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'l'lteHO ate the Instructions for fitting .
tlllg the latest style at corsets : 'StAnd
on the balls of your feet . stiffen your
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knees , and wiggle your shoulders. . " i
Woull1n't that gin you a fit ! I
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A Chicago judge has decided that :
haltrlmmlng Is not art , but skilled 18-1
bor. He probably arrived at this conclusion . i
elusion because of his inability to understand . i
derstand how art could come so high. :
The dressmakers' edict that at least
thirty yards will have to go Into a
dress hereafter convinces many hus-
bands and fathers that their last year's
suits will bold together one more win-
ter.
The Columbus man who accuses his
wife 01 throwing 8 big Iron spoon at
him and hitting him trill have some
difficulty In convincing twelve lntem- )
goat jurors at the truth of the latter
charge.
I G aias Sf1S yet before it the task of
prod . dag a p-e-rombusted coal that
viii pro "ce neither ashes nor smoke
sad thus glad the heart of the hired
1'1&11-10&5 boEel < 1der , and eke his
ufAlhbGr\ \ . .
Dressmakers have decreed that the
wimerwoIDMI shall 11E ! broadshoul-
4erOO.- Probably the better to enable
l6er W stand : ! the Quips of the funny
nUl "ho write jokelets about the cost
Gf upwmen's apparel.
J. Pierpont Morgan bas within a
: month been almost run down In his
launch almost run over In an auto-
inoblle „ llld almost burt in a railroad
, 1IIroon. No wonder be is beginning
t + t , 1.blD. : or retiring.
A l'eTorl : poet publishes some '
verges or which the repeated refrain
Is : ° 'Blowrind , IOW ! Those who
. doubt we influence of modern poets
. watch and how abed ,
have only to see
+ tend the mnd 115 doing It. .
J. Pjer Ont Morgan Jr. , will take
his place at the head of his father's
" " retires the be-
firm when 'JupIter" at -
gi.millg of the coming 'ear. And yet
every llt11e while you hear somebody I
BUT that there l6 no chance now for
young men.
We are quite willing to believe that
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that telephone device invented by a.
man at Portland Ore" , to enable a person ,
bOIl speaking to see the face of the
person at the other end of the line already ,
ready works successfully as tar as the
human eye can reach.
A New Haven man has been sentenced ,
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tenced to serve five years peal.
tenUar for embezzling i5.Q09. The
wonderful thing about his case is that
the pessimists are not calling attention '
tlon to the fact that he was a Sunday
school superintendent.
If you contemplate going to Pan-
ama to engage In business your best
Ian ] will be to learn all about the
country and the inducements it bolds
out for men who are not succeeding
where they are Then you will not
contemplate it any more.
If l young people would only gel better .
tel' acquainted with each other before
they marry , there would be fewer
cases of divorce , but the couple just
married in Milton Penn" , he 76. she 71 ,
after a courtship covering more than
fifty years , seem to have been more
cautious than was really necessar ) . .
Yale has Introduced an insurance
course In Its curriculum. As successful .
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tul buttonholing It one of the essentials : ; '
Uals of the business , it Is concluded
that the new stud 1 will come under
the general 1 head of domestic scIence.
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A Creed. I
J beliee In human kindnt-s :
Large amid tht' sons of men
Nobler far In "IIi filing blindness
Than in censure's keenest 1en.
I believe In Self-Denial .
And its secret throb of soy ;
In the lore that lives through tria\
Dying not though ! death destroy.
t believe in Love renewing
AU that SIn hath swept away
Lt-.a"enHke Its work pursuing ;
Night by night and day by day .
ink a power of Its remoulding
In the grace of its ! reprIeve.
In the glory of beholding
Its pcrfectJon-I bel1c'e.
I believe In Love Eternal
Fixed In Goo's unchanging will.
That beneath the deep Infernal
Hath a depth that's deeper BUll !
In its patJence-lts endurance
To forbear and to retrieve.
In the large and full assurance
Of Its trlumph-I belIeve.
- orman MacLeod.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Trade at Cape Town is said to be I .
at a standstill
The Slate Federation of California
1 is ; making efforts to organize the
school teachers of San Francisco Into
labor unions
Jerome Jones , editor oC the Journal
of Labor , Atlanta , Ga" , has been elect-
l'd president of the Georgia State Fed-
eratlon or Labor
At the recent convention ot the
team dri..ers' International union several -
eral offices were abollsed which will
mean a saving or $35,000 a year : n
salaries.
T : t. Injunction prohibiting the clti
zens' alliance or San Francisco , CaJ. ,
from using an imitation of the label
of the allied printing trades council
bas been made permanent.
The Chinese are being rapidly driven ,
en out or New South 'Vales Last
I ' enl ' 8Ixt ' arrived whereas
year only 8Ixttwo ,
'Gi6 left , and of those who are In the
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country fully 300 are said to be un-
cmplo'ed
The Amalgamated society of engineers ,
neers ( England ) reported member- -
ship of 95,938 on Aug 1. There were
5,120 drawing assistance from the
fund for the benefit of unemployed
members ,
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The eight-hour-a-da law is now provided .
vided for by legislation In twent ' -
seven states and territories and the
District or Columbia , six days where
eight hours are prescribed as the
limit for a da"s work unless : ; specified
to the contrar ) ' .
Rural mall carriers In a recent con-
"entlon decided to petition Congress
for an increase In salar ) ' . When the
system was first established the men
received fGOO a ) ' \2ar , Later this was
Increased to H40 a 'ear. They will
now ask for $850 , the salary or car-
riers In small cities.
One or the grave questions : ; that the
next congress will have to meet is the
new treaty arrangements with the
Chinese government , as the period or
the exclusion act terminates in De-
cember. The powerful Chinese six
companies Is already at work in the
interests of its ; vastly lucrative traffic
in Chinese l:1bor.
Frank P. Sargent . commissioner
general or Immigration , Is on a tour
of Inspection of the Immigration de-
pots of the United States. The trip
Is to cover six weeks and involves
a visit to every important point along
the Mississippi river , the Gulf or Mexico .
co , the Pacific coast and the Canadian
border From forty to 100 stations
anticipate a visit from the chier
More than one thousand emplo'es
of the Pennsylvania system northwest
and the Pennsylvania system southwest .
west left the service of the company
because or a general order that bas
just ben issued and made operative.
No emI > loye of the company who was
hired after he reached the age at 35
is to be retained. It a man was hired
before be was 35 he retains his posi
tlon
In Wisconsin the elghthour day is
prescribed In manufacturing and mechanical -
chanical establishments undess other
wise agreed upon. The laws or Mis-
souri , New Mexico and Tennessee spe-
cify eight hours to be a day's work
for laborers on road work Eight
hours are a legal day's work In mines
I and smelters in the following states :
Arizona , Colorado , Missouri , Montana ,
Nevada , Utah and Wyoming
The cotton mills of the Exeter ( N.
H. ) Manufacturing Company , which
have been shut down since July 25 ,
principally on account of the depres-
sion In the trade , resumed operations
In all departments. The company
employs about GOO operatives. The
Exeter company owns mills employing ,
Ing 200 at Pittsfield , which have also I I
been closed for some time. They are
to be started at once.
The Washington ( D C. ) Typo-
graphical union has appointed a. committee ,
mlttee to secure It possible a change
In the ruling of the civil service commission '
mission at Washington so that compositors ,
posltors temporarily appointed to the
government printing office may be
carried on the registration books from
year to year through an annual application
plication for renewal or registration.
Al present such men must stand repeated -
peated examinations.
Judge Frank M. Owers Issued an
injunction against the members of
the Lead\'tlle Mining District Association
atlon restraining them from proceed
Ing further to compel miners to for
sake the Western Federation or
Miners : and take out association cards
In order to retain their positions In
the mines of the camp The defend-
ants named comprlJe ; ; nearly every
mine owner and min manager in the
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camp
Upon the application of the Eureka
Foundr Company , Judge Hosea of
the Superior court granted a tempo-
rary injunction restraining the Iron
Iolders' Union or North America alll
its local agents from interfering in
any way with the conduct of business
at the Cincinnati foundries , especially
prohibiting the practice of picketing
the vicinity of the pJants. The strike
at these places has been productive
of several clashes between strikers
and nonunion emplo'es.
The formal amalgamation or the In'
ternaHan association of machinists
and the international association of
allled metal mechanics will tale place
next Saturdar. There will be no
change in the name of the machinists'
organization , which is to absorb the
other , and all members or the metal
mechanics will he transferred into
the other free of cost All charters
I issued from this time will be issued
by the International association or
machinists
The following officers were elected
at the international convention of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
held at Toronto : President , Frank
Buchanan , Chicago : first 'ice-presi
dent , J. T. Butler , BUffalo : second
.ice-president. . E. A Clancy , San Francisco '
cisco : secretarytreasurer , J. J. Mc-
Namara , Cleveland : executive board ,
J. Butler , New York city : James C.
Oakle , Pitts burg : Thomas McGovern ,
Albany , N. Y. : J. H. Barry , S1. Louis ,
Mo. The election of Frank Buchanan
I as resident was practically unani
mous.
The grand officers of the Brotherhood '
hood of Locomotive Firemen were reelected -
elected for two years at the session
at the ninth biennial convention as :
follows : Grand master , John J. Han- .
nahan ; first vice grand master ,
Charles A. Wilson or Phlllipsburg , N.
J. ; second vice grand master , Timothy
Shea or Peoria : third vice grand master ,
tef , Charles W. Maier 0' 1arsonll
Kan. ; fourth vice grand master , Eugene .
gene A. Ball ot Stratford , Ont. ; grand "I'
secretary and treasurer , Wllliam S. . t
Carter ot Peoria : editor of official organ .
gan , John F. McNamee of Indlanap
oIls
Hugo Miller , second vice president
of the International Typographical
union , representing the German'
American branch , bas just issued the
thlrt ' , first annual report or that . . : Jl.
branch for the fiscal year closing
June 30. It shows that wIth a membership ,
bershlp of 994 the total income durIng '
Ing the past year was $24,154.15 and
the total expenses $18G06.03. leaving
a surplus or $5,548.12 for the last
year , which brings the total amount
In the treasury of the T'pographla
up to $23,519.31 , or $23.64 per capita.
The following benefits were paid during -
Ing the year : Out of work , $5,785 ;
sick , $2,945.68 ; funeral , $2,255 ; strike
and boycott , $313.75 ; traveling , .
$181.85
The threat of President A. C. Din- '
key or the Carnegie Steel Company.
to the Amalgamated Association of .
Iron , Tin and Steel Workers to wage
war everywhere on the union It sym ,
pathetic strIkes are declared is being
backed up by the United States Steel
Corporation There Is good ground
for the statement that the corporation
decider several month ; ago on war- J _
fare against the union it it undertook
to interfere wIth the corporation's
management of its properties. In the
sheet steel and tin plate mills and
the hoop mills of the corporation the
union plants are In a minority. All
the union steel workers could quit and
the corporation would still be able
to control its output
The appeal or the cotton planters
to southern congressmen to ask government -
'ernment aid In securing plenty or
labor has been acted upon The Department -
partment or Labor at Washington has
informed the MississippI congressmen
that within six months over 150,000
aallan immigrants will land in Ameri-
ca An assurance is given that 40,000
of these will land at southern ports : I : '
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and that 30,000 will have come by
Oct. 1 , the busiest part of the season.
This is an experiment of the department .
ment to ascertain comparatively the
extent or endurance under famine conditions .
dltlons of the negro and Italian , anu
will be made a special subject of a
bulletin to be issued br the depart-
ment.
The International Bookbinder , the
organ of the International Brother-
hood or Bookbinders , referring to the
selection or Jan. 1 , 1906 , as the date
pen which the International Typographical -
graphical Union has set to enforce the
eight-hour day in the book and job
printing offices , says : "Our local
unions should also make preparation
to demand the shorter day on or be-
fore the date set by the printers We
do not want to see bookbinders work-
tug nine hours In any shop where the
printers are working eight , and care
should be taken on signing agreements .
ments and contracts to have the
eight-hour clause inserted The employers -
plo'ers are realizing that Ute shorter
day is coming and we firmly believe It
will be granted in the larger cities
without any friction whate\'er "
A writer on trade union subjects
has been doing some figuring which
he used in the following interesting
manner : A conservative estimate of
toe number or organized wage.earners
and the amount they earn-and or
necessity spend , shows in 11 truly
startling manner the tremendous power -
er they could wield it their wages
were always spent after they had given - . . . . .
en due thought to their best Interests. -'r3
raking the 2,250,000 members or '
trade unions , and basing their wages
at $ UiO per day for 300 days In the
year , we find that this gives them a
purchasing strength at $1,012,500,000
per ) 'ear , This sum-so great that It
Is difficult and well nigh impossible
to appreciate its influence-it used to
pay rent for homes built by union
labor and in purchasing the necessities .
ties or life , that were manufactured
or procured by organized workmen ,
would soon work a revolution In every
industry , , ' in . ' the land . :