Imlusti-lnl Comlltiotn.
The French Government 1ms In
truEted to Mine. Laurence Medler, ot
Paris, a mission to make an exhaust
ive investigation Into the social ana
Industrial conditions ot women and
children In America. The purpose
of her work, Mme. Fiedler says. Is to
ralae the standard of women's wages
in Fiance, as well as the social stand
ard ot her country women In "":.
department ot Industrial and com
mercial work.
Woman ns a Harvest Ilnml,
For the first time In the nlsiry of
a labor bureau in St. Joseph, Mo., a
woman, 1 Bradley Floyd, of High
land, Kan., applied for labor as a
harvest hand. She contracted for a
Job at shocking wheat at $3. CO a
. day, and, accompanied by her hue
iaud and others, started for the har
vest flelda of Western Kansas.
"We are paying for a little farm,"
she said, "ond by both ot us earning
good wages and getting our board
free this summer, we can shavo qui'.)
a little oft the mortgage on the
Dlaoe." Kansas City Joui uai.
Mistress anil Mnid.
"The root ot the domestic tr
dies which make matter fo.4 conve
satfou over bo many cups of tea Is
that the mistress has never tried to
do what Bhe expects her servant to
do," says an observing housekeeper.
"The mistress says to the maid, 'Do
this,' and she does it, and then j-j
goes on saying, 'Do something else,'
until the girl takes her for a br.'-.
whereas sne Is only stupid -- Ig
norant. If she had only learned by
toilful experience how mu:a trouble
It takes to keep a household In run
ning order she would be more .ireful
about the needless labor she caused.
New York Tribune.
A Kargnln in "Orchids."
A New York woman, who has a
summer home 1l the Catskills, was
delighted a few days ago when some
of the native children brought her a
flower which appeared to be a rare
orchid. She promptly offered the
children three cents apiece for each
plant of the kind that they would
bring her.
Next day the group returned bear
ing sixty plants of the desired va
riety. The second day the force of
small laborers, was augmented by
every ctitld for miles around, bring
in all three hundred orchids.
The third day farmers who had
been working in the neighborhood
with their teams abandoned all other
occupation for the gathering ot or
chids, with the result that the b-. .-er
liad to tak- 3600 of the plants, all ot
the same variety, before she c-.ild
call off the contract.
She Is now studying "How to Tell
Orchids From Potatoes." New York
Tress.
Good Manners.
Unselfishness Is truly the founda
tion of good manners, but not the su
perstructure. Many conventlonr.: re
strictions hare grown about social
relations. Some can be explained by
the demand of kindness and some
cannot. Could a child infer from his
desire to help others that he should
not eat with his knife? -4 any of
fenses against good taste Interfere in
soma way with the rights ot others,
but many others do not.
Still, no set ot rules to produce a
polished lady will achieve a result
fit for the strain of life. The man
ners of the French boarding school
may adorn the ballroom, but are too
likely to fall at the breakfast table
or in me crowded car. The woman
' ot perfect manner-t must reinforce
( her unselfishness bv social riilpft anil
"conventionality must be vitalized by
the warm desire of others' pleasure.
The best of life never "comes natur
ally," whether in manners or morals.
The secret of charming manners is
the desire for them. When the moth
er wishes them for her daughter as
much as she wishes the other goods
of the world her daughter will have
them. New Haven Register.
How She Won Success.
"Steadiness anil perseverance are
ever aiir of tholr roworri
I studied shorthand at home, and
' kept at it until I could take dictation
at a moderate rate ot speed and
transcribe it accurately.
When I accepted my first position
I realized that the lack of business
experience would prevent me from de
manding much salary, and so I
started in for a small amount, mak
ing up my mind that I would learn
"all about the business" and make
myself as valuable as possible to my
employer. I practiced wrltinc short
hand whenever I could get anyone to
read for me in the evening: copied
from books and papers; reported lec-
tures and sermons, etc., believing that
the best way is to deserve promo'.Ioa
and it will come. It we seek ad
vancement our minds must expand,
and this can only be done by r.squlr
. lag knowledge.
By acqjalntlng myself with all the
details of the business, remembering
bow matters were handled, and as
sisting my employer in every wa-
possible believing that if It was
worth while to do a thing It was sure
ly worth while to do it well my first
position was a successful one, and I
soon found that my employers con
sidered me valuable to them and my
salary was Increased accordingly.
If one Is dissatisfied with a posi
tion, I should say that the way to
succeed Is not to go from one position
to another, but to keep up with the
requirements of the age and be ready
to take advantage of it when rn op
portunity offers. p. E. D., In the
New York Journal.
Various Types of Women.
"It lakes all kinds of women to
make up a world,"observed the Com
muter. "How superficial is he who
classes all women as 'Women,' Just
as he says, 'cats' or 'geese' as If by
virtue of their sex they all had the
Banie traits, habits, characteristics
and effect! There la more resem
blance between men of a certain type
and women than there is between
two different types ot women.
"See the Jolly girl over there the
girl with the firm rounded chin and
the sensible nose ond the wide-open
way of laughing. Not a bit pretty,
Is she? But so frankly good hu
mored and unaffected that she'll
keep those two men Interested all the
way into town. Hasn't she the most
delightful way of thrusting out her
chin, and narrowing her eyes, and
wrinkling up her face when she
laughs? She has charm, that's what
she has. If she weren't so sweet
tempered and Jolly she would be
homely.
"On ahead there Is an awfully se
rious girl. She has the knotty fore
head of a profound thinker. Does
she ever laugh, I wonder? I can Im
agine an Icy smile blowing frigidly
about her Hps upon proper occasions.
I'll bet she converses in Sanskrit, and
teaches slum children for diversion.
"A distinctly third type of woman
Is the girl opposite. Pretty, Isn't she?
or would be if some one came
along to wake her up. Too timid
and Introspective. Much effort might
Induce her to blossom into fun and
happiness. But you can't Imagine
her forgetting herself so completely
as to make other people laugh, can
yeu? like our Jolly friend there
with the firm, rounded chin.
"Now, what In common have any
of them with the next woman that
female of fifty summers and over,
with dangle earrings and simpering
mouth, and false hair, done up In
style too youthful by forty years?
Never, If those other girls live to a
hundred years could they grow to
bear even the faintest resemblance to
that!
"The fifth and last woman. Well,
If you don't believe Bhe's different,
watch her when she gets out. Those
little shifting eyes and receding chin,
and pugnacious nose, and tight-set
Hps mean trouble. First time ever I
saw her she was raising a row In a
restaurant. She's the kind. Carries
a chip on her shoulder has a tre
mendouB sense of her own Impor
tance, and is always watching out to
see that nobody disputes It.
"When the train stops the timid
girl will sit still till the car's empty;
the girl with the knobby forehead
will quietly slip Into line and go out
with the procession; the sentimental
spinster will smirk all around wait
ing for some man to give place to
her; the Jolly girl will go out care
fully shielded from the crush be
tween her two friends, and still
laughing.
"But the pugnacious woman, with
shifty eyes and aggressive nose, will
be on her feet before the train stops,
and push and bruise and beat and
batter her way to the door, treading
belligerently on toes, and dealing an
gry scowls right and left as she goes.
"And yet you say 'Women!' as it
they were all alike," sighed the Com
muter. "These are only five types.
And there are just as many more
millions types as there are women in
the world." Philadelphia Bulletin.
Waistcoats of embroidered linen
are frequently worn with woolen
street suits.
There seems to be some falling off
in the popularity ot colored stones
for ornaments.
Buckles of silver in varIng size
appear on shoes, belt and arm bands
on numerous costumes.
"Tortolso shell" Is a new light
golden or yellow brown, and Is one
ot the favorites of the moment.
Blues and browns worked solid
and outlined wltn black are very ef
fective tor crash porch cushions and
table covers.
Long coats are seen la many dif
ferent materials, from Venetian to
Irish lace, and English embroidery to
plain linen.
Sailor hats whose crowns are cov
ered all over with fluttering coque
feathers are very chic, the white
feathers being especially smart when
so used.
Very pale tan shoes and stock! 33
are in better taste with a frock of
the same color than are shoes of the
color Introduced into the trimming ot
the frock.
Given wMto dimity, colored China
silk f' lining, with lace motlts and
edging for decoration, one could
make one of the daintiest niatineas
Imaginable.
GO TO CANADA FOR TIMBER.
LuihImt Men in a Scramblo For the
Great Forests There.
"America is turning to Canada for
Its supply of timber. A scramble
for the pine, cedar and fir forests
there Is going on. Americans have in
vaded the land and are buying In by
the wholesale the richest of the Can
adians' timber. In a very few years
It will be all gone."
That was the assertion of E. K.
Carnes, In Kansas City recently.
Mr. Carnes had Just returned from
Vancouver, British Columbia, where
he went on a pleasure trip.
"Vancouver Is the only clearing
house for Canadian land grants,"
Mr. Carnes said. "Twenty years ago
It was nothing more than a logging
camp a few cabins and a sawmill.
To-day It Is a town of 70,000, and
you hear land grants and sawmills
discussed on the Btreets like you hear
gambling spoken of at Monte Carlo.
The town Is simply alive with lum
bermen, and hardly a day passes that
one doesn't hear ot sales of grants
which run as high as $1,000,000.
"Down Skagitt Valley, JiiBt east
ot Vancouver, fir trees are growing
from 1G0 to 200 feet In height, and
some cedar trees are 100 feet In
holght. Some of these trees are from
six to fourteen feet in diameter at the
base. This Is the kind of lumber
that men are fighting for.' Sawmills
are being erected in these forests,
and tho 'lumber jacks' are working
under electric lights at night, con
verting these trees into boards.
Fraser Illver, from Its mouth In
Puget Sound, la navigable tor 200
miles, and thousands of log rafts
come down It each day to the Van
couver and Westminster mills. The
English have heretofore been hand
ling what little lumber was) taken
from tho forests, but in the past few
years tho Americans have been seek
ing It.
"As a rule, the Englishman comeB
down to his office about 10 o'clock In
the morning and begins business
about 11. He Is now up ugaln.t an
army of men from this country, who
arise at 6 o'clock in the morning, are
down town by 7.30 and by 8 are deep
Into business. And it's this hust
ling way that's giving America the
Canadian timber."
The Sinmlnrriizcd Staircase.
A system of standards la the order
of modern life, and In many direc
tions standards are convenient It not,
in so m (3 cases, Indispensable. We
have, for instance, standard gages for
railways and tramways, standard
threads for various screws, stand
ard sizes for boots, shoes, and gloves,
standard qualities for articles ot
food, Btandard weights and meas
ures, coinage, and bo on. But there
nre still some directions In which
the need of a standard is not only In
dicated but Is urgent. The desira
bility, for example, of standardizing
the steps ot all Btaircases is seen in
tho fact that bo often a fall on tho
staircase is due to the irregularity
In tho height of the steps. A com
mon cause of accident on the stair
case is the kicking ot the edge of a
stair when ascending. In descending,
also, an Irregularity In one step may
easily upset the equilibrium of a per
son. To the aged and Infirm the de
scent of un Irregularly stepped
Btatrcase Is a Bource of terror.
Yet how many Btaircases are
constructed absolutely alike as re
gards tho height ot the steps? We
should say very few; and not only is
thero little uniformity existing be
tween some Btaircases, but the steps
themselves In the same staircase are
often Irregular. Staircases and the
nteps In them should be standardized;
there should be uniformity of height
and breadth, and In regard to the
latter there should be room enough
on the step to accommodate the whole
foot from toe to heel, so that there
Is no undue call on the energies when
ascending, as by going on tiptoe, so
to speak, or any feeling of Insecurity
when descending by reason of there
only being room for the heel.. Seri
ous falls on staircases are by no
means rare and a common cr.use of
such accidents is the fact that Btair
cases are not standardized. Even in
dark places the staircase, if stand
ardized, would be more safely nego
tiated than a well-illuminated but ir
regular stairway. The perils of an
ordinary ladder would be enormously
increased if the rungs were placed
at irregular intervals. Lancet.
A Real Crow's Nest.
The fame of the Crow's Roost on
Timber Hill may soon be history, for
the authorities of Labette County
are considering the plan of giving a
bounty of five cents on crows' heads,
and it such a scheme is carried
through the slaughter .will be great
In the western part of the country.
Hunters and sportsmen would be
attracted In droves to that place, be
cause the most conservative estimates
place the number ot crows that night
ly roost there at a figure not less than
200.000 or 300,000.
Every evening about sunset the
sky around that place is black with
dense throngs ot crows that have'
come for miles to roost in the hills.
In every part ot Labette and Mont
gomery counties these birds have
been feeding on the crops ot the
farmers, and when night comes they
wish to visit the others and gossip
over the day's events. The noise in
the evening that they make can be
heard for miles. When morning
comes the birds fly away to their day
light haunts again with more caw
ing, also making the sky black with
their numbers. It is a mystery how
the farmers living in the vicinity can
raise any crops. Topeka (Kan.)
Journal.
' KfTect on Rural Districts.
Bart roads constitute the f."eatest
drawback to rural life, and for the
lack ot good mads the farmers suffer
moro than other classes. It is ob
viously umiecesury, therefore, to
dlsciiBs here the benefits to be de
rived by them from Improved reads.
Suffice it to say, that those localities
where good roads have been built are
becoming richer, more prosperous,
and more thickly settled, while those
which do not possess these advan
tages In .transportation are either at
a standstill or are becoming poorer
and more sparsely settled. It these
condtlons continue, fruitful farniB
may be abandoned and rich lands go
to waste. Life on a farm often be
comes, as a result of "bottomless
roads," Isolnted and barren ot social
enjoyments, and pleasures, and coun
try people In some communities suffer
such great disadvantage that ambi
tion Is checked, energy weakened and
Industry paralyzed.
Good roads, like good streets, make
habitation along them most desira
ble; they economize time nbd force in
transportation of products, reduce
wear nnd tear on horses, harness and
vehicles, and enhance the market
value ot real estate. They raise the
value of farm landB nnd farm pro
ducts and tend to beautify the coun
try through which they pass; they fa
cilitate rural mall delivery and are
a potent aid to education, rellgloc
and sociability. Charles Summer
once said: "The road and the school
master are the two most Important
agents In advanoing civilization. The
difference between good and bad
roads is often equivalent to the dif
ference between profit and loss. Good
roads have a money value to farmers
as well as a political and social value
and leaving out convenience, com
fort, social and refined influences
which good roads always enhance,
and looking at them only from the
"almighty dollar" side, they are
found to pay handsome dlvideuds
each year.
People generally are beginning to
realize that road building is a pub
lic matter and that the best interests
of American agriculture and the
American people as a whole demand
the construction ot good roads and
that money wisely expended for this
purpose Is sure to return.
The Improvement of country roads
is chiefly an economical quest. jn, re
lating principally to the waste of ef
fort In hauling over good oneB, the
Initial cost of Improving roads and
the difference in the cost ot maintain
ing good and bad ones. It is not nec
essary to enlarge on this subject In
order to convince the average reader
that good roads reduce the resistance
to traffic, and consequently the cost
of transportation of product and
goods to and from farniB and mar
kets Is reduced to a minimum. The
Initial cost ot a road depends upon
the cost of materials, labor, machin
ery, the width and depth to which the
material Is to be spread on, and the
method of construction. AH these
things vary so much in the different
States that it is Impossible to name
the exact amount for which a mile
of a certain kind of road can be built.
The Introduction In recent years of
Improved road-building machinery
has enabled the authorities in some
of the States to build Improved stone
and gravel roads quite cheaply. First
class single track stone roads nine
feet wide have been built near Can
andalgua, N. Y., for $900 to $1000
per mile. Many excellent gravel
roads have been built in New 'ersey
for $1000 to $1300 per mile. The
material of which they constructed
was placed in two layers, each being
raked and thoroughly rolled, and the
whole mass consolidated to a tnlck
ness ot eight inches. In the same
State macadam roads have been built
for $2000! to $5000 per mile, vary
ing in width from nine to twenty
feet, and In thickness ot material
from four to twelve Inches. Telford
roads, fourteen feet wide and ten to
twelve Inches thick, have been built
In New Jersey for $400 to ,6000 per
mile. Macadam roads have been
built at Bridgeport, Conn., eighteen
to twenty feet wide for $3000 to
$5000 per mile. F. T. Nelson, In the
New Orleans Picayune.
A Motor Car Speedway.
Some time ago we had occasion
cordially to commend the project of
creating on Long Island what was
variously called an automobile speed
way and an automobile parkway. Jt
was, at any rate, to be an extensive
roadway, meant and preserved for
the exclusive use of automobile ve
hicles, which should be at once a
means of promoting the use and en
joyment of such vehicles and also ot
obviating the misuse ot the common
roads for motor car racing. On both
of these grounds we were inclined to
welcome the construction of such a
speedway or parkway, and the prog
ress which is from time to time re
ported on It emboldens us to hope
that the project will not go the way
of its predecessors of the same kind
at Pennington, N. J., and elsewhere,
but will In the near future be carried
to fulfilment. New York Tribune.
Macadam That is Elastic.
The elastic macadam that seems to
be proving so satisfactory as tried on
8wlss roads is made ot tar and gravel,
the latter having a coarseness of one
to two Inches. The liquid Is applied
to the heated stones in a rotating
drum until a considerable coating Is
formed. The material Is then piled
under cover and left for eight or ten
weeks to undergo fermentation, the
process filling the pores ot the gravel
and lessening the dust from It,
MILK CANS.
How Small Dealers In London Appro
prlate Cans.
In the vast world of London and
its suburbs tho number ot dealers In
milk counts up to thousands, and
with all these people In any consid
erable way of- business, the question
of the speclnl cans which are left
dally with the householder becomes a
very serious one Indeed, and as many
housewives deal with one man at one
part of the day and another at a later
hour, the cans ot one dealer are com
monly handed to another.
In addition to this, thousands of
cans are stolen, and after being ma
nipulated In such a way as to partly
erase the name stamped upon them,
are sold to small and unscrupulous
milk-sellers whose whole stock of
cans, sometimes, will thus consist ot
the property of other people. To ob
viate this, most of the larger firms
have secret private markr, not easily
observable to the uninitiated, on
their cans, and they employ a class
of man which has arisen during the
last few years In London, known as
"reclaimers." These latter quietly
mark tho portable cart o! a suspect
and the cans hung around It, and
when the suspect's back Is turned for
a moment they examine his stock ot
cans, very frequently finding some
speeclmens belonging to their own
employers.
A reclaimer must be a stalwart fel
low and a determined one, for the
cans are seldom given up without a
great deal ot wrangling, and often
enough an appeal to the law In the
Bhape ot a policeman. Most of the
reclaimers are paid by results and
commission, but some of the larger
dairy companies have their own sal
aried reclaimers, usually pensioned
police officers.
To show how needful such men are
It may be mentioned that the chair
man of a great dairy company esti
mated tha; In 1903, before his firm
employed regular reclaimers, It lost
about 200 In respect ot Its special
patent cans. "A diligent reclaimer
even on commission can generally
earn thirty shillings a week," said
this gentleman. As a rule the cans
are giving up after a talking match,
a threat of prosecution usually fright
ening the man In possession of'
them, for In a great number of cases
he Is using tnem without .he knowl
edge of his master and selling some
milk on hie own account. Tit Bits.
To the Sixth Generation.
It Is given to few men, as to M. T.
Wullschleger of the Canton of Vaud,
to celebrate the birth of a great-great-granddaughter,
but vcn more
remarkable experiences than this are
on record.
Dr. Plot, In his "Natural History
of Staffordshire," quotes the case of
Old Mary Cooper, of King's Brom
ley, who lived to see the sixth gener
ation of her descendants, and was In
the position to say, "Rise up, daugh
ter, and go to thy daughter, for thy
daughter's granddaughter has a
daughter;" while Horace Walpole
lived to see seven desecents In one
family, the progeny of Mrs. Godfrey,
mistress of JameB II.
It Is not long since the Dowager
Duchess of Abercorn died, leaving
more than 200 direct descendants,
at least four of whom were great-great-grandchildren.
About the
same time Mrs. Sarah Ann Woolf, ot
Utah, nursed her twenty-third great-great-grandchild,
one of 303 living
descendants; while It is said ot a
Spaniard who returned from Ameri
ca to his native land a few years ago,
that he was accompanied by 280 ot
his descendants. Including three
groat-great-grandsons. Westminster
Gazette.
Jury Was Sceptical.
Judge Fox, ot the Supreme Couri,
killed a turkey in southeast Mis
souri the day after the hunting sea
son closed. When his attention was
called to his violation of the law he
went before the crand Jury and made
a complaint, telling bow he had mada
a wonderfully long shot and did not
expect to kill the turkey, but Instruct
ed the Jurors that it was their duty
to Indict him, especially as It was his
duty to know the law, and his over
sight was therefore the more inex
cusable. When ho afterward Inquired why
he was not fined for the misdemeanor
he was Informed that the jury did
not believe he could have killed a
turkey as far as he claimed to have
shot. Linn Creek Review.
To Dance Woodtlcks Out of Valley.
A social tunctlon, probably the first
event ot the kind in the history ot the
world, will be given at Florence next
Saturday evening. The affair ban
been heralded throughout the valley
by means of posters, which read as
follows:
"Woodtlck dance. To be given is
Woodmen Hall, Florence, Saturday
evening, June 22, 1907. This dance
is for the purpose ot raising funds
to burn brush and other necessary
measures to rid the west side ot its
yest, the woodtlck. Tickets, includ
ing supper, $1.50."
The theory Is generally accepted
that the so-called spotted fever is
caused by the bite of an Infected
woodtlck. Hamilton Western News.
Crazy.
"Why did you dismiss that em
ploye?" asked one railway official.
"He became annoying," answered
the other; "he Insisted on trying to
figure out how much we could save
by economizing on wreckages instead
of on the payroll of signal opera
tors." Washington Star.
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FEMINIXE NEWS NOTES.
Women are to have beards, says a
Chicago professor.
The great artist Whistler, the
greatest of modern painters, was the
son of a Wilmington, N. C, woman.
Over 600 women are employed by
the Russian Secret Service, and sev
eral of them get salaries of more than
f 10,000 a year,
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic R. Coudert,
returning from Europe, told of meet
ing Anna Qould la Paris, and said she '
would not marry Prince de Sagan.
Of the nineteen women Just elected
to the Parliament of Finland, five are
teachers, two are editors and a num
ber are well-known philanthropic
workers.
Mrs. Collls P. Huntington, ot New
York, has purchased the Paris house
ot the late Baron Hirsch in the Ave
nue Gabriel. The price is said to
have been $600,000.
The distinction of being the first
woman minister in the world belongs
to Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
who has recently moved from New
York City to Elizabeth, N. J.
Mrs. John A. Logan has shipped
from Washington, D. C, to Spring
Held, 111., the splendid memorial col
lection of souvenirs of General Logan
and her son. Major Logan, thirty
cases, as a gift to the State.
Current gossip says that the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough are to
make another effort to Imitate the
birds who "in their little ucits
agree," and that Consuelo Is willing
to take back the Duke, on probation,
as it were.
Mrs. Honor Coleman, who occupios
a little cottage at Cleeve, in the
County ot Somerset, is generally con
sidered the oldest woman in England.
She is 107 years of age. Her mother
was a centenarian, her grandmother
died at 101 and her daughter is
eighty.
Crossing tne Delaware.
''Washington Crossing the Dela
ware" has been painted more than
once. Sully's magnificent painting,
thrown on his hands by the Legisla
ture of North Carolina is in the Bos
ton Museum. The picture by Leutze
Is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
George crossed the Delaware on De
cember 8. He was retreating to Penn
sylvania, wasn't he? Washington was
a brave man. Why is he depicted
standing erect in a small boat, great
hunks of Ice on all sides, enough to
swamp a ship, telescope in hand, look
ing hungTily for the Pennsylvania
shore? He Is not represented as a "
general leading an army, but as a fu
gitive from Justice. Fleeing from the
wrath to come. I hate such pictures.
Their historical effect Is bad. New
York Press.