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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

STORY OF A PIcTURE.-A painter
onoe wanted a picture of innocence,
and drew the likeness of a child at
prayer. The little supplicant was
kneeling beside his mother; the palms
of his uplifted hands we're reysrently
pressed together; his rosy cheek spoke
of health, and his milk blue eye was
upturned with the expression of devo-
ton and peace. The portrait of young
Rupert was much priced by the paint
er, who hung it up on the study wall,
and called it Innocence. T" Years
passed away, and the artist became an
old man. Still the picture hung there.
He had often thought of painting q
counterpart, the picture of Guilt, "
but he had not found the opportunity.
At last he effected his purpose, by pay
ing a visit to a neighboripg Jail. On
the damp floor of his cell lay a wretch
ed culprit, named Randall, heavily
ironed. Wasted was bis body and hol-
low his eye; vice was visible in his
face. The painter succeeded admira-
bly,, and the portraits of young Rupert
and Randall were hung side by side
for Innocence and Guilt" But who
was young Rupert, and who was Ran
dali !? Alas the two were one. Old
Randall was Young Rupert led astray
by bad companions, ending his life in
the damp and shameful dungeon.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09
A French Sensation.

A case which is likely to call forth
all the emotional resources of French
jury is told as follows: "A young man,
having accepted a challenge from a
noted duellist, goes home and tells his
mother all about it. The good lady
rushes off distracted to the house Of
the duelist, whom she finds practieing
in his garden and what is worse, hitting
the mark every time. She implores
his mercy, bnt is coldly repulsed BY the
marksman, who declares his intention
to kill her son. Thereupon, in her
wrath aud terror, the poor woman
suatches up pistol and shoots the du
ellist dead. The chances are that she
will be acquitted, and indeed, it is diff
flcult to imagine any case which offers
mole, or more genuine, extenuation.
A jury of mothers, at least, would not
very long deliberate upon their verdict.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

Detroit merchants combine business
and grief. A wife of one of this class
dying the other day, a life insurance
company received the following notice:
Dear Sir-I take my pen in hand
to let you know that I am well. but
that my dear wife, insured for 5000
in your company, is no more she died
to-day. Her policy is No. 1
can truly say she was fond wife and
good mother. / have the doctors
certificate, SO that there will be no
trouble about the policy. She was
sick only short time, but suffered
much. Do you give a check in ad-
vance, or do | wait sixty days for the
money!
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

ROBERT 4. LEE.-His pure spirit
freed from earthly contact, speaks in
tones of gentle admOnition to US ali.
For as well could you fetter the sweet
wind Of the south ard bind il in spring
time, not to awaken to life and JOY the
bird and fowret of the northern forest,
as to exclude the fragrance of the life
and character of Robert Il. Lee from
the hearts and minds of men and wo-
men of every section of this country.
Senator Bayard, Of DeIas0are, at Lex-
iRgtoR College.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09
Salary Steal.
The New York World puts the Con-
gressional salary steal in a new but
truthful light. 1t says:


The New York World puts the Con-
gressional salary steal in a new but
truthful light 1t says:
The more the back pay operation Of
the last Congress is examined the great
er does its iniquity appear. IL was for
merly the custom to pay Senators and
Representatives their salaries at the
close Of each year, the Sergeant at
Arms Of each house advancing money
to members on their salaryas their me-
cessities required, but a full settlement
was made only at the end of the year.
In 1867 a law was passed providing
that each member could draw his sal
airy at the end of each month. The
Sergeant-at-Armsd draws from the treas
ury each month the amount necessary
to pay Congressional salaries, and at
the end of the month the members are
paid by him, he taking their receipt in
full for the month. Under the opera
ton of the law Of 1861 the Senators
and Representative in the last Con-
SiCco udu Dtci pdiu lOi al DtS thc ldbb
month of their term when the back
salary" was passed by them and had
given their receipts ia full, which re-
ceipt was held by the Government.
Each Senator and member having
given receipt in full up to and includ-
ing the last day of the preceding
month, they go to work and pass bill
under pretence of giving themselves an
increased pay for the past two years.
when in fact they had given a receipt
in full for all salary at the end of each
month. The action, therefore, was
simply voting themselves $4,000 each
as extra compensation for the last
month Of the term for which they were
elected. Under this rule, if they can
vote themselves 5000 extra for one
month under the pretence of back SER
vices they can for every month Of their
term, and there will be no end to the
salary grabs" in the future, unless
those who participated in the last are
repudiated and condemned by their
constituents.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

ITO DUNN" TO press for money due,
comes from one Joe Dcnn, a famous
bailiff of Lincoln, in England, during
the reign of Henry VII. He was so
commonly successful in collecting
money, that when a man refused to
pay, the creditor was asked why be
didn't Dunn him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

AN Irshman put his head into a
lawyers Office and asked the inmate,
!" An what do you sell here?" Block
heads, replied the limb of the law.
"Och, thin, to be sure" said Pat 1T
must be good trade, for ye have but
one of them left.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

MAGNANIMITY.-When the Empe-
ror Vespasian commanded Roman
Senator to give his voice against the
interest of his country, and threatened
him with immediate death if he spoke
on the other side, the Roman. con-
soions that the attempt to serve the
people was within his power, though
the event was so uncertain, answered
with a smile did | ever tell you that
/ was immortal? My virtue is at my
disposal, my life at yours; do what yo4
will, will do what | ought and IT |
fall in the service of my country, /
shall have more triumph in my death
than you in all your laurels.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

JOSH BILLINGS says: When you
strike lie, stop boring; menny a man
has bored clean thru and let ali the lie
run out at the bottom"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

CONFESSIONS often put in queer
things ITO fill out column. Here is
the latest: Does not a young mothers
heart leap 4th with joy when she be-
holds her darling babes LIST 2th?"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

A CERTAIN editor, on the first of his
four pages, has this choice paragraph !:
For horrible example Of the evil
effects of intemperanee, see our inside" /"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-08-09

Be not deceived and misled. The best is the
cheapest. If you wish to insure your life,
choose company of age, experience and
ability, and you will select the "Old Relia-
BILE" New York Life.
VIII give our attention to the buying,
selling and renting of real estate,
March Is. '73-tf.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04

The burning Of Slack extensive wooden
en- stocking factory at Trenton, on Monday
morning last, has thrown 100 women out
Of employment.
Four hundred and fifteen more men
have been discharged from Rogers Loco
motive Works, in Paterson, N. j., making
| 900 men laid of this week, or two-thirds
Of the whole force. The Danforth and the
Grant Works have not yet decided to dis
charge any of their workmen.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have ordered from the Baldwin LocomO-
tive Works 175 first-class engines. This
order will require the running of the
works for five months at their full capacity.
We understand that the employees Of the
Terre Haute Iron and Nail Works Com
pany have been notified that they need
not leave the city, as the works would be
rebuilt Immediately also that new mate
rial was hauled on to the ground while yet
the smoke from the ruins had not cleared
away. Genuine Terre Haute pluck and
energy, that.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, Sept. 28.-At q
meeting Of the lumbermen and salt manu-
features held at Bay City on yesterday, 1t
was resolved to reduce the price of labor
124 per cent for men employed in the
woods this winter Unless other action is
taken, the same will apply to mill hands
and salt boilers next season. The directors
of the Tittabawassee Boom Company, who
operate the most extensive booms in the
country, took the same action at q meeting
in regard to the price of labor. A large
number of employees has since quit work.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04
The Shoe Pinches.

The following from the New York
Courier, proves that at least some Of the
Eastern press are beginning to realize the
dangers incurred by the importation Of
the cheap labor leprous wretches, and the
baneful effect it is ultimately going to
have upon the industrial interests Of the
country
"A Chinese who began to make cigars
in 1860 in San Francisco was first who
tried his hand there at that occupation.
In 1870 the Chinese workers in that trade
numbered ,657, and now they are $500.
Since 1870 the shOemakers of the same
race in the same city increased from 296 to
$500; the butchers from 8 to 128, and
there are now 100 Chinese sewing ma
chine operatives in the same place, where
sewing girls have become almost entirely
unknown. As lsunderers, household SER
wants, farmers, gardeners, BARRIERS and
laborers, they work on the Pacific coast 80
efficiently and at such low wages AS almost
utterly to defy competition from the
white population.
The San Francisco Shop and Synate as
serts that tb ere are at least two hundred
Chinese Lepers making cigars i'll that city,
and that it is an impossibility to prevent
the scahs, which are continually falling
from their loathsome carcasses mixing
with the tobacco which they handle.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04
COOPERATION.


The Speaker of the English House Of
Commons, addressing his agricultural
laborers. at their harvest home, at Glynde,
Lewes, few days since, said
''You and stand together in the rela-
tionship Of employer and employed, and,
for my part, l should be very glad Il that
relationship could always be made closer
than it is. We carry ON together a bust
ness in common-you finding the labor
and finding the capital. | am reminded
that at this time last year made to you,
my laborers on my farm. proposal that
you should invest such savings as you
could spare in the business, while | en-
gagged, on my part, that | would pay you
~ per cent. interest upon such savings,
and whatever excess If profit might be de-
rived from the farm. Well, made that
offer to You in good faith, but ! am very
sorry to find that none of you fell in with
the proposal, and | am sorry for it, be-
cause believe that it would have been
better for both you and for me if you had
shared in the profits of the undertaking,
n which we are ali COZ cerned, in the man
ner proposed. | am one of those who be-
lieve that the time will come when labor
will be recompensed, in part at least, &C.
cording to the profits Of capital, and j
should have been very glad if you, the fell
low-workers upon this farm, had assisted
me in showing BY example the way in
which the desired end might be attained.
wish to say now that the offer | made
you last year is open for one year more,
and that | am not without hope that on re-
Election you will think better Of il.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04

At Nos. 2l9 and 22l Madison street. Thin
firm has the contract for running the boot
and shoe factory at the State Penitentiary,
and il in . position TO sell boots and shoes Of
cheaper rates than krms compelled to pay
higher wages, or import their stock from the
factories Of New England.
Brass won't certainly decline after that
announcement. SIS in position to sell
boots and shoes at cheaper rates than firms
compelled to pay higher ,cdges" is good, but
we think it would be improved by saying,
at cheaper rates than firms compelled to
pay more than .ttty cents per day-the
price paid by Messrs. SELF 4 Co., to their
Penitentiary graduates and yet we ven
ture the assertion that this firm don't sell
their goods penny cheaper than those
manufacturers who pay an honest day Is
wages for an honest days work.
But the essence of cheek is reached in
the advertisement which appeared on the
following day, wherein the same firm mod
estly asserted
The products of home manufacture are not
as numerous as could be wished, but those
that are there are worthy of contemplation
and study. Among others may be mentioned
the boots and shoes from different makers
There are boots and shoes OF foreign manu-
facture in competition with the genuine
home made article. 4 cheap article Of boots
anil shOes mdde IN tie Orphan State Prison
Of Massachusetts, is audaciously put side by
side with the genuine articles made at home.
This IS unfaa 10 our home ,cOrk, which de-
serves encouragement and fair treatment
For home work we would invite attention to
the fine display of NJ. SELF Co., which is
worthy of inspection and high commentator.
just think Of the audacity Of the inmate
of the Massachusetts Orphan State Prison
presuming to compete with the produc-
tions Of Mr.. Sell home penitentiary birds
-"which deserve encouragement and
fair treatment"
Messrs SELF 4 Co., a word in conclu-
sion. We don't know and we don't care
where your home is, but We honestly be-
heve-that there are convicts now working
for you in the States Prison who are bet
ter men than their employers, and that
the workingman who would purchase even
dollars worth Of goods from you under
such Inducements deserves to exchange
places with some Of the unfortunates, from
whose crime you are virtually receiving a
dividend Shame thrice shame, on such
home manufacturers
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

APPLIANCES for economizing fuel seem
to be in request in England, and new in
ventions Of the kind receive consideration
willingly.
THE Turkish authorities have given an
order to q German factory for 500 fortress
guns. The cost Of these guns will be g.
$50, 900.
TURKEY contemplates . railway system,
nearly all the lines joining, which will be
Of great strstegical As well Is commercial
Importance.
SWEDEN has hitherto mainly depended
on England for coal, but henceforth she ia
likely to derive sufficient for her needs
from her own mines, which are in process
Of development
In removing ink spots from delicate col
orr, when oxalic acid or chloride of lime
cannot be used without injury to the color,
concentrated solution Of sodium pyro-
phosphate il recommended.
TEE valne of the iron exported from
England during the FIRST seven months, was
~ per cent. Rrestsr than that sent abroad
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04
The Origin of Coz No 4
" ANDREW RoV.

THE SHAPE AND STRUCTURE or COAL FIELDS
The coal fields Of the world generally
exist in the shape of eliptical basins. Some
Of these basins are nearly round, but in
most cases they possess much greater
length than breadth. Possessing this ba-
sin slope, the greatest thickness Of the
strata are always inclined, except in the
center Of q basin, and sometimes pitch at
an angle of ten and fourteen degrees. The
center of the field contains the greatest
number Of coal seams, the upper Goals
being of least extent, while the lower beds
stretch across the whole circumference Of
the original coal marsh.
The original shape of many coal fields
has been greatly changed by dikes, or dis
location Of the strata, by which the whole
coal strata are thrown up or down. These
dikes consist of assures, which traverse
the strata for miles, and are the result of
violent mechanical commissions, by which
either a subsistence Of the strata occurred
on the one side of the dislOcation or an
upheavel ON the other. The change of
lead caused by these commissions is some
times only few inches; at other times it
is hundreds Of feet. Hence it frequently
happens in mining operations that seam
Of coal may be reached at depth of 200
feet, while the same bed Just across the
line Of dislocation may be upward of 1000
feet in depth.
These dislocationr are very common in
some OF the British coal fields, dividing
the basin into subordinate basins, and fire.
quently presenting insurmountable Obsta-
cles to the prosecution Of the underground
operations. And yet without their pres
ence it would, in many cases, be found Inn
possible to discharge the accumulated wa
tiers of the more extensive seams for the
dixie is q true hood-gate to draw back the
flowing waters of the field.
The line Of direction of these dikes N
not always the same, and they sometimes
cross each other. They present many ir-
regular bsndingB, but they are mot always
upthrows or downthrows, for there are
cases in which the dixie simply intersects
the strata, when the coal il found ON the
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04

in the same period last year, but the guam
tity was about 10 per cent. less.
Mn. MxNELAUs, leading British iron
question ct the present time of so much
importance to the world as that of cheap
ening the mode Of purifying crude iron
A DISCOVERY which evidently admits Of
wider application has been made recently.
1t has been found that . ANAL quantity of
lime in TIE bilge-water wholly prevents the
corrosion of the iron plates of ships. The
lime neutralizcs the acid of the water.
A FRENcHMAN in England in SO con6dsnt
Of his ability TO determine the exact situa-
ton Of underground springs and water
bearing strata a. to offer his services gratu-
itously, requesting only that the results
should be made as widely known as can be.
TEE average price of the beat household
coal in London in 1869, was 18s. 3d.; in
1870, 1Ss. Cd. in 1871, los. 3d.; and in
1872, 24s. This was coal sent up by the
coal owners to the city and sold to the re-
tailers. London consumes about 1000,
600 tons of coal annually.
The Prussian War Ministry has con-
tracted with foreign manufacturers for the
delivery Of 1000, 600 Of rifles on the Man
ser system-a number sufficient for the
whole army when on 6 war footing. The
different parts Of the rifle are being made
separately. The Government small arms
factory at Spandau is busy making the am
munition for the new rifle, and can there
fore furnish but 100 stands of arms itself
per day, but arrangements for doubling
this number will be made. 1t is said that
French mechanics have succeeded in max
ing a copy Of the rife from drawings Of
separate parts, but that the French army
will retain the chassepot.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04
THE WoRKINGMEN AND THE saw
INGS BANKS.

Since our last issue monetary matters
have assumed more favorable aspect
and the wisdom of our workingmen. depos-
itors IN our Savings Banks, who refused to
contribute 10 the causeless panic which ex-
isted- already manifest And right here
~e want e say q word respecting the Wis
dom and fOrbearance shown BY the Saw
lngs Banks depositors as compared wit h
the action of many of our deposltOrs in the
Mercantile Banks. The great desiderat um
vas coafisnr,. This the one class dis
played III remarkable manner lille a
large number of the upper crust or class
were unwilling to trust their own fathers
The wOrkingmen knew that it was only a
spsc,tbators pdS.c that the assets Of the
banks in which their funds were deposited
consisted III the main Of securities worth
four times their liabilities they had faith
in themselves; faith in the future faith
IN their bankers, and common sense enough
t. Keep riqIt along al yprI
They knew also that very large amount
If the savings NJ depostors had been re-
loaned t. workingnen t. enable them to
complete their homesteads; that that mo-
ney vas loaned for definite period that
the Savings Banks had always been
ready and willing to accommodate them.
and when necessary ert,,m the time Of pay
ment, and that if through a causeless pan
ic, these loans should be refused or called
IN, their little all the savings of life
time-would be sacrificed. and eventually
become the property Of gamblers and spec
ulators
Again We repeat, the ADVOCATE is proud
If the position taken BY the workingmen,
and our advice to them one and all is-if a
sharper offers 70 buy your account" at a
discount, give him reminder that his
terms are not accepted by gently lifting
him of the sidewalk by the toe Of your
boot
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04
CHEEK WITH A VENGEANCE.

A few days ago the Chicago Industrial
Exposition was thrown open to the pub
lie with grand flourish Of trumpets,
twenty thousand visitors participating in
the ceremony. There was a big time.
Senators Oglesby and Logan we're the
professional orators, and they piled the
agony on. Tribute after tribute was paid
to the dignity of labor. The mechanics
were patted on the back as they had never
been before, though We honestly be-
lieve that every word that the
good Ex-Governor said in their
behalf, came directly from his heart. In
his Grafton he took especial pains to de-
nounce the system which produces So
called cheap labor Cheap labor means
pauperism, degradation and crime, and
we want none of it in our grand, free Re-
public insisted Illinois favorite LA
Dor well paid, which is not required to
come into contact with the labor of the
felon OF the pauper, is the labor which
has made America what she is, and what
we all want her to remain" Sentiments
brareiy and nobly uttered, and everybody
said, "4Bten r. There was no mistaking
the leaning and the appreciation of that
assemblage But then there is q great
difference between theory and practice.
Who could have believed that upon the
strength of these declarations q firm could
have been found shameless enough to faunt
their ignominy through the public press,
in building devoted to the mechanic arts,
and in which this glorious paregyric had
been passed, by announcing that their
claims to public patronage lay in the fact
that their goods had been manufactured
at the penitentiary, where the labor of
the convict-pauper labor-was brought
into direct competition with the labor of
the law-abiding, educated mechanic. Yet
such is the fact. In an advertisement
which appeared in one of our daily papers,
in referring to the Exposition, the follow
ing whinge was INDUCED in
We would direct special attention Of visi-
tors to the exhibit made by M. Selz q Co.,
the great home manufacturers of boots and
shoes, the only firm in the West which makes
J its goods at home. Their place Of business is