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made a careful calculation In order
'to show what effect the increase in
wages last year had upon tho cost of
coal.' As a result of this computa
tion, based upon tho figures of the
Delaware & Hudson, tho Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western and tho Lo
uigh Valloy Coal & Navigation com
pany, tljo Engineering and Mining
Journal, which cannot bo accused of
being either friendly or fair to us,
states that 'the conclusion to be drawn
is that tho resulting increase In cost
was not large; in all probability not
over 5 cents a ton at the outside.'
"Mr. Baer claims that the average
pay per working day In his mines is
$1.80. Admitting, for the sake of ar
gument, the correctness of his figures,
this would mako upon tho average
number of working days In 1901 a
grand total of $368 per employe, or an
average of $7.05 per week; thus as a
result of the stronously opposed and
bitterly regretted advance wrung from
the operators by the strike in 1900,
the average adult employe of the Read
ing Coal and Iron company is" per
mitted to spend upon himself, his wife
and his children tho munificent sum
of $1.01 per day.
"In closing this statement I desire
to say that we have entered and are
conducting this struggle without mal
ic and without bitterness; we be
lieve that our antagonists are acting
upon misrepresentation rather than in
bad faith; we regard them not as ene
mies, but as opponents, and wo strike
in patience until they shall -accede to
our demands or submit to impartial
arbitration the differences botween us.
We aro striking not to show our
strength, but tho justice of our cause,
and wo desire only tho privilege of
presenting our caso to a fair tribunal.
Wo ask not for favors, but for justlco,
and we appeal our caso to tho solemn
judgment of tho American people.
"Involved In this light aro ques
tions weightier than any question of
dollars and cents. Tho present miner
has had his day; ho has been op
pressed and ground down, but there Is
another generation coming up, a gen
oration of little children prematurely
doomed to the whirl of the mill and
the noise and blackness of the breaker.
It Is for these little children wo are
fighting! We have not underestimated
tho strength of our opponents; wo
have not overestimated our own pow
er of resistance, accustomed always to
llvo upon little, a little less Is no un
endurable hardship.' It was with a
quaking of hearts that wo asked for
our last pay envelopes, but In tnc
grimy and bruised hand of tho miner
was the little white hand of a child,
a "child like the children of the rich
and in the heart of tho miner was the
soul-rooted determination to starve
to tho last crust of bread and fight
out tho long, dreary battle to win a
life for tho child and secure for It a
place In the world in keeping with
advancing civilization."
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The Rey. R. Perry BuBh, of Chelsea,
who was present in a ministerial ca
pacity at tho opening of the conven
tion of the Massachusetts Embalmers'
association at the Quincy House, last
Wednesday, says the Boston Herald,
consented, in the absence of Mayor
Collins, who was to address tho body,
to speak a few words of greeting. He
related an instance of a stuffy under
taker and a funeral.
"As I entered the church," said Mr.
Bush, "I was greeted by the under
taker in charge of the funeral, who
said: 'I want you to stand there,
pointing - to half-way up the pulpit
peeps.
" 'I prefer to stand either at the top
or the bottom,' I replied. 'Then I
can see my audience.'
" 'You stand where I tell you,' was
the retort 'I'm running this funeral.'
" 'But you are not running me,' I
answered, 'and I will give you just one
minute to withdraw your order or
get another minister.' And I took out
my watch and commenced to count off
the second. At the thirtieth he said:
'Well, slar.d where you darn please!'
"And I did," exclaimed Mr. Bush.
Joke ob tbe Author.
An author for obvious reasons he
would not care to have his name used
recently had a call from a friend who
was about to start on a journey.
"I wish I had something good to
read on the train," remarked the
friend.
"Have you read my last book?
asked the author.
"No," answered tho friend. "What
is it romance or humor?"
"It's supposed to be humor,"
laughed the author, "and I don't mind
giving you a copy on an advertising
basis."
"What's that?" asked the friend.
"Why, all you've got to do is to
laugh and chuckle while you're Tead
ing it, and hold it so that the other
people on the car can see what th
beok is that you find so 'diverting.
That's the best kind of advertising a
book can have."
"I'll try it," said tho friend, and he
took tho book.
Of course, this was all said in fun,
and it was so understood, but, as tho
friend rolled along in tho parlor car
it occurred to him that the humorous
possibilities of the situation were not
entirely exhausted. So it happened
that tho author received tho follow
ing tqlegram, sent from a way sta
tion: "Don't want the book on terms
quoted." Lippincott's.
Doing Better.
A very plain man in Glasgow has a
very pretty daughter. One day sho
was sitting on his knee right before a
looking glass. She contemplated the
reflection of their' two faces and then
asked:
"Papa, did God make me?" j
"Yes, dear," he replied.'
"And did He make you?"
"Yes."
Looking again in the mirror she
drew a long breath and rejoined:
"He must be turning out better work
lately; isn't He?" Scottish American.
Jtlide Ib Germany.
The late emperor of Germany, says
the Now York Times, once sent to an
aide-de-camp, Col. Malachowsky. who
was bravo but noor, a small portfolio,
bound like a book, In which was de
posited 500 crowns. Some tlmo after
ward ho met tho officer and said to
him:
"Ah, well, how did you like tho new
work which I sent to you?"
"Excessively, sire," replied the col
onel; "1 read It with such interest
that I expect the second volume with
impatience."
The king smiled, and, when the offi
cer's birthday arrived, ho presented
him with another portfolio, similar in
every respect to the first, but with
these words engraved upon It:
"This book i completed in two
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