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QUARRELS IN
THE HOME.
BY MARGARET =. SANGSTER.

CCopyrisLt 1906. ry Joseph b BowIes)
that It takes TWO to make a quarrel: one
can always end it, This Is equivalent TO
saying that one OF two who are contending
Wig have sufficient self-restrasnt and kind
Tess OF heart to forego the privilege OF the
last word. In the family as nowhere else
ON earth wills and iemperanents are in dan
ger of clsShing, and people. being sure of
mutual affection, express their minds with
a caEdor hat may wound the sensitive and
leave uncomfortable memories. have
known families who were never happy
when separated, though they were always
vretchcC when together. Incompatibi!ity OF
disposition may work disaster to domestic
peace when everybody concerned Is high
minded and honorable. good man may
have Il kosck OF putting his foot clumsily
where Il tghooyes him 10 tread delicateiy,
and good woman may have a trick OF fly
Ing of the handle on slight occasion. When
such opposite forces exist in home. there
is great need TO remember the pith of the
old pToyerb, II takes TWO TO make a quar-
rel.
The wisest OF men declared that a soft
answer turEeth away wrath. As a rule this
Is a verify. But there are exceptions In
certain moods, soft answer is an irrltant.
an agsravatton OF the previous offense. and
its effect is that OF a frebrand upon dry
stubble.
While men and women continue what they
are, human and imperfect, there VIII never
be unbroEen serenity and entire agreement
In any home under the sun. An old gem
tieman once boosted that he had lived with
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flight of stairs and turned loose in the

flight of stairs and turned loose in the
kitchen.
Twenty or more girls were trying OUT
fat, preparatory to making soap. In the
room also was lot of laundry apparatus,
and the visitor was shown some carefully
laundered lace fabrics which had been
made in the sewing room adjoining the
kitchen.
Just go into the sewing room awhile,
and if you cCme back promptly at twelve
we will give you some lunch" said the
instructor to the visitor. "A party from
the Board of Trade is to lunch with us
today and one of the gentlemen has been
compelled to decline The reporter
promised gratefully 20 be on hand and
went to inspect the sewing.
1t seemed that the entire class of girls
must be engaged in making a rousseau
there were rumors of ENGAGED teachers
but as each girl seemed to have the
practical problem of fitting herself pre-
scented to her the theory had to be aban-
doned In the room there was almost
everything in what is comprehensively
called "white-goods sewing" and, in ad-
dition, dresses skirts. waists. negliges
and other things that women wear.
In another room were curious wire bird
constructing with feverish haste. The re-
porter was told thar they were hat
frames. The girl goes through a phreno-
logical examination, then she works out
arithmetical problems, plots diagram,
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Lincolnshire, he was summoned to appear
before Archbishop Laud. Rather than APP
pear he fed to Arizona. Among his other
books was this old Collection of the Stat
utes from the Time of the Magma Charta
up TO the Year of Our Lord 1874" 1t has
been handed down from son to grandson
until it has reached the fifth generation,
and II Is now held by Col. Samuel Storrs
Cotton of this city, a man more than eighty
five years Of age. The book at its last
birthday was 331 years of age
Nearly three centuries ago John Cotton
was pastor of the largest church in Great
Britain. When he came to America the
party of colonists with him who landed OF
Boston resolved to name the new town for
him in honor OF his old home town. The
American encyclopedia tells of this incl
dent under the head OF Boston" Cotton
was a prominent antagonist of Roger VIII
liams.
born to John Cotton and his wife. The son
was named "Seaborne," in honor of tho
voyage. This book became Sea borne's prop
erty at manhood, and at his death 1t went
to his son John. Thomas was the son OF
John, who got the valuable volume, ami
Simon received 1t at his fathers CThomas,
death. 1t is Simons name which is scrawled
across the title page-"Sinon Cotton, His
Book, 1tT4"
Joseph Cotton. another New Englander.
became the possessor of the book after his
father, Simon, and Joseph's son grew up
to seek fortune in the new west. He came
to Nebraska when houses were unknown.
And with him he brought his old book This
was Samuel Storrs Cotton. later Col. Cot
ton,
Traced back beyond John Cotton. tho
family tree extends directly 10 the famous
Robert Bruce. Four generations are now
living in Norfolk-Col. Cotton, his daughter.
Mrs. Mary Mathewson; her son, J. Storrs
Mathewson, and his little daughter. One OF
the facts justifying the statement that this
is the oldest law book in America Is thar
Col Cotton has searched In libraries all
letter, and has practically established the
fact that this n the oldest In the land
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his wife fifty years and they had never
had a difference of opinion.
Vera praiseworthy." commented a plain
spoken Scottish friend but very monoto-
nous" Another man complacently asserted
that he had dwelt in harmony with his bet
ter half for a great many years. IF she
prefers red and / prefer blue" ne explained,
we always settle the matter by compromis-
ing on the blue" An obviously easy method
this was, If a wife were ready TO sacrifice
her own desire and efface her own indivi1-
uaity. \ long course of II would spoil the
most reasonable of husbands and make him
terribly self-opinionated, or were the PEN
dulum to swing the other way, and the
wife forever have the final decision, 1t
would turn the sweetest of women into a
tyrant of the hearth.
Fairness compels the conclusion that two
or more grown persons sheltered under the
same roof cannot invariably think alike
Nor would it be desirable that they
should. A stagnant pool is a menace to
health Running water. foaming over the
rocks. is pledge of wholesome life In the
locality. \ stirlesS day, when no breeze
blows, is less stimulating than day when
the winds hold jubilee. Movement. pro-
erosion. even friction of the right kind,
tend to development of the finest type.
But people may differ without pickering
and fighting. They may express themselves
strongly without inficttng pain. They may
continue to think differently, and yet live
in tranquility, If they choose.
1T takes two to make a quarrel; one can
always end It,
You might accept my politics" expostu-
lated a husband who was an old-fashioned
democrat. to his wife, who was radical
republican.
Il accepted you. dear" she replied. but
my political sentiments are an inheritance
from my father, and cannot change them
any more than l can change the color OF
my eyes.
Thank heaven" he murmured. that you
haven't q vote
Some OF us who have no enthusiasm on
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able charlotte russo and finally the coffee,
the visitor thought he would like to come
again If only he could get asked, but 1t
was stated that second invitations will not
be extended until all the population Of
Washington which is on the waiting list
has been served. While the guests sat
over the coffee they learned that the salad
had cost fourteen cents, the charlotte
twenty-three, the coffee six and the bread
five cents-a total of $1A for six people
Any one Of the guests was certainly will
ing to pay twenty-one cents or even more,
any day for such a luncheon.
The table neatly appointed, was set IN
the middle of large space, about which
runs, on all four sides, a scientific kitchen
table, gas stoves for the individual cooks
culinary paraphernalia, and no man knows
what Best kitchen in any school in the
country" some one said. Shelves in the
recesses contained preserves and other
toothsome edibles.
The girls in this school are like the hal
lowed traditions of our grandmothers.
They make their dainty dresses and de-
sign their pretty flchus; they work their
own light and sweet bread, and put away
their own currant jelly: they paint their
own pictures and .oroider little articles
that transform house into a home. And
when man comes in from his work tired
or bruised or wounded. they know the deli
cate ministrations Of salve and ointment
and bandage.
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//T BELIEVE I can fix 1t. sir" said
80 the small boy.

~ '" q: :n55r so S.o fix It. SIR SAID
But the irate owner of the stub
3 born automobile showed the lad
aside as If determined that some
thing should move. Then for the third
time the owner of the machine crawled
under it and worked for fifteen minutes
without any noticeable results other than
TO more completely cover his clothes and
person with dirt.
He looked about helplessly. but angrily.
And thou the small boy advanced again
with tho remark: I'm sure 1 can fix
your machine, mister"
"Oh. certainly" snorted the owner You
can FIX anything" But the boy did not
NOTICE the sarcasm. He plunged at the
auto with confident expression on his
face Tinkertng first with one side and
then the other under the machine and in it.
the youth. after about five minutes time,
stepped back and said:
There. sir; | think it will run now"
and the boy was right; the machine
moved when the lever was pulled, where
upon the chauffeur asked alphabetically:
Where DO You come from. son? Where
did you learn how to fix it,
'Oh. | learned that up at tn, Mckinley
Manual Training School" replied the lad
4 go 10 school there"
And several OF the crowd Of bystanders
began !0gUirinE about the Mckinley Man
IA! Training School and commenting upon
It's practical benefits \ Star man. who had
witnessed the I1ciue1t OF the automobile
and The 10y mlcG.Uist determined to visit
the training school, lpo3tC1 Mt Ith street
ana EsDd0 Island avenue. AND learn some
thiuE OF The teaching and training that is
e.yeG ...ra tu Tire wa..r n.y3 and girls
OF tE. CJui-gl city AZ the nation.
The M.hinley Srn"ei occupies a hand
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down the corridors and staircases with
most tolerant feeling toward humanity to
see the work of the mere boys in the base
ment.
AS the reporter went through the corri-
doris with one of the instructors in the
school, voices came from recitation rooms
which proved that all the work of the NJ
stitution Is not limited to the work of the
hands. There were heard the sonorous
conjugationS of a French verb and the de-
liberating translation of a German SEN
tence. A debate was being carried on in
one room as to whether Cromwell was a
patriot or not which indicates that Ba-
cons injunction that history makes men
wise was being tested. In one room
strong, vigorous female voice was ex-
pounding the relationship of lines and an
gles and views Of blackboards covered
with geometrcal figures gave proof of the
mathematics. From a closely packed
small room on the second floor came the
voices of young men discussing the posi-
ton and meaning of certain sentences in
a paragraph. The visitor was told that
English is the dominant interest along the
strictly scholastic side of the work. Every
pupil is required to take English rhetoric.
composition and literature during the en-
tire period of his studentship.
In one room pupils We're writing bust
ness letters and in another girl was
heard quoting from Tennyson:
"Ah for man with heart, head, hand
Like OF the simple great ones gone forever
And forever by, one still strong man
In blatant land whatever they call him
What care l, arIstocrat. democrat, autocrat,
One who can rule and dare not lie"
1t was not ascertained whether the
maiden was expressing her individual need
and preference, or whether she was max
ing poetic Interpretation of the aim of
the school with its courses for heart,
head hand"
PHYSICS chemistry, English, German,
French. mathematics, all these are being
taught in this school for workers. The visi-
tor realized that this institution offers
everything that the so-called academic high
schools give, with the exception of the
classics, and in addition, manual training
Is taught.
x
Pictures of successful cadet officers and
recordbreakers In inter-hgh school ath-
letics are hung the corridor walls. Be-
hind a screen of book cases at the end or
one hall was overheard a class in German.
The building Is so crowded that every room
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the subject OF universal suffrage are of
the honest mans opinion. And yet IL ever
American women in an insistent majority
should demand suffrage. American men will
have too much gallantry to deny them. and
none of US anticipates that any frightful
domestic calamities will ensue from that
cause
Common sense and mutual good feeling,
with due regard for the effect of quarrels
upon the children. will usually prevent dis
tressing squabbles In the home. Hot-tem-
pered people are prone to say more than
they mean. Tactiess folk rush into mis-
takes. But love is solvent that prevails
to blend the most diverse elements, and to
conciliate the most obstinate.
Speaking of obstinacy, thousands of peo-
pie confuse II with firmnesS. They fancy If
they cannot be moved from a position. either
by argument or persuasion, that they are
showing tenacity of purpose and strength of
will to an extent that lifts them above their
fellows. Often. instead of frmness, these
people are simply displaying the temper of
balky horse or the absurd steadfastness
of a mule that refuses to stir a step. We
may be obstinate In holding fast to a preu-
may be obstinate because of overweaning
self-conceit. An ability to see another per-
sons side of the shield to look at affairs
from a viewpoint that is not wholly our
own. goes far to reduce obstinacy TO its
lowest terms, and make people agreeable
comrades on the road.
Note that character amounts to little
which is without convictions. About right
and wrong we should have positive ideas
and maintain them with firmness About
questions OF policy or expediency we should
be open TO persuasion or confessions from
others.
Whether or not married folk agree. they
should not let wrath and bitterness creep
into their lives. II arguments and Discus
sions breed dssension they should be
waived. Anthony Trolloppe wrote brilliant
| novel In which tvs hero. man of wide
reading, good family and gentlemanly ante
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Law VOLUME CENTURIES OLD.
Believed to Be the Most Ancient Book
of the Kind in the United States.

Norfolk tNeb,) Letter In New York World.
The oldest law book In all America,
brought to this country by the man who
named the city of Boston, is turning yell
low with each added year of age on Ii
brary shelf in the home of a distant son of
its original owner here.
The book, which must be handled with
caution now lest its leaves erumble was
brought to America 2T2 years ago this fall.
1t came because Rev John Cotton was too
puritanical in his tastes to suit the author
tiles of the Church OF England.
AZ vicar of St Botolphs Church, Boston,
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There are very few of us who do not some
times need to remind ourselves that W
would better be patient with our living love
ones. The circle shall not always remain
unbroken. While we are together 1t l
worth while to trample down our selfishnes
and live with those who belong to US il
something better than mere peace and res
ignation, in real Joy and gladness and 4
frequent yielding little things that the grea
thing in our life may be love.
Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone
Beyond earth's weary labor,
When small shall be need of grace
From comrade or from neghbor,
Past all the strife, the toll, the care.
And done with all the signing,
What tender truth shall have gained,
Alas, by simply dying!
Then lips too chary of their praise
WIN tell merits over,
And eyes too swift faults to see
Shall not defect discover.
Then hands that would not lift stone
Where stones thick to eumber
Our steep bill path will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.
Sweet friend perchance both thou and I,
Ere love is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home
Be patient with the living
Todays repressed rebuke may save
Our binding tears tomorrow;
Then patience. cen when keenest edge
May whet nameless sorrow.
IT'S easy to be gentle when
Deaths silence siiames our clamor
And easy to discern the best
Through meInory's mystic glamor;
But wise II wste for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiving,
To take the tender lesson home
Be patient with the living.
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cedents, always knew he was right. His
mulish obstinacy was the rock on which his
wife's heart broke. and which wrecked his
domestic peace. If people do quarrel by
daylight, let them forgive and forget before
they sleep The vicissitudes of life are too
many, the trials too inevitable, and life
itself is too short for any of US to spend it
in foolish quarrels.
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From the dining room the visitor went
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

fortress, "the Gibraltar of the North, |" has been received in St. Petersburg up to this hour.
 The secondary uprising among the marines and troops stationed at Ska tudden barracks, on the peninsula com municating with the mainland, was crushed out at a late hour yesterday afternoon by loyal troops after heavy 1 fighting, in which nineg cruisers, de- stroyers and torpedo boats participant ed
 The sound of firing on the islands and from the fortress has ceased, and in spite of the fact that the occupation of the entire water front by Cossacks prevents the obtaining of positive news, it is understood at Helsingfors that the mutinous artilerymen and sappers are still holding their positions Outlying islands and the fortress ap- pear to be still In their possession, and they have practically all the machine guns, quick-tirers and movable artil- lery of the fortress.
 General Laiming, the commandant of the fortress is holding an to the main fort on Commander island with force of loyal infantry.
 A general strike was declared in Hel- singfors by the socialist workmen to- day. All factories have been closed
 The last direct dispatch from the correspondent of the Associated Press, which has just arrived here was eleven hours en route from Helslngfors. The correspondent said that the "Red Guard" the armed socialist legion, was contemplating an armed uprising to attempt the release of the prisoners captured in the skatudden barracks
 Owing to the cutting of telegraph wires by the flying expedition of the Red Guard which destroyed the rail- road at Riihoaki, the Associated Press is receiving the freshest news of the mutiny by the roundabout means of telephoning to Viborg, and telegraph ing from there to St. Petersburg. This entails a delay of several hours
 Premier Stolypln has also received frequent messages concerning the mus tiny. He had not less than eight un to last evening. He told caller thaS the situation was critical to an extreme degree. At least the entire fortress is in the hands of the insurgents, and there were comparatively few loyal troops in Helsingfors. The entire so- cialist population is led by the Red Guard"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01
REGISTRARS AT WORK.
Deputies Appcinted-New List VIII be
 Started Friday.

Deputies Appcinted-New List VIII be
 Started Friday.
 Louis Knollmeyer and F. W. Foley republican and democratic general reg istrars of voters, respectively, have made their appointment of deputies for the next year.
 The changes have been few, but an important change is made by Registrar Foley in the Fourth ward, where for mer Alderman John J, Sprightly has been appointed to succeed John P. Griffin, who is now resident of Read- vile, Mass.
 It was hot fight in the Fourth ward for this place. The candidates were Jo- seph Mclaughlin, John F.. Savers, M. McGrail, William Keegan and Aldermen Burke ana Sprightly,
 The appointee has been known to sympathize with some movements that were antagonistic to James E. McGann, but McGann's friends expect Sprightly will favor McGann's renomination for senator
 Foley made no other changes among his deputies.
 Registrar Knollmeyer made three changes in his list of deputies. In the Fourth ward Frank Nicholson succeeds John Whitaker, who has moved out of the city.
 In the Fifth ward Joseph Haggerty succeeds Frank S. Hamilton, who is su- perintendent of streets
 In the Seventh ward Thomas Faugh- nan succeeds George Coe, who has re- moved to the Tenth ward.
 The complete list of the republican appointments follows:
 First ward-John Mccarthy.
 Second ward--Nathan B. Fitch.
 Third ward-Philip Well.
 Fourth ward-Frank Nicholson.
 Fifth ward-Joseph Haggerty
 Sixth ward-Edward B. Wehner.
 Seventh ward-Thomas Faughnan.
 Eighth ward-Frederick Carlson.
 Ninth William H. Bouton.. Tenth ward-R. J. Bunce.
 Eleventh ward-Henry G. Merrill. Twelfth ward-Luzerne F. Barnes. Thirteenth ward-Frederick B. Rey- holds.
 Fourteenth ward--Ira F. Fonda.
 Fifteenth ward-Edward w. Lovesey, The registrars and their deputies met last night in city hall and arranged for the taking of the next registration, be- ginning Friday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01
BRYAN ATTACKED BY
 NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN

Continued from First Page,)
 for them before a b-comrnittee of the democratic national committee, and the lcommittee decided against the. He re- lneWed his efforts in their behalf before the democratic national committee, and again lost his case. A committee on Credentials, composed of democrats rep Presenting every state and territory il the Union, next declared the men, whom MT. Bryan now champions, to be liars and villifiers. Finally, the highest tribunal to which an appeal could be taken heard MT. Bryans plea for Dun l lap and Thompson, and the result was as before.
 MT. Bryan says l hold my seat on l the democratic national committee by fraud That seat came to me by virtue of a vote of 49 to in my favor. It Is one to which democratic national con- vention declared I was entitled. If l hold my seat by fraud, then Mir. Bryan must accuse Senator Tillman, of South Carolina; Senator Culberson, of Texas; Senator Dubois, of Idaho; John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; Clark Howell, of Georgia, the democratic leaders Tn the solid south; the majority of those in the east, the north and the west, of compounding felony. If l am unfit to associate with honest democrats, as MT. Bryan says, then the men who stood by me are also, and surely Mir. Bryan can- not accept a nomination which must come, if come it does, from the men who decided that l was fit, and that Dun- l lap, Thompson and the Jacksonville cabal were not only unfit, but had lied, slandered and villified, not myself alone, but the majority of the delegates who sat in the Springfield state convention of 1904, and by virtue of whose votes I hold my office.
 Even if I were willing to resign, as requested, I could not do so under pres ent conditions. If I did, after the charges which MT. Bryan makes, 1 would be declaring not only that I was guilty of fraud, but that three-fourths of the democratic leaders In the country were equally guilty.
 l A word as to my corporate connec- tions' upon which MT, Bryan seems to place so much importance The only corporation with which I am connected is the ogden Gas company, of which l have the honor of being president II came into existence because of a de-
 mand for cheaper gas in this city. l, gave to the people of the community for
 ninety cents what they were then pay | ing $.10 for.
 "In conclusion. I would like to remind
 Mir Bryan that the fundamental prin.
 ciples of democracy which he speaks oi
 do not include recignition of political
 czardom. Democrats may have then leaders. the leaders may have their fol.
 lowers; but their leaders will never bt Iautocrats and the followers will never
 be serfs, obedient to the orders prompt. ed by court favorites"