Man's
Need
ACK OF ABSOLUTE knowledge in case of doubt or inquiry
often proves a handicap to the young man —or old—out of all
proportion to the circumstance in which it arises. Accordingly
as the query is serious in its ends, the inability to answer defW
nitely may embarrass the one of whom the question is asked.
Let the young man consider the situation. His employer
has asked for information of him. He would not have done so
if he had not reason to feel that the young man knows, or
may know. When the question has been asked, the young man
X
at once should be in the position of saying that he knows, or
he should be in the position to say instantly that he does not know.
To know and to know that he knows in such a circumstance must be
the unqestioned better situation. The question cannot be too trivial not to
call for appreciation of a prompt answer that is satisfactory in every re
spect. But that answer that is indefinite, or still to be questioned, or
which may be accepted and still prove inaccurate, may prove one of the
most embarrassing failures possible to an employe. It may lead to untold
troubles and loss of time and effort. It may mean a black mark against
an employe beyond anything the employe ever dreamed of!
Ofter the man accepts as accurate a piece of information which may
have been passing more or less current as fact. While it might have been
the simplest, easiest thing in the world to have made this knowledge abso
lute, he never has thought of questioning it. Thinking that he knows, and
passing on this information that has been unquestioned in his own mind,
his attitude and expression carry weight with it. Thus to the extent that
the information is inaccurate it is doubly likely to carry the full effect of
its consequences.
To the observer it is appalling just how much of information passes
current as fuct when it is farthest removed from it. How some of this
misinformation becomes current would be hard to guess at!
What
Killing
Game
Costs
World
By FRANCIS WYNNE
of London
numerous regiments?
The inhumanity and the waste which go with this disbursement for
armaments are a sad commentary on our boasted civilization.
The treasure which England alone spends would give an additional
dollar per week to every wage earner in the United Kingdom.
It would reduce our vast army of the unemployed by many thousands
and would bring peace and plenty to many a household that is now the
abode of want and misery.
Tedious
Lon(£
Hours
of Dru{|
Clerk
B r CLARENCE C. MALMROSE
I'lits would l«'iu*fit the p<-o|ile in general.
No j»r< ription would then lie filled by a clerk who is half asleep,
which is often th» cam- lew. lit this way mistakes are made and the pa
tn lit is 111 danger of an overdose. It is hard nowaday* to get a man or
lioy to learn the busmen*.
'I In- b'xlv of clerks is getting smaller and smaller.
'J oil mtt, why should th< . learn the bu*in« s, when a plumber, carpen
trr or an trud< -man gets more |<ay than they do?
<>ii' inu •» lie a lowr ol the business to »tuk and I am one of thee*.
Avoid
Contact
With
Poison
Ivy
Hy WM tL UMOWN
Dollop |i|
rli* <>«!» way tu i iUninixi* lh« vii*« it
lu kill all if r< mi l Ik* ) ••<* »)>«uU ibat turn I >un«| tl > wiini- #>a*'U,
fu* tH> viit <» > v«r. It. I un.| i« lull ni'V in kill,
I |ta>< in tr lii »-hi i but I« 1 'al«t it 4»ua« Jwf 4* J • (at*
W<M ti> •« it.'tat U» wul>i.i I m (w t •< b.
Sure of What
He Really
Knows
By JOHN A. ROWLAND
There is nothing in the province of work and ac
complishment which has greater potentiality for fail
ure than lack of accuracy in initial knowledge. It may
start a man or scores of men hopelessly wrong from
the beginning. Its possibilities in failure are limit
less. And always the inexcusablenesa of the misin
formation is doubly irritating. The mistake so easily
might have been prevented!
What do I know about this and that? How well
do I know it?
These are questions which the young man cannot
ask himself too often or too seriously.
England has many thousand human be
ings who are in a chronic state of destitu
tion and yet the annual expenditure of the
English government for naval and military
purposes is £70,000,000, or $350,000,000.
The civilized world has a yearly bill
reaching the gigantic total of £500,000,000,
or $2,500,000,000, all of which is incurred
in preparations for human slaughter.
Js it worth all these millions, wrung
from the taxation of hard-working, sorely
distressed beings, to see which nation shall
be able to float the greatest number of
battleships and put into the field the most
If any man needs better wage* and
shorter hours it is the drug clerk. A drug
clerks' association would go a great way
toward remedying this, but time and again
has this been tried.
The clerks at one time had an organiza
tion going at a fair headway when some one
disappeared with a greater part of its funds.
This discouraged the clerks and now it
is very hard to get them together.
If these clerks could !>e organized it
would mean more pay and shorter hours,
which are what they detenre.
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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1910.
I
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Costly New York Living Apartments
NEW YORK.—In the city of New
York, where millionaires seem to
thrive like mushrooms in a cellar,
there is being constructed an apart
ment house in which a suite of rooms
will rent for $25,000 a year. Probably
this rental is the highest that has ever
been asked for an apartment, even
such as will be found in this house, a
series of 18 rooms and so many baths
that one would be able to use a differ
ent one every day in the week and
two on Sunday without doubling on
his trail. It is the apotheosis of lux
ury; the last word, so far as the hu
man mind of today can Imagine, in
scandalous magnificence. In other
words, the builders of this house have
set a new pace for spendthrifts In the
way of living. A yearly rental of $lB,-
000 is the highest that has ever before
been asked for unfurnished housekeep
ing apartments In New York city.
The new apartment house will have
17 apartments—one on each of the 17
floors—and five duplex apartments in
addition. The eleventh and twelfth
floors will be devoted to apartments
which will occupy all the floor space,
and these will rent for $25,000 a year.
The apartments which sthare a floor
with half of a duplex apartment will
rent for SIB,OOO,
The architects have arranged the
suites so that each of these big floors
shall have more and larger rooms than
This Murderer 36 Years in One Cell
BOSTON. —Bent and marked with
prison palor, Jesse H. Potneroy,
serving a lift' sentence in Charlestown,
Mass., has written his own story of his
crime and his efforts to better his con
ditions shut away from the freedom of
the world. He fs now 50 years of age
and was convicted of a double murder
when he was only fourteen years of
age. All these years have been spent
in solitary confinement and the pris
oner declares he has never felt a
touch of human sympathy or kindness
and no effort has ever been made to
better his condition. "I have no
friends," he writes. "I cannot get a
hearing from the governor. I have
been left to my own devices in my cell
nil these years."
Pomeroy killed two children, a boy
and a girl, after treating them with
barbaric cruelty. lie inveigled other
small children into Isolated sections,
stripped them of their clothing, tied
tliem to trees or upon boards and then
Chicago's Clubs for Working Girls
A fifi£ j . *^|gLi:) O OFS HOT
, auej TO
iii w) ,Wl j pay ou»
A Wi MORt TMA/«
I I Jjß IjHEt EARN
CHICAGO. — In Chicago there are
what are called Kleanor clubs,
where nirls of all sorts and conditions
find homes. Among them are office
clerks of all descriptions, telephone
operators, milliners, bookkeepers, de
partment store and other clerks, music
and art students. These latter are
encourage d to live, a few at every
club, since It helps the clubs and the
dub girls in general
At ih«' •> clubs the weekly board rate
pays for two meals, break!sst and din
ner If a girl wishes to take her
lunch with her she pays five cents for
three saudwich<» and either fruit or
eske, for which downtown she would
pay about fifteen cents. There I* the
laundry also, which saves u.i my for
the girls Kor lis use, with tubs, hot
water, Irons, March ai d bluing, the
Women Sweep the Streets of Atlanta
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can be found in a private city dwelling
occupying the regulation city lot, and
the number of bouses in New York
that occupy more than one lot even in
"Millionaires' Iiow" do not exceed a
score. The four principal rooms of
each apartment—the salon, dining
room, living room and gallery—cover
2,500 square feet, and they are so ar
ranged that they can be turned into
practically one immense room for en
tertaining. Each apartment will have
at least three or four real fireplaces
where real logs can be burned; an in
cinerating plant for the disposal of
garbage; vacuum cleaning system ex
tended to every room; the latest heat
Ing, ventilating and refrigerating sys
tems, and both electric and gas ranges.
In the basement there will be, be
sides the individual laundries for each
apartment, large washing and ironing
rooms equipped with laundry machin
ery. There will be wine vaults, cold
storage rooms and two large storage
rooms for each apartment as well. Two
floors below the ground will be de
voted to these and the power plant
which will heat and light the building.
In addition there will be machinery to
manufacture ice for use in the kitch
ens of apartments.
Those who have studied the condi
tions of Manhattan island, and who
have been most emphatic in predicting
the era of overcrowding, will take this
sumptuous tenement as a real sign, of
that ultimate time when they believe
only business houses and the homes of
the rich will be left In Manhattan.
Other students of the city life will see
in this effort a sign of that time often
predicted when all city dwellers will
live 1n co-operative apartments.
| beat them until they were unconscious,
| stuck pins into theif tender flesh and
stabbed and jabbed Ihem with knives.
When this boy with the demon heart
was finally run down and forced to
confess he barely escaped lynching.
Only his youth saved him from the
hangman's noose.
Pomeroy's letter to the public in
general and to the governor of Massa
chusetts in particular is a lengthy
document. He cites many reasons why
he believes he should not have been
convicted of murder and concludes
with an appeal to the governor.
In his plea he says:"l respectfully
suggest that this prisoner may ha-»e
| some encouragement in doing well. He
\ is no worse than his neighbors. Kind
ness is never lost on anyone, and this
prisoner has all his life shown him
self responsive to kind treatment.
Public feeling against me is respons
ible for the deeply rooted and persist
ent newspaper misrepresentation all
these years, aftd that public feeling
J was due to newspaper exaggeration
and notoriety in 1874. Of course it
i cannot be denied that the crime was
| dreadful and that public justice re-
I quired satisfaction; but the truth is,
j no effort has been made from that
day to this to better this prisoner's
condition."
girls pay five cents an hour. This does
away with washing In the rooms and
may save, if the girl is clever with
shirtwaists, whatever her laundry bill
would amount to, minus the nominal
laundry fee to the house.
There Is no dormitory system, ul
though in a few large rooms there
may be three* or even four single beds.
Most of the rooms, however, are for
two. and there are a number of single
rooms In every club. Maids do the
chamber work and the general clean
ing, for the housework there Is no
co operation, some girls must he at
their desks or their shops or thelf
counters early. There Is also a sew
ing machine in eveiy club for the free
use of the girls.
In these Kleanor clubs the young
women have much of the freedom of
home, perhaps all that would be pos
slble In so large a family. Th« y have
the parlors and verandas for receiving
their friends and, so far as po slble,
the clubs are ruleless The household
bill, are |i«ihtcd every month in each
club, for, as the girls' own money pay
them, H is only fair that they shall
where and how the money goes.
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tin ii uv.r kmidiida of nun ami tw
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thti >\ il< ruled Wuw. n'i t'luba
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able In UttuUll, rlnn. il from among
, ibu belli u of tin city, directed a 12
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Good Jokes ] \
DEPEW ON TIPPING EVIL.
"Tipping gets worse and worse on
the other side," said Senator Depew in
a recent interview.
"A New Mexican told me that at the
Savoy in London he went to have a
wash before luncheon, f)ut saw a pla
card on a mirror saying:
" 'Please tip the basin after using."
"This made the man so angry that
he rushed from the washroom mutter
ing;
" 'No! I'll go dirty first."
"The New Mexican added that, after
he got his lunch, he tipped the waiter,
the waiter's two helpers, the man who
gave him his hat and gloves and the
man who whistled for a taxi. The ve
hicle rolled out into the Strand, and
our friend leaned back with a sigh of
relief, when he was aware of a boy in
buttons running along beside the win
dow.
*' 'Well, what do you want? said
the New Mexican, savagely.
"'A few coppers, sir—accordln' to
tne usual custom, sir,' the boy panted.
" 'Why, what did you do?" snarled
the New Mexican.
" 'lf you please, sir,' said the boy. 'I
saw you get into the cab.' "
TOO MUCH OF A BAD THING.
lij^
Judge—You are regarded as one of
the shrewdest confidence men in the
country, and yet you are here.
Prisoner —Yes; I guess it was a
case of over-confidence, your honor.
Excessive Punishment.
From Manuel's
Gilt throne they yanked htm.
When at the worst
They should have spanked him.
The Professor's Plan.
"I think 1 should like to uave a
college degree," said Mr. Dustin Stax
"Have you been engaged in any
great or important work?" asked the |
professor.
"Indeed. I have. I've been going I
over my enormous pay roll."
"Ah.' Perhaps we might take soma !
recognition of your proficiency in the i
hire mathematics."
Getting an Education.
"Has your son learned much since
he went to college?" asked the new
minister.
"Naw," replied Farmer Oatcake,
"but I hev. by hen!"
Might Have Been Kelly.
Priam, king of Troy, had come over
to the camp of the Greeks, praying to
be given the body of his son, slain by
Achilles.
The occasion appealed to Odysseus'
strong sense of humor.
"Has anybody here seen Hector?"
he warbled.
If Ireland hail been known In those
days it is shrewdly conjectured that
Hector's name would have been Kelly,
and on that supposition the refrain
endured till yesterday, when it be
came extinct. —Puck.
PLEADS IGNORANCE.
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drunk?
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not U> bl tiii. ill didn't know » bat Ol
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mi l. r lb It.Hui itti.i ul lltjuoi' wbln Ol 1
•biarU'd
And th«y Prvbably Will
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OH, WHAT'S?
"Oh, what's tho use of sighing?"
The cheerful people say.
In truth, there's no denying
'Tla seldom found to pay.
"Oh. what'B the use of growling?"
The optimists Inquire.
The chaps who're always scowling
Their friends and neighbors tire.
Oh, what's the use of looking
Upon the darker side?
The ship of Hope Is booking-
Come on, let's take a ride'
Overcome.
"I understand Plpps fainted dead
away In a restaurant yesterday morn
ing."
"So he did."
"What was the cause?"
"Pippa had just ordered an orange
and a cup of coffee for his breakfast,
when he overheard a man at an ad
joining table ordering an extra sirloin,
French fried potatoes, three fried eggs,
sliced tomatoes and a plate of hot
rolls."
Pride of Ownership.
"There's something wrong in th».
perspective of this picture."
"Yes."
"Tho house in the foreground looks
like a mountain and the mountain in
the background looks like a mole
hill."
"Oh, that's due to the relative Im
portance of the house in the eyes of
the artist. That is a picture of his
new bungalow."
Get Busy.
In this spaeo
We wish to say
Christmas 1B »■
Not far away.
A Bad Loser.
"Johnny, what alls your little brotl*.
er?"
"Aw, he's a bum sport."
"What do you mean?"
"I wrasseled with him to see which
of us would have the candy you gav»
him, and he lost; now he's puttln' up
a holler!"
Remedy Worse Than the Disease.
Mr. Chinn —I've Just been reading,
my dear, of a new cure for nervous
prostration. The patient Isn't allowed
to talk for weeks.
Mrs. Chinn —Huh! I'd Just as sooi*
die from prostration as from exasper
ation.
FIRST THING.
First Reformer—lt's about time (of
your committee to begin its campaign
against vice.
Second Reformer —Oh! no; they
haven't hrul ail their pictures In the
newspapers yet.
Its Requirement.
"An automatic piano must have a
tendency to make Its owners con
ceited."
"Why so?"
"Because generally they do put on
such airs."
Shocked.
Mrs. Hactm -I see It Is said that cer
tain species of flsh generate measur
able quantities of electricity in their
bodies.
llacon Yes, I believe that Is MO.
"Were you ever shocked by a flsh
you caught, dear?"
"No, but I've been shocked by some
of the fish stories I've beard "—Yon
kers Statesman.
She Waj Willing.
He (timidly) --Miss I'eaehly— er-«
Clara, do you care !( I call you bv
your llrst name?
She - Oh, no and—er—l don't be
lieve I should care If my friends h.i<|
the right t«» cull tie by your last
nunie
Their Freshness.
'These ewgs don't seem to b« real
fresh," objected the mint from I'blla
delplil »
"Well, It's )<»«ir fault, then," snapped
the Cliu lnn.nl * <lti« ss; "they w»«r«»
frtish when I broutiht lk«w on but
you've bei ii half an hour opeiilbg 'eia.**
Trouble Brewing.
"He*- here. Mi Yaiiketn.' said the
lnndUud patience has i > «»»d to be »
i virtue In yuur ease "
Why. * hat's thu trauhle*" i|ut»r|ed
ihu dentist
"Well," replied the landiurd. "you'll
sillier hat* to ui> *e your I'aiulesa
(a Kisi fartur' su»newh«*r«> else u*
| suake *uur patu uis hollering The
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