Telegram-herald., 1890-07-18
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-vfe COED 1aay stores sad Si7sss IA
iay district. Aa3 az these sss treated
very aiesiy - their osnsFs, most q
tAs SsAtlsmsa hliizg 0as sne blanks Tor
ne bat iaTaiiag tbs rssiasnss part
ef ths alstrist 1 found 20 be sitogetnsf
another maEtsr TIE RrsE t&dy l sn-
e@antsrsa told ne / oaght 10 %
ashamed of myself, sa& although
showed her my eonmissi0as sac evil
esntly decided that ! vas fraud. As
ons Plaes / foRad three ladies' nakihS
merry over a lunch. Tae. insiste
that ! shoald siG down and join them,
and tell than al aboat the other ladies'
Ga the block, and when l declined, they
were indignant, asd 1 got the facts
after sharp tussel 70 swest-faesd
German lady had 10 explain al abous
ths census sTh- Government nun 5srs
yea every ten years, said. on, bat
hsven't bsea here ten years yet she
insisted Your age, nsxt birthday. IL
yoa Plsaseg | inquired I'm p 'fhen
yoa'u Dc % next birthsyf 'Oh. bat
that will be long time she re-
spondsd. An elderly woman, who
seemed to be all alone in her great
house, was indignant when asked her
whether chs had any acute or ehronie
disease, and asked me sharply IL
meant to insult her because she had
two false frOut teeth l could not fRd
1t in my heart to pat the question
whether or not they had ever been ia
Jail quickly learned 10 detect
divorced people The women would
hesitate and say; Well, put me down
single, | suppose that will dor But
you have been married. have you notf
/ persisted. When such woman glarsd
At me aud asked what the next question
was on the list, she went down as
divorced. I found the test infallibls.
Rough on tho Dudes.
There Is . terribLs fiut.er among the
anglomsniacs and bowling sweils just
now over the heartbreaking disclosures
Of smuggling London-made clothes
through the Custom House in defiance
Of Uncle SANS revenue laws SO eI
tensive has the practice become OF late
that the merchant tailors who formerly
supplied swelldom with its clothes
have been in despair over the traffic
that was running their business.
But the girls do these things in a
much cleverer way than the men For
all the oceans of lace, the mountains of
silks. and the rivers of diamonds that
are brought over the blue sea every fall
with the backhowing tide of summer
tourists. the:e is mere fraction OF
revenue paid to the Government.
Nobody suspects the demure looking
girl, with the soft peaches of maiden
hood 'still hanging on her cheeks, OF
defrauding the customs but she does,
the sly puss! Once in while, a
clumsy matron who has loaded herself
down with enough goods to stock
Broadway dry goods or millinery
counter, gets caught and stripped OF
her contraband belongings by the
sharp-eyed and deft-fngered womep
searchers but not one per cent. of the
women who make smuggling merry
adventure everytime they cross tn.
ocean is ever detected.
Success for the workingman.
None are more astonished than thu
labor leaders themselves at the progress
made by the Eight-hour movement
since the first of Msy-the day of thu
great parade. At the outset, very few
trades were disposed 10 embark wholly
upon the accommodation of the Fedora.
tion of Labor: but the success OF the
few emboldened the rest, and the pros
pect now is that in the near futur,
there will be an avalanche of strikes
such as the oldest labor agitator in the
country cannot remember. Success Is
making the trades restive under
restraint, and they will hardly wait fol
the programme of the Federation,
which contemplates the strike of one
trade at a time backed by all the
machinery, moral support and money
influence of the confederated trades, tc
help il TO win victory. The eight
hour idea. which only a year ago was
discussed among labor men at their
councils and decided to be impracticable,
ia infectious and threatens TO seize all
the trades not already Gin the move
msnt," rs President Gompers expresses
il. long before the summer is ended.
Hardly n summer passes without half
dozen or more strikes taking place, so
this is nothing new; bat there arc
already FIVE big strikes in actual prog
ress. involving thousands OF opera
tives. and partially stagnsting tho
building industries that have their
harvest in the hot season. There are
svmpathetic strikes under way in
Maine. Rhode Island. Nassachusetts,
District OF Columb.a, Connecticut. Ten
nessee. Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Ore
eon. Wisconsin and Ohio. The four
weeks OF strike have already cost the
trades very nearly 500. 900; but there is
constant iafuK o. funds 20 an extent
that does not lessen the quarter million
Of dollars in thstreasuries Of the trades
involved. Before the eight-hour day
can be said to be an accomplished fact
even supposing that all the trades
win as easily "a those that have already
struck-it will have cost the unions
over million dollars, "a the movement
cannot run its course earlier than
September The ability 30 conduct a
strike movement demanding so large An
outlay ia something unhesrd Of in labor
organizations.
Hep wanted
Mrs G-1bbs lin the kitchen six :. NJ
Dear me- The Ere is out and no wood
cut, no coal up. either. In not going