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
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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-
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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.
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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,
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