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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1903)
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CUT OUT THIS cotrpoisi Jkml for Catalogue TODAV and j;tt ready for Spring "fixing up." Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago. Enclosed find 15 cents, for which please send me Catalogue No. 71. Hame Express Office- County Write very plain. Post Offloe- -Btate. Montgomery Ward Sr Co., Chicago igggagggaMiiwausgBZgas jaaamnni.iiaMww's!gsi -a; -: - 4x. The New Commandment "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye "love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another' St. John, xlii., 24. At the mouth of every anthracite coal mine in Pennsylvania is a large building called the breaker (whore coal is assorted and separated), and close at hand is a great pile of black,, powdery stuff called the culm heap. Sometimes the culm heap is an eighth of a mile long and sixty feet high. It consists of the small coal and coal dust sifted out by the breaker. Now, in strict justice, these culm heaps are the miners' and not the mine operators' or mine owners'. Because In the anthracite region the miners are paid," not so much a day, but so much a carload, and before they are allowed for a carload a percentage of the weight is deducted to cover the cuhn, the slate, and the other refuse in the coal. , This deduction, by the way, is cal culated arbitrarily by a person called the "docking boss," who stands where he can see the cars shoot past him, and notes a deduction on each of from 30 to 55 per cent. He has no idea of how much dust or slate tnere may be ir the car, because he sees it for only a second, but he assigns the dockage anyway, and from his award made in tins way there is no appeal. .fart of the coal thus deducted from the car goes to the culm heap; the rest goes to the market and is sold. The miner has mined the stuff that goes to the culm heap, but he has not been paid for his labor in iniing it. Until he has been paid the company has really only a part right in il. The culm heap will burn and has a certain value, but the mine operators make no use of it, because it is more proiitablo to ship the big coal.. So the culm lies there and accumulates, year by year, and is of no use to any one. It is very cold -up the mountains now, cold and wet, ;and because of the strike the poorer people had no way to heat their houses. So some of the, miners' wives and children went to the culm heaps, which their husbands-and fathers dug out of the earth, and calrried away a little of the dust in baskets. And then the state of Pennsylvania, at the request of the mine owners, stationed its troops about these culm heaps with orders to shoot any one that attempted to take a handful of the stuff. We suppose that the "Christian men" to whom "God in His infinite wisdom" has committed the lives, wel fare, intellectual development, bodies and souls of these poor creatures, on whom depend their chance to grow and Iiv and enjoy the beauty and glory of living, to have sunlight and hope and cueer, we suppose these "Christian men" have never heard of this dreadful incident Otherwise they would htive stopped it if to stop it took the laat cent of their fortunes. Chicago American. Books Received. A Book of Verses, by Nixon Water man; published by Forbes & Co., Bos ton ant. Chicago. The Hand of God in American His tory, A study of national politics, by Robert Ellis Thompson, president Cen tral High School, Philadelphia; pub lished by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New Yorlc Pamphlet, entitled In the Fiolds of Rhyme, by Harry Hampton Williams, Rockda1, Tex. How to Become a Good Mechanic, by John Phin; a practical guide to self taught men; published by Industrial Publication Co., New York. Life, a book of puems by Edwin 0. Ropp, Bloomington, 111. A pamphlet, entitled Did "William Shakespeare Write Shakespeare? by Ge. J. Warren Kelfer, Springfield, O. The Religion of the Future, or Out lines of Spiritual Philosophy, by Rev. S. Weil; published by Arena Publish ing Co., Boston, Mass. The American Farmer, by A. M. Simons; published by Charles H. Kerr & Co., 56 Fifth avo., Chicago, 111. Price, 50c. Pamphlet, entitled Aggressive Common-sense, or Rights of American Workers in the Dawn of lhe Twentieth Century; edited and published by E. E. Harding, Tracy, Minn. Price, IEj. The Nose of the Camel. The nose of the European camel is now well within the Venezuelan tent. The camel itself will not be slow to follow. And presently, it is to be feared, another murdered republic Will be added to the score. Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat. Zf4 Why ne ptmem J5M TW VurMtdiW Inter 'm""wfM i Order with umT mm -Hfcu What win jrYuTiVii XlL. i irA"JM ii 0U n0ft 0-nJite'MilmVkt. I. 'wmm during GMBWSMMmMi Januarl SK88W and JMM&SSmaJiSS. Look ahead" AmW7m Better begin by jmmMMmMmk mungut i swjl coupon ueiow. w S 8AVB YOtm KYK8 N fWWIwffWsii Writo for apodal fcl ftWtfVWlKk anccUclo cat. 11 VrMjjUt'viiy Iouuo with In K-JM- VFA-viiJltfiiJZrlL traction for ffH l.'ijlftt J 3C5ii1. fit LI no. frn. RBBBBl MmmmMmmmmm i IM WMmm ,r.., ,, inn,, nuiii iIMMMMWiMn inn I The Passing of the Paw-Paw t The growth of civilization, or, rath er the increase of population within the limit3 of this great state, is said to be responsible for the disappearance of the paw-paw. The persimmon is left, though it is becoming scarcer -with each succeeding year. There are 'possums yet to bo found and quail may be seen in smaller flocks than formerly. The typical fruit of Mis souri, the luscious paw-paw, is fast uisappcaring along with tho red Ind inn and the buffalo. There are some paw-paw brushes in obscure places where the rude hand of tho iconoclast has not reached, and there are some cultivated paw-paws to bo found in gardens here and there. But speaking generally, the Missouri paw-paw is becoming a thing of yesterday. As a state we have gone from the paw-paw to the banana stage. We buy our fruit at street-stand instead of wondering out in the wild woods in the fall-time and finding it. We have reached the breakfast-food stage of civilization. We eat soft stuff with a spoon Instead of scrambling over the ..ills and through the briars in search of the forest fruits. What will become of a generation thus brought up In stead of one fed upon persimmons and paw-paws? We fear it will lack iron in its blood, strength In its muscles and the ability to stand up alone un derneath the blue sky. The paw-paw and the persimmon period passing takes with it the days of the pioneer who worked long hours and played hard, who knew nature and man. Tho banana ago brings in lolsuro hours and flabby morals and soft and silken ways. Alas, that tho paw-paw should periRh from tho earth. Walter Will iams in Columbia (Mo.) Herald. The Louisiana Purchase. Callaghan & Co., of Chicago, havo just issued a work by Jas. Q. Howard entitled "History of the Louisiana Purchase." It discusses the Louisiana region prior to the year 1700, tho per iod of settlement and transition, tho treaties of 1782-3, tho period of Span ish rule from 1784 to 1789, tho first step to secure tho navigation of tho Mississippi, Louisiana from 1793 to 1797, Louisiana during tho term of John Adams, the transfer from Spain to Franco, the great treaty of April 30, 1803, Bonaparte's motives for selling Louisiana, a contrast between condi tions of 1803 and 1900 and a supple mental chapter on the Creators and Preservers of the Republic The author is so devoted a disclplo of Hamilton that ho seems unwilling to give Jefferson credit for the acqui sition of this Important piece of territory. On December 19 the house passed the pure food bill by a voto of 72 to 21. In brief this bill provides for tho exclusion of any article of food that is adulterated or misbranded, and contains a provision that such articles may be taken and condemned. The Combination Oil Cure for Cancer. 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