.
Our method in the public schools is by
forming classes which, in the opinion OF
the board of education. are the best fields
for the work. These classes meet once Il
week in the school buildings and listen
to talk or lecture on the necessity and
ways of keeping the streets and homes
clean.
Each child is made to understand that
TO be a member OF the Street Cleaning
League they must be clean themselves.
You would be surprised to see how neat
some of these children have become-chil-
dren whose mothers look as though they
had never taken bath in their lives.
Then We 90 from their persons TO their
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22
COULD NOT BURN ST. AGNES.
The Holy Maids statue Saved From
the E'Iumcs

St Agnes, who is the patron saint of
holiness and purity, was sentenced to
death by the Pagan authorities because
OF her refusal to wed, she having dedi-
Gated her virginity TO Christ
Cardinal Wiseman. in his charming
story of Fabiola. describes St Agnes as
always dressed in purest white, and wear
ing no jewels. although she was the daugh-
ter Of wealthy parents. and jewels were in
that day greatly affected by those who
could afford them
The first command was that she was to
be burned alive. She was bound to the
post and the torch applied: the flames
shot up. wreathed round and round her
white dress, circled over her fair
head. nor was there SINCE or smoke or
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22

last degree. Al! the horses in fashionable
service had the tendons of their forcegs
cut to induce abs Ird high stepping, check
reins were cruelty short and bits hard and
close. But the fashions of this world pass
away-Mrs. Ogden Mills came back from
England with a chestnut pair and filled
the hearts of her fair contemporaries with
envy.
Her brougham horses were hands higher
than any others in New York, their tails
were banged. not locked, their necks were
long, their heads small. and when the
equipage swept up the avenue, at pace
like cavalry charging. sensation was
made. Mrs. Mills horses by their pace and
stride and appearance showed the English
hunter blood in them, and this winter the
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please her and so fond did she grow of
the small sturdy gray beast, that she
bought donkey and trappings and brought
her purchase to America. With charac-
teristic fearlessness of other folks opin
ions, she announced her intention OF daily
riding to and from the bathing beach on
the back of her graceful gaily caporsoned
pet. The donkey fulfilled his part of the
bargain and Mrs. Kernochan hers. and now
their imitators are eager to get back to
Newport and open a season of donkey rid
ing a la Egyptienne on Bellevue Avenue
and the ocean drive
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-08-05


Of the county commissioners
from The north end Of the county,
two of them from Wallace and
one from Kingston. AS far as
we know, these gentlemen may
be thoroughly competent to fill
positions TO which they are
appointed, but nevertheless we
are taught that "Taxatioa with
out representation is unjust
and tyranical, and this is the
condition he willfuly and mali
ciously leaves us in. If the
governor had been the honorable,
upright and just official that
some would like to make him, he
would not have left onehalf the
county without representa-
tive in the commits sioners court
and selected all from one small
nook Of the county.
Perhaps we may be unjust.
It may be that the fusion party
did not have man in this end
OF the county qualified to fill this
position and if this is the case, he
is not to blame, for there is one
thing sure, there is not a republic
an in this end Of the county that
would desert his party inorder to
accePta gift at his royal highness
hand. Verify verify it is no won
der that we love so dearly this
Rump of the fusion party.-Olo
Fino Courier.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-08-05
Idaho Insane ASYLUM.

During a short visit at Black
foot two weeks ago in company
with five or six other St. An
thonyites we were shown through
the Idaho Insane Asylum and
were surprised at the magnitude
and good order of that institution
The Asylum possesses twenty
two hundred acres of fine land.
FIVE hundred acres of which are
now under cultivation. The fine
large buildings are surrounded
by beautiful shade trees, orchards
and lawns; everything inside and
outside the buildings is kept in
excellent order and it is consider
ed one of the most creditable
institutions in the State-thanks
to the wise and careful superivis-
ion OF DIR. Owens, its courteous
superintendent. The principal
portion of work in and about the
asylum is done by inmates, who
generally take to the work
kindly. During our visit Pres.
Kicks, of Rexburg, one of the
Of the Asylum Regents was also
present and assisted in entertain
ing his home county callers.
A statement of the Asylum for
the quarter ending June goth is
as follows:
Number of patients on April
1899, male r36 female 10:
number of patients received
during quarter, male 10, female I /;
number of patients eloped during
quarter, male I; number of pa
tents discharged, male 81, female
+; number of patients died, male
8, female 2; number of patients
eloped, male A; number remain-
ing Juue 80. 1899, males TO,
female 73.-Fremont County
Meas.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-08-05

Again, our governor has hi
the people in our half of Sho-
shone county a hard blow, and
yet the people on the outside
think we ought to love him
Of course the bible tells us to
love our enemies, but we are
human and don't propose to do
it, The governor has never lost
IN opportunity to slap us in the
face and we shall not forget il
nor miss the chance to return it.
Two years ago, at the express
will of the people, the legislature
passed a bill creating in this
end of Shoshone county a new
county and that imbecile SER
want of the people vetoed it.
Again he has come to the front
and did us an injustice that no
people would stand without rails
ing q cry Of righteous indlgna-
ton, He has appointed all three
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-08-05
Plenty Of Gold.

No feature in the movement Of
circulation in the United States
recently has been so noteworthy
as the large addition to the amount
Of gold coin which has passed in
to our currency. There is no
longer any scarcity, but on the
contrary, an abundance of the
yellow metal. Taking together
the gold coin and the bullion in
the country its stock of gold is the
largest of which any country can
boast. yet it constitutes but little
over half of our circulation. The
most advanced nations Of Europe
have larger ratio of gold to the
entire body of the circulation than
that which is obtained in the
United States. While the stock
of gold in the United States con-
stitates so.o3 per cent. of the cir
culation, thepercentage in France
is 5o.S5, that in Great Britain 6s.a
per cent. and thai In GERMANY
$500 per cent These compare
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-08-05
ATTEND COLLEGE rus YEAR.

Never in the history of our
country was there grander OPP
portunity than the present for edu-
Gated men and women. What
suspicious moment for those who
are just now on the threshold of
life.
Grand Island Business and
Normal College has for fourteen
years been the leading institution
of its kind in the western states
and last year more than twice
as many calls were received for
its graduates as could be supplied.
Everything necessary for sue
cessful start in life is taught
Business, Normal and Shorthand
courses. Expenses low. Board
only $I.5o cents pei week. One
years time given on tuition if
desired. College record sent free,
or for six cents will send elegant
catalogue.
Address
A. M. HARGns, President,
Grand Island, Neb.
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sons show that the margin for the
increased use Of gold is larger in
the United States than in either
OF the three leading nations of
western Europe ladslrcets.
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whsnc. and WhIlI,sr.

My trends; know how vain
i'll to gid a grief with words,
and yet / wish 10 take from every
veits fear. Here in this world,
where life and death are equal
kings, all should be brave enough
to meet what all the dead have
met. The future has been filed
with fear, stained and polluted by
the heartless past From the
wondrous tree of life the buds and
blossoms fall with the ripened
fruit, and in the common bed Of
earth the patriarchs and babies
sleep side by side. Why should
we fear that which win come to
all that is? We can not tell, we
do not know, which is the greater
blessing-life or death. We can
not say that death is not good.
We do not know whether the
grave is the end of this life or the
door of another, or whether the
night here is not somewhere else
a dawn. Neither can we tell
which is the more fortunate-thp
child dying in its mothers arms
before its lips have learned TO
form word, or he who journeys
all the length Of life's uneven road,
painfully taking the last slow
steps with staff and crutch.
Every cradle asks US whencea |
and every coffin, whittier? The
poor barbarian, weeping above
his dead, can answer these ques-
tons as intelligentIy and satisfact-
orily as the robed priest of the
most authentic creed. The tear
full ignorance of the one is just as
consoling as the learned and un-
meaning words Of the other. No
man standing where the horizon
Of life has touched a grave, has
any right TO prophesy a future
filled with pain and tears. 1t may
be that death gives all there is of
worth to life. If those we press
and strain against our hearts could
never die, perhaps that love would.
wither from the earth. Maybe
this common fate treads from out
the paths between our hearts
the weeds of selfshness and hate;
and | had rather live and love
where death is king than have
eternal life where love is not.
Another life is naught unless we
know and love again the ones who
love us here. &
They who stand with breaking /
hearts around this little grave need /
nave no fear. The larger and q
lobler faith in all that is and is to .
'etells us that death, even at its ii
worst, is only perfect rest. We
now that through the common Il
wants of life-the needs and a
lnties of each hourLtheir grief
viii lessen day by day, until at /
ast this grave will be to them n
lace of rest and peace-almost d
+ joy. There is for them this n
onsolation: the dead do not suf- a
er. If they live again, their lives ii
'ill surely be as good as ours. 4
We have no fear. We are all 4
hildren Of the same mother, and el
ne same fate awaits us all. We in
20, have our religion, and it is fe
ais: Help for the living--hope a
u the dead.-Robert G. Inger-
0ll
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DESERT LAND, FINAL. PROOF -Nor,cp
FOR PUBLICATION. iVE
United States Land once. RoIsa nlty -.

= hlte0 States Land Dfice, BOise Civ III.
- ro-p,,,,,., June 25, 1899
NORGE Is hereby given that Emma NJ sboi,
AZ, ~ lower Ielse, Canyon County, Idaho, bss
and claim No. 1867, for Ire Ssi ~ ~
NNMA Sec - Twp. 5, n. X avn M Ses s,le
y, ~ .l,,, o. district Court at Caldwell, Id9bo
She names the tellagqiis. ,sssss So, ~
c0mpleia IRRIGATION and 49,. ~ l s9se the
ssiiiif b 3 ! Tuck n Of caldwell f,i
f Ia isee huitA' y. Is. Sebree OF Lower BoiSs
JAMES RfSS. RegiSfer'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-11-02
The Earthly Stars.

Notwithstanding the unfavorable
weather the Eastern Star cpnven-
tion held in this city last week was n
complete success. The attendance
from surrounding towns was quite
large and our people crowned them
selves with glory AS entertainers.
The Floral and Vocal Star work by
the Dodgeville ladies was especially
well done, remarks relative thereto
being highly complimentary. Bro.
Geo. Crawford's address of welcome
and the response by Mrs Budd, were
gems Of their class, while the princi-
pal address of the occasion, given by
Elizabeth Little, G.. w. NJ. was n
scholarly, instructive production and
proved her fitness for the important
office she holds. The feasting and
songs interspersed We're in keeping
with balance of program, All out
side attendants departed we'll satis-
fed, and our people seem to long for
another such gathering.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-11-02
The Local Field.
4. +. BISHOP tor Funiture......

E. G. Fielder has several des ir-
able building lots for sale. 44w4
Hon. J. w Rewey and wife were
among the Star delegation here last
week.
Editor Law and wife, of Shulls-
burg, We're guests of Mrs. l.. A. Cobb
last week.
For rent-A foundry including
machine shop, Inquire of Mrs. John
Wearne. A
Miss Mona James leaves today
Thursday for a visit with friends
M Chicago.
-Snow flakes made their appear
Anoe yesterday, but failed to make a
showing on mother earth.
Mrs. Or. Mix, of Highland, is at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
AH- ;. Jenkin, for brief visit.
Vernon, to wonder, is a wonder.
Eon doubt it 90 to the city hall
any "yening this week. Fun, too.
Miss Gertrude Kelly and Miss
Jessie Jacobs were in from the coun-
" seat Tuesday calling on friends.
After three months visit with
relatives in Chicago Miss Lottie
IerrIIl has returned to her home in
this city.
-ila not forget the great sale at the
Economy store, beginning Saturday,
'.t = and lasting until Saturday,
Noy. Il
iom Law, in his Shullsburg pa
F"E 1dvocates therepeal of all sun
AaE laws that cannot be enforced,
aIo conclusions are all right.
Mrs. N Treweek. who has been
pending tile last month with her
@'l-.tar. Mrs Geo, Foster, at Mil
NAaa"a returned home yesterday
Peter Roger has bought the
.."1 property on High street, now
saFlad by DR.. Philip, and It's un-
.Is.aal will branch out into the sa-
.@aa business.
.e nobbiest and most durable
5e. ior gents and ladies' are to be
a0a at 6undry 4 Gray's. also a
ateta line Of overshoes and rub
a.f, All new stock.
He Hollandale Review reports
''ase9W AS mourning the loss of Su-
.tlsor Bollerud's whiskers. Such
.ts Sae case what would happen
's Town II it should lose Bollerud.