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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-07-25
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May 1t not be because when her rela.
tions with all men are SO agreeable
she hesitates to exchange them for
the highly problematical delights of
a relation with one? Being the super
fetal sex, we naturally value more
highly the bird In hand OF conSenial
interests than the two of a conjugal
felicity which is very much In the
bush. Confessions Of a Woman Pro-
fessor in Independent.
When Mother Died.
They told me in the night that she was
dead,
And then knew from out my life had
fed
All beauty that thenceforth my pathway
led
In lonely lands; that / should miss the
OF woodland roses and the mornings
glow.
For she was my best friend! The words
she said
In prayer each night beside my trundle
bed
/ still recall; the pillow then she spread
With such touch that / no more can
know!
She sought the smoothest ways for me
to go, ..fE.l
And her sweet faith brought all the
mountains low!
The seeds of kindness that she planted
grow " z..f.... t.~.
Are blooming now unframed by frost or
snow, ...... d..
By crystal dews from heaven nightly
fed!
And when I dwell upon the long ago
Her smile to me is bright as was the
bow f.. 49,. -...
To those upon the food; I miss 1t so
Now when the winds unbridled wildly
blow
And rain descended on my defenseless
head! ..a
An Accomplished Girl
A girls education Is most incomplete
unless she has learned: 49,
To sew.
To cook.
To mend.
To dress neatly.
To keep a secret.
To avoid idleness.
To be self reliant.
To darn stockings.
To respect old age.
To make good bread.
To keep a house tidy.
To be above gosslping.
To make home happy.
To control her temper.
To take care of the sick.
| To take care of the baby.
To sweep down cobwebs.
To marry man for his worth.
To take plenty Of active exercise.
To be a helpmate to her husband.
To keep clear Of trashy literature.
To be light-hearted and feet-footed
To be a womanly woman under al
circumstances.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-07-25

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pushed against the wall under the bed
was discovered an extremely dirty
mattress, from the ends Of which pre-
truded still more dirty bedding. A
slight flush came as the woman an
swered that her brother, 19 years old,
slept on that The inspector went into
the bedroom and took from behind
the bed. covered by the bedding. two
dozen pairs Of nnfnished trousers. For
one minute the revelation appeared
brutal. The woman grew old and
ashGn.
Snatching the shawl that covered
the baby, she darted through the door
without speaking. Before the trousers
had been tagged she returned with an
older woman, who said she was the
sister. The trousers were hers. She
had come to wash for her sister, and
was going to sew on them In the after
noon. She had just gone out min
ute. Yes, she had q license. She hur-
ried out and returned with 1t. where
| Is the card? All the assurance and
confidence died out Of her face. There
was an exciting consultation in Italian.
The mother Of the baby snetched II
up, raised the cover and produced the
card. The inspector put the license
and card In his pocket At once con
sternation settled on every face. By
this time the room was crowded witt
other tenants. The older woman
who claimed the license and card
almost dropped on her knees as she
begged for their return. The license
and card were another lady's. sht
pleaded. The secret was out. The Ii
cense belonged to a third woman, no
present, who performed the ONCE o
neighbor and friend by lending he
card to her needy neighbors to secure
work. 3t&
A Filthy Workshop.
i The next house visited was in such
condition of dirt and degradation tina
the marvel was that one could worl
who lived in It, The halls were dark
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-07-25

said the family had been here II years.
The man had license. The man con-
coded that his family needed all the
space now occupied by day as a work
room for living purposes. The rooms
were dirty. This license was suspend
ed until some changes were made as
to the workroom and the halls.
The next application came from q
nearby house. This house was an old
residence, in which lived as many
neonle as could crowd in. The tenant
occnpied a room and bedroom in the
roar on the first floor above the street.
The inspector knocked several times,
receiving no answer. At last there
was a cautious movement behind the
closed door, which was followed by
the sliding of the bolt. The door open.
ed, revealing a young italian woman
The woman understood the Grand
onened the door and graciously In
vited the waiting visitors in. A pine
box, having a cover, with leather
hinges. was against the wall. On this
was a tiny baby 4 weeks old. In re-
Div to questions the woman answered
without the slightest hesitancy or at
tempts at concealment'
surroundings Squa1id.
Two people, herself and her husband
and the baby lived there; no one else
"No room for more" she said, with
sweet smile and a bewitching shrug
of the shoulders. No, she never work
ed before; she could not get work
she had no license. No boss would
give her work. Rolled tightly and
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-07-25

A pretty girl is apt to be her own
standard Of beauty. 81 4
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-07-25
A Filthy Workshop.

The next house visited was in such q
condition of dirt and degradation that
the marvel was that one could work
who lived in it. The halls were dark.
In each hallway was sink and water.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-07-25

To marry q man for his worth.
To take plenty Of active exercise.
To be a helpmate to her husband.
To keep clear Of trashy literature.
To be ught-hearted and feet-footed
To be a womanly woman under all
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01

dramatiZation of "yFhe Newcomes.
'Pendennis' and the 'sVirginians" has
come rapping at the door of the man
ayers, but there is no conspicuous rec
ord of any having ever been accepted
and produced. Even James Diary came
under the knife curiously enough witt.
considerable success, for when Bur
nand and Punch made version for
the stage it ran in London for several
months. But as Mr. Wilstach points
out. through a quotation from Robyn,
Thackeray occasioned a finer play than
was ever recast from his novels and in
splred dramatist who sought vainly
to link his name with the venerated
novelists in a stage version of his
stories. There is a tradition to the
effect that .Rosedale' was written as
the result of a converse ton at a din
ner party given in New York by Thack-
cray, during his last visit to this coun-
try. Lester Wallack, VINO had become
bosom friends with the English satir-
lst (whom he once thought ponpous
and supercilious), opposed an asser-
ton that the lovers in a popular play
must be very young persons. He de-
termined to put his theory to the test,
and eventually did so by writing Rose
dale in which Elliott Grey is a man
who has passed the first blush of youth
and Rosa Lee proves te be young
lady who has outlived by some years
the candy eating period OF sweet six
taan"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01

sue, the habit is growing of thinking
OF the dramatiZation of novels as q re-
cent device of the unoriginal play
wright. Several times during the past
year The Boolman has reminded its
readers, through a series of articles on
the dramatization of the works Of great
authors, written by Paul Wilstach, that
this literary crossing of the strain OBJ
tanned years ago in much more pro-
nounced degree than recently The
January Bookn1an contains Mr.. Will
stach's paper on the dramatizations of
Thackeray. This author was not pill
LACED by the play maker to such an
extent as were Dickens and Scott, vet
he came in for his share of complaint
against this sin which so enraged the
gentle Boz. Less of Thackeray has
been seen on the stage than of Scott,
Dickens or Lytton, not only because
the contemporaries of the great quar-
tette found his material less adapta-
bic to their tstyle. but because he was
by no means so prolific as the other
three. Greater justice has been done
Thackeray in respect to both the gen.
eral abstinence from attempt to dram
atiZe his works and in the workman
ship displayed by the few who have
converted them into dramatic form.
Henry Esmond'' and Vanity Fair"
are the novels which have proved the
principal magnets for dramatic recon-
struction, the former less often than
the latter, and less successfully. Many
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01

Henry Payne and the knowledge of
stage business which he must possess
could afford to waste the material that
ne does in the seven short, stories he
presents in his new book, "a Great
Fart and other stories of the stage.
Undoubtedly the stories will be widely
READ and commented upon, for their
originality. Unless there were quality
enough IN the stories to merit this sug-
gesuon they would not have been
brought into notice, but in the first
story there is obviously material for
hrst-class play of that fncisive nature
concerning our social life that a Clyde
F1tch would like to seize if he could
handle 1t properly, and a Charles F'roI-
man would be only too glad to stage if
properly presented.
or course Mr.. Payne may get his
satisfaction out of the literary fame
that may accrue to him. for his clever
Work IN story form, but the point to be
Drawn is that, while there is SO much
criticism of the story-made play we
nave literary talent of so much prac-
tleaI value lying idle among those who
can write story as a play and help
us toward the ideals that are aimed at
IN the dreams we are now INDUCING in
OF a national theater.
Apropos of the question, just at this
tifne Wnen the dramatized novel is on
the rebound of popularity and the
whole movement is reviewed in per-
specuYe, rather than as a nresent is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
Not Chronic.

Inc squire was trying to secure a mem
sion for a needy OLD widow The doctor
Mas MAS an important witness. He cheer
fully accompanied the applicant 70 fha
squire once, and stated what he knew
about the army record Of her hushanG
The squire took time to fix In the na
pers, and when the doctor went to sign
them he found that what he had stated
cut very. little figure The squire had
given full rein to his knowledge of what
must be proved If he were to succeed
But can't swear to that squire: that
isn't what / told You at ALL" Then he
repeated the whole statement
Inc squire apologiZed and agreed tic fix,
tne papers over again. When he finished
them and sent for the doctor, the witness
discovered a good many changes in verbi-
age, but very little change in substance.
The squire had again told the story as he
wanted it, and not as the doctor had stated
it.
The doctor grew wroth and used few
cuss- words, assuring the squire that ne
was no ID rascal and didn't propose
committing perjury.
Now. look a-here Docl You have a
chance to do this poor old woman a great.
service. She Is desperately poor She
needs that money very. very badly You
are the only witness left on earth that
can do her any good. You know a good
deal. but not quite enough. Don't stick IN
the bark. Eoc. just out with 1t. 1T viii
90 her lets Of good ard won't hurt yau.
No, sir: l pledge you my word that
man OF your temperament Will get ever
jt IN less than twenty minutes.'- henry
NJ WiItse. in February Lippincott's.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
Let Actors Write
Their Own Plays

Special to The Globe.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.AThere has
been considerable discussion of the
question of getting our dramas from
novels, but since our actors and those
acquainted with the technique of the
stage will not turn us out plays, which
they are abundantly capable of writ
ing, what is the poor adapter to do in
an age when a new play is demanded
every ten minutes?
I am driven to this querulous inter-
negative by getting hold of book of
stories by man whose practical ex-
perience has been entirely with the
modern stage and who should at least
have an average of stagecraft about
him and yet fritters away in short
stories amounting to at least a bakers
half dozen Of enough material to have
made as many plays.
One understands how literary man.
unacquainted with the business of the
stage, may have an ideal plot in his
mind and yet not be able to present it
In sufficiently graphic form to make it
acceptable to a theater- going public:
but one cannot understand how a man
OF the obvious capabilities Of George
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01

and distributing departments of the
papers make up another hundred of
the night workers.
Railroad Employees Many.
Next in number who are engaged in
hlght work are railroad employees. The
employees In the yards and as switch
men, freight brakemen, engineers and
nfemen on switch engines and freight
trains and in the shops and round
houses add 300 to the list.
Two-thirds of the police force-150
men-are on duty nights, although a
third go off duty at a. m, about the
same time as the employees on the
morning newspapers.
Machlnlsts and engineers to the num-
Der Of 100 turn night into day. so far
as work is concerned, and keep going
the numerous electric light and manu-
featuring plants in various parts of the
city.
Bakers prepare for the morning ems
toners the hot rolls, bread and pies
and sixty of these workers are en-
ployed on the night shifts at the dozen
or more small and large bakeries.
Inc restaurants add half a hundred
to the night workers staff, aIthopgh
Tour times that number are engaged
early IN the night and quit work be-
fore midnight.
about fifty men to the roll, and DIR
Ing the summer months the ice men. to
the number of half hundred, start in
shortly after midnight for a fifteen
hour day.
The gas works keep a score of men
busy all night the year round, and the
number of special policemen and night
Watchmen who patrol beats or pull call
boxes in the business houses and man
ufactur1ng establishments is ovar 9Oo
The swift messenger boys from the
telegraph and district telegraph offices
add fifty more to the list of night
workers, and dozen hackmen stand
around the principal corners down
town until the dawn begins to break in
the east.
The street railway conductors and
motoneers are not counted In the list
of night workers, although over 200 Of
them work until after midnight and
fifty men are employed around the car
barns and repair shopts all night.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
St. Paul Workmen Who Toll
in the Hours Of Darkness.

The recent agitation in st. Paul as to
the necessity of operating "oWl" cars
on the several street railway lines be-
tween midnight and 6 q. m has
brought out the query as to the num-
Der of persons who are employed in the
night hours.
Figures taken from the official re-
port of Labor Commissioner O'Donnell
show that in the state there are 1855
persons who work between the hours
OF p. m. and a. m. These figures.
however, the labor commissioner adj
mlts are not accurate, as the idea of
adding this particular inquiry to the
blanks sent out by him and instruct
ing his inspectors to secure data. did
not occur to him until last year. Our
next report will give the figures on
night workers accurately" said the
commissioner.
Other authorities put the number at
between 10000 and $4,000, which, it is
claimed, IS very conservative esti-
mate.
Men prominent in labor circles in st.
Faul say there are over $500 persons
VINO are engaged in the various trades
and industries during the night hours.
Men who are obliged to work in the
night time in st. Paul are more numer-
Gus than you have any idea" said one
or the workers the other night when
the question was brought up, "and
WhlIe don't want to be understood
plugging for the "owl" car ordinance I
want to go on record as being in favor
OF everything which will give the men
who work nights the best of it.
Night Work Is Not Preferred.
You notice I say men who are
Obliged to work nights, for between
ourselves the man who works nights
does not engage in the work because
he prefers it hut in rearIx, o1,or,r a..
stance because he is obliged to. have
been working nights or part of the
night for the past twenty years. and 7
suppose will keep at 1t until am too
old or go to my reward. Some say thew
like 1t, but they are the young fellows
who have little sense
For q married man night worl, 70 q
tough proposition, and for his wife and
children, if he has any, it is worse. A
fellow who works nights gets so he
does but three things, work, sleep and
eat, and all of these he does mechan
1cally. took a night off the other
week, 1t was Christmas eve, and Won
never saw such fuss as my children
made over 1t. My wife says she never
has chance to see me unless am at
the table or In bed, and guess she is
right. That's why say the men who
work when other people sleep should
have all of the Conveniences of life
that those who are so fortunate as 70
work in the day time enjoy"
In the neighborhood of 500 persons
are employed from p. m. to q. M.
in the daily newspaper and printing of
fees in St Paul. These include the
printers, stereotypers, pressmen and
employees in the several publishing
houses and newspaper plate concerns.
The editors, reporters, telegraph OBJ
orators and employees in the mailing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
A Man of Business.

The angry father kicks the young man
from the front steps.
Sir" says the young man, picking him
SELF up, II would like to call your atten-
ton to the goods handled by my house.
We make the best line of soft-rubber soles
and heels that you can find anywhere .
Father goes back into the house, rub
bing his chin and wondering whether
after all, he has not made mistake in re-
fuSlng to welcome so great a business
genius into his family-Judee
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
A SELFISH BORE.

The most annoying bore we know.
Who angers us as few do,
Is he who when you tell how low
Your spirits are proceeds to show
He's feeling worse than you do
Philadelphia Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
Mail Orders

Order by mail If you live out Of
town. We will give your order the
same care as If you were here in
person. Satisfaction guaranteed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
WaH Papers

Spring Announcement-We
have received and are now showing ali
the new papers and will be pleased to
have you call. Prices are Half exclu-
sive dealers prices.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-21

fixed. This was placed at 45O,OO0,OOO
taels, the value Of the tael in American
and English money being about 20 cents.
Now the value is at least 25 per cent
less than it wal when the protocol was
signed, SO that the amount Of the in
demnity has suddenly expanded to $685.
100000 taels and China is compelled to
pay an annual sun IN interest equiva-
lent to > per cent instead of 4 per cent.
1t is probable that ours is the only
government that will not insist upon
imposing an additional burden upon
China, but IL that country is unable to
pay II, what then? Will the powers
adopt aggressive measures to collect the
indemnity? The matter is one emf
nently suitable for arbitration and
might very properly be submitted to
The Hague tribunal.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-21
POETRY AND SOAP.
Courts Undertake an Adjustment of n
Mix-Up of the Muse.
New York Mail and Express.

Mix-Up of the Muse.
New York Mail and Express.
Judges Wallace, Coke, Townsend and La
combe Of the United States circuit court
Of appeals in this city have proved them
selves to be men Of nice sensitiveness as
to literary concerns. Ordinarily the pro-
ceedings OF the United States court do not
involve many things Of romantic interest,
nor of those which turn upon matters OF
the Imagination. The ordinary police Judge
has more Of the stuff Of romance in the
cases before him in one day than the
United States courts have in half a year.
Nevertheless, some matters which touch
upon the affairs of the muses. do come be-
fore these courts, disguised in commercial
garb. The judges named above, for in
stance, have just rendered judgment on the
question whether the "Brushwood" edition
of Kipling's works fs=entitfed to copyright
protection by virtue Of it's having printed
on the title page AMI elephants head, in
closed in a circle. which the author claims
as his private trademark. And the court
denies the claim that it is so entitled, and
denies 1t on this ground:
at is offensive to the esthetic and poetic
taste to place such poems as the "Reces-
sional and The Last Chanty' In the same
category with pills and soap, to be dealt
with as so much merchandise"
The sensitiveness of the court to this
consideration Of esthetic propriety has the
practical effect to deny to the author a full
degree of protection from reproduction Of
some of the works. He might wish, there
fore, that his judges were a trife less deli
cate in their fe~elings-that, for instance
through a certain rough-and-ready dispo-
sition to class poetry with pills and sonneti
with soap, they stood ready to treat his
proposition as a purely commercial one
That they are unable to do so is IN indi-
cation that there is vastly more sentiment
at large in this intensely practical corner
of the world than Mr.. Kipling himself IL
likely to suppose.
The point on which this decision is rem.
dered at least debars Mr.. Kipling from set.
ting the judges dow in any 'cussing Of
the court that he, as a disappointed liti-
CANT, is privileged to engage is. as "Gothi
and shameless Huns"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-21
THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.

The United States has expressed its
willingness to accept payment from
China on the basis established when the
indemnity agreement was entered into.
Our government thinks that China
should not bear the loss from the de
cline of silver. which would increase
the total indemnity to be paid % per
cent. The other powers want payment
on the present gold basis and China has
informed them that she is unable to do
this, pointing out that the country is
impoverished, Of which there appears to
be abundant evidence, and asking the
ministers of the powers to suggest plans
for relief.
The position of our government in this
matter is fair andE just. but it is I'M
likely that It can convince the other
governments OF this. The language of
the protocol. touching the indemnity,
while somewhat indefinite, does not jus
tify the present demand OF the powers,
but rather gives some merit to the con-
tentiOn of China that she should not be
charged with making good the violent
fall in silver which has taken place
since the amount OF the indemnity was