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5 THE SIOUX CITY JOURNAL: SUNDAY- MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1902. to his enterprise, Germany's output of RISE OF A GREAT INDUSTRY GOOD SHORT STORIES. NEW YORK'S BACHELOR GIRL sieei exceeds now that of Great Britain by one-fourth of the total amount, while fifty years ago England produced ten times the amount Germany did, namely, 600,000 tons per annum. CONGRESSIONAL LTTXURY BEGINNINGS AND GROWTH OP THE AN ARMY RECRUITED LARGELY FROM THE "PROVINCES." KRUPP KINGDOM. THE FIRST KRUPP A FAILURE over the list of his sire's blunders every time he started out on something untried.

Friedrlch Krupp left three young children Alfred, 14; Herman, 10 years old; a boy baby, and a widow, the- latter a studious, energetic and resourceful woman. Asked In later years to state the main reasons for his success, Alfred replied: "Avoiding mistakes, necessity, my mother's influence and inspiration, and the environment in which I grew up, the air I breathed. Essen was a gunmaking town for a thousand It sold arms to Queen Bess of England." The father's death compelled Alfred to leave college before he had passed through two of the eight classes, the boy assuming the duties of master, smith, caster, packer, bookkepper, office help and drummer in daytime, while at night he studied mineralogy and chemistry so far as they could be of use to him in THEIR LIFE NOT WHAT IT SEEMS Bathtngr Facilities in the Capitol at Washington. Washington letter to the New York Evening Post: Statesmen of the Jerry Simpson type who wish their constituents to believe that they are the same simple minded rustics In Washington they always were at home, would do well to suppress ment out of this debut In professional life. In a short time the boarding house proves uncongenial, and the birl bachelor flees to the, studio building, which is not always as comfortable even as the hall bedroom that she leaves.

But there is freedom in the new plan, and sometimes a restaurant in the building does away with the necessity for cooking meals. These makeshift homes are always attractive in their unconventional furnishing. Life in this fashion is picturesque, but it is an odd Bohemian existence that the business girl gives up for a small apartment as soon as she feels that she can afford the dignity of a real home. But before she reaches this point she has serious work before her, filled with discouragements and disappointments under which none but a sturdy spirit can endure. It is unfair to paint rose colored pictures of the struggle that women find in their first attempts to gain a footing in the professions.

Nothing worth while is gained without effort, and the spurious successes of the stage, of literature and other walks, where results are obtained by certain forms of booming, fall to the Frledrlch, Ftmiider of the- Dynasty, Left Nothing; But a Record of BIls-t alee Alfred, His Son, Achieved In Reality It Is a Life of Loneliness, of Hard "Work and of DUappoint- mend The Percentage of Those Who Succeed Is Small. Success After Many Tears. Essea cable letter to the St. Louis -t Globe-Democrat: The dynasty that created the kingdom, of Krupp out push And. brain and -without a single farthing NOT A "POLICY" Wit ITER.

The wlff of one of -Philadelphia's literary men who has produced a couple of novels went to employment agency the other day to engage a colored servant girl, says the Philadelphia Uecord. There was one that seemed to suit, having answered" all questions satis-faetorilv, but before engaging hVrself sh had a few questions of her own to ask. "Is youah husban a student doctah? she demanded. "'Cause if he is vou II have to scuse me. All doan live with no doetahs.

Dem student doctnhs cut culluu up." husband isn't a doetor; he is a writer," replied the wife of the young literary man. rather proudly. The colored girls eves opened to the fullest extent. "Is dnt so?" she exclaimed in admiration. "You doan say so.

All's sho'ly glad fob to heuh dat. Mobbe of Ah go to live wld you he kin put me onto the numbahs befo' de dra win's." "Numbers? Drawings?" said the vounc married woman, completely mystified. "I don't know what you mean. My husbaud is liternry man." It ws then the colored girl's turn to be puzzled. "Didn't yo' say yo' miiu was a writer? she askeL "Yes, that was right." "Well.

de. man dat writes policy sho'ly knows what numhahg am gwlne fob to come out." At this juncture the proprietor of the agency came to the rescue with mutual explanations, and th deal was all off. NO IiOOM FOR TWO. Gen. 'Thil" Sheridan was at one time asked, says the New York Tribune, at what little incident did he laugh the most.

"Well," he "I do not know, but I always laugh when I think of the Irishman and the army mule. I was riding down the lino one day, when 1 saw an Irishman mounted on a mule which was kicking its legs rather freely. The mule finally got its hoof caught In the when, in the excitement, the Irishman remarked: "Well, begorrah, if you're goin' to get on, I'll get avenues of professional life, eager eyed, earnest and enthusiastic in the pursuit of the ideal that possesses them. They are vastly interested and picturesque, representing, as they do, an entirely new phase of femininity the girl etrenuous, eager and anxious to compete with her brothers in the strife for place and pelf. Twenty years ago school teaching and dresmaklng offered the only two opportunities to girls desirous of making a living.

Today these two vocations are far In the background from the modern girl's view of desirability. Even manicuring stands ahead of dressmaking in favor of girls anxious to do things. Typewriting and stenography have displaced school teaching as a choice with girls, for it takes less time to fit them for the work, while returns are quicker and yield better results. The pretty typewriter, at first taken as a Joke, injreality opened the door of the strenuous life for women. The Itnsh Overdone.

But the tremendous rUsh of girls for the metropolis in search of work has been very much overdone; and besides the coming of girls themselves, bushels of letters arrive each day to editors and writers, asking for opportunities and chances in various fields. Girls entirely unequipped for the struggle of work push on valiantly to the citadel, and one out of twenty survive. Very few of these girls are actually poor and in need of work. They start put as a general thing from comfortable homes with the idea that they can study music, art and literature better In the large city than in their native town. Usually these girls have an allowance, large or small, from their people, and live on it until they find opportunities to make money and be self supporting, although half of them return home and many go on the stage as a last resort, rather than as an ambition.

The girl who comes to the city to enter the working field and secure a position by which she may make money enough to live is a more legitimate comer on the field. She is at once put to the test of what is in her. She does not find It diffi manufacturing. But, work as he mignt, during the first ten years of his, apprenticeship in fortune's school he had the very hardest time of making a tare living for himself and family their fare consisting day after day of coffee, potatoes and bread. Alfredkupp's Rales of Life.

After six years of earnest endeavor Alfred doubled the' capacity of the old workshop and enlarged his forces of employes to ten. All the world, knew that his experiments were eventually crowned with the most extraordinary success, but at the start his progress was discourag-ingly slow. Yet, at the same time he laid down for himself a business rule from which he never wavered throughout his long career. It read: "Never accept a penny, of outside capital, but make one invention or success bo moth the report of Mr. Woods, the superintendent of the capltol, who writes thus of the luxuries he provides for overworked meni-ili congress in connection with their bath facilities: bTtMn? room, as well as that in the Benate wing, Is supplied with a resting room containing a large ten-plate static electrical machine driven by a motor.

It seems that certain classes of minor ailments a fleeting the human body yield to tme electrical treatment, and the machine anoras a harmless and beneficial tonic even to the well. Both machines have been much patronized during the past season." it is such a nice thing to have a place where the "human bodies" of the congressmen can get refreshment, while their astral bodies are mixing with the immortals, or nustllng through the departments in search of patronage! The only thing still needed Be lnstallatlon of a complete rest cure the dome, and a serum treatment for sore tnroat in the anteroom of the supreme court chamber. But to return to the report: Ihe bathing rooms now present a pleasing and cleanly appearance. With the exception of one room, the fixtures are of porcelain of the highest grade. The walls throughout are walnscoated with the finest Italian marble 9 feet and 1 inch high.

In the excepted room, the walls are lined with the so called English vein Italian marble. ihe tub is of the same handsome material." yet there are members who, Uncle Joe" Cannon, grumble over every dollar spent for improving those parts of the national capital which are open for the enjoyment of the whole people! A Feminine Bunco Game. Lincoln Journal: It is related of a Nebraska man that he recently purchased a photograph in Denver for $1,000. lie is not a connolssieur, yet when he saw the photograph he asked the price and paid it. He wanted the picture over and above every- BY KATE MASTERSON.

(Copyright, 1902, by Kate Masterson.) New York, Nov. 28. Special correspondence: New York is the home of the bachelor girl. In no other city in the world does a girl dare to live alone and unchaperoned, inviting the criticisms of friends and foes. The large studio buildings are peopled with, those lone girl tenants, living singly and in groups of two and three on the co-operative house keeping plan, which means something weird and terrible in these Adamless Edens.

Besides these settlements of girl bachelors hardly an apartment house in the metropolis is without at least one of these women wage, earners, whose home is perhaps the only joy of her lonely existence. Not that the bachelor maid is an unsocial creature, but because one of the first lessons that she learns in her city experience is that she must be wary in the making of close acquaintanceships, if she be in earnest in her work, she will find more of a persistent, deter-, rent rather than a help, unless they are strictly of the right sort The Bachelor Girl's Loneliness. The lonelieness of the girl bachelor Is a stern "discipline to, which she must learn to submit, a fact that is rarely considered by the eager girl who comes to town with of outside capital is now in its fourth generation, the ruler of the vast industrial empire who has just died haying: been the grandson of the founder, Frled-' rich Krupp. His name was Friedrlch Alfred, com-' blning the Christian names of his grandfather and father, the first an utter failure, the second one of the most remark-'" able successes in a commercial way of all modern times. On the day of his death Friedrlch Alfred Krupp had an annual income of marks 4,500,000 more than his suzerain, the German emperor, and there wasn't a king in all the world having so many people directly depending upon him for their livelihood.

And since the great Frederick and Napoleon, no king has been known to double he number of his subjects as Friedrich Alfred did. His grandfather left 10, his father Friedrlch Alfred employed 60,000 people, and, together with their families, fed over more than half a dozen German kingdoms together. And, unlike his crowned colleagues, he i er and paymaster of the succeeding endeavors." In business and life Alfred Krupp was guided by the following principles, often expressed in his conversation and writings: "Luck? I foresaw the coming of the rail earth like punctured balloons when their brief authority is over. Masculine Cliarjteterlsties Demanded The fact that such successes are manufactured and maintained with apparent security is one of the severest trials that the girl, working legitimately, will have to contend with. People talk and write of the temptations of dramatic life, but the fact is that the stage is no more filled with such opportunities than other vocations.

The right minded girl will learn to value success properly as she advances, and while her progress' may 6eem slow it will be the surer. So it i3 not the difficulty in obtaining employment, the poor rate of wages, or the drudgery of toil that prove the real obstacles in the path of the strenuous girl. The chief trouble will be the constant demands upon her for qualities of character that are rare in women the same qualities which make the successful man. Women are not physically fitted for the workaday world, but for the home life, and the most eminent of women lawyers, doctors and actors are always women whose health has enabled them to stand the strain. The Girl with the Hardest Row.

Perhaps the girl with the hardest row to hoe is the young woman with a voice. She galn3 some fame and reputation at. home in a church choir, perhaps, and, spurred on by stories of sudden fame, she way era and gauged my endeavors in the VICARIOUS RESTITUTION. Not long since, relates, a storyteller in LIppIucott'a line of invention and manufacturing ac As to gunmaking. I based it all on original lines.

I originated it all. I was a born fighter and always willing to risk my last penny, my last suit of clothes, for an idea after its feasibility Magazine, "'a respectable colored preacher, who wns noted for his ability to "cuss out' people from the pulpit, was hurling thunderbolts of invective against his eniigregu-. Hon because of nt groat wave of lying tun! stealing that was sweeping over the city. Among other things he said: loimer'n las' someone come 'an', stole de las' two chickens dat me and mah ol' 'onian had. I b'llcvns do thief Is In di house right now.

an' I hereby countersigns him 10 evahlastin' punishment. De nigger dat stole dem chickens is a-gwineter birn fur It slui. you hyeah me! I 'crce has cult to obtain work. These bright young faces and hopeful eyes find ready sympathies with those who are in a position to help the girl applicant, who, with her and practicability was once firmly established in my mind. "I always made the factory pay for the growth and enlargement of the business.

I never had a partner or a stockholder gone rortn Next morning a fine hens came up colored man with two to the preacher's door. after 1848; when I needed money I borrowed it on a mortgage. Once I paid off a mortgage of $30,000,000 within five years out of the profits of the business. "Through twenty-five years, up to the day of actual I. did all the managing myself, technical, financial, diplomatic, etc.

In 1862 I hired my first rep resentative, and from that time on began. lie said: 'Parson, hyeah's yo' chickens." "No. sah." said the preacher, eyeing th chickens closely, "ilese ain't mah lilckcns." "I know (ley ain't pei ly yo'wn." e-plalned (In- parishioner, "lmt ib-se Is to tt de place of yo'wn. Yo' chickens wns et tip f'o' de "crce went forth. An' las' night after I went to lied, my coiislmnee hurt mo so tell I had to git up and go ovnh to Marse Bolt's house mi' git two mo' chlcklns.

Parson do tek dese chicldns, an' fur de Lawd's Fake tek dat 'crce back too." fed their minds as well as their bodies, While subjects of European kings must pay for their children's education, and pay highly, particularly in the fatherland, Krupp offered free education to all his employes primary, grammar, technical schools and colleges are open to everybody. Charity? "The shoe fits on the other foot," said Krupp; "the more schools I build, the more money in my pocket; there is nothing so well calculated to improve the quality of work than an educated mind in a healthy body." Furthermore, every Krupp laborer can acquire a dwelling befitting his station at less than ordinary renting terms if he chooses. There Is, of course, no truck system, but the co-operative stores founded by Krupp millions and entirely managed by consumers, save laborer and director alike the profits of the middleman on food, clothes, furniture, books, everything he wants and needs. Wealthier Than Kllnsrs. The vessels of the-English, German or Russian navies class as "his majesty's ship" which is a pleasant for the ships really belong to the nation.

King Krupp actually owned his fleet of ten ocean liners, and besides, over a hundred coasters and river craft. Edward William and Nicholas boast of their private cars Krupp owned thirty full sized trains, fifty "locomotives and as many miles of railway as the New York Central. The splendid yacht Hohenzollern, soon to visit the United States, burns many hundred tons of coal per day Krupp hurned as many thousand tons as the fleets of the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American lines together. placing such responsibilities as I couldn't myself attend to upon younger shoulders. But it was done gradually, after selecting the best man suited for each branch and after trying him severely without letting him know that he was under observation or slated for a better place." The Old Homestead.

In the midst of the oldest parts of the great factory metroplis, with its 421 steam engines and 1,500 furnaces, stands a poor little house stands there "for all eternity" if the will of Alfred Krupp is respected by future generations. Here are the words of the memorial tablet, erected over the pinewood mantelpiece, signed Alfred Krupp: A Front, Scimitar, old man JUST RKSTJNG II IS jobber, says the Memphis is responsible for the story of ai comes to town witu the notion that sne will become a Calve, a Mclba or a Patti. She may have a good but not a powerful voice, and she begins her task of finding a hearing. The singing girl has always a peculiar mental caliber and big ideas. She ends by taking a place in a choir or else she joins the chorus.

The girl reporter who begins at the foot of the ladder has to work right well in order to make a living. She must work in all weathers, must sleep and eat irregularly and lose much of her sensitive refinement in the inevitable contact with all sorts and conditions of men. The girl typewriter, the young woman who decorates china, and she who makes cotillion favors, all have their own troubles, great and small. Some lines of work are by fare the most desirable. There is no high road to success, and, often as this is written, it cannot be repeated too often.

When you hear a woman state that she has never experienced any of the hardships and disillusions of life in her work, whatever it may be, you may be sure that she is uttering a falsehood. Some women make a practice of writing and speaking in this strain. They insist that a woman can go into any business field and maintain all her beliefs, her faith in humanity and her femininity as securely as in her home life, but this is the exception rather than the rule. The Best Art of All. It is better that girls should understand the dangers before embarking on who could not read and who was sitting on an easy chair In his home on a Mississippi plantat ion holding a paper in his hand.

At first glance it would have appeared thnt he was reading with more than usual eagerness. He looked straight forward tit his paper and seemed completely alisorlied. On looking close it became apparent that his paper was upside down, and he Win asked forthwith why he held it thus. His reply almost knocked the questioner out of his chair, it was: "Just to rest my eyes." "This little house was built by my father in 1S22, after he lost considerable fortune in hopeless endeavors to invent a new process of steelmaking. He lost his health as well as his money, and his life was but a series of bitter disappointments.

"After him I lived here many years, full of misery and chagrin, spending hundreds of sleepless nights In feverish anxiety, relieved only now and then by stray glimmers of hope. God forbid that the poorest of my workmen experience the I-1: if, if J-t .2 i'-i Iff" I wibf ftf i rxKfmrti? i OAMH TO TIIK LAST. Two civil war veterans were talking over old fights tho other night at the Waldorf, relates the New York Tribune, wtfen the older xf the two asked: do you remember the day that you thought you were dying down In a hospital in Virginia, after that hard tight which we had with the confederal es?" Some way "Bill" could not remember. "Well," siild the other, "you, were lvlng there on the cot. shot through the head'and through the hip." "I remember the wounds," declared "Bill;" "I lather do.

I can feel them yet." "As I snld. you were lying there." continued the old soldier. "Some visitors camo in, and there were women in the party. You had given up hope, find thought you wore dying: but you always were anxious for a 'grandstand as my son would say. What do you think you snld tho doctors who were working over von?" "Bill" had not the slightest Idea.

"You said: 'Gentlemen, stand aside and let the visitors see a brave man die "Did I say that?" he asked. "And hero I am, years and years after, a stronger man than you ever were, John." such a sea. If a girl can act, sing, paint or write with any skill she will do it. If she Is required to work for money she will utilize her talent; but it is a mistaken idea that the woman who turns into a happy domestic harbor and makes sufferings that fell to my lot, or the self-denials that I had to undergo. "Twenty-five years I lived in this house before success entered at the dOor twenty-five years full of storm and stress and ceaseless labor until at last my proudest expectations were realized.

May' my experince be a source of encouragement to those in trouble. Never despise the poor man's hut. While sheltering great cares, it may be the cradle of still greater success. Alfred Krupp." This remarkable man who, by his genius and energy, put the term "capital" to shame, acquiring the Indispensable means for success as he went along, the greatest individual, industrial undertaker of the world, died on July 18, 1887, with 37,000 guns and extended his commercial empire over the whole of Germany, from the Rhine to the Baltic, from the frontiers of Belgium to those of Russia. The city of Essen, which had 6,000 inhabitants when he began work for him 'A BACHELOR GIRLS APARTMENT.

"Even the Woman Who Succeeds Is After All a Lonely Wo wifehood and motherhood her profession abandons her "art." There is very fine art in the making of a home. Of the host of girls who come on from south or west how many survive? And the few who gain a place are always anxious and ready to drop the parchment of the lawyer, the crown of the stage queen or the pen of the poet to sing the cradle song of some happy fireside. It is as it should be. The woman first and last! Nothing can change it, and the girl who realizes this' and keeps that star In view seeks the best career. The women who achieve are the first to admit this truth.

The girl feverishly striving to leave her home and Its environments to pursue a willo'-the-wisp that in reality she knows nothing of will always seem like a butterfly butting its life out against a wheel. This industrial ruler's kingdom, from which death has just removed him, occupies many square miles in and about the neighborhood of- Essen, Duisburg, Neu-. wicd, Engers, Reinhausen and Sayn in Rheinish Prussia, and, besides, embraces the town of Buckau, Saxony, as well as large tracts of territory on the Baltic; at Meppen and in Bilbao, northern Spain, and let it be understood was created wholly out of brain and push and inventive genius, not even luck entering into the combination. The grandfather of, Friedrlch Alfred, who founded the factory in embryo, was Dot a great genius, as the encyclopedias end -flattering biographers paint him. Neither did he invent the steel making process, similar to the Bessemer that ultimately brought his successor fame and fortune.

He only tried hard to penetrate the secret, jealously guarded by English manufacturers, but produced nothing better than steel fit for anvils and the like. These he peddled in the neighborhood of his native town. Only coin stamps and certain cylinders used In the mints, manufactured by him, seem ta have been sold abroad. The First Krnpp's Legacy. At the time of his death, in 1826, he left to his family nothing but a tumble down shop filled with worn out stools and a drawer full of impossible plans and useless specifications.

The firm had not a dollar's worth of credit, and even the wages of his four trained employes "had bfien left unpaid for some time. The lato Alfred: Krupp once told me he inherited nothing beyond a treasure full of sad experiences and failures." Reminiscences of the mistakes 7 the father made and paid for by a laborious and unhappy life were the new firm's only assets. Alfred, saw to It that they were not repeated, making it aQractice to go ONLY COMPARATIVE Prof. William G. Sumner, of Yale, instructor in sociology, devoted a recent lecture, says lie New York Times, to woman's place in society from the earliest periods to the present day.

"The numerous occupations that are open to women nowadays In the business and Industrial world," said: Prof. Sumner, "has created on her part a comparative Indifference to matrimony." As the class made a note of this, the professor added, wagging a warning finger: "Mind you, gentlemen, I said comparative, because I never of one yet that couldn't lie induced to change her mind if the right man tried." southern drawl or western burr, betrays her newness to New York. They Kind the Work Hard. Work in the professions in New York is no trivial matter to a woman. It means requirements that not one woman in twenty possesses in conjunction with another.

Physical strength is one of the first necessities, and the girl who has this is quite apt to be handicapped by a too great fund of animal spirits, fondness for fun and adventure, which will help to keep her back if indulged in too much. Endurance, patience, serious purpose, keen perception and intuition, and, above all, steady plodding Industry, with immense concentration of thought all these are required from the girl worker in New York. But anyone accustomed to talking to these girls and receiving their letters self, had 100,000 at the time of his death; it developed twice as quickly as Sheffield in the century following the inauguration of cast steel making there under Huntsman. Another interesting fact is that when Alfred Krupp started in the number of his workmen formed just 1 per cent, of the inhabitants of Essen, while at his death his actual without counting their families, comprised 22 -per cent, of the citizens of Essen, among them many of the and most respected citizens. Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the son of the above, who has just died, was chiefly remarkable for the loyalty with which he continued his father's policy in every respect.

Friedrlch Alfred vastly extended the colossal business of which he became the head by Inheritance and doubled the number, of its employes. Largely owing thing else. Afterwards he calmly tore It up and his satisfaction at seeing it drop In the waste-basket in small pieces was great. The gentleman in question is an ex-schoolmaster, and one of his early schools was taught at Columbus, fifteen years ago. Then a small army of boys and flaxen haired lasses sat before him and absorbed such knowledge as he could Impart.

It did not stagger him, therefore, when he visited Denver that a young lady, fashionably attired, should come to him in the narlor of the big stone building where he had registered and ask if his name was Mr. So and So. He was inclined to recall confidence games, but the question was quickly supplemented with the statement that she thought she knew him: that she attended a school taught by him in the Ohio town, and 'that she was ever so glad to see him. She asked him to call the next afternoon at her room In the hotel and he did so. They talked over old times and he then thought she was familiar with scenes and people of the days when he taught his first school, but as he looks back now he can discover great gaps in her knowledge of events.

Finally in a burst of friendliness she walked over tohim and said: "I am so glad to see my dear old teacher! I am going to put aside my modesty and just kiss you just once." She quickly seated herself on his lap, gave him an emotional kiss, and as quickly jumped up and apologized. That ended the interview. The next day a stranger accosted him, showed him a photograph of himself with a woman sitting on his lap and he purchased. He thinks he Is entitled to a lace the roll of famous art lovers, but has never told his wife why. the ambition to succeed in a profession.

One of the charms with which she invests her life in the big city is the congenial companionship, the host of clever friends with whom she will be in touch. Invariably she has come on from some distant city; south or west, with the idea of pursuing her chosen work in New York. She leaves the safe environment of her home and friends and ventures into a strange world that she has pictured in her imagination as an enchanted land with genial and open hearted people. But the reality is loneliness. The army of girls that come to New York each year, seeking employment which they could frequently find at home, has never been enumerated.

It would be a hopeless task to --attempt estimate the thousands that during a year besiege the- stage.doors, newspaper offices and studios, for, as a rule, they select those professions that will best allow the putting forth of that which they feel to be within them. The Antomnal Inrnslon of Girls. The spring sees a goodly number of these girl emigrants, but the autumn witnesses the strongest" charge of the eternal girl on the ramparts of fame and fortune, as they picture them. With neat gowns and pretty hats, often made by their own hands, these girls throng into the 'soon learns that they have annoyicgly NO "RESERVE" APPARENT. A good story Is told of the late Senator Evarts which we do not remember to have seen in print, says Leslie's Weekly.

It relates to an incident which occurred at a cabinet meeting in the early days of the IIovws administration, when Mr. Evarts held the portfolio of state. The members of the cabinet were sitting about the room discussing matters in an Informal way when President Hayes remarked that he hnd just made a few appointments to certain offices With-- out consulting his associates, the appointees being personal friends and he being assured vague ideas of what is meant by work in any field. They fancy, a great many of them, that it is possible to step into positions that will carry authority, large salary and easy times without serving any They invariably associate success with unlimited time to play. They have an idea that there is a quick road to mountain tops, if one can only find the way.

They learn in time. If they remain in the field, that success built on any but she had larger creative THE PAPER PATTERN INDUSTRY. larger necessities opportunities. Where the Old Stamps Go. New York Evening Post: All the letters which reach the chief of a department of an extensive business down town are noticeable subsequently by the fact that the 2-cent stamps on the envelopes has been neatlv cut out with scissors.

"Who cuts off all the stamps?" his young woman secretary wns asked. "I do." she replied. "What is the idea?" "I am collecting them for a woman who thinks she will get $10 for a million of them." she explained. Promptly the calculation was made on a basis of fifty letters a day. Alas! It wns found that the young woman secretary, having already a modest start, would be almost a centenarian when she cut off a million stamps.

Curiously enough, the day after the above calculation was made an episode In Newark threw a sidelight, on the matter. Postal officials arrested an old Frenchman, an inmate of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor. In his room at least 50,000 canceled stamps were found, soaking In a wash tub. Aged inmates of the home were employed to remove the stamps from their envelopes, dry them and arrange them for shipment to China. The sisters said they had been told that the stamps had a high value in the eyes of the Chinese nn4 that missionaries exchanged them for children, who were adopted and brought up in the Christian faith.

But the postal officials say that these stamps come back to San Francisco from China rejuvenated and gummed afresh, and ready to be used again. that they would give satisfaction all oroufvl. As these particular appointments happened to fall with Secretary Evarts department, that official was taken somewhat aback by the statement, and turning to Secretary Sherman, who sat by, said with a twinklW In his eye, "I have often heard and rend about the western reserve of Ohio, but I must confess that I have never seen any of it." I The End of the Harvest Madame Demorest first conceived the idea of a business in tissue paper patterns. She It was who proved the practicality of the Idea. Forty years ago she started her pattern business, working It out from first to last on original lines, and entering It In the pastes of the magazine named for her.

of which she was the editor. Madame Demorest died several years ago. and her magazine, after passing through various vicissitudes in the hands of others who failed to adapt it to present needs, also passed away. But the pattern Idea lived, and it Is a monument today to the originator of it. it is estimated that the various pattern companies now engaged In the manufacture of tissue paper patterns Issue upwards of 15.000,000 patterns yearly.

The system employed In the bringing ont of the new patterns is exceedingly intricate and employs many classes of workers. Two generations ago a pattern was In the nature of a prize, even an. heirloom. -It was not to be lightly handled or lent, and its possession gave its owner added dignity. Now 10 cents will carry a pattern to any -woman's door.

They are used once, perhaps twice, then thrown away as out of date. Tbe'making of them is no longer the work of one cunning hand. Each "pattern Is the work of many brains, banded together In one great organization for the proper worship of the great goddess Fashion. The pattern Industry gives employment to thousands of workers, and millions of patterns are made every year at the various pattern But fifty years ago, when our grandmoth- solid foundations is no success at all, and the truth must prevail in this as in every other purpose of life. The Bachelor: Girl Home.

The home question the bachelor girl disposes of at first by settling in a boarding house, a life that is drearier than any other in a city. She moves in an atmosphere of art that gives her a certain glamor to others as well as herself. If it were all a joke, the girl who could afford it would find plenty of real enjoy In PrNon. Philadelphia Press: "I suppose," said the long faced vlsitorj "that a thirst for whisky brought yon here." "Not much," replied; the convict. "This is the last place I'd come to lookln' for whisky." "Ah! there was a woman In the case, perhaps." "Well the 'Black Maria' brought me here, sure enough." i BY GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN.

(Copyrighted, 1902, by Grace Duffle Boy lan.) -N OW, humbled by the steel, the ripened grains Lie prone upon the fields of yesterday, And summer, like a spirit free from chains And careless of old pledges, flies away. WITH REGARD TO KISSIflG. er8 were penes, tnings-were uiiiereuu. there was one thing more than another that grandmother treasured; in the day of her young womanhood It was her paper pat Every pattern designer works three and four months ahead of time, so that it' is while the snow Is flying in winter that the sprint? desieiis. are in the hands of the pen and ink artists.

At the chancre of seasons the work of selecting designs is wholly an- terns. A new pattern was an hniuiaiuuu irrMt.lv to he desired, in consideration of the tn'of thnt in its nassinsr from one woman to another it signified a favor, and having and common souse are prime requisites or I sponsors wnose very names enrneu it tieoame a retrniar oona or.neipuwn.v sympathy and expression of esteem. Women exchnueed patterns the same as they did recipes and domestic ideas. the ornce or the rasnion editor tor a pattern manufacturing company. The fashion editor employs the fashion artists, and some of the cleverest talent is used in this direction.

Designs are worth from $3 to $10 each, depending upon the quality of the work. From the artist the design is passed by the editor to the model-maker, who reproduces the; design exactly in tissue paper pinning the parts together with the skill of a first class dressmaker. A first class modeimaker earns from $20 to $30 a week. From here the design with the tissue paper model Is retnrncd to the editor, who writes the description of the swork in plain. Fashions did not change in those days as they do now, and a skirt pattern having one gore in the front and two on each side of it was the standard pattern.

There were no fancy 3rokes. circular ruffles, flares about the feet, habit backs, released tucks, and so on. A skirt was a skirt. It was sloped off gradually at the lower, edge, faced, a neat braid bound around snugly, and then -sewed on to the band the last thing. Oh, Olv customs! And every woman knew that the pattern went together with a straight edge to stay a bian edge.

That was the only mystery regarding grandmother's pattern skirt. Grandmother had a system connected with Helen Oldfield in the Chicago Tribune: Our easygoing ancestors, who had no correct Idea of the value of time, and who believed in the expediency of taking plenty of it for everything, had a favorite maxim to to the effect that when one was In doubt as to what should be done the highest wisdom was to do nothing. Even bo late as tbe days of George Washington and Lord Nelson-'great men believed in "masterly Inactivity." Nowadays men of mark are expected" to "hustle." and the chief end of modern Ingenuity is to devise means, and yet more means, of saving time. Nevertheless, there ore still occasions, however rare, when inactivity, mush as It has fallen Into disfavor, continues to be masterly. One of these is with regard to kissing.

When the modest maiden Is In doubt as to whether or no she should kiss or allow herself to be kissed by any man not related to her by-tdose ties of consanguinity she best displays her wisdom by giving herself, not him, the benefit of the doubt, and so refraining from the osculation. An absolutely safe list of men whom It Is allowable to kiss might be compiled from the list given in the book of Common Prayer of persons whom it is forbidden to marry. There can be no possible impropriety in any woman being kissel by her father, grandfather, brother, uncles, etc. whenever occasion may offer; still, public opinion Is much less in favor of kissing than of yore, and affectionate greetings are no longer considered good form In market places, or what answers for them in the present With slumbrous eyes and features lily pale And pulse unquickened by the world's alarms, Life sits apart, within a hallowed vale, And clasps her gathered roses in her arms. Oh, season of completed Joy and woe.

Oh, harvest moon, when those who sow must reap; Or, basely meek, in stranger meadows go And stoop to take what others scorn to keep! Who chooses, now the day Is past and done. To take what Is his meed and make no moan, I hold as nobler, braver than the one Who bends to glean where wiser men have sown. Let him who sows the whirlwind take the yield! For seasons upon seasons wax and Wane. And who shall say that in a tare-set field There may not wave yellow sea of grain? Shall God. the Master of the Harvest, lend With hand impartial all'that we must sow, And findi no pity for us in the end, When blighted seeds have failed to.

spring and grow? In some the weevil of dead years lies deep; And some are empty husks of rust and mold; In some forgotten wrongs have lain asleep, A heritage, of evil manifold. Let him who sows portion take the yield And, patient, grind his bitter bread alone. And undlshonored, in dishonored field, Befuse to glean an acre not his own! from his pretty cousin is not to be trusted, he "Should be denied. And set aside, and mortified." Kisses of greeting, of parting, of good night, good morning, and of congratulation are still general, although by no means so frequent as they were formerly. Indeed, kissing, as a practice, is much less populur than it once was; between the doctors and the moralists, it is constantly falling more and more into disfavor, while, still mere fatal.

Fashion, with a big sets hei- face as a flint against all demonstrations. of feeling as 111 bred. All the same, the man who becomes engaged to be married, as a usual thing, expects a kiss from his fiancee to seal the bargain not for publication, so to say, but as a guarantee of good faith on her part. If she is willing to promise to marry him, he reasons, she ought to be willing to let him kiss her. Moreover, he desires a kiss, or kisses, nnon general principles, as something to which he is entitled by the unwritten law of tradition.

On the other hand, the party of the second part has herself to consider in the matter. A woman should be sure of her own bona fide intentions of matrimony, and doubly sure of those of her lover, before she sets such sign and seal to the contract. Engagements of marriage are by no means irrefragible. and she who kisses least is likely to have least cause for future regret. At all events, a prndent woman will wait until the engagement is announced before she permits any kissing.

There are men who have serious objections to marrying any woman who has been engaged to another man, for the simple reason that they do not choose that any man -'shall, be able to say of the woman whom they take to wife that he has kissed her as her lover. It matters little rather more that the kisses have been given in good faith to an affianced husband. It's a way men have! "Sir, she's yours You have brushed from the grape the soft blue, From the rosebud you've shaken the deli cate dew. What you've touched you may take" A noted "lady killer" of a past generation, who" had been engaged many times, and who boasted to his Intimates that no woman had ever refused an offer of bin hand in marriage, was once asked why, la that case, he was still a bachelor. "BecauV I am waiting until I can find a woman wio will not permit me tol kiss her before we married," he replied.

1 Even though a woman be fully assured of the Inevltahleness, in due time, of her mar-, rlage, she will be wise not to be too liberal In her caresses. Most things in this world (are rated as valuable in: direct proportion to their arlty. Were diamonds as common as pebbles they would be worth no more commercially than common; stones of the leach and highway. Moreover, one may have too much of a good thing however desirable that good tiling may be in due quantities. King Midas' story is an old one.

"Too much water drowned the miller." It Is a common practice with iconfectioners to allow an apprentice all the candy which he or she will eat, certain that in little, while the surfeit of sweet will destroy all taste for sugar In any form. It is human nature, essentially, to tire of what we have much of, and to prize most the, fruit which hangs highest and Is most difficult to obtain. Consequently the woman who is chary of her favors who Is niggardly, even, with her caresses will find that her lover values 'them all the more, and that his respect, as well as his affection, fr her becomes the greater in proportion as he hopes rather" than is sure of her. It has long been a maxim that no man shall kiss and tell; nevertheless, the woman Is safest by far of whom there Is nothing which It were better left untold. "And what on earth can be more bltter- sweet Than after-memory of kisses pressed On lips that are for others?" So wrote a man of jnen; for women the bitter of snch memory boldj no sweet-only the bitterness of ashes.

a bag -or box which was upholstered and valauced about tbe sides, and was -kept exclusively for patterns. Grandmother could practical' terms, the latter going to the printer, while the design goes to the engraver. The tissue paper model. In the meantime, is sent to the grader, who repro duces it in the various sizes. There are us-uallv five or six of these, depending upon the design.

If the latter Is a waist, seven sizes are required, and in skirts from two to six. The work of the grader is no less important than that of the modeimaker, and It demands the salary of an expert. From the grader the graduated sizes of the pattern are sent to the pattern cutter, who turns out thousands of each kind of pattern. Here again is lucrative employment, and usually a man does this work. From his hands the patterns go to the folders, who deposit them In the envelopes.

each one of tbe latter calling for a special tell at a glance just what a pattern tied in a snug roll represented. No one else on earth knew except grandmother. To the observer the contents of the pattern receptacle was merely so much waste paper. But every time grandmother used one of her patterns to cut a garment after Its lines, when she rolled the pattern up she never failed to tie it with a strip of the goods that she. had been cutting.

Thus, by suggestion, the pattern was recognized at any future time. She had 'patterns of underwear or all season--and for graded size, and they represented the wardrobe of the family, from the baby's shirt to grandfather's Grandmother may not have been a cleverer woman than her i feminine descendant of today, but having to correspond witii rne oesign ana printed matter thereon, tne pattern is now reaov lor Hie ransumcr. iiiu is uvu months ahead of the season. So It is that the pattern grandmother mire procured from an obliging neighbor To the prayer book list may be added cousins, within the degrees forbidden in marriage by the Roman Catholic church, but these in moderation. The young man cousin who is greedy in the matter of kisses has now run me gauntlet or me wuoie ousir ness department to reach the hand of the consumer..