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The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
SEEK THE LIFE OF
VICE MINISTER.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. Tt be-
came known today that an attempt on
the life of M. Kyrshonovski, Vice Min
lister of the Interior, was made a few
days ago.
A revolutionist, attired as an army
officer, appeared at the Chancellory of
the Interior and asked for an audience
with the Vice Minister, but while the
revolutionist was waiting for an an
swer a porter noticed that his uniform
was incorrect.
Before the man could be arrested he
became aware that he was the object
of suspicion and succeeded in escaping
from the building.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
EARTHQUAKES IN ISLAND TOWNS

JAMESTOWN, Island of st. Vincent,
Sept 7-Sharp shocks of earthquake
were felt this morning here and at
st. Lucia and Grenada In the last
named place the shock was strong and
protracted. The Soufriere volcano is
undisturbed.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
MINNESOTA MINERAL LEASE
LAW Is DECLARED VALID
state Supreme Court Renders Decision
Affecting Title to Famous vir-
xfnfa silver Mine

ST. PAUL, Sept. THE State Su-
preme Court today handed down a de-
cision in the case of the State of Min
nesota versus Mabel c. Evans. uphold
ing the decision of the st. Louis Coun-
~ Court at Duluth which held that
the State law governing mineral leases
is constitutional The case involves
the title TO the famous Virginia Silver
Mine. located on the Minnesota Range
which is said TO be worth several mil
lion dollars.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
CHILDREN INJURED IN PANIC.

CHICAGO, Sept IA fire in a build
ing adjoining the John H. smyth
school at Thirteenth street and Blue
Island avenue today caused a panic
among the 1000 pupils, and several Of
them were slightly hurt IN rush for
the exits. None Of theN children was
seriously hurt.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
CHARGE AGAINST A REFoRMER

MEMPHIS, Sept. 7.-Pollce Com
missioner H. T. Bruce, of this city.
was indicted today by Shelby County
Judge on the charge of non-feasance
in office in permitting his sales stables
to be used as a passageway to a sa-
loon, the proprietor of which had been
indicted for keeping open Sunday. Mr..
Bruce was elected recently to the Office
he holds on reform movement ticket.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
TO VOTE ON INCORPORATION.

RED bI1UF r, Sept It'll rtspOnSe 70
a petition from the citizens of Corning
asking that they be given an oppor-
tunity to vote on Incorporation, the
Supervisors have called special elec-
tion to be held In Corning on Septem-
Der "a. Corning has a population of
1900 and Is one of the most progressive
places in the Sacramento Valley.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
PIONEER JOURNALIST DEAD.

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. fudge J. L.
McCreery, of Washington. member of
the Board of Reviews of the United
States Department of the Interior, died
here today after an operation for ap-
pendicitis. He published one of the
hrst papers west of the Mississippi,
the old Dubuque Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
LAW IS APPLICABLE.
TO PORTO RICO.

SAN JUAN. P. r.. Sept. Tn the
United States District Court today the
demurrer of the Porto Rico Steamship
Company to the complaint of the Peck
steamship Company. claiming 500, 900
damages for alleged violation of the
sherman antitrust law, was overruled
Judge Rodey holding that Porto Rico is
territory of the United States and that
the Sherman antitrust tariff is appli-
cable.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
SEVEN SHOCKS Ar rALcA..

BUENOS AYRES. Sept 7.-According
to a dispatch from Nacion. seven earth
quake shocks We're felt yesterday even
ing at Talca. Chile. 40 mics south
west OF Santiago.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
KING EDWARD PROPERLY
aTRIMMEDv AT MARIENDBAD
Doctor Announces That Monarch Lost
the Necessary Number OF
Pounds at Resort.

MARIENDBAD. Sept. king Ed
ward today authorized DR. OFT to make
the following statement:
s"The King underwent an excellent
cure. is in splendid health and the
best of spirits and has lost the proper
amount of weight"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
To cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money If 1t fails TO
cure. z. W.Grove's sig. on each box 25c.s
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
A Guaranteed Cure for piles.

Itching. Blind, Bleeding, Protruding
Piles. Druggists refund money if Pazo
Ointment falls tocure in to a days. 50cs
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22
Office Methods.

Paper Read Before the ChGutduQua Circle.
frequently the Office is placed
in portion of the store or factory
which is left after all other re-
quirements have been filled, and
on this account we often find
Offices contracted as to space, and
SO poorly lighted that almost all
the work has to be done by cleo
trio light. This is not SO strange,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22

KING" Henpeck is going to
try to break his wife's will.
!. BingAssHe never tried to do
such thing while she was alive"
Elk.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22

The key to success in any de-
partment of life is self-denia].
Idleness, laziness, wastefulness,
come from lack of it, while indus
try, promptitude, economy, thrift
and successful career are the re-
suit of it.-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22

~
Muldoon Attends the Exercises. -
:.


| The scenery now shifts to the
CELEBRATION flags that fucuate on
livery corner an gineral patriotic
! falin' prevails. I observe nanny
things thru the baywindy av the
hack that is conveyin' me to the
sicond grade room av Prairie
Avynoo skool. In me minds eye
bawl I can see me vanguished foe
strugglin' wild pawlzy, an joost
as me meditations git plisant | am
feminist the poortals av the bathel,
to use war ixprission. Now l
am no defective, which accounts
fer me buttin' in the wrong room
an 1 thank the ould maid fer
steerin' me back on the lost bate.
The dure l knocked on waz
opened be another ould maid who
gooshed that she waz delighted
an wud it PLACE me hanar to slip
on the PLATFORM. The last named
arthicle waz a new wan to me, be-
in about foor inches from the
fure, an I am heavy walker, the
result av our contact waz a painful
wan yez may be shure.
A femynine litter an sup
prissed 7roor accompanied the
dint in me hat an wild more agil-
ity than poitry I recovered mesilf
hurriedly. Swapin' me eye around
the room it Encountered dillyga-
ton av small offsprings, while on
me ixthreme lift waz stated me
vainglorious adversary, choocklin'
wild maudlin insanity. The tay-
cher, DESTROYS av istablishin' har-
mony,; called on Patsy Ryan who
rindered: ''The Mick That Stint
the Pick" follied be 't.The Man
That Squirted Silzer In, Me Eye"
Durin' the rindition av these
comicallities an incissant snappin'
an hissin' resimblin' the report
av MIGRATORY horse flies, ~waz
poppin' past me ears. Thryin' to
locate their origination I glanced
at the caylin' at the same time
stoppin' the impituosity av stray
wan wild the finder part av me
nick.
What I ixpicted to find imbided
in me fish waz the hatpin av a
horse fly, SO yez can imagine me
rage whin I ixthracted wan av
thin raw paper bawls that the
divils imps squirt thru the hole
av stick. Yis, naturally I attrib-
uted their discharge to Napoleon
an accused his paw thin an there
that the blud av. anthropoids sthill
predomypated in his family.
Howly Mither! If liver a gor-
rilly bristled it waz Grogan, shure,
thought the blud wud conjale In
his hid. [ prepared mesilf fer
the defensive while the ape adj
drissed us as follies: "Kind loidy
an childers, the effrontery av an
A. P. A. compills me to Exhibit
befoor the astonished gaze the art
av chastizin' our annymal neigh
boors." The ould maid screeched
as tho she waz Embarrassed, in the
manetime I tented me lift, block
in swing an counterin' me right
in Micky's stomach.
The massycre became gineral,
intermingled wild ink-bottles an
states, tho [ must say me oppo-
nent stopped most av thin. Gro
gan's face defied punishmint. but
a regimint av ould maids attackin'
his barracks wild hatpins scared
him to dith, an he room an 1
chased him, an we both room in
the Wrong DIRECTION. fer we waz
both room in. E. E. FL.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22
Plain Filters Without
varnish.


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A surplus, tho much more
bulky. is easier to handle than a
deficit.
The emergencies that never &C.
cur are the ones we always feel able
to cope with.
Every mirror has silver lining;
but that isn't much consolation to
a homely woman.
It seems a little singular that all
first-class nations are represented
by about six war vessels to each
diplomat.
If all the published expressions
OF DIR. Osler are really his sayings,
it is easy to believe that his theory
that man loses his usefulness at
forty is true.
A st. Paul justice has decided
that kiss is not caress, but an
assault. Can it be that the mild
weather this winter has affected
his brain?
Dentists use several metals and
compositions for Filling" One
New York dentist has been using
lead, on his father-in-law; but
finds it does not pay.
The election of Alexander E..
Orr to the presidency of the New
York Life Insurance Company
looks to an Osler convert to be
very injudicious thing.
Nearly hundred years ago the
czar of Russia said to diplomat
from England: '"There is sick
man in Europe" STILL Turkey
is in existence.
President Roosevelt has just
realized what an unimportant per-
son he is, It was when the trous-
seau makers had possession of the
White House.
The filtration system of Phila-
delphia costs $18,O0O,OOO and only
100000 went into the pockets
of the political boodlers, as far as
can be found out at least.
Professor Fitzsimmon's melan-
choly may be lightened somewhat
by the news that Philadelphia
pickpocket secured the pocket
book and diamond stud of Profess
sor O'Brien.
A writer for the Saturday Even
ing Post asserts that the horse is
the most dangerous and deadly
animal in the world. Worst of all
he proves it by official Statistics
During the first ten months OF
the year just closed, twenty-five
thousand citizens of the United
States carried 100000 into
Canada. And bank officials are
not included in the list either.
Old 1905 is gone at last. He
must have been glad to go, too, as
he aged wonderfully in the last few
months, worrying over strikes,
revolutions, and insurance scan
dals.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22

for bookkeepers, but the majority
make no attempt to fit themselves
for the opportunities. As book
keeping is now systematized, each
man is only one wheel in the bus.
mess machine. But the bookkeep-
or who would study the other
wheels, the whole machine, and
learn the meaning of it's work,
would be certain to advance.
Why is a man a bookkeeper?
The average one Is attracted to
bookkeeping not by any liking
for the work, but because it is
steady, clean, and allows him to
dress like gentleman. It has a
strictly social attraction. A book
keeper making two dollars day
feels himself much higher in the
social scale than the bricklayer
who makes five dollars a day.
However, I do not believe that
the bricklayer does much worry
ing about his social position as
long as he gets his five per day.
There are plenty of bookkeepers
who take almost no interest in
their work, but often it is the en-
ployer who is to blame. He is
interested only in what bookkeep-
ing shows. It brings no money
in, it doesn't extend his business
its just necessary expense.
His real enthusiasm goes into
other departments. There's the
trouble. No interest is shown in
the bookkeeper, therefore he gets
no encouragement. There is little
chance of advancement. Once a
bookkeeper always bookkeeper.
Perhaps somebody ahead dies, and
he goes up notch. But just as
likely young relative of the firm,
or SOD of friend Of the firm
has been in training for a place
of this sort-and in he goes. That
is one of the discouraging things.
The charges of employer against
bookkeepers and vice versa agree
on one point-that the average
bookkeeper has little interest in
his work, is more and more ma
chine and less and less a human
being. The great problem is, can
the bookkeeper be so humanized
that he will take interest in his
work? If a firm we're to show the
same interest in it's accounting
department that it shows in the
other departments, would there
not be an awakening among the
bookkeepers?
Initial interest cannot come
from the bookkeeper, for he hasn't
it. If it ever comes it must pro-
ceed from the employer. If the
employer openly gives to his book
keeping department the impor-
lance it ought to have, and shows
an intimate concern in the men,
he will vitalize~ bookkeeping and
arouse the bookkeeper. Firms
here and there have tried this
plan, and have secured improved
service. They have no fixed rules
for procedure, for they treat each
case individually. Certainly it is a
good plan to bestow little praise
occasionally where the bookkeeper
has executed particularly credit
able piece of work. On the other
hand no harm is done if the book
keeper gets a calling down" if
1t is deserved and given judicious-
ly. AS rule the average book
keeper is poorly paid from $50 to
$50 is the common wage. The
good ones, however, can command
anywhere from $75 to $125 per
I4L ~ w n
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22


an Grogan's small ape Napo-
leon wur afther pistherin' me to
attind the operatic declarations
av their skool. Napoleon conf
dintally asserted that his paw waz
goin' in order to save young
Amerky from degineracy, be de-
lineatin' the ivylootion av the
Ratchet from Washington to Car
rie Nation, it citery. I LATED IRON
ically in the hole av me sleeve,
tellin' the byes wud consider the
proposition wild a cigar out on the
parkay.
Inscondin' meself amoong the
trillised arboor I thried to git back
me usual sangfroid, fer the Until
ligince had fer the rhomint filled
me depoortmint wild ixcissive
hilarity. Sanguine as I waz to par
aissypate in the evint, crool dis
advantage incapacitated me ardor.
Ye see, ould man Grogan an
mesilf how istranged our affections.
Wis, but whin 1 thought av him
bulldozin' joovenile purity wild
noospaper jokes, me bicips swilled
wild combativeniss. not to spake
av other falings at his thryin' to
usury me prerogative wild incindi-
AIRY jillousy.
Conscientiously I weighed the
ivydince on both sides, but as
most av it waz wantin' [ compry-
mized the Deficiencies be acquiesc-
in to the invitation, at the same
time kapln' the byes ignorint an
mesilf anonymous in it's acceptance.
Accordingly dictated me type
writher to till thin ] graciously
acknowledged the taychers COM
plemintary ticket, but as goov-
ernmint official, inJoined her not
to display me name on the pro-
gram. Dispatchin' the same wild
a wan clint stamp I convinced to
make observations as to what the
occasion might be afther signify
an.
Me first move waz a confused
muddle, fer [ cudn't till whittier it
mint the state capitol, or the hotil
ON Peory Strate. Howiver, little
Dinny refuted thin all be sayin'
at wur the feyther av our country
who niver tould lie. "Shure,
thin acushla," says I, she must
hov been did priest or ilse
hilthy mormon"
''Faith, paw says Dinny, che
waz a polytishun, an our taycher
said he waz the only wan that niv-
er tould lies. Av coorse, the tay-
cher mint the other side, anyway
I didn't want to arouse the byes
suspicious be the poompin' av
him, so dismissin' mesilf 1 re-
paired to the stoody to affirm the
weracity av his statements.
Dr. Chase's Midycal Advisor,
wild all it's knowledge, waz an
amply void on the QUESTION as wur
the nanny biographies [ perused.
4 kipt me patience, spurred on be
the one idaya av batin' Grogan an
waz soon rewarded by indin' the
covited information in an ould
history.
'Tlz Unnecessary to repate his
advintures, as livery wan knows
how he dis6gured blackthorn an
ahin tould his ould man he Ky
cuted it in a momint av absint-
mindedniss wild a Ratchet. The
drooth in thin days waz the Dist
way to relinguish vans silf from
punishmint, tho like other tatics
this foorm av de6nce has been
much polluted since. In fact,
more min are saved now days be
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22

WlCu TIC COIum0TCldl Ou6lu0So VI
manufacturing concern. Business
mon look upon the accounting de-
partment as an unproductive ex-
pense and have it classified as
such in their annual statements.
But this is not the truth. Surely it
is highly important that the bills
shall be rendered, statements made
and collections carefully followed.
These duties form part OF the
actual cost of delivering the goods.
While most modern Offices con-
tain all the latest appliances for
the conduct of the business, there
is still an opportunity for great
Improvement at little or no ex-
pense. By this l mean the ar
of machines and their
operators, desks, etc. There should
be no necessity for the rehandling
of matter in the Office. Besides
the convenience of good light,
ample desk room, and proper loca-
ton of the working force, there
are many conveniences now in use
in business Offices which go to
make up perfect whole The
typewriter is so generally used
and so we'll known that no conf
ment is necessary. The adding
and computing machines find a
ready market as they have proved
accurate and time-saving devices.
The various filing cabinets and
card SYSTEMS are great advance
over old methods. OF late years
the practice of billing on the type
writer has become so common that
a special billing machine has been
invented for this purpose, which
adds to the neatliess of the work,
and which, it is claimed will save
it's cost in a very short time.
Private telephone systems are be-
coming almost necessity in large
business establishments. Some
large Eastern houses use the
photograph in place of stenogra-
pliers. This practical little in
strument is always at hand and
letters can be given to it as rapid
ly as needful without disturbing
the typewritlst, who may be at
the same time copying correspond
ence from other desks. There are
so many small inventions calcu-
lated to improve Office work that
it will be impossible to mention
them in this brief paper.
It may be to some purpose to
give little space to the "drudg-
ing, patient, and overworked"
bookkeeper. There was never a
greater demand for good book
keepers and never greater sup
ply of poor ones. It is safe to say
that out of several hundred appli-
cants for positions at bookkeeping
only very few are worthy Of a
trial. This does not mean that
but one bookkeeper in one hun
dred or five hundred is worth en-
ploying. The bookkeepers who
respond to advertisements are
those out of employment or dis
satisfied with their present posi-
ton, and it is quite likely that
they have not given, and are not
giving satisfaction.
The ideal bookkeeper is, in
short, a thinking human being.
The fundamental charge against
most bookkeepers is that they
show no interest in their work.
This occurs where the hand is used
to the exclusion of the brain.
With seventy-five per cent of
bookkeepers, the hand alone does
the bookkeeping. They transcribe
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22

College men are very slow,
They seem to take their ease;
For even when they graduate,
They do it by degrees.-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-02-22

ONTIMPORANEOUS wild
the arrangements av Washing
toms Birthday. little Dinny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05

sembling of the conference at Algeciras
with all it's attendant circumstances, has
already had the result that Il is now no
longer possible TO speak of a loss Of Ger
man prestige. Similarly our commercial
interests would not suffer any detrinlent II
thS conference were to dissolve withou: ac-
comprising its task. since the existing sit
uatlon. the status quo, against which we
have raised no objection and never had any
TO raise, would simply be perpetuated
There is therefore by no means any mani
Test reason why. If the conference fails to
arrive at solution, Germany should pro-
coed to enter upon a warlike policy. The
disadvantage OF a failure of the conference
would. perhaps, lie rather on the side of
France, since 1t is she and not Germany
which considers that the existing situation
needs to be changed"
IT need surprise no one If war ulti-
mately results from this situation. The
trouble is that France feels that Germany
Is anxious to fight. Perhaps great deal
of this is due TO the many undiplomatic Ito
say the leasD speeches of the German en-
peror. 1t may be. as has been so often
stated, that these speeches are for home
consumption and intended to enable the
kaiser to secure a larger army and navy
and triumph over his enemies, the social
lists. But the trouble is that they are read
by the French people and the French peo-
pie naturally think that the kaiser is anX-
ious for war And il does not require an
AIgeciras conference to tell the world what
happens when one small boy carries a chip
around on his shoulder in the presence Of
other small boys or a bull starts 10 below
ing in d field of cattle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
Supreme Court Notes.
Report of C. & o. Canal Finances

Court Auditor Roger T. Edmonds has
filed in the circuit court at Hagerstown.
Nd. his report and audit in the case Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
He has charged Hugh l.. Bond jr. and
Joseph Bryan, surviving trustees of the
canal, with $3.50, 562.5S. the amount in their
hands on January l. 1906, as per their re-
port made to the court. Auditor Edmonds
has credited the trustees with the court
costs, auditors fee, etc, and allowed the
estate of the late<John X. Cowen, Hugh L.
Bond and Joseph Bryan each the sum of
81, 900 that being the amount allowed by
The court tothem for services rendered as
trustees. To the surviving trustees for
use of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company is given the sum of s62 800, be-
ing the amount Of interest on the principal
of the bonds of 1873 from December 26,
1903. to January 20. 1905. He has also
distributed TO the surviving trustees for use
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the
sum of s240.o90. being IN part payment Of
the pricipal of the bond issue Of 1873. or
this bond issue there yet remains SEQ, 600.
with interest from January ~. 1906. After
these several distributions have been made
there remains in the hands Of the sur
viving trustees the sum Of 81, -7@ in the
form of working capital