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The Princeton union., 1900-01-11

some evening and talk over the matter
with you. Z
II don't believe In INTRODUCING bnsi.
ness into PERSONS home. This would
be purely a business conversation ana
It may as we'll take place at nv Office.
or at Wentworth's, if he has one. as
suppose he has"
Oh, certainly; his address is--''
"Oh, you know it, do you ."
Edith blushed as she realized what
she had said; then she remarked: .:Is
there any harm in my knowing the
business address Of Mr.. Wentworth?n
"Oh, not at all-not at all. / merely
wondered how You happened to know
his address when didn't
Well, it doesn't matter how I know
It. am glad you are going to join
him, and I am sure you will be success
ful. Will you see them tomorrow ?"
Il think SO. shall call on Went
worth and have talk with him about
1t. OF course we may not be able to
come to workable arrangement. II
not, it really does not so very much
matter. But if can make satisfactory
terms with them, I will help them to
form their company" w.
When Edith went to her room she
wrote note. It was addressed to
Seorge Wentworth in, the city, but
above that address ewas the name of
John Kenyon. She said:
DEAR Mr.. KENYON: felt certain at
tne tlme you spoke. although said nothing
OF 1t, that my cousin was not so much at
1ault IN forgetting his conversation as yo,1
thought. We had q talk tonight about
the mine, and when he calls upon YOU to-
morrow, as he intends to do. / want you
to know that I said nothing whatever 10
MIN about what you said to me- He men.
toned the subject first. r wanted you to
know this, because you might feel embar-
rassed when you met him, by thinking 7
had sent him to you. That is not at ali
the case. He goes to you 81 his own &C.
cord. and am sure you will find his assist
ance In forming q company very valuable.
l am glad to think you Will be partners,
Yours very truly, EDITH LoNGwoRrH.''
She gave this letter to her maid to
post. and young Longworth. met the
maid in the hall with the letter in her
hand. He somehow suspected, after the
foregoing conversation, to whom the
letter was addressed.
'Where are you going with that?"
"To the post, sir.''
II am going out; to save you the
trouble, I will take it,
After passing the corner, he looked at
the address On the envelope; then he
swore to himself little. If he had
been a villain in a play he would have
opened the letter; but he did not. He
merely dropped it into the first pillar
box he came to, and in due time it
reached John Kenyon.
The Princeton union., 1900-01-11

first person you think will be interested
in the mine, what will you do when a
dozen or more people refuse to have any
thing to do with it??"
I'm sure l don't know. I am afraid
l am not the right person to float q
mine on the London market. I am
really student, you see, and fatter my
self l am a man of science. Iknow
what l am about when am in a mine,
miles away from civilization; but when
l get among men I feel somehow at
loss. L do not understand them. When
u man tells me one thing to-day, and to-
morrow calmly forgets all about it,
confess sit-well-confuses me-
Then the man you have seen to-day
has forgotten what he told you yester-
day. Is that the case?"
Yes; that is partly the case"
But, Mr.. Kenyon, the success of your
project is not going to depend upon
what one man says, or two, OF three, is
it?'
NO; l don't suppose it is"
Then, if were you, l would not feel
discouraged because one man has for
gotten. wish were acquainted with
your one man, and 1 would make him
ashamed of himself, I think"
Kenyon flushed as she said this, bait
made no reply.
The coachman looked round as he
came to Holborn, and Miss Longworth
nodded to him, so he went on, without
stopping, up into Oxford street.
"Now, take a great interest in your
mine, Mr.. Kenyon, and hope to see you
succeed with it. l wish I could help
you, or, rather, wish you would be
frank with me, and let me know how +
can help you. | know a good deal
about city men and their ways, and
think l may be able to give you some
good advice, at least, if you will have
the condescension to consult me-"
Again Kenyon flushed. You are
making game of me now, Miss Long
worth. Of course, as you said on ship
board, it is but a very small matter"
II never said any such thing. When
did 1 say that2'
"You said that $4,000 was small
matter"
did I? Well, / am like your man who
has forgotten; I have forgotten that.
remember saying something about it's
being too small an amount for my faith
er to deal with. Was not that what
said?"
"Yes, 1 think that was it. Itconveyed
the idea to my mind that you thought
c $4,000 very trifing sum indeed"
Edith Longworth laughed. what
2 terrible memory you have! do not
wonder at your city man forgetting.
Are you sure what you told him did not
happen longer ago than yesterday?"
'Yes, it happened some time before" :"
''Ah, thought 50. 1 am afraid it is
your own terrible memory, and not his
forgetfulness, that is to blame
"Oh, l am not blaming him at all. A
man has every right to change his mind.
if4he wants to-" +
II thought only a woman had that
privilege" .>...
mo; for my part, freely accord it
to everybody; only sometimes it is a lit.
tie depressing" ' r>..
II can imagine that. In fact, I think
+ no one could be a more undesirable ac.
quaintance than man who forgets to.
day what he promised yesterday, espe-
cially if anything particular depended
upon it. Now, why cannot you come to
our house some evening and have a
talk about the mine with my cousin OF
my father? My father could give you
much valuable advice in reference to it.
and am anxious that my cousin should
help to carry this project on to success
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Like tho Rest of Us.

George, DEAR" she said, night or
two before the wedding, do you think
it possible that our love and our mar
ried life can become the commonplace,
coldly practical love and life OF the
married people we see around us? oh,
George, my heart would break If l
thought So" But it will not be sc"
said George, passionately. 1--WE love
each other too tenderly, too fondly for
that. Our love is not of the ordinary
kind. my darling, and our lives will
not be so All, no, my angel; that can
never be-" And the other day she
said: II say, George, how would you
like pork for dinner with apple sauce:
You would? All right, then, and don't
YOU forget that feeding-bottle for the
baby, or I'll send you back after 1t,
and. mind that you don't keep dinner
waiting" And he, with falling-ofS
of the passion of ten years ago, re-
piled: "All right, Lou, and l wish
you'd sew button on the back part OF
those striped trousers Of mine; you'll
find them hanging over chair In our
room. Don't have the pork as dry as
last time, and you watch the baby's
cold. The watering of the eyes looks
iks measles to me. There's my DUE
Good ."-Tit-Bits.
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What Organization Leads To.

As class, publishers and printers
have been much longer used to organ
ization than most other industries
Consequently the system Of joint con-
duct of enterprise has been more fully
elaborated by them. l read that the
American Newspaper Publishers asso-
citation has engaged Mr.. Frederick
Driscoll of St. Paul, Mimi, for thirty
eight years manager of the st. Paul
Pioneer Press, as a general commits
sioner to look after interests of that
organization in its dealing with the
various typographical unions and in
other matters of Importance to the
newspapers of the country. The Pub
fishers association, at its annual meet
ing in New York, appointed national
labor committee, the members of which
will have full charge of all matters
pertaining to the various typographical
unions, and it is also an arbitration
committee. Its duty is to obtain data
respecting wages paid in the offices OF
the various members of the associa-
ton and other valuable information. 1t
will also be charged with the task OF
settling disputes and preventing
strikes whenever possible, and the
services of the committee and its COM
missioner or general manager will be
at the disposal of any member of the
association whenever needed. Ample
funds were provided for carrying out
the plan. The Typographical union
has a like organization. At times
there is lots of friction between the
two, but it very seldom reaches the
point of actual hostility, the ugly place
where one says you shall" and the
other says 81 won't" That's posi-
ton all prudent men shun as long as
possible, because as a rule it means
loss, no matter who wins. Printers
and publishers have found 1t possible
to establish higher wages, better shop
conditions, and shorter hours, with lit
tie resort to hostilities. And what
they can do, others can, because there
is no record that printers and publish
ers have larger brains than other peo-
pie.
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Victory for Oigauized Labor.

Organized labor has won another i'm
portant victory. This time it is in the
bituminous mining industry of Central
Pennsylvania. At convention of min
ers and joint conference with opera
tors, held recently at Altoona, scale
of wages was adopted to govern dur
ing the year commencing April l, 1900,
and a resolution passed providing for
like joint conference year hence, to
establish a scale for the next year. The
gross ton or 531a cents per net ton.
Machine loading, fve-ninths pick rate
plus one-half cent or 33 AS cents per
gross ton or 80 cents per net ton. Ma
chine cutting and scraping, twenty per
cent advance. Drivers receiving less
than 50 to get S2.25; drivers who get
more than 81 will receive an increase
of 20 per cent All labor in or out
side mine is to receive 20 per cent.
increase. The existing dead work
scale will remain the same. In regard
to checkweight. operators will when
authorized, make such collections at
the office as employees may agree. A
1O-hour day was adopted in cases
where men work nine hours"
The real victory of organized labor
does not lie primarily in the fact that
advances were secured. Some advance
would probably have come about had
there been no organization. 1t lies
partially in the amount of the advance
and chiefly in the recognition of organ
ization. Central Pennsylvania opera
tors as a body have been very reluctant
to, as they put it, recognize organiza-
tion." They wanted to maintain the
proposition that it was exclusively for
them to fix wages; if there was to be
an increase, they granted" it. But
at this convention the presidents Of
the national and district organizations
of the United Mine Workers Of Ameri-
ca were present; the convention was
an U. M. w. of A. convention; it did
not meet to petition for the grant" Of
advances; on the contrary, it met to
discuss mining matters with operators
and with them to ascertain what was
labor's Just remuneration under pres
ent conditions. AS result there has
been no grant" of anything by any
body. A Joint conference discussed
matters, each side made concessions to
the other. and both sides ratified the
conclusion, the scale reached. 1t was
a great step forward in the direction of
full recognition that the employee is a
partner with the employer In the en-
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into one. Some of the sliding doors
are covered with gold leaf and the
ceilings with magnificent embroider-
les. King Menelek's hobby is thrones
and he has Just ordered new one. 1t
was made at the studio Of French
artist In Paris and is truly gorgeous
affair OF heavily carved and gilded
wood, decorated in shades Of red and
green, the colors of Ethiopia. There
is the royal crown surmounting the
throne, which is fourteen feet high,
and the monogram Of his majesty in
Ethiopian characters. A grewsome
collection is that Of Toffa, the king OF
Dahomey-the skulls of his enemies,
which decorate the walls of the royal
palace, and pave the floor of his bed
room. If any king dares to oppose
him and is slain his skull is made into
a cup, out of which Toffa drinks to the
gods.
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(Old Favorite Series.)


when Thomas Campbell had fairly set
forth as literary adventurer, he went
over to Germany to acquaint himself with
the men and manners of his chosen pro-
fession The first incident Of his journey
that has direct interest for posterity
was his opportunity of watching the bat
tie of Hohenlinden, about which he wrote
one of his most famous poems. Al Ham
burg he met Anthony McCana, an Irish
man. and a leader of the Irish Rebellion
of 1898, who was then an exile from his
home. From the sympathy which his lot,
and that of his confederates aroused In
Campbells kindly nature. comes the
beautiful lyric of THE Exile of Erin"
The air is the old Irish melody, "Savou-
reen Delish.'o
There came to the beach poor Exile OF
Erin,
The dew on his thin robe was heavy
and chill:
For his country he sighed, when at twi-
light repairing
To wander alone by the wind-beaten
hill.
But the day-star attracted his eyes sad
devotion,
For 1t rose Ger his own native isle OF
the ocean,
Where once, in the fire of his youthful
He sang the bold anthem of Erin go
bragh!
"Oh! sad is my fate" said the heart
broken stranger,
1.-THE wild deer and wolf to covert
can flee:
But l have no refuge from famine and
danger,
A home and country remain not to
me.
All! never again in the green sunny bow
ers,
Where my forefathers lived, shall /
spend the sweet hours.
Or cover my harp with the wild-wovsn
flowers,
And strike to the numbers of Erin 90
bragh!
"oh! Erin. my country, tho sad and for
saken,
In dreams 1 revisit thy sea-beaten
shore;
But, alas! in far foreign land I awaken
And sigh for the friends who can meet
me no more,
All! cruel fate! wilt thou never replace
me
In a mansion of peace, where no perils
can chase me
All! never again shall my brothers en-
They died to defend me, or live to de-
plore!
"Oh, where is my cabin door, fast by the
wildwood?
Sisters and sire! did we weep for its
fall?
Where is the mother that looked on my
childhood?
And where is the bosom friend dearer
than all?
All! my sad heart! long abandoned by
pleasure,
Why did it dote on fast-fading treas
ure?
Tears, like the rain-drops, may fall with
out measure;
But rapture and beauty they cannot re-
call.
But yet, all its sad recollection suppress
sing,
One dying wish my lone bosom shall
draw;
Oh, Erin! an exile bequeaths thee his
blessing!
oh, buried and cold when my heart stills
its motion,
Green be thy fields, sweetest isle of the
ocean,
And thy harp-striking bards sing aloud
with devotion,
Oh, Erin, mavourneen! Erin go bragh!"
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would cry, realizing what pain be was In.
His pitlful wailing was heart-rendlng. I
had about given up hope OF saving him
when was urged to give him Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, oil other treatment having failed.
] washed the sores with Hoods Medicated
Soap, applied Hoods Olive Ointment and
gave him Hoods Sarsaparila. The child
seemed to get better every day, and very
soon the change was quite noticeable. The
discharge grew less, Inflammation went
down, the skin took on a healthy color, and
the raw flesh began to scale over and thin
skin formed as the scales dropped of.
Less than two bottles OF Hoods Sarsspa-
rilla, aided by Hoods Medicated Soap and
Hoods Olive Ointment, accomplished this
wonderful cure. 1 cannot praise these
medicines half enough" MRS. GUERrSor,
81 Myrtle St., Rochester, n. Y.
The above testimonial is very much con-
densed from Mrs. Guerinot's letter. As
many mothers will be interested in reading
the full letter, we will send It to anyone
who sends request Of us on postal card.
Mention this paper.
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strong representation in both branches
OF congress, including Sherman, Wade,
Schenck, Hayes, Garfield and others.
WHIMS OF THE MONARCHS.
Royalty's Queer Fancy for Collecting
Queer Assortments of Things.

Royalty's Queer Fancy for Collecting
Queer Assortments of Things.
The fads of royalty are as numer-
Gus and as eccentric as the foibles
which bother the brains of less illus
trious personages. The collecting of
lace is not the only hobby of the prin-
cess of Wales. She has remarkable
lot of hats and bonnets, consisting of
all those she has worn during the thir-
ty years she has led London fashions.
Each hat, or bonnet, carefully put
away, bears the date of the season of
its use. Perfumery bottles of all kinds
and descriptions-of silver, gold, cut
glass, uncut jewels, gold incrusted
with jewels and the like-are collected
by the crown princess Marie of Rou-
mania. The grandmother of the pres
emit car of Russia had similar col
lection, which was valued at $4,000.
Immense sums are spent in adding to
his vast assortment of watches by the
nawab OF Bahawalpur, high anu
mighty East Indian potentate. He has
LOW anu 10 Soiotdheiy oSfNAA
ing more. He usually wears three or
four watches and repeaters, changing
them from day to day. His set of fif-
teen uncut rubies is historic; they
measure about one and half inches
in diameter, and are engraved with
the names of the Mogul emperors.
This royal personage's crown is
mass of diamonds set in silver anu
his sword of state is valued at 100000.
The mikado of Japan's hobby takes
the form of palaces, of which he owns
acyes-a vast establishment in the
heart of Toxic. His estate in the CEN
ter of the city, is made up OF hill and
valley, containing lakes and woods
and enormous one-storT palaces. The
place is surrounded by meats, crossed
by marble bridges. The palaces cost
a fabulous sum. The walls of many
are immense plate glass doors in
lacquered frames. so arranged that
great number Of rooms can be thrown
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STRAWBERRIES IN ALASKA.
Sisters OF ST. Ann Also Successfully
Grow vegetablsss

Secretary Wilson has received a
most interesting letter from the Sis
tiers OF st. Ann, who are conducting
mission school in Alaska, giving an
account of their success in raising
various kinds of vegetables and table
delicacies in that arctic region. These
good women have established little
school on the Yukon, about $500 miles
from its mouth, and their experiments
show that it is possible to grow tur-
nips, radishes, and even strawberries
in that territory. They state that
they began their hotbed work as early
as April 20 and sowed radishes and
turnips in the open ground the second
week in May. The first potatoes were
planted May It, May 20, 500 cabbage
and caulifower plants were trans
planted, and two days later 3 snow
storm descended on them. They were
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A GIANT IN HIS DAY.
The LATE JOHN A. BINGHAM
OF OHIO.
One of the Prlncipal In the johnson
impeachment Case-Contomporsry In
Congress with Blaine, Garfield. sher-
man, Hayes and Wade.
(Steubenville, O., letter.

John A. Bingham. who died the
other day in Stubenville at the age
of IS, took no part in contemporary
politics and had passed out of public
notice. But time was when he was
q leader in national affairs. He was
in the house of representatives during
the first half of the civil war and for
many years before that time was a
special Judge advocate in the trial of
the conspirators against Lincoln's life,
served in the house during the recon-
structiop period, and afterward was
minister to Japan, a post which he
held a dozen years, until he was re-
called by President Cleveland in 1885,
since which time the general public
seldom saw his name. 1t was during
his service in congress that the greater
part of Bingham's reputation was woa.
His principal claim to remembrance
was through his connection with the
impeachment of President Johnson.
He was one Of the managers Of the
prosecution, and associated with him
were Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsyl-
vania, George S. Boutwell, and Benja-
min F. Butler of Massachusetts,,
Thomas Williams of Pennsylvania,
and John A. Logan of Illinois. Bing-
ham was a man of ability, public spirit
and courage. He was one Of the
worthiest and most prominent men,
bers of the Ohio delegation at time
when that state had a particularly
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terprise in which both are jointly en-.
gagged. And whenever such recogni'
ton is had, even though 1t be not com
plete, the condition Of the employe II
bound to grow more pleasant, and the
business of the employer more stable
Such results as these are apt to b
permanent. They speedily dispel the
fallacy that labor and labor's leaders
are not trustworthy, or not competent
to grasp business questions. Not that
there are not blatherskite labor lead
ers, for there are, just as there are con.
scienceless employers. But the mass
of employers and employees are hon.
est; they prefer to do the right thing
Distrust OF each other Is probably the
chief reason why they do not quicker
come together. Once brought together
they find as a rule, often to their mu.
tual surprise, that neither is so ig'
norant, so grasping, or so mean as had
been thought. Those permanent re.
suits benefit labor as whole. The
achievement of the Central Pennsyl-
vania miners and operators has moral
weight In Indian Territory and Alaba.
ma and Tennessee.
This mining agreement leaves the
workday at nine and ten hours, chiefly
the latter. The miners found that rec
ognition of organization and wages
were at this time more important than
shorter hours. There must always be
concession. 1t would lily become any
one to criticise the judgment OF the
convention as to which point had best
be waived just now. The shorter
workday will no doubt be insisted up
on at some time not far in the future
when operators have fully accommo.
dated themselves to the conditions now
established, and found, as they I'M
doubtedly will, that there is profit in
meeting employees on a basis more
nearly equal. am convinced that the
formal recognition of the eight-hour
workday in the Central Pennsylvania
coal regions is very measurably nearer
than it was before this convention and
conference adjourned
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not harmed, however, as they were OF
q sturdy character Not drop of rain
fell until the middle of July, when a
long spell of cold, rainy weather set
in. In spite of these drawbacks the
crop thrived. After giving away a
large part of the vegetables, the sis
tiers harvested $50 bushels of potatoes,
500 heads of cabbage, 500 bushels OF
turnips, and few bushels of carrots.
Strawberry plants were set out and
grew astonishingly we'll, but nearly
the entire crop Of berries was de-
stroyed by mice.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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A recent editorial on Child Thrift
In France" has ELECTED the pleasing
fact that in several American cities the
school children are Systematically en-
couraged to save their pennies. Eight
years ago plan Of saving, promoted
by the Grand Rapids savings bank, was
introduced experimentally into four
schools. After twelve weeks success
full trial. it was taken up in all the
schools. Now the savings bank has
several thousand child depositors,
whose savings aggregate more than
seventeen thousand dollars. There
are now more than five hundred
schools in the country in which there
is a similar system Of saving.
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Arbor day is the only holiday which
speaks for the future; all others cele-
brate the past. Yet even Arbor day be-
gins to have a past. Eighteen years
ago, during the first forestry congress
in this country, the children Of Cincin-
natl marched to Eden Park and planted
q young tree for each President. Wash
ington would be prouder of his Cincin-
natl oak than of his mythical cherry
tree; and Jackson would find his hick-
ory harder to break down than was the
United States Bank.