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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1896-05-09
day suppress noble sentiments

day suppress noble sentiments
for wicked purposes, and pro-
TESS a patriotism they do not
feel. In this great battle that
we are waging for the rescue
of our liberties, we must look
for real patriotism where it is to
be found-that is, among the
ranks of the reform forces. The
forces that are fighting consol-
idated wealth, unjust legisla-
ton, the assumption of prop
erty rights above human rights,
and they propose to fight it out
if it takes the remainder of this
century and half of the next.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1896-05-09
HONOR.

Ephriam Colby was a manu-
facturer of cloths, and a member
Of the great combine of cloth
manufacturers.
"Ah," Mr.. Colby would say,
"now the people will at last get
the benefit of long years of pro-
lection. All, this is what will
give the people their goods for
nearly nothing. It is an enter
prise worthy of the admiration
of the civilised world. Yes, we
have indeed the welfare of the
people at heart
And he smiled complacent1y at
his own goodness of heart. With
out doubt Colby was a philan-
thropist, as were all his brothers.
But in the face of this good will,
month after the combine had
been consummated, prices were
raised ten per cent. A month
later Mr.. Goldy's workmen were
informed that a reduction of five
per cent. in their wages was
necessary.
They struck-about seven hum
dred- and Mr.. Colby implored
them with tears in his eyes not
to persist in their evil course and
make him bankrupt. The step
he had taken was absolutely
necessary. Did they not know
that the tariff had been raised
hum, he was getting confused
his trials were more than he could
bear-that wasn't what he was
going to say. And then he got
angry, and told them if they
wanted to 20 to work, he would
let them, with a further reduc-
ton of five per cent.
They spurned his words indig-
nantly. They were skilled arti-
sans and could get work any,
where at good wages.
Very we'll. Mr.. Goldy's offer
was open a month.
A number of workmen went to
a neighboring town, and asked
for work.
Him" unused the official, look
ing at them inquiringly, skilled
hands, eh?'
Yes, indeed they were. Had
worked for Mr.. Colby for a life
time.
"Why did you leave?"
HE wanted to reduce our
wages" Indignantly.
"Wel1, well. Very sorry,' but
he didn't have ANYTHING for them
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1896-05-09
Secretary keliher.

Secretary keliher.
General Secretary Sylvester
Keliher, of the A. r. o., re-
turned to Minneapolis after two
weeks, spent in Superior and
Duluth, organizing several
unions. Mr.. Keliher did not
let the opportunity to extend
his good work beyond his par
ticular order and branch 90 by
without giving an encouraging
word and helping hand to
others in this struggle foreman
cipation while in the twin
cities. He allows no obstacle
to deter him in the struggle for
freedom for himself and fellow
men. No sacrifice is to great
for him to make in behalf of
the grand principle which he
advocates.
Mr.. Keliher is a good second
Eugene V. Debs, but on being
told of this fact he hastily re-
Piled that there was but one
Eugene V. Debs in this time
and generation.
This, by the way, is but a
small illustration of the love,
respect and devotion existing
between the directors and their
great leader, as wellas for each
other: Not one of the little
band that served out a sentence
at Woodstock have anything
but words of truest sympathy
and respect for each other. 1eal-
ousy and malice is unknown
among them. In the face of
this fact what a grand future
there is in store for the follow
ers of these struggling leaders.
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and gwen the same answers.
Mr.. Colby was member of the
combine, you know.
At last the workmen saw the
point, and back to Mr.. Colby
they went, despairing and sor-
rowful.
Mr.. Gold y never had another
strike. His workmen had no
spirit left. They felt themselves
to be slaves. And they were.
Mr.. Colby drove to his office,
and was assisted to the ground
by his footman.
"Call for me in a couple of
hours" he said, and strobe puff
ing to his room.
Everything was going along
smoothly in the large buildings,
as everything had gone for five
years.
The combine had gained in
strength and power greatly in
that time, and the way it
showered blessings on the dear
people was a wonder.
An emissary of the controlling
committee had an appointment
with Mr.. Colby at three. AS Mr..
Colby entered the office, wiping
the perspiration from his brow,
he found him there waiting, and
at once shook hands with him.
"Mr. WANT" said Colby when
the courtesies of the day had been
exchanged, IL understand that
you have some sort Of PROPOSE
ton to make me from the CON-
mittee you representa-
"Yes," said Mr.. Want careless
ly. II have been travelling all
through this part of the country,
and thought I would stop over
and see you before I returned to
New York. A matter of small
Importance if I recollect correct
1y."
"Oh, of course, of course"
"How do you find business,
Mr.. Goldy?" asked Want, while
searching through his pockets
for the papers.
"Never better, never better, my
dear sir" replied Colby enthusi-
astically. "You would be sur
prised at the number of sales I
am making and the promise of
an increase in business is very
favorable"
"Why," said Want slowly, his
attention distracted by his papers
which he had spread on his knee,
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

long drive that forms part of it all is
sure to be taken into strange and odd
places unknown to the greater crowd that
grinds and groans in the City. One day it
may be tour through the Potrero to
Hunters Point, where the big stone dry
dock is. and the dinner on a strip of sand
under the bluff not far away, with subse
quent drive over the San Bruno road, the
most lonely and picturesque in town, re-
turning by way of Baden and the San
Jose road. On another day it may be =
straight drive to Crystal Springs by way
of Milbrae, dinner on the shore and a
return by way of San Mateo. Still another
day may find us threading the Presidio
and losing ourselves in deep canyon be-
tween the Marine Hospital and the park.
Again, it NAV be a drive out Point Lobos
avenue and down the ocean beach six or
seven miles past the Cliff House, with a
return by way of IngIeside and the Cor
bett road Ca particularly favorite route for
us by reason OF the fact that in a small
canyon at the base OF Twin Peaks is the
hospitable home of Frenchman with an
English wife and if that is not com bina-
ton of hospitable elements we must go
far afield to seek it,.
For these trips my friend has sturdy
two-wheeled cart that can go anywhere,
and it has an ample box body, closed with
a lid, for carrying the provisions. The
horse is one of those wise and uncanny
creatures that knows how to make an easy
grade for himself by zgzagging up a hill.
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Then came another ingenious prepara-
ton. A French loaf-none other will an
swer-was cut transversely in two and the
parts split lengthwise and spread with
soft butter. You never catch sane
Frenchman using iced butter. Upon one
of these strips of buttered bread was laid
strip of steak cut of length to fit it. With
sharp penknife the steak was then
slashed through in number of places.
Instantly the hot imprisoned juices
poured out and mingling with the butter
soaked into the loaf. Before this had pro-
gressed too far the upper slice of bread
was laid on the meat and the whole turned
over, so that both should be soaked and
none of the juices lost. In devouring this
delicious morsel either the method OF the
cave-dweller or the penknife is suitable. L
submit that this entire process is rare
combination of philosophy and art.
OF course there has been an abundance
of light red wine, an honest California
article. This yielded to burgundy in the
succeeding course, and that in turn to
what my friend called champagne but
this is anticipating.
To have hot black coffee without
even the coffee-pot is ununusual, but
my friend accomplishes it. He makes
coffee at home and brings it in
bottle. This he sets to the leeward of the
fire and about a foot from it. In half an
| hour it is hot. If he has stone ale bottle
he quietly remarks that it will inform us
when the coffee is ready. This it does by
ejecting the stopper with a pop. If he
uses glass bottle be puts in more sugar
than in the case OF stone bottle, as the
sugar prevents the cracking of the glass.
At least that is what he says, and he
knows. But the curious thing about it is
that the stopper does not pop out of the
| glass bottle, and so the scheme is hardly
so complete and fascinating. The coffee
is drunk out of the glass tumblers used
for wine, and it is favored with little
raw rum.
The course following the steak is little
French sausage, of the bologna type,
sliced thin, or small pudgy garlic sausage,
which is best of all. In spite of Italy's
superior re eputation for sausages the French
kinds seem to me to be far daintier. Fol-
lowing the sausage comes fruit, and then
the champagne" This consists of good
California white wine mixed with soda
water.
Thus we have had a French dinner al q
trlf1lng cost and cooked by artist without
any kitchen utensils. In the meantime
we have been enjoying the great green
waves combing the beach, have clambered
over the hills strewn with wild flowers,
have luxuriated in the lawless fun and
frolic of the outing have sung songs and
told stories, and then go home with
Drowned faces and contenued hearts. 1t is
the easiest thing in the world to enjoy an
outing in San Francisco.
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These precautions are all a part of the able
skill of my friend.
On the last trip he took two of US in the
cart. AS composed the party represented
France. England and America. The day
was gray. The spot selected was one
familiar to the Frenchman, and was chosen
with exquisite Judgment. 1t was on the
ocean beach, far from the possibility of
intrusion. At the foot of a towering bluff
a ridge of sand, overgrown with the lush
Observation-Disclosures of the peninsula,
separated little trough from the beach
and shielded it from the wind. In that
nook, perfectly concealed from any chance
stragglers on the beach. few yards away,
my friend unhitched his horse and started
England and America on wood gathering
expedition.
That was an easy task. The beach was
strewn with dry 1otsam. I have stopped
with this Frenchman in places where it
seemed impossible to find even a twig for
making a fire, but he never worried about
that.
''Fuel always comes to cook, he would
say; and it always did, although it re-
quired two or three hard lessons like that
for me to acquire the art of getting fuel.
The Frenchman produced two steel rods
the size of a pencil. They were about
thirty inches long and sharpened at the
points. The ends of them were bent at
right angles, forming legs about eight
inches long. He stuck the rods in the
ground about an inch and half apart,
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haps there is no other city so little appre-
ciated by its own people. But we are in
proving in that regard, and awakening to
a sense OF our Citys possibilities 1t is not
a boom" that San Francisco needs, nor
yet the "few first-class funerals" that i'm
patient spirits are wont to urge as desid
eratum to progress, but an awakening, on
all sides, to a sense that nature has dealt
generously by US, and that we shall do well
to plan and execute our City along the
lines she has indicated.
These are very wonderful days in viii ch
to study San Francisco from the water.
The white days" so prevalent Just now
invest her with a new and weird beauty.
The fogs at this season are very different
from those we shall have little later.
They are torn and drifted, showing the
City in snatches as the approach is made
by the ferries. Perhaps a long, snowy
ledge of vapor will stretch clear across the
water front, with the parallel lines of
streets climbing heavenward from out
it. Or the mist will lift and drift above
the slips, cutting off all but the higher
the shipping and wharves showing
darkly clear and distinct beneath it.
Again, it floats in great banks, drifting
against the talIest buildings and lowering
in ragged. tossing clouds over the highest
heights. Beneath it the City lies. blue and
beautiful, and the smoke from her CHM
neys sets the mist a-quiver with color
rose and purple, orange and red, and
wonderful green's where it rests over the
wharves. There is something fascinating,
too, in the approach through dense sum-
mer fog, when only the constant clangor
of the bell at the slip guides the steersman
into port. From out the white mystery
come all the sounds OF the City's busy life,
the clang Of cable-cars, the rolling Of
heavy wheels, the vibrating sounds OF ma
chinery, and even the calls of vendors
about the ferries, but of City there is no
glimpse until, at the very last, as the
steamer creeps on through the mist, dim
and ghostlike, an outline looms up. dark
and low, that we know is the ferry build
ing.
have seen the City simmer of vibrat-
ing opalescence in the delicate haze of an
autumn afternoon; clean and clear-cut as
cameo after the early rains. 1t takes on
rare blues and puppies, then, seen from
across the bay, and little later, when the
surrounding hills are clothed in green, the
effect is still more beautiful.
The approach at night is very lovely;
to watch the City lights climb bing upward
to meet the stars. but more wonderful still.
on clear starlight night, is it to watch it
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from the hills across the bay. The star
lighted heavens are not more beautiful
than that up-going, outstretchlng sweep
of vibratile light. The lights of the
City do not dance and flicker,
seen thus, but they seem to breathe and
pulsate with life and motion. The electric
lights, in particular, have this effect.
From height to height they seem to signal
and answer one another. The ships lights
on the bay maintain sort of connection
between the cities on either side the water,
and the stars above, rounding out the
mystical. sparkling sphere, complete a
spectacle worth making a pilgrimage to
behold. [ know of no other locality or
the continent that affords such sight. /
know of no other sight so full of hopeful
inspiration. 1t reconciles one to ali the
blunders cf the City's past and fills one
with hope for its future, when its citizens
shall know and love it as it should be
loved and known. ADELINE KNAPP
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29
FRENCH DINNER ON THE BEACH,
BY w. Q. MORROW.

There are just two men in San Francisco
Gf there are more they have a superb art
for concealing their genius) who under
stand the art of cooking delicious dinner
on the beach without any of the appli-
ances of the kitchen, and who in the en-
ployment OF their skill give few of their
nearest friends an occasional outing which
furnishes delights unknown to the great
sordid masses who cannot appreciate the
charms of San Francisco. AS might be
supposed, both of these men are of foreign
birth and training, albeit one of them had
an American mother. Of course both were
poor in their youthful days. One of them
is of Italian birth. the other French; one
is physician and popular man of society,
the other a publisher enjoying prosperity
and confidence. Either one of them might
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make fortune by writing book on the
art OF cooking.
As the physician always has ladies in
his pleasant little picnic parties, and as
the Frenchman confines himself to male
guests, it has fallen out that, although
both these men are my good friends, it
has been only with the Frenchman that [
have enjoyed some wonderful days on the
sandy beach and in the brushy dunes of
this humpbacked peninsula. 1t is for the
purpose OF describing one of the events
and showing the less fortunate residents
OF this magical City how they might en-
Joy similar pleasure that this is written.
We may be sure that no two of our trips
are alike, that the camp is never pitched
in the same place twice, that no two din
ners are similar, and that the inevitable
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29
LINCOLN WAITED.
The President at McCIeIIan's Head
quarters.


General Sickles rarely sits down to q
table with old soldiers without contribu-
ting some valuable historical reminiscence.
At a banquet the other evening he told
this story: SIT was, should think, very
early IN the winter of l86162 that having
some business with General Mcclellan, I
walked up one forenoon to his headquar-
ters-in Admiral Semmes' house, opposite
the Arlington. The man on duty said the
general was engaged, and asked me to
wait. | took a seat, and shortly the
Secretary of War came in and inquired
for the general. An officer came out Of
the next room, said the general was busy
just then, and asked the Secretary of
War to take seat and wait. Mr.. Cam
eron sat down and we fell into conversa-
ton. In a few minutes Mr. Lincoln came
in and inquired for General Mcclellan. The
officer repeated what he had said to us,
that the general was very busy, and Mr..
Lincoln would have to wait. The Presi-
dent sat down with US and said, 'All right,
I'll wait The Secretary of War re-
marked that the President ought in some
way to have access to one of his generals.
Lincoln threw one leg over the other, az
ii prepared for long siege, and said:
oh, no. It's all right. My time is of no
special value and the general is engaged
in attending to our business. l can wait
as well as not And he fell into his
famous storytelling, showing not the
slightest impatience at the necessity of
cooling his heels in the anterooln of a
man who was civilian less than a year
before, and whom he himself had APP
pointed to office. The incident illus
trated," adoed General Sickles, 'two
things-frst, that Mr.. Lincoln was one Of
the most unpretentious of men, and
second, that at that time every body, in.
Guiding Mcclellan himself, expected Nc-
Clellan to put down the rebellion. -
Washington Post.
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A Frenchman named Villon has in.
vented a novel method of sealing cham
pagne bottles. The loss and deterioration
of champagne due to the escape of gas
long, he says, made some process of per-
feet air-tight sealing desirable. M. Villon
accomplishes this by covering the cork
and part OF the neck with thin layer Of
copper electrically deposited.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

EAUTIFUL for situation is San
Francisco on her hundred hills.
How beautiful, we who come and
go, daily, within her gates, are too
ont +o for1af Al leaSk think it
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photograph from taken Tabcr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

MADISON. Wis. Feb. 27-Judge Sic
becker. in the circuit court, made an or
der, which if it is followed as prece-
dent in other places, will make glad the
managers OF the new telephone compan-
les which are springing up in opposition
to the Bell company. In response to the
petition of 3. B. Clark, secretary of the
Dane County Telephone company. Judge
Siebecker has issued mandate requiring
the Western Union Telegraph company to
grant the same service which it now does
to the Wisconsin Telephone company for
transmission of messages over its wires
by the placing of telephone in the office.
Two requests in the attempt to do this
have remained unnoticed Unless fhe
Western Union now grants the desired
permission, it must appear at the March
term of court and show cause Judge
Siebecker's order is an important one.
The Western Union Telegraph and Bell
Telephone companies have an ironclad
contract all over the country, the effect
of which is the united opposition to all
competitors. As very large number of
business men use the telephone in the
transmission of dispatches to and from
the telegraph Office the benefits of the
deal are easily recognized. In Madison
where there is but one telegraph com
pany its benefit is all for the telephone
company, but in places where the postal
telegraph company completes with the
Western Union the benefits are recip-
rocdl.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

ASSESSMENT NOTICE.-THE SEARS
q Jeremy company, a corporation. princi-
pal place of business So West First South
hereby given that at a meeting Of the
board of directors of the Sears & Jeremy
company held February II, 1896. an as
sessment of fifty cents per share was
levied on the capital stock Of the corpora
ton, payable to J. Boehmer. secretary OF
the company, at IS West First South
street Salt Lake city. Utah. on or be-
fore the Slst day of March, 1895. Any
stock upon which the assessment may re-
main unpaid on the 31st day of March.
1896, will be delinquent and advertised for
sale at public auction. and unless pay
nent is made before, will be sold on the
50th day of April, 1896. TO pay the de-
HnQuent assessment. together with the
cost of advertising and expense of sale.
]. BOEHMER. Secretary
50 West First South street.
Salt Lake city, Utah.
Dated February 26, 1895,
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in AUSTRALIA.
GREAT SUFFERING AND LOSS OF
PROPERTY.
Eighty Corpses Buried in sydney
In One Day-one Town Almost
Entirely Destroyed by An EIec-
trio Wind Storm.

VANCOUVER. B. c.. Feb. 27.-The
Canadian-Australia steamer Mibwera
from Sydney brings news of great suf-
fering and loss of property in Australia
by the extraordinary climatic conditions
There is unprecedented heat on land and
excessive high death rate from sunstroke,
eighty corpses being buried in Sydney in
one day. Terrific storms prevail along the
coast. Crops in a great many localities
have been ruined. Herds of stock are
starving and dying for want of water
and there is distressing array of ma
rine casualties reported.
The town of Murrurundi was almost
entirely destroyed by an electric wind
storm. 1t was night when the storm
struck there. The whole country for
thirty minutes was af1ame with balls Of
fire and scintilIating sparks of light On
the Queensland coast the storm was of
awful violence. At midnight on Jan 20
the steamer GIanworth was driven on
the rocks of Gladstone. There were 100
people on board. The crew with a SPLEEN
did display of courage and obedience,
abandoned the vessel with some 50 pas
sengers, landing them safely at the light
house. The vessel is a total wreck.