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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. :3. \ , . . . ‘ ",n, - . . 5 '. If, ,, ' 1‘ a 7 / .. . 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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 Every reader of this paper should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. Illustrated By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. by Published August 1st Ernest 13TH Haskell THOUSAND ALREADY The All Bookstores, $1.50 M issourian The romantic adventures of John Dinwiddie Driscoll (nicknamed il The Storm Centre at the Court of Maximilian in Mexico, where bis secret mission comes into conflict with that of the beautiful Jacqueline. The best romantic American novel of re cent years. / "Has what so few of its class possess, the elements of reality', wrought / /fy*' ^v by infinite pains of detail , vensim ill tude t suggestion. ” / V -St. Louis Republic. y/ *'A remarkable first book . of epic breadths carried through un swervingly. A brilliant story.”— N. Y. Times Saturday Review. / story “ There bears is no more evidence dramatic of careful period and in history painstaking , and the / / *3?^ *** •’ every •• Y 0 H» A*’//#'/// DOUELEDAY, PAGE & CO. “133-137 East 16th St., New York. / V ^ [Price continent and furnish pie to eve¥J> i man, woman and child in the United 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. *