Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
The peek-a-boo waists this year are
simply peek-a-beauties.
People at Port Arthur have almost
forgotten what a quiet summer even
ing is like.
There are better ways of taking a
vacation than getting sunstruck. Try
some of the other ways.
Is it solstitial enough for you?
That's the way they ask the inevita
ble question down in Boston.
An Aurora bank cashier lost $90,000
speculating in steel. And it doesD’*'.
seem to have helped steel a bit.
It has been discovered that whisky
has a peculiar effect on brunettes. It
certainly makes them light-headed.
The Japanese are taking to base
ball. The result of this will be an un
limited output of grand stand fans.
It has been discovered that a new
counterfeit $10 United States note is
in circulation. Don’t take any political
bribes.
Hawaii is a rapid assimilator. A
legislator has just been sent to jail
there for conspiracy to defraud the
territory.
In Australia grafter means a doer of
hard and faithful work. Now we un
derstand why they call that country
the antipodes.
The prince of Monaco is coming
over. He will be welcomed with con
flicting emotions. He has got a lot
of Yankee money.
“Who are the truly great?” asks
Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis. We refuse
to guess until the batting averages
have been figured up.
Mr. Rockefeller has found a prepar
ation that is making his hair grow
and it is whispered that it is nothing
but common kerosene.
As the theatrical season does not
open until September, we can hardly
expect a dramatization of the Perdi
caris affair before that time.
There is a restaurant at the St.
Louis exposition where forty-eight
languages are spoken. But money
does the talking that is listened to.
Whatever may be said of the morals
of the Princess Chimay, it does seem
a little rough on her to support all her
previous husbands, as she calls them.
A federal judge has held that the
cress has a right to criticise a judge.
Now doth ye editor proceed to dip
his pen in vitriol and say a few
things.
Oxford university has conferred the
degree of doctor of civil law upon Mr.
Howells. America’s most famous man
of letters may now add a few more to
his name.
A contemporary congratulates St.
Louis on having pulled off its first big
world’s fair fire “without loss of life.”
No loss of life? What about those
thirty black cats?
It is alleged that a good deal of the
iee cream of commerce contains glue.
Well, that wouldn’t be so bad if we
could have the assurance that the glue
was not adulterated.
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan is reported
enjoying himself in London, and con
gratulating himself on escaping the
vigilance of the English newspaper
men. That's dead easy.
Correspondent Emerson, who was
shot as a spy by the Russians, sends
a vivid account of the event to the
American press. Clearly, the report
was a slight exaggeration.
There is nothing novel in the an
nouncement that a man has cured
himself of insanity by shooting him
self in the head. The novelty is found
in the fact that he is still alive.
English newspapers are calling the
marquis of Anglesey a fool because he
ran into debt to the tune of fS,000,000
in six years. In this country he would
be classed as a Napoleon of finance.
It may somewhat dampen the be
ginner's enthusiasm to be told that
there are over two million five hun
dred thousand different hands in pok
er, and but one sure winner in the
whole lot.
Eastern chemists have sent an ex
pedition to Texas to collect 50,000
bee-stings to be made into a rheuma
tism cure. "Wouldn’t it be cheaper
and easier for every rheumatic per
son to keep a bee?
A man at Athens, Ohio, is credited
with having entertained 1,000 friends
at a dinner. The occasion was re
markable, as he is thought to be the
only Ohio man with 1,000 friends who
is not holding or seeking a political
office.
^Vhen a man is so spectacularly
honest that his neighbors familiarly
refer to him as “Honest John" ot
“Honest Bill," or whatever his first
name may be, it is unfair to tempt
him with a position of private or pub
lie trust.
A “feast of the sun" has been held
at the top of Eiffel tower, the presid
ing officer being Camille Flammarion,
the celebrated astronomer, who ad
vanced the theory that the sun is the
abode of departed spirits. Most
folks, now, would rather take their
chances with the good old belief.
The London Spectator is denounced
by a friend of the animals for persist
ently refusing to use the personal pro
noun when referring to animals and
using which instead. Just as if the
ape was not our common ancestor!
talTH THE WORLD’S J
^ BEST WKiTECS]
ON HOW TO GET RICH.
Since some of our very rich men
have taken to public discourse upon
all sorts of matters their utterances
have somewhat diminished their repu
tation for infallible wisdom. It has
been discovered that a man may pos
sess great wealth and still fail of
complete mastery of the science of
government or the principles of po
litical economy. Nay, it is evident
that such a man may not even prove
a reliable guide to the inquirer who
seeks for the road to wealth.
One of the most didactic of our
vivacious millionaires has recently de
dared that riches are within the
reach of every man who wishes to be
rich. He asserts that there are but
two requisites for the acquisition of
wealth—moderate intelligence and un
limited industry. Given these, he de
clares that any man can get rich.
Which is. of course, entirely false
and misleading, even though it comes
from a gentleman who has piled up
great wealth and is now engaged in
piling up free libraries. Everyone
knows that intelligence and industry
are not the sole essentials to the ac
quisition of riches. Everyone knows
of men highly intelligent and thor
oughly industrious who can scarcely
make a living.
It is true that intelligence and in
dustry are qualities favorable to the
attainment of wealth, but it is not
true that the possession of those
qualities, even in the highest degree,
constitute any assurance of riches.
The money-making faculty is a
thing apart from other natural endow
ments. An ignorant, illiterate man
who possesses it will get rich, and
intellectual genius without it will re
main poor all his life. Like a gift for
music, it can be cultivated, but it can
not be acquired.
The sayings of our loquacious mil
lionaires, like the aphorisms in the
copybooks, will not always bear analy
sis. In the present instance the fal
sity of the proposition is evident to
everybody, since a vast majority of
the people, though they are intelligent
and hard working, never acquire so
much as a modest competence, let
alone wealth.—Chicago Record-Her
ald.
MEDICAL COLLEGES.
Medical colleges are responsible for
the horde of failures who parade as
doctors and do what they can to men
ace the public health. Some of the
medical schools are get-rich-quick
schemes, taking every applicant who
comes a'rvng with the requisite fees.
They spoil hundreds of good farmers,
mechanics, shoemakers and black
smiths. issue sheepskins and leave the
medical profession to struggle with
the reproach. Every decent doctor
should join him and pursue the fak
ers, grafters and moral perverters un
til it is made too warm for them to
continue in the profession. A med
ical diploma ought to be beyond pur- i
chase by anyone not fitted in every
way for the responsibilities of a phy
sician.—Sioux City Tribune.
THE CZAR’S PRIVATE FORTUNE.
—
Many newspapers have seriously re
produced a telegram which appeared
in a Paris journal announcing that
the Emperor Nicholas had presented '
his private fortune, amounting to
eighty millions sterling ($400,000,000)
to the Russian government for war
purposes. It was added that this huge
sum stands to the credit of the emper
or in a bank of a country not friendly
to Russia. Eighty millions would be a
pretty sort of a sum to be held at
call by any bank; but the whole story
is a romance, and so are all the other
tales about the emperor's dealings
with his civil list. The fact is that
the emperor of Russia has no civil
list, and he draws at his discretion on I
the iiftperial treasury, every rouble I
of which is supposed to be his prop- j
erty and absolutely at his disposal.—
London World.
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HIGHER EDUCATION.
It is not the least but one of the j
greatest advantages of higher educa
tion that the woman of to-day does
know herself much better than did her !
mother or grandmother, and with that
self knowledge cornea a better under- ;
standing of her relations to the world
about her. The college girl of to-day
is healthier, stronger, saner, more in
dependent, more resolute and more
useful than were the social butterflies
or the household drudges of her
grandmother’s time. In the experi
mental stages of this new develop
ment there may have been danger, but
the education of the body as well as
the mind is now looked after in all our
girls’ colleges, indeed, much better
than in colleges for the other sex.—
Boston Transcript.
AMUSEMENT AND LABOR.
There is a savor of philosophy and a
dash of originality in the venerable
Bishop Huntington’s diocesan address,
particularly when in speaking of
amusements he says: “When we see
how many persons make a labor of
their amusement how can we help
wondering whether they would not
better find amusement in their labor?’’
The beloved old churchman has struck
the nail on the head there—has struck
it a blow which lights up the darker
recesses of the human mind with the
fire of everlasting truth.—Utica, N. Y.,
Observer.
LIMIT OF LAWYER’S DUTY.
A lawyer has no right to do any
thing. as a lawyer which he would
scorn to do aB a man and a citizen.
His obligation to the court and to the
public is and must be paramount to
his obligation to his client. Unless
this is recognized the lawyers w’ould
be the most dangerous class in the
community.—Indianapolis News.
GETTING BACK TO NATURE.
Students of American life think
that they detect a distinct tendency to
revert to nature. The first effort is,
of course, to a'cquire a competence;
the second, to amass a fortune, but
the third is to own a country place,
and to be able to spend all but the
winter months out in the open, away
from the crowded, dusty city. Wheth
er this be an effect of inheritance, a
harking back to the form whence all
city dwellers at one time or another
sprang, or not, it is an interesting
fact. Health is better, life is longer
and happier, if all the time that can
be spared from the exactions of Dusi
ness be spent in the open air, where
the breathing spaces are large, the ait
pure, the sunlight clear, warm and full
of comfort.
CURBING TREE BUTCHERS.
It is satisfactory to note that public
opinion is being aroused on the sub
ject of the wanton destruction of
shade trees by the servants of tele
phone, telegraph and electric light
companies, who are sent out to string
wires and who carry the implements
with which to make short work of a
tree which they deem in the way of
their operations. Such outrages are
usually committed when those able
and willing to protect trees are away
from home. Protests from women
count for very little, and tears for
even less. Against subsequent suits
for damages the companies are well
fortified. If a valuable tree is once
spoiled what its owner can recover by
a suit at law would not trouble any j
one.—Chicago Chronicle.
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COST OF INSECT PESTS.
The extent of damage done by in
sects which prey on the agricultural i
interests of the United States is but j
little appreciated. Twelve bugs, ao- j
cording to reliable statistics, do an
cst'mated damage to farm products of
$363,000,000 per annum. The chinch
hug heads the list, with $100,000,000
a year; grasshopper, $90,000,000; Hes
sian fly (a reminder of the revolution,
since the mercenaries hired by King
George brought its eggs over in the
straw for their horses), $50,000,000; j
cotton worm and boll worm (cotton), j
$25,000,000 apiece; cotton boll weevil. ;
$20,000,000; San .1 jse scale grain wee- j
vil, apple worm and army worm. $10.- j
000,000 apiece; potato bug. $8,000,000. !
and cabbage worm, $5,000,000.—Al
bany, N. Y., Argus.
WHOLESALE BANKING.
“No personal accounts, large or
small, wanted here; we do business
only with large corporations.” This
was the reply the president of one ol
the $25,000,000 Wall street banks gave
to an inquirer as to the minimum de
posit that institution would accept.
It was a notification that this was dis
tinctly a “wholesale bank.” Such
an answer would not have been made
five years ago. But this is a new age.
The billion-dollar trust and the $25,
000,000 bank are to Wall street what
wireless telegraphy is to electricity—
wonders. The vast demands of mod
ern industry, often requiring the nego
tiation of a loan of $5,000,000 upon a ,
few hours’ notice, with frequent calls !
for stupendous accommodation from
transcontinental railroads or syndi
cates financing foreign government
bond issues, have called into being
these new banks—veritable inearna
tions of power, holding, indeed, the
safety and happiness of a people in
their hands.—Saturday evening Post.
KEEPING IDEALS.
—
That was a wise old clergyman who
urged his brethren not to admit young
men to the ministry unless they were
evidently more broad-minded and en
thusiastic in their faith than their
elders. "We must allow,” he said,
“for the inevitable shrinkage.” The
same allowance is necessary in every
iife for the sure closing in of the real
upon the ideals of youth, and the un
avoidable narrowing of hope and aim
that must come with middle age. The
more idealism we start with, the more
stoutly we defend it against the
shocks it is certain to reecive, the
more joyous life will turn out to be
as we go on living. The dreariness
of the middle-aged view of life springs
largely from the fact that its ideals
are so shrunken as to be no longer
a source of vitality, of renewal, says
Harper’s Bazar. As long as we be
lieve in life, and in love, and In friend
ship, and in heroism, and in other
ideal possibilities, life is worth living
and we are strong to take our part
in it. Living for ideals in happy and
courageous living. Living without
them is “the dull gray life and apa
thetic end.”
WOMEN IN GERMANY.
The movement in Germany to open
the doors of the universities to wom
en has failed in its chief purpose,
but it has led to something. Girls
are to be admitted to the classical
schools preparatory to the university
as an experiment, but there is a posi
tive opposition on the part of the gov
ernment to a classical training for
women. Instead, and “to maintain
the ideal position of German women
in the home,” the instruction of girls
in the high schools is to be better
adapted to domestic requirements.
That is to say, the ambitious young
women are to be taught the art and
science of cooking and of household
work generally. The minister of in
struction does not seem to be im
pressed by the arguments in favor of
erudite women, but he has a lively
sense of the importance to the coun
try of general good cooking.—Phila
delphia Record.
Every duty which is bidden to wait,
returns with seven fresh duties at ite
back —C. Kingsley,
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The Old Log Cabin j
Before me in Its beauty lies the prairie,
And the cloud above a swiftly passing
train.
The trees upon the distant hills are wav
ing,
A summer haze is resting on the plain;
Yet memory recalls a fairer valley.
And a spot within it dearer far to me,
A grassy knoll beside a winding river.
Where a little old log cabin used to be.
When daylight dies behind the distant
mountain.
And the mist has hid the valley from
my sight.
Then memory returns to scenes of child
hood.
And on life’s summer morning sheds Its
light.
The sunlight glimmers out upon the wa
ter.
Where, undisturbed, the minnows sport
ed f ree;
The dreamy years but added to their
number.
Where the little old log cabin used to
be.
The world, to us, was bounded by the
forest.
That stretched away, we recked but
little where;
The winter but foretold a brighter sea
son
When loses gave their fragrance to the
air.
In spring there came the children's songs
and laughter.
The squirrel scampered up the nearest
tree
And chattered to the wildly barking col
lie,
Where the little old log cabin used to
be.
The bob-o-link, above the clover blos
soms.
Sang o'er again his song of summer
Joys;
And “Bob White.from his perch be
side the meadow.
Kept watch upon the collie, and the
boys.
Along the crooked pathway to the river.
The twittering blue-bird and the chick
a-dee
Flew in and out among the ferns and
willows.
Where the little old log cabin used to be.
The timid deer looked in across the
wheat field.
The partridge hid her fledglings in the
brush.
The voice of Robin Redbreast, in the or
chard.
Was mingled with the singing of the
thrush;
The crow and marten quarreled o’er the
clearing.
We wondered why they never could
agree—
The hardest problem of our early child
hood.
Where the little old log cabin used to
be.
The silent Indian glanced within the
doorway;
His squaw laid down her burden in the
grass.
And, looking o'er her gaily colored bas
kets.
How quickly would a summer evening
pass.
The twain enjoyed the white man's ample
supper;
A breeze came In across the distant
lea;
The latchstring disappeared, the day was
over.
Where the little old log cabin usee
to be.
The far off whip-poor-will commenced
his music.
The cricket joined the evening sere
nade.
The moonlight glistened on the leafy ma
pie
And in and out among its branches
played;
The night wind stirred the vines aroum
the window
And whispered in its dreamy lullaby.
While all within was wrapped in peace
ful slumber
Where the little old log cabin used tc
be.
When the fitful dream of this short life
is over.
And wearily we lay its burdens down.
What will we care for earthly fame oi
glory?
What matter if the people cheer oi
frown?
I,eave what remains of this old. worn
out body
High on a mountain top. or in the sea
But let my longing spirit once more wan
der
Where the little old log cabin used tc
be.
Aye. let the daisies blossom bv the river
The fragrant lilies deck its quiet breast
The giant maple shape the humble door
way.
Inviting every wranderer to rest.
There let the panting collie sit beside mo
And listen to the shouts of childish
glee;
For backward on life's pathway lies m>
heaven.
Where the little old log cabin used tc
be.
—Albert Greenwood.
Lost Coins in Mails ■
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Ordinarily no man is rich enough to
escape that certain sense of elation
which comes from picking up a nickel
on a sidewalk; but when a railway
postal clerk finds such a coin in a
mail pouch where it has worked out
from insufficient wrappings, not only
does he miss this elation, but it may
provoke profanity.
For a nickel lost in a pouch of mail
in transit becomes a matter for na
tional concern. It comes to view,
perhaps, just as a pouch of mail is
emptied upon a sorting table; and
when it has broken away from the
bunch of letters and cards and circu
lars, rolled to an open space on the
table, and there settled down, heads
or tails, with a noisy spinning dance,
the clerk who first sees it is “it."
A necromancer could have no more
idea than the man in the moon as to
what particular package it rolled out
of, and if he had and should tell the
postal clerk, the clerk wouldn’t dare
try to restore the coin to the original
package. That would be too easy
altogether.
No. it is a lost nickel from the mo
ment the clerk has to see it spin
ning there before his eyes; and ac
cording to the tender governmental
I conscience the clerk has to get ready
' for the inauguration of about $1S.4G
worth of fuss over it.
For himself he doesn't dare to gf
to bed for a short nap until he has
got rid of his five cents’ worth of re
sponsibility to the government for the
action of the fool person from whom
the nickel was parted. He digs up
I his printed form for such occasions
printed and provided, and at once
i fills out a long blank, describing the
coin, telling the circumstances of its
being found and whether it landed
heads or tails on the table, naming
the pouch from which it was emp
tied, the number of the train carry
1 ing it, the date, and a few other little
details any one of which in hot
weather would have cost a mug oi
beer.
This report, with the nickel, goes tc
the headquarters of the postal divi
sion in which the car was operated
and from these bonded officials, by
the same general red tape route, the
small coin finds its way to the seat of
national government and to the fund
representing the great constituency
the postoffice department, which
persists in sending money in envel
opes through the unregistered mails
of the service.—Chicago Tribune.
Tale of the Armada I
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Three hundred and fifteen years ago
a vessel of the Spanish armada was
blown up in Tobermory bay, off the
coast of the Island of Mull. Recently
numerous relics have been recovered
from it by divers. They include old
cannon, swords, pistols, plate and
coins. The vessel was the Florencia,
a Florentine galleon which came from
the Levant, one of the Italian posses- j
sions of the king of Spain, and was
commanded by one Pereija. After the
defeat of the armada the Florencia
was forced by bad weather and lack
of provisions to put into Tobermory
bay. There Sir Lauehlane MacLean,
who, because of his feuds with his
neighbors, had been made a “denounc
ed rebel” by King James of Scotland
formed an alliance with the Span
iards. With the aid of a hundred sol
diers from the ship and of his own
war on neighboring clans for some
time.
At last he received a message from
Capt. Pereija requesting that the
Spanish soldiers be sent back at once,
as he was preparing for sea. At the
same time he heard that the pro
visions supplied to the Spaniards had
not been paid for. Sir Lauchlant
remonstrated with the don for his
injustice and satisfaction was promis
ed. On the strength of thife the mer
were sent back, but MacLean. not re
lying entirely on the captain’s prom
ise, retained three of the soldiers as
hostages till the debt should be paid
At the same time he sent one of his
own men, Donald Glas MacLean, or
board the Florencia to receive an ad
justment of the demands of his peo
pie.
Donald Glas. when he went on boarc
tho snip, was disarmed and mads
prisoner, and no communication was
allowed between himself and his
friends. Cut. Donald Glas conceivec
a plan which, though it meant certair
death to himself, promised a speed}
and terrible retribution to his captors
Finding that the cabin in which hs
was confined was close to the maga
zine, he forced his way into it and
laying a train from it to the outside
.he fired it. The ship was blown tc
pieces, killin': the three or four bun
dred persons who were on board.
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There are certain things, says St.
Nicholas, you will not forget to take
with you when you go to the country
for a vacation; but unless you are
specially reminded of it, you may
not remember that. Besides your fish
ing rod, your tennis racket, your golf
sticks and such aids to your summer
studies, you should not fail to put in a
few favorite volumes. There should
be few. possibly the fewer the better,
if the little company be well chosen.
But do not leave yourself entirely de
pendent upon the chance library of a
country hotel. Who does not remem
ber being indoors on some rainy day
in^he country, with a longing for a
really good book? So, in addition to
the lighter fiction already spoken of,
it will be wise to take also one or two
of the volumes that are inexhaustible
treasures, and yet are well known tc
ycu. so that they may be taken up oi
put aside at will without especial care
to find just where you last were read
ing. For this purpose a volume of a
favorite poet can hardly be improved
upon, whether you prefer Tennyson
Ixmgfellow Lowell, Aldrich, or the
Quaker poet, whose “Snow-Bound’
should prove delightfully refreshing
on a warm day.
If you have not already a favorite
among the singers, choose a single
volume edition of any standard poet
and it will not be strange if you re
turn from your summer’s outing in
possession of a new friend—a friend
with whom you will hold many a quiet
chat in winter evenings all your life
long.
Green Primroses.
The green rose is a very old and
rather ugly "novelty” that crops up
afresh from time to time as a catch
penny attraction, and there are one or
two other plants with green flowers
that are usually more curious than
attractive. The latest invention in
the way of green-flowering varieties
in an addition to that familiar fam
ilv. our own vollow nrimrose. It is
called "novelty” and Is described as a
large and iruly green-flowered form of
the beautiful old wild primrose, a
free bloomer and strong grower.
Klondike Discoverer.
Robert Henderson is disputing the
rights of George Carnaek as to having
discovered the Klondike, and the Ca
nadian authorities are looking into his
claim.
Heart of the Tree.
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants a friend of sun and sky;
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty towering high;
He plants a home to heaven anigh
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard—
The treble of heaven’s harmony—
These things he plants who plants a tree.
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants cool shade and tender rain.
And seed and bud of days to be.
And years that fade and flush again;
He plants the glory of the plain;
He plants the forest’s heritage;
The harvest of the coming age;
The joy that unborn eyes shall see—
These things he plants who plants a tree.
What does he plant Who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap find leaf the wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civil good—
His blessing on the neighborhood
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land—
A nation’s growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plarfts a tree.
—Century.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
The delegates from the Atlantic
Coast Seamen’s Union reported that
the union is progressing rapidly.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
reduced 5,000 employes in its shops
at Altoona, Pa., to a two days a week
working basis.
P. McMahon, Jersey City Heights.
N. J., president of the International
Union of Steam Engineers, died June
23d, after a short illness.
This year’s convention of the Jour
neymen Stone Cutters’ Union of Amer
ica will begin its session in St. Louis
Sept. 7. at Knights of Father Mathew
Hall.
The American Federation of Labor
reports that seventeen new local
unions, nearly all of which have with
drawn from the American Labor
unon, are now affiliated at Butte and
Anaconda, Mont.
The International Mill Workers’
convention elected Arthur Ogg of Min
neapolis president, A. E. Kellington
of Minneapolis was elected secretary
i treasurer. The next convention meets
at Quincy, in., June is, into.
That man is mentally deficient who
cannot see the necessity of becoming
; a member of his trade organization
during these stirring times and is ac
tually blind to his own best interests
by remaining without the fold of his
craft union.—The Mixer and Server.
After being on strike for several
I weeks to enforce the closed shop rule
the striking lathers of Boston and
: vicinity have come to an understand
ing with their employers. In the
future only men carrying the union
card will be able to procure employ
ment
Before final adjournment the dele
gates to the annual convention of the
United Typothetae of America elect
ed the following officers: President,
George H. Ellis of Boston: vice presi
I dent, William Green of New York;
treasurer, Thomas E. Donnelley of
Chicago.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen
ters and Joiners of America is the
strongest organization numerically of
I skilled mechanics in the country. In
actual numbers it is second to the
miners, but the latter union is com
i posed of unskilled as well as skilled
laborers.
Agents of the Chicago Boot and
Shoe Workers’ union are to begin a
house to house canvass to interest
women in asking for the union stamp
when purchasing shoes. It is the first
: time that such a plan has been pro
jected, and the leaders expect good
results from it.
James Wood of Cincinnati, second
I vice president of the Cigarraakers’ In
ternational Union and for years active
as general organizer and union label
agitator, has tendered his resignation
to President PerWns and ceased ac
tive work for the cigarmakers June 1.
He retains his office as vice president,
however.
President Gompers oi ice American
Federation o? Labor has been asked
to call a convention for the purpose
of forming a national union of soap,
glycerin and tallow candle makers. At
the present time the soapmakers in
the various packing houses are under
the jurisdiction of the Amalgamated
meat cutters and butcher workmen.
Chicago employers in the furniture
manufacturing line have tried to es
tablish a new association to embrace
all firms engaged in that industry for
the purpose of resisting trade agree
ments which grant complete union
deal with ihe employers as individuals
conditions. The unions prefer to
and several strikes are threatened.
The struggle between the Chicago
Metal Trades association and the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
which has been going on for several
weeks, has now settled down to a test
of endurance, as far as can be judged
from external appearances. The em
ployers claim that the strike is over,
while the men assert that it has hard
ly started.
The politicians of Kansas City have
entered into the “open shop” cam
paign. A vote has been passed repeal
ing the union label law regarding
public printing. “This ordinance,”
said Alderman Young, when asked its
Importance, “simply means to make
Kansas City an ‘open shop.’ It is not
against the unions, but It1 certainly
is not against non-union men.”
A referendum vote has been order
ed among the members of the inter
national order of boxmakers and saw
yers on the question of affiliation with
the American labor union. The action
was taken at the St. Louis convention
of the order, and all arrangements for
the vote are left in the hands of the
executive board. The roll call showed
3,560 members in good standing.
J. C. Skemp, third vice president of
the Brotherhood of Painters and Dec
orators of America, has been appoint
ed general secretary-treasurer of the
brotherhood to fill the unexpired term
of the late M. P. Carrick. Mr. Skemp
has been secretary of the executive
board of the painters’ organization
for some time, and is thoroughly fs mi
liar with the work required in his new
duties.
The International Brewery Work
men’s Union has just completed a ref- i ,
erendum %'ote on the question whether j
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or not the organization as a whole will
give up brewery engineers and fire
men, in accordance with the decision
of the Boston convention of the Amer
ican Federation of I.alior. The total
vote cast on the proposition numbered
23,624, of which 19,417 were against
and 3,873 in its favor.
The rise in the prices of meat iD
Pittsburg has driven the butchers
to desperation and they are going tc
organize to fight the Chicago combine
of beef packers. In the last three
weeks the business of the butchers
has dropped about 50 per cent, and
they claim the decrease is the fault
of the Chicago “big four.” The butch
ers claim that prices must fall or sev
eral firms will have to go out of busi
ness.
Secretary Taft has issued an or<!» r
for the restoration of the scale <1
wages at the government armory at
■Springfield, Mass., that prevailed be
fore the manufacture of the new
model of the army rifle was com
menced. Through Representative
Southard the president of the Inter
national Association of Allied Metai
Mechanics protested to t!:e president
against the scale of wag": for piece
work on the new army rifle at the
Springfield armory a.- revi-ed by C«<L
Phipps, the commandant.
A suit that will be watched with in
terest has been filed by President
French of San Francisco Typographi
cal union, seeking damages of $5."(Mi
and an injunction restraining the Citi
zens' alliance of San Francisco from
using a label on printer matter almost
similar to the label of the Allied
Printing Trades council. The label is
the same size and nearly the same
design as the union label, the object
of the alliance being to discredit the
union emblem. The wording on the
label states that the printing was done
in an alliance shop, which means a
shop not subject to union rules.
The decision of the A. F. of L. that
: the stationary engineers and firemer
! under jurisdiction of the United brew
I erv workers shall be released by the
i latter organization t»> enter nationals
j of their own craft was voted down by
| a referendum vote of 19,000 to 4,00(
taken by the brewery workers. Ax
agreement in accord with the decision
. of the A. F. of L. has b<en reached by
j a joint committee in which the trans
fer was to have been made next
month. The adverse vote will prob
ably throw the matter back into »bt
federation. It will be consider"'’ b>
the latter's executive comaiittee June
28.
j Although the past winter has been
a severe one for the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners ol
America, many of its members beine
out of work for weeks at a time, the
membership has not decreased to any
material extent. Early in the spring
the work of organization was resumed
with great vigor, and in the past three
months sixty-three new local unions
have been established. Representa
tives have been sent throughout the
country, wherever they were most
needed, and they report excellent
progress. General President W. D.
Huber has made a tour of many of
the eastern cities and reports every
thing to be in an unusually satisfac
tory condition.
At the convention of the United
I Typothetae of the country in St. L< ;ii«
several principles were affirmed which
are directly opposed to union labor.
They declared against any reduction
from the fifty-four hour week. The
j printers are now preparing to secure
, an eight-hour day. They decided to
raise a monster “emergency fund” to
which each local typothetae is boufld
to subscribe, to fight strikes or de
mands of union employes. They de
clared against the union label and
urged the members to discontinue its
use. They declared in favor of the
“open shop.” The unions in the print
ing trades are strongly pledged to the
support of the union label and the
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Valuable statistics regarding strikes
and lockouts in the United States for
the past twenty years have been pub
lished by the House committee on la
bor. They were secured during the
hearings on the bill to create a na
tional arbitration tribunal. The total
number of workmen thrown outof em
ployment in that period on account of
strikes amounted to 6.105.694, and a
loss in wages of over a quarter of a
billion dollars. More than 127,000 es
tablishments were involved. There
was an average loss of $46 to each
person involved. New York came first
in the number of strikes, and Penn
sylvania second, the former having
over 20,000 and the latter having over
18.000 strikes. The coal industry ex
perienced more strikes than any other.
A new phase of labor union litiga
tion was reached when Court Com
missioner E. E. Chapin signed an in
junction restraining the M&rnitz Tail
oring company of Milwaukee from
employing nonunion men. The in
junction. which was signed.on petition
of the Milwaukee Custom Tailors’
union, is the first ever issued on pe
tition of a labor union. It Is said. The
defendants are also enjoined from dis
charging union members from 'heir
employ because they belong to the
organization; from threatening or in
timidating men from joining it and
from influencing others to fight the
union. It is shown that a contract
signed September 14. 1903, and
running to October 1, 1904.
specifically bound defendants to
employ only union men. The peti
tioners charge that the contract has
been repeatedly broken and that de
fendants have entered into an agree
ment with other custom tailors of the
city to break up the union.
Cause of Poverty.
According to Charles Booth, of tha
Salvation Army, “the poverty of the
poor is mainly the result of the com
petition of the very poor.”
Increase In Russian Schools.
According to a recent Russian con
sular report, six years ago 9 0ivt
hildren attended the Russian schools
n Sj-ria. T he number is now 20,000
