Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1890, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, THE MEN WITH BRAWNY ARVS. Toilers in the Blacksmith Shops of the Union Pacific, AAMMERING OUT COMFORTABLE HOMES. The Clerks' Victory—The Femal Clerks May Yet Organize—The Letter Carriers — Gens eral Labor Notes, The man who stands around the up town blacksmith shops and watches the bars of fron converted intovarious useful articles has but little idea of the magnitude to which the trade can be carried. To form any concep- tion of this, the individual who thirsts after this kind of knowledge should pay a visit to the blacksmith shops of the Missouri Pacific company, which are run in connection with their general repair shops, situated on the north bottoms, at the foot of Cass street, There can be seen the daily toilers, who are doing work that would cause *“The Village Blacksmith" to acknowledge that he knew unothing of his own trade. The shops referred torun twenty-six forges, and instead of having theold-time bellows and a boy leaning over tho handle pumping wind, tho power is furnished by a huge fan, more properly known as ablast, To work this an engine is located in the southwest sorner of the building, and connecting tho engine isa huge galvanized pipe, four feet in diameter, near the mouth of which isa fan, or puddle wheel, making hundreds of revolu- tions ¢ minute, Just above the fan, twenty-six small pipes leave tho large pipe, each one running to a forge. The fire in the furnaces is lighted, the fan begins to revolve and in a short time the oou as the blast is strong erough, the fires in the forges are lighted, and from that timeuntil theafternoon whist blows the blacksmiths are busy. The forges are in rows, one” row down the castsideof the building, another along the west side and two down the centor The morning call goes forth, the fires are lighted, and clothed in garbs consisting of a thinshirt, a thinner pair of pants, and a pair of low, thick soled shoes, the blacksmiths helpers begin the work of the day. s aromen whose duty it is to handle the fron, see that the firesare properly coaled, and dostriking when 1t is necessary, which 'is most of the time. he foreman, who is the “boss" black- smith, is A. A. Gipson, and for twenty-four years, summer and winter, ho has daily stalked about the shop, secing that the men aredoing th i well, and are making things as they should be mad: A foremau's task is not an easy one, as while his muscleis not hardened by the con- tinuous swinging of the hammer, his brain is busy, as upon him rests the whole responsi- bility. The foreman must take all the orders from the superintendent of motive power and machinery , he must see that every article when it leaves the shop is an exact pattern of the model ho rec from the pattern roon he must account for every pound of coal sed in the forges; he must render an account upon the first of cach month of every pound of iron received, and must also show how and into what 1t has been manufactured. Of course ull of this clerical work does not devolve upon him alone, as he has assistants, but heis the responsible party and the oné who is known at headquarters when the mouthly settlsment rolls uroun To give'the readeran idea of the work, and the amount of material used the hooks of Mr. pson show that during the month of June his men drew on the company for 22,451 pounds of iron, and when it loft the shop it went out inthe form of car axles, shafts, bolts, ete., but it hud all been worked over and wen't out ina different form than when it left the roll- ing mil It is & mistalken idea to _suppose that all of the iron used is hammered into shape by hand power. Steam power gets in its work to a great oxtent, especially so in forging car axles and the like. For doing this work there are three steam hammers, e capable of stri 1 @equal to 3,000 pounds; another with a 1,500~ pound stroke, and the **baby,” which strikes a blow of 1,000 pound: Eachoneof these hammors work upon the same principle as a pile-driver, and as tho red-hotiron is swung by a crane from the forgo it goes upon an immenso anvil. A sprit.z is touched, and in an instant the pow- erful blowsare rained down with lightning rapidit T'ne largest hammer is used alm exclu- clusively in making car axles, driving shafts and heavy bridge irons, and last month worked over 68,317 pounds of wrought iron, The noxt hammer, or No. 2, does track ‘work, that is, it makes track bars, “chairs,” m’ 4 and during Juno handled 47,58 pounds o n. Thelittlo hammer has a work of its own to rform, and does nothing butattend to the forges and works over iron that is too heavy to bo handled by the smiths on their anvils. In making caraxles it is supposed they are forged from solic bars of iron, but such is not the cuso by any means, They are made from refuse, Out along the various lines of road all of the old coupling mm, links and spikes are monthly shi Wmd the shops, being billed as “seraps.”’ W hen these scraps reach theshop they aro unloaded, placed in piles and then built up in cord-wood sle‘ , in'blocks sixteen Inches long and twelve inches high, ‘Lhese iles of iron are racked up close to one of the urge forges. To make a common car axle, these piles of fron are lifted over the fire pot, the blast turned on, and ufter they reach s welding heat thoy go under one of the steam hammers, and by a fow blows become & mass of solid iron, and are known as “billets.” Threc “billets’ will make a bar of iron three feet six inches long, six inches wide and three inches thick. Threo of these bars con- tain sufficient iron for a freight carale. “or the axle for a locomotive the scrap iron Is ded into “‘billets” three feet six Inchies long aud ten inches wide, and ten of them are used. The welding process is simple, as the iron 15 kept in the forge wuntil it is broughtito a whito heat. This being sccomplished borax Is spread upon the surface and the wholemass 0cs under the hammer, whenby a few blows L becomes o solid bar and is veady to go to the locomotive shops,whero it Is turned down to_the proper size and shape. In making bolts and small bars rolled iron from the rolling mills is used exclusively, It goes into the shops in loug bars, passes to a man who measures the lengthand puts on tne chalk mark, The next step is the cutting, which is done by a chisel operated by steam power, The picces of iron then pass to the orgges, where the heads are made by heating one end, after which it s upset. They then go to the thread-cuiters, wh with dies of hardened steel threads are cut down and the bures fitted on, The bolts ave then complete and are ready to be counted and sent out. In the blacksmith shop, as in all the other do\s\urlun-uls of the shops, each man has his Individual work to p\*r)orln, and the man who twenty years ugo commenced making bolts 18 possibly doing the same class of work to- day, 0 that o man who may be & first class blacksmith in bis own particular line, may know knothing about the class of work that Is done by the man who is working at the next forge, Many of the men have grown from boyhood to old age over their irous and fires, But i doing so they have hammered out comfort- able lomes, as thoy have always received good wages and are beyond want. The Letter Carriers, Tuesday evening the Omaha letter carriers held their caucus, at which they elected George J. Kleffner as a delegate to reprosent them at the national letter carriers’ conven- tion that convenes at Boston August 15, The representation in the convention is ono delegate from every city having 150 carviers or less. The principal matter to come before the convention will be the recommendation to congress us to whethor carriers shall be pen- sloned on half pay after a continuous service of twenty years, or the sularies in first class cities be inereased from 81,000 to §1,200, and those of carriers in second class cities from #5850 to $1,050 per year. New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, where many of the carricrs have beea in the sorvice from ten to fifteon years, o strong effort will be made to_ force a resalution in fuvor of the pension. In the other cities the earriers will almost to o man vote to ask con- &ross 10 pass the Increase of salary bill. The convention will be composed of delogates, and if Now York, Brooklyn and Philadeiphia can swing all of their delegatos into line the westerners admit that their pet measure will be defeated, The Clerks' Victory. The 7th day of July will hereafter be a hol- iday with the store clorks of Omaha, espec- ially so with the shoe clerks, it being the day upon which they adopted the carly closing hour, Summer after summer theclerks have met. and resolved for shortor hours, but until this summer passing resolutions was all that was ever accomplished, for when they got right down to the point some weak-kneed clerk kicked over the traces and the work went by default. Now the clorks have realized the accorplishment, of their fondest idea—the stores are closed when the ) bell strikes, aud their evenings are their own to spend as they may see fit, The history of the movement is an inter- estingone. Two months ago, one Sunday afternoon, a few clerks fromthree of the Douglas street shoe stores met, and after dis- cussing theoutlook for the summer's trade, one of them suggested the idea that it would be a good plan to once more try the schemo of early closing. The others, the movemnent knowing that time and had been defeated, solely by the inactivity of otherclerks, g e matter but apassing thought, but promised their support. The officers of the Central Labor union heard that the boys were again moving for shorter hours und appointed n_committee to wait upon them. A counsultation was held, o papor cir od, and 100 clorks signed a ;fl 1 fora meeting to bebeld the following Sun The Sunday rolled around but only seven clerks responded, the others being at Hans- com park, v and other places of amuse- ment. Auother meeting was called for the following Tuesday, to be held in the Young Men’s Christian association building, but like the Sunday meeting it was poorly at- tended. Then alarge number of the clerks gaveup in disgust, saying, *You can't doit.” But the workers were not Gisc zed and a fow nights later they metin_ Gate whena temporary organization w This instilled new life into the scheme another meeting was held at which twe five new names were added to the list. this meeting it was decided to go into the Knights of Labor as the United Clerks' as- sembly. An organizer was sent for and tho assembly was put upon its feet and tho char- ter list held open forthirt s, At the end of the thirty ¢ ship had increased from twenty-five to one hundred and seventy-five aud tho boy erted an influence that was felt, A comi was appointed to await upon the mer and advise them that on June 26¢a deum would be made that upon and aftor that dateall stores should close at 6:30 p. m. Most of the merchants took kindly to th plan, but argued that the notice did not giv them sufficient time to make some that would be necessary. An exten i st Monday, with the unde standing that Saturday ever oxeepted. Monday, t as started. and 1ays the member- h_inst., was an auns for the cli ‘While they had ) dence in their employers, they still had some doubts as to whether or not the doors would close, They were not disappoint r when the 6 o’clock boll struck, alrost ¢ propr etor along the principal streets of the city ds liberately walked to his front door and hung up o card beaving this inscription, “Ihis store closes at 6 p, m.” The clerks had won a victory, and half an hour later '.ln‘{' walked out of their places of employment the happiest lot of men in Omaha. Regarding the effect upon the merchants, those who have adopted the plan state ' that instead of their trade having fallen off, it b increased, and almost daily they seechun- dreds of new faces in their places of busiiess, Upon investigating they find the people ave Knights of Labor, their wives and children, who now will trade at. no other stores except thoso where the derles belong to tae assoi- iy. The Femal: ¢ lerks. Upon tho question of orgaalzing the female clerks, shop girls and kitchen help, the Cen- tral Labor union has practically given up in disgust, and the females are liable to be left to work out their own salvation. A fow weeks ago the hopes of the mombers went up like a skyrocket, to come down a few da; later with the custommy dull thud, Reading rooms and coffee rooms were contemplated and the prospects were bright. The workers of the Central Labor unim wero besieged with lettors and personal cails for hetp, The hand was held out and grasped by theyoung women who earn their few paltry dollars by toiling from morning till night over counters, sowing machines, pots and tubs. But the grasping was about all there was to the move- ment. The Ladies' assembly of the Knights of Labor hold the meetitig and resolved that all of the young ladies should have relief and shorter hour's. This action was duly reported to tho union, which in turn resolved in the samo line. Committees were put to work to bring about the reliof sought. The young women wero visited and_ the © time for holding a meeting was set, but there was @ bitch and the shop and store girls objectod to organizing with the kitchen girls, This difficulty was remedied by the promise of sepurato sociotios, and work was stavtel anow, with the promise of two strong organi- zations, but instoad of success, indifference followed, and what at one time promised to boa grand accomplishment in labor organize tion, proved to be & howling failure, Liter in_the season, possibly, another at- tempt may be made to bring the fomale toilors within the fold, but for the present the move- mant will not ugain bo agitated. To Close or Not to Close. A, July 1L—To the Editor of Tur Tocloseor not to elose: That 1 the question. Inorder to show the public at large just how this much-talked-of and long-worked-for subject of early closing stands, it becomes necessary that both sides of the matter bo scon. As @ Farnam street merchant has given his standing on the subject in an arti- clopurported to have been gotten up by his clorks in his abseuce and which appeared in the Omaha papers July 7, we take the oppor- tunity to apprise the public of the facts in the matter, About three months ago, when tho shoo clorks began agitating the matter of shor ing th eir hours, which was from 7 and 7 m. to 9 and 10 p. m., & petition to close at 0 p. m, was carried around to all the retajl shoe firms of thecity, Wo succeeded in getting all of them to Sign it except the I nam street merchant, and he gave usa very cool reception and said he could not afford to close his store earlier than 9 o'clock p. m. Tho matter was dropped for a woek or two but it was again revived and the gentloman wis once more visited and again said that he did not propose toclose his store before ) p. m After his last refusal to sign the patition he goes tothe Omaha papers and advertises to close his storeat 8 o'clock p. m., thinking that howould quell the matter and that the other shoe dealers would fall in lineand fol- low him. But not so. We then proceeded to our work of early closing without his co-operation, and on July 7 all theshoo dealers in the city, with threo exceptions, closed their stores in the evening. In" the article published on July 7 it was stated that thoy also have a half day off on Friday afternoons, This, too, is a new move, and bas been broaght about by the action of the clorks' assembly in the matter and the gentleman's men can well thank us for this and all other priviloges they now enjoy, but which they heretofore never knew. It would scem as though they were an un- grateful set of men when- thoy come out with their signatures o such a plece as was pub- lished July 7. But we look at itin a differ- ent light, Tor with them it was a matter of work or play, and who can blame them? Their omployer cleims that his men are satis- fiod with their present hours and do not care toclosoat 6:30 p. m. But lot that be usit may. It matters not; that is not the point. A majority of tho shoo dealers do not employ enough meu Lo grant their clerks such terms as he has, but are willing to close their stores at6:30 p. m. and this is something thatall can join in and none be the loser, A certaduly shows a very uucbaritable dis- l:mmm tohold out on such terms, and wo nd roasons to believe that he, as one of the oldest and largest shoe dealers in Omaha, would be one of the first to take hold of such a move, UNiten CLERKS' ASSEMDLY, The Switchmen's Picnic. Omaha lodge No.11of the Switchmen's Mutual Ald Association of North America gives its annual picnic at Waterloo today, the excursion train having been tendered the order by the Unlon Pacific rail* road company. The proceeds of the excur- sion go into the general fund of the lodge treasury. The lmfi(e in this city is in a pros- Eem‘" condition and has added a large num- er of new members during the past year, The Industrinl Field. Detroit has women carpentors. In June 33,216 immigrants arrived. Cannes has women strect cleaners. A New York union has a musical club, Now York has o board of walking delo- gates, Spain talks of limitinga ds hours. Brooklyn German trades have a Central union. 's work to eight Sunde; and (Eng.) colliers want a seven- an machinery sells in France and At Pittsburg 2,000 boiler-workers struck for nine hours, St. Paul by noon on holiday Brooklin tin and sheet-iron workers are out for eight hours, New York women are organizing to stop shopping after 5 p. m. Grass widows will not be made factory in- spectors in New York The Yorkshire «) winers' union has 42,000 members and £175,000, Clinton, Ta., has the world. It cuts _The butchers’ labor burcau at San Fran- cisco cannot supply tho demand for men, The clgarmakers are slowly but surely winning their fight for an advance of wa; ‘The union carpenters in Worcester, Mass., went on strike on Monday fora nine-hour day. The Brotherhood of Painters bas 75,000 members and talks of cight hours for May 1, 1891, Birmingham miners want 10 per cont ad- vance. They have to compete with 1,000 convicts, ‘The men employed in the mines in Calu- met, Mich., have ‘demanded a 10 per cent ad- vanee in wages, Minneapoli with a ¢ makes 7, The New York Workingmen's socloty is against » Wednesday liday in places where Saturday trade is busiost. New Youk fifty free doctors attend the poor in the summer, Pree medic and the King's Daughters seud flowers, ete, New York locksmiths and rallingmakers won nine hours from a boss who said ho would rather 000 than accede, A t power loom for sarpets was set in motion by E. B, wof Boston, Ten yurds u day was its oviginal capacity, At Cincinnati 1,000 carpenters will be ac- ceded nine hours aud ten hours pay. The rest will be supported by an asscssment of week on those employed. Two hundred girls employ z department of Lorillara's in Jersey City, went on strike on Mon- foran advance in wages. One bundred boys and girls of Woodland, Cal.,, whose ages ringe from twelve to nine- teen years, have formed a Co-operative Fruit Canning and Drying union, Fourof the most prominent contractors in Jersey City have conceded the eight-hour workday to their men who are members of the United Order of American Stair Builders. The miners of Butte, Mont., own a big tall, have 3,000 members in’ the union and £25,000. The twelfth anniversary of its organization was celebrated by a parade and mass meeting. It is said that the World, Herald, d Times of Now York will follow the in the use of t; etting machines, ably half of the 1,000 compositors will bo dropped. The flint glass workers at Pittsburg on Friday last presented to the manufac their scalo of wages for the ensuing advances wages about12 per cent. Th ufacturers “have the matter under considera- tion.” The miners in the Phillipsburg, Boech Creck and Osceola bituminons conl districts in Pennsylvania have preparod a circuia manding of the mine operators a higher scale of pricee; with increased pay for “dead” work. One thousand operators in the silk mills of John ('urvnn, and the Tatroon mills, owned by W. H. Copeutt, in Youkers, N. Y., went on a strike on Monday against o reduction of 1and 25 per cent in their wages. They of- fered to accept a reduction of 5 por cent, but the compaues refused to agree to this. ——— YTHE SONG. bers close at 8 p. m. and at vonty-three flour mills, W barrels. One will 2 1in the strip- tobaceo fac- 8C Andrew Lana in New York Sun, , weary and brown and blithe, the ‘word methinks ye know, What Endless over-word that the scythe Sings to the blades of the grass below, sythes that swing in the Somethiug, still, they say as th What's the woi and g Sings the scythe to the flower ass and clover, Hush, ah, hush! the scythes Hush, and heed not, and fall asle: Hush, the vt Hush, 'tis the lullaby Time Hush, and heed nc Hush, ah, hush!th Over the clover seythe over the THE TOMB OF EVE, of Jiddan, According to an Arab Superstition. The Arabs claim that ve’s tomb Jiddan, the seaport of Mecea, says the St. Louis Republie. The temple, with a palm growing out of the solid stone roof {n curiosity which of itself is the wonder of the Oriont), is suppose last resting place of the first woman, According to Avab tradition Eve meas- ured over two hundred feet in height, swhich strangely coincides with an ac- count of our first parents written by a momber of the French academy of i fow yoars ago, who also soionces a claimed a heighth of over two hundred feet for both of the tenants of the Garden of Tden. Eves tomb, which is in n graveyard surrounded with high white walls, and which has not been opened for a single interment for ovor a thousand years, is the shrine of thousands of devoted Ishmaeclites, who make a pilgrimage to the spot It is hemmed in on by the tombs of departed sheilks worthies who have lived out and othe thoir days in that region of scorching sun and burning sands. Once each year, on June 3, which is, according to Arabian logends, the anniversary of the death of Abel, the doors of the temple which form a canopy over this supposed tomb of ous first mother remain open all night, in spitt 82 the keeper’s effort to close them, Terrible cries of anguish are said to emit from them, as though the memory of the first known tragedy still haunted the remains which blind superstition believes to be deposited there, e Announcement., C. B. Moore & Co., have been appointed wholesale agents for the celebrated waters_of Excelsior Springs Missouri. e ‘Wonderful Social Concession to Ma- ternity. It is now perfectly permissible for a young mother to walk along the streots of New York with her child. Heretofore such a thing has not been countenanced. She might lead an ugly, heavy-jawed bull dog by a string, carry a pug or terrier or accept the escort of two men in no way related o her; she might also have the attendance of 4 maid or man servant with an infant, or run about, but to be alone withan infant was the worst possible form of street etiquette, s ot Dr, Blrney curcs catarrh. Bee bldg, to mark the. You Should Neither Freeze, Stow, Roast or Pickle Him, AN IOWA WOMAN'S WITTY ADVICE. Max O'Rell on thg Danger of Writing Letters—Remarkable Instances of Woman's Presence of Mind— The Best Charm. Ata meeting of the Woman's club, Mrs, H. C. Young caused quite a stir by her ro- sponse to the toast “Our Husbands" says a Marshalltown, Ia., special to tho Chicago News, Quoting Burns, Mrs, Young began: “Husband, hushanc your strife, No longer idl Though I am wife, Yet 'mnot y , sit,? “How shall we preserve our husbands? continued Mrs, Young., “In selecting your husband you should not be guided by the silvery appearance, 88 in mackerel, Nor by the golden tint as found in salmon, Be sure to select him yourself, as tes differ. Do not goto market for him, as the bost are always brought to your door. It is far better to have none, unless you know how serve him. Some women do this by ki bim in hot water, Others let them fro their carelesspess and indifferen keep them in s and moods. _Others roast them or keep them in ickle all their lives, It cannot_ be oxpectod that an ill be tender and g d in this y. ‘The only true way to do with is to proserve him. To do this you m have a preserving kettlo of the finest poreelaing or, if that s ablo, an_ carthonwars pipkin will o eo that the linen in which h preserved is nicely prepaved. the kettle with a strong silk ‘comfort,’ as the onecallod ‘duty’ is apt to be weak, and he might fly out of the kettle and ned, (You must remember that hus- o like crabs and lobsters, they have red while alive.) Make a ' tof love, neatness and ch nas_near the fire g agree with him. If he sputto not be anxious, husbands wil until they are quite dc Add alit consi v in_the form 33, but veful toavoid pep- wr, & theso things spoil the y husband unattain- do with perand vin : flavor, A little Spice inproyes them, but it must bo~used with gool judgment. Do not i i weut into him to see if But stir him gently, o lest he lie too flat and v find you have £ will prove a joy 1 he will keep us ou becoine care- t him in oo cool place, he benut im called henie, And g man that the Gol, Shall look upon as Hoe did tho first, And say—it is ver 004" less and A K esonce of Mind, Have women. in the face of sudden dang moro of that quick wit which is know “presence of mind” than men! In the nature of things one might expect to find that they nan About Town® of New York Evening Sun, for the abilit quickly to perceive’ nn emergency and in- stantly to adopt means for meeting it is only another manifestation of that leaping of tho feminine mind toward conclusions that we call woman’s inuition—+an instinet which is displayed in the femules of tho entire animal kinzdom as well and which is ng impulse in ‘Woman', ssonce of danger. ) ) sometling happened over in ‘n which gives color to the claimthat women are readier witted iu this particular thau men. A little girl. in attempting to light tho gas in the ba siceping room, set fire 1o the lace curtains, Thres young women, who were walking .in the adjoining yard, hoard the outery of the child, and_snatChing up some watoring pots which'stood near by, rushed futo the houso and up into be The fire had by this timo spread to the bed on which the baby lay. The fist poured the contonts of their wathering pots upon the bed, and then carried both the children to a place of safety, then turned to aid the mother in teaving down the draperics and extinguishing the flames. All this was planned and_executed s0 promptly that before the fire engines could reach the spot the five was out and thoe young women were roceiving the congratulations of some men who had stood in the street looking on,und who had not enough presence of mind in the face of danger to offer assistance until all neen for it was past. Another incident illustrative of the same thing came to us & few days ago from the west. A man Lad caught his foot in somo unexplained way at the side of an_elevator shaft. The elevator, heavily loaded, was coming down from above. While ho was making every possiblo eflort to loosen his - foot a little ‘girl crployed in_the establish- et hastily eaught up a knife that, lay near cut his shoelaces, and pulled him back s the floor of the elevator touched his A last and pleasanter instance of the ready wit of # woman, more instant_and efficiont than ail the wisdom of two plilosophers, is the one told with groat eujoyment by—was it Bdward or C wrles Emerson '—concerning the dificultics into which Ralph Waldo Zmerson and hamself found themselves led by u frisky calf, and the solution of these diniculties by the ready wit of their Irish maid. A young calf had got out into the barnyard and “the philosopher and his brother ‘wor led upon to drive it back into the barn. ¢ pulled gontly at the rope about its neck, but it wouldw't be led. Then they pulled hard. So did the calf, The impelling force was then applicd from behind. The calf lay down, The two wise men then drew to one sido w moments and applied their pest philosophy to the solution of the The reésult was that they settled upon the *'shooing” process that is the fay ito amusement between women and hens is went on for some time, both men s pering hatless aud breathless about the farm- yard, the elate calf bounding and running in the wildest manuer, and leading in every direction but toward the barn-door. the Irish maid came to the rescue! th a sniff of unconcealed contempt. she stalked before the outwitted sages up to the calf, thrust two of her fingers into its mouth, and led it, eager and docile, into the barn. Don't Write T00 Many Letters. 1t is a noticenble fact that women, especial- 1y French women, hay ) ness for pouring out their never dreaming that they were doing mis- ief. A woman not only wants to know that she is lovod and see preofs of it; she wants to hear it, to have it constantly repeated to _her. Judging man by hevself, she thinks to attach bim to her more firmly by treating him as she loves to be treateq, writes Max O'Rell in the New York Worl But man is of a dif- ferent mould. It gives him pleasure to know that he is beloved. Love him then, mes- dames, Butif yon want to keep alive the flame that, burns in his heart for you, do not tell him, and, above all, never write it; you will spoil everything if you do. One might tell the whole history of love aud its victims by merely compiling the love letters of women, Most women who have to complain of the noglet‘t of their lovers have been the victims of their own over-demon- strativeness, With a Iittle diplomacy and much silence they would have kept the cov- etod heart warm. But when it had shown sigus of cooling, the more the pen protested their love the more the evil grew, until, when reproaches followed upon pleadings, the last spark of tenderness in the truant expired, Some of the strongest-minded women have succumbed to this fatal im!pulsl\'unt‘au in love matters, *You no longer love me as much as Tlove you,” wrote Mme. de Stael to Camille Jordan, Camille was adamante, and turned a deaf ear to the eloquent but useless com- plaint. Poor Mme. do Stael! This was her sccond experience of the kind, She had loug before penued letters of the same stamp to Benjamin Constant with much the same result. He was ill named. Even Rachel, the cool-headed, was betrayed b{ her pen into weakness. 1t is true that bistory says her undecipherable billets doux added’a certain attraction of mystery to the love which their anthor had inspired. Never- theless, it Is more than probable that & too JULY 13, Standard Business Colloge i FACULTY. W. T. 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ENGLISH, B BUSINI S PRACTICE BANKIN SHORTHAND. TY PEWRITING TE RAPHY PEN ART. LOCUTION ARY)p SPECIAL TERMS, Tuition Reduced to a Minimumys Comman Bri whes, ineluding G History, Reading, Spo above with 1) nship Tho sume with Book-kee Childron's Class ol Night Class in any departmont.... W % A SIX WEEKS’ COURSE, JULY 14, 1890. IN PENMANSHIP FRER. Children’s Class will bo organized at 10 P'rof. A. C. Prof. Ong has bad over fifteen n a thorough and practical WHY TOIL ON a good position by tuking a Business or Shorte m, Wo can accommodato Ong will give special attention * experience in County [nstitute manner. Out AT THE GRIND ¢ 1] hand course, at the STANDARD BUSINESS COLLEGE AND SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND. good acquaintance with the sccond of the three Rs might have made an unhapp, woman of the gr X for her her stylo was lucon reasons for this, Orthography and ¢ phy were not her strong points, aud as tis 13 8hort, 50 were poor Rachel's epistolary of- forts. Lay aside the pen, ladics, while you aroe in love.” 1f you wan your Rotico alway: ardent aid attentive take'n hint from Rachel, about the telegraphie style aud, if noed be, tho wire instead of tho pen, No more long letters, full of sweet outpour s of the 't and longings for the next meeting, hut an casional telogran, something in this style and tired.” *“Don’t come.’ “Call “Health good, uge tout cela, patient’s father vays thousht was or the left. Poor little fomimne heart! it would not be n ing_ifone could put it on the right a I it hus suffered 50 long on the left, The Women of Arles. tuated at the point where the divide, (he Arles of today £ very little about either its - ment,s Itis aci all the group themselves with grace und o vesult of perfect unit famod besuty of the Arlesionnes is of a d Grecl type, straight-featured, low 1 and delicate. anced by their graceful black costume, with swellini fichu of white laco and coquettish littlo cap of the terial set high on the head and bound road black ribbon, one end of which is loft froo and falls to the' shoulder. and old, these women, almost without excs tion, have luxuriant’ hair, curling lightly about the temples. The smallness of the liead as comparcd with the size of the neck— another strikingly classic f accounts in part, no doubt, for their superb carriage. This, too, Is & beauty which they seem never to lose. I have seen a heavy woman of sixty, with the murks of sovero toil about her per- son and carrying a big burden, who crossed the ceutral squarc of the town with the step ing Water and Evening Dew, called t icate texturos over woven. They in the city of Dacca, Bengal, and were regarded as the very finest fabric that could be made, says a writer in Hacper's Bazar, In tho lattor partof tho last centary and the earlier years of the present over forty styles of those “Dacca muslins" were in narket, all manufuctured from a peculinr kind of Kuglish thread twist. A plece of the precions goods sufficient for a dress, “fifteen feet inlength and a yard ir width,” weighed but 000 grains. This quisite “gossamer cloth” wus valued at £10, Iu the native dialoct it was called “ab rawan, signifying “running water.” In later years this remarkable skill of handicraft must have greatly degenerated, for in 1840 the finest that could bo made of dimensions above mentioned weighed 1,600 grains and could be purchased for £10, Women as Diners Out, ‘Women as diners out ave rarely sought after, says the Ilustrated American. At the convoutional dinner party thoy arc present in numbers equal to matching the men guests, but in selecting the couples the 0stess us asks her women for their beauty, chic toilets, or because they happen to be wives of the men she desires; very seldom for any individual quality they pos- s0ss as table ornaments—not more than one of the sex in fiye hundred ever being able to meet the requirements laid down for men. One reason for this is their timidity in speak- ing or sustaining a conversation before an assemblage of people, and the other may bo explained by their uttor indifference to stories and anecdotes. A joke or absurd in- cident that a man will roll uuder his tongue, laugh over, and repeat for years, will scarce- 1y tickle the risibles of his wife, e thorough- 1y enjoys an audionce who will listen to his talk, whether grave or gay, and he never heats a good thing said without storing it up for future use. The art which enables one to strength en the current of wit or wisdom set flowing round the table is of a high order, and it seems o pity that, when every day sces the rauks of masterspirits increasing,women should always be reckoned as non-conductors. Fhe Testy G man KEmpress. The empress of Germany is said to be a voung woman of exceeding flery temper, Says u Hanover letter to the Chicago News. Showasa Schleswig-Holsteln princess, and was reared with strictseverity—is a thorough housekeeper as well as a proficient scholar. But amiability is not her most notable char- acteristic. Of course she cannot quarrel with her husband, for the etiquette of the court is distinetly rigorous; but the empress is at lib- erty to quarrel with everybody else, and of this prerogative the young womun avails her- self.” Some of hoer outbursts of temper have been of & most humiliating character, betray- ing a coarsene one would hardly expect to meet with in royalty, The empress inclines to stoutness; her features are rathor heavy, but the expression of her face is kindly. She is one year older than her husband. As for the ex-Empress Frederick, mother of the presont emperor, she is a piocture of her mother, the queen of England. A Girl's Best Charm. My dear girls, keep yourselves looking as sweet and dainty as possible, says a writer in the Ladies' Homo Journal.' Never und value the charm of an agreeable appoaran 1t is the most delightful letter of introduc- tion that canbe given to astranger, and thero is no reason in tho world why every woman should not be pleasantto look upon. A famous woman once said, *“Thera are nougly women ; there are only womea who do not understand Low to make themselves beautiful.” This is absolutely true. So the right thiug for you to do is to sit down, think it over and make yourself the charming examplo that points e moral of thi Patient Little Algerian Wives, The same general rule that the wife shall wait upon her husband secms as prevalent hero as in Algiers, writes a correspondent of the Utica Oberver. At the station we saw a beautiful young wife, of whose prouty fou- tures I caught a brief glimpse as she was ar- ranging her head drapery. She had come to see her husband off by the train, and not only carried his hand-luggage to the station for him,but stood iu line at the ticket oMce while ho lounged about and smoked with his friends- After a weary wait she carried his packages again to the train, put them in the car for him, and then took his proffered hand and bending low over it kissed it reverontly, And this was a delicate looking girl ahout twenty yoars of age, dressod in gurments of the fiuest texture r neck, arms and ankles covered with jew while her lord and mas. ter wis @ stalwart young man not _more th thirty years old. Poor sisters of Blidah, Tho Summer Class Will Ope ) July 14, 1890. DANCING FLOWER. A LEGEND OF SPIRIT LAKE. Boston Globe: Amid the rock-built solitudes of the Coeur D'Alene mount- ains, in the far northern portion of Idahoend under the shadow of tower- ing peals, lies a bedutiful sheot of water known as Spieit lake. Many moons ago—so runs the fanciful legend told yet in the tepees of the red man—it was the home and stronghold of the once powerful tribe of Idalos. Then Gray Eaglo was head chief and sachem of the tribe, and Dancing Flower, his only daughter, was famed as the most beautiful maiden in all the northern country, She, like most maidens who have at- tained the age of eighteen, had alover, a young chiof of the Crows, named Run- ning Wolf, and, as the two nations wore perpetually at war with one another, the course of their love did not run smooth. While she was yet a child, Gray Eaglo had betrothed Danecing Flower to Black Hawk, achief sccond only to himself in wealth and authority; but the fair girl regarded with great disfavor the suit of the warrior whom her father had chosen, and as she grow in years and beauty her strong disliko grew also, until, stung by her coldness and disdain, Black Hawk had so far forgotten his pride and man- hood as to go to her father with a bitter complaint of her rebellious conduct. The old chief, in a towering rage, dragged his daughter before Black Hawk, swearing by the graves of his ancestors that she should wed him ere the waning of another moon or die. Dancing Flower pleaded in vain for mercy or reprieve. The grim old chief would not be moved or relent. At last, in very hopelessness, sho ceased to struggle against her fate and sank into the passive silence of despair, though in her secret heart she vowed that rather than marry her hateful suitor she would fling herself from the great cliffs that overhung the lake. The days fled by, and the evil hour was at hand. Eluding her watchful guardians by somoe subtle feint, Dancing Flower stole away into the depths of the forest at early dawn of the day whose purple close might see her an unwilling Lri e, Iar from the lodges of her father she sped like a frightened fawn, till she reached a deep glade that had witnessed the wooing of the hapless lovers in brighter days. ancing Flower sent forth the shrill whirring cry of the wood duck, a signal known only to her lover and herself. Presently the sharp bark of the moun- tain fox was heard in the distance, and in a marvellously short space of time Dancing Flower was clasped to tho breust of her dusky lover. Nestled in his protecting arms, and covered by the gay foldsof his blanket, the dark-eyed maid poured forth the story of her persecutions and despair, Running Wolf listened in grim silence. When the story was finished he gave vent to his pent-up rage in a yell of anger and At brandishing his scalping-knife abroad, he swore a bitter outh tospill the lifo blood of his rival and bear off his bride in triumph. “Fly with me, Dancing Flower,” he pleaded, “‘Return no more to the lodges of your people, Faraway toward the setting sun we will seek a new home and a new life together., Insome green val- ley of the western hills we will build our camp fire where the foot of the Idaho hath never trod. I will hunt the spotted antelope for thee, and the red deer of the forest. The windsof the desort shall not touch thee rudely, and the sunshine of thy presence will make my lodge beautiful forever.” {lut to his passionate })luudlng Danc- ing Flower turned a deaf ear, Well she knew the sleepless vengeance of her father, the snake-like cunning of Black Hawk! Long ere they had left the fast- nesses of the Courd” Alene hills they would bo overtuken—her lover put to the torture, and she hersolf dragged back to a fate infinitely worse than death. No; their case was hopeless. But at least they coulddie togethor! She would return, and when the fateful moment came let Running Wolf rush in and wrest her from the hands of her cowardly persecutor, dealing to Black Hawk the blow that must also seal her fate and that of her lover Andso it was arranged. With one long, wild, elinging embrace of love and despair they parted, "\Vlu-n the moon rises over Spirit mountain and sces her face In the clear waters of the lake, I will come; be ready Saying this the ow turned upon his heel and vanished into tho tangled forest, Sovrowful, yet thrilled by a gleam of of hope, Dancing Flower stole back to the lodge of her father and watched with mingled feelings the preparations for her marriage. The space in front of the great council house was chosen, and already the SqUAWS Were huupin‘; u{) huge piles of brush and fat wood for the fires that wore to light theiwr feasting and merry- making, The council house stood upon a green and level spot within o stone’s throw of the lake, and where the stupendous cliffs that walled the silvery sheet dipped sud- denly down, (m')mni; a natural and gigantic gatewany that set upon the sundy margin of the waters, Just around the mighty jut of the but- tressed portal, in a hidden cove guarded by one watchful sentinel, luy the canocs Onll at our Rcoma in the New York Life Bullding, e ey of the tribe—the fr fleet by n s of which hunting and war partios e vorsed the waters of the lnk A strango and ominous stillness foll upon this hidden nook as the day wora on— stillness broken only by the soft lapping of the water in thedark recosses of the shore and the faint moaning of o fitful wind among the ghostly pines that crowned the summits of the clif The purple dusk came down upon the hills of Coeur D'Alene, and wrapped ahout the lonely valley and shining luke, The stars came out in the dark bluo vault abov dy silvery with tho lustre of the rising moon. The festival fires wore kindled, and, crackling and leaping, sent up great showers of golden and rosy sparks that filled the air like fiveflies, Already the tribe was beginning to gather in gaily bedizenod groups heforo the council hous The hollow boom of the tom tom mingled with the hoarso gutterals of the marringo chant, sound- ing a weird measure for the more we dance. Toand fro the little dark figures of the dancors, as decked in g nd erowned with gavlands of forest Now in the midst of her maidens Dancing Ilower eame forth from her father’s lodge and was led toward the coun house, where the great men of the tribo awaited the beginning of the ceremony. As sho moved slowly forward with bowed head and lagging step the moon just touched the peak of Spivit mountain and the wild mournful howl of themoun- tain wolf rose above the jubilant noises of the revel. Dancing Flower's heart leapt with a strange joy, but the next instant her spirits sank. Now that deliverance had come she shrank in sudden terror from the ordeal. Sholooked out over the sew of copper-colored facos surging about tho fire Lu\\’ would one man—be he ever 50 braveand powerful—cope single-hand- ed with a thousand. And her small hand closed convulsively over the hilt of a hunting knife she had concealed in hor bosom. Gray Eagle strode toher side, and taking her by the wrist led her beforo the old medicine man, while the dismal notes of the tom tom sounded in her ear. That venerable individual, weapt in tho tho exaltations of an encrgetic “pows wow,” kept up his frantic tom-tom beuts ing, while tho motley throng crowdod closer. ullenly out fr the midst of his braves stepped Black Huwk, a hateful fire burning in his snaky oyes as thoy vested upon the cold, wverted face of Dancing Flower, A glow of evil triumph transfigured his dark face, and his broad bosom roso and foll with stormy pussion as he stretched forth his hand to seize tha reluetant prize almosk within his grasp. At that moment the moon rose full over Spirit mountain, and the lake 8] )m'l(lc(& like a sheet of melted silver as t{m medicine man for an instant ceased his grotesque incantations. There was a rush a9 of u mighty wind —a flash of steel in the mingled moon and fire light—a wild, exulvant yoll and a smothered cry; and before the startled Idahos could recover from their stunned surprise Running Wol{ had tho gory scalp of Black Hawk at his belt, and, with the slight form of Dancing Flowor in his powerful arms, had cleaved thein- tervening space at a bound and leaped into his waiting canoe. One walreing stroke of the supplo paddle, and they are out upon thewaters and away beyond the reach of the yell- ing throngs who crowd the beach—with wilder yells of bafMed rage s they dis- cover their dead sentinel and the use- less canoes of their ruined fleet, In vain they shout and gesticulate, sending flight “after fight of arrows in the hissing wake of the flying bark A little while and the fugitive lovers have vanished in the dimness of the dis- tance and the night. Fired with hate and vengeance picked band of warriors at once set out or the opposite shores of the lake, vow- ing neither to sleep nor rest till the splrit of Black Hawk was appeased and Dancing Flower, restored to her people, was delivered over to the judgment of her angry fathe They never returned—no soul of chosen band--the braves, But days afterward a canoe dvifted ashore, und in it, transfixed by muny arrows, were found the dead bodies of Dancing Flowor and her gallant lover. They laid them side by side under tho shadow of the mighty cliff, where tho silver vipples of the luke lupped softly and wondering winds stirred the tall grasses with a mournful dirge. IMor they said that ono so brave and fon less as Running Wolf deserved his bride, The aged chief never recovered from the shock of his daughier’s loss, And ever sinco—the legend runs-— when the full moon rides over tho peak of Spirit mountain, and her fair reflec. tion touches with soft lustre the dim- pling waters of the lake a shadowy canoe, bearing two phantom forms, is soen adriftin the pearly brightness of the moonshine, And as they glide out into the unfathomable dimness of the water and the night tho shrill winds bring to the listning ear the faint, wild music of o passing dirge; the ghostly ocho of the death song chanted by Danc- ing Flower and hor dusky brave as they flonted away into the happy hunting grounds of long ago. - For tennis gowns and blouses thero is o striped, washable twill calied Raynes Perk that English ficld girls ave very partial W The matorial may be had in striped and splasiied effects, and will woar like sergo, il that flower of the Idaho Dr, Birney cures catarrh, Dee bldg,