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Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-17

Il ~ Il j A-4SpeC1al correspondents VI
The Bee.)-I am debating these
notes in the midst of the woods.
- 1 am in the greatest forest
region Of the United states, on the west
ern slope of the Cascade mountains and
in the heart of lumber camp with hun
dreds Of men saving and chopping away
on all sides. At my back stationary
steam engine Is dragging mighty tinbers
by steel cables to the cars, and with
similar cables loading tss giant logs for
shipment 70 the mills My seat is FIR
tree which has just fallen 1t is 200 feet
long and so thick at the base that cross
section of It would reach from the floor
TO the ceiling Of the average parlor. Other
frs, each as big around aS railroad
water tank, rise about on all sides, their
tops In some cases kissing the sky 800
feet over my head. At my right. standing
on spring boards fastened into cuts In the
trunk at about four feet from the ground,
are two wood choppers. making a notch
in a tree to give it the right direction for
falling, and farther over are two other
lumbermen on similar boards pulling
cross-cut saw back and forth. The saw
works like velvet as it goes through the
soft bark. but the tree seems 10 shrek
as the teeth cut into the wood and pillow
their way toward It's heart. As look a
gray squirrel speaks down the trunk Of a
forest giant nearby, and then flies to the
top OF a mighty stump thirty feet round
and sits there. evidently amazed at its
surroundings
stand upon the log and look about me.
Except where the lumbermen have cut
their way through. the jungle is almost as
dense as that of the Himalaya mountains
The ground is covered with rotting under
brush and fallen trees. There are snags
and broken branches everywhere and the
old trunks have thick coating OF moss.
There are giant ferns and brambles with
sharp thorns which tear ones hands and
clothes. as he makes his way through.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-17
In the wa.hinston woods.

But first let me tell you something OF
the mighty timber product OF the great
northwest. Washington. Oregon and Cali
forniA are cutting more and more trees
every year. and Washington leads the
union In it's timber resources. According
to an estimate Of the Department OF the
Interior. there are almost 800 billion feet
OF valuable timber still standing. The
state Is cutting something like billion
feet every year, and in addition about
5000 200. 900 cedar chingles; but even at this
rate the cutting can go on for hundred
years and leave plenty 10 spare. A billion
feet OF lumber means enough TO make a
broad walk foot wide and an inch thick
Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-17

terest campaigns that has been accorded
my political competitors"
An official of the Postoffice department
who has more or less to do with all the
postmasters of the state said; 1.-The post
masters of Nebraska occupy the foremost
rank for efficiency. honesty and faithful
ness"
The association is yet young in years,
but the annual conventions have already
had their effect in, the maifest Improvement
of the postal service everywhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-17

Prosperity Measured by POstOfiice.
The Omaha postoffice is criterion Of
the great growth of that postohice service
Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-17

mt, 1906. by Frank q. Carpenter0
ULTAN JUNCTION. Wash. June
n.-<Special Correspondence Of
The Bee.)-I am debating these
notes in the midst of the woods.
am in the greatest forest
Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-17

CONTINUED on Page seven.)
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WORK FOR WOMEN.
They Can Make Lamps, Handle Wires
and Operate Many Machines.
From the Raltlmore Amerlcnn.

FROM the baltimore American.
The electrical industry is one that Is
usually associated with men workers unless
trouble is taken to investigate large man.
ufacturing establishment in which electrician
apparatus and equipment are constructed
and then 1t Is surprising to find that num-
bers of women are engaged in this work
There seems to be no special reason why
this branch of industry should always be
considered essentially mems work, and yet
most people would as readily associate
women with boiler plate factories as with
electrical works
On the contrary In some departments OF
this industry the making of lamps for in
stance, large part of the actual work IS
done by women employees. One reason for
this Is that so long as IL is possible for
women to do the work, and as they will do
1t for much less wages than the men Ii is
foregone conclusion that they will be en-
ployed In large numbers. Another and
probably quite as good a reason is that
much of the work consists in handling and
adjusting tiny wires, some of them intense
ly hot. and owing to her infinite capacity
for taking pains, to say nothing of her
more delicate touch, a woman can do this
more rapidly and with greater satisfaction
than can a man.
In addition she is less apt to receive burns
caused by clumsy handling of the red hot
material with which she has to work Tho
hrst work that the apprentices or the small
er girls do is to wash the globes. and for
this work they receive four or five cents
an hour. Owing to the strict rules of the
Glass Blowers Union. all of the mean
descent lamp factories buy their globes as
glassblowers are not included among their
employees.
In addition to the work on lamps women
are employed in the manufacture of many
other electrical devices. Mica. one of the
chief insulators used in electricity Is put
through a rather elaborate process of split
m hrllA iper ND
women are employed almost wholly on this
work. They attend to the operation of ma
chimes similar to those used in woollen and
cotton mills, by means of which cotton or
silk IS twisted upon wire. making the COW
cred wire that is such an important part
of much electrical apparatus. They also
operate machines that are used for winding
armatures. and much of the finer work In
the manufacture of electric meters Is done
by them. Women also are generally en-
ployed in assembling and preparing for
shipment the numerous small devices, SOCK
cts, switches buttons and all of the neces-
sary portions of an electric light.
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Gus hullabaIoo. accompanied by hammer
ing on the outside OF the door, awoke every
body in the house.
Whats the rnatter-what's THAR" every
one cried startled even affrighted
me: it's I, st. Cargo Beresforf. I'm be-
and the process servers win be afther me.
bad luck to thin. Let me in at once. an
III tell you all about IL. There's no time
to be lost. Let me In or I'll have TO break
the door DOWN.
This appeal was followed by a renewed
tarantara on the panels of the osken door
with the butt end OF driving whip.
The nocturnal caller broke into impreca-
tons more violent than polite and swore
he must have q cor"
Let me have cor and amy kind of a
harse, and l will push on 10 my cashtei and
sind them home in the marninK and pay We
handsomely. IN pay ye three times-five
times as much for the accommodation for
ye know 1t wud not do for me to be taken.
for they'd all be down upon me IL / was
arristed an I'd never get out av quod.''
The good heart of the landlady was
touched and she unbarred the door
ST. George entered, and when he saw us
he apologiZed profusely. He made a bar
gain with our driver to take our team 20
drive the few miles that lay between his
castle and Mrs. Flynn's and send the team
right back for us before morning
That was the last we saw OF St George
lseresford. and the silence of the Come
mara mountain soon gathered again around
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thin. An he had nanny other granarfes
burstin' with food for he was wicked
miser.
was all blown away by the mad winds
of the anger av Cod. Scattered over the
mountains. the Twelve Pins of Connemara
an the whole coorse of Tough Mask and
Tough Corrib, way down to salt Hill, Oran
Castle Oranmore and Ballinacourty,
Atheury Abbey. Randall Athy's place, Wat
Blake's, and, in fact, all over the County
Galway and the County Clare. an perhaps
furder-mebhe to all over Ieinster, Mum
ster Connaught and Ulster. 1t became the
crime of Ireland
Thin Prince Bishop Hattie fed to his
tashte there beyant that you see IN the
lake. Thin phwat happened? That same
night. just dark comes, there was
splashng an plunging from all sides into
the wathers of Tough Mask, an there was
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Keep Off the Public Garden,
From the Boston Transcript.


Mayor Fitzgerald will receive support and
appreciation for many Of his suggestions in
his inaugural message but the proposition
70 build new city hall on the public gar
den Is not among them. That proposition
makes its periodical temperance only to
be Silenced for a generation or so. FROM
the financial point of view the mayors
contention appears to be reasonable. A
new city hall Is needed. but the city OF
erect the building. The present city hall
and the sites used for city offices can be
sold for about $40O0.000, which Is what tho
new city hall building Is estimated to cost.
The city owns the public garden, and II ts
placed the city hall there 1t would not have
hall or a horticultural hall to be erected
there, but no other building. That Is the
whole argument in brief.
But the trouble with this argument Ia
that there are some things for which one
may pay too dearly while seeming to pay
nothing. The city of Boston might sell
Boston Common and thus raise a sum of
money sufficient to pay OF a considerable
portion of Its debt. or establish a fund
which would pay the expenses of running
the city government each year. Yet ono
who would propose such a thing would be
laughed at for the suggestion. The COM
mon and the public garden are worth more
as open spaces In the heart of Boston
than they ever would be covered with city
buildings. The city can better afford to
rent offices than to give up any part of the
public garden to a city hall building. with
its attendant crowd OF loafers and hangers
on. 1t would not be so very long, we think.
before some mayor of Boston would add to
his popularity by suggesting that there be
more-breathing spaces In the heart of the
city, even at the cost of tearing down bu.ld-
ings Il such a suggestion as this were to
be carried out
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an invading army looking for the prince
bishop seeking him, smelling him out from
all cracks and crevices and crannies whn
they arrived on the small space occupied
hv the cashtle. I domino phwat towld i'm
but horrible fear possessed the bishops
sowl. The rats reached his fortress by bat
tallons and they took it right away and de-
Voured all his guards. When the last one
was throttled and bitten to pieces in the
throat, an eyes, arms and fingers Hatto
rushed through the swarms av his enemies
an endayvored to reach his very last sane
tuary of refuge. He did not He had not
laid his hand On the horns Of his altar, so
to spake before the whole horde of rats
which consumed the corn were upon him
They scraped his bones clane an polished
'em with their sharp, cruel teeth. They
bit out his wicked eyes. an the fluid that
filled them with The light of the wonderful
and merciful God down his garments
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even to the hem, and his sight departed
forvver.
Under the instructions of our trusty guide
we reached the caravanserie Of the widow
Flynn and received the welcome OF model
landlady.
The house was big. struggling and not
unpicturesque structure, built like fort
ress for solidity, and perhaps for defense.
Who knows? For the rale sthurl, the
mountain dew. bright and sparkling as the
mountain springs, was to be obtained at
almost any cabin or turf-covered roof tree
anywhere in Joyce country or the Come
mara mountains. We were weary pouy
and mind and after bountiful supper,
we sought sleep in our respective dormi-
tories. nor sought in vain. we mad no
sooner got sound asleep before tremend-
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nouncement that spurs us on. Ledimoff.
Holdfast! Moveupinfront Gable cars
clang-cabbies cry-the elevated roars-the
subway rumbles
Through it all there sounds a voice
an insistent. imperative voice - talking
through its nose in those short symbolic
phrases We know so well and appreciate
so little associating slang with the Bowery.
But 1t is all part of the age we live in.
1t is the song of the people-the triumph
ant discords of our age, the poetry Of the
DuShi
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our ancestors were a bit slow, but they al
ways pressed on.
We can recall the time when the idea
was popular that the mere act of going to
bed at sunset and getting up with the
lark-a bird as extinct the dodo in these
parts-constituted in itself life mission.
X
The glorious scientific achievement of the
ant as we see It today, sifted from a GER
an overdeveloped ability to swarm in places
where it is not wanted. And the bee is a
brute of an insect that no sane person
would ever choose for a household pet.
Honey has gone OUT Our fashionable
confectioners do better for less money and
make no fuss about it. So those two well
advertised bugs have only left US legacy
of needless noise, fiurrying, scurrying.
crowding, overpus hing-movement that has
frou frou of its own-the pushi
1t is part of our conspicuous evil We all
suffer from 1t. Even in social life we are
forever going on. At our receptions and
teas we must keep gliding like beautiful
serpents from place to place. To remain
quiet is to invite the suspicion that one has
wooden legs wax feet.
Some of us have acquired the habit OF
the Hurried call. We dash in and disturb
our friends morning chocolate or after
Moons recreation-not TO Join than sanely
for q moments exchange OF greeting OF
of what we have done, and above all or
what we are about TO do. The beauty OF
not doing things and. above ALL OF not
talking about II, We do not even suspect
We are always on Tire way and we never
seem to arrive. Our gait has become
Jog trot resembling the lightsomo dance OF
the merry Swiss boys that our smart res
taurateurs impose on US as French waiter q.
We live as though were trying to In
duce Providence to reward us with tip.
In this matter of extreme haste we have
| reached the limit. The school PHILOSOPHERS
| used to have one interesting problem as to
what would happen If an irresistible :orce
were to meet an immovable one Nowadays
we know the answer-the push. CT course
| 1t is really very simple.
In the old slow days. before electrical In
| ventions and automobiles made life per-
| petual game of tennis, there was, maybe.
some need for haste. Then the lazy south
| and the jelled north came in contact and
! sparks flew. On came the west-young,
| springy, strong as a buffalo herd, quick as
q trigger-and We began to spin.
From this revolving whirl there emerged
new wonders. And there were bound to
| emerge new words. The American art MI
| new forms. new meanings and new beauties
| flashing from the sculptor's chisel, the
poets pen and the painters brush:
Slang is q new form and new mean
| ing. and is as distinctly akin to our times
| as are our other great Inventions It is
! unconscious art, and it comes from the
| hearts of the submerged tenth-the push!
Oscar Wilde once said that there was
| this, at least. to be said about Journalism
! BY giving US the views OF the uneducated
| 1t Kept US In touch with the ignorance OF
the masses. So slang reminds us that the
impetus OF our times calls for quicker
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Outward Sign.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Highmus-'You don't know how
blank you looked when the conductor gave
you your change for a So bill in niclSels."
Mr.. Highmus-''Maybe not, but 1 know
how blank dash / felt"
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- LANG is the only legitimate Ameri
can language. Even the Beritz sys-
TEN that teaches US 10 read Egyp-
~ tian tomb inscriptions as though
they were biscuit advertisements,
does not include course in Choctaw. We
give cute little comedy butler twist to tie
English speak and we call It Bostonc5e
at it~ hest; but 1t is really Americanese.
Slang. on the other hand. has local or
tEoepic birth. 1t is the language typical
OF our hysterical hurry-the tuneless song
that has evolved from our national neces-
slty fOr quick perception and abbreviated
utterance-the getting therein speech as
in everything else.
We have no time for long letters. round.
ed phrases or wordy architecture. Our slang
is expressive. quick, concise and even our
babies learn to prattle 1t prettily.
Dull persons say it is vulgar but how are
they to prove 1t? Ii is a very wel-known
rule that words which do not add to the
sense and clearness Of expression must
diminish its force. Slang is forcibIe and
cltar-it Is almost ringing, and expresses
in one word three or four of the clumsy
English ones
Large, rustling language is admittedly
the pose of the pretender in intelligence
enc the stock in trade OF the negro CONNIE
dian. Simplicity is always offensive TO the
ponderous who like mental passenenterie
on their lives. They desire perfume in the
finger bowls and hyphens in their names
They allude to their dinners breakfast :
and suppers as meals" and call bread and
butter and beef food" They think they
are purists, but they are only fatteads
1hey would express disgust at this term.
probably because they could never under
stand its beauty-its completeness as a de-
scrtption in simplest form OF q very high
sounding brain disease. Nothing in any
language could so properly express what
they are.
We could no more live without slang in
these days than could exist peacefully
without laws. Our civilization has bred new
virtues and new sins. and we REQUIRE new
words that will express theu-not only to
the erudite readers OF the teu-cent maya
zines, but 10 the masses. those whom tie
municipal ownership partisans call the
''peepul." but that we call the push.
The push What else could tell OF it,
Mob. crowd. gathering, assembage rally
these might be used in any country In
the worid-but the push, which means them
all, yet something more-i5 Arnerican-it is
for us and OF us-it Is us
We have not become so in day or a
year. The poets of old through our grand
mothers used TO call on us to witness the
lndustry of the ant and the business OF
me bee. This was to accelerate us
~ was when we were young and unthink-
ing and this spectacular insect display I'm
pressed us as somei hing absurdly import
ant Now we have learned in our after
youlh tfat the but tarfiy and the hlInmtne
pT9 cover ever so much more ground and
aG3 70 the beauty OF the garden well.
me bee mas its drawbacks as well as its
putforths. 1t has nasty disposition. and
the ant IS, II you ask us, q household pest
Sluegards may have needed the impetus
or these living object lessons. No douh,
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And even though we may be cultured to
a neutrality-suspicious. degree we must
admit the marvellous condensation and
eloquence OF our slang and it's adaptabili:y
to our latter day joys and sorrows.
y
Take that little word ''graft"-that now
teems in our newspapers and plays, that
abounds ct our dinners and teas, as impor-
tant in circles where frenzied fnanciers
move peace is In any one of our
great universities-how terse, how clean,
how unpretentious 1t is! 1t Is a golden
word What else could express it-explain
it. excuse 1t?
We all know that in our souls we respect
OF course. We are above it. but We are
never quite out of reach. Graft" as a
word expresses as much in five letters as
poet of old would require ten cantos
to explain.
The slang age is only In it's infancy and
all its wonders are yet to be revealed to
US. Already there is dictionary of IL in
seven volumes. There is a new interest In
1t and our literature has begun to tenn
with romance in slang and tragedy In
slang-even love scenes are written In its
gentle meter.
Its success, perhaps. has been due to
something of a revolt on the part OF the
public against dialect in ali its horrId
forms. which for a time swamped the book
shops and Inundated our brains
The publishers called II demand" and
so nature stories, simple romances even
animal fiction. were all in dialect Some
OF the books which we recall would have
required an interpreter. Suddenly the tide
turned and every one began to write in
slang. The soap ads. teemed with refer
ences to wise guys and such things.
We require no reference book for slang
phrases They explain themselves. There
seem to be certain brain lobes that recog-
nize these terms as though we might have
murmured them as gurgling babes In some
other incarnation
Their subtle significance appeals to Ms
when more correct English would be cold
and inadequate. Distinguished FOREIGNERS
and they are all distinguished when tbav
get here--at once pick up the reigninr hi
of slang rather than the cold pIIre Sddi
sonian English of our magazines or the
Whartonese In our fiction.
What groop of words can ever o,,te ev
press the exquisite shades of meaning tina,
permeate that jewel of a word, "chump?''
Half pity, half contempt-more adjective
than noun, 1t has atmosphere and force
and character. Other slang grows old and
withers, as Henry James must realize II
he ever reads himself. but "ehump,' has
eternal youth.
1t is something we all are at times. and
II Is, too, part of the very best that Is in
u.s. There must always be a strain Of
kindly weakness In chump, ana yet none
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changes in fabrics and designs. but for the
older woman there is no material nor pat
terms that can compare to the ante-bellum
weaves of soft and sheer cotton stuffs in
pin stripes, dots. sprigs and small checks.
They make cool, dainty morning dresses:
launder well and last for several summers.
In Difference to this general taste, mooern
looms are as busy as in the way-back Gays
supplying the staple product of forty years
ago. Even old-time calicoes, French and
oil, are the counters; the latter cap
turing Capricious fancy bacuse of its nov
city"
Summer wash ia Erics depend so much for
their attractiveness on embroideries and
laces that these pretty adjuncts will be fea-
tured the coming week. as they have been
sin : the new year set in. Discretion rather
than money is required by the woman who
hunts bargains In Hamburgs and machine
1aces; so much depends on whether they
will wear well or fray. The airy. gracefully
pretty pattern, with it's shown edges, eye
another design, less attractive will make UP
In better effect and last the traditional
forever and day. Sometimes, too the
very strip of inserting you fix your fancy
on will crock In the laundry shrink and
shrive before the dress IL trims Is half
worn. 1t takes as much experience to Sc
lect embroideries as. say, meats. and the
woman who knows how to do It will be
We'll repaid Tor her knowledge IL she buys
her Insertion and edges at marked-down
prices throughout the coming week.
Remnant counters are treasure troyeS
these days for shoppers who know how to
utilize short ends of silks, velvets and
wooden goods. When you see a woman
looking at one of these bits with concen-
trated eyes, you know, without her telling
you, that she is picturing to herself how 1t
would look made up into a waist, or, maybe,
a dress for one of the children. Until it has
been hopelessly picked over. the short-end
stock of an up-to-date store proves an al
Turing magnet for the woman in hunt of a
bargain. The day for homemade under
wear has passed, judging by the crowds
that flock to the white goods" tables every
time a store advertises a special sale.
Ready-to-wear undergarments are cheap
cheaper than you could make them, not
counting the time and trouble-and they i'm
prove each season In quality. style and
stitching-so much for competition in the
trade
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means of expression and less ornate one
chan that of Milton and Keats.
And even though we may be cultured to
a narrythurstonpeckish degree we musi
admit the marvellous condensation and
eloquence OF our slang and its adaptabili:y
to our latter day joys and sorrows.