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The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06
The Passing of a Noble
Woman,

On Monday last the court of spec
ial sessions OF New York city set a
noteworthy and an admirable pre-
cedent by adiourning in honor OF a
woman. She was Il queen uncrown-
ed save with the halo OF the bright
deeds of her beautiful and unselfsh
life. No crowned queen or empress
has ever earned greater glory or has
sbeen borne to the grave with more
ssScere lamentations.
Mrs. Rebecca Salome Foster, a
victim OF the Park Avenue hotel fire,
was known as the "Tombs Angel." "
The full meaning of this appellation
can only be measured by the graft
tude that overflowed from the
hearts OF the criminals and outcasts
t%whom she ministered. Volunta-
/rily withdrawing herself from all
personal enjoyment Of life, she spent
her time and her substance upon the
wretched, following in the Masters
footsteps and relieving publicans
and sinners. Given $4,000 a year by
a charitable organization to use as
she pleased, Mrs. Foster found it in
sufficient, and first spent her private
income and then sold her private
property that the needy might not
want. 1t is told Of this noble woman
that she removed her own overskirt
and gave it to trembling prisoner
at the dock, and stopped her thanks
with the soothing, magnetic touch
of her woman's sympathetic hand.
The noble woman has gone to her
rpwarl. Blessed are the n,elciful, "
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

expectation of cattle direct from Texas to Liverpool has
again opened within the last month two with apparent
We for the that the parties who
made experimental shipment few weeks after receiving
returns Immediately bought another ship load which
With good brisk foreign demand and two big pack
ing houses Fort WORTH Texas feeders ought to be able to
alize top prices for their cattle.-Farm and Ranch.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

lection of the United States
Government, the worlds great
est Republic. We should be
very proud of this American
record, so proud, indeed, that,
until Cuba herself asks to be
annexed to the United States,
the Cuban Republic shall be as
safe from overthrow as is our
very own.-St. Louis Republic.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

Oscar Hunt is back from Kansas
City where he bought a lot of elegant
up-to-date furniture of the always
dependable kind that he handles. Be
sure to see this stock before you
make up your mind about what you
nnn1
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

We have on sale now a quan,
tity of Tonic Stock Salt. 1t is
said to cure every i'll COW flesh
is beir to except death. Stock
men report great results from
it's use. Try some of it and be
convinced.
2 Canyon Mercantile Co.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

The c. p. Workers will give a pie
supper on the l4th. Pies, coffee and
tea will be served. All are invited
and It goes without saying, q feast
"a ~ store for thoss who attend.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

Fire got out yesterday during the
wind storm In Mr.. Sam Lotions
lots. but Judge Word saw 1t and put
1t out before much damage was
done.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

DR.. Edgar P. Lewis, dentist,
will make his third regular trip
to Canyon March &, Z and s,
stopping at Hotel Victoria. If
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

Mr.. John A. Gaut made us pleas.
ant call Friday, he reports cattle
looking well.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06
Canyon Mercantile Co

We are sorry to learn Mr..
Ray of Running Water has lost
30 head of cattle already dead
and has about 80 more that will
probably die. This is a very
serious loss to a man who had
only a small bunch to start out
with.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

Mr.. Hunt from the southern
country was ir tcwn Tuesday.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-03-06

victoria Hotel.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
A PRESCRIPTION OF DICKENS.
TO HELP GROWING GIRLS THROUGH THE
sELF-CONsCIOUS AGE

.eTbere is a time writes a now grown up woman
of her early days-we all have known it. except a
few favored human beings-''of that bewtlderinS
experience of being neither one thing nor the
other. a time when ones frocks have perma-
nent length OF skirt sleeves, but are constantly
up and down. being either providenty too long
that we may grow into them. or ortgrown 10
painful and ungainly shortness. or-oltter lgnom-
iDv-worse than all having just been let down
and the creases carefully ironed almost OUT ana
the space below the left noticeably dnerent
We to be made of arms and legs, ana 'he
utmost charity of fondest friends finds but an
anoogetc expNession Poor child She Is just that
age" We were always IN the way then. or 1eit So
even when people were very kind and forgot Us
altogether-and how to dispose of ourselves was d
sad problem.
"uann,, are you growing girl continues the
writer out of her own experience, III you take
volume OF Dickens and go up into the garret and
forget that you you reading yourself INTO an
other world. 1t is the great. peaceful time OF your
come another like IT. and happy Is the siT1 b wno
knows that whatever unhappy sense the phrase
may have Just that age Is the golden b;e age & OF
you: you know ana care hotILIs toout . ~. 80,
style and purpose unheard OF; words, para
gnPe ihrourh i& them forgetting that You read
you live and love and laugh and hate and weep
One perhaps never grows old for Dickens.
and is too young for him very long; but how
ever great a pleasure he may always be. from ten
TO sixteen in the years of our life he is one OF the
lows of living. 1t may not be peculiarly true or
Dickens-it is possible that the pleasure Of do doing R
anything again that we loved nrst ana pest 10 90
long ago is largely in the memory Of the first de
light but it certainly is in re-reading the Joys
and sorrows OF our old Dickens friends We
laughed in the garret and laugh again over
Sam WelIers wise absurdities over Mrs. Bardell's
anger nd and all the adventures and
nonsense of Pickwick and his friends. We fol-
lowed poor Oliver Twist breathlessly through his
maze OF burglars and rasCals. wept and smiled
with Peggotty and David Copperfeld- But Of all
the lives we were led. and ali the sights saw.
most did vivdly feel grief or horror where
some dearly beloved friend dreaded rascal died.
We cannot often weep them now-we know
them WELL perhaps. and then we have found
yrfrb inc 90 mi of is
learned the trick of analyzing and dtscov-
ering ways and means In the garnet we felt the
; enchantment OF first balcony distance-now We
have come down. and nearer, and understand too
well the stage machinery.
Encourage the girl TO reaS Dickens in the time
when she is neither thing nor the other" con-
cudes this wise woman. "and SO give her a world
of refuge from herself
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17

whetted edge on it. The city newsboy never in his
widest dreams fancied anything in life in any way
approaching the attractions he has found on this
farm. Then there is the garden and there Is the
orchard. Fruit hangs the trees where he can
reach 1t, and green things come out of the ground
and have only to be dug up to supply all the food
a hungry boy wants In the country there are no
problems about food. He had no idea that such
a place existed. and e finds 1t far from dull.
Then there is the life within doors Here are the
most extraordinary innovations. Every sits
down at a ia BILE that is loaded down with food
steaming hot There clean white tablecloths,
and the members of the faculty of the school.
there and there silver knives and forks, and
every boy has a napkin in napkin ring at his
plate, and a tidy waitress serves the dinner, and
every boy has an can eat.
The new boy from the city stands cere-
mony and while he is ravenously hungry, he
is for about four days, says a word to him
about the manner of his eating. He feels superior
to the conveniences of knife and fork, having
cation and he slows the food away with dispatch.
AS he begins to get filed up he proceeds look
around him. and he is dullard ne eyes
askance the methods employed by his companions
who have been there longer than he. They know
that he Will be taken in hand by the faculty on or
after the fourth day, and SO, by a succession of
elbow nudges and a kick under the table
his attention gradually called TO his eccentrici-
ties that are not in line with table etiquette,
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
A HUMBLE HEROINE.

Few realize the heroic struggles of impecuni-
Gus woman OF good social position whose life is
one long effort 10 make both ends meetI Working
day after day keep up the forms of civilized
life which she alone deems OF such vital impor-
tance. against the opposition of her family, who
declare them TO be OF whatever. Why
asks her husband. should she harass the one
servant in their fat by making her put white
apron and serve dinner? Why should the children
jump up and help themselves? What is the
use of having the plates changed2 1t is absurd to
put on frills when there is nothing to back il. A
man who is poor VIII naturally sink into the ha bits
Of the working class but woman who has once
been used to live conventionally will cling to her
traditions her dying day. 1t is for her children
that she struggles-ungrateful little things-who
would far rather be allowed their liberty and who
fret against the regulations. But in after years
they appreciate the wisdom Of ii all. For she is
quite right the habits that bespeak good breeding
should not be relinquished in trouble They are
inherftance from forebears that must be pre-
served for our children. and IL is ignoble life
that of d poor, broken-down genuewoman who
struggles after gentlity.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17

voices are naturally sweet and cultivated, and VINO
goes directly into Newport drawing room. Tor IN
stance is marked, and yet the crowd found in the
latter would be typical of Americas smartest
womankind.
II was passing the open windows Of one OF the
most fashionably popular restaurants the other
daY,' remarked man who was discussing the sup
ject, when my attention was attracted by the
loud, dscordant voices and shriekng laughter OF
a party of who were lunching inside.
clasSed them L once in my mind as being probaoly
rich vulgarians whose breeding was not equal 70
their surroundings when to my astonis hrnent
I recognized Mrs. ", one of our well known
social leaders, and several of her friends. who had
a good time. Probably none of these women real
lied in the least that their voices distinctly
common. and yet, nevertheless. it a fact.
A voice is sensitive. and should be treated ac-
cordingy. 1t deteriorates easily by contact and for
that reason children should never have attendants
with a nasal or loud manner OF speaking.
Nellie speaks through her nose for weeks after
she has been visiting the BIS" said her brother,
and it quite true that all unconsciously, the
girls voice had acquired twang that before was
quite unknown In liking or disliking person at
first sight voice has almost much influence as
personal appearance in repelling attracting. 4
simply cannot stand Miss A said acquaint-
ance, contritely ''and l feel ashamed Of my
aversion for she is the most estimabe person, and
is also. told. exceedingly clever. but when
repellent voice should be recognized in childhood
a defornity, and treated accordingly. Not every
organ can be made sympathetic. but neither need
1t be diSagreeabe.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
FOR THE UNW4RY TOURIST.

tourist returned from a summer trip in Europe
tells of a visit factory in Venice where women
making fine handmade aces and embroiderfes
OF them ''old lace" designed especially for
the unwary tourist. She watched with interest the
process used in making point d dAlencOn
First. piece of parchment tough paper. OF
dark color. fastened to a firm piece OF cloth.
The pattern was carefully pricked on the paper.
and a connecting thread fastened to the outline.
which formed the skeleton on which the lace was
to grow. The lace first given to woman who
put in the netted mesh background Great skill
needed for this work, ncatness and pa
tence being the prime requisites The next work
er. skilled, put in the groundwork of the de-
All that purliug and frostwork all those minute
figures requiring special care. added by the
last worker a highly skilled craftswoman The
stitches holding the outline thread then cut.
the parts together in such way TO
place of sewing and the beautiful point
ready for the gown of empress.
n families. well s factories. this meth
od is followed. The girls make the mesh, and the
mother and grandmother put in the finer parts.
teaching the to the younger lacemakerS they
work An experienced lacemaker can, of course.
time for her to do Alencon of the
centres of early pillow lace making In France. Dur
ing the French Revolution and NapoleOnic
many districts almost lost the art, which had been
practised for centuries there. The making of Vene-
tian lace was stopped. But Alencon Jared not quite
SO Ill because Napoleon to revive the art required
point lace to be worn at court.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
WOM4N's BISDERY UNION.

Two interesting women in the world OF labor ara
Miss Kate V. Srnoot and Miss Anna Grace Burke
president and secretary of the Womans Bindery
Union, one of the most notable organizations COM
posed of craftswomen in the United States Ins
success of the union. which has a total Of twenty
local unions in many States. is largely due'
il is said to the efforts of these two women VINO
have been constantly adding 20 the memoership
until il has now reached over 200
The Woman's Bindery Union is affiliated with the
International Brotherhood of BoOkbinders and Is
conducted along similar lines The main dtnerence
is that the women pay tax per capita ana receive
less wages than their affiliated brothers . -.
The officers of the union are full or pro1ect ~
build a hall SOmewhere-mOre than lkeiy -
Washington-and have already gathered a lulIS
of 5000 for this purpose. Conventions %
labor organizations OF women would be held there
entertainments for adding TO the relief fund anu anu
on. The women of the union are frequently
successful factors in obtaining legislation, ootn
state and national for the betterment or condtloS
for working women and children
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
ALL IN THE POINT OF VIEW.

What immense undertaking people
seem to make out Of nothing at ALL said
matron. ITO those who really bear the burdens
and heat Of the day the strenuous efforts of the
self-indulgent woman would be amusing, If II
not so provoking TO hear her complaints when they
consider the why and the wherefore. In a month
or two from now. fortunes favorite Will have to
open her house in town. and she Will undoubtedly
be perfectly out with the effort of having the
rooms cleaned and less reorganiZing her
household. To be sure, she will not personally
have TO exert herself in the very least neither
will she have to pay the bills. Nevertheless, she
will feel the task to be hercuean, and will talk to
all who will listen TO her if she could not stand
the strain Such a rush and a worry I
nearly dead" said one OF these heroines. speaking
her great obligations. The of work
have done and still have to do is appalling. Just
soon as j have breathing spell shall have TO
go the Hot Springs TO reCuperate."
Now. what do you suppose she has really done?
said of the group to whom the overworked
woman had been speaking, the latter rustled
languidly away. 'Done"' echoed another. why
she has probably told scrub the
paint and another put the curtains" And
they all laughed unsympathetically.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17

scheme We have no bad boys here. We have
boys who have been misunderstood and unfortu-
nate through ignorance more than anytnlng any, fasg' @
but bad boys. never look for bad In a poy-
I look for the good and in most cases | hnd IT,
Their motives good, and all they require Is
directing and sympathy and love NJ. -
But do you not think there are bad boys! WIS
asked of Mrs. Goff.
I'VE have not succeeded with all the boys sent
the world somewhere there is the person who could
succeed If he could only be found in time am
an optimist regarding boys. And the more folloI II
and impossible boy is the more my heart goes
out TO him. Every boy who goes from here 10 a
home Of adoption knows that he can come back
here II he is not harry In all fheP t5e refr to
the farm school $ home. This idea We give them
that they may come back if they not satiSted.
a poor kind OF home that could not come
back to If he wanted 10 come
TEXAS IS HIS MECCA.
But what becomes Of the street boy who went
out to the farm school for the sake OF adventure.
10 stav a week and to see what It like because
II didn't cost anything? BY the time he has been
in the country a week he thinks he would like to
stay another week. He begins to hear about boys
some of whom he knew hmself-who have gone
aloud. and he thinks Texas must be a very inter
esting place for at the farm school Texas is the
promised land the street boy. He sees photo
graphs OF boys who have gone down south 10
lve-pictures Of them taken on horseback-ranch-
men they have become. That settles 1.-THE decides
10 go And the boy who went from New-T TOrk to
tba farn school 10 stay a week could no more be
coaxed return to the city and take up his old
career than he could once have been coaxed TO
leave the city He OF his own free will: OF
his free will he decides to emigrate to Texas.
The school has kept him not more than
six weeks. and possibly not that long; II ne mas
remained weeks. he has cost the Children's Aid
Society just s23 ., and a wholesome career has
At the oftce of the Childrens Aid Society. in the
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17

so he lends himself To the new regime. No one has
offended him, and so, even though fingers We're
made before forks" he yields TO the innovauoH.
He even adopts the formality of please anu
Thank your
learn TO sleep He has clean white bed, and at
the head of 1t hangs night shirt. He has not
been in the habit of undressing at night possibly
so the sleeping comforts also direct advance
toward civilization In the lavatory he has a
towel of his own and q comb and a tooth nrush'
But the eating and the working and the sleeping
are not all there is the farm school day IneTe
is the evening around the lamp. the hour OF s!hs-
ing and visiting and of worship. ,
Most of all our effort is directed toward Keep.
ing the farm school from being an institution,
said the wife of the superintendent. I'VE want II
to he real home that il will serve as an op1ecS
lesson to the how who has never lived In one, ana
so Improve him that he will wish to be identifed
with one That is the keynote of the entire
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
ONE MORNINGS WORK.
SERVING EFFORTS ON A HOT
AUGUST DAY

Before housekeeper can heed the admonition
to make every step count processes must be
clear and theories established by experience. Or
der and method. too. are prime requisites of
speed. and until they attained lost minutes
will multiply into hours. The task described by
Mary Moody Pugh under the head "A Morning
with My Gas Stove in Preserving Time" in the
current number of the American Kitchen Maya
zine. would be entirely possible to the woman
who had acquired all these qualities.
1t was Wednesday, with crate of peaches half
a bushel Of tomatoes, and basket of wild plums
TO be preserved, and the midweek baking to do.
At half-past the bread made up and set
tention until ready to work down. While the
dishes were being washed. and the kitchen put in
ter and returned to the stove to cook for Jelly
on rack in the boiler, and be left TO cook three
pced Was boed two Jars were ed
and labelled. ready 1or the fruit cupboard.
from the plums. and be returned to the stove to
69 for tb ey & for the pulp Which, osRS Was
lowed 10 cook slowly over the simmering burner.
and only an occasional stir was necessary to
At $3.50 the bread was kneaded down, and the
sugar. which had been heating in the oven. was
added TO the boiling juice; ten minutes after one
@ Gf cos sd oh e M M OF the
II was now time to turn attention to the baking
the butter slowly IN simmePed As waited for the
bread to double its bulk dish Of apples for next
a pie from the leftovers of yesterdays roast
and loaf of gingerbread were prepared for the
oven; while they baked the bread was moulded
into the pans, and, by the time the oven was
empty, was raised. ready to slip IN
When the clock struck l2 had as the result of
my mornings labor:
Six haIf gallon jars of whole tomatoes
Six one quart Jars Of peaches In syrup.
Two jars OF spiced cucumberS
Two jars of plum butter.
One dozen glasses of Jelly.
Five loaves OF bread.
One loaf of gingerbread.
A meat pie.
An apple cob5ler.
dish OF baked apples.
All Of this was accomplished with comfort on
August morning which would have been impossible
with anything but gas stove
Go not hesitate TO say that for cleanliness, COM
Tort and convenience nothing equals a gas stove
III preserving at any other time
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17

In which every boys and all ABOUT mn, Is
inscribed when he comes for was quite sure Ina ina
school home L paid no more attentlon 10 MN nh
until evening, when circle OF boys were se1eLi
cred about me. singing with organ accompaniment. m
First boy would select hymn ana men , asio
other boy would select one. Finally, my ooy Wiz
did not believe in anything edged up TO the group
and selected hymn which we sang Inen l
asked him If he liked that. He answered in the
affirmative. and said
I know of something else that you IKE -.
He looked sour. but curious. and asked what IL
a. The farm school, 1 replied
He nodded.
About a week after that he came to my room
to call upon me. AS soon he seated saw
that he had something TO tell me.
Mrs Goff' he said. have come to tell you
that l have changed my mind about what l told
you I believed about God and heaven Since |
came out he.e somehow everything looks different
to me. No cared for me before .
so 1 have learned by experience that often all
New-York tribune., 1902-08-17

Charities Building, in Fourth-ave and Twenty-sec-
ond-st., there are interesting stories to be gath
cred about farm school boys who have developed
into successful business men, and are the pillars
or the community in which they have been reared.
There are three members of Congress. and even
of the society, and not ashamed to IL.
There are also good stories about these
who now agree to take boys to raise and start in
the world, just as th-~S themselves befrended.
sometimes there visitors out at the farm
school, and among these the most popular is Evert
Jansen Wendell. who is probably beloved by more
boys than any man in New-York. When he arrives
the news flies from end OF the farm to the
other, and no matter what the work is in hand
everv boy goes to greet him. Mr. Wendell never
misses week in his visits there. and he is
terms of intimate friendship with the boys He
carries a camera with which to take pictures of
them and ne poses in groups with them and after
they ieaVe Tor their permanent homes he writes
and receives letters from them. The boys at the
school make out acquisitions on him for what they
ball Of kite string. what not, he puts on the
list. and the next time he goes there he
take it
STORY OF A SOUR BOY.
Mrs Con- tells a good story about the sourest
boy she ever knew-a story which illustrates the
magic influence that loving home must exert over
a boy
He the sourest boy / ever met" she saws
land the most impossible to reach When / held
my simple. little religious exercises. which are a
feature of the close of every day. he scofred and
sneered.
:. L don't believe in it, he said 4 don't believe
there is any God, nor heaven anything
Il told h'In was sorry, and that would not put