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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15

maneny prosper as long as there exists hatred or III
feeling between employer and employee There not
not be efficient operation on the basis Of war.
Many employers Of labor right with very Slight in
convenience to themselves, live in the community
where their plants are located Their help in paying
taxes and in promoting local causes would frequently
win good viii where estrangenent now exists.
Even II they could not live in the places where their
mills are located it would seem good business policy to
visit these places very frequently and make themselves
accessible Half Of the labor troubles could be OBJ
waited BY personal contact
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15
ABSENTEE OWNERSHIP OF INDUSTRIES

Ia the old times the owner Of manufacturing
plant usually lived ia the town where the plant was
located. lie attended ,hc same church lodge as
many 81 his employee he SAT- ON the grandsiand
and watched them play ball Saturday afternoon
II ihey chad a kick coming they knew he would meet
them and talk j, oct face 10 face in the office.
The Colorado labor war; in It's relation to the Rock
efeliers IS an illustration OF the kind OF things that
that happen when large stockholders live hundreds Of
miles away and visit their property at too nfre-
qucnt intervals The Rockefellcrs doubt believe
they have done their full duty BY providing fine
equipment Of hospitals. clubs and bath rooms The
workmcn however. value personal touch more than
the fines, outfit tina, money can buy II often seems
as il they valued il quite as much as wages.
In these days OF widespread ownership in cor
porations the idyllc conditions prevailing cannot
return Still much more could be done by large
siockholdng interests 10 maintain kind of tie
with ,heir employees. II needs 10 be repeated over
and ever again that no business enterprise can per
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15

This preparation IS intended espec-
tally for rheumatism, lame back,
sprains and like ailments. 1t is fav-
orite with people who are well ac-
quainted with its splendid qualities.
Mrs. Charles Tanner. Wabash, Ind,
says Of 1t, 81 have found Chamber
lain's Liniment the best thing for
lame back and sprains I nave ever
used. It works like a charm and re-
lieves pain and soreness. 1t has been
used by others of my family as well
as myself for upwards Of twenty
years" rs and so cent bottles. For
sale by all dealers.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15
PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
OF VILLAGE TRUSTEES
May 4. 1914.

Regular meeting of Village Board.
The following claims were allowed
on the General Fund.
Great Shoshone. lights. $4,000; Geo.
Redmon, marshal. $1,000; Geo Red
mon. team work. $4,000; J. w. SAVERS.
cemetery work. s25.00; Shoshone
journal. printing. $50; Homer Davis.
dwelling street, $500; Frank ClesH,
drayage. $500; Clerk Court. filing an
pearlnce. $500; Shoshone Highway
Dist, work on street. S22.50; 5. T..
Newman. work on street. s1S.35; Sho-
shone Hdw. Co. supplies, S1.S5.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15

q have used Chamberlain's Tablets
of and on for the past 6 years when
ever my liver shows signs Of being in
a disordered condition They have al
ways acted quickly and given me the
desired relief" writes Mrs. F. H.
Trubus. Springville, n. Y. For sale by
all druggists.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15

FOR SALE-Team, wagon and har-
ness; gelding and mare; mare will
foal later part of March; also some
brood sows to pig in April; imple-
ments, chickens, etc.
+. T. HAYMAN, JR., Dietrich. Idaho.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15
Water Works Construction.

Shoshone Hdw, supplies, $500: Fred
Roberts. work. Sc. 10; Stockgrowers.
supplies, $50; John Pugh. work, s4.S7;
Frank Glenn, drayage. SLOTS; NJ. L.
Webb, team work, S94.2O; Frank Glen,
team work. $79.2O; Howard Cook. la
Dor, S1750; Chas. Clutches. labor. ST.
so; Albert Coates. team hire, $3.50:
Earl jenkins Labor $3.50; II. w. Davis
hauling. S25.5J; Baugh Hdw. Co.
supplies. SITS 80 f. Borden lumber
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15

and cement, s42S. So; City Of Contra
liza, filter S1O25.O0; Shoshone Journal
printing and supplies, s42.75.
A. l. MCMAHON. Chairman.
II. w. ANDERSON, Clerk.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15
Water Works Operation and Mainten

Great Shoshone, power & lights. s44.-
so; NJ. l.. Webb, salary. $500: J. R.
Miller, salary. 10000; J. r. Miller,
stamps, $500.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15

FOR EENT-Six room dwelling fur
nished Apply to Mrs. Mary Ryan,
Shoshone.-May 72.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-15

Tt plewhonn time when
Tn automobile traffic ounon eary
padeA o
in ps the place in
dor circulate the efue in
is ack md aoyny home
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
William TOWnSend'S Silent Partner

spent the summer at his club. He said
he was too busy to go to Europe-busi-
ness was pressing. In reality, Mrs.
Townsend was too busy going from one
dealer in art objects to another, from
an impoverished Italian count with an
old master to sell here to a greedy
German fnancier there, anxious to get
rid of superauous family silver with a
pedigree of centuries.
She hurried home after the end of
August and delivered her purchases.
They were all satisfactory-they were
far more than satisfactory. And the
heavy purseful of commissions from
buyers and sellers both, was satisfactory,
too. Il was far heavier than Mrs. Town
send had hoped it would be.
Only four of Mrs. Townsend's friends
knew that she had really started out to
Europe with the intention of earning
money. Most of the women who had
commissioned her to bring home some
rare prize had thought that she was
doing the buying purely as a personal
favor to them alone. The commission
they insisted on-and Mrs. Townsend
pocketed whatever pride she may have
and accepted it. For in reality that was
the object of her summers trip.
The heavy purse that Mrs. Townsend
put into her husbands, 6guratively speak
ing, came just in time. Insistent cred
itors were satisfied, new business deals
were closed, old ones were strength
ened. In few months, with this fresh
capital to work with, Mr.. Townsend
was back on his feet AS Mrs. Town
send said, the rumors did not hurt him.
Real cash can overcome rumors of de-
preston at any time.
Today people still do not suspect Mrs.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
tCopyright. lqI.l

CAY, honest! that guy had the right
- dope when he said the way to
catch a rabbit was to get behind
fence and make a noise like a turnip,
hadn't he? You see, I've had a fuss
with Perky, and it set me thinking. I'm
agine boss having the nerve to call
down a stenographer in this day and
agel / told him he was about a thou
sand years behind the times If you let
a guy begin expecting you to think he's
some pumpkins the next thing he'll be
expecting will be that his Office boy will
treat a visiting customer like a human
being, and then he'll get shock. What
do you think of a sane man that has the
nerve to dig up moldy old word like
reverence" and hand it out as if it
was live one? Nutty, what?
You see, J. Smith got his Ready Beat
en- Egg perfected last week, and Perky
was tickled to death. He had ]. Smith
ready-beat whole case of eggs, and
then he sent for a gang of goops that
would look well in press-agent stuff,
and had them come to the Office to look
wise and startled over the ready-beaten.
He had Mrs. Smithkins that wrote the
cook book, and Hon. John P. Whooper
that IS nutty on the high cost of living,
and DR.. Peter Blim Hodge that proved
by statistics that not one criminal in
twenty-nine penitentiaries was in the
habit of taking beaten egg in a glass
of milk before breakfast.
He proved by that that if the criminals
had taken beaten egg in a glass of
milk before breakfast every morning
they wouldn't have been criminals, but
Sunday-school superintendents or cap
tains of industry. Perky got a lot of
other guys that have their names in the
paper during the silly season, when there
are no wrecks or real juicy divorce
cases, and he brought them up to the !
Office 1t was some show. He had me
in a trained nurse costume, to make
things look sweet and wholesome, and
he kept J. Smith at a lunch counter
seven hours, so he would be gentle tenn
pered and explanatory, and he got new
necktie for himself. 1t was some party.
The show pulled off all right. Mrs
Smithkins gurgled over the ready-eggs
and said they were the greatest food in
vention of the ages, and that she could
get recipes for them written into the
Green Label Flour cook book, and the
Tallowene Cooking Oil recipe book and
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02

Just understand what had happened. But
she understood the main points of his
story. Mr.. Townsend was in deep 6nan-
cial embarrassment. He had speculated
heavily-and lost. He could put off his
creditors for a couple of months-then
things would come to a head. There
were already rumors current to the eff
feet that he could not swing the big
work he was doing.
Il was fool" he finished. But well
have to stand for it. We might as we'll
face the music tonight. I'll go and tel
ephone to Burt that the jig's up-he's
probably heard the rumors. And we'll
have to give up our trip. The youngs-
tiers can't go to camp and in the autumn
we'll put them in the public schools.
We can give up the house and go some
where cheap for a while. It's too bad,
but it will take long time to catch up
and we'll have TO economize."
All the disheartening summary was
out in one breath, and then Mr.. Town
send started for the telephone, to break
the dinner engagement.
Wait Viii, come back" called Mrs.
Townsend. Were going to that din
ner, and I'm going to Europe and the
children are going to camp. Come and
dress and in the meantime I'll tell you
my plan. l have always been dying to
try my hand at business and now I'll
have a chance. And nobody will be any
wiser about your affairs. What do we
care for rumors? If you can tide over
until the first of September-I'll carry
you along after that"
Mrs. Townsend con6ded her plan to
her husband. He was skeptical of her
ability to carry it out but he agreed that
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
Real Romances of the Business World

gust? Weren't their names entered
too, for the autumn in two of the mos
exclusive schools on the Pacific Coast
Wasn't she planning to buy all tht
clothes she wanted in Paris? And
wasn't her husband coming to join heI
in a month, to spend four weeks motor,
ing through France?
Yes, Mrs. Townsend admitted that
she enjoyed the money that had come
in return for her husbands hard work
And if other newly rich people-like
the Burts, where they were going to
dinner-could enjoy their wealth, al
though in a different way, she could find
no fault with them.
Mrs. Townsend's father had been an
Eastern college professor with a small
private income and Mrs. Townsend had
spent her girlhood in very pleasant sur
roundings. She had travelled much in
Europe and had had many interesting
experiences. Perhaps what she dreaded
about Mrs. Burt was her ignorance of
the real value of the things she had gath
cred about her in her wonderful new
home and her seeming inability to real
ize her ignorance.
At all events, they were going to dine
at the Burts, and perhaps the dinner
would result in some good to her hus-
band. So with her usual enthusiasm
for his welfare, Mrs. Townsend finish
ed her dressing.
just as she had finished Mr.. Town
send came in. He was late and he look
ed rather tired and haggard.
"We can't 60" he said as he dropped
into a chair. I'm ruined"
And, as ever, relying on her SYM
pathy, he poured story of his losses
into her ear. Mrs. Townsend did not
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
By OSBORN MARSHALL.

it was only fair to give her chance,
and they went to the dinner. Mr.. Burt
who had heard the rumors, commented
inwardly on Townsend's good spirits
and on Mrs. Townsend's obvious ignor-
ance of any necessity for economy
Mrs. Burt, as usual, felt the charm OF
the we!l-Dred wife of her husbspG's
young friend.
A:Ier IInner while the ner were in
the diuIrg room, Mrs. R:.I: took Mrs.
Townsend about Tue new house. And
Ms. ownsend, il the. mast natural
way in the world, appreciated what was
good in the scheme of decoration.
Without knowing what made her do it,
Mrs. Burt timidIy said before long:
Mrs. Townsend, you have such won
derful taste, perhaps you could help me
with the drawing-room. 1t doesn't just
suit me, and you may know what is the
matHr."
Then tastefully, Mrs Townsend criti-
cised it and made some suggestions. A
few pieces of rare pottery, perhaps a
really good picture, genuine Gothic
chair-these things might help.
And you know I am going to Europe
next week. If you would care to have
me, could pick up some things for
you"
Before Mrs. Townsend sailed for
Europe the next week she had commits
sions for thousands of dollars worth of
purchases in Europe from her rich
friends. Every one trusted her taste,
every one wanted, her to help them in
making their houses as interesting as
hers.
And she went to Europe. The chill
dren went to camp. Mr.. Townsend
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02

mentioa them IN her column Gentle
Womanly Cookishness, and would be
glad to do so. but that, of course, Il
would cost Perky a little something. She
said she could also write a stunning lit
tie hook, to be called when Papa Lets
Us Fry Ready-Beaten Eggs" and that
she could do it In such a way that no
body would guess it wasn't right out OF
her own heart. That would cost 5000,
but she couldn't write things right out
of her own heart for cent less. She
said that if she did it for S2So the book
would seem as if it was written as an
advertisement
The Hon. John P. Whooper stood with
his frown of anger against the high
cost of, and made seven-minute speech
about his unselfsh devotion to the cause
of reducing the high cost of living, and
told us how he had no thought in the
world but to ease the burden of the
housewife. He said he had devoted his
life to that cause. When Perky told
him what the ready-beaten eggs would
cost the burdened housewife he sort of
gasped, but it did not jar him. "Ah ="
he said. However. l think it can be
shown-in fact, l know it can be shown
that in the ultimate fnality the ready
beaten egg is economical. Consider the
saving of egg beaters. An egg beater
costs rs cents and lasts only lifetime.
Consider the waste of time in beating
eggs. The housewife requires two min.
utes to beat an egg. Properly consid-
cred, the housewife is more valuable
than the Gar of Russia. The Gar of
Russia receives, let US say, 100000
a year salary. At that rate the time
spent by a housewife in beating an egg
is worth-ahemP
Seven dollars and eighteen cents" I
says, offhand. Exactly sol" says
Whooper. well, what about it?"
says. "In order to carry forward my
noble work of lowering the high cost
Of" says Whooper, 81 have accepted
commission from the Helpful Home
Worker Magazine, furnishing them
monthly reports of the progress of my
great work, at SIoo per report. A mere
pittanoe- l can write the ready-beaten
egg into my reports"
I'VE can't give over S2oo." says Perky.
1t was the same graft with DR.. Peter
Blim Hodge. He said he was convinced
that the reason criminals did not take
a beaten egg before breakfast was be-
cause the criminal classes were, by ma
ture, sketchy and lazy IN character, and
revolted from the thought of the trou-
bic of beating an egg. But nowl Now
the ready-beaten egg solved the diff
Guilty. Even the LATEST could devour a
beaten egg before breakfast, and he
considered J. Smith and Perky bene-
factors of the human race.
"And what DO you get out of it," l
says.
"Me?" he says, in a shocked tone. 81
get nothing. l want nothing. l was
merely going to remark that the State
Penitentiary Commission, of which l
have the honor to be chairman, is about
to put my theories in practice in the
penal institutions OF the State, and if
before my final report goes in-I should
advise the use OF ready-beaten eggs"
Five hundred dollars is our limit"
says. How do we hand it to your"
"You don't" he says. q get nothing.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
(CopyiEht, ls4.l

RIOBODY thought that Mrs. Will
~ lam Townsend, of San Fran
cisco had grain of business
ability. Least of all did her husband
think so. He was a weli-to-do young
real estate man, looking forward to a
rich middle age. He always laid much
of his success to his wife-but he did
not credit her with business acumen.
She encouraged him with her ready
sympathy, she cheered him with her en-
thusiasm, and she stimulated him with
her charm. He talked over his business
freely with her, not because of the val
liable comments on his business meth
DDS she would make, but because he
depended on her sympathy, her enthu-
siasm, and her charm.
One evening at the end of June few
years ago Mrs. Townsend was dressing
leisurely to go to dinner at the home
of an acquaintance-the wife of an in
fuential business man, a friend of her
husband. She looked forward to the
dinner with anything but pleasure. She
knew her husband would far better en-
joy quiet home dinner with their two
children than this attempt at formaIity
on the part of his influential friend. For
the friend had newly come into money
and he and his wife were entertaining
lavishly and somewhat showily in their
gorgeous new home.
But Mrs. Townsend reasoned with
herself that it was no crime to be en-
joying newly acquired wealth. That was
what she was doing. Wasn't she plan
ming to start across the continent the
next week to take steamer for Europe?
And weren't the two children booked
at an expensive camp for July and Au-
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02

told Perky something.
"Reverence7" I says. Why. you poor
male man, you don't expect any female
to show any reverence for a man in
this day, do you? You belong back with
the Pilgrim Fathers and the Mohican
Indian folks. Do you think we women
are a lot of red-faced squaws and Me
hitabels? Reverence? Why, it has been
months since any female was silly
enough to reverence a male. We know
you too well. What are you males?
Nothing but a lot of hungry stomachs
surmounted by swelled heads. Rever-
ence? Reverence piece of cheese"
Now, Suzannel" he says.
"Reverence?" I says. "Why don't
you get an up-to-date dictionary. They
cut out that word from all the American
dictionaries long ago. We'd look nice,
wouldn't we, in this twentieth century.
reverencing anything on top of the
earth? We're too wise. We're on,
Perkyl We've been taught We know
every business man is a crook, and every
lawyer is a shyster. and every govern
ment official is a CRATER or a dema-
gogue, and every preacher is conceited
hot-air artist. Reverence? Go way
back and lay DOWN.
Perky just stood and stared at me. He
wasn't used to the modern ideas
"No, Perky" I says. I'VE don't re-
we're any more. We don't stand as
founded before the statues of the faith
ers of our country. We say, C. Wash
ington knew which side his bread was
buttered,' and Old Ben Franklin was
a gay old soul 1t would jar a kid to
death to hear anybody say. His excel
lency, the President of the United
States We say Teddy and Fatty
Taft and 'Prexy Woodrow If any
kid happened to say father on Broad
way they'd have to get out the reserves
to save the people from laughing them
selves to death"
Suzanne
Now. don't get huffy," I says. T
didn't do it. 1t grew. We kids were
raised that way. You did it."
81 did it," says Perky, surprised.
Sure, you did itT says. Don't you
come around the office here talking as
If money was money? That's no way
to keep up reverence. None of the old
revered business men cared hang for
money. They were merchants. They
went into business to broaden the field
of trade of this gee-lorious nation, whose
fag-with its mingled stars and stripes
must and shall, and so forth. They
didn't come rushing into the Office and
ask how many dollars the concern had
made since last night They looked dig
nihed and took snuff out of a gold box,
and made such bones of the job of being
merchant that an office boy had to be
seventeen years old when he got the
job and then had to work seven years
for nothing before he was supposed to
know enough about driving nails in
packing cases to be worth $50 a year.
You could reverence merchants like
that, Perky. They looked the part.
How can you expect reverence from
an Office boy when you smoke cigarettes
and quit at 3 to see the ball game?
You've given the snap away. Commerce
don't look like something you have to
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
BREEZY SUZANNE
ON REVERENCE

race had gone away, and then he called
me down.
Suzanne" he says, "it is all right to
be breezy, but there's limit. When we
are alone you can call me Perky until
you are blue in the face, but can all that
sort of familiarity when we have COM
pany. 1t has bad effect on the people
when you call me Perk in public How
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
6[YBReezA 5uzMRG By ellis PatkefBnder

take thirty-three degrees in order to
qualify as a beginner. It looks like a
get-rieh-quick game. open to all COM
ers. You don't any Of you look the part
any more.
Reverence is good dope to keep
alive if you aren't what you let on to be.
Perky. If you are what you pretend
to be you don't need reverence. You
can call Jack johnson Jack or you can
call him the Honorable Jackson ].
Johnson, and it doesn't matter to him.
He don't need reverence. He has his
fists. The heaviest use of the title
Hon is made by them that amt; the
real honorables are mostly plain Mis-
ter
Reverence? 1t went out of style
about the time they began holding Sum
day school in the annex, where the sun
shone in through the windows and
every kid in the room could see by the
wart on the superintendent nose that
he was the same old PEBBLES Higgins
that would sneak bunch of withered
radishes in every three he sold at his
grocery on week days. Reverence went
out of style when Sunday school quit
being like a session in cellar Nothing
like damp, dusk, moldy cellar to instil
reverence in the youthful mind, Perky.
When our folks threw open the shaded
parlor and called that holy of holies a
living ROOM and the dank cellar had a
furnace put into it reverence went out
of the home and the father became the
'guv'nor,' when he wasn't my old man.
"The trouble, Perky" l says, "is that
the reverence game was overworked.
We women folks were expected to rev.
renee everything that looked like the
things our old folks had recerenced.
Anything with leather binding was
good book, and anything in black coat
was holy guy, and everything in long
frock coat was a noble statesman, and
everything with a bank account was a
sterling citizen or fine old type merchant.
And tben we got wise, and we chucked
the whole reverence business"
"And reverence is deadF said Perky
sadly.
Not quite" I says. "Its sick abed,
and mighty feeble, but its head is rising
once more. Only we're beginning to
reverence a different kind of uniform.
We've soured on the black coat and the
frock coat and the business coat, and
we're starting in to reverence the COL
ored uniform. Do you step lively for
the conductor"
"Surel" says Perky, grinning.
You betl" I says. And whenever a
guy wants his hired folks or himself
revereneed nowadays that's what he
does-pops him in uniform. Who are
you most afraid of in this world?"
Perky thought awhile.
The hat boy at the St. Regis Hotel"
he says at last.
Same hereP l says When l hand
him my wraps say, Here, your rever-
ence.' The only way you'll ever get rev.
erence in this world, Perky, is to buy
yourself uniform and wear it to work.
It's the only thing we freedom are afraid
of-the only thing we reverence. Ex-
cept-"
Except" asked Perky.
Except, of course" l says, "a big
league pitcher that can stay in the box
for nine innings"
The Washington herald., 1914-08-02

| am / going to strut around and pose a.
benefactor of the human race"
"Cut out the CUFF part" says.
But, honest" he says, "a girl of your
position and age ought to have some rev.
erence for her employer. When he's a
noted business man, and promoter OF
noble inventions, and a benefactor of
the"