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Che VOL. XXVIII. MAGAZINE SECTION. PAR S| Oe eee ne BUTLER, MISSQ@RI, THURSDAY, OGFOBER 1 9 1905. NO. 50 WITTE IN RUSSIA RETURN OF THIS SUCCESSFUL ‘. DIPLOMAT NOT 4 MARCH OF TRIUMPH. Manner in Which Divine Royalty is Wont to Accept Valu- able Services of Subjects. Charles EB. 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 imagine the conditions influencing this 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 ing upen the return of M, Witte to his home. : Would have Presidential Bee. “The men who make European and Aslatie history to-day can never hope te approach their royal masters, who are in many cases mere puppets, ex- cept in a manner indicating the utmost humility, The American who would ‘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 that he was a miserable creature who breathed because of the goodness of his ‘august master” and that anything he ‘ad done in connection with the peace ,egotiations was merely in obedience to the will of his master, the Czar. 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 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, WORKING GIRL'S CHANCES. CHOOSE CONGENIAL OCCUPATION THEN HOLD FAST TO THE FIRST GOOD JOB. It is Not the Kind of Work but the Manner of Working That Brings Forth the Dollars. “It is not my specialty, madame,” said the little French milliner who bad 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- side her specialty. So it is in all the big cities where women flock to make a living or a name; whether in Paris, London, New York, Chicago, San 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 how to do ever so many things,” says the latest entry on the books of a big employment agency. “Can you cook?” asks the manageress with breathless eagerness, “Yes,” is the reply rather shame- facedly. “Good! I'll 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, 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 take- my-advice tone. “Why, any girl that can pretend to cook, if she don’t know a souffle from a hoe cake can make more money in this town than a whole class of academy graduates with ten accomplishments apiece.” It is not the kind of work, but the manner of working that brings in the dollars. A girl of twenty-three, thrown sud- denly on her own resources, made the lives of her friends miserable by a constant cry of “What can I do?” A yellow streak of snobbishness made it all the more difficult to help her, With- out even facility in writing, she begged assistance in becoming a paid con- tributor to a scandalmongering news- paper. Fortunately, she lacked as much in perseverance as in literary ability: Her next venture was in trained nursing; but, being placed in the colored ward, her southern pre- judices drove her out of the hospital just three days later than her date of entry. From a spasmodic effort to ac- quire a knowledge of stenography, she set out on a quest for a place as nurs- ery governess. A practical friend met her just after her first rebuff, and much against her will pushed her into n situation in a fashionable millinery establishment, at $3 a week. Now it developed that trimming hats is that girl's gift. It usually takes about three years in the workshops of the swell milliners to arrive at the degree of proficiency which commands a salary of $25 per week, but. the girl in question made hats for her friends evenings. Her friends sent their friends, and inside of a year she had saved enough to take a trip to Patis during the summer. She bought not a single model but gathered impressions, went back to New York, rented a couple of rooms in a side street between the shopping and the residence sections, dropped a little note to each of her patrons saying she had taken a flyer abroad—and the rest was easy. Choose a Congenial Occupation. The secret of success is finding out one’s special bent or talent. Usually the thing that it is easiest to do, that one likes best to do, is the work in which one will be able to make greaiest progress. A very few are favored with inspiration along original lines. Some unfortunates commit the folly of choos- the results secured in it by others, rather than because of any personal inclination or adaptability. Voluminous statistics show that a girl need not be limited in her choice occupations, meeting every need or de- sire of existence—from doctor to un- dertaker—have already been exploited ing a profession or tpade because of of work, for some onehundredand fifty number of stenographers and type- writers by 65,000; and the list might be FORTY PIES A MINUTE, continued through every profession or a trade entered by women. All show &| PITTSBURG MAN INVENTS A MA- greater or less increase, proving that CHINE TO MAKE PIES BY hi " there is always room for the com THE MILLION. petent. It is only by adding real effort, perseverance end Getermination to & Annual Output Would Reach Half Across the Continent. — Would gee ee however, that the top 3 reached, The woman who nds months, even years, in center ml Drive Mother Out of Business. or knowledge in some line of work that “Pies like mother used to make!" appears attractive because of the few Is that possible? And yet it is learned women in it, and not because she has by dispatches from Pittsburg that a any special talent for it, makes a fatal | ™an there can make such appetizing delicacies at a rate of twenty-four thousand pies in ten hours, or forty in mistake, a minute through the aid of a machine which he has just perfected. If the machine can do what is claimed for it and turn out good wholesome pies there should be enough to go around Stick to a Good Job. A weary little public school teacher, worrled into a state of hysteria by a long 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, en- durance and steady nerve that are in- 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 hadecome a position at $5 per week with eight hours of un- interrupted typewriting each day, after which, in order to make headway to- ward a bettersalary,every evening from half past seven to eleven was spent in speed practice. The little teacher put in a hot summer in a private businéss school and later, through the kindness of friends, obtained a position in a section of the country most unhealthy The choice of the right work deter- mines at the start the measure of success. H, L. SONS, THE PIE MAN. everybody even following political campaigns. the The to fiercest eee emma” statement made by the tiventor from SENATOR MARTIN'S CASE. the Smoky City certainly is a marvel when it is figured just what the ma- chine’s capacity for pie-making is, Suppose we have the machine running ten hours a day, six days in the week, allowing for holidays and breakdowns, making the lemon meringue pies, for which the machine is s} “ we have, with say 300 w year, the sum total of 7 Fi year. If these pics are like mother used to make, then of course they are each about nine inches in diameter and an inch and a quarter thick, Mother al Renomination of Virginia Statesman Cost a Small Fortune. Senator Martin of Virginia is out of pocket $11,500 in expenditures to se- cure @ renomination to the United States Senate, This is more than one- third of the salary he would receive during the whole six years of his new term, The expenditure, it seems, was necessary, The Senator had a popular opponent who set a hot pace and kept it up to the end, There was nothing for Mr. Martin to do but to canvass the State from end to end and this, with other necessary expenses, ran the total high. This fight of Senator Mar- tin for renomination and the neces- sary large expenditure, which is looked upon as entirely legitimate and free frof any corruption, has aroused con- siderable comment among politicians and prominent men at Washington, as being an exceptional clear cut ex- ample of present political methods and necessities. “Martin’s troubles are now practi- cally over,” said a prominent Southern- ways used a couple of eggs and a lemon to each pie and so the Pittsburg baker would use and 14,400,000 eggs. La fe pies out in one long row, we would have a distance of about 1,022. miles from the first pie in the row to the last. A reckless chauffeur in an up-to-date automobile, traveling at a rate of 25 miles an hour, including uecessary stops, could make the journey these pies in a little less than three days... A Pie Tower Magnificent. Again taking “Mother's pies” as a 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 course a generous housekeeper would divide the pies in fifths, so that if our 7,200,000 pies were so shared, we would be able to feed 36,000,000 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 SENATOR MARTIN, .} seen such a wonder 83 | continent and furnish pie to every man, woman and child in the United States. The story of the actual performance of the pie machine is truly wonderful. In fact two machines are necessary. In the first the crust is produced. Instead of pie pans, molds like waffle irons are used to form the crust. As 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 wafite 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 pipe. The strokes of the piston are so regu- lated as to be timed with the arrival of 1 pan under the pipe, As soon as the crust is baked they are removed by an attendant who stands at one end of the machine, These crusts are then arranged on a large pan which is taken ip by another: attendant who places the crusts in the second machine, Filling by the Ton. This is also of the endless chain type, with two vast vats at one end, one of which contains the lemon filling and the other the meringue, By carefully regulated ratchets the filling and the meringue are fed alternately, The pies then pass on to an overhead burner which gives the top of the meringue a rich brown, The pie, thus completed, is passed out from under the baker and is ready for disposal by the American pie eater, acncininmcellae A RUG FIT FOR A KING, Shah's Gift to Edward of a Wonder- ful Product from the Eastern Hand Looms. Never outside fairyland has been 1 carpet as that 1 received the ‘ut from the Shah Kd L pre which other of Per a token of his appreciation of the affectionate hospitality extended to him on the occasion of his list visit to England. Ki y When this Persian — artists spread out he Buckingham I’ velous production of und weavers was his majesty at he must have been reminded of » of the scenes depicted in the “Arabian Nights.” It had been known for some days past that a special Ambassador from the Pe n monarch was to wait upon the King, and there was some specula- tion as to the object of his 1 ion, The secret was well kept, and it was not until the ival of tht ambassador at the palace that any information could be gained as to the contents of the great packing case over which he kept vigilant guard. For more than two years quite a little army of designers and weavers has been constantly at work upon the carpet, and the result has been the production of what even in Persia must be considered a royal master- piece. The design is very curious, complex and certainly most ingenious; the colors are perfect and faultlessly blended; and the manufacture is flaw- er, stopping at the national capital, who has all his life been familiar with the practical methods of political nomina- tions and ejections, “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 a Republican antagonist, able the machine to its full capacity the pie line would extend nearly across the Every reader of this paper should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. less. The rug has been made entirely | by hand. statesman and diplomat returning to| whio expected that his failure to effect by women. However, for the average! 1, give him the fight for the election girl, comparatively few trades and pro- q VN en resence of the Guar with form aucconafl pence negation 4 |fesions germ within her #e., Ost |e nomination, ap tht he hed to spend iE By was M, Witte who opposed the war and bs $11,500 additional—a total of $23,000. Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. 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 their school days confronted with the question, “What shall I do for a liv- ¢ Always Room for Good Ones. Most discouraging of all the obstacles — her living is the constantly repeated falsehood that the) be re-elected; a man, too, of character and ability, who has served hig State Thirty | so well in the Senate that people might have thought he could have had the renomination for the asking, if it was clerk, | 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 samé 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?” 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 guod 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 entire $30,000 in order to 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- vinced that the attitude of Japan would make the peace conference a failure, he Published August Ist oe who have been at the Imperial Court of Russia know that no such gcene ‘is enacted upon the return of M. Witte. 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