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A Possibility.
It this little world to-night
Suddenly should fall ] ) through space
In a hissing , headlong light ,
I Shriveling from its face ,
' As It : falls Into lie sun ,
In an Instant every once
I' Ot the little crawling thing-s-
Ants , ) llilosophcls , anti lice ,
Cattle , cockroaches and kings ,
\ Beggars , millionaires , and mice ,
Men anti mamots-all ns one
As It falls Into the sun-
'Who can say but nt the same
Instant from some planet far
A child may watch us and exclaim ,
"See the pretty shooting star ! "
-Oliver HertG.d.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLrJ.
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Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Labor unions of Kansas City are
. again discussing plans ' for a labor tem-
I ple.
Chinese laundrymen of Washington
attempted to form an organization to
keep up prices , but have failed.
The third annual convention of the
International Hod Carriers' and Building -
Ing Laborers' Union of America wlll
meet In Minneapolis , beginning Jan. I ,
1905.
The Odd Fellows of New York state
in their recent convention voted down
the resolution to place the label of
the Allied Printing Trades on all printed -
ed matter.
Application for membersi.ip in the
Journeymen Bar ers' International '
union by women barbers was denied 'I
at the recent convention of that body
at Louisville , K ) ' .
Buffalo has a new labor organization -
tion composed of shoe shiners and porters -
ters working throughout the city , and
known as the Shoe Shiners and Barber -
ber Shop Porters' union.
The Central Labor Union of Indianapolis -
apolis has a committee at work to
purchase a park for the use of the
labor organizations of Marion county ,
Indiana , to be used for picnics and
labor demonstrations.
While women are invading nearly
all of the employments belonging to
men , milliners , both here and abroad ,
report a grow ! Jg difficulty in finding
girls willing to devote themselves to
the art of making hats.
The worleman's compensation act
recently passed by the British parlia-
ment has caused an appreciable increase -
crease in pauperism , as employers
now refuse to retain old workmen
who are slightly deaf or short-sighted
In thirty years 1,391,076 Italians
have come to this countrr. Until 1890
the percentage of women was less
than 15 , but now it has increased to
39 , indicating that the immigration
has a marked tendency to become per
manent
A large per cent of the striking !
halsting engineers have decided to
I accept a reduction of 5,55 per cent in
wages and become members of the
miners' organization. This means that
the disintegration of the national
brotherhood of hoisting engineers has
come.
An international union is to be
formed of carpet cutters , layers and
measurers of the United States and
Canada A convention has been called
to meet In Washington , D. C. , Dec
16. The new organization will probably ,
ably be called the Carpet Workers' International - ,
ternational union.
Within the last five years the unskilled -
skilled immigrant labor has begun to
organize The United Mine Workers ,
numbering 300,000 , and the 'longshore-
men , numbering 70,000 , are perhaps
-4he most compact of aU organizations
at labor , and they are mainly Irish ,
Italian and Slav.
Charles L. Eidlltz , president of the
New York Building Trades Emplo'ers'
association , was sued for $50,000 damages -
ages by the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America , I
which allege ! ? that the carpenters in I
ha'v1ng been locked out sindo August 1 I
8 , have been deprived of an opportun-
itr to earn a livelihood.
The Produce PedlUm's' --Drl\'ers'
Union of Chicago , the latest union of
teamsters organized there , is growing
rapidly , and has a membership of
nearly 1,000. There are said to be
8,000 men in the city who drive ped-
dlers' wagons , and it is the intention
of the teamsters to have them all in
their organization br Jan. 1.
"Mitchell dar , " set apart as a day
of celebration by the anthracite mln-
ors at Pennsylvania In honor of John
Mitchell , president of the United Mine
Workers of America , was generally
observed throughout the hard coal
region Oct. 29. Parades were held in
Scranton , Hazleton , Mahanoy City ,
Willeesbarre , and other places
At the recent conventions of the
Canadian Trades and Labor Congress
and the Canadian Manufacturers' RR-
socintion , held at the same time , a
decision was arrived at to have a
meeting take place between the dele
gates of both bodies in an effort to
bring labor and capital of Canada in
closer relations. The meeting will take
place next month.
Although 26,000 colton mill opera-
tives in Fall River have been on strike
for the past two months , the quarterly
police statistics show that drunkenness -
ness has decreased 25,8 per cent compared -
pared with the corresponding quarter
last ) 'ear , Despite stories of violence
the police records at the Chicago
stock yards show similar results dur-
ing the recent strike there.
John Floresch , vice president of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen , has just returned
to Chicago from an organization tour.
He organized new locals of butcher
clerks at Olney. Champaign and Alton
Mr. Floresch expects to start out
I again within a month , having returned
home to , vote. The butcher clerks allover
over the United States are anxious to
become union members.
According to n statement issued by
Slason Thompson of the Railway
News Bureau the compensation of rail-
way enlployes In the United States
during the year ending June 30 , 190,1 ,
approximated $830,000,000 , as against
$465,601,681 in the fiscal year lS9Gn.
an increase of 364,398,419 , 01' more
than 78 per cent. In the meantime-
their number increased from 823,47C
to about 1,320,000. or only GO per cent.
The "open shop" effort in the Bos-
ton building trades has not as yet
taken any definite form or mo\'e The
labor union officials are thoroughlY
satisfied that it will not prevail in that
city , no matter how the test Is macle
All the building trades unions have
discussed the matter in their meet-
ings and central delegate bodies , and
the union program is all arranged In
case the employers attempt the statuI.
The Cigarmakers' Journal says :
"The membership of the International
union is greater now than it has ever
been before , having reached about -12-
000 regular 30'cent contributing mem- I
bers This argues well for the future ,
and is n sure indication that we are
on a solid foundation and that nothing
can destroy us except our own folly
No power from without can accom-
p1lsh your defeat or disrupt the International -
national union. "
Japan has a federation of labor
with almost 300,000 member , accord-
ing to Australian labor papers , which
go on to say that this organization
has been struggling for improved con-
ditions for the working class In Japan
and its efforts are being rewarded by
the enactment of a factory law regu-
lating hours of labor , age of workers ,
etc" , and compelling employers : to be
considerate of the health and sa1'oly of
their l)1nploj'os ,
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"O'Reilly. "
The names that you hell nowadays are
most queer
And those ot the Russians the worst :
Though little Japan hUH qucol' names Corn
n man , ,
For good ones old Ireland stands I1rst.
No Dob-o-lIn-ltin-sltlcs arc born over
there ,
No Pnd-er-n-wlsltles that aU own to
hair ,
They're simply the pluln that you hear
ev'rywhore , I
And the best oC them nIl la O'nclIl !
'J'RelIIy , 0'Re1l13' . It's n name that Is
spoken of highly ;
Thero's Dooleys and Doogn , 1\Ic-
Qual1cs and l\cCoys ,
And oV'ry son ot them are mighty line
boys ,
But 0' Relll ' , O'RclIly ,
'l'hcrc'8 smoothness about It tlmt's 'I-h' ,
1'herc's many n Haute that has honol'
and fame ,
But divii a one IIItO O'Reilly.
They once came to blows , did the Macs
and the O's ,
As to which was the best of the two :
The Macs had to alnlt Into silent repose ,
What else could the poor dh'lla 110'1
They had a committee to canvass the
Isle , .
'ro size lip the names I\S to weight and
to style.
And they laughed In their sleeves , for
they knew all the while
There was no other name hut O'Reilly.
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- 1'ho Royal Chet
The World's Oldest Coin.
That money , in the form of coin ,
should be n. comparative ! recent invention -
vention , if we mar use the word ,
seems too odd to he true. But we are
reminded of the fact by the news sent
from Turkey in Asia that n. German
archaeologist has just obtained mime
oldest coin In existence , which only !
dates from the ninth century before
the Christian era ,
It was from the mint , If the expres-
sion may he used of such an early
date , of an Ammean king of Schamo :
This oldest Known coin is , wo believe ,
about twelve centuries older than the
oldest existing hoole. But coins , being
made of precious metal , are enormously
Iy durnble. Some of time earliest and
best coins of the Mediterranean basin (
are those of the old Greek colony 01
Czyzlcus , on the Hellespont , and prob
ably the oldest existing piece of metal !
work of which the date Is known Ic I !
the tripod , made to celebrate the vic-
tory of Plataea br the Greeks over
the Persians , The golden hall which
it supported is gone But the trlpo.1
itself , designed to imitate twisted serpents -
pents , is still kept in the mosque of
St. Sophia . at Constantinople.
Convicts Make tntoxlcant.
Officials of the Western peniten-
tiary at Pittsburg , Pa" , discovered that
convicts are making an intoxicating
drink , which they call "gyl < e , " right
under their eres. Quantities of a
powerful stimulant made of rice and
potato peelings , boiled and ferment-
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ed , and said to keep an imbiber intoxicated -
cated for twentyfour hours , have been
found. Prison officials are astounded
that the practice could bo continued
without coming to the notice of the
guards. Discovery was made in connection '
nection with the general rigid ( investigation -
gatlon instituted after the story of the
cutting affray between two prisoners
in the penitentiary a short time ago
Prisoners , it is said , have been Intoxi
cated frequently for some time , and
how ] they secured liquor has been a
deep m'stery 'V II. Delhi , former
nmayor , and a member of the pl'lson
board , admitted that two months ago
the mald&1g of the rime ] was c1lscov-
ered. It was thought then to bu
stopped , hut the late discoveries show
that the ingenuity of the prisoners
was able to overcome official watch
fulness.
Polite Children of East Bolivia.
Capt Jermarm of Rio do .Janolro ,
who recently returned from a journey
Into the rubber districts of East Bo
livia , almost in the heart of Central 1
America , visited a town In the very
interior , 50 far from civJlization that :
ft required a horseback ride of three
daYs td get to it , There he found two
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schools for boys and one for the girls
of time place , but only one teacher ,
who was an old half.breed This old
man was drunk when the traveler sr
rived , and remalnod drunk for two
da 's. i.
"But , " says Capt. .Jel'mnnn , "tho children . "
dren were just ns good and well-be. ' : ' ;
hayed as if they were enjoying time '
best educational chances in limo world. ' 1-
They were us polite ItS the most cultured . .
ured t people In the outside worlll , and :
were eager to show 11\0 attentions : ,
without , however , pressing them upon
me.
Inc."They "
"They 1e'OentOl'ed \ n. house , not
oven a shop , without knocking nt the , ; : .
door or time side mill obtaining permls-
sian to come In. After this permission , - ,
was given they always took off their
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shoes , which they left outsldo " .
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How Chinese Cure Sick.
Time Chinese have a curious way of . ; .
curing their slcle. When n. man suffers - ' ,
fern with n serious Illness , one of his ' ' ; '
friends , usually time dearest , performs
a strange ceremony to effect a cure , " .
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For this ho procures a light branch ,
of n. tree , strips off all the lea ies , . ,
with the exception of II few at time OIut
and to this ho fastens It small mirror
of polished steel , and under thi h < : ho ! .
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attaches one of the gnrments of I 'n - \
suffOl'er Thus strangely equlppe J ha i . >
takes I\ short walk In the country ,
throwing time branch across his shellll- t
lieI' , while the garment Is waving In s
time wind. t
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During the time ho is walking a } !
priest in the nearest church offers t
prayers for the cure of time one who 18 j
Ill " ; ! 6 ,
The Chinese think that time garment :
of time sick person will attract time Illness . ;
ness of its master , and so will relieve
him. This Is regarded as an infallible . : „
nieans to cure those they love. "
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Ducks Lcd by a PI9eon.
One of time strangest sights overseen
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seen hr sportsmen was witnessed thE r
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other day on the duck pass owned by
Url Lamprey or St. Paul.
1\11' Lamprey and a friend hnd been
shooting for sumo time when they :
observed 11 flock of lucks coming ' .
along from the north. The ducks were
lue-wingel1 teal and at their head
was a while hiI'd.
'rhat's queer , " said 1\11' Lamprey :
"I'll take the white bird and see what
it is "
Both sportsmen fired , both bringing
down their hiI'd. Upon examination b
it was found that the leader of the . ,
lucks was a tame white pigcon.
if anyone has ever before seen a
Hock of ducks led by a white pigeon
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it Is time for him ] to rise and say so
The Sneezeweed Tree.
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Among Its many other peculiarities ,
South Africa . includes the " sneeze - I
wood" tree , which takes its name from '
time fact that one cannot cut it with a
saw without sneezing Even in plan i
Ing the wood It will sometimes have 1'1
the same effect.
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No insect or worm will touch it : it fa ;
hitter to the taste , and its specific ( grav- { j
ity is heavier than water ' 1
The color Is light brown , the grain - " - I ;
runllln very close and hard : It is , too .1
a nlce.loolting wood , and takes a good
lIollsh For dock work , piers , or jet-
ties It is a most useful timber , leeep- ; 1
lug sound a long time while under
wllter - (
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Capture of Big Game In Arlzf > na.
Al loagland returned yesterday
from time .Jluachucas He brought
back the biggest black hear hide wo
over saw , the prettiest wildcat pelt ,
two big musical yellow rattlesnakes
and time beautiful skin of n. peculiar
kind of king snalee.
Al will make rugs of the "varmint"
skins , n hat band of the snake skin
and pets of the ruttleonalees.-'fornb.
stone Epltallh
Millions In Five . Cent PIeces
It is HaitI that the New York city
transportation ) companies collected 1 ,
000.000,000 five.cent pieces last yoar. . ,
This means that $50,000.000vas eel ?
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