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His active part I'm the proceedings. how
ever. was confined to giving his instruc-
tons TO the heads of the different unions,
all of whom spoke English.
When the meeting had been called TO or
der, the proposal to join the strike came up
Tor discussion. First Of all a few OF the
pro and con in awkward and ungrammati-
Cal, but terse and common-sense speeches.
When they had finished. and before the
question was put to vote, the Magyar ana
Bohemian leaders rose and explained, each
In his own tongue, the object of the meet
ing Workmen from the nationafties
whicn shey represented then addressed the
meeting. some advocating and some oppos-
Ing the strike. They We're in strong con-
trast to the previous speakers. Heavily
built and slow of utterance, they spoke de-
Aperately, IN the marsh, consonant accenS;
or their native tongue, ~punctuating their
remarks with heavy-handed gestures. while
their compatriots leaned forward listening
intentiy, but with unmoved expressions.
Inc same process was followed with the
roles and L~ithuanians, stalwart, coarse
haired men, who spoke rapidly with "A
Jangie OF accents that sounded unintelligi-
PIE 10 tne spectator, but which had the eff
tect or causing an eager, though subdued.
ouzz or comment among their seliow-coun-
trymen.
Then came the turn Of the Italians, and
before their chairman had finished his ex-
planatory remarks a dozen, ardent and
SeStlculatfng men were on their feet ali
talking at once in the swift-flowing speech
SNhAf$ pour HS u q
torrent or words which the chairman was
utterly unable TO stem.
into the circle of space left in the center
or the room suddenly bounded a man who
quickly silenced the others and claimed the
attention of the whole assemblag by his
1mpassioned ~harangue. He was a man of
thirty, dressed in the rough jeans of the
miner and wearing A pair of dark colored
glasses over his eyes. but with a face that
showed intelligence and education. 1t was
impossible even for those of us who could
not understand his words not to feel the
force OF the fiery stream of invective and
appeal which poured faster and ever faster
from his lips. Whatever one might think
or MS sentiments it could not be denied
that he was an orator of no mean ability.
1 learned afterward that he was a man of
university education, and that he was tell
ing his fellows of the glorious days when
their forefathers were the strongest ma
ton in the world, urging them to be worthy
or the grand traditions of their race. As
he went on he threw his hat upon the floor
and unconsciously reached toward his boot,
where the Italian carries his ever-ready
weapon. Not for an instant did he falter
In his speech. which flowed like the rush
IT" of a mountain torrent. and ] have never
seen a finer example of frenzied eloquence.
The effect of his Grafton was remarkable.
Not only did 1t bring the audience 10 their
1eet with cries of approval and excited
gestures, but 1t held every man in the room
spellbound. so evident was the tenor, If
not the exact wording of his speech.
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HOW A STRIKE is ORGANIZED.
Union Meeting Where Men of Different
Races Come Together.
in Frank Leslie's MONTHLY.

r. w. Mayo, in Frank Leshes monthly.
AS may readily be imagined. IL is no easy
task 10 organize the discordant elements
representing a dozen different ~nationalities
in a labor union. In practice IL has been
found necessary to form the unions on the
lines of language. Among the employees of
a single ompan there will be found an
English-speaking union, an Italian union,
a Magyar union, and perhaps half a dozen
Others. Their meetings are separate, unless
the proposal for a strike calls for united
action and obliges them to meet together.
IL Is difficult to imagine any scene more
picturesque and ramati than one OF these
union meetings. where different and or
dinarily discordant races are gathered un-
der a single roof and for a single purpose.
The day before the big strike was ordered
/ attended such a meeting a few miles
south OF Hazleton. Six different organiza-
tons were represented, and all the pro-
ceedings were carried on in six different
tongues-Engiish. Magyar, Bohemian, Pol
ish. Lithuanian and Italian. The direct
president of the United Mine Workers-an
Irishman. by the way-was present. and
was the controlling spirit OF the assembly.
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Certificates have been issred to The following
named 1ndianians:
observation-disclosures Joyce. National Military
Home. Marion. s.; Philip Call. New Albany. Sc:
Abraham Davis, Evansville. Sc: John w. Plumb,
Lafayette. N2.
Additional-Hugh L. West, Brookville. SO.
Restoration and Increase-Peter F. Baker
dead. Ter-e Haute, ST.
Increaxe-steven II. Baughman. Hammond. sI4:
Banner ID. Hall, Lawrenceburg. S24: Daniel A.
Thomas. indianapolis. IS: William Bussey, Ev-
ansvffle. SIC; Thomas Moore. Cicero. $40; James
N. Graham. Bonnie. IS; John Rhoades. Royal
Center. 81
Original Widows. etc.-Susanna Evinger. Sand.
fcrd. ST.: minor OF John w. Wallick. Peru. ss,
Mary A. Baker, Terre Haute. So: special. &C.
crusd Oct. Is. Alkaline Wiseman. Sharp's Mills,
IS: Rebecca Sink. Rising Sun. -
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wANTED-Twenty-nve iadies ana gentlemen,
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THE FIRST sPIRITUALIST CHURcH-Corner
Alabama and New York streets. sunday seTy-
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Emerson. from Manchester, n. H., the widely
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rrum and give tests after the lecture Regular
Wednesday evening meeting at 1:45 O'Clock. All
welcome.
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MUSICAL.

MUSIcAI-Eruro Troemef. $50 East Michigan
street, viii give lessons In voice culture. plane
forte. German. French and Spanish conversation.
MUsICAL-Mary A. Bagneiie. teacher OF piano.
Students advanced rapidly by a thorough syS-
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n1enorizing. studio 10 North Alabama.
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year and double that the second mail order
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PARK NJ. T.. CHURCH-corner Yer
mont and Delaware streets Special revival
services Sunday and throughout the week, con-
Quoted bv Rev. Thomas @. Harrison. evangelist.
sunday services: Preaching, IL a IN. and f:4S
y. m. Glass No. /, $50; O.ler classes, . a. m.
sunday school, 10 a. 10. Epworth League 6S0
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PFsRSONAL-Deafness cured or no pay. {. II
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GOODS A SPECIALITY.
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Bl0omer, at the home or his
mother. in Princeton. ~. J.. aged six and one
kalf years He was a son Of Asahel r H.
Bl0otaer. who died In this city I'VE years ago.
"wednesday. Nov. z 1900. aged twenty-five
years. Funeral win occur sunday, NOV Al. at
r. m Services will be held at Renihan &
BlackwelFs, No 40 West Ohio street. Interment
at Crown Hiu Cemetery
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.IOAHS-Money on mortgages. C Il. SAYLES.
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withheld until his return from Eu-
rope.
1t is not definitely known if Father
Muldoon would accept the position of
auxiliary bishop. 1t is said that he is
too young a man to be made bishop
coadjutor of so large diocese as Chi
cago, with the right of succession to
the archbishopric. In the event of
his acceptance of the position of aux
tliary bishop, Bishop Spalding, of
Peoria, or some other prelate of ma
turer years could be transferred to
Chicago to succeed Archbishop Fee
han.
Rev. P J. Muldoon was born in 1863
at Columbia, Cal, of Irish parents.
His early education was in the public
schools of Stockton, Cal. At the age
of IA he entered the collegiate school
of st. Mary's, Kentucky, and four
years later went to ST. Mary's sem.
mary, Baltimore, where he completed
his theological studies at the age of
%. He was ordained to the priest
hood in 1856, and received as his
charge St. Plus church, Chicago. In
1888 he was appointed chancellor OF
the archdiocese and secretary to the
archbishop. This office he held until
1895, when he was appointed pastor
of St Charles Borromeos, Twelfth and
Cypress streets.
At the time of the worlds fair
Father Muldoon served as secretary
of the Chicago Catholic exhibit. In
addition to his duties as pastor Father
Muldoon is the director of the st. Vim
cent DE Paul society in the archdio-
cese
The Republican., 1900-12-27
WANTS TO BE FREE.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease Seeks Divorce
from Her Husband.
She Began Married Life at the WASH
tub and Afterward Supported
Her Family by Making PO-
IticaI Speeches.

The Wichita (Kan.) correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune says that di-
vorce proceedings have been instituted
by Mrs. Mary Z. Lease on grounds of
non-support. 1t is understood her hus-
band will make no contest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lease were married in
poverty and lived in that condition un-
til Mrs. Lease became a politician.
Lease was a plodder. His wife was am
bilious. He believed a woman's place
was at home. She might have agreed
with him if her home had been less
lowly. Ii was difficult to make ends
meet in a Wichita grocery store, but
when there were four children in the
family. and the income remained the
same, Mrs. Lease was forced to the
washtub to keep her little ones from
actual want. She objected to this sort
Of thing, and determined to make a
change. She borrowed books and stud
led at night by candle light. Her hus.
band protested. Then domestic trouble
commenced.
AT that time Kansas was the center
of the union labor craze. Mrs. Lease,
who had been poring over tales of the
French revolution, decided that the
people of Kansas were in as bad a fix
as were the French. She began to pic
ture in her mind scenes of carnage on
the prairies of the Sunflower state. One
day, while going home from work, she
stepped into a doorway for protection
from a shower. A labor meeting was
in progress in the hall. She was in
vited to speak. She accepted the in
vitation and surprised the crowd as we'll
as herself. The crowd was enthusias-
tic over her eloquence and took up a
collection of six dollars for her.
She started home in the rain, and
stopped at the store where her huS
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Yes, Helen. | have he answered,
and there was tremor in his voice.
"and | have been thinking too much
about those nights. They say an open
confession is good for the soul;' hear
mine. Helen. and judge me as you will,
and with his wife's arms still clinging
fonGly around his neck, and with her
eyes looking straight up into his, he
told her all about his temptation. And
when he had finished he tenderly re-
moved her arms, and, with his right
hand upraised, he said: "And now,
Helen, | want to make one more New
Years resolution. and while we both
live it shall never be broken: Resolved,
that | shall never allow my thoughts
to wander backward. as they have to-
day; and resolved. further. that my
feet shall never stray beyond the
threshold of my own domain, in the
pursuit of pleasures, so help me God!"
amen" murmured his little wife,
between her sobs, as she flung her arms
around his neck.-Copyright, by Les
lies Weekly. and printed by permis-
sion of the same
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protest. even II ne mad possessed the
courage to try. she was down on the
floor untying his shoestrings.
Johns face. if it were possible, turned
shade redder. and he squirmed uneas-
lily in his chair. All married men have
occupied the same position, have eX-
perienced the same feelings that John
Kimball occupied and felt when his wife
kneeled by his side and assisted him
in removing his shoes, and for their
sakes | will refrain from calculations
For the benefit of unmarried men, |
will say that John felt like a young
fellow who had just been requested to
purchase a marriage license for his best
girl and another fellow; think they
will understand. And for the benefit
of the fair sex. | will say that John felt
like a girl who has proposed TO a
young man during leap year, and been
rejected; know they viii understand.
Small" | think, defines Johns feel
ings about as well and about as thor
oughly as any word in the English Ian
guage.
John has never been able to quite rec
ollect just when his shoes came off, and
just when his slippers went on. He
was in the act of lighting his pipe
his wife had taken her seat on the
other side of the fireplace, and was
turning the leaves of her book in such
an distracted manner that he felt en-
couraged to hope that she had forgot
| ten something-when she suddenly
asked How do some fellows spend
New Years night. John?"
John forgot to light his pipe; he held
the lighted match between his fingers
until it burned their tips, and then
he blurted out: 'Why, my dear, these
fellows | was thinking of assemble in
large room, drink cigars mean,
drink wine. smoke cigars, tell vulgar
tales. make ridiculous resolutions. and
tack home at three a. m" When John
| finished. he looked as if he had been
invited to attend his own funeral. and
had accepted the invitation, under pro-
| test.
His wife laid aside her book, and
coming over she seated herself on the
arm of his chair. and. throwing her
arms around his neck. she asked: ''Why
should my John think of such things?
You never spent New Years night in
! that manner, did you, john"
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other, on table. was his pipe. that
he loved next to his wife.
John felt abashed, to say the least
of it. and it was fortunate for him
that his wife was at his back at that
moment, assisting him in removing
his coat. instead of looking in his
face, otherwise she might have asked
some questions that he would have
found difficulty in answering to her
satisfaction.
Mrs. Kimball hung her husband S
coat on its proper peg, helped him on
with his smoking jacket, chatting
gayly all the while, and paused only
for him to take his seat. John seemed
to suddenly realize that the time had
arrived for him to do something, and
he accordingly sat down, very clums-
lily, in his chair and stared, very va
cantly, at the fire. His wife's voice
aroused him, and he jumped like a
man who has suddenly and unex-
pectedly come in contact with the
business end of pin. John, dear,
she was saying, won't you remove
your shoes, put on your slippers. light
your pipe, and let me finish reading
to you that little story | began the
other night?-or are you too tired to
hear it tonight"
Certainly, Helen, I'll take pleasure
in listening to you. There is, really,
nothing that | enjoy more. II was
so busy with-er-my own thoughts
that | quite forgot myself" And
John proceeded to divest himself of
his shoes and don his slippers in the
greatest haste.
"Of what were you thinking,
John?" she asked, coming over and
placing her hand fondly upon his
shoulder.
Johns face crimsoned, and he tied
two hard knots in his shoestring be-
fore he realized what he was doing.
''Why-er-I was thinking of the
way some fellows spend New Years
night"
"How do some fellows spend New
Years night, John. dear-more pleas
antly than you do?"
John had JUS succeeded in untying
the two knots in his shoestring when
his wife's last question frightened
him into tying three others. She no.
ticed his embarrassment, but could
not account for it, and, without wait
ing for his reply, she said: Come,
John. you'll never get your shoes off
at this rate; let me help you, and
when we have finished you can tell me
how some fellows spend New Years
night" And before he could enter
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band worked. An old umbrella was
standing near the door. She picked il
up and said she would send it back by
one of the children. Lease said to her:
Put it down. 1t doesn't belong to
you, and you have no business with it,"
Relating the circumstance to Topeka
friend lately Mrs. Lease said: Il put
the umbrella down and left the store
in pouring rain. As was passing the
store of one of my friends, who knew
OF the struggle for bread which | had
experienced, the door was opened by
the proprietor, who called me in and
gave me from the rack near the door
the first umbrella | ever owned. ]
was not able to do the work at home,
much less run out in the rain for sup.
plies. and this evidence of cruelty on
the part of my husband turned me
against him. We did not speak to each
other for months after that. and in
later years lived in the saE house
without exchanging a word with each
other
Mrs. Lease gave up her washtub bust.
ness and began to work as an organizer
for the union labor people. Then she
took up the farmers alliance cause,
and in 1892 became a populist. After
serving two years a S president of the
Kansas board of charities she went on
the lecture platform and began to
write for newspapers and magazines.
Mrs. Lease began to direct the af.
fairs Of the household the day after
she delivered the labor speech. She
has been making good money ever
since. She has educated her children
and given them an opportunity to dress
well and see the world Charles and
Louise are grown, and Ben Hur and
Mary are in school. Mrs. Lease has
a comfortable home in New York,
which is always open to Kansans.
Mr.. Lease took fresh start when
his wife began to do business for her.
self. He went from grocery store to
a drug store of his own. He does busi-
ness in Wichita and has some money
invested in real estate. He still plods
and has never forgiven his wife for
going into politics. although he ad.
mits her scheme has proved a good
thing for the children.
Mr.. Lease has known for long time
that his wife would sue for divorce.
for she told him two years ago that
she would not live with him again.
She lately told a Topeka friend that
she had no inten ton of remarrying.
and gave as a reason for obtaining a
divorce that by her own efforts she
had made herself Independent and did
not care to be hampered further by a
husband.