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WEEK'S EVENTS I
Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man.
PERSONAL.
Daniel Antonio Maceo, who says he
Is the only living son of Gen. Maceo,
the Cuban patriot, killed in the rebel
lion, is in Los Angeles, awaiting the
action of a lunacy commission. He
represented himself as governor of
tPlnardel Rio, and gave a string of
titles he possessed. His wife, a ne
gress, charges he threatened to kill
her.
Thomas Murdoch, president of Reid,
Murdoch & Co., wholesale grocers of
Chicago, who died Christmas day, left
between 2,000.000 and $2,500,000 to
religious, educational and charitable
institutions.
Baroness Wilmowski of Bonn, Ger
many, second daughter of Krupp. the
late gunmaker, is visiting New York
with her husband.
The sultan of Turkey accepted the
resignation of Hilml Pasha, the grand
vizier. It is reported that Hakka Bey,
ambassador to Rome, will be asked to
form a new cabinet.
Sought at one time by the federal
authorities under a $10,000 reward for
his capture, dead or alive, for his al
leged conspiracy in the murder of
President Lincoln, and now appointed
as a member of the United States sen
ate, is the strange experience of Col.
James Gordon, who has been named
by Gov. Noel as successor to the late
A. J. McLaurin.
Prince Hans of Schleswlg-Holsteln-Sonderburg-Glucksburg,
a brother of
the late King Christian of Denmark
and generally known as the "uncle of
Europe," is critically ill.
Frederic Remington, the artist, died
at his home in Ridgefleld. Conn., fol
lowing an attack of appendicitis com
plicated with aseptic peritonitis.
Samuel W. Williams, candidate for
vice-president on the Populist ticket in
1908, was stricken with heart failure
at his home in Vincennes, Ind. His
condition is serious.
GENERAL NEWS.
Miraculously restored to health
through a power which he declares
was the Holy Ghost, Gen. J. B.
Wosver, well known in national and
Iowa state politics in the last fifty
years, has come out strongly in sup
port of divine healing and will lead
a movement for a national convention
iof Divine Healers to be held in Des
Moines some time early next year.
The Des Moines (la.) Press club,
(composed of the news writers of the
Icity, gave a complimentary banquet at
the Savtfr hotel last night to Senator
Cummins and Congressman Hull.
Gridiron features prevailed.
1 Thomas Botham, a retired farmer,
72 years old, killed himself after a
limitless attempt to slay his wife at
St. Joseph, Mich. Botham's little
granddaughter was hurt slightly in
jumping from a second-story window
in escaping from her crazed grand
father. Policeman Delwln Fisher was
knocked down by a bullet which
grazed his temple.
Only a technical legal shadow now
stands between Charles W. Morse,
convicted banker and one-time ice
king, and the 15-year sentence in the
federal prison at Atlanta. Judge
Hough in the United States circuit
court denied his motion for a new
trial.
Michael Malone Michael McGraw
and Fred Malone, miners, were burned
to death near Harrison, Mineral coun
ty. Virginia. Patrick Malone and
Frederick Dugan, who boarded at the
same house, are missing. Officers are
working on a clew Indicating that the
fire was started after the celebration
by a man who had been ejected.
Out of the Nicaraguan war a crisis
has developed in Central and South
American affairs, which was not con
templated by this government, and so
important has the situation become
that upon President Taft's return f ronr
New York Secretary Knox at once
consulted him' as to the best method
of meeting it
Five hundred delegates, represent
ing the various business colleges and
commercial departments of collegiate
institutions of the United States, as
sembled in Louisville for a three-days'
session.
While firemen fought a stubborn
blaze in the basement of the People's
Methodist church in Kansas City,
Kan.. 50 children, ignorant of the
fact that the building was on fire be
neath them, sung Christmas hymns
and took part in a special holiday
service.
Relics of a prehistoric race in
Colorado will be lost unless prompt
action is taken to prevent their
deterioration by exposure to the ele
ments. This statement is made in a
report by Superintendent Randolph of
Mesa Verde National park in Colo
rado The British syndicate formed to
finance the Chilean railroad has dis
covered that "James Jeffries Wil
liams," who promoted the $60,000,000
deal, is really' Harry Silverberg of New
York; who was arrested several years
ago, charged with impersonating J.
-Coleman Drayton in Chicago.
Five hundred persons are believed
to have perished in the storm that has
swept Portugal in the last few days.
The loss is fully $30,000,000.
J. R. Jobe and George Cook of St
Louis were burned to death in a fire
that destroyed a farm house near
Bushmill.. 40 miles' "distant
SUMMARY
One 30,000-barrel tank was burned
and 40 others were emptied to pre
vent their destruction in aflre which
threatened the large 8taadard Oil
plant in the WiliiamsburirWtIon.pt
Brooklyn, Nl Y.
While the body of John McClintock,
a sheep herder, who was killed in a
range dispute near Rocky Spur, Idaho,
was being taken to 'Nampa in charge
of the sheriff, it was Jolted out of a
box in the wagon and when the con
veyance reached Nampa the loss was
discovered. The body- was found
in the rough mountain road eight
miles from Nampa.
Mrs. Francesca Hinkel of Newark,
N. J., mother of a former patient con
fined in the Essex county insane
asylum, made an affidavit and 'placed
It in the hands of Prosecutor Mott, at
Newark, to the effect that the woman
whose charred skeleton- was found
several weeks ago hidden in the roof
of an abondoned building of the asy
lum, was that of Mrs. Katherine
Under, and that she was beaten to
death by three women nurses and her
body secreted In the roof by them,
with the cognizance of Dr. Daniel M.
Dill, superintendent of the hospital.
"Acts rather than declarations."
This is the reported expression of
President Taft to callers regarding
his program for the conservation of
natural resources. The president de
clared that when the present session
of congress ends he will be able' to
point to the first practical conserva
tion statutes ever placed upon the law
books of the nation as his answer to
the criticism, which has been directed
toward the White House.
Bessie May Priest, a beautiful 18-year-old
girl, is dead by poison at Los
Angeles, Cal., slain; it is believed, by
a woman rival, whose every other ef
fort to break her victim's betrothal to
Harry Sayre, son of a millionaire of
Newark, N. J was futile. Mystery
which surrounds the crime and the
identity of the jealous, woman may 'de
velop features more sensational than
the Corni8h-Molyneaux case.
James P.'Connery, secretary and
treasurer of the Chicago Fire Appli
ance Company and secretary of the
Miami Coal Company, and Michael H.
Rogers, Democratic committeeman of
the Thirteenth ward and head of the
M. H. Rogers Coal Company, were in
dicted at Chicago by the December
grand jury on charges of obtaining
money by false pretenses in connec
tion with the sale of coal to the city.
Jose Santos Zelaya, resigned presi
dent of Nicaragua, upon his arrival at
Mexico City imparted the startling
piece of information that 400 Ameri
can marines took part In the recent
battle between the government and
insurgent forces at Rama and that at
least twenty United States marines
were killed in an engagement on No
vember 1.
More love letters of Frank Gould
came to light in New York in connec
tion with Bessie De Vole's damage
suit One epistle expresses longing
for the time when the girl should be
his bride.
President Taft has put the final
touches to a special message to con
gress dealing with the amendments
which he believes are necessary In
the Interstate commerce and Sherman
anti-trust acts. Recent reports to the
contrary notwithstanding, it is known
that the president will take up the
anti-tfust act and deal with it at great
length.
There will ba no new issues of In
terest bearing obligations by the
treasury department before early in
March. This statement was made on
the authority of a high official of the
government
Coroner Harburger has reported to
the police and excise department that
wood alcohol is again being sold as
a beverage in New York city, with
death instead of stimulation for the
tipplers who pay five cents a drink.
The old Cunard liner Umbria, which
gave the New York water front a
thrill when she came over for the
first time in 1884. will arrive here on
Saturday on what will be her last
transatlantic voyage.
In a printed brief of 268 pages. At
torney General Wickersbam and his
special assistant, J. C. McReynolds,
presented to the supreme court of
the United States, the case of the gov
ernment in the famous "tobacco trust
cases." It is declared that "the de
fendants have persistently exercised
duress, have practiced wicked and un
fair methods, and used their great
power in oppressive ways." Further,
it is asserted that they have been
actuated by a fixed purpose to de
stroy competition and obtain monopo
lies. That the closing year has been a
prosperous one for the railroads of
the country is evidenced from figures
made public by the Railway Age Ga
zette. From the figures it is also ap
parent that the railroad officials see
an era of increased earnings dawning,
for more than three times the amount
of operating equipment was purchased
this year than in 1908.
Five woman passengers and the.
motorman and conductor on a trolley
car of the New York & Long Island
Traction Company were imprisoned
for nearly twenty-four hours in a
snowdrift on Long Island during the
recent storm.
According to a statement given out
by his physician. Earl Percy of Lon
don, a Conservative member of the
British parliament, died at Paris from
an attack of acute pleurisy, but ac
cording to popular belief, he was shot
through the lungs in a pistol duel
with a former friend over a domestic
intrigue.
Seven children, ranging in age from
two to twelve years, were burned to
death and three persons perhaps fatal
ly injured when fire, followed by an
explosion of powder, destroyed the
home of Stephen Bronosky, a miner,
at Sykesville. Pa.
Forty-five hundred motormen and
conductors employed by the public
service corporation of New Jersey
will receive an increase of one cent an
hour in wages January.
When the steamer Phyllis arrived
at Colon her cargo was discharged
"with care." It consisted of over
1,000.000 pounds of dynamite for use
on the Panama canal.
Fines of $100 to $5,000 and impris
onment from- three to twelve months,
under an unrepealed section of the
Wilson bill, are threatened against
smugglers by Collector Loeb at New
York.
NOW FORBUSINESS
CONGRESS WILL BEGIN WORK IN
REAL EARNEST.
ILL WINDS TO THE PLOW
House Calendar Well Filled, With
Canal Zone Government Case
First to Come Up.
Washington. Congress will begin
business in earnest this week. With
the Christmas holidays behind .them
and with the preliminary ante-holiday
plans completed, both houses will
starts In upon reconvening, with the
intention of keeping their hands to
the plow, to continue until "the crop
Is laid by," which it is now believed
will take place in the early summer.
The senate is not so forward with its
work as is the house, and the former
body may experience - dlflcnlty. 'in
finding something, to do during the
first few days of its sitting. But the
house calendar is already well filled,
and as soon as the formalities per
mit, that body , will get down to
serious business. Both houses will re
convene at 12 o'clock Tuesday, but
the immediate' announcement of the
recent death of Senator McLaurin of
Mississippi will result in adjourn
ment of botlTfor the day out of re
spect to his memory. It is doubtful
also whether there will be a quorum
on the first meeting day, so that but
little business would probably be
transacted underany circumstances.
Wednesday will be canlendar day
in the house and that body again will
take up the Mann bill for the reor
ganization of the government of "the
Panama canal zone." It is believed
this measure will be disposed of in
one day and with it out of the way
the iouse will attack the appropria
tion bills.
The army supply bill is already on
the calendar and by the time it is
passed the fortifications will be ready
for consideration. Following the for
tifications measure will, come the
urgent deficiency, the agricultural and
the navy bills. Even the sundry civil
and the legislative bills are well
blocked out in committee. Indeed ap
propriation legislation is further ad
vanced in the house than ordinarily
at this season, and it is the opinion
of the experts that the supply bills
will be so turned out by the commit
tee as to render it possible for the
house to, give almost continuous at
tention to them during the next two
months.
The senate committee on appropria
tions will begin soon, the considera
tion of the bill making appropriations
for the District of Columbia, which
already has passed the house and un
til it is reported, the senate will oc
cupy its time with the consideration
of comparatively unimportant meas
ures on the calendar. The state com
mittees have not been so assiduous in
their attention to duty as have been
the committees of the co-ordinate
body, with the consequence that the
senate calendar is completely barren.
Much interest is manifested in both
houses in the two announcements
that president's message on the Sher
man anti-trust law and the resolu
tions of Senator Jones and Represent
ative Humphrey providing for an in
vestigation of the Interior depart
ment and the forest service will be
presented on Wednesday, the first
legislative day after reconvening.
New Supreme Justice.
Washington. Judge Horace H. Lur
ton, who will be sworn in as an as
sociate justice of the supreme court
at noon Monday, arrived in Washing
ton Saturday. With him were Mrs.
Lurton, their son, Horace H.Lurton,
Jr., his wife and their 6-year-old son,
Horace H. Lurton, third.
Three Big Christmas Gifts
Fort Worth, Tex. Thomas Wag
goner of this city has given each of
his three children property valued at
$2,000,000 as Christmas gifts. Wag
goner is 57 years old, a ranchman,
banker and capitalist. One nundred
thousand acres of land, 30,000 head of
cattle and 1,000 horses are given to
each child.
ON TO THE PRISON.
Convicted Banker Leaves New York
for Atlanta.
New York. With a supreme effort
to be cheerful, but with emotion oc
casionally getting the better of him,
Charles W. Morse left New York to
begin serving a fifteen years' sentence
in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.,
imposed upon him for violation of the
national banking laws. Before leav
ing the Tombs, where he had been
confined for the greater part of the
last year, Morse received his wife and
'wo sons and then the newspaper men.
He was too affected to say anything,
but he handed out a carefully pre
pared statement of comment on his
case.
,Hope for Peace Dwindles.
Bluefields. Hope that the war will
be brought to an end through the
recognition of the provisional govern
ment by the United States has been
abandoned. Many believe that two
more battles must be fonght, one in
the state of Chokales and the other
near Managua. There is a popular
feeling of gratitude toward the United
States because of the attention given
the wounded by physicians from the
cruisers and Ihe supplies sent for the
relief of the half-starved prisoners of
war.
Aid Anti-Trust League.
Washington. More than two score
members of congress and their wives
met to discuss the proposed national
anti-trust league, through the agency
of which it is hoped to prevent the
infliction of high prices of food on
the American public. The meeting
was held behind closed doors, but it
was said tentative plans were dis
cussed for the recruiting of 1,000,000
families to obey the orders of the
central committee tor refuse to buy
those commodities on which the price
has seen increased.
L.euer in the Rivet Keg.
There, nave been romances and ro
mances, but the latest undoubtedly 4s
the romance of a keg of steei rivets.
The outcome of this is being eagerly
waited by 160 menemployed at the
plant of an iron company at Con
hohocken. The keg arrived at the plant yester
fay. When the head was off the
workman was surprisedto see on
top of the commonplace rivets ah eif
velope addressed In a pretty, girlish
hand, "To the one who opens this
keg."
The Ironworker called a comrade or
two and they opened the note and
read, written on a dainty bit of pa
per, a few sentences which asked the
Under to communicate with the writer.
A girl's name was signed at the bot
tom, above an address in a Massachu
setts towa.
The finder of the note told others
about it and they la tun spread the
sews until nearly "every oae at the
plant heard it One hundred and fifty
men wrote to the fair correspondent
last night, some sending letters: and
others picture postcards. Philadel
phia Public Ledger. '
Increased Price of Elk Teeth.
"During the last five years the value
sf elk teeth has more than trebled,"
aid a western traveler at' the Fred
eric, according to the St Paul Dis
patch. "In 1904 you could get any num
ber of fine specimens in Idaho, Mon
tana, Washington and bordering states
for $2.50 apiece. Now you will pay
from $7.50 to $10, and they are hard
to get for even that The Apache,
Sioux, Comanche and Chippewa Indi
ans used to have' dozens of them In
their possession and traded them for
trinkets. But the redskin got wise to
Ihelr value, and you can buy them
Srom a regular dealer cheaper now
than from the Indian. The passing
it the elk and the great demand made
y the members of the Elk lodge fort
teeth for emblems have boosted the
jrlce.'
The traveler recited an incident of
in Oklahoman who bought a robe cov
ired with elk teeth from a Wichita
Indian for $100. He cut off the teeth
ind cleaned up $2,200 on the deal.
Happiness in marriage would be
nore prevalent If a man would handle
Us wife as tenderly and carefully as
te does an old briar pipe.
Don't Weep
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Some people swell up on "emotion"
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick of the leaders of the
Labor Trust to twist facts and make
the "sympathetic ones" "weep at the
ice house." (That's part of the tale
further on.)
Gompers et al sneer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympathy
by falsely telling the people the courts
were trying to deprive them of free
speech and free press.
Men can speak freely and print opin
ions freely in this country and no
court will object, but they cannot be
allowed to print matter 'as part of a
criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin
other citizens. '
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co., drive its hundreds of workmen
out of work and destroy the value of
the plant without regard to the fact
that hard earned money of men who
worked, had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious "trust"
methods, (efforts to break the firm
that won't come under trust rule), but
instead of stopping they "dare" the
courts to punish them and demand
new laws to protect them in such de
structive and tyrannical acts as they
may desire to do. The reason
Gompers and his band persisted in try
ing to ruin the Bucks Stove Works
was because the stove company insist
ed on the right to keep some old em
ployees at work when "de union" or
dered them discharged and some of
"de gang" put on.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have a look.
Suppqse the, company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
their union, and, the demand being re
fused, should institute a boycott
against thsft union, publish Its name
in an "unfair list," instruct other man
ufacturers all over the United States
not to buy the labor of that union,
have committees call at stores and
threaten to boycott if the merchants
sold anything made by that union.
Picket the factories where members
work and slug them on the way home,
blow up their houses and wreck the
works, and even murder a few mem
bers of the boycotted union to teach
tuem they must obey the orders of
"organized Capital?"
It would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things if lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws the
boycotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order
the company to cease boycotting and
trying to ruin these union men. Sup
pose thereupon the company should
sneer at the court and in open defiance
continue the unlawful acts in a per
sistent carefully laid out plan, pur
posely intended to ruin the union
and force its -members into poverty
What a howl would go up from the
union demanding that the courts pro
tect them and punish their law-breaking
oppressors. Then they would
praise the courts and go on earning a
living protected from ruin and happy
in the knowledge that the people's
courts could defend them.
How could any of us receive protec
tion from law-breakers unless the courts
have power to, and do punish such
men?
The court is placed in position where
It must do one thing or the other
punish men who persist in defying its
peace orders or go out of service, let
anarchy reign, and the more powerful
destroy the weaker.
Peaceful citizens sustain the courts
as their defenders, whereas thieves,
forgers, burglars, crooks of all kinds
and violent members of labor unions,
hate them and threaten violence if
their members are punished for break
ing the law. They want the courts to
let them go free and at the same time
demand punishment for other men "out
side de union" when they break the
law. Notice the above refer
ence to "violent" members of labor
unions. The great majority of the
"unheard" union men are peaceable.
Boy's Lucky Find.
A remarkable book find by a poor
Jewish youth in WhitechapeL London.
England, is reported, which argues an
eye, for bookstand a business intelli
gence of a high order. He bought for
a cent from a .barrow in Mile End
Road a copy of Goethe's poems, en
riched with Thackeray's signature and
crest and a number of his thumb-nail
sketches scattered throughout the
book. The covers were in'bad condi
tion, but the pages were clean. The
youth had the shrewdness to make
the most of his find himself, and after
many negotiations he has now sold
the volume for about $100.
French Taxes.
According to -statistics of taxes,
while there were 94,123 billiard tables
in France in 1892, in 1906 there were
only 89,230. whereas if the game were
holding its own the number should
have increased as the children grew
to billiard playing age. The decadence
of the game, which has had famous
votaries, is ascribed to the success of
outdoor sports, and especially to the
intense and widespread interest now
taken in- motoring. Vogue.
A Lesson in Economy.
"I notice you always fling the driver
your purse when we take a convey
ance," said the heroine of the his
torical novel.
"I do," admitted the hero of the
same.
"How do you expect to support a
wife? Give him the exact legal fare
hereafter." Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Novice.
Old Lawyer (to young partner)
Did you draw up old Moneybag's will?
Young Partner Yes, sir; and so
tight that all the relatives in the
world cannot break it
Old Lawyer (with some disgust)
The next time there Is a will to be
drawn up, I'll do it myself!" New
York Sun.
And Mother Officiates.
Eddie Do you have morning pray
ers at your house?
Freddie We have some kind of a
service when father gets in.
Occasionally we meet people who
spend half their time telling what
they are going to do and the other half
exnlainine whv they didn't do it
ppright citizens. The noisy, violent
ones get into office and the leaders of
the great Labor Trust know how to
mass this kind of men, in labor con
ventions and thus carry out the lead
ers' schemes, frequently abhorrent to
the rank and file: so it was at the late
Toronto convention.
The paid delegates would applaud
and "resolute" as Gompers wanted, but
now and then some of the real work
ingmen insist on being heard, some
times at the risk of their lives.
Delegate Egan is reported to have
said at the Toronto convention:
"If the officers of the federation
would only adhere to the law we would
think a lot more of them."
The Grand Council of the Provincial
Workingmen's Ass'n of Canada has
declared in favor of severing all con
nections with unions in the U. S., say
ing "any union having its seat of
Gov't in America, and pretending to be
international in its scope, must fight
industrial battles according to Ameri
can methods. Said methods have con
sequences which are abhorrent to the
law-abiding people of Canada involving
hunger, misery, riot, bloodshed and
murder, all of which might be termed
as a result of the practical war now
in progress in our fair provinces and
directed by foreign emissaries of the
United Miners of America."
That is an honest Canadian view of
our infamous "Labor Trust"
A few days ago the daily papers
printed the following:
(By the Associated Press.))
Washington, D. C, Nov. 10. Char
acterizing the attitude of Samuel Gom
pers, John Mitchell and Frank Mor
rison of the American Federation of
Labor in the contempt proceedings in
the courts of the District of Columbia,
in connection with the Bucks' Stove
and range company, as "a willful, pre
meditated violation of the law," Simon
Burns, general master workman of the
general assembly. Knights of Labor,
has voiced a severe condemnation of
these three leaders. Mr. Burns ex
pressed his confidence in courts in gen
eral and in those of the District of
Columbia in particular.
APPROVED BT DELEGATES.
This rebuke by Burns was in his an
nual report to the general assembly of
his organization. He received the
hearty approval of the delegates who
heard it read at their annual meeting
in this city.
"There is no trust or combination of
capital in the world." said Mr. Burns,
"that violates laws oftener than do the
trust labor organizations, which resort
to more dishonest, unfair and dishon
orable methods toward their competi
tors than any trust or combinations in
the country."
Mr. Burns said the action of "these1
so-called leaders" would be harmful
for years to come whenever attempts
were made to obtain labor legislation.
"The Labor Digest," a reputable
workingman's paper, says, as part of
an article entitled "The beginning of
the end of Gompersism, many organ
izations becoming tired of the rule-or-ruin
policies which have been en
forced by the president of the A.
F. of L."
"That he has maintained his leader
ship for so long a time in the face of
his stubborn clinging to policies which
the more thoughtful workingmen have
seen for years must be abandoned, has
been on account partly of the senti
mental feeling on the part of the or
ganizations that he ought not to be de
posed, and the unwillingness of the
men who were mentioned for the place,
to accept a nomination in opposition to
him. In addition to this, there is no
denying the shrewdness of the leader
of the A. F. of L., and his political sa
gacity, which has enabled him to keep
a firm grip on the machinery of the or
ganization, and to have his faithful
henchmen in the positions where they
could do him the most good whenever
their services might be needed.
"Further than this, he has never
failed, at the last conventions, to have
some sensation to spring on the con
vention at the psychological moment,
which would place him in the light of
a martyr to the cause of unionism, and
Golfer to Honored. ,
It was agreed at a committee meet
ing held in StAadrews to erect a
bronze panel representing the head
and shoulders in life size of the late
Tom Morris. The panel win be placed
in the west gable of the royal and an
cient clubhouse. The balance of the
memorial fund after paying the ex
penses for this erection will be used
to endow a bed in St Andrew's Cot
tage hospital to be known as Um (Tom
Morris bed and upon, which golf pro
fessionals and caddies are to have
first claim. Pall Mall Gazette.
Woman Would Be Legislator.
Miss Gina Krog, of Christlania, has
been nominated by the radical party
of Norway for deputy in the parlia
mentary elections now pending. Miss
Krog visited the United States' last
spring on her way to the Interna
tional Council of Women in Toronto.
She delivered several lectures to suf
frage societies in New York and spoke
to the Norwegian women in Brooklyn.
She is said to have had more to do
with obtaining the ballot for the wom
en of Norway than any other individ
ual, man or woman.
Knowledge Enough.
At the moment of their fall Adam
and Eve, being innocent were used to
doing things in an unconscious man
ner. That is to say, they didn't Fletcher
ize. With the result that they failed of
getting the full effect of the apple
all the protelds and carbohydrates.
However, in thier blind, blundering
way, they attained to enough knowl
odge of good and evil to mase them
terrible bores to themselves forever
after, and to all their descendants line
wise unto the present generation.
Puck.
His Business.
"You see that man across the
street? Well, yon can always get cut
rates from him for his work."
"What Is it?"
"Trimming trees and hedges." Bal
timore American.
Where Pepys Won Fame.
"Who was this fellow Pepys, and
what is his claim to fame?"
"His claim to fame is well founded,
my friend. He's the man who kept a
diary for more than a year."
At
The Ice House.
excite a wave of sympathetic enthusi
asm for him. which would carry the
delegates off their feet, and result in
his re-election.
"That his long leadership, and this
apparent impossibility to fill his place
has gone to his head,, and made him
imagine that he is much greater a man
than he really is, is undoubtedly the
case, and accounts for the tactics he
has adopted in dealing with questions
before congress, where he has unneces
sarily antagonized men to whom or
ganized labor must look for recogni
tion,' of their demands, and where labor
measures are often opposed on account
of this very antagonism, which would
otherwise receive support.
"There is no doubt but what organ
ized labor in this country would be
much stronger with a leader who was
more in touch with conditions as they
actually exist, and who would bring to
the front the new policies which organ
ized labor must adopt if it expects to
even maintain its present standing, to
say nothing of making future progress."
We quote portions of another article,
a reprint, from the same labor paper:
"Organized labor, through its lead
ers, must recognize the mistakes of the
past if they expect to perpetuate their
organizations or to develop the move
ment which they head. No movement,
no organization, no nation can develop
beyond the intellects which guide
these organizations, and if the leaders
are dominated by a selfish motive the
organization will become tineed with
a spirit of selfishness, which has never 2
appealed to mankind in any walk of
life at any time since history began.
"It can be said In extenuation of cer-
tain leaders of organized labor that
tne precarious position which they oc-1
cupy as leaders has had a tendency to
cause them to lose sight of the object
behind the organization. The natural
instinct in man for power and position
is in no small measure responsible for
the mistakes of the leaders, not neces
sarily in labor unions alone, but in
every branch of society. This desire
for power and leadership and personal
aggrandizement causes men who havo
been earnest and sincere in their ef
forts in the start to deteriorate Into
mere politicians whose every act and
utterance is tinged with the desire
to cater to the baser passions of the
working majority in the societies or
organizations and this is undoubtedly
true when applied to tne present lead
ers of the Federation of Labor. We
mention the Federation of Labor par
ticularly In this article, because that
organization is the only organization
of labor which has yet found itself in
direct opposition to the laws of the
land. There are other organizations of
labor whose leaders have made mis
takes, but they have always kept them
selves and their organizations within
the bounds of the law and respected
the rights of every other man In con
sidering the rights of themselves and
their constituency; whereas, the motto
of the Federation is just the reverse,
and unless the leaders conform them
selves and their organization in accord
ance with the laws of the land, the
leaders and the organization itself
must be disintegrated and pass into
history, for in America the common
sense of mankind is developed to a
greater extent than in any other nation
on the earth, and the people, who are
the court of last resort in this country,
will never allow any system to develop
in this country which does not meet
with the approval of the majority of
the citizens of the country.
"This must have forced Itself upon
the leaders of the Federation by this
time. If it has not. the leaders must
be eliminated. The organization which
they head has done many meritorious
things in times past and the people are
always ready and willing to acknowl
edge the benefits which their efforts
have brought to their constituency as
a whole, but at the present time labor
organizations in general, and the Fed
eration of Labor in particular, stand
before the bar of public opinion, hav
ing been convicted of selfishness and a
disposition to rule all the people of
the country In the interest of the few.
The people are patientand awaiting to
Tomato Bread.
Bakers are not perhaps generally
aware that up to a certain point to
matoes can be used with advantage
In the. manufacture of a bread that
has the fine flavor of the fruit, with
its stimulating and nourishing propen
sities; while besides, the bread will
keep longer and molster than ordinary
bread.
The bread has the characteristic
color of the tomato. All that is re
quired is that the tomato -mash, after
being submitted to a sterilizing tem
perature, should be carefally screened
through a sieve and then used as part
of the mixture.
New Chair In Reme University.
A chair In Christian archaeology has
been established in the University of
Rome by direction of the minister of
education, and Prof. Marueci has been
appointed as its first occupant "Mar
ueci, whose entry into the faculty has
created much excitement ia church
circles, is known as the best informed
archaeologist of the Vatican," says
Figaro, "and the only surviving pupil
of Rossi, who made the catacombs a
life study."
I
Interesting Information.
In an Interview published in the
Kieler Neueste Nachrichten. Grossed
mirsl von Koster says many interest
ing things about his visit to New
York, among them the following: "In
the absence of President Taft. who
was away on a trip to the Mexican
frontier, the place of honor was
taken by the vice-president of the
United States, Secretary of State
Sherman of New York."
Graphic Variations.
"Civilization." remarked the canni
bal king, "promotes some strange
ideas."
"To whom do you especially refer?"
Inquired the missionary.
"Among you the ultimate con
sumer is regarded with sympathy..
Here he Is considered very lucky."
Mistakes Will Happen.
Lady (to her sister, a doctor)
There I cooked a meal for the first
time to-day and I made a mess of it
"Well., dear, never 'mind; it's noth
ing. I lost my first patient"
If a you see a fault In others, think
of two of your own. and do not add a
third oae bv rnnr hasty judgment
see if the object lesson which they
have been forced to give to these lead
ers Is going to be recognized and if they
are going to conform themselves and
their future work and actions in ac
cordance thereto."
Let the people remember that com
ment, "The Federation of Labor in par
ticular stands before the bar of public
opinion having been convicted of sef
Bshness and a disposition to rule all
the people of the country in the inter
est of the few."
The great 90 per cent of Americans
do not take kindly to the acts of
tyranny of these trust leaders openly
demanding that all people bow down to
the rules of the Labor Trust and we
are treated to the humiliating specta
cle of our Congress and even the Chief
Executive entertaining these convicted
law-breakers and listening with consid
eration to their insolent demands that
the very laws be changed to allow
them to safely carry on their plan of
gaining control over the affairs of the
people.
The sturdy workers of America have
come to know the truth about these
'martyrs sacrificing themselves in the
noble cause of labor" but It's only the
hysterical ones who swell up and cry
I jQver the aforesaid "heroes," reminding
one or tne two romantic elderly maids
i who, weeping copiously, were discov
ered by the old janitor at ML Vernon.
"What is it ails you ladies?"
Taking the handkerchief from one
swollen red eye, between sobs she said:
Why we have so long revered the
J memory of George Washington that
we feel it a privilege to come here and
j weep at his tomb."
i "Yas'm, yas'm, yo' shore has a desire
to express yo sympathy but yo are
overflowin' at de wrong spot, yo Is
weepin at de ice house."
Dcn't get maudlin about law-breakers
who must be punished if the very
existence of our people is to be main
tained. If you have any surplus sympathy It
can be extended to the honest workers
who continue to earn food when threat
ened and are frequently hurt and
sometimes killed before the courts can
intervene to protect them.
Now the Labor Trust leaders de
mand of Congress that the courts be
stripped of power to issue injunctions
to prevent them from assaulting or per
haps murdering men who dare earn
a living when ordered by the Labor
Trust to quit work.
Don't "weep at the Ice House" and
don't permit any set of law-breakers
to bully our courts, if your voice and
vote can prevent. Be sure and write
your Representatives and Senators in
Congress asking them not to vote for
any measure to prevent the courts
from protecting homes, property and
persons from attack by paid agents of
this great Labor Trust.
Let every reader write, and writ
now.
Don't sit silent and allow the organ
ized and paid men of this great trust
to force Congress to believe they rep
resent the great masses of the Amer
ican people. Say your say and let
your representatives in Congress know
that you do not want to be governed
under new laws which would empower
the Labor Trust leaders with legal
right to tell you when to work. Where!
For whom! At what price! What to
buy! What not to buy! Whom to
vote for! How much you shall pay
per month In fees to the Labor Trust!
etc., etc., etc.
This power Is now being demanded
by the passage of laws in Congress.
Tell your Senators and Representa
tives plainly that you don't want thera
to vote for any measure that will allow
any set of men either representing
Capital or Labor to govern and dic
tate to the common people, who prefer
to be free to go and come, work or
not ,and vote for whom they please.
Every man'3 liberty will disappear
when the leaders of the great Labor
Trust or any other trust can ride rough
shod over people and mass their forces
to prevent our courts from affording
protection.
"There's a Reason."
. C. W. POST, Battle Creek, Mich,
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