Part 2. ——— MAGAZINE SECTION. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1005. The Centre Democrat. Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, Current Topics. WITTE IN RUSSIA RETURN OF THIS SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMAT NOT A MARCH , OF TRIUMPH, Despicable Manner in Which Divine Royalty is Wont to Accept Value able Services of Subjects. Charles E. Kern, There is pathos in the attitude of the great Russian statesman, M, Witte, largely to whose diplomacy the Czar owes the favorable conclusion of the war with Japan, in his presentation in person to his majesty, of a report on the details of whose historic meetings at Portsmouth which were so managed as to “save the face” of Russia, as they say in the far East, It is difficult for an American to understand the na- ture of this meeting between Czar and subject, and although we as a people cannot admire M, Witte’s braggadocio, we must in fact feel sorry for a man who returns to his country after ac- complishing so much in her behalf and finds it at once necessary to plan an intrigue in order to prevent effacement, Only those who have been within the charmed circle of the court at St Petersburg can !magine the conditions influencing tais interview between the Czar and his representative who has carried off the honors of the diplomatic game that has recently been played to determine the terms on which peace could be concluded between Russia and Japan, The American imagines the Russian statesman and diplomat returning to the presence of the Czar with form erect and countenance beaming with just pride in having performed sery- ice for which he would naturally ex- pect to be received with honor. But those who have been at the Imperial Court of Russia know that no such scene is enacted the return of M. Witte, With Bowed Head and Humbly They know he will return to the presence of his royal master, the Czar, if he has already reached St, Peters- burg with bowed head, regretting that he has been unable to serve his mas- ter in a more worthy manner, and praying, with the hunted countenance of a criminal, that he be forgiven for having performed s0 poor a service He will protest that if there can be found any act of his own worthy of favorable comment that that act is due wholly to having obeyed the royal will and having properly interpreted the royal purpose, He will conclude that act of humiliation by begging forgive ness of his august master for his short- comings. No menial in America could play the part of humility so earnestly as will the distinguished diplomat M, Witte, “The attitude of statesmen of monar- ehical governments toward their royal mastérs is one that cannot be under- stood by Americans and is known only to those who have been in close touch with them abroad,” sald a high official of the State Department in comment upon ing upon the return of M, Witte to his home, Would have Presidential Bee, “The men who make European and Asiatic history to-day can never hope to approach their royal masters, who are in many cases mere puppets, ex- cept in a manner indicating the utmost humility, The American who would perform such service as that of M. Witte would return home with a straight backbone and with the presi- dential bee buzzing under the crown of his hat. He would accept as his right every bit of credit pertaining to his successful work, and no one would expect him to perform any act of hu- miliation in the presence of the Pres- ident or any one else,” The fact is, M. Witte began his act of humility while in this country. He referred to the Czar at all times as his august master and while crossing the Atlantic ocean, when accorded deserved honor for his diplomacy, was quick to disavow being worthy of the least credit for his labors, stating in effect breathed because of the goodness of his “august master” and that anything he had done in connection with the peace | ! | | | | | { dollars. { denly on her own resources, made | | | i | : : : i prest Was eaxy. to the will of his master, the Czar. : | how to do ever so many things,” says that he was a miserable creature who | t},0 latest entry on the books of a big er : | with breathless eagerness. negotiations was merely in obedience | WORKING GIRLS CHANCES. CHOOSE CONGENIAL OCCUPATION THEN HOLD FAST TO THE FIRST GOOD JOB, Is It is Not the Kind of Work but the Manner of Working That Brings Forth the Dollars, “It is not my specialty, madame,” gaid the little French milliner who had just finished a beautiful beruched hat for me, when I asked her to make one of those pretty mousseline shoulder ruches ; and she would do nothing out- glide her specialty, So it is in all the big cities where women flock to make a living or a name; whether in Parls, London, New York, Chicago, S8an Fran- cisco, one must have one’s highly per- fected specialty in order to win even moderate recognition. “Don’t scatter” Is the very best ad- vice to the girl worker. “Oh, I know employment agency. “(an you cook 7” asks the manageress “Yes,” is the reply rather shame. facedly. “Good! I'l put you down under Cooks.” “But, I don't want to cook. I've been through our academy and I've gradu ated in all the latest accomplishments. ] Besides, | out even facility in writing, she begged | paper, | much establishment, at $2 a week. i the | one's spec Expectations That He Would Fail. The return of M, Witte to St. Pe- tersburg also has a special interest because, as is fully understood in the | inner circles of the Diplomatic Corps | r n at Washington, his appointment as a) peace commissioner to represent the Czar was given him not for his benefit but was brought about by his enemies, | who expected that his failure to effect! a successful peace negotiation would | be his permanent political undoing. It was M, Witte who opposed the war and favored its conclusion long before peace | was arranged. He was detested by the | military party, and the intrigues of the Russian court placed him in an un- comfortable position before the Czar, It was argued that if he could be sent on the impossible mission of making peace when the entire court was con-| vineed that the attitude of Japan would make the peace conference a failure, he would return discredited and forced for the first time In his career to approve the continuance of the war, which was desired by certain of the court digni- taries up to the time peace was de- clared. Still Working for his Downfall, Now that the good fortune and the artful diplomacy of M. Witte have con- fused his enemies he Is no better loved by them than he was when they cone spired to Intrust him with a mission they believed he could not successfully perform, It Is learned at Washington that even now those same enemies are planning future traps for the eminent statesman who has been favored by the god of fortune. When he appears be- fore his august master in the tra. ditional attitude of a slave there will be many of his enemies to endeavor to persuade the Czar that the formal words of self depreciation which he must utter to conform to court etl. | of work, for seme one hundred and Afty I've come up to the city to make money—a lot of money.” “You'll make a lot of money if you'll cook,” says the manageress in her takes my-advice tone. “Why, any girl that can pret nd to cook, If she don't know a from a hoe make more money in this town than a whole class of academy graduates with ten accomplishments aplece.” It is not the kind of work, but the manner of working that brings in the souffle cake can number of stenographers and type- writers by 65,000; and the list might be continued through every profession or trade entered by women. All show a greater or less loncrease, proving that there 1s always room for the com- petent. It is only bs adding real effort, perseverance and determination to a natural talent, however, that the top i8 reached. The woman who spends months, even years, In acquiring skill or knowledge in some line of work that appears attractive because of the few women in it, and not because she has any special talent for it, makes a fatal mistake, Stick to a Good Job. A weary little public school teacher, worried into a state of hysteria by a log year with a class of unruly slum children, threw up her position, and, misled by the success of a friend, un dertook to become a stenographer, She had just the qualities that make a good teacher, but none of the alertness, ens durance and steady nerve that are ine dispensable in the shorthand writer, She remembered that her friend had spent only three months on a course of lessons, but forgot that at the end of the three months had come a position at $5 per week with eight hours of un interrupted typewriting each day, after which, in order to make headway to- ward abettersalary, every evening from half past seven to eleven was spent in speed practice, The little teacher put in a hot summer in a private business school and later, through the kindness of friends, obtained a position In a section of the country most unhealthy Phe choice of the right work deter mines at the start the of SUCCESS, K measure lll SENATOR MARTIN'S CASE. Cost a Small Fortune, A girl of twenty-three, thrown sud. \ tha miserable can 1 do?” eas made Ww lives of her friends constant cry of “W yellow streak of snol all the more difficult to he it th assistance becoming =a id cone in tributor 1 to a scandals pn 1 ns terary in H Incke in H ire Ww being placed her els she ns vent Fortuna in perseverance ability. Her next trained nursing: but the d ward, judices drove her out of the hos just three days later than her dat entry. From « effort to quire a knowledge of stenography set out on a quest for a piace as 1 ery governess, A practical friend me her just after her first-Trebnfl, i much against her will pushed her int a situation in a fashionable milling Now it, developed that trimming hats Is thie girl's gift It usually takes about three years in ns of the swell mill the degre is a sa elie! Eiri colors southern tal of y snnsmoxd works! re to arrive at atti: Ww Of 2 “ ary a in 3 Yogi Paris dur bought not a gathered Impressions, New York, rented a in a side street between and the resi ms, dropped 1 little note to each of her patrons say she had taken a flyer abroad-—and the | to singe ™ the sh ence soot = Choose a Congenial Occupation. The secret of success is finding out al bent or talent. Usually the thing that it is easiest to do, that one likes best to do, Is the work which one will be able to make greatest progress. A very few are favored with nspiration along original lines. Some unfortunates commit the folly of choos ing a profession or trade becaus : the results secured In it by others, rather than because of any personal incllpation or adaptability. Voluminous statistics show that aj gir! need not be limited in her choice » ia occupations, meeting every need or de- | sire of existence—from doctor to un-| dertaker—have already been exploited | by women. However, for the average | girl, comparatively few trades and pro- fessions seem within her scope, Outs side of the enormous number who be- come teachers, very few women are afforded the opportunity to acquire a profession ; consequently, certain trades required for carrying on of routine | work in business offices, shops and | factories, have come to be regarded as the only money-making channels open to the girls who arrive at the end of thelr school days confronted with the question, “What shall I do for a lv- log?” Always Room for Good Ones. Most Afscouraging of all the obstacles to the girl seeking her lying Is the constantly repeated falsehood that the occupations open to the average female intelligence are overcrowded. Thirty years ago the same statement was made to almost every female applicant for employment as bookkeeper, clerk, agent, stenographer, saleswoman, ete At that time less than one per cent. of all the women wage earners were em ployed In clerical positions, In twenty years the percentage of women In this class Increased to five per cent. of the total employed, while the figures of the last census promise a still more ene couraging advance, It 1s further shown that in the last decade of the 19th century the number of woman bookkeepers in the United States Ine creased by about 50,000. the number of id | 3 | : nongering news- | it nit rd. | 81 quette are in fact only plain truth, woman clerks by over 10, the num- ber of saleswomen by over 1 the Virginia Is out of Senator Martin of pocket $11,500 in expendit ire a renomination tates Senate, This Is more than on rd of the salary would red the whole years of his new m. The expend! it seems, was ssary, The r had a popular pponent who set a hot pace and kept up to the end. was nothin Mr. Martin to do tate from ’ : ires to to the Oe Lad | ing ty Senat TF ¢ ore ¢ or “ or wi I his This renomination for ry large expenditure n as entirely [rom any corrupti » Omen men By — i proman 5 oh ont RE an «x ¢ of present 3 eH, “Martin's troubles are now practi cally over,” said a prominent SBouthern- politics aE \ Renomination of Virginia Statesman and | United | ve | FORTY PIES A MINUTE, PITTSBURG MAN INVENTS A MA~ CHINE T0 MAKE PIES BY THE MILLION, Annual Output Would Reach Half Across the Continent. — Would Drive Mother Out of Business, “Pies like mother used to make Is that possible? And yet it is learned by dispatches from Pittsburg that a man there can make such appetizing delicacies at a rate of twenty-four thousand pies in ten hours, or forty in " which he has just perfected. If the machine ean do what is claimed for it and turn out good wholesome there should be enough to go around pres i i ev olitieal VET by ntor from the Smoky City certainly is a marvel when It is figured Just what the ma. chine's capacity for ple-making is Suppose we ve the machine runnin kix days In the week, holidays and breakdowns, to everybody fiercest p i cal campaigns. ilemen ie the ventor from "ne {ten hours | allowing fo th a minute through the ald of a machine | continent and furnish pie to every man, woman and child in the United States. The story of the actual performance of the ple machine is truly wonderful, In fact two machines are "necessary. In the first the crust Is produced. Instead of ple pans, molds like waffle irons are used to form the crust, An the molds pass along on an endless chain, they move a lever at one end which permits the ple dough to enter {the pans, shaped something like waffle { irons, and they then pass between two | sets of burners which take the place of | the oven, Of course before the dough | is released the irons are heated to the proper temperature, The dough is con- {tained in a huge tank above the ma- | chine, a feed pipe running down, and {by means of a piston, just enough | dough is forced down to fill one of the molds as it passes under the The strokes of the piston are lated as to be timed with the of each pan under the pipe. the crust is baked they are removed {by an attendant who stands at one end of the machi These crusts are then {arranged on a large pan which is taken (up by ttendant who places ai ond machine, the crusts in the sex Filling by the Ton. This is also of the endless chaln type, with two vast I of wi ng and Jy carefully the ] The ywerhead of the le, thus fr under disposal by pipe. 80 regu- arrival AS soon as ne, another one val h the } [the other the meringue regulated ratchet med ue are fed then pass on to burner wh th meringue npleted, the baker an the American 140 contains and ing | [Hes ® give a 1 pie eal 4 RUG FI Ba T FOR . i KING. Shah's Gift to Edward of a Wonders ful Product from the Eastern Hand Looms, making the which 1 | we have, year, th | year. If these | to make, then of a 1 a1 r al bring : d about 1 i {inch a i : : er th Moth dd a quart wg! si Never outside fairyland has been B01) | ! at | he » Shah n 1 * AI Dae L } “i y % al nded to Lim on the occasion of b 1st visit to England. AT THE RATE OF pand eggs and al nto pie | y the }' wars nd a journey ws th 3 It | day Bes A Pie Tower Magnificent, Again taking “Mother's ples” 28 a “QE 2! RL SENATOR MARTIN, er, stopping at the national capital, who has all his life been familiar with the » practical methods of political nomina- | tions and elections, “Martin can draw a check or two more and then close up his book because Virginia is not a close State; but suppose it were, and that Senator Martin was now obliged to meet & Republican antagonist, able to give him the fight for the election that Governor Montague gave him for the nomination, so that he had to spend $11,500 additional—-a total of $23 000 This would leave him $7,000 of salary for his full time of six years of ser- vice, Might Have Cost Thirty Thousand. “Nay, more, Virginia is a State where campaigning is rather primitive. Mon- ey still has a good value in most of the sections. There Is not the holding up and bleeding of candidates at every turn that there is in some of the more closely contested States, so that it is entirely conceivable that Senator Mar tin might have legitimately expended more than his entire $30,000 in order to be re-elected; a man, too, of character and ability, who has served his State #0 well in the Benate that people might have thought he could have had the renomination for the asking, if it was not actually forced upon him, “But the case is typical, although it may not be usual. Politics are every. where getting to be very expensive where two men want the same place I have seen the increase In cost grow and grow, What I hear asked now, among thinking men is, what is the effect upon our national legislation when it would appear that only wealthy men can think of running for election and where there can be no contest for the honor by any but the wealthy, Is the situation telling upon our public affairs? and if so, what is the remedy; what can we do about it?” basis, the products of this machine In a year, if piled one on the other would | give us a monstrous column over 142 miles high. Of « a generous | housekeeper would divide the ples in fifths, so that if our 7,200,000 ples were 80 shared. we wonid be able to feed 0.000.000 people, or nearly one half the population of the United | States, or more than 100 times the number of people living in Pittsburg | By using different shifts and working {the machine to its full capacity the MITE 3 | pie line would extend nearly across the | FORTY A MINUTE When this marvelou ersian ar kKinghs I & shread ‘ | I days from upon #pecula- mission. kept was | the arrival of the ambassador i palace that any ration could be gained as to the contents of the great packing case over which be kept vigilant guard. For more than two vite a ittle army of designers and weavers been ntly at work upon the carpet, and the result has been the production of what in Persia royal master- 5 : 1 » King, and the as to the object e secret was well 'e Was i ’ oi hi v us the Te rs qQ . Ah _ Has Const even must be considered a piece. The design is very curious, complex and certainly most ingen the colors are perfect and faultlessly blended; and the manufacture is flaw- less. The rug bas been wade entirely by hand. lous; | The romantic adventures of John Dinwiddie at the Court of Maximilian in Mexico, where cent years story bears every evidence of careful and sludp.” «N.Y, Globe, 133-137 Bast 16th St., New York. Lvery reader of this paper should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail fo us with $1.50. By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Published August 1st 18TH THOUSAND ALREADY All Bookstores, Driseol] (nicknamed “The Storm Centre his secret mission comes into conflict with that of the beautiful Jaoqueline. The best romantic American novel of re- v Has what so few of ts class possess, The elements of reality] wrought by infinite pains of detaul, verisimilitudé, mgpestion.™ «4. Louis Republic. “A remarkable first book, of epic breadih, carried Uirough une swervingly, A brilliond story.” NX, ¥. 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