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thing suitable. It was no easy task,
but I finally formulated as his last
words, This is the last of earth.". One
of the four who had helped to carry
him out replied, II am content. = These
last words were not intended to be
credited to Mr.. Adams. The member
who said II am content meant he was
satisfied with my report, but I did not
so understand him at the time. I sup
posed that the words were intended as
a sort of an amendment and so added
them. As they seemed quite appro-
pirate we concluded to let them stand,
and there they are. as they have been
quoted for fifty years. -
"Mr. Thomson was not destroyer.
He was not man to mar, jostle or
change, but he assured me he wanted
to be put right on this last words busi-
ness, as he called it, and I tell you the
story as he told it to me. Il suppose
Mr.. Adams spoke some last words some
where,& but they were not the same
which you and I have heard about in
our day."-New~ York Sun.
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the car In four days recently, whereas
the same work, if done in the same time
by hand, would have required the en-
ployment Of 375 men. AS it was, the
force required, in addition to the loco
motive consisted of a train crew, a
foreman and four men. In word
there is a saving, or displacement of
SIS per cent in cost of labor. No doubt
the section hands will stand alongside
Of the tracks for while and say, "you
can't do it," but the fact remains that
this new tool will take it's place by the
side of the mammoth coal and ore
bumpers, sewer diggers, mining and
hoisting machinery, etc.. in fattening
the bumps of egotism under the hats
of workingmen who imagine that the
world stands still for their especial
benefit, and who stubbornly refuse to
understand that the tools of produc-
ton are now social tools and should be
owned by society collectively, instead
of by capitalists for the exploitation
Of labor. But that would be socialism,
and all workingnaen who havn't given
the subject an hours study know that
socialism would be bad condition. -
Cleveland Citizen.
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.-.. ..rt-.
The Secret of Success.

When I was with the "A Mustard
Plaster company, taking the par of:
Lionel Effingham, I first met Bill Nye.
After the performance he called on me;
at the. hotel. II remember the CONVEX:
sation distinctly. II was pleased with.
your acting tonight, Mr.. Hamfat," he;
said, in his peculiar droll way. 'By.
the way, wha& parts did you take last
season." :"Of the hotels ?"..:>I asked:
."Oh, no. he replied, .smilingly, Il
mean what stage party" IT took the
part of Nick o. Teene in The Dukes
Pipe,'" I answered. "Was your last
seasons tour successful from a fla
nancial standpoint" he next inquired.
"Well," returned, "altogether it was
fairly so, but not as good as this sea-
son. You see, "A Mustard Plaster
draws much better than 1.-THE Dukes
Pipe did.''--From the "reminiscences Of
Sir Irving Hamfat; now being trans
lated in seven different Languages. i
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COlulll bus Had Sense.

'Georgie,'' who reports his paws
talks at home for he Chicago Times
1Isruld
remarks On the wisdom OF Columbus
in discovering America. when there
were. no snillionaires. to get out an
injunction against him. t.=:- 5S
,''It was a lucky thing for Columbus
that he come over here and discovered
this country, when he: did" paw sed
when we was gathered. round the fam
lily surcle last mite. -, =. v'*
"Why?" NAV asst him: :.
"Becos," paw told her "if ennbuay
come over here looken fer place to
land now. do: you know what would
happen? j. Pierpont. Morgan would be
thare when the CRATE discoverer pulled
up to the dock and say: Il hate to be
harsh with YOU, Chris, but this belongs
to- sin dycate what Thave jst formed
and: if you want to- tie a rope to the
western hemasfeer you got to pay the
skevdul price,
who is ]. Pierpont Morgan?" NAV
asst. II think I herd that name some
WHARF before.'
He is the man what lets God press
the BUTTON" paw told her. and he does
the rest. He blows the whissel fer the
peepul of this country in the mornen
and shuts the gate at mite. He owns a
millyun doller yot and has a privut
car and cant eat sweet things becos
they make him too fat that's who he
is. Every mite when he goes to bed he
neels down and prays:
Now I lay me down to sleep
Q formed another trust today
I pray the lord my sole to keep
G've got another under way); .-
If I should die before I wake
(I'll git it thru without a doubt)
I pray the lord my sole to take
(And bar all other people out.)
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DAN RICE AND THE BOYS.
Why He Let Two Hundred of Them
Into His Circus

Dan Rice, the famous circus man,
was fond of boys, and always wanted
to see lot of them in his audience.
He never gave performance, says the
Cleveland Leader, when the hooks and
corners were not filled with youngsters
that had come in free.
One story of this sort is told by Capt.
George J. Grammar, traffic manager. Of
the Lake Shore railroad. At the time
of the occurrence, Grammar, who lived
in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was standing one
afternoon with a crowd of other boys,
looking lookingly into the tent, but
not having the price of admission. -.
It was Mr.. Rice's custom to stand at
the door until the first grand entry of
the circus people, when he would leave.
On this occasion he saw the hungry
look on the faces of the boys, and
called them around him.
F Z" You want to go in, don't you, boys?''
:, Bet your life!" shouted back the
youngsters. 49,. a r.
III tell you what. All the boys who
are back here in ten minutes with
clean faces and hands get n" Sss
The words were hardly out Of his
mouth before there was a dash for the
Muskingum river, and in less than sew
en,sminutes 200 clean faces and. hands
came back to the tent. The boys went
inside with a rush. n lA
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Outstanding Ears.

The Disagreement of outstanding ears
should be checked in early childhood,
otherwise it is apt to be an obstinate
matter to overcome. Various simple
little expedients may be restored to in
order to, accomplish the. end aime d. at.
For instance, 9 broad elastic strap or
webbing band, passed from the lower
part Of the back OF the head obliquely
across Mp g the ears to the #top.of the brow,
ssaeasls sllFSPiRs ~
an hour OF two during. the day sor an an
alternative there is the special ear cap
which has been invented with the OBJ
isct Of encouraging the ears lie close
against the head. The muslin caps
which years, ago. babies used to wear
acted in a great measure as preventives
against obtruding ears. . S.
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We Garry BOY and Pail. Too.

'The New York Evening Journal
published week or SO ago queer iii-
tie cartoon" says Stephen Bell in the
Typographical Journal. "The old man
was staggering along with a heavy
bucket. His young hopeful, observing
the trouble he was in, made a brilliant
proposal: PA, you carry me, and Ill
carry the pail!' This is in essence the
proposal made to the people by every
combina ton of capital that seeks spe-
cial privileges, franchises, concessions
and the like. The protected interests
ask the people to tax themselves 50
that the said interests may be able
to employ them at high wages, etc.
When will the people wake up to the
fact that if the old man accepts the
boys proposal he will carry both boy
and pail?"
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cept the enemy in the event of his re-
treating toward Bloemfontein. Com
mandants Piet De Wet and Cronje, with
the remaing 1900 men,, then moved
around to the British rear and planted
their guns on range, of kopjes over
looking the British camp, where they
waited for the daylight. 81
T, So soon as the light enabled them to
aim the Beers opened fire on the British
who taken completely by surprise,
made no attempt to return the fire,
but ,hurriedly struck their bivouac
and began a precipitate retreat in the
direction of Bloemfontein down the road
across the spruit. Commandant Chris
tian De Wet passively waited until the
British wagon, train was in the drift,
and two wagons had actually crossed
the stream, before he gave the order to
fire. The Beers then sprang up and
poured in a deadly fire with : their
Mausers. The British were panic
stricken. p.
The cavalry, breaking away to the
south, made their escape good and
left the infantry to take care of them
selves. The transport train was
thown into wild confusion, the ami
mails, maddened by the sting of the
Mauser bullets, reared and plunged,
overturnig several wagons, and the in
fantry, unable to extricate themselves
from the fire in front and rear, after a
brief resistance. surrendered. The af-
fair was practically all over by 9
o'clock. IL. =: :
The number Of prisoners captured was
4OS. Seven guns, with more than a
hundred rounds of ammunition each were
taken, along with 110 wagons loaded
provisions and ammunition 1.4OO
draught animals, eighty cavalry horses,
$50 Lee-Metford rifles, and twenty
carts.
During the afternoon strong Bri-
tish force marched out from Bloemfon-
tein, but the Beers having effected
their purpose, retired north, carrying
their prisoners and boory with them
unmolested.
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Finnigun is OF Again!

Wonders never cease. The Scien-
titic American describes machine that
will do the work of section gangs on
railroads in leveling and trimming the
roadbed and preserving the proper
width. level and slope called for by
the standard cross section of the road.
Ordinarily this work is done by HAND
labor, and it requires some skill to do
it correctly, but now the machine in
vented by Mr.. Frank Barr, assistant
general manager Of the Boston & Maine
railroad, is throwing the laborers into
panic all along the line. Space pre-
vents giving detailed description of
this new colossal labor displacing tool.
1t is only necessary to mention that a
thirty-mile section was trimmed with
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Personality OF Helen Gould.

Helen Miller Gould is just at the
threshold of her beautiful career. What
a promise is there in her life and work
for the coming century! va s}
4 She has pledged her fortune for a
Hall of Fame on the campus of the
New Yory university, overlooking the
Harlem river! It will have tablets for
the names of fifty distinguished Am
ericans, and proud will be the de-
scendants of those whose names are
inscribed thereon, says Success. b #
81 The human heart is the tablet upon
which Miss Gould has inscribed her
name, and her HAL OF Fame is as
broad and high as the republic itself.
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j. @. !ADAMS' LAST WORDS.

MQOe 10 OfOeF' ny ne1UcSts Says L0tG
Secretary of the Navy Thompson.
mot long before his. death I called
on Dick Thompson, for so he is best
known, and listened with unusual in
terest to- his political "reminiscences,
dating from 1848, when he was in con-
gress, and running on down to- his re-
tirement as secretary of the navy de-
partment,'' said Congressman Lands
of Indiana. II had asked him about
John Quincy Adams when the latter
was member of the lower house. Af-
ter he had answered me he said: =
Glands, I haven't much longer to
live; and 1 want to make a little con-
fession to you. It is important, per-
haps, but I am the only one living
who knows the secret, and l think I
shall feel better to know that I have
told it. I was in the house when John
Quincy Adams had the attack which
was one Of the four who carried him
into the speakers room: He never re-
gained consciousness. After his death
we who had carried him out of the
house met and questioned one another
until each confessed that hehad not
heard Mr.. Adams say anything after
we picked him up. In those days the
last words of great men had an inter-
est. which does not attach to last ut
terances In these days. And SO it was
agreed that inasmuchSas Mr.. Adams
had no chance to say \ anything for
himself that we would make some last
-
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What Would HaDDene

.., Did you ever stop TO- think what
would happen 5if "a business man should
j ubs tu organize u eomnerefAf
club and his customers should set on
him as a disturber and an enemy Of
Society and ridicule his protestations
that his efforts were for getting the
business men Of the town together for
mutual benefit and to build up trade? :?
Or if a doctor should apply for men,
bership in a medical association and
his patients should say: "You are dis
charged. We can't have you Joining
the associations and interfering with
our health. Your talk about being thus
better able to combat disease and so on
is all rot. We won't have it,"
Or if a lawyer should join the local
bar association and all his clients
should call him in and tell him that
he was simply conspiring to get their
hard-earned money and then put it in
the newspapers that he was probably
honest enough but had been led astray
by an unprincipled jackleg who had
served a term in the state legislature
for bribery?
Or if a minister, who, along with the
other preachers of the town, was COM
PEELED to work at the church every
night in the week and go to picnics and
make calls most of the day for $469 50
year should undertake to form 4
ministerial association and through it
get celebrated evangelist to come and
hold union meetings and the courts
should enjoin him and throw him in
jail because he was trying to interfere
with freedom Of contract?
Or if an editor should say that he
editors to have a press association and
should urge them to get together and
read papers and go to junkets-an.l
his subscribers should quit taking his
paper and import a cheaper man to
run an inferior paper?
What would these professional men
think?
But nothing of the sort will happen.
The business man. doctor, lawyer, min
lister and editor can all organize their
respective crafts and nothing is ever
done about it. There is only one man
who cannot. The minute wage-work-
er thinks of organization he is dictat-
ed to from all sides outside Of his trade
and warned not to forget his place
Suppose a Wage-earner should ask fol
an injunction against an employer?
Yet there are enough Wage-workers
with votes to set this matter right
George B. Harrison, in Appeal to Rea
son.
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Confidence Restored.

Once more self-respecting printers
can look at their typographical union
card without feeling the blush of shame
on their cheeks says the Terra Haute
Toiler. The executive council of the
International Typographical union re-
Gently issued an order to the Boise City
union instructing that body to erase
the name of Frank Steunefberg from it's
honorary ROLL and in the last issue of
the Typographical Journal appears a
communication stating that the order
has been obeyed. This man (save the
mark) Steunenberg was boosted into
the office for governor of Idaho on the
demo-pop ticket because of his connec-
ton with this union, and has since
proven himself to be one of the most
plant tools of the Standard Oil mining
sharks that ever happened. He, has
done everything in his power to dis
rupt the miners unions in the state,
and during the recent congressional
investigation of the Wardner bull pen
outrage he assumed the whole respon-
sibility of that notorious affair. I have
been a member of the Typographical
union ever since serving my appren-
ticeship, and have always been proud
of belonging to such an organization
until in".the last year, when I was
ashamed to admit that I was MEM
ber of the same body as this capitalist
although We were two
thousand miles apart. It is a shame
that will never be wiped out that the
Boise City Typographical union waited
until it received peremptory orders
from the executive council before it
fired Stuenenberg bodily. .5-t.. >5,:. =
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DE WET A BORN STR RATEG1sT.
How the BOer General Ambushed md
Captured British Column.

How the BOer General Ambushed and
Captured n British Column.
A graphic account Of the surprise of
the British force at Sanna's post near
the Bloemfontein water works., on
March 81, is given by Boer correspon-
dent who was with General De Vets
force on that occasion. The conception
and execution of the operation, which
is described with great simplicity and
clearness, stamps General De Wet~as a.
brilliant officer and strategist, and un-
less his career is cut short in the
chances of war, he seems destined to
take high rank as partisan leader. ia
When the British column of some $500
men belonging to General French's
division ocuppied Tha ba NJ Chu, General
De Wet was with his force near
Brandport. On learning the strength of
the British he started with the COM
mandos under Commandments Piet and
Christian De Wet and Andries Cronje
in the direction of Thaba N'Chu, the
total force not exceeding 1000 men.
On March 80 word was received that the
British were preparing to retire on
Bloenfontein. General De Wet 1mmed-
lately decided to strike at thet retreat
ing column, and selected the valley In
which the Bloemfontein water works
are situated as the point Of attack.
Orders were given on the same after
noon, March 80, for q forced march dur
ing the, night, and the start was made
at o'clock in the evening. 81 iss
n.y. =
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UNIONS turn OUT
GIVE THE LoNGsHoRENEN's UNIONS
YOUR SUPPORT.
Make the Street Parade Next Friday
OMAtrNtiOn Ever Held in tho City
Call n Special Meeting OF Your
Union and Decide at Once-DO not
Allow the Parade to bc IL Failure.

The large labor demonstration to De
held next Friday evening should bring
out every member of labor OrganiZa-
tiCns in the city. Every union in Du-
luth should vote to turn out in the big
street parade. 1t happens to fall on the
same evening of the Trades assembly
meeting The assembly should hold
special meeting and agree to not only
Join but to give their hearty support
to the Longshoremen. If other unions
do not meet until after July 13, they
should also call special meetings and
get in line There will be over 1000
longshoremen in line including the del
egates and the locals of Duluth and Su-
perior. The Hon. C. A. Towne will de-
liver an address on the industrial dues
ton, as will also President keefe, OF
the Longshoremen's association. There
will be a grand reception and ball given
after the speaking, at the Armory, free
to union men and their friends, who
shall have secured tickets from the
committee. If the parade is not what
is expected, it will not be the fault of
the Longshoremen. They have not left
one stone unturned to make it Sue
cess. The LongshOremen have a right
to expect large turnout from other
branches of organized labor. They
have never asked anything from them
before. There never has been move
ment in this city in which labor was
interested but what the Longshoremen
were first and foremost in it. When
financial aid was wanted they have
responded literally. On labor days
they have entered the parades to d
man. During the street car strike of
one year ago theirs was the only union
that turned out with the street car EN-
ployees. They have affiliated with and
supported the Trades assembl and To-
cal unions of other branches of trade
when they never have received any re-
turn benefits. Organized labor is not
in a position to give them any other
kind of support than that which thsy
now ask. If the unions of Duluth de-
sire to reciprocate for previous favors,
there should be no hesitancy about
turning out en- masse on Friday even
ing next. Let every union in the city
do it's duty in the matter. !,
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AMERICAN INVADERS.
EnEland's "Splendid Paupers' Re
w. =: sent Their Intructions. ..

England's f'Splendid Paupers'' Re-
~ - sent Their Intructions.
y Rich Americans who have identified
themselves with fashionable English life
are at present the victims Of sharp
words of criticism in London, while in
our own country "the new element
which prizes the possession of much
money rather than the quality Of per-
sonal distinction; is the class which is
now the target for caustic remarks and
anonymous letters to the press. o..
In the many letters and articles con-
tributed to the discussion in the Lon
don daily and weekly journals the
names Of the American women who
have married Englishmen are men
toned only In the most pleasant man
:ner. The millionaire invasion, IS as one
paper puts It, hoWeve bitterly re-
scented. That paper quotes Lady war
TT
q III 81 I'LL dead
w poor, little better than spl lend "a pau
:pers,'' and asks ::sss Il s Are these splendid
:paupers, long owners OF rural England,
and worthy sustainers of the traditions
of4a noble race. giving way to Aneri-
can manufacturers, to- to South African
spectators, to German merchant
princes? Our old aristocracy absorbed
the Rothschilds and Bentincks of pre-
vious generations and made them part
Of itself. The new millionaires threaten
to- absorb it. From Skibo castle, near
Dornock. firth: down to Norres, by
,Cowes, the .cosmopolitans Of capital are
seizing some of the ;fairest spots of our
land" 4 :~':. - = vi
5 This is a slap.:at William Waldorf
Astor, Andrew Carnegie, Anthony J..
Drexel, Bradley Martin, q. James r.,
wealth. ''These millionaire invaders
are so enormously rich,' continues the
London paper, '''tliat. they are indiffer-
ent to the fancy prices asked for great
estates. At least one of them, Mr..
Astor,> has an income of $5,000,000 a
year, secured in ground rents and rail-
way bonds. When he wanted Cliveden
he could afford to bid high enough to
tempt the multi-millionaire duke of
Westminster. The $1,0oo,0O0 he is said
to have paid for that estate represented
only about fifth of his yearly profits.
Mr.. Carnegie's income equals that of
Mr.. Astor. g..EArtS
Half a dozen of the invaders count
their yearly gains at from $1,00O,000 to
81, 100000. The men who make 81 1000
day, are a host. 1t must be an ex-
traordinary English estate which can
not now be rented for from $4,000 to
$4,000 year. The upkeep of such a
place will cost from $4,000 to $50,000 a
year more. Even the poorest million
aire, the man who is not making more
than $250,000 a year, can afford this.
Meanwhile, in at least one case, the
man with family history of 800 years
behind him has. to- bury himself in a
$500 a year semi-detached villa in some
quiet town near London. The rent of
his old mansion goes to satisfy mort
cages, leaving him perhaps $2,5OO a year,
for himself. This is no fancy picture y
Chicago News.