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From a Grand Army Man.

ELLICoTT CITY, Md. 6 s, 1884.
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An End to Bone Scraping.

Edward Sheperd, of Harrisburg.
ILL.,, says: Having received so much
benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had running sore
on my leg for eight years my doc
tors told me l would haye to have
the bone scraped or leg amputated.
l used, instead, three bottles of Elec-
tric Bitters and seven boxes Buck.
lens Arnica Salve, and my leg is now
sound and WELL"
Electrsc Bitters are sold at fifty
cents bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica
Salve at 25c. per box by VIM. N.Y.
degger.
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Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, says
that Portland is one of the wealthiest
cities of the United States. 1t has at
least twelve milIionaires, and a large
number of men who are worth over
half million. There are forty or
fifty men in the town VINO are worth
from 100000 to S50O,O0O, and the
towns abounds in magnificent houses
and fine interiors. Senator Mitchell
says Oregon is growing very rapidly,
will support "four millions people
easily. and give each of these plenty
of ROOM"
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to boiling water until he was dead.
The expenses attendant on the par
boiling and hanging of Friar Stone
in 1889 are certainly curious, The
execution came off at Canterbury. and
the following were the details of the
expenses. "For a ton of timber to
make pair of gallows for to hang
Friar Stone, two shillings six pence (;
t. carpenter for making the gallows
and the dray, one shilling four pence !;
to laborer that digged the holes,
three pence; expenses setting up the
same, one shilling for load of wood
and for horse to draw him to a dun
geon. two shillings three pence paid
two men that sat at the kettle and
parboiled him, one shilling to three
men that carried his quarters to the
gates and set them up, one shilling /;
for halters, sandwich, cord and screws
one shilling for woman that scour-
ed the kettle, two pence to him that
did the execution, three shillings
eight pence total, fourteen shilIings
eight pence )"
This punishment was not uncom-
mon either in England or on the con-
tinent, for coming and the law per-
miting it was not repealed until the
time of Edward VI, in 1547.
Cases where persons were disem-
bowled were not lnfrequent, but the
sentence was generally mitigated,
and, as in the case of burning at the
stake, the condemned were first
strangled.
Mention is made in an old book of
a man being pressed to death. but no
instance can be given of this dread
ful mode OF killing. the very idea of
whicn is enough to give anyone of
moderately strong nerves the night
mare for week.
1t is claimed that death by drown.
ing is one of the easiest, but we doubt
If the idea of being sewed up in sack
and thrown into the water would be
agreeable to anyone yet such was atone
| time the not unmerited doom of par
ricides but still more revolving is the
idea of being put under hurdles into
bOgs or ferns, which was the fate re-
served for the meaner criminals at
one period in Germany, while to the
greater malefactors was reserved the
infinitely preferable death of hang
ing.
The Anglo-Saxons had all women
who were convicted of stealing drown
ed, and King Richard the Lion
Hearted made that the legal punish
ment for any soldier who killed a fell
low crusader. Criminals were drown.
ed in England until the early part oi
the seventeenth century, and in
Edinburgh. Scotland, a man was
drowned as late as 1911 "for the steal
I ing of lamb" In other parts OF
Scotland the custom was prevalent
until 1855.
1t would seem that as civilization
advances executions are being not
only much less painful, but are, in
many cases. altogether disappearing.
Strange to say, many noblemen OF
our day belonging to old families,
who still own the feudal castles OF
their ancestors, point with kind OF
pride to the soul.revolting instru-
lnents of torture used by their fore.
fathers-instrumen that one would
imagine must fill them with shame
for the barbarians who employed
them. But life is a puzzle at the best
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The Cincinnati Enquire, tells of
two remarkable babies. One is l6
months old, Elmer Heeter, of Tren-
ton, o., who weighs 6S pounds, meas
ures % inches around the chest, 33
around the waist and 20 inches
around the thigh. The other baby
hasn't heen named, but il belongs to
Mrs Steve Boyer, of East Hill, Pa,
and was born in the middle of June.
1t hasn't been measured but it weighs
10 ounces,
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NUMBER 20.
An Invitation to 4 Party.

Ike Collingwood. of Meeting House
Crossroads, was anxiors to take ssthe
light of his life, the essence of every
happiness, the tree on which the fruit
of his heart was growing" to a fa-
nous party to be given by SiIas Pc
terson. In fact, he was very anxious.
But he knew of no good way to ask
for her company; and not being bred
to city direction, he went about It
with country circum!ocution, as
thus:
Coin to the party over to Sile
Peterson's tomorrow night ?" he
asked.
"Yes, Are you ?"
'.Yes. Who are you goin' with ?"
"Nobody's asked me yet. Who are
you ?'
Il don't know. I s'pose Hank
Beerher III take you ?"
"Why, Ike Collingwood, whatever
put that into your head ?"
"Oh, nothin'. cause him an you
are so sweet on each other, l guess"
''Sakes alive! Me sweet on Hank
Beecher I amt half so sweet on
him as you are on Mandy Tiller."
eyes. you are,'
mo. l amt"
"Yes, you are, too"
mo, 1 amt neither"
"Then what made you let him kiss
you fur when we was playin'spin the
plate at Deacon Goodenough's the
other evenin' ?"
claw me, he was 50 pesterin'what
else could 1 do? Anyhow, that
wasn't no reason why you should
take Mandy home from meetin' last
Sunday"
"Oh, well, you know what I did it
fur"
''If you though it was goin' to
spite me, Ike Collingwood. all 1 can
say is you've missed your mark"
A painful silence fell.
Say, you amt mad. are you ?" ins
quired Ike.
"Mercy me, what have 1 to be
mad at? 1t was you who was
mad"
mo. amt. either. Only l don't
like to see you go with Hank Beech
er."
"How about your goin' with Man.
dy Tiller ?"
"Oh, darn Mandy Tiller. / care
more fur your thumb than do fur
her hull body"
"Why, Ike Collingwood. how you
talk. You ought to be ashamed of
yourself"
But the pleased smile on her face
belied her words, and he did not feel
so very much abashed. Then, after
several unsuccessful attempts to
speak, he entreated in low tone:
Say, if feller was to ask you to
go to the party with him tomorrow
night, would you ?''
"Depends on who the feler was."
"Well say Hank Beecher, fur in-
stance"
mo"
"Well. say feller about my size"
"Depends, 1 told you"
"But, If the feller looked jes' like
me, was my height, an everything,
would you 2"
81 might"
At this he took courage. drew In
deep breath. and spluttered forth
"Say, will you ?"
"Will l what ?"
$50"
"Go where ?''
"Over to Sile Peterson's with me
tomorrow night ?"
"Why, of course"
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NO. 4.
THE "WOODLAND FARM"
NO. 5.
HOUSE AND LOT

On OAK street. Oakland, Nd, comfortable
dwelling Well OF good waterand convenient
outbuildings. Viii sell at a bargain.
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No. 8.
600 ACRES OF LAND,

covered with white pine, spruce and white
oak timber, and uuderlaid with coal iron ore
and fire clay. Water fall II feet. Steam saw
mill on the premises doing a good business.
Will Sc sold at a bargain.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
A TEACHER %.

The ignorance of some men who pro-
fess to be teachers is simply astounding.
This is more noticeable among editors
than any other class Of educators; due
probably to the fact that, as rule, they
aspire to securing a larger number of
learners. The latest instance of monu
mental ignorance which has come tony
notice is worthy of mention in these
columns.
The Interior is paper published in
Chicago, and it is the official journal for
the Presbyterian church. Its editor is
W. c. Gray. Mr.. GRAY has lately taken
it upon himself to attack Socialism, and
has been slashing right and left with his
abuse of Socialists and what he has as
sumed were their doctrines.
Comrade Tower, of this. city, has been
a reader of the Interior, and, like any
sensible man would, became verv weary
of the idiotic onslaughts made by Gray
upon a class whom he (Tower) knew to
be the only one which combines hon
esty, intelligence and humanitarianism
Our comrade wrote letter to the In
terror, asking that it be published, show
ing the errors made BY its editor, and
explaining the doctrines of Socialism
l have seen copy of Comrade Towers
letter, and 1 can see nothing in it which
could be considered Objectionable by
any editor who is disposed to be fair.
Mr.. Gray refused to print the letter in
the Interior, and wrote a short note to
Comrade Tower, from which will quote
the closing sentences. and leave it fol-
readers to judge whether the criti'
cisms(?) of such men as Gray are worthy
of kinder feeling than contempt, and
whether 1t would not be better for the
cause of education that such mutton
heads be removed from positions as edi'
tors of society journals or be starved out
by the reading public. <...
1t is not necessary to comment upon
the words of Mr.. Gray; those who know
anything about Socialism are aware ol
the ridiculous misrepresentation con-
tanned in it; and those who are not had
best brighten up their own intellects.
Following is the concluding paragraph
of the note received by Comrade
Tower:
81 heartily subscribe to the doctrine
that to the worker belongs the fruit oi
his TOLL but that is radically opposed tc
Socialism as I understand it. Socialism
means that the fruits of workers tol
belong to other people, not to him."
"W. G. GRAY"
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
~

The rotton tumor which has been
growing in the Denver News Office has
at last come to head, and the doctor
has pronounced it ready to lance, the
M. D. in this case being W. A. II. Love-
land. When the knife has been applied
to the morbid swelling it will probably
reveal a more rotten pus than even Mr..
Loveland, as yet, looks for. THE En-
quIRER long ago warned the L0velands
that Arkins, by his idiotic course, would
kill the News and depreciate its value
until it was absolutely worthless. He
has done this, and the respectable por-
ton of the people of Colorado would
rather have the Police News in their
homes than the sheet made 80 foul by
the Arkins-Stapleton outfit. 1t is to be
hoped that Mr.. Loyeland will fire the
whole gang and put his paper under the
control of decent journalists, who will be
respectable themselves and who can
hold the respect of the public.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
WYOMING BILLS.

have received from Brother Joseph
Granger, of Cheyenne, copies of three
bills that have been introduced into the
territorial legislature of Wyoming and
which are at present under considera-
ton. All three of the bills refer to the
mining industry. and are humanitarian
and just measures; but it is doubtful if
either becomes law. and the prospects
are that all will be defeated +; while one
of the bills, providing for the appoint
ment of coal mine inspector; may be
the means of causing the passage of a
law creating that Office, it is not likely
that all of the ideas of Mr.. Russell,
author of the bill, will be incorporated
in the law.
Another of the bills, introduced by
Mr.. Whitehouse, provides for an act to
regulate the weighing of the coal at the
mines, and fixes penalty for any COM
pany or superintendent who may cheat
the coal digger in weights. This is GER
tainly just measure, but the Union
Pacific Coal company will fight it teeth
and toe-nails. =.
The third bill is by Mr.. Downey, and
is for the protection of the coal miners,
who may be killed or injured in the
mine, and to provide for the care of the
family of any such unfortunates. The
first section says:
"That every miner or other person
employed IN or about any coal mine in
this territory. who shall loose his life by
reason of fire damb, or the explosion oi
dangerous gases, or by any other cause
incident to the business of coal mining
the person, company, or corporation
leasing or operating such mine, shall
4 pay to the legal representative of such
deceased person, the sum of $1,000, and
to each surviving child, if there be any,
the sum of $780,"
There are other sections providing fol
damages in case of permanent or tempo
rary injury, and also defining the pro
cess by which the law shall be enforced
This measure is certainly just one
but If the Wyoming legislature is any.
thing like that of Calorado. it win bury
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
Ker,r,s Meat.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. Feb 1.-The meat
market owned by Kerr Brothers at Gar
bon, Wyoming, is boycotted by the local
assembly of the Knights Of Labor be-
cause Of the stands which Mr.. Kerr, the
speaker Of the Wyoming house of rep.
resentatiyes took against appropriating
$1,000 OF the territorial funds for the re.
lief Of the families of the men who were
killed in the Almy mine disaster. The
Carbon county delegation waited on the
miners at Carbon last Saturday, and got
lively tongue lashing. The bill which
had been amended in the upper house
to give the sufferers $1,lOO, will prob
ably meet with more opposition than
before.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06

Mr.. Downey's bill so deep that it can
never again be dug up.
If the government controlled and
worked the coal mines, which certainly
belong to the people, such measures
would not only be adopted, but carried
out without any bitches. The govern
ment pensions those who are injured in
its service; and besides, under govern
mental control the accidents in mines
would decrease SO per cent. Proof OF
this will be given if wanted.
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M
tenable position. and he will find that it
will be impossible for him to hold it,
even against proper construction OF
the arguments which he brings in his
own support, for they are founded upon
contradictions, both in theory and In
fact
Every issue of The ENoUIRER contains
more or less unanswerable argument in
favor of governmental control of distrl-
button, and l need not lengthen this ar
ticle in that direction. will leave 1t to
Mr.. Abbott to show Mr.. Fulton what a
foolish fellow he is, and shall expect the
spectacle in an early issue of the Cen
tury Magazine.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
CALIFORNIA; Women.

A personal letter to the editor con-
veys the intelligence that the women of
San Francisco are beginning to take an
interest in labor organization and are
joining the Knights of Labor. The let
ter says II have just come from the
meeting of an assembly where I wit
messed the initiation of four exceed
ingly intelligent ladies'" and the letter
goes on to say great interest is being
awakened there among the women.
This is good, and it is not necessary for
THE ENouIRER to say that it ls highly
pleased. as its ideas upon this subject
are well known.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
ImPERATlvE MANDATE.

! AS the editor of this paper was ap-
preaching the chairman's stand to call
the Social League to order, on last Sun
day evening, he was handed note,
signed IA Workingman and Your Ad-
mirer." It's contents we're upon the
subject of the imperative mandate, as
advocated bv Socialists. and was in
praise of the chairman for having advo-
Gated this principle in some remarks
made by him at previous meeting OF
the League. But the writer of the note
was in error when he said that l was
sthe first to bring it up in public" Social
lists have been advocating the imperative
mandate ever since l have been ac-
ouainted with their teachings, and | do
not know how long before.
The error of my friend is an lllustra-
ton of the unwholesome truth that peo-
pie do not try to post themselves upon
the principles of new and advanced
school ofthinkers. These advanced ideas
are condemned, without consideration.
by those who could endorse them if they
were understood; and so it has been
necessary that nearly every important
and permanent good should be baptised
in war.
But what is the imperative mandate
1t is simply this: That the representa-,
tive officers or servants of the people
should serve so long as they conformed
| to heir instructions, and no longer ; that
such instructions should be Imperative
and the representatives or agents should
be recalled by the votes of those whom
they were chosen to if they devi'
I.ated from the path of duty, and others
chosen to fill the vacancies; that those
recalled should be i'm nediately tried
and punished with the utmost rigor il
found guilty.
Under the present system represen'
tative in national, state or municipal leg
islature may violate the trusts reposed
in him by bis constituency whenever
opportunity is offered, and, unless his
conduct be soglaring and dishonest as tc
secure impeachment he remains in Office
to the conclusion of stipulated term
For instance, the senators from Colorado
might oppose the silver interests of this
state-they might honestly differ in
opinion with their constituency, or thev
might sell out to the Wall street gang
but the people would be helpless during
term of six years. And besides theil
helplessness, the government would have
to pay the traitors $4S, 900 in salary.
There is not community ten years
old in the country which has escaped
suffering through this. idiotic system. Il
is idiotic; so'much so that no business
man would conduct his affairs upon such
a plan. If a merchant or manufacturer
employs man to do certain thing fol
him-to look out for his interests
the employe fails to follow instructions
or carry out what he knows to be the
will of his employer, he is discharged
forthwith. If this is good rule in lndi'
vidual cases, why is it not good rule to
apply where the interests of thousands
ave mi11iona-are at stake9
If there are any who will bring the OBJ.
lection that the Socialistic plan of the
imperative mandate is "impracticable,' u
l am prepared to show that they do not
know what they are talking about. ]
shall have more to say upon this subject
another time.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06

SHADES of Bvers, contemplate to what
base uses has been prostituted the once
great journal, the Rocky Mountain News.
Its columns have become journalistic
scavenger wagon, and it's counting room
the haunt of blear- eyed, red-nosed buns,
who insanely flourish pistols in the faces
of respectable citizens.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06

IT is rumored in private circles that
the friends of Mr.. Loveland are talking
of organizing committee for the pur-
pose of hanging John Arkins and Bill
Stapleton to zone of the convenient
cottonweods on the banks of the Platte" !"
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
CARPENTERS.

Carpenters Union, No. IS, OF the Brother
mood of America. meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. All good Carpenters
are invited to join.
JAMES D. MACDONALD, President.
THOMAS MUIRHEAD, Rec Sec.
FRALK BAYER, State Organizer.
e. Z. RICE, Cor. and Fin. Seoetary,
s -r- 230 South Seventh street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06

THE ENQUIRER is crowded this week,
and scores ofgood articles from regular
contributors are laid over, among them
story from the pen of "zeno," which
will run through several issues.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
Union oace.

Union OAce.
Editor Labor Enquirer.
HALL OF DETROIT TYPOGRAPHICAL
UNION, No. Is, Detroit Mich,
January 15, 1886. J
Notice is hereby given, that the De
troit Tribune (successor to the Detroit
POST, is now Union Office, and employs
none but Union printers.
RtBERr 7. Oaa, President.
G. ". DuAcAN. Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
TAILoRs.

The Tailors' Protective Society. Of Denver
meets in Judge Jeffries' court room, q
o'clock p. M, on the first Monday Of each
month. FRED WEIDER, President.
7. HAML1N, Sec, 29l 16th street
Room IS skinner Block.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
IRON MoLnRRs.

lion Molders' Union. meets every second
and fourth Tuesday Of each month at Reno
HAIL Twenty-seventh and Holiday, at 7:So p
m. ]. ]. SMITH, Cor. Sec.,
l015 Holiday street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Typographical Union, No. 40, meets on the
first Sunday Of each month in Police Court
Room, City Hall, at O'Clock p. m.
o. L. SMALLWOOD, Rec and Cor, Sec'y.
w. n. MONTGOMERY, Fin. Sec
-- Collier & Cleveland's office.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
PLAsTERERs' UNION.

The Plasterers' Union, of Denver, meets
every Monday evening at 1880 O'Clock, in ST..
oseph's Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE, President.
CHARLES M. McCABE, Secretary.
Address, l60 East 18th street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
RRICKIAYERa

Bricklayers' International Union, No. j OF
Colorado, meets The second and fourth MOD
day evenings In each month, at Ne. 379 Larl'
mer street, Denver, Colorado
JAMES COOK, Sec'y. ED. SMYTH,
l028 Blake Street. President.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06
TRADER ASSEMBLY.

The Trades Assembly of Denver and Vicin-
ity meets on the second and fourth Sundays
of each month. r. WATSON, President.
GEO. E. GRAY, Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06

ARK1Ns is handy man himsely in
pulling gun but there is no accounting
for the breaks of an inebriate.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-06

laws necessary to carry into effect the
provisions of this constitution"
I doubt not that it is surprise to
many of you to see how nearly within
your reach is relief. and still year after
year the oppression continues. You
elect senators and representatives ex-
pecting them to labor for your interests.
Do they do it.. At the last session of
the legislature I introduced bills regu-
lating railroad companies, express COM
panies, telegraph companies, city water
| companies and city gas companies.
Most of those bills passed the house,
either in their original form or as
amended, but when they reached the
senate they were slaughtered. l re-
member one in regard to the regulating of
the gas companies. / talked to differ
ent members of the senate. I was in
formed by them that they had no OBJ
jections to the bill, but that there was
one of their body that was largely inter-
ested in gas companies, and must ap-
pease him. That was an easy thing to
doyou know. talked to him; but,
mo, no I can do nothing for you"
Now there was not one of these meas
ures but what am satisfied the people
of this state would have enacted by q
nine-tenths vote. I am not here how
ever to argue the right or the wrong as
regards either measure. Although these
measures were rejected, I simply lay
their battered and torn remains at your
feet, and beg to sav I am proud of them.