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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1906-08-02

oio del eigarrillo, sino todos los viCios
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do IL tas del globo. Lo sensible 90
ous no Ahundan los millonarioA OIL CO.
tilo do Mr., Barker.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1906-08-02
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Supsrintendsnte del Manicomio.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1906-08-02

Or. Simon Moret MuhOz
espacho: Gale de Ia Union.
Ponse, Puerto Rie6.
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rated u nothing on quantity OF work. 1
at one-terth. at twe-tenths, at three
tenths. Is at four-tenthS. SO at i've
tenths, IS at sfx-te1ths. lie at sagen-
tenths. 1877 at eight-tenths, ITO at nine
tenths and e53 at ten-tenths. On quality
OF work the veterans are divided as fol-
lows: 40 as poor LAG, fair; 157, aver
age; 369 good; 2s3. excellent.
OF the 1926 old employees 1908 are men
and ga women. The Treasury leads in
number with 45S; the Interior comes
next with t17; Government Printing Or
fee. 2a6, War Department I'll, Post
once, so; Commerce and Labor. So: Az
riculture. 61.-while IS is the highest
number in any other department or bu-
reau.
When 1t comes to salary groups. els
are drawing less than SEQ. 185 between
that figure and SS40. 81 less than $780,
l0s less than $1,000. 12S less than $780,
3l5 less than s1400. EOS less than $780,
i47 less than $500. i47 less than $4,000.
30 between $1,000 and $500 and "a draw
$500 or more year.
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amount Of work; that they draw an
average salary of s125S and that the
salary adjusted to the work performed
would be s1204.
Similarly. the employees from 20 to IS
number 435. perform 1874 per cent OF
their work. receive 1920 and earn 1855,
while those over IS number Els, per-
form I'll per cent OF their work, draw
SlI66 and earn sSi1:
The total salaries of all 65 and over
amount TO s1.973.5S0.50. Were these sal
aries adjusted to the amount OF work
performed the total would be s1.570.000.
These figures take no account OF the
quality OF work performed and II IS I'm
possible TO reduce this to a numerical
equivalent.
On quantity Of work the average for
all employees OF the specified age is 1915
per cent. while for the veterans alone
the average is S0-S per cent. There arc
$40 veterans between So and 20. 253 be-
tween 20 and rs and l02 more than rs
years OF age,
OF these ssi veteran employees. are
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ment's work is suffering severely at
the hands of aged ineompetents-
Efficiency was determined by guam
tity marked in tenths, with ten-tenths
to represent the amount performed by
a thoroughly competent clerk, ana by
quality. graded as poor. fair, average,
good and excellent The work of SO
old employees is rated as poor. of 26l as
fair, of 229 as average, of esq as good
and of S74 as excellent.
AS to the amount Of work performed.
10 are rated as accomplishing nothing,
as doing one-tenth of the amount re-
quired; 5. two-tenths. q. three-tenths'
20. four tenths; Ia, fye-tenths; Isl.
ix-teuths, 236, seven-tenths. 357.
eight-tenths. 275. nine-tenths; while
Al are given as performing ten-tenths.
or all of the work to be expected of
the most efficient empioye.
The commission has drawn other in
tercstipg deductions. Thus 1t is found
ahat there are 94s employees between
the ages OF 65 and 20; that they per-
form ST. per cent of the proper
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10000, while those who are at least 65
number 1926. OF this number only 127,
or less than s per cent. entered the
service through examination, and as
A of those entered through the section
OF the revised statutes giving prefer
ence to veterans Injured in the service.
there are left SO, or only 5 per cent,
who We're appointed through strictly
competitive examination
As to the character of work per-
formed by these old fellows it is shown
that 70 veterans and 81 civilians are
engaged III work of an executive char
acter; SO veterans and SO civilians in
professional. TECHNICAL and scientific
work 43S veterans and 32g civilians in
clerical duties; so veterans and III
civilians in work OF mechanical ma
ture, 22S veterans and 90 civilians in
work OF a sub-clerical character and 10
Veterans and 40 civilians are employed
as unskilled laborers.
The showing on efficiency is the fea-
ture or the report II tends to miti-
gate the impression that the Govern
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suddenly relaxed is she mentally placed
the seantling again upon the uprights
and seated herself once more upon the
fragment OF ladder.
The fact that a carpenter could have
accomplished in half an hour what *
took Madame Durand half day to do
illustrates one OF the many difficulties,
that OF lack of knowledge, under which
this woman of wonderful grit and per-
severance is laboring. A man used to
building would have simply nailed a
eleat on one of the posts and then rest
ed the end OF the cross piece against
thae
What about the plumbing? That will
be expensive
Il do that myself, too. 1 used to have
water only to the fence" She pointed
across the little yard to where the
fence separated 1t from the street.
Now I have 1t half way up to the
house work and save nearly two
weeks to buy that pipe"
And then you had to pay for haying
IL laid. Plumbing is"
Il laid it myself"
You laid II yourself 1 gaspingly
repeated. ] thought CT the laboring
man with his broad back and brawny
arms. and then looked at the slight fig
ure that had riserh from its seat. A
light frame, with not one ounce of SUI
perfiuous flesh upon it; sleeves rolled
back on slender arms. beneath the
roughened skin of which the muscles
played like those ofSa cat.
Out" she said. and then explained
with patient politeness. II dig the
ditch. That is nothing" A shrug of
the shoulders. a gay little laugh. that,
interpreted. might stand for oh, la, la
lalnia," Then. with a monkey wrench,
I join the pipe So" Again the hammer
Is used as an object lesson. With a
deft turn of her wrists, and using the
space between thumb and index finger
as 4 pivot, she screws together imagin-
ary water pipes.
When do you expect to get the pipe
laid all the way up 10 the house?"
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And a carpenter at ss.50i Cieir' She
raised her expressive hands excitedly
as only a Frenchwoman can.
How a Woman Builds.
Every bic of it have done myself
First / lay the floor That was easy
Then 1 put up the posts. That was
harder, for they are heavy But the
roof, That was the hardest of all
That I thought 1 never would get up.
You see that piece of wood there near
the high end OF the rock2" She pointed
to long scantling at least fourteen
feet long. Weighing over forty pounds
Half a day 1t took me to get it there
I go up the step ladder" she rose to
her feet. Il hold the piece of wood So"
illustrating with the hammer by hold
ing it horizontally with both hands
and then / try to lay 1t upon the two
posts" indicating the uprights at the
corners of the house. a long. time |
stand on the top of the ladder, hrst
get it on one post, then when 1 put it
on the other one the first one comes on
l try several times, and then my arms
get so tired they shake, and l have to
get down. I go in and lie down on my
bed and rest for 'sa minutes. Then 1
come out and try arain. The second
time / put it on the posts, but when
go down the ladder for my hammer,
crash. it tumhles!" Her arms shot out
at the sides and downward. With. the
instructive feeling for the dramatic.
she went through the motions as
though she wers enacting a real part.
with the sawdust-strewn floor, for the
stage, ard me for the audience.
4 go in and lie down again. my arms
and my back they ache SO. Then come
out and go up the ladder again and put
it on the posts once more. Then. start
10 hammer one end 1t jars the wood.
and the other end falls off. II did seem
as though Inever would get that piece
up. 1t took me nearly half of one day.
The others were much easier" She
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HS.
DIPANDS
SUBSTANTIAL
HOUSE,,

When l get the money. / have to
work every day for two weeks to first
buy the pipe. work all the time"
This last was evidently a delicate
hint for me to take my departure To
emphasize IT. she began piecing to-
gether again the combination step-lad
der Her manner said plainly that she
considered that she had wasted enough
time upon me to pay for the slight SER
wee | had rendered her in picking up
her hammer.
Did you work out today, before
starting in to build this afternoon?'
Vraiement. ] did a big wash TODAY
for five in the family. / work. work
all the time" Another hint which
was too dense to. understand. | alsc
refused to see the appealing glance she
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help them to dress; cook the breakfast
and send them to school. Then l walk
to my days work. When l get through
washing. cleaning. ironing, whatever
there is to do. I walk home again and
then / am happy, because l can go to
work on my house
Don't you do anything but work.?
That's all l know, ever since my
husband died years ago. The French
women work. They know how to do
everything. They can work in the
fields, they can have a business; they
are not lazy. But the American
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IN the morning and finish painting the
house. am busy all the time" Another
upward glance at the roof. "On Sundays
/ sew and make the clothes for my
children and myself have made every
stitch Of my own clothes for twenty
years I have no time for pleasure. Once
1 went % the theater. but that Is the
only time have ever wasted"
She turned with determination TO
construct again her treacherous step
ladder. and placed the wooden chair
once more upon the box
AS a substitute for an apology felt
was due her for my intrusion and the
consequent retarding OF her work. I
tried to think OF somSthing consoling
and hopeful.
When your son grows up you'll not
need to work any more. He'll support
you then"
A merrier laugh could not have re-
warded the subtlest of bon mots.
My son. when he grows upA-he'll
marry, and I'll be-" A dramatic ges-
ture indicating a narrow strip OF land
about six feet in length completed her
sentence. She might have been talking
about a fowerbed.
This time madame actually mounted.
and, with a stick of wood. notched. as
~ woman w0alG nGteh q piece OF card
board 10 tell the width OF a hem. she
began measuring the distance between
the roof boards.
We'll. you're almost through to-
days work" / said as a kind of pre-
liminary farewell, as l gazed up at her
busy with the most primitive OF tools.
Il am not through for many hours
yet" was the answer that came down
to me. Il will work here until it Is
too dark for me to see. then I must
cook the dinner for myself and the
three children. wash the dishes.
straighten up the kitchen, and then
when I have put them to bed I Will
sit down and sew"
Aren't you very. very, tired at
night?"
mark. but the wOman's stupendous
energy appalled, my wits.
Yes. / am she admitted. some
times when I go to bed my arm throbs
all night long. and in my sleep hamr
mer. hammer. hammer
As an echo to her words. she hit a
long nail square on the head. and also
knocked all efforts at further eonver-
sation.
The pounding drowned my adieu. I
passed through the door opening once
more,i leaving Madame Durand fitting
upon the swaying elevation with as
much confidence in it's stability as
though she were standing upon the
rock of Gibraltar.
She was glad to have me go. There
wasn't the slightest doubt about It. The
pound. pound. pound Of her hammer
making up for lost time came to me
fainter and fainter as I passed through
the yard. out the gate and into Lin
coin avenue AGAIN
I felt L had learned what real work
means.
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gave toward her unfinished roof.
You have three children. Can't they
help your
Another gay little laugh, and a shrug
of the shoulders that twists halfway
round the wlry figure. The French flip
pancy of spirit, that admirable quality
-of making light of misfortune, is born
in Madame Durand.
The children? They arc too young.
| work for them, too. | get up at 6.
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The Neighbors Only Laughed.

Another shrug supplied words she
was too polite to utter
why, the little house L live in there
was all shabby, and so I bought some
paint to paint it. and the neighoors
hung over the fence and they laughed
at me. Finally 1 get up at half-past 3
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02

I INDER instructions fro,g. Prest-
dent Roosevelt the United States
Civil Service Commission has
complied statistics relative to
old age in the Federal departmental
service. The Presidents action was the
outcome Of the recent discussion ii
Congress over the proposal to drop
from the rolls all clerks moro than 10.
and to reduce the pay OF Others re-
garded an superannuated.
In order 60 get accurate data on the
subject the President directed the COM
mission 10 obtain from eli the depart
ments the fullest Information as to
employees 65 years of age and more,
the quantity and the quality of the
work performed by them, the method
Of entering the service, salary aud
whether in each case the empIoye was
a war veteran or not.
The whole number of employees in the
departments at Washington Is about
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
Knew Of a Perfect Woman.

"Who ever saw a perfect mann"
asked an Atchison reviyalist.
"There is no such thing. Every
man has his faults-plenty Of
them" OF course no one had ever
seen a perfect man and conse-
quently the statement Of the re-
vivalist was received with silence.
Then the revivalist continued:
"Who ever saw a perfect woman?"
Atthisjuncturea tall, thin woman
arose. "Do you mean to say, mad
am" the evangelist asked, "that
you have seen a perfect woman?"
"Well, / can just say that / have
seen her,"the woman replied, "but
l have heard a powerful lot about
henry husbands first wife,
Kansas City Journal.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
Punishment for Detectives.

Two Washington "detectives'
were returning from Ohio with a
horse thief in custody and permit
ted their man to escape by jump
ing through a a window. They
wired a report to the sheriff and
promptly received instructions
not to return unless they brought
their prisoner with them. That
is the way to talk. If two men,
well armed and having the au-
thority to shackle a prisoner, can.
not bring him across the cont.
nent in railway train it is time
for them to seek some other oc
cupation and forfeit the amount
of their official bonds: The trouble
is that we hold such official de-
linquencies too lightly. To per.
nit a criminal to escape is as
great a wrong against the public
as to abscond with public funds,
and punishment for the offense
should be as certain in one case as
it is in the other.-Portland Ore.
gonian.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
Trained Horses Tricks.

Hans, the performing horse,
which made a sensation in Berlin
for a few days because it was
thought he could count, spell, ETC.,
has been proved a fraud, or his
owner has. His groom has con-
fessed. AS to the counting, az
long as the groom kept his eyes on
the ground Hans continued
stamping with a hoof. AS soon as
the groom looked up the horse
ceased to stamp. All his tricks
were done by signal.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
ssTOSCA"

The celebrated Royal Belgian
Stallion is one of the finest stock
horses ever brought to the state;
imported direct from France
last February and was the first
choice Of the Importation; is a
beautiful chestnut with silver
name and tail and weighs 1000
pounds. This horse will stand
at the following places for the
season: Monday and Tuesday at
Frank Gray's farm; Wednesday
and Thursday at Geo. Slingsby's
farm and Friday and Saturday
at Fred Laws farm (the old Ras-
musson place. Terms: $16. 90 to
insure with foal.
STEELE Co. BELGIAN Stock Co.
Frank Gray, Pres.
SD. Sctt, Secy.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
NOTICE OF EXAMINATION.

A. teachers examination occurs
the last Friday and Saturday in
May and will be held at Sher-
brooke, N. Oak. The dates are
May 25th and Goth.
The pupils completion exam
nation will be held at Hope,
Finley, Sharon and Sherbrooke,
Thursday and Friday, May 18th
and 18th. Programs sent upon
request.
Dated at Sherbrooke, North
Dakota this 28th day of April,
A. D. 1906.
T. A. HAssELQUIsT,
County Superintendent of
Schools.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
BIENNIAL MEETING GENERAL

BIENNIAL MEETING GENERAL
FEDERATION WOMEN'S CLUBS
At st. Paul, May Both to June 7th.
The Chicago Great Western Railway
will on May 28th to 3lst inclusive sell
tickets to St. Paul at one fare plus
$500, good to return June 9th with the
extension privileges. For further
information apply to any Great Wes-
tern Agent or J. p. Elmer, G. P. A.
st. Paul, MINI. 4t3
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
Slot Billiard Tab1e.

An automatic billiard table has
been invented by a German. The
balls are placed on the table from
invisible pockets when a penny is
put in the slot. At the end Of IS
minutes one side of the table is
raised two inches, making further
play impossible unless another
coin is placed in the slot.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
REDUCED RATES.

The Biennial Meeting Of the
General Federation of Woman's
Clubs will be held at St. Paul
May 30 to June Z. Reduced
rates will be given of one fare
plus $500 for the round trip.
Tickets on sale from May % to
81 inclusive Final return limit
June 9. A. G. Flick, Agt.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
DRINK HABIT. CURED

Permanently and thoroughly BY the
Murray Cure. If you have tried others
and failed, don't lose hope. We will re.
turn your money if you are not satisfied
at n Of treatment. Remember it Is not
a,gold cure, and leaves one in splendid
physical condition. Write or wire insti-
tute at our expense, stating exact time
when you will arrive. It is shelter to have
us meet you at the train and avoid i'm.
scrupulous hack drivers who will take
you to the wrong place. Write for bank
references and booklet giving testimon-
ials and endorsement of the Murray
Cure. There are only two Murray Cure
neapolis. and
4" FARGO N. D.
81 So. 18th St.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
Germ Destroyers.

A French bacteriologist de-
clares that lemonade, cider, seltz-
err and similar drinks will kill ty-
phoid germs, while alcohol at rs
percent. destroysmicrobes, and at
2 per cent. prevents their develop.
ment.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-05-17
CAPTURE RATTLEsNAKEs.
Not Such a Difficult Feat When One
Goes About It the Right
y Way.

1t isn't everybody who knows
how to catch a rattlesnake, even
should he have sudden occasion
to put such knowledge in practice,
says the Chicago Chronicle. The
first indication of the presence of
a RATHER is the sharp, unmistaka.
BILE rattle. The reptile is the fair
est fighter of all living creatures,
never failing to give due warning
of it's hostile intent. Bending low
and gazing among the shrubs, the
dangerous one may be espied. He
is curled on himself like a spiral
spring, his head flat and triangu-
lar, and a fourth of his body raised
out of the circles of coils and bent
into the shape of a horizontal s.,
ready to strike with lightning
rapidity. The eyes glare black
and cold as the viper is poised like
a tense spring, alert and ready to
bury it's long, needlelike poison
fangs and to inject the frightful
poison.
If the intruder is without strik-
ing distance and remains where
he is, he is in little danger, as only
in the rarest cases have the snakes
been known to attack and assume
the initiative. If the hunter with,
draws, gradually the viper as
sumes a position of repose, which
it maintains until again threat.
ened. But to the snake catcher
the threat of the RATHER is not a
serious deterrent. He knows the
creature can strike only within a
radius of about one-halfits length.
Having struck it must recoil and
aim a second time before it can
send out it's hideous head. A six
foot stick is all that is necessary
to catch the formidable snake.
Pushing the end of the stick to-
ward the reptile, the hunter
watches his chance. The RATHER
is motionless, as if carved out of
stone, only it's beady, icy eyes fas-
tened upon the end of the stick to
await the proper moment to bite.
When that comes there is a move
ment too quick for the eye to fol
low, and the long fangs are sunk
into the stick, while the reptile,
realizing it's mistake at once, is al.
ready coiled up and again in a
fighting attitude.
Before it can strike down comes
the pole, pinning the long, squirm-
ing body to the ground, and the
hunter walks boldly toward the
helpless one, takes it up close be-
hind the head, where the poison
fangs cannot reach him, and puts
his captive into a bag.
There are other methods of
catching the rattler-for in
stance, when the reptile is in it's
winter quarters and lethargic and
lazy. But the manner described
is the way the professional snake
catcher secures his specimens.