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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08
8 sewing.

MISSES MoLLIEE Z. LANGDoN and MAG
M GLE Fl. TAYLOR have formed a co-part-
nersliip, and will do Dressmakiug and other
Sewing at the residence of Miss Langdon on
East Congress street. If desired Miss Taylor
viii also sew by the week in private families.
June q. 1SgO-3m.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08
Town Council.


AT a Meeting of the Town Council
Llast.nieht, Assessor,G Geo. w. Taylor
reported the taxable propertyas fol-
lows:
Real estate 941z'oz2
Personality .... 4S9,98S
Total, S9lo,5Oo
White capitations. .29S
The levy for the current year was
laid at 40 cts. on each 500 Of prop
erty, capitation tax s1,5O, dogs 81,
and gips S5-alI same as lastyear.
1t a moved and adopted that the
Town Council, by and with the con-
sentsef .thevotes of the town, do issue
bonds to the amount Of $4,000, the
proceeds to be used in the improve
ment of the streets of the town, and
that an election to obtain the 5 of
the votes on this question he held on
the Second Monday in August next.
The nesignation of Mr.. J. B. Nc
Elroy as City Engineer was received
and accepted.
A pesition for the improvement of
South alley was referred to4hesStreot
Committee.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

Statistics slow that u large proper
tfor-6f the children die from what is
known rs Summer Complaint, Diar-
rhea, Cholera Infantuln aud Dyson
rtery. Humphreys Specifics Nos.
Four, Five and Six, are safe and GER
tain.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

Notwithstanding the strenuous OPP
position made by the Democrats to
the iniquitous federal election bill, it
was finally passsd in the House of
Representatives on Wednesday by
six Republican majority. The meas
re now goes to. the Senate, where
there is strong hopes of its defeat
Seven more votes on Tuesday would
have carried an amendment which
would almost certainly have defeated
the bill on its passage, and yet it is
asserted that there were eight I'M
paired Democratic members in Wash
ington, one or more of them being in
the restaurant of the Capitol, when a
vote on this amendment was taken.
Our able Repres entatiye, who is
never absent from his post of duty
when his presence is required, was
not of this number.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08


& Alexander
engaged to place five hundred shares
of the Charlestown Mining, Manufac-
turing and Improvement Company's
stock, and they have, with the eff
eient aid of Forrest w. Brown, ESQ.,,
already placed over seven hundred
shares, and expect by the last of this
month to run this up to one thousand
shares-or one-tenth of the whole
amount to be put or the market. II
nine other active, go-ahead firms o.
individuals will do as much, the plac.
1g Of the stock of this Company viii
be accomplished quickly and sue
eessfully.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08
Boarding.

GEYERAL Gentlemen and Ladies can be &C
commOdated with Board for the Summer
or by the Week or Month, BY applying 10 OF
MRs. JAMES WATSON,
Late Proprictrcss of the Watson House.
ChariestOwn, w. Va.
june 81. 1s9O-tJ1. ,91.*
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

The company has secured over 700 acres of magnificent lands With n
adjacent to the, corporate limits Of cha!lestown, embracing some two miles
rich mineral and timber lands, distant from 4 to y miles from the town.
About 600 acres will be laid off in Sweets, blocks and lots.
Liberal inducements will be offered to MANUFACTURES in the way
of FREE STTESand subscription to stock.
Officers.
r. PRESTON CHEW, President. JOSEPH TRAPNELL. yiee.Presss
B. C. WASHINGTON, Gen. Mgr. JOHN PORTERFIELD. Treasnrqr
S. LEE PHILLIPS, Secretary.
Directors.
&; g EDBY, cyice-PTesident Norfolk & Western Railroad, Roanoke, Va
w. zoe, Chief Engineer Norfolk and Western Railroad, Roanoke. VIZ
n. Y RICHARDS, Land and Immigrant Agent SIS O. R. r., Baltimore.
R. Preston Chew, Charestown. +. VI. Brown. CbarIestown
Gustav Brown, Mayor, CharIestown- Frank Beckw;th. Charlestown.
lJoseph TrapneIl, Charlestown. 3. c. Washington. Cbsrhstovn
II. H. Cooke, CharIestoWn. inc. A. washington CbarIastony
r. A. Alexander, Charletown. w. +. Iippitt. CbarIestown
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08
LIST OF PRIZES:
Clue RATEs. 6 TIoKETs ZOE s5O.OO

EPVV'UF UT II '"JV@ y" |JT"''
AGENTS WANTED in every town aud city
in the United States and British America.
The payment of Prizes is guaranteed by u
special deposit of five hundred thousand dol
lars 600. GOOD. with the State Government. and
approved by Jesus Arechiga. Governor.
Drawings under the personal supervision of
Lie. HerminioA tcaga, who is ppointcd by the
Governor as Intervention.
~ Certify that wi State Treasurer all
runpa57lgttofai an Prlzcs OF this drawing.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08
tWH JAleNb DhaH prizes OF this aWing
HERAffNIo ARTE4GA, IuterVentot.
IMPORTANT.

Remittances must be either by NeVs York
Draft, Express or Registered Letter, ADleSean
money. Collections can be made hy Express
Companies or Bqnks. Tickets sent direct to
management will be paid by drafts on New
York, Montreal. st. Paul, Chicago, San Fran
cisco or City of Mexico. For further informa-
tion, address JUAN PIEDAD, Manager.
J,,v ! 1900 odNt.,ta 1acees' Mexico
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08
nMunger is de Best SAUCE"

As u rule, Il person vino has a good appetite
has gond heath. nj how NiaiE- tierc UvcSvho
enjoy nothing they cat, and sit down to meals
only as III unpleasant duty. Natures anti
dotcs for this condition are 50 happily COM
Binrd liz IIOud's SarsaparilIa that It soon re-
stores good digestion. Greater an appetite and
rcnuvatrS and ~v!talizrs tho hiood so that tho
beneficial effect Of good food il iini:a rtel tn The
whole body. 3Ssl1 haIgecis tlGr bysEsaRcc,
and Hoods Sarsaparilll iadurSs hA ig,r.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

Hon. Beverly Tucker died at Rich
mond, Va, last Thursday.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

The greatest Clothing Sale now
going on at H1RscHMAN's.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

Just think of it! Children's Suits
for 6oc., at HTRsoHMAN's.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

FOR LOW PRICES OF LUMBER
see advertisement of
LIBBEY, BTTTINGER & MILEER
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

The announcement of Mr.. B. d.
Gibson as 9 eandidate for reelection
TO the Rouse of Delegates was hand
ed in to US too late for editorial com
ment last week. Mr.. Gibson, though
avery young man, is quite popular,
aud o $ quickly to prominence dur
ing his first term in the Legislature.
II again elected he will doubtless
serve with equal credit and dis
4inotlon.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-07-08

A syndicate composed of Messrs.
H. H. Boyd, Geo. u. Bowers and y.
P. II. Harrisons Of Martinsburg, b
H. Warner, of Washington, and j.
S. Simmons, Of Roanoke, Va, have
purchased the Faulkner estate rear
Martinsburg, containing about 500
acres. Consideration sec, 900.
The bpf1f OF Jefferson Gays Two arc under
obligations to Rev. O.. II. Minor, coloted, for
some nice bcets, for which we 9eturn thanks"
We have in our time had several beats frOm
some OF our colored felloW-eitizens, but We
did not feel at the time like returning thanks.
IRarTison6tTg Spirit.
We 7 averse to eultivatfng such
beats ourselves, but they will some
times happen around nevertheless,
in tue best newspaper offices, a we
must freely acknowledge.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
COMMUNICATIONS.
Wage Slavery in Waltham, Mass.

A Section of the Socialist Labor party was organized here fast Sunday, April 27. Tonight the Nationalists intend to organize club.
 Waltham, as you know, IS very i'm portant labor center. It has If 4600 people, chiefly engaged in manufactur ing. It has been exceptionally prosper ous--that is, its corporations have been. In this town, about seventy years ago, the entire process of turning raw cotton into cloth was first begun. Watch mak ing is the other chief industry, and a number of minor industries are also do- ing well.
 On the disputed question as to whe- ther the condition of the wage-worker really improves from time to tune, 1 am ready to speak with some certainty as regards the cotton, null people. This industry has gone on extending itself with almost no check for seventy years or more. 1 have made inquiries lately concerning this progressive improt c. ment question and, hy comparing my knowledge of modern conditions with the recollection of the oldest settlers of Waltham, have obtained a basis of facts for these seventy years. As yet l
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
TO MEET THE ISSUE.
H.. ".

In the last fifty years the productive power of man has been multiplied twentyfold or more by the progress of invention. But, under perverse econo- mic system which divides mankind into capitalists and proletaires-givi to the first absolute ownership of the earth and despotic control of the means of life-neither has the toil of the workers been hghtened nor their condition m proved to any great extent; for we see that in many trades men, women and even children are working 10, l2 and even 16 hours per day, while others are starving in enforced idleness.
 Under that inhuman system-which intensities the struggle for existence by arraying on the labor market" chil- dren against fathers and wives against husbands-aGy small advantage, more or less temporary, that the workers have gained was forcibly wrested from their masters by widespread organiza- ton for combined resistance.
 Now, in the light of recent develop ments, it Is at last seen that the inevit- able tendency of that monstrous sy stem. as plainly foreseen fifty years ago by the founders of modern socialism, Is to an l international combination of capital against labor, which must and shall be met, in the name of humanity, progress and freedom, by an international com. bination of labor against capitalism.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
Wages that Sewing Girls Make.

There is a vast unclassified industry which doubtless employs more women and pays less wages than any other. It embraces many different kinds of sewing and is called shop work. The work is given out. The women go after 1t and carry it home, and, owing to competi- tion. wages are constantly falling, though it would seem the minimum had been reached long ago. Overalls with three or four pockets, six button holes. strap and buckle, are worth from 90 to 80 cents dozen, and outing cloth shirts, with two paits in front, seems all filled, cuffs and collars double stitched, are worth exactly so cents dozen. The wrappers which ladies buy in the stores, with a yoke and rutfie round the bottom, are made for 25 cents apiece, and the seam-
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISM.

From the last report of the Union Pacific Railway it appears that I'll ,000 shares in the capital stock of that cor poration were held in foreign countries (mostly EnglanD on Dec. 3l, 1889, as against 132 GOO on Dec. 3l, 1888. The total number of shares is 606, ,S06, so that at the beginning of this year foreign capitalists owned about 2S per cent. as against 2l per cent. at the beginning of the previous year.
 This shows not only growing appre- citation abroad of the vast benefits which the United States government has con- ferred upon this gigantic monopoly at the expense of its people, but profound conviction that this government is in stituted for the special advantage of iNShihiCno oi iihbioHdiihf and will never enforce its enormous claim upon our Pacific railroads for money advanced to them by the Ameri- can nation at the time they were built.
 As matter of course, as soon as Con- gress shall have granted an additional century to those roads for the repay. ment of their indebtedness foreign ca, pitalists will more rapidly than ever invest their ''wages of abstinence" il the stock of those corporations, and we may expect that in few years the Pa cific roads, with their immense terri torial possessions, their continenta and international traffic, their mines works, stocks, warehouses, elevators etc., and their army of wage slaves will be owned and managed in London
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10

have not found a single fact on which 1 | can rest the encouraging conclusion that | the present generation of cotton mill | operatives are living any better than those of seventy years ago.
 My observations thus far have been chiefly on the character of the dwellings supplied by the Cotton Manufacturing Company The new dwellings built for the employees within the last twelve months are on the exact pattern ofthose that were erected seventy years ago, and old frame houses built at that time are still in use. have not heard that any of these dwellings has a bathroom, and the outdoor sanitary arrangements are, like the houses themselves, of the most primitive kind No grass, shrubs or flowers surround those humble residen ces of wage-earners. The little villages of mill houses are fully as unattractive as they were two generations ago-and more 90, because in the past the opera tives were of more permanent sort, native Americans, who adorned these factory dwellings with gardens and other evidences of refinement. But what the homes of the employees have failed to gain may indeed be seen in the grand brick structures of the mills.
 1 inclose some clippings of interest and shall make other notes for your paper as can. M. G.
 Waltham, April 30.
 The clippings referred to in the above communication are two letters published in the Waltham Free Press of April 22; one from an employe of the world-re- nowned watch factory of that city, and the other from an ex xemploye of the not less celebrated "Elgin". World-renowned both should be, not only for the value and quality of the watches turned out by the skill of their humble and ill. paid workers, but for the rapacity of their owners. "One of Thomas Elk Help" states that he worked twelve years at Elgin. During the last year of his stay there his pay was cut fifty-one cents on the dollar, and at no time did he average two dollars day, although he was a trusted hand and when he left his work had to be divided into three parts. The other writer comments upon the issue to the stockholders of the Waltham Company, of additional stock to the amount of $1,00O,000, representing the surplus which this company had accu- nlulated while paying annual dividends of per cent. The capital stock was thus increased from two to three mil lions, and the management is, of course, expected to learn" in some way the same dividends upon the three millions as it did upon the two millions, although no additional capital is actually contri buted. What does this mean to the employes?' observes the writer; simply this: That they are to be annually taxed $S0, 1000, or their wages reduced about $50 per head, in order to pay dividend on the very profits which their own in dustry and skill have earned for the stockholders; hence the cut down."
 We give elsewhere a full account oi the speeches made at the organization of the Waltham Section s. L. F., or April 27.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
punt $7S9, GOO, 900 is bonded

and of this amount $7S9, ,000, 900 is bonded indebtedness.
 There are SCOT, ,000,00 of per cents, SIP, GOO, ,000 of As, $65 GOO, 900 of Pacific Railroad per cent bonds and $l4, ,00O,- GOO Navy Pension Funds 3 per cents out standing.
 Receipts from all sources for the past ten months of the current fiscal year aggregate over $328, ,0O0, GOO and point to revenue, for the whole year, of nearly $400 ,000, GOO. On the other hand, expen- dtures will be considerably in excess of last year. The pension charge for the last ten months has been 800, ,000, GOO, as against $75, 000, ,O00 for the corresponding period of 1889.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
Liquor is Stronger than this Argu.
 ment.

Editor WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE. Dear Sir:-We must respect the power of the law whatever we may think of its char acter. It would not do to advise con- spiracy against so especially lawful business as that of licensed liquor selling. But possibly it may not be violation of any of the wholesome laws which the law factories turn out or which the courts make to the plutocrat's order, to say that the reading of such out rages as that of Union Square hardly makes one feel like offering voluntary contributions to the revenues of the government which employs and pays the police For my own part go without my beer rather than purchase an article so large part of the price of which is made up of tax and license.
 It may also do to ask if it is well to patronize a business which causes in- numerable offences against the law and thus furnishes the pretext for the main tenance of a large police force in readi- ness to club or shoot the people when ever the plutocrats think that thelr inter- ests demand it.
 The Police Courts also, like other con- cerns that take in money, depend on business to keep them going. The liquor trade makes business for them.
 It looks as though the Drink Revenue Boycott was boycott of both Police and Courts. $. 2.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
MAY DAY.

The demonstrations on May Day mark an epoch in the history of mankind, the significance of which goes far beyond the demand for an eight-hour workday. Though the enforcement of that de- mand is q most important step in the elevation of the working classes to higher standard of physlcal, intellectual and moral existence, it was not this de mand alone that made the ruling classes trembe at the approach of the ap- pointed day. What made them trembe, what called forth their hatred and their fear, was the unanimity of the move ment throughout the world. The spec tacle of the working millions of all coun tries, 80 often arrayed against one another at the dictates and for the n- terests of their rulers, now for the first time stretching out their hands from land to land, and as brethren and fellow soldiers of one proletarian army uniting in a concerted action for the same aim and at the same moment that was what mortified the oppressors, that was what electrified the masses in all countries with new hope and new faith--new hope of their final emancipation and new faith in their own power to accomplish
 The thousands who demonstrated in Amsterdam, Ghent, MarseiIles. Madrid, in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Italy, the five hundred thousand who demonstrated i'll London, the fifty thou sand in Chicago, the twenty thousand who came out in pouring rain in New York-all these millions of workers demonstrated for eight hours, but they demonstrated for the international brotherhood of labor.
 By stigmatizing this international spirit as socialistic, the capitalists long succeeded in repressing it, But the name of Socialism has lost it's terror, as was shown by the immense multitude that answered the call of the Socialist Labor party in New York and stood in drenching rain for two hours, listen ing to Socialist eight-hour speeches.
 Five hundred thousand English work ingmen, most of them alleged conserva- tives, did not hesitate to join in this demonstration, though it was inaugu. rated by the International Socialist Con gress held at Paris last July. Who can deny that this Socialist action added in, calculable strength to the international labor movement in general and through that to the eight-hour movement throughout all nations and throughout all nations and throughout all its phases and forms of expression. And that unity is the prerequisite of success.
 H. V.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10

The bill introduced in the Massachu- setts Legislature to prohibit the impo- sition of fines or deduction from wages of employees engaged as weavers was killed in the House by tie vote. In the Senate the bill had been referred to the Committee on Labor, which reported that it was inexpedient to legislate on the subject. A motion to substitute the bill for the report was lost.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-10
LABOR LAWS IN RUSSIA AND
 GERMANY.


 A law looking towards the restriction of child labor is being prepared by the Russian government and it's main fea- lures have, as is reported, been approved by the Czar. The law will prohibit the employment of children under l2 years in factories and certain other industrial establishments. Children betaeen l2 and l5 years of age are not allowed to work longer than 6 hours per day, not including the time required for meals. No child under l5 years old shall be allowed to work between 10 o'clock p. m. and o'clock a, m., nor on Sundays or holidays. The employment of minors is prohibited in all occupations injurious to health.
 In Germany the youthful emperor has just announced in his opening ad- dress to the Reichstag that bills for the protection of labor would be submitted by the government shortly. One of the measures mentioned is to prohibit the employment of children under 13 years of age in factories and all Sunday and holiday.labor. Female persons shall not work later than 54 o'clock D. m. on any Saturday or other day preceding holi- day. Female labor shall in no case ex- ceed II hours per day, Other measures will deal with the protection of working men against dangers threatening their lives, health and morals, such, for ins- tance, as the issue of workingmen' B books with "a view to check the increas ing insubordination among youthful workincmen," industrial courts of arbi. lIdLlDtl hEt tI us ttShHiHtu lOl bHb Stbblt~ ment of disputes bet veen employers and employees.
 There is no danger that these glaringly insufficient and partly vicious measures will cause any defection among the working class from the socialists 10 the Emperor's party. In order to bring out more strikingly the contract between these palliative measures and real labor reform, the socialist members of the Reichstag introduced, immediately after the reading of the imperial address, | | bill of their own embodyng substant , ally all the thorough going labor protec ton measures demanded in the socialist , platforms. The socialists also introduced | a bill repeating the duty on corn. Witt t these bills they have placed themselves t in an excellent position for the race tC 5 be run between the other parties in tht 3 Reichstag as to who can make the bes 7 labor record with the least actual con sessions. The prospect Is interesting and encouraging-for the socialists, l II. V.