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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
Law of seIlinr WIVES.

Justice Summerville at Odin, III
has handed down a decision that il a
man sells his wife he must deliver.
the goods or he is guilty of obtain
ing money under false pretences. AS
to the constitutional right of man Ia
sell his wife the justice did not pass
upon.
The case resulted from a deal made
by Mr.. Hamilton, OF Noble, VINO suitiT
his wife to Mr. Davenport for 50 cash.
Mrs. Hamilton heard of the bar
gain and went with Davenport, but
left him before night. Davenport had
Hamilton arrested and the entire com
munity went to hear the case.
Attorney Olinger. for the defendant
argued that man had a right to sell
his wife any time he pleased without
a pedler's license The state contended
that if a man sold his wife he must
insure delivery Justice SummerviIla
took the latter view and decided that
Hamilton must send back his wife OF
money, pay the costs and leave town
or he would send him to jail. st. Paul
Globe.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
VETERAN LABOR LEADER.

craft He always insisted on living
strictly up to all agreements with the
employers. When his men hesitated
he forced them to submit by a threat
of reyoking the charter. Time and
again trouble arose over union men
working with non-unionists, but Mr..
Fox has fought it ought in the union
till his organization has reached the
highest water mark in every respect
If shop had more than so per cent
union men, then union rules and regu
lations were to govern! the non-union
men were not to be disturbed; all
vacancies, however, were to be filled
by unionists. Strikes are very rare
now in the iron industry. Mr. Fox is
member of the National Civic Fed
Grafton.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

many juvenile fights as he may see in
other tenement house districts in
few short blocks. One may see for
hours, too, and hear and see all the
domestic life going on openly around
him, and yet not hear or see a sin
gle dispute between man and wife.
This city may not be an ideal one Of
Love, but assuredly it is not one OF
Anger.
The district is an amazing array OF
shops. There are thirty-four un.
broken miles of stores and a man
walking steadily at the rate. of four
miles an hour could walk for eight
hours past one continuous row OF
stores. The doorways to all the tene-
ments are hidden by piles Of bake.
stuffs, meats, groceries, chickens and
wearing apparel Everything from a
string of garlic or peppers to gilded
parlor furniture can be obtained here.
1t has factories of all articles from
shoes to collins. 1t produces its own
clothing, its own cigars. its own
newspapers. its own food supply in
every variety, except that of raw
material. The very ice and delivery
wagons in it are driven by Hebrews.
The trucks are driven by Hebrews.
Hebrews do the blacksmithing and
the painting and the roofng and the
building. Hebrews own the barrooms
and the banks.
AT about 2 o'clock every afternoon
comes a rush of newsboys, shouting
out their news in the harsh jangle OF
English, Hebrew, German and
dozen other tongues, that is known as
Yiddish The papers that they carry
all have fat black headlines in Hebra-
ic characters, as if they might be
DEGREES of the patriarchs They tell
each day of the thousand loves and
griefs and intrigues and joys of the
great city of the Jew.
The tailor-maae gown is q surpris-
ing feature of East Side commerce
Where did these immigrants from
Poland and Lithuania and Tartar
Russia learn to give woman's gar.
ment the indescribable touch Of style
that stamps the tailor-made gown!
They surely possess the knowledge
Nobody can do it better than do the
unkempt tenement house dwellers
Many of New Yorks fashionable wo
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

1t is estimated that there are S00,-
eco working people III the city of Chi
cago, and the SOS different trades
unions claim about 40 per cent of that
number as members. About IS per
cent of all the various crafts in that
city are organized. and during the past
two years, the most prosperous period
Chicago has ever seen, the labor or
CARNATIONS have reached their great
est power and influence. The increase
in the number Of unions has been 200
per cent and the membership 200 per
cent. In no other city has labor been
so thoroughly organized, and in none
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
Famous Old Prison
IS Being Torn Down

small file in his Bible, and a complete
set of tools in the rushes of his chair
The guards inspected his chains on
September 16, 1924, and left him at 2
o'clock in the afternoon for the re-
maindor of the day. Sheppard then
made, his last and most wonderful
escape. After freeing himself of his
manacles and swapping the chains
which held him to the floor, he re-
moved a stout iron bar from the chin
ney and climbed up the fiue After
forcing several heavy bolted doors by
an almost incredible exertion of
strength and ingenuity, he found him.
self upon the upper leads.
But, just when his escape was all
but accomplished, the convict was
compelled to retrace his steps to his
cell to get his blanket, by which he
might let himself down to an adjoin-
ing roof twenty feet below The re.
turn trip was made in safety, and,
dropping to the roof, he entered a gar
ret window, and thence slipped unob-
served into the purlieus OF Smithfeld
Passing down Gray's Inn lane to the
fields, he spent two or three days in
an old house by Totteaham Court
Five days after his escape he went to
a cellar by Charing Cross. where all
were talking about Jack" Sheppard
He then broke into a pawnbroker's
shop, decked himself out in smart
clothes and drove past Newgate in a
closed carriage. The next day he
treated his mother to three quarterns
of brandy, and then drank himself
silly at Sheer's tavern, Maypole alley
In this state he was captured and
taken back to Newgate. The turkeys,
despite their disgrace, turned the occa-
sion to one of gain, and charged the
multitude of curious visitors IS. Cd. a
head to see their capture. He was
watched nighB and day until Novem-
Der is. when his execution was wit
messed by over 100000 persons, at Ty-
burn. A riot. which broke out over
the disposal of the corpse, had finally
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
Statue Of Cecil Rhodea.

John Tweed, the sculptor, has fin
isbed his statue of Cecil Rhodes.
which is to be erected in Kimberley.
Il is on exhibition in London The
statue is more than life size, 1t repre-
sents Mr.. Rhodes in the act Of max
ing a speech, his right foot advanced
and firmly planted, his hands clasped
behind his back and his fine, uncov-
cred head thrown somewhat on one
side in a Characteristic pose He
stands, too, in a tweed suit and close
ly buttoned jacket he always affected.
and, though baggy trouser knees
and bu.ging coat pockets do not lend
themselves to artistic presentation, it
IS 2 yirile and striking statue Of MI Mi
Rhodes" says London critic.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
The sjmple Amerioan Fashion

Royalty is given to a useless ex-
penditure of words, as of everything
else In drinking to the health of the
car the shah of Persia said: Il take
this God-giyen opportunity to thank
your majesty for the kind sentiments
and kind, sympathetic and pleasant
welcome which have received in your
empire In the hope that the ties
uniting the two countries, already SO
firm, will be drawn still closer than
they have been in the past | drink to
the health of your majesty, their ma
jesties the empress and your august
family, to the happiness, glory and
long duration of your reign and to the
prosperity Of your states" An Ameri-
can citizen would have said, Here's
hoping" with quite as satisfactory re.
suits.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
The Burial Ground.

now nearly two hundred years old, is
being retold by Londoners at the pres
ent time. Jack" Sheppard, like many
another criminal, owed his downfall
to the company of bad women. His
father was carpenter, and a man of
sterling honesty. The boy was also
apprenticed to carpenter, Owen
Wood; but he fell into the society of
bad companions near by, at the Black
Lion, in Drury Lane Here he met
"Bess" Lyon and "Poll' Maggott, who
began to incite him to theft.
After many Tobberies of increasing
boldness. Jack" Sheppard was cap
tured. tried and sentenced to death in
Old Bailey But he had been supplied
with a file by Poll" Maggott and
"Bess" Lyon, and he adroitly man
aged to escape. His liberty was of
short duration, and ten days later he
was recaptured and placed in the
strongest cell of Newgate, known as
the Castle. Here he was chained
with two ponderous staples to the
floor" Nearly all London fiocked to
see the prisoner, who, despite all the
care that was taken, had secreted a
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

IBS ~ AilG NattEtlO FtCSlASUI
"A Unclaimed, or teacher of the Russian
Jews.l
located geographically as to insure
seclusion. for not a single great thor
cughfare trayerses it and to most New
Workers it is a region as strange
as though it were part of Siberia
And wonderful territory it is III
many respects. You may pass through
forty miles of streets and see none,
but Jewish faces Hebrew types from
all over the world-except for police
men, street sweepers. a few other
city employees and visitors. The lat
ter are generally non-residents Of the
metropolis.
The Ghetto of New York is a city
truly and no mere quarter. 1t is per.
meated with Orientalism. From the
coloring of the fronts to the crowds
in the streets, everywhere is the
aouch of the lands that border the
eastern ends Of the Mediterranean. In
the ceaseless flowing to and fro of
people there come and go figures Of
the magical East Bent old men with
white ringlets and majestic boards,
noble models for pictures of Cadis
and Talmudists, sit behind greasy
show windows waiting for customers
to buy their unleayened breads or
groceries or kosher meats. Tall, tain,
German Hebrews. modern in every
aspect, with the deep, angry eyes Of
men who talk O. nights Of social tyr
annies, press through the crowds,
bearing unfinished trousers and waist
coats to the sweatshops Behind
tumbled, junk-like mass OF shoe.
strings, tin spoons at the price OF
two for one cent, and two-cent whisk-
hrooms, there looks a man who bears
on his brown neck a perfect Assyrian
head Swaying from the hips, a girl
who is as picture Of Biblical
water carrier, passes along. With her
is one as modern as the bright day
In all the streets hardly a woman,
except the Poles, who are true to
their coweled shawl headdrssses,
wears a head covering, unless the
wigs on every other woman beyond
middle age may be called that.
Everywhere throughout the terri
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
Addinc to the t4eiqht.

The average man, neither noticeably
short nor noticeably tall, is not great
ly concerned about his height, but
when he has to come up to fixed physi-
cal requirements for some position,
how ever, it becomes of Importance
The anguish of would-be fireman or
policeman a fraction of an inch under
the minimum requirement, has never
been adequately set forth. In week
~ paper devoted to firemen's interests,
there has appeared for the last few is
sues this startling advertisement: BE
suspended at So-and-So's gymnasium
for ten minutes and grow half-inch
taller. New York Post
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07


A young man in Elmira, N. Y, re.
Gently proposed to the girl of his
choice, making his declaration by
mail, because he thought that in that
way he could do himself better jus.
tice. He was in his Office a day or
two later when a messenger boy ar
rived with this enigmatical telegram:
Isle of WE'VE wers." He was con-
WINGED that the message had some.
thing to do with his proposal, but he
could not decipher it, He went to
consult his mother She read the
telegram over once or twice, shook
her head and then read it aloud. But
what she said sounded like: 81 love
you-yours." The son snatched the
message out Of his mothers hand and
read it once more. Then he shouted:
ITS all right, mother" and dashed
for the telegraph Office, where he sent
return telegram
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

Famous Newgate prison, where so
much of London's criminal history has
been enacted, is being torn down. Al
though the present structure was
erected in the eighteenth century, the
gloomy building belonged more to
medieval times. and its Graveyard"
and cells were veritable vaults, in
which the unfortunate occupants may
truly be said to have been buried
alive
The destruction of Newgate has
been contemplated for long time,
but the actual work was not begun
until the present time because of nu-
rnerous obstacles. On the site will be
erected a business building, and in
stead of gloomy cells filled with idle
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

Rip Van Wlnkle came down the hill
after his twenty years sleep.
But my friends and relatives" he
inquired, where are they?"
Dead and buried replied the
strangers as they led him away weep
ing.
And the coal strike" he faltered.
They are thinking of arbitration :"
Shrieking with joy, he realized that
one link yet bound him to the past,
ana his life was later made happier
by knowing that the original coal
strike jokes were still dinned into the
public ear.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
STRIKES IN ENGLAND.

The annual report OF the Board Of
Trade of London. England, on the
strikes and lockouts in the United
Kingdom for the year 1901 has been
issued. 1t is valuable as an indication
showing the relative positions Of or,
ganized labor AMI the employers; it
is a detailed account OF the years
warfare between capital and labor the
number and character of strikes and
lockouts, with the results in the shape
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
HUMOROUS.

Hell love you more than words c4u
:ell. She (shyly) Well. there are
other ways.
He-Am good enough for you, darl-
ing? She-No, george; but you are
90 good for any other girl.
Wigg- Bones has a remarkable
memory Wagg Yes; one of those
that are handy to forget with.
He offered her his hand and for-
tune" did she aecept?" mo; the
first was too large and the second was
too small"
Mamma" said little sour-year-old
Harry as his mother was giving him
sis bath, 'be sure and wipe me dry, SO
won't get rusty
Mr. Inlaw Ito wife, reading letter
from sister) WAS her wedding sue
cess? Mrs Inlaw-Oh, yes! She receiy-
cd seventy-eignt presents!
AT last said the fat lady, 4 have
found the key to the living skeletons
heart 1T must be a skeleton key,
grinned the sword swalIower
Hook--I told her loved her from
the bottom of my heart Nye- What
did she say to that? Hook She want
ed to know if there wasn't any room
at the top. 9
Mrs. Waggles- There's fire sale
around at the grocery store. / wonder If
he's selling his milk any cheaper, Wag-
gles-I guess not. That's only damn
aged by water.
Here is a spicy bear story, said the
writer who had just returned from the
vest. Il don't see anything spicy in it,
remarked the busy editor, oh, yes;
it is about a cinnamon bear"
IF you marry thai girl, Sir, I'll cut
you off without cent MY dear dad,
the mere fact that the girl is willing
to marry me under those circumstances
is proof that she's worth it"
Benham-You needn't be particular
about your dress; where we are going
people won't notice what you have ON
Mrs. Benaam--Then we won't go; i
won't associate with such people
How pleasant it is to see husband
and wife OF one mind! It is, indeed.
There's the Roufnsons, for example,
She thinks there's nobody in the world
like Robinson, and he thinks so, too.
"Y1u can always tell a man that
holds an office" said the man in tae
pearl hat. You can't tell him any
thing" spoke ZIP the man in lavender
trousers; "he thinks he knows it ALL
Cook, my husband complains that
the coffee was cold. the meat overdone,
the biscuits burned, and the oatmeal
soggy. "Yez hey me sympathy, mum.
1t must be awful to live with such a
man.
Here's a letter from Mirandy at
college. She says she's in love with
ping-pong." She is, hey? Well. she's
better give him up; we amt goin' ter
stand no Chinaman marryin into this
family"
Mr.. Meek, who had gone to the
front door to answer the postman's
knock put his head inside the door
Of the room where his wife was sit
ling. ITS letter for me, dear he
said 'snall l open it?'
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
AIMS OF LABOR.

Organized labor does not claim 10
have reached perfection in its meth
cos, but it is doing the best it can
under adverse circumstances, looking
forward to the time when the "crooll-
ed places shall be made straight ana
the rough places plain" We know
that restriction OF immigration and
shortening the hours of labor would
solve the apprentice question. for
there would then be work enough for
all We have by persistent effort ac-
comDlished something in these two di-
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
Strange Sights Seen
in New York's Ghetto


Attention has lately been attracted
to the Hebrews of New York by the
publication Of a statement that there
are 100000 persons of that race on
the island of Manhattan. This means
that one of every four persons in
what was formerly the metropolis is
a descendant of Abraham. People
We're surprised when they read it, but
1t IS the truth. The Hebrews of New
York are sufficient in number to com
pose q mighty city in itself, and were
they set apart in a distinct municipal
lily, only three cities in the United
States would snrpass them in popula-
ton. As it is, they occupy a city
within a city. The Ghetto" is so
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
=
The AMERICAN CITIZEN.

lie boasts no tawdry garter, no coat of
arms nor crest;
No ribbon Of a royal guild is Haunting
from his breast;
lie cannot point to pcdigrees grown gray
with age and dim
10 be a son of Adam is quite good enough
for himi
No titled prig, no dude is he. FOR since his
race began
lie is what GOD meant him to be-he's
every inch a mani
A man with proud. mfettercd soul of
aspirations high.
And chainless as the eagle bird whose
palace is the sky:
strong and undaunted as the rock that
breasts the angry foam.
Equality his citadel and liberty his home
His hirthright is his charter-he bows
before no throne.
he serves no earthly maSter-he knee!s
to God alone!
Yet what sccpter he doth wieldl He
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
Testimonial to Henrik Abel.

Bjornson was the author of the text
of tie cantata which was sung at
Christiania the other day by way Of
celebrating the hundredth birthday OF
Norway's famous mathematician, Hen
rik Abel About 300 guests from for
eign countries were invited and Prof.
f. hansen presided at the banquet
Although Abel lived only twenty-sev-
en- years, he was repeatedly invited TO
a professorship in Berlin, but his pa
triotism caused him to decline the in
vitation. Notwithstanding his poverty.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
DECEMBER I
ON THE MARKET.

For Sale:-A lot in Betty 3 heart,
But recently vacated;
(The former owner having been
lty Dun too poorly rated
Location fine; adjoining lots
eAll owned by persons wealthy;
Exposure northern; not too cold
For incomes strong and healthy
For Sale:-A lot In Betty's heart;
Most carefully restricted;
(The- former owner tried to build
From plans that much confiicted D
A bargain most unusual;
All millionaires or other
Prospective purchasers apply
To Betty or her mother.
Richard Stillman Powell, in Puck,
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

holds within his hand
a STAFF of gold that makes him king ana
sovereign of the land.
He hews the pines, he plows the fields, he
fructiiies the soil
And builds a granry for the grain that
groweth from his toll
And with the wealth thus treasured up
from busy day to daX.
Erect Of gait and resolute, he goes his
missioned way.
Progress and peace his destined goal and
work his sacred creed
lie lifts the world to higher heights by
thought and word and deed.
odd Glory" floating DER his head, its
flagstaff strong as death,
Held firmly in his brawny hand-more
valued than his breath.
He marches on with rapid step forever
in the van
This peerless knight of human kind-the
true Americanl
Eugene Davis in New York News.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

William Burton. a desert miner.
brings news from Randsburg of an ex-
citing encounter in the streets there
between black bear and two desert
wolves. The fight was witnessed BY
Mrs. Quigley, Miss Alice Short and two
other women from the veranda OF the
Quigley residence. The bear was evil
IDENTITY trying to escape from its stor-
mentors. In front of the house the
three came to a sudden stop, and for
nearly fifteen minutes the wolves held
the bear at bay. One Of the women left
by the rear door to summon a neigh
Dor, but by the time he arrived the
brutes had gone. and though tracked
some distance toward the mountains,
they could not again besfoufd. Sew
eral hunting parties turned out. but
were unable to locate either the bear
or wolves. AS the animals came from
the desert, it is presumed that the
wolves had been in chase Of the bear
for many hours. San Francisco Chron
icle.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

Heads of business downtown are
beginning to show the influence of
much pre-occupation with him whom
Wall street knows as - P" They are
copying the Morgan manner, just as
all young Park row at one time was
said to be barbering and tailoring
itself to look like Harding Davis.
Splitter. gruffness, frowning-down,
arm-waving and general intimidating
tone and carriage are the vogues.-
New York Letter.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

There goes a poor fellow who has
hard work to make ends meet" says
my friend, indicating a portly person
across the street
"So?" l inquired.
''1e s. He is an artists model, and
before he got so fat he made good
money posing as heroes and demi-
gods, but now ne is SO obese that the
only occupation he can find is an oc-
casional pose as purse-proud pluto
crat for some cartoonist."
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07

tory curb lines are obliterated. Side
walks exist only as places Of refuge
from trucks and fire engines The
throng floods the street indiscrimin-
ateIy. from house line to house line.
Every detail Of Housekeeping is car
ried on frankly in the open Even
the washing of clothes is done in
some of the Railways. Here and
there someone is cooking a meal on
an oil stove in front of a store. The
women wash their children on the
street. They visit with their friends
On the street. Many of them eat
midday meals on the street. Children
il hordes dare death every minute
and escape. They hur1 themselves in.
shouting festoons across a thorough
fare just as a team of truck horses
comes laundering along They are
under the feet of pedestrians. They
hang to dizzy eninences and cackle
with easy minds. There are thous-
ands of them.
-et one can walk through the City
* the Jew for hours and not see as
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
UNIONS ARE STRONG.

is there so much enthusiasm. During
the last two months the retail clerks
and other mercantile employees, the
freight handlers, transfers, rubber
workers and street car men have
formed new unions, and have shown
great gains. The printing trades dur
ing the past year have succeeded in
organizing every establishment in Chi
cago, including five shops during the
last three weeks that have been non.
union for siXteG2 years.