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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
For the Eirht-Hour Day.

The report of the United States in
dustrial commission. which recon-
mends that uniform laws be passed in
the several states making eight hours
a legal working day, has been read
with great deal of satisfaction by the
Representatives of organized labor, as
it treats of a subject which has been
at the bottom of more agitation and
has been the cause of more strikes
than any other matter in which labor
is interested. 1t is believed that the
report will have considerable weight,
as it has been made after most ex-
haustive investigation by the indus
trial commission during which the
conditions in all lines of work have
been looked into and made the subject
Of an inquiry. The commission is
composed of laboring men, capitalists.
and employers of labor and is as thor
oughly representative as any such
body could be.
The substance of the report is that.
congress having no power to legislate
directly upon the subject, it is recon-
mended that the several states estab
lish uniform hours of labor, and also
specially regulate the hours of en-
ployment of persons between the ages
of IA and 81. The working day of all
public employment, the report says,
should be eight hours, in the nope that
it would bring private employment to
the same standard.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Plan to Produce Strikes.

President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers of America has return
ed to Indianapolis from the meeting
of the executive committee of the
National Civic Federation at New
York.
The executive committee was ap-
pointed to consider ways and means
of bringing labor and capital into
closer relationship. The committee
adopted a constitution and bylaws,
and hereafter will meet once year,
unless called together by an emer-
gency.
President Mitchell firmly believes
that the object for which the commit
tee was appointed will be achieved and
points to the settling of the big strike
of garment workers in New York re-
Gently, in which over 10000 persons
were out, as one of the substantial re-
suits already attained. He says the
plan will not avert all strikes, but it
will reduce them materially and mini
mize the possibility of long drawn out
struggles in which vast sums of money
are lost both to the employers and
their men. Arbitration will not be
attempted unless both sides agree to
abide by the verdict.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
His Miraculous Escape.

For four days and four nights in the
depths of the earth, wandering in abso-
lutte darkness through winding gorges,
crawling on hands and knees through
Shiny passages in the jagged rocks
hating at times on the brink OF awful
precipices, growing faint from hunger
and almost crazy from hardships
which he was forced to endure-these
are a few of the experiences that befell
Can't Caleb Johnson, Mississippi
river pilot, when he attempted recent
" to explore the mysteries of Dead
Mans cave at st. Genevieve, just
across the river from Red Bud, Ill.
But with all of Capt. Johnson's ex-
periences the cave remains as much a
mystery as ever, for he was without
light for most of the way, and has no
idea to-day how far or where he wan
dered. He only knows that he entered
the cave in Simms' hollow, on the bank
of the river, on Monday morning.. md
that on Thursday afternoon a f. -'mer
found him in a sinkhole on his farm
four miles from the entrance. Nothing
was, therefore, accomplished. save,
perhaps to take away the superstition
that no one could go into the cave and
come out alive.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
r1OZART AND THE rIAJOR.

Copyright, 1909,
~ Daily Story Publishing Company.

hungry and cold unless supplied with
food and warmth by bar-room chard-
ty; his love and patience were sublime
II only he could have played for the
crowds who. fred by the Majors
boasts, made nightly requests for an
exhibition of his skill. money and
plenty would be his; his and tho
Majors. so. night after night. he
tried; but night after night he failed,
until, one bleak December evening,
the boisterous crowd. moved by
common impulse OF compassion sand
disappointment. called out to the
Major, after one Of Mozart's Intellectual
attempts:
"Licker the niger up. Major; ticker
him up"
It was done, and then he played.
How he played as the subtle glow new
from mouth to brain, and walked his
heart and fingers to a new, strange
power!
1t was only a second-rate violin,
played BIZ hunch-back negro; but
the scent of the harvest field blew over
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Choice Lamb and Fish.

Senator Foster of Washington, ami
Mr.. Loud of California, live under the
same hotel roof. A few weeks ago
when one of his constituents had for
warded him a fine lamb, which was
served on the Californfan's table, he
sent a choice cut over to the senator.
Give him my compliments" quoth
Mr.. Loud to the waiter, "and tell the
senator that this lamb never tasted
anything but milk
The days Of the session few by and
not long ago a waiter appeared at
Mr.. LIQUIDS elbow one evening, bear
ing a cut of magnificent salmon. 1t
was sent by Senator Foster.
But / want to know whether this
salmon came from Washington or
Oregon" asserted Mr.. Loud with the
bearing of conniosSeur-
Soon the waiter returned with the
reply: The senator says it is Pa-
get Sound salmon, and 1t has never
tasted anything but cream"
This satisfied the legislative epicure
from MISUNDERSTANDING Post.
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Bricklayers' Convention.

The bricklayers' international con-
vention, representing 10000 members
in the United States and Canada, held
its annual meeting in Pittsburg. One
of the important questions before the
convention was that of utilization with
the American Federation of Labor.
The bricklayers, like some of the rail
road organizations, have always held
aloof from the federation, preferring
to fight its own battles and let others
do the same. A strong effort was
made to reverse this policy at the con-
vention and failed by a close vote.
All the old officers were reelected. 1t
was decided for the first time to make
the Office of general president a sal
aired one, and President Gubbins will
start in at 81 500 a year and expenses.
Southern members were brought I'M
der progressive discipline by the adop-
ton of a resolution that no union
bricklayer should refuse to work
'ongside OF a colored brother.
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it up he said. 4 would have sworn
l saw Widow Bartlett come in just
now
"'She is In here. then,' said, and
I'm going to find her.
From my pocket took a two-foot,
rule and measured the width of the
rooms on the ground floor. 1t was
just fifty feet from one outer wall to
the other. Then I measured the sec
ond floor IN the same manner. 1t was
only forty-two feet.
"'There is a hidden room in this
house. I said, eight feet wide
"On the north side of the house was
a large old-fashioned chimney, eX-
tending below the ground.
LETS take look at that chimney
said the constable.
"'Good idea,' said I.
$50 we went to the cellar. Set in
the chimney, near it's base, was a
large ash pan. l pulled it out and
found an opening large enough for a
man to crawl through. Inside the
chimney was ladder extending up
ward.
Its all over said 7 to the con-
stable. Call the boys
when tho OCnerS arrived, sIai teu
up the ladder. followed by one Of my
assistants and the constable. On the
second floor l found a door on the
| south side of the chimney. Drawing
my gun l kicked the door open and
sprang through it into small room.
81 landed in the midst of three per-
sons who were eating breakfast. TWO
were men who exactly answered the
descriptions of those l wanted The
other was the Widow Bartlett, as I
believed Scattered about were
plates, paper and paraphernalia.
I'VE had the cuffs on them in short
order. Then the Widow Bartlett let
out a volley of oaths.
my dear widow said I, pardon
me- And lifted a gray wig from
her head revealing the black hair OF
q man underneath.
We'll" resumed the old secret
service man. refiectively, Il captured
the plates and a large quantity OF bad
money. but the Hamilton gang We're
never tried for counterfeiting. The
villagers found the remains Of the real
Widow Bartlett buried in the cellar,
and they hung my prisoners that
night"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Evil of Low Standard of Living.

One phase of the labor problem
may be summed up as the effort on the
part of the wage worker TO maintain
his standard of living. In the opinion
of Ma. Horace G. Wadlin this touched
the welfare, not merely of worker, but
of society itself. The moral evils"
says he, that flow from a low stand
ard of living are obvious. 1t is not
quite so obvious, but equally true, that
a low standard fosters economic evils
as we'll. Permit the standard of liv-
ing to fall. and the result is immedi
ately reflected in lessened demand for
the products of industry, undermining
not only wages, but profits. 1t is
broadly true-he speaks, as ie were,
editorially-that the standard of living
of the wage worker is measured by
his earnings, rising or falling with
an increase or decrease in his wages,
The general wage standard in the
community thus becomes a matter of
public concern.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
A Disappearine River.

A recent report from G. T. Prall. one
of the photographers of the survey,
has reported the existence Of stream
whose water in the summer seaSfon en-
tirely vanishes midway in its course.
The river is known as the Dry Fork,
q small stream in northwestern Utah,
tributary to Ashley creek. About four
teen miles from its source in the Uinta
mountains this stream reaches large
basin or sink, whose walls are from
75 to 100 feet high. except on the up
stream side. The pool is apparently
bottomless and the water in it revolves
with a slow circular motion, caused
either by the incoming waters or by
suction from below, or both. The
only visible outlet to this pool is
narrow rock channel from which a
little water flows but As soon lost. to
sight a few hundred yards below. A
measurement of the main stream just
above the pool showed volume OF
ninety-six cubic feet of water passing
each second, but this entire flow dis
appears in the basin and the stream
for miles below is perfectly dry. About
seven miles below this interesting pool
were found several springs, one OF
them is a large hole twenty-five feet
in diameter and twenty feet deep,
which at times are empty and again
TILED with water 1t is thought that
the water which disappears in the
upper pool flows underground, deep
below in the gravels, which form the
bed of the stream, and in times OK
heavy rainfall appears again IN the
large springs below.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Break in Ranks Threatened.

A dispute which may result in u
serious break in the ranks of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners is now brewing AID may break
forth at any time. The seat of war
is now New York, where members of
tue Brotherhood of Carpenters refuse
to work on the same building as mem
bers of the Amalgamated Society of
Carpenters, although both are recog-
nized International organizations. The
buildings where strikes have occurred
are bling constructed by the George A.
Fuller company, and the union officials
in New York have tried to extend the
fight to Chicago. The local men re-
fuse to fight the Amalgamated carpen-
tiers there.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23

the hot, close room, and stream
FLASHED gently under bending trees.
Only q second-rate violin, but its spell
was mighty. Men saw afresh LIES
beauty and its gladness. Old dreams
awakened, of fame and love; and hope
began to sing of what might be. He
was only a hunch-back negro, but men
dropped their heads and forgot their
glasses on the bar as they listened.
Within their hearts there stole sweet
thoughts; within their eyes there crept
hot tears; and no man smiled as the
Major walked unsteadily down the
room. until he stood before the player.
LES go home, Mozart" he cried,
with trembling lips; lies go home.
Well keep our Christmas there, please
God! You and lat home"
Out into the night, through a raging
blizzard; buffeted by angry gusts OF
wind and volleys of snowfakes that
obliterated the way; but the Major
knew it not. until, at his feet. his COM
panion stumbled and fell, exhausted
with cold and WEAKNESS. But he knew
it well, when. with Mozart in his arms.
he plodded along over the road whose
stretching white miles seemed endless
to his tired feet. Dissipation had
weakened the Majors frame. and Mo-
zart's inert form was heavy, but still
he walked. fighting against the fate
that threatened them, until his eyes
discovered, through the snow-lit dark
ness, a well-known gate. And then
he paused.
"We'l get little rest here, Mozart,
he said, with a thick and hating ut
terance; "we'n rest Bit and then
we'll go on in; we'll both go in-weu
both go home together"
And when the sun climbed the gold
en- ladder of morning, and lighted up
the snow-clad earth, it seemed as II
the mantle of heavenly charity was
cast on two recumbent, half-hidden
figures that had gone home together.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
The Infamy of Child Labor.

Within plain view of the South
Carolina capitol building and not more
than mile away are five large cotton
mills, employing altogether $500 men,
women and children. OF that number
1000 are children between six and IA
years of age. Fully 400 of them are
less than IL years cid.
While the South Carolina cotton
mills are paying enormous dividends
on the profits of child labor, bill to
prohibit the employment of children
under II years of age has just been de-
feated in the house by vote of fifty
four to fifty-two. 1t had previously
passed the senate by narrow margin,
Lieut. Gov. Tillman, who is nephew
of the United States senator from that
state, casting the deciding vote in its
favor
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Italy md AbYaslniRn.

After the F'ranco-Italian entente cor
dale we have an Italo-Abyssinian
entente perhaps not SO cordial. Sew
eral Abyssinian chiefs have been Great
ed knights OF the Italian orders and
Menelik has sent the badges of his two
orders for the decoration of merttori-
Gus Italians The Ethiopian orders
are: The Order of Solomon. remark
able for it's heavy badge of gold rep
resentlng the seal of the wise Heberw
king, with the inscription, II conquer
ed the lion of Judah" and the Order
of the Star of Ethiopia of recent crea-
ton, the badge being an emerald on a
five-pointed golden star, with the in
scription, "Abyssinia stretches her
arms to the Lord"
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puli MOOSE At DAY.


Two WoodsmeA.
Last Friday William Burnett and
]. J. Gaynor, two Duluth explorers,
wandered at some distance from their
claims, thirty-five miles back Of Chica-
go bay, in Cook county, to look at cer-
tain lands. While trudging along
they came face to face with great
bull moose. Neither of the men had a
gun. The men realized that the moose
meant mischief, and they Skinned up
q balsam. The moose came up and
paved the showshoes and seemed dis
posed to await developments.
Nearly three hours had passed.
when a pack of twenty wolves eau
tiously approached the tree. The buii
moose was game and signAfied by his
actions that he would fight. The
wolves were at first little discon-
certed at the turn in affairs, but ap-
parently reasoned that If they could
not get a couple of men for supper
they would be polite enough not to
grumble, and take what was set before
them, which was moose-a living
mountain Of moose. The wolves ap-
preached the moose from all sides. and
then began a battle, the like of which
few men have ever witnessed. He
struck at the wolves with his forefeet
and antlers and kicked at them with
his hind feet. The wolves evidently all
had in view the idea of hamstring-
ing the moose. A certain number
would engage the moose at the head.
but most of them were swapping at
the hind legs of the great game AMI
NAL. Mr. Burnett says that the agfl-
ity of the moose was remarkable, and
he was as strong, apparently, as 10
connective. He caught and flung the
wolves about like chips, and howls Of
anger and pain rung through the
woods. At last, while making mad
lunge to toss some of the wolves, the
moose shed his antlers. After one
startled look. when he realized that he
had lost his head weapon, the moose
turned and fed at top speed.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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When the Woods Turn Green Again.
There's a warm, warm wind comes from
the South
With a promise and song
A song that wells from a rose-lfpped
mouth,
In cadence full and strong.
It whispers. whispers through the day
To the hearts of longing men,
That the time is coming on the way
When the woods turn green again.
When the woods turn green in the sun
shines kiss.
And dream DER the lazy pool,
Where the dappled shadows. hit-and-miss
Sway slowly, dark and cool.
And the long, long dawnings bring the
tune
or the robin, thrush and wren,
IT'LL they lullaby to the day-held moon,
When the woods turn green again.
When the woods turn green, and the
sky's rich hue
Takes a deeper, truer shade,
And the blood-red peoples dot the view
In a pattern God has made.
Then the song the south wind sings so
low
Will live on the hill and glen.
And its mellow notes into being grow
When the woods turn green again.
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Water with Fixed Air.

A magazine published in 1928 gives
the following method to improve water
for drinking:
Let the water, when boiled. be put
into a common barrel churn, where II
NAV be agitated to any degree that
NAV be wished for. In the course of
its being thus agitated it will absorb
atmospheric air, and other elastic
fluids with which it may come in con-
tact. 1t will thus become a liquor,
safe. palatable and wholesome. to be
obtained with little trouble and ex-
pense, and accessible in it's utmost
perfection to the poorest individual.
Those who wish to drink this whole
some beverage in its utmost pertec.
ton should, after having it boiled and
fihrated, cause 1t to be churned az
above directed, then bottled, with o
coupled of dried raisins in each bottle;
this will give 1t sufficient QuaDtfty Of
fixed air. If then used 1t Becomes
truly delicious.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Workmen as Leg isla tors.

There are eleven trade unionists in
the New York legislature this winter,
all assemblymen. The voters in Troy
elected John F. Ahern, metal pol
Usher, and Thomas Ross, a conductor,
goes from Watervliet From Buffalo
there are three-John H. Bradley, gas
filter; George Rheul, barber, and Will
liam Schneider, molder. Syracuse
sends Frederick D. Traub, carpenter.
Yonkers will be represented by stone
Guarryman, John J. Sloane. Brooklyn
elected Luke keenan,, plasterer, and
William H. Delaney, pressman. New
York county chose Samuel Prince,
cigar packer, and John ]. Egan, brick
layer.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Against His Grain

Remarked the commercial traveller
in the long brown ulster:
You spell your name Mil-lar, I be-
lieve Why is that"
Replied the commercial traveller In
the double-breasted REFER.
We'll, ] suppose some ancestor of
mine ground corn. but l don't see any
reason why his descendants should
keep on advertising the fact"
Rejoined the other:
The difference between you and
your ancestor, then. Is that he ac
knowledged the corn and you don't"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Western Labor Union.

The call for the fifth annual con-
vention of the Western Labor Union,
to meet in Denver, Col, May &c, has
been issued In the call the officers
urge that every union of Importance
in the intermountain parts of the
country send a full representation of
delegates, in order that the interests
Of all be personally represented. 1t is
expected to be the largest and most
important convention yet held by that
organization. Every affiliated union
is asked to design and draft any
amendments to the constitution or
alteration of the bylaws as may seem
judicious, prudent and expedient.
The continued friendship. cooperation
and support OF organized labor all over
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
URe of Velvet CuHa.

Velvet cuffs on coats, after the plan
of King Edwards new frock, were
hailed here as a great invention sever
al years ago when they were introduce
ed. The wear and tear on the cuff of
an overcoat is always likely to be SO
great that the cloth soon shows 1t.
There was never any means of repair
ing this until the velvet cuff was heard
Of. No other consideration did sc
much to gain for the style in vogue II
got. Nine out of ten Americans who
wore velvet cuffs on overcoats did II
to hide the repairs that had been
made.
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1T cyarn't play, Majah; Use skeered,"
never failed to bring a speedy release.
But he could always play for the
Major. And. as the years went by, the
bond of protection and of loyalty. Of
care and fidelity, of mutual love and
tenderness, cemented these hearts in
a friendship that was unafterable. And
when. at last, the shadow of disgrace
full poverty fell across the Majors life;
when, leaving home and friends. he
wandered, degraded man, from place
to place: when time, and name, and
life's best gifts were sacrificed to his
shameful, all-absorbing appetite; he
was never friendless or alone, for there
Yves always Mozart. The Majors stall
wart form was no better known In his
favorite haunts than was the distorted
figure Of the little negro. Awaiting
the end OF the M,ajor's carousals
watching over his drunken slumbers
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
Trade uuione In Porto Rico.

The latest from San Juan, Porto
Rico. is that the bricklayers organized
with fifty members; the carpenters
with fifty members; the painters with
thirty-eight members. Longshore-
mems union now has 125 members
Under way: Machinistst, bricklayers'
helpers and shoemakers. The cigar
makers gained 81 more per thousand
without strike. An injunction was
passed against the free federation.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
Review of Events of Importance Occurring During the
Week.

the United States is asked for. Since
the last convention seventy-one char
tiers have been granted; seventeen OF
these were in Denver alone, the other
fifty-fcur unions throughout the inter-
mountain states.
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Parliannen4s OF the BriA1sh.
There are nineteen parliaments in
the British empire-ten in British
North America, seven in Australasia
and two in South Africa
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-23

In town of less than 5000 people
1t will still be found that the proper
thing for dessert for a company tea
is coating Standardization Globe
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Labor Bureau for Duluth.
The city of Duluth has appropriated
81 900 to start free labor bureau.
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A handful of common sense 10 WORTHY
q bushel of learning.
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Pope Leo bars confession by tele-
phone.