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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
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CHICAGO, Rock Island & Pacific RV

Including Lines East and West Of the Missouri
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COUNCIL BLUFFS. WATEATCWN, SIOUX
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
A Curious Chemical.

A new substance, singular alike in its chem.
ical nature and In its properties, has been
discovered by NJ. Pechard- 1t is mixed acid
derived from oxalin and molybdic acids, and
is, therefore, termed "o1alomolybdic acid.
The crystals of oA4omolybdic acid, when
dry, may be preserved unchanged either In
sunshine or in the dark; but if moist, they
quickly become colOred blue when exposed to
the SUMS rays. IL characters be written on
paper with the solution, they remain invisible
In weak light; but when exposed to sun
shine, thcy rapidly become visible, turning
to deep indigo color. 1t is curious that this
effect only happens when the solution is
spread over paper or other surfaces; for
the solution itself may be kept unaltered in
the bottle for any length of time, except for
a trace Of blue at the edge of the meniscus,
where, by surface action, little is spread
against the interior glass walls.
If sheet Of paper be immersed in satu-
raturated solution of the acid, dried in the
dark, aud then exposed behind an ordinary
Photographic negative, very sharp print
In blue may be obtained by exposure to sun
light for about ten minutes. The color in
stantly disappears in contact with water; so
that If a piece of this sensitized paper be
wholly exposed to sunlight one may write in
white upon the blue ground by using pen
dipped in water. II, however, the paper with
its blue markings be exposed to gentle heat
for few minutes the blue changes to black,
and the characters are then no longer de-
stroyed by water-NatIre.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30

melted slowly before the multitude which
assailed increasingly. Sally, ambuscade,
be the attack of what ilk it might, it
meant defeat and death to the French
Cavalrymen.
Vaudras once more started to run for
ward, and with his mouth foaming he
fell back once more-the last time, From
afar he gased with an infinite tenderness
upon his men, dying there without him
but, alb! in dying they were fighting
bravely-slaying gallantly. He drew his
pistol from his belt, he held 1t against his
temple, he pressed the trigger, and the
last commissions of the death agony pre-
cipitated his corpse into that bottomless
abyss which had brought upon him the
accursed vertigo.-Translated for The
Argonaut from the French of Maurice
Montegut by Y. b. Adds
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
RECORD BOOK.

County Superintendent Pence's class
ifacation register Is the most com
plese thing Of the kind ever published.
John Mcdonald. editor Of the Western
School Journal, writes: IL examined
Superintendent Pence's Classification Reg
lister. and was much pleased with IL 4
number OF uperintendents pronounce II
superior 70 any other now before the peo-
pie, and they are Of the opinion that the
Register should be placed in or county
schools There Is no reason why Kansas
money should De going 20 distant cities
when we have better article In our own
state address K p MURDOCH.
Manager EAGLE
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
LOVE.
What is love?

what Is lore7
4 trust to prove
Each heart by pain and loss and gain,
Through worth and wrong or shame or song:
The joys and tears of faith and fears
That make life fair. the precious share
That doth endure and will make sure
OF peace and rest-the souls life quest.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
Summer Fxrur<sc:s-

"The Great Rock Island" have placed
on sale. at reduced rates. tourist tickets
70 tie various summer resorts east, west
north and south and al points IN Europe.
For routes, rates and information call 81
the city ticket Office, loo. corner Main and
Douglas, and az passenger depot. corner
Mead and Douglas ~Telephcze No I9s -
C. A. RUTHERFORD.
22.f Tlcke. Agent
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
A Wedding Rings Advice.

For want of q little thought many a wed.
ding ring has cut, as il were, the wearer's
finger to the bone. Many a wedding ring has
been heavier than ton Of lead. Men mus
makealiowancS for women as women, if they
want to be happy themselves and to make
their wives happy and women must make
allowances for mon, and for men as men.
They each have their own troubles and their
own needs, aid very often the one does not
understand and cannot understandable needs
of the other. Men have their own troubles
and worries and women have theirs; bet each
be assured Of that as regards the other and
act accordingly. 1t viii be appreciated
don't be afraid of that. Beware of naggiedom,
my DEAR
The man that WI stand being nagged at is
a saint, and saints are not as plentiful as
blackbrries in the world There's male nag.
cling, my dear, as we'll as female-male
grumbling and never being pleased; and folks
who expect to come outas ducks at theend
of 120 years would, after eighty or ninety
years uaggingy, make poor figure in a n,atri-
monial poultry show. II the man had been
gr,unbling and the wonan nagging all that
time they'd look Nketwo moultfng birds and
not like two we'd established healthy fowl
Each to be tho others help, each the others
blessing: each TO hope TO be with the other for
ever and ever, and 50 to live here that they
may be fit for being together there.-Quiver.
The Metric System.
At recent meeting of the French Academy
of Sciences N. D. Melapce, speaking of the
metric system of weights and measures, gave
some interesting figures. In 1857 the aggre-
gate population of the counties In which the
metric system WAS compulsory was over 3o2,-
GOO 600, being an increase of y, OC0, 900 in ten
years. In 1887, in countries with a popsria-
ton of close on-97, 600 900, the use Of the sys-
TEN was optional, and the countries where
the metric system is legally admitted In
principle and partially applied las in Russia,
Turkey and British India! had IN 1887 pop,
ulation of SEQ 900. co., being an increase OF
81, G00, 600 in ten years. The increase is due
to the growth of population in the countries
which had already adopted toe system and to
Its adoption by new countries. The system
of CHINA, Japan and Mexico is decimal, but
not metric. The metric system is thus legally
recognized by 7e44 ,OOO. 900 Of people, and the
three last named countries have population
of about 474,ooo zoo, SO that only about A.
600 900 Of the civilized world have systems
which are neither metric nor decimal. Lon
don Standard
Fashion in beds is returning to the
four poster with rich canopy and. as
modern innovation, a shelf between the
upper posts for bottles, glasses, etc. In
the simple days Of our grandparents the
eye opener WIGS kept under the pillow In
a green bottle.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
Via The Albert Lea Route.

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Minneapolis and St. Paul with THROUGH Re-
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points and Kansas City. Through Chair Car and
Sleeper between Peoria, Spirit Lake and Sioux
Falls via Rock Island. Tho FavCrtte Line 60
watertown Sioux Falls, the Summer Resorts and
Hunting and Fishing Grounds OF the Northwest
The hortLine via Seneca and KaI,kakoo offers
facilities to travel 20 end from Indianapolis. Gin
cinnati and other Southern points.
For Tickets. Maps, Folders. or desired informa-
tian apply at any Coupon Ticket Office, or address
C ST. JOHN, JOHN SEBASTIAN,
GenI MANAGER oeafTkt- & Pass. Ast.
CHICAGO. ILL.
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-30

When Baby was sick, we gave her Cassor.a,
When she was Child, she cried for CSstoria,
When she became Miss, she chung TO Castoria,
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07
IMPORTANT TO CIGARMAKERS

We have trustworthy information to the following effect
 Some months ago set of newly in- vented cigar-making machines was placed in the hands of a large firm of this city for experimentation purposes. The set is composed of three machines, each worked by one operative, and through winch the same cigar has to pass before it is completely finished. It was found that this set of machines, requiring only three operatives, could produce SC, GOO cigars per day, The ma chine shop where this first set was made is located in Brooklyn. Last week it received an order for 121 sets, Cor 3S1 machines) through which the aforesaid firm expects to be able to manufacture over COCO, GOO cigars per day with a practically unskilled force of 3Sl oper- atives.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07
A DISGRACE TO CIVILIZATION,
Under this caption the New York fIeruld of Nov. 30, observes:

Under this caption the New York Heruid of Nov. go, observes;
 "lt isamost incredibleth that he Spring Valley Coal Company should upon reOpening its mines refuse employment to the miners WhO took food, clothing and medicine to sick and hungry folks during the terrible lock"ut, and yet such Is the news telegraphed from Chi, cagO yesterday.
 "A more brutal and damnahIe action can hardly be conceived in a civilized community. It has cowed the renef committees and supplies have ceased, Disease and starvation may stalk un- checked among the helpless women and Children,
 "When spring comes the sleek dmec- tors of this wealthy corporation can point 10 the graves of those who perish this winter and say to their slaves If you would save your dear ones from this fate take the wages we offer you with, out nmmuring. Then the directors may go back 10 their homes and thank God that they live in d land of liberty and charity"
 This is the wage system, Mir. Herald, and none of those "agitators against W hom you 4re so fond of invoking the vigor of the law ever depicted it in stronger words. Ut Is brutal and damnable." It is "a disgrace to civiliza- tion." What are you going to do about it?
 A few days ago the New York Horld reported as follows an interview with ex-Mayor Roche of Chicago:
 "We have a conspiracy law in Illinois, that is very comprehensive and far reaching. It was passed to cover the case ot the anarchists. It was never proved at the trial If the anarchists just who threw the fatal bomb on the night of the Haymarket riot It was shown that Parsons was in his house with his family, neatly q mIIe away, when the bomb was thrown. He disappeared, you will rem,mber. and got clear away, but acting under the advice of his lawyers he returned and gave himself up. They did not think It would be possible to l connect him with the crime. and yet i Parsons was con victed and hanged. This will show you something of the sweep, i ing character of the new law. The law
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07

dulges in severe denunciations of the "manly art" but, on the contrary, praises it in choicest language. For in, stance, few days ago brutal prize fight between two Chicago light. weights V was stopped by the police after forty nine rounds had been fought. One of the principals was horribly punished. The comment of the Asso- clated Press reporter upon the event" was that "a prettier or more scientific fight had never been witnessed in America" The time IS evidently com ing when the taste for prize fights, en- couraged by the press for the benefit of the wealthy idlers and gamblers, will be so great that the police will no longer stop them and when the aristocratic lockers on will not be satisfied until one at least of the two "gladiators is killed. Ace Cesar, morit,ni te SulutUH.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07
but it is very whole

may seem harsh, but it is very whole some in it's effect
 This, again, is '' a disgrace to civili zation." But men like Roche and news papers like the World say that |" it is very wholesome in its effects" So is from the same point of view, the action of the Spring Valley Coal Company. The wage system must and shall be main. tained at all hazards.
 From q letter in our hands, dated Chicago, June 9, 1SS7 we extract the following;
 "An ex Judge of the Supreme Court, William Henry by name, called upon ,he Editor of the / intpS and said : You are not having this trial writteH mp as it is. Sir You are shamduIly misrePre- scntlng the defendants, Do you desire to help murder eight human beings, to orphan nineteen children? - Judge, replied the Editor, 'don't blame me; l.l' Il'l llNl'i Vt bAii' l"f'' ''''' 'A'"A h' - out line of policy and must follow it, or else lose my position and beggar my family. Of course l don't consider the trial to have been fair','
 This, again, is the wage system. Under it, men who occupy positions where they could stay the hands of injustice, and m whom superior education should have developed human sentiments, are turned into hloodthrsty hounds and made to disgrace civilization by their wilful pcrversion of truth. Who knows but that the wage-worklng editor who wrote for the HcrdM the noble article above quoted, will in few days have to write an ignoble one! Or has the Herald two sets of editors, one for the noble, another for the ignoble?
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07
VILE BUT lMPOTENT.

The Washington Post is an old proSti- ute, repeatedly sold and always for sale.
 Its record is one ofunsurpassed of turpitude and imbecility. Under its various owners it never had any talent in its service. because talented men, however un- scrupulous, could not descend so low as to write for it, People read it merely to know the aspirations and bargains of the politicians who happen to own or to control it; but they care much less for the comments of it's contemptible hire lings upon any subject of great public interest than they do for the opinion of an ignorant but sensible, honest and in
 dependent boot-black. It may, there fore, be a waste of time to notice at any length its scurrilous reflections upon Shevitch's article on 1.-The Red Flag !"
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07

paying q price greatly enhanced by the profits of wholesalers, retailers, bankers, transportcE, and the landlords of all such mtcrmediaries. Of course, we must bear in mind that these capitalists, whose functions may be called distribu, tive, employ labor and pay wages. But, to the extent of their profits upon the goods consumed by wage.workcrs en- gagged in the manufacturing industries the purchasing power of the wages paid in those industries is reduced This purchasing power is furthermore reduced by the rent on land which the wageworker must pay to his own land. lord, since the money taken from him for rent cannot be used by him in purchaslng products,
 By taking all these elements into con sileration, it would probably be found that the labor employed in manufac, tures receives hardly more than 25 per cent. of its actual product. This is, of course an average. Those workers whose wages are highest receive some W hat more, while those whose wages are lowest, receive less, For every man who receives more, one or two or three receive less.
 But we have considered here only one class of occupations. Statistics are either insufficient or absolutely want ing in the other fields of employment Yet, there is a mode of treatment by which the share of all the labor of the country in the total product of it's eXer tiOns can readily be a8Certained. Ihi' method we applied in our "Short Les sons in Economy, Nos. and D. (WoRK MEMS ADVOCATE, July 18th and goth 1 1SS9), where it was shown, from figure supplied by Edward Atkinson, Franci l Walker and other capitalistic author ties, that "ilour, the prime necessary 0 life, is sold to the people at aprice whcl yields to the capital engaged in its pro duction and transportation n prof nearly equal to three times the amour of its cost in labor" from beginning t end, that is, including farming am machinery,
 The relative shares of labor and cap tai in the total product will unquestiol ably be found the same as they are i the flour product; that is, 1 and
 respectively.
 In other words, the share of labor
 One-Quarer of it's product.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07
DECEMBER /, 1889.
THE SHARE OF LABOR.

Several organs of Capitalism-thc Chicago Tribune and Inter Ocem in particular-haye lately "Called the at tention of the people to the "absurd and misleading use of official statistics" which "ignorant demagogues and even intelligent journalists are apt to make in commenting upon the share of Labor in it's products. They do not attempt, however, to say what that share is. Presumably they do not know. We may enlighten them somewhat upon this subject.
 It is perfectly true--as the Chicago Tribune observes--that although a con tractor who builds a house pays out in wages twenty per cent. only of its value, this is not the whole share of Labor, because other wages have been paid out by other employers to the workinEmen who prepared the materials in more or less advanced state of manufacture, such as bricks, stone, cement, lime, plas- ter, timber, lumber, sash, blinds, doors, windows, hardware, pipes, gas.hxturcs, etc. The wages paid by the transport CTS should also be added, After a care full consideration of the subject we may say that perfect computation wouId make it dppcNr that in the building and kindred trades taken as a whole the share of Labor is about B per cent of the total product
 Again, it is perfectly rue-as the Chicago Mler- Ocedn had previously ob- served-that a gross error is committed by those who, taking the total value of manufactures as returned by the Census of 1880, and comparing it with the amount of wages paid out by the manufacturers, conclude that the share of labor in its product was less than IS per cent. If the value of the materials be deducted from the total value, as il should be, it will appear that the share of the labor employed in manufactures in 1880, was about IS per cent. of its actual product.
 Now, in both cases we have underlined the word appear, because the conclu- sions arrived at are only appearances. not realities. A most important con, sideration has been left out, and that is, "How much of the product will the wages buy?"
 II the "dBe-"OrheIS ehSdStu III manu facture could buy the products of their own labor at manufacturers prices, it would, indeed, be true to say that they get IS per cent. of the actual value of their work, capital getting the remaining 52 per cent. It is fact, how ever, that the weaver himself, for in. stance, cannot get a yard of the very same cloth that he has woven without
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-07
NO BETTER FEELING.
For every Improvement Labor is Indebted to Organization.

to Organization.
 Assuming that greater good feeling and harmony" had "during the past year been manif ested between employ CTS and employees in this country" the editor of the New York Press inquired of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor at Albany if it was not "due to the poli- tical principles which underlie our Government, to our protective policy, or to other causes that we owe this grati- flying result"
 Charles F. Peck of the bureau, in his reply, which has been communicated to the Press but as yet was not published by that paper, says that he is not aware that there has been greater good feeling and harmony between employers and employees, or much less labor disagree ment that in previous years. "On the contrary" he says, "I have reason to believe that there has been the usual amount of business disagreement, much of which is quietly settled between the parties interested and never having got beyond the stages of remonstrance and negotiation has not been put promi- nently before the public" He finds no reason, furthermore, for believing that there have been fewer industrial trouble outside of this State in 1SSS-'S9 than in previous years. But from the returns so far made for the year ending with this month he finds that 1, 100 strikes have been reported in New York, ''which does not give an impression of good feeling and harmony"
 He rejects, also, the suggestion that "the political principles which underlie our Government" have much to do with accord or discord between employers and employees. Wages and hours of work do not depend on party principles, but rather on supply and demand of | both labor and labor product, combined with bold views as to freedom of action by wage earners. "As to the influence of protective policy." he says, "I am not aware that during the last year there has been any very important deviation from the policy that had been in existence previously Wages and labor might possibly have been affected by the expectation of impending change but the apparent quiet was induced by patience and self-control where the pressure of short time and small earn ings was felt.
 But although he could not accept the assumption that more harmonious rela- l tiOnS than usual had obtained between the employer and employe during the past year, he would admit that the con- ditions of the workIngman had been considerably improved during the last few years, and this gratifying fact he attributed entirely to organization among them for their own protection and advancement. In support of this declaration MT. Peck refers to the inn provement of the condition of the bakers as the result of their organization. With this class of wnrkmen wages increased from SS. 20 per week in 1881. to Sl0.60 in 1886. and to SIP 95 in 1887. while the hours of labor decreased from 163 in 1881, to 12i in 1886. and to 10 TO in 1887. 1 The statistics of strikes and labor troub- les are also freely quoted to show that l to organization, rather than any other cause, was the improved condition of | the workingman due.