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& THIS WASHER is built work by gently rubbing THE CRYSTAL WASHER $5.00 (Was $10.00) different makes. You can send anyone to my house, if they wish to see the work the washer will do" - Mrs. W. R. Kimball, 1268 So. Twentieth. "The Crystal Washer is better than you claim, and after seven months' use I can recommend it as the cleanest washing, the easiest operating and the most . satisfactory made." - Mrs. Geo. F. Burr, 311 No. 34th St. A BRILLIANT IDEA. Need ft Place to Exhibit Goods Made in Our Own State. President Rudge of the State Fair board has delivered himself of a thought that should receive careful consideration. It is one of the best ideas that has been sprung in a gen eration. Briefly Mr. Rmlge suggests that a building be erected upon the state fair grounds in which to exhibit only goods made in Nebraska. And it would take a mighty big building to ade quately provide for such a display of manufactures.' It wouldn't b the smallest buildings on the grounds, by any means. On the contrary, it would be among the largest, if not the larg est. Nebraska is rapidly becoming a manufacturing state, and it is high time the people of Nebraska realized the growing importance of Nebraska's building and a display as Mr. Rudge proposes would do more to educate the people of Nebraska, and more to ad vance the material welfare of the ftate, than almost any other agency, It is to be hoped that the state fair Moard will take up Mr. Rudge 's idea at once and proceed to net upon it. The board will have the cooperation or tuousamis or wage earners who are not now particularly interested in the state fair because its exhibits "are either purely agricultural or wholly of goods manufactured in other states. Mr. Rudge coulfl render no better service to the state aa a whole than to keep hammering away on that single idea until he sees it an accomplished act. GENERAL MENTION. Brief Bits of Labor News Deftly Picked and Pilfered. . Union printers in New York aro boy cotting non-union bread. The Grand Trunk is not taking back strikers as fust as it might. The Six)kane Teamsters will pay sick benefits of $3 a week hereafter. The International Machinists have nearly $100.0(1 in government bonds. A great deal of work is being done on the state aided roads near Spokane. The reduction of express rates in Oregou is more nominal than real. Roosevelt approves of better laws for the protection of labor from inju ries. The Brititdi trade union congress this year will open in Sheffield on Septem ber 12. "Some of the Australian printers are asking an increase from $14.25 to $16.83 per week. The teamsters of Spokane 'are in a prosperous condition and hope soon to have 300 members. Philadelphia street car men now have a women's auxiliary with a mem bership of 6,000. , Success magazine in New York was getting to be too much of a critic of Morganized. Brickmakers and masons were locked out in Winnipeg. Canada, last month in an "open shop" fight started by the employers. Wealthy Pittsburg grafters sent to jail have been lamenting the cruelty of the prison keepers in not allowing them luxuries and favors. The Young. Women's Christian as- : sociation in Spokane is a recruiting station for waitresses for the unfair restaurants, and is scouring the email , towns and country to secure them. , Young women suffragettes in Wash ington are arousing great interest in ' their cause by giving musical and lit erary services at gatherings of all kind. It is a very effective way of on correct scientific principles. Does its and squeezing the clothes in steaming hot suds between a revolving wheel and a slightly inclined washboard. "A WOODEN HAND" Clothes raised up and down - a new rub and a new squeeze in a new place each time, will wash the heaviest or lightest fabrics. Easiest running, most durable, most efficient. ONLY FIVE DOLLARS! Was $10.00 until we secured this big lot. Saves work, worry and clothes. A labor' saving machine for the housewife. "It is the best machine for $10. that is made, and I know this from many trials of HALL BROS, 1517 O Street securing a little attention from a large number of people. Milwaukee printers have a new scale with a" raise of from one to two dollars a week . The free employment bureau of Spo kane is securing jobs at the rate of 700 a month. All sorts of graft is alleged in con nection with naturalization matters in New York City. Ragpickers in New York threaten a strike if their demand for higher wages is not granted. Many of the bakeries of Spokane are found to be in a most filthy and un sanitary condition. Demand for wsmen to do housework is far beyond the response in Spokane, even at $30 per month. A joint meeting of operators and miners to fix a wage scale will be held in Montana October 1. It is proposed to form a department of the A. F. of L. composed of all the clothing and garment trades. A general strike of miners in Spain began on August 26th, but required several days to get under way. Industrial accidents in Ontario, Can ada, factories in 1009 totaled 665, an increase over the previous year. The building trade are tied up in demanding the abandonment of the fake unions by the contractors. .Japan has just as much right to absorb Corea as America has the Phil ippines or England topjrotect Egypt. Custom recognizes, health requires and civilization demands the eight liour day. He who fights it tights the fates. . Trainmen in the Northwest are talk ing about an eight-hour day, and the different organizations may demand it soon. A permanent arbitration board has been appointed for five years to deal with longshoremen's disputes at Mon treal Spokane officials are forcing men to give up their unions or their jobs, but say that Spokane runs an open shop. In Tacoma a large shop that signed up with the machinists is working two shifts a day to try and keep up with orders. All the world loveth a cheerful loser. Get into the game! Subscribe for your local labor paper and demand the union label. The striking workmen of the sugar trust in isew Y one have put up a strong and determined fight against great odds. Canadian authorities have fined the Grand Trunk $50 each for bringing strikebreakers into his majesty's do mains illegally. Over 5,000 members of the Structural Iron Workers' Union of New York have received a second raise of wages since January 1. Organized labor will co-operate with Senator Bourne in working for the ex tension of the Oregon direct legislation and primary methods. The wages and treatment of white men on the Canadian Grand Trunk now building to the Pacific are so bad that the officials want coolie labor. The first postal savings bank will be opened in Chicago next January, after which it will be extended to other'cit ies as slowly as possible. A member of the Seattle Postal Clerks is suing the government for overrtime; alleging that eight hour ap plies to clerks and carriers alike. The International Brewery Workmen are sending $10,000 every week to Los Angeles. The employers realize they are up against the real thing. Organized labor in Great Britain is CO. going to make a strong fight to have Parliament reverse the judicial decis ions forbidding unions to contribute their money for political purposes. On burned over forests the grass grows well the next spring. This is said to be the motive that has inspired incendiaries to start some of the forest fires. ' Hundreds of men were recently tricked into Buffalo, N. Y., to help break the strikes of the lake sailors. They generally refused and they receive no strike benefits or donations, either. Bent at the Knees. Buckskin clothing was in the early days of the western country almost universal, among the frontiersmen at least. When the railroad first went through Idaho an old trapper came down out of the mountains and was standing on the platform of a little sta tion. His buckskin trousers, soaked and stretched by the rain and the melt ing snow of the winter and then dried and shrunk by the August sun, bagged most wonderfully at the knees. A ten derfoot who stood near by observed him with interest for several minutes. Then he walked over to him and in quired: 'Well, if you're going to jump why don"t you jump';" Complaining. We do not wisely when we vent com plaint and censure. Human nature is more sensible of smart in sul'lermg than of pleasure in rejoiciug, and the present endurances easily take up our thoughts. We cry out for a little pain when we do but smile for a great deal of contentment. Felthnm. Served Them Right. Iliggius Weutworth was hoeing one April morning when three rough look ing men climbed the fence and crossed Uil field to him. They had just been shipwrecked, they said, on tue brig Maria. They had lost even their clothes. Would Higgius help them? Uiggins Weutworth looked closely into the sailors' faces, for he knew the ways of meu. Then he said: "You. the bowlegged one. go stand twenty yards to the right, and I'll get you to help me a minute with the seed in'. You. baldy. there, you stand twen ty yards to the left." The two men complied, and the Ilig gius Weutworth said quietly to the man who remained: "What did you say your captain's name was?" "Williams. Captain Williams," was the reply. The old farmer sauntered to the man off to the right. "What was your captain's name?" he asked. "Everett, sir." the man answered. Hlggins Wentworth crossed the field lo the third man. "What was your captain's name?" "The name was Captain Jones." Uiggins Wentworth leaned on his hoe and gathered the three men about him. , "A fine lot of sailors you are," he snorted, "to go to sea in a ship with three captains! No wonder you were wrecked. It served you right." - De troit Free Press. The Last Straw. They were driving from the railway station to the village In which the blissful honeymoon was to be passed, and, though she had not as yet brush ed the confetti out of her hair, the bride was in an agony of nervousness in case they should be taken for any thing but a couple well seasoned to the joys and sorrows of matrimony. Presently the carriage drew back with a jerk. "What's the matter?" queried the bridegroom of the coachman. "Horse thrown a shoe, sir." said the driver. The bride clutched her husbnnd's arm and.- with what sounded suspi ciously like n sob. "Oh. dear. George," she said. "Is it possible that even the very horse know we are married?" MY STORY OF MY LIFE JAMES J. JEFFRIES FROM PHOTO. TAKEN Copyright, 1910, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Copyright In Canada ana, Great Britain. All rights reserved. CHAPTER XXIV. Y RETIREMENT AND HOME LIFE AND THE MATCH WITH JOHNSON. I SETTLED down now to a quiet family life no more stage work, no more fighting. I believed that I'd never put on a fight glove again. I bought a fine ing ranch of 145 acres near Los Angeles, with a country house on it, and be came a farmer again. For two years I worked hard on my ranch, clearing away the brush and ti"-tutting a hundred acres in which grows eight crops a yeariu my country. 1 did the heavy work myself, and I never enjoyed life more than down on the ranch. I was tired of fuss and publicity. Here I was just a farmer again, and it was great. From time to time, of course, I went to see a good fight somewhere or other or took a good bunting trip to the mountains or went fishing at Catalina, where we have the best fishing in the world. I was as healthy as a man could be. It used to make me laugh when some one sent me the papers and I read stories of my "dissipated life." Why. no man since Noah's time ever lived a cleaner life than I did. up early and to bed early after a hard day's work. After two years on the. ranch I built a tine town house, with everything in it that one could want and everything the best 1 could buy. I won't say what it cost, but it's insured for $15,500, so it's something of a house. In the same year I bought a tract of land uear the . town; cut it up into lots and sold again with a profit of $20,000. A friend of mine and myself cleared $35,000 on another tract, so I didn't need to fight . to earn money. In the next year I: went into partnership with another friend, aud we got one of the 200 bar' licenses in Los Angeles and built the finest cafe west of New York. That was a big money maker too. Fitting, it up cost over $50,000. I moved into town low to my big house and attend-, ed to the cafe. Because I was there so' much -of. the timer- the old stories about my drinking broke out again. 1 never did drink to any extent. My limit was usually a glass of charged water with about a spoonful of claret in it. and only a few of those. When not hunting or working I mix ed up with the fighting game a little, often refereeiug important fights. One of these was the Hart-Root fight up in Nevada. The promoters asked me to officially "present" the heavyweight ti tle to the winner. I refused. Nobody can give away championships. But they told everybody I had "given" the title to Hart after he stopped Root, and I didn't take the trouble to deny it. " While; 1 was in retirement Bill Squires came over . from Australia. Billy Delaney went to work and sign ed for a fight with Squires. But I hadn't given him the right o repre sent me. and I refused the match. That broke up my old association with Delaney. - One disagreeable thing happened about this time. My reputation has always been clean in ring affairs, and If any crooked work has ever been planned in connection with any of my fights I've never known about it. In fact, I don't think any ever was plan ned, for people have known that I'd go out to win and would win. But while I was at home in Los Angeles a cer tain heavyweight, who shortly after ward became notorious through the ex posure of his trickery., came to my house to see me.. He talked a little while and beat about the bush, and then he said: "I have just been over in Nevada. One of the promoters over there put up a proposition to me that sounded like a lot of money. He said that he'd give a purse of $35,000 for a fight be tween you and me. then he'd put $50,000 in the bank with the purse, and you could have the whole $85,000." Here he stopped and looked at me1 queerly for a moment. "Yes?" I said. "Of course." he went on, "the pro moter would have to make bis money) out of the match some way besides at the gate, and I'd have to make mine,, too. if yon got the whole purse and all that money too. We'd have to make It out of the betting. If you won wei couldn't make anything betting, youj understand." ' "Go on," I said quietly. "Well," be said, fidgeting around a rattle, "you see, ir ne pur up an mar money for you he'd expect me to win. . You'd have to He down." ; "Get out of my house!" I said. The faker got up and began to ex-' plain. "Oh. 1 knew you wouldn't lis ten to anything like that!" he said. "I i was just telling you about it to show : how far some people will go." "Get out of my house," 1 said again, "and get out quick!" He got out. and he left town. I'm1 glad he did. I'm one of the slowest men in the world to rouse and natural- j ly one of the most peaceful, but when ; I once start I go the limit. I'm glad 1 didn't meet that fellow again within! the next few weeks. I was smolder-, ing like a volcano. Jack Johnson, the black fighter, had been trying to get a match with me' ever since I left the ring. The big ne gro kept on challenging me. In the meantime Tommy Burns,, a good fight er for a little fellow, cleaned up the heavyweights in America, went to, England. Ireland. France and Austra lia and earned the heavyweight title by defeating the best in all those coun tries. Johnson followed him to Aus tralia, and they fought. Burns was game and aggressive, but the handicap in size and weight were too much for him. In the fourteenth round the po lice stopped the bout, and Johnson was given the decision by Hugh Mc intosh, the referee. Johnson came right back to this country. In a little while the whole world was calling for me to come out and defend the supremacy of the white race. Johnson outfought Al Kaufman In ten rounds, although there was no deci sion, and knocked out Stanley Ketchel, the game little middleweight cham pion, in twelve. Fitzslmmons, Cor bett, Sharkey. Ruhlin all the old tim ers who could fight had passed by. Everywhere my friends were begging me to come Out and fight again. They seemed to think I was the only man who could stop the big and clever ne gro. As for myself, there was no reason for my fighting again. I had a good home, many friends, a good business, everything a man could want. And I had been out of the ring for over five years. Billy Delaney had told me, I remembered, that no champion could stay out of' the ring more than two years and come back at his best. I knew that I was in no condition 'to fight now. ' I had taken on weight and had lost the old ambition that a cham pion must have. But the pressure became too great. I announced that I'd work and when I knew 1 could be the old Jim Jeffries again I'd fight. and if I couldn't I wouldn't fight for love or money. So I went out on a long trip with an athletic show. All through the east ern states the people kept calling to me. Often I was tempted to say I'd fight Johnson, condition or no condi tion. And when at last I began to get into shape and feel the old fight- Photo by American Press Association. JEI'I' RI S TIIAIMNC, .FOI JOHNSON AX ICAItl.Y MOKNIXO Hl'.V. : ing spirit growing strong 1 announced tmifm ig!i. ! put Sfri.OfM) in the hands of Bob iidgren, sporting editor of the New York Evening World, my old friend in the Carson training camp, as a forfeit for the match. Theu 1 went to Germany with my wife for a little vacation. There I took long runs over the quiet country roads to the intense amazement of the natives and got into better shape still. Upon returning to America I signed articles with Johnson. I'll give the negro credit for one thing he didn't bluster now. but came right down to business. Promoters came or sent in their bids from all over the world. No such sums were ever offered for a fight befoye. The winning bid. a purse of $101,000 and control of the moving picture arrangements, offered by Tex Rickard and Jack Gleason. was a world's record. Under Sam Berger's business man agement I started out with a big ath letic show and toured the country, making a new fortune from that alone. And everywhere 1 trained hard. The fight was a sure thing now. " ' Three months before the date fixed, whfch was the 4th of July. 1910. just lacking a month of six years after my fight with Jack Mini roe. I went into hard training in a mountain camp at Rowardennan. in Santa Cruz .county, Cal. The fight is before me now. I feel that I will be fit to defend the title I won years ago from Bob Fitzslmmons. I know Johnson is a good man,- and I expect to have a hard fight on my hands. Perhaps this time I'll even have to draw on that reserve force that I have never needed yet. And If I do I know that it will be, there. THE END. SHACKLES LABOR. Injunction Issued by a New York Justice, " AGAINST THE UNION SHOP. Judge Calls Strike of Cloakmaken a Conspiracy lii Restraint of Trad Invasion of Guaranteed Rights of Liberty. Says Gompers. . Once more the labor movement has been unreasonably and despotically enjoined by a court ruling, and this one goes a bolt shot beyond anything of the kind in its specific- bearing ever before issued. The ruling came from Justice Goff of the New York state -supreme court and is to the effect that a strike which ; demands the union shop is a .conspiracy in restraint of traae. . , , The decision grew out of the strike of the union cloakmakers .in New York city, which Justice Goff says was ordered in its primary purpose "to bet ter the condition of the workman," but really "to deprive other men of the uouoiiuiuiy ox ineir ngut to wors. Justice Goff cites one of the articles of compromise presented by represent atives of the union to the manufac turers, as follows: The association shall obligate each of its members to employ union men as long as the union shall be able to furnish union men who can do the work properly. Within two weeks the nonunion men shall join the union." This clause, he asserts, which shows , the purpose animating the strike, as interpreted by the court, is clearly un lawful, and he passes to the conduct of the strike. "If the unions," he states, "have not formally directed a systematic course of , aggression by criminal acts, the members of the unions, acting In concert, have connived at and morally supported such acts on the part of many of their members in pursuance of a common object". Samuel Gompers, president ' of the American Federation of Labor, in re ply to Justice Goff's decision made the following response: "The unions, are going 'to live. The unions of the working people are the outgrowth of our industrial and eco nomic conditions. Without the unions there Is no possibility for protection to uic nui&H uuiiiai Lilt: ijriiuiujr ur the absolute autocratic sway of con centrated capital and greed. Let any one imagine if he can what the condi tions of the working people would be today if the capitalists, the corpora tions and the trusts had full and un checked sway without, the union of . labor in existence. Misery, poverty wake these would be the results. The ' republic based upon the sovereignty of its citizens depends upon the intelli gence of its people, the great mass of whom are the working people, and un less they have the opportunity for not only work, but development, rest, re cuperation and leisure, that they may secure better wages, better homes and a higher intelligence, the . .republic would necessarily be doomed and we would have an aristocracy and an em pire, or an empire founded upou a de graded people. "The unions of labor have done more thu any other human agency to develop a higher character, better manhood and n broader conception of duty of 'citizenship among the working . people of our country. ..'.Justice Goff ouoies an "unjust decision In support of bis own.- anil that is supposed to be good h:w. The-unions of labor will live despise injitncliohs and decisions . which in. -.'!;' 'constitutionally guaran teed rijjtiis of human liberty." New York's Liability Law. Beginning Sept. 1 there went into ef fect in slio slate of New York a law wliidi goes further to indemnify work men lor injuries received at uieil" oc cupations tlinn any legislation hereto fore enacted in the United States and equaled only by those of northern Eu ropean countries. ,- The assumption of risk feature of the old law is abolished, and the em ployer becomes fully liable. Under . the old law when a man applied for work at an occupation in which he knew there was risk of injury involv ed and took a position with that un derstanding the employer was absolv ed from responsibility, but this is not . the case under the new law. The em-' , ployer has got to settle -with the in- jured man. ' The burden of proof of contributory negligence Is now placed upon the em- ployer. whereas it rested heretofore on the workman. . Still another feature Is that employ ers are liable for accidents occurring , to men employed by their contractors r or subcontractors. . ' Virtually any kind of a notice, to then employer is legal, for if there are .any-. defects it is the duty of the em ployer .-a to send it back for correction.' , . , Court Decisions Favor Labor. - ; The Minnesota supreme court : has rendered two important decisions re- latlng to damages for Industrial acci- ' dents. One opinion entirely repudi ates the heretofore understood "as- ; sumption of risk" on the part of the employees, and It Is held that employ- -en must provide all possible safe- ' guards against accidents. The second decision eliminates the "fellow serv ant" rule as formerly Interpreted and means that an employer is liable Ja the event of an employee being ! Jured on account of. the negligence or carelessness of fellow employee. -.