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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
One Lone Man, the Foreman.

Presently you see one lone man appear from
behind pile OF hoxSa. You look at him IN
wonder for moment, and then you gay:
20, yes, the foreman And he takes you
from one 10 the other and explains the sim
pie. wonderful machines to you and you
look very wise and enlightened. but stiii feel
exceedingly mystined.
At either end OF the large room there are
dressing rooms where the girls don the wrap
pers they wear at their work. ills not clean
work. They handle paste and glue from
morning til night.
There are many kinds OF boxes and as many
ways OF making them. Some are made eli-
t!rely by hand some entirely on machines.
Others are done both by hand and on the
machines. Ordinary small boxes, such as
soap and candy boxes, are OF the latter
class a little girl sits at a table beside the
Sir! at tho machine, Sheets of cardboard
come TO her from tho cutter In lots OF
hundred or thousand. The cutter HAS cut
little square out of each corner and u
nhe guiding line from corner TO corner along
which to fold. She sits and creases the
board on TINS groove, forming 1t into the
shape OF q box, and passes 1t on TO the
CIR! at the staying machine This machine
carries narrow strip OF canvas or stiff
paper through series OF cylinders ard
wheels. The strip Of cloth Ia on a reel at
the back of the machine. 1t Ii covered with
paste on one side. 1t passes first over a
cylinder TO be atraightened out; then II goes
over,a wheel which runs through water and
vets the paste. then on over another cyl
inder and to the die which presses down on
the corner OF the box with great pressure,
The box Is placed cornerwise on a wooden
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Making Paper Boxes Easy;
Pleasant Work for Girls.
By Zelda Ernine Stewart.

~ APER box making Is distinct!yely
woman's industry. In Chicago.
which Is the third largest center for
L paper boxes, two-th!rds OF all the
employees are women. In New York
City. where 3O9i women and girls are en-
ployed, the men number 797. New York
is the largest manufacturer, Philadelphia
next. Chicago third. In Boston the women
number ten to one man in this business. but
then you know there are not many men in
Boston.
Chicago has $4,000 invested In paper
box factories and the value OF boxes made
in 1905 was $3,250,0O0. There are scores
OF little chops where the product is too small
to count except in petty competition for the
small trade. but there are forty large plants.
One big factory. covering the six floors Of
u large building. employs 1I5 girls the year
round and 200 in the busy seasons. Sixteen
hundred and ninety-eght women over 1G
wears OF age and 1s2 girls under 16 live
BIZ paper box making In Chicago.
Imagine an immense, light room; great
stacks OF boxes. some finished, some half
finished, some jus. begun, piled almost TO
the high ceiling in places. Belts are spin
ming over your head a strong odor OF glue
pervades the air, machines line tho walls.
and here and there between long paslng ia
bies you viii see larger machines. Every
where you look you see girls In calico wrap
pers working and talking
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Shark Has Little Standing.

SO 1t Is with the man who is in the grasp
CT the loan shark-with just this exception:
The loan shark is one who recognizes the
untenableness OF his position in society. In
& court OF equity he doesn'. expect any
measure Of sympathy. Ordinarily, he tries
to protect himself by mort gage on personal
property. Something almost as good In most
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
By John Coleman.

massage. and bathing. BY studying these the
satisfactory way OF getting into the ranks OF
thoroughly qualined.trained,n nurses Is by the
aid Of the resident training school In such
position the novice usually receives room and
board. and sometimes q small salary. Tho
aspirant will make himself worth something
TO a physician, who will put him In the way OF
acquiring experience
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
But There Is One Cons oIation.

The only consolation that I ever derived
from getting UP early was to tell the night
workers Of the beauties OF day work and the
evenings at home.
Those cozy evenings at home arc among the
worst frauds and delusions ever perpetrated.
The man who gets up at Q a. m. is ready by
8 in the evening to dismember the children
and kick his wife. He turns In at o'clock
mad at the whole world
No one ever heard OF millionaire getting
up at 8 q. m.-except in their biographies.
AS a matter Of fact. they sleep until o. get to
the office at 1880, fresh. clear headed, and
ready to make another million or two
The only reason that no farmer ever got
rich bucking the stock market or the board of
tradeSis that tho boards and exchanges, being
controlled by city men, do not open until 10
a. m. II the markets opened at a. m. the
farmers would all be mlllonaires and heads
of trusts.
The railroads have for years tried In vain
to train American travellers to early rising.
The exact object OF this Ia uncertain. but the
fact remains that every train that carries a
sleeping car arrives at Its important stops
exactly at Z a. m.--which means that the por-
ter wakes every travelerat6. SO as to be sure
to get a chance to brush a quarter out OF him.
Possibly the object of the railroads In rouslng
people at that time In the morning Is tomake
them SO stupid by 10 a. m. that they can do
no good on stock exchange.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

~ RE you getting all the help possible
IN. out Of that force called system?
f-T Enough has been said of Its value to
the captains OF industry-just to show
that 1t isn't the property of the trusts,
notice these Instances in which 1t has served
ordinary people
One Is that Of a man whose work takes him
every day into crowded cars and streets, and
WHO used to have his pockets picked prob
ably once a year, not to count the losses
from his own carelessness in handling keys,
knives, and memoranda He noticed that
II he carried an article, his purse, say, In the
same pocket for week at time he ac-
CURED feeling for It, so that II he
changed his clothes and left the pocketbook
In the discarded suit a sense of something
wanting warned him Of the oversight, This
sixth sense was as good as a pair of eyes for
each pocket, and several times in the last few
years he has noticed something wrong with
the weight or outline OF one Of them In time to
prevent a sneakthief from making success
full - touch - 5aflt
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Clever Woman Is Social Success.

A short experience in a business otiics
could not but give an heIress d clearer per-
ception of the true and the false. She would
lose that false sslf-value which is bred BY
hatterlng teachers, foolish companions. and
toady!ng servants. Beauty, wealth. family,
all those things that count Tor so much else
where. are naught here, It's the girl herself,
her own power TO think, TO act, 10 prove her
worth, 10 accept responsibility, that counts.
There Is work TO do; she must do IL, Some
thing must be done at certain time; she
must see that II Is done. Other peoples COM
fort, other peoples happiness. other peoples
affairs mus, come before her own. A woman
comes out of such experience with all that
selttshness which u life Of pleasure genders
blended in a great and serious desire TO do
that which VIII accomplish the greatest good
Tor the greatest number,
1t never has been the doll faced dol!
Drained woman who ruled the hearts of
men. But more than. ever before. in these
days when woman has attained to a high
plane Of intellectual grace. It Is the clever
womRn,,the woman who can do things, who
can make things go, who is the social sue
cess The business woman meets men and
talks TO them. listens to them. She hears
thslT views on broad subjects: her mind be-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Ways to Get Training.

There are different ways in which he may
get the essential technical training. Many
books are published on the various phases OF
nursing and allied subjects, such as diet,
cooking for invalids. care OF the sickroon,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Must Not Expect "sof. snap..

OF course. the trained nurse has no sine
cure. His work is combining. It brings him
in contact with sick and morbid people: It Is
irregular. exacting, and responsible; and 1t
is work. But, as these drawbacks are no
more disheartening than those in every occu-
patton, and as there are at least the usual
number OF advantages to Offset them. the
man who IS really fttcd for the work Will
find nothing discouragins in Il.
Now. as to natural qualifications, the man
who IS to be trained nurse must possess
abundant vitality. as he will have to resist
contagton and fatigue. For his own sake
and for that OF his patients he must be cheer
full. He must be conscientious; Ito and
death hang on the thoroughness with which
he does his work. he must have that execu-
tive ability which Will enable him to do this
work promptly and without disturbance.
Finally. as he win have to do with sick
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Shark Nay flake Trouble.

When all this has bee n accorded the debtor,
however, he may have his troubles st!l re-
gardless Of the machinery OF the bank
ruptcy court. The certified copy OF the dis
charge Of the petitioner is no guarantee that
his creditors may not molest him afterward
In the state courts. It is only while the
bankruptcy proceedings are pending thatthe
court issues temporary restraining order
for the debtors projections; after the dis
charge this restrained loan shark may mako
the debtor all kinds of trouble in the state
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

OF course. the quickest, surest. and most
training consists OF Lectures and of actual
work in the sickroom under the direction Of
nurses OF experience and house physicians
Several schools offer correspondence courses
in nursing. and some students OF these
courses have made good" in practical
work. What has been done can be done.
Certainly school OF this kind. conducted by
competent people, would be
better than independent and undirected
effort.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Early Rising Wholly Wrong;
Late Riser Money Maker.
Rv Hx,oI, 6 FULLERTON
By Hugh S. Fullerton.

The early bird catches the worm" says
the old proverb
Job XIV. @. says MAN. that IS worm.
and the son of man. which Is q worm"
Those old proverb makers overlooked the
fact that the earlier cat catches the early
bird and gets the benefit OF bird. worm. and
ALL and that the dog that prowIs all night
probably eats the cat before going to break
fast
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
How 10 become Bankrupt.


How TO Become Bankrupt.
Briefly. the procedure under the bankrupt
cy act considers first the filing OF the petit
ton in bankruptcy. In this petition the
debtor files a schedule of his assets and his
liabilities. His assets OF whatever kind are
listed in detail. His creditors are named
and the amount OF Indebtedness of whatever
kind is set opposite the names of these in
dviduais. Notice of the fling OF the petit
ton Is published in an official newspaper
and notice by mail is given each Of the cred
itors named in the petition. There may be
no assets given by the petitioner or perhaps
each debtor gets a fraction OF the amount
that is due him. The time limit OF the case
as 1t ponds in the court Is one year. with q
possible extension OF six months for cause.
But while the case is under process the
debtor may get restraining order against
the loan shark prohibiting him from inter-
fering with the victim in the state courts.
When finally the victim OF the loan shark
is discharged from his debts in the bank
ruptcy court he is given q certified order OF
his discharge from the obligation. This order
will have anticipated that In the schedule
he has made a true statement of his assets
or lack Of them and scheduled his debts In
full. Within year OF his release If It can
Uo properly WAS CoHCealeu Dy-
the petitioner he is subject TO indictment and
prosecution for the offense. After that the
statutes of limitation are his protection.
AS 10 his creditors. however, the court has
not assumed toknow. 1t is taken for granted
that all Of them have been listed in the pc
titlon and that individually all have been
notified Of the bankruptcy proceedings by
mall. If even they have failed to see the off
cial publication Of the notice. When the
discharge in bankruptcy has been granted.
however. and IL for any cause loan shark
creditor has been overlooked In the schedule
of liabilities, this creditor may make the
plea that he was not notified OF the action.
In such a CAGE 1t devolves upon the debtor
10 prove that. through the mall notification
or the printed notice. or otherwise, this cred
itor had knowledge OF the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings. II this fact Is proved even the un-
named loan shark is barred from getting his
principal and his usurious interest.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Smooth schemers Rise Late.

remember well the frst time ever tried
getting up early as regular thing. 1t was
on farm. We got up about 4:30 in summer
and had done days work by breakfas.
time. BY 10 a. M ! was SO sleepy j was
worthless At any time during the afternoon
any one could have beaten me in a bargain.
have wondered since II gold brick men don't
sleep until about o:30. eat good breakfasts.
and then catch the farmers who got up at 5
a. m. half asleep and sell them the goods.
AS a business principle II seems to mo
bad thing for any man to get up early. The
man who gets up at a. m. go as to get 20
work downtown by $3.50 or gets a bad start.
That IL the worst time Of the day to get
up Even In hot weather the rooms are
chilly and have that damp dawn feeling.
In winter a man huGdles close to the radiator
or stove and suffers fortunes. He creeps
downstairs In his stocking feet SO as not to
awaken his wife. He pokes up the fire q bit.
shuts himself in the kitchen, and warns up
the coffee left from the night before, eats a
saucer full of cold breakfast food with half
frozen cream, thaws out a bit of butter 10
spread on cold bread, and starts out half
frozen and half nourished
He waits on the corner twenty three min
utes in bowling blizzard for a car. and then
has a long. dismal ride downtown. BY the
time he reaches the office he Is In mood
for murder. He never gets cheerful or In
a proper frame OF mind for good work until
after luncheon.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Helpers Gisgle; Evidently Happy.

ne boxes then go 10 the girls who cover
them with glazed paper. Each ofthese has
giggling childish faced girl of 10 or 10
to help her. These young girls are Just
beginning to learn the business They are
paid So the week. They used to work for
the experience they got. but now 1t is custom
nry TO pay them. The girls at the paper ma
chimes earn from 81 to so q week on a piece
price basis. One girl makes as high az
SIT.
There Is new machine which covers the
whole box at one time. These machines are
run by young girls who are paid $3.50 the
week. They cover 5000 boxes In day.
The girls claim to understand their ma
chimes. 1t seems to me that this is great
knowledge and in itgelf deserves high wages.
Much OF the covering work is done by hand
and saw one little girl with fluffy black
hair who made use OF her tongue. She w,ss
covering small box with green paper AS
/ passed she lifted It to her mouth. Laugh
Ing. turned back to watch her. She looked
up at me with friendly smile, SO asked
her why she did that.
o, the paste drica SO quick you have to. u
she answered.
.Cnn'tyou use sponge?" She shook her
head.
:" Doesn't 1t mako you sick and take all
the skin off your tongue to do that all day? %.
Prefers 1t to Homework.
/" o, no, IT hasn't any taste, and your tongue
gets used to 1t. But didn't llke.I the first
two or three days" she replied Nov 1
like 1t better than housewors. and have
lots of fun with tho girls
She was pretty. gay little thing who would
manage to have lots of fun most any
time. She earns So every week.
The larger boxes arc made mostly by hand
The older girls do this work, 1t IS In
teresting TO watch them. They cut strips
OF black tape-through some mysterious
sense they seem always to know how long
to make them-lay them on a table and cover
them with paste. They fashion the box out
Of straight pieces OF cardboard by binding
them with the tape.
AT one table the best workers were busy
getting out an order OF fancy boxes. They
were large heavy boxes. with compartments
In them, and were covered with beautiful
paper made In Imitation of alligator. One
woman was just finishing one of them when
] stepped up to her table.
.. can do twenty-five OF them in o. day"
she said proudly. 1T Is heavy work and
we have,to stand all day when we do these.
But we only work at these boxes for two
weeks twice a year. They are tnllors' sample
cases. l can make So a week while,we are
doing these II care to work SO hard"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

IN PHYSICIAN was lafnerltlnK the
~ scarcity OF maie nurses.
IN The trouble Isl he explained.
the pay isn't enough to tempt q
man. Even after he Is fully qualified
no cannot got moro than s25 a week. That's
city pay; Slb Is usually the limit inthe coun-
Try. A man won't work for that. ~
OF course such an explanation doesn't cx-
plain Men will work for that: armies OF
them arc fighting for places where the work
Is harder and the pay much less There is a
scarcity OF men nurses because the trained
nurse 10 o recent addition to the army OF
workers. and the field 10 s.,ll almost an
known.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

the strip Of cloth. covers the corner, and the
girl puts her foot on treadle and cuts 1t
of: then with dexterous twist OF her wrist
she dips up the other corner and quickly
the four corners are done. This stay
strengthens the box and makes IT durable.
a good worker will do from 1000 to $500
boxes the size of a soap box in day. and
make from IS to $3.50 weekly. A rapid
worker can make 80.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Old Proverb a FERMENTATION.

Long ago some one wrote:
Early to bed, early to rise. makes man
healthy, wealthy. and WISE"
The farmer is the type OF man who lives
exactly according to that rule.
Census returns show that the farmer is not
healthy.
Statistical reports on mortgages show that
the farmer is not wealthy.
Every circus CRATER, patent medicine faker.
get rich quick advertiser, and green goods
man In the country will testify that the
farmer Is not wise.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

people, who are unusually fussy." he must
possess tact
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

lowed the assignment OF salary or wages as
security for debt. the United States bank
ruptry law acknowledges tho contract as
binding; IL the assignment shall be unlawful
under the state statutes. TIE bankruptcy
act will declare It so in the processes consid-
ering the release from debts
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
How DRUG Clerh learned Art.

1UW dub C1eTN LEdENVU Rrt,
second instance concerns q young drug
clerk who possesses considerable artistic
ability. 1t seemed hopeless to try to mas
ter the technique CT drawing In the few
hours he had, scattered over the course OF
tho week, particularly as his two small.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

~ NE morning last week got up early.
The baby howled and refused TO go to
sleep again. so got up at 5:45 a. m.
for the first time since the circus came
into our town and somebody per-
suaded me to get up and meet It.
For fifteen minutes was busy getting the
baby dressed over the radiator. while my
vertebrm acted as a ladder for chills to run
up and down. and when my wife got up at
7:3O was meditating whether to strange
the baby or drop It into boiling water.
Some one may assert that am not an au-
thority on getting up early. The charge Is
untrue once got up at a. m. to go hunt
Ing, once the house caught fire at 4:45. twice
my wife has thought baby was going to have
Group and routed me out to go for the doctor,
and one time worked for firm that re-
quired me to reach the office at 1870 a. M
which meant that must arise at 8:15-so
I speak not as the scrbes and pharsees.
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-07
Protect Proprietary Medicines,

Did It ever occur to you that pro-
prietary medicines are a blessing 20
mankind generally? The good on,s
have long continued sale; the poor
ones have short life and soon leave
the market.
1t we had to deponi entirely upon
physicians and druggists It would be
expensive and very inconvenient at
times, especially in the country and
at night when neither could be con-
veniently reached. For nearly 40
years Boschee's German Syrup has
been used in many families and
thousands of lives have been say. |
by its use, when It was impossible to
reach a physician. German Syrup is
the best household remedy for coughs,
colds, throat and lung trouble. 1t
quickly relieves the hacking cough,
loosens the phlegm, and brings sound
and refreshing sleep. Twenty-fiv'
and 75 cents. Get cspy of Green's
prize almanac. Tallman & Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-07
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GENERAL NEWS.


Walter Scott, the famous "Scotty"
Of Death Valley fame, lies at the point
Of death in BaIstow. Cal, from the ef-
fects Of a skunk bite.
Portland, Me-, on December for
the first time in IA years, went DEM
Ocratic, that party electing the may
or. seven of the nine aldermen and
Is of 81 councilmen.
Jim Morley, baseball magnate, at
a meeting of the Pacific Coast league
in Los Angeles. accused President
Bert of "diverting" $4,000 sent by
eastern clubs for the P. C. L. follow
ing the earthquake.
Carelessness in handling giant pow
der at a Houghton, Mich, mine, re-
suited in an explosion. William
Goggin was killed by the explosion,
while Dennis Shea and John Sullivan
fell down a shaft while trying to
escape, and were badly hurt.
The oldest building in England that
has been uninterruptedly used for
church purposes is st. Martins cathe-
dral at Canterbury. The building was
has been regularly used as a place for
religious gatherings for more thar
1000 years.
The report of the secretary Of wal
and Judge advocate of the army ir
reference to the claims presented by
the representatives of the Roman
Catholic church in the Philippines
mas been transmitted to congress b!
President Roosevelt. The clai ms ag
gregate s363,OS0. which the president
recommends shall be paid.
The Utah state land board has re
eeived notice from the general liant
office at Washington, of the with
drawal from all forms of entry undel
the public land laws Of 1921 acre
Of lands in Utah. These lands hat
been selected by the Utah land boarc
for transfer to private parties as agri
cultural lands, but they are now with
drawn by the government on the ad
vice Of experts who pronounce then
coal lands.