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AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
DILLER'8
PIQ. FEEDER.
A Vrmr'
furful Inventlon-H I Not
ratantril.
Of tho many Invention for fording
tock thoro In none of nioro utility thnn
simple, contrlvnnco Invented by n
breeder of Polnnd-Clilnii nwino, Mr. A.
C. Dlllcr, Marshall County, In. Thoro
In no patent on It. nnd any fnrnmr may
tnako m many as needed. It consists
of an open-ended box, twnnty Inchon
square nnd throo nnd one-half fcotdoop,
with a notch two Inches deop and flvo
inches wldu in tho mlddln of each ntdo
.at thn bottom end. Tho bottom 1a
thirty-eight InchoA square. Insldn Ih a
pyramid fourteen Inches square at tho
li'aso and sixteen Inches high, fastened
on ihc center of thn bottom. Tim box
is ant over tho pyramid with tho notched
nd down. Strips two and one-half
Inches wldo are fuHlened on each edge
of tho bottom. Night blocks of ho.trd,
nine Inches wide and ono and ono'hulf
Inches high at one side and hIx Inch
h high at the other, ure set one at
iach sldo of tho openings from box to
trough. They should ho eight Inches
apart and form the ends of thn feed
troughs. Tho covers are micIi made with
a k.uvi('i:aiii,i: i'ii-r'i;r.ii:it.
a circular hole six Inches In diameter,
and reach from the strips on the outer
edge to the box. In order to make the
ground feed settle with regularity Into
the troughs, a strip of hard wood about
seventeen Indies long is fastened to the
top of the pyramid on each side and
reaches Into the trough a II ttle. This strip
will vibrate bauk and forth, being fast
cned with asmall boll or screw, and cause
the feed to drop slowly Into tho troughs
whenever the pigs try to clean out the
corners. N'nvvnUo feed when this box
is used. Shelled corn and o.its can bo
.successfully fed In this way.
THE FIBER
INDUSTRY.
Hum Valuable mingritliiiu On
Milt It sin I t'lilttirn.
Hemp
Miscellaneous bulletin No. I, of tho
(Statistical Division of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Is a romrl
on tho filter Industry, by Mr. Charles
allchards Dodge, special agent, and In
preparation for which Mr. Dodge, last
fall, visited so v oral of -Alio Max and
hemp-growing districts of I'rance,
llelglum and Ireland. It Is an Illus
trated pamphlet of over too pages,
and la arranged In two parts, thy
tl rut reUtlng to llax and hump culture
In Europe. In ruviuwlng tho methods
thero pursued, the author has taken
into account particularly tho wants and,
condition of the tlher industry In tho
UnltiM States. The second part Is do
voted to flax, hemp, rautlo and Jute In
the United States. Tho fact that
1,000,000 acres are sown U llax in this
country annually, the straw of which is
wasted or burned after tho seed has
licon removed, while wo are Importing
millions of dollars' worth of libers every
year, emphasizes the Importance of tho
present Investigation, some of the re
sults of which are dot.tllcd In (his re
port It Is shown that by belter moth
oils of culture and by a little more care
ful handling of tho product wo may
grow flax lmtli for seed and lllsr, and
that there is a demand for the iptitUty
of fiber produccahlc.
The cultivation of hemp In Stales
north and south of the Ohio river, is
treated in full, with accounts of recent
inventions In homp-clcuntug machinery.
Hemp culture Is being extended, the
product being utllUed In the manufact
ure of binder twine, which is shown to
bo equal to binder twine from Sisal and
Manila, with the merit of being several
cents cheaper per pound. In regard to
these two libers, flax and hemp, the par
ticular advantage to our farmers in
their culture will bo the saving to this
vountry, out of a total of Imports
Amounting to IMi.uoo.ooo, of $-.'ti,ooo,mo
now paid for foreign libers and manu- J
factures that should be produced here,
and for which native Max and hemp may
im substituted. The ramie quest Ion has
been most carefully studied, and the
present status of the Industry summed
up. with full consideration of past dis
couragements, present obstacles and
future possibilities of the success of the
industry In all Its phases. The fact
that an Kastern manufacturing linn has
created a demand for American ramlo Is
encouraging. A perfectly satisfactory
and economical decortlfiitor is only
needed to put the ludustry on Its feet.
Tho report closes with a short chapter
sm Jute. This bulletin will bo sent free
on application to Hon. .1. M. Husk, Sec
retary of Agriculture, Washington,
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A New Corn Insert.
William 11. Ashmead, of Florida, has
described In a recent numlior of Psycho,
n now insect which promises to be of
considerable Importance to corn grow
ers In tho Southorn States. It belongs
to tho division llomootera, and to a
family Dolphacldu), in which no species
have hitherto been described as of
practical importance economically,
Nevertheless, many species related to
tho ono described occur in abundance
in different kinds of vegetation, and
there can lie no question thai a more
thorough investigation of their habits
will prove them to lie of considerable
economic Importance. It Is to 1st hoped
that entomologist will give more at
tentln to tho study of the habits of
these insects. Most of them are easily
destrojvd by the use of kerosene
.muUfons. uiul whenever application of
tbla insecticide Is practicable It will not
Jl a dlffljult matter to destroy them.
Orange Judd Farmer.
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CURING CLOVER.
A I'roroM That U Not No IMMrult
Al
Moms Would Imagine,
Tho difllculty in curing clover hay
has boon greatly exaggerated, says a
writer In tho Hrccdor's Gazette. Thoro
are three methods of handling It; tho
first thatof wilting It putting it in a
light barn and keeping the barn closed
unil it Is thoroughly cured out. This
method requires a very tight barn, with
tight board or earth floor, and ship-lap
on tho sides, no windows, doors tightly
lilting on beveled edges and kept tight
ly closed, nnd ventilation only in tho
roof. Tho grass must bo put In without
a particle of rain or dew. It packs very
closeJy nnd comes out in flakes very
bright and some of tho blossoms scarce
ly discolored. Another method new In
America but practiced largely In l.u
gland, is that of stack ensilage. I have
with me for the Inspection of thn mem
bers of this association a sample of this
hay or sllsge taken up directly after tho
mower and stacked without rolling or
compression. It was sent mo by Mr. C.
A. Hinckley, of (Jalesburg. HI., who In
resnonso to n letter of Inquiry as to thn
cows' opinion, writes mo under dato of
February 15, as follows: "lean not glvo
a very favorable -report on tho feodlng
qualities of tho green-cured hay. Wo
found It packed very solid, hard to cut,
and very dusty. The cattle did not seem
to eat it very well. Wo made a strong
brine and wet tho hay In (he rack.
Tliey ato the hay, but It lasted
longer than the clover cured In thn ,
shock. My prlvato opinion Is that;
clover hay cut In the morning, raked
and cocked up In tho afternoon or next
day, and left to stand three or four days
miikos the best hay. The ensilage stack
Is In the same Held with a long rick of
hay cured in the ordinary method. Wo
have had from twoho to llftconcollsrun
nlngln the lot all the fall and winter.
They have not eaten much of the ensl
luge stack."
Tills method is worthy of further ex
perimentation, hut I think will bo
found prolltablo only in catchy weather
when clover Is almost certain to bo
more or less damaged. Cloverofcourse
can be used as ordinary sllnge, but corn
Is cheaper. There should be ordinarily
hut little dllllcuUy In curing eloer In
the usual way. Three things are es
sential: reasonably good weather, a hay
shed, and a tedder when thn crop Is cut
early and Is over two tons per acre. Tho
tlrst Is not under man's control; the
second and third are. A hay shed made
of isiles or dimension NtulT set In thn
ground, about thirteen feel apart, roofed
with boards ami hoarded down about
live feet, with sheds on three sides for
cattle and other stock makes the best
barn, shed and manure cover Hint can bo
made for tho money, and apart from tho
convenience in curing clover will pay a
Nebraska note shaver's Interest on the
money Invested every year. It Is the
only Investment I know of thai will do
it.
I have found It the best method to
start the mower about four o'clock In
the afternoon nnd mow till sundown,
and again In the morning as soon as
tho dew is fairly well off. About nine
o'clock start the tedder, using a fast
walking team. This will thoroughly
shake up the grass, which will be ready
to go Into the shed about three o'clock.
This Is tho method adopted in curing
clover from about June '10 to duly I.
Thn older It gets after this the less time
Is required for curing, the less valuable
the hay and the less chance for a seed
crop. When the grass Is so far cured
that on wringing it with the band no
moisture Is visible on the stem it is suf
ficiently cured and should go into thn
shed It once If the weather be good; if
the atmosphere Is muggy beware! In
putting the hay in the barn care should
lie taken that none of It lies on cross
beams. Kill each bent separately and
allow It to settle by Itself. If the hay
Is allowed to bulge on cross timbers air
will be allowed access and there will
In danger of spontaneous combustion.
If the hay becomes very hot and steams,
and water condenses on the top in the
morning, put In a load of dry straw- and
put on more hay, using two or three
quarts of .salt to each ton. We do not,
however, recommend clover or any
other tame hay cured In this way for
road horses.
NiMv-tluaril to I'rfvmt Kurklns.
When growing calves are nllovved to
run together, they often acquire an In
jurious habit of sucking one another,
nnd still more serious in its conse
quences is tlio trick, which some Cows
have, of self-sucking. A very easily
made and elfcutlvo restraint on such
animals is the wooden nose-jewel, de
pleted herewith, it Is made of pine or
hasswood beaid, half an Inch thick for
calves and three-quarters of an Inch for
older animals. To shape tho imple
ment, two holes, an Inch In diameter,
NOsK IIOAIIII KOIt t'AI.VI.s.
ar Isirvd, a narrow notch sawed in thn
side of the holes, and then with a knlfo
the whole Is finished ott and the points
rounded, as shown in thn engraving.
The notch Ik' t ween the Mints Is made
Just wide enough to allow the contriv
ance to slip snugly upon the cartilage
between the nostrils of the animal that
t to wear It. When properly adjusted
It does not Interfere with grazing, but
Is an effectual barrier to obtaining stir-
reptltlous supplies of lacteal tlnld.
American Agriculturist.
Ci kan up and dig up the earth about
the young trees. You would not expect
ttie com plant to uo well surrounded ty
weeds and a solid turf. Win n we grow
trees as we do other crops, wo shall
have more and letter trees. Western
l'.ural.
Tin: Florida uran?o crop is sali hi
promise null.
VNCf.i: ukoroiv.s At.v-root.n day.
iiiiM
Uncle (Jeorgn-Chlldron. this Is "Alb
Fools Day," and I want you to havo a lit
tle fun. When your papa comes down
to breakfast you pin these things on his
coal-doii'tluthlm son you, though and
then all cry: "April Foolt"
Uncle (Jeorge -Now, nil bo good chil
dren and don't forget what I told .ou,
mid I hope you will havo lots of fun.
(iood-b.yet"
Chorus of Children (behind Undo
fleorgo's back) All right, UnuloOcorgo,
wo will huvu lots of fun."
And so they did.
CioMen Hays.
TITO MOUI4
WITH lltIT
TlinrOIIT.
A HINOLR
llrown How do, .tones?
doncs How do, llrown?
.Voiles" (ll) WU that's good
joke on ',TI""!!!, but 1 won't say any
thing; I was n lsy once, myself. Life.
THE DAOUERRE MEMORIAL.
American rimtoRrailirrs to Honor the
Memory of (ha lilrovi-rrr of Tlirlr
Art.
We give herewith an Illustration of
tho monument which Is to he ensued by
tho photographers of this country to
Daguorro, the discoverer of the art of
permanently llxlng nn Image on a given
surface -- which Is tho art of photog
raphy. The memorial will be placed in
front of the Smithsonian Institutional
Washington the nearest body wo havo
ukln to the I-re mi i Academy and
Mr. .1. Scott Hartley, selected ns tho
sculptor, Is now- carrying out in granite
and bronze the design shown In out
picture. Tills design, In a word, represents
Fame, a reverential tlgure, framing the
head of Daguerre vv Ith laurel an em-
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tdcmatlo trophy extending around th
earth and tvplfylng the unlverallt
of hi discovery to the human race.
The monument will stand sixteen
feet high, and will rest on a mslostal ot
rough granite, Tho proposition for the
rnvtion of this memorial originated tn
the IMiotographers' Association of Amer
ica, and it ha received tho hearty sup-
port ot ail persons -onneetco, mm mm
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branch of art. Mr. J. Well Champnoy
is In charge of tho New ork com
mltteo in charge, ot tho work, and Mr.
II. McMlchael, of Uaffalo, N. Y W
president of the rtaotivjrapberV Associa
tion ot America.
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IiAIIOira STRIFE.
Dr. Talmngri on thn Conflict Bo
twaon Lnbor and Capital.
Human WU,m t'nshla to ttlr Mir foil
trnrrriy-t'lirlallniilly 'an-Mrlh No
SiiliiMiui-Tln, ft ml War '" Instirii
IVareand l'roifljr.
Ill a la scrtnnu at llrooklyn Itev T
DoWItt Tabling preached on "Tim Did
Fight to be Settled. ' from thu text:
"Whatsoever yo would thai men should
do to you, do you even so to them "
Matthew, vil. VI. lollo-vlng Is the
sermon.
Two hundred and fifty thousand la
borers In Hyde Park. London, nnd tho
stteels of American and F.uropcan eltlet.
filled with prociisslousof work men carry
lug banneis, brings the subject of labor
and capital to Mm front. That all this
was done in smco and that as a result In
many places ai httratlun has taken place
i is a hopeful sign.
The greatest war the world has ever
seen Is between capital anil labor. The
strifeisnotllketh.it which In history
Is called the Thirty Yens' War. for It Is
a war of centuries. It ha war of the
live confluents, it is a war hemispheric
The middle clashes of this iiiiiiitry. upon
1 whom the Nation h isdeiiCiuled for hold
ing the balance of ower and for acting
as mediators between the twoeMremes,
ate diminishing, and If things go on at
thn same ratio as they have been for
the list twenty ye.ns been going on, it
will not be long befoie there will be uo
middle class In Ihiscouutry, but all will
ho very ilch or very poor, princes or
palaces or fp.iupois, and the whole coun
try will bo i:lven up to ptlaics ami
hovels.
The antagonistic forces hive again
and auain closed In upon cuii other.
You may pooh-pooh it; you may say
that this Itoiihle, like an angry child,
I will ciy Itself in sleep, you may belittle
j It by calling it I'u.inerlsin. or .Socialism,
hi M. .Miuiiulsui, or .Mhlllsm, or I oui
monism, but that will not binder the
fact tliat It Is tin) mightiest, the dark
est, the most tei rillc threat of this cen
tury. Most of the attempts at pacifica
tion havo been dead failures, and
monopoly Is moio arrogant, and the
trades unions more bitter, "flive us
more wages," cry the nuiploes. "You
shall have lesi," say the capitalists.
''Compel us to do fewer hoimof toil in
a day." "You shall toll mom hours,"
say the others. "Then under certain
condition:! we w 111 not work at all," s iv
these, "Then you shall starve," say
those, nnd tho workmen gradually using
up that which they accumulated in hot
ter limes, unless tliete be sumo radical
change, we shall have soon In this
country :i,(inr,uoo hungry men and
women. Now, il.ooo.ooii hungry people
can not bo kept quiet. All the enact
ments of Lcgtsjaluics and all the con
stabularies of the rities, and all the
army and navy of the United Mates i an
not keep :i,ooo,ihmi hungry people quiet.
What then? Will this war be
tween capital and labor bo
settled by human wisdom',' Never.
The brow nf the one ln'comcs
more rigid, thn list of the other mote
clinched. Hut that which human wis
dom can not achieve will be accom
plished by Chiistianily.it It bo given
full sway. You have heard of medi
cines so powerful that one drop would
stop a disease ami testore a patient, and
I have to tell you that ono ilropofmy
text, properly admiiiisteieil. will stop
all these woes of society and give con
valescence and complete health to all
classes. "Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do jo even m to
them."
I shall tlrst show you how this con
troveisy between monopoly and haul
wotk can not be slopped, and then I will
show you how tills contioversy will ho
settled.
In the tlrst place thero will come no
pvcilb alien lo this trouble through an
outcry against rich men ineiely Ih cause
they are rich Thero is no laboring man
on e.irih tlivt would not be rich if lie
could be. Sometimes through a fortu
nate Invention, or through some acci
dent of prosperity, a man who had noth
ing comes to large estate, and we son
him arrogant and siH-rclllon., and
taking people by the throat just
as other people took him by
the thio it, Theio is something
very mean about human nature
when it comes to the top. Itut It Is no
more sin to lv rich than it is a sin In be
poor. Theie are those who have
gitliercda great estate through Iraud,
and then there are million tires who
have gathered their fortunes through
foresight In regard to changes in the
uurltots, and through brilliant business
f iculty, and every dollar of tholi estate
Is as honest as the dollar which the
plumber gels for mending a pipe, or the
mason gets for building a wall.
Thine ato those who Keep In poverty
because of their own fault The) might
have been well olT but they smoked or
I chewed up their earnings, or they lived
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111'yoilil lin'ir iu.'.ih's " iim.t .,n.', h, ,,i,t
same wages and on tho same salaries
went on to competency. I Know a man
who is all the time complaining of his
poverty ami cryingmit against rich men.
while he tilmseit keeps two Hogs, ami
chews and smokes, and is tllbsl to the
chin with whisky and Uvr! And there
are vast multitudes ol people who are
kept poor localise they are the victims
of their own improvidence. It Is no ln
to l rich, and ll Is no sin to le poor I
protest against this outcry which I hear
naslnst i!usc who, through economy
and self-denial and assiduity. have come
' to largo fortunes. This bombaidmcnt
I of commercial success . II never stop
this controversy between capital and
i labor.
I Neither w ill the contest io seined ny
cvnlcal and unsxmratheile treatment of
the laboring cla'ssev Thero are those
in la mi nil i; t ii-urs. tuvie i' iivt'h
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nnir rjiiiii vt tai iivi i
nerves are nothing; their domestic com
When Jean Valjcan. Ihe greateu hero
of Victor Hugo' writings, alter a life of
I
fort l nothing; their happiness is notti- rcguiavM oy a ixwm " """". "J ( " -" " ", -,u l"rT'
. ' ' . ....'.' l... .-'.. i I.i.i..n l-,V. nit.iiiri -i.1 mn sml rs.v.nl of renturlr hll bnifble
Ing. I hoy nave no men' njinpaiay- wri mwvv. -.-.. . -,.-.. ..........-..,..-...... ..
them than a hound has for a hare, or a are bound For some time pasi the with the mlle of Hraira a. lie eoj
w.uv..... ...... ..r iier for i calf Iron and tevl trade has been extreme-- niandv "Wkatover jr o14 tb
suffering and great endurance, goes Into
Incarceration and death, they clap the
book shut and say: "flood for blni'"
They stamp their feet with Indignation
and asy Just the opposite of "Save the
working classes" They havo all their
sympathies with Shylock, and not with
Antonio and Portia. They an pluto
crats and their feeling are Infernal.
They are filled with Irritation and Irras
cll.lllty on this subject. To stop this
awful Imbroglio between capital and
labor Miey will lift not so much as the
lip end of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacification
of this angry controversy through vlo
loiieii. Ood mjvor blessed murder, lllow
up tO'inorroiv tho country seats on the
banks of the Hudson, and all the line
houses on Madison Squarnaiid llriHiklu
Heights and llrooklyn Hill and Ullti'ti
house Square unil llimcon street, and all
tho bricks and timber and stone will
just fall lurk on the hare bead of Amer
ican labor. Tim woist enemies of the
working classes in tho I'ulted Mites
and Ireland are their ilemeufd coad
jutors A few yeats ago assassination
the assassin itlon of Lord FrrdcrM k
Cavendish and Mr. Ilurko in I'hieulx
pirU, Dublin, Ireland, In the attempt to
avenge the wrongs of Ireland -only
turned away from that .illlirti-d people
millions of s.vmpathlers. The attempt
to blow up the House of Commons, in
London, had only this elTectto throw
out of employment tens of thousand of
innocent Irish people In Unglaud
1 ii this country the tench put to the
factories th vl have discharged h inds for
good or hid reason; obstructions on the
tail track in flout of midnight express
trains because the ollmidf r do not like
the president of the company; strikes
on slilpho ird the hour tliey were going
to sail, or in printing olllces the hour the
paper was logo to press, or In mines the
day the coil was to Imi ilelivered, or on
house si alfohlings so the builder falls In
keeping hi i contract all these are only
a haul blow on tho head of American
labor and cripple its arms ami lame its
feet and pierce Its heart. As a result of
one of our great Ameriian stilkesyou
lllid that the operatives lost ?HHi,onil
worth of wages and liavu hid poorer
wages over slmo. Traps sprung sud
denly Upon emplovers mill violence
never took one knot out of the knuckle
of loll or put one farthing of wages into
a callous p vim. Itarbirism will never
euro the wiougs of civilization. Mark
that!
Well. If this controversy betweed cap
ital and labor can not he settled by hu
man wisdom, it is lime for us to look
somewhere else for relief, and ll points
from my text roseate and jubilant and
puis one hand on tho hrouhiolh shoul
der of capital, and puts tho other hand
on the homespun covered shoulder of
toil and says, with a voice that will
grandly and gloriously settle this and
settle every tiling' "Whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them." That Is, the lady of
tho household will say: "I must treat
tin ild in tho kitchen Just as I would
like to be treated if 1 were down slabs
and it were my work to wash and sweep,
and it were the duty of thn iald In tho
kitchen to preside in this parlor." Tho
maid in the kltd'ien must sav: "If my
employer seems to bo more prosperous
than I that Is no fault of hers: I shall
not treat her as an enemy. I will have
tho same industry and fidelity down
stairs as I would expict from my sub
ordinates if I happened to I") the wife
of a silk importer.
Tho owner of an iron mill having
taken a dose of my text before leaving
home In tho morning, will go Into his
foundry, and pissing Into what is called
the pudilllng-room, h will sen a man
there stripped to the waist and be
sweated and exhaiiscd with the labor
and the toil, and he will say to him:
"Why, It seems to be very hot In here.
You look very much exhausted I heir
jour child Is sick with scat lot fever. If
.von want jour wages a little earlier
"tills week, so as to piy the nurse and
get tho medicine, just come Into my
oillco any time "
After a while crash goes the money
matket and there Is no more demand for
the articles manufactured in that lion
mill, and the owner docs not know what
to do. He says: "Shall I stop the mill,
or shall I run it on half time or shall I
cut down the men's wages"" He walks
the tloor of his counting room all day.
hardlv knowing what to do. Toward
evening he calls all the laborers
together They stand all around, some
with anus akimbo, some with folded
arms, wondering what the ls Is going
to do now
The manufacturer says' "Mn. busi
ness is bad; I don't make m where I
used to make $100 Somehow there Is
no demand now for nhat we manufacl
me. or Put little iiemanu t louseei.im
at vast expense, and I tuve called ou
together this afternoon lo see what von
would advise I don't want to shut up
the mill, because thai would fotce you
out of work, and you have alvvajs In on
very faithful, and I like von, and you
seem to like me, and tho bairns must Imi
looked alter, and your wife will after
awhile vxant a new dress I doa t know
what to do."
There Is a dead halt for a minute or
two, and then one of the workmen steps
out (tout the ranks of his fellows and
says. "Hoss, you have ln-en very good to
us, and when yon irosiercd i pros-
I pored, and now you are In a light plate,
and I am sorry, and we nave got lo sjm
pathiie with jow. I don't know how thn
others feel, I tit I propose that we take
off twenty per cent from our wages, and
that when the times gel gtssl you will
remember us and raise them again '
The workman looks around to hi corn-
rades and say s. "IUivs w hat do you say j resigning every thing for others. Keep
to this All in favor of my proposition j ing not so much as a shekel to pay His
will say axe.' "Aye' aye! aye' shout obsequies, b) cbxrlty buried in the -two
hundred voices. ! urbs of a city that had can him out
O," says sotno man here, ' that Is all ' Itelor- such a Capitalist and Carp-nter
I'toplau, that is ajsvryphal, that Is im- j all men can afford to shake hands and
hMisslble" No, lent out ot a paper
this One ol the pleantevt incidents
recorded In a long lime Is reported from
, i.m
, ShetMeld. Km-land. Tho waacs ot the
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- , men tn the Iron work al Mietttcld arc
ly unprofitable, and the employer can
I not, without much lois, par the wgvs
fixed by the Isnn!, which nelthe.f npi
plo.versnor employed have tho power
to change To avoid this difficulty tho
workmen in one of the largest steel
work In Shellield hit upon a device as
rare as it was generous. They offered
to work for their employers one week
without un pay whatever. How much
Letter that plan Is than a strike would
be."
Hut you go with mo and I will show
you not so far oil .n hhetlleltl, Ungland
factories, b inking houses, sloro
houses ami costly enterprises where this
Cbrlstllke Injunction Is kept, and you
could no more get the employer to prac
tice an Injustice nn bis men, or the men
to conspire against tho employer than you
could get otit right hand and your left
hand, jour right eye and your loft eye,
your rght ear and your left ear Into
physlologkal antagonism. Now. whero
Is this to begin'.' In our homes. In our
stores, on our farms not waiting for
other people to do their duty. Is thero
a divergence now between the parlor
and the kitchen'.' Then thcr is some
thing wrong either In the parlor or tho
kite hen. perhaps In both. Am the
clerks in vout stores Irate against tho
Hi in'1 Then there Is something wrong,
either behind the counter or in the pri
vate oill-e, or,p-rhaps in both.
The great want of the world to-day is
the fulllllmentof this Christlike Injiiuc
lion, that which He promulgated In His
sermon Ol. relic. All tho political econ
omists under thearclilvoltof the heavens
in convention for a thoiisiml eirsc.in
not ettle this controversy between mo
nopoly and haul work, between capital
and labor.
"d," says some wiseacre, "talk as you
will, the law of demand and supply will
regu'ate these tilings until the end of
time." No, It will not, unless !il tiles
ami the batteries of tho Judgment day
are spiked, and liuto and I'roserpine,
king a let queen of the Infernal regions,
take full poxsiMsicn of this world
Supply and demand owns the largest
mill on the earth, ami nil the rivers roll
over their wheel, and into their hopper
they put all the men, women and chil
dren thev an shovel oiilof the ccnlurli
and the b ood and the bones redden tfie
valley while the mill grinds. That
diaholh.il law of supply and demand
will yet havo lo stand a-iidc, and Instead
theieofwill tome tho law of love, tho
law- of co-operation, the law of kindness,
the law of syms'ithy. tho law of Christ.
And now I have two words, one to
capitalists and the oilier to laboring
men
To capitalists; Do our own execu
tors. Make Investments for eternity.
Do not lie like some capitalists I know
who walk irouiid among their employes
with a suicrcUiotis air. or drive up to
tin- factory In a manner which semis lo
indicate they are the autocrat of ttie
universe, with the sun and the moon in
their vest pickets, chielty anxious when
they go umong luboring men not to ho
touched by tho greasy or smirched
hand and have their hroadclotlHnjiircd.
lie a Christian employer. Koinoinber,
lhoc who are under your charge are
bone ot your bono ami llesh of your
llesh, that .tesiis died for them
and that tliey are immortal. Ill
vide up your estates, or por
tions of them, for the relief of tho
world, befoio von leave it. Do not go
out of the world like that man who died
eight or ten years ngo, lowing in his
will SiO.OOD.lino, yet giving bow much to
the Church of Cod" How much for tha
alleviation of human sulfering? He
gave some money a little while before
lie died. Tliat was well; but In all this
will of SJO.OcO.oiH), how much'.' Ono mil
lion'.' No. I'ive hundred thousand?
No One hundred dollars'1 No. Two
cents'' No. Olio tent'.' No. Three
great cities groaning In anguish, na
tions crying out for the bread of ever
lasting life. A man in a will giving
S.'O.iioo.iHW and not ono cent to Cms!. It
is a disgrace to our civilization.
To laboring men: I congratulate you
on your prospects 1 congratulate you
on the fact that you are getting your
representatives at Albany, at llarrls
burg and al Washington This will go
on until ytui luve representatives at all
tlio headquartersvand you will have full
mstlro, Mark that. I congratulate you
also on the opportunities for your chil
dren Your children are going tubavo
vast opportunities. I congratulate you
that you have tn work, and tliat when
you are dead your fblldren will have to
work I congratulatu you also on your
opportunities of Inform itfon.
Whit vat opportunities for intelli
gence for you and your children' A
worklngnian goes along by the show
window of some great publishing liousn
and he sn-s a book that vosts JA Ho
says. "I wish liould have that infor
mation, I wish liould raisn J.', for thit
cosllv ami beautiful Usk " A few
months piss on and he gets tb value of
that Isxjk for cents in a pamphinu
'1 here never was such a day for the work
Ingmeu of Ameriva as tlie day that Is
coining.
Itut the greatest Friend of capitalist
and toiler and the fine who will el
bring them together in complete atconl
was iMiru one Christmas night while tho
curtains of Heaven swung, stlrretl by
the angelic Owner of all thing -all tho
continent-, all tho worlds and all tho
islands of light; tVipltalistof immensity,
crossing over to our condition; coming
into our world not by gate of palace, but
by door of barn: spending His first night
amid tho shepherds; gathering after
ward around Him tho fishermen to lo
His chief attendants; with adie and a
and chisel in a carpenter shop; showing
himself bruther with the tradesmen:
.Owner of all thlnifv yet on a
billark bark of Jerumlem one day
worsup. neromneerery man sv.nnsw
I None so high but He was higher, near,
so r
i tho host le extremes wtll yet renouncn
s.
their animosities.
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