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The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-27
AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER
To All Wanting Employment.

We want Live, Energetic and Capable Agents
in every county in the United States and Cana
da. to sell patent article of great merit, ON
ITS MERITS. An article having a large sale, pay
ing over 100 per cent Proht, having no comPe-
tition, and on which the agent is protected IN
the exclusive sale by deed given for each and
every county he may secure from us win all
these advantages to our agents and the fact that
il is an article that can be sold to every mousse
owner it might not be necessary to make an
"RxrRAoRDINARY OFFER" to secure good agents
at once. but we have concluded to make 1t to
show, not only our confidence in the merits of
our invention, but in its STABILITY by any agent
that will handle it with energy: Our agents
now at work making from $3.50 to 5000
month clear and this fact makes 1t safe tor US to
make our offer to all who are out Of employ
ment ANY agent that will give our business
thirty days trial and fail to clear at least S1oo
in this time, ABOVE ALL EXPENSES, can return
al goods unsold to us and we will refund the
money paid for them. Any agent or general
. agent who would like ten more counties and
work them through sub-agents for ninety days
and fail to clear at least $3.50 ABOVE ALL EX-
pENsEs, can return all unsold and get their
money back No other employer OF agents ever
dared to make such offers, nor would we II we
did not know that we have agents now making
more than double the amount we guaranteed
ecd but two sales day would give proht OF
over. S12s a month, and that one OF our agents
took eighteen orders in one day. Ou[ large ue,
scriptive circulars explain our otter 1uny. ana
these we wish to send to everyone out Oh en-
niovmrnt who will send US three one cent
Stamps for postage: Send at once and secure I,=
the agency in time for the boom, and go to WORK
On the terms named in our e1traordlnaFy 20 Gnef, .h
We would like to have the address OF all the
agents. sewing machine solicitors aud caIPen-
ters in the country, and ask any reader of this
paper who reads this offer, to send US at once
The name and address Of all such they know.
Address at once, or you will lose the best chance
ever offered to those out OF employment to make
Money. RFNNER MANUFACTURING Co.,
AA' I16 Smithheld St., Pittsburg, Pa
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-27

vT0fTcan live at home, and make more
VIII money at work for US, than at any
thing else in this world. Capital
i UUnot needed; you are started free.
Both sexes; all ages. Anyone can do the
work. Large earnings sure from first start.
Costly outfit and terms free. Better not de-
lay. Costs you nothing to send US your adj
dress and find out; If you are wise you will
do so at ono. 81. HALLETT & CO., Port
land, Maine. 4S-52t
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-27

Pleasant to take, sure to cure; Junl-
per Tar Balsam for coughs, colds, sore
throats and hoarseness. Consumptive's
friend. Prepared and sold by NJ. l..
Cox 4 Co., Lawrence and Seventeenth,
Denver 47-4t
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-27
WnRKING GIASSESAWgs111Esssg1TH re s1T 9ss.

pared to furnish all classes with employ
ment at home, the whole OF the time, or for
their spare moments Business new, light
and profitable. Persons of either sex easily
earn from 80 cents to SIS per evening, and a
proportional sum by deyoting all their time to
the business. Boys and girls earn nearly as
much as men. That all who see this may
send their address, and test the business, we
make this offer. : To all who are not well
satisfied we will send 81 to. pay for the
trouble of writing. Full particulars and out
fit free. Address GEORGE STINSON Il
| CO., Portland, Maine. 4S5t
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bargains for the Ladies'

At NJ. A. A. Whites. Stylish trimmed
hats and bonnets So, 81, IS each, 1873
Lawrence, 4S-4t
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be made. Cut this out
nHiIM Wand return to us and we will
WUuLl great value and importance

will bring you in more money right away
than anything else in this world. Anyone
can do the work and live at home. Either
sex; all ages. Something new, that just
coins money for all workers. We will start
you; capital not needed. This is one of the
Important. genuine chances of lifetime.
Those who are ambitious aud enterprising
viii not delay. Grand outfit free. Address
TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. 4S-52t
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not 10 you. But If, onthe contrary, you
feel yourself thrill with horror at the
contrast between your own state and
that Of your sister, knowing that it is no
merit in you, but the mere accident of
birth that raises you above her, and if
all your true woman's heart rise s in 9
storm of indignation that such things
should be, or if your pitYiDg eyes weep
to see he sufferings of your fellows,
then do we know that YOU are with us
in battling to the death with the mons
ter horror that is cursing the liyesof so
many.-Fred Henderson, In The Com
monweal.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-27

E. s. Day. timer and manufacturer Of
Dairy Cans, Hotel Ware, Roofing, Gut
ters, Measures, Strainers, and the None
Such" Chimney Caps and Ventilators !;
403 Arapahoe, Denver, Colo. 47-4t
The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-27
HIS ASSEMBLY, PROTESTS.
A Demand Of simple Ju-sIce to One who
Has Been Ten Years \ Good
Member

Editor Labor Enquirer
Will you be kind enough to give the
following document a prominent place
in your next issue, and confera favor on
Sons of Liberty assembly, 1907:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
President CleyeIand's Bride Elect.

Frances G. Folsom is considered one
of the most beautiful women in Buffalo.
Her tall and splendidly moulded form,
her graceful carriage, beautiful features
and wealth of dark, almost black hair,
added to amiability, good sense and vi
vacity, made her an acknowledged belle
long before her schOol-days were over.
In 1879, when Miss Folsom was but
fifteen years of age, she was voted the
most beautiful lady at an authors
Carnival, held In the mammoth rink on
Pearl street. Over fifteen thousand bal
lots were cast during the week, and
Miss Folsom's plurality amounted al
most to q majority over all competitors.
She was attached to the Burns booth and
wore Highland plaid costume.
Her tiny feet were incased in high
buttoned shoes with black velvet bows,
and velvet cap set jauntily on her
shapely head was trimmed with plaid.
The next year Miss Folsom entered
the High School, and for two years was
regular attendant. She was a good
scholar, while not at all brilliant, and
made friends with teachers and pupils
alike by her charming manners and her
personal beauty, which seemed to in
crease as each year ripened her charms.
She left the school at the close of the
summer team of 1881, and in the fall
entered Wells College at Aurora, on
Cayuga Lake, New York. Her four
years course of study there was enliv-
ened by many trips to Buffalo, where
she was admired by her feminine friends
no less than by the male worshippers,
whose name was legion.
Unlike many beauties, Miss Folsom
has always been credited with large
amount of that much to be desired in
a-woman-quality, common sense.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
A Typical Socialist.

The Office of the Arbeiter Zeitung was
conducted on socialistic principles after
Spies took the management. The men
were not paid according to what work
they could or did do, but each was paid
from the general fund. Judging from
the appearance of the prisoners brought
before Justice Mech, socialism did not
pay any too much to those who believed
in its principles and put them into prac-
teal use. The married employees in
the office got more than the unmarried
men; those with children to support
were paid most. But, while the paper
was being conducted in that manner,
and while the men were not getting any
richer than compositors employed on
other German papers, the editor, Spies,
was waxing wealthy. 1t would be hard
to find his name attached to any sub
scription to be raised for the ameliora-
ton of the condition of the poor, his
employees failed to recall a time that
they received money that they had not
earned; like Others of his ilk, he had
considered he was doing enough for the
proletaTiat when he spoke to them. ''The
manner in which the affairs of the dr.
better ZeituRg were run makes each of
the employees liable for its policy"
said lawyer, the other day. 'And,
even if that were not so, they are
legally liable in that they by their
presence and work on the sheet encour-
aged the publication of the dastardly,
incendiary articles" = Chicago Inter
Ocean,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
An English Fire Department.

The London Truth says The fire bri-
gade of Norwich is certainly not in
condition which Capt. Shaw would pro-
nounce efficient. Last week a telegram
was received one afternoon announcing
a fire at a country house eight miles off
and asking for immediate assistance.
The brigade were quickly mustered at
the Guildhall, but more than an hour
elapsed before the engine left, as there
were no horses, and when at last it did
start it was drawn by four jaded cab
horses, the spectacle exciting the utmost
derlsion in the city, as the brutes, not
understanding their position, kept
plunging and rearing, and the engine
came to dead halt, until an obliging
trooper of the Fourth Hussars was good
enough to mount one of the leaders and
he succeeded IN getting them off; but
they did not arrive at the scene of the
fire till the flames had been extinguished
by the jealous efforts of the people of
the neighboring village. In city like
Norwich one is justified in looking for
thoroughly well -organized re-brigade,
and the sooner the present slip -slop ar
rangements are altered by the local
authorities the better it will be for the
inhabitants.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
They Found His Horse.

Last winter Detroit doctor went to
the police with the complaint that some
scamp had taken his horse and buggy
from in front of patients house and
driven it around town for several hours
and then left the rig in the suburbs.
The guilty party was not discovered,
and one night about a month ago the
same thing was repeated. This time
the doctor was so mad that he not only
went to the police. but gave the infor-
nation to all his friends and offered $25
for the arrest of the scamp. Sunday
last the doctor was called to see a sick
man in the country. He went out
Woodward avenue three miles and then
turned off and drove a mile and half
further. He hitched his horse under a
tree about ten rods from the gate, and
the animal was whisking away at the
first summer flies when couple of De-
troiters, who had been out to see a rel
ative on that road, came along.
''Say, isn't that DIR. is rig 2"
queried one, as they drew near.
"Why, of course"
"Some one has been running it off
again"
''That's so, and so We'll take it in
tow and return it to him."
They hitched the horse behind their
buggy and logged into the city, with
feeling that fellow human being owed
them debt of gratitude. When the
doctor came out and found his rig gone
he INDUCED in such language that the
wild plum trees shed their blossoms.
started for the woods, and his two
friends, who were interviewed after he
had limped back to town, are said to be
in bed and dangerously Ill of nervous
prostration. Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
Affecting Scenes in Court.

A thrilling case was concluded in a
court at Belleville, Ontario. Thomas
Pell, aged seventy years, and Mrs. Pell,
aged sixty years, with excellent reputa-
'tions, were charged before Chief Justice
Cameron with arson, for the purpose OF
securing the insurance money. The
goods were all removed before the fire
occurred, and afterward Mrs. Pell cir
culated the story that the storm doors OF
the house had been barricaded, as if fol-
the purpose of destroying the inmates.
Letters of warning were also shown
which threatened to burn them out. Sc
many of these stories were told that
suspicious of ''put up job" were en-,
gendered. Their adopted daughter was
approached, and she finally confessed,
and became the chief witness. agains,
the pair
The jury had the novel experien OF
hearing an address from a oman in
court-Mrs. Pell; she spoke for half an
She walked feebly to the lawyer, desk
and began her address in mild tone,
but as she proceeded grew warm and
animated, and denounced the Chief of
Police and others in strong language
She pleaded for mercy, and wept bitterly
as she extolled the merits of her life
partner and told of her love for him.
PeIl burst into tears several times when
his wife was pleading.
The jury brought in verdict of guilty
against the wife, and not guilty against
the husband. Mrs. pell was terribly af-
fected by the finding, but she kissed her
husband and was then aiken back to the
Jail.
The husband was then tried and found
guilty of perjury in swearing to the
statement of losses for payment by the
insurance companies.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
The Burlesquers' Wall.

The veteran Lydia Thompson told a
reporter the other day:-I do not see so
many of the faces that were familiar in
the parquet rows when l was here seven
teen years ago. They are all young men
| have been playing to this week at the
Olympic-evidently a new generation
and, unlike their bald-headed old pas,
they do not take that overwhelming in
terest in the ballet costumes that was
had by their blissful old progenitors. A
sad change seems to have come over the
spirit of the male population of this
country. Limb shows are not nearly the
financial successes that they used to be,
even as late as fifteen years ago, and the
rage for the blonde burlesquer appears
to have persisted. When we went
through the United States in 1869 and
again in 1872, it was like triumphal
march the entire male citizens of your
republic rose up and threw open their
arms to us everywhere in a welcoming
embrace; wives had to lock their hus-
bands in top story chambers to keep
them from the theatre, and even then
they got down and out on the lightning
rod or the water-spout Married or sim
gle, we mad all1Ee men-not the
those of the pF1sS 1ay in our thrall.
We were besie9ed IN front of the foot
lights and at the stage-door, and had as
many admirers in every town as there
were voters. But comic opera and farce
comedy with its ballet trimming, has
divided attention, and now the legitimate
buresque and limb shows receive little
or no announcement
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
Uuder the Sea.

BY means of the proposed tunnel from
the Canadian mainland to Prince Ed
wards Isle, it is believed that steam
communication may be carried on all
the year round, as is the case now in
the Clyde, Savern, and Thames system.
The total distance from Cape Tormen-
tine to Cape Traverse, the two terminal
points, is eight and one half miles, and
between these two points are the Straits
of Northumberland. The plan Is to run
a tunnel composed of metal cylinders
three-eights inches thick, fifteen feet in
diameter, lined with concrete two and
one-half feet thick, giving clear pas
sageway of ten feet, through which cars
may be drawn by freless engines, also
to run piers out from the mainland on the
New Brunswick side, ten thousand feet,
from Prince Edwards side four thousand
feet. To reach the bottom of the straits,
which at the ends of these piers is twenty
feet below water level, a cylinder will
run down a gradual incline. Venti-
lation of the whole will be secured by
means of a shaft sunk about half way
across the straits, at which point the
water is ninety feet deep.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
Spring TOilettes.

Stripes have at last obtained favor says
Hdrper'S Magazine, and are q leading
feature in the fabrics of various toilettes.
For the street are tailor suits of dark
woollens, with hair stripes of white or
of contrasting color; for mornings at
home are satteens and lawns with wider
stripes; for afternoons are striped Louis
ines, and other summer silks, with many
of the favorite magpie staipes of black
and white alternately; for combinations
are plush-striped Examines to use with
cashmeres; and there are stri ped moires,
striped ribbons, striped embroideries,
and finally the noeie,tIiped laces which
come in Chantilly atiltigns in black, and
in wrought stripes -bllwhite and ecru on
pale tinted isse grounds.
Among the tailor suits most worn on
the Avenue, at church, for morning
shopping, and in this demi-season for
making calls q hio dark blue, Hav
pencilled strio 5fiird or mlt an " men
apart. These are made up in simple
fashion with kilt skirt, short apron
drapery, and very long full back
drapery, with all the pleats at the top
not on the sides-and these pleats are
defined the whole length OF the back
breadths The kilt pleats are either very
narrow or very wide chose of medium
width are not liked, and their only
trimming is two or three rows of stitch
ing above a hem. The basque is very
short, with fiat position back pressed in
small pcats, andithe waist line is defined
by two buttons or small fiat muolds
covered with the dress goods. The neck
has very narrow rolling collar, notched
like that of mans morning coat, and
showing high white linen collar with a
white silk scarf knotted as gentlemen
wear theirs. The entire edge of the
basque, up the front, and around the
wrists, may be bound with braid, or
have two rows of stitching without
braid, or else braid may be set on the
wrong side to show as a cord at the
edge, with one row of stitching above.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
Removed Their Discomfort.

A correspondent, speaking of strikes
and strikers, says: l know an estab-
lishment in New York city where four
teen years ago 400 persons struck for
eight hours a day. The employers won.
But they Immediately took steps to re-
move the discomfort of their men. They
began by giving their men Saturday
half holidays. In summer they get
whole holiday every two weeks. Then
they reduced the hours of labor TO nine
and half. Now they are still further
reduced to nine. Men in their employ
for ten years are given voluntary in
crease Of two and half per cent. on
their wages. These and other things
have bound the men by bonds that can
not be broken They don't want to
join any union. They don't want to
Strike. You can win employees by
kindness when you cannot drive them
by blows. That is my settlement of
the labor troubles.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
THE SUNDAY PULPIT.
THE CHASE OF THIS WORLD AS TOLD BY
DIR. TALMAGE.

DR., Talmage preached in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle Sunday from the text:
''In the morning he shall devour the
prey and at night he shall divide the
spoil" 81 take my text" he said, ''as
descriptive of those people who in the
morning of their life give themselves up
to hunting the world but in the evening
of their life divide among themselves
the spoils of Christian character. They
wanted the worlds plaudits and the
worlds gains. Some of them started
out for the pleasures of the world. They
mingled wine and music and the spec
tacular. After while misfortune struck
them on the back. Under their late
hours their health gave way or there
was death in the house. They awoke
to their sinfunness and immortality and
here they sit to-day at sixty or seventy
years of age as appreciative of all limo
cent mirth as they ever were, but they
are bent on a style of satisfaction which
in early life they never hunted.
''Then there are others who started
out for financial success. They see how
timber a mans hat is when he bows
down before some one conspicuous.
They felt they would like to see how
the world looked from the window of
three thousand dollar turnout. So they
started on the dollar hunt. They chased
it up one street and down another, across
the ocean, across the land. They stop
ped not for the night. But there came
a better time to their soul. They found
out that an immortal nature cannot live
on government bonds. They said to
themselves, 81 will seek after higher
treasure From that time they did not
cary whether they walked or rode, if
Sh.ist walked with them. =
"My friends this world is poor thing
toshunt. ooh, says some young man, q
am going to do that very thing In the
morning of my life I am going to devour
the prey and in the evening 1 shall di-
vide the spoil of Christian character
The tides of the years are very strong,
my young brother; he who postpones
until old age the religion of Jesus Christ
postpones it forever. While this is an
encouragement to old people who are
yet unpardoned in is no encouragement
to the young who are putting off the day
of grace. This doctrine that the old
may be repentant must be taken cauti-
ously. 1t is medicine that kills or cures.
1t may cure the old man while it kills
the young. Be cautious about taking
it.
'My subject is also descriptive of
those who come to sudden and radical
change. Conversion is instantaneous.
Five minutes Is as good as five years.
At night with one touch of electricity
all these lights blaze. Oh, l would to
God that the darkness of your souls
might be broken up and that by one
quick, overwhelming instantaneous flash
of illumination you might be brought
into the light and the liberty of the sons
of god. Oh, what grand thing it is to
be a Christian! We begin on earth to
divide the spoil, but the distribution
will not be completed to all eternity"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
They Own Little Farms.

Everybody knows that a small num-
Der of men own the bulk of the land in
Great Britain, but there is always some
thing startling about the figures. The
total area of England and Wales, after de-
Quoting the metropolitan area of Lon
don, is 81, 243, $50 acres, or about that
of New York, New Jersey, and Della
ware combined. Of this single person
owns 1856, 397 acres, or two hundredth
part of the whole; a second, 1872, 900
acres, and third 1912, 7S5 acres. Sixty
six persons own 1, 917,07 acres, which
would be equivalent to Delaware and
the three lower counties of New Jersey;
$50 own 5,425, 764 acres, which is a
tract considerably larger than the whole
State of New Jersey; 874 own 9,267,
OBJ acres, at which rate 200 persons
would own q full third of New York
State. A body of men which does not
exceed 4, SO owns more than one-half
of all England and Wales. In Scotland
the situation is still worse. The area of
that country is IS, GAG, 694 acres, which
is little more than that of Rhode Is
land, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
and Vermont together. One man owns
/, 1876, 900 acres, which is as though a
single individual owned a tract as large
as Rhode Island and all of Massachusetts,
from Fall River to the end of Cape Cod;
two others own 431 200 and aga, 900
more than enough to make make "antoff6saf
Rhode Island; twenty-four men own
4, 931, 1874 acres, which falls but little
short of the area of Massachusetts;
twelve persons own nearly one-quarter
of Scotland; seventy persons own about
one half of it; and nine tenths of the
whole country belongs to fewer than
1900 persons. Ireland contains 90
159, 67S acres, which makes it not quite
the size of Maine. One persons owns
10, 119 acres; 292 hold about third
of the island; 744 hold about one-half
of all the land. Two-thirds of England
add Wales are held by only 10, 2O7 per
sons; two-thlrds of Ireland bv 1, 942,
and twoth1rds of Scotland by but $780,