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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

The boys at the Paulsen make
about 900 round trips daily and
travel about "a miles every day.
The average speed of the cars be-
tween stops is about six miles an
hour. The two elevators at the
Empire State building are among
the fastest in the city. They make
round trip in half a minute or
less, as each car stops only on the
trip one way.
Lynne Potter. elevator operator
at the Fernwell building. makes
600 round trips daily and hauls on
an average between 5000 and 1000
people a day. The elevator in the
Rookery is run at high speed but
it is an old type Of car and seems
little unsteady in comparison
with the new heavy elevators.
Willard Conley is the operator
at the Columbia building. which
is equipped with an up to date
elevator. 1t runs at high speed and
is one of the most easily controlled
machines in the city. Fred Noah
the operator at the Traders Bank
building, has been in his present
position for three years and is one
of the most careful operators in the
city
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
ELEVATOR MEN PLAN UNION;
SPOKANE,S ELEVATOR CONDITIONS
GROWTH coMpLIcATEs SITUATION

Complaining that the hours are
too long, the work too hard and
the pay too small, a movement has
been started quietly by some of the
elevator operators in Spokane to
form union to better their condi-
ton.
The troubles of the elevator OPP
orators, like great many other
things in Spokane, are due to the
rapid growth of the city, causing
business in the older office build
ings on Riverside avenue to grow
faster than the improvement in the
elevator facilities. AS the result
Of the inadequate elevator service
in some of these buildings one OPP
orator is often compelled to do
the work of two, and if he does
not like 1t he is told that he can
quit and another is put in his
place.
The men and boys that handle
the levers In the cars that make
the business of Spokane move say
that theirs has become an Occupa-
ton that requires care, skill and
a cool head to secure the best re-
suits. With a union to protect
the elevator men. they say they
can secure a standard of COM
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
A NOBLE INFANT
RAISES THE DICKENS

lie is Earl Wnterton and he has, besides his title some
estates which fawther left him.
The noble earl q years old when he was first elect
ed to the house He has been there five years His eares
started fine the other day, but appreciate it. the
incident best be read reported in said
British newspaper. Here it is:
Lord Winerton when Captain Pretvman was sneak
ing, and said:
1.-The hon member for West Ham (Mr Will Thorne) is
IN an unfit state to take part in the debate.''
i am as sober as you are my young FRIEND" shouted
Mr. Will Thome, angrily
This caused much commotion.
The Chairman: l think the noble lords remark was
quite unjustified of Withdrawn land that he
must withdraw it.
Mr. Thone: He ought to have the words rammed down
his throat
Earl Winterton In my sincere opinion the hon. mem
Der is not in fit state to take part in the debate but
you nave ruled that ne is sir will withdraw loud cries
OF ON and ''Wlthdraw!o
Mr. Keir Harde, point of ORDER asked if the noble
lord statement was withdrawal
Lord WintertOn: | withdraw it unreservedly.
Mr. Thorne: Ii he is not prepared to withdraw, will
call him liar.
The Chairman: He has withdrawn, and the hon. mem
Der must not call the noble lord liar.
Mr. Thone: He is an absolute liar I am as sober as
any man IN this house.
The Chairman: The hon. member for West Ham has
now used an supplementary expression and must ask
him to withdraw the word liar"
Mr. Thome: [ will do nothing of the kind. I would
rather go out of the house.
The Charman Then must ask him to withdraw from
proceedings
Mr. Thone then left the chamber and as he walked out
he shouted to Lord Wnterton 'Now you walk out and
see if you sober as | am
The house by this time in a fernent and Mr. Pretty
man moved to report progress motion which de-
feated by 204 to SO.
Whether the ''nobe lord" went outside with the ''hon
gentleman does not appear but next day the house unan
corrected the record to show that the hon gentle
man. not tpsy after the premier and Mr. Bafour had
made speeches the subject Mr. Baour said in part:
Everybody would admit that the provocaton given to
Mr. Thome was of such character that human nature
being what it it impossible to pass harsh judg-
ment-indeed any judgment at a-upon such very VIC
lent expression of Indignation of natural and justifiabe
sentaton''
All of which to indicate that earls should stay in
the house OF lords and leave the for hon gen
temen. y
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

Mary Mannering has decided
that she doesn't want divorce. Is
this another economy entailed by
the hard summer in theatrical cir
cles?
The V. d. BIS were C. Q. ID. d.
They've squeezed Castro out OF
the Venezuela cigaret trust and his
holdings in the concern are not
worth the paper they're wrapped
in.
Butcher in Pennsylvania fined
for selling sausages filled with
starch. Tut. tut. perhaps he in
tended them for the vegetarian
trade.
John Hays Hammond Is getting
even for not being put on the
ticket. He's slamming it all over
Taft at golf.
The railroads are spending mil
lions upon millions for improve
ments. Well, we'll. And after
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
PENCIL POINTS

Consantinope, picturesque capital of Turkey holds the
championship belt for number of dogs. Spokane it's
pretty safe say, comes second What an honor! Bow
wow-wow! Which is canine for it is to laugh.
Big Bill Taft is going to honor the capital of the Inland
Empire with his distinguished presence. Here's hoping
that he devotes most of his time to the people of Spokane
and very little time to the royal game of golf.
Spokane has many pretty girls that she-the city
is becoming known the Baltimore of the west Balti-
holds the in the east Isn't that fine, Mabel
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

United States department of agri-
culture, but all the same it is 60
ing to the ant.
The reason for this Is that the
ant has been going to the boil Wee
vii, the cotton plant pest.
The discovery was accidental.
Special Agent Murphy had culled a
fine mess of boil weevils for ex-
perimental purposes and left them
on his desk to amuse themselves
as they pleased while he went to
lunch. Returning he found score
of black ants feeding on the boil
weevils, rending them limb from
limb, and callous to their piteous
cries.
The department now promises
the black ants all the weevils
they want. No black ant shall go
a-hunger for lack of a nice, plump
boil weevile if Mr.. Murphy has
anything to say about it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
THE COMING OF
PRESIDENT TAFT

not the least doubt in the world that Spokane will do
herself proud ~
The entertainment feature needs emphasis But here
is point that does: Every and woman who is able
should get look at the president OF course, everybody
will their necks half off to do this, but the casual
glance not what desired When you catch sight of Mr.
Taft read character you look at him. Study the lines
OF his face his expression and his bearing By moment s
careful observation you learn good deal about the
nations first citizen.
Take good look at Mr. Taft 1t will help you to decide
whether the nation going to be run to your own salts
faction during the next three or four years
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
DUST, WATER AND
STREETS.

their but it's hard to the usefulness of dust big
cities.
! There is still little water left Why not allow house
holders during sprinkng hours to soak down their little
sections of the street. well the lawns During the
sprnkng period they bound all the water they
can, and the water might well be used to soak the
streets little.
The streets certainly need it bad enough.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
ToWSER AND THE SNOW FORT

Just heaps of snow had fallen,
and it had melted a little so that 1t
would make fine snowballs.
Ted Sommers whistled for his
big, shaggy dog Towser, and they
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

Citizens in all sections Of
the city are complaining of
the dust. It's a nuisance,
any way you look at it.
They say all things have
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
ANT VS.. WEEvIL
COTTON PEAT TAKES THE
COUNT WHEN TACKLED BY
THE "LAoluo NIGER

DURANT, Okla, Aug. 19.-There
may not be any sluggards in the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS-The subscription
pres on the address label Of each When that date ar
subscription
name taken from the list the address
label is receipt
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

The British house of
commons has a member
who rejoices in the nick
name of 1.-The Baby Of the
House.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

making such a poor mouth" too.
Whered they get the money?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

May be dirt will fly faster at
Panama with the recent advances
in aviation.
Governor Hughes climbed a
1000 foot mountain in Canada. For
the benefit of the irreyerent. it
may be stated that the wind up
there is quite strong AMI IL may
have resented teasing.
The man who wears whiskers is
always concealing something,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19

President William HI.
Taft will be in Spokane for
a day next month. He will
be given an elaborate en-
tertainmant and there is
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-19
MOST ANYTHING

"a man makes mistake ter nurse
his grievances with tn bottle
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18

In decorated china that are now sold at depart
ment store bargain sales. When women learn to
prefer the beautiful bit of china to dozen
pieces of norid ugllness. there will be other WON
en- who will furnish the work. not only perfect In
execution but original and exclusive in design
There is almost endless opportunity In the de-
signing and in the making of everything that goes
to the fitting mp of artistic homes And who
should be clever at planning houses as the
women who move about in them all day long?
From women themselves must come the demand
for honest. artistic work in many lines and once
the demand is created, the standard is set,
women will rise to fiji It.
The possibilities in fields not well worn are
almost endless. Women should excel In sculpture
i'm Illuminating, i'm wood engraving and In photog-
raphy they should succeed I'm all kinds OF carv-
ing, fine metal working and in the setting OF gems
Women in
VET it must be confessed that the women who
have excelled in any art are the exceptions. Is
1t because they capable only of what are com
monty known domestic activities? That can
not be true for most of the great miiners, dress
makers and cooks men, Is not woman's lack
of excellence i'm most lines due TO the fact that
she usually takes up whatever she does as an ex-
pedient and accordingly does 1t in a makeshift
fashion? A girl not obliged TO work for the neces-
stiles of life engages in occupation because
she wants little money for the extras she deems
essential If she must work for her living she
only to keep with that work until she
gets married. After marriage the conditions are
much the same except that if she then be com
PEELED to support herself-and perhaps dependent
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18
AIRY MA GAzINE

members of her family--she usually comes to the
work unskilled and thus bears the double burden
of the unsystematic home.maker and the unframed
wage-earner Taking mp her work with this hand
leap she will possess rare ability. indeed, If she
be able TO get beyond the immediate requirement
of working for money alone. But If she succeeds
financially, which she often does, II will be only
to go driving herself TO more and more
money i'm an attempt to make material advantages
supply the place of the life and mother that com
mercialism has distorted into a mere wage-earner
Women should have an occupation.
ON the other hand, it is greatly TO be desired
- that a woman be mistress of some suitable oc-
cupation for, as frequently happens, she is left
with small none. Just one instance OF this
kind want to tell about When first knew the
woman she little, pale, tiredeyed, patient
voiced mistress of a college boarding house She
had been the wife of a professor who died young
and left her without means and with two small
boys She was woman of education, but with
no training in any especial line. and what chance
genial pursuit? II simply a question of the
next days food and lodging for herself and chill
dren.
Well, this woman did the only thing that Of
fered; went to taking boarders. For seventeen
years she kept boarders, barely making living
for herself and her sons. and all the time strug'
Cling to keep a proper home atmosphere for her
boys They good sons soon as it was
possible they began helping their mother, but It
was not possible for them TO relieve her, very
early. of her burden. The mother them
through college and in good positions; then her
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18

health broke down. She nervous wreck;
her friends scarcely knew her when they met her
on the street: the collapse was so sudden and so
serious. For few years she was an Invalid, but
her spirit too fine, too invincible TO be quite
vanquished. Through all those years oil drujBery
she had kept up her intellectual life as well a.
she could The people who sat at her table wer
cultured and appreciated her. She had kept he,
association with womans club, for which she
had managed TO write an occasional paper, though
she often cried from sheer weariness before she
took up her books or her pen.
Bitter though the fight had been, she had never
quite gone under. Now she has regatned her
health I'm n measure and is dean of women In a
small western college. But only think how much
suffering that woman might have been saved II
she had been early trained In some definite occu-
patton!
When To begin for a career.
TT HE training for the career ought TO begin in
childhood Human beings have great number
of needs-the material needs of the body the
spiritual needs Of the mind and soul The girl
child who is trained to "do things" will find what
she likes TO do and when grown she will be well
on the way toward proficiency I'm some trade.
craft or art which will supply one or more OF
these human needs and at the same time guaran-
tee her happy occupation and the means of live
lihood
Then, If she does not marry, she has her life
pursuit Until she marries she has an interest
which will be likely to prevent "A hasty and ill
suited union. And when she does find the man
with whom she chooses to spend her days, they
be not only husband and wife, but good work
ing comrades.
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18
THE NEWCOMERS PLANT.

Since I've been stranded without gasoline,
Since I've had puncures more than l can count,
Since dirty spark-plugs baked till they clean,
Since inner tubes have cost such large amount
Since I've discovered that the juice they said
Would run two hundred miles goes much less far,
Since all the peace had on earth has fled
o how love faithful trolley-carl
Since in by a mounted cop---
And mulcted heavily y-unjustly, tool---
Since increased by one the cripple crop
And had to donate crutches nice and new,
Since l was shot al by the man who owned
The dog 1 turned to a kiyoodle corpse---
Since by many I've been cursed and stoned,
How adore the once despis-ed horsel
Strickland Gillian.
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18
The W7ife of Inform JsaeR Denney

for talk; but what is there to talk about? The
woman cannot burden him with those endless
questions OF expense, lest he think she is blam-
ing him because he does not more, and he
will be gone in less than twenty minutes and
there will be no chance to explain, and he must
not leave the house with a Misunderstanding
between them, because iremen do not always
back No she can't talk of that Oh, she
knows she will tell him about the concert she
and the children attended the previous evening.
No. she can't do that! Twould be cruel 10 de-
scribe to a who loves music he does
concert he could not attend But time is passing,
what shall she say2 oh, she'll tell him about the
sisters letter. and how the sister wants her to
to Chicago and spend vacation week; but
no, she can't talk about that, because he will
ask her IL she wants to go. and she will have to
tell him that she cannot afford it, and that will
be insult 60 his salary and she can't say she
does not want to 60 for if there is anything that
she would like to do, 1t would be TO get some
where where she would not be obliged to cook
three meals every day and serve them at min
ute's notice.
The hour is going and so is he; he is stoop-
ing to kiss her. AS he does so he asks:
What are you pouting about?'
Pouting-she dares not trust her voice--and he
is gone-gone to spend the remainder of the day.
wondering what his wife has to pout about. II
there only time she could make him under
stand, but there is not, and he cant come back,
and telephone is a luxury.
But the ever present tyrants of care and re-
sponsbity urge her onward He will come at
night and then she will tell him all.
A night there is supper and the children but
there will be the quiet half hour on the porch
when she will surely tell him; but just after they
are seated, woman who lacks the fine sense OF
the eternal fitness of things, spreads herself
the steps and absorbs his entire time and atten-
ton. The last hour is gone and he starts say
ing:
"I must go, I'll leave you to visit with the
woman, she's been on pout all day and maybe
you cheer her up"
What shall she do? She does not know II
she goes in her visitor will think she is jealous
of her husbands attention to another woman; II
she remains what little self-control she possesses
will reach the vanishing point. For once the
fre-ben rings opportuney and the visitor hurries
away. Under of the excitement she sue
ceeds in bringing in the chairs and shutting the
door unnoticed by the visitor
Twelve-year-old Mary has finished the dishes
and is putting the little children to bed while
the woman tries TO show second year boy in
Latin how to render Caesar so as to secure
sense and English simultaneously.
She hears the men come back from the fire,
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18

fast which must be ready when ne steps across
the threshold Upstairs he hears hurrying
scramble to get dressed and see father before
he goes Into those chambers he cannot enter,
because IL would add a few feet more to the dis
tance that lies between him and his machine.
which in case of alarm he must reach before
1t leaves the platform
There is little opportunity for conversation. He
has come home with object in view-to eat
tracked until the F. ID. buttons close over suf-
icient quantity of fruit oatmeal. coffee meat.
toast and vegetables Then he kisses his chill
dren does chores digs dandelons mows the lawn
while the woman intently listens for the ex-
pected ringing of the bell-walks around the
house and yard but never steps beyond the in
visible limit which the board OF fire commission
ers have placed for him saying, THUS FAR shalt
thou go and farther"
He glances at his watch-gone is the brief hour
gone is the man in uniform.
The woman gets the children ready for school;
listens to their babbe sympathizes with them;
gives them advice and comfort; then presently,
they, too, gone and she is alone-alone, to
meet and fight single-handed the tyrants of care
and responsibility. For her husband, her chill
dren, and herself she must plan buy, sew, cook
and clean; she must take the money the city
pays her husband every other Wednesday and
stretch it, till it covers all Of the expenses of four
teen days. If she fails to do this and there are
debts her husband will lose his position In add
tion to this she must put away a little for doc
tors bills and other miscellaneous expenses.
At twelve o'clock the man in uniform and the
children come trooping in for a dinner fully pre-
pared. Like the breakfast dinner is the one i'm
portant thought. Maybe there are few minutes
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18

Where shall they go? He has club, lodge,
affiliations Fraternites have for
man who can't hold office, committee.
or be depended upon to be present Socety's
portals closed TO them, but the little wicket
of nature swings open to the hand that
touches it, and from the sand dunes comes the
call of the trillium the dutchman's breeches and
the dogwood blossoms. There is a swapping or
school board red tape when she asks to have the
children eXcused-for by some demoniacal trick
OF the calendar the first the eleventh, and the
twenty-frst known TO fall upon either
Saturday Sunday but at last all the Gordian
cut the lunch baskets ready ana
they're off-can you understand? They're Off
and they will walk where God, only, has erected
their boundaries and they'll eat when they please
and will wait for the other, and they'll
home when it's late very late, oh, very
late
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18
WIFE without a hus-
band; having a hus-


4 band, yet a widow; a
firm without a partner; a silent
partner who Is not always si-
lent: children without a father;
a father who scarcely knows
his children or their mother;
home. consisting of rooms,
which contains house furnish
ings, a woman, children, and a
tall, manly figure in uniform,
who i'm every twenty-four hours
comes three times and stays an
hour each time--a man whom
the woman calls husband and
the children. father. Such is
the environment OF the family
of a city fireman.
1t is not always daylight
when the uniformed man makes
his first visit, but for at least
an hour the woman has been
up and busy, preparing break
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18

the boy and girl go TO bed and
alone she mends and thinks
Again the bell rings, there is a
general alarm. She turns out
the light. locks the door ana
hurries to the engine house. IL
is the warehouse where rags
are stored. the night.watch
tells her. She goes home and
waits-hours pass-restlessly
she turns on her lonely, lonely
pillow. When the east Is red
with the coming dawn, she
hears them coming back,
Clackty. clackty, clackty, ring
the hoofs on the brick pave
ment. She lights the gas and
stands i'm the open doorway as
they pass, that he may know she
hears, understands and sympa-
thiZes.
Like the long-looked-for bios
som that crowns the prickly cac-
tus, comes the expected day Off
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-05-06
SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON
(Being the Comics sions of the Seven Hundr
TRANSLATED BY MAUD MARIE

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 This is the diary Solomon from like fatel there hls the who tellsi'
 man that knoweth how little he knoweth