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THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS
BY
WALDO PONDRAY WARREN
RUNNING DOWN AN ERROR
IN talking with a successful business manager not long ago
the subject of correcting errors came up. I asked him:
"How do you treat an employe when you find that he ha
made a mistake?"
"It depends on the employe," ho said, "and on the nature
of the mistake. I have great deal more leniency for a mis
take due to Ignorance than for one due to carelessness. But I
do not believe In abusing an employ for a mistake. I take
the attitude that it Is a serious thing, and that doubtless he
feels badly about It. I don't try to smooth It over, but let hie
own self-convlction be his punishment."
"And what about correcting It7"
"Usually I require him to look Into the matter and report
to me, and show me Just exactly how the mistake happens!.
He usually knows that point better than anyone else can tell
him. I question him quietly until he admits that it was Just
because he let it go, or because he assumed some point with
out Investigation, or some such reason. Nearly every mis
take can be traced back to some source of that kind. When
the real reason Is brought to light we talk It over as the occa
sion warrants, and I make sure that he corrects the underly
ing thought which gave occasion for the. error. This glvee
fair assurance that a similar mistake will not occur again.
That Is better than mere scolding."
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Memorials of
Edgar Allan Poe
Not Many Imposing Reminders of America's
Greatest Poet Lxlst Tho Move
ments to Erect Monuments
In ills Honor.
I
I Is a hundred
years on Jan. 10
since the birth of
the poet Edgar Al
lan Poe, uud it has
not taken the world
bo long as In some
i'ubos to discover
that lie was great.
The geuernl observ
ance of the cente
nary lu places like
KMJAit allan roccw York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Itichmond,
'which were closely associated with tho
poet's career, nnd In many other cities
as well, points to tho fact that his work.
has a strong hold upon the present gen
eration, a generation, it may be re
marked, not remarkable for its devo
tion to poets and poetry. - At the Bame
time it must be admitted that in the
way of memorials to Poe we arc at
fault.
For some reason Poe has not re
ceived his due In this respect. Per
haps the centenary observances at
tracting so much Interest now will
prompt the American people to erect
more adequato reminders than at pres
ent exist of him who is called the
country's greatest poet Already there
is a hint of such u result in the pro
posal to place n memorial of Poe at
tho entrance to the library of the
United States Military academy at
West Point and In the plans of the Ed
gar Allan Poe Memorial association of
Baltimore to raise funds with which
to erect over his grave in that city an
imposing monument. The resting place
of this brilliant but erratic American
Is now marked by a very modest stone
containing on its face a sculptured
likeness of the poet. Poe died in Bal
timore Oct. 7, IMD.
The grave of the bard is In the ceme
tery of tho WoMnliister Preshvterlnn
THE 1'OE OOTIAOi: AT FOItDHAH AND THE
10E MONUMENT IN UALT1MOKIC
church at Payette and Green streets,
nnd in 1S7.1, nearly a iiunrter of .1 cen
tury after his death, the people of Bal
timore, led liy a hand of patrlotle wo
men teacher", erected the present mo
modal over It. The body of his wife,
Virginia C'lemtn Poe, lies there now too.
Mrs. Poe died in the little cottage at
Fordham, X. Y.. which was the poet's
home from about 1S13 to 1S49. Her
remains were at llrst laid In a vault In
the churchyard of the old Dutch Re
formed church of Fordhuin, hut later
wore laid betide her husband's.
Poe was not honored at West Point
while he was a cadet there. On the
contrary, he whs expelled from the
lustltutiuu on account of his inatten
tion to discipline. Whistler, whowui
a West Point cadet, too, at one time,
also got hW walking papers from the
academy. Xow he U honored there by
a memorial, the work of the late Au
gustus St. Gaudeus, Whistler was
perhaps the greatest of American art
ists, as Poe is generally ranked the
greatest of American poets. It is
certainly a singular coincidence that
both should have been dismissed from
the same educational Institution and
that both will now be honored there
in sculptural memorials,
OpiHi.Mto 'the Poe cottage in Ford-
ham is a park which bears his name.
The Bronx Society of Arts and Sri
ences lias erected in It In connection
with the centennial exercises a bronze
pedestal commemorating his achieve
ments and uimh it placed a bust ol
the poet by Kdmoud T. Qulnu. It 1
hoped that somo t lino-the collage It
self may stand in the park. Efforts to
pur base it lmvo been made by the city
and by patriotic and literary societies
nnd Individuals, but the owner has de
feated these worthy enterprises thu:i
far by asking an exorbitant price for
the Utile structure.
Itichmond Va whore Poe lived rib
boy and young nwn. is rabilug fund
for the erection there of a monument
wluek may fitly commemorate his
achievements
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SAVED FROM THE GRAVE.
How a Dream Rescued Woman From
a Terrible Death.
Mr. Jones was n popular young busi
ness man In the city of it. Ills wife J
was a woman of strong emotion and
most delicate perceptions. Between
them there existed it rare sympathy
which extended to all the faculties.
Mrs. Jones fell III. and after n few
weeks' agony, during which her hus
band walled on her with a constancy
not often seen, she died that is, she
appeared to be dead. There was no
question about It In the doctors' mind.
A certificate was Issued and an under
taker called In. tint for the fortunate
circumstance that Mr. Jones wns op
posed to embalming there would be no
story to tell utiles It were of another
person apparenfly dead who was re
vived for n moment under the lunge of
the embalmer's knife.
Saved from that fate, Mrs, Jones was
laid out in her burial robe, placed In a
cotllii nnd on the third day was burled
in a cemetery some dlstnnce nway.
Her husband was greatly affected, so
much that his relatives feared an at
tack of melancholia. Ills uncle, wish
ing to arouse his spirits and divert his
attention, remnlned In the house the
night after the funeral and was a
valuable witness, as it proved, of an
event so nsloundlng as to be almost
beyond belief.
For an hour or two that evening they
talked chiefly about the dead and then
went to bed. Mr. Jones, after tossing
upon his pillow for a long time,' fell
Into a troubled sleep. In the middle
of the night ho heard a voice calling
his name. "George. Georgel" The
tones were not familiar to him: they
did not recall the voice of his wife.
Still conceiving himself the victim of
n dream, he again went to sleep. It
wns daybreak beore the voice was
heard again, and this time It could not
bo Ignored. He recognized It at last
as the voice of his wife In sore dis
tress calling upon him. She' cried:
"George! Save me! Save me. George!"
lie sprang out of bed. trembling all
over. That despairing cry still rang In
his enrs. So real wns It that, although
he was awake and remembered per
fectly the death, the funeral and all
that happened In the preceding four
days, he searched the room for her
who had thrice called him by name.
Finding that he was alone, he rush
ed Into his uncle's room crying: "Get
up! Get up! We must go to the ceme
tery! She is alive! She is calling me!"
The uncle, skeptical as he was by
nnturc, was carried nway by Jones'
Impetuosity. Both men threw on some
clothing, and, while cine harnessed a
horse to a light buggy, the other pro
cured spades. Thus equipped, they
drove to the cemetery at u gallop. The
sun rose, as they leaped out at the
grnvo and began to dig.
Mrs. Jones had been burled the pre
vious afternoon. Her husband sho cl
od nwny the earth lu n frenzy of en
ergy. It was llnnly fixed in his mind
that she had been buried alive and
that he might yet be In time 1o save
her. Inspired by his nephew's excite
ment, the uncle dug with a vigor al
most as great as Jones',
Begrimed and disheveled, they at
last reached the colllii and wrenched
off the lid. Jones shrieked. Ills wife
was moving. She was trying feebly to
turn over lu her narrow bed. She
gazed nt him with eyes that saw not.
She was unconscious of her situation.
lie passed his arms about her and
lifted her out. The two men removed
her from the grave, placed her in the
buggy and drove home. Physicians
were called In. Under close medical
care she slowly recovered Every pre
caution was taken to guard her from
tho knowledge of what had happened,
and all who were In the secret pledged
themselves to silence lest the shock
of that revelation of her burial and
resurrection might prove fntal to her,
but the story leaked out later, when
Mrs. Jones got about again. Balti
more Sun.
, She Got a New Pair.
Snrcasticus and his wife were going
to the theater,
"Will y-ou please go in and get my
goats oil' tho dressing table'" said
Mrs. S. f
"Your goatsV" queried the puzzled
Sarcasticus, "What fanglo have you
women got now?"
"I'll show j on!" snapped the wifo,
and she sailed away and soon return
ed, putting on her gloves.
v "Are those what you mean? Why, I
call those kids."
"I used to," replied Mrs. SareastlcuB,
"but they are getting so old I am
ashamed to any longer."
lie took the hint. Pearson's Week
ly. . .
When a President Resigns.
The method by which a president
may resign Is provided for In section
131 of the revNcd statutes, leading as
follows: "The only ovhieuce of a re
fusal to accept or of a resignation of
the olllce of president or vice president
shall be an instrument lu writing de
claring the same ami subscribed by the
person refusing to accept or resigning,
as the case may be. and delivered Into
tho olIJ.ee of the secretary of state."
Washington Post,
Coming Events Cast Shadows Before.
Barber (looking for business) Excuse
me, sir, but your hair Is going to come
out soon by the handful. Jaggs (who
was out all night and Is just going
home to face bis wife) You (hlc)
shpose I don' know (hlc) tlmtV Bo
hemlnn Magazine.
Becoming.
Mrs. Grujnpu (Bitggostlvuly) Don't
you think, dunr, that his season's hats
ni-A luxxuiitn-''' Mr ( ,' r:i rnimn-Yea:
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tliPf"ro bet-oml'i'-' ependve that I'm
afraid we'll ho t ct along without
ono fur on this time Pathfinder
An Emperor and
His Interviews.
The Mixup (her What Kaiser Wilhelm Did
or Did Not Soy to Dr. William Bayard
Halo and the Curious Political
Situation Reealed.
SHAKESPEARE mentioned three
was of becoming great, but
failed 'to state that some men
grow great by keeping their
mouths shut. There Is Dr. William
Bayard Hale, for example, the Ameri
can editor nnd author who haR just
gained world fame by refusing to pub
lish an Interview with the German
kaiser. While Dr, Hnle Is a man of
very respectable attainments, having
been editor of the Cosmopolitan, Cur
rent Literature nnd the Philadelphia
Tubllc Ledger nnd n special corre
spondent of the Xew York World prior
to his present connection with the Xcw
York Times, to say nothing of two o
three books he has written, it is safe
to predict that nothing he ever might
have snld would have gained him one
tenth the reputation that he has at
tained by what he did not say. Here
in may be a hint to other aspiring au
thors, but It Is probable they will not
take It, more's the pity.
A Berlin paper has stated that Dr.
Hale got $50,000 for suppressing the
kaiser interview, and Dr. Hale says he
did not get a cent. The Xew York
World, on which paper Dr. Hale was
once a writer, published what pur
ported to be the gist of his interview
with William and on this being repu
diated by Dr. Hnle printed a state
ment acknowledging that "there wns
no convincing hnsls of fact for the so
called synopsis." It nlso cabled Prince
von Bulow admitting that the emperor
.could not have uttered such "stupidly
absurd" sentiments. But the Germnn
emperor is in a broil with his people
not so much over the Hale Interview,
which was suppressed, as the London
Telegraph Interview, which was not
suppressed, lleie cheek by jowl It
the emperor adding to his fame by
talking too much and his erstwhile In-
Mfa
1)11. HVMC AND TUB (H ItMAN LMPUIOlt.
tenhwir. Dr Hale, increasing. his by
talking nor at all. This leaves the
young aspirant for reputation uncer
tain which course to pursue. Ho
doubtless will compromise by talking
too much, like the emperor, hut the
world will correct his error bj paying,
not the slightest attention to what he
says. Dr. Hale Is an episcopal clergy
man with a high smarting as suth be
fore he became an lntenlewer and
editor and therefore knows all about
sins by omission uud commission. In
his case, how uxor, It Is not the sin of
omission, hut the virtue of omission.
The anomaly of the Gorman situa
tion, lu whli li Dr. Halo has been em
broiled against his xxill, lies In the fact
that this people. Intellectually nnd ar
tistically In the forefroiit of the world
nnd of the ages, submits to so nrchale
a thing as personal 'government, and
personal government by so erratic and
irresponsible a "ruler as Wilhelm II.
These Interviews have brought senri
ineut to n head.
So long as the people are quiescent
a king can Impose upon the Imagina
tion of the world as a very Important
persouago. The moment the people are
nrousod It Is seen that they are the
glnnt and he tho pigmy. The Gorman
giant Iihs nt last axvakened, and as n
nwult the imperial pigmy Is tHlklng
small. Surprise has been expressed In
some quarters nt tho readiness with
which the kaliun nto huinble pic and
cBhcM himself after the storm raised
nt home by his lntorvloxvs. Yet It .its
notgsurprlslng nt nil. When a nation
iv ve- Kit 'g nia ciipcrors art oitner
' get -:i of the x n r !" ni vcr
'Will. -.i h-i- hnsf n rhe s;t;"r .vid the
' hcf" civs" J. A ET'i'FKTO.V
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OLDEN
DAY SURGEONS
They Were Exempt From Jury
Duty In Capital Cases.
IN A CLASS WITH BUTCHERS
Thought to Be Too Bloodthirsty to
Calmly Pass on the Taking of Hu
man Life Executioners Performed
Operations and Acted as Doctors.
When Great Britain's statute book
wns still In the Draconian state from
which it was redeemed by Sir Samuel
Romllly nnd the pennlty of death was
Inflicted for the most trivial offenses,
surgeons were exempted from serving
on juries In capital cases.
It must not be supposed, however,
that this was because their profession
was believed to make them too humane
for such xvork as was then Imposed on
turymcu. We are sorry to say It .was
kir the opposite reason. 'Jhey were ex
empted on the same ground as butch
ers, whose occupation, it wns thought,
tended to make them too bloodthirsty.
This ought not perhaps surprise us,
since two or three centuries ago ex
ecutioners not infrequently performed
surgical operations. This seems to
have been particularly the case In Den
mark. At any rate, we have more
knowledge on this point In regard to
that country than any other.
In Janus some time ago Dr. K. Caroe
of Copenhagen published a number of
documents bearing on the subject. The
most ancient of these bears date July
24, 1379, and is a license issued by
Frederick II. to Anders Freimut, ex
ecutioner of Copenhagen, granting him
the right to set bones nnd treat old
wounds. He was expressly forbidden
to meddle with recent wounds. In
ICOn it is recorded in the municipal
archives of Copenhagen that Gaspar,
the hangman, had received four rigs
dalers for tho cure of two sick chil
dren In the Infirmary.
In 1C38 Christian IV. summoned the
executioner of Gluckstndt in Ilolsteln.
to examine the diseased foot of the
crown prince. In a letter addressed to
Olo Worm, a lending Danish physi
cian of the day, Henry Kostor. physi
cian In ordinary to the king, complains
bitterly of the slight thus put upon
lllm. He says that for two whole
months the hangman, "who Is as fit to
.treat the case as an ass Is to play the
lyre." had the casein hand, and the
doctor was not asked for advice, and,
although the case went steadily from
bad to worse, the executioner received
a fee of 200 rlgsdnlers and a largo
silver gohlet '"rexviirds," says the doc
tor plaintively, "which the greatest
among us would not have received
had he succeeded In curing the prince
according to the rules of art."
Again. In H5S1. Christian V gave a
fee of 200 rlgMlalers to the Copen
hagen hangman for curing tlio leg of
n page. In 101)3 Andreas Llebknecht.
the Copenhagen executioner, was In
such repute or his treatment of dis
ease that he wrote a book on the
subject "in the name of the holy .and
ever blessed Trinity." In 17152 Hergen.
an executioner In Xorxx-ny, was au
thorized by royal decree to practice
surgery.
Even up to the early years of tho
nineteenth century this extraordinary
association of surgery xvlth the last
penalty of the law continued. Erik
Peterson, who wns appointed public
executioner at Trondhjem In 179C.
served as surgeon to an Infantry regi
ment In the xvar xvlth Sweden nnd re
tlreo In 1SH xvlth the rank of surgeon
major. Frederick I. of Prussia chose
his favorite hangman. Cohlenz, to be
his physician in ordiunry. '
It might be suspected that this pe
culiar combination of functions had
Its origin In a satirical vlexv of the art
of healing, but In the records we have
quoted we can trace nothing of the
kind Perhaps the executioner drove
a trade In human fat and other things
supposed to possess marvelous heal
ing properties, llo may thus have
come to bo credited xvlth skill In heal
lug, though the association surely rep
resents th6 loxvest degree to xvhioh tho
surgeon has ever fallen in public es
teem and social position. Compared
xvlth the hangman, u gladiator and
even an undertaker may be considered
respectable. British Medical Journal.
Scotts Bluff County News
Uuoiu the Gering Courtar)
Mrs A. C. Bracken of Alliance visit
ed xvith i datives here for several days,
returning homo Saturday nioiniug.
Judge Bruce Wilcox of Alliance xvns
here this xveek in connection xvith the
Buttei field- Kennedy laud contest case.
The Courier received a card this
xveek from Capt. Akers, xvlio xvas thou
on the ilyer to Mexico, txvelve car
loads, all bound lor the isthmus of Te
hauntepec. "Will cross the line into
Mexico at 0 p.m. Have to he exam
ined. Will pass Monterey in the night,
but hope xve may see it as xve return.
Shall ariive at city of Mexico early
Sunday morning and attend church at
the gieatest Catholic church in tho
world, except St. Peter's at Koniu,"
G P Quire shoe
u- .r.zlLr shop
moved to basement under old lauudiy,
next door north of Wilson's second
hand store, in with Cole's photograph
view oJftc. Just upiHMite the Herald
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