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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
Labor Organization Is Eight.

The organizations of labor, the mo-
nopolies Of labor, they may properly be
called, are far from perfect, either III
their conception or in their methods of
procedure. But the theory is correct
They are movements in which the voice
of the individual is sounded with the
volume of united force, and the voice
Of the weakest man is now heard with
respect, if not with admiration, by
classes that heretofore have heard it
only with contempt. The organization
Of labor must grow.
The mistakes of the past must point
out the safer course to be followed in
the future, and the workingman will
learn daily more and more perfectly the
lesson that to be effective his demands
must have right for their bulwark, and
that they are weak only when they are
wrong. Only he who wishes to be blind
will not see that organization, concentra-
ton Of service and united demand have
vastly improved the condition Of the Ia
boring man and assured to him not only
protection against individual injury
which is undeserved, but permanence in
such freedom.
If occasionally the persons not i'm
mediately interested be put to some tenn
porary discomfort. it ought to be con-
sidered that the good of the whole So
cial fabric must result from just SET
Element of such disputes. It is better
that such disputes should be settled, if
possible, without the blood shedding
which marked the French revolution,
but society must learn, if it has not
already learned, that such extremes are
possible when wrongs go unrighted and
just appeals are disregarded. T.
A. Hendrick.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
THE. CARNEGIE MILLS.
q Few Accurate Details Regarding Hours
and Wages at Homestead.

and Wages at Homestead.
Everywhere in this enormous building
lthe boiler plate mill) were pits like the
mouth of hell, and fierce ovens giving
off glare of heat, and burning wood
and iron giving off horrible stenches of
gases Thunder upon thunder, clang
upon clang, glare upon glare. Torches
famed far up in the dark spaces above.
Engines moved to and fro, and steam
fissed and threatened.
Everywhere were grimy men with
Eallow and lean faces. The work was of
the inhuman sort that hardens and
Coarsens
''How long do you work?' I asked Of
young man who stood at the furnace
near me.
twelve hours" he replied. ''The
night set go on at 6 at night and come
off at in the morning. go on at
and off at g.
''For how much pay?''
1.-TWO dollars and a quarter. -
''How much do those men get shovel
ing there in the rain?'
lone dollar and 40 cents "a cut
has since taken place.)
"What proportion Of the men get that
pay?''
'Two-th thirds of the whole plant
nearly 1000. There are 3, 500 men in
the mills. They get all prices, of course,
from 81. 40 up to the tonnage men, who
get SIS and $40 per day when the mills
run smooth. -
II suppose not many men make $40
per day."
"Well, hardly he smiled. "Of
course the rollers and the heaters get
the most, but there are only two rollers
to each mill and three heaters, and they
are responsible for their product The
most of the men get under So per day. "
"And it is 10 hours work without
stop?'
"You bet! And then, again, you see,
we only get this pay part of the time.
The mills are liable to be shut down
part Of the year. They shut down part
of the night sometimes, and of course
we're locked. Then, again, the tendency
Of the proprietors is to cut down the
tonnage men-that is, the rollers and
heaters are now paid by the ton, but
they'll some day be paid by the day,
like the rest of u.s.
'You bet they WILL" said my guide,
who seemed quite familiar with the
facts.
"Of course you understand the ton
mage men are responsible for their prod
uct. You see the improvement of ma
chinery helps them, but it don't help
the common laborer much. It wouldn> t
help the tonnage men if the company
could fill their places cheaper. They
don't pay them by the ton because they
want to, but because they have to. But
the tonnage men'll get it next year..
''That's right said the man at the
furnace door as he seized his shovel to
''line' the furnace -Hamlin Garland
in McClure's Magazine.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
A Labor and Capital Theory.

Only the profits Of the sugar business,
the vast wealth Of individuals connect
ed with it and the arrogance of tie man.
ayers have claimed public attention.
How does that favorite Republican mot
to, Capital and labor are one," fit the
operations of the sugar monopoly? Do
their workmen enjoy fair share of the
joint profits accruing to this oneness Of
labor and capital?
The News Of yesterday gave a star
thing account of labor within the walls
Of one Of the trusts great refneries in
Brooklyn. The temperature was said
to have been 145 degrees The heat was
so intense and the air SO sitting that
one workman after another was pros-
trated One, in the act of trying to
reach window for a breath of fresh
airs fell dead on the way. From mid
night Friday until Saturday noon it is
said that nearly 100 men had succumbed
to that awful ordeal. s
But, worse still, SO far as human con-
science is concerned, it is reported
that Frustrated men who could not
readily be revived .'were carried out Of
the building on sretchers and either
taken home or left in the streets away
from the refinery !" And when infor-
nation was sought from the managers
il is said to have been refused with
characteristic effrontery. That is the
Sugar trusts exhibit Of practical results
based on the idea that labor and capital
are one. Capital Is one and labor il :
Cipher. New York News.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
4 DEFUNCT OYSTER.
THE DEMOCRATS RESPONSIBLE FOR
LOST TRADE.

Eastern Oystermen Find Less Demand For
Their Bivalves-People Have No Money
and Cannot Buy-Collections Hard and
Profits Small.
The oyster business is large one in
the United States, especially all along
the Atlantic coast. Down on Long Is
land there are hundreds of men interest,"
ed in the oyster business who are not
protected by the tariff, and according
to the free trade theory nothing should
interfere with the success and prosperity
of their business, which involves large
amount of money invested in the oyster
beds, in boats and tackle. The majority
Of the oystermen along the southern
coast Of Long Island have heretofore
been steadfast Democrats But since the
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
Starved Out of Business.
tariff Reform"

For more than a year past wool has
been selling at free trade prices, so that
many growers have been starved out of
the business, and the few remaining
have not been able to pay current ex-
penses. In consequence Of this condition
Of affairs several thousand in connec-
ton with the trade have been forced
out Of employment. In fact, never since
wool growing has been an industry in
this country has the business been in
such deplorable condition as during
the past 10 months. The Bank Of
Tempe, A. T., has just closed its doors
on account Of the ruin Of some Of it's
stockholders through the shrinkage in
the price OF wool and sheep. y oakland
(Cal Saturday Globe Review.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03

NJ. EO1hNE IOEf1N. french war Office
treated him SO abominably that he pub
ished pamphlet which contained Sc
we're reflections upon government Off
Gals, and Turpin was imprisoned. The
government, however, allowed Turpin
to continue work upon his schemes, and
the result of his prison labor was 1ays-
terious engine of war that the inventor
claimed would wipe out an entire army
in 10 minutes and destroy such a city
as Paris in an hour. Turpin was releas-
ed and offered to give the machine to
France II the government would remove
from his character the stain inflicted by
imprisonment and restore his cross of
the Legion of Honor. The officials were
hard hearted and refused. In moment
Of anger Turpin went to Belgium and
began negotiating for the sale of his in
vention to Frances enemy, Germany.
When this rumor was published, France
went wild, and there arose such a howl
of execration at the war office that the
government hurriedly asked Turpin to
return to France. He is now there and
France is to enjoy the murderous bene-
fits of his engine Of destruction. There
is still h;.ze Of mystery surrounding
the invention, but it is monster can
non that wvrks like machine guns Of
the maxim and gatling principle. The
cannon is provided with an automatic
loading apparatus and may be fired
about once in three minutes. At each
fire it discharges 49, shells, which
will explode with terrific effect upon the
enemy. By methoa!cally turning the
gun it's line of fire. forms an arc cover
ing 10 kilometors and wiping out every
living thing III it's path. The gun, &C
cording to Iurpin, is veritable glut-
ton for amnl unition and must always be
accompanied by enough shells to load a
railroad train of many cars. Whether
the gun win do in practice what Tur-
pin claims for it in Theory remains to
be seen.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
OTTAWA SCANDALIZED,
Unconventional Goings On Re.
ported at Rideau Hall.
QUEER CONDUCT OF THE SERVANTS
They Seem to Be on Terms of Social Equal
ity With the Governor General and His
Observation-Disclosures Ottawa Holds Up Its
Hands In Horror.

Queer rumors come from OTTAWA con-
corning unconventional and altogether
unprecedented proceedings at Rideau
Hall. The governor general, Lord Aber-
deem, and his famous lady are said to hob.
mob in the most familiar fashion with
their servants and to conduct their official
entertainments in an uncercmonious style
that has quite shocked and Mortified the
society of that conservative capital. For
our knowledge of the situation we are in
debted to the following story by the o.
tawa correspondent of the New York Re-
corder, who is evidently an ardent partisan
of the anti Aberdeen faction:
Never was gentlewoman more advanced and
liberal in her ideas than is Lady Aberdeen.
who in consequence has gained in popularity
among tradespeople and the working classes
what has been lost in the upper set. Since
their arrival at Government House there has
been literally no distinction of persons, and
the ''exclusive'' of the capital have been horri-
fed beyond measure by meeting at official en-
tertainments grocers, restaurant keepers, pub
lie school teachers and even waiters-in fact. a
perfect ola podrida.
To any one conversant with Canadian So
ciety it will at once appear how CALLING this is
to the Four Hundred Of the Dominion in gen.
eral and to aristocratic Ottawa in particular.
The Aberaeens' first entertainment battles
description. and the quality of the supper was
truly appalling, consisting as it did of thickly
cut ham sandwiches, bad claret cup and tepid
lemonade.
Her ladyship is playing the mischief with
the servants here. She has club for their
own household called the "Haddo club" and
they have weekly entertainments. Recently
at one of these Mr.. Grant, the butler, read a
paper entitled my Impressions of Canada"
Each servant is permitted to invite two
friends to these gatherings, and the Aberdeens
ALSO ask a few friends. The other evening the
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03

JAMES HARVEY DAVIS.
as one of his friends puts it. The first
daylight to greet his baby eyes was that
of South Carolina, and the time when
this interesting event occurred was SO
years ago. When James was ID years
old, his father removed to Winsboro,
Tex, where the motherless boy after
three years of instruction and at the
age Of 10 began five years. term of
schoolteaching.
In 1882 he was admitted to the bar.
He had always been an active Demo-
crat, but in 1890 his political faith
changed, and he became member of
the Cincinnati conference that formed
the National Peoples Party. He has
been member of the national commit
tee Of the organization ever since and
has stumped many states Of the Union
for the cause Of the Populists. His
sobriquet was the inspiration of Frank
fort (Ky.) newspaper men, who were
much impressed with the eloquence he
displayed during warm debate with
Attorney General Harden. The papers
regretted that he was ION the wrong
side Of politics." as they expressed it,
but they freely admitted that ''his
rounds Of eloquenee, pithy anecdotes
and rousing rejoinders never failed to
bring forth cyclone Of applause. -
Thenceforth the tall and eloquent Texan
was known throughout the west as ''Cy-
clone'' Davis. =.
Another sobriquet, Methodist Jim, -
is also the result of Davis oratorical
efforts He says he is not q church
member for the reason that he il not
good enough, but during discussion
with prominent Republican in Hous-
ton Davis talent as an exhorter led
him to be called Methodist Jim.''
! In 1878 Cupid did some vary elo-
uuent exhorting, with the result that
the Iona Star orator welded Miss Belle
Barton, the daughter Of we'll known
Texan. Since the occurrence Of that
event four young male cyclones have
struck the Davis home. The eldest and
most cyclonio youngster is Is years Of
age, and the youngest is q 3-year old
tornado. Fen tho past three years the
Davis home has baen IN Sulphur Springs,
where Mr.. Davis edits The indicates,
= reform paper.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
The Wolves and the Sheen.

Once on q time the Wolves sent an
embassy to the Sheep, desiring that
there might be peace between them for
the time to come why, = said they,
f'should we be forever waging this
deadly strife? Those wicked Dogs are
the cause Of it all; they are necessarily
barking, at Us and provoking Us. = The
BILLY Sheep listened, the Dogs were dis
missed, and the flock, thus deprived Of
their protection, became an easy prey
% their treacherous enemy.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
Age. Height. Weight.
IL. A. johnson (captain).

Average age, 20 years 2 months: average
height, feet ll1a inches; weight, 173311@ pounds
Rogers, Cross and Smith are from New
York city, Armstrong from Hampton,
Va, johnson from Norwich, Conn,
Treadway from Sioux City, Holcomb from
New Haven, Beard from Poughkeepsie
N. Y, Olmstead from Hartford, Knapp
from Norwalk, Conn.,, and Dater is a
Brooklyn boy. The most experienced oars
man in the boat is naturally Captain
Johnson, who pulled bow oar in the last
two winning crews Yale turned out. This
year he was unable to find an acceptable
stroke and SO concluded to fill that respon-
sible seat himself. Rogers, whose brother
John was captain of the 1887 crew, is at
No. this year for the second time. The
majority of the remaining members are
experienced men who composed the great
freshman crew that defeated the Columbia
and Harvard freshmen last year by dozyn
lengths and broke all previous records Tor
two miles. With such excellent material in
the boat the big race on the Thames at
New London June % seems quite sure t.
again go Yale's way
The Harvard men are WORKING hare.
however, and firmly believe that they
have good chance to win. The statistics
OF the men and the order in which they
will row are as follows:
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03

famous inventor
W hose claim
that, owing to
the ill treatment
of the French
war Office, he had
sold his new and
terrible war en-
CINE to Germa-
ny, created a ter
rife sensation in
France. Not ma
ny years ago Tur-
pin invented the
new explosive,
nelinite, and the
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
"ODD AS DICKS HATBAND."

"Cyclone" Davis Is Thus Distinguished
From the Other Davises of Texas.
One of the unique political characters
Of the Lone Star State is James Harvey
Davis, better known in the world Of
politics as ''Cyclone' Davis. He is tall,
blue eyed and "odd as Dicks hatband,"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03

+. A. JOHNSON, STROKE. r. ARMSTRONG, BOW.
L. DAVIS, NO. 6. E. H. FENNEssY NOT
erage is but 161 pounds. Both are sopho
more crews, and there are but two veter-
ans in each boat-Captain johnson and
Rogers in the Yale shell and Captain Da.
Wis and Fennessy in the Harvard boat
The statistics of the Yale crew are:
Heipht Wo;p1,t
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03


height, feet 10 inches; average weight, ISL
pounds.
OF the regular eight, Davis, Fennessy,
Stevenson, Townsend, Lewis and Purdon
are all Bostonians. Kales, the talented
new stroke, halls from Chicago and Bull
lard is from Dedham, Mass This is d.
Wis second year in the varsity boat, and
F'ennessy, the other Harvard veteran,
stroked last years beaten crew. He is
more satisfactory at No. z, and consequent
~ kales succeeds him as stroke this year.
The crimson crew arc a plucky set of ath-
ietes and will surely put up good race
when the eventful day comes. They have
not forgotten that, although the Yale crew
Of 1891 was considered the best that had
ever left New Haven, the supposedly in
ferior Harvard crew won great victory.
The distance to be rowed, as every one
knows, is four miles straightaway. FRI
day, June 20, was originally fixed as the
day Of the race, but the conditions Of the
tide are such that the representatives Of
the two crews have decided to row on the
day before. For many years the race has
taken place on Friday, but Thursday
would seem an equally convenient day.
Since 1875, when the present series Of
races began, the great event has been won
II times by Yale and times by Harvard.
Yale owes her supremacy to the Bob Cook
stroke, which was introduced at Yale By
the famous coach Of that name. Yale has
lost few races In the years that Cook has
been her rowing mentor, and she appar-
emily appreciates good thing, judeing
from the faithful manner IN which she
sclings to his teachings.
One odd feature Of the race Is that the
crews train arduously six months for 8
contest that is over IN 30 minutes.
MALCOLM MORTIMER
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
YALE VERSUS HARVARD
The Rival Varsity Crews to
Meet This Month.
TT LOOKS LIKE YALE ONCE MORE.
The New Haven Oarsmen Are Much Heavier
Than the Cambridge Crew-Of the Six
teen Men but Four Are Veterans-The
Race Will Probably Occur June 28.

AS the shrin piping Of the robin heralds
the approach of springtime, 10 the annual
wailing of the Yale and Harvard calamity
howlers about this time is certain har-
binger that the blue and the crimson arc
soon to meet in their great annual boat
race. The Yale howl is usually to the ef-
feet that Bob Cook has just looked over
the crew and is SO disappointed at it's
showing that he is undecided whether to
commit suicide or return to Philadelphia.
The Harvard wall is to the effect that the
crimson creW is SO bad, SO awfully, awfully
bad, that Mayor Bancroft is on the verge
of nervous prostration.
There is occasionally something in the
Harvard rumor, for Harvard usually turns
out losing crew, but in the case of Yale
the reports that the boat has gone all to
pieces" and that the ''blade work is rag
ged" are usually the imaginings of Yale
hackers who are attempting to encourage
the appearance of Harvard money.
This year the Yale crew is much heavier
than that of Harvard. The Yale men av-
erage 1857 pounds, while the Harvard av-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03

One Of the most interesting figures in
France today is M. Eugene Turpin, the
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
TURPIN AND HIS GUN.

The Famous Inventor Who Has Put An
>~EE France In q Torment.
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Britnin sloygly washIpr Avny,

The British board Of photographers
have made report which is startling
in some of its details. It appears that
after a long series of observations it has
been ascertained that the little Thames
is carrying ID, 900, 600 cubic feet of
British soil into the sea annually. In
order to get an idea Of what tho above
figures really mean, let us imagine a
huge mass Of stone 100 feet in width,
100 feet lcng and 100 feet high. Then
let us imagine that II of these immense
cubes are yearly hoated out to sea from
the British mainland. Tho Thames ba-
sin has, however, an area of 0,160
square miles. The immense amount of
solid matter alluded to above is taken
grain by grain from this largo extent OF
surface, so that it only wears away the
surface of the basin as whole at the
rate OF one-eight hundredth part of an
inoh each year. at the rate of wear and
tear mentioned In the opening para
graph Of this article one would natural-
" suppose that within a few hundred
years the whole of the main British isle
would be deposited at the bottom OF the
ocean, but owing to the vast area from
which that II, 600, 600 cubic feet Of sol
i'd matter is gathered the basin Of the
Thames has only been lowered one sim
gle inch since the Norman conquest.
Some OF the readers OF this Will no
doubt be disappointed to find that the
rate of erosion is so slow and will de-
clare that the head line conveys differ
emit impression. The island is, however,
slowly washing away for the statis-
tician OF the photographic board says
that it VIII take $500, 600 years more
to reduce Britain to the level OF the sea.
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"a little farm well titled,
q little cellar we'll fiiled,

What tould you wish mHu better than
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Rosewood coffin early 1lIed,
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NovEnTrEs III IADrEs sKIETs.-The p

NovRrT1Es IL LADIES sEwTs.-The por-
tion of the costume which seems TO be the
leading subject Of enquiry at the present mo-
meut is the Skirt. While bodiees and sleeves
arc stiIl following TO seme extent the general
lines OF the forWer season, skirts nre the alb
soTbfng theme Of Interest Ia the new i'm porta-
tions. Great e their variety. The question
OF choice embraces an extensive field. 10th Of
extreme novelties and siuIplep epractlcai designs.
Models 20 suit every taste ard oecaeiOn are II
ilnstrated In the populsf tiMeD0Wei1 Faslion
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moreover, in these magazines n their coupon
Patterns, feHtuFe exceedingly eouLeuie leE
fhose who desire cheaper grade OF pattssfI.ls
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Mcdowell g Co, West 18th Street. New
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Preaehinr- Ia Prayine.

The minister admonishes us to wascb
and pray and then goes and preaches
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Plain Sewing Wanted.

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WI that she is prepared to do all kinds OF
Plain Sewing. All work entrusted to her will
be executed neatly, promptly and upon reason
able terms. Residence on north East alley,
second house below Mrs. buttons.
February .. 1892.