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The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-21
A Suggestion,

l an nearly Seyenty-nine years Old
have been Il practising physician and
surgeon nearly fifty eight years. and
have eledprofessionallyi my prac
tice more than the average man in Ken
lucky, writes DR.. James d. Foster of
London. Ky. in the New York Tribune.
In order to promote the construction of
good roads in our country 1 will make
a suggestion. which. in my opinion.
would achieve the desired end. 1
don't know what the cost of such a
road would be, but l believe the roads
thus constructed would wear out two
generations of p~"nle.
Take pine or oak blocks. 4X6NS
inches. square them. and set them on
Il good solid rOadbed. after preparing
them thus: Have Il large steam gener-
ator and steam the blocks for two
hours: then boil them in strong salt wa
ter for two hours. They would never
rot in hundred years. would be i'm
perviOus to water and would bear more
travel over them than any road of mod
ern construction.
Streets and roads thus constructed
would be srerilized; no cholora, typhoid
fever or contagious diseases would be
found in towns thus SteriliZed- Raj!
road ties treated thus would last forty
years and bear the heaviest tonnage
If man would take two bushels
Of salt boil it and sprinkle the Shingie
| roof of his house. it would not have tC
| be Shingled for fifty years. Two bush
| els of salt i'll twenty gallons oi
| water for house roofs would be ;
| specific and these tops or roofs woulC
not catch tire from sparks so easily
| as they do now under the old system
| Submit my views TO road constructors
and see what tl.ey think OF them.
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r,R,Nc OF FACTORY LIFE.
Girls of the Tenement Eager For Domes
tic Service.

Girls of the Tenement Eager For Domes
tic Service.
To encourage factory girls to enter
domestic employment band of young
society women. graduates of an uptown
private school, have furnished u suite
of rooms for model training. and en-
ployed an instructor in the art of
housework The enterprise is the most
recent addition to the work of the
Brearley League Industrial Evening
School, which has been conducted for
several years in the FogS Memorial
School of the Children's Aid Society.
No. 552 West Fifty-third street. with
the support of the organization whose
name ii bears.
Two rooms. bed room and dining
room, have been fitted for the purpose.
and two evenings week the fifteen
young girls of the domestic training
class, who are from fourteen to sixteen
years of age. make sOrtie on the place
with pals and brushes. brooms. dust
pans and cloths. and remove every yes
tige of dirt that has accumulated since
the last lesson. Indeed. scrubbing goes
on with as much zeSt and viSOr as II 1t
were the semi-annual housekeeping
fray in family apartments. The pretty
white iron Dedstead. with its spick and
span cOunterpane and ShamS. Is
stripped and aired: the crisp white
muslin curtains are carefully pinned up
safe from the dangers of water and
dust, the rugs are swept until a locker
| on trembles for them. and they are at
| last rolled up and put away to allow
| the floor its share of the cleaning. 1t
| is. indeed the floor and the paint that
suffer the most, for every girl i'll the
| class loves to scrub. and into that work
puts all her superabundant energy.
! When the windows and mirrors are
| cleaned. the last lit of busting done
| the bed remade in the primmest OF
STYLES and the nickel polished. the table
| is set, without Il veSrige of food, to be
| sure but in Il fashion most satisfactory
| TO those who arrange it. Then comes
| one of the girls us waitress, and al
| sorts of points of etiquette suited no
| only to the maid hut the dinner. are
| discussed. by the time the table Il
cleared and the dishes put away TIT
hour for closing has come. The girl
of the class are mainly Of Irish parent
age. and work in carpet or hammoci
factories or flax mills. receiving from
So to S.. 30 Il week.-New York Tribune
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Her wish Was Gratifed.

A big woman, all the way from Da-
kOta, was Il caller at police headquar-
ters the other day. She wanted to
see u detective and much to her sur
prise he was no different in appear
ance from men who follow other call
ings.
approa ched the desk. "uut would you
please show me detectives"
"What's the trouble?" Clerk German
inquired. Have you been robbedE
Been robbed?" queried the visitor.
Indeed, / haven't. l want to see de-
tective. that's all. I've heard of 'em
and read about 'em. and now l would
Just like TO see one.
Here comes one now" she was told.
Madam. this is Detective Proctor"
We'll, / do declare!' exclaimed the
woman. AT last I've seen a-and SO
you are n detectivet'
All the blood in the officers veins
seemed To rush to his cheeks, and what
TO say he did not know.
I'm glad I've seen detective al
last" she said but you look the same
as any other man Your eyes do seem
as though they We're only about hall
open Is that the way all detectives
look|'
Detective Proctor recovered from MS
| "mbarra SSmeut sufficiently 10 inquire
of the caller where she was from
TN from Dakota she said "ant
| I'm glad | seen Il detective ut last
Taking her little child by the hant
she resumed her journey through th'
| hallway and left the buildinG.-Wash
| iugTon Star.
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.sI'll show you the pin. I have +
RIGHT here In my pocket"

'sI'll show you the pin. nave =
right here In my pocket"
And, drawing out small jewel box.
he opened it and produced mosaic pin
of a very peculiar pattern.
.TOm Rourke." said the EdOubter,
..you are the biggest liar in the world.
as W ell as the biggest thief. You have
fallen victim to your insane desire to
oyertop everybody else. For trying to
down me you'll get twenty years OF
penal servitude when 1 get you back
to London I've been following you
for six months. Here is the mate tN
your transformed sleeve button"
He pulled up his coat sleeve. and
there in one Of his cuffs was mosaic
button. the counterpart of the pin
..Who are you?" exclaimed the
friend of Lord Blandery. paling.
s.pm Peter Yorke, of Pinkerton'
Scotland Yard got this sleeve button
from Lord Marivale. not Lord Ban
derry, as you have named him. There
was no valet in the case. but one OF
Lord Marivale's guests was Guthrey
Guy Clarke Benson. who had brought
forged letters of Introduction from
Melbourne Soon after the robbery
he disappeared. and the forgery was
discovered 1t was believed that he
had sailed for America. The remain
ing button was sent to our New York
office and l was put on the case.
knew YOU for Tom Rourke who had
done ten years for burglary. but 1 was
not sure that you had sailed among
| the blOOds of England under the
aristocratic name of Guthrey Guy
| Clarke-BensOn."
AS he spoke he took from his pocket
| a pair of handouts. The man at the
| window moved his hand. when the
| detective whipped out revolver
| Then Tom Rourke who had done ter
| years for burglary received the brace
| lets resignediy.- y.-Waverfey Magazine.
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NEWSPAPERS ARE aEAD.,
NO. the Late STATE Senae0r SHntths
P.nnsvlvania, was Cosvinoed Of II.

pannsvlvania, W0a Convinced Of II.
George Barton. private secretary to
Collector of the Port c. wesley
THOMAS. tells a good story Of how the
late Senator George Handy Smith was
forced TO bend the knee to the power
of the press. 1t was when that we'll
known legislator represented a city
district in the Pennsylvania Senate at
Harrisburg. There were times when
Senator Smith was strenuous in pooh
poohing the influence welded by the
ne>yspapers He always maintained
that he was invulnerable TO Cneir
shafts. Despite this. few men were
liked so much rs the genial Senator by
the newspaper correspondents There
was one paper in Philadelphia which
Senator Smith. in season and out of
season. always belittled.
To it's representative he was always
fond of saying: Your sheet is never
read" There came a DAY OF retrlbu-
ton. however. when the Senator was
effectually silenced- MY paper never
read" confided the correspondent to
his associates We'll. I'll show the
Senator how wrong he is. I'll open his
ewes and close his lips" and this is
what was dcne One night in sending
off his batch of news to his paper the
CORRESPONDENT closed his ''copy" by
oddin" the following innocent appear
ing paragraph:
Senator George Handy Smith has
fifty copies of the superb Bird Book
lately issued by the Legislature. He
Will shortly mail them to his friends"
That was all, but what worry it cost
the Senator! A few days after the
publication of the paragraph Senator
Smith was in his seat in the Senate
He called Il page and requested that
his mail be brought The boy lugged
in n huge basket filled with letters.
The Senator gazed at it. but said moth
ing. A minute later the page appeared
again with another basket equally full.
Then the Senator began the task of
opening the missives. They were all
alike. and all contained requests from
sturdy constituents for copy OF the
much priced Bird Book Some one
showed a copy of the despised paper
containing the aforementioned para
graph under the Senator's eye. He
read He was enlightened. nor after
ward did he have 4 disparagins word
to say against the power of the press
Worse than all. every letter had to be
answered.-Philadelph Evening Tele-
| graph.
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A long face is poor Investment.
Haste to get rich keeps many man
poor.
Many Il mans word is like an echo
merely IL hollow mockery-
Unless you forget that you are try
ing to go To sleep you will not succeed.
The poor author is doubly poor when
he is compelled to borrow his thoughts.
a married woman seldom goes on
the lecture platform; she has her au-
dience ut home.
Actions speak louder than words.
Some men never say die. yet they all
have to do ii.
When IL man says he had forgotten
all about that little loan you just re
turned he is IL liar.
When IL dog barks at the moon all
night il is Al sure sign Of Insomnia on
the part OF the dog aud others.
The man who leaves church just as
the collection plate starts around may
have been taken suddenly ill. but he
rarely gets credit for it. - Chica go
News.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
graph,

Habit is mighty force. and must
either tend toward that which is good
or that which is evil. It rests with us
whether il shall be one of our best
friends or one of our worst enemies
Patience and strength are what we
need; an earnest use of what we have
now: and all the time an earnest dis
content until we come to what we
ought to be
There are Iawless moments which
come to us all if we have no guide but
desire and the pathway where desire
leads us seems suddenly closed.
The frank confession of a fault en-
phasiZes TO ourselves the necessity Of
overcoming it. and eXerts a strong
force in that direction
When a man deties existing laws he
creates others for himself more rigid
and severe than those from which he
breaks away.
The person who spends his time in
hunting down lies will have no leisure
for the pursuit of truth.
Tell the truth and let others say
what they will. You are responsible
for but one tongue.
Men may be born with fortunes
ready made but character they have
to achieve.
A cruel story runs ON wheels. and
every hand oils the wheels as they
run.
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sun and skin

A Physician has been investigating
some of the effects of direct sunlight
on the skin. Painting Il band on his
arm with India ink he exposed the
member TO IL SCOrchlug sun The US
ual painful effects followed. except
beneath the band. where the
skin remained hite and unaffected
He suggests that the tan which con-
tinued exposure produces upon The
skin is IL protective effect. Ii further
experiments establish this interference,
u further hypothesis will be rendered
probable. namely that the power ac-
auired by the human skin i'll the trop-
les of secreting Il pigment is really pro-
tective of its lower and functionaliy
active layers. Ofthaud one would De
apt TO conclude that black skin ought
to increase the heat effects of the solar
radiance We are required to learn
now whether the harm is really done
by the heat rays. tor conceirably 1t
may be due to any other of the diverse
sorts of vibration of which that radi-
ance is now known to be Il highly com
pleX phenomenon.-Buen Ayres Her
aid.
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Dry goods merchants of Chicago are
entering heartily into movement
now ON foot to purify the smoky at
mosphere of that city. They describe
the damage to stock by smut and SCOT
as running into many thousands of
dollars annually; in fact. goods that
are exposed for only few days have
to be disposed OF at loss. In addition
the extra help required to keep stores
and fixtures clean represents a serious
loss. The wholesale merchants say
the conditions are even worse for them
than for the retailers. We hope the
efforts now being made to remedy this
state of affairs will prove successful
within Il reasonable period. states the
Dry Goods Economist.
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OF the 4.:j:i6, ,!i4l persons enumerated
in the county of London, 3,016,5S0 were
natives of London: 80 ,42t Were born in
Wales and Monmouth. being an in
crease of 4129 since 1891: 56,6O5 in
Scotland, an increase of 3215; 60.211 in
Irelaud Il decrease of 6254. and 3d.
$50 i'll British colonies or dependen-
cies. Persons Of foreign birth num-
bcretl 16l ,222, and of these 20,224 were
British subjects; n621 were natural
lied British subjects and 1887 We're
foreigners; an increase in the case of
the last named Of 40.324 since 1891.
Boston journal.
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Fantastic lsottles.

Glass in fabric is so beautiful that
even grOtvSque designs cannot entire
ly rob it of charm: hence the fan
tuses in glass come fifty into collec-
tionS. Among foreign bOttle-curios are
found Buddha bottles. dragons. sea
horses. ships. gondolas, fountains, vio-
linS, whales. and lion bottles; bottles
with horizontal stories OF perpendicular
divisions; and glass jugs with horns
or whistles i'll the handles Ameri-
can curio- bottles show a wide but more
practical range, expressing national
iocosity in such shapes as cigars, pis
tolls. monuments. eggs, boxing gloves
bird cages, canteens. lanterns. scallOp
shells. shoes, slippers. roller-skateS
barrels, castles. SnailS, birCh-bark logs
cones. pyramids. figures of Uncle
Sam. Santa Claus. and the like
Brooklyn Eagle.
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The New York Herald thinks tina

The New York Herald thinks that
although the standard of require
ments for admission to our schools OF
law and medicine has been raised dur
ing the last twenty years they are still
TOO low. The assertion is made in the
Columbia Literary Monthly that the
greater part of the students at our
medical school are nof only uncul-
tured. but often even uncouth, thus
being funda mentally unfit to become
the highest type Of their profession. 1t
is argued that no one should be ad-
mitted unless he has taken a degree
as an evidence of Il foundation of gen
eral culture. This is already the rule
at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, and
the appearance of this article i'll the
chief undergraduate paper of Colum-
bia reflects a widespread feeling that
it should be applied to the medical
school Of this university.
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4 MERRY CEREMONY.


Hook Tuesday.
The sshocking" which takes place In
Hungerf0rd onethe; Tuesday following
the second Sunday after Easter. va
ries little from that practiced in olden
days in many other parts of England.
On the morning of Hook Tuesday, or
Hockney day. two officers. named tith-
ing or ..tutti-men" collectors OF
penny 1.-THE, and bearers OF nosesays
or5'.tuttjes." in west country parlance).
parade the town. carrying each stan
ornamented with flowers. bedecked
with ribbons and surmounted with an
orange Their business is to call at
every house and demand a poll-taX of
one penney for each inmate over four
teen years of age: in the case or the
fair sex a kiss may be asked for as an
e0uiyalent and no refusal is taken!
Usually a handsome sum is given by the
master of the house as payment III fuil
for himself and family, but cases have
occurred where timid and unprotected
usually unmarriedl ladies have been
afraid to open their doors lest the kiss
should be demanded without the Op-
ton of a fine" and on such occasions
the gallant tutti-men are said to have
effected an irregular entrance. and
taken ample toll for their extra trou-
Bile.
As the ''tutti-men" are treated fire.
uuently on their rounds the town is
kept IN ferment for the greater part
Of the day. hosts of holiday makers
swelling the procession. while cakes
and oranges are freely enjoyed by the
| swarms of excited children who follow
| close on the heels of the officers. Hook
| ing proper has disappeared from the
| order of events. a circumstance to be
! regretted by all lovers of quaint Gus
| toms. Formerly the men went through
! the town on Monday carrying Il chair
| gayly decked with ribbons. or. more
probably, it was kept concealed until
| some unwary woman ventured from
| her house when she was caught.
placed in the chair and ''hocked.' OF
| lifted three times, after which, If un-
able or unwilling TO pay the tax OF
| money demanded. she was kissed by
all the revelers. On the following day
] it was the privilege of the women to
| "hock" the men. with the usual result
of Il large haul of money. with which
| a supper was provided In most parts
of England the celebration Of hOcktide
has fallen entirely into disure; even
in Berkshire as we have seen. the
| rOugher element has been dropped
though the toll and it's substitute. the
garlands and the supper are still re
ligiously Observation-Disclosures Globe.
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For the future railway traveller the
offer of '.all the comforts of home"
will have no meaning. Indeed. he has
already learned to expect in travelling
u great many comforts which are i'm
possible in the average home. and form
no part of his daily life. For exam
pie. we read of "A Western railroad
which is now equipping 4 train as a
cost about equal TO that of u tirstclass
hotel. with buffet ears, bathrooms,
BARRIERS shop. library and smoking
cars. dra ing room. sleeping and OBJ
servation coaches. To these we have
already attained. but this train will
also have telephone connection with
local and long distance services. and it
is expected that before long IA passen-
ger may call up any number anywhere
and hold conversation while the train
is in motion. AYERS the New York
Times
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Deadly Panama Climate.

A New orleans man who spent five
years as road master of the PaLaina
railroad testified before the Senate Com
mittee last month that OF a group OF
fifty-three men sent to the isthmuS as
engineers, superintendents and CLERKS
all but three had died within three
months. The mortality among the
men employed on the original French
canal company was frightful. says the
Review OF Reviews. 1t is not pleas
ant to think of what might happen to
a force of Americans sent down to
complete the Panama canal-although
doubtless the health conditions of the
region could be improved. The nearer
location of the Nicaragua route.
Furthermore, renders it much more de-
sirable for our own traffic. especially
for our Pacific coast shippers. All
these. things must be taken into ac-
count.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-21

Here is "A bit of haberdashery lore
and usage that should he welcomed by
processionists and puriSts. The generic
word for what is ineXactiy termed
s'neckwear" is "cravat." This word
comes from d Croatin regiment who
first introduced the article. which, in
it's various notifications, is now known
under variety of names. Crayats
are 'tieable," or made up" A tieable
cravat done into the ordinary sailors
knot is, technically speaking. knott;
when it is made up it is "teck.' a
tieable cravat that is arranged In the
form of q bowknot is a ''tie," but when
1t Is made up 1t is a ''bOw." A tieable
cravat tied by oneself is an ascot v
but If 1t is made up in this form 1t Is
"hat" There are other forms, OF
course. but they explain themselves
New York News.
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The verb meaning 70 travel by an
automatic carriage is variously stated,
with an unfortunate tendency to
lengthen its syllable arrangement The
ment upon the speed regula tons of the
metropolis employs the word automo-
bilizing," iingual concoction which
The general public cannot he expected
to tolerate. On the other hand. the
equally objectionable verb ''to moOe'
for which some contend. shows some
signs Of adoption. II may be recalled
that during the bicycle craze few
years ago the verb ITO bike" became
more or less popular. but was frown"d
upon by the students of language.
The slanging tendency Of m0dcrns has
produced curious specimen OF word
mangling in this connection. Spring
Ing, it may be believed, from the YER
| bal contortions of pair of German
dialect comedians, the name "autOmo
| bubble has been facetiously adopted
| In some quarters. and from this atroc
ity has come d line of "pubbling
nouns and verbs which display the
radical tendency in the adaptation o1
language to the passing phases ol
science and custom. observes tbs
Washington Star.
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the BIRTH OF Tne LOCOMOTIVE
AZ cLIHroN DAnoHRFr.LD.

~ CIINrOM DAN0ERFIHLD.
Would you ride on q steed which the ut
termost speed shall not tire?
shall you find him. -,
Come down to the giants who labor w1tn
water and fire. ),
The swarthy mechanics whose strength
and whose skill have designed him
There. lie the waste and the rust OF the
! loose scattered iron.
But here by the forges and here where
the hammers are falling.
Resonant, steady. are men whom your
faith may rely on
To work US the miracle born of their
wonderful calling.
For the soldier is bred to destroy, to re-
joice in the killed,
To tear at the life and the heart of a
suffering nation;
But here are the men who have taken as
watch word. "I build.
They are one with the gods, for their
work is the work of creation
Sullenly echo the forges. and higher and
Rise the white flames under brass in the
crucible flowing,
Now the iron takes shape and folloWs the
workers desire,
Swiftly and surely the eager conception
is growing.
Quietly out in the sun the smooth sWitches
are lying
When 10, from the hands of the toiers,
half-breathing, half-sobbing,
Strong with strength never wearled,
good will undying,
The Iron Horse comes, with his new
power beating and throbbing!
Take him. Through him shall a message
of ultimate healing =,
Establish the peoples as one, and shaii
heal all the rotten
Corruption of years, one land to another
revealing.
Take him-a son OF the Law, out OF
Chaos begotten
-> Youths Companion
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ireland sent out nine out of every
1901, 39,S7O leaving the island during
the year OF these SO.5 per cent. were
between the ages of fifteen and thirty
five. Compared with the records of
1900, emigration from Ireland de-
creased last year over 1000.
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How did boys ever invent the custom
of putting a chip on the shoulder and
daring another boy to knock it Off: 1t
is Il variation from the idea symbol
lied by the throwing down of the
gauntlet. But the boy does not say
by his act. Il challenge you" but
Dare you challenge me-"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-21

The man who was simply hard
headed business man ten years ago is
now inclined to resent it If you don't
call him a captain of industry. remarks
the Denver Republican.
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$50 little done. So much to dor
Pathetic words from Cecil Rhodes on
his deathbed. But, after all. is not
that the summing up of almost all
lives! Ks
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In undertaking an airship perform
ancc the fear that q man may fall
down at it is always more accentuated
than in the case of other enterprises.
Omaha World-Herald.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-21

sDuring the past year the German
Emperor has decorated 2473 people.
The undecorated German, like the
dodo. will soon be extinct.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-05-21

Italy furnishes nearly all the sui
phur used In the world