PUBLIC SHOULD OWN.
GREAT UTILITIES SHOULD NOT
BE IN PRIVATE HANDS.
Municipal Ownership Han Reduced
Klptnti, Ilettered Service, l-hnrt-cncd
Hour of l.ubamnd Haiaed tlie
'agu of Laboring Men.
Public ownership is only another
name for cooperation. Ail over tins
broad land of unparalleled richness,
men Industrious, honest, earnest men
arc compelled lo trump In enforced
Idleness, ajid vainly beg for a share in
the wealth their hands have produced.
Kegging for toll is not a ui;w propo
sition, liut.lt. Is one wholly at variance
with any Just conception of democracy
or brotherhood. A man begging for
leave to toil, which Is, In otlcr words,
Wave to llvi cannot be a good citizen.
The greatest pood that we aiv to find
through municipal ownership, will be
found In the Improved quality of our
citizenship.
Through the work that has lieen done
In till city (Detroit), to control street
railroad and electric lighting, thou
sands of dollars monthly of the po
ple's money that were being heaped up
a private wealth ig now saved lo the
people. Selfishness has made, and will
continue to make, every conceivable
effort to keep the people from taking
what belongs to them, but we are rap
Idly approach;:.;; a period where his
tory, not loss than th.-nry, Is coming to
onr aid.
When Glasgow, Li ci rtnd Plymouth
adopted public ownership of the street
railways, they liettcnd the service, re
duced fares, shortened hours of labor
and rals-d the wage of men. Every
city In this) or any other country that
municipalizes Its work of Improvement,
substitutes day labor for contract, gets
better work, pay lx'ttcr wnges, and
usually shortens the hours of labor, not
only making money, but what Is In
finitely of more importance, making
men.
1 ho growth of sentiment In favor of
public ownership, at) seen In this con
vention of representative men. Indi
cates that the mind 'of the people is
rapUlly clarifying ou thin question.
They are beginning to see that no good
reason exists why till the people in the
city shall way to a few of the people,
the lighting company, the water works
company, the street railway company,
"Now, all of us will give you (a few
of us) the right to get rich off from the
rest of us." Large numbers of the
people are ls-glunlng to see that the
only wealth that is In any sense theirs
Is the commonwealth, and with in
stincts that are perfectly natural they
are striving to regain possessions that
have passed out of their hands, usually
through the practice of deception and
frand.
We have hail a striking example of
the law lcsxiiesH of capital In the experi
ence of the government In attempting
to tax corporations to raise revenue for
the war. The Government says: "We
will tax the telegraph companies so
much for each message sent." It would
have licen easy enough for the f, -a titers
of the law. If they desired to tax the
Individuals direct, to say that each per
son sending a message should pay so
much, but they had no such purpose.
Their purpose was loinx the telegraph
companies, as they plainly stated In as
plain language as can be chosen. The
Government says, we will tax the tele
graph companies, but. says the tele
graph company, we will tax the people,
and Immediately an order Is Issued
that every patron of that company
hall contribute his mite to relieve the
corporation of a share of the burden
that the Government sought to Impose
upon It. Identically the SHme thing Is
true of the express companies, and as
these corporations have appealed to the
courts to aid them In evading the law,
the people can only stand and await
the result.
The League of American Municipali
ties has brought out the fact that hun
dreds of cities now operating their own
public utilities In one form or another
prove that the question of the wisdom
of municipal ownership has passed out
of the domain of the problems. The
question that the people are now con
sidering Is how to get selllshness to re
lease lt grasp upon these valuable her
itages of the people. I confess I know
no better way than to appeal to the pa
triotism of every loyal citizen. Patriot
ism calls men to laave home and fam
ily or school or shop or farm to go at
their country's cull, heedless of the
weary march and rusting Idleness of
the camp, the carnage and terrors of
battle, and he who shuns his country's
call Is counted as lngrate, and his name
Is held In everlasting odium and con
tempt. And upon the patriots, who,
from all over this land have so nobly
responded to their country's call to go
and fight for the relief of the Cuban
reconcentrados, a grateful people Is
now lavishing Its wealth of love and
affection. !
Why does not patrlollsm call for ser
vice In the lime of peace lis well as
war? Why should the soldier go out to
face pestilence, danger and death In
order that the good of all may lie con
served, while the financier Is honored
and counted great for remaining at
home nmidsi the luxurious appoint
ments of a comfortable olHce, seeking !
to coiinTve only lis own good? Why,
If we truly love our country, should not
our hearts lie moved to pity ns we con
template our own great army of (lis-
Inherited, of dlshearti lied, discouraged,
hopeless ones, beaten In the race of
life? Why shoiifd our enthusiasm not
lie aroused for tl.em? And why should
not Ihe patriot sin of the financiers who
Lave shown conspicuous and marked
sbilliy In providing for themselves so
Inspire them to come forward In tue
hour of the city's peril and offer their
services for the good 01 all of the peo
ple In the ministry of social need I J
building u public lighting plant, man
aging a street railway or tluanelei'li g
any work of Improvement for the Issne
flt of all the people?
I believe the time Is coming, and may
God hasten the day, when we hall
come to see, as did Frances Wlllard,
the great apostle of temperance, liefore
' her death, that poverty Is the cause of
l drunkenness, no les than drunkenness
is the cause of ioverty, and that, If we
' pursue our Investigations in a logical,
1 careful nminer, we will find that the
j poor man Is the corollary of the mll
j lloualre and that of a necessity from
which there is no possible escape if we
are to have millionaires on the one
hand, we must have poor men on the
other.
I deny any man the right to say that
I am making a warfare upon wealth.
I am pleading for more wealth. I am
pleading that more of our people now
doomed to hopeless poverty may share
In the wealth that their hands have
produced. I plead that the captains of
Industry, the men who are honored for
their ability as bankers and financiers,
as street rail way 'magnates, as manag
ers and owner of great railioad cor
Ioratlons, express ami telegruph com
panies; I plead with these as fellow
citizens of a republic of equals; I plead
with them from the standpoint of one
who loves his fellowmen with a pas
sion that will never die. And I say to
you, my brothers, who hold In your
hands the wealth of the world, where
Is your patriot Ism? Do you love your
country? If you do, then you love
your fellow-men, and there never was
an hour of greater need that you should
manifest your love for your fellow
men than the present one; that you
should cease your hourdlng of dollars
and turn your attention to your Idle
brothers, and devote your ability, n t to
massing more wealth for yourseJves,
but to saving the people, of whom you
are one, from the fearful social distress
and agony of this hour. I am not ask
ing for charity. We have too much of
that. Charity sock to continue the
present order, seeks to palliate the trou
ble for to-day, but I am pleading for a
social order of fair play, n social order
of doing as you would be done by. And
1 deny any man or woman the right to
any claim to a love of country unless
that man or woman Is as ready to serve
the country In times of peace as the
most (ieMiteil soldier in time of war.
1 must not be misunderstood upon
this point. That man or woman, rich
or XHir, high or low, black or white,
does not live for wliom I have In my
heart any other feeling than that of
brotherly iove. I am resting upon a
rot-k bottom conclusion that we are all
made of one common piece of clay; that
we have one father, even God, and we
are all brothers; that if our problems
are ever lo be solved, they must be
solved together.
The trouble Is not so much with the
Individuals that compose our social
structure as with the form of the struc
ture itself. The bricks In a building
may all be good bricks, and yet the
building be so constructed and faulty
In Its arehitccturo that Instead of min
istering to the needs of the human fam
ily. Its very existence may ie a menace
to life Itself. And the Imperative de
mand of this hour upon us, as repre
sentatives of the municipalities In
America Is, that we shall set ourselves
to the tjisk of so changing our system
that through the medium of public
ownership the woallh of the pwple
may again come Into the hands of
those who have produced It, and the
realization of the dreams of our fore
fathers Khali be fulfilled, and we shall
have the perfected republic In which
every man shall le secure In the pos
session of the fruit of the labor of his
hands. From an address by the Hon.
Samuel M. Jones, Mayor of Toledo,
given at the convention of the League
of American Munlclpaltlos at Detroit.
Its Would Not.
Suppose one monopolist owned the
whole country, would he lot things go
on as they arc at present?
Would he sihtuI millions every montli
for advertising?
Would he pay rent and clerk hire for
l.rssj stores In one city when six would
do?
Would he keep 50.000 drummers trav
eling about?
Would he pay for 80,000 churches and
clergy ?
Would he permit Wall street gam
blers to get rich by fleecing him?
Would he pay Interest on bonds when
ho had money to pay them with?
Would he give tankers the contract
to make his money, and pay them for
their trouble?
Would be choose gold, the dearest
commodity, for money, when ho had
jKwer to make money of paper?
Would he hand over his purse strings
to foreign financiers?
Would he give away franchises and
land to Irresponsible corporations?
Would he have all his work done by
the contract system?
Would he lot Individuals run his rail
roads, and refuse to carry him If he
could not pay his fare?
Would he lot them own his wheat
fields, ajid refuse him bread If he
lucked a nickel fur a lonf?
Would he let them manage his fac
tories, and refuse him clothes unles
h would pay them t.h4r own price for
the stilt!
Would ho let them take over his own
house and turn hkn out on the street
because he couldn't pay the rent?
No, hs would not allow any of these
nlmurd things Yet this is Just what
the people have permitted and voted
for. Herbert II. Oasson. -
A Thriftless Habit.
What an oversight It was on tho part
of the Creator to make sleep necessary
for poor folks. Bleep Is a non-product
Ire, thriftless, unpatriotic habit, and.
like property, was certainly never
nteaot for tbe masses, Coming Nation.
Attribute of Money.
Money must be a commodity of lim
ited purcbasiw: power glveu fluency or
general purchasing power.
Those who take this view hold tha
general value is no gain over limited
ralne, and so that money value Is no'
ether than commodity value.
But general use gives a larger de
mand, and this use is as a priceiiutker
and not vultie maker, while the limited
use as a commodity acaiinot be consid
ered as under the actions, powers and
functions of money at all, nor can,
therefore, money be In ajiy relative way
considered at or comparand to commodi
ties at all.
As a matter of fact, the commercial
value of no money is known, what Is
so called being its exchange value or Is
fictitious, for money cannot be reduced
to a commodity; yet there are those
who think present money Is so defect
ive as a commodity standard or meas
ure of value that other commodities
should be used by the device of Index
numlHTB, thus making two Inconsisten
cies, the Index numbers being based on
the effect of money In action, which Is
oX liked, and money Itself put In con
trol of things not money.
The basic error is in considering any
commodity as money or as fit to be
money because of Intrinsic purchasing
power. When any commodity Is so con
sidered It Is but a :ep to considering
the labor cost of Its production us Ihe
eal guide and another to taking any or
ill lalxir as a base Instead of money
retrogression. Having disposed of money as a com
modity H docs not follow that there is
no truth in ih proposition as a whole,
or that paper or anything can be given
fluency, tumiethlng wider limn cur
rency. There Is held to be only one
limit to (Ihe article selected as money
It should not be able to purchase too
much.
A thing not so necessary a air may
have limited value. It muy have value
even If unnecessary. The time was
when paper had limited power or de
mand on It, but the power of printing
jcnomitiatioiis on M w is never limited.
Just here It Is seen that all of "a" com
modity, substance, must be used, ajid
by use of weight or other natural limit
on denominations, a limit must In- had
before an article can lie given general
power or !e money.
With a natural limit It is ruX at all
essential that the material, of money be
f something already In use or trade,
nor is tho original power of the mate
rial ever relevant matter.
Natural limitation Is not possible of
paper, so It Is not money under Um
proposition, lacking general wer, be
cause consent cannot safely be given to
Its use, and so use, the greatest part of
value, cannot le a power of paper as
money. As a commodity of limited
power the material of money ought to
satUfy few desires, while as money It
should satlnfy many desires and so be
of more value. J. P. Dickson.
KalllnK I'rk'en.
What Is It that determines the reward
of labor? Supply and demand. Legisla
tion cannot affect the supply of lalsir,
except through Immigration and child
labor laws, etc. legislation, however,
can, and does, affect the demand for la
bor In many cases.
And blmeUllisls believe that tho de
monetization of silver by causing fall
ing prices has materially diminished
the demand for lalsir that would other
wise exist.
The goldbug says to Hie laWIng
man: "Prices will rise under free coin
age, and your wages will buy less thau
they do now."
If rising prices mean injury to the
laboring man, why Is every rise In
prices pointed to by the gold press as
I sign of returning prosperity? lld any
S'orkiuan ever get an advance in wages
when prices in that industry were fall
ing? When prices are falling factories
close down or run only part of the time.
lalorlng men lose their jobs and go to
swell the army of unemployed, and ev
ery man seeking a Job Is a menace to
the employment of those who are, so to
speak, on the ragged edge.
What does It profit a man out. of em
ployment to 1k- told that prices are so
low that his dollar will buy a great
deal?
Moreover, the laboring man. as al
ready pointed out, Is dependent on the
prosperity of the farmers, who make
up the bulk of those who purchase
what the worklngmen produce.
J ii pan and Gold.
The only reason that has been atig
gested for the change In the monetary
system of Japan has been that by
adopting the gold standard she could
borrow money In Europe more readily.
This was both absurd and untrue.
To surender the great commercial ad
vantages which she confessedly had for
the poor return of Ix-lng able to borrow
money with greater facility was pre
posterous. It was almost Idiotic. Her
commercial advantages were rapidly
placing her In a position to be alto
gether Independent of liorrowlng.
Hut tho mere formal adoption of the
gold standard could not Improve her
credit, because it gave her command of
ao more gold. If she obtained the own
ership of that innlHl she bad lo buy It,
and the more prosperous she was the
more she could buy.
If the establishment of the gold
standard deprived her of commercial
advantages, which It certainly did, that
detracted from her prosperity and In
lured her credit in cad of Improving It
this Is so perfectly clear that It Is as
tonishing now any person calling btra
aM a teaaeiar aa fail to see it
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES Of THE WAR.
How tbs Roys of Both Armies Whlled
Awit Lift la I p-l'oritii'! Fi
pcriencea, Tiresome Marckea-Thril-liaa;
Fcenes on the Battlefield.
ID they have
society?"
"rlociety? Tes,
certainly."
"Of whom did the
army 400 consist?"
"We have no 400;
that is not like New
York's, that remains
Intact even though
the Ward McAllisters pass on."
That bit of conversation between a
soldier and a society belle gives me a
good subject.
Surely there was society, with society
events In iplenty, and at times tbe lines
were sharply drawn, particularly
among the officers. Let me give an
Illustration: '
Never mind what State the regiment
was from, its number or where it
served. Some of the actors are living.
I'pon going into winter quarters, the
first year out, tbe line officers caused
a large building to be erected for use
as a dining and amusement hall. In
this they gathered for their three meals
a day, and nearly every evening the
tony young officers met to discuss men,
measures and cards, and now and then
they had songs, recitations,' champagne
or commissary whisky. The older men
among the officers men of 30 or a little
over were called old then, farmers and
lumbermen seldom participated In
these festivities. However, one of
them who as a young fellow had gone
through the Mexican war was present
on a certain occasion. Call him Lieu
tenant Hill, though that was not his
name.
Altout 10 o'clock od tbs night in ques
tl the party was disturbed by a tum-u.-j-us
commotion a few feet from their
palace. It ran like this:
"Halt! I say halt! blank you! or I'll
blow you Into next week "
"I'm going In. Shoot and be blank
ed."
"Give me the countersign and I'll let
yo cross the line."
"I haven't it, you spalpeen. I was to
get back before dark, tmt I lost me
way and here I am, and yez tell me
I can't git to me quarters. We'll see
about it. Will yez call Lieutenant
1 1 111?"
"No, but I'll call the corporal of the
guard."
"ot be a blank sight, call a cor
poral to take me, a sergeant, to me
tint? I guess not,"
. At this point Lieutenant Hill ap
proached th.i guard and belated ser
geant, the latter of Hill's company, and
with a few quiet words stilled the
tempest, hiul the ofiieer of the guard
called and was given personal charge
of the offender. As they were passing
the door of the amusement hall the
tipsy sergeant Implored Hill to take
him In and give him a anal drink a
night cap.
"Will you go to your quarters and
retire at once If I do?"
"That I will, lieutenant."
When the lieutenant and his bespat
tered sergeant entered the hall the
young fellows gave them what Is to-day
called the marble heart, accompanied
by a stare that was as stony as any
400 ever gave an Intruder.
The sergeant I will call him Binder
was given a drink by his lieutenant,
and then they shook hands and said
good-night, when one made his way
slowly to bis tent and the other re
sumed his place with bis brother of
ficers at the long table. Nothing was
said for a minute or two, when a dudlsh
little lieutenant, who had been admit
ted to the bar the spring before, ad
dressed Hill In about these words:
"Lieutenant, It occurs to me that It
was discourteous In you to bring that
tipsy non-eommtssloned offler Into our
presence and give him a drl-ik. I ob
ject to such conduct."
Hill was a quiet man: he seldom
spoke, but the remark stirred him up to
a speech his hearers did not soon for
get. "Who are you that you presume to
lecture me on propriety? I resent It,
sir; I resent It That sergeant has
more man and soldier In him than a
dozen Hke you. I knew him fourteen
years ago, when both of us were under
Scott In Mexico."
In the discussion that followed It
was made plain to Hill that a majority
Of the young fellows resented lioth his
conduct and his sieech. Aftir that
he messed by himself.
Days of battle came early the next
spring. Hill won a captaincy In the
first fight. In the second he was lmdly
wounded. One of his lieutenants was
away on special service and the other
sick. That left the company without
a commissioned officer.
"Brlggs," said the colonel to the ad
jutant, "have Sergeant Binder report
to me at once."
Dust-covered, with face discolored
with powder smoke of tlie day before,
Binder hurried to the colonel's side.
"Did yes slnd for me, colonel?"
"Yes, sergeant. The major tells me
that you acquitted yourself bravely In
yesterday's fight that you kept the
men In line and at work."
"I tried to do me Jnty, colonel."
"We are likely to be In another fight
to-morrow. Your company has no com
missioned officer since Hill was wound
ed. You will take command."
"But, colonel, I'm fourth sergeant,
and the others are on Juty. I don't
lolke to Jump thlm,"
"You are not Jumping them; Pin de
ing that. Do aa I tell yon."
The sergeant took command.
tor enouga, there wm a Of ht tbe
next day The stubby sergeant didn't
drop a stitch.
The (Governor of a New England
State had known Captain Hill of the
Western regiment when they were
boys. lie wrote the colonel to find out
what kind of a soldier bis friend Hill
was making. "One of the bravest men
In the command," said the colonel. Ten
days later Hill was commissioned lieu
I tenant colonel of a regiment raised In
his native State, and, much to his sur
j prise, two weeks later Sergeant Bln
I der was made captain of Hill's com
pany. The officers of the regiment, un
der the leadership of Lieutenant
j Bangs, the former young dude, now a
i good soldier, prepared a feast, a regu-
lar "blow-out," in honor of Lieutenant
Colonel Hill and Captain Binder. Thus
ended that regimental 400. Hill be
j came colonel, but was shot so badly he
I had to leave the service.
And what of Binder? He hung on.
though several times wounded, until
Johnston's surrender, and then took
his regiment home as its lieutenant col
onel. J. A. Watrous, in Chicago Times
Herald. ,
A Disappointing Reception.
"A young fellow who came home
from Santiago several weeks ago," said
the colonel, "was very much disappoint
ed at the reception he received. He
had displayed unusual gallantry in that
engagement, had been severely wound
ed, but as he was In one of the regular
regiments, comparatively little was said
about It. lie was received at home in
the matter-of-course way, as though the
people expected as a matter of course
that a regular would be shot to pieces.
His story reminded me of a young fel-
i low we had in our regiment at the bat
tle of Corinth. A color sergeant of a
charging rebel regiment fell with the
Confederate flag about him not far
from our advance line. This young fel
low of our regiment sprang forward,
seized the flag, all stained with blood,
raised it above his head, waved it in
triumph, and came running toward our
own line. He was shot through tile
body, but held on to the flag.
"The captured flag with the story of
Its capture was sent, to Gov. Tod of
Ohio. While the poor fellow himself
was recovering slowly from what had
been regarded as a fatal wound, the
people in Ohio were glorifying over bis
heroism and making much of the hero.
Gov. Tod, Influenced by this enthusi
asm, sent the private soldier a captain's
commission. This story was told in
connection with the capture of the flag
and probably no young soldier of the
time was more talked about than this
young fellow, struggling for his life in
the hospital.
"On his recovery he went to Columbus
with the captain's commission in his
pocket and with a collection of the ar
ticles published In the newspapers as
to his exploit. In some way he expect
ed that the Governor would recognize
him and that It would only be neces
sary to give bis name. He was keenly
disappointed when tho secretary, with
a glance at his name, said that he would
have to wait. He had really expected
that the doors would be thrown open
and the Governor would receive him
with outstretched arms.
"After a time he was told that the
Governor would see him. Gov. Tod,
supposing the caller was one of tbe hun
dreds of soldiers who came to Fee him
about the treatment they received In
the service, greeted him cordially, but
not as the young fellow expected. Fi
nally he blurted out: 'Why, Governor,
I am. the man that captured the relnd
flag at Corinth and to whom you sent a
captain's commission.' 'Is that possi
ble?' said the Governor; T thought you
were In heaveu long ago.' This was
not very encouraging to the expectant
soldier who had hovered between life
and death In the hospital for two or
three months. He showed his disap
pointment so keenly that the really
kind-hearted Governor turned to him
and petted him as though he had been
his own boy." Chicago Inter Ocean.
"Yrnnjc America" at Fort Donelson.
In a little open field In the woods
which had been the scene of the hottest
portion of tbe Fort Donelson conflict,
there was afterward found one living
mortal among the multitudinous dead.
On approaching this person, he was
found to be a mere stripling with the
garb of a Federal soldier, and at least,
In his own estimation, Just then, a pret
ty formidable one at that. "Do you see
that old seeeah?" said he, pointing to a
stalwart liody at least six feet In length,
stretched out a short distance from
him; "well, I killed him." And with ev
ident pride be went on to say how the
dead enemy was the color-bearer of a
relcl regiment, and as he was lying
there beside that stump, had taunted
him with lM-ing an almlltlonlst, and told
him to 'come out of there.' He did
come out. and to the sad detriment of
his Goliath-like antagonist. The boy
had come a mile or more from his camp
to get a glimpse of his fallen foe.
Roilrd Hrcamte t'e Conlil Not Fight.
Jiimes Leonard, of Upper Gllmanton,
N. II., who had been rejected as a vol
unteer, on account of bis lielng over 45
yenrs of age, thus expressed his views
of his own ease and the et ceteras per
taining (hereto:
'After accepting several men over 45
years of age. and several Infants, such
as a tun o like me could whip a dosen of.
I was rejectml because I had the hon
esty to acknowledge I was more than
45 years of age. The mustering officer
was a very good-looking man, about 35
years old, but 1 guess 1 can run foster
and Jump higher than him; also take
bltn down, whip him, endure more
hardships, and kill three rebels to his
one."
Poor Jeetns ought to have been al
lowed the chance of trying hie hand
at least on tbs lost-mentioned cUaa.
Gen. Herbert Kitchener was ban
Const Kerry, Ireland.
A new Industry in this country la t
be established near Norfolk, Va. It to
an Institution for extracting tbe oil
from peanuts.
The New Albany (Ind.) Hosiery Com
pany has secured government contracts
which will keep tbeir plant in operation
several months.
Cuba and Porto Rico will be overran
with networks of electrical wires aa
soon as the electrical companies can
get to work on the islands.
From Pittsburg comes the news that
for the first time in the history of that
city the Iron mills have been in full
blast night and day during all the sum
mer months.
In the cotton seed Industry last year
not less than 4,000,000 tons of cotton
seed were consumed, the total value of
the resultant products aggregating
$120,000,000.
By a new process it is said 60,000 feet
of gas can be produced from a ton of
low-grade coal. The process consists
of forcing air in the coal, followed by a
blast of steam.
In Great Britain a movement Is on
foot which has for Its object the amal
gamation of the General Railway
Workers' Union and the Amalgamated
Society of Railway Servants.
The United States has exported 3tW
locomotives during tbe last year, valued
at nearly $3,000,0JO. Neany $2.50,O0O
worth of sewing machines were also
sold, and $1,500,000 worth of typewrit
ers. Practically one-half of the coffee
grown in the world now comes to the
United States. The latest estimates
put the coffee production of the world
at 1,(500,000,000 pounds per annum,
while tbe imports Into the United
States last year were more than half
that amount ,
Labor day's parade In Chicago wit
nessed the spectacle of twenty non
union bands, seven non-union fife and
drum corps and only six union bands
In the greatest labor parade ever held
In the Western metropolis. The union
musicians had but 137 of its 1,400 mem
bers working that day.
The Labei Committee of the Joint
cigarmakers' unions of Chicago has
started a crusade against cheap tene
ment bouse cigar shops, the competi
tion of women and children in their In
dustry, and immense shipment of ci
gars from the East, all of which are
made without regard to health or price
to the workers.
The depression In the cycle trade in
England deepens with the advance of
the year. Io Birmingham there are be
tween 2.000 and 3,000 men out of em
ployment and tbe society officials re
port great want of employment at Cot.
entry, Liverpool, Limerick, Cork, Not
tingham, Redditch and Wolverhamp
ton. The cause of tbe depression la
given as overproduction and German
competition.
DEWEY USED TO LICK HIM,
i
A Chicago Man's Reminiscence of the
tear Admiral.
"Rear Admiral Dewey used to lick
me," said Walter A. Phillips, a Chlcage'
man, whose office Is 800 Rookery Build
ing. "So, of course, it is was no suf
prise to me when I learned that he
had shown his fighting ability by whip
ping the Spaniards. I knew him to be
that kind of a man,"
Mr. Phillips Is a railroad Inspector.
He was talking in a group of men whs
chanced to meet In a downtown newi
agency.
"My father's bouse and Dr. Dewey's
bouse were on tbe same street In Mont
peller, Vt," he continued, In explanav
tlon of the thrashing he received from
the boy who wag destined to grow
Into a great naval hero. "These bouses
were opposite the schoolhouse, the oni
In which Dewey was born being a
frame story-and-a-half cottage, while
ours was of brick, built in the old colo
nial style. As boys we went to school
together In the little red brick school
bouse, which stood about 800 feel
away, in front of and a little to the
east of Dewey's borne. In those dajraj
If I remember rightly, be licked me
more than once, and he was aided an4
abetted In showing bis prowess in the
nse of his fists by Charley Reed, an
other playmate, who grew up Into a
successful banker.
"In 1856 he went to Norwich, Vt., aM
a little later to Annapolis, since whlck
I have bad tbe pleasure of seeing him
several times and renewing old ac
quaintance. He is a clean, fine man."
Unique House in Yellowstone Park.
W. P. Howe, of Upper Geyser Basin,
Yellowstone Park, has a hothouse, 2t
by 50 feet, built of rough slabs over a
natural hot spring Ave Inches In diam
eter, with a temperature of 120 deareea,
Cucumbers of six weeks' growth
showed vines ten feet long, bearing '
fruit six Inches In length. A smaller,
experimental hothouse, abandoned
from December until June, disclosed
uninterrupted growth and maturity et
vegetation, and a luxuriant new crop
of lettuce, with leaves ten Inches loif,
Tbe steam bad supplied all nnrnaarj
moisture. Chicago Times-Herald.
Cloth (rom Wood.
Cloth Is now being successfully mad
from wood. Strips of One-grained weed
are boiled and crushed between roIler
and the filaments, having been eardej
Into parallel lines, art spwa lata
threads, from which doth cu IM r
ran In the usual way.
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