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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. l'ot»<wt ivy, wlui li marly usury urn* ml* /'■» i* it iluii.'MiNiua ttM, kt« thru*? It aw -. Un i»u« ill"in, tf |" km » the villi- (hey UNtiirally would itutal <t ( iiaiij« in r.iiilatt m illi it, as it tii |t»i<M>ikuii«. Iluwivtf, uiily 11 n v«rtain titiu' ><f tin- tuiiiiiMtr u tiu» f rut. I hitVM aalkwl l<*r« through ihtt unit HuMy I Hut» wh*ti I miu h buy ami (lava Mv»r U*it |nim«iux| by it. 'lll* n- art- *buut (t>i iii"Hi H» wit. u t| it lalljp-MUa «lnl till* liMltt M UlDrtll ill* Ihtrtl tttik nt July ami tb»- wuml <»r ibml •wit in &>i»u ti«l» r, (Jt'lwUtliM utt I|u; fi•.*< CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1910. I CMCS^^S 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 [7 Jte " T 'Wk WoMAM 10 112 " <, ,&'*"» *AK£ Tm J»A UDIRT riv V(V. . ' ' 1 AII.WIV. IS* \I In ulna unlet y _i It .iil. r» a ltd • tub w mttn |iu( mm »bit« aui' m» tiMw dty rtn utly and tbriintvlt i* till) liim iii* lit lint) i ti.llitani ■ rmotlf ujfuiitkt dirt m tk<> <M» * UMd (Tarda. i u«y i.ti»*d i | i ujiiiii<u« 4ml, and found it, ii * i qui in bu lot init itr»i lug and liu hiw« tlrtruuKuk (ban Ult ir ntui iummn} brM|« iwrtlt'i ui dantt a ttt> 1* * 411 l>U |illt| i d a |I'«I IfiMMi. Nil Ibel obtain*i| I||i ltM)ll|||ttt 111 Itl* Uf at* l|uu»«||i) iMIIHtiIM, "Mik <4 • boltt <•*<. • 4 111 adtailt « !u lit 11-0 til tls * II t i t|V« |#4 ' nr lit# MM* tt*> IM ida*i 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. Itl« mi In* and H liillitr> ijt |,m tiu, m tin ii uv.r kmidiida of nun ami tw «uiii» miii hiiki.i in 11<> i.in..ii oI thti >\ il< ruled Wuw. n'i t'luba Mum aolmu, Midi lit,. aaalatulli© of able In UttuUll, rlnn. il from among , ibu belli u of tin city, directed a 12 | luwr tmupitijiii v.in, i, bad fur Ira üb |ji«i tli> ili'.iiiiiii' ,dd tilt It-. v . w r ut.ru and uuiulii' iif. i* wlilt h had Hut al*ay» Mi. 11l <ur Ihvir full li t «if kUt-hiiuu Mini, i tin fduitu* lllnpl llaMlloU ul Ikv fl.lll.» Otitis olttl tr« .ill. I IIH-11.1,1 0 f !| l# 1 fftturil l l| rluim, brouiwa in baud, »li...iiil t/> Hitir Individual • )4uii<li« IIMV» ll. mli tMItW be * "int>li»li. t| |<y injiv itl i.,1 •lufi, uiul v»b. n ii,u »i,a **< It a*» u|<uti 4 bngbtnr, * luauar I *ltjf Mm • Unt ilv« » m lb* t.U»l»ug|,( i|t«t 111 lb*. B.»i It « bout. liit.i v dirt and in«li *»» >4iud ul t<> ilt ti ell) 4uiu| | |<l • Ibmi had •*« lit'lW «*rti#d IL*i% ' n libit* 1 1 kuitfi livJiutt 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. —X ' J* .. J, (• < -***4 Jiwlgf lli»w did >"U ttiiiiti lu got drunk? I'cf.Mi i tni Knlili. yer kunuf, oi'in not U> bl tiii. ill didn't know » bat Ol ».i t dour Vtui dUlu't? Iltm wu» that* ' lit ft'iiduni \V«dl, >t- •«<«. nor, Olwaa . mi l. r lb It.Hui itti.i ul lltjuoi' wbln Ol 1 •biarU'd And th«y Prvbably Will I '>i§* a* bi Mm it. «,!.!#! II '■> M»« »-W Tl.«> wlt'iul'l l««'l A tlua'a ui> su*. Mama Old MluH Tl.» llltlm <»«• «IIIM at* I »ll >•! Ml** 11.41 tcl4uMi li. Il,.,ll«i « tu|, Hnl •. ■ • . ll.« »- . la I kIM I It It -i> ■» *1 * l».»l « Li. 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 i tsuaute *><.u l *i«i. I tut l» ttr**4