LACKING IN SYSTEM' COMMON FAULT AMONG WOMllS SAYS A ISl'SIXKSS MAN. One Itoason for tln Servant Prob!e-n, ! It Is SujcKCKtiKl Hotel Milliliter Dependent itn Men to Organize ' Their HouhcIioMn. The head of the house put down 'n newspaper, looked thoughtfully : his young daughter and asked y stein was taught In the public t jols. System," she repeated, puzzled. 'YeH, system," her father perslst e .. "I don't believe, though, that : .yttcm can be taught," he con ti.ied reflectively. "It's like com irioa sense, or a sense of humor. One must be born with it." "What on earth ure you driving at?" asked his wife. "I'm driving at this: I have come to the conclusion that the New York woman Is about the least systematic In the world. I am not referring to business women so much as to wom en in the home, women who are not obliged to earn their living." "And men?" asked the wife. "Well, I have met men who appar ently had mighty little system about anything, but as a general thing men far outrank women In this re spect. "What started me going on the subject? Why, this: Jones told me to-day that he had discharged his housekeeper and put a man In her place, and that the only reason the ast-lstant housekeeper was kept was because women guests and the mnlds needed a woman's help occasionally. A big force of chambermaids are re quired in his hotel, to say nothing of dozens of other employes who for merly came under the supervision of the housekeeper. Now he has a man to do that work does it better, Jones says." "What was the trouble with the housekeeper?" asked the wife. "Lack of system, Jones said. Then he pointed out a phenomenon I had never noticed. He said that when a woman undertook to run a hotel It generally degenerated Into a boarding house, and that when a man took hold of a boarding house, which isn't often. It generally grew Into a hotel, and all because of a question of system. "A woman who has been trained In a business concern, who began, say, as errand girl, office attendant, o.- stock girl and works her way up '.o a responsible place, often learns a 1 fl deal about system. Under such ... i:umstances I think system can be -.ulred In an institution of learn . ;. I am also sure that, take some briiness women out of their envlron tieat and set them up In an inde pendent venture, they will drop al most Immediately Into what I call a ystemless system. To Illustrate: "A relative of mine left school at fifteen to work In a large manufact uring concern, In which she rose to a place second only to that of the own ers before she was thirty. I myself wondered at her success. "When she was thirty-two years old she married a prosperous busi ness man, a widower, with two chil dren and a good sized house, who can afford to keep several servants. He made no secret of the fact that he selected his wife because of her tal ent of managing for her systematic arrangement of her duties and busi ness engagements. "They have been married two years, and a worse managed house hold from my point of view It has never been my luck to see. I have never known a meal to be served in that house on schedule time in spite of the fact that they live far enough out of the city to make it necessary for the man to travel in and out by train; the children are quarrelsome, unruly, unpunctual and so usually, my wife tells me, are the three ser vants. Their 'mistress has lost her alert, confident, business air and looks as if she had tackled a Job too hard, for her, which is, Indeed, ex actly the case. "In other words, she has no sys tem by which that household may be reduced to a smoothly running, har monious basis. She could manage with ease a hundred or more em ployes In a concern of which she was not the head, but where she is abso lute boss three servants are beyond her. , "But in justice to women I think this ought to be said: The system which is possible In a hotel is not, In my opinion, possible in a private bouse, and I doubt if the general run of man would do any better than the general run of woman in managing an ordinary household." The manager of the same hotel spoke differently. Said he: "System is system, whether In a small or a large house, and no one appreciates this better than women servants, who themselves are quite Incapable of originating anything ap proaching system. A system must be laid down for them and they must be taught how to follow it, if satisfac tory results are looked for. A sys tem I ess mistress is bound to have a systemless servant; and that even the most charming and accomplished of mistresses are often almost with out any system at all In their house keeping no one, I think, will deny. Put a tiny cork into the end of brass ourtaln rods when they are to be run into starched or lace curtalus. The rods will slide in easily. .Soak new lamp wicks over flight la vinegar. This will cause them to giv a more brilliant light. K1 1U( K A ,,roR WKM Allowed to Plow Week! Without Cupping ('niisinn (Jreat Lom. As a commercial product natural r,M was twenty-three years behind petroleum. They both originated In Pennsylvania; and Pennsylvania has led all the States la the production of both products ever since, until 1903 when California surpassed her in petroleum. Petroleum and natural ins are al lied products. As Pennsylvania had the Ilrst and largest oil field she has also the first and moBt extensive gas region, says the Pittsburg Despatch. Like oil, It Is controlled by the few, and the enormous accruing pro fits redound to increase the wealth of the already rich. And It seems Im possible now to carry on such ex tensive Industries without great ag Eregatlons of money. It would be impossible for individuals of mode rate means to pipe oil or natural gas 200 or 300 miles and distribute it In small pipes or wagons to individual consumers In a city. An Instance showing the truth of this statement occurred In reality lately in McKean county, Pennsyl vania. Two brothers by the name of Keelor drilled a well 1.8S6 feet deep and Btruck the greatest gasser ever known. It threw the two ton string of drilling tools entirely out of the well and Its vibrations soon shook the heavy timbers of the derrick to pieces. The escaping gas roared like a heavy freight train dashing along, the sound of which could bo heard at a distance of ten miles. It was com monly said that It was producing 100,000,000 cubic feet per day. Such exact measurements as could ba made placed the amount at 4 2,000, 000. Hut whatever the flow of the gas may have been It was by far the largest well ever drilled and the ex traordinary production served to at tract great crowds of visitors. The gas had been sold In advance before the well was completed to the Pennsylvania Gas Company (which Is understood to be the Stnn dard Oil Company). There had been no pipe line laid in advance to take care of the gas. Of course it was un known whether there would be any gas. Every well Is a mystery until the driller strikes the sand. Put when the sand was struck and the im mense quantity of pus rushed out there was no immediate attempt to "shut it in." Day after day it wast ed from 42,000,000 to 100,000,000 cubic feet, sufficient to supply the domestic uses of a city of 50,000 In habitants. The gas was struck on the 22d of September, I90G. No attempt was made to control It until the 10th of November, just firty days, when the first effort to shut it in was suc cessful. Why an earlier attempt on the part of a great company to save the gas for two poor men was not made Is not entirely explained. Per haps they knew for a certainty that it could not be done. They might no have been able to have secured the tubing any earlier. The one thing which they did, however, was to lay an eight-Inch pipe and carry the gas 200 feet away from the well and let It escape there. They could not turn it Into a gas main for the reason that they had laid no main In that Inter val of fifty days. It Is said they could not get the pipe. They laid that eight-Inch pipe off to the south. There was a good reason for lay ing it that direction. The Pennsyl vania Company owned adjoining leases. They owned one across the road to the north. And as they want ed to drill there, there might be some danger from the gas of the Keelor well. The Keelor well is 300 feet south of the road at the point of the Pennsylvania Qas Company's new well. And the gas from the Keelor well was carried 200 feet south from the well. Of course, as the gas from the Keelor well be longed to the Pennsylvania Gas Com pany they had a right to pipe It where they pleased. But they were not paying for it while it wasted. The Pennsylvania Gas Company drilled a well as near to the Keelor line on the north as possible. All gas and oil men know that gas and oil Is in veins or seams or belts of sand stone, sometimes in pools. It is prac tically guesswork to strike these veins. No man owns the seams of oil or gas, except what he can strike in the wells from his own lease. Any one, of course, who owns an adjoin ing lease can drill as close to the line as possible, in the attempt to strike his neighbor's successful pool. That is part of the game. It Is competi tion in the great Industry. The Penn sylvania Gas Company successfully capped the Keelor well In their first attempt, which was a few days be fore they struck the sand in their own new well, but they did not turn the gas Into their pipe and begin to use It. The gii Is safely shut Into the well waiting the laying of the main. In the meantime gas in the new well was struck. It is a fine well, producing about 10,000.000 cu bic feet per day. Evidently It did not strike the veins of the Keelor well and is not drawing the gas from them.. Thomas Edison's Pustlnie. Those who chance to pass the dwelling of Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, at an early hour In the morning are somewhat astonished to hear an organ being played and won der who is thus amusing himself at a time when others are fast asleep. It Is Edison himself, who, after a long period of work In the labora tory, will refresh himself mentally by a couple of tunes on his favorite Instrument, thus preparing for re cuperative slumber. HOW SHE KEEPS BEAUTIFUL, The Mystery Solved. Like the flowers that bloom in the fpring the young girl just budding Into womanhood is an inspiring light and she is usually beautiful if she is per fectly healthy. Nhe stays beautiful just so long as lrcr health and constitu tion remain good. Let her be nervoun, havo backache, sleepless nights, ana how soon does it take for wrinkles, crow's feet and dark circles to appear in the face? Her cheeks were rosy until she began to suffer from woman's weaknesses and the constantly recur- j i j : i i. i I ring piiniH mm urmiin uruugui, tier quickly from the beautiful ago to the premature middle Age. It was not meant for women to suffer so It ii due to our unnatural, but civilized methods of living, and to the fact that so many neglect those small ills which soon lend up to larger ones. Nothing so drags a woman down as those con stantly recurring periods when tht suffers more anil more from a chronio condition that can bs easily curpd. No woman should take an alcoholic com pound for that will disturb digestion, and the food is quickly compacted and becomes hard and tough in contact with alcohol, rendering the food in digestible. She must go to Nature for a cure. The native Indians of early times were far from wrong when thev called a marvelonsly effective medi cinal plant "Squaw root" what the fihysicians of our day called Canlophyl urh or Blue Cohosh. This and Black Cohosh, Golden Seal, Lady's Slipper, and Unicorn root, are important ingredients of a wonderfully success ful remedy in modern times, namely, Pr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Having made a specialty of the diseases of women in the earlv sixties Dr. Pierce soon found that a glyceric extract of these roots with Hydrastis or Golden Seal and Lady's Slipper root, combined in just the right proportions, made the very best tonic and cure for the distres sing complaints of women. Where women suffered from backache, weak ness, nervousness and lack of sleep, it was usually due to functional trouble, therefore this prescription directed at the cause cured DS per cent, of such cases. That is why Dr. Pierce soon put it up in a form eanily to be pro cured all over the United States. Aching from head to foot that ia the condition that afilicts some women at stated periods backache, dizziness, and pains almost unbearable. An hon est and a safe remedy which no woman can afford to lose the opportunity of trying for the cure of these distressing Complaints which weaken a wouinn'i vitality is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription. Dr. Pierce not only assures vou that his "Favorite Prescription" is honestly made, but he lets you know just what it contains. The best of medical authorities recom mend and extol the virtues of the above Ingredients In "Favorite Prescription." Thus K. Klliiigwooil, M. D., profesxir of Materia Mcdica, Bennett Medical Col lege, Chicago, says of (lulden Seal : "It Is an important remedy in disorders of the womb. In all catarrhal conditions." Of Lady's Slippor root ho says: "Exer cises special Influence upon nervous con ditions depending upon disorders of the female organs: relieves pain, etc." Prof. John King In tho Amkmcan Dihi'esha tohy, says of Black Cohosh root: "This I is a very active, powerful and useful remedy." " Plays a very Important part In diseases of women; In the painful conditions incident to woman hood. In dysmenorrhea it is surpassed by no other drug, being of greatest utility in irritative and congestive con ditions." "Its action is slow, hut Its effects are permanent." "For headuche, whether congestive or from neuralgia or dysmenorrhea It Is promptly curative. Dr. John Fyfe, of Saugatuck, Conn., Editor of the Department of Therapeu tics in Tiif. Electic Review says of Uni corn root llvUmUm Dioira), one of the chief ingredients of Dr. Pierce's Favor lto Prescription: "A remedy which In variably acts as a uterine (womb) Invig orator and always favors a condition which makes for normal activity of the entire reproductive system, cannot fail to be of great usefulness and of the utmost Importance to the general prac titioner of medicine." "In Helonias we have a medicament which morn fully answers the above purposes than any other drug with which I am aciwilnicd. In the treatment of diseases peculiar to women it is seldom that a case is seen which does not present some indication for this reme dial agent." Jir Opener. The busy housewife invariably finds that the Jars of preserves sha "puts up" in the summer are not easily opened when winter gets around. In many cases her patience will be tasked, and it becomes neces sary to break the glass to get the lid off. So-called Jar wrenches are gen erally of little use. A Nehraskan has solved the problem in a very ulmpla manner. He has devised a wrench that cannot fall to loosen the lid, and with little effort, too. In connection with the usual tin Jar lid is a wire handle, which Is shown In the illus tration. Fitting over the handle Is a rod in one end of which Is a slot about the length and width of the handle. Sliding on the rod is a small catch. After slipping the rod over the Jar handle the catch is moved as close to the handle as possible. By using the rod as a lever and holding tho catch in place with the thumb little exertion is required to force the Jar lid loose. SLOVENLY 8POKEN ENGLISH As Heard by an Observer Af'.ar Years of Absence. Returning to this country aft;r ft prolonged residence In Knglanl. t'i' careless crudity of speech, witli ill? uncultured Intonation of the Anicii can voice, smites unpleasantly on tho ear attuned to tho cultivated modula tions of the EngllRh voice, the well chosen expressions of speech, tint beautifully rounded, cleanly enunci ation of each word, tho soft "r's," tho broad "a's" and the Invariably ccrroct giammar of the Englishman, says a writer In the New York Herald. For, alas! yes. It Is even a ques tion of incorrect grammar with us, as well as Inexcusable slovenliness of pronunciation. It Is an Indisputable fact that more bad grammar U perpe trated by the average American In cue month than the average English man Is guilty of In one year. This in spite of the proud boi3t of t;ie lulled States of the superiority of its edu cational advantages, which are at tho free disposal of the humbled citizen! On all sides, even from the lips of the college graduate, such expressions as "ain't It" and "don't he" and "be tween ho and 1" are constantly heard. And what shall be said of the very frequent "I havn't got nothing" nnd "you neon" tf the boys and glr'.j of fourteen and flitern years of age who ate In attendance at the public schools? Such glaring grammatical errors an these arc seldom heard In England, tor do Englishmen mar their speech by the corruption of "don't you" into "don't chew," "yes" into "ych," or coarsen It by tho adoption of such ex pressions as on "awful lot" ina'.erl of "a great deal," etc. The use of the word "ain't," for Instance, Is a pure Americanism one of tho nun.eniu.'i corruptions of the English lansuasu found In tho vocabulary which con tributes toward the plcturesqiiencss of the "American language" If not to Its purity. Surely there Is nothlns defective In the school system of a country u, lar-9 proportion of whose educated pof lie pronounce the word "been" an though its spoiling were "b-n." "probably" as "probly," "Institution" as "instltoctlon," "dew" as "do," aiifi whoso speech Is distinguished by iho groKS abuse nud misapplication if such adject I ves as "superb," "gor geous," "grand," etc. Primarily, the strictest severity should prevail In the grammar clas.ic3 of our schools, and In the reading classes slovenly, careless pronuncia tions should meet with tho utmost rlror. The Boft English rendering cf the letter "r," In such words as "her," "nioie," "cart," "murder," etc., should be Insisted upon by our school teach ers, and thus would be elimlnatea one of the most unpleasant characteristics of the American speech. To make of tho soft and liquid letter "r" a harsh mouthful Is to give one's Bpeech the hallmark of crudity. More Important still, the adoption of the broad "a" should be absolutely obligatory. It is a sin against the English language that children should bo sent forth from our schools with that distressingly flat pronunciation of the letter "a" in such words as "half, last." "calf," "can't." which is so laughed at as a crude "Yankee ism" in England. To the majority of Americans the adoption of the broad "a' seems like an affection. To the English the American fiat "a" grates In the ear as uncultured. Humiliating as it may seem to our national pride, we have to acknowl edge that whatever the English may be 'earning from us in business meth ods and in sporting matters, lessons which they are taking as bitter pills and with a wry face, we can sit at their feet and learn the English lang uage. To that class of words in which the letter "r" plays a prominent part, many of which words the Americans contrive to pronounce as though they were spelling with a "u" (for instance the word "bird," rendered in this country as though spelled "burd"), I would add that other class of English pronounclatlon which at first Im presses ub as peculiar the shortened and compact rendition of such words as "circumstances," "obligatory," "li brary," "dictionary," etc. One feels Impelled to criticise a col lege course which permits our young people to graduate with a knowledge of the higher mathematics at their fingers' tips, their brains teeming with philosophy and science, and yet with their speech too often slovenly and careless and Interlarded with flat "a's" and crude "r's" which would seem to indicate the possession of but slight educational advantages. MUMMIES MADE TO' ORDER. A Man Has Been In the Business 29 Years How the Fakes sre Made. Making mummies Is the peculiar oc cupation of a man in Los Angeles, Cal. He exposes his whole process, from the beginning to the end, with out making the least secrecy about It, says a writer In the Pacific Monthly. He works in a shop on a main street of tho city. In the show win dow are sample mummies; also a sign which reads: "Come in and see a mummy made." "After having hidden his art for more than a quarter of a century," says the visitor, "he has chosen to give a practical lesson in It to wbo- I iSH AVcgctable Pr eparalionTor As similating rticFoodandRcgula liitgthc5toinnchsandl3owl3of Promotes Digcdtion.Crtrerfiil ness and Itest.Contalns neither Otrium.Morphinc nortincraL NOTXAJtCOTIC. JUnpt afOtdO-SiNVZLmaaR Mx.XmMi Apcrfecl Remedy forConsupa Tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Fevcrish ncss nnd Loss of Sleep. FacSimilo Signature of NEW YOHK. . EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. soever cares to leurn it." The whole factory outfit conslts of a great rough table and one or two smaller ones, upon which several mummies are lying In different stage3 of development. The first Btep taken in the manu facture Is the preparation of a slmplo plank, the vertebral column, which gives a stay to the head, body, let.3 and all. and to the end of which nr.j nailed one or two short boards repre senting the feet. Then a bag of sacking, correspond ing in form to the shape of the body, is placed around the plank and stuffed with excelsior. Tho ribs are reproduced by means of bamboo straps. The arms and fingers consist of several big and Borne small sticks. All these things are attached 10 the outside of the bag. The rough body thus produced Is covered with a thin coat of planter to the extent of the chest and abdomen, or wherever else any' part of the body Is intended to Bhow. On the top of this plaster a coating of glue Is put and a fluffy tissue past ed on, which Is again covered with glue. The body at this stage is or a yellowish color and in touch and ap pearance resembles almost exactly a fresh human carcass. The head is next placed In position and covered with glue and tissue in the same way as the body. The eye holes are painted dark brown inuldo and covered with a piece or two of the same material, with a small silt in the middle, which gives a niar.el ously good representation of the sun ken, dried out eyes of the real mum my. A few hairs are pasted on top of the head, the teeth are made out of small bits of horn, and the head and neckneck, with the exception of the face, are wrapped with several layers of thin ragged cotton, held together by bands. The whole body is treated likewise, leaving such spots as it Is desirable to show the skin and bones underneath. Then the form, which has been partly painted before the outer cover ing was put on. Is dyed once more, to gether with all the rags and bandages, and when perfectly dry presents the oxact appearance of the real old Egyp tian mummy. Finally the body is strewn all over with gray dust, or powder, which partly fills all the holes. If there was the slightest ground for scepti cism loft before this removes it en tirely. The writer has seen hundreds of mummies, but even on closest inspec tion he was not able to discover any thing in the artificial product that was not exactly in accordance with all he ever observed In the original mummies. The very shape of the head, the expression of the hollow eyes, the Bhrlvelled lips, the bits of skin and bone exposed; the wrappings and all, are such as exactly to resemble the genuine article. Standing In the very wortdiop, seeing thoni made, and hearing the maker's explanations, It is hard to realize that those weird figures should be Imitations. If the artist tells you that he ha3 been working in his line of buslnnsi for twenty-nine years, that he lear-ej his trade In a regular factory long ago, and that he Is able to turn out several mummies a day, you will pBr haps agree that even your keen eye may have been deceived, especially ir you will calculate what this one man alone has doue in his line. t 1 1 i fn) n ejjaJnj Jo) n A I TOW uWuliuinl For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years f HTMM MVNNT. MEW TORI OITT. 522521 To Print Laws. Representative Thompson, of Blair lias introduced in the house a bill lequiring all laws and i emula tions to be printed in three news papers in each county, at least one paper representing the minority party, except in Mich cases where the secretary of the commonwealth desires to limit publication to two papers in any county. In cities of the first class four newspapers must bj u.ed but all local Uws aud re gulations need be printed only in the counties affected. Fortunate Father and-Son. I am as certain as I now live, says Mr. C. Iv. Bartholomew, Kalkaska, Mich., that Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Roudout, N. Y., saved my life when I was a victim of that terrible disorder Brigbt's disease. My sou bad a lever sore on his leg; he too used Favorite Remedy and is now well. AH druggists $i.co; 6 bottles $500. Diplomacy Is the graceful art of making other people feel that they know more than they do. You cannot make sweet butter in a foul, unclean churn. The stomach serves as a churn in which to agi tate, work up and disintegrate our food as it is being digested. If it be weak, sluggish and foul the re sult will be torpid, sluggish liver and bad; impure blood. The ingredients of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery are just such as serve to correct and cure all such derangements. It is made up without a drop of alcohol in its composition; chemically pure, triple-refined glycerine being used in stead of tbe commonly employed alcohol. Now this glycerine is of itself a valuable medicine, instead of a deleterious agent like alcohol, especially in the cure of weak stomach, 'dyspepsia and the various lorms of indigestion. Prof. Finley Kllingwood, M. D., of Bennett Medical College, Chica go, says of it: "In dyspepsia it serves an excellent purpose. It is one of the bist manufactured pro ducts of the nresf nt timp in it ac tion upon enfeebled, disordered stomaens. ' Many a girl who says she would n't marry a foreign nobleman for love or money marries him for a title. DO TUB RIGHT THING if yOU have. Nasal Catarrh. Get Ely's Cream Balm at once. Don't touch the catarrh powders and snuffs, for they contain cocaine. Ely's Cream Balm releases the secrelious that inflame the nasal passages and the throat, whereas common "reme dies" made with' mercury merely drive, them out aud leave you no better than you were. In a word, Ely's Cream Balm is a real cure, not a delusion. All druggists, 50c. or mailed by Ely Bros., 56 Warren Street, New York. Bloomsburg Souvenir Books, 48 half tone pictures, ascents, at the Columbian office. tf. X M il I 1 IM a - 1 u , w IF TMI I
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