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GENERAL SPORTING NOTES..

st. Julien, now 10 years old, will pass the
remainder of his days in Hickok's paddock at
Petaluma-
Cincinnati has q new athletic club known
as the Cincinnati Amateur Athletic asso-
citation.
Mr.. Walter Winans, Of Baltimore, won
both revolver matches with clean scores at
the recent English National Rifle association
meeting. In 1887 he won the three events
which made up the programme this year,
also with clean scores.
Jimmy Collins, the American sprinter, has
been matched to run a Canadian unknown
800 yards, for $500 a side, on the 9th inst, at
Brantford, Ont. Collins gives the unknown
a handicap of two yards.
Advices from the antipodes state thai sub
scriptions were being raised at Rockhamp-
ton, Queensland, the home of Ned Trickett,
for a scullers' race, open to the world, to
take place there in June next, the prizes to
be 5000 to first, i 1900 to second and $500
to third.
John Mcpherson, champion shot prtter of
America, offers to match any shot putter for
$500 or 81, 900 a side.
, 1888-09-06

The total disregard of the public as to
sanitary precautions regarding their food
is well illustrated by the indifference
with which they accept the guaranteed
cleanliness of barrels in which flour is
furnished. Perhaps they are unaware
that fully t%wo-thirds of the flour barrels
have been bought up from all parts of the
city and various surroundings. A bar
rel may have been lying in a damp cellar
probably containing a pile of disease
breeding rags, or molding in some musty
garnet room or other unpleasant place, is
bought up by the enterprising miller, and
is again used as a receptacle for flour.
The insufficient cleaning it receives is in
adequate to destroy any germs it no
doubt contains. A liberal use of the
scraper is sufficient to give the outside a
brand new appearance.-J. j Ring in
lobe-Democrat.
, 1888-09-06
sLossoN's LITTLE Joke.
He Plays Billiards to Interest the Ladies
and Defeats Their Hero.

He Plays Billiards to Interest the Ladies
and Defeats Their Hero.
An elegant young man from Brooklyn,
wearing a bizarre suit with room to let trou-
sers and a Mackinaw straw hat with barber
pole band around it, escorted five or six
young ladies into the Grand Union billiard
room this morning, says The Troy Times.
He was just dying for a game of billiards,
he said, and promised to show them what a
fine game it was and how well he could
play. Handing the ladies two high
cane seat chairs on the south side of the
billiard room, which opens out on the flower
banks and fountains of the lawn, the young
man asked an attendant il he would like to
play n game, receiving an affirmative an
swer. The play began. The representative
of the City of Churches was very airy and
kept calling the attention of the ladies to his
'great shots" He beat the attendant con-
siderably, and a second game followed, in
which he was particularly fresh and made
fun of some of the poor playing of the at
tendant, beating him again. He wanted a
third game and had it.
The attendant now girded up his ~waistband
and just Event for" the dude, who soon stood
like a post and saw the attendant run the
game out, making some most brilliant and
difficult shots. The ladies transferred their
admiration to the attendant, and made the
dudes blood boil by sarcastic reflections on
his playing, and so another game was deter
mined upon. In this, too, the nice young
man had little to do but stand still and see
his opponents score roll up as though the balls
were bewildered.
That settled it.
As he humbly paid his bill he c~omplimented
the attendant and asked his name. ''My
name, sir" said his recent opponent, sis
S~loss5n;' and there that Brooklyn would be
lady killer had been unconsciously booming
up in the eyes of the aides the champion
billiardist Slosson. The ladies bestowed the
sweetest smiles on Slosson as they went out,
and the Brooklyn young man remembered
ian engagement" elsewhere.
, 1888-09-06
Doing the Wrong Thing.

Wesley, my colored man of all work,
possesses in a wonderful degree the abil-
ity to understand just what you don't
say. One day 1 called him to the garden
gate and pointing down a walk on either
side of which grew some shrubbery, said:
"Wesley, 1 want you to trim the
shrubbery on the left hand side of this
walk"
eyes, 'um."
Aware of his aptitude for misunder-
standing, 1 repeated, Remember now,
Wesley, the left hand side"
Eyes, 'um."
A few hours later he came to say the
work was done. 1 went to the gate and
found the shrubbery on the right hand
closely cut while the left remained un-
touched. wesley" 1 said angrily,
didn't 1 tell you to trim the left hand side
and not the right"
Yes, UNI, but l begun at ter cen no
the walk. Detroit Free Press.
, 1888-09-06

Probably one of the most remarkable plays
N tho history of baseball occurred this after
noon IN a match game between the Eufauia
mud Troy clubs, when Ed Edmonson. of the
Eulauia club, caught a fly ball in the left
held while turning a back somersault. 1t
was at a critical point in the game, and, hay
ing 70 run backward for the fly, which seemed
ABOUT 70 elude him anyhow, he reached out
Jus rlsht hand backward over his head, the
moseiheht causing him TO lose his balance,
and lie went to the ground ON his back ami
turned squarely over, but arising with the
ball, wh'-n he caught us he went over
Globe 3emol 1t
, 1888-09-06
bravery of Benedict Arnold.

Now, as Burgoyne ~retreated to the
British ''great redoubt," leaving nearly
all his cannon on the field, Gen. Ten
Brock threw 5000 fresh New York mill
tia into the American advance line.
Here the unrestrained ambition of Gen.
Arnold showed itself in a series of daring
achievements which touch the reader
of history with admiration and pity. Re
fused a command in the morning by
Gen. Gates, he could no longer keep in
the rear. Mounted on a fine, brown horse,
he led first a brigade at the right and
then one at the left in impetuous
charges on the British position.
"IHu soon put an end to it." he cried,
and the soldiers followed him with en-
thusiasm. Riding up to Col. Latimer's
Connecticut regiment, he accosted them:
"Ahl my old friends from New Lon
don and Norwichi Come on, boys; if
the day is long enough we will have them
all in hell before nightr'
While charging over the rail breast
works On the British right Arnold re-
ceived a wound in the same leg that had
been struck at Quebec. AS he fell under
his horse, he shouted: go on, boys!"
They event on" capturing the key of
the English position and killing Col.
.Breymann. The spot is now known as
~Burgoyne's, or o properly Breymann's
hill. The irony of fate gave Gates, in
the rear, the laurels of victory, and des-
tined Arnold, wounded, at the head of
the American troops, to an infamous
memory. Gates did not ever mention
Arnold in reporting the battle.-C. II.
Crandal in American Magazine.
, 1888-09-06
! that the New York club

TIHo NtdT'
John B.. Day, the ruling spirit in the club,
Is not only n handsome man, but is popular
with both players and followers of the game.
More is due to John B. Day for the revival
OF baseball in New York thar to any other
man outside OF James Mutrie.
The hard work of Mutrie, the manager Of
the nine, in building up the local baseball
fervor after the old Mutual club had killed
it has been appreciated, for he is now well
supplied with this worlds goods.
Several members of the team have been
with the club ever since it was started, nota
bly, Old Reliable Roger Connor and Ewing.
WEIGH has also been "A member of the team
since it was started. Keefe Joined the club
after his great pitching had won the pennant
for the old Metropolitans in 1884
, 1888-09-06

Official trials of a new form of log
have recently been made on board some
of the french torpedo boats. The log is
made of bronze, of cylindro-conic form,
and weighs about 5.5 pounds. 1t is pro-
vided with a hollow tube running down
its center, which is connected by a can-
vas covered india rubber tube to a pres
sure gauge on board. When the ship is
under weigh the flow of the water past
the log establishes & partial vacuum in
the tube and causes the pointer of the
pressure gauge to move over its dial,
which is graduated to give the speed of
the vessel from -four up to twenty-five
knots. Detroit Free Press.
, 1888-09-06
PUelLlsTIc

Sullivan will challenge Mitchell and Kill
rain as soon as they set foot on American
soil
Jack Ashton and Joe McAuliffe are negoti-
ating for a fight to take place on the Pacific
coast. Ashton's hacker wants a purse of
1880 and $500 for expenses.
Jem Carney, the English light weight
champion, will leave England shortly for
Australia for the purpose Of giving boxing
exhibitions and arrange a ring fight with any
suitable competitor.
Charley Morton, the old time light weight,
is still in the arena He now has a man
named Jem Kendrick on hand whom he will
match to fight Jack Reagan any style
, 1888-09-06
The Story of the Rose.

The name rose comes directly from
the Latin, and through the Latin from
the Greek. In its first form it is SUD-
posed to have been derived from the
color red. In its different forms it has
given its name to many lands. Syria or
Suristan is thought to be derived from
the name of a beautiful and delicate
species of rose, the surf, which grows in
that country. Gulistan comes from the
Persian name, gul, rose, and Rhodes, the
island made so famous by the valiant de-
tense against the Turks by the knights
of st. John, means the land or the place
of roses. The rose has popularity been
supposed to be indigenous to oriental
countries. Born in the east, it has been
diffused like the sunlight all over the
world" Asop told the gardener of his
master Xanthus that ''the earth is a step
mother to those plants incorporated into
her soil, but a mother to those which
are her own free product"
Where the wild rose hourishes, there
all other roses will grow. And the wild
rose, in spite of SO much prating to the
contrary, seems to be indigenous to all
the world, in the temperate zones, ex-
cept Australia and South America. These
countries are among the youngest con-
tinents of our earth geologically and the
Rosace@ are the latest corners in time.
1t had not become rose time with them
when man came. The Rosacee includes,
besides roses, most of the hardy fruit
trees and plants, the apple, peach, pear,
plum, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry,
as well as many ornamental shrubs
Sophie B. Herrick in The Cosmopolitan.
, 1888-09-06

would be the favor
lite local team most
Of the better play
ers Of the Metro
politan team were
transferred TO the
League Il Then,
with the Troy and
Providence play
ers, local
Giants were welded
togethe r. The
team is a great one
in fact, always
has been, but has
not put on a pen
nant stride until
, 1888-09-06

Suspension bridge
at Niagara, has, it
is reported, gone
t b o way of all
would b o S a m
Patches. He jump
ed from the South
eastern Rail W a
bridge in England,
a short time ago,
and was drowned
in the Thames. For
v a year Dono-
a has been en-
d~eavoring to get a
chance to make
, 1888-09-06
Cau,s Of The Decrease,

Mr.. Curves That hat is not big enough; It
is only six and a quarter.
Aatter-l guess that is your measure, sir.
Mr.. Curves-Why, the last hat | wore wa.
r rine.
Halter hlandlyl-Oh, yes; but you were
8 e star Player Of the Bungtown Baseball
..ly AZ tina time. Lowell Citizen
, 1888-09-06

Sham battle flags, tattered and torn to
represent the real article, are the latest
product of French ingenuity, and are
said to have deceived large numbers of
curiosity hunters and patriots. Chicago
Herald.
, 1888-09-06

The altar of commerce is not always
extracted from the rose itself, but some
times from The foliage leaves Ct the rose
geranium,
, 1888-09-06
BAs BALL GOSSIP.
Great work Done by the New York
Team.

The New York team has been doing great
work lately, anC If the team keers up its pace
its efforts will purely be crowned with vic
tory.
When the New York club was organized
in 1883 first class people were hard to get,
Several players we're taken from the Metro
politan club, r.. t.,u tie old Troy league
team and franchise were purchased entire.
As much rs $1,000 each had to be paid to the
Troy players before thsy would sign con
tracts.
When it was seen that the New York club
, 1888-09-06
LARRY" DONOVAN.
Who Jumped Into Notoriety and Then
Into Eternity.

t'Larry" Donovan, who leaped into fame a
year or so ago by making two f~oolhardy
iumps from the Brooklyn bridge and the
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21
A FINE EDUCATOR.

1t is suggested that Mr.. powderly
might send out an "educator' or two at
hi own expense. An assessment Of tif-
teen cents per member to establish an
educational fund while the general
master workman is drawing salary of
1000 per annum and expenses does not
strike the doliar-a-day Knight as in ac-
cordance with the eternal fitness of
things, The thck-headed, every day
Knight is 10th to pay special levies into
the hands of autocratc officials who re-
ceive princely salaries for juggling with
the funds of the Order, and who refuse
to give an account Of their stewardship.
--CHicdgO Labor ERqnj~r.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21
THE PRISON BUILDER.
BuRNETTE q. Haskell.

'llo! toil-worn workman wan, with hard
and crooked hand
For what are these stones quarred. for
what these strong walls planned?
Is it II palace that ye build in which a
king shall sleep,
Or shall from top of castled tower grim
soldiers watch the deep"
mo palace pierces to the clouds in murky
skies like these.
Nor castle this; no vessel ploughs the
Northland'S frozen seas.
No-whaV the workman, silently, with
bent back slowly rears,
lie builds in weary sorrow, cementing it
with tears.
Hard times have come upon us, our ba-
bies cry for bread,
And 50 we work on prisons; our children
must be fed.
We build prison for the brave who
dare to strike at wrong,
We build prison and grave, we build
it deep and strong.
Our babes will live little while on the
bloody wage we win,
But our brothers will rot in the cells we
build to wall them up within.
They have said that he who sows the
seed ought not to lick the bread;
That he who reaps the harvest ought to
share the feast when spread;
They preached the gospel of the poor,
that all who worked should eat,
And in the ears of starving men the
words were strangely sweet.
They preached that he who wove the
cloth should wear it on his back
That only those who would not build
should roof tree shelter lack;
They babe us not to battle our knives in
the blood of our fellow slave;
They babe us love our fellow man. For
them we build their grave"
-kdreuh Commonwealth.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21

went with us all the time had to he re-
placed 10y some which would blimdly 20
with the conservatives. by all means Herr
they succeeded. Eleven new delegates
We're imported one meeting and they did
their duty.
After the big boss, II. George, and
McGlym, barred out the Socialists at
Syracuse, the Wirepullers could do moth
ing better than play the part of apes,
and kick lis out here also. The affair
came to Il head after we brought in IA
resolution condemning the action of the
United Labor Party at the Syracuse con
vention, and that made our would-be
politicians wild. Eleven new voters
against us, out we went on the double
quick; TO give details is not necessary; it
was a shameful act. unconstitutional
and brought about by the most corrupt
means, What happened afterwards:
or the thirty-three organizations in
the Central Labor Union when the So
clalsts went out, after six months, when
the election of 1883 came around, ten
organizations were left. We let them
severely alone, and awaited patiently
the result of their work. They went
into the campaign-on the old platform:
Oh, no. They made a new one at their
nominating convention; something after
the law-and-order style, you know.
TO come down from socialistic plat
form to a mere Sunday law and anti
saloon resolution, was Il rather big tum
bic, but what will a politician not do, if
he thinks there is something in it? Can
dldates We're taken in from all sides
defeated ''republicans, ward politicians,
etc, all emblazoned on the labor tick
ct; and here was the result:
Seventeen thousand voters were regis
tered, against ZOO the year before;
"labor party vote, main itch 1t 500 votes.
Average: last year, 1000; this year,
800. Where were the business people?
For whom did they vote? Last year the
Socialists We're leaders; this time the
"respectahle" people, the Prince Albert
coats So the bogus labor movement
was played in Kansas City.
What lesson shall we take from all
this?- 1t ought to be clear to every So
cialist now, that in the future we cannot
join any party whatever its name may
be, Union, United, Radical, Progressive,
or any other labor party. All OF them
think it necessary for success to make
some compromise for the sake of catch
ing votes, either to the middle class, TO
farmers, ministers. greenbackers. prohi-
bitionists, and other creeds, of which
nothing will come.
These lately-tormed "labor' parties
tried to avoid the name of Socialist.
Let us in the future go before the people
rs Socialists, in the name of our Party,
with our full platform and honest mten-
tons. If we can work for other parties,
why can we not work for our own party
and bring our ideas before the people /:
We are not looking for immediate re-
suits. Our part Is to spread the truth,
and the time is not far distant when the
people will follow us. A contemplation
OF the fate of the SO called labor parties
should encourage all Socialists to go to
work with will for the Socialist Labor
Party the only true labor party.
j. TRArTWElN.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21
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MEMS ADVOCATE.

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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21

:
A vital Question. or, what Is To Re
Done? A Novel. BY Nikaai &. TGher.
nitchewsky OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1a5
What the Russian government regards rs
revolutionary literature The author was
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now living under strict police supervision.
The book Is secretly circulated In Russia
In this volume the labor question Is treated
with masters hand.
Woman In the Past, Present and Flu
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21
THE SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY
OF NORTH AMERICA
PLATFORM

Labor being the self evident
who al thus
OF
But this impossible by system of production which since
intoiu,t of
all branches of industry carried with such appliances
fe" able POSSESS.
The $ n which
former individual works u
hundreds thousands in
farms and lands according the
the fruits of this labor p
This system, by gradually eNtingushing class of people necessarily
separates society classes the
This system
The lIanlessnes and reckless of production,
The of human and
The commercial and industrial
The uncertainty
The misery of the lahoring
The of wealth in le haniso few.
These
and aggravated inconsistent with the
with the principles OF justice and true democracy destroy
o. naia
all the right to lie liberty and the
If
the of production leads Immediately their
and finally illustrates the pursuit of happiness which
when life and personal liberty constantly
the perfect the
obtain the undivided product of their toll
This of of
humanity the modern industrial States both economically morally
By of
workers will finally have opposed to them comparatively dspos
and OF the
compelled to abolish the establish
The basis
81
with cooperative production and product
with the service rendered by the individual to society.
The Socialist Labor Party
nent {" the oppression the class of wage-Wokes the class capitalists
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21
SOCIAL DEMANDS.

Ec Of h | 4"'s ss p s to Of ne" " , of @ s
cosIonns provisions agricultural n"r
h + " al S osr ms " oa" nt % .s railroads. canals telegraph"
S is .,tS to S au IGs S of the "" railroads" of ferries an"
a. Public Lands to be declared haae They shall be leased agricultural
rGatons the conditions Of which have complied
Legal incorporate" by the States of local Trades Unions which have
aovan sue" associations p ,e p"g Of c%r""is fr "T
Inauguration public depression.
The United have the exclusive money
an o5tn % %os ts "ata ies of % S an"
y %t' states 'T n %, p rmrra "S n"
esn Progressive neon" tax an" tax o" "e' but smaller incomes to be
y ,oms"y school education Of all children under fourteen of age
nr ton in all educational Institutions to ~gratnts and t"e accessible
to Of to Organic, "
aler tramp, conspiracy sumltnary Unabridged
A. Official ati~ics concerning the condition I to, Prohibition Of The
tract SYSTEM" ''''"'' ''' con
D. wages paid money Equalization by law of womes wages
e Laws the protection of life and limbs working people efficient
H. Uniform national marriage laws INvge to granted mutual
POLITICAL DEMANDS
people propose Initiative upon
MoIiq of the Presidency ien and Senate Of the nils
any gai ""s ,o be G the " q" t, ,
tut and statutes
B. Municipal self
Direct and ballots all elections Universal and equal right of
without Election to he holidays
The principle minority he introduced
The members Legislative responsible
by, the constituency.
Uniform law throughout the United States. Administration of justice be
free of charge Abolition Of capital punishment
Separation of all public affairs religion church property be subject
q
RESOLUTION.
WHEREAS, Party chiefly
Iropag1andiic
WHEREAS 1t good of agitation participate municipal
and congressional elections; therefore,
Rred To wherever
the field which the
form which the
conflict and the shall
founded that shall fully
With o practical application provided
shall he binding members: shall
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-21
SPECIAL. WORKS.
SOCIALISM. COMMUNISM, NIHILIsM.

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