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Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20
Johann Most.

The man perhaps most responsible for the savage and bloody character of recent de- monstrations in Chicago is the anarchistie leader, Johann Most, who has been in this country long enough to perpetrate such mis- chief by means of both pen and voice. He owns German newspaper published in New York, which professes to despise morality and to respect no law. "We," says one of it's articles, Shave no disapproval to utter re- garding any i'll that may be brought about against capitalistic society, be it murder, robbery, fraud, arson or the like" In a re- cent address delivered in the Empire city Most advised his hearers to arm themselves for civil conflict, and exhibited and adver tised rifles. When 'swauted" by the police he could not be found for some days, but was afterwards arrested, it is stated, while hiding under a bed. Bail has been found for him and he is now at liberty.
 Most is Bavarian, forty years old, book binder by trade. As long ago as 1868 he was imprisoned for delivering 8 revolutionary speech within Austrian territory. Being re- leased at the expiration of his sentence, he started a newspaper at Chemnitz, which was suppressed after only years life. The next few years were spent in publishing and speech making, followed by his virtual ex- pulsion from Austria. France, where he next went, drove him out after short stay. He settled in London in 1878 and began to publish 8 newspaper in that city. When Alexander II. of Russia was murdered the exaltation of Most's paper took 8 form which the law visited with the nineteen months imprisonment of it's editor, who came to the United States as soon as he could. The po- lice here are, he declares, as bsd as their breth ren in Russia. He will probably find that American law is no lighter in it's hand than British.
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ain't half so bad off neither as lots of the women right around me, who've got four or five little children and not cent coming in. Why, I don't know what is to become of them. But tell you, madam, it ain't the fault of the men; it's the agitators; yes, it's the agitators and they ought to be killed. What do they care for me or my home, fighting for this eight-hour systema I tell you ten hours for day is easy enough. Let them get the eight hours and pretty soon they will be fighting for six"
 I told her that these striking men did not consider that the employers had to furnish all the money and have all the care and run all the risks. "Well, I've thought of it," she went on, "and think the bosses have hard time enough, and they won't put their money into anything if this is the way the men are going to act, for they won't dare to. They will go to Europe California, or somewhere to get away from it, and then what1l become of us? The fact is they all want to be bosses and dictate what shall be done. And should like to know what is the good of a business that ha'n't boss, and what it will come to if they can't have their say about it. I just know by myself that they have a hard time, for when 1 worked for you could do just what I was told all day. and when it came night went to bed without care and now, even when I've got only little home to care for, I'm worried most to death and I can't sleep for fear I'll lose it.''
 I asked if they had not saved some money. ''Yes; but what is a few hundred dollars with nothing coming in! It'll be gone be- fore we know it; oh, madam, I must get something to do, for he can't get work all summer. If I could only get enough to pay the rent so I would not have to break up my little home. If you can't give me work ain't there something about your house that he could do?' ''I could never give such wages" replied. ''Oh, he wouldn't expect it; he'd work for very little if he only could get something to do." "Yes," said, "and then strike on me and leave me the moment he could go to his own work again" ''Well. that's so," she replied; "you couldn't have him I see, for you want somebody to stay right along. Oh, the fools, to throw the money out of their own pockets and make their wives and children so miserable.
 This story could probably be repeated in hundreds of households, and the anxiety and suffering imminent is fearful to contemplate,
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20
RELICS OF 8ARBARlSM.
Good Friday Repentance in Mexico
 Furnishing the WicRedest Man.


 Mexican Letter in the Kansas City Times.l Once year, Good Friday, the Mexi- cans select a victim for the whipping and sometimes more than one. The selection is made by taking the worst one of the lot. This is determined by all making a confes- sion before priest of the years misdeeds, and the one decided to be the worst sinner is selected as sort of FFscape-goat'' to bear the torture.
 The martyr is prepared at the church by being stripped nearly naked and by being prayed for. Then he is made to carry heavy cross full ten feet high, with the cross arm of five or six feet in length, and made of wood six to eight inches in diameter. He carries this cross for considerable distance to a place selected for the purpose, where there is another larger cross erected. Arri- ying at the upright cross he carries his cross around it and is then permitted to lay it down. Here the business takes a turn not quite so agreeable to the candidate, for he finds crowd of worshippers surrounding him. Two of these worshippers are armed with large cactus bushes of what is com monly called "tree cactus' or fcane cactus,'' on account of it's being used to make walk ing sticks of. This cactus grows to the height of three or four feet and is armed with thousands of needle-like spines fully an inch long. The main stalk is as large as 8 mans wrist at the ground, branching off as it rises, and each branch having many lateral branches from three to five inches in length, all fully armed with needle-like thorns which are very poisonous, the prick causing very painful, fostering wounds in a short time.
 Seizing one of these cactus bushes by the butt, and which has been trimmed for the purpose, two begin the ceremony by striking the candidate on the naked back and march ing him around the cross, the rest keeping up continuous shouting and singing, with music by sort of wind instrument. Hav- ing whipped him around until their bushes are broken up, they form procession and march him back to the church dcor, where he is stopped. Here, with sticks like laths, the adhering pieces of cactus scraped off of him and placed the ground in the door where he is next to enter, walking barefoot on the pieces of cactus After this the vic- tim is allowed to be taken to his home to ct well or die, as the case may be. He is not allowed to pull out the thorns until they come out by fostering, and it frequently oc- CUTS that six or eight months elapse before he recovers.
 I went to see one of these ceremonies through curiosity, and I am not curious enough to go to see another. The sight of the bleeding victim, subject to torture that far exceeds burning at the stake, is 70 at traction to me, though the poor victim never uttered single groan during all the perfor- nance.
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NO. 12I.

to both questions. His wifes experiment with the shawl pin had demonstrated that nerve could be so irritated as to insure wake fulness and for that treatment he could find the required nerve pretty much anywhere that pin could be got at him. AS for pos ture, he couldn't 90 to sleep as long as he would stand on tiptoe."
 "Why is the tendency to sleep in church so common, especially among mem"
 "There several reasons. One is the temperature. In winter the church is, as rule, too warm and the effect of warm at mosphere upon persons entering it from the outside cold is to make them drowsy, almost irresistibly, unless they have some very strong mental or physical interest stimu- lant to keep them waketul. In summer the great interior of church is restful, cool relief from the heat of the street, and better temptation to placid slumber could not be desired. In both cases the soft, comfortable cushions with which our mod ern pews are upholstered, and the conven- tent foot rests provided, help to a sense of luxurious that finds it's most perfect expression in sleep. Then special means afforded for Morpheus to attack wor- shippers, both by the ear and the eye. All noises of the world outside are, as far as possible, excluded, and the only sound that is heard for long time is the preachers voice ill measured cadences, little modula- ted, lulling to sleep as inevitably does the soft sound of ripping water, or the pattering of raindrops on the roof. That monotonous flow of words is more likely than perfect silence to make a person drowsy. 1 have often sat forenoon through in Quaker meeting house when the spirit did not move anybody to speak, and in the whole long time of silence did not see one person asleep or even nodding. That is not because the Quakers any more devout than other people, but for the simple reason that they did not have any body to talk them to sleep. As for the ef feet through the eyec, there is first the dim, religious light. common in churches, and second, the straining and unnatural position in which the eyes have to be kept in looking up at a minister perehed in pulpit or on a platform considerably high CT than the heads of his auditors. You cannot long look up at anything without tiring the muscles that move the eyeballs and making you want to rest them by closing your eyes. When you close your eyes in 8 comfortable atmosphere, with persistent lullaby in your ears, you must have some powerful incentive to wakeful- ness, or you will go off to the land of nod, just as sure as that tack hammers are not bananas. Look at congregations in the more sensibly construct modern churches, where the floor is in amphitheatrical form, and the line of sight is straight, or inclining little down, from each auditor to the min ister at the lowest point. and you will find very little sleepiness there, especially if the place is well lighted. Why, preacher must be frst-class chump who cannot keep the brethren awake in that sort of church. As for the women, they manage to keep awake very easily. 'Howa' By giving their atten- tion to the study of one another's honnets."
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Thur. day, May 20, 1886.

WHAT MACHINES HAVE DONE. The displacement of laborers by labor r-sav- ing machinery is very interesting matter, and has undoubtedly had much to do with the present labor troubles in various parts of the world. Of course it is impossible to tell with much accuracy what effect in this way machinery has had, but some facts which have been collected by Commissioner Wright furnish food for thought.
 In the manufacture of agricultural imple- ments new machinery during the past fifteen or twenty years has. in the opinion of some of the best manufacturers of such imple- ments, displaced fully 50 per cent. of the muscular labor formerly employed; as, for instance, hammers and dies have done away with the most particular labor on blow.
 In the manufacture of small arms, where one man, by manual labor, was formerly able to ''turn" and fit'' one stock for a musket in one day of 10 hours, three men TOW, by a division of labor and the use of power ma chinery, will turn out and fit from 125 to 150 stocks in 10 hours. By this it is seen that one man individually turns out and fits the equivalent of AZ to 60 stocks in 10 hours as against one stock in the same length of time by manual labor, displacement of A to 49 men in this one operation.
 The manufacture of boots and shoes offers some wonderful facts. In one large and long established manufactory in one of the east ern States the proprietors testify that it would require 800 persons working by hand processes to make as many women's boots and shoes as 100 persons now make with the aid of machinery, a displacement of 80 per cent.
 In the construction of carriages and wagons foreman of fifty years experience testifes that the length of time it took a given skilled number of workmen, working entirely by hand, to produce a carriage of a certain style and quality was equal to thirty five days of one mans labor, while now enc man produces substantially the same style of carriage in twelve days.
 In woolen goods, in the carding depart ment modern machinery has reduced muscu- ment 50 per cent, and in the weaving de- partnent % per cent. This is during the past few years only, while generally improv- ed machinery in spinning and weaving depart ments together has displaced twenty times the hand labor formerly employed, and in other departments from five to ten times.
 And so forth and so on. This displace- ment has made vast changes. How much more labor-saving machinery can be made remains to be seen. There are no signs yet apparent that invention is 'giving out.''
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The story of a Strikers Wife.

Correspondence of the New York Evening Postl
 A woman who had once been in my en- ploy came to-day begging for work. made inquiries and found she was married, had 8 home and one child. She was so respectfully clad that asked her why she needed work so badly she represented and she burst forth: "Oh, madam, my husband is one of the piano strikers and he had such good pay: he ain't day-worker, but piece worker, and he could bring home from eighteen to twenty-three dollars every week, and we've got such nice home and we live so comfort able, and now where is the money to come from! The Steinways and the Webers don't come out and they've just lost the strike. And the boss had shop-meetings and told the men three weeks ago that if they went out they might stay out all sum.rer and all win ter too, and yet they went out-the fools,'
 "Did your husband want to go outa" I asked.
 "No, but he said he couldn't stay in and be a scab. Whatever they mean by that I don't know, but do know what it will be if we are turned out of our nice home because we've no money to pay the rent. And I
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20
DELEGATES

A ttwalking delegate" is the meanest kind of a tramp.-Lowell Courier. Sidewalks are not usually considered in tractable, but sometimes they have to be curbed.-Burlington Free Press.
 An actor laid down before a moving rail road train and appeared in two parts imme- diately afterward.-Boston Commercial.
 Some folks have their work laid out before hand A physicians work is often laid out after he has finished it.-Yonkers States man.
 Base ball is undeniably immoral. Clubs have begun to offer $100 to each player steal iag the greatest number of bases.-Washing- ton Critic.
 young lady who has attended 199 con certs during the past season concludes that it is entirely proper for the composer to make overtures. Boston Courier.
 A needle was recently found in an egg laid by Philadelphia hen. This should teach hens not to hold needles in their mouths.-Norristown Herald.
 ssLove, think of me when lilacs bloom, D sings Alice Stone Blackwell in the New Or leans Times Democrat. Alice seems to be easily satisfied. Lilacs bloom but once a year, and then only for few days.-Lowell Courier.
 Professor-"Mr. B., can you tell me with what faculty we could most easily dispense?" Student-"Yes, sir" Professor-"Good! speak up loud; what is ita" Student (sobsr- ly}-"The college faculty ."-Roxbury (Mass. Advocate.
 chess problem says, ''White to rlay and mate in two moves" and Coupon, who knows more about the stock board than the chess board, says if White does play Lacka- wanna will move to 130.-Boston Conner cia1 Bulletin.
 Easily Remedied Customer Gin restau- rant)-S'See here, Mr. Proprietor, this steak is so tough I can scarcely cut it.'' Proprietor i've will make that all right sir. Here, waiter, just bring this gentleman another knife. ."-Harper's Bazar.
 Gownsman (to fresh young lady just from boarding schooD-fAnd where is your Alma Mater, Miss Greena'' Miss Green-''Oh, T. I didn't try for this year. just went in for fun, and all that sort Of thing, don't you know. w."-Harper's Bazar.
 "A petrifed woman has been found in New Hampshire" At least the papers say so, though we guess it is sort of a misprint Probably it was her husband who was petri- fed when she handed him the bill for her Easter bonnet.-Fall River Advance.
 "Gentlemen," urged merchant at a meeting of his creditors, ''give me one week more, and will be able to pay you all in full" "What assurance can you give us" :" they demanded, ''that we will be paid at the end of that time?'' ''My store is to be boy cotted tomorrow morning. ."-Harper's Ba- gar.
 A cute little girl of is the delight of a Washington boulevard family for her pretti- ness, as we'll as for the bright and odd things she says. The other day 8 company of mill tia passed down the street in front of her h me, and her minute b1ack-and- tan parked furiously through the window pane at them. The little girl arose in alarm and said: ''Shut the door, mammal Fido will bite the armyln Chicago News.
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post band. As the post did not at once dis charge the boyeotted boys, the post is now boycotted and all the union ffsrs and drum mers have announced their intention of leav- ing. Meantime other army posts have taken up the matter and it is not impossible that Decoration day will pass without music be- cause certain shoe shop happens to hire two boys who exercise the right to york for whom they please.
 Much is expected in the South from the use of 8 patent cotton picking machine, in vented by Georgia mechanic named Bugg. It now costs $10 bale to pick cotton, or $60, ,O00, 900 per year. It is estimated that the cost will be reduced to $5,000,00 per year in the use of these new machines. This saving of $55 ,O00, ,000 will add that amount to the value of the crop. It is claimed that bloom or break the plant in the process of picking the lint any more than at present, where the staple is picked by hand; that it will gather it without any more trash than the average hand would do, and that with the improved cleaners now in almost general use all trash and dirt can be removed with very little trouble.
 The late James Irvine left his only son, among other property, 1s0,00o acres of land in one body in Los Angeles county, Califor- mia. The large domain MT. Irvine bought jointly with another man in 1857, paying at the rate of 3715 cents per acre. In 1875 MT. Irvine bought out his partner for $25O, 1000. H. ,;, 00l 0l0 Sh for the property. There is a valley of 2O,OO0 acres in the tract worth $100 an acre, or $2,- GOO, ,OOO for the valley. Some small farms have been carved from this portion and sold at this figure. On the tract is coal mine which is yielding an unfailing supply of coal of good quality for locomotive purposes, and is under lease to representatives of the Southern Pacific company. There are be- tween 30, 900 and 10000 shsep and several thousand cattle upon this land. The actual cash value of the whole land is about $4 ,000,- GOO
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Bishop Turner of the African Methodist church is out with novel theory. He has been preaching that the terrible tornadoes that have devastated western States of late are caused by the white mans impious uses of electricity. He predicts that, if the same rate of progress is maintained for the next five years, whole cities will be blown away, and that floods will cover the land as it never has been covered since the Noachian period.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20

''All things come round to him who will but wait and the dollars collected from the compositors of the JOURNAL AND COURIER some weeks ago by profane and iinperious emissary of the Typographical union have at last been returned to their owners. They were brought back by courteous young man, who seemed we'll fitted to represent a decent union. He was quite pleasant con- trast to the pirates who have hitherto visited this office in the vain hope of "gobbling'' the composing room, and as much else as they could get hold of
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The New York Journal of Commerce, with reference to the demand for State interfer- ence with labor, the regulation of hours and the restriction of the right of individual con- tracts, points out that when the right of the State to regulate the methods and terms of labor is once conceded. it inevitably follows that all freedom of choice on the part of the laborer must be surrendered to it's courts. This is very true, and it is worth the careful attention of all interested.
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So Here Goes For Bar
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It won't do to "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By"
 We have a great many bar gains to advertise, but the trouble is there is not a large quantity of any of them; not enough to go round if the peo- pie answer to our advertise ments as they have been doing lately, as they have always done, and we don't like to have to say when anyone asks us for thing that we have advertised, "Sor- ry, it is all sold, Madam" But listen, we will positively make good bargains for you.
 SILKS-Surprises.
 CLOAKS-Slaughter.
 CURTAINS-Cost.
 DRESS GOODS-Reduc- ton.
 LINENS-Drives.
 RIBBONS-Away Down.
 Well, we would like to be ex- cused giving particulars on ev- erything in this "ad," but we ASSURE YOU OF SPE- CIALLY GOOD THINGS IN THIS WEEKS SALE. This is how it goes. We make low prices that we may be busy. The buster we are the lower the prices are. Though the loss will be great, we shall appreciate all p, rchas- es, as our object is to close out our stock.
 A few Japanese Screens half price.
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ROOTS GOLDEN HOOP OINTMENT.

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Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20

Apparently farming pays in Illinois. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat devotes three or four pages to the farmers of Illinois. Brief biographies are given of the richest six farmers in each of the 102 counties, with es- inmates of their wealth. Fully half of these estimates run above $100, 900, and from that figure up to $5OO,0Oo. Perhaps half a dozen of the counties have no farmer worth $100,- GOO, but the instances are less than where the poorest man in the list runs down to $10.000, and there are several counties where it takes six figures to express the fortunes of all the men mentioned
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-20

The boycott is indeed a great invention. The Central Labor union of Brooklyn set it in operation against shoe manufacturer of that city. Two apprentices did not care to lose their places and continued at work for the boycotted firm. These boys, in turn, were boycotted. But, in addition to making shoes, they also earned a little something by playing the drum and fife in a Grand Army
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 When she was Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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A CastOria Baby.

castorIa-the Mothers Great Remedy for Children.