Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1901, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1901 CURRENT NEWS OF IOWA. COUNCIL SLUFES. CHILDREN'S VACATION OVER All Are Expected te Be at Public Echoels | Early Today. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS EXPECTED Is Ready for the Army Young FPeople — Only the Twentieth Avenne School Stays Cloned. High School ot Tha new school year will begin tcday and with tha exception of the Twentieth avenue bullding every school In the city will bel opened this morning, everything being in| readiness to receive the pupils. Owing to prevalence of diphtheria in the vicinity of | the Twentieth Avenue school that building will not be opened umtil determined by Dr. | H. B. Jennings, city health officer, who is| absent from the city | While (here yot remains considerable work to be done at the new High school in| connection with the installation of the heat- ing, ventilating and lighting plant, the bullding will be ready for the pupils this morning at 8:30 o'clock. Every pupil is ex- pected to be in attendance before & o'clock, as announcements of Importance wliil be made The tenchers have been assigned to the various kindergartens. Miss Fgances Wright | and Miss Gertrude Da n!nr(. Bloomer school; Miss Stevens and 3 yons, Twen- tleth Avenue; Mrs. Hardman, Mies Walker | and Mise Loring, Plerce Street; Mrs. Card| and Miss Watson, Bighth Strect; Miss Trey- | nor and Miss Cooper, Avenue B: Miss Ament and Miss Robinson, Second Avenuo; Miss Kate Gerner, Washington Avenue. Miss Coleman has resigned as kindergarten Instructor at the Bloomer school. The teachers have all returned from their vacation outings and Superintendent CIif- ford is looking forward to a most pros- perous school year. The womnen of the Second Presbyterian chureh will serve a chicken dinner Tues- day and Wednesday at 541 West Broadway. Dinner will be ready at 11:30 o'clock. TEMPERANCE UNION MEETS Women Assemble in Annual Conven- xth Diatrict of Town, tlon of The annual convention of the Woman's | Christian Temperance union of the Sixth district of Towa will open this evening in the First Baptist church and will last over Wednesday. There will be three sessions each day, Tuesday and Wednesday. The Sixth district embraces the counties of Pot- tawattamie, Cass, Shelby, Harrison and| Mills, with twenty unions, which it is ex-| pected will be represented at the conven- tion by 100 delegates. The officers of the district are: President, Mra. 1da B. Wise, litornia Junction; vice president, Mra. Frances Willett, Woodbine; secretary, Mrs. | Hattle B. McNaughton, Woodbine; tre urer, Mrs. May King, Little Sioux. A speclal feature of the opening program this evening will be Mr. and Mrs. Beveridge, singlug evangelists, who have just com- pleted a tour through Nebraska in the in- terest of temperance. Rev. W. B, Crewdson, pastor of the First Christian church, will deliver the address of welcome on behalf of the churches and Mrs. Ellen K. Denny that on behalf of the Councll Bluffs union. Among the prominent temperance work- ers expected to be present are: Miss Ellen Moffatt of Marshalltown, state superin- tendent of franchise for the lowa Women's Christian Temperance union; Mre. Marion H. Dunham of Burlington, president of the lowa Women's Christian Temperance union, who is cdnsidered one of the brightest speakers in the national unjon. Mrs. Dun- ham {s secretary of the board of trustees of the Temperance temple in Chicago and edi- tor of the Temple Appeal. She has also been a member of the national board of trustees since its organization. Mrs. Frances Willetts of Woodbine, vice president of the Sixth district, Is a sister of the noted' divine, Rev. Dwight Hillls, pastor of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn This is the program for the opening ses- sion this evening, which will begin at 8 oelock: Music. Devotional service, Rev. W. H. Cable. Musle. Address of welcome in behalf of the behalf of the churches, Elder Crewdson. Address of welcome in Christlan Temperance union, Mrs. Denney. Women Ellen K. Responue to addresses of welcome. Muslc. Symposium: The temperance question &8 vlewed from a sclentific standpoint, Dr. P. J. Montgomery; economic standpoint, Rev, Harvey Houtetler; political, Mr. John' Dale; moral and religlous, Rev, J. G. Lemen. Oftering. Benediction. Davis sells gia Counell Bl The next meeting of the Council Bluffs Presbytery will be held in this city Friday, September 27, at the Second Presbyterian church, when the new pastor, Rev. Harvey Hostetler, will be formally received into the presbytery. Rev. H. E. Nicklen of ‘Woodbine and J, C. Sonnan of Griswold wiil also be recelved into the Councl! Bluffs Presbytery at that time. [d s Presbytery. vel roofing. A. H. Read, 541 Broad'y. Progress in Paving. Contractor Wickham has completed the paving of Scott street and expects to finish the work on Upper Broadway In a few for those who know what’ Woodward's Ganymede Chocolates and Opera BonBons Made By John 6. Woodward & Co. “The Candy Me Council Blufts . wood. Iowa Steam Dye Works 304 Broadway. Make your oid clothes look like uew. Dleaning, Dyeing and Repairin, LEWIS CUTLER Funeral Director 8 -‘E‘mfl'r:&’:'fi_ FARM LOANS b5i:i: < lowa. Jamos N. Casady, Jr. Maln St, Councll fts. | been had on the to the delay days. Some delay has Broadway paving owing Work has been begun on the paving of Glen and High School venues and Stutsman street. In the event fayor Jennings sign- ing the contracts today for the paving of the Fourth ward streets, Contractor Wick- ham says he will commence work at once on First avenue, which is to be paved ba- tween Pearl and Eighth streets, Mr. Wick- ham states that the suit recently begun In the district couri to nullify this contract will not deter him from doing the work. Davis sells paint. MINOR MENTIO! Davis sells drugs. Stockert eells carpets and rugs. Fine A B C beer, Neumayer's hote! Cas fixtures and globes. Bixby & Son. Wollman, scientific opticlan, 400 Broadway. C. E. Alexander & Cuv., pictures trames. Tel, 368 The city counell will regular wession tonight The monthly session of the library board 18 slated for this afternoon. Missour| oak bo el N. Main s The Bankers' unfon will meet Thursday evening in Knights of Pythias hall Get your work donie at she popular Eagle Jaundry, 724 Broadw Phone 167, Migs Roberta Hattenhauer of the ity schools is home from St. Louls, where «he spent the vacation with relutives. Mrs, Caroline Wallace and daughter Ruth are home from a two months visit with relatives and friends in Pennsylvania, Miss Cora Beneke of Carthage, Mo. Is guest of Mrs. A, T. Elwell on Willow avent W. € Ros and wife left last evening for an extended visit at Mr. Ross’ old home in Belleville, Ont Mrs, G. V. Hardell and daughter Minnle will leave today for a visit with relatives and friends in Ohfo and Michigan Mrs. Emma Ingalls, supervisor of drawing in_the public schoois, has returned from lowa City, where she spent her vasation H. J. Gallagher, wife of Major Gal- . and children have gone to Harting- ton, Neb., to visit Mrs, Gallagher's sister, Mrs. Suing. Mrs, Hora e Gleason i« home from an ex- tended eastern trip, which included visits in Buffalo, Boxton, Washington and other points of interest. The Knights and 1 of Security wiil meet Tuesday evening for election of offi- cers. Refreshments will be served after the business session. Grand Chancellor Frank Porterfield of Atlantic will dellver an address at the ples nic of the Knights of Pythias next Thurs- day at Lake Manawa. A district convention tamie County Sunday School assoclation will_be held at Dumfries next Sunday. There will be a basket dinner at noon. r. and Mrs. J. C. Gould have gone to vhere they will reside, Mr. Gould having 'been transferred from this district of the Unlon Pacific to the Colorado dis- trict, Charles Sanderson is enjoying his annual vacation of ten days, He has g Cleveland to attend the natlonal enc ment of the Grand Army of the Republi He will take in the exposition at Buffalo, The High school foot ball team will meet for the practice game this afternoon. ap- tain Aylesworth expects the High school boys to put up a strong game this season, as there is plenty of promising timber, he says, to select from. Aaron Lyman, son of the late Major Lyman, congressman from the Ninth lowa district, is In the city for a visit with his mother. who has been the guest of friends here. Vith Mrs. Lyman he will leave in a few days fof the east. The Driving Park assoclaton has recelved a propostion from a Newport (Ky.) horse- man to rent the Unlon Driving park for a private training establishment terms are satlsfactory the sald, will accept the proposition. Word has been recelved here of the death at Portland, Ore., of George Parks, one of Councll Bluffs' ploneer residents. In the early days deceased owned Parks' mill, enst of the city. His wife, one son and a daughter gurvive. Mrs. ' Parks was a daughter of the iate 8 M. Bayllss, who ated the park which bears his name to I Bluffs. The employes of the telephone exchange have presented C. A. Atkins, the retiring manager, with a handsome ' gold watch, charm and fob. The charm on one side with the initials the reverse, "Presented b es of ,Nebraska ' Telephone company, 182 191 Mr. and Mra. Atkins will leave Tues- day for Grand Rapids, Mich N. Y. Plumbing Co., telephone 35 A WOMAN WHO KEPT A SECRET. meet in adjourned of the Pottawat- Now She's Married and Ap) Happy that She Didn't Tell. Judge John H. Baker of the United States district court was in his private office the other day, relates the Indianapolis Sentinel, when a well-dressed woman, hardly more than 20, knocked at the door and, in re- sponse to his invitation, walked into the room and approached his desk. As the full Iight from the window fell upon her it re- vealed a face of more than ordinary beauty. Thoe bluehes deepened on the cheeks of the visitor as she reached the desk and stood looking at the judge. I want to thank you," she said in a low, musical volce, “for having sent me to the reformatory and also for securing my par- don. I am now married and happy and I owe it to you for having placed me where I would no longer be under evil influences." The judge recognized the woman and #poke In words of praise of her conduct in the prison and congratulated her on her better surroundings. Then, as If recollect- ing something, he asked: “Now that you have been released from the reformatory, are you not ready to tell who gave you the counterfeit money?" The young woman seemed thoughtful for a moment and then, shaking her head slowly, replled: * “Oh! 1 don’t have to tell you now." Judge Baker recognized his visitor as a young woman who was brought before him five years ago on a charge of passing coun- terfelt money. She was then about 15 and neither the court nor the district attorney was disposed to prosecute her very vigor- ously, but they were anxious to learn from whom she recelved the money that the maker could be punished. Two men were under suspician, but the government had no evidence that would justity arrests. The girl was asked from whom she re- celved the counterfeits, but she remained silent and no amount of coaxing could get the information from her. Finally the Judge told her he would send her to the reformatory till she was of age unless she told the name of the person from whom she got the money, but would release her it she would tell. The girl kept silent and was sent out to the reformatory to spend the night, the court hoping that a sight of the institution and the prospect of spending six years there would cause her to name her confederate. When she was called before him the next morning she was as obdurate as ever and Be passed sentence upon her He thought a great deal of the case and after a while he made up his mind that the &irl should be pardoned and she was ulti- mately released through his recommenda tlon. Tnquiry developod the fact that she married s0on after leaving the reformatory and was living in this city, but the judge had never seen her since her commitment till she appeared to thank him for the par- on “There |s one woman that can keep a secret,” sald the judge after his visitor left the office, and he smiled as though it w resulted in such a demonstration. ntly of | the Galesburg people in shipping brick here. | | & pleasure to have made a test which | relation exis! T0 VOTE ON RAILROAD TAX !pcoill!}'onllo‘n at Winterset to Give Aid to New Line. METHODIST CONFERENCE AT DAYTON Harvest Home Jubilee at Ames—Riche ard Jordan's Funeral at Boone— Elker Nominated in Decatu County for Legisiature. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Sept. 8.—(Speclal.)—The date has been set by the city council at Winterset for the special election on the proposal to vote a tax in aid of the Des Molines Southern rallroad and the election will be held Tuesday. The petition pre- sented to the council contained over 300 names of freeholders asking for the spe- cial election. The proposition is to vote about $11,000 in ald of a line from Lida on the Great Western to Winterset, a dis- tance of seventeen miles, and a ke amount it ald of the extension of the line iInio Adair county to a connection with the Bur- lington. It is regarded as certain the tax will be voted at the special election and construction work will be commenced next year. At the same time it is announced officially that the preliminary surveys for a number of extensions of the Des Moines Interurban railroad have been completed and that next year there will be extensions of the trolley system covering nearly 200 miles, The lines to Indianola and Nevada will be completed, both of them being now under construction, and there will be a new line westward through Adel, Panora, Audu- bon and Harlan. Franchises will be asked through a number of the towns during the next few weeks and detalls will be so com- pleted that work may be commenced early in the spring. Religious Meetings. The first of the series of Methodist con- ferences is now in sesslon at Dayton, Web- r county. This is the Western Swedish cobterence and includes all the Swedish churches in the state. Bishop Merrill is presiding, As the town has no hall large enough for the meetings a large tent has been erected. The Swedish Methodist churches have been growing rapidly in Iowa. A large delegation of members of the Christian denomination will leave Des Molnes tomorrow for Cedar Raplds to at- tend the annual state meeting of the Chris- tian church on Tuesday evening. Dr. Me- Cash, president of the assoclation. will de- liver his address. The annual meeting of the Friends of lowa and other western states is in session In Oskaloosa. The Fort Dodge Presbytery meets in Glidden. commencing on Tuesday of this week. Rev. W. W. Taft of Rockwell City is the mode- rator. The Wartburg synod of the Evan- gelical Lutheran churches meets in Bur- lington, commencing September 17. The synod embraces lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, 1llinols, Indiana and Ohio. Harvest Home and College. The annual harvest home jubilee and ex- cursion to the lowa State college at Ames 18 to be held September 18. Special trains will be run from Clinton, Tama, Moville, Paullina, Onawa, Missourl Valley, Harlan, Audubon, Des Molnes, Mason City, Oska- loosa and other points. These annual jubi- lees at the state college have become an Interesting feature of college work, as they afford an opportunity for all who are in- terested in the work of the college to be- come acquainted with its work. All the departments of the college will be in full operation at that time. Funeral of Popular Lawyer. The funeral of Richard Jordan was held in Boone today. His death was from rush- ing through the flames of a burning barn, but the singular part of it was that for nearly a week after the accident no appre- hension was felt by him or his friends He had rushed into his barn which was on fire to try to save a horse. Before he could accomplish his purpose he was sur- rounded by flames and had to go through the fire to get out. He was badly burned, but It was not believed there was any fm- mediate danger from his injuries. Thurs- cay evening he developed alarming symp- toms and soon dled in great pain. He formerly lived in Des Moines, was one of the most aggressive lawyers in central lowa and very popular among all classes. He had recently finished for himself a fine sum- mer cottage at the lakes in northern Iowa. Renominated for Le, The republicans in Decatur county yes- terday renominated P. L. Eiker for mem- ber of the house, and in Cherokee county G. F. Coburn wi 80 renominated. In Clinton county David Brant was renomi- nated, although he tried to decline the nomination. With Brant was nominated Dr. Norton Lyons of DeWitt. The same con- vention nominated George D. McDald for senator. The republican senatorial con- vention in the Monona-Harrison-Crawford district is to be held Tuesday next at Logan, with each of the countles ha date in the fleld. The democ conven- tion in the same district is to be held Sep- ‘umh-r 16 at Missouri Valley. lature. Boone Democratic Ticket. BOONE, Ia, Sept. 8.—(Special)—The democrats of Boone county held their con- vention yesterday and put a full ticket in the fleld. The nominees are: For repre- sentative, B. H. Smith; for sheriff, T. B. Holme: for treasurer, J. J. Phelan; for surveyor, Ira Shaw; for coroner, Phil Run- berg. LATE JUDICIAL DECISIONS. Landlord und Tenant. It a landlord after the expiration of & term of years consent to the continued o cupation of the premises, a tenancy from year to year arises. Such consent may Inferred from the words or conduct of the parties. If, upon an action for rent before the district court, such consent be in- ferred from testimony capable of support- Ing such an inference, a return to that effect establishes the tenancy in this court and a judgment for the rent due under uuwm not be disturbed. 48 At. Rep. (N. Y.), 678, Liquor Trade. The mere fact that one keeps lutox- cating liquors for home consumption will not authorize him to sell or keep for sale intoxicating liquors without a license or permit. 86 N. W. Rep. (Neb.) 1073, A mother, pending an action upon liquor seller's bond, under section 15, C. 50, Comp. St., brought on her own behalt and that of her minor children, has not authority to settle and compromise their rights without the authority and approval | of the court. 86 N. Manufacture W. Rep. (Neb.) 1050, On a sale of a manufactured article, such as glue, for a particular purpose the law implies a warranty that it is adequate to the purpose for which 1t was sold and pur- chased. ST N. W, Rep. (Mich.) 92 Real Estate Awents. Where persons are dealing with each other upon equal terms, and no confidential between them, nelther is ound to disclose superior informaticn he 4 » e | | The may have respecting the transaction. Poor Judgment or unfortunate trades, in the ab- sence of fraud or deception, form no basis for rellef by the court. 87 N. W. Rep. (Neb,) 12 Municipal Ma Where some of the members of a city council are stockholders of a corporation, the council, in South Carolina, cannot con- tract with such corporation for fts benefit 39 8. K. Rep. (8. C.) 265, a4 Chind, A decree which determines the custody of infant children, from which no appeal has been taken, may be modified because of the changed condition of the child's Bealth. 65 Pac. Rep. (Wash.) 546, Rallroad Companies. Parent It is error to hold, as a matter of law, that a brakeman who, in the course of his employment, goes between cars moving at the rate of four or five miles an hour, is gullty of such negligence as will preclude & recovery for injurles sustained by him while in that act, where such Injuries result from the negligence of his employer. $6 N. W. Rep. (Neb.) 1008, Social Clubs, Where a member of an unincorporated club renews in his own name and for his own benefit a lease of ground which the club had held as tenant at sufferance without payment of rent, an action to have the lease claimed by such person impressed with a trust in behaif of the plaintiff, an officer of the association, or else to have It adjudged that the defendant acted as plaintiff’s in procuring the lease, will not lie. Y. Supp. 4569, Teachers. Under 2 Comp. Laws 1897, section 4878, re- quiring contracts with school districts to be In writing, an oral contract with a teacher to continue the school for a month after the explration of his written contract s not enforceable, though such teacher has per- formed the services. 87 N. W. Rep. (Mich.) 50, War Revenue Tax. A written instrument conelsting of two separable ones, a promissory note, and a clause contalning certain provisions as to the entering of judgment thereon in the event of nonpayment, generally known as a ““Judgment note," is not taxable, under act June 13, 1895, providing that a power of at- torney to perform all acts not thereinbe- fore specified shall be stamped with a 25- cent stamp. 109 Fed. Rep. 80. Corporations, Where a corporation entered Into partner- ship articles with a firm and embarked moneys in and sold goods to the firm, the corporation, (o the extent of such acts, executed the contract of partnership by becoming a partner de facto, and could not, by asserting that the partnership agree. ment was ultra vires, prove a claim in competition with general creditors upon bankruptey of the firm. 109 Fed, Rep. 135, Corporations, A director of a corporation, who has sold his stock therein, cannot complain that he had no notice of a directors’ meeting, no member of the corporation having found fault therewith. 8§ N. W. Rep. (Mich.) 1040, Corporations. Where an action is brought by a forelgn corporation to quiet title to land, which title is denied merely, a certificate of the clerk of the court of the county wherein such land Is situated, stating that such corporation has not filed a certificate au- thorizing It to do business In such county a8 foreign corporation, or otherwise, s not admissible fn evidence, since such fail- ure does not lnvalidata the eontracts of foreign corporations made within the state. 61 N. E. Rep. (Ind.) 10. Credit Men, W. purchased goods of the plaintiff and agreed to execute a mortgage to secure the price, but, without executing the mort- gage, 80ld the goods to defendant, who ex- ecuted a note in payment. Held that, in the absence of proof that the note was ne- otlable, the couri was justified in finding that defendant was not a purchaser for value. 64 S, W. Rep. (Tex.) 236, Credit Men, As the legal title to mortgaged per- sonal property is in the mortgage, after default, subject only to the equitable right of the mortgagor to redeem, a chattel mort- gagor, after default, cannot maintain an action against the mortgagee for a conver- sion thereof. 71 N. Y. Supp. 277. Executors and Administrators. Claims against the estate of a defendant made by near relatives for persunal serv- ice require stronger proof to estallish them than ordinary claims by etrangers. 71 N. Y. Supp. 474, Executors and Administrators. Where an administrator ratified a leass made by descendant’s Sons of the farm, with the creatures thereon, lIncluding a dog, and the tenant caused the dog (o bs registered, which act the administrator op- proved, and pald the registration fee, ho wan the owner of the dog, Within Gen. St. 1888, Sec. 3761, and was liable thereunder to a person bitten by the dog. 49 At. Rep. (Conn.) 897, THE LITTLE RUBBER BANDS, Production Enormous and Demand “The little elastic rubber band that is nowadays used in various businesses in place of twine scems a simple sort of thing, but there are few, if any, of the multitude of small articles made out of rubber for which there is such an enorm- ous demand, clally in the United | States,” remarked a wholesale dealer in rubber bands to a Washington Star writer the other day. “In this country the num- ber of rubber bands sold In one year amounts to about 40,000 gross or 57,000,000 single bands, At least 80 per cent of the goods are made In factories located in New Jersey and New England. In New York there are a half-dozen factories de- voted partly or exclusly manu- facture of rubbs bands. “The process by which the bands are made s simple. The rubber In & Hquid state 1s molded into tubing of sizes suit- able for forming the small and medivm varleties - of bands. \When the tubing s ready for use it {8 put into a rapld-running machine having knives, which cut or slice the rubber Into bands, The larger bands | are cit by machinery from flat sheets of rubber and joined together with the aid | of heat and a pressing machine. “Rubber bands made In only two | colors, black and brown. They range in slze from one-quarter of an Inch to six | inches In length. The smalest bands are | one-sixteenth of inch wide and the largest are one and one-half inches wide. smallest bands are worth 24 cents| per gross, while the medium-sized ones sell &t from 48 to 0 conts per gross whale- sale. Larger sizes cost from $1 up to 36 per gross. “The greatest consumers of rubber bands | are drugsists and grocers. They use the| smallest and medium-sized bands In place of twine for putting up small packages. The large flat and expensive bands are used by court officers, lawyers, bankers and merchants for fling documents and | papers. No rubber bands are imported | into this cointry, but a few American | rubber bands are exported to the West Indies and South American countries.’" l an | tips i prohibited | who give, PORTERS SPURN TIP SYSTEM Handlers of Berths. CLUB BENEFITS THE PUBLIC | ANTLTIP Pallman Employes Organire to Secare Wages that Will Enable Them (o He Independent of Public Generonity, When the bare statement iy made that 7,000 Pullman car porters have formed nn assoclation to suppress the custom of glv- ing tips, and have passed resolutions de pouncing those who accept such fees, the Average person fs smitten with doubts of the reliabllity of the information. It s true, however, although the reasons which have brought about this revolutionary step by the colored porters probably need elucidat- ing. The formation of an anti-tip club and the passage of anti-fee resolutions by the Pull- man porters, relates the Brooklyn Eagle, marks no sudden change of heart on the part of the men who make up berths, polish shoes and assault passengers’ garments with whisk brooms. It only means that the Pull- man porters are tired of the Pullman com- pany's little way of considering the porter's tips as part of the porter's salary. 1t is no secret that this way of paying the salaries of the porters of sleeping cars has long been one of the business principles of every raflroad and company which operates sleeping cas. It originated with the Pull- man company, and has been adopted as a useful fdea by every company which em- ploys porters, For this reason the has been no fixed rate of pay for Pullmaan por ters—the word “Pullman” being used in this counection to describe all kinds of sleeping cars. On some railroads the rate of pay has been $30 a month; on others it has been $12 and $15. The different rates have been arbitrarily fixed by the companies which employ the porters, the basis of pay belng calculated according to the valua- tion of this or that run from a tip stand- poiut. In other words, the companies are in the habit of paying living wages on lines which carry few sleeping car passengers, while, on the best trains, where passengers are plentiful, the salary is made as low as possible, the idea being that the traveling public shall, by its tips, make up the rest of the porter's salary This economical idea, by which the public pald more than half the salaries of all sleeping car porters, worked well enough for the porters until the public awakened to the imposition. The invarfabl: tax of “a quarter for the porter” had become al- most a recognized travellng expense, many commercial houses even allowing it as a legltimate expenditure when auditing the bills of their traveling salesmen. Then somebody ‘“woke up,” and proceeded to awaken his nelghbors. It came to be real- ized—apparently quite suddenly—that the price pald for accommodation In sleeping cars was high enough to enable the rail- rond and sleeping car companies to pay falr and equal wages to porters. Then the publie began to resent the 25 cent tax. Si- multaneously with this resentment, the scale of tips began to fall. The once in- evitable quarter became the frequent dime and the occasional uickel. Porters who had been making $15 in salary and $2 in tips found that the tips of the montht sank rapidly toward the $5 mark. Protests were made to the car companies and to the rail- roads, but the protests were in vain. Then came more drastic measures, culminating in the formation of the Anti-tip aesociation. For much of this change of sentiment the labor organizations are responsible. The va- rlous strikes of rallroad employes brought ahout the organization of the sleeping car porters also. The colored employes, who once were satisfled to live half on salary and half on charity, learned to resent the y in which they were forced to extort their living from the public. The labor or- ganizations taught them that they had a right to fair wages, that no part of thelr salary should be left to chance and the ca- price of the public. They were taught to regard the tip method of drawing salary a: little better than a system of licensed men- dicancy. The educated colored man {s usu- ally as Jealous of his natural rights as any white man can be, and It took him, as a cla & very short tiem to learn the lesson of wage independence. He was made to realize that no mechanic would consent to exchange part of his salary for the right to accept tips from the public, and he was urged to exhibit a similar spirit. He has not been slow in making the exhibit, but he has not been very successful in bringing the rallroads and car companies to his way of thinking. Individual protest has been made many times, and in some cases all the sleeping car porters at a terminal station have tried to obtain an equitable arrangement of the salary question on an anti-tip basis. These attempts have been generally unsuccesstul, The first organized effort to abolishh the tip basis of estimating the wages to be pald to sleeping car porters was made in St. Louls, where, a few days ago, 7,000 Pullman porters signed the roll of an organization whose object is the establishment of uni- form wages for employes. The men frankly admit that some “'runs” are quite profitable and that, although the salary of the place is only $12 or $15, a porter can realize $50 or more a month. Nevertheless, they object to the system. They want things so ar- ranged that every porter is paid a fixed salary and®is forbidden to accept a tip. Branches of this anti-tip organization are 1o be soon established {n other citles, par- ticularly fn Chicago and New York. Thera is, at present, no organization of this kind in New York, the men say, but the Pullman porters who have their headquarters there express themselves as thoroughly in favor of the plan. Similar abuses exist among waiters of both races and in New York city more than one attempt has been made to organize the men and obtain an equitable system of wages. It is claimed that not only are walters in the fashionable hotels paid miser- able salaries, which they are expected to eel out by tips, but that they are also mulcted by the hend walters. It is charged that in several of the large hotels in New York no waiter can obtain employment un- less he undertakes to pay the head waliter & percentage of both his salary and his tips It is also sald that in two of the hotels the position of head walter is con- sidered to be so valuable that the holder of the position Is required to pay a weekly sum for the privilege of holding the place. Against these abuses the Waiters' union both in New York and in other cities has battled with varying fortune. There are very few hotels or restaurants in which the acceptance of a tip by a walter is pro- hibited, but there are some and it Is sald that the number is growing. Not long ago a tip to a barber was considered to he the proper thing, but nowadays barber shops are plentiful in which the acceptance of Wherever there is prohibition of tips it may be taken for granted that a fair liv- ing wage is pald and employers say they notice that the prohibition is beneficial to hota parties. Customers, they are re leved of the bother of hestowing tips and employes gain in self-respect by not ac cepting them The radical reform of the tip evil Is sald 10 be in the hands of those of the public well as in those of the When the snob can be | #e1d a railrond conductor to a Wachington | pote | forty, depending upon the stralght stretches vanish, too. When men cease to be servile for money—when nobody truckles and smirks for the sake of a dollar—the race of tip takers will die out. Those who are making a battle againet this evil wre not sparing In words of condemnation for both parties to the tmansaction. They accuse the man who makes a practice of tipping of ostentation—of trying to impress upon the reciplent of the tip that he is both wealthy and generous. Similarly they ac- cuse the man who takes a tip of servility, They say he has a jelly backbone, that he truckles for money and that he fs willing to trade his rights and his independence for a tip. Labor organizations all over the country are passing anti-tip resolutions and are them. TICKING OFF THE MILES, There Are Several Ways More or Lesw Accurate. ‘There has been some picturesque fiction written about the ase with vhich railroad men avd drummers are supposed to tick off the miles as the train speeds along. from things they can see from the car window," Star reporter “There is only one strictly accurate way and that is to seat yourself on the side of the train from which may be observed the white mile posts that line the road and hold your watch on them. If you have a split-second wateh it will prove interesting to note that while you make one mile in sixty seconds the next was covered in fifty- three and the third in seventy seconds, and 80 on, as the speed of the train increases or slackens. You may also follow around the little second hand on an ordinary watch, 1t kills time. ‘Some pretend to say that they can tell the speed of the train by counting the tels araph poles. [f there were an exact num- ber of telegraph poles to every mile this might be done by a little figuring, but there is a difference. The number of telegraph to a mile vary from thirty-three to and the curves in the track, the latter hav- ing more poles than the former. So, you sce, it s not as easy as the drummer would have the other passengers believe. “If the poles are planted thirty-three to the mile they are 160 feet apart, and every cleven passed represents a third of a mile. 1t placed forty to a mile, they are 132 feet apart, and every twenty represents half a mile. “These are easy figures to remember, and by applying them on a journey a passenger may obtain an idea, more or less accurate, of the speed of the train. ““Another way is to attempt to count the clicks of the wheels of the truck of your car as thev pass over the ralls where joined. The ralls of the roads as placed today are too evenly foined to arrive at an exact determination by this method, be- cause, {f you miss two or three joints your calculations are thrown out as to accuracy However, there are raflroad men who cannot tell you the number of ralls to the mile of thelr own roads, and ralls vary in thirty-three feet and some sixty feet. At thirty feet there are 176 rails to the mile; and if you can count 176 consecutive clinks as your train flles along you may deter- mige its speed, and not otherwise. “Twenty years ago a rail weighing fitty or fifty-six pounds to the yard was con- sidered heavy. Today the average welght is elghty and ninety pounds, favoring the former; 8o the average rail in use now welghs 800 pounds. If there are 176 ralls to the mile, each separate mile of rails welghs 140,800 pounds, and on a four-track road 563200 pounds of cold rolled steel hold up the cars to every mile, “As New York is 221 miles from Wash- ington, on each of the two four-track lines of railroad between the two cities, at the above average welght of rails the earth holds up 502,268,800 pounds of steel.” GETTI ADVANCED IDEAS, Spirit of the Age Absorhed by Youth- ful Minds. “I am afrald that the world is becoming degenerate,” said the well known clergy- man to a Detroit Free Press man. I do not wish to think that it is as bad as it appears on the surface, but there are days when I am led to believe that I am too much of an optimist and that the very chil- dren are becoming impregnated with ‘ad- vanced idens.’ “There {8 a little toddler who lives next door to me who Is a great friend of mine, and who s a frequent visitor to my study The last week he has been entertaining a little girl about his own age, and 1 saw very little of him till yesterday when ha called upon me in my study, accompanied by his little triend. ‘“‘Well, children,’ ‘what can I do for you?' “‘You tell him,' sald the boy, nudging the little girl 0, you; you'de a man,’ she answerad bully. Wull,' sald he, desperately, after a moment's pause, ‘we want you to marry us just as quick as you can!’ “‘Why In such haste?' quering a desire to laugh. “‘You tell him,' sald he, turning to his little triend *'No, you,' she lisped. *‘Well, sir.' sald he, facing me and| squaring hie shoulders, ‘yon see Jennie here | is going home this afternoon, and we want | to get warried right away so we will have time to have a fight and get a divorce be- fore she leaves!™ sald I, pleasantly, 1 asked, con- HOUSE PLANTS FOR WIN Some of the Varictiea Whieh Are Easieat to Grow Indoors, The best time to gt decorative plants to bo grown fndoors during the winter is early In September, says a writer in the Lad'es’ Home Journal. At that searon artific'al heat and high, mofst temperature have beea dispensed with and plants are growing more naturally than at any other time in the year. There are but few which cns ein expect to grow well in the house in winter. The aspldistra s a plant which cannot be killed by ordinary neglect. Give it all the water it needs, an occasional application of fertilizer and a reasonable amount of light The agave is a stately plant and a w grown specimen always attracts attention For the hall It will be found quite as orna. mental as a palm. Because of the semi- succulent nature of the follage it will not require much water except when it is grow- Ing. Asparagus Sprengeeri fs another plant which grows ae well for the veriest amateur &8 it does for the owner of a greenhouse Plant 1t in a sofl of rich loam and give it a liberal allowance of water when it neds it, & shady piace to grow in and a frequent shower bath. Begonlas are not coften clussed among the very robust plants, but there 1s one variety which I have found sure to grow well under difculties. This varlety is B argentea guttata. Give It a soll of sandy loam, well drained. Be care. ful not to overwater, but shower it fre- quently. GREAT FORESTS OF ARIZONA, Largest Unhroken Area of Pine Tim. her in the United States, Few of those who travel through the ter- ritory by rail realize the extent of the Arizona forests. Following is from the re- port of Governor Murphy “Arizona has the largest unbroken pine ployes who accept eliminated the professional tip giver will forest In the United Ftates, covering an trylng to make their members live up to | length, the average being thirty feet, some | ber 18 usually found at an altitude of be tween 5,500 and 7,800 feet. The total o tity of pine timber At for sawing p within the boundaries of the amounts to 10,000,000, t supply the needs of more than A century. Tho area fs in Coconino county and bor Grand canyon of the Colorado, alth Glla, Apache and Yavapai counties considerable timber. In the Mog mountains, In Yavapai, Coconino and Gily counties there are large bodies of ok tir | ber sultable for the manufacture of fary | machinery, wagons, etc.. and for furnishirg | lumber, but at present it 18 too ina ble to be of great commercial value The government has created some forest reserves in morthern Arizona promulgated rules for thelr rogulation v a view to thelr preservation from spolis tion and to prevent destruction by ¢ The principal lumber mills of Arizona ars situated at Flagstaft and Williams Coconino county on the line of the Sauiy Fe Pacific railway, and thefr equipmen: (s modern In every way. The Arizona Lum! and Timber company at Willlams have ns complete plants for the manufactura of lumber, boxes, otc., as can be found in the United States which &h have TO MAKE PERFECT GIRLS, A School in England Makes a Notable Depnrtare. A girls' school where the ologies are ta booed and where mathematics is an un known terror has been for several years a flourishing institution in the beautitul county of Kent, England. The one aim of this school is to develop girls into phyeical perfection and nothing {s allowed to inter- fere in the smaliest degree with the attain ment of this object. A Chicago matron whose 18-year-old daughter has just begun A two-year couree there is of the opinion that her child will graduate into a happler woman than muny a seminary girl who has burned midnight ofl, which, by the way, is an unheard-of abomination in the Kent school. The founder and head of the school is a Swedish woman, who has attained a high position as an authority oa physiedl culture and who had broad experfence as a teacher in London before she ovened hir college, which is backed by several wel known English women Every applicant submits to & medical ex- amination, and it organic disease is found is not accepted as a pupil, but if there is nothing more serious cut of order thao nerves, digestion, circnlation, ete., the girl | 1s admitted, provided there s a vacancy for her. Her corsets come oft at once and are not put on again during the two years. She does not don a hat from the hour sha enters the school until the hour she leaves, no matter how bad the weather may be Her dlet is liberal, but strictly hygienic, and any exceptions in it are made only by | the physician's orders. She wears a uni- form, consisting of a loose blouse of dark blue wool with knickerbockers and a light- welght knee kilt, black woolen stockings and low tan shoes. She zoes to bed every [ night at § and gets up at 6, and unless it is actually stormine she spends almost every mcmnent of the day ir the open alr. Simple Instruction in anatomy !s given and the pupil is taught to swim, row, ride horse and wheel, run, vault play ericket tenuls and nockey. The upplications for admission are alwiys far in advance of aceomisoditions and steps ere heing taken for large ¢xiension of the school. TATTOOING Seaside Mnidens Utilire the Sun for a New and Novel Fad. Positively the newest fad of the sea- shore resorts this season I8 exceedingly popular with the summer girls—tattooing in white. How it originated no one has been able to tell, but it got here, as nearly all can testify. One of the charmers ap- peAred on the beach at Atlantic City the other day with her favorite college design apparently tattooed in white on her sun- browned arm. There was the flag of tha University of Pennsylvania, with the let- ters “U. P, and beneath this a little heart | The thing caused a deal of speculation and something of a sensation for a long time, but the fair schemer could not keep tha secret and a lot of her chums copled tha idea, which now threatens to spread all along the coast “How 1s it done?" asks the fair one in reply to a questioner. “That i easy. Re- fore 1 exposed my arm to the flerce rays of | the sun T cut out the design I wished from adhesive plaster and stuck it fast to my | arm. When the browning process was well along 1 took off the plaster and there was the flag In white just as nice as you please.” One of the fair devotees of fads was not content to show her college preference on her arm, but worked out a design on her neck. It is not likely that many will fol- | low her 1dea, however, since they must don evenlng dress for the hops. Some of them have gone a step further and allowed tha sun to print upsn their fair arms the ini- tials of their very best young men, with a sentimental design accompanying them, Newspapers, Under Denver city charter, art. 2, sec- tion 8, providing that no ordinance shall take effect until published in some news- paper of general circulation, or in & book or pamphlet, one publication in & Sunday newspaper of an ordinance authorizing the construction of a sewer is not a sufficlent publication to support an assessment there for, since a Sunday publication is of no effect. 65 Pac. Rep. (Colo.) 580. —_— The Best Indorsement. Baxter's Mandrake Bitters Is sold and guaranteed to cure the diseases for which it is designed, by every druggist in the United States, or money refunded. What better indorsement ean be given a medicine. 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