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IMPRovIsED MUSIC RACK.

Sticks marked !, 2 and should be %
inches long; and 5, SO inches; and !, 81
inches: s and g. IS inches, and 10 and II, IS
inches.
ton through the ABOVE medium, the
telling of which may benefit some ambi-
tiots sister. l had the parlor and the
piano, which are necessities, but want
ed a music rack or case, which in the
condition of my finances then was lux
ury, so / set my wits to work, and this
is what they evolved-a music-rack
which answers every possible require.
ment of utility and beauty.
Having collected II broomsticks,
cut them to the lengths desired-three
of them % inches long, two 80 inches
two 80 inches, two % inches, and two
IS inches, and whitfield the ends round
Then with a gimlet bored holes, aro
fastened the sticks together with screws
in the manner illustrated At the cen.
ter crossing of the sawhorse fastened
a thin, smooth board about two inches
wide, and another on each side, makfns
a sort of trough for the music to stand
in. When completed it is just three
feet high and two feet two inches long
and when painted white with coat o:
enamel, it makes pretty piece of farni.
ture. A dash of gold paint or a bright
ribbon wound between the sticks woult
further improve its appearance.
Now, am only girl, neither men.
tally brilliant nor physically strong, but
the idea is original with me, and my owr
hands did the work. The result was Q
piece of furniture that invariably calls
forth the remark: Where did you get
such a quantity pretty music-rack?'
Try it. sister, and think you will be
pleased-M. Estelle Smith-Hymers, in
Farm and Fireside.
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ago. sold out his street car interests at
a good price and moved to LONDON, which
was not bothering so much about mu-
aicipal reform as it was about the soiu-
ton of perplexing transportation Prob
lem. Yerkes left other eastern capitalists
to solve the problem he did rot care to
attempt, and they are finding 1t hard to
solve in their way. 1t cannot be said that
these new owners of Chicago Union Trac-
ton have so much as thought Of fund
for franchise purchase purposes, but had
they done so it would have been prac-
tically useless, for they must deal with
fthe free" portion of the city govern
ment The Chicago city council Of to-
day is not of the purchasable kind.
1t is remarkable what amount Of study
the Chicago aldermen have given the
street railway franchise problem. They
have investigated conditions in every
large city in the country; they have un-
deniable figures at their finger ends with
which to pulverize every poverty argu-
ment which the companies put forward.
The aldermen hold the long end of the
stick, and they know 1t, but they are
anxious to grant franchise whenever
the companies are willing to accept one
that will be fair to the city as we'll as to
the corporations. Until then the COM
panies can wait
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six-year-old daughter found the child
without rubbers on rainy morning. To
shield the little one from the inclemency
of the weather as much as possible she
started early to the shoe merchant to
purchase the needed footwear, but was
SO detained that she was some two min
utes late in reaching the schoolhouse.
The mother explained to the teacher why
the child was late the two minutes, but
it was of no avail, the rule said she must
stand in the corner for Is minutes, and
that she must remain in the principals
room one hour after school had been
dismissed, and the rule>was enforced to
the letter.
1t may have been justice according to
school rules, but it was the kind Of JUS
tice that hangs one man for another
mans crime.
The same methods are applied to teach
ing. Every child is put upon the same
basis mentally. Their education is ar
ranged by rule and rot by individual
needs But Chicago has outgrown the in
Gividual.
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ETHICS OF wIDowHOoD.
New York Women of Wealth
and Leisure

One frequently hears that the wear
ing of mourning is no longer fashion
able. They who doubt should visit
among the smart set in New York.
On the day of the funeral a long Eng
fish crepe bow is attached to the
knocker, with white Japanese chrys-
anthemums arranged at intervals
down the streamers. For the first Pc
Rod of mourning the coachman and
footman are obliged to appear in black.
The New York widow is graceful
and quiet. She understands the chic
effect much better than her western
sisters. She has an air of individual
ity which enchants even the casual OBJ
server. She always uses correct ma
terials and appropriate trimmings.
Her veil is draped with coquettish
effect. but it is only in the first weeks
Of her sorrow that it is ever permit
ted to hang over her face. Soon she
discards it. and becoming short veil
Of Brussels is used instead.
The New York widow is never seen
with that narrow edge of whites ct in her
bonnet. She looks on it with re-
pugnance, because it attracts atten-
ton. 1t tells all the world that she
is widow in the second stage Of
grief, and that is not consistent with
the ethics of unhappiness. All the
toilets of her first black are trimmed
with English crepe. an expensive mel
ancholy material that clings to the
figure in a most graceful way. She be-
lieves in being eminently proper and
doing all that etiquette desires of a
mourner.
When second mourning days arrive
she wears soft folds of white crepe
lisse at the throat; then come law
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grants who settle u-uin
here until they have gotten their first
start in the new world. Here it is that
their children first enter the American
public school, and all, regardless Of age,
must begin at the foundation.
At two school buildings bath rooms
have been constructed, and at these COM
pulsory baths have been made part Of
compulsory education. One Of these is
the Jones school. located almose in the
heart of the business district. 1t draws
its students from the toughest element
of the slums, the little unkempt street
urchins who know nothing of home care.
To them the teacher is both mother and
instructor. And they need motherirg
quite as much as instruction.
Two schools. one on the South and
one on the West sides Of the city, are de-
voted to the education of crippled chill
dren To these little unfortunates are
carried each day in buses provided by
the board of education Three schools
are set aside for the instruction of the
blind; in others the deaf are taught. The
schools that teach the boys trade and
the girls to cook and sew are not new,
but they are still unique, and the high
schools in which hygienic luncheons are
sold the pupils at a nominal price are
numbered among the school novelties
From the list must not be excluded the
night schools, with their IA 900 pupils,
many of them men and women who must
work during the day, but find in these
an opportunity for mental advancement.
Tradesmen, clerks, walters, laborers.
schools.
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A Change for the Bette

Farewell. them" he cried. meloAra-
matically. you viii regret your refusal
of my proffered love- shall take to
drink. and then-Euicide!"
.Oh, don't ssS that!" the fair girl
pleaded
- AR reserved" he said at shall not
change n. plans unless
"oa, shanse them just little
should hst, to think 1 drove you to
drinks Try suicide first. "-Philadelphta
Ledger.
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people knew that worn out sidewalks
were not repaired because the owner of
the property had seen" the inspector. }"
They knew gambling houses were run
ming openly because they had paid some
one for the privilege. They knew the
. streets were uncleaned where they should
have been cleaned. They knew fire-trap
buildings had been erected because their
owners found it cheaper to buy privi-
leges than fire-proof building materials.
In dozens of lines of city government the
people knew of the existence of graft"
and the announcement of the mayor was
no surprise to them, even though 1t did
stir the politicians and the heads of de-
partments and bring about council in
vestigation which promises to be of some
good.
But the Chicago CRATER" is a small
potato to-day compared with his prede-
cessor of few years ago. He also rep
resents different branch Of the city
government now than he did then. But
a few years ago it was the lawmaker who
was bought, now it is the administrative
side of the city. The voters of Chicago
have freed the city council from the old
ring of boodlers and have put honest
men in their places at an opportune
ime In his article on Chicago in Nc
Cures Magazine Lincoln Steffens classes
the city as Half Free and Fighting On. Z"
With the boodlers of the council out of
the way the city can we'll turn to the regu-
iation of the administrative side Of its
government, and either dispense with or
reform many of the bureaus and depart
ments in which graft" exists.
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the Garneld school.
In it but little more
than the rudiments
Of the English Ian
guage is taught. Its
students range in
age from the six
year old to the
young man and
woman of 20, all en-
gagged in the same
study - t h a t o f
learning the EDg-
lish language. They
are as a rule, the
children of newly
arrived Polish and
Russian Jew emf
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existence Of graft
in the city hall.
Judging from the
commotion which
the announcement
created, one would
have supposed His
Honor to have been
the first to discover
this condition.
But the fact is
Chicago knows, and
has known, that a
ring of "grafters"
were doing business
in many depart
ments of the city
government. The
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sonal interest" ele-
ment in the teacher.
Here all children in
a grade must be
treated alike; there
is 70 time to study
child character or
conditions; t h e
teacher is but an
autcmaton W h o
performs W / t b
clock-work resu-
larity certain rules
laid down to her by
higher authority.
l found an illus
tration of this a
few days ago. The
poofbcr of q small
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WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.


A new social diversion has been con-
trived by Miss Rosamond Guthrie, Of
Mexico, Mo. She gave party, and IL
couples started from her home in sew
enteen buggies. After driving ten or
fifteen minutes. all the buggies stopped.
and each gentleman got out and
climbed into the buggy just ahead Of
him. This was kept up all evening.
The changes of partners were inter-
srersed by refreshments at four aif-
ferent residences.
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Curing "Sfck" Jewels.

mo flaw in that stone" said the jewel
er to a customer who had handed him
handsome turquois, but it is sick
Leave it with me for two weeks and IL
cure it." The customer went out, but q
reporter who overheard the converse
ton asked some questions. "All jewels
except diamonds are liable to maladies,"
he said. "Rubies, sapphires and pearls
have their separate ailments, but dia-
monds are immune from their great
hardness. This turquois given me to
cure is bilious. that's all. Precious
stones are all affected by surrounding
conditions. The general cure is the ap-
plication of acids, but it requires an ex-
pert to do it. Pearls suffer most They
age early, and lose all their value in re-
Election Of beautiful colors. A dead
pearl Is not worth much."-N. Y Times
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Now and then some
small bit of crook
edress comes to the
surface, but it is in
6nitesimal W h e n
compared with the
magnitude Of the
school system and
t h possibilities
which 1t offers If
not well guarded.
Not only is the
Chicago pu b Ii C
school system enor-
nous in its proper
tions, there being
some 100000 stu
dents to care for,
but 1t is unique in
many respects, ane
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THE HONEST INDIAN.
His Is a Regard for the Small ObliEa.
tiOns as Well as for the
Large.

The honesty of the Woods Indian
that is, the Indian of northern Canada
is of a very high order. The sense
of mine and thine, says Mr.. Stewart Ed
ward White, in the Outlook, is strongly
forced by the exigencies of the north
woods life. A man is always on the
move. 1t is impossible for him to trans
port all his goods. The implements OF
winter are burden in summer. The
return journey from distant shores must
be provided for by food stations The
solution of these needs is the cache.
And the cache is not literal term at
all. 1t conceals nothing. Rather does
it hold aloft in long-legged prominence,
for the inspection of all who pass, what
the owner has seen fit to leave behind.
A heavy platform high enough from the
ground to Illustrate the investigations
Of animals Is all that is required. Wis
ual concealment is unnecessary, because
In the north country cache is sacred.
On it may depend the life of a man.
He who leaves provisions must find
them on his return. for he may reach
them starving, and the length of his out
journey may depend on his certainty
of relief at this point on his in-journey.
So men passing touch not his hoard,
for some day they may be in the same
case, and a precedent is bad thing.
Thus in parts of the widest countries
Of northern Canada have unexpected
ly come upon a birch canoe hanging
upside down between two trees; or
,l,.1A oh, ~f --cI limo
beneath the fans of a spruce; or tam
gle of steel traps thrust into the crew
ice of a tree root; or a supply of pork
and flour swathed like an Egyptian
mummy lying in state on high bier.
These things we have passer by rever-
emily as symbols of peoples trust in
Its kind.
The same sort of honesty holds in re-
gard to smaller things. / have never
hesitated to leave in my camp firearms.
ishing-rods, utensils valuable from a
woods point of view. even watch or
money. Not only have 1 never lost any
thing in that manner, but once an In
dian lad followed me some miles after
the mornings start to restore to me
half-dozen trout flies T had accident
ally left behind.
Mr.. Macdonald, Of Brunswick
House, once discussed with me the
system of credits carried on by
the Hudson Bay company with the
trappers. Each family receives an
advance of goods to the value of $500,
with the understanding that the debt
is to be paid from the seasons catch.
81 should think you would lose a
good DEAL" said. Nothing could be
| easier than for an Indian to take his
5000 worth and disappear in the woods.
You'd never be able to find him."
Mr.. MacDonald's reply struck me, for
the man had 20 years trading expe-
rience.
II have never" said he, Gin long
| woods life. known but one Indian liar /"
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Had they not have
done so the street
railway tangle with
which the city is la
boring at the pres
ant time would have
been settled months
ago, and several al
dermen would no
doubt have been
willing to quit pol
itics for good, but
the city and the vot-
ers would have been
poorer for that set
Element.
Charles T. Yerkes
saw the drift Of
things three years
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Views Change.

Bishop Potter tells Of New Yorh
clergyman whose views when he TOOK
his present charge were far in advance
Of those about him. By degrees new
ideas crept in and a young minister,
thoroughly imbued with these advanced
notions, was called in to assist him
Said the young man one day: Doctor
1 have always been told that you were
a highchurchman, but I don't think you
are high church at ALL" The elder
preacher replied: MY dear young
brother, when flrstAtook up my resi-
dence in New York, lived way up
town. Now I live way down town.
and yet have been living in exactly the
same house all the time"
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Nightingale fell into the clutches of hungry Hawk who
the lookout for food Pray let GO
Nightingale stomach like
go will do good hear me- much good it
belly replied the Hawk nd besides, little bird
have than that has to be caught
of adva in
hope they shall obta a a
advi foundat
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Fruit Consumed I'm New York.

''The inspection of fruit and vegeta-
bles by the New York health authori-
ties, Mr.. Frank W. Hawthorne asserts
In an article on Feeding a Great City,
contributed to Parsons, SIS intelligent,
systematic and very rigid, and the
transportation companies, too, report
that they exercise a sort of supervision
In this direction. A chief inspector and
one assistant cover the wholesale
trade on the lower West side, while the
retail trade all over the city-but chiefly
on the lower East side where Greeks,
Russian Jews, 6lavs and horde of Ital-
ians are in the business-requires the
almost constant services of IL additional
inspectors. One day In last July whole
cargo of bananas were sent back to sea
by the chief inspector and dumped over
board. Transportation officials, con-
signees and inspectors all agree that
careful picking and especially careful
packing by the growers and shippers
constitute an ali-important factor in Sc
curing good returns on fruits and veg
etables.
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GRAF TIERS IN CHICAGO
The City Governm ent Has Discov-
cred That Such Thin gs Exist.
COMMON COUNCIL is CLEAN
The Schools, Too, Are Generally Free
from faint Many Educational
Novelties Have Been Introduced
-OppOrtunfties for All Classes.

Chicago-But short time ago Mayor
harrison unceremoniously announced the
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White SPOT. ON Furnfture,

White spots on polished furnitur
may be removed by rubbing the spo
with spirits of camphor until the colo
Is restored.
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The school Teacher,

The student who comes from the coun-
try to the city school misses the per
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
School Novelties.

On the West side. in the center of the
poorest section of the ghetto district, is
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
The Public schools.

Graft" has never found a prominent
place in the school system of Chicago.
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Maud drove way over there to &c
him and then he was gone!
Alice-He couldn't have seen you com
ing, could he, dear?-Towu Topics.
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Street Railway Franchieses.
l say the Chicago voter retired the
boodling alderman at an opportune time.
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has gone far beyond the stage of the red
school house of but few years ago. 1t
The Dolores star., 1903-09-04
Big Ineome in Roses.

There is at. least one man in Eng
land who makes money out of his rec
reations and that man is the octoge-
marian dean OF Rochester-Dean Hole.
Combining deep learning with large
fund of bright wit and broad humor.
he can spare time from his heavy &C.
clesiastical duties to add $4,000 a year
to his income by growing roses in the
musty old town SO well known to the
lovers of Dickens. For sixty years the
dean has been studying the national
flower and during that time as many
as 300 varieties have passed through
his hands. He Is his own gardener,
even at his present advanced age, and
1t is only the more laborious part of
the work that he entrusts to other
hands.
The Dolores star., 1903-09-04
monsolian and Ethiopian Honored.

Chung Hin Wang of Canton, China,
graduate Of Tien-Tsin University in
1899. carried off highest honors with
the degree of master of laws, summa
cum laude. in Yale law school, and
George Williamson Crawford, negro.
of Birmingham, Alabama. won the
highest forensic honor in the law
school, taking the Townsend prize. He
spoke this afternoon, delivering, in
competition with three others, an ora
tion on Trades Unionism and Patriot
ISM"
In part he said: Tn spite of the
past record and evil possibilities, the
labor organization is Indispensable to
modern industrial life. The corpora
ton. and not the individual, must be
unit in our new development We
must have new unionism. Patriot
ism means more than the declaration
of loyalty in trades unions constitu-
tion. Patriotism, anywhere In the ul-
innate analysis, is altruism-pro-
fessed and lived. The question arises
then, naturally. what is to be the ba-
sis of reorganization? Our answer is
simple. We would plant new union
ism on the basis of brotherhood. which
is only another word for democracy"
The Dolores star., 1903-09-04
RURAL LOCAL ITEMS
COMPARED WITH SOCIETY NEWS

Record Of Local Doings Amuses City
Journalists-6ut Il 10 Sensible and
important Compared With Society
Columns CT the Big paiiies.
We shall never see the last Of the city
journalist who has fun with the inno-
cent items that chronicle the little To-
cal doings OF the countryside. To him
there seems to be something Infinitely
funny about such items as these:
Frank Hawkes. is putting new roof
on his barn.
j Jim Smith of Stony Run was caller
at this office Tuesday. He reports q
good potato crop.
It's boy; Joe Smith is buying the
cigars.
Allen Jones is putting a new picket
fence around his garden.
Tom Pardee went to Minneapolis on
Monday.
Frank Brooks never tells fish sto-
ries Last Sun-Monday he caught q
ten-pound bullhead in Mud lake.
There ought to be cross walk in
front to the Emporium.
No. 4 on the Milwaukee was two
hours late Monday.
Frank Pike. our popular operator, is
taking vacation this week.
Such items can be matched on the
Society page Of every city paper, al
though the form may be little diff
ferent and the baby pleasantly exclud-
ed from it.
More than that, some OF the big dali
lies spend hard money for cable tolls
and correspondents to have just such
stuff telegraphed from Europe. Here
are some of the cable items from Lon
don in this weeks Chicago Sunday
Tribune:
The report published earlier in the
week that Jack. the Kings favorite
Irish terrier, was dead, which was later
contradicted, is true after all. He was
first reported as having come to an un-
timely end by eating rat poison, but
the truth appears to be he was choked
while feeding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogilvy Haig have left
London on an automobile tour of DIFF
ferent parts of England.
Lady Essex was yesterday driving
In an automobile made after the FASH
ion of Victoria with q hood.
Mrs. Ronalds starts tomorrow for
Homburg. where she will stop with
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorillard ROnalds
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester
are in ireland.
Mrs. l.. Newhouse. who is still at
Claridges. goes shortly on visit to
Mrs. Charles Wilson at Worter Priory,
Yorkshire
This stuff is absolutely without JUS
itfication. Not one per cent. of the
Chicago Tribunes readers care a
''cuss" about what these dukes and
duchesses and gilded loafers without
titles are doing in Homburg and Lon
don. and Trouville. but the readers of
the local paper are all interested in
that new barn roof. that new fence,
that new baby, and all of the rest.
The Dolores star., 1903-09-04
Training the Ear.

The London Spectator is of the opin.
ion that teachers Of young children do
not sufficiently appreciate. the impor.
tance Of training the ear Of the pupil
to detect the difference in sound be.
tween pure and impure English. II. as
daily exercise, q scholar who speaks
carelessly Is forced to repeat phrases
catches the tune-if 1t may be SO
termed--of the pure speech and learns
to mark the difference. In this way
better speech may be acquired Il
not the perfect language.
The Dolores star., 1903-09-04
MjIk etone.

A number OF articles made from
galalith. or milkstone, were shown At
Hamburg. The casein from skinned
milk hardened by formaldehyde and
variously colored. was used for table
tops. combs. knife handles. cigar
holders. balls. rings. chessmen and
dominoes. An advantage of the new
product as compared with celludoid.
Is the fact that 1t does not ignite SO
easily and is entirely odorless.