FOM THE
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Live While We May.
Live while we may : ,
For life hI worth the spending ,
Anti silent III its ending ;
Drive cure \\'lIr.
Ho IIIUIII the sunny tours ,
MIIIHt frolic told 'mill lowers ,
Best Ill wo 111 1r. .
Love while we may ,
For fine II ever lIl'elln ,
And young ; hearth ever beating
With music Kay ;
-Iont' idly : down IIO'H stream ,
And find love ! hilt drcam- -
line Is lovo' day.
lIopo while we may : ;
hearts soon are sad with Harrows ,
And mournful arc the morrows
When life II gray. :
Mere wl'cclUllf h 11(0'hiM lory :
Al length dealh' silent mystery :
Enllclh IIfo'8 I ! a : , ' .
IfO'8 but n play ,
With merry Jnunllnlrl laughing ,
Their boys and pleasures 1I1II1111n , .
I With mirth told fun ;
Then , aM 11 clollll flllleH out of sight ,
'I'her.Hlnt ! Into the silent IIIht-
1'hclr play : 18 donc.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
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Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
The trade agreement between the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
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and Joiners and the Amalgamated So-
clety of Carpenters and , Joiners has
been extended for one yenr.
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There is a larger percentage of pee
plo engaged in commerce and trans-
portntion in the Netherlands than In
any other country. The percentage
is 17.2. The United States is a close
second , with 16.3.
\ Wages on municipal work at Alton -
ton \ , tich. , have been increased 20
per cent during the rear : now closing
by the trades unions , according to reports -
ports of the organizers for the Ameri-
cln Federation of Labor.
The cotton ginners of Texas have
organized a union through which they
propose to hold back all reports of
the amount or colton ginned , 1:10 : as to
maIm it impossible for speculators to
attempt - to fix the price of cotton.
The National Labor Tribune of
Pittsburg has entered upon its thir-
ty-third 'ear. It is the oldest labor
paper published In the United States
and Is the only survivor of a large
number that were started about the
same time.
Announcement has been made of a
reduction In the wages of the ton-
nago men employed by the Howard
Axle works of the Carnegie Steel
company , to take effect Jan. 1. The
cut ranges from 16 2.3 per cent down
to 5 per con t.
After endeavoring since April 27
last to settle a wage scale dispute by
arbitration , the Blaclsmlths' union
and the Chicago Metal Trades association -
ciation have abandoned the undertaking -
Ing as a result of being unable to
choose an arbler. !
Organizers of the International .
Brotherhood of Teamsters have be-
gun to form unions of automobile
drivers who operate business vehi-
cles. The movement , which started
In New York , Is being carried on in
all the larger cities of the countrr.
The 1900 census gives the number
of wage workers in the United States
as 8,285,022 : ! , divided aR follows Professional -
fessional , 1,264,737 : trade and trans- :
portation , 4,7iS,233 : domestic and I '
personal service , 5,691,74G : manufacturing -
turing 7,122,987 : agricultural pursuits ,
10,438,918.
In the platform of the recently organized .
ganized Canadian Labor League
planks are included advocating public -
lIc ownership of natural opportunities !
and public utilities , the initiative , re-
erendum and power of recall , the abo-
lition or bonuses to railways and the
abolition or child labor
Thomas I. Kidd , after more than
fourteen years or continuous sel'vlce ,
as secretary or the \mah\D1tell ; : :
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Woodworl\CI's' International Union of
America , voluntarily retired yester-
day and wJ1l ho succeeded by John G.
l\leiler , who was secretary of the Chi-
cage \VoodwOI'lwrs' Council.
'rho illinois Coal Operators' Asso-
ciation hits increased in membership
durIng the past year from 175 mem-
hers , operating 269 mines , to 207 ,
operating ! 307 mines. The Increased
tonnage oC mines belonging to the
association has been between 1,000-
000 and 6,000,000 tons of coal.
Negotiations are In progress bet -
tween the oflldals of the WIndow
Glass Window Association and the
Window Glass Snappel's' Protective
Association for the merging oC the
two ol'ganlntlons In the Window Glass
Worlwrs' Assoclntlon. The snappers'
association has a membership of
about 1,200.
The Boston Elevated railway company -
puny distributed $ fiOOOO among its
omployes liS It New Year' ! ! present for
the faithful performance of duty durIng -
Ing the last 'oar , Each of the com-
pany's e1l1ployes who made a good
record during the year was given / : $15
In gold. Ten per cent of the men
failed to receive any reward.
An act recently passed by the house
of representatives of Rhode Island
prescribes n fine of $350 : J to $ iiOO , or
imprisonment from three to six
months , or both , against any employer
01' corporation attempting to prevent
working people from belonging to a
labor organization as a condition of I
new or continued C1I111lormenL
American Federation of Labor organizers -
ganizers in the PlttslJ\1rg' district are
busy \ in an effort to get all local
unions to amllato with the Iron City
Central Trades Council , In compliance
with an order recently Issued It is
proposed to have O'el'yInion In the
council before ! the next convention of
the federation , which will bo held In
Pitts bun : next Novemhf'I'
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A discussion of " 'rho Open or the
Closed Shop ? " occupied one session of
the American Economic association
at 7\landel hall at the University of
Chicago recently , In tile four long !
papers and several short discussions
of lie different questions ) It appeared
that ( all but one-the paper ! of .John
Hlbhard , president of the Jolla Davis
comll1\n of Chlcago-declarod sympa-
thy with lie closed shop mo\'omen1.
The Bl'Othorhooll of Blaclsmiths
and Helpers and the .10lll'nermon
HorseshoOl's' union have made an
agreement to end jurisdiction Ills-
putes. The olll'el's of each organization .
mtlon have signed a contract that
horseshoers will not 110 any hlac1-
smith wOI'I" , neither will blacksmiths
do any horseshoelng , and that each I I
organization will at once turn over
nay members of the > union having
proper jurisdiction over thcm.
'rho \Inion slllrlt Is fast entering the
fouth. From Baton Rouge conies reports .
ports that the eight hour dar light
will be opened In the spring and that .
the unions of brief malwrs and set-
tel's have grown very strong during
the present year. Nonunion labor Is
paid as low as $1 per day , according
to the olllcial reports received at
I\lilon \ headCuarten ) \ \ ' 01'1has been
very plentlfu = this year , find the men
employed at cotton plcllI1in / : the oil
mills and saw mills have become 01"
ganlzed.
Important changes / : which will bo
effected br the new policy to be inaugurated -
augurated Jan. 1 In the mills of the
Illinois Steel company , one of the chief
constituent concerns of the Billion-
Dollar Steel 1'rust : The establishment
of a twelvehour dar , increasing the
working hours of each eD1plo 50 per
cent An "efJuullzatil'ln" of wage , admitted ] .
mltted to Qpernte as a reduction of
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25 to Ui : per cent of the general scalo.
Time abolition oC the three-shift sys-
tem. An open shop , practically iguor
lug all unions.
Canadian statistics show that in
November eighty-seven persons were
killed and 163 injured through acci-
dents while working at different
trades. The largest number of caSU-
alties occurred among the miners ,
seventeen of whom were killed , while
In time printing , clothing , woodworking -
ing and food and tobacco preparation
trades no deaths were reported. Fifteen .
teen persons In the railway service
were Jellied and twenty-nino injured ,
and In the metal trades thirt ' -threo
employes received injuries.
It is omclally announced that the
Lake Superior corporation will start
the year 1905 with sufficient orders to
keep the 500 ton rail mill In continuous -
ous operation until the end of Sep-
tember , and with every prospect that
within the next month orders will be
closed to keep the mill running full
till time end of time 'ear. or a market
of .200,000 tons made br Vice President
D1'l1llunond the "Soo" mill will get
almost the entire amount , as the Dominion -
inion Iron rail mill will not he ready
for some months , and the hugest customers -
tomers will bo the Canadian Pacific ,
the Canadian Northern and the Grand
Trunk
According to the decision handed
down by the supreme court the Southern -
ern Pacific railroad is liable for injuries -
juries sustained by a brakeman ift
coupling an engine to a railroad
coach. The suit was brought for
$20,000. Time southern Pacific appealed -
pealed the case contending a locomo-
tivo was not technically a car and as
such not under the law. ' .1 he inter-
state commerce commission ; nd the
labor organizations have taken a great
deal of interest in the case , and the
final decision by the supreme court
that an engine is technically a car is
considered a great vlctor ' .
Time executive board of the Western
Federation of Miners has decided to
carry the case of the Center Star
Mining company against the miners'
union at Hossland , British Columbia ,
to the highest court in Canada , and if
necessary to take it before the privy
council of England , in order to obtain
a reversal of the decision of the lower
court n warding the plaintiff damages
because of a strike of its emnlo\'es.
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The union was prosecuted under the
provisions of an old English law
which gives an employer the right to
sue for three times the amount of
loss he mar sustain as a result of a
strike of his emjloyes.
In referring to the lack of organization -
tion among the farm hands throughout -
out the country Organized Labor of
San Francisco , a newspaper published
In the Interest of working men and
women , declares that in man ' parts
of California farm hands work four-
teen hOllrR a dar. "On many a Fresno
grain farm in summer , " It says , "tho
plowman works like this : He gets
UI at 3:30 : and feeds his team , goes to
breakfast at 4:15 : and Is out in the
field by 4:45. : He works seven hours
unlll noon , stops one hO\11' for dinner
and ! then puts In six hours more be-
fore 'qlllttlng time. ' After that ho
must feed and hed-down his team , and
then he is In lllck If
he gets to his own
bed hy 8:30 : 01' 9 ! ) o'cloel "
New England
cotton mill employes
have entered upon the sixth month or
their strike and an end to the struggle -
glo Is not yet In sight . For over six :
months thll'ty-se\'en mills \ have been
rendered Idle and 2liOUO employes out. .
of worlt because the manufacturers insisted
sl tell upon a wage reduction of 12y'
per cenl. A committee representing !
time strikers Is visiting all the primer
pal cities In the west seeking finan-
ciAl aid from various trades unions.
While the strikers have been criti-
ci5erl for entering upon what has been
termed an lIladvlsed struggle , they
assert that they have been willing to
avoid trollble from the first by Sl1h111lt-
ting the entire dispute to arbitration.
It Is charged that the
( ; mill owners refused .
fused to agree to this plan amid that
their employes were forced to walls
out In order to void accepthtg a scale
below the living wage. . . - . . _
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When Regular Medical Treatment
Failed , Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
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Cured Her Rheumatism. '
Hundreds of people afflicted with rhen-
luntlsm have spent years under the care I ,
of excellent physicians in vaiu Then '
they have settled down to the conviction
that it is fastened ou them for life. Mrs.
Dinsmore was not willing to join the
ranks of mho hopeless merely because hel
doctor did not know how to help her.
Here is her story :
Four years ago I suffered greatly
with rheumatism iu my hands amid
kueos. After I had been sitting n while
my limbs seemed so heavy I could hardly
walk emi time first attempt So long ns I
kept moving I was all right , but just n9 r
soon ns I stopped , something see1l1Ql to .
settle ill 111) Imees and make them ache."r ' .
1\1y hand i were so bud I couldn't touch '
the palms of thcm all n fiat surface ; they ,
were swollen and pained so , "
"Did you call in physician ? " ,
" I doctored steadily for over n year ;
then one doctor said : You have taken - - - , .
medicine strong enough to kill almost fi !
nu'thiug. ' Still , it did not kill me nor 1
the rheumatism. " tj
How , then , did you get rid of it ? " 1. .
"At differeut ' times I had rend in vari- '
ous publications about' Dr. \ vari't i
wonderful Pink Pills for Pale People , I'
and I finally decided to try them I took :
them steadily for four months in nc- I
cordunco with the directions. By that
time I was completely cured.
Have you been free from it ever
since ? "
Since then I have had but one slight
return of 111r : trouble , and a box : or two IIf
the same pills made me all right again. I
Mrs. F. A. Dinsmore lives in hearty
enjoyment of her recovered health nt ,
Woburn , Mass. , entirely freed from the .
grave anxieties that rheumatism always
brings. When it appears in but a single .
joint it shows that the blood is in a faulty j t
state in time whole body. . It may nt any .I i
111omollt break out elsewhere , and of
one of.
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time dangers is that it 111ay break out in \ ,
time heart amid then the result must ho - .
fatal. Time ommlyseeurity is to keep the
blood all the time in n perfectly sound
coudi tion.
Williams' Pink Pills make healthy
blood. All other relief is Impcl'ficiul. 1
This is thorol1Jh. These pills are sold
by all druggists.a . . . "
"No , that is not the reason the man I
kept his marriage secret , " he cried .
fierceh' - "lIe had dared to pay court .
to you , AngeUquo , to offer you his {
love , and all the while he had a wife
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BABY'S TERRIBLE SORE " "
Body Raw With Humor-Caused Untold .
told Agony-Doctor Did No Good
-Cutlcura Cured at Once
" : \Iy child was a very delicate bahy.
A terrible sore and humor broke out I
on his body , looking like raw flesh ,
and causing the child untold agony. 1
l\h' plmysician prescribed various remedies -
edies , none of which helped at all. I j'
became discouraged and took the mat-
ter into m > own hanl1 : ; , and tried Cuti-
cura Soap and CuUcura Ointment
with almost immediate success. Before -
Core time second week had passed the
soreness was gone , not leavIng a trace
of anything , Mrs. Jeannette H. Block , ,
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