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routine round daily don't believe my sales for the six
months lasted averaged ten dollars week.
The office required me 10 report only each Saturday,
and | was glad it wasn't oftener. Each weekend
would drag my sample to town to appear before
the scowng head salesman with nothing but order
from Mrs. Two Grlnts and Sneezc in my trembling
hand. | always drew deep breath in relief when ! re
ceived my salary and carare Each week feared that
breath would be my last.
suppose tried to excuse my notable lack OF selling
ability by talking sadly about how the whole North Side
hated silk how frigid the \orherners; and
that had been the verdict OF the other the terri
tory, presume the firm understood was trying my fu
tile best sell silk every working dav and kept
because they felt sorry for me- for the unproductive
territory. very sure It for sad reason be-
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a point where il paid from hundred and ten to
hundred and twenty dollars month, and all did
get up at four clock every morning Il didn't need
alarm clock because the gaoping catter of the delivery
wagon awakened everybody on the street,, run down
barefooted in trousers and sweater slipped over my
paanlas and help my five or six small boys fold and
count the papers for their routes held myself in
fill in any route OF my boys failed to
show up which frequently happened | raised the pay
Of my best carriers from FIVE dollars month TO SIX,
and organized trustworthy force.
found it much easier to be employer than en-
poyee, and began to believe in the tenets of High
Finance.
My morning work always over before seven
o'clock Invariably erked of trousers and sweater and
Continued page IS
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST IL. 1913

cause that was the most sorrowiul rcriod ii my HE
have wondered since how slept during that time, and
didn't probably walk about my sleep, ing 70
tcrcS the people Of dreams line Of silks.
Before three months had passed could see by the
ing smile Of Percy IN the front office, the worried look
the credit man and the satisfied curl T. the
shipping clerks lips. that | going To be fired. |
didn't care. That didn spur 10 commit suicide |
was worked tina; job would quit il first had
found the silk business smooth one or tioSSy one
a. our sckeSt statesmen said. ready to quit.
guess the company had atruistic appreciation OF
efforts else made hundred per cent. profit on
their goods for it hadn't said much about my failure 10
make orders grow a bald territory. But | couldn
stand the work and the gloomy shoud that yelled me-
began around for something in the way 81 bust
that looked more like live issue.
A my six months probation drawing to a close
began take interest in the newspaper business
in village liked the news agent, clean, athletic
fellow five years older than whose father had been
friend OF my fathers the Board OF Trade.
On Saturday afternoons. being free rested up after
a strenuous week by walking around Bill news route
with him. One day he told me that he averaged ninety
dollars month from his papers knew he worked only
two three hours day 1t set me to thinking. That
was lust the business for me.
He had been running the route himself since he was
old when his elder brother owned the business
and thought he must be pretty well disguised with ii;
but afraid he'd laugh at If offered to buy II,
until particularly hot afternoon as sat on the GIN
derry station platform with him and helped him stack his
papers and he began grumbhng about ms JOB walked
said how would be 60 out West and take up
homestead, and spoke of the newspaper business
very pff1ing indeed
Before his load of papers had been lighened, and
while he running with sweat from trottlng IN and
with the daes, he said suddenly that he wished he
could sell the for enough money to get into some
other business.
He didn't have to repeat his suggestion jumped at
the opportunity and told him I'd buy ii II could Dor
row enough money. He asked me what thought would
be a fair price told him didn't know and suggested
that he should figure, that the price OF the route
depended somewhat on how sick he was OF his job
After little thought he decided, We'll, I'll sell 1t to
YOU for two hundred dollars.
| accepted the offer and left him at once running
lots to the house of banker friend The bank
er's wife. chum OF my mothers, lent me the requisite
two hundred | chased to the
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TWO llullIll GU. i IlldSSd w liiC
end of the news agents route
and caught him as he was lag
ging at the finish.
Here's your check, Bill! |
said.
He grabbed it as a heat
crazed sojourner in the Sahara
desert would snatch al a glass
of water. and gave me a salts
factory little paper saving the
business was mine and my
heirs and assassins'.
On top of my six months at
craftsmanship got a two weeks
vacation at full pay. | guess
the company thought | had
something coming to me; but
| didn't know just what, SO |
quit before it could fire me.
The next day | became Off
cial head of the suburban news
route. having rehearsed the
part during vacation. ne pusl-
ness was operated on an anti
quated system, which | inn
mediately vacuum-cleaned. |
canvassed the town pretty
thoroughly, closed out an OPP
position dealer who was sneak
ing into my territory, arranged
with the druggist to deliver his
magazines with my afternoon
papers, and raised the price
on the dodgers, or suffers,
advertising of local merchants
usually sent out with Sunday
papers.
I worked the h,1SinecS IN tn
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me one day that he'd bet he'd be put out on the
road before l would. That the first time ! had
thought seriously of advancement, and my sensation
was like that of a condemned learning for
the first time that the State offers time for good be
haviOr
| suppose | worked harder for awhile, feeling that the
ewes of the shipping upon the rivalry between
Frank and me. know | acquired the ennlity OF the
head shipping clerk who powerful because his broth
manager Of the business office, by spending much
time talking with the girls about my future with the
company. Feeling that picked to go on the road
for the firm, answered back the shipping clerk when he
took task for having too much to and he had
me up the carpet before the old man. don't renem
Der who out; but if had had little pellet Of vr
gin Cretan bhang out Of the Arabian Nights should
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Each week that passed disguised me
more and more with the life of the order
picker. As | crossed the bridge, walk
ing to work from my early suburban
train, l likened the black, crawling
mass Of early workers to ants,
telligent ants. blind moles, | called
them, even cropping: just bump
ing their noses against Fate.
| soon discovered that | wasn't to
be an order picker forever. Frank,
loose-lipped, kindly fellow with a
starry eve, catarrh, and stutter, told
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THE DAILY STORY.
The Door.
downright. 1918. 10y W. wernerl


A Saturday bargain sale was in prog
ress. 1t had begun at S o'clock and
the store was still crowded. Women
filled the aisles. jostling, eager. Curl
Gus. The air was stale with perfume
heavy with dust rising from the floor
and shaken from innumerable gar
meats. and il was still full hour be
go closing time.
we wondered DULY how she was
going to endure that hour. She had,
indeed. not been very fresh when she
came To the store that morning She
had risen at s o'clock, fried ain egg
and made some tea over the gas jet
and eaten from corner of the bureau.
There was no room for table in the
tiny hall bedroom at Mrs. Cortigan' 8.
She had walked mile because a
nickel is a nickel when YOU are earn
ing only Sc week.and have to pay out
nearly third of that for mere shelter.
And she would have to walk the mile
back again tonight providing she were
alive at closing hour.
Eve was very pale. Her brown hair
was moist about her forehead and
purpIish half moons were deepening
under her eyes A dozen women stood
before her counter snatching at the
pieces of embroidery that remained to
litter it, They did not see her. They
saw only what they were after. Yet
they assaulted her with questions and
because she could not answer all of
them at once grumbled at her stu
pidity."
The foorwal<er. hearing them.
glanced at her as he passed by. Eve
felt that glance. and a flush hid her
pal1or for an instant. What a fool
] am" she thought. sadly. At the
same time she was trying to say
politely. Yes. this piece of embroid-
cry Will launder. 1t sold earlier in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13
DANGER OF THE BEDBUG.
May Invade a Home and Confound
Neatest Housekeeper.

From the Journal of the American Medical Asso-
citation.
The alleged humor of which the bed
burg. or to give him his dignifed Latin
name. Cimex lectularius, has been the
subject should not obscure the serious
role played by the bug in common with
the fly. the mosquito. the flea and the
louise as a conveyor of infection. Re-
lapsing fever. bubonic plague, kala-azar,
smallpox and typhoid fever have been
transmitted by various species of the
bedbug, and possibly the investigator
might find here the explanation of other
wise inexplicable endemics in uncleanly
neiShborhoods. Epidemics of smallpox
have been disseminated in cheap lodging
houses by this polecat among insects, and
were it not for the frequent vaccinations
compelled by health departments, such
epidemlcs would very likely be more fire.
quent than they now are. The bedbug
hides during the day and sometimes h.
bernates during the winter. When 1t
lacks animal food. it feeds on the juices
of decayed wood or on the dus. in floor
cracks, and can go without food Tor
long time 1t may continue its existence
under adverse circumstances from sea-
son to season, in lumber camps, in sum-
mer houses, empty apartments and the
like.
The housewife is greatly mortified by
the creatures presence under her roof,
but she is by no means always blame
worthy. 1t may get into the travellers
trunk or satchel from an uncleanly hotel
or sleeping car or invade the home in the
laundry or on the clothing; thus Man.
ming witnessed the migration OF bed
bug across the aisle of car from a sick
man to the skirts of party OF women.
Or II may migrate through walls from
one house to another, sometimes in
continuous pilgrimage. especially when
the dwellers of an infested house move
away. thus cutting off the commissariat
of the parasite. 1t may then escape
through windows as well as walls, along
water pipes or cutters to new pastures.
Thus the tidiest housewife may be VIC
timiZed. Apart from ordinary dwellings,
log cabins easily become infested ships
also entertain the bedbug in considerable
degree Poultry houses, dove cotes and
the hiding places of bats may easily be-
come infested with the bedbug or nearly
related species. and sparrows and swal-
alive with the vermin, may be their por-
tai of entry into houses.
A thorough determination or the bed
bug would result also In the extermina-
ton of other dangerous insects infesting
houses. The local application OF boiling
water will kill few bugs and drive
Others away but serious efforts at exter
mination require Immigration. To be
thorough, this should be done systemati-
cally by the municipality. Manning has
called attention to bedbug determination
as one of the measures to be employed
in the prevention Of all diseases whose
virus is present in the blood of the pa
tient during the acute stage OF the dis
ease OF all methods Manning says that
there is none which would exceed In ef-
fectiveness the annual compulsory fumi-
CATION of all habitations of man.
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season for twice what it is offered
for here today. 1t would make a nice
petticoat. / should think you'd need
quite three yards It's twenty seven
inches wide
The foorwalker turned and came
back down the aisle. His name was
Will Anderson. He was tall slender.
dark. There were humorous dents at
the corners of his boyish mouth and
a certain sweet frankness in his clear
eyes. once on a time. and not so long
ago. he. too. had sold bargain en-
broideries. but he had been efficient
and had risen fast. No knowing where
he would stop. He might have a store
young countrymen had a way of get
ting what they wanted when they came
to the city and showed themselves to
be really in earnest.
He did not this time glance at Eve
His eyes were turned instead upon
the counter just across the aisle from
Ewes. where Beatrice Scott was also
selling embroideries. Beatrice Scott
looked as fresh as if she had just come
from her bath. Her blond hair waved
charmingly about her flushed face
Her movements were leisurely. She let
her customers wait her pleasure and
though she had not sold one-half as
much as Eve, her appearance spoke all
the more loudly in her favor.
Beatrice smiled at the fioorwalker,
who smiled back at her. All this be-
felt as if she had not a smile left in
her A wicked pain gripped Ewes heart
and her hands trembled as she meas
ured off the fiouncing and somebody
noticed them.
Just how clumsy this girl is"'
said womans low voice. She's pain
fully slow. | believe I'll go to the other
counter | like the looks of that blond
girl there.
Everybody goes to her: everybody
likes her looks better" Eve thought,
niserably. But then she isn't as tired
always as j am"
Why. indeed. should she be as tired
She lived AT home. She had no board
To pay, and every one OF her Sc she
could spend. There was always more
money to be had from her parents In
consequence, there was not a prettier
better dressed girl in the store than
she.
Across her embroderies Eve, still with
that pain In her heart, saw the floor
walker pause. swing around and go back
10 say word 10 Beatrice Already the
whole store was talking about their bud.
ding romance And Eve had to listen
Eve VINO had lost her innocent heart
70 him al the first word he had ever
spoken to her. OF course. she knew thai
he was above her as high as the sur
IS above any adoring blossom. She had
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Memory System Failed.
rom the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
l have always held that the memory Is
best trained and strengthened by use. but
there are people who use Systems" 1t
was with one of those persons that l re-
Gently visited a friends conservatory.
where we both admired a plant with pur-
Die flowers, the name of which neither
could recall. Wait one moment" said
my companion. Il have a link in my
memory with that flower-the link has
something to do with the sun. When
have that l have the name of the flower.
Then he racked his brains. but to no pur-
pose-he had forgotten the name and the
link, too There entered to US a third
man, who promptly solved the difficulty
the flower was heliotrope. Of
course. said the memory man, 'helios.
the sun-that was the link to remember
1t by. Strange l should have forgotten
both words Il only tried to remember
one," said the third man. drily.
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Tasmanian Devils.

From The LONDON Chronicle.
'Tasmanian Devils" two Of which have
just been sent from our ZOO to the Zoo
logical Gardens at Buenos Aires, are
characteristic Of the topsy- turvy antipo-
des, for they are "marsupial carnivores.' .
with the pouches of kangaroos and the
feet Of bears. Their diabolical title, which
comes strangely from a colony where all
the girls are angelic, Is derived from a
fiendish ferocity that nothing can tame.
Some savant lately suggested that this
bad temper Is due to the "devils'' being
tormented by parasites, and believes that
If they were bathed and disinfected they
would worry themselves bald-headed be-
cause they had only ten commandments
to keep. But no keeper at the ZOO would
volunteer for the job Of giving a daily
bath to a Tasmanian devil. These most
unamiable of mammals are so destruc-
tive to sheep and poultry that they have
been placed under a government ban, and
will soon be extinct.
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tried TO reason herself fancy free. but
she only went on caring more and more.
He of all the big. unfriendly city seex1e0
to speak most clearly to her of the
home she had left. perhaps because he.
too. was from the country. The very
fact seemed to make kinship between
them. Yet he did not recognize 1t or
her.
Ii was, mercifully o'clock at last.
Thank goodness, it's over and tomor-
row is Sunday" Beatrice Scott cried as
she donned her smart coat and bonnet.
Won't / rest. though, l shall carry
home a box Of chocolates and a good
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afterward? You'll like mother, shes
fine And she can't help liking you, be-
cause"
But he paused. evidently thinking it
best to reserve his reasons until some
future time
(The End.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13
Catfish.

From Lippincott's
Bert is an awful f1atterer." said
Clara Have you noticed II. dear?
why. no." replied Dora. Did he
say that you were pretty
NO. dear" responded Clara; but he
said you We're"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13

a splendidly made food preserver.
built To please: charcoal sheathing.
two shelves and removable waste
pipe. (Try Ii Before You Buy IT.
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From the Florida Times Union.
Home is place where a man can
swear and do other things that were II
anywhere else he would be run In for
disturbing the peace.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-04

FOR STATE MONUMENT
Many Happy Incidents in Connection
With Gathering of Order in Rich
mOnd.
nOIld.

Richmond, Va, Sept. with a
trip down the river in the afternoon
and dance at the home last night,
and other form Of jollification not set
down on the progran7, but which came
up on the spur of the moment, the
seventh annual state convention of
the Virginia Association of Elks end
ed yesterday, and today the visit
ors are flowing out to their various
homes.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected yesterday morning, and the
State convention unanimously decid-
ed on Petersburg as the next city
for the convention. Danville and
Charlottesville had been suggested,
but the tide turned In 1avor of the
Cockade City.
The officers elected are as follows:
T. c. Conon, Charlottesville, pres
dent; w. P. Baugh, Petersburg, first
vice president; Michael Ward, New
port News, second vice president;
J. P. Parker, Portsmouth, third vice
president; w. c. Godsey, Petersburg,
secretary; J. B. Biley, Norfolk,
treasurer; the Rev. Edgar Carpenter.
of Alexandria, chaplain, and B. F.
Rogers, Norfolk, sergeant-at-arm;.
After the election of officers, Max
F. Linlner, of Richmond, one of the
most popular members OF the asso-
cation, was called forward and a
handsome fruit bowl was presented
to him on behalf of the State aSso-
citation. a magnificent Elk jewel
was presented to W. Clifford Godsey,
of Petersburg, the newely elected
secretary.
THE Alexandria delegates return
ed home last night and say they
were given royal entertainment by
the members of the Richmond lodge.)
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w. c. T u. CoNvENEs.
Preparations TO Attend Animal Con-
ventiOn.


The bi-county convention of the
Women's Chris tian Temperance I'm
ion, with delegates from this city
Alexandria and Fairfax counties at
tending, convened at II o'clock this
morning at the Methodist Protestant
Church. TIE meeting was presided
over by Mrs. Amy c. Weech, presi-
dent. Reports were received from the
various officers showing the work ac-
complished during the year. Ad-
dresses were also made by Rev. c. r.
Strausburg. pastor of the NJ. P.
Church, and Rev. DR.. IF. Watson,
pastor of the First Baptist Church.
The convention will be brought to a
close with the election of officers.
Arrangements also are being made
by the members Of the local organiza-
ton for attending the annual State
convention of that organization,
which will be held in Luray, Va, be-
ginning September %. Alexandria
City will be represented at that con-
vention by five delegates, which will
be chosen later.
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MOB IN RAZOR BATTLE.
Sailor. Who TnsuIted Crowd. Almost
Cut to RibbOns.t


Philadelphia, Sept. IA score Of
policemen from the Nineteenth dis
trict were called out last n!gnt to
quell a riot at Juniper and Rodman
streets, when sailor from the Uni-
ted States batt!eship Connecticut, wa,
attacked, beaten and almost cut to
strips by crowd Of men and boys
living in the neighborhood. Accord
ing to the police the sailor, who is a
negro. insultcd several Of his race and
in turn was knocked down. kicked and
slashcd in various parts Of the body
with razors. The sailor, who is Robt.
I ,ce. % years old was taken to the
Howard Hospital. where it was found
that he had suffered painful cuts on
the head, neck, back, arms and legs.
He was later removed to his ship.
where his condition is critical.
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EN-CONGRESSMAN SHOOTS.
Arrested fer Inebriety, Severely
Wounds Deputy Sheriff.

Boise, Idaho, Sept. 4.-Former Con-
gressman Edgar Wilson, after being
arrested yesterday on charge of in
ebriety. whipped out revolver and
shot Deputy Sheriff Henry Champ
lin. The bullet took two of Champ
Inns fingers and then struck him in
the head. blowing a furrow along his
scalp. His hand deflected the bullet
just enough to prevent mortal
wound.
The shooting occurred in the sher-
ifs office after Wilson had been TAX
en- there from his honle by Champ
lin and another deputy. Those who
witnessed the affair are convinced
that Wilson intended to commit sui
eide
Wilson represented Idaho at Wash
ington from 1896 to 1898. He was
associate counsel for the defense ir
the trials of Haywood, Moyer and
Petibone in 1907, following the
assassination Of former Governor
Stunenberg, of Idaho.
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WIFE REAPPEARS.
Husband Thought Her Buried Two
Years Ago. ......

New York, Sept. 4.-Casper Hart
man, a saloonkeeper, at 239 Jefferson
street, Brooklyn, was asleep early
yesterday in his living room over the
liquor store when a policeman arous-
ed him. II have woman prisoner
here" said the policeman, "who was
arrested in Bushwick Park for va
grancy and says she is your wife.
She gave the name of Mary Larson"
at can't be-" said Hartman: Il
did have wife whose maiden name
was Mary Larson. We were married
in 1891, but she left me two years
ago, and l buried her last February,
"Come down and look her over,
suggested the policeman.
Hartman complied. He was rend-
eret temporarily speechless by the
sight of the policeman's prisoner.
That's my wife, he admitted,
after minute or two. "But how did
she come to life? l saw her buried
myself"
"You didn't bury me, but you col
lected my life Insurance. said the
woman. Il know all about it,
The woman was taken to Gates
Avenue Police Court where Magis.
trate Walsh held her in $50 bail fol
examination on charge of vag
irancy. The mayor ordered a police
investigation into Hartman's story.
The investigation showed that
Hartman had told the truth.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-04
CHEESE INVADES A SCHOOL
Limburger in Many Pieces Makes
Two Rooms Untenable.

Chicago, Sept. 1.-Two big rooms
in the Wendell Phillips High School
were found unavailable for study yes
terday. A smell, the like Of which
never before greeted the nostrils of
some of the students. fil'Sd the rooms
and the Office of Principal Smith, who
with a corps of women teachers, be-
gan to investigate. The principal
was given an unobstructed way, as
the smell was most blighting in his
vicinity.
cts limhurger," yelled a young
German. Between the weather strips
of all the windows cheese had been
planted ,and it was found in the
chinks of teachers desks. A pretty
young assistant asked the principal
to search himself. He did and found
nice thin slice Of the succulent
cheese under his hat band.