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THE CLEVELAND COUR
Vol. VII., No.
WITTE IN RUSSIA
RETURN OF THIS SUCCESSFUL
DIPLOMAT NOT A MARCH
OF TRIUMPH.
Despicable Manner in Which Divine
Royalty is Wont to Accept Valu¬
able Services of Subjects.
Charles E. Kern,
There is pathos in the attitude of the
great Russian statesman, M. Witte,
largely to whose diplomacy the Czar
owes the favorable conclusion of the
war with Japan, in his presentation in
person to his majesty, of a report on
the details of whose historic meetings
at Portsmouth which were so managed
as to “save the face’’ of Russia, as
they say in the far East. It is difficult
for an American to understand the na
ture of this meeting between Czar and
subject, and although we as a people
cannot admire M. Witte’s braggadocio,
we must in fact feel sorry for a man
who returns to his country alter ac¬
complishing so much in her behalf and
finds it at once necessary to plan an
intrigue in order to prevent effacement.
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Only tnose who have been within
the charmed circle of the court, it St.
Petersburg can imagine the conditions
influencing this interview between the
Czar and his representative who has
carried off the honors of the diplomatic
game that hafe recently been played to
determine the terms on which peace
could be concluded between Russia and
Japan.
The American imagines the Russian
statesman and diplomat returning to
the presence of the Czar with form
erect and countenance beaming with
just pride in having performed serv¬
ice for which he would naturally ex¬
pect to be received with honor. But
those who have been at the Imperial
Court of 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 forgiven 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 is due
wholly to having obeyed the royal will
and having properly interpreted the
royal purpose. He will conclude that i
act of humiliation by begging forgive¬ I
ness of his august master for his shoN- |
eomings. 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 i
masters is one that cannot be under¬ j
stood by Americans and is known only
to those who have been in close touch
with them abroad,” said a high official
of the State Department in comment-
WjRLNS GIRL’S CHANCES.
CHOOSE CONGENIAL
THEN HOLD FAST TO THE
FIRST GOOD JOB.
It is Not the Kind of Work but the
Manner of Working That Brings
Forth the Dol.ars.
"It is not my specialty, mndaine,”
said the little French milliner who had
just finished a beautiful beruched hat
for me, when I asked her to make one
of those pretty mousseline shoulder
ruches; and she would do nothing out¬
side her specialty. So it is in all the
big cities where women hock to make
a living or a name; whether in Paris,
Loudon, New York, Lnicago, San Fran¬
cisco, one must have one’s highly per¬
fected specialty in order to win even
moderate recognition.
“Don’t scatter” is the very best ad¬
vice to the girl worker. "Oh, T know
how to do ever so many things,” says
the latest entry on the books of a big
employment agency.
“Can you cook?” asks the manageress
with breathless eagerness.
“Yes,” is the reply rather shame¬
facedly.
“Good! I’ll put you down under
Cooks.”
“But, I don’t want to cook. I’ve been
through our academy and I’ve gradu¬
ated in all the latest accomplishments.
Besides, I’ve come up to the eity to
make money—a lot of money.”
You’ll make a lot of money if you’ll
cook,’’.says the manageress in tier take
my-advlce tone. “Why, any girl that
can protend to cook, If she don’t know
a souffle from a hoe cake can make
more money in this town than a whole
class of academy graduates with ten
accomplishments apiece.”
It is not the kind of work, but the
manner of working that brings in the
dollars.
A girl of twenty-three, thrown sud¬
denly on her own resources, made the
lives of her friends miserable by a
constant cry of “What can I do?” A
yellow streak of snobbishness made it
a” the more difficult to help her. With¬
out even facility in writing, she begged
assistance in becoming a paid con¬
tributor to a seandalmongering news¬
paper. Fortunately, she lacked as
much in perseverance as in literary
ability. Her next venture was b
trained nursing; but, being placed it
the colored ward, her southern pre
judices drove her out of tne hospita
just three days later than her date or
entry. From a spasmodic effort to elfe al
quire a knowledge of stenography,
set out on a quest fqr a place as nurs ¬
ery governess. A practical friend niejt
her just after iter first rebuff, and
much against her will pushed her intii>
a situation in a fashionable milliner.'
establishment, at $3 a week. Now it
developed that trimming hats is that
girl’s gift.
It usually takes about three years in
the workshops of the swell milliners
to arrive at the degree of proficiency
which commands a salary of $25 per
week, but the girl in question made
hats for her friends evenings. Her
friends sent their friends, and inside of
a year site had saved enough to take
n trip to Paris during the summer.
She bought not a single model but
gathered impressions, went back to
New York, rented a couple of rooms
in a side street between the shopping
and the residence sections, dropped a
little note to each of her patrons saying
she had taken a liyer abroad—and the
rest was easy.
Choose a Congenial Occupation.
The secret of success is finding out
one’s special bent or talent. Usually
the thing that it is easiest to do. that
one likes best to do, is the work in
which one will be able to matte greatest
progress. A very few are favored 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 than because of any personal
inclination or adaptability.
Voluminous statistics show that a
girl need not be limited in her choice
of work, for some one hundred and fifty
occupations, meeting every need or de¬
sire of existence—from doctor to un¬
dertaker—have already been exploited
by women. However, for tbe average
girl, comparatively few trades 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 as
the oniy money-making channels open
to the girls who arrive at the end of
their school days confronted with the
question, "What shall I do for a liv¬
ing?”
Always Room fori Good Ones.
Most discouraging of all the obstacles
to the girl seeking her living is the
constantly repeated falsehood that tbe
occupations open to the average female
intelligence are overcrowded. Thirty
years ago the 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
i class increased to five per cent, of tbe
total employed, while the figures of the
last census promise a still more en¬
couraging advance. It Is further
=hown that in the last decade of the
19th century the number of woman
bookkeepers in tbe United States in¬
creased by about 50.000. the number of
woman clerks by over 10,000, the num¬
ber of saleswomen by ^er 100,000, the
mg upon the return of M. Witte to
home.
Would have Presidential Bee.
“The men who make European
Asiatic history to-day can never
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 M.
vVitte would return home with a
straight backbone and with the presi¬
dential bee buzzing under the crown
of his hat. He would accept as his
right every bit of credit pertaining to
his successful work, and no one would
expect him to perform any act of hu¬
miliation in the presence of the Pres¬
ident or any one else.”
The fact is, M. Witte began his act
of humility while in this country. Ho
referred to the Czar at all times as his
mgust master and while crossing the
Vtlautic ocean, when accorded deserved
onor for his diplomacy, was quick to
usavow being worthy of the least
redit for his labors, stating in effect
oat he was a miserable creature who
ireathed because of the goodness of his
august master” and that anything he
■ad done in connection with the peace
egd, Rations was merely in obedience
. o the will of his master, the Czar.
Expectations That He Would fail.
The return of M. Witte to St. Pe¬
tersburg also has a special interest
because, as is fully understood in the
circles of the Diplomatic Corps
at Washington, his appointment as a
peace commissioner to represent the
Czar was given him not for his benefit
but was brought about by his enemies,
who expected that his 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
was arranged. He was detested'by the
military party, and the intrigues of the
Russian court placed him in an un¬
comfortable position before the Czar,
[t was argued that if he could be sent
on the impossible mission of making
peace when the entire court was con¬
vinced that the attitude of Japan would
make the peace conference a failure, he
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 for his Downfall.
Now that the good fortune and the
artful diplomacy of M. Witte have con¬
fused his enemies he is no better loved
by them than he was when they con
snired to intrust him with a mission
they believed he could not successfully
perform. It is learned at Washingtoi
that even now those same enemies arc
banning future traps for the eminent
statesman who has been favored ' - bv the '
god of fortune. When he appears be
fore his august master in the tra
ditional attitude of a slave there will
be many o 4 his enemies to endeavor
to persuade the Czar that the formal
words of rdf depreciation which he
must utter to conform to court eti¬
quette are in fact only plain truth.
Cleveland, Ga,, Oct, 13, 1905.
number of stenographers and type
writers by 05,000; and the list might be
continued through every profession or
trade entered by women. All show a
greater or less increase, proving that
there is always room for tile com¬
petent. It is only by adding real effort,
perseverance 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
women in it, and not because she has
any special talent for it, makes a fatal
mistake.
Stick to a Good Job.
A weary little public school teacher,
worried into a state of hysteria by a
long year with a class of unruly slum
children, threw up her position, and,
misled by the success of a friend, un¬
dertook to become a stenographer. She
had just the qualities that make a good
teacher, but none of tbe alertness, en¬
durance and steady nerve that are in¬
dispensable in the shorthand writer.
She remembered ttiat her friend had
spent only three months on u course of
lessons, but forgot that at the end of
the three months had come a position
at $5 per week with eight hours of un¬
interrupted typewriting eacli day, after
which, in order to make headway to¬
ward a better salary, every evening from
half past seven to eleven was spent i.i
speed practice. The little teacher put
in a hot summer in a private business
school and later, through the kindness
of friends, obtained a position in a
section of the country niort unhealthy
The choice of the right won; deter¬
mines at the start the measure of
success.
SENATOR MARTIN'S CASE.
Renomination of Virginia Statesman
Lust a Small f ortune.
Senator Martin of Virginia is out of
pocket $11,500 in expenditures to se¬
cure a renomination to the United
States Senate. This is more than one
,third of the salary he would receive
during the whole six years of his new
term. The expenditure, it seems, was
necessary. The Senator had a popular
opponent who set a hot pace and kept
it tip to the end. There was nothing
for Mr. Martin to do but to canvass
the State from end to end and this,
with other necessary expenses, ran the
dotal high. This fight of Senator Mar
tit! for renomination ami the neees
s.iry large expenditure, which is looked
upon as entirely legitimate and free
from any corruption, has aroused con¬
siderable comment among
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
SENATOR MARTIN.
er, stopping at the national capital, who
has all his life been familiar with the
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 a
close State; but suppose it were, and
that Senator Martin was now obliged
to meet a Republican antagonist, able
to give him the fight for the election
that Governor Montague gave him for
the nomination, so that he had to spend
$11,500 additional—a total of $23,000.'
This would leave him $7,000 of salary
for his full time of six years of ser¬
vice.
M : ght Have Cost Thirty Thousand.
“Nay, more, Virginia is a State where
campaigning is rather primitive. Mon¬
ey still has a good value in most of
the sections. There is not the holding
up and bleeding of candidates at every
turn that there is in some of the more
closely contested States, so that it is
entirely conceivable that Senator Mar¬
tin might have legitimately expended
more than his entire $30,000 in order to
be re-elected; a man, too, of character
and ability, who has served his State
so well in the Senate that people might
have thought he could have had the
renomination foi the asking, if it was
not actually forced upon him.
“But the case is typical, although it
may not be usual. Politics are every¬
where getting to be very expensive
where two men want the same place
I have seen the increase in cost grow
and grow. What I hear asked now.
among thinking men is, what is the
effect upon our national legislation
when it would appear that only wealthy
men can think of running for election
and where there can be no contest for
the honor by any but the wealthy. Is
the situation telling upon our public
affairs? and If so, what is the remedy;
what can we do about it?”
FORTY
PITTSBURG IAN INVENTS A MA
CHINE MAKE PIES BY
| MILLION.
Annual tpf.t Would Reach Half
Across til? Continent. — Would
Drive
“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 pies in ten hours, or forty in
a minute through the aid of a machine
which he has dust perfected. If the
machine can do what is claimed for it
and turn out ' good wholesome pies
there should be enough to go around
H. L. SOUS, TH2 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 we have the machine running
ten hours a day. six days in the week,
allowing for holidays and breakdowns,
making the lemon meringue pies, for
which the machine is 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 dianieuT and an
inch and a quarter thick. Mother al-
AT THE RATE OF FORTY A MINUTE.
ways used a eggs a
icinon to each pie and so tbe Pittsburg
inker would use 7,200,000 lemons, and
14,400,000 eggs. Laying these 7,200,000
pies out in one Jong row, we would
have a distance of about 1.022 miles
from the first pie in the row to the last.
A reckless chauffeur in an up-to-date
automobile, traveling tit a rate of 25
miles an hour, including necessary
stops, could make the journey across
these pies in a little less than three
days..
A Pie Tower Magn'ficent.
Again taking “Mother’s pies” as a
basis, the products of this machine in
a year, if piled one on the other would
give us a monstrous column over 142
allies high. Of course a generous
housekeeper would divide the pies in
fifths, so that if our 7,200,000 pies
were so shared, we would be able to
feed 30,000,000 people, or nearly one
hglf the population of tlie United
States, or more than 100 times tbe
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
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The story of the actual performance
of the pie machine machines is truly jvomlerl'ui. necessary.
In fact two are
In the first the crust is, produced.
Instead of pie pans, molds like 5 waffle
irons are used to form the crust. enilJeSS As
tire molds pass along, on an
chain, they move a lever at. . one end
which which permits permits the the pie dough'td wa&e eider
the tlie pans, pans, shaped something like
irons, irons, and and they they then pas# between two
Sets of burners
the oven. Of course before tbe (lough
is released the irons are heated tb the
proper temperature. The dough is'"ton
tained in a Inigo tank above the ma
chine, a food pipe running down, and
by means of a piston, jusft enough
dough is forced down to fill one of the
molds as it passes under the pipe.
The strokes of the piston are so regu
lated as to be timed with the arrival
of each pan under the pipe. As soon as
tlie crust is baked they are removed -
by an attendant who stands at one end
of the machine. These crusts are then
ill-ranged on a large pan-which is taken
up by another attendant who places
the crusts in the second machine.
Filling by the Ton.
This is also of the endless chain type,
two vast vats at one end, one of
contains tlio lemon filling and
other the meringue. By carefully
ratchets the filling and the
are fed alternately. The
then pass on to an overhead
which gives the top of the
a rich brown. The pie, thus
is passed out from under
baker and is ready for disposal by
American pie eater.
A RUG FIT FOR A KING.
Gift to f dwaid of a Wonder¬
ful Product fr> m the Eastern
Hand Luoms.
Never outside fairyland has been
sueli a wonderful carpet as that
which King Edward received the
dSy as a present from the Shah
Persia—a token of his appreciation
the affectionate hospitality extended
to him on the occasion of his last visit
to England.
When this marvelous production of
Persian artists and weavers was
spread out before his majesty at
Buckingham Palace lie must have
been reminded of some of the scenes
depicted lu the “Arabian Nights.”
It had been known for some days
past that a special Ambassador from
the Persian monarch was to wait upon
the King, and there was some specula¬
tion as to the object of his mission.
The secret was well kept, and it was
not until the arrival o£ the ambassador
at the palace that any information
could be gained as to the contents of
the great packing case over which he
kept vigilant guard.
For more than two years quite a
little army of designers and weavers
lias been constantly at work upon
the carpet, and the result has been the
production of what even in Persia
must be considered a royal master¬
piece.
The design is very curious, complex
and certainly most ingenious; the
colors are perfect and faultlessly
blended; and the manufacture is flaw¬
less. The rug has been made entirely
by hand. *
