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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

second or business ability" leg gets
for helping hold up the "stool"
So far, then. the account stands
thus: Capitalistic leg, S140,OOOOOO to
Mr.. Carnegie and bonus of 311a per
cent to the lesser capitalists business
ability leg, $25O00,OOO to Mr.. Morgan
and his leading financial interests
labor-thc third equal leg in this
stool Of equality of legs?
This interrogatory is not to he an
swered by any prospective advantage
to it in the new combine; for the
stockholders of the constituent com
panies, as a reason why they should
consent TO absorption have uniformly
been assured that the advantage of
the transaction will. be seen "in de-
creased expenses, in lower cost of
manufacture, and, without advance
of prices of manufactured products,
in larger net earnings applicable to
dividends"
Where, then does labor come in for
ifS oh Of bo nd hn;
of the equal legs Of Mr.. Carnegle's
stool?
Labor might, perhaps, complacently,
and certainly without envy or un-
charitable ''class feeling" look on at the
enormous prices at which its fellow
legs are paid for their, work in holding
up the STOOL" if something else than
itself had to pay it all. But it knows
that this does not drop from the sky,
nor come from any source except its
own toll. Human labor Of some sort
stands behind each dollar of these
sums which almost outrun calcula-
tions, of which labor the dollar is only
the representative and the symbol.
So that, as the account now stands.
the labor leg of the stool has not only
received nothing for doing legs
work, but has actually paid the other
legs a pretty fair rate of wages for
their work.
Will libraries square the account?
Is not, rather, the very munifcence
which prompts them a confession that
labor has not had its fair share in the
only form in which it wants, or can
honorably or with self-respect have,
its reward, viz, in something like an
equitable division of its own output
between its wages and the profits of
its employers?
There is food for thought in the
whole transaction. Is not the library
idea of itself either Il suggestion of IL
troubled conscience, or an anchor cast
to windward against the day of recb-
onlng-sure to come, unless the teach
ings of history are all false for such
an inequitable distribution of the re-
suits of human effort?
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Scarcely n month passes but some ap-
the City Council. 1t behooves the peo-
pie to be represented in that body by
competent, honest men. The Demo
cratic CO,ncilmanic candidates invite
investigation of themselves and their
records.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

The fact that the Proxy City Com
fund to be overdrawn $11, 1,T00.7S takes
all the force and euphony out of the
Dobsonan platitudc! Vote for Doyle.
He stands for clean streets. Vote for
DoylpD
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

The way to avoid the tax crisis
which ex-City Commissioner Hugill
predicted two years ago is to remove
the cause which made the tax crisis
n possibility. Mr.. Hugill called it the
Proxy system.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

1t is not for n week or n month that
men are elected to the City Council,
but for two years. Do you know the
men for whom you will vote? Scan
the list of Democratic candidates. You
can rely on them.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Akron people may be able to get II
reform of Akron's government next
year; and they may not But they
tinuance of the Proxy system for two
years more If they will elect Mr.. Isbell
to the Mayoralty.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

When n political party turns down
one OF It's members who has been
faithlcss to the public interests, ii
comes with poor grace from the organ
of another party to try to make the
people believe that the punishment of
such an official is ''martyrdom."
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
A THREE.LEGGED STOOL.

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie once and often
has said; and lately he has repeated
it with great emphasis and satisfac-
tion, to himself ut least, that "labor,
capital and business ability are the
three legs of a three legged stool; nei-
thcr is first, neither is second, neither
is third"
If this now famous saying is true,
it opens an interesting field of in
qulry as to what proportion of the prof
it's of the immense deal by which MIR.
Carnegie has been enabled to leave
this country and go back to Skibo
Castle, is due to cach leg of the stool,
and how much of this burden of riches
each leg is holding up.
Only one of these amounts is an un.
known quantity. And if neither of the
legs of this stool is either first, sec
ond or third, then from the two whose
proiit-sharing burdens are known we
may safely reason to the one which is
not known, n,-for it ought to be the equal
of either of the others. We do not
mean to say that the promoters of this
enterprise have published to the world
just how much of the profits accruing
from its organization has been allotted
to the two legs called capital and
business ability" Far from 1t. But
they may be known, nevertheless.
1t is not yet two years since Mr..
Carnegie offered to sell his interests
in the properties which he has now
transferred to the steel trust for one
hundred millions in 3 per cent. bonds.
AS this proposition was not then ac-
cepted, Mr.. Carnegie formed company
bearing his name, which took over
his share in the properties referred to
at capitalization, including stock and
bonds,-of S320,O0O,OOO. or this capi-
tai Mr.. Carnegie retained controlling
interest, which of course was not less
than one half, or $l6O,OOo,Oo0.
Then by threatening to enter the
field of competition with the other in
dustrles since included In the giant
trust, with the enormous advantages
which his position gave him, he forced
these competitors to relegatc him TO
Skibo Castle, where he could compete
no more Now let us see what the
price Of this Punishment Of the iron
master was.
The smaller concerns which have
gone into the combine exchanged their
original holdings for shares in it at an
average premium OF 12.13 per cent.
for the common stock and 10 1-3 per
cent, for the preferred, being Il total
premium of nearly 311a per cent.
The property controlled by Mr.. Car
negie which went into the new colpor.
ation-being that of the most dangerous
competitor in the trade, was worth,
and hence received, a far larger bonus
as the quid pro quo of going into
'innocuous desuetudc" at Skibo Castle;
Just how much it was Is unknown to
the public, but 1t is currently put mt
not less than 90 per cent. advance OH
his holdings.
This means that he received as his
part Of the deal total of more than
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

"Thc Ring defeated me-" said Col
II. G. Sanford, on the day following
the Republican primaries.
"Smash the Ring" is the heavy
slogan of the Beacon.
All does not seem to be harmony
in the camp Of our Republican neigh
bors.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Solicitor Esgate may call the Demo.
Gratis "hogs," but he cannot say that
they are coming to the support of his
candidacy in "droves."
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

The Democratic candidates for Coun-
Gil are worthy successors of the men
whose work in that body has been com
mended by taxpayers generally.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

If the plea be made that partisan
politics be kept out of the School
Board, there is not Democratic can
didate who will object. Each candi-
date is willing to stand on his own
merits
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

While Akron has n Republican Pro-
bate Judge the best interests of the
city can only be served by having a
Democratic Mayor.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Before the citizens Of Akron will
believe that a man has suffered real
political martyrdom, they demand
that he be a more deserving patriot
than q Proxy. ...t,, .~..
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

How many Republicans and Popu
lists and Democrats have been told
by Judge Anderson to prepare theiI
bonds" for City Commissioner?
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
REV. w, f. FETCH.

zone man power" Is no less a public
evil now than it was two months ago.
The sentiment of Akron people has not
changed the Beacon has changed its
opinion, that's all.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
Machine victories mean high taxes.

Is Akron going 10 he governed by tho
tax'eaters or the taxpayers?
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Isbcll over Judge Anderson's candidate
next Monday.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
THE GLASSES

Fitted for me four years
ago by DR.. Tucker are o. X.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Help wanted or house for rent2 Try
the Democrats want columna
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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Mayor,
CHARLES ii. ISBELL. =
For Solicitor,
CHARLES g. BENNER.

For Justice of the Peace,
JOHN II. VAUGHAN.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

records.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25

BY virtue OF suudry writs Of Fl. Fa., issued
out of the Court OF Common Pleas OF Columbia
County, Pennsylvania, and to me directed,
there will be exposed to public sale, at the
Court House, in Bloomsbury, Pa, on
SATURDAY, JULY a7, 1901,
at two o'clock p. m. all the following described
two pieces, or parcels OF land situate In the
Town OF Bloomsbury, Columbia County Penn
sylvania, namely, viz:
NO. 1.--Beginning at the northwest corner Of
an alley and railroad street; thence In a north
erly direction along said alley north seventy
three and one-half degrees east, one hundred
and nine ard four-tenths feet to Bloom alley
thence In a westerly direction along Bloom al
ley twenty-four degrees west, twenty-nine feet
to point at other land OF Thomas Corey
thence in southerly direction along said land
south, -elghty-one and flve-tenths degrees
west, ninety five feet to railroad street; thence
In an easterly direction along Railroad street
forty-slx and one-quarter feet to the place of
beginning
No. 2.-Beginnlng at a point on the southern
line OF Bloom alley, twenty-nine feet west of
the northwest corner OF Bloom and Old Road
alleys thence In a northerly direction north
sixty-six degrees east, forty-six and seven
westerly direction along the alley north two
hundred thirty-four and one-half degrees west
seventy-two and two-tenths feet TO an alley (;
thence in southerly direction, along said al
ley, thlrty-one and one-half feet to point;
thence In an easterly direction, along the line
of other land of Thomas Corey, south three
and three-quarters degrees east, forty-four and
tive-tenths feet to point; thence in an east
ery direction, by other land of Thomas Corey.
south eighteen degrees east, thirty-nine feet to
the place OF beginning, having thereon erected
q two-story
FRAME DWELLING HOUSE.
Seized, takenin execution, at the suit of State
Capital Savings and Loan Association, of Har-
risburg, Pa, VS.. Thomas Corey, and to be sold
as the property Of Thomas Corey.
DANIEL KNORR,
SwARTz AND HARMAN, Attys. Sheriff
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
HOW TO BECOME WEALTHY.
Singular Advice Given a Young Man
by an Elderly Ply
stefan.

In New Hampshire city there
dwells an octOgenarian physician who,
in addition to his wide medical skill,
is known far and wide as n dispenser
of blunt philosophy. The other day a
young man of his acquaintance called
at his office, says the Buffalo CONNER
cial.
81 have not come for pills this time,
DOCTOR" said the visitor, "but for ad-
vice. You have lived many years in
this world of toll and trouble and
have had much experience. | am young
and want you to tell me how to get
rich"
The aged practitioner gazed through
his glasses at the young man and in a
deliberate tone, said
Eyes, | can tell you. You are young
and can accomplish your object if you
will. Your plan is this: First, be in
dustrious and economical. Save as
much as possible and spend as little.
Pile up the dollars and put them at
interest. If you follow out these in
structions by the time you reach my
age you'll be as rich as Croesus and as
mean as HI"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25

pITTSBURG, July 24.-It is asserted
on good authority that papers are being
prepared by Persifer f. Smith, district
manager of the American Steel Sheet
company, to go into the United States
superior court today for the purpose of
securing an injunction against the strik-
ers to prevent them from interfering
in any way with the operation Of the
company's plants, wherever situated.
Following this the rumor is in cireula-
ton that a carload Of men will run into
Wellsville today to supplement the force
now at work. This latter story had not
been verified up to last midnight. Out
side of these incidents the actual strike
status is unchanged.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25

fact is, she weighs nearly 400 pounds
and is as unwieldy as IA hippopota-
mus. For years she had been unable
to walk. One of her sons has built
for her a special chair on rollers.
In that chair she propels herself to
and from the cupboard and the
kitchen table. When customers stop
at the house they sit at the table
and she supplies their needs. When
the officers come, as they have some
times In the past, she rolls her chair
before the cupboard and brandishes
her cane. She threatens to crack the
skull of the first man that ventures
in her reach. The badge and author
ity of United States marshal have
no terrors for her.
Various plans have been made for
the disposition of Dame Ouillette. At
one time new deputy United States
marshal came to the house with full
determination to take into custody
this doughty old defer of Uncle Sam.
When he looked at her weight and
then looked at his buggy his resolu-
tion weakened But he told her that
. she was under arrest and must go to
Portland with him. Dame Ouillette
smiled amiably and told him to take
her. She declared that she was ready
to go just as she was. The deputy
walked first on one side of the huge
chair and then on the other. He lifted
cautiously He could not bulge her.
She only grinned at him. He ordered
her to stand up and walk to the buggy.
She explained that she had not been
able to walk for years. The neighbOrs
verified her statement. The marshal
used his authority and obliged several
of the men standing around TO assist
him in carrying the woman to the car
riage. But once out of doors at the
side of the conveyance, the impossi-
bility of getting her in made itself
manifest. So she was conveyed back
to her kitchen, still smiling. Since that
time no United States officer has made
any determined attempt to move her.
The other man was laughed at too
heartily. No officer wants to be seen
carrying that mass of avoirdupois
across Maine to Portland, boosting her
from one change of cars to another.
And once in Jail she would be even
more of an incumbrancG.
The county officers of Aroostook
would not have her in their jail for
ten dollars a day. Therefore Dame
Ouillette only smiles when the officers
pay her occasional visits to see if she
will not cease posing as a determined
outlaw. Some of them threaten to
break her bottles, but she brandishes
her thick stick, and no officer wishes to
engage in an undignified scufiie with
the determined old woman.
So Uncle Sam simply shakes his fist
| at Dame Ouillette and she answers by
shaking her stick.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
RIGID NORWEGIAN LAWS.
Those Regarding Foreigners So
strict They May Act ns u De-
tcrrent to Travellers.

1t having become the fashion for the
globe trotter to take in Norway and
Sweden as part of his itinerary it is of
general interest that a law recently
passed by the Norwegian government
and which is to become operative in
January, 1902, should be given wide
publicity. All persons whose occupa-
ton it is to receive travellers as night
dodgers are to report the same to the
police, and moreover to keep a list of
all persons whom they receive. Any
foreigner desiring to reside in Norway,
or to obtain employment in Norway
must report on his arrival his means,
and if required to do so appear before
the local police, says Vogue.
Moreover, the subject of any foreign
state may be refused admittance in
Norway for the following reasons: If
he is found on arrival not to be in pos
session of sufficient means of support,
or without prospects of obtaining law
full employment in Norway; second,
emitting to report himself after ar
rival; third, if he is unprovided with a
certificate of residence book when he
ought to have one in his possession;
fourth, this provision refers to those
persons who may have been condemned
in any country for offenses of specified
kinds. just why such restrictive meas
ures should have been enacted the re-
ports published in this country do not
say but little more of such red tape
might act as a deterrent for tourists
who do not wish to be forever pro-
claiming themselves.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
HIS HAIR STOOD UPON END.
confronted by -Four Mountain Lions
Prospector Was Badly
Frightened,

Up to five years ago" said pros
pector to q reporter, 81 didn't believe
in such a thing as a mans hair stand
ing on end" and then the old gentle
man told the story of the fright that
fed him to change his mind, says the
ST. Louis Republic.
VI was in the mountains of Idaho
with a friend and we ran short of
fresh meat, so one day took my gun
and started off alone. | went into u
ravine and was making my way along
little brook when | came suddenly
upon queer sight. Not four feet i'm
front of me, in the full blaze of the
sun, lay four mountain lions, asleep.
For half a minute | thought them
dead, but as / stood staring at them
with my heart in my mouth everyone
of them sprang up with growl. And
they faced around at me. looking
ugly, shifting the air with their whis-
kers drawn back, showing the white
line of their teeth, switching their
tails and looking like demons.
'As for me, ! stood rooted to the
fright. 4 queer, numb sensation be-
gan in my ankles and crept up my
body and / literally felt my hair rise.
/ stood there motionless for several
minutes; then one of the beasts
dropped his tail and whined. The
others followed his example. My
presence mystified them. few sec
onds later they turned about and
crept away down the ravine, looking
back stealthily two or three times to
see me.
"When they were out of sight I be-
gan to breathe again. | didn't care
to hunt any more that day and made
for the camp at top speed. That was
the time my hair stood on end and
my scalp was sore to the touch for a
week afterward."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
Siberian Crops IL Failure.

WASHINGTON, July PA st. Pc
tersburg dispatch to the United States de-
partment of agriculture, dated July 81,
states that a temperature of l03 degrees
was reached that day in Odessa and that
phenomenal heat was prevailing through
all of northern Russia. A cablegram to
the department from London, dated July
70, mentioned reports that the crops in
Siberia appear to be nearly a total fail
ure, adding that in the districts of Nlinu-
sinsk and Krasnoyarsk almost the entire
growth of cereals has perished as the re-
suit of two months drought and that in
the trans Baikal country the condition o.
the crops was almost equally bad. Minu-
sinsk and Krasnoyarsk are two of the
FIVE districts composing the Siberian prov
ince of Yenisesk, which occupies the
greater part of the country drained by the
Yenisei river.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
LAUGHS AT THE LAW
And for Its Oficers She Has No Re-
spect Whatever.
Dame Oui1Ictte, of AroostooL County,
Me-, Sells Liquor Openly and
Defcs the National and
state Governments.

"What shall we do with Dame Quill
letter. is "A question that is bother
ing the United States government.
Dame Ouillette lives under the hill
in Portage Lake plantation, Aroos-
took county, Me. Past her door rum
bic the big mill wagons, "toting"
down to the railroad station at Ash
land. Past her dpor, also, streams
the travel over the main turnpike
road between Ashland and Fort Kent,
on the northern Maine border. All
this traffic is good for the business
of Dame Ouillette. She sells liquor.
Her cupboard is full of it. There is
Geneva gin in the black, hump-shoul-
dered bottles; there is amber vat
ted" Scotch whisky; there is cherry
rum in jugs, bits of the hulls and
pulp of the black cherries flecking it,
as its purple black jets come "honk-
honk" from the jugs mouth; there
is "morson," or the white rum of the
section, the favorite beverage of the
French Canadians. Dame Ouillette
sells all these tipples to all comers.
h'iN - llOllliS I'lllil hdb III NlC
fact that the old French woman is in
this business. for selling liquor is a
favorite employment of the DANES
of northern Aroostook in cartain sec
tions. Dame Ouillette, however, stands
unique among them all. She defies
both the United States government
and the laws of the state of Maine.
She pays no United States internal
tax, or, as it is termed in Maine, "she
has no license" She never has had
one. Furthermore, she openly de-
clares that she never will pay a cent
to the government. She smilingly
says there is no need of her doing so.
She believes that the rich govern
ment should not bother old women
who are trying to get a living.
The old woman is not molested
when she makes this declaration, and
she settles back in her chair. The
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
Flying Machines,

A scientific writer in Cassier's Mag
azine aflirms that flying machines can
never amount to much. They will be
small and cranky, require much pow
er, carry little extra weight and de-
pend for the,- speed on whether they
go with or against the wind, so that
they can never compete with existing
modes of transportation.
That is to say, science is able to
make flying machines, but really it is
not worth while.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25

SEATTLE, Wash, July 24.-The
steamship Humbolt, with 100000 in
treasure and 80 passengers, has arrived
from Alaska. She brought news that
two river barges We're found deserted
and the eight men who were in charge of
them had gone. Three ocean barges be-
longing to Black Sullivan loaded with
300 tons of merchandise and bound for
Dawson via st. Michael's have been
wrecked near Kodiak. The ocean barges
went on the rocks on Rocky island, just
east of Kodiak island.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
Artificial Marble,

Manufacturers are actually making
marble by the same process by which
nature makes it, only in few weeks
instead of a few thousand years. They
take a rather soft limestone and chem.
ically permeate it with various color.
ing matters, which sink into the stone,
and are not n mere surface coloring,
as in scagliola. The completed ma
terial takes a fine polish, and many
of the specimens are of beautiful col
or and marking.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
u.duct,o, Works Burned.

FLORENCE, Colo, july 24.-A fire,
said to be of incendary origin destroyed
the extensive plant of the I'll Paso Re
duction company, quarter Of mile
south of Florence. The loss on the plant
wiil reach $2a5 900 and on ore $4,000;
Insurance, about 100000. THE mill was
owned by Philadelphia capitalists.