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Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

the State of Vermont" sums up one
lucky girl.
One young woman writes tersely,
"My native town can boast of but one
sane college woman, and my family
questions that"
Bookbinding has been the occupation
of one graduate. Another, whose spe-
cialty is surgery, has performed a diff.
cult operation on the maharain at the
palace of the maharaja of Orchha. A
third has written books and music and
learned to ride bucking broncho. A
fourth, who has really achieved fame
as an artist, modestly writes that she
has been doing a little illustrating,
bear shooting and chaperoning." And
fifth has evidently made up her
mind that she is to be a spinster. for
she has adopted a little girl.
There is one thing about the history
of this class that is worth noting.
Nearly every member of it has been
busy In one way or another. The reco-SS
reveals neither idlers nor inyallds.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
They Knew.

She was a particularly fervent speci-
smen Of kindergarten teacher, and
counted as privilege her opportunity
ITO do little summer work in the
aslums Her first lesson, she resolved,
should combine the love Of our dumb
friends with q suggestion for the true
observing of things. She began with
AN engaging but earnest smile.
''Now, children, 1 want you to tell
me what kind of clothes the kitty
wears" Dead silence.
'Why, children, don't you know what
ykind of Globes the kitty wears?"
The enthusiastic young woman had
mot anticipated such unresponsiveness,
2but nothing daunted by the blank
faces before her, she went back to
rthe beginning and tried the gentle art
of instilling the right answer into the
minds of her pupils by the method Of
elimination.
"WeIl, my dears, does the kitty wear
feathers? she asked.
Then a small boy in the front row
leaned forward and inquired earnestly.
but with a touch Of contempt in his
voice, "Say, teacher, amt you never
seen a cat?'
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
How the K0fHr Smokes.

''The Kaffir smokes on his stomach
said tObacconist, using the earth for
a pipe. This benighted savage, when
the tobacco hunger seizes him, selects
piece Of clayey soil about a foot
square, and puts curved twig there
In, so that both ends stick out. Then
he builds fire over the place, and
when the fire has sufficiently hardened
the clay, he draws out the twig, and a
channel, kind of pipe stem, is left
One end of the channel he hollows into
o bowl. The other end is his mouth
piece. He puts his tobacco in the
bowl, drops a live coal on top, and.
lying down, falls to. The Kaffir SUCKS
away vigorously, and very black and
strong are the fumes that enter his
large mouth. He will not use an or
dinary pipe. He likes his own way of
smoking best. He is L suppose, the
only smoker whose pipe is the earth"
st. Louis be-DemOcrat.
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lw to the best fellow" records one

saw to the best fellow records one
girl
Married a lieutenant in the United
States navy, and since then have lived
in trunk in various places as near
the seacoast as possible" writes an
other.
Have achieved neither fame nor
matrimony," is the pathetic record of
one, "but belong to many societies,
most of them respectable.
after two years of nervous ex-
haustion, got married, and am now
emulating The Commuters Wife in
building house and garden" writes
one young woman.
Another, with several degrees and a
sense of humor, frankly states her
present occupation is nursemaid and
housekeeper and IAN advanced course
in measles"
"a model aunt endeavorins to show
four sisters how to bring up children" ;"
moGestly states another graduate.
'The most enthusiastic naturalist Ia
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better days that to And the whte-haired
preacher knelt in the grass and prayed only
pray who has mistaken Faith in just God. He
prayed for Hope for light for guidance. And he told
his God that the people still trusted and believed and
were sure that all would be WELL
No great organ pealed, silken clad congregation
passed out of a church. These people blankets,
rags the cheapest garments to hide their nakednesa
But they 10 that inscrutabe Providence
that rules the EARTH that the tides and the life Of
the sparrow than before. There were no stained
glass windows but the setting natures own haven
for multitude in time Of peril
And Hope born that Sunday. And there was
new courage to do and be and to face calamity with
stout hearts; to set face toward duty and to again dc
work. build better cleaner saner finer they
sang:
"A my trust Thee is stayed all my help from Thee
1 bring.
Cover my defenseess head with the shadow Of Thy wing
st. Louis Chronicle
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

sawdust, which cools and polishes them
at the same time.
America imported $41S,004 worth of
ordinary needles, most of them from
last year. Hairpins and safe
ty pins and other kinds of pins are
manufactured in a similar manner.
We made 1,1S9.1 .1O4 gross of hairpins in
manufactured to a greater extent in
Europe than plain pins. Safety pins.
however, are decidedly American, and
of these we make on an average 1,00O,-
600 gross a year.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
AFTER GRADUATION.
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In reply to the question, What be-
comes of college girls?" a certain col
lege president says, "Why, nothing un-
usual or sensational happens to them.
They scatter all over the country, and
become active and useful members OF
society,"" Then, says the New York
Sun, the president produced a class
book of a class that has been out Of
college ten years, and let the record re-
veal the history of the members.
There were one hundred and forty
five in the class when it was grad
uated. One-third of the members have
travelled abroad, and all bat thirty
mention teaching and tutoring About
fifty-five have done graduate work at
other schools and colleges, and up to
the present time forty-one husbands
lave beer acquired.
Married Oh the hottest day you ever
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
HARD LUCK FAILS TO TURN.
Col. Bill Sterrett Relates a Pathetic
Stony in His Experiences

Col. Bill Sterrett Relates a Pathetic
stony in His Experience.
ut does beat all" remarked Colonel
bill Sterrett of Texas, as he gazed into
the wood fire in the house press gallery,
chow far some people will go to skin
other people.
Il remember case where / was in
-xlulging my appetite for poker in q
game where there want no more limit
than there was Christian charity. A
party named Gibbs was in the game too
1t came along to a place where there
was big jackpot. / was losing regu-
lar and Gibbs was winning regular, and
I looked at him kinder baleful two or
three times. Finally this Gibbs party
says to me: Bill, you don't know
nothing about this game. I kin outplay
you and 1 kin outluck you. You can't
hold 'em against me-
THAT made me kind O. sore and l
says: 'Mebbe 1 can't, but I'll bet you
$40 I've got better pair than you have
just at this identical moment before the
draw
YOU'RE on says Gibbs, putting out
"a couple of blue chips. What you
.got?'
"'Pair of kings / said.
"'Huh, says Gibbs, pushing the chips
lover to me, take the money
Then 1 stuck out my chest and
opened that pot. Gibbs trailed along
lG1d we drew cards. Gibbs took three
and so did 1. There was right smart
chips In the pot and bet fifty. Gibbs
raised me fifty. / had garnered two
more kings. 1 hiked it back and we
went along as If we owned the treas
Iury, until finally called and threw
down my four kings. Dot CAST ye,
Gibbs says, IL got you that time
"'Hold on says Gibbs, showing four
aces, I'll take that myself
Now what do you think Of that? He
4had them two aces all the time and
give me that ten without showing them
and then goes out and gets me for all
the chips I've got."-Washington Letter
in New York World
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
HIS PROUDEST MOMENT.
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On the day that Washburn's novel
was listed among the "six best sellers"
half a dozen of his old college chums
gathered in his rooms to congratulate
him. "Well, old man." said one Of
them, II suppose this is the proudest
day in all your young life"
"Not quite" said Washburn, musing-
s1y. There was one prouder."
when was that? Tell us about it."
"Well, boys, said Washburn, that
first summer we were out Of college
,dsbed round for something to do for
long time before 1 found it 1 was 'on
my uppers,' with only quarter Of
dollar left but 1 had kept my football
appetite and I was still hard as nails
when l saw sign, 'coal-heaver
wanted
THAT looked good to me, and 1 ap-
said I'd do, So L went to work, forty
dollars a month, twelve hours a day,
;shoveling coal out of cars into wag-
sons The yard was five miles from
my house, and 1 walked down every
morning and back every night
MY back used to ache and my head
get dizzy with that endless up and
down, up and down with the shovel,
over the side of the car, but l stuck to
1the Job one whole month, during which
7time-and for three weeks after-my
back never stopped aching nor did the
soreness go out of my shoulders. But
I stuck to it Then got letter, offer
iing me berth as reporter on local
paper to which / had applied.
81 drew my pay and left. A week
later 1 happened round that way, and
Hooked up the boss to say 'howdy.'
'Washburn,' he said, III give you
,forty-five dollars a month to come back
ITO the job
whats wrongT I asked.
well, I've had three different fell
lows In the car this week, every one
husky working men, and every one has
quit on the second day because he said
the work was too hard. Say, I'll give
you fifty to come back
Il didn't go back. My shoulders
were still aching But that moment,
when l found l had really held my
own successfully against three other
chaps on plain old muscle-taxing work,
ywas the proudest Of my life"
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
TIE OLD eovERNMENr CLERKS.

UGH of the thought that used to be given
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h ~ 1 to a consideration of what to do with our
1 ISE I boys" has been transferred to the problem
of the old men, What is to- be done with
NNy10 when he is old and feeble?
SSZy In the stone age, and among savages in
recent times, the question was an
swered by disposng of him in mode which was the
of sympathetic and humane. We cannot revert
to that system Indeed the difficulty to-day is in the
opinion Of many persons, that too sympathetic
Take the of the clerks in the departments at Wash
ngton directs the secretaries to discharge them
when they become incapacitated, but the law is not
ebeyed So kindly disposed people in these latter
days that few If any old turned off. AS Con-
gresham said recently, in discussing the condition.
"Under operation of the civil service regulation with
its wideopen door at the entrance there is other
q coffin through"
Under the old spoils system. whenever there was
change administration the President accustomed
to turn the rascals out" There general removal
Of officers and the made pretty clean sweep
of clerks Now, although told that the Govern
ment service ought not to suffer by being made asy
um for those who longer able to do all that is
reasonably required them the old stay and every
regrets that it eXpedent even to consider
what shall be done with them.
How to promote Government efficiency without working
hardship and doing violence to every kindly human
tment is problem with which Congress is strug
Cling remedies have been suggested, such
summary dismissal at the age Of 70, pension system,
and progressive reduction in salary beginning at 50
and growing less the usefulness of the clerk dimn
ishes.-Youths Companion.
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Two lovers by a moss grown spring,
They leaned soft cheeks together there
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
o, budding time.
o, loves best prime!
Two, welded, from the portal slept;
The bells made happy carolings,
The air was soft as tanning wings,
White petals on the pathway slept.
o, pure eyed bride!
o, tender pride
Two faces DER a cradle bent,
Two hands above the breast were lock-
ed;
These pressed each other while they
rocked,
Then watched life that love had sent.
o, solemn houri
0, hidden power!
Two parents by the evening fire;
The red light fell above their knees
On heads that rose by slow degrees,
Like buds upon the lily spire.
., patient life
O., tender strife
The two still sat together there;
The red light shone about their knees,
But all the heads, by slow degrees,
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
o, voyage fast
o., vanished past!
The red light shone upon the floor
And made the space between them
wide;
They drew their chairs up side by side; !;
The pale cheeks joined and said ''once
more"
o, memories!
o, past that is!
George Eliot.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
AS a Beam DER the Waters.

AS a beam DER the face of the waters
may glow
While the tide runs in darkness and cold
ness below,
So the cheek may be tinged with warm
sunny smile,
Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly
the while.
One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that
throws
It's bleak shade alike DER our joys and
our woes,
To which life nothing darker or brighter
can bring,
For which joy has no balm and aff1iction
no sting
Oh !, this thought in the midst of enjoy
ment will stay,
Like a dead, leafess branch in the sum-
mer's bright ray;
The beams of the warm sun play round
it in vain,
1t may smile in his light, but it blooms
not again.
Thomas Moore.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

There Isl always disposition in those
who have them to claim that gray
hairs are more a mark of suffering
than of age.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

abating Even the July sangs to the ports where the
tropical everything in its path all taken.
This because torrid temperatures sought in
the middle Of the year. it is the only left to those
disappointed in northern passage to get to the mild
northern and central Europe Fortyeight hours
a railroad train from the disembarking port
baked scorched by the winds from Sahara desert,
will bring the American pleasure seeker to the 1ndness
and exharation of Sw tZerand, Germany Great Brit
tain and the Scandinavian countries of the north This
atmosphere will repay the gentleman and gentlewoman
the discomfort of long dusty and hot railroad jour-
ney in the semitropics
All the lines adding steamers but the demand
keeps ahead of the supply and thousands of Americans
who would like to make the trip to Europe in pleasant
weather obliged to stay home for lack Of suitable
accommodations.-Uti Globe.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

The average man has more respect
for a thief than a deadbeat. And
thieves are not held in high esteem.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

Any man who is completely wrapped
up in himself is 4 bundle of conceit.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
GRAFTERs IN CHARITY WORK.

HEN Kansas was suffering from the vista
ton Of grasshoppers the whole country
united in raising money and contributing
food and clothing for the sufferers. Many a
mean man was developed then. The contri-
buttons were SO generous that opportunity
was afforded for graft moro than ono
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

now rich laid the foundation of his fortune in the
cash goods which he stole from the relief fund Much
the thing has been noted in smaller scale In the
San Francisco 1t is about the smallest business in
the word.-Salt Lake Inter-Mountain.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
THE RUSH TO EUROPE.

HE filling up Of the passenger steamers Of
the thirty lines plying between Europe and
this country and Canada, on this side Of the
Atlantic, was never carried on so vigorously
as during this year.
The demand for rooms for summer travel,
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14

of church in years. there those who had deemed
prayer and religion sham There those who
had scoed and those who had forgotten the days when
they had kne at mothers knees and then slipped off
to bed feeling, somehow, that somewhere there was
Great Shetering Hand that would for them. Then
these words were read words grand and impressive
as Gods outof-doorS
"Other refuge have 1 none hangs my helpless soul on
Thee;
Leave OH leave not alone; still support and COM
fort me-
And thousands of people Joined in that simple hymn
and sang from their breasts sang till heaven
seemed closer; sang till Hope found place in aching
hearts; sang to the glory of the Almighty and in
belief that whatever is must be for good for the
Valentine Democrat., 1906-06-14
A GREAT LESSON FROM FRISCO.

Z was Sunday in Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco. Thousands of men, women and
children, destitute, some suffering, all close
to the most sublime tragedy this country
has ever witnessed, gathered about a simple
old man, white-haired; peaceful-faced. There
-lo lod ,ot tho i,nciI IL,
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COLLECTOR OF THE PORT

IT nE disappointment of William F.
i Stone to this position is cause
for congratuating not only the
people of Baltimore, but the Republican
party in the State of Maryland. Mr..
Stones personal character and official
efficiency are such as not only to guar
antee the acceptable conduct of his re
sponSible office, but they are such as to
reflect credit upon the party which he
represents. We are learning in these
days that party's influence is wrapped
largely up in the character of the men
who are its counsrllorS and leaders. We
are not prognoSticating the effect of the
appointment ON Republican politics in
the State and city. But we are con
graduating the ,.cpublicAn party ON be
ing able to count such men as William
+. Stone and Charles j. Bomaparte
amongst its influential leaders.
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PEACE. PEACE!

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tons md +bo ,ons Of ~ T,r,r,,,,, ana
.cos4 in CONVERSIONS, or dn,;,,h, rr,,,, +I.,
"s.,nI ,unns Of Srssox to 4ho ro.I.. or
tho. Christionn >rd .tn ,h,r, i. mo-.
pcocn \ kindly providnncn ~. . Lind
Iv prcsidont hon, r,,novo,, ,r,, l,,,o,,od
LAYTON from hi, s,,.rowinr r,i,n1. and
will "r,tt,n him, for ,r,,,.,,,." OBJ, Wash
mgton lunch counters. while. fine rnnsivn
Rurton sit. u,.,7,, in .,,+,l,. ,nor,,-
rLoIy h ythr ran,r ,fr,.. and bro,ctb NOT
the war wbo,r of fine DnIovorns ana
th,. tirrco ,,,. or IN. vonn., l,.,,.... for
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A COMM ENDABLE VETO

IT is well to keep before the public
i every instance of wise economy in
public office. Hence this reference
to the Governors veto of the item in
the General Appropriation Bill. which
called for II lump sum of $50 600 to
cover the expenses fthe next Legisla-
ture. There is no doubt of the Cover
nor'S constitutional right to the exercise
Of this power, since the ratification of
the amendment of 1889. although this
is the first instance of the exercise of
the sanitary prerogative. Hence the
CONSERVATION amongst that eStimable
class of conservatives who are duly
shocked at any departure from CUSTOM"
Hence also the CONSERVATION amongst
that section of oflicialdom which has al
ways counted on something like 500, 600
in the way Of a contingent fund to lie ut
the disposal Of the presiding officers.
without specification Of the particular
uses to bg made of it. In vetoing this
item the Governor has established. an cx-
"ellent precedent and one that is likely
70 be followed in the future. The great
est step toward economy and the adop-
ton OF business methods in public affairs
j to turn on the light. That is exactly
what the veto viii do. 1t will call the
attention of all persons interested in
State finances to custom which has
Heretofore not only ministered to an
abuse of power, hut has been a strong
temptation to wasteful extravaganza Ito
which can hardly be called ought else
than a robbery of the State. Herea fter
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TO STRIKE
HR NOT to strikc-that is the qucs
" ton. And that is likely to re-

Mr. NOT to StrikC-that is the 1ucS-
" ton. And that is likely to re-
main a question so long as pres
ent elements are influential in the min
erS' union. The truth is aud to be
sure what care about to remark may
not be @ truth at all. but that phrase
makes an impressive introduction in
most any statement. and I notice many
esteemed literary people are given to
employing it: so the truth is there has
never been any good ground for an an
thTacitc coal Minors strike since the
day the Commission of three years ago
rendered it's decision. That decision was
universally commended rs moderate,
wise and absolutely fair. The points
now in controversy are virtually cover
ed by that decision and in opening these
questions again the miners have I'M
douhtedly put themselves mt decided
disadvantage in the public estimation.
Indeed. they thereby put themselves at
a pcrilouS disadvantage in the cStima-
ton of Il lnrg" percentage of their own
membership. Many good Judges who
are intimately acquainted with the en-
tire situation in the coal mining region,
are convinced that n strike IN the face
of present conditions. would wreck the
union. II looks very much rs if the
operators Understood this fact thorough
~ and would not he avcrse to the COM
ing of such strike. believing that they
would be enabled thereby to smash the
union,' and smash it Mt time when the
supply of coal is IN fine shape to stand
contest. 80 Tar as the public is con
cerned. thcr" is likely to be no repetition
of past experience. The people must
nave coal ana Will have 1t. The authom-
ties Will do their duty and see that coal
continues I" b" mined. There l. mt this
time no sympathetic public sentimental
lily upon winch Wcak-kn""d officials can
rely III ShIrNln@ their responsibilities.
Inc pupLc may nave Il" sort OF sym
pathF VIII" the AIMS OF the operators
Oh me "thef Manu. t i"S none with the
element IN the miners union. that is try
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FATHER OF THE AMERICAN
NAVY,

EFT the disputantS bubble over
l. techncalities all they will. John
Paul Jones has acquired this title
for all time. \ man abiding fame is
not nthe hands of the critics. il is in
the hearts of the people. And there we
may securely leave the right of Paul
Jones to De known aS the Father of the
American Navy. 1t WIS he who first
made that navy a Formidable factor in
determining the fortunes of war; it was
he who first made Congress see the fut-
power, and above all it was he whose
daring deeds on the Spas were the most
striking feature of our Revolutionary
history and the beginning of lavy
record that fires the heart of every loyal
American. General Porter has done
well in persiSting in his search for the
remains of Paul Jones nutil he has sue
ceeded in laying them to rest where they
properly hclong-in the cemetery mt An
napolis. Th people of the nation do we'll
in pauSing to pay tribute to the man
who has too long suffered neglect at the
In his preface to the best biography of
Paul Jones that has been written, Mr..
\. c. Buell. says ITO the average stu
dent of American history the mention of
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ii will be necessary to pass y special APP
preparation bIIl at the beginning of the
session. and that y likely to call such at
tention to the items of incidental ex-
penditures as will beget close scrutiny
and particuariZation of those items.
That is what the taxpayer wants and
has a right to know 4 thrifty and
thoughtful body polite like wise house
keeper, wants to know where the money
goes