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/ MAGAZINE SECTION. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1905. PAGES 1 TO 4. WITTE IN RUSSIA RETURN OF THIS SUCCESSFUL - DIPLOMAT SOT A MARCH OF TRIUMPH. Despicable Manner In Which Divine Royalty la Wont to Accept Valu- able Services of Subjects. Charles E. Kero. There Is pathos in the attitude of the great Russian statesman, M. Witte, largely to whose diplomacy the Czar owes the favorable conclusion of the war with Japan, in his presentation in person to his majesty, of a report on the details dt whoso historic meetings at Portsmouth which were so managed as to "save the face" of Russia, as they say In the far East. It is difficult for an American to understand the na ture of this meeting between Czar and subject, and although we as a people cannot admire hi. Witte’s braggadocio, we must la fact feel sorry for a man who returns to hla country after ac complishing so much in her behalf and flags it at once necessary to plan an Intrigue In order to prevent eSacemcnt. lng upon the return of M, .Witte to his home. Would have Presidential Bee. “The men who make European and Asiatic history to-day can never hope to approach their royal masters, who are in many cases mere puppets, ex cept in a manner Indicating the utmost humility. The American who would perform such service as that of hi. Witte would return home with t straight backbone and with the presi dential bee buzzing under the crown of his hat. He would accept as his right every bit of credit pertaining to fils successful work, and ne one would expect him to perform any act of hu miliation in the presence of the Pres ident or any one else,** The fact is, M. Witte began his act of humility while in this country. He referred to the Czar at all times as his august master and while crossing the Atlantic ocean, when accorded deserved honor for his diplomacy, was quick to disavow being worthy of the least credit for his labors, stating in effect that he was a miserable creature who breathed because of the goodness of his “august master" and that anything he had done in connection with the peace negotiations was merely In obedience worn GIRL’S CHANCES. CHOOSE COSGESIAL OCCUPATION THEN HOLD FAST TO THE j FIRST GOOD JOB. It Is Not the Kind of Work but the Manner of Working That Brings Forth the Dollars. Only thoss who have been within the charmed circle of the court at St. Petersburg can Imagine the conditions influencing tula interview between the Czar and his representative who has carried off the honors of the diplomatic game that has recently been played to deUrmiue the terms on which peace could he concluded between Russia and The American Imagine* the Russian statesman and diplomat returning to the presence of the Czar with form erect and countenance beaming with ]nzt pride la having performed serv ice for which he would naturally ex pect ts he received with honor. But those who have been at the Imperial Court od Russia know that no such scene Is enacted upon the return of M. Witte. With Bowed Head and Humbly They know he will return to the presence of his royal master, the Czar, if he has already reached St. Peters burg with bowed head, regretting that he has been unable to serve his mas ter in a more worthy manner, and praying, with the hunted countenance of a criminal, that he be forgiveo for having performed so poor a service. He will protest that If there can be found any act of his own worthy of favorable comment that that act U due wholly to having obeyed the royal will and having properly interpreted the royal purpose. He will conclude that act of humiliation by begging forgive ness of his august master for his short comings. No menial In America could play the part of humility so earnestly as will the distinguished diplomat M. Witte. "The attitude of statesmen of monar chical governments toward their royal masters Is one that cannot he under stood by Americans and Is known only ta those who have been In dose touch with them abroad,” said a high official •( the State Department In comment- to the will of hla master, the Czar. Expectations That He Would Fall. The return of M. Witte to SL Pe tersburg also has a, special Interest because, as is fully understood in the inner circles of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, his appointment as a peace commissioner to represent the Czar was given him not for bis Mneflt but was brought about by his enemies, who expected that hit failure to effect a successful peace negotiation would be his permanent political undoing. It was M. Witte who opposed the war and favored its conclusion long before peace waa arranged. He waa detected by the military party, and the intrigues of the Russian court placed him in an un comfortable position before the Czar. It was argued that it he could be sent on the Impossible mission of making peace when the entire court was con vinced that tha attitude of Japanwould make the peace conference a failure, he would return discredited and forced for the first time In his career to approve the continuance of the war, which was desired by certain of the court digni taries up to the time peace was de clared. Still Working (Or bis Downfall. Now that the good fortune and the artful diplomacy of M. Witte have con fused hla enemies lie Is no better loved by them than ho was when they con spired to Intrust him with a mission they believed he could not successfully perform. It Is learned at Washington that even now those same enemies are planning future traps for tha eminent statesman who has been flavored by the god of fortune. When ha appears be fore his august master In the tra ditional attitude of a alaye there will be many of bis enemies to endeavor to persuade the Czar that the formal words of self depreciation which he must uttsr to sonform to aowt stt- quett# art In fact only plain truth. said the little French milliner who had Just finished a beautiful beruchcd bat for me, when I asked her to make one of those pretty moussolinc shoulder niches; and she would do nothing out- ride her specialty. So it is in all the big cities where women flock to make a living or a name; whether in Paris, “London, New Fork, Chicago, San Fran cisco, one must have one’s highly per fected specialty In order to win e;en moderate recognition “Don't scatter" is the very best ad vice to the girl worker. “Oh, I know how to do ever so many things,’’ says the latest entry on the books of a big employment agency. "Can you cook?” asks the manageress with breathless eagerness. Yes,’’ Is the reply rather shame facedly. “Good I ru put you down under Cooks.** 'But I don’t want to cook. I’ve been through our academy and I've gradu ated in all the latest accomplishments. Besides, I’ve come up to the city to make money—a lot of mouey.” “You’ll make a lot of money If you’ll cook,” eays the manageress in her take- my-advlce tone. “Why, any girl that can pretend to cook, If she don’t know a souffle from a hoe cake can make more money In this town than a whole class of academy graduates with ten accomplishments apiece.” It Is not the kind of work, bnt the manner of working that brings In the dollars. A girl of twenty-three, thrown snd- dcnly on her own resources, made the lives of her friends miserable by a constant cry of “What can I dot” A yellow streak of snobbishness made It all the more difficult to help her. With out even facility in writing, she begged assistance in becoming a paid con tributor to a scandalmongerlng news paper. Fortunately, sbe lacked as much In perseverance as In literary ability. Ilcr next venture was lu trained nursing; but, being placed In the colored ward, her southern pre judices drove her out of the hospital Just three days later than her date of entry. From a spasmodic effort to ac quire a knowledge of stenography, abc set out on a quest for a place as nurs ery governess. A practical friend met her Just after her first rebuff, and much against her will pnshed her Into a situation in a fashionable millinery establishment, at <3 a week. Now it developed that trimming bats is that glrl'a gift It usually takes about three yeirs in the workshops of tbo swell milliners to arrive at the degree of proficiency which commands a salary of 125 per week, but the girl In question made hats for ber friends evenings. Her friends sent their friends, and inside of a year she bid saved enough to take a trip to Paris during the summer. She bought not s single model but gitbered Impressions, went back to New York, rented a couple of rooms In a side street between the shopping and the residence sections, dropped a little note to each of her patrons saying sbe had taken a flyer abroad-and the rest was easy. Choose a Congenial Occupation. The secret of success Is finding oat ons's special bent or talent Usually the thing that It Is easiest to do, that one likes best to do. Is the work In which one will lie able to mine greatest progress. A very few are favsred with Inspiration along original lines. Some unfortunates commit the folly of choos ing a profession or trade because of the results secured In It by others, rather tjian because of any personal number of stenographers and type writers by 65,000; and the list might be continued through every piufossiu trade entered by women. All show a greater or less Increase, proving that there Is always room for the com petent It is only by adding real effort, perseveraaee and determination to a natural talent however, that the top is reached. The woman who spends months, even years, in acquiring skill or knowledge in some line of work that . „ appears attractive because of the few It is not my specialty, maaame,- women in it and not because she has Stick to a Good Job, A weary little public school teacher, worried into a stuto of hysteria by a loug year with a class of unruly slum children, threw up her position, and, misled by the success of s friend, un dertook to become a stenographer. She had Just the qualities that make a good teacher, but nuno of the alertness, en durance and steady nerve that are in dispensable in the shorthand writer. Sbe remembered that her friend had spent only three months on a course of lessons, but forgot that at the cud of the three months had como a position at $5 per week with eight hours of un interrupted typewriting each day, after which, in order to make headway to ward abetter salary, every evenlngfrom half past seven to eleven was spent in speed practice. The little teacher put In s but summer In a private business school and later, through the kindness of friends, obtained a position in a section of the country most unhealthy The choice of the right work deter mines at the atari the measure of SENATOR MARTIN’S CASE. Renomlnatlon of Virginia Statesman Cost a Small Fortune, Senator Martin of Virginia is out of pocket $11,600 lu expenditures to se cure a renomlnatlon to the United States Senate. This Is more than one- third of the ealary he would receive during the whole Blx years of bis new term. The expenditure, It ecems, was necessary. The Senator had a popular opponent who set a hot pace and kept It up to the end. There was nothing for Mr. Martin to do but to canvass the State from end to end and this, with othor necessary expenses, ran the total high. This fight ot Senator Mar tin for renomlnatlon and the neces sary large expenditure, which is looked upon as entirely legitimate and freo front any corruption, has aroused con siderable comment among pollticlana and prominent men at Washington, as being an exceptional clear cut ex ample of present political methods and necessities. Martin's troubles are now practi cally over,’’ said a prominent Southern- FORTY PIES k MINUTE. PITTSBURG MAN IS VENTS A MA CHINE TO MAKE PIES BY THE MILLION. Annual Output Would Reach Half Across the Continent, — Would Drive Mother Out of Business. ’Pies like mother used to make!” Is that possible? And yet It is learned by dispatches from Pittsburg that a man there can make such appetizing delicacies at a rate of twenty-four thousand pics In ten hours, or forty in a minute through the aid of a machine which he has just perfected. If the machine can do wlint is claimed for It and turn out good wholesome pics there should be enough to go around H. L SONS, TUB PIE MAN. everybody even following the fiercest political campaigns The statement made by the inventor from the Smoky City certainly is a marvel when it Is figured Just what the ma chine’s capacity for pie-making is. Suppose wc have the machine running ten hours a day. six days in the week, allowing for holidays and breakdowns, making the lemon meringue pies, for which the machine Is specially adapted, we have, with say 300 working days a year, the sum total of 7,200,000 pies a year. If these pies are like mother used to make, then of course they are each about nine Inches in diameter aud an Inch and a quarter thick. Mother al- contlncnt and furnish pie to every man, woman and child in the United States. The story of the actual performance of the pie machine Is troly wonderful. In fact two machines are necessary. In the first the crust is produced. Instead of pie pans, molds like waffle Irons are used to form the crust Aa the molds pass along on an endless chain, they, move a lever at one end which permits the pie dough to enter the pans, shaped something like waffle irons, and they then pass between two sets of burners which take the place of the oven. Of coarse before the dough is released the irons are heated to the proper temperature. The dough is con tained in n huge tank above the ma chine, a feed pipe running down, nnd by means of a piston, Just enough dough is forced down to fill one of the molds ns it passes under the pipe; Tho strokes of the piston aro so regu lated as to bo timed with the arrival of each pan under the pipe. As soon as tho crust Is baked they are removed by an attendant who stands at ono end of the machine. These crusts are then arranged on a large pan which Is takes up by another attendant who places the crusts in the second machine. Filling by the Ton. This Is also of tbo endless chain type, with two vast vats at one end, one of which contains the lemon filling and the other the meringue. By carefully reguinted ratchets the filling and the meringue are fed alternately. The pies then pass on to an overhead burner which gives the top of the meringue a rich brown. The pie, thus completed, is passed oat from under the baker and Is ready for disposal by. the American pie eater. A RUG FIT FOR A KING. Shah’s Gift to Edward of a Wonder ful Product from the Eastern Hand Looms. Never outside fairyland has been seen such a wonderful carpet as that which King Edward received the other day as a present from the Shah of Persia—a token of his appreciation of tbo affectionate hospitality extended to him on the occasion of his last visit to England. inclination or adaptability. Voluminous statistics show that girl need not be limited in her choice of work, for some onebanilredandflfty occupations, meeting every need or de sire of existence—from doctor to un dertaker—have already been exploited by women. However, for the average girl, comparatively few tradea and pro fessions seem within her scope. Out side of the enormous number who be come teachers, very few women are afforded the opportunity to acquire a profession; consequently, certain trades required for carrying on of routine work In business offices, shops and factories, have come to be regarded ai the only money-making channel* open to the girls who arrive at the end of their school days confronted with the question, "What shall I do for a llv- ingr . Always Room for Good Ones. Most discouraging of sll the obstacles to the girl seeking her living ts tho constantly repeated falsehood that the occupations open to the average female intelligence are overcrowded. Thirty years ago tbo same statement was made to almost every female applicant for employment as bookkeeper, clerk, agent, stenographer, saleswoman, etc. At that time less than one per cent, of all the women wage earners were em ployed In clerical positions. In twenty years the percentage of women in this class increased to five per cent of the total employed, while the figures of the last census promise a still more en couraging advance. It ts further shown that In the last decade of the nth century the number of woman bookkeepers in the United States In creased by about 60,000. the number of woman Clerks by ovsr 10,00% the num ber of saleswomen by over 100,000, tbs SENATOR MARTIN, cr, stopping at the national capital, who has all his life been familiar with tho practical methods of political nomina tions and elections. "Martin can draw a check or two more and then close up his book because Virginia is not close State; but suppose It were, „• that Senator Martin waa now obliged to meet a Republican antagonist, able to give him the fight for the election that Governor Montague gave him tor the nomination, so that ha-had to spend $11,500 additional—a total ot $23,000. This would leave him $7,000 of salary for his full time of six years of ser vice. Might Have Cost Thirty Thousand. “Nay, more. Virginia la a State where campaigning la rather primitive. Mon ey still has a good value In moat of tho sections. There Is not the holding up and bleeding ot candidates at avery turn that thers la In some of tho more closely contested States, so that it is entirely conceivable that Senator Mar tin might have legitimately expended more than hla entire $30,000 in order to bo re-elected; a man, too,, of character and ability, who has served his State So woll In the Senate that people might have thought he could have bad the renomlnatlon for the asking, if It wus not actually forced upon him. "But the case if typical, although It may not bo usual. Politics are every where getting to be very expensive where two men want the same place I have seen the Increase In cost grow and grow. What I hear asked now, among thinking men la, what-la the effect upon our national legislation when It would appear that only wealthy men can think of running for election and where there can be no contest for the honor by any but the wealthy. Is the situation tailing upon our pubtle affairsT and If so, what ta tha remedy; what can we do about itr* RATE OP FORTY A MINUTE. ways used a couple of eggs and a lemon to each pie and ao the I’ittaburg linker would uao 7,200,000 lemons, and 14,400,000 egga. Laying these 7,200,000 plea out in one loug row, we would hare a distance of about'1,022 miles from tho first pit In the row to the last. A reckless chauffeur In an up-to-date automobile, traveling at a rate of 25 miles an hour, Including necessary stops, could make the Journey across these pies In a little leas than three days. A Pie Tower Magnificent. Again taking “Mother’s pie*” as a basis, the products of this machine In a year, U piled one on the other would giro us a monstrous column over 142 miles high. Of course a generous housekeeper would divide the pics In fifth*, so that if our 7,200,000 pies were so shared, wc would be able to feed 30,000,000 people, or nearly one- linif tho population of the United States, or more than 100 times the number of people living In ’ Pittsburg. By using different shifts and working the machine to its full capacity the pie line would extend nearly across the When this marvelous production ot Persian artists and wearers waa spread out before bis majesty at Buckingham Palace he must have been reminded of some of the scenes depicted in the "Arabian Nights” It bad been known for seme days past that a special Ambassador from the Perelan monarch was to wait upon the King; and there was some specula tion as to the object of hit mission. The secret was well kept, and it waa not until the arrival of the ambassador at the palace that any Informatlen could be gained as to the contents of tho great packing case over which be kept vigilant guard. For more than two years quite a llttlo army of designer* and weaver* has been constantly at work upon the carpet, and the result baa been the production of what even In Persia must be considered a royal master- pieee. Tho design la very curious, complex and certainly most Ingenious; the -«jlors are perfect and fauitlceely Wended; and the-manufacture la flaw less. The rug hat been made*entl,rely by hand. Illustrated Every reader of this paper should have this book. Cutoff the coupon and lhail to us with $1.50. By v ■■ 1 Eu&ne P. 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