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The morning call., 1894-12-12

A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY. BARGAIN
~ seekers will be satisfied this week by what
they md in our bargain-rOom: Several square
pianos and fine organs at $40 up; upright pianos
$50, Sll5. $l97 80, and very elegant instrument
OILY used a few weeks At 1925; be sure and visit
this room. Another full carload of elegant new
pianos arrived yesterday; our holiday stock is
The morning call., 1894-12-12
MISSING FRIENDS.

nREss AND CLOAK MAKING: SUITS, 81
u up: MRS KAUTkOWITZ. ga Howard. dee
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pianos arrived yesterday; our holiday stock is
now complete, but going out rapidly; don't delay
the selection OF that nice piano for Christmas we
are exclusive agents for seven standard makes:
the world-hon ored and popular Hardman piano is
unequaled; the celebrated Chase Bros surpass
all others In durability and for sweet-singing
quality take your choice on terms and prices sat
isfRctOry TO GU. THE j. DENYING CO., I'd floor
Flood building. Fourth ana Market SITS. de9 Il
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Q1000 FALCON AVE; BAYwINDow
DtOUO. house of rooms and bath; large
basement: lot bOyllU.
, 1894-06-02
I HE AVIS.
C~Agistiansted, St. Ccefx
Saturday, End June 1894.

A few weeks ago, when we started the
question whether any use could be made OF
the Christiansred lagoon and harbour to facili-
tate the transport of canes from the East
End to the Central Factory, we thought We
had opened up a subject of some interest; but
it does not appear that anybody cares a straw
about it, for, although we invited views on
the subject, we have received no communities
ton on it whatever, neither written nor oral.
It may be that the idea is absurd; and that
nobody likes to write to tell rs that we
are Ignorant or foolish in putting It for-
ward, Even SO, a letter pointing out the
difficulties would be interesting, as any COM
munication based on q knowledge of the de-
tails of the problem would be sure to be. There
are some points of interest about the lagoon
which have to be considered. For example,
its depth in various par is the best point at
which to ship the canes; the breadth OF the
mangrOve fringe which would have to be-
crossed to reach the lighter the best way to
made a pier or embankment for the carts to
pass over this muddy strip; the depth of the
outside bar at different states of the tide
whether any chear way could be found to
remove part Of this bar if necessary.
ltseems to us that the matter is worth a little
attention. The sugar growing area of our
island is contracting put into a short form
we may say that sugar is DESERVING the hills.
This should make us anxious to put all the
fiat stretches that we have into as favourable
a condition as possible for continuing the
industry, and tlere are considerable fiat or
nearly fat stretches in the East End
that would be put back in sugar very
soon if there were only some facilities given
for transporting the canes to the place of sale,
or if a place of sale were established within
reasonable carting distance. The question
is one which concerns the business people Of
ChriStiansted almost as much as it concerns
the holders of land in the East End, and we
would like to see it fully discussed.
, 1894-06-02
KILOGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION

%. OhOIA O1AIION.
Plymouth, May 3Oth.-Ths RMS. Orinooo
arrived here from the West Indies at 4. a. m.
London, May 30th.-It is announced that
Colonel E. Leach Q. B. has been selected to
the command of the troops in Barbados, vice
Colonel Patton, who has received the appoint
ment of Commandant to the School of Mus
kerry at Hythe.
New York, 30th M~ay.-London news an
nounces that Captain Mahan, of the U. S. S.
, 1894-06-02

ALLE og Enhver der MATTE
III have Noget at fordre paa
Beet efter afgangne forhenv@rende
Planter HENRY PATTERSON,
indkaldes herved, med 3 Maaneders
Varsel, til at anmelde og beyislig-
gi0re deres Krav for undertegnede
Executors testament.
Frederiks ted, St. Croix, den 29de Mai 1894.
j. HEWITT. j. FOSTER.
, 1894-06-02

TT is hereby made known that the
sessions in the estate Of the de-
ceased HENRY PATTERSON, for
merly planter, will be held by the
undersigned Executors testament
every fourth SATURDAY of each
month, 4 o'clock p. M, at No. IS
Kcngens Gade, Frederiksted.
Frsderiksted, st. Croix, 29th May 1894.
J. HEWITT. J. FOSTER.
, 1894-06-02

M Sessionerne i abode for
81 henverende Planter HENRY
PATTERSON'S 30 afholdes af UNI
dertegnede Executors testament den
4de LORDAG i hver Manned, Efter-
midday Kl. A i Huset No. IS Kong.
ems Gade i Frederiksted bekjendt-
gi0res heryed.
Frederiksted, St. Croix, den 29de Mai 1894.
j. HEWITT. J. FOSTER.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21

WulCo OUT no leSS surrey WOmen-Strap-
ping damsels they have been termed
showed themselves in similar lines to
possible employers in another part.
1t has always been held that it was
allowable to indulge more freely in
business presentations at fair time than
at other seasons, and Goldsmith, in
'"The Vicar Of Wakefield" has told
how shrewd were the dealers at English
fairs in his day. A story of recent trick
cry at an Irish fair has it that farmer
who had COW to sell fastened false
tail to the animal, her own caudal ap-
pendage having been lost through acct
dent. This trick was it's own undoing,
however, for while all the other COWS at
the fair fought the flies furiously with
their tails this poor beast never moved
hers. This singular circumstance was
noticed by the purchaser in time to en-
able him to call the sale off. The own
er, in his talk with the buyer, had de-
clared that he hoped that if he were ly-
ing about the COW ''the two at home in
the cradle might be burned to ashes be-
fore he got back This ingenious oath
taker confded to a friend afterward
that he ran no risk on using this for
mula, for he had placed two sods in the
cradle before starting to the fair to
take the whom out Of his oath. The
business Of the day at an Irish or Eng
ish fair is practically done by o'clock
in the afternoon, and then the merry
making begins in earnest. Of course
the Irish lads and lassies begin their
pleasures after a more ightsome fashion
than do the English and sometimes
wind it up more oariously. Dancing
is always feature, Of course, and
dancing Light - q great accomplish
ment with the daughters Of Erin. It
was an Irish versifier who wrote,
dance light for my heart it lies
under your feet, love. =
The German fair is called q ..jahr-
markt, : and the old oriental idea OBJ
tains largely IN is conduct. The Ger-
man ..masoh, z : mixture, possesses
many Of the chsra cteristic Of the Amer
lean county fair-that, Is, It is q gath
ering q tho people for amusement,
and all sorts of cheap and simple pleas
Eures are afforded, as merry 50 rounds
md the hka besides some not 60 limo
can't but the only exhibitions arc q
the side show variety, and no prizes are
offered Tor big vegetables @ fat hoga
At no fairs outside Of America are
there contests of equine speed. II fact.
raoes of horses are almost unknown u
old world fairs but in this country 8
Efair without either trotting o. running
matches could hardly Be expected 70 be
success IARIEs ART
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21
Of the railroads themselves. That makes

Of the railroads themselves. That makes !
matters worse. <s@:@5
The wages Of the laundry girls were
reduced, but prices of berths were not
reduced. If you ate dinner in one of the !
Pullman dining cars and wiped your
mustache with a napkin washed and
ironed by these laundry girls, did you
pay less for that dinner?
s"The employees are quoted as want
ing the wages of 1898 for work done at
q loss. The reason the employees went
to Mr.. Pullman with this demand was
because they wanted something definite
fixed SO that they might compromise.
They expected to be able to lessen the
severity of the cut. If they could have
reduced the cut from Ss15 per cent to IS
per cent, many of the men told me they
would have returned to work. The COM
mittee that waited on him further asked
that he reduce the rent, equalize wages
and reform many petty abuses they were
subj ected to-
Mr.. Carwardine then said that Mr..
Pullman was sharp enough to take the
men at their word and evade the gen.
eral question. He promised to look
into the abuses, not to discharge any
member of the committee and give them
an answer. Mr.. Carwardine continued:
"At the time of the strike the salaries
of the officials were not cut, nor of the
heads Of departments, foremen or car
inspectors. Since the strike began the
clerical forces and heads of departments
have been cut-those receiving over
500 a month to 800, and lower SAL
aries in like proportion. Since the
shops have been closed the pay of the
watchmen have been cut 50 cents out
of $3.50.
'As to the inspection of his books,
many Of the employees believe that the
books were doctored or two sets of
books were kept. Anyway what good
would it do to inspect 10000 sets of
books if it wouldn't change the tyranny
they were subjected to? The morning
after the committee met Mr. Pullman
three Of them were laid off by the FORE
man, contrary to agreement. To prove
that they were discharged the foreman
finished the work that one of them was
engaged upon and then placed another
| man at it.
"Mr. Pullman was only asked to al
! low a committee to see if there was
! anything to arbitrate. He was not COM
PEELED to run his works at a loss in
definitely. If his position was correct,
he had nothing to fear. Contrary to his
| statements, houses were not rented at
Pullman in competition with the sur
rounding places. Employees were urged
to come to Pullman to live, and know
of a case where man was compelled
to move to Pullman to hold his job"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21
Child Workers In Maine.

If there is a padrone system in town,
and it looks now as if there might be,
now is the time to crush out the system,
because the sooner it is done the better it
will be for the working people, especial
ly for children. A child, not over II
years Of age at that, entered store with
her mother Friday and bought few
cheap articles. The mother kept back
the tears at first when she told her story
to the merchant, but they finally coursed
down her cheeks as she looked upon the
child at her side, who did not have the
necessaries of life. Her husband is an
invalid and G. A. r. veteran, and there
are six small children to be cared for.
This one is not very strong, but walks
two miles to her work every morning,
eating her dinner in the mill The mer-
chant noticed Laconia pay envelope in
her hand, with these figures on it.
ST. so.
HAS your child been sick?'' he asked.
"No-that is, she has not been we'll,
but for the past two weeks she has
worked every day, and that is all her
pay comes to-" the mother sobbed.
Reckon this up, and you will find
that it comes to 121S cents day, while
the overseer gets SIS for the same length
Of time, and Agent Macarthur draws his
$40, 900 or $4,000 year, yet people
wonder why there is a wide abyss be-
tween employer and employee. People
who do not know the inside of the mill
system censure labor speakers who ask
for an organization that will prove too
strong for capital to shake or even to
culver. The poor devils who live on the
hope that they will die young some
night after they have gone to sleep look
upon the immense dividends that the
Laconia and Pepperell are declaring
with the same feeling that the child's
father had when he was thirsting for
water and food on the Battlefield
deford (Me.) Standard.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21

OF maid and matrOn, the machinery, the
general merchandise all these things
are present for evolutionary purposes
only and must not be sold till the fair
is over, the idea being that If sales are
allowed the handsomest horses, the
sleekest cattle, the fattest pigs, the big
gest squashes, the most beautiful flow
ers and the most elaborate work of the
women will disappear early in the life
Of the fair and SO cease to serve as draw
ing cards for spectators, from whose adj
mittance fees the main profits Of the
fair association are forthcoming.
It is possible that you have never
watched the slow growth of a favorite
pumpkin intended for the fair, and that
you have never "raised" hen or heifer,
hog or horse for exhibition. If you have
not, you do not know what worry is,
according to confession recently made
to me by comfortably stout old agri-
culturist, whose parlor walls are hung
with diplomas and decorated with many
lead and bronze. few silver and one or
two gold medals, mute witnesses of his
past triumphs as an exhibitor. Possibly
your women folk have never crocheted
and embroidered and ''patchworked",
and cooked for the fair, in which case
you are entitled to be thankful and take
courage for the future. So indeed you
are if you have never fallen a victim to
the wheels of fortune and other snares
for the money and the virtue Of the un-
wary that are spread out so freely and
with such, accurate knowledge of what
is most seductive to the rural heart at
every county fair the whole land over.
IF you have been such a victim, you
have probably learned to revise your
early estimate of your own shrewdness,
and you certainly have had many
comrades in your folly.
No matter how much the fairs of the
orient and the occident may differ, they
have one feature in common-they serve
as means Of bringing together persons
who do not otherwise often meet. In
England and Ireland the fair is in some
localities the social event Of the twelve
month, and so it is indeed in many parts
Of the United States. There is, however,
a good deal more of romance mixed up
in the fairs Of the old world everywhere
than there is with those of the new any,
where. This may be in spite Of and it
may be because of the fact that one of
the objects of the early fairs in the Brit
ish islands and in Europe generally
object that obtains to some extent even
yet-was the exhibition of human ami
mails as well as brute creatures that
is, at fair time the farm servants-in
America we should call them ''hired
help'-were engaged by the farmers for
the ensuing year. Accordingly all the
stalwart, broad shouldered young men
who wanted situations used to range
themselves in line for inspection in one
part of the grounds, while the pink and
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21

Av1CTm OF A WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
quite as much the purpose Of the fair
here as elsewhere, but tho method az
achieving that purpose is quite differ
emit The American fair is primarily an
exhibition, and the exhibitor, instead
of seeking to sell his goods at tho fair,
strives 70 make IS good show . poasi-
bic il order to let the people who 90 "a
the fair. . Z spectacle. know the quail
ity ct goods O. PRODUCES he has regularly
tor sale The premiums offered 81 the
fair associations serve q double incite-
menus tosexoell Hence q exhibition, and
'nany associations strictly forbid sales
sof anything within tho Boundaries &c
Ithedr grounds except eatab1es drinkables
,and The cattle and horses
~ i Tho tho nov ers and
hanllii ~
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21
The Ballots the Thing.

Down in Indiana where I have been
the workingmen are resolved to try a
new plan. They are going to leave the
old parties which have trampled them
underfoot and elect men who will give
them an equal show with the capitalists.
After all, it is the money power that
dominates our legislative bodies It also
dominates the federal judiciary. Both
parties have made all sorts of. promises
to the worHngmen about the good or
bad results which were to come to him
through tariff legislation. We have had
a high tariff on the products of labor,
but none on the pauper laborers who
were brought here to compete with the
laborer who was supposed to enjoy the
benefits Of such tariff In that, as ev-
erything else, we find it is the money
question, after all s.y ...rs. Ia Z .<z
Ny advice to you il to 60 and vote
the Populist ticket and take this mis-
used power from the railroads and put
it in the hands Of the government. From
this time on we want governmental
ownership Of the railroads and we have
the votes 20 accomplish that end. Such
ownership will result n good wages
and fair treatment 70 the men who work
on them and equitable charges Tor the
people who patronize them. Lat that Be
your aim, and you will not Be starved
to death, g some az tho roeds Seem q
be trying to do with their employees.
y The real work d this strike has just
begun. ] do not mean s. calling ont
more men from work, but through the
efforts of the ballot The federal courts
cannot enjoin men from going to the
polls Eugene Y. Debs
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21
FACTS ABOUT FAIRS.
THEY WERE ORIGINALLY HELD AS
II ANNUAL GENERAL MARKETS.


Such Fairs Are Still Held In Some Parts Of
Europe, the Most Famous Perhaps Be-
ing That of Mini Novgorod- Irish Fairs.
The German ssnIasch." ~z%. r
This is the season Of the county fair,
one Of the most curious and interesting
of human observances. The county fair
as held in the United States is an evo-
luton from the fair Of remote antiquity
and has it's counterpart in every country
whose inhabitants are lifted above the
level Of abject savagery. But, though
all fairs possess features in common
and all sprang from the same begin
ming, they differ greatly in different
lands.
The object Of all is the promotion of
business. The first established annual
fair was market, pure and simple:
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-21

WATCHING THE GROWTH OF A PUMPKIN.
where producers, merchants and con-
sumers could meet once a year and do
their buying, selling and trading for
whole twelvemonth in the space of
few days, leaving the remainder Of the
year for Industrial operations. or, in
case the transactions of the fair had
been sufficiently profitable, for idleness
or pleasure seeking. 1t was found short
~ after this fair was established that it
was a really great institution, and other
fairs sprang up in other places, and
merchants of various sorts came in time
to spend the whole year, at the fairs and
in travelling between them. This brought
together men of diverse races, dress,
tongues and customs. This alone made
the fairs of antiquity interesting and
amusing as spectacles and valuable from
an educational point Of view. But it is
not to be supposed that it was very long
before forms of amusement were pro-
vided for amusement's sake. Merchants,
producers and purchasers alike would
find themselves exhausted at the close
of day devoted to business and ready
to pay for the services Of those who had
made business of the amusing arts.
Therefore jugglers, dancing men and
women, singers, players and gamblers
for the passion for games Of chance is
as old as humanity-all found it profit
able for them to attend the fairs as we'll
as for the merchants. Thus in time it
came to be that while the chief object
~ fcS1 4.
booths of the amusement providers were
quite as much in evidence and as essen
tial to the holding of satisfactory fair
as the booths of the merchants. Not all
Of the amusements were innocent, and
there were drinking and debauchery as
well as business at every fair.
In the oriental world the fairs are
still exclusively of the antique type
slightly sketched here, and most Euro
pean fairs retain the old time features.
The most famous fair Of the old school
in the whole world is the one held an
nually at Mini Novgorod, town of
central Russia, at which dealers not
only from all Russia, but also from
nearly all Asia, meet for business pur-
poses from Aug. to Sept. Is.
Neither admission nor entrance fees
are exacted at these fairs beyond the
rent of the ground on which the mer-
chants pitch their tents or erect their
temporary buildings. It is the immedi-
ate doing Of business that is sought,
and the display produced is entirely in
cidental, though often quite as attract
i've and imposing as it could we'll be
made If the fair were conducted along
western lines
In America, as we all know, the trad
ing part Of the fair has practically dis
appeared. The promotion of business is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-30
TIN-PLATE PLANTS AND STEEL MILLS CLOSE

Pittsburg Sept. 2s.-To-day every tin-plats plant
I'm the United states. with possibly one exception.
will be closed down. throwing several thousand men
idle un.n the wage DISPUTE Is settled. The More
wood Tin Plate Manufacturing Company. OF Eliza
beth, y. J.. is the exception. and 1t will suspend to-
day. If IN" work hand can be completed. All the
mills In this part of the country have closed. the
last being the big plant OF the United States Iron
and Tin Plate Company. at Demmler station. which
suspended yesterday To-day notice was posted
notifying the men that the shutdown was due to
the reduction in the tariff. Under the new wage
rate the manufacturers ASSERT that rollers, the
highest paid men. Will earn 81 per day and over.
and all other skilled bands VIII earn ~ per cent
more than the class Of workers In the British
mills. The wages OF the CHEAP labor, the manu-
facturers say. Will not be disturbed by the new
scale
Scranton Penn. Sept. 29.-The Lackawanna Iron
and Steel Company TO-DAY shut down us south
steel mill for an indefinite tme because Of the
lack Of orders. One thousand employees ere thrown
out of work This makes complete c0sng OF all
the steel works here and The iGleness OF over 5000
employed In all their branches
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-30
UEATY VEATHER At SEA.

VESSELS ASHORE on THE SOUTHERN COAST
GALES on THE NORTH ATLANTIC.
All incoming vessels from the South yesterday
brought news OF tempestuous weather, which they
encountered their trip up the coast. They re-
ported having passed schooners hove 10, riding out
the gale and having sighted vessels ashore on the
Florida coast.
The Morgan Line steamer Fl Rio, which arrived
here yesterday from New-Oreans. reported having
encountered heavy weather the entire passage ON
September 26 she sighted schooner ashore near
Tennessee Reef the Florida coast. Eight miles
north of Alligator Reef on the Florida coast, she
saw a foregn-bui.t steamer ashore. The steamer
had two masts and painted dark buff with A
black stripe Four miles north Of Carysfort Reef
she saw a large vessel ashore. with all her masts
gene and her yards lying across her deck
The bark Cuba. from Hamburg. took northerly
course and reported having experienced hurri-
cane in latitude 1870 longitude A. in which she lost
almost entire suit Of sails.
The hurricane was too far north to have had any
relationship with the West Indian cyclone the ef
fects of which the ships from the South reported
on September q Carl F. Hubert. a German sailor
on the Cuba. seventeen years old. fell overheard
and drowned.