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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR DECEMBE
" | EARNED MY FIRST DOLLAR
OR DECEMBER %. 1912

and found it harder work to get parental per-
mission to become a wage Garner than in the
performance of my self appointed position
as water carrier. Labor was scarce IN the
West at this period of Illinois history. Farm
ers who had bows of their own to help cult
vate their fields were considered lucky. At
this time the great value of the Athens lime
stone underlying the Lemont region began
to attract the attention of capital. and quar-
ries were opened up all over the neighborhood.
Some of the older boys were offered in
ducements to work, where up to this time
money had been SO rare that only big men
could now and then get chance to earn it.
1t was almost impossible to secure attend
ance at any but the primary schools. Then
a night school was opened where older pupils
had the advantage of better surroundings
and more efficient teachers and | used this
weapon to persuade my mother to let me try
my hand at money making
At last | was permitted to hunt for work,
provided would submit the proposition to
Mother before accepting it. | went to the
stone quarry and, looking over the field, soon
discovered that all the men stopped their
work to go for water They had to go a long
way and in consequence the company lost
lot of time.
l approached the superintendent and
asked him if he could give me something to
do in the quarry.
and what can little boy like you do in
a stone quarry"
Anything" l answered. "And what do
you pay the men,"
He laughed and replied, 1.-TWO dollars a
day each.
"They have to go long way to drink.
I've watched them, and | could carry the
water to them for less than two dollars day"
They offered me three dollars week, and
l thus began my career as the water carrier
of Lemont. | saw to it that the men had
fresh, cool water, and when the number of
quarrymen grew | established stations at
convenient distances where | could accom-
modate them and keep the water cool and
fresh. In addition to this | had time to
watch the men, and saved them steps by
placing their tools in convenient places SO
that they would not have to run for them.
The superintendent was so pleased that he
created me tool custodian. loved my work
at all times, and enjoyed my evening school
hours all the more on account of busy days.
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I EARNED my first dollar as a cowpuncher,
and had to work three months before
got my pay. Just after leaving school in the
vicinity of Flushing | started for DenisOn,
Texas and went to work on a cattle ranch
about twenty miles from there for twenty
dollars month. In those days any man on
the ranch who refused to go into town with the
gang after being paid off was considered a
mean man. Moreover, he was expected to
spend every cent of his three months wages.
Even that amount was not sufficient for
some of the cowboys. They would sell their
horses and hook everything but their sad
dies, and | have many a time seen two men
riding home on one horse with an extra saddle
dangling on the arm of one of them, showing
the extent of what he called good time
But | never saw or heard of a cowboy on that
ranch who would part with his saddle 1t
was easy enough to borrow horse or get one
in some manner or other but a saddle was
different proposition, and meant to the cow
puncher nothing more nor less than a pos
session.
loved the life on the plains; but it did
not take me long to see that there was no
future in it, and SO | decamped for the isle of
Manhattan.
By MARTIN B. MADDEN. Representative
from Illinois
7 EARNED my first dollar by carrying
water to the wOrkmen in the Lemont
Stone Quarry. | was not yet ten years old,
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asked me how much | wanted for my ser
vices. Nothing, | said bashfully. Il am
glad to help YOU He tried to persuade me
to take some money; but felt that it would
be ignoble to charge neighbor for services.
In fact, knew that my father would dlsap-
prove; for he had taught us to help one an
other, and said that this command included
our nelghborS, and SO | shared my father S
feeling in the matter.
But the neighbor called at the house the
next day and insisted upon leaving fifty
cents for my work. That fifty cents was the
first and last money | ever received as wages.
| went to school, and, after graduation and
passing the examination before the bar, next
earned money as fee in my law practice.
By HENRY CLEWS
T WENT to work in a large drygoods con-
Germ shortly after arrived in New York
for salary of two hundred and fifty dollars
per annnm | consider that thorough edu
cation in mercantile affairs can be acquired
in drvgoods house Such house is to the
student of mercantile affairs the same as
Wall Street is to the student of financial
matters,-both require hard work and ap-
plication, and young man who is willing
to earn success can usually command success.
By SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK
THE first work l ever performed of any
kind was on a farm. 1t was begun by
thinning corn. 1t was rocky field, and the
crop of limestone rock beat the yield of corn
That gave Farmer Montgomery an idea to
keep me employed, and SO little later he set
me to building a rock fence round the farm.
had to break up the rock in the quarry on
the hillside with sledgehammer, and then
carry it forward to put in position. That
stone wall that | built still stands, and will
endure for centuries. | surely learned the
greatest degree of industry on that farm!
Getting up before daylight to feed the
stock, blowing the fields, and doing the thou
sand and one things to be done on that poor
hill farm robbed me of that period between
childhood and manhood; but it gave me the
determination to get an education. | APP
piled myself to study, and before | was fif-
teen years old began my career as a teacher
My success at this put an end to my life as
a farmer; but | always worked as a farm
hand between terms of school. | had one
ambtion,-to get an education and | was
never idle saved my money and went
away to school. When my money was gone
taught again ANY boy can get an educa-
ton by his own efforts, and it is much easier
these days.
Rv II DELL Raoker and Broker
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7 REMEMBER as if it were yesterday
when my father started me out to earn
my first dollar He was well to do and carry
ing on prosperous business, and had been
educated to practise law. began practis-
ing law in a village of twenty-five hundred
inhabitants, with an overcrowded bar of able
and experienced lawyers and very little
money in the community to support such a
disproportionate number of legal lights. But
| remembered Fathers parting advice, and,
while thought at the time that his methods
were drastic, | have blessed him ever since
for the independence it developed in me.
Father said as left home "\ow YOU have
your profession as a lawyer, you have a small
but good working library, and your single
is nailed on the door, YOU will never get an
other dollar from me except through my last
will and testament.
| could have got along easier after being
thus thrown out of the second story window
if had not been coddled before; but to be
deprived of ali income was a trying situation
Several times when in debt | went to my
Father and stated the conditions, and, while
the tears would roll down his checks, he
maintained Spartan consistency IN action.
Whatever am and have are due to my own
eXert1OnS
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By PRESIDENT TAFT

I BEGAN what career | have and earned nv
first money as reporter on local news
paper in Cincinnati. was the law reporter,
and that gave me an opportunity to pick up
that side of the practice of the law which is
most useful in beginning 1t familiarized
me with the courts, with the Judges, and with
the actual method of conducting business
had no other assignment except as court
reporter but once. and that WAS the one to
take in and do the best | could with the only
national convention ever attended. That
was the Democratic Convention of 1880,
which nominated General Hancock | do
not think that anything | ever did contri-
buted to any result of any sort; but it en-
abled me to meet, as an obscure reporter
seeking interviews from leading men, the
then leaders of the democracy, and that was
a great opportunity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

By WILLIAM B. MCKINLEY. Representative
from Illinois
7 DO not remember my exact age at the
time | earned my first dollar: but do
recall the bitter disappointment | had, be-
cause | overestimated the value Of that first
job financially. | was quite a man, SO
thought, both in size and in business ability,
and of course, as | was a farmers boy, it
was only natural that my first work should
have to do with the farm
One of our neighbors offered me five cents
a hundred for gathering potato bugs.
looked the field over, and was amazed at the
prospect of SO much wealth before me- |
was SO confident that there were a million
bugs in that patch that | at once engaged
the services of little chum and offered him
fifty cents day for his work. | don't know
where those bugs scampered away to- but
at the end of that day | was in debt to my
chum, and had never worked at a more la
boriOus task. That was hard blow: but it
taught me a lesson. After that picked the
bugs myself.
| suppose there was Il gain in that expert
ence for me; for at least it made me more
careful in my calculations, and taught me to
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I EARNED my first and last money in
wages at the same time many years ago
on a farm in Richland County, Ohio NV
father was well to do, and | was not com
PEELED to work out as many other BOYS in
order to get an education.
On this occasion of earning my first money
| felt some embarrassment. a neighbor
farmer needed help during the harvesting
season, and called upon me to assist him for
days work. | went gladly; for Father
always reared us to be accommodating to
our neighbors. worked throughout the
day, and as | started home the neighbor
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School Report

Report of the KIipsine school
for the End. month ending Dec,
3, 1912.
No. of pupils enrolled: Girls,
"a; boys, 10; total 80.
Average attendance: Girls.
So; boys, SO; total "a IL.
Pupils neither absent nor tsrdy:
Girls: Dola Wilson, Dortha Will
son, Clara Jackson, Hattie Hall,
Oma Belford, Iona Bedford,
Freda Schoonoyer, Perie Jackson,
Bessie Wilson, Toggy Wilson,
Ethel Martin. Boys: Ernest
Klipstine, JOY Wilson, John Hall,
Charlie Mathoss.
The attendance for this month
is not so good as for last month
on account of sickness.
Am glad to note the interest
taken by the pupils in their stud
les; also, interest of the pupils
and patrons in the school. To
make a good school il takes the
hearty cooperation of all. The
patrons will please Sc, that the
pupils study at home, and are
punctual in attendance.
The greeting of cordiality is
still extended to visitors, come
and see what we are doing.
WALTER KLIPSTINE.
Teacher.
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"StiCk'em on the Back

RED Cross Sea's?" inquired q
young woman at a selling-booth
in Washington pcst-ofice 10 an
elderly man, who halted as she
spoke.
What are they for?" he
asked.
ITO help in the cure of tuber-
culosis ="
MY, N.Y." broke in the old
man. IF hal only known about
these before my wife died |
might have saved her!" and as he
wiped his eyes he went on,
How do you use them?"
You sick them on the back
=" But the young woman was
interrupted again.
ION the back?" How simple!
Oh! if | had only knownl" Ised
the man as he walked on with
misty eyes. But he bought no
seals; it was too late for him.
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SOME GOOD SUBSTANTIAL DISHES
FOR TIE FARM NONE.

Fer The busy farmers vile vho bos
much work and many mouths to feed
dishes which may 30 pr pared with tba
least outlay &. time aud money are vol
coined ny b-r. When n lsrre family
or n.y. r.-a ao1 DO 3 &c 20 lie fed
there IS no dish MORO fin and
Wholesome thou:
P;ta.1 'ot.--fa.s ;5 NJ Eag.i \ di-n
az Gce2t fayorito cCross the water
Pcs ec"al parts OF round steak and
flesh can po.i, cut ga serving pieces
INTO a f"yiE:, gan ana brown; dredco
"lA Locr and cover with boijipe.
W CT and simmer for IN hour. a6d
an onion, q carrot, arl turn eli into
baking Gish. cover with ouarteraJ
potatoes, ada water &Il rake until
me potatoes are brown. Tho amount
ol meat ana vegetables used 6crcnas
OF lie lzo Of the family.
Another dish which j. rev 10 Ar,,a~.
lea is:
Sausage With Puadlnr.-Taio sun.
cient roci- sausage Il. the family TO
be served, place in Daking pan and
cook IL the oven until the fat has been
Won tried out; drain OF all but two or
three tablespooniuls OF the fat and
Pour over the caEsage
Yorkshire Pu$aing.--Take two cum
fuls Of milk end add gradually to two
well beaten eggs. Mix with cup OF
hour ald o teaspoonfll of salt. Pour
over the e2usagcs ana bake. If the
sauSaGe5 arc cooked in serving dish
1t may be carried TO the table and
served from l.. CHR, Ia good die,
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dollar r.Gis.r ton fee, be II AMI
lodging.
TIE Boys Course is given Cor
those members OF the boys and
gins corn clubs who wol ~ their
COZ t. shows. Funds ha Q Il
raised in he colaliei t. ply the
boy- -. cXp-;lcs. Any boy n
the state may attend this course,
but only those who won in the
county shows will have their eX-
penses paid.
The Short Course is very popu-
lar and will be attended by a
great number Of young men. A
bulletin fully explaining this
course will be sent by the Agri-
cultural College, on request.
The instructors Of all the
courses include the regular teach
ers at the college and aPricultural
specialists OF West Virginia and
other states. Popular lectures
are given each evening.
Hundreds CT farmers of the
state know from experience that
it pays to attend these courses.
We want to urge the farmers and
young men of this community to
take advantage Of the opportuni-
ty offered by our University.
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WE'RE NOT ON HIS LIST.

The late Rev. Horatio Stebbins ol
San Francisco was man Of large
mind and noble powers, but more
familiar with the world of intellect.
ual and scholastic interests than with
trivial and timely things, says the
Cleveland Leader.
His household was blessed with a
charming daughter, who grew up
tall and beautiful, commanding the
admiration Of all who saw her. One
day a visitor said to the good doctor
Doctor your daughter grows
more charming day by day. Why,
she's regular Gibson girl"
"Ah, THANK you; thank you" 70.
piled the doctor in HE best manner.
When the visitor had gone, turning
to his wife, The doctor asked: "My
Gear, who are the Gibsons
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Farmers Courses in Agriculture
West Virginia University is Becoming Statewide
In Its Teaching
Tuition is Free
Courses are Arranged for Men and Boys VINO
Can Leave Their Homes for Few Days
Only

The Agricultural College of
West Virginia University at Nor
gantown has now arranged cour-
ses in Agriculture to suit every
man, young or old, who may be
interested in obtaining more or
better information on agricultu-
raj subjects. The following
Winter Courses will be given:
l. The Farmers Courses.
January 7, 1913 to January II,
1913.
2. The Boys Course January
a. 1913 to January Ia, 1913.
3. The Short Course, January
Is, 1913 to March p, 1913.
The Farmers Course consist
of general agriculture, horticul-
turc and dairying.
The General agricultural course
includes sol fertility, fern crops,
animal husbandry, poultry rails
ing, dairying, horticulture and
farm management and farm
demonstrations. The horticul-
tlrdl course will be given almost
entirely to horticultural work.
The cost Of these courses is one
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-12-24
GOOD DIPHTHERlA REMEDY.

Take green copcras mot slack
ined) and burn on stove lid until
t becomes of a ycllowish brown color
and can be pulverilcd. Take ono
level teaspoonful, The Same Of burnl
alum (the alum should be taken on
the stove just before it stops boiling
as it is then strongcr) Put tho
above in an earthcn bowl with ono
teaspoonful Of sulphur, one tcacup-
ful Of white sugar, ihe same Of boil
ing water, let cool; put in a tight
bottle and shake before using.
Directions Tn extreme eases give
onc-fourth teaspoon every hour; keep
outside Of throat cool 10 keep down
fever Gee water with saIlpclcr in
is good for this purposc.) Change
cloth every tw5 or three minutes.
To proven. diphiheria-G ono
spoonfal ty ice a day for one
week. every ESQ or three months.
rcon!o Willie opposed, should keep
a1cts
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A new policy has been adopted
in regard to the appointment of
postmasters since the fourth
class Offices in West Virginia
have been placed under civil SER
vice by President Taft. Instead
of having the national committee
man and the state chairman act
as referees in the matters of
postoffice appointments, the civil
service commission and the post
office inspectors are now being
used for the selection of post
masters. This fact was brought
out few days ago when Con-
gresham Brown recommended
Patrick f. Joyce for postmaster
at Coalition, Randolph County, and
}. w. Hollenback for postmaster
at Chamwood, Mineral County.
Mr.. Brown was informed by the
Postoilice Department that the
Civil Service Commission would
be called upon to name the post
master at every fourth class Of
flee where tee salary amounts to
more than $4,000 a year and
that q postohice Inspector would
be sent to each office where the
salary is less than $500 a year
and where a postmaster is to be
appointed to select a suitable
person for appointment. This
policy means that the postofice
inspectors will name most of the
postmasters for the fourth class
Offices in West Virginia hereaft-
er.
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Drastic Cigarette Legislation

The following is the complete
text of bill to be placed before
the coming session of the legisla-
ture by Delegate Hartley, Of
jackson county, Senator Gray, of
Writ county will place the same
measure before the senate:
An act relating TO cigarettes
and cigarette papers, and prohib-
ting the manufacture. sale or
giving away Of cigarettes and
cigarette papers, and prohibiting
the use of cigarettes, and provid-
ing penalties fer The violation
thereof.
Be itenacted by theLagislature
of West Virginia:
Sec. l. 1t shall be unlawful
for aNy person, company or cor
porution to manufacture, sell or
give away cigarette, ci arettes,
or cigarette papers, or TO have a
cigarette, cigarettes or Gig .rette
papers in or about any store or
other Place for free distribution
or sale.
Sec. 2. Every person who
shall smoke or use a cigarette or
cigarettes in any school building
or any building Of such parts
thereof as may be used for
school purposes, shall be guilty
OF misdemeanor and upon conyic-
ton shall be punished for each
offense by a fine of not less than
five nor more than ten dollars.
Sec. 3. Every minor person
who shall smoke or use a cigar
cite or cigarettes on any public
road, street, alley, park or other
lands used for public purposes or
public places of business shall be
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon
conviction shall be punished for
each otfense By a fine of not less
than one nor more than ten dol
lars, and every person who shall
furnish a cigarette, cigarettes or
cigarette papers to such minor
person, or shall permit such mi
nor person to frequent any prem
Use owned, held or managed by
him, for the purpose of indulging
in the use of cigarettes shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and up
on conviction shall be punished
for each offense by a fine of not
less than twenty-five or more
than one hundred dollars.
Sec. a. Every person, COM
pany or corporation violating any
of the provisions of section one
of this act shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction shall be fined for each Of
tense not less than twenty-five
nor more than one hundred dol
lars.
Sec. 5. All acts and parts of
acts in 50 far only as they are in
conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 6. This act shall be in
effect on and after the first day
of July, 1913.
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WHY GREEK REPUBLIC FELL
Work Of corruptIons and Discussions
Rather Than of the Man
of Macedonia.

The old world has already re-
7ealed to US, in its unsealed books.
the beginning and end of all its own
marvellous struggles in the cause OF
liberty. Greece, lovely Greece, che
land of scholars and the nurse Of
arms" where sister republics, in
fair procession, chanted the praises
of liberty and the gods-where and
what is she? For two thousand
years the oppressor has ground her
to the earth. Her arts are no more.
The last sad relics Of her temples
are but the barracks of ruthless
soldiery. The fragments Of her coli
mnns and her palaces are in tho
dust, yet beautiful in ruins. Sho
fell not when the mighty were upon
her. Her SONS were united at Their
mopylae and Marathon, and the tide
Of her triumph rolled back upon the
Ilellespont. She was conquered By
her own factions. She fell by the
hands Of her own people. The raza
Of Macedonia did not the work OF
destruction. 1t was already dors
by her own coIruptions, baniah-
mcnts and discussions. Judge
Story On Our Duties 10 the Rcputa
ti.."
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each to measure 80 minute. -

each to measure 80 minutes "
square. geographically consider
ed. Three squares are 20 be the
units Of area upon which the
rate zones are to be based.
At the beginning the law pro-
vides for seven zones definitely,
and any territory not included in
these will be embraced in an
eighth zone. Any article that IS
offered must be transported Ly
the parcels post il it can be ship.
ped with safety and does n t
weight more than IL pounds.
Eleven pounds will be the maxi
mum weight allowed. There are
some articles that cannot be ca.-
rled in the mails with safety.
The authorities aye now decidi g
what these are.
The special maps that will lie
found in every postofficc viii
show the zone distance from
points of shipment, and the rate
charged for carrying the pack
ages Increases automatically with
the zones.
Under four ounces the postage
on packages will be the same as
that on merchandise now, above
that weight the rates will be by
the pound or fraction thereof,
according to distance as follows:
Eonb
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Each
First extra IL
pound pound I s.

The law permits the shipm mt
in this way of all kinds of mor-
chandise, including farm a d
factory products that can be car
ried in the mails with safely.
For the present it has Leen
thought best to limit the size of
the packages not to measure
more than II in. in length and
girth combined, and must not
be in such form that injury might
result to employees hand ing
them.
The department will shortly
issue a detailed interpreta ion
the statute regarding what may
be sent. Apparently the farmer
can send eggs, chickens, ducks,
kittens, butter, honey, bees. pup
pies, possums or foxes. It is
likely that Mr.. Hitchcock will use
his authority to prevent the in
discriminate shipment, for exam
pie, of young shoats with only a
tag tied to their forelegs.
The public is asked to remem-
Der this fact: Only fourth class
mail matter can be shipped in the
parcels post. The law remains
as formerly as the first, second.
and third class mail. Books and
printed matter cannot be accept
ed at parcels post rates.
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/leEGG~. %Re.2zsueN<~
Very Plain.

"lnanimato things are pugnacious
as well as depraved."
prove it,"
Didn't you ever see q ships spar
or q ballot bcx?"