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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

made his first speculation. He bought
Il third interest in threshing ma
chine that came rafting across the
prairie after the harvest. The old
farmers shook their heads at this. for
1t was a tradition that the threshing
machine man usually came to finan-
cial grief, But it was a year of bump
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
Vexfnd
Servant
Problem
By Mary E. WHkins

Brains More Necessary Than
Physical Strength in the Kitchen
Society to Blame for Servants
Wrong Estimate Of Domestic
Service-M Mistress Needs Com
plete knowledge Of Housekeeping
to Direct Blind Willingness and
Bovine Obedience - Position of
Domestic Servant Should Be
Made More Attractive = Time
Needed for Solution Of the
Problem.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

did you not thiuk 1t was finished
discourse?" n
Yes. when you had done talking"
Houston Post
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

A good domestic IS such rara avis
that she ought to have a prestige like
any other rare thing, but she has il
not, and one cannot blame her, but So
ciety, for her wrong estimate of the
desirability of domestic service. No
body, that is, nobody in this country
and especially the American born, is
as a rule going into your kitchen to
work if she has mental ability. The
mental ability presupposes ambition
and the ambition in this country
means to an Abigail a position in
which the doors of a certain class shall
not be closed to her on account of her
calling.
Everybody with wit has an emula-
tive eye and a ready foot for the next
step above him in social caste. AS a
rule all others have either been crushed
by circumstances into passiveness or
they are really too dull to comprehend
that they are not all which they might
reasonably desire and have not the
most desirable position. They are too
stupid to be ambitious and stay where
their conditions of life happen TO toss
them, like leaves too inert to be stirred
by any gust of wind, with neither mo-
ton of their own nor capability of re-
ceiving motion from others.
These are they to whom you pay $12.
S14 or more month for walking the
aimless, hopeless treadmill of your
kitchen, to do labor without compre-
hending either its object or itself, like
the crudest, rudest machine conceiv-
able. We have advanced immeasur-
ably in our inventions, our printing
presses, our typewriters, all our labor
saving and perfecting machines, but
the servant still dates back to the days
Of the handioom and the spindle.
Of course do not speak of trained
English and French servants or Amer
lean servants with like training or
Of those employed in situations where
wealth can command goodly allow
ance of ability in this as in other di-
rections. Wealth can do almost any
thing.
l speak Of the usual servant at
usual wages in the families of
moderate means who have the sever
est struggle with the servant problem,
since their own minds and muscles are
involved in its solution.
There is felt keenly the lack Of
brain and gray matter. not of blind
willingness and bovine obedience in
the kitchen. That, as before said, Is
the reason why when Abigail sweeps
the floor dust taketh wings and hieth
10 the picture frames and the ceiling;
why the meat is overdone or under
done; why the dishes are nicked and
The substance wasted. And there is as
much sense in finding fault and blam-
Ing as In fuming because one cannot
1ick figs from thistles.- The thistles OF
lfs choke cut the ngs for the most
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

Hungary Printed First Almanac.
The first almanac was printed tr
Hungary in 1470.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

(Miss Mary E. Wilkins, now Mrs.
Charles Freeman, is so much better
known as talented writer of fiction
than as a housewife that many readers
will be surprised to find how much she
knows about the art of making home
homelike. Among her many popular
books may be mentioned Pembroke, " ;,
"A Humble Romance" "Giles Corey"
Jerome The Jamesons" and The
Portion of Labor.'D
The conditions of the problem are
very simple. the solution, of course, not
SO simple; solutions never are, other
wise no problem. Still, the solution,
or a solution, may seem evident
enough, and all the trouble consist in
the extreme inconvenience, not to say
impossibility, of putting it to prac-
tical application 1t is perfectly easy
to say that two and two make four,
fully to understand that two and two
make four, but there may be conditions
under which it is well nigh impossible
to make the four. Perhaps the factors
will not combine at all or not without
an explosion.
Often with the servant problem it.
may be quite evident what the Difficult
~ is, at least generally speaking. A
thoughtful and discriminating woman
who has tried housekeeping herself, or
made an intelligent study Of its re-
quirements, soon reached the conclu-
sion that the simplest and most primi-
tive household tasks require brains and
no small allowance of them. In real
ity she discovers that brains are more
necessary in the kitchen than physical
strength.
A stupid servant cannot even sweep
room skillfully She will inevitably
scatter the dust and lint that comes as
mysteriously as the wind in the new
testament and as defiantly, where it
listeth, all over the furniture and
walls, instead of into the vague out-of-
ably returns, but that cannot be
helped; it makes the task of servitude
perennial. 1t is essential at all events
that it be banished thither, but no un-
skilled, brainless servant can effect
that.
You can teach her to the best of
your ability. You can say: Now,
Abigail, you must take this and cover
that; you must dust first; you must
sweep so and So" 1t will all be fruit
less unless Abigail has receptive and
order of mind, and usually
she will not have it. If she does pos
sess that order of mind she will be at
g typewriter machine or sewing ma
chine, or in schoOlroom or mil
liners or photographers parlor, in
stead of your kitchen. She may be
prinked and pert behind counter. In
any case, wherever else they may be,
the brains are not in your kitchen, un-
less you have fortunately struck the
exception to prove the rule. If Abigail
had possessed brains she would at
once have proceeded to attempt some
thing which she could not do half as
we'll as she might have done your
and, if she had only SO
viewed it, without half the glory.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
The Steel Merger.

They picked up everything in sight
hurried to Chicago, and, within a
week after the opening of their cam
paign, they had the whole company
organized. This is the way that Gates
likes to do things. Gates and all his
followers cleaned up fortunes in this
fiotation. The public appetite was
keen for industrial stocks, especially
for steel stocks, and the conversion of
millions of dollars worth of newly
manufactured stock certificates into
the coin of the realm was accom-
plished in a short time. Two years
later the big trust was formed in the
steel trade, and the Gates companies
were turned into the merger. Gates
wanted to go on the steel board,
but the chief promoter, Mr.. Morgan,
wouldn't have it. The banker said he
didn't think that Gates was safe man
to have in a great corporation direc-
torate.
Mr.. Morgans coldness toward him
didn't seem to worry him at all Not
many months later Gates began to
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
part. While there really are ngs. thel
never grow on thistles.

The one answer to the question as to
what shall be done in the cazs Of in
adequate intelligence in the kitchen
seems to presuppose itself. Brains
there must be in the house or it will
fall. II there are none in the kitchen
there must be some in the parlor, and
the motive power must extend to the
kitchen and supply the need there
When the room is swept there must
the queen reign, her throne must be
movable into the quarters where the
bread is made and The dishes washed
She must pervade the house with
her superior intelligence and above ali
she must be able to perform herself,
perfectly, in the manner which she ad-
Vocates, the tasks which she sets the
servant. She may not actually do
them, but she must know how with
head and hands. She must be trained
like any teacher in the lessons which
she gives before she can teach to ad-
vantage.
But the mistress may have no more
fitness for her position than the maid
for hers. She may not only lack abil-
ity but the power to acquire ability.
What then? The chances are that
while two and two exist they can never
be combined, that while the household
remains there will never be peace and
order and work we'll done. And there
is still another contingency.
The mistress may be abundantly
able, she may have the knowledge
which gives her the right to teach, she
may have the power to enforce the
teaching by the authority of example,
and yet manifest duty may point out
another path for her willing but re-
stricted feet. There are cases in which
woman would not save but squander,
would not do right but wrong, in de-
voting herself entirely to the manage
ment of her household and servants.
Sometimes the queen must go abroad
and work and war in sterner and
broader fields and forsake her closet
and her bread and honey. Sometimes
it is she who has to count out tho
money.
What then? The problem remains
stated, its solution indicated but i'm
possible. Abigails come and go, and
the dirt and disorder and discomfort
remain. Inefficiency graduates with
out laurels and the new aspirant takes
her place, until the end.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

couldn't see 1t that way, and so Gates
put up a barbed wire mill of his own
His knowledge of the trade was an
asset, and he soon became a danger
GUS rival of Col Ellwood The colonel
brought an action for infringement of
patent rights and bitter fight was
the result. But Gates hung right on.
Col. Ellwood finally had to make peace
with him. The two became business
partners and have been closely asso-
ciated in big enterprises ever since.
Other barbed wire mills began to
spring up, and Gates saw that there
would be a disastrous trade war if
the rivals were not corralled He went
around the country buying them up
and formed a barbed wire trust. This
was the nucleus of the $90,000000
American Steel & Wire company, now
a part Of the Steel corporation. The
first big flotation engineered by Gates
was the Federal Steel, a $100, 100000
corporation. That was in September,
1898, at the beginning of the great
steel boom following the Spanish
American war. He followed that with
the American Steel & Wire, with $780,
100000 capital, four months later. The
manner in which Gates and EllWood
brought out this company is character
istic Of the man. On a telephone call
from Pittsburg they jumped across
Pennsylvania and bought a wire mill
at Sharon; then they went to Cleve.
laud and bought $5,0OO,0OO rolling
mill, and the next day they were back
in New York to close a deal for the
purchase of another mill.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

There is no way out which is in
ed. Possibly the awakening of selfish
interest, which igncble thing is, after
ALL powerful mind tonic for the most
of us, might stir the sluggish nature
and rouse the dormant faculties to en-
ergy. What that selfish interest should
be could be proved by experiment.
Possibly small new privileges or re-
wards. although those are always
doubtful; possibly system of profit,
sharing, or rather saving-sharing,
might work well. But that is all sug-
gestion, and the first experiment might
prove the futility of 1t. Possibly the
caste of the domestic servant might be
elevated gradually by a careful and
judicious system until in time the po-
sition came to be considered more de-
sirable by the intelligent class capable
of skilled labor. That may seem to
advocate the old New England system
of having hired man and girl sit at the
table with the family, but it need not
necessarily involve that. The servant
might have her quarters made more
befitting a person in higher walk of
life, her manner of dressing might be
improved and she might be made to
feel that her work was her distinction,
instead of her disgrace, and in time it
might all be better. But who knows?
The problem, although old as the
world and lightly spoken of, is serious,
involving as it does the power and
leisure to do lasting work Of the best
workers in the world. Unless Abigail
serves well, the Judge, the physician,
the teacher, the scholar, the writer, are
shall regulate the serving of Abigail?
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
FROM cLhNsTED.

Several from here attended the Sunday
School Convention at Akinsville Satur.
day aud Sunday.
Mrs. ). J. Holloway and children, Of
Tipton, are visiting relatives and friends
in this neighborhood.
Kawaguchi, japanese student at Will
liam Jewell College, gave An interesting
lecture on japan. at the Concrete Thurs.
day night.
Rev. d. I. Slipher preached at Little
Buffalo last Sunday.
Mrs. Milburn and two children went
TO Sedalia last Wednesday to visit heI
children.
Lizzie and Eva Holloway went to Kan
sas City Wednesday to spend the fourth
with their brother, and take IN the sight.
Of the city.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04

Mr.. A. l.. Brock, Of Buffalo, Wyoming,
while visiting his brothers.in.law, the
Brown Bros, and other relatives and
friends Of Old Mo-, is combining business
with pleasure. lie is buying a lot Of
good horses and mares and shipping
them to his ranch in Wyoming. He
bought fine horse of George Snorgrass
Of Excelsior, and some fine mares Of Mr..
Oglesby, Of Lamont, Mo-, besides otl,erl
frofi, other parties, all Of which were de-
livcred At sehalia. from which poin,
they were shipped.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
Scattered Items.

Wheat harvest is being pushed in great
earnest these days, as it. and the cultiva.
tion of the corn, are claiming the atten-
lion of all hamls and the cook. The
wheat crop seems to he the largest the
county has had for many years.
Miss Lucy Crosswhitc. one Of the Nor.
gan county girls who has been making
her home in Montana for a nunitset of
years, but who has been travelling the
past year in California, Mexico and other
states for her health, is visiting het
parents and other relatives in and around
Versailles.
Miss Corinth Kaufman hurt one of
her eyes very badly, few days ago, but
under the skillful treatment Of Drs. Hub
bard and I.utman she is getting on nicely
and we hope nothing serious will come
Of the hart.
We failed last week to mention that
Mr.. John Woods had 6ne horse acci'
IDENTIFY killed by jumping over fence
and breaking its neck, aud that Berry
Hawk had one Of his t,ne Jacks, valued
at 5000, 70 die.
Boe Brown, Of Enid, last week bought
81 bead Of stock hogs Of Al Webster and
otasers, of Gravois Mills Rose delivered
them himself, but was short 10 hogs
when lie got home.
Miss Rl,etta Dale, who is in the mil.
1inery business in the state Of Nevada, Is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Julia Dale,
northeast Of Versailles.
During the thunder storm last Sstur.
clay the lightning killed two 6ne beet
cattle for M. Price Hunter, Of Enid
These cattle were sold at $50 per lO
to Ike delivered about the 6rst Of July aud
would weigh about 1900 lbs each.
On Tuesday oi last week Miss Rhetts
Dale received a Telegram that her cousin
Montrose Iynson, Of II. Louis, had diet
that morning. Miss Dale went to st
Louis over the Rock Island to attend the
funeral.
Miss Gusta femme has been employed
to teach the Goodinsn school at a goot
salary. We congratulate tile board OF
their selection "f teacher, as Miss Gusts
is we'll qualified and a conscientious ant
thorough, teacher, bnt unless they max
special arrangements with her. that dep
u.y po,tm ,ster at Vers.ille. may per
eusde her to change her plans.
Mrs. Stella Stockdale. Of Enid, is .
Latham undergoing treatment which, re
quired an operation on one OF her eyes
by tie specialist, Dr. Latham. She
getting ON nicely.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04

Miss Lille Joachimi gracefully pre-
siding. The numbers were all good
and we'll rendered. The medal vas
awarded to Willie Anderson by the
Judges, and presented, in neat
speech, by Miss Shaner.
The church was beautifully decora.
ted by the committee, Mrs. Schannep
and Miss Joachimi, With flags, bunt.
ing, ferns and vases Of lovely Gu,
flowers presented by friends.
Among the delegates were Rev,
Sims, Rev. and Mrs. Slipher, Mrs.
Sparks, Mrs. Spalding and Miss
Hughes, of Glenstead, and Mrs
Johnson and daughter of St. Louis
and other prominent visitors.
Miss Shaner lectured Sunday morn
ing to large and appreciative audi
ence at the NJ. F.. church.
A very pleasant feature was the
serving Of dainty refreshments to
those attending the Mothers meeting
Tuesday afternoon, after the close ol
the service, by Miss Lucy Martin
of the Martin Hotel, and was full,
appreciated and thoroughly enjoyed
by all.
Much credit is due the earnes
workers of the W. E.. +. U. for theil
untiring efforts for these interesting
meetings.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
More Postal ConvenienceS,

II is the intention Of the Postmaster
General to extend ey.order facilities
in the immediate future 10 many thou
sands of Offices, his celief being that they
will bc beneficial alike TO the department
and to the people.
Postmaster General Meyer will feconi.
mend to the next Congress that iegisla
,ion I've enacted providing for the intro
duction Of postal notes for Sums no,
exceeding $40 or perhaps e., whi'h
may I've issued without the Fling Of 4
written application or the seliding IF an
advice, and lie obtaihsble Not only at all
money order Offices, Uut al m,ahy Of the
smaller post offices where Il may not bc
feasible to issue money orders.
| Postage stamps are used largly for rr'
niittancss OF fractional amounts, coins
being unsuitable for transmission IN
letters, anti d substitute therefor. adapted
10 this use, has long been denandrn
The PROPOSED postal note is intended 10
supply this want. II would I've issued
for 4 smaller fee than the money -Urdcr
could be more easily procured and niigh,
be placed for sale Ut thousands Of Offices
too small to he made money. order of'ees.
1.-The South west.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
A Sad Story.

II is trite saying that truth is stran.
gsr than felton," and an instance has
just happened that proves the saying. 1t
will be remembered that Miss Jennie
Price, daughter Of John T.. Price, was
married in the spring of 100! to Mr..
Bailey. Three days after the wedding
Mr.. Bailey became very i'll, and died IN a
few days. Mrs. Bailey returned to the
home Of her father, living there until
two years ago, when she was selected rs
Mstron Of the BOonville Reform School.
W. 7. Mckinney, company officer at the
Training School. aud Mrs. bailey were
to have been married today, but OH Mon.
day Mr.. Mckinney died from the effects
of stroke Of paralysis. Olean hide.
pendent.
Mrs. Bailey's many friends in Yer
sailles and vicinity. sympathise with he'
in her great affection.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
W. c, T. U. Local Institute.

The W. {. L. U. workers of Ver-
sailles held a very successful series
Of meetings at the Baptist church, be-
ginning Sunday night with an anti
cigarette rally, and closing Tuesday
evening with Mothers meeting.
The Rally was carried out accord
ing 10 the printed program, and was
full OF good things from start to finish.
The lecture by Miss Shaner, National
and State Organizer of the W. {. +.
IT,, was eloquent and to the point.
Oh that all the women of Morgan
county were as interested as Miss
Shaner. Those who missed the Raj.
ly missed a treat.
The Institute, beginning at II
O'Clock Monday morning, was we'll
attended. 1t was conducted by Misi
Shaner, ably assisted by Mrs. Briggs
President of the district and local W
L. +. U. The addresses by Revs
Sims, Emory and White were good
The paper by Prof. Lvesay was yer,
interesting. The parliamentary drill
by Miss Shaner, was both instructive
and amusing. Other good thing
were said and done, but space for
bids mentioning them.
! The Contest was held at 8 p. m.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

A number OF the members and
friends OF the NJ. r. Church met at
the church Sunday afternoon to talk
over plans for raising money to build
the new church. The meeting was
presided over by the Chairman of the
building committee W. L. Stephens.
One or two agreed to double their
subscriptions, and thought that alt
should do so. After a short silence,
which was so intense as TO be almost
audible, an electric shock was ad-
ministered by Bro. &. n. Mason
enunciating the fact that the way to
build was to build, that he would be
one of five to start the good work at
$500. He was Immediately called
by Bro. W. W. Moore, and it is
confidently expected there will be
found three or four more devoted
ones. Another meeting will be held
at the Church next Sunday afternoon
at 3 O'Clock, and all friends OF the
church, and those interested IN seeing
this fine building completed, are
urgently requested to attend.
Attorney John Gibbs had been on
the sick list tor the past week, but
was able to get down to his Office
Monday. We guess too much 'gar-
den sass"
Crewson and Harrison moved into
the new Odd Fellow Building Tues
day. They are the first in, and il
they don't pay their rent promptly,
they'll be the frst out.
Van Crewson and wife expect to
spend the 4th in Kansas City,
Crewson and Harrison have sold
nearly thirty thousand dollars worth
of land in the last few days,-and the
Crewsons are going up to read the
signs and count the stories in the
buildings there that are higher ther
the new Odd Fellows building here
4 Rev. X. +. Kinds, of Spring Gar
den, Mo-. was in our city las
Saturday, in the interest Of "Wort
and Way" published at Kansas City
He is a cousin Of Mr.. Dan Wray
also a cousin OF Mr.. Wray Witten, o
our city. Our acquaintance bega'
with Bro. Kinds when he was paste
of the Baptist church at Osaik, Mo.
where he made many friends by hi
earnest, christian work, and gentle
manly department. We had a YER
pleasant visit, and talk over old time
at Osark,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
National Dailygraphs

The mao who shakes the plum tree
doesn't always yet all the fruit.
: Hunger makes it hard to realize that
the rich have troubles.
Men remember you for the blows you
strike; women for your kind words.
The wisdom Of high sounding words IL
poor weapon with which to fight the
world.
He WHO Is wise enough to prepare fo'
everything 10 ,deuied the pleasure OF
many surprises. .
The Woman's National Daily,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
ICE! ICE! ICE!

Remember, we are going
to handle Manufactured Ice,
the only kind that insures
good health.
&. II. Mason,
Everything Clean.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-07-04
Time Now to Plant Alfalfa,

Every farm in the Southwest that can
grow alfalfa and does not is misrnanaged.
Alfalfa is always a money. maker and is
sometimes life. saver. July and Angus,
are tho best months for planting in the
Southwest, Experts say, and It Is time
now to get the seed and soil realty.
The soil must be deep, we'll drained
and thoroughly. titled, as for wheat.
The seed should Ike secured from u re
liable dealer and sown about four pounds
to the acre, mixed with the same quan
tity Of timothy ur orrhart, grass weed.
The seed BET, may be inoculated with
the necessary nodules by scattering upon
It few hsndfuls Of soil from some well
established alfalfa field.
The crop is cut the first year, but sut
ficient grass should Ike left to form win,
ter mulch. DO not pasture the hr-
year. ar.-The Southwest.