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The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1901-02-19
SALT LICK

Capt. c. II. Whitcomb, aged about
IL years, died at Salt Lick Februsr,
9th. of consumption OF the bowels.
He was buried Saturday by the Ma
sonic order, OF which he was q men,
Der. He leaves three sons--W. A
and G. E., of Salt Lick, who are mer.
cnsnts, and Gus c., of Shelley, West
Virginia. Mr.. Whi.comb wss al ex-
cellent citizen and will be greatly
missed. He was born in the State OF
Maine on Nov. 8. 1880, and came to
Kentucky in September, 1869, settling
at Bangor, in the lower edge of Nor
gan county. He resided there unil
1879, when he removed to West Lib
erty. Three years later he returned
to Rangor. from which place he came
10 SAT- Lick in 1887 and resided vhere
until his desth. He was a prominen,
member of the Methodist church.
uniting with it about 90 years ago
He lived consistent Christian lite
setting all example which oil could
well follow.
Richard Norris died At the home of
his son near Salt Lick, Friday, Feb. 8.
lie was nearly SO years ole.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1901-02-19

A combination of the c4 .r. cuE
and shirt manufacturers is now re
garded as q certainty. The interests
represented aggregate 500 900 900
Instead of having individual offices in
the different cities, q single clearing
house will be established in each
market covering the general business.
This reduces largely the expense or
cost of the article. Will the customer
get the ben"a e'N'
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1901-02-19

oil the world by the throne of Rome.
Kentucky, praise the Lord, is all
right now. Revolution has ceased
and law and order reigns. After
The hanging is over, normal con
ditions will be restored.
S. S. CAsslTY
In Public Spirit. of ClearGeld,
Pa, February 7.
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REEFS HOUSE
WINCHESTER. Ky,
W. H. BOSWELL. Proprietor.

Firstclass in all its appointments
the travelling mans home. Thres
sample rooms on the first floor. Ta
ble supplied with the best OF every.
thing. Come and see for yourself
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1901-02-19

Mrs. f. P. Green has recovered
from an attack OF the grip at Canaee-
ragA. N. Y, by the use Of DIR. Miles .
Pain Pills.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1901-02-19

Again IrviAe, NY, Is without a
newspaper.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-03
THE TRUTH ABOUT CREMATION.
After Incarceration the Ashes Form One-Tenth the
Weight of the Body.
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

WRITTEN o THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
People have curious ideas about crema-
ton" said the manager of a large inciner-
ating plant to a Republic reporter. "A good
many Of them seem to have secured their
views on the subject from a little newspa-
per yarn that went floating around the
country half a dozen years ago. It was In
vented by a Denver newspaper man, and 1t
was copied into scores of papers as a veri-
table incident. The yarn set forth that a
Denver mining man. who lost his wife while
in Paris. had the remains cremated and
kept the ashes In q tiny metal urn in the
spare room at his Denver residence. An
elderly sister who came on a visit found
the little jar on the dresser. and. taking It
for a package Of tooth powder. used It with
great satisfaction until discovered by the
Mortified widower.
Now that was a good story, but It could
never have been true. The ashes from ere.
nation are no trifing matter of a few
spoonfuls, as indicated by the yarn. On the
contrary. they weigh nearly one-tenth the
weight Of the corpse. A body Of 15O pounds
will furnish from 10 to 13 pounds Of ashes
after incineration.
'In bulk they are considerably more than
q quart; 30 you see that they are Of some
quantity.
practically all the flesh Is carried of in
fumes All that remains amounts 10 little
more than the lime in the bones The ashes
are of q gray color, and some ofYthe par
tGles are - large e Q small peat ItNa
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curious fact that II flowers are burned with
the body they give the ashes q dark color.
THE heat in a crematory Is nearly $500
degrees-a temperature higher than L. used
In smelling. The body is consumed IN an
hour and q half. When the doors are
opened the skeleton often seems intact, but
1t crumbles at a touch. The ashes are
swept Up with a little broom by Q man
who crawls into the oven and then they
are sealed up in a zinc box. Usually they
are buried. although sometimes they are
preserved in an urn at the home.
There Is no economy In cremation. A
coffin is always used, just as though the
body were to be Inferred. Then there are
the usual expenses Of the hearse and the
carriages to the crematory. The charge at
our plant for burning the body Is $40. That
may seem high, but you must remember
that the intense heat destroys the furnace
very rapidly, and we are at constant ex.
pense for repairs.
Cremation IS growing in popular favor.
but its growth is slow We seldom get 9
casa. except when the deceased in his life.
time had expressed a wish to be cremated
Even when such a request had been made
some of the relatives often insist on burial
Then there Is a dispute In the family be.
tween those who want the body buried ana
those who rant It burned. In several cases
after the corpse had been inferred b. one
set Of mourners. 1t has been exhumka b
the others and cremated. That zefT;
matching With Q veuEe1ncA1---
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lands are full Of them. The climate gives
them the rosiest of checks. and they look
more like the women Of England, Scotland
and Ireland than the tall. gangly 'corn-
stalk maidens" Of Australia The average
Of intelligence Is very high. and in
ners and dress they will compare favorably
with the girls of the United States or Eu-
rope. They are thoroughly up to date as to
public matters. They discuss the political
issues with each other and with the men.
and they are quite as beclubbed as the
women Of the United States. Every town
has its Shakespeare club. its Beethoven
club. its travel club and its Woman's Tem-
perance Society. There are golf clubs and
croquet clubs. and in fact all the o~rganiza-
lions to which the Twentieth Century wom-
an Is SO glad to belong.
FRANK g. CARPENTER
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"Oe of m helps" said a dear Id New Zeaandh lady to me- came down to dinner the fstni
oMee evening Dress. She wore low sippena md had earrings AM a brooch off paste diamonds"
ollete evening dress.

into the factories at an earlier age than
this they must show that they nave some
education. No girl under Is will be admit
ted to a factory without she has passed
through the fourth grade of the public
schools.
The law provides that all factories shall
have proper sanitary arrangements. The
buildings must be well ventilated. be pro-
vided with fire escapes and SO arranged
that the women can nave the necessary
privacy as to many things.
Some Specimen Fines.
These labor laws are by no means dead
letters. Employers are fined whenever
they transgress them. I have just been
looking over a list of cases which illustrate
this. One man who cut short the dinner
hour Of his girls paid $40 and costs. and an
other, q restaurant keeper. who kept his
mattresses at work for eleven and q half
hours ono day, had to pay O fine Of $50. al
though one of the girls had had three after
Moons off that week. Another restaurant
mar was fined $3.50 and costs for employ
ing his mattresses ffty-two hours per week.
and another was fined for not allowing one
of his females an hour for her meals.
In the town of Napier a man who en-
ployed females for more than ffty-two hours
in each of two succeeding weeks was fined
$40. This man kept a store. His average
time at ffty-two hours per week was less
than nine hours a day. I wonder how many
of our merchants would like to be fined for
keeping their girls at work for more than
nine hours a day.
Salesladies and Barmaids.
And this brings me to the question Of
salesladies. The laws of New Zealand pro-
vide that every saleslady shall nave a week
ly half holiday. They provide that the girls
must have seats in the stores and must be
allowed to use them. I have before me
cases Of merchants who were fined for not
providing such seats. and this is SO both in
the stores and the saloons.
The saloons here are called public houses
or hotels. and in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred the liquors are served out by wo-
men. The prettier the face the bigger the
wages. and the more charming the barmaid
the greater the custom. In many of the
hotels the barmaids do not work more than
eight or nine hours.
The Government gives them their half
holiday. and the hotelkeepers are fined If
they do not see that they take 1t. This
matter of the half holiday is rightly kept.
and / have Instances Of fines for theydeliy-
ering Of goods or bread on a half holiday.
A curious fine was that Of q bakeE who
kept his Owl daughters working III night
$40
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at one time. The Government Inspectors
heard of 1t. They arrested him and they
charged him S. for Zach girl and warned
him that on the next offense the fine would
be raised to $50.
The Government regulates oil sorts Of
things as to woman's work. 1t objects to
females being worked in gangs at such
hours as will necessitate their going home
late at night. The head OF the Labor Blu
reau recently reported that he found a fac
tory in which one set Of girls was put on
from 8 to II a. m, and then taken of until
/. They were worked from / until 5. and
again from Z to 9. making all together nine
full hours. Another gang Of girls was
worked from 10 until 1. from 3 until Z and
from Q until II. This arrangement" said
Mr.. Tregear, "does not require more
than the legal time, but We believe that it
Is bad for the girls to go home so late at
night, and that they do not have their
regular time for rest, and it should be rem
edied."
woman's Suffrage in New Zealand.
Women have the right to vote in New
Zealand. although they cannot be members
of Parliament. They can be Mayors, mem
bers of the Town Councils. School Board
Directors, ana can h0lQ a number OF other
Offices. I find that the women go to the
polls, especially those of the lower classes.
Indeed. the capitalists say that 1t was wo-
mans suffrage that made the>working man
the balance of power in New Zealand.
When the law was first put in force many
Of the richer women stayed away from the
polls. while the wives Of the laboring men
voted for what they considered their rights
and those of their husbands. To-day father
and mother go to the polls together and
vote and when labor questions are before
the country the women Of the working
class are out in force. The woman's rights
advocate goes about. with her tracts and
speeches. and the typ is the same as in the
United States.
Women and Whisky.
What has woman's suffrage done for
New Zealand?' I asked a New Zealand
lady.
'It has closed % per cent of all the sa-
looms for good and 1t has closed all of them
after 10 o'clock p. m. We have parts of
New Zealand where there is absolute prohi-
bition. There are no public houses or sa-
looms as you call them. I lave one town es-
pecially in mind. This was noted for its
drunkenness and disorder. It is now one
of the quiestest and most respectable of
communities. It has diminished its police
force and IL jail. for want Of uss has
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They seem to think themselves guests Of
their mistresses and express their indigna-
ton when asked to do what they consider
mental things. Zone of my helps. said a
dear old New Zealand lady to me, came
Gown to dinner the first night after her
engagement In a d~ecollete evening dress.
She wore low slippers and had earrings and
brooch of paste diamonds. She paid no at
tention to waiting on the table, and when
her master asked her to get up and hand
something from the sideboard she grew
very indignant"
Hired Girls VS.. Lady Helpers.
How about the ordinary servants"' I
asked. do they like the lady helps?"
You mean the generals?" said the old
lady. TT ordinary hired girl is known as
| the general house servant and is called the
| general for short. The generals rather de-
| spise the lady helps. They feel, and rightly,
that they are disappearing under false
| pretenses. They feel themselves fully the
| equals of the lady helps. and rather better,
| as they are not ashamed of being known as
doing that for which they are paid. The
| ordinary general will not allow a lady help
| to order her about. She will take her direc-
| tons only from the mistress of the house.
/ happened to be away from home on one
day of last week when some of my men
friends called. The lady help received them
and played the Lady Bountiful. She enter
tanned them, serving cakes and tea. She
| rang the bell for the cook, who was a
general, and told her to bring in the tea.
The cook did SO, but when I came home I
found her raging. She gave me notice and
told me She did not propose to be ordered
about by any lady help. I had to almost
get down on my knees to keep her. I have
her still, but my lady help has been told
that she must transmit all orders through
me-"
where the Servant Girl Rules.
1 find that the servant girl rules here
even more omnipotently than in the United
States. The mistresses are at the mercy
of their servants. who to some extent die
tate their own wages and their W hours
off. Every now and then you see n ar
ticle in the paper which advocates the es-
Establishment of an eight-hour law for house
servants. and at present every hired girl in
New Zealand has one half-holiday a week In
addition to Sunday afternoons, and as a
usual thing every other Sunday off. y
In the country 1t Is almost impossible to
get servants. and in the towns the servants
are leaving to work in the factories, and
this. Notwithstanding the wages in the fac
tories are often less than those of house
servants, especially when the matter of
board is taken into consideration.
Here are the wages. In the towns gen.
eral house servants get on the average $3.50
per week, many receiving as much as s.. 10.
Nurse maids are paid from s1.25 to $3.50 per
week. while laundresses receive UP to 81.
Cooks are paid from s. to s. a week, and
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night after her engagement in a dec.
III of paste diamonds"

been made the headquarters of the Saliva
ton Army"
Are the saloons open here on sunday7" I
asked.
"They are open for one hour in the morn
ing, and one hour in the afternoon"
but what else has woman's suffrage
done?'
"It has fixed the hours of woman's labor
in all the factories. 1t has stopped sweat
Ing and it has given the laboring women
some of the rights that are accorded labor
Ing men,"
Then you think 1t Is a good thing for
New Zealand?"
II assuredly do. and I think It will be q
better thing as time goes on
The Pretty Girls of New Zealand.
In closing I want to say a word about
the pretty girls of New Zealand. The is
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6he SONG IN THE LISTS.

Though you may cry, till black I tn face,
That prizes won grow straightway cheap,
Yet will l. needless, hold my place
Where ardent souls in the conflict keep.
And sing will L for very disdain,
As the joyous strife swels high and higher
For who hath said the prize is vain,
That sought and found his hearts desire?
Though you may swear, by all Of your gods,
That the wisest life is Of doll content,
Yet will l mock at the s~pirit1ess clods
That are to this eowardly teaching bent.
And | will sing of a venturesome aim,
And feel in my soul its glow of fire
For what defeat shall equal the shame
Of a creed that strangles the hearts desire?
Though you may claim it is vanity all,
This dreaming of Ours, so earnest that seems,
Yet will | trust to the souls clear cal,
And shape my actions to fit my dreams.
And sing will l OF what is my own,
And to its Hottest heights aspire
For, winning or losing, l shall have grown
Nearer thus to my hearts desire!
Lit the strain, we souls IN the fray,
That feel no cynical coldness and doubt;
Red blood thrills in the Journeys way,
And never a gallant soul drops out.
Sing the song Of the ones that strive,
Swift to enter and slow to tire
For better a man were dead than alive,
Who hath no hope Of his hearts desire!
RIPLEY D. SAUNDER
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ih'taiu ciIicT.
MANIFESTATION as Lady Help or Nurse
In small family. Apply to Miss Mary =,
street. Wellington.
N~ANTED-By Domesticated Young Lady: posi-
Ion as Companion or Help; town or country.
Apply y q. l.. Herala Office
These three advertisements / clip from
the SITUATIONS Wanted' column of the
Morning Herald. They give you some idea
of one of the distinct professions open 10
women in New Zealand. This is known as
lady helping. The term 'lady help is as
common here as Cook or "chambermaid'
IS in the United States. It IS used as to a
certain class of servants, and it means that
the servant is to be treated as q member OF
. the family.
AThere are two classes of hired girls in
New Zealand. One is the lady help, the
sother is the general house servant. The
lady help does the same work as the gem
eraI." She cooks. makes the beds. sweeps
the floors. washes and irons and sometimes
helps her mistress dress. She is supposed
TO sit down at the table with the family at
meals and TO be treated as an assistant of
her mistress. She is not classed as a serv-
ant. although she is expected to do serv-
ants work. and often more than would be
demanded of the general house servant.
When l first heard the expression lady
help 1 thought it was one merely expressive
OF the reign of the servant girl, which now
prevails in Australasia. 1 soon found that
it had n distinct meaning. To get at the
exact difference between a lady help and a
general servant / inquired of the lady
clerk of one of the chief hotels in New
Zealand. She replied:
"The chief difference is in the manner of
address. You call a general" by her first
name. such as Polly. Mary or Sallie. but
the lady help is always addressed as miss.
The mistress is supposed to assist the lady
help in doing the homework. but in some
families the lady help is treated worse
thar a scullion. She does all the work of
the general servant and receives only half
as much wages. l believe some women ad-
vertise for lady helps just because they can
get them more cheaply."
But will they work for less wages?' I
asked. II should think they would want
more"
They usually get one-third less than the
general house servants" was the reply. II
know some who work for 5 shillings Gl.25
per week. while generals get 10, u and Is
shillings and upward. You see. the lady
help pretends that she has a little better
blood and breeding than the general. She
wants to rank higher in the social scale,
and she pays for it,"
Lady Helps Mt Dinner.
1 have been much amused at the airs Of
the New Zealand hired girls. The lady helps
their dignity than any queen upon a throne.
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Special Correspondence Of The Sunday Republic.
WELLINGTON. New Zealand. Feb. 1.
WANTED-l.ady help. Address Private Family.
Herald uffit-.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-22
PnIi,s WnnderIaMd Thenter.

The beauty of the Gainsborough Oc- tette, now playing as the leading feat ure at Polls, is its chief quality. A happy combination of pretty girls
 graceful dancing and catchy music makes this beauty and the desired re- suit, novel and artistic feature is ob- tained This act is one of the big New York attractions, and had a run of 112 nights at Hammerstein's Lew Sul- ly, however, is the star of the bill. He is practically new conner to Polls for this is his first vaudeville appearance here in several years, and he has an up-to-date act. His voice is so good that one wishes he would drop his fun for few moments and sing a straight" song. But it is next to inn possible to keep Sully serious, and cer- 'tainly the audience cannot keep solemn visaged while he is working at them.
 Johnson, Davenport and Lovella, Vernon the ventriloquist, Myrtle Tres slider, Allen and Delmain, Newell and Niblo, Palmer and Johnson, and the vi-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-22
AT LAMBERTS.
ell Thompson, Adjutant.

Special Detailed Report of the Yale
 Harvard Game.
 NJ. H. Lambert & Co.,, the matters, haberdashers and shoers, S54 Chapel street, with their usual business enter prise, have made special arrangements with the Western Union Telegraph Go. to get special detailed reports of the Yale Harvard football game on Satur- day. A wire will be run into their premises and Western Union opera tor will be on hand to receive the dis patches. The reports will be very com plete in detail, giving every play as made and announcing the names of the players involved in each play. The method of announcement will be by bulletins and by megaphone from the windows of the barber shop of Chris toph & Newman, who occupy the prem- ises directly over Lambert's store No expense has been spared to make these reports complete as Lambert x Co. ap- preciate the deep interest New Haven CTS take in Yale's athletics. The an- nouncements will be public.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-22
NEW SUITS BROUGHT.

Suit was brought in the superior court yesterday by Mary A. Perry against Thomas H. Linahan, manager of the New Haven Casket company to recov- CT damages of 10000. The plaintiff al leges that while she was driving on Congress avenue near the store of D. M. Welch & Sons on September IT last a carriage owned by MT. Linahan and oc- cupied by himself and family collided with her carriage, throwing her out and severely injuring her. She alleges that through the defendants negligence his carriage was in such an unsafe condi- tion that it frightened his horse and caused the animal to run away and col lide with the plaintiffs carriage. Prop erty on Congress avenue belonging to the defendant was attached by Deputy Sheriff Dejon for $10000. The case is to the superior court on the first Tuesday in December.
 Property on Hill street and on Fair street belonging to Antonio Pope was attached for $5,500 yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Henry P. Spiegel in a suit brought by the Deep River Say ings bank to recover on note for $5, 900 alleged to be overdue The case is re- turnable to the superior court on the first Tuesday in December.
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on the other hand, there are many that affect all other parts of the country except New England, and it is MT. Gil- more's idea that in conjunction with the New England Insurance Exchange, one of the most powerful insurance bodies in the country, concessions could be obtained from the companies for the benefit of New England agents when their territory was involved. New Eng land is conceded to be the greatest in surance section of the country, and agents from other sections look upon it to inaugurate any movement to the benefit of the insurance business in general.
 A banquet at the New Haven house concluded the days programme. h. formal speeches were made by num- Der of those present.