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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-20

The train-despatcher Is one man to
count on: What he says eoes.
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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-04
HOUSEHOLD
TALKS
Henrietta D. Grauel
The Servant in the House

Statisticians declare that only seven
families out of each hundred employ
hired help in this country, but so many
letters similar to the following one are
received that the problem presented
seems of interest to every woman.
Here is the servant question viewed
from one readers dilemma please
write soon on maids their hours of
service; days off; also wages in fam
lily of four two sons, two parents.
One son is at college and only home for
vacations.
81 pay my maid four dollars a week
and send the laundry out: our house
contains nine rooms; it is modern. On
three afternoons she goes home at two
o'clock and returns at five thirty until
after dinner. She goes out every night
and on Thursdays she leaves at two in
the afternoon and does not return until
seven forty-fve the next morning. She
goes home every other Sunday after
noon and remains over night; on al
ternate Sundays and | prepare dinner.
we had guests on Easter Sunday
and she complained bitterly because I
insisted upon her remaining to wait
table. This was the first Sunday in
three months that | had asked this
of her.
Il want to be fair to my servants
and would like to have you print in
your column what other women pay.
and if | am unfair to ask for assistance
when company comes.-Weary One"
We are all born to our stations in life
through the providence of our Maker;
If 1t were otherwise, and we could
choose our choice of evils, l am verv
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in the modern big circus, such as the
Barnum & Bailey organization, that is
surprising in big commercial enter.
prise and there is foundation of re.
lationship in many cases that gives a
literal meaning to the term family life.
But relatives or not, occasional
vaudeville artists OF not, it is in
variably the case among real circus
folk that the circus and their particu-
lar stunts" are the principal things in
life. Ask them how they came to 20
into the business and they are likely
to say: 81 was born in it," or Well,
| really didn't have much to do or say
about it, | started when l was two and
half years old, belong to circus
family, of course"
When the Barnum & Bailey show
comes to Harrisburg next Thursday a
program in which new and novel feat
ures predominate is promised A pro,
cessional pageant depicting Lalla
Rookh's departure from Delhi for the
Vale of Cashmere starts the circus pro.
gram after which the arenic features
are offered in the three rings, four
stages and the hippodrome track.
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sure few would desire to be in the posi-
tion of a housekeeper attempting to
settle wages and hours for maids.
Every middle-aged person can re-
member when fifty cents was a days
wages for a working woman, and dol
lar and half weeks pay for house
maids. This scale has increased TO
really generous figures. A girl who re-
ceives four dollars a week for house
work in reality gets much more than
she would have if she clerked or worked
at any other employment at ten dollars
a week She has her room, which would
cost her about two dollars week. Her
board, light, heat and laundry is fur
nished, and these items would amount
to at least seven dollars week more
if she had to pay for them. Besides, a
working girl in shop, store or factory
must consider wear on clothing and
take into account car fare and incl
dental expenses.
Three to four dollars week wages,
Thursday afternoons, two evenings a
week and alternate Sunday afternoons
are the usual perquisites offered maids
by families in moderate circumstances.
AS the majority of servant girls are
of foreign birth. unframed to our meth
DDS of work and liable to leave the mo-
ment they think they can better them
selves. this seems liberal. But we only
hear of the unusual cases; there are
thousands of faithful workers in the
homes of our country who make the
interests of their employers their own
and contribute largely to the comfort
able happiness of the families whose
burdens they tighten. Such maids are
help in the fullest sense of the word
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To Be Continued

Fink's XXX Derby Ale is especially
strong in hops.-Ad.
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his knees.
Morning came and with 1t a suIlen
determination to get down to work on
my long neglected novel.
"A fine morning, sir" snid Hawkes.
In a voice that seemed to come from
the grave.
"Is iti" said |. and my voice sounded
gloomfer than MIS-
Send Mr.. i'oop,Rsdyke to me
Hawkes., immediately after I've finish
ed my breakfast"
Very good, sir. Oh, beg your par
don, sir. am forgetting. Mr.. loopen
dyke, is out. He asked Inc to tell yol
he wouldn't return before H."
"Outi WhIt business has he to bt
outi"
sWell, sir, mean to say he's moi
precisely out, and he isn't just what
one would call In. He is up In the
ahem!-the east wing. sir. taking dowr
some correspondence for the-for the
lady. SIR
! arose to the occasion. Quite so
quite SO. | had forgotten the appoint
ment."
Yes. sir; | thought you had"
"Ahem! dare say Britton will dc
quite us well. Tell him to-
"Britton, sir, has gone over to the
city for the newspapers. You forget
that he goes every morning as soon
as he has had his
"Yes. yes! Certainly" ! said hasti.
ly. THE papers. Ha, hal Quite
right"
1t was news to me, but 1t wonldnt
do to let him know it The countess
read the papers. did not
1t was nearly IL when my secretary
reported to tne ON this particular morn.
ing.
Mr.. Poopendyke," said l. ARE you
employed by nse or by that woman up.
stairs?" would never have spoken
of her as that woman" believe me,
II | had not been in u state Of irrita.
ton.
He looked positively stunned. "sirr
he gasped.
! did not repeat the question, but
managed to demand rather tiercely
"Are your"
'The countess had got dreadfnlly he
hind with her work. sir. and | thought
you wouldn't mind II helped her out
a Bit" he explained nervously.
Work? What work?"
-Her diary, sir. She is keeping q
diary"
To Re Coutinued
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The war elephants, directed by women
trainers, come first, splashed all over
three rings, and provide fresh surprises
for those who wonder if the time will
ever come when the apparent difference
between the human and the mere an
imal brain will be eliminated. They
provide some real surprises for brain
specialists.
New features include Ella Bradna,
Swiss equistrienne Marcella's trained
parrots, cockatoos and macaws; Pallen-
berg's roller skating and bicycle riding
bears; Thalero's fox terriers and riding
balloons; Adgie's ~ jungle. e.bred lions;
the posing horses. dogs and ponies; the
English Sannaford Family of whirlwind
equestrians, and acts and features nu-
merous enough to make half dozen cir.
cuses of the old school.
In all lines and departments of arenc
prowess only acknowledged champions
and experts will be seen and the entire
program will be a revelation to those
who have imagined that the resources Of
the circus for new und startling sur
prises and diverting performances had
been exhausted.
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What do the spangled women with
little fluffy skirts and the 1.-THE young
girls that fly through the air and the
astonishing persons that seem able to
walk on spider webs do when they are
not in the arenaa Do they spend their
leisure hours riding around and around
ON the gayly-decked circus horses? Do
they always wear their abbreviated and
dazzling costumes! Do they sometimes
take little nap on the slack wireg Do
they ever forget their bewildering ac-
complishments and "come to earth"
and eat and sleep and talk like ordi.
nary peoplea
Really when they are out of the ring,
the circus women are for all the world
like ordinary people, except that, per-
haps, they are bit more friendly and
jolly and mutually admiring than many
groups of other folks that come before
the public eye. 1t has often been said
that the members of circus are zone
big family and although this is less
true than in the old days, since now the
various troupes join circus for a few
months and devote their winters TO
vaudeville, or some other engagements; !;
still there is an intimate family spirit
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any one knowing thing about It
You see. she is being watched every
minute of the time by detectives, spies
secret agents, lawyers and HEAVIER
knows who else. The instant she leave:
Paris. bang! 1t will be like the start
er's shot In race. They will be aftel
her like streak. And If you are no
very. very clever they will play hol
with everything"
Then why run the risk 2" ventured
! My two brothers are coming Will
her" she said reassuringly. They ar,
such big, strong fellows that
My dear countess. 1t isn't strength
Wen need" deplored.
mo. no, quite understand. 1t 1.
cunning, strategy. caution and all thai
sort of thing. But will let you know
In ample time. so that you may be pre-
pared"
DO" l said gallantly, trying to be
enthusiastic.
You are so wonderfully ingenious
at working out plots and conspiracies
In your books. Mr.. Smart. that ] an
confident you can manage everything
beautifully.
And now let us talk about some
thing else" she went ON complacently
as if the project of getting the rest OF
her family into the castle were already
off her mind. 81 can't tell you how
much enjoyed your last book. Mr.
Smart 1t is so exciting. Would you
be entertained by real mystery %
Very promptly ! said should be. We
! were having our coffee. Hawkes. and
Blatchford had left the room. well
tradition says that one of the old bar.
ons buried vast treasure in the Gel.
lar of this
Stop. | commanded. shaking my
mead. Haven't Just said that
don't want to talk about literature?
Buried treasure is the very worst form
of literature"
Very WELL" she said Indignantly.
"You will be sorry when you hear I've
dug 1t up and made of with it."
! pricked up my ears. This made n
difference. Are You going to hunt for
1t yourself?'
II am" she said resolutely.
"ln those dark. dank, grewsome Gel.
lars?"
Certainly"
"AIone?'
IF necessary" she said. looking at
me over the edge of the coffee cup.
TEL me all about It," said |.
"Oh. we shan't find It. of course"
said she calmly. made note of the
pronoun. They've been searching for
II for two centuries without success.
My-that is, Mr. Pless has spent days
down there. He is very hard up. you
know. 1t would come In very handy
for him."
| glowered. I'm glad he's gone. I
don't like the idea Of his looking for
treasures In my castle"
She gave me smile for that.
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CHAPTER xiii.
The Countess Gives Ne a Surprise.

The Countess Gives Me a Surprise.
rOR an hour or more after leav.
ing the enchanted rooms near
the roof ! lounged in my study.
persistently attentive to the
portrait Of Ludwig the Red. with my
ears straining for sounds from the 9TH
er side Of the secret panels. Alas!
Those panels were many cubits thick
and as stanch as the sides of bat
tleship. But there was a vast salts.
faction In knowing that she was there.
asleep perhaps. with her brown head
pilIowed close to the wall, but little
more than an arms length from the
crimson waistcoat of Ludwig the Red.
for he sat rather low. like Chinese
god, and supported his waistcoat with
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-04
DOCTOR GETS JAIL TERM
Sentenced for One to Three Years for
Illegal Operation

Philadelphia, May 4.-Dr. Albert R.
Bickstein, of 1927 North Franklin
street, was sent to the Eastern peniten-
tiary by Judge Hall yesterday for not
less than one year nor more than three
years upon his conviction of perform
ing an illegal operation on Miss Emma
Freyer, of Montgomery avenue near
Sixth street.
The woman said that the doctor had
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-04
wrightsville H. s. Commencement

Wrightsville, MAY 4.-The commence
men exercises of the WrightsviHe High
school were held Saturday evening in
the United Evangelical church Miss
Florence l.. Blanck was the valedic-
torian and Miss S. ReIba Oakes the
salutatorian. The. class numbered sew
enteen. nine girls and eight boys. The
Rev. L. d. Keen delivered an address.
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Cumberland Valley Railroad
In Eject May ~. lslA

In Eject May ~. 1e1A
Trains Leave HarRisburg-
For Winchester and Martinsburs. ~
SOS. 1850 a. M, s3.40 p. N.
For Aagerstown Chambersburg ana
il.as a. M. 'S.4v S.S3. '7.t0. lI.o1
D. m.
Additional trains for Carlisle ana
Mechanicsburg at s.4s :. m..f s.is. s.sI.
For Dnlsburg at 5.os. .7.so and .ii.s,
Z. M. Els. s3.4O. 6.32. $50 p. N.
sunday. H TON0I.
n A. RIDDLE @ p. A. supI
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Pitcher to Well Too Often

After number of warnings about
dumping refuse on forbidden territory,
Charles Davis was fined IS yesterday
by Alderman Hoverter. He told the
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-04

THAT Is to say, she is coming IL yon
think you can manage 1t quite safely"
Il manage 1t: My dear countess.
why speak OF managing thing that is
SO obviously to he desired?"
You don't understand. Can yon
smuggle her into the castle without
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Alderman that he kept taking one more
chance, and was finally caught dumping
refuse at Eleventh and State streets.
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operated on her twice in 1912, but aft
er the second operation she was con-
fined to a hospital for six weeks.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-10-22
THE HIGH SCHOOL.
spects.

1t is an inspiring thing to contem.
plate the fact that in our splendid
High School we have neary ITS boys
and girls from outside of the city
getting the advantages of an educa.
ton that will equip them for the du-
ties and responsibilities of life if
they should never enter a college
door OF this number probably half
would have been denied the privi
lege OF this sort Of training and equip
ment had it not been for the county
nigh school. These boys and girls
come from all parts of the county.
Some OF them come by train after
long rides or walks to the station.
others come by conveyance to the
city. They are all bent upon better
hitting themselves for the duties that
they must soon take up.
Public high schools in this country
are young, in Tennessee we have had
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-10-22

as the best method for the final and
utter destruction of the liquor power
in Tennessee. 1t is a vindication OF
the independents of the state who
took the democratic party at its word
and helped to finally and forever set.
tie a vexatious and harassing ques-
ton in the state.
The Herald has no cause for quar-
rel with Mayor Crump. In many re-
spects he has been an admirable city
executive. Memphis is, aside from
the laxity of law enforcement, a well
governed city. No charges of graft
or peculation have ever been sustain
ed against the mayor. But he has mot
done his solemn and sacred duty in
the execution of the laws. II, as
charged, he has permitted and con-
niyed at the open and fragrant viola.
ton OF the law he should be ousted,
NO man who is lacking in regard for
his oath of Office should be permitted
to hold any position of honor or trust
in this state no matter how eminent
ly qualified he may be in other re.
spects.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-10-22

them only in the towns and cities for
very brief time. Fifteen years ago
there were no county high schools
Somehow we made no provision FOX
the education of our boys and girls
who were not able to make it for
themselves. But we are progressing
We have at last partially realized our
duty to educate those who are soon
to assume the burdens OF citizenship
we make bold to proclaim that the
greatest asset Maury county has to
day or will have at any time to come,
Is its boys and girls and 1t would be
little less than a crime to neglect
their proper education and training
1t is a matter of congratuIation there
fore to know that we are on high
ground at last; that our county edu
cational institution not only exists
but that 1t is being appreciated BY
an ever increasing number Of people
In the county. The high school Is as
firmly fixed In the public policy o.
the county as the elementary school
It is here to stay. It will be ImproV'
ed and a larger number will receive
Its benefits. But the long, hard fight
for better things has been largely
achieved.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-10-22

investigation, that the liquor laws
were being openly violated at Mem.
phis with the seeming or tacit ap.
prevail or consent of the mayor that
he would see that the powers confer
red under the custer law were brought
| into play. Whatever may be the
other short comings of the COVER
nor's administration he has assuredly
given no just cause to doubt his sim
cere devotion to law enforcement and
temperance legislation. He did not
rush percipitately into fight in the
courts against the Memphis mayor
upon the unsupported testimony of
some political enemies, but he did the
wise and prudent thing He sent the
attorney general of the state, who is
an earnest advocate of law enforce
ment, to Memphis to make an inves-
tigation. The custer bill is the result.
Hon. G. T. Fitzhugh, all of his life an
ardent advocate of clean government,
and an able lawyer, has been retained
by the state to assist in the proceed
ings.
This latest evidence of the COVER
nor's activity in the cause of law en-
forcement should prove a sufficient
and final answer to carping critics
who declared that the democratic par
ty, as recognized and e-habilitated
in the last campaign, could not be
trusted to execute the temperance
laws. Political considerations might
have deferred less sincere man than
Gov. Rye, Mayor Crump in the cleo
ton was his supporter. He received
a large majority in Shelby county.
The prohibition law is not popular
there. But as between his duty to
the people and to the democratic par
ty of Tennessee and his political in
terests in Shelby county, Gov. Rye
did not hesitate This course upon
the part of the chief of the democrat.
C party in Tennessee is particularly
gratifying to The Herald which in the
asst campaign urged the restoration
If the party to power as the best rem
,dy for the evils of lawlessness and
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-10-22
HOG CHOLERA FUNDS.

Justice Webster, whose usually pro
| sTesslve and enterprising record as a
member of the county court received
rather a rude shock when he voted
against the renewal of the hoe
~nolera appropriation on Monday, al
CUES that it would not be fair to the
other taxpayers to contribute from the
funds of the county court for the
special benefit of the hog raisers on
the county This an untenable argu-
msnt. 1t is one that could be made
against almost every appropriation OF
public funds. We might say with
equal force that it is wrong to tax
5000 taxpayers for the maintenance
of county high school attended by
the representatives of only three hun.
dred of these families. Or it might
be upon the same hypothesis, wrong
to tax all the people for the common
schools.
Governments must always act upon
the principle of the greatest good to
the greatest number. We educate the
youth because we know that without
an intelligent and educated citizen
ship our boosted democracy cannot
survive. Every taxpayer receives
some benefits from the education OF
the citizens hence all contribute.
Not every taxpayer in Maury county
is hog raiser, but nearly every one
will get some benefits from the pros,
perity of the hog industry in the coun-
ty. We are in our governments at
tanning more and more toward that
perfect ideal when we shall proclaim |
the universal fatherhood of God and |
the brotherhood Of man. Our civiliza-
ton, our institutions are coming
nearer and nearer answering the age |
old question, Am | my brothers
keeper" There was a time when
man lived apart, when the affairs
and interests of his neighbor did not
concern him, but thanks be to God
hat day has gone. No matter how
perfect a mans title may be to his
and, or how much he may have, his
estate after all is for life only an
,ven during that time there are some
Kings that he cannot do, because
10 them would ignore the rights of
iome neighbor.
In making appropriations, in spend
ng public funds of all kinds. the
,uiding rule should be the general
,ood, the greatest good to the great
st number.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-10-22
TALKING ABOUT MACHINES.

Patterson is almost as brazen in hi
aalk about machines as he is in hi
declaration that character should r
one of the tests of fitness in thi
state. Patterson vas the most Oh
noxious machine governor tina
mis- state ever had. HI
built the most infamous, tn
most arrogant and the mos
powerful machine the state eve
anew. 1t rested upon the liquor traf
&c and was nurtured by a pardon
brokerage and Office traffic withou
q parallel in the history of any Amer
Jean commonwealth. A candidate
against machine for gov
ernor he erected the most pow
4srful political machine that this
state ever knew. He is up to his old
tricks. Should the state be disgraced
by his election to the senate he
would at once set himself to the task
OF building a machine.
Patterson was so anxious for pow
or, so bent upon machine building
that he forced through the legisla-
tnre the infamous Memphis charter
bill, that in the opinion of the SUI
preme court violated the constitution
of the state seventeen times and that
of the federal government five times,
and to use the language of the la
mented Carmack, 'Wept because
there were no more constitutions to
violate" Patterson used all the pow
er and influence of his administra-
non to pass, and did force through
a subservient senate, the notorious
and wholly infamous Toilet liquor
road law, a bill that was cunningly
eyised to perpetuate the liquor traf-
&c in Tennessee under the guise OF
Building good roads. No more infa-
Enous measure ever crossed the
Threshold of a state legislature. 1t
would have erected another machine,
a. companion to the Memphis ma
hine, the election commission ma
Anime, the pardon brokerage and office
rrafficing machines.
Patterson inveighs against the
CrHmp machine in Memphis. He for
Gets how he loved the old Williams
machine in the same city. He Is
mightily against the Howse machine
now but was glad of its support in
1908, 1910 and 1912. when he was .
candidate for office. That machine
instructed for him for the senate in
his last campaign.