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The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03
r. N. s. L.
Warren's Academy the Scene OF An
other Fair Meeting.

Miss Mccarthy called the meet
ing to order. After a song by the
choir Mr.. Emmons spoke on the
objects of the League. He said
that it must be patent to all that
something was radically wrong
when on one hand our system of
civilization produces the tramp,
the beggar, the thief and the man
begging for work and unable to
find it, and on the other a small
class who do nothing but lay
schemes to get hold Of the land,
the coal, the iron and all the great
natural wealth in order that they
may live like kings, while the poor
wage slaG. whom they use as a
tool to filch this wealth from their
fellow beings, live the life of a
brute-eat. drink, work. like the
mule, from the beginningto to the end
of life. Some people say we are
bomb-throwers, but that is wilful
Misrepresentation made to blind
people to the real truths in our
teachings. We ask the support
of all who think it possible to
make the human race better,
brighter and purer.
John c. Allsopp said socialism
meant to put people on a better
plane and equalize conditions; So
cialism was a means to an end;
possibly it was the best means,
probably not. Our oppressors use
force. either by Gatling guns or
starvation, and why should we not
use what force there may be at
our commando The League does
not countenance force till the time
comes1 Keep in readiness for
emergencies. Strikes and boycotts
are only skirmishes. and the great
battle is coming-we can't run
from it.
Mr.. Keifer read a selection from
Victor Hugo showing that the
great Frenchman's ideas were es.
sentially socialistic.
Miss Mccarthy said that one
faSt should be ever before us, tha,
we were as wage slaves always be
ing robbed. And the 6eecers
want us to be content with not
quite one-half our own ProouctS'
We are tools to allow them to rob
US. and it is our duty to resist, il
not with common sense. then with
a musket. We will not give them
any more Zen we get our guns
ready. Young girls in some q
the stores have to work till ten
o'clock at night for a mere exist
ence or 60 and be prostitutes to
some rich brute. The preachers
tell US to pray to God and il will
be all right. II God viii gereiye
me simply becauseI halloaA Him
then ! don't want to 60 to Him As
I think the devil Is The best Of the
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03
.Has Ita Fair Trial {"

AN Appeal to the Governor ol
Illinois by Gen. M. M. Trumbull
in behalf of the Condemned An.
archists." 4u
This work, a twenty-page pam.
phlet, on the trial and the rascally
and murderous rulings of the
court. can be had at the following
prices: a
Per copy. 10 cents; in quantities
of ten, rs cents. r.,
u Address: Lucy E. Parsons. 7S5
Milwaukee Ave-, Chicago. I'll.
'tf 81. f1&
Take your wife and Che children
to Elitch's for Sunday dinner. from
5 to 8 p. m; 50 cents with vine.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03
NOTICE OF FINAL sErTLs1Esr.

= p he latter of the estate of Rufus cnlver
ed notice is hereby given, thai on
6elng one Of the regular days OF the March
Qe1Dl term Of the County Court Of Arapahoo
Co9nty IN the state Of Colorado, I,tWfifiam
H. DAvtes administrator OF said estat4 Win
appeaf before the Judge Of said court, pre-
eo0f NY nnal settlement as such administra-
TOR pray the approval OF the same, and Will
thon apply TO be discharged as administrator
aS which time and place any person in In
terost may appear and present objections TO
the same. II any there be.
Dated at Denver, Colorado, Feb. 70 1888.
at iiit WILLIAM H. DAVIS,
Administrator of the estate OF Rufus Culver,
deceasod.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03

1t is said that the handwriting
very much resembles that of Spies
and that on two occasions previ-
ously the medium has seen man
near Mr.. and Mrs. Jestram whose
description corresponds with the
personal appearance of Spies.
The socialists. freethinkers and
spiritualists are greatly agitated
pro and con over the communica-
tion.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03

We hold that the rich as a class
are rich because they have taken
that which belongs to somebody
else. This great battle We have
undertaken should and will be
carried on until every reasonable
desire of mind, body, and soul
shall be grati6ed. We have re-
pudnted the doctrine that God is
responsible for poverty. The rea-
son why some people are on the
top of the heap financially is not
because they are superior to 9TH
ers in brains. but because they are
interior to others in conscience
PSntxcoH.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03

~EYE WANT AGENTS in every
wv county In the United States to 80.
liols orders for our Fine India Ink and Water
Color Portraits enlarged from all kinds Of
small pictures, Send your address for price
list 70 RRANKLIN COPYING co.. 81
Irsnklin 81, AUBURN, n. Y. 8l22t
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03
Saturday Half Holiday.

A meeting of those interested
in the Saturday half holiday was
held at the police court<room on
Saturday night. The object of the
meeting was principally to get an
expression of the feeling from the
employees of the Jackson and the
Davis foundries and machine
shops. Representation from those
shops was limited and the spirit
displayed was not one calculated
to inspire great respect for their
courage or manliness. The feeling
of the meeting seemed to tend in
the direction of favoring the going
ahead of the other shops without
the two named and endeavor to
secure the half holiday without
their assistance.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
Guarding Diamonds
the London Figaro.

From the London Figaro.
When the French Crown Jewels
We're sold by auction last season, it is
well known that the finest and most
historical of the gems, including the
famous Regent" diamond, were re-
served, and these may now be seen in
the Louvre in the gallery ca lied after
the well.known statue OF Apollo,
which is such prominent object in
it. Before these priceless gems were
exposed, however, a committee ofskill-
ed officials and experts was appoint
ed in order to decide on some plan
for rendering their loss by theft yirtu-
ally impossible. And this is what
the committee decided upon.
The jewels are exhibited in q show
case, the glass plates of which are ex-
ceptionally thick and the iron frame
work OF which is abnormally strong,
and an attendant has been appoint
ed to specially keep watch over the
precious exhibit all day long. Should
be have the slightest cause to suspect
any visitor or visitors he has only to
touch button easily within his
reach, whereupon the glass case
promptly disappears from view and
sinks into specially constructed
shalt, over the top of which the same
automatic machinery causes thick
covers, formed of thick metal plates,
to close with q sharp snap. The in
genuity displayed in earring out this
plan is remarkable, and the fact
that the clockwork apparatus has
cost close upon $500 will convey
some idea of its complicated charac-
ter
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
A Curious Lightning Stroke.
Atlantic Constitution.


The liehtDing's freaks have been
strangely illustrated in Burke county,
where the fluid struck one of the cab
ms on McMIaster's place. The house,
u small, onero cabin, was occu.
pied by an entire family OF seven. The
house was struck upon the cone, the
current running along the edge of the
roof for several feet, thence to the
inside, where it ran down the studding,
which was about six inches in diane.
ter, tearing it into splinters, this
within two feet of the head of bed
occupied by two children. These
were not even shocked, but the light
ming flashed across the six feet inter.
vening between the other bed occupied
by the mother and three children,
setting the bedclothing on fire and
severely burning three of the children,
but the mother was left unframed.
Thence the current ran into chest
under the bed, setting fire to the
clothing in it. The eldest boy, 13
years of age, hasn't the smallest
vestige of skin left on his back from
his neck down, and is perfectly raw,
while the next, boy oil some ) years
old, has the skin burned off from the
small of his back to his heels. and his
hand is terribly burned. The third a
baby,2 years old, has the skin burned
of from the hips down.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
Collision With a Hairpin.

"Marchy weather." remarked old
Mr.. Rottle, as he seated himself at
the breakfast table and examined his
napkin to see whether he recognized
the stains.
1t was one of those rare mornings
when all the boarders had come down
early TO breakfast-an incident, the
Landlady remarked, which restored
her aickering faith in human nature.
No one answered old Mr.. Rottle's
remark. He took the conversational
trick. as it were, and everybody waited
for his second lead.
The Bank Clerk was bending all his
faculties to decide whether the egg be
had just opened was genuine or a
counterfeit, and the Younger of the
Two Maiden Ladies, who disliked con-
densed milk in her coffee, WAS watch.
ing for an opportunity to appropriate
unnoticed q goodly share of all the
natural articles on the table.
As for the Young LAZY Boarder,
she was busy with the marriage no
tiees III the morning papers, and OF
course could not be expected to an
swar. Old Mr.. Rottle finished his
oatmeal, and finding that he had left
his spectacles up stairs gave up at
tempting to read the paper.
Thanks, Mrs. Codhooker," he said
affably, addressing the Landlady,
you may give me bit OF hash this
morning. The fact is" added the old
gentleman to the table generally, al
find it delightful to be in really
homelike boarding house. where can
feel that the flood is trustworthy, and
am not continually tortured by the
profound conviction that every article
OF food | eat Is composed of alien sub.
stances.
81 remember. hecontinued geniaIly,
"wben was at college years ago, we
boarded in commons, and you never
could tell just what You ate. The
food was fearfully and wonderfully
made. One day my chum. who was
sitting next to me eating apple pie as
calmly as you please, all at once
struck q stratum of unmIstakable
Kerosene in that pie, real coal oil,
mixed with the pie crust, and ap--"
Old Mr.. Rottle suddenly stopped
his "reminiscences. He was on his last
mouthful of hash, and there seemed to
have been a collision of some sort.
With an agonized expression on his
face, he slowly produced piece of
bent wire. There was no room for
doubt. Even the landlady had to al,
init it. 1t was hairpin.
There was q pause before old Mr..
Rottle gathered strength to speak, and
then he spoke IN tones OF deepest sor-
row as of one whose confidence is
shattered:
Mrs. Codhooker, did not expect
this of you. II / were young and my
eyesieht sound, shouldn't mind, but
o. me, an old man, and my spectacles
upstairs--it's cruel"
The landlady, in a Mortified state
murmured that 1T was mistake. But
somehow the excuse didn't seem very
fitting, and the kerosene pie episode
remained unfnised Old Mr.. Rottle
sat in silence shipping his coffee in n
suspicious manner, and the Bank
Clerk remarked to the landlady that
perhaps he had better take another
epp and be on the safe aidn
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
ue.,,ne Mnters OF one Mest.

Two hundred and fifty-nine years
ago. SAYS Indian tradition, an epidemic
of great violence attacked all of the
Indian tribes of North America, and
it soon became manifest that the
whole race would become extinct II
the fell destroyer was not arrested.
The great medicine men exerted all
their skill and power, both with medi-
cines and incantations, but without
avail. The healing qualities OF min
eral waters had long been known 10
the Indians, and they resorted to tne
waters of the east and south In their
dire distress. but with little success.
At this period of their great affiIction,
when their ranks had been declmated.
when hope was almost extingulshed,
messenger arrived from the great west
with news of wonderful water which
he said had been touched by the niger
of the great spirit, and that this water
would cure all manner OF disease.
With the same eagerness that the peo-
pie of all ages have seized upon a
dernier resort for ills, the Indians &C
cepted the hope, and repaired by
thousands to these most wonderful
waters, and were saved. From that
time these waters have been the great
resort for the Indians. II Is a we'll
known fact in the west that the In
dams to this day believe that the
Black hills of Dakota are the abode
of the great spirit.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
Apernicious Example.

Because Napoleon slept only three
hours a night, hundreds of.students
have tried the experiment;bdt instead
of Austerlitz and Jena, there came OF
it only a sick headache and botch of
recit ation. We are told OF how many
books a man can read in five spare
minutes before breakfast, and the ten
minutes before noon, but ! wish some
one would tell us how much rest a
man can get in fifteen minutes after
dinner, or how much health in an
hours horseback ride or how much
fun in a Saturday afternoon cricket.
He who lIa> aayl an idea of the value
of time that he takes none of it Tor
rest, wastes all his time.
Most Americans do not take time
for sufficient sleep. We account for
our own extraordinary health by the
fact that We are fanatics on the sub
iect OF sleep. We differ from our friend
Napoleon in one respect; we
want nine hours sleep, and we
take it--eight hours at night and one
hour in the dav. Ii we miss our al
lowance one week, as we often do, we
make it up the next week or the next
month. We have sometimes been
twenty .one hours in arrearages. We
formerly kept a memorandum OF the
hours for sleep lost. We pursued
those hours till we caught them. II
at the beginning OF our summer vaca-
ton we were many hours behind in n
slumber, we go down to the seashore
or among the mountains and sleep a
month. II the world abuses us at
any time we go and take an extra
steep: and when we wake up, all the
world is smiling on us. If we come to
a knotty point in our discourses, we
take q sleep and when we open our
eyes, the Opaque has become trans
parent. We split every day in two by
a nap In the afternoon. Going to
take that somniferous interstice, we
say to the servants: "Do not call me
for anything. II the house takes fire,
first get the children out and my pri-
vate papers; and when the room be-
gins to fall in call me"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
An Exhibition of VANITY.

The most glaring exhibition of hu.
man vanity that | ever saw was q
young man as he stood admiring the
reflection OF his well dressed figure in
the glass OF a hearse. The hearse stood
IN front of an undertaking establish
ment, and, being heavily draped on
the inside, it made first rate mirror
There he stood for several minutes
adjusting his necktie and turning his
head in an admirine way from side to
side, as unconcerned as if he had been
standing in front oil a pier glass instead
OF carriage for the dead. And this
wasn't ALL There was 9 aasket in the
hearse, and his face was really reflect
ed in one side OF it.-Buffalo News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
A Wonder in Industry.

Some faint idea OF the enormous
proportions to which the canning in.
dustry has grown, is given by this
clipping from the Commercial Enquir-
er OF New York:
"A man who conveys the impression
that he knows what he is talking
about, estimates that the packers oil
food in this country use in their bust
ness some 1000, 00O,00 cans annu-
ally. A box of tin plates weighing
from los to 112 pounds provides
about cases OF cans. case con
tains one dozen three pound cans, or
two dozen one pound cans There.
fore, according to his figuring, a box OF
tin will make something like 100 cans,
so that it requires something like TO-.
100000 boxes of tin plate to make
the cans used yearly. The weight oil
the metal alone is about lie, 900, 900
pounds, and the cost, our informant
tells us, is in the neighborhood of S45,
000, 000."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
oI,ulnian snorts

The number OF the different kinds Of
ames. including those for boys.
amounted eventually to no less than
Ia. At Olympia the foot race or sta
dunn the race in which Cornbus was
the first victor, at the institution Of
the Festival by King Iphitus-appears
to have been the earliest, and for
some years to have continued to be
the only contest. From it and from
its victor was derived the Greek COM
putation of time, in quadriennial
periods called 0lympiads. and (mar-
Vicious 60 say1 it continued to form
the basis of the National Calendar
till AID. 1894, the sixteenth year of
the Roman Emperor Theodosius,
that is for nearly 1,200 years; and
during all that length OF time not
only we're thegames regularly kept up,
but the successful competitor con-
tinued to give his name to the quad
riennial. Moreover, the foot race
supplied to Greece not only the meas
ure OF time, but the measure of space.
The course called stadium was equal
to the eighth of mile, and all dist an
ces among the Greeks we're measured.
by stadla, as they are now measured
by miles.
But if the foot race at Olympia was
the earliest of the sports and in one
respect at least was attended with
the greatest fame, there can be little
doubt that the chariot race was, upon
the whole, the most attractive and
the most exciting, and, on some occa-
sions, exciting to very painful de-
gree. For instance, we learn from the
Fifth Pythian Ode, written in honor
of the chariot victory of Arcesilaus
King OF Cyrene in Africa, that not
fewer than 40 ehariots engaged in the
contest came to grief. 1t appears,
also. from the same and other odes,
that the owner of the equipage, who
was very rarely his own charioteer.
carried off much the greater share if
not the whole OF the glory of success,
though hIs sole merit consisted, like
the merit OF our mobiles and lairds
upon the turf, IN bearing all the ex-
penses connected with the race, in the
encouragement whick he gave to the
sport, and in the honor which by his
victory he won for his city or native
land. No builder OF chariot is men
toned by Pindar; no jockey; one sue
cessful horse, and only one named
Pherenicus (Ol. j. and Pyth, iii. The
National Review.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24

No other term than the above would ap
ply to the woman who could see her youth
ful beauty fading away without pang o
regret. Many woman becomes prema
tGrely old and haggard because oTfunction
al arrangement. What pity that al
such do not know that DIR. pierce's Favor
lite Prescription will restore their organt
to a normal state, and make them youth
full and beautiful once morei For the i'll,
to which the daughters OF Eve are peculiar
ly liable the prescription is sovereign
remedy. 1t is the only medicine sold by
druggists under a positive guarantee iron
the manufacturers, that it will give
satisfaction in every case, or money viii
bereturned. See guarantee on bottle wrap
per.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
Symptoms of Coffee Poison.
ing.

Chronic poisoning by coffee has been
studied by Guelliot, of Reins, who
finds it among well to do overfed in
dividuals, while tea poisoning occurs
in hard worked and half starved
women. The symptoms of coffee poi
soning are want of appetite, sleepless-
ness and nervous tremblings, with va
rious indications OF Indigestion and
torpor OF liver. Tea poisoning re.
quiIes rest and nourishment; but the
victim of coffee excess usually needs to
unload his system by exercise on allow
diet.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
Fighting ii out.

General Custer was as determined IN
defending his friends, and on insisting
on their rights, as ne was in dealing
witt his foes. His wife. in ''Fenting
on the Plains" tells the following
story of an incident which happened
in Ohio, just after the war, when the
general, with his family, was ON the
way to Texas
The train had stopped for dinner,
and every one made rush for the
dining-hall No place had been pro
vided for servants, and General Gus
ter seated Eliza, the colored maid,
between himself and his wife at the
table. Presently the proprietor APP
peared, and told the general that no
colored person could be allowed TO
occupy such place.
"My knsband," says Mrs. Custer,
"quietly replied that he had
been Obliged 90 give the woman that
place, as the house had provided nc
other"
1.-THE determined man still stood
threateningly over us. and Eliza I'M
easily and nervously tried to go.
trembled, and my fork failed to carry
the food, owing to q very wobbly
arm. The general firmly refused. the
staff rose about Us, and all along the
table up sprang men we had suppos.
ed to be citizens, as they were in the
dress OF civilians.
General, stand your groundp
they cried. Well back you. The
woman shall have food
r'The proprietor shrank back to
his desk, the general and his hungry
staff went on eating as calmly as
ever; Eliza hung her embarrassed
head, and her mistress idly twirled
her useless folk-while the proprietor
made q dollar and half, clear gain,
on two wpmen too frightened to
swallow mouthful.
81 spread "a sandwich for Eliza,
while the general. mindful of the re-
turning hunger OF the terrified woman,
and perfectly indifferent as to max.
ing himself ridiculous with parcels,
marched by the infuriated but sub
dued bully, with either a whole pie or
some such modest capture IN his
hand"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
"ldtent Heat.O

A correspondent, referring to the
item, Science in the Household" re.
Gently published in this column, asks
for an explanation of the term " la
tent heat AS commonly used, it.
means the amount OF heat which dis.
appears, or is apparently lost, when
water is converted into steam. Wa
ter at212 degrees Fahrenheit contains
$50 units OF heat; steam at the same
temperature contains l, l4e units OF
heat, but these additional 966 units
have been employed in separating the
molecules of water into the vapor
form or steam. They have dis.
appeared as sensible heat and have be-
come "latent." In other words, heat
as Tyndall explains, is mode oil
motion which has its equivalent in
mechanical work; and when it dis
appears as sensible heat work of some
kind will be done to take its place--ii
Vt be only in rarefying the air and
reating atmospheric currents.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24

lima that two thirds on more OF the young
plants we're killed by recent irosts. vege-
tables and wheat we're greatly damaged at
numerous points in the mountains. The
mercury went below 30 and in one in
stance 25 degrees above.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24

What a dreadful thing it is to wake ur
in the middle OF the night suffering iron
cholera, the nearest doctor a mile away
and no one to send for him. Imagine q
more distressing domestic situation. if you
can. The trouble, however, would never
have become serious il the man OF this
house had bottle OF PERRY DAVIS PAN
KILLER at hand.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24

is the source of much sunshine and Joy
Frightening many dark cloud and tighten
ing many heavy load but Joys continu
al abide only in healthy body. The Crea
tor with great wisdom has distributed
over the earth vegetable remedies FOL
every i'll of human kind. This marvellous
Laboratory reveals it's secrets to mar
only by long and searching labor. Few
men have attained greater success thar
DIR. R. V. Pierce; nor devised for suffering
humanity greater production than bis
Golden Medical Discovery" the nriailin.
remedy for consumption in it's earlier
stages, AS well as for Chronic nasal catarrh
scrofula, tumors and all blood disorders
Blaine is said TO be the picture OF {
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