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vaguely. His mind was upon 'iie up
which he was about TO write; hence the
vacuity OF his expression.
Mind what. heart of gold?'' said he
not ironically. we hope again
why" said the spouse of the Writing
Person. Il simply must go down town 10
do little shopping this forenoon. ana
Tildy's going to an ornamental colored
funeral in Bloodheld this morning. mad
to let her 90. for Tidy hates TO miss
decorative funerals-and SO there won
be ANYBODY TO answer the bell rings TINS
morning but you. VIII you mind II 50
terribly. dearest one?
..Oh, I'll get along replied the Writ
ing Person offhanderly, the filmed ex-
pression as Of one who fathoms not that
which he hears still lingering in his
lamps: and of a truthness, he did not
know whereof he was saying when he
SPOKE SO blithely of getting along all
right.
There won't be anybody worth men
tioning ringing the bell this morning,
hope" went on his spouse. Just the
iceman and the laundryman and the
Never mind, O jewel set in radium.
interrupted the Writing Person. go
ahead and shop. I'm on the job. I'm
the door-opening kidderino. On your
way now. Leave it TO me. III respond
to all calls. Outsky now, doll eyes. l
wanna get To work.
So she went.
The Writing Person set his favorite
goozly pipe afre. took the lid of his
typewriting machine. slammed sheet
of copy paper therein, rumpled up his
hair twhat kind of a Writing Person
would he have been if he's failed to tousle
up his hair?p and gave the machine a
few initial whacks 1t was a poetical lit
tie piece of gem-prose that ne mad IN
mind to uncoil. He had just about got
the picture framed in his mind. ana was
cropping around for little jewels OF
Thought wherewith to embelish ana IN
crust and arabesque his idea. when the
kitchen bell of the fiat zng- hinged
The Writing Person, having Forgotten
for the moment that there wasn't any
body at home but himself, stuck to his
chair till the kitchen bell hinged couple
of more times. Then he remembered ana
leaped up and answered the zing thing.
Twas the iceman. The iceman gazed
at the Writing Person reprovingiy. me
icenan doesn't like to be kept waiting
after he zings once. Anyhow this ice
man had never seen the Writing Person
before. and it was perfectly manifest that
He stood scowling at the Writing Per-
son while the chunk OF ice. attached to the
tongs. swayed back and forth in his
grasp.
"Well?" said the Writing Person. The
scowl grew darker.
Ice" said the iceman
"Oh, yes-ice," said the Writing Per-
son. the light of Observation-Disclosures
in his eyes. ice. So I see. Well?'
We'll. l wanna git it in tn box" said
[ he ,iceman, rufnbiingfy.
You want to get ii i'm the box? Oh.
yes" said the Writing Person. Now l
You want to get the ice
in the box. Well?"
The iceman positively glared at the
Writing Person this time.
Them things In the box gotta be moved
first" he said to the Writing Person.
is that sol" inquired the Writing Per-
son, as If great light had broken upon
him. Why, YES. that must be so. Sure
enough. Strange 1t hadn't occurred to-
me. Well. why don't you move the
things in the ice box and put the ice
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n M a SONCi iiiilCht
job? New is your
chance. 1t is "A
case Ct thousand )
If Offices seeking
the right men and
right women. The
pay is the surest,
tie hours are the
shortest and tho
vacations the Ions
est TO be had III
the land. and your
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white others tried those fer assistant pat
ent examiner ard computer. but failed.
Secret service. males only" sounds
like an official rap at a widely proclaimed
feminine weakness. Chief Wilkie OF the
TreasuIys detective agency prefers men
for his force 81 sleuths aud even these
must send III their applications in an
envelope marked Personal"
~ married men only viii lie en-
ployed AZ railway mail clerks and Iva ~
eiors are preferred for the Public health
and marine hospital service. az well "a IN
Panama and the Philippines.
And Uncle Sam is growing frssler all
of the time about the physical qualifica-
tioEs of his civil service employees.
Physical defects declaring you from this
falls examination are: Badly crippled
or deformed hands. arms. feet or leCs.
tuberculosis. paralysis. epilepsy, heart
disease, locomotor ataxia. cancer, BrightS
disease and dia hetes.-
If You have one leg off or are minus one
arm. YOU may be accepted for some posi-
tions. but IL two limbs are lacking you
W II be tabcoed from the test
Small men cannot get certain coveted
pos lions. Thus railway mail clerks
must be al least : feet inches IN
height exclusive Of boots and shoes aud
weigh not less than l3n pounds In ord-
nary clothing. without hat or overcoat.'
And penitentsry guards must De mot
less than feet inches IN height aud
weighing not less than 10 pounds" FL
gibles selected FOR the Panama service
will be subjected 10 a rigid physical *
animation ats the port OF departure and
those rejected will have TO PAY their way
back home. And those who pass for the
Philippine service will have TO be looked
over by the local pension examining sur
geon. or some other government physi-
clan before being appointed.
While the blind are shut out OF all civil
service positions. President Taft has re-
Gently ordered that deaf mutes he admit
ted Ia examinations for all civil service
places whose duties they are capable ~
performing. He further ordered that each
department furnish the civil service COM
missioner with list OF such positions.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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man with irregular features and an
eXpectant look confronted him
Laundry. said the young man.
Person.
laundry" repeated the agreeable
young man.
Laundry" said the Writing Person.
That's twice you've said that. Is il
some kind Of password or counter
sign. Laundry. Let's see Laundry.
Now, what am | supposed 10 do when
you say that? Give you secret grip
or somethingg"
The young man didn't take the per
sifiage To heart. He'd never seen ia
writing Person before. the latter.S wife
having always attended to the laundry
thing: but the driver for the laundry
wagon knew in general kind Of a way
that writing person lived at this adj
dress, and ne knew, also, that writing
persons were irresponsible bugs that
really belong by rights in the BOBBY
hatch. SO he just grinned.
come To get Your laundry, lie
said
oh, that's it, said the Writing Per-
son. the great white light streaming
upon him again. You want Ia get
my laundry. Sure Now I know ex-
actly what you mean. But ! don't
know where the dickens my lingerie IS
That's the trouble. can't you come to-
morrow, or next Tuesday, or next
Decoration day, say
The young laundry wagon driver
smiled pleasantly.
Wont be comm this WAY again fr two
days. boss" said lie r guess tn lady
got il all fixed W. She always has il
fixed up wen | call"
That So" said the Writing Person, re-
lieved. wait till 90 see
He went To the bathrooms AMI dug into
the huge wicker hamper His wife's stun
we'll his own filed the harnper Ia tie.
bulging and bursting point. Slowly. per
spirily. gloomily, even cussfuiiN. lac sorted
the things over. extracting a collar her.
and a shirt there. and after about ten
minutes of such labor az never before IN
the course OF his life had he tackled ~
contriyec 10 get the package OF LAUNDRY
ready. The young man grinfully took the
bundle and beat IL. Tie Writing Person
went back To his job Of writing cunnin'
little gem of prose. his mind 10y this timn
being quite whole large heap scrambled
and fritzed up.
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chuff diyed off the seat and grabbed jim
ME. and began TO white wings the pave
ment with him. Then one of those cor
rugated-necked cops came out OF one OF
the apartment house Easements where
he'd been snoozing in the janitors quar-
tiers and that was James finish.
.Y'see the cops always string along
with taxi chuffs and that kind, and so
Jimmie was pinched for disorderly con-
duct, refusing to dig for taxi fare and
junk like that. Jimmie was yanked 10
the slough-'em plant. where he was re-
uuested to stick over twenty SEEDS as col
lateral for his appearance in court Jim
mic didn't happen to have the twea-E me
tallic men in his nankeens, and he could
not get anybody he knew on the phone.
and so he had TO kick around in the cooler
until or 10 the next morning, when one
OF the bunch seeped down and got him
out That's the way the thing got around
from the chap who got Jimmie out of
hook Kind OF hot one on Jimmie Keep
itdark, what?
"How's that? You wouldn't advise me
TO talk Unfortunately about il? Well.
I'm not talking Unfortunately about IL.
am /? I'm just a-telling you. amt i?
Nix. no. wouldn't have passed il along
for any kind of coin YOU could mention.
because Jimmie and ! are the thickeSt
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MET Mr.. B a n g :
smith of Washing
ton again the other
day. There's no
lodging or hiding
from that boy.
He's the every
where kid. OF
course, he uncoiled
all the Washington
news-the barbed
news, that is:
barbed news being
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Jim you sce-you remember of course
three nights week regularly. Huh? You
quit ~. kiddin,
WIZ. say. Jim keepitdark wrote poker
-wrot. the words and music of IT,
Pokers Jim's confirmation name.
Huh. On. yes. 1 know all that stuff
about his being paying teller OF a bank
but what's Inat got TO do with his Zap
ping ia for the little tri-weekly game of
draw lie does IL, and facts fact,
isn't a.?
Anyhow. Jim took taxicab every
niSht-mornins. I mean-from the place
where he played poker-uhere's a taxi
stand not far away from the game. near
one of the hotels-to his fat, up near me
in Mount Pleasant.
Well. IL seems Jim's wife knew all
about his pokerishness-odd that gink
should own up TO that at home, isn't 1t :?
and she was afraid TO have him walk
the TWO blocks from the l4th street car
10 his fiat around - 4 o'clock In the
morning. Thought he might be strong
armed or something you know; and so
she insisted upon Jims taking a taxi
when he got through sloughing of his
kale 10 the sharks who were grabbing
out his hard-earned dun in the poker
game.
Jim began 10 notice a few weeks ago,
especially on his losing nights-which
probably about d per cent of the
nishts-that his taxi fare home from the
poker. dump was different every night
morning. l mean One time it'd be a dol
lar eighty-fve, next time two twenty,
next after that two thirty-nve, and so
on. Different taxi every time, at that.
well. this hunching-the- price thing
made Jimmie peevish, kind o.. and the
other night-well. morning then-when the
taxi chun pulled a bill for two sixty on
him for the ride home. why. Jim he shed
his toe-weights and went into the air.
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Jim told the chuff that for two bronze
pfennigs he'd walk right up on the seat
and sink one or both mitts into his (the
chun's) jowls. The chuf, being one Of
these ali-night friskers. couldn't hear that
stun at all nor any whatever, and he told
Jimmy that for considerably less coin
than cents he'd climb down from the
seat and expectorate In Jimmie's hand
kerchief pocket.
'tSuiting the action to the word, the
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kind o pals. But somebody ought to wise
Jim up TO IL that he's maxim mark Of
himself working in bank as he does and
playing poker with
But. say, matey, talking about wishing
folks up TO things, / wonder when some
body's going 10 put old man Copkale wise
10 the way that that wine-eating son Bill
of his is lighting up little old downtown
Washington with paper fires of kertish
nova nights. hey?
"A fellow I know who was with Bill on
his saunterings around Washington the
other night told me that young Bill eased
himself out of about a hundred bucks in
the course of the night. and that that
wasn't any new stuff for him, either. Told
me that all of the cheerful workers and
Surething men were dipping into young
Bits stack as IL IL belonged to them and
that Bill just stood and let EN- take 1t
away from him while he stood and grim
ned at em.
What I'd like to know is What old man
Copkale would think OF all that kind OF
stun IL he was jerry to IL, which, Bill,
YOU know. works in the old mans office,
and everybody always understood he was
on a salary, and a mighty skinny salary
at that. and here everybody is hep TO the
way young Bill is illuminating little old
downtown Washington every night with
his dough CONGREGATIONS. and say, can't
you see old man Copkale running around
in circles and calling in expert account
ants and persons like those 10 examine
the firms books If he tver gets next 10
young Bits curves? Why. say. Ii the
old man ever found out that young Bill
<
'How's that? You say old man Copkale
knows all about IL and that he doesn't
care? That you know the circumstances,
and that Bill's aunt out west died few
months ago and left Bill tidy legacy
and that Bill told the old man he was
going TO blow IL In just to see how it felt
to be a Coal OH Johnnie for a little while,
and that Bits dad told him to go as far
as he liked so long as he kept out OF Jail?
What dye know about that! Is that
right? If that isn't the limit! I've been
supposing right along that young Bill was
just taking the long chance that his dad
wouldn't hear anything about his cavort-
ings around and now Well. that sure
does curl me UP, IL honest does. Just
knocks ME in a heap!
.'Oh, say, shipmate. talking about
knocking, dye know L. Nudgebye?
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Special CORRESPONDENCE Of The Star.
NEW YORK, September TO- 1910.
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upon the last annual table given out by
the commission were the railway mail
clerks. OF 1924 who took the examina-
ton 11.336 passed and 1882 got appoint
ments at $500 a year.
This is the most popular examination on
the list and that of the present autumn
will be held November Il and will be
open to men between eighteen and thirty
five, who are adept at the geography of
the United States and at deciphering bad
handwriting and who like to keep on the
go. Some of those who pass are later
made "sea postal clerks by transfer. and
thus are able 10 see both sides OF the
world between exhila rating voyages
across the ocean.
Sea trips at government expense go also
with berths in the Panama Canal Zone
and the Philippines. to be filled through
this great autumnal contest. Those who
go to Panama will get free trip down
and back. while those travelling to the
Philippines can get a free trip over. but
must come back at their own expense.
The Panama service pays full salary, but
the Philippine service only half salary
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pine commission has sliding scale
which allows from thirty to tEirty-tive
DAYS per year. according 10 salary, and
this is given in lump after two years
of faithful service. Those sticking TO
their jobs for three years get two months
half pay thrown in-this to enable them
to visit the home folks. Stenographers
and typewriters usually start in the
Panama service at $3.50 and clerks at
proportionately high figure. And assist
ants in the Philippine service. class
which works up to nearly all of the ad-
ministration Offices of the island. COM
mence at $1,000. Young men of high
school education should pass this exami-
nation If they can qualify in colonial
government and political economy. and
their prospect OF advancement will be
all the brighter if they can, in addition,
pass any of twenty-four optional tests.
including accounting. auditing. engineer
tisticS, etc.
Lots OF jobs for mechanics and men in
other trades are open to men WHO can
work for the government without cross
ing the water and who need neither take
any educational tests nor appear in per-
son before any examiners. Thus exam
nations will be held at long distance for
bakers. blacksmiths, horseshoers. wheel
wrights. cabinet makers. carpenters.
cooks, harness makers, painters. plumb
ers. sawyers. shoemakers, tailors and
toolmakers in the departments at Wash
ington and on the Indian reservations
Then there are canvas and leather work
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The iceman barked Just like a walrus.
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Copyright. 1910. by John Elfreth watkins)
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the specially OF Mr.. Bangsmith.
This time l was going somewhere up
town i'm an open-work taxi MIR. Bang
smith. seeing me from the Broadway
curb-he has the finest little pair of see
ing eyes you ever even imaglned-hailed
me. Inbecilely enough, | answered the
hail! Idiotically enough. also. the taxi
chauffeur. insaneiy imagining that ! want
ed him 10 stop so that | could engage
in converse with the hailer. stopped.
Mr. Bangsmith OF Mount Pleasant
Washington. lummoxed into my taxi and
rode with proper regard for the
accuracy OF history prompts me 10 OBJ
serve, here and now. that when the~jouT-
ney was over Mr.. Bangsmith didn't
eyIncc the slightest frenZIed desire 70
pay any part whatever of the taxi bill.
"Avast. there. messmate-hows she
headin'? chirpel Mr.. Bangsmith he
climbed into the taxi. Uptown for
yours? NJ, too Sure thing Ill SPIN
along with you-thanks for insisting
How that? You didn't ask me? Ha,
la. Rehearsing a little morsel OF n.w
comedy. Ell? Not so bad, not so bad,
Lovely little cheats, these taxis, hey
Die hear about Jim Keepitdark's little
taxi experience in iii OIL Mash'nun? No?
Say. dye camp out all the year round ?
Why, ] thought everybody knew about
Jim keepitdark and the taxi chuf
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-06-09

Rose Gaynor were IN bennington
and North Adams Monday
Miss Bridget Ward Of Cam
bridge. \. v. visited her mother
Mrs. Ann Ward. over Sunday
Mrs Mary Houghtou spent Mon
day In Bennington
Mrs. JEANNE Eaton Of Fleich
mann. n y, is staying with Mrs
Charles Garfield for time,
Mrs Frank Garfield is visiting
her son Edward and family IN Sch
enectady. n r. for two weeks.
EAST ARLINGTON.
r. II Walker was in Bennington
saturday
Charles Hover and wife spent
Sunday ia North bennington.
Miss Bessie Thorton OF Troy
is visiting her sister. Mrs. S. X
Gray.
r.. N. Phillips aud Archie Smil-
ley spent Sunday at the Kelley
Stand.
MISE INA vi 1hN AtAhA bbAAA'
Mondae from weeks visit in Bos-
ton. Mass
Miss Maud Warner and Celia
!. Blair spent Wednesday with
friends IN Bennington.
Rev. Pierce Butler of the Hart
ford Theological Seminary preach
ed In the Congregational church Sun
day morning
j y. Webb. N b Case. Mrs,
+. l.. Bailey and Mrs. r. A. Blair
spent Sunday at Charles Lyons in
Shushan, n. Y.
". P. S. c. =. will be held in
the NJ. +. church at Gas Sunday ev-
ening. Topic, God Knows. Pisa.
103:1-14. Matt. CTS Leader
Miss Julia Buck.
Miss Elizabeth Hard of South
SALISBURY. who has been with her
aunt, Mrs. o. h, Buck. several week.
has returned to her home.
WEST ARLINGTON.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. b Harrington
spent TUESDAY III lTo9.
Preparations are now being
made for Children's Day.
Mrs. Fred Hawley and children
are visiting in Granville, N J.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Lyman
were In Annaquassac Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. b. c. Dahms call
ed on friends in town on Friday OF
last week
Fred Sweet and family Of Gran
Vile, N. Y, spent Sunday at Fred
Hawley's
Mrs. Fred Hawley entertained
her cousin and family from Green
wich, N. Y, few days recently
&C. w. Sherman and family of
West Rupert were in town Sunday
in their new automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs o. p Walker have
been entertaining DR.. and Mrs.
Hoyt of Marlboro, Mass, for a few
days.
LONDONDERRY.
Mrs. A. B. Waite left for Chi
cago Monday
F. NJ. Leonard was in Manches-
ter Friday.
Stillman Childs moves into his
new house this week
Lawrence Leonard was home
from Mt. Hermon over Sunday
Lake wilkins has returned to
his work in Manchester.
MIR. and Mrs. Herbert Williams
are in jacksonville for a short visit.
C NJ Eames has returned from
a weeks visit in Boston and vicin-
ity
Mrs. Bryant of South London
derry IL visiting her son George
Bryant
Mrs. Lena Ward goes TO Lowell
Lake this week where she has work
for the summer.
Mrs. f. Il. Stevens mother,
Mrs. Bankhardt, of Allentown, Penn
is with her for a few weeks stay.
There is to be an auction OF
Mrs. Julia Stones household goods
of this week
Hon. Nj. j. Hapgood of Peru is
to deliver an address in the Town
Hall at So. Londonderry on Monday
evening, June 18th. He will discuss
THE Issues of the Hour
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The Levin Department
Store.

Miss Gertrude Levin Of the New
York Millinery Parlors of
Bennington, is to be at the Levin Depart
ment Store on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, June IA, Is and l6, with
full and complete line Of Fashion
able Millinery.
All the ladies' of Manchester and Vi
cinty are cordially invited to visit this de-
partment and inspect the matchless
exhibit of the latest styles in Fine Mllin-
cry. As special inducement2 Is Ladies
Hats, valued from S4 to S., will be sold
at $2.98 for your choice; Also Is Child
ren's Hats, valued at from S1.50 to 81,
for 90 cents.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-06-09
BENNINGTON COUNTY COURT.
Regular June Term of County
Court Convened on Tuesday.

The June term Of County Court
convened here on Tuesday last with
Hon. Alfred A. Hall as the presid-
ing Judge and Hon. c. b. Kent and
Hon. Norman Mattison as assistant
judges. The clerk of the Court IL
Hon. j. J. Stakeholder. and the Off
cial stenographer Miss G. Sadie
Smith. Frederick Godfrey. the sher-
if. is to be seen In his accustomed
place In the room. After Court was
formally opened the Grand and Petit
Jurors we're sworn in and Hon. +.
:. Orvis OF Manchester was selected
as foreman of the Grand Jury for
the term.
Up TO the present time two d.
yoree cases have ben hard, Mary II.
Wilcox VS. Chas. g. Wilcox, and Sus-
anna Seely VS.. John A. Seely, both
Of which were granted.
The case OF Bishop VS.. Readsboro
Chair Co. was set for trial for
Thursday morning, and the celebrat-
ed case OF the Town OF Sandgate
VS.. the Town Of Rupert has been
called for Monday next
Judge Hall excused the petit
Jury on Wednesday afternoon until
Thursday morning
There was large attendance OF
lawyers from Bennington, among
whom we noticed Hon. j. X. Batchel
der, Hon. W. b. Sheldon. Hon, r. G.
Bennett. Hon W J Meagher. Judge
r. n. Holden, Collins NJ Graves. and
ChaA. A Maurer