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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Stenographer win Find Big Of
flee Is Best Business School
for the Beginner.
DISCIPLINE is INVALUABLE
Hard and Varied Work VIII Keep Her
Mind Alert and Teach Her to
Adjust Herself to All
Kinds of People.

The work here is hard" said the
are more than fifty stenographers en-
ployed, but don't think you'll regret
1t If you come here. Our office is a
first-class training school, | don't
want you to come thinking you're 60
ing to have a 'cinch,' but If you do
come and make good you'll find that
we appreciate it and that the training
you have had will more than compen-
safe for the hard work."
His words proved true. Through
tears and tribulation the applicant
struggled through the many difficult
ties in that big office, and when she
finally took another position she fully
realized how invaluable had been the
experience she had had in that big,
hard school.
To stenographer who really wants
to become proficient in her line OF
work there is nothing like serving her
novitiate in big office. A girl who
goes directly into a small office, where
she is perhaps the only stenographer,
there, not only has nothing to COM
pare her work with. but she is with
out the stimulus impaired by the feel
ing that one is part, II only small
part, of big, compact whole. To
girl who is inclined to think that 1t
doesn't make any particular difference
whether she is punctual or not the
p pt dicni Jrrhto ha aJn
tained where there are so many per-
sons employed is the best thing in the
world.
The timid girl learns to control her
nerves. She becomes accustomed to
being sent to take dictation from
strangers who may glare at her and
shout in most distracting way II
she fails to grasp every word on the
instant. She finds out just where the
fine line is drawn between Intentional
rudeness and mere business abrupt
ness. She learns to adjust herself to
the many kinds of people with whom
she Is thrown in sharp contact. After
she has become thoroughly convinced
that she is the merest atom after all,
uil lhC SOhSSiL hdNlu6 D6Su SAlIdCl6u
from her system, leaving her humbly
resigned to the fact that she is of alb
solutely no consequence, she may be
surprised to find that some one has
noticed her efforts to do good work,
and the thrill which comes with this
discovery is worth much past anguish
of mind.
The variety of work with which the
in big office has to be
familiar keeps her on the alert, so
that her mind has no chance to fall
into the habit of taking maps. She
learns to form new words in short
hand quickly. She learns to admire
the neat work of the good stenograph-
er and to shudder at the sloppy"
work of the Indifferent one.
Quite often material for a really
good stenographer is spoiled because
a girl goes into a small office and per-
haps works for man who is ignorant
or Indifferent and she has no correct
standard to live up to.
To take more personal point OF
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
UNTRUTHEULNES OF CLERK
SURE TO HURT BUSINESS.
Giving the False Impression That the
Customer Is Obtaining Special
Values Is UnWlse.

A prominent merchant once dis
missed a salesman whom he over
heard saying to shopper: I'VE usu-
ally sell that for $1.25. but seeing it's
you, I'll let you have it for ST."
The article regularly sold at 81.
Nothing could injure a business more
than to make customers feel that per
sonal influence governs prices. In the
first place an intelligent buyer cannot
help discovering the salesman's du-
plicity, and. aside from the fact that
it is against all good business princi-
pies there is another thing to be con-
sidered.
Some people. foolishly enough, al
low themselves to be persuaded that
they are of special importance and
can buy goods at that particular store
at lower prices than any one else.
They become accustomed to looking
for reductions and feel angered If
called upon to pay the regular price
for anything.
But, worst of all, they spread the
impression among their friends that
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Growth of Cotton Industry,

There were 1,20G establishments en-
gagged in the manufacture of cotton
goods in 1909, which compares with
LOTT in 1904 and 973 in 1899, an in
crease of "a per cent. during the de-
cade.
This percentage does not begin to
show the real advance In the indus
try, because the average capacity of
the establishments was increased
materially during the period.
The value of products manufac-
tured increased from 1892 SOC 900 in
1899 to $616,2970OO in 1909, an in
crease Of 85 per cent. The total cost
of the principal materials used was
S322,S84,0 900 in 1909 and s151, ,96O 900
in 1899, gain of 112 per cent.
The cost of materials, however
does not include the cost of fibers
other than cotton, mill supplies. soap.
oil, fuel, containers. etc. A large per.
centage of the increase in the cost
of principal materials is due to the
greater cost of cotton.-American
Wool and Cotton Reporter.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
BY FLINT AND STEEL
MATcHLEss GAS LIGHTER SEEMS
RETURN TO OLD WAYS.
Mechanical Device, However, Comes
at Time When Soft Pine Stock
Is Disappearing.

Once upon a time the teacher Of
elementary physics interested his
class by pulling off his shoes on a
winters day. disclosing some home
knit woolen socks. He produced a
piece of woolen carpeting and spread
it on the floor just under a gas jet.
Thus prepared, the teacher danced
short hornpipe on the carpeting, open
ed the gas jet, touched his finger to
the gas and an electric spark lighted
the gas-or failed, occasionally, to do
so.
To show that we are progressing,
however, does not require even the
apparatus newly designed for light
Ing gas flame without a match. 1t
Is sign OF progress that school teach.
ers have quite wearing home knit
woolen socks and stockings-perhaps
a sign of progress that grandmothers
nowadays can't knit 'em.
AS to the matchless gas lighter,
however 1t has come into the market
as substitute for matches Just about
the time that match making soft pine
is disappearing. This mechanical gas
lighter, however, seems to be a retro
grade move in principle, after all, in
volving the flint and steel of our
grandfathers' time.
A bit of roughened file material is
fixed to one end of a wire which
doubles back into a spiral spring and
forward again to hold the flint in con-
tact with the STEEL Springing the
ends together, the gas is turned on.
the spring released, and as the flint
strikes upward against the file sparks
are driven downward into the flow of
gas that has been released. lighting
it,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
}l }lk 1ENEvIEvES 0as,,,
| KNOW 3 81 81
TM(VTA Also tho1r q JAMES gSI NJ
%EG B0< BY HELEN HELP
The Genevieve Who Lost a Flavor

Do you remember when you were a
sturdy, freckle-faced Jimmy-boy or a
baby Jenny-girl, about as high as the
table, and they had strawberries for
supper? Didn't you always save the
biggest and reddest and most beautiful
for the very last bite?
OF course you did. So did /: So did
everybody.
Well, so did the Genevieve am 60
ing to tell you about. And 80, espe-
cially, did James.
This James was from the country a
very, very few years back, with a uni
versity and law school between him
and the days when he used to be en-
gagged to a dear little girl down in the
home neighborhood. But now he was
engaged to Janey, was this very tall
and handsome James, who had the
most wonderful eyes, with the glinting
blaze of the true sapphire in them, and
black hair and broad shoulders, and a
smile that would vile the birds off
even blackberry bushes, full of fruit,
and a voice-well, voice that was
just the point.
Janey was little, and sweet, and
loving, and very, very clever-far more
clever than James thought she was at
the time. But not with the cleverness
that keeps such James as her perma-
nent possession.
This was the cleverness possessed
by Genevieve, who lived a few blocks
away, and who flirted her eyes at
James when she saw him, because it
was her nature to flirt her eyes when
she saw perfectly nice James about.
So, when his heart began to beat GU
riously at Genevieve and her dirty
eyes, James was not pleased. He
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Put Heart Into Your Work.

Do not look on your work as a dull
duty. II you choose, you can make
1t interesting. Throw your heart into
it, master its meaning. trace out the
causes and previous history, consider
1t in all it's bearings, think how many
even the humblest labor may bene-
fit, and there is scarcely one of your
duties which we may not look to with
enthusiasm. You will get to love your
work; and If you do 1t with delight
you will do 1t with ease. Even il at
first you find this impossible, If for a
time 1t seems mere drudgery, this may
be just what you require; It may be
good. like mountain air. to brace up
your character.-Lord Avebury.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Noisy Girl a Bore

in the end bores. Most of us are not
smart and clever all the time, and
to try to keep up the appearance of
being, which seems necessary when
with a girl of this sort, is a strain.
We may do 1t occasionally or for a
brief while, but when 1t comes to
keeping at it continually, we would
rather sidestep her. Then. too, her
cleverness is often mere sparkle. and
froth. There is nothing really clever
or funny about 1t. And to keep pre-
tending there is and forcing a laugh
Is wearisome. And, too. the girl who
is continually laughing noisily about
nothing gets on ones nerves. So that
the hippant, noisy, smart girl is not so
popular as she thinks, or as she may
on the surface, seem to be.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
SCIENCE NOTES

Powdered pumice applied with wash
leather will remove fngermarks from
books.
Australia has prohibited the ex.
portation of the plumage. skins or
eggs of native birds.
Projectiles fired even from the heav-
lest guns, when they penetrate con.
crete do so without splintering it
There are 1850 electrical works and
central stations in Germany in addi-
tion to more than $4,000 private
plants.
Carbon deposits which blacken a
gas mantle can be removed by burn
ing a little common salt on the
burner.
To economize on ushers a New York
moving picture theater has installed
small incandescent lamps on the
backs of the seats, arranged to burn
only when the seat Is. unoccupied.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
No Vacancy for Him.

1--WE once had night clerk who
was an Englishman," said a New York
hotel manager. "You know the call
lists, the sheets on which are record
ed the hours at which guests wish to
be awakened in the mornings, are
made out in rows of 7 A. M, 1880, 500
and so on. Well, one night a lot Of
people had left calls for 1880 when a
man came up to the Englishman and
said he wanted to be awakened at that
hour. The clerk looked down the list
and found that all the lines under 1880
had been filled. He said to the Wis
itor;
Really, I am very sorry, sir, but
we haven't another vacancy for 1880.
But we have some under Z and g."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18

meant to act like a man. But after
awhile Janey's little heart cracked a
bit. and she said to James:
II think We had better say goodby,
James, for 1 do not think 1 care to
share a possession with Genevieve."
This was natural of Janey, but ex-
tremely injudicious, because, now that
he felt he would be doing nothing I'M
manly, James took the freedom offer
ed him, whereas, down in the breaking
heart of her, Janey hoped against hope
that he would not take it.
Then he openly devoted himself to
Genevieve, and Genevieve, having ac-
quired him, forgot all those fiirty
glances of hers and declined to both
er much with James. While her moth
er said: "Dear me, I wonder if he sup
poses that Genevleve would look at
him! He has nothing, positively moth
ing, and is just country boy. While
as for GeneVieve!"
But James though-and perhaps be-
cause-from the country had all sorts
of good stuff ia him, it appeared, and
attracted the attention of important
personages, who gave him various
good openings, of every one of which
he took immediate and energetic ad-
vantage. While as for Genevieve!
Genevieve thought there was what
the story book calls Another. But
year or SO passed, and then another
year or so, and Another said nothing
about it, and after awhile Another
went away and married another girl.
So Genevieve, who no longer smiled on
her birthday, cast glance at James,
whom she had kept put away in case
Of rainy day.
James, by this time, was rather an
important person to keep on the shelf,
and, in fact, he had said from time to
time to Genevieve: "Come ane go
driVing;" or "Come, and let us go to
the club dance tonight" or I'VE are
getting up quiet little affair, and I
do hope you will permit me-" And
the little affair would be the impor-
tant Bachelors dance of the season,
and James would lead the cotillon with
GenevieVe.
After Another's injudicious mar
riage, Genevieve found these things
very, very pleasant, just like some sort
OF healing salve. perhaps. But the
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Success In Life.

He has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often and loved
much; who has gained the respect of
intelligent men and the love of little
children; who has filled his niche and
accomplished his task; who has left
the world better than he found it.,
whether by an improved poppy, a
perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who
has never lacked appreciation of
earths beauty, or failed to express
it; who has always looked for the
best in others and given the best he
had whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory benediction.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Wanted to BE Sure

Say, Lem" said long-haired farm
er, looking into the door of the barber
shop. how soon kin yer cut my hair?"
in about half an hour" replied the
barber.
"All right" he said. and departed.
In few minutes the door opened
again. Say. Lem" asked the farmer
"sun time er standert ?"-Success
Magazine.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Gets Good Training

view, young and inexperienced girl
is more protected in a large Office
Let the experienced stenographer
look for easy hours in small office II
she wishes to. but by all means let
the beginner get into a big office
where the work is hard and varied II
she wants to succeed.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18

Nothing is to be expected from the
workman whose tools are forever to
be sought 1t was once told by a
great master that no man ever ex.
celled in painting Who was eminently
curious about pencils and coLors.-
Samuel Johnson.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18

|VV<YSY|
FOWLS FOR EGG PRODUCTION
Good, Strong, Vigorous Birds Are Re,
qulred and Should Not Lay Many
Eggs in PuIlet Year.

Good, strong, vigorous birds are es-
sential for egg production The sim.
pie fact that hen has laid 200 or
more eggs in her pullet year is not
sufficient to warrant her being used
as breeder. l have seen a number
Of 200-egg hens, with long, narrow
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
HANDY RACK FOR WATER PAIL
One Shown In Illustration Will Be
Found Of Great Convenience in
the Poultry Yard.

AS seen in the illustration herewith,
handy rack for water pail may
be made out of a few odd pieces OF
lumber and nailed with q brace be-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18
Ocular Testimony.

"How did Smith find out II ocean
travelling were good for the health?"
'He went to sea-"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-18

meath to the wall. 1t will be fond
very convenient in the poultry yard
or elsewhere. A hook in the wall to
hold the handle may be needed where
the fowls are likely to upset the pail.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12
SHOT HIS FOOT

Glen Gray, son of Editor Gray of
the Carlin Commonwealth, while out
hunting about a nile from Carlin Sat
urday evening shot himself through
the foot with revoler bullet. He
was walking along the track when he
came across snake and began shoot
ing at it and one of the bullets passed
through his foot causing a painful
wound. He was taken to Elko that
evening on an S. P. speeder and DR..
West dressed the injured foot.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12
Rate Hearing
Goes Over

The hearing of the passenger rate
hearing, which was ordered by the
Railroad Commission against the
Southern Pacific Company, which
was billed for to-day, has been post
poned until September 18th This
was found necessary as several mem
bers Of the Railroad Company are
absent from the coast, among them
Chas. S, Fee, the general passenger
agent.
This morning when the case was
called {. B. Sealy of the passenger
department, and G. D. Squires, the
railroad attorney, appeared before
the Railroad Commission and asked
for the postponement AT the same
time the railroad officials are prepar-
ing a passenger travel schedule both
in Nevada and to California points,
which will be used as basis on pre-
senting the hearing and the adjust
ment of rates by the Nevada Com
missioners.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12
FORMER CARSON GIRL
KILLED IN STAGE ACCIDENT
Enid Williams Meets Tragic Death
While on Way to Meet Brother

Word received this morning that Enid Williams
daughter Williams,
had been killed in Pumas County California
of a coach
Miss Williams her
Mexican Mill resided
Carson until the death her father family Cali
forna The attended school this
popular The her death will be
Will Bliss ndwilb nd a
Empire shortly the birth They all we'll
of young
back memories connection with this family
the accident
Shortly Mohawk Pluas
Ca yesterday Miss Enid Williams %
thrown Blair killed
picked
Portola, where
Miss Williams mother had Mo-
their home San Francisco The
while Miss Williams took the Blair where she make
with the n C. O and Reno her
The horses attached frightened
Western Pacific became unmanagab1e
The Williams
tenacousy her The driver jumped
second
and wheels the heavy head
crushing her skull frghtu Death
The body picked and the Blair Shortly
afterwards placed Western
Pacific and conveyed Poo where placed OF
the who Immediately tegraphed the mother brother OF
the deceased
The parting daughter
accident. described aecionae
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12
Tight Skirts
and Plain Man

The news from England is that
Notwithstanding the edict OF the
queen against the tight skirt, they
are seen everywhere. To the dull
Reuben this seems strange, but we
OF woman is to make herself att
ractive in the eyes OF men. 1t began
with Mother Eve. She could not
explain it to herself even, but some
instinct taught her that "the sub
stance of things hoped for is the
that man is.a brute who does not
evidence OF things unseen and
prize what is freely Offered half as
much as he does the same thing
when there appears a disposition to
restrict him SO the stneclc amen,
Ewes descendants has been, not to
respect brutes OF men much bnt
I" keep their cuf.o.. Il, at.l..,. :.
the .ilnD {.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12
|ELKO MURDERER GUILTY
SAYS WASHOE JURY
Frank TRAINER to Serve Life Sent
ence for Killing of Quilicies

he jury hearing the case of Frank
TRAINER, charged with the murder
of Mr.. and Mrs. Quilici at Inlay
last winter, brought in verdict OF
murder in the first degree with a
sentence of life Imprisonment. The
verdict was delivered last night.
TRAINER and Uric were accused Of
the murder OF the two people in Elko
County. They were arrested and on
trial Uric was convicted Of murder
III the first degree and is awaiting ex-
ecution at the penitentiary Tram
ner, who believed that it was impos-
sible for him to secure trial in Ell
ko County without prejudice, asked
for a change of venue which was
granted and the case transferred to
Washoe County
During the trial which has occu-
s ed two weeks, much damaging tes-
timony was brought in against the
accused. The murder followed a
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12

robbery and was atrocious in every
particular. Undoubtedly Tramner
saved his neck by asking for a
change Of venue.
just what this turn OF affairs will
have III the case of Uric is hard to
state. They were partners in the
affair.", one is sentenced to hang and
The other gets life Uric has ap-
pealed his case to the Supreme
Court and that body has granted a
stay of execution pending the review
OF the case. In case the Upper Court
would refuse a new trial and affirm
the decision of the Lower Court
there is but one help for Uric and
that is the Pardoning Board The
acton of the case of Uric is peculiar,
as it is likely that the Boad of Par
dons will be asked to fix his sentence
the same as his partner in crime.
Iramner.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12
Action Taken by Board of Pardons

The State Board OF Pardons is
grinding away on the applications
for paroles and pardons 1t is very
busy session as many applications are
in, in fact nearly half the inmates are
asking for release The following
have been acted on since the publ
cation of yesterday
Salvatore Luhono, sentenced from
Washoe County for robbery, parol-
ed
l.. r. Davis, sentenced from Wash
De for burglary, pardoned.
+. ]. Maloney, from Washoe Co.
for burglary, paroled to take effect
October 3Oth
P. Cook. This case was postponed
until the Cook case is decided in the
Supreme Court.
Richard Forest, paroled to take Ell
feet July 10Th
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-12
BIG WORK GOING ON AT
WABUSKA SHELTER
Description of Plant That Interests
Claim Owners in This Section

/ eryoir that stands above the entire
works and will supply the smelter
! proper. This reservoir has a capac-
ity OF 100000 gallons.
Engine No. of the Copper Belt
! Railroad was pulled into the round
house here and she 5, being put in
shape for trial spin over the tracks !;
liter careful inspection she will go
-nto commission at once, and No.
Will be given the overhanling she de
serves and needs.
Equipment is Good
The new engine is of the latest type
built by the Lima Locomotive Works
and is just out OF the shops new, hav-
ing been constructed under orders TO
turn out a locomotive that will be
best adapted to the particular uses
of the Copper Belt in transporting
ore TO the smelling works at Thomp-
son. She is an eighty-fve-ton en-
gine. having about twice the capacity
hat the engine heretofore used has.
md the heavy climb from Wabuska
to the ore bins will be taken with
ease under an ordinary load.
The new locomotive lett the fac
tory on the first day of Jnn-, and was
exactly thirty days on the road to
Mason; hostler came with her. liv-
ing in the cab. and he pronounced it |
the most desolate trip in his life.
The locomotive came as dead |
freight, and owing 10 its weight was
attached to the slowest trains opera
ted.
Engine No 2 is the advance INSTALL
ment the Copper Belt equipment
Tor the ore haul The ore cars, for ]
ty five in number, will leave the East
ern steel works during July. and are
expected to reach Mason by August
lst. The cars are coming as far as
Utah loaded with coke, by special ar
and efforts are being
made TO load them out of Utah with
Castle Valley coal. product that is
owned by the same interest that con-
troll the Copper Belt The difficulty
has been to find market for ship
ment of As carloads Of coal at this
season in Nevada.