WBtEKliJ
A VACUUM CARPET CLEANER.
THE tucTF-m
AT U
DAY
Device Bearing Resemblance to Small
Plow Robs House Cleaning of Ter
rors and Is Great Aid to Housewife.
House cleaning is robbed of its ter
)
V
The Lost
Store Closes
6 P.
HAT BOSSES UNEASY.
Try Novel Trick to Learn Prospects
of Trade.
Among the . numerous peculiar
things the Hat Manufacturers asso
ciation has been doing within the
past few weeks, and which is a strong
indication that its members are be
coming anxious as to future business,
is a circular Isued to retail hat deal
ers throughout the country, asking
them questions bearing on the label
of the Vnited Hatters of North Amer
ica, as follows:
"Is there a demand for the union
label from your customers? It so,
how large is the percentage? What
character Is it from union agitators,
who only come to you to induce you
to carry label hats, or from workmen
who would, be bona fide customers
and who want the label?
"Do you consider the onion label
In hats necessary to your business?
If so, why?
"Can you do as much business with
out the label as with it?
"If the quality, grade for grade, is
better without the union label, would
you carry all non-label hats?
"Or would you carry a small pro
portion of label hats to meet the de
mand. If the latter, and a union man
should Insist that yon carry only
union hats, what action would you
take?
"Are your clerks organized? If so,
do they influence you in favor of label
hats?" Exchange.
STRIKE-BREAKERS DOING HARM.
B. A O. R. R. Gets Worse Results
With Larger Force and Overtime.
The situation of the striking ma
chinists .on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad is a peculiar one. The men
are still out. and mean to stand pat.
Meanwhile, however, the blacksmiths
and boilerniaxers,ho promised them
assistance, have made some sort of
agreement with the company and
are still at work, the machinists hav
ing been Ignored In all the negotia
Hons.
It Is asserted by officials of the
machinists' anion in Baltimore that
incompetent strike-breakers are do
ing more harm than good In the
chops. The normal output under the
old force was thirty-five engines on
Wallace L. Crandall
Repiblicaa Candidate
tor County Clerk
Asks your Support
at Primaries
August 17
THE LYRIC
COMENCIK MONDAY JULY S
THE FULTON STOCK COMPANY
Presenting Viola Allen's
Great Costume Play
THE TOAST OF THE TOWN
la Ponr Acta By Clyde Fitch.
THE CLOSING WEEK.
Uimm Your A- ta Vow and Avoid Bing
Disappointed.
BEST SEATS 25 CENTS.
Day of the id
M. Saturdays
regular time. The present output is
fifteen engines with a. force increased
from 300 to 400 men, and the strike
breakers are working overtime. One
of them, when asked what machine
he ever , ran before, answered
"Wheeler & Wilson."
The men are on strike against the
adoption of the piecework system,
the experience of other shops having
shown them what the results would
be. Tha men were receiving 27 to
32 cents an hour, but the strike
breakers are paid 32 to 45 cents.
DAN BURY STRIKE ENDS.
Last Seven Shops Open for Work
Idle for Five Months.
The whistles of the seven hat fac
tories that announced Monday even
ing an adjustment ' of the strike
troubles joined Tuesday morning in
the general chorus and about 1,500 em
ployes who had been idle for five
months returned to work. Sixteen
other factories resumed work last
week under a similar agreement and
the strike is now entirely over in Dan
bury. Conn.
Arbitration of disputed points in re
lation to trade matters is to take place
at the expiration of SO days.
If unions make their support felt
now in an emphatic and forceful man
ner the strike in other cities will
crumble rapidly. The Artisan.
CONTRACT LABOR LAW.
Important Construction of it Given by
Attorney General.
Attorney General Wickersham has
rendered an opinion to the secertary
of commerce and labor that a person
coming to this country under contract
to perform other than skilled or un
skilled manual tabor does not enter in
violation of the alien contract labor
lawv
The opinion was rendered in the
case of Wni. McXeir, to whom admis
sion to the United States had been de
nied by the board of special inquiry
at Vancouver, B. C, because he was
on his way to take a job as superin
tendent of a lumber company in Ore
gon at a salary of $300 per month.
THE WORKERS.
The working class alone does the
world's work, has created its capital,
produced Its wealth, constructed its
mills and factories, dug its canals,
made its roadbeds, laid its rails and
operates its trains, spanned the rivers
with bridges and tunneled the moun
tains, delved for the precious stones
that glitter upon the busom of vulgar
idleness, and reared the majestic -palaces
that shelter insolent parasites.
Eugene V. Debs.
BRICKLAYERS ASSESSED.
For the first time during its exist
ence of over a third of a century as
an international union the Bricklayers
Union has levied an assessment of $1
upon its entire membership for their
campaign against the non-union shop.
THE GREAT MEN GONE.
Senator Beveridge. in the course o
an eloquent after-dinner speech in
Boston, said of child labor: "When
we consider th indifference with
which so many of our great men look
upon the child-labor evil, we can't
help wondering if these men are so
very great after all." Senator Bever
idge paused and smiled. "An orator,"
he said, "was addressing an assem
blage of the people. He recounted the
people's wrongs. Then he passion-
- Summer
SALE
ately cried: 'Where are America's
great men? Why don't they take up
the cudgel in our defense? In the face
of our manifold wrongs, why do they
remain cold, immovable, silent? 'Be
cause they're all cast in bronze,' shout
ed a cynic in the rear."
THE LATHERS.
Five members of the board of ex
aminers of the Chicago Lathers' Union
have been indicted for conspiracy. The
members who were indicted are Clark
Buth, George Briggs, Thomas Sim
mons, Fred Ott and A. Alex. The in
dictments were returned on evidence
given before the grand jury by Wil
liam H. Scrontz, a lather of Cleve
land, O., and C. A. Budge, a Chicago
lathing contractor. Scrontz alleged
that the defendants wanted to make
him pay $300 for the privilege of work
ing in Chicago.
IN THE GAME.
The Nebraska State Federation of
Labor was formally instituted last
week at a largely attended conven
tion held In Lincoln. Will 51. Maupin,
editor of the Lincoln Wageworker and
State Labor Commissioner, who ini
tiated the movement for a state fed
eration, was elected president, and
Frank P. Hart, of South Omaha, was
chosen secretary. Pueblo Industrial
Review.
FOUGHT SHY OF IT.
At the recent convention of the
Iowa State Branch of the American
Federation of Labor the delegates re
fused to either reject or affirm a reso
lution introduced by the Brewery
Workers which called- upon organized
labor to fight the resubmission of the
liquor prohibitory amendment to the
Iowa constitution Washington (D. C.)
Trades Unionist.
IT WAS TRUE EVEN THEN.
In the Congress of 1776, John Adams
observed, "That as to this matter, ii
was of no consequence by what name
you call your people, whether by thai
of free men of slaves. That in some
countries the laboring poor men were
called freemen; in others they were
called slaves; -but the difference was
imaginary only. What matters it
whether a landlord employing ten la
borers on his farm gives them annual
ly as much as will buy the necessaries
of life, or gives them those necessar
ies at short hand?" From the "Lost
Principles of Sectional Equilibrium
by Barbarossa.
DIFFERENT HANDS SAME POCKET.
Rev. J. C. Steffen ,of Dubuque, Iowa,
made a stirring appeal recently for
popular support for our colleges.
"Let Rockefeller and Carnegie alone.
Go into your own pocket for college
endowments." urged the divine.
But what's the difference?
It seems hair splitting to discuss
whether Rockefeller and Carnegie, or
yourself shall go into your pocket for
college endowments. New York Daily
CalL
Two Young Women Hurt.
Auourn, .NeD. Thursday evening
while Misses Blanch Holmes and Allie
Furlong were out riding the horse
took fright at some fireworks with
which Editor Kearnes was amusing his
children and a runaway was the re
sult. The young women were thrown
out of the buggy. Miss Furlong had
her arm broken and Miss Holmes it is
feared received fatal injuries. The
buggy was wrecked.
TESTING HARDNESS OF METALS
Instrument Invented for Purpose of
Determining Accurate and Scien
tific Measurements of Hardness. '
An instrument called the "Sclero
scope," for accurately testing the
hardness of metals, and recently In
troduced on the market, will find an
important place in the shops of those
reouirine such information. The de
vice is the invention of Albert F.
Shore, and according to the Iron
Age it fills a long felt want. That
paper, in commenting on the subject.
has the following to say:
"This new instrument would seem
to supply the means of effecting ac
curate and scientifically correct meas
urements of hardness, for with it an
instantaneous blow is struck, and the
recuperative power of the specimen
is then measured by determining the
extent of the rebound of the striking
hammer, the elastic limit of this
metal being tested having been ex
ceeded. There is an upright glass
tube back of which is a graduated
scale running from 0 to 140. This
tube is entirelyopen at the bottom.
In the same figure may be seen a
specimen secured in a clamp and
ready to be tested. This should be
put in such position .that the particu
lar spot to be tested is immediately
under the lower opening in the tube.
The rubber bulb seen at the top is
for the purpose of sucking up the
hammer, which is a small piece of
steel fitting snugly but smoothly the
bore of the tube. The hammer is per
fectly free, having no attachment to
any portions of the instrument. Upon
.' X J
far-
V
A Scleroscope.
releasing the upper bulb sharply.
after having compressed it, the little
hammer will be drawn to the top of
the tube and there retained by a suit
able device until it is desired to
strike the blow.
"To make the test, the finger hook
near the top and on the left side is
first pressed down. Then by com
pressing the rubber bulb, seen rest
ing on the base, and connected with
the upper portion of the glass tube
by a piece of small rubber tubing, the
hammer will be permitted to fall.
Upon striking the specimen it re
bounds. The amount of this rebound,
as read npon the scale, is regarded as
a numerical statement of the degree
of hardness. A small rod will be
seen to the left of the - glass tube.
This affords rigidity and at the same
time supplies . a means of supporting
a sliding holder. In the holder is
secured a magnifying glass by which
the rebound may be observed distinct
ly and accurately. However, not all
operators use this glass, as a little
practice is sufficient usually to enable
the users to dispense with such assist
ance in reading the rebounds."
itW FERRO-TITANIUM RAILS
Experiments Show That They Contain
but Little Titanium and May Be
Entirely Free.
A curious peculiarity of the new'
ferro-titanium rails, which have been
made experimentally in the United
States for a little more than a year,
is that they may be entirely free from
titanium, and at most they contain
but little. In this respect the "alloy"
differs from all others. The proper
ties of nickel-steel, for instance, de
pend upon the presence of a material
percentage of nickel, ana manganese
steel must have a carefully adjusted
proportion of manganese. For the new
metal, the steel is made in a converter
and blown In the usual way, when it
receives a charge of titanium alloy.
This is a product of the electric fur
nace, and is a mixture containing
10 to 15 per cent, of titanium and
five to seven per cent, of carbon, the
remaining portion being iron. Each
ton of steel receives a charge of about
eight pounds of ten per cent, alloy,
the effect being to increase the slag
removed from the metal In the ladle,
while the Ingots are free from blow
holes. The titanium, -unless in excess
of what is necessary to remove the
impurities, all passes off in the slag.
The treatment gives special durability
to rails for curves, and at the Grand
Central station In New York an ordi
nary rail lost 3.03 pounds per yard in
four months, while a titanium alloy
rail of the same composition was worn
away only 1.01 pounds per yard in
sir. months. The few dollars' increase
per ton of Bessemer rails is expected
to be mucbmore than offset by added
durability.
A
rors by the new vacuum cleaner that
has been put on the market. This is
not one of the wagon outfits which
have sprung into such universal de
mand for the cleaning of large build
ings, nor is it one of the electrical ma
chines, but a simple hand apparatus
which can be used about the house as
readily as a carpet sweeper, and
Work Handles Like Bellows.
is infinitely more effective. The hand
device bears a slight resemblance to a
small plow. It consists of a broad
mouthpiece leading up to a body por
tion in which is a suction apparatus.
The two handles are movable and the
operator presses them in or out, as
though working a bellows. This sets
in action the suction machinery and
creates a vacuum into which the dirt
from carpets or floors is swiftly
sucked. It can be readily seen that
this is a big improvement over the
old method of house cleaning, being
quicker, doing the work more thor
oughly and having the additional
merit of not raising a dust to undo the
cleaning.
HOT-EGG HOLDER AND OPENER
Contrivance for Holding Uncomfort
ably Warm Hen Fruit Without
Fear of Burning the Fingers.
It Is well known that difficulty is
generally experienced in holding and
opening a hot egg, particularly when
it has been soft boiled. Unless care
is exercised the shell will suddenly
break, sending the contents of the
egg in all directions, in most cases
distributing itself over the clothes of
the person endeavoring to open IC
To avoid such accidents a New York
inventor has designed a hot-egg holder
and opener, which is shown in the ac
companying illustration. It consists
of a pair of compressible cups, which
are also detachable. In the center
of the holder are cutters. After an
egg has been placed in one of the
sections of the holder the other sec
tion is placed in position and the cen
ter of the holder compressed. The
cutters are thus forced against the
shell of the egg, penetrating it suffi
ciently to be opened. By drawing
For Opening Hot Eggs.
the two sections apart, the egg can
be readily separated into halves. The
contents of the egg can then be easi
ly removed.
Simple Test for Tinware,
Tin is a metal which, like copper,
accelerates the corrosion of iron by
aiding in the oxidation of the hydrogen-set
free by the reaction, says
William H. Walker in the tngineenng
Magazine. If, therefore, in the manu
facture of the so-called tin plate,
which is sheet iron or steel covered
with a layer of metallic tin, there may
be imperfections or pin holes in the
tin coating, these channels through
the tin to the iron will become cen
ters of corrosion which rapidly de
stroys the plate.
It is impossible to detect these im
perfections by a simple inspection
and hence users of tin plate have
been nnable to test the quality of their
raw material from this point of view.
Since the Iron must pass Into solution
at these exposed points in the tin
coating, their presence may be easily
located by flowing npon the tin sur
face a- solution of gelatin or glue in
which is dissolved some potassium
ferricyanide. When the jelly ha
stiffened the iron will pass into solu
tion through the holes in the tin, and
reacting with the ferricyanide will
leave a bright blue spot in the jelly.
Variations in the quality of tin plate
mag thus be easily detected.
Experiments in southern Burmah
with Virginia and Havana tobacco
I have proven a practical failure.
Some herlock J
HoLMESlNG i
Dr. F. Howland
Hopkins of London.
ays that -caanibtl-
ism is practically
the solution of the
problem of dietetics,
that naturally uoh
diet would pro
vide the exact sup
ply of proteins
needed.
have my doubts
of Lucius Jones;
I'm filled with
vague disquiet.
He is a living rack
of bones
And cannot And a
diet
That with his sys
tem will agree;
He keeps on grow
ing tbinner
Just yesterday be
said to me;
TTe must lun
you for dia
nerr" It seemed to me his
hungry eye
My weight wa
estimating.
Tbat with his sad
and sickly sigh
He then was cal
culating
My pounds and ounces on the boot.
And. as I am a sinner.
I drew myself from him aloof-
He wanted me for dinner:
Ot course. If one news It aright
He might feel complimented
To know he'd roused an appetite
Tbat wouid not be contented
Until a tyro-cannibal
A laesitant beginner-
Had picked him out among us all
And bad bad him for dinner.
But. honestly, when Lucius Jones
My daily stroll will follow.
And looks so like a rack of bones.
And also looks so hollow.
I feel like leading him a race
In which 111 be the winner
The gaunt expression of his face
Shows be wants me for dinner.
I'd love to go with him to dins
And hark to merry chatter-
But it Is not so very one
To go upon a p latter r
And so although poor "Lucius grows
Each day and hour tbe thinner.
I'll see my every action shows
He'll not have me for dinner.
OldManGiddles
4" O .c ras at?
Mrs. Eliza Hop
ple Is already be-
ginnig to, talk
about how bad she
knows she Is go
ing to feel when
the hay fever be
gins in August.
Any one can
make a good reso
1 n t i o n between
seven and nine
a. m.; it is the man that makes on
between seven and nine p. m. who
means business.
It Is often noticed that an iconoclast
Is a man that goes around smashing
other people's idols.
A love letter is something yon may
(be sorry you wrote, or sorry yoa did
not write.
The man who knows most about
driving a horse usually has to hire a
skinny plug from a livery stable.
One man's fat is another man's dig
nity. Assiduity and perseverance
praised as qualities that will make all
men admire and respect yoa bat the
mosquito has both to the highest de
gree. It Isn't that some people wast to
nave their own way that veaes tow;
ft is that they won't let yoa have yoax
own way.
An U nconvsrrtional Graduate
"So you've graduated from colleger
naps the head of the firm- "And I
suppose yoa think yoa know eaoaght
to run my business if I give yoa a.
place?"
"1 hadn't considered that phase of
the matter," replies the graduate. 1
called to inform yoa that I have com
bined all yoor rivals and am wBIias
to let yoa into the combination if yoa
will talk business."
Just So.
Too can lend a man your ombreRa.
so often that he win blame yoa for
his soaking the first, time be is
caught in the rain without it.
M
Jig