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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1905.
PAGES 1 TO 4.
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 Rusbian 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 Ea"t. 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 hi3 country after ac
complishing so much In her behalf and
finds it at once necessary to plan an
Intrigue in order to prevent effacement.
Ing upon the return of M. Witte to his
home.
Would have Presidential Bee.
"The men who make European and
Asiatic history to-day can never hope
to approach their royal masters, who
are in many cases mere puppets, ex
cept In a manner indicating the utmost
humility. The American who would
perform such service as that of M.
Witte 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 besran his act
of humility while in this country. Ho
referred to the Czar at all times as his
august master and while crossing the
Atlantic ocean, when accorded deserved
honor for his diplomacy, was quick to
disavow being worthy of the! least
credit for his labors, stating in effect
that he was a miserable creature who
breathed because of the goodness of his
"august master" and that anything he
had done in connection with the peace
negotiations was merely in obedience
WORKING GIRL'S CHANCES.
CHOOSE CONGENIAL OCCUPATION
THEN HOLD FAST TO THE
FIRST GOOD JOB.
Only those who have been within
the charmed circle of the court at 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 has 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 bej
found any act of his own worthy of
favorable comment that that act is due
wholly to having obeyed the royal will
an,d having properly interpreted the
royal purpose. He will conclude that
act of humiliation by begging forgive
ness of his august master for his short
comings. No menial in America could
play the part of humility so earnestly
as will the distinguished diplomat M.
Witte.
"The attitude of statesmen of monar
chical governments toward their royal
masters is one that cannot be under
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 oomment-
to 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
bocause, as la fully understood in the
inner circles of the Diplomatic Corps
at Washington, his appointment as a
peace commissioner to represent the
Czar was given him not for 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.
It was argued that if he could he 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, waich 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 enemiea he is no better loved
by them than he was when they con
spired to intrust him with a mission
they believed he could not successfully
perform. It is learned at Washington
that even now those same enemies are
planning future traps for the eminent
statesman who has been favored by the
god of fortune. When he appears be
fore his august master in the tra
ditional attitude of a slave there will
be many of bis enemies to endeavor
to persuade the Czar that the formal
words of self depreciation waich he
must utter to conform to court eti
quette are In fact only plain truth.
It Is Not the Kind of Work but the
Manner of Working That Brings
Forth the Dollars.
"It Is not my specialty, madame,"
said the little French milliner who bad
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 flock to make
a living or a name; whether in Paris,
London, New York, Chicago, Saa Fran
cisco, one must have one's highly per
fected specialty in order to win e7n
moderate recognition.
"Don't scatter" is the very best ad
vice to the girl worker. "Oh, I know
how to do ever so many things," says
the latest entry on the books of a big
employment agency.
"Can you cook?" asks the manageress
with breathless eagerness.
"Yes," Is the reply rather shame
facedly. "Goodt 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 city to
make noney a lot of money."
"You'll make a lot of money if you'll
cook," says the manageress In her take
my-advice tone. "Why, any girl that
can pretend to cook, if she don t know
a souflle 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 riri of twenty-three, thrown sud
denly on hor 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
all the more difficult to help her. With
out even facility in writing, she begged
assistance in becoming a paid con
tributor to a scandalmongering news
paper. Fortunately, she lacked as
much In perseverance as in literary
ability. Her next venture was in
trained nursing; but, being placed In
the colored ward, her southern pre
judices drove her out of the hospital
just three days later than her date of
entry. From a spasmodic effort to ac
quire a knowledge of stenography, she
set out on a quest for a place as nurs
ery governess. A practical friend met
her just after her first rebuff, and
much against her will pushed her into
a situation in a fashionable millinery
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 she had saved enough to take
a trip to Paris during the summer.
She bought not a single model but
gathered impressions, wont 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 flyer abroad and the
rest was eusy.
Choose a Congenial Occupation.
The secret of success is findine 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 maise greatest
progress. A very few are favored with
Inspiration along original lines, borne
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
dertakerhave already been exploited
by women. However, for the 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 only 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 living?"
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
greater or less increase, proving that
mere is always room for the com
petent It is only by adding real effort,
perseverance and determination to a
natural talent, however, that the to;
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.
L 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
teacuer, nut none or tne alertness, en
durance and steady nerve that are in
dispensable in the shorthand writer.
She remembered that her friend had
spent only three months on a course of
lessons, but forgot that at the end of
tne three months had come a position
at $a per week with eight hours of un
interrupted typewriting each day, after
which, in order to make headway to
ward a bettersalary, every evening from
nair past seven to eleven was spent la
speed practice. The little teacher put
in a hot summer In a private business
school and later, through the kindness
of friends, obtained apposition in a
section of the country most unhealthy
The choice of the right woric deter
mines at the start the measure of
success.
SENATOR MARTIN'S CASE.
Renomination of Virginia Statesman
Cost a Small Fortune.
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 up 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
total high. This fight of Senator Mar
tin for renomination and the neces
sary large expenditure, which is lcol;eJ
upon as entirely legitimate and fn;e
from any corruption, has aroused con
siderable comment among politicians
and prominent men at Washington, as
being an exceptional clear cut ex
ample of present political methods and
necessities.
"Martin's troubles are now prnrti
cally over," said a prominent Southern-
FORTY PIEiU MINUTE.
PITTSBURG MAN INVENTS A MA
CHINE TO MAKE PIES BY
THE MILLION.
Annual Output Would Reach Half
Across the Continent. Would
Drive Mother Out of Business.
"Pies like mother used to mnkel"
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 just 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. SONS, Til S PIE MAN.
to everybody even following the
liercest political camnaigus. The
statement made by the inventor from
the bmoky 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 runnine
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 30O working days a
year, the sum total of 7,200,000 pies a
year. If those pies are like mother used
to make, then of course they are each
about nine inches In diameter and an
inch and a quarter thick. Mother al-
continent and furnish pie to every
man, woman and child in the United
States.
The story of the actual performance
of the pie machine is truly wonderful.
In fact two machines are necessary.
In the first the crust is produced.
Instead of pie pans, molds like waffle
irons are used to form tho crust. An
the molds pass along on an endlesn
chain, they move a lever at one end
which permits the pie dough to enter
the pans, shaped something like waffle
irons, and they then pass between two
sets of burners which take the place of
tne oven. Of course before the douch
Is released the Irons are heated to the
proper temperature. The dough Is con
tained in a huge tank above the ma
chine, a feed pipe running down, and
by means of a piston, just enoueh
dough is forced down to fill one of the
molds as It passes under the Dine.
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
arranged on a large pnn which is taken
up by another attendant who places
the crusts hi the second machine.
Filling by the Ton.
This is also of tho endless.chain type,
with two vast vats at one end, one of
which contains tho lemon filling and
the other the meringue. By carefully
regulated ratchets the filling and the
meringue are fed alternately. The
pies then pass on to an overhead
burner which gives the top of the
meringue a rich brown. The pie, thus
completed, is passed out from under
tho baker and is rendy for disposal by
the American pie eater.
A RUG FIT FOR A KING.
Shah's Cift to Cdward of a Wonder,
ful Product from the Eastern
Hand Looms.
Never outside fairyland has been
seen such a wonderful carpet as that
which King Edward received the
other day as a present froin the Shnh
of Persia a token of his appreciation
of the affectionate hospitality extended
to biia on the occasion of his last visit
to Kuglaud.
Always Room for Good Ones.
Most discouraging of all the obstacles
to the girl seeking her living is the
constantly repeated falsehood that the
occupations open to the average female
intelligence are overcrowded. Thirty
years ago tne same statement was
made to almost every female applicant
for employment as bookkeeper, clerk,
agent, stenographer, saleswoman, etc.
At that time less than one per cent, of
all the women wage earners were em
ployed in clerical positions. In twenty
years the percentage of women in this
class increased to five per cent, of the
total employed, while the figures of the
last census promise a still more en
couraging advance. It Is further
shown that In the last decade of the
19th century the number of woman
bookkeepers in the United States In
creased by about 50,000. the number of
woman clerks by over 10,000, the num
ber of saleswomen by over 100,000, the
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AT THE RATE OF FORTY A MINUTE.
SENATOR MARTIN.
er, stopping at the national capital, who
has all his life baen 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
111,500 additional a total of $23,000.
This would leave him $7,000 of salary
for his full timo of six years of ser
vice.
Might Have Cost Thirty Thousand.
"Nay, more. Virginia is a State where
campaigning is rather primitive. Mon
ey still has a guod value In most of
the sections. There is not the holding
up and bleeding cf 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 for 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?"
ways used a couple of eggs and a
lemon to each plo and so the Pittsburg
baker would use 7,200,000 lemons, and
14,400,000 eggs. Laying these 7,200,000
pies out in one long 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 at a rate of 25
miles an hour, Including necessary
stops, could make the Journey across
these pics In a little less than three
days..
A Pie Tower Magnificent.
Again taking "Mother's pics" as a
basis, tho products of this machine In
a year, if piled one on the other would
give us a monstrous column over 142
miles 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
half the population of the United
States, or more than 100 times the
number of people living In Pittsburg.
I5y using different shifts and working
the machine to its full capacity the
pie line would extend nearly across the
When this marvelous production of
Persian artists and weavers was
spread out before his majesty at
llueklngham Palace he must have
been reminded of some of the scenes
depicted in 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 wns some specula
tion as to the object of his mission.
The secret wns well kept, and It wan
not until the nrrivnl of 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
has boon constantly at work upon
the carpet, and tho result has been the
production of what even in Persia
must he considered a royal master
piece. The design is very curious, complex
and certainly most ingenious; the
colors are perfect and faultlessly -blended;
and tho manufacture Is flaw
less. The rug has been made entirely
by hand.
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