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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05

NURSERY GOvERNESS.-North German: good
sewer: best references, city, county wages t55-
SIS g. ca =, at Lang & BoeeheFeF Il Agency ''
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MIDLAND SECTION
LONDON COMBINATION
AtefAai ssssssssss faiNol "
Cryatal Palace ann. = Fliiham
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
AirdriconlanS ......s Celtic
Ten Teams in Hub Bike Race
ENGLISH LEAGUES
SECTION

BOSTON, Nov. 4.-The cream Of
American and foreign cycling talent
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IAUNDRESs. Swedish. very competent Al
branches fine laundry references. Martha Collins
Agency. 457 Fourth az.
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LAU'NDREss Finnish grl best reference: city o.
country Iussia Agency. $50 Lexington ave.
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DIAMONDS

DIAMONDS BOUGHT and SOLD fcr cash; sdvics
free. BENNETT IFS Broadway. third door.
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DANCING
SCHOOL AGENCIES

American and Foreign TEACHERS Agency
Supplies Professors. Teachers. Tutors
Governesses etc, to Colleges. Schools ana
Families Apply TO Mrs 81 J fOUN'S
FULTON. % Union Square
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NURSE-Norh German; experienced; city; coun-
Try; references; wages 5000. Call al Lang
Boecherer Co Agency. 43 West $50 st.
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SITUATIONS WANTED
Male

SECRETARY. Competent stenographer. nov WI
large banking institution: high school education
understands bonds and Investments: excellent con-
Tribune Once.
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NOTE

This remarkable story
sciH appear daily and
Sunday in The Tribune
over a period Of about sic
7ceeks. The Tribunes
Circulation Department
sciU receiUe subscriptions
for the length Of HG story
and 5ciV mail the Daily
and Sunday Tribune dur
ing its run for the special
price of S1.25. This is a
real opportunity. Notify
as to-day!
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SISTERS Capable. young. excellent references
$40. $50: cook. rhambermait and waitress; apart
uent preferred Miss Sheas Agency. 80 East i-d
81. Murray Hi,l 617i.
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DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE

CARPET CLEANING
CAREFUL CARPET CLEANING Co-Ceans W
compressed air, steam. hand or on floor 1851
Broadssy, f2l Est ssh a. C0E BRANDT
Tel. l32--3Sth.
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Miniature Almanac

an risss. ......... s.zs Sun ssU. .......... $50
oon ri>os ~. M .l1.l5 Nom ss1 ~ M ..i2.I5
High Water
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WAITREsS-Enslish. Protestant young; competent;
Miss shea's Agency. 30 East 42d st. Murray Hill
6774
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HELP WANTED
Male

Male
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN notions, fancy gco-'
and small wares. New YORK Merchandise Co.
ll9 18th ave
ENTRY CL.ERK-EIpenenced. for notions eman
wars and fancy goods Nes York Merchandise
Co. lls 18th ave
Female
WANTED "a perierccd parlormsid for apartment
English- Scotch: one having long referunoe. "rite
only L. Box Il. Tribune once.
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WAITRESS PARLoRNfAID Young Irish girl good
cts reference: $3.50 NJ. Mss Hoimayers
Agency. 10 East i3d ST.. third floor. Telephone
S9i7 Murray Hill
WAITRESS CHANBERNfAID.-Neat, willing, obls,
inK des.rus city position: t35 $40. Colonial
Employment Agency. % West i2d ST
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/ SISTERS. Protestant: cook. $40; waitress. .35;
/ country preferred: sir years references. Miss
| shea's Agcncy. 50 East i2d st. Murray Hill e774
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Useful, CUAlfRERMAID assist children nice
Young Irish girls: excellent references city pre-
fcrred: $40 Please call. Mrs. Mason's Agency.
III West 42d 81.
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TWO GIRI.s-Cook $40; laundress- chanbermaid
$40: three years last place: city. country. Miss
shea's Agency. 80 East 42d ST Murray Hin 6s7+
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FURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET

TTrHSIsHED APARTMENTS TO LEr-sl...on
Hools. lea Wet I'D Ct
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30

der in Chief Of the American ssmr, The
/ Identification uf the penman>Atp n the
commission with that of the entry in
the journa. and of both with an auto
graph letter OF Matlack'S that is among
the papers of the Continental congress
is certain
Probably there was not at that time
q man in the country Who was Mat
lacks equal as a peuman. Later Thorn
son had two clerks in his office, George
Bond and Thomas Edison. each Of
whom wrote a good engrossing hand;
50 did General Washington's secretary.
Richard Yarick. Alexander Hamilton
wrote a finer hand than any of them,
but neither he nor any of The others
could equal the beauty of Matlack's
capital letters and the clearness and
symmetry of his writing as whole
Matlack Copied the Declaration.
Fortunately. Matlack was still "a
clerk in Thomsons Office when the
Declaration of independence was or
dered TO be engroSSed for final sigma
ture, and the task Of copying it was as
signed to him. He copied from the
oroadside, "In Congress, July 4. 1776'
which is reproduced in the written
Declaration in the same form of let
tering.
Ii is not easy to identify the penman-
ship of a document like the Declara-
ton, for the writer has written very
plainly and in characters of twice the
normal size. but some individual Pc
culiaritieS appear in this as in all
writing. a few years ago some of the
officials in the library of congress who
knew that Matlack was the best pen
man employed by Thomson made a
comparison of General WaShngton's
commission. which was known to have
been written by him, with the Declara-
ton.
The first peculiar letter in the com
mission is the capital "N" in New
Hampshire. and we find it's counterpart
in Natures" in the second line of the
body of the Declaration. The graceful
flourish at the top Of ''T" in the word
To in the commission is repeated in
the second of the sentences beginning
That" in the Declaration. In the word
Offer in the commission there is a
marked popularity in the double a."
the first a. is made like the old-faSh-
Toned long IS" 1t appears in the word
effect" in the Declaration, then in
suffer" and "sufferable" That is the
most noteworthy popularity in Mat
lacks writing. The capital 'D' in the
commission and in the last line of the
Declaration; the capital "B' in the
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
Ways OF SUMMER B0ARDERS
They Are Usually Very Witty Persons
Who Make Comical Remarks to
the Farmer.

Summer boarders are people who
spend several weeks in the country
each summer longing for a trip home.
They are usually very witty persons
and make comical remarks to the farm
er Aside from the board they pay
him the farmer cleans up a tidy sum
each summer by sending the things his
toarders say to the comic weeklies. A
summer boarder can merely look at a
COW and quick as a wink he will say
something funny. The farmer puts
this down in a book he always carries
around with him. In the course of d
couple Of weeks he has several pages
Of good jokes to sell at his own rates,
says the Philadelphia Star.
If you board with a farmer this sum
mer say some funny things to him
about the cows or the pigs. If he
Keeps q horse always poke fun at his
horse lie viii laugh at the funny
lhines Won say. Then he will 90 in and
open up q can of fresh country peas
out Of his own cellar so that when you
60 back to the city you will miss the
country vegetables. When you leave
he sure and tell him how you enjoyed
the country eating so that he can laugh
some more.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
The Wrono Place

The travelling man who had struck
the slowest town in the country on
Memorial day, and had not made a
sale of anything, was writing back
home. 0Ie had to pass the time away
somehow, and there We're no other
travelling men near the place)
This is the conclusion Of his eulogy
TO the town:
This IS the rottenest town l have
ever struck, and ! have met some
mighty rotten ones Today IS Memorial
day. They are making big noise in
this town. They all 20 out to decorate
the graves of the dead in the west half
Of the burgh, but in reality the ones
they should have decorated were the
homes of the living dead ones on the
east side. Those people out there in
the cemetery are the Invest products
this place has ever produced Some
town indianapolis News.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
He PLANTED RARE FLOWER
Amateur Gardener Discovered That
the 5rassica Csmpestrl Was
Known to Others as Turnips.

Il am a victim Of the every man his
own gardener said the North Ala
hama street man. in my back yard
in space no larger than a tablccloth.
l have planted seeds Of a dozen kinds
Of vegetables and will soon be entirely
independent Of the greengrocer. If
the city ordinance were not adverse TO
practical economy I she l finish the
meat dealer by keeping a couple Of
shoats.
While ! was putting In my garden a
friend of mine came by and asked why
! did not put in something to beauufy
the front yard. Here, he said, are
some seeds of the brassica campestris.
When these come UP youu have some
thing
"'What colored flower has ItT I
asked.
Yellow was the answer.
$50 I planted the seeds and they
came up promptly.
"A neighbor passing by asked what
had in the bed. l had written the
name brassica campestris in my note
book, and spelled it out to him ! told
him it was a rare flower with beau
tiful yellow blossom.
"'All right he said, I have some
We call 'em turnips'
My kind friend has gone on a trip,
When he gets back there1 be some
thing doing. Indianapolis News.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30

Submarine warfare has resulted in
numerous improvements In life pre-
servers and life buoys. The passengers
on any ship that sails the Atlantic to-
aaT are likely TO find themselves bob
hing about in the icy waters with no
SUPPORT but a cork jacket.
Some time ago a number of sailors
10 torpedoed ship saved their lives
ST night by signaling to the rescuers
".a little electric flash lamps. This
.Hrep'e has now been Incorporated
d'o the latest life h1oy by an attach
ne1t which carries e. ectric fash lamps
asa part Of its equipment. The lamps
'a-1 steadily as soon as the buoy hits
Ae water. and serve 10 indicate the
'as.tlon Of the person supported to any
roar thar may be searching for sur
Hvors,
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
FAC-SIMILE OF SIGNATURES.

by five years. The clerk was Timothy
Matlack. who died at Holmesburg. Pa.
in 1929, when he was ninety-nine years
Of age.
Timothy Matlack, writes Gaillard
Hunt, chief Of manuscript division H.
brary, in the Youths Companion. was
q Quaker by birth, but he was an open
advocate of fighting, and in 1916 was
elected captain of a militia band in
Philadelphia, known as the "Shirt bat
TALON" SO the QuakerS, who were op-
posed ia war. expelled him, and in
1871 he and some others formed the
sect known as Free Quakers." Be
sides being III the Continental congress
he held & number Of important offices
under the government of Pennsylvania
and Philadelphia. His last service
was as alderman of Philadelphia from
1913 10 1918.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
How Animals Eeed.

The squirrel carries its food in its
mouth by means OF its paws, while the
elephant uses its trunk The giraffe.
anteater and toad employ their
tongues hut spiders masticute their
food with horny Jaws
The caterpillar Is provided with saw
edged jaws and uses them SO well that
every day he consumes al least three
times his own weight in food Toads,
turtles and tortoises do not possess
teeth.
Frogs have only an upper row of
teeth, and Holsters and crabs have q set
Of teeth In their stomachs. The tiger
and lion do not grind their food; rs
Il matter Of fact. their teeth only work
with an up-0nd down movement. much
Ike chopping knlves.-Miuneapolis
Tribune.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30

Mrs. Lindsey SOW Keeps Mouso Zoe seven.

Tennle GaI tell you been benefited
by lydia nkhams Vegetable Compound About eight years agoI
gotn such owsae of health unable keep house three
the family had dull tired dizzy feelings, cold feet
all the time and could scarcely sleep at all The doctor said had
of liberation and without operation would always
invalid but told him wanted to wait awhile druggist
Lydia T. Pnhams Vegetable Compound
entirely cured Now keep house work
the garden thankful got this medicine feel
though my life and have recommended others
they have been benefited Mrs w f. LINDSEY X r. 3 Tenne Ga
cOndentia letter will be opened
a held i'll strict confidence.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
CUTlCURA HEALS SORE HANDS
That Itch, Burn, Crack, Chap and
Bleed-Trial Free.

In a wonderfully short time In most
cases these fragrant. super-creamy
emollients succeed. Soak hands on r.
firing in the hot suds Of Cuticura Soap,
dry and rub Cutcura Ointment into
the hands for some time. Remove sur
plus Ointment with soft tissue paper.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cutcura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold eyerywhere.-Adv.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
STUDYING Snow pentha.

The United States weather bureau
OF ii number If points is making ex-
teueiye studies ~ snow depths aud
den~ities in the higher mountain dis
trlcts both to be able 70 anticipate
food conditions and also to give citleS
which get their water supplies from
these sources advance knowledge IF
The volume they may expect from tn eir
watersheds
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
Was a Great Penman.

To carry out the order OF re con
eress that the Declaration be pro-
Canned thomson heeded more IMAM
score OF copies Tor ne had 10 send u
to everyone OF the states .ad - the
army. 50 10 save time ne dld not at
tempt to have any copies written on
win the pen OUT sent the ori@-hai
drafts when the congress had passed
20 me ofuciaI printer JoHh buniap.
ne IoilcWlhg morning me printed
copies We're ii thomson S hahds'
It was from one Of those copies that
Philadelphia first heard the Declara-
ZION read, and 1t was one OF them that
became the official copy for Thomson
mad not copied the Declaration even
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
GOO sick
60 Q0ork
Many Women in this Condition Re-
gain Health by Taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.


Ridgway, Penn q suffered from female
trouble with backache and pain in my side for over
seven months SO l could not do any of my work
was treated by three different doctors and was
getting discouraged when my sster-in-law told me
how Lydia T. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound had
helped her. decided to try it, and it restored my
health, SO | now do all of my bousework which Is
not light as I have a little boy three years old"
- Mrs. Q. NJ. RHNEs, Ridgway, Penn.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
Can't Be Taxed

Miss Catt-Sbe says her face is her
fortune.
Miss Nipp-Then that exempts her
from paying an income taX.--Town
Topics
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
SA-.-.2 E[<eL/

commission and in the word British"
in the Declaration; the whole word
Congress" in both Recommendations
and other details established beyond
"A doubt that the writer of the great
Declaration was Timothy huiack.
Although Timothy Matlack lived
long time, he did not I've long enough
TO see the harm th0t befeU the docu-
ment he had written So handsomely.
He and his contemporaries were proud
OF Il, and th''f descendants have held
II in reverence above all other d0cu-
ments; and 10 satisfy the patriotic GU
rIoSity OF the people who have wished
70 see it those who were IFS custodlaus
in past years subjected II 10 treatment
that did it irreparabe injury.
In 1894. when John Quincy Adams
was secretary Of state. "a skilled en-
graver. William J. Stone. mace a cop
per plate facsimile Of the Declaration.
That is the only one that has ever been
made II was distributed by order Of
congress and is familiar to us an. X lis
q perfect reproduction i'm every parttc-
ular of the original document as it was
when the fac-simile was made. and is
fine specimen Of The engrayers art Tn
fortunately at the time he made it pho
Biography had not been discovered. and
stone took an impression Of the docu-
ment tself and in doing SO carried OF
( some Of tie ink.
SIGNATURES Almost trvisihie
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
Died al Zee Of MinetY.Eive.

During all those Is years it was only
on rare occasions that any other hand
than his wrote in the journal When
the Continental congress passed out of
existence he retired to private life and
never held office again; but he did not
die until 1924 when he was almost
ninety-fve years old. One of the clerks
in his office in 1775 and 1776. and after
ward, in 1880, a member of the CON
gress from Pennsylvania, survived him
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30

lie has great need Of "a fool who
makes himself one.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30
DID MATLACK'S
HAND HOLD PEN?
Good Evidence That Clerk kCtu-
ally Wrote" Declaration
of Independence.
FAMOUS FOR SKILLFUL WORK

Timothy Matlack, Employed in the
Office of Charles Thomson, Sec
rotary in the First Congress, Is
Accorded Honor by Expert
Who Has Investigated.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-06-30

No wrote the declaration
w 5s 5asses4 Of eoas., 1e e2s@y
one knows that But who
held the pen and formed the letters on
the great piece of parchment that the
members of the Continental congress
signed? 1t is one of the largest official
papers in existence-one skin of parch-
ment nearly three feet long and more
than two feet wide. The writing is
nearly twice the normal size and is IN
usually handsome and clear.
The secretary who was ordered TO
prGmulgate the work was Charles
Thomson. man of high character who
had been the principal Of school at
New Castle, Del, and an active patriot.
The first congress chose him as secre-
tary in 1774, and he held the office un-
till the Continental congress passed
out of existence in March, 1889. There
We're 10 presidents of the Continental
congress, but there was only one sec
rotary. He made the entries in he
journal in 1774, and he wrote the last
entry.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-24
PLANTING or TREES
IS ABLY PRESENTED
DR.. H. H. Healy and e. S. Kneeland
Address Members of Civic Section
Of Civic League.

At the last meeting Of the year of
the Civic section, Women's Civic
league, held yesterday at the court
house, DR.. T. H. Healy and E. s.
Kneeland, superintendent Of Memoir
ial Park cemetery, discussed the
planting of trees.
DIR. Healy declared that the park
board is prepared to plant one mile
Of trees along streets that have so
far not been named. This work will
be carried on in accordance with the
recently adopted ordinance. which
gives the park board complete con-
troll of the berms Of the city. The
board has complete supervision of the
berms and it is their plan to take
every step to .beautify them. The
board will work for q uniform sys-
tenn of tree plating.
Mr.. Kneeland gave an instructive
talk on the plants. shrubbery and
trees that are best adapted for growth
in this climate.
Preceding the addresses, a short
business session was held, during
which officers Of the civic department
were nominated for election at the
annual meeting of the Civic league.
to be held in May. Mrs. Robert Green
and Mrs. w. P. Davies were nominal
ed as chairman and director, respec-
lively, and Mrs. j. F. Sowle was elect
ed aecretarY.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-24
PROHIBITION
MEETING HERE
o. S. Rappold, Prominent Cam.
paigner Against Liquor Traf-
fc, Speaks Tomorrow.

A prohibition meeting under the
auspices of the state executive COM
mittee Of the Prohibition party will
be held at the city hall tomorrow
evening beginning at 8 o'clock.
Orville 8. Rappold of Chicago, O
prominent lecturer on prohibition.
who has been secured to give an adj
dress at the meeting, arrived in Grand
Forks today.
Able Speaker.
Mr.. Rappold is an able speaker and
will present a forceful argument in
favor Of national as we'll Is statewide
prohibition. An interesting session is
assured and it Is hoped hat there will
be a large attendance.
George Lippman Of Granville. N.
D., chairman of the state executive
committee. together with other promi-
nent North Dakota prohibitionists,
will be present at the meeting. ar
rangements for which have been
made by A. j. Pierce of Grand Forks,
county chairman of the party.
From Grand Forks MI. Rappold
goes to Fargo, where he will address
another prohibition rally. He is at
present making a tour of the north
west in the interest Of the Prohibition
party.
In addition to lecturing against the
traffic in liquor, Mr.. Rappold is an ef-
aciency man connected with the Shell
don school of Chicago.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-24
SHRINE GIVES
UP ALL SOCIAL
PLANS FOR MEET
KEN Temple Learns That
Imperial Divan Decides
Upon Action.

Because of conditions brought about
by the war, a national movement Of
retrenchment, and probability that
railroads Dol will be taxed to the
limit moving munitions. food and mil
itary n naval units. the divan Of the
imperial council, Ancient Arabic Or
der Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine for
North America, at q meeting in st.
Louis Sunday. decided to cancel the
social features. planned for the 1917
session in the twin cities, June Is
to %.
This is the word that reached KEN
Temple officials yesterday.
To Have Business Session.
The business session. however, will
be held. officers elected and other
Shrine business transacted.
The elimination of social features
will mean the immediate abandon
ment by Minneapolis and st. Paul
Shriners of what they planned to
make the biggest social event in the
history of Shrinedom.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-24
MERCHANTS GET
GARDEN ADVICE
Agricultural Instructor Appears
Before Retailers at Meeting
This Noon.

]. H. ~schlenvogt, agricultural in
structor of the Grand Forks high
school, appeared before the board
of directors Of the Retail Merchants
association at a MONDAY meeting ana
luncheon held at the Columbia hotel
today and made some suggestions on
gardening.
The Merchants association is Offer
ing a ten-acre tract to people Of small
means who wish to avail themselves
Of the opportunity Of raising vege-
table gardens this year, and Profess
sor ~Schlenvogt has offered his serv-
ices to help make the proposition a
success.
The prize of 800 offered by the as
ISOLATION for the best garden raised
is expected to develop some keen
competition in gardening. There are
a number Of choice garden plots left
and those who wish to use them are
advised to call at the Office Of Secre-
tary Hickman Of the Merchants as
ISOLATION in the First National Bank
building.
Credits and other important bust
ness problems were discussed by the
merchants this noon.