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LOW WAGES
DOWNFALL OF
WORKING GIRL
t "Immorality of the working
Woman, the shop girl and others
earning a low wage, and the sub
sequent attainment of money
through Improper channels, was
the subject of an address delivered
by Miss Frances Gage, state secre
tary of the Y. W. C. A., before the
(Women of the Tabernacle Raptist
Church, Seattle, In outlining the
association's work throughout the
State.
Investigation on the part of the
Btat.e association revealed the fact
that in four of the largest cities
Of Washington there are 7,000
■vomen and girls working for an
average of $7 per week. They are
Compelled to live and clothe them
selves on this, and In many cases
Support a family of from three to
five persons, or secure money from
Other sources. Out of 150.000
IMroiueu toilers, 50,000 are employ
ed in factories and do not live at
home; 100,000 are employed as
teachers, stenographers and ser
vants and live at home.
SECOND HUSBAND
COSTS A LEGACY
Should Mrs. Anna Sjolln, widow
Of the late Nels Sjolin, remarry,
•he is to be cut off from all par
ticipation in the estate of her hus
band. Such Is the provision of the
Will Just probated In the superior
court, which bequeathes all of the
Bjolln estate to the widow for her
guttural life, without bond or re
striction of any kind whatsoever,
provided she remains a single
woman. At her death the estate is
to be divided equally between
seven children of the deceased and
Mrs. Sjolln.
WANTS PAY FOR SPUDS
Otto Kempe has tiled a suit
against C. T. Johnson in the su
perior court to collect a pretty
toea,vy potato bill. Kempe claims
to- have delivered potatoes to the
Befendant at various times during
the spring and summer of 190S at
prices around 51 and 55 cents per
hundred, until Johnson is now in
debted to him in the sum of
$1,331.61, Potatoes are now worth
$1.60 to $1.75.
' An idle brain is the advance
Bgent of a busy tongue.
Bound Round Like Wicker Basket
Whitewashed Girl Awaits Spouse
SCHOOL GIRL VICTIM OK STRANGE ANTE-NUPTIAL CUSTOM.
It is a pretty Revere ordeal the Regale school girl has to undergo
before Hhe is considered eligible for marriage. For a period varying
from six weeks to three months the maid of Rechaunaland, bent on
matrimony, must allow her face, arms and legs to be painted white,
and then, about.her body. Is woven a wicker bodice. The bodice Is
worn next to the skin, and is made by winding the wooden sticks
round and round the person. Because of this custom, the schools are
prohibited in some parts of Africa.
"The World Is So Full of a Number of Things
I'm Sure We Should All Be as Happy as Kings"
A STITCH GAME.
This is a very nice way to top off
n thimble bee, and It Isn't too tax
ing on the bralus of the guests—
people like (o be amused at enter
tainments, not worked to death.
Write the following questions on
Cards and give the guests.
t, Wh:vt stitch is It hard to live
. With?
2. What stitch Is part of a
tough?
3. What stitch is part of a win-
Bow?
4. What stitch is found on
fowls?
5. What stitch is made of many
links!
SCHOOL FUNDS
PAY INTEREST
TRIBUTE
NEARLY $2000 80 DISBURSED
IN JANUARY AND COMMIS
SIONER PHILLIPS IS SEEK
ING MEANS OF REMEDY.
The schools of Spokane city and
county have also been conducted
on the questionable financial policy
of spending their allotted share of
the taxes before the same was re
ceived, thereby foisting an added
burden of expense on the people
for interest.
This unbusinesslike way of con
ducting public affairs cost the tax
payers of Spokane city and county
during the month of January the
sum of $1982.24 Interest on war
rants drawn on funds in which
there was no money when the war
rants were issued.
This Interest charge was appor
tioned in the following propor
tions: County current expense fund
and bridges, $885.28; schools of
Spokane, $729.71; schools outside
the city, $367.25.
This Is rather suggestive that
the affairs of the schools and the
county were nut up on a credit
basis for ths purpose of allowing
money lenders to do a profitable
business In county and school war
rants, which draw 6 per cent' In
terest. Public funds deposited by
the schools and the county draw
only 2 per cent interest while the
county pays three times that
amount when It is short.
This financial policy has stirred
County Commissioner Phillips
more than any one thing that he
has encountered since entering on
his duties as a member of the
board. The treasurer's report shows
that the county had a cash balance
Jan. 31 of $121,059.80. on which the
banks were paying the nominal
rate of Interest of two per cent.
Mr. I'hlllips wants to see if this
money can not be made available
for the general expenses of the
county until the period of strin
gency is past, and has put the mat
ter up to the prosecuting attorney's
office for an opinion. In times of
financial stress funds have been so
transferred by the city council and
the city kept on a cash basis and
the payment of Interest avoided.
County Auditor Greene says the
transfer can not legally he made
"but Mr. Phillips wants the opinion
of the legal department of the
county before he will give up his
plan of remedying the county's
stringency.
6. What stitch is not bold or
forward?
7. What stitch is useless with
out a key?
8. What stitch repeats itself?
Answers:
1. Cross-stitch.
2. Hemstitch.
.1. Bllndstltch.
4. Feather-stitch.
5. Chain-stitch
ti. Back-stitch.
7. Lockstitch.
8. Over-and-over stitch.
A workbag, a little pair Or scis
sors or auy part of a work basket
set would make an appropriate
prise.
NATION PAYS HOMAGE 10 LOWLY
CABIN WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN
Build Special Road
for T. R. 's Party
HODGENVILLE, Ky., Feb.
6.—Great preparations are
being made' at Hodgenville
and the Lincoln farm for
the president's visit. The
farm is three miles from
Hodgenville, over what is
usually one of the worst
stretches of roads In Ken
tucky. To make it passable
the county commissioners
and the Illinois Central rail
road officials have decided
virtually to rebuild the road
bed. The railroad company
is furnishing crushed stone,
while the county commis
sioners have made appro
priation for the work of lay
ing the stone.
Practically every city in the
United States Is preparing to cele
brate in one form or another the
centenary of Lincoln's birth, Feb.
12, 1909, but the central celebra
tion of all will be held on that
day at the Lincoln farm, two miles
south of the little village of
Hodgenville, Ky., the geographical
c?nter of the state.
Here, contemplating t the sub
limity of the deeds of Abraham
Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, with
only 20 days of his presidential
career then remaining, will inform
ally lay down the burden of his
great office.
No president before him will
ever have faced greater inspira
tion.
Even the occasion of Lincoln's
Gettysburg address could not
have meant so much to Lincoln as
this occasion of celebrating Lin
coln's great century must mean to
Roosevelt.
There would have been no
Gettysburg but for Lincoln; no
heroes' graves but for this great,
sad, noble man.
For the American people on
that day, Roosevelt will accept
from the Lincoln Farm association,
of which Robert J. Collier of New
York is the founder, the farm on
which the great president was
born, and will ay the cornerstone
of a noble memorial hall of granite,
the design of John Russell Pope of
New York.
The building will cover and
house the little one room log
cabin In which Abraham Lincoln
was born and on the exact spot
where it stood when the bare
footed little Abraham trod Its
earthen floor.
Tills gift to tho American people
l>y many thousands of American
citizens, who have joined in the
contribution that has extended
over three years, will include the
ragged, sterile old farm which
Mark Twain has caled with poetic
humor. ' The Little Farm That
liaised a Man."
That the American people feel
the inspiration of this coining
event is shown by the fact that
committees in nianv cities sought
at the general offices of the Lin
coln Farm association. 74 Broad
way. New York, for advice as to
the trend that local celebrations
ought to take, in view of the Ken
tucky celebration. *
No uulformity of program in the
cities has been arranged, but the
trustees of the Lincoln Farm asso
ciation, who Include William H.
Taft. Henry Watterson. Lyman J.
(lage. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark
Twain), William Jennings Bryan.
James Cardinal Gibbons, Samuel
Compels. John A. Johnson and
other leaders, desire that publicity
be given in the celebrations to the
fact that the birthday of Lincoln
is, on that day. being dedicated as
a shrine of American patriotism.
Addresses by prominent citizens
describing the Lincoln memorial,
thus acquainting the public and
especially the school children with
Its existence, will be particularly
in place.
A glance at the historic careers
and events that have been me
morialized by the American people
will show that the coming celebra
tion of the Lincoln century is of
vast import.
In 1889 Grover Cleveland called
ti|K>n the people of the United
States to celebrate the centennial
of the Inauguration of Washington
and a monument was erected in
New York city, memorializing the
event.
Two other great memorial events
in American history are the Phila
delphia exposition of 187t>, which
celebrated a centpry of independ
ence, and the Chicago exposition lv
1893, In honor of Columbus, to
celebrate the flfth ceutennial of
the discovery of the continent.
In that first 10 years Of the nine
teenth ci'ntury was 1 born, in New
York, Millard Elllmore, in 1800; In
New Hampshire, in 1804, Franklin
Pierce; in North Carolina, lv 1801,
Andrew Johnson. In the wilds of
Kentucky, In 1809. another child
saw the light, Abraham Lincoln.
They were all destined for the
presidential chair, but the uucouth
THE SPOKANE PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6
'-i.la — _ . . -
LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE AT HODGENVILLE,, KY.
After being carried about the country for exhibition purposes,
this cabin was secured and is no w owned by the Lincoln Farm as
sociation. When the farm becomes a national park, this cabin will
be prized by the American people above all other interesting objects
there, because here began the life which Stanton said "Now belongs
to the ages."
child, Abraham, who lived some of
the time in a shed of poles and
logs, partly open to the wind, was
marked to save the nation and to
occupy a niche in the world's hall
of fame.
Roosevelt, as he stands before
scores of thousands, at the en
trance to the log cabin, may pic
ture the lonely figure of shiftless
Thomas Lincoln, carpenter, stand
ing with his young wife, Nancy
Hanks, in that very spot, 102 years
ago. When he was siv years of
age Thomas Lincoln had s?en Ms
father kiled by Indians. As the
youngest son he received no in
heritance; he became a wanderer
until Nancy Hanks became His
lode star. They lived for a yeftr
near Elizabethtown, Ky. Then
Thomas Lincoln heard of tfie
spring near Hodgenville and there
he took his wife to the little ofte
room log cabin. The struggle for
existence was almost hopeless. The
farm was stony and fruitless.
About all it produced was the
IT'S OP TO YOU,
I. OMO
RESIDENTS OF EASTERN SEC
TION OF SPOKANE ARE
CURIOUS AS TO ATTITUDE
ON THE OLIVE STREET
BRIDGE.
Here are some questions pro
pounded ,1. T. Omo. republican can
didate for mayor, on behalf of the
east part of Spokane by F. M. Tay
lor: „' f
Mr. Taylor notes that Mr. Omo
declares for a concrete bridge at
Monroe and concrete viaduct for
Division street. He thereupon rises
to inquire if Mr. Omo was not one
of the board of commissioners that
built the ramshackle Olive street
bridge and then permitted double
tracks to be laid across it. making
the bridge too narrow for vehicle
use thereafter.
He also notes that Mr. Omo
makes no platform reference to
Olive street in his bridge declara
tions, aud this prompts inquiry aft
to whether Mr. Omo deems the en
tire east part of the city beneath
his consideration as a candidate
for mayor. It looks that way to
Mr. Taylor and Ma neighbors in
that section. They are of the
opinion that Mr. Omo will glean
POWELL'S
STOMACH} REMEDY
— —
Rudolph Dorn, manager Aetna Life Insurance Co., feels per
fectly well. Head what he says:
Spokane, Wash.. Jan. 5. 1909
A. H. Powell. Mfg. Chemist. 1109 Secoud Aye., Spokane. Wash ,
My liear Sir —After suffering for years from what Is com
monly called bad stomach I tried PoweU'l Stomach Remedy
and take pleasure in stating that since using it 1 feel per
fectly well and my appetite has come back to me. lam uot a
great believer In the usual testimonials, but if anyone read
ing this suffering like 1 did will give it a fair trial i sincerely
believe that he or she will join n> • In the praise of Powell's
Stomach Remedy. Yours wry fi' RUDOLPH DORN.
Audit or I lit) ltldg., Spokane, Wash.
water from the spring—and Abra
ham Lincoln. They both sprang
from the very heart of nature.
At last Thomas Lincoln gave up
the Kentucky farm as a bad job
and moved to Indiana, where, with
his wife, his little daughter Sarah
and little Abraham, they lived in a
shed of poles and logs, open on one
side, sleeping on mattreses of
busks, for a year, until the carpen
ter father could put up a log house.
When Lincoln became of age he
could only read, write and cipher.
Yet, with the possibilities the
United States affords, he assumed
•th 1 ? presidency of the nation,
within there decades. That will be
Roosevelt's inspiration.
' "Lincoln was great. We may
i raise him as we may," is probably
tjie way a Roosevelt might speak
of him. "but three cheers for a
country in which a Lincoln could
grow. Three cheers for a nation
rViat knew a Lincoln when it saw
Mm."
some new ideas on public values
when the primary votes are count
ed.
If the Wicklebridges
Were in the White
House
BY FRED SCHAEFER
"Cicero, I beg of you to be at
your best at table this evening,"
said Mrs. Wicklebrldge. "I am go
ing to entertain Mr. and Mrs. Nex
dore and serve the supper in
courses."
"Oh. Mr-rot!" replied Mr. Wickle
bridge. "Why stick on such all
fired agony? The Nexdoros are
plain folks like ug. Let's feed, not
four-flush." •>
"To become coarser and more
primitive every day." said his wife,
"is your tendency, Cicero Wickle
bridge! Do try to be refined at
intervals, at least."
• Hut what's the use of it?" Mr.
W. wailed. "Why all this red tape
wheu it comes to mere eats? Why
a repast in rounds, instead of an
old fashioned, unfrlll free for all?"
"This is the use of it," his spouse
hissed, with tense earnestness.
"Some day. when you are elevated
to the proud position of presi
dent "—
"Still racing around in that de
lusion like a squirrel iv a tin cage,
are you?" Interrupted Wickle
brldge. "Oh. ver-ree well! Head
line: 'Lucullan Luxury! White
MAY SAVE DOMINION
The short session today was
without incident and trading was
light. Options were reported
taken up on two large blocks of
Dominion Copper, which indicate
that there is hope that the com
pany may be financed and the
property saved for the stockhold
ers. The bears were shaking out
a little Lucky Calumet and closed
this stock off a point. Internation-
LISTED
BUI Asked
Ajax , 09 .13
Alameda 02% .02%
Bullion 03% .05
Canadian Con. Smelters 16.00 95.00
Copper King 04 V, .05%
Echo 01% .01%
Evolution 02% .02%
Gertie 03 .03%
Oranby Smelter 97.00
Happy Day 02 .02%
Hecla 3.00 3.60
Humming Bird 06
Hypotheek ' 01 .01%
International Coal & Coke * .71 .73%
Kendall 80 .99
Mineral Farm 02% .03
Missoula Copper 03% .04
Nabob 02% .02%
Snowstorm 1.98 2.00
Sonora .02% .04
Stewart 65 .70
Reindeer t 06% .06%
UNLISTED
Bid Asked
Alhambra 10 .18
Ambergris 11 .15
Bell t 06 .10
Holden Gold & Copper „ .09 .12
Idaho Giant 05 .05%
Idaho Smelting & Refining 11 .15
Lucky Calumet 08 .09
Monitor 25 .30
Moonlight 02% .03
Oom Paul .04 .05
Park Copper 01% .01%
Rex 08% .09
Rambler-Cariboo 13% .16%
Snowshoe 07% .07%
Tamarack & Chesapeake 80 1.10
Wonder , .02% .03%
House New Scene of Belshazzar
Feasts. Wicklebridges Stow Away
"Filet of Mignon Montmorency,"
While Common People Pine for
Pickled Tripe.' "
"Utter idiocy!" sniffed Mrs. W.
"We would partake of viands little
belter than those we now enjoy.
We would only observe more mod
ish methods of serving meals."
"I see! 1 see!" shouted Wickle
brldge. "Again headlines: 'Cab
inet Meeting Called Off. President
Delayed at hunch. First of
the Tortures a (ilass of Milk
and Piece of Apple Pie Into a Ten-
Course Dinner.' "
"You viciously exaggerate, Ci
cero," she retorted. "You eat too
fast anyhow, and you need to ac
quire decorum in your table man
ners in order that, your behavior
at a state banquet will not be such
as to mortify me, and" —
"Aha!" he shrieked. "Say no
more. This is an extra: 'Banish
ed! President Leaves Home Dis
graced. Ate an Olive Without
Peeling It, Referred to a Deml-
Tasse as a Demijohn and Got
Mayonnaise Dressing on His Chin
at Mrs. Wickelbridge's Dejeuner.
The Elite Electrified!' Gr-r-r-r!"
Which only determined Mrs. W.
to give him a course in gas
tronomic gymnastics.
EASTERN MARKETS
(Furnished by Walter J. Nicholls
* Co.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 6—Missouri
Pacific is negotiating a large bond
sale with Kuhn, Loeb &. Co. and
other bankers.
Chicago Grain Market.
CHICAGO. Feb. 6.—Wheat stocks
all grades. 14.089,000; decrease for
week. 84,000.
Wheat close: May, $1.10%; July,
98V»c; September, 95%; Decem
ber, 95% c.
Corn close: May. 63% c; July,
63% c; September, 6,'i%c.
Oats close: May, 51% c; July,
46% c; September, 39% c.
BAD NEWS SEEKS BERGLUND.
Louis Rerglund's brother Is
dead. I>ouls Rerglund's where
abouts are unknown to his rela
tives and his sister. Miss Ellen
Herglund, 5826 Sprague avenue.
Tacoma. is searching for him to
tell him of the death of his brother
Peter, who was instantly killed in
a dynamite explosion in British
Columbia, early in January, and
was buried in Tacoma a few days
ago.
Even when a man doesn't live a
particularly fast life he finds him
self all out of breath when he
conies to die.
Lump Coal $7.50
DELIVERED
Best furnace coal on the
market
NELSON COAL A WOOD CO.
CALL MAX. 194
MacKenzie Fuel Co.
CARNEY LUMP AND ROCK
SPRINGS NUT COAL
FINE DRY WOOD
TeUnHnne Mavwpll 2 ifi
al Coal was neglected throughout
tht; week and Snowstorm shared
no better fate. It was expected
with Greenough's return from thp
east that these shares would show
some improvement, as his mission
.was generally supposed to con
cern the listing of the stock on the
eastern market. There was some
buying of Holden Gold & Copper at
this level.
PLUMBERS GET WHACK
AT COUNTY
Sheriff Pugh turned a plumbing
concern loose in the county jail to
make some repairs, and the bill
that has just been filed with the
county commissioners shows that
it costs money to entertain plumb
ers at $1 per hour, the rate charged
the county and currently charged
over the city for repair work. On
the jail repairs two men worked
three weeks and three men one
day; there were divers pieces of
pipe, tees and elbows furnished,
and the bill sums up for $414.20,
which the sheriff has "o. k.'d."
Pianos at
Tabernacle
Please
Mr. B. D. Ackley, pianist for Mr.
Sunday, is much pleased with the
two magnificent concert grands
which have been in use at the
Tabernacle, and expresses his
gratitude in the following letter to
Eilers Piano House:
SPOKANE. Wash.,
Feb. 3. 1909.
Eilers Piano House,
Spokane, Wash.
Gentlemen: On behalf of Mr.
Sunday, the Ministerial association
and myself, I wish to express ap
preciation for the magnificent
Checkering and Weber Grand
piauos which you so kindly fur
nished us during the meetings at
the Tabernacle.
It is indeed a pleasure to play
on such splendid pianos, and those
who heard these Instruments at
the Tabernacle must admire the
manner In which the tone carried
throughout the entire building in
spite of the unfavorable conditons.
Again thanking you and wishing
you success, I am, yours very truly,
B. D. ACKLEY,
Pianist for Rev. W. A. Sunday.
I will buy 25,000 shares of
Lucky Calumet
if price is low. Can pay
$500 cash and $500 each
month until paid In full. I
am willing to i>ay Interest
at Beven per cent on de
ferred payments. Give me
lowest price, good for ac
ceptance by return mall.
WM. R. JONES,
296 E. Sixty-sixth Place
Chicago, Illinois
Walter J. Nicholb
& Co., Brokers
8105 Howard St. Phone Main 26.
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LISTEN
ladles and gentlemen, with your
kind attention we will now tell yon
about Owl Creek coal.
It has very little ash.
It is a lasting coal.
It contains wonderful heat.
It Is a clean coal.
And numerous other good quali
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