10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUKDAT , AUGUST G , 18 ! ) ! ) .
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For three days Monday , Tuesday and Wednesday.
JI EfGINNING tomorrow morning and continuing for three days \ vevill hold the Fifth of our Series of Mid-Summer Cut .Price Sales.
This sale \vill embrace nardware , jewelry , cutlery , meat , butter , candy , soda fountain and drug departments. Also a big out price
sale on 2Oth Century Bicycle Lamps. Don't fail to visit our store during this sale. We are serving free summer drinlts to everybody.
Come invhen you are thirsty. "Follow the Red Line.33
k/X/N/J Free Lemonade in Basement.
Special Cut Price Sale on 20th Century ! Hardware Dept.
BICYCLE LAMPS A few genuine bargains in household articles.
Candies Cut Prices
at Fresh
Fruit Press 25c
GAS S2.IO OIL $1.68 ALL OUR CANDIES ARE PURE AND FRESH. Country Flat Iron Stand 8c
\ The best lamps made at any price. Gum Drops , . 5c per Ib. Pott's ' Sad Iron Handles , only 5c
< Butter
Special .Mixed 6c per Ib. Rotary Biscuit Cutter 8c
Chocolate Creams 12c per Ib. Bird Hooks 12c
12c , 14c , 16c , 18c Cage -
Cutlery Bargains Stick Candy 8c per Ib. per pound. Apple Corer , only 5c
Salted Peanuts lOc per 1 b. Apple Pearer , Corer ifeSlicercombined onl. .50c
6-inch Butcher Knives , sale price 9c One-half Pound Box Candy mixed or straight Received direct from the Ice Picks , only 6c
Mint Lozenges. Lemon Drops , Wlntersreen Lozenges , rj t - farmers who make it. Delivered -
Saw Edge Bread Knives , sale price 7c Burnt Peanuts , Wrapped Ciiramols , only * UUA Combination Ice Pick and Chisel lOc
Shears , 7 , 8 and 9-inch , sale price 9c Snop drops 10c per Ib. , , livered on ice to yolir ref - Wire Egg Whip 2c
Bread , Cake and Paring Knives , set of three Arabian Gum Drops l5c per Ib. < , f rigerator. Lemon Squeezers 9c
pieces , sale price 13c Galvanized Cherry Stoners 79c
Best Steel Paring Knife , in wooden cart Best Ice Cream Soda 2 Cents a Glass. Grass Hooks 21c
ridge box , sale price 8c Hatchets , up from 13c
Ebony and Kosowood Handle Table Knives , Monkey Wrench - . . . - 5c
sale price 12c Here it is : Spanish Choice Cotton Clothes Line , 50 feet lOc
Ebony and Kosewood Handle Forks , fancy Large assortment of elegant Bouquet Picnic Hams Wire Clothes Line , 75 feet - 21c
sale Plate Lifter 5c
mounting , price 10c '
Wm. Kogers' 12 dwt. Knives , every knife gant pocketbooks fancy leather ladies' Soap 7c Wire Pot Cleaner and Scraper combined. . . . DC
warranted , sale price per set of 5 1.24 Heliotrope Perfume 3 cakes in a Per Pound ,
Wm. Bogers' XIII Plain Tipped and Shell box per box Some Tinware Bargains
Pattern Tea Spoons , set of 6 , sale . . 98c 39c
per pr.
Wm. Kogers' All Fancy Beaded and Elberon 9c Nice Mackerel Bread Pan lOc Six Cup Gem Pan. lOc
Pattern Tea Spoons , sale price , set of 6. . . 98c each as long as they last. 3c each Pie Tins , each 3c Milk Pans 4c \
Biggest bargain over offered In Gallon Oil Cans. . . . 15c Large Milk Pans. . 8c
A Worth 75c anywhere. fine Toilet Soap. As long as the lust. Glass Oil Cans 20c Pudding Pans. . . . 5c
Jewelry Bargain DRUG DEPT. DRUG DEPT. MEAT DEPT. Tin Tea Pot lOc Tin Coffee Pot. . . . lOc
A limited quantity of Solid Gold extra heavy Wash Basin 5c Tin Boilers
engraved Band Rings , while they last 98c Magic Flour Sifters lOc
Wild Cherry Phosphate Free in Drug Dept.
I5TH AND CAPITOL AVENUE , OMAHA. ( Mall orders receive special attention. )
We originate others imitate watch them do it We lead others follow watch them fall in line.
STRANGE STRIKE CYCLES
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Labor Troubles Epidemic in Periods of
Eleven Yean.
NEW YORK THE GREATEST STRIKE CITY
Ilciuarknlilc Figure * SIiovrlnR the
Colt of Striken In America and -
1'roportliinntc
of Knvlt Sltlc.
( Copyright , 1S99 , by the Author. )
The recent strikes In Now York , Cleveland
and elsewhere of the street car men , the
newsboys , the messengers and the garment
cutters calls attention to eomo remarkable
statistics complied on this subject. It has
long ( been the general Impression that Chicago
cage was the greatest at alt strike centers ,
with the Flttburg and Allegheny regions a
close second. This , however , is not the
COHO. According to statistics prepared by
Carroll D. Wright , commissioner of labor ,
and covering seven years , Now York had
3,614 strikes ; Brooklyn , C71 , making a total
for Greater Now York of 3,283 strikes , or an
average of about 470 strikes each year. To
compare with this largo number Chicago
was afflicted during the same period ot time
with 628 strikes , or only sovonty'-uvo a year ,
lloston followed with 257 strikes and then
came Allegheny and Plttsburg , where the
workmen in tbo steel mills have made thetn-
eolvcs famous the world over as Industrial
flghUre , with 251 strikes. Following IMtts-
l > urg cornea Philadelphia and other cities In
the order named : 6U Louis , Cincinnati , Mil
waukee , Lynn , Fair River , San Francisco ,
Baltimore and New Haven.
JJut If Now York had the largest number
of atrlkcs In seven years It can at least
boast that they were not as violent nor as
extended as thono of Chicago. For Instance ,
In what la now Greater Now York the em
ployers' loss from strikes during seven years
waa only a little over 14,000,000 , while
Chicago's loss reached the enormous sum of
$14,400,000 , giving a graphic insight Into the
comparative violence ot the strikers in the
two localities. In the same period the strik
ers themselves lost In Now York about $16-
000,000 , whllo In Chicago tbo loss was about
$10,000,000 , showing that the strikers ot the
western city , to use a slang phrase , "got
jnoro for their money" than tho. Now York
FOR UNBELIEVERS.
Popular Mcruliunt IIIIM UiiilertuUen to
Ouiivliiru Ilnrili-iieil Skeptic * ,
There ore many people who believe that
no remedy exists that will cure rheumatism.
They have tried dozens of sure cures , and
etlll they suffer , but all such cases are as
sured that at last a remedy has been dls-
cor red that has cured thousands ot so-called
hopeless cases , The name ot the remedy is
Gloria Tunic , and la even endorsed by phy-
Blolans.
Dr. Qutntcro of the University of Venerue-
Ja to whom Gloria Tonic had been recom
mended by the U , 8 , Consul testifies that he
used It with excellent success among bis
patients. Mr. F. Faerber of the Concordla
Publ. House , St. Louts , was cured , when
eminent pbyslclani , mineral baths , etc. ,
failed. Gloria Tonic sells at $1.00 a package
or live packages , consisting of an average
cure , for $3.50. It is a wonderful remedy
and there Is hardly any doubt but that It
will euro any case of rheumatism , no matter
how many other remedies have failed , Sold
Jbf Kuhu & Co. , 16th and Douglas Street * ,
strikers ; that IB , for every dollar that the
New York strikers spent In losa of wages and
In assistance given by the labor unions to
cases of suffering , they made the employers
spend only 26 cents. On the other hand , the
strikers of Chicago , for every dollar which
they test , made the employers lose $1.40 ; that
is , they toeat them In the contest of dollars.
It may also bo sold In passing that when
Allegheny and Plttsburg have a strike It Is
usually a struggle to the death , the losses
being severe on both aides , showing that
fighting comes natural to the blood of the
Ponnsyrvanlan. Although these two cities
had only 251 strikes In the seven years
named , the employes lost $9,000,000 and the
employers lost nearly $2,600,000.
Tlic Strike Cycle.
Another curious fact which comes to light
as a result of the present apparent epidemic
ot strikes 1s what may be called the "strike
cycle , " A financial panic is supposed to
corao once In every twenty years. Statis
tics would Indicate that a strike epidemic
is due about once In every alevcn years ,
In the middle 'COo , Just following tbo
war , there was a largo number of strikes i
all over the United States. Albout clo\en |
years later eomo of the bitterest railroad
strikes of the world took place
In the United States. This period Is
still known In the histories as the "strIKo
year of ' " 7. " Again , about eleven years
later In the late 'S0 , came the famous
"Q" strikes , beginning with tbo Chicago ,
Burlington & Qulncy , and finally Involving
many other railroad lines a strike almost
unequalcd In length and bitterness. And
now , if the cloven-year cycle holds good ,
it would seem that we were approaching an
other epidemic , and the fever of tbo strike
situation In New York and Cleveland , to
say nothing of rumors of disturbances else
where , would Indicate that the cycle theory
was not unfounded in fact.
Given any one particular strike , It is.
comparatively easy to compute all the
chances In connection with It ; how long it
will last , which side will win , and , in a
general way , what the percentage of loss
will to to both strikers and to employers.
In gathering Ills statistics for thirteen
years Mr. Wright has shown that the strik
ers and employers are- about equally plucky
as fighters ; that is , that they each stand
About equal chance of winning a victory.
Statistics were collected shewing how many
strikes succeeded , how raHny failed and
how many partly succeeded. The results
reveal the fact that 44.49 per cent of the
strikes were won by the strikers ; 44,23 per
cent were won by the employers that Is ,
failed. The remainder , 11.28 per cent ,
were drawn 'battles , the strikers fcucceejlng
partially. It will , therefore , tie seen that
the striker * have just a ihadow of i bettor
chance to win any strike that they may
undertake than , the employers , 'but that
fewer than bait of the strikes are won , so
that the game of striking Is as clean cut
a piece of gambling as one would wish. It
would seem , comparing American with Brit
ish statistics , that American strikers , whllo
they are hard flghtere , do not wnge quite so
bitter a warfare as do the Englishmen. Their
battle is sharp iwhllo It lasts , but when it
is over they are willing to eomo together ,
shako hands and make a fine settlement.
We find from British statistics that a Tery
much larger proportion of strikes In Eng
land are left unsettled than in America.
For Instance , in the year 189G , 39.5 per
cent of the strikes were won by the work
ing people , 33.4 per cent by the employers ,
whllo the unsettled etrlkes reached the
large proportion ot 27.1 per cent , and this
was an exceptional year , for In 1892 the
percentage of compromised or unsettled
strikes reached 62.C per cent , and In 1S95
It reached 48per cent. Similar statistics
show that the average strike covering the
period of thirteen years , and Including walk
outs In no fewer than 69,166 establishments ,
lasted for 25,4 days ; that In , both strikers
and employers had a surfeit of fighting in
almost exactly ono working month. Ot
course , some of the famous strikes lasted
much longer than this , and during the last
few years the one-day strike has been fre
quent , but the Chances , if one Is figuring at
the beginning of the strike , is that It will
last for a full working month.
SerlouH Side of Striken.
It is a more serious thing than either
striker or employer Imagines to engage in
ono of these industrial battles. It is , In
deed , almost aa expensive in money and
sometimes quite as expensive in killed and
wounded as a latter-day war. In this respect
the statistics for thirteen years are hardly
short of appalling , They show that the
employes affected by strikes and lockouts
lost on account of their idleness the vast
sum of nearly $190,000,000 In wages. During
these years labor unions and other organiza
tions which had accumulated surpluses
during years of Industrial peace spent more
than $13,000,000 In the relief of suffering
strikers and their families. In other words ,
it cost the strikers of the United States
more than $203,800,000 to take part In the
strikes ot thirteen years. During the same
period of time the loss to employers from
strikes and lockouts was nearly $95,000,000.
It will thus be seen that during these thirteen
years the strikers lost more than $2 tor
every $1 $ of loss by the employers. In other
worts , every striker who throws down hl
tools and goes out must expect that It will
cost him just twice as much In proportion as
it will cost hit employer , although accordIng -
Ing to the lUtletlcs already quoted he has
an equal chance of winning the strike and
thereby of bettering his wages or his hours
and , In a measure , of making up In money
received or In freedom gained for the losses
which ho encountered while the battle was
on. As to the number of persons killed In
strikes or of those wounded or of the fam
ilies which have gene hungry because the
head of the household had no work , there
are no existing statistics , and yet every one
who has teen through a strike knows that
this phase of the conflict Is the most heart
rending of any. In the great strikes of Chicago
cage in 1894 many men wore both killed and
wounded and hundreds of families , most of
which belonged to the 'better class of workIng -
Ing men , were left entirely destitute ot the
ordinary necessaries of life. The writer of
this article saw women , the mistresses of
homes. In which there wore One pianos and
rugs and olctures and many of the other
trappings of comfort , igot down on their
knees in the model town of Pullman , with
Its model streets , its model water works ,
its model sewerage , its model church and its
supposedly model factory , and beg with tears
in their eyes for a handful of flour and a
bit of 'bacon ' to keep their children from
starving. This and the demoralization
which comes to a man who has fought in a
lost cause and who knows that -wherever ho
turns all the gates of employment will bo
closed against him , these things , which have
no part in a dry collection of statistics , are
the features which bring the deepest misery
and lend to the strike Its deepest shades
of wrong.
Variety of Cnnso * .
There being a strike , a man who , guessIng -
Ing as to Its cause , should eay that the em
ployes had demanded nn Increase of wages
would stand one chance In four of being
correct. That Is , statistics ot the labor
bureau chaw that 25 per cent of the strikes
are caused by a demand for an Increase in
wages. About one-eighth of the strikes ,
or 13 per cent , are caused -by a demand
for reduction of hours. Six and six-tenths
per cent represent a demand 'both ' for In
creased wages and a reduction of hours ,
3.33 per cent represent a demand tor a now
scale , and 2.8 per cent represent a demand
for the recognition of the union to which
the man bolons. It will bo seen , therefore ,
taking all of these different percentages' ' , and
adding them together , that C4.33 per cent ,
or moro than half the the strikes , were
caused by positive and aggressive demands
on the part ot the strikers themselves. In
all of these cases the employers , apparently ,
were willing that conditions should bo un
changed , that the strikers should go on with
their work as they had been doing In the
past ; whereas , the strikers , on ing to im
proved times , or for some other cause , had
concluded that the old conditions could no
longer prevail and had apparently failed In
their efforts to remedy them hy any other
means than toy a strike. On the other
hand , statistics show that a considerable
nunvber ot strikes are the result of some
change on the part of the employer to
which the worklngmon will not agree. For
Instance , 8 per cent of the strikes for eevon
years , according to statistics gathered by
Mr. Wright , were brought about toy an at
tempt on the part of the employer to reduce -
duce wages ; and 3.C per cent were 'brought '
about by an attempt of the employers to
Introduce non-union men In their factories
or on their railroads. A third class ot
strikes , In which the relations of employer
and employe would seem to 'be ' congenial ,
is that in which the men go out owing to
sympathy for strikers In some allied trade.
The sympathy strikes during the seven
years are put down us 7.73 per cent of the
whole. They are the result of the remark-
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able organizations ot worklngmcn in unions ,
a movement which has been a marked fea
ture of Industrial conditions during the last
twenty years.
Equally Interesting and instructive sta
tistics have been gathered as to the settle
ment of strikes and they show one thing
upon which the American worklngman and
his employer are much to be congratulated.
They show that both of the parties to the
controversy have at heart a feeling of frank
friendship and mutual approval. They
would much rather discuss their grievances
openly than go to the dire measures of the
extended strike or to bother with arbitra
tion commissions or to fight "scabs , " They
enow that moro than one-half of the strikes
are settled by direct arrangement between
WORKMEN WOM ( UfiDEcmgp EMPLQYERSWON
the parties Interested and that only about
one-twentieth are settled by aibltratlon.
IncreunliiR Frciincncy of Strike * .
Strikes In America , as well as In England ,
have been exceedingly frequent since 1857 ,
the great strikes of that year having served
In way to school both striker and em
ployer In the tactics and strategy of in
dustrial warfare. Today It has become a
science in which both sides are well skilled
in using every weapon which comes to Its
hands. The employer thunders with hln
Jcgal injunctions and the employe advances
with his boycott , a weapon often moro cf-
ftctlvo than the strike Itself. I suppojo
there have been strikes , that Is , defining
strikes as the simple refusal on the part of
employes to work for the employer , since
Cain refused to work In his father's apple
orchard. The very first American strike re
corded on the pages of history occurred In
the year 1741 , In those days striken went
by the more serious name of conspiracies
This particular strike was called tlio
"bakers' conspiracy. " All of the bakers of
New York City refubed to bake any moro
bread until their wages were raised. The
officials wcro naturally much shocked at
this condition and without more ado nr-
rrsted , tried and convicted every ono of the
strikers for the crime of conspiracy and
made them all go back to baking bread
whether they would or not. In 1803 there
came the notorious sailors' strike In Now
York City and In 1835 there wore no fewer
than fifteen strikes In America , and econo
mists and DamphlotetrB Immediately an
nounced that the world must be coming to
an end , elco no such' dreadful Industrial
conditions could endure. What would they
think if they could know of the 475 strikes
every year n New York City nlono ? And
then , after the civil war , began the great
movement for an eight-hour day , Hero ,
too , the labor unions got their first great Im
petus , due to fluctuations In the currency ,
rapid accumulation of wealth and the widen.
Ing field of labor , due to the abolition of
slavery. If It had not been for the civil
war the labor unions would certainly have
been far behind what they are today In
completeness of organization and In other
lines of development. In 1872 there wcro
fully 100,000 workmen , mostly In Now York
City , who struck for an elght-hour day , and
nJter three months of fierce struggle most of
these strikes were succeiuful. Then In 1877
came the great railroad strikes , beginning on
the Baltimore & Ohio in Wcat Virginia , It
was caused by a 10 per cent reduction In
wages and so great was the feeling through
out the country that the trooj s refused to
flro on the strikers , and as a result the
tountry suffered vabt property lotscs. jn
Plttsburg alone the loss exceeded $5,000 008
Other great strikes have be n what ii
known as the "Q" strike , involving th
middle west ; the Homestead strikes of west
ern Pennsylvania and the great strikes at
Chicago In 1894 , in which the American Rail ,
way union played so important a part.
HAY STANNABD BAKER.
OUT OF TUB OIIDI.VAIIY.
Poarrs are sometimes found in mussel
iJ W&fl.W'IW .
Some of the condors shot in the Andeo
mountains have a spread of wing from fif
teen to twenty feet.
f.pnpcr Is mndo frotn wc
. , .
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wh ch Is
so transparent that It may ba used
Instead of glass for -windows.
Water is a very good transmitter ot eounfl.
A scientist by the name of Caleflon mad
some experiments on Lake Geneva. Switzer
land , to demonstrate the power of sound to
travel1 a long way In water. A clo6k wag
made to utrlka under the water and was
Hoard to a distance of twclva miles. In
the second experiment the striking of a
clock was heard to a distance of twent-
seven miles.
On those rare occasions when the aid of
the European physician is souflht for a tamale -
male member ot any Mohammedan family at
distinction the only part of the patient
which the doctor Is permitted to see is the
hand , which is thrust for that purpow
through a small opening in a curtain. This
has had the effect of making medical men
able to give fairly respectable diagnoses
based upon the sight of the hand nrone.
The Hollanders are perhaps of all tbo
northern people those who smoke the most.
The humidity of their climate makes it
almost a necessity and the moderate coat of
tobacco with them renders it accessible to
all. To show how deeply rooted Is th
habit , it Is enough to say that the boatmen of
the trckschuit , the aquatic dlllgencB of Ifol-
rand , measures distances by smoking.
Krom hero , they say , to such-and-such a
place , It Is not so many miles , but no many
pipes. When you enter a bouse , after the
first salutatlonR , your host offers you a
cigar ; when you take leave ho hands you
another and often insists upon filling your
cigar case.
One of the oldest bridges In Europe U
noon to disappear , under the demand for butter -
tor navigation of the river it spans. This
Is the stone bridge , with fifteen archsa and
a total length of 99J feet , built across the
Danube at Hegensburg ( Hatlsbon ) , in Ba
varia , by Duke Henry the Superb in 1135-40.
The piers rest on piles protected by stone
riprap and heavy Ice breakers , the roadway
Is very narrow and the footways allow the
passage of only ono person at a time , Hans
Knchs , the poet-shoemaker of Neurenberg
Bang Its praises as ono of the wonders of
the builders' art and the strongest bridge in
Germany. Bo far as Its stability Is con
cerned , It would probably stand for another
750 years , but It Interferes with tb
of steamboats.
Colored
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, _ . " "Mr. II. L. Myera , 100
Mulberry Street , Newark , N. J. ,
Bays : "I contracted a terrible blood
d HCBBO which broke out Into sore * r
511 ? vSrmy bod7I "Pent hun
dred dollars with
dootori but crow
worse Instead of better. Many
blood remedies were also used with
no effect , until I decided to try 8,8.8.
. This remedy neemed to get at tha
neat of the diseuge and cured m
completely and permanently. "
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