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Our Master.

Immortal love, for ever full.
For ever flowing free,
For ever shared, for ever whole,
A never-ebbing sea!
No fable old, nor mythic lore.
Nor dream Of bards and seers.
No dead fact stranded on the shore
or the oblivious years.
But warm, sweet. tender, even yet
A present help is He;
And faith has still it0 Ollvet,
And love its Galilee.
The healing OF His seamless dress
IL BY our beds Of pain:
We touch Him in LIES throng a00
press.
And We are whole again.
Our Friend. our Brother. and our LoE6
What may Thy service bsf
Nor name, nor form, nor ritual Woc4
But simply following Thee.
Thy Mtanies. sweet cdaooD
OF love ana gratitude; q,
Thy eacrAmsntal Ntuea3ea
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~ 1890 ~. slfonIl : = 4 sIlak1
lbOde ~ u sin1lan / 6elig
$50 discovered IA Fl
j piano boz. locate1 q = -
Ne QDepapcake Hey, ~ - va "a
~ JGShG Nailey, 8aWu -
srman. There are several hes1G -
She side OF the river, al. WITH Dc
sxceptioa. of the one occupied ~
Bailey. betng used % lockers ~ nsh-
srmen who live n the vicinity. The
poxssin which Bailey lives is hhede
II rough boards and was once the
some sof u upright plano. II A. about
> 1oet In length. leet Wide and =
little over 5 feet high. It 10 known -
mo. 2,501.' and has been used by
Bailey for the last fourteen years.
from the first of February until the
asst of November he eats, sleeps and
'ounges in this box. deserving 1t only
when the winds which sweep over the
siver make it uninhabitable even for
An animal.
The old fisherman has never known
I day of sickness. and says that he is
serfectly happy. reports writer In
he New York Herald. Though he has
several children living in Baltimore,
Ill Of whom are anxious and willing
'or him to spend his declining days
It their homes, Bailey stoutly re-
fuses all invitations, preferring to
end issdays in his mansion" by the
liver.
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HOW He MADE AN ENEMY.

Old Gentleman Tells Of Perfidy OF .
Former Friend.
EYES," said the old man. "Sm:th
was my bosom friend when we we're
boys at school, but he became my
worst enemy. We sat on the same
form, ate together, slept together. and
shared each others joys and sorrows.
when we grew older our parents
sent US to the university together.
where our friendship, If possible, grew
stronger. We took our degrees to-
gether, and. to preserve the friendship
of our boyhood days, went into part
nership.
"We were more than brothers and
we're always together, and it was
while attending social party that
we both met and fell in love with
the same girl.
"Our rivalry was friendly ene, and
for some time none could tell which
was the favored one. One night my
chum came to me in his old friendl.
way and said
"'John, can see that if should
prove the winner you would suffer
deeply, therefore l have decided to
turn over my interest in the business
to you and leave for some new coun-
try
"Of course. endeavo bred to per-
suade him not to go, bvt he persisted
and carried out his plaal. He went TO
Australia, and in three months I mar
ried the girl."
But how did Smith become your
enemy" inquired one of the listeners.
"By not letting me go to Australia
instead" snapped the old man; and
they all understood
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ss 81 ~ eptoo0 S n n KS s sss
X ~ 1o0g ud6s Ne most ilpre9elve
:leathe cersncuf1s tASx ocouf - Mp.
eoard - the 1illtary naase - Sunday.
Nothfng aeas than Z fu1l OathedTa1 seH-
Sioe Tor Catholics, vt the attendeAce
D of all sorts. sailors. oNcers ANA
,asuals. The afterhateh On the gun
leck II cleared and a1ls altar efecteds
;;here With various OF the Ailments
pertaining to the service. q large
American nag partitions aOf the space
behind It and also conceals the band.
chat IL the organ IN this function. J.
accompanying the priest in the into
aations and playing during the aoher.ss
cory. The priest is in full canonicals.
and il q wonderful spot OF color as
ae kneels under the opening where
che light falls. Befofe the hatch.
forming three sides OF ia square, are
the marines, standing silently. like
;rees bending together in the wind
They are in full uniform with fixed
Dayonets and are at. attention.
A sailor in white is altar boy, and
khe choir. on the front seats in the
audience, consists in this instance OF
newspaper men, the least terrible in
collection OF voices that would not
pc accepted by Mr.. Grau. At the
elevation OF the host the drums give
Z ruff1le and the marines present
arms, the flag advanced. while all in
front bow. And at the end, after a
short and practical sermon by the
chaplain. the band plays America"
and all join in the singing of it, says
Brooklyn Eagle. It is to be noted
shat in this service the hymns are
0ot those of the Roman church, but
are such things as abide With Me" !"
Rock of Ages" Nearer, My God.
20 Thee" and Coronation" since
ehese are better known to the major
ity who sing them than are the
nna Saoa
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Whoever can SO look into my heart
as to tell whether there is anything
which l revere and if there be, what
thing it is; he may read nae through
and through. and there is no darkness
wherein l may hide myself This is
the master-lxey to the whole moral
nature: what does man secretly
admire and worship? What haunts
him with the deepest wonder? What
fills him with most earnest aspira-
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is, in the deepest sense, prayer. All
great thinkers-those who have
delved deepest into the laws of hu.
man nature-have recognized both the
perfect naturalness and the beneicent
results of prayer. Prayer is the
souls breathing function" says Drum.
mond: and More things are wrought
by prayer than this world dreams
Of" affirms Tennyson, devout and life.
long worshiper.
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Better Than Doing Nothing.

If we had genius, or even uniform
tact, we could hope to do something
worth doing, or at least we might be
sure of not bungiing in our best en-
deavors But we VINO have neither
genius nor unvarying tact must not
wait until we have what we do not
have. We ought to do our best while
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Earnest Prayer

.GsGAs 1851 AS0ySS
Just as in prayer. it is not we who
momentarily catch His attention. but
He ours, so when we tail to hear His
voice. it is not because He is not
speaking so much as taat we are not
listening. We must recognize that all
things are in God and that God is in
all things. and we must learn to be
very attentive in order to hear God
speaking III His ordinary tone without
any special accent. A man must not
stop listening any more than praying
when he rises from his knees. No
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One Day at a Time

All along our earthly life we are
shut in with God, as it Were In little
spaces. We must live day at
time. The mornings are little hill
tops from which we can look down
into the narrow valley of one little
day. What lies over the next hill
we cannot tell. Perhaps, when we
come to it, it may reveal to us
lovely garden through which our path
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iod in industry is one of development,
and when laborers shall have &C.
commodated themselves to the new
conditions and when employers shall
have recognized the increased intelli'
gence of their employees, these mat.
ters will be handled in such a way as
to prevent in the future a repetition
of incidents like those which are
chronicled in the statistical history Of
the strikes of the last 20 years"
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DON'T PROD THE APPETITE.

French Academy Of Medicine Gives
Some Valuable Advice.
The Academy Of Medicine Of France
A& the unanimous request Of the
Chamber Of Deputies has recently 10.
sued Q report strongly condemning
the drinks used - "aperitifs." Or
aopetisers, by the bulk OF the EfeocA
11lalo and lower classes. After .~sA
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What Do You ally Admire?

ton? What should we overhear in
the soliloques of his unguarded
mind? This u IS which, in the truth
of things. constitutes his religion; -
this, which determines his precise
place in the scale of spiritual ranks;
this, which allies him to hell or
heaven;-this, which makes him the
outcast or the accepted OF the moral
sentiments of the Holiest.-James es
Martineau.
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Wrought by Prayer

Prayer is as multitudinous in form
as are human conceptions of the
Deity. No matter how primitive
mans condition, we find the instinct
OF prayer to. and Precipitation of, ideal
powers more or less developed. All
men pray; but all men do not dignity
their aspirations with the name of
prayer. Nevertheless, it is true that
every sincere desire, every impulse
toward something above and beyond.
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chief crime of our age in any degree.
is to clasp hands with the vicious and
depraved. to ally ourselves with the
forces Of evil. Do we want to be
counted with those whose souls and
bodies bear the marks Of their degr2
dAtioAS
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A Blessed Secret.

1t is blessed secret this of living by
the day, ANY one can carry his burden,
however heavy, till nightfall. Any one
can do his work, however hard, for one
day. Any one can live sweetly. pa
tiently, lovingly and purely till the sun
goes down And this is all that life
ever really means to us, just one little
day.
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temp
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Rest and Conservation

To step out of sef-life into Christ
life: to lie still and let Him lift you
cut of it; to fold your hands close
and hide your face upon the hem of
His robe; to let Him lay His cooling.
soothing, healing hands upon your
soul and draw all the hurry and fever
from it's veins: to realize that you
are not mighty messenger, an i'm
portant worker of His, full OF care
and responsibility, but only a little
child. with q fathers gentle bidding
to heed and fulfill; to lay your busy
plans and ambitions confidently in
His hands, as the child brings it's
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one questions the need of times of
formal address to God, but few admit
in any practical way the need of wait
ing upon God. gazing into His face,
feeling for His hand listening for His
voice. Il will hearken what the Lord
God will say concerning me-" God
has special confidence for each soul.
Indeed, it would seem as though the
deepest truth came only in moments
of profound devotional silence and
contemplation of the devout.-Charles
H. Brent.
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Jesus, the Unforgstting

Jesus is our unforgetting Friend.
For us He was born; for us Boy
trod Galilean paths; for us man han
died the hammer and the plane; for us
q Man lived sweetly, finely, truly; for
us a Man weighted the tree OF Col
goth; for us Man emancipated Him
self from the cords Of death, and for
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broken toys at it's mothers call: to
serve Him by waiting; to praise Him
by saying, ''Holy. holy, holy" sim
gle note of praise. as do the sera-
phim of the heavens. if that be His
will; to cease to hurry so that you
lose sight of His face; to learn to fol-
low Him and not run ahead OF or
ders; to cease to live in self and for
self. and to live in Him and for Him,
to love His honor more than your
own; to be clear and facile medium
for His life tide to shine and glow
through-this is conservation, and
this is rest.
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For the Eieht-Hour Day

George r. McNeill Of Boston, known
from one end of this country to the
other as the father Of the eight-hour
movement, has been chosen by Gov.
Crane as the labor representative on
the Massachusetts, commission au-
thorized by the recent legislature to
urge upon all the other states in the
country the adoption of uniform eight
hour laws. The commission is to con-
sist of i've members and its duties
are to Examine the subject and pro-
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us, Jesus. unforgetting Friend, laid
up in store that continued life which
rives death of its sharpening sting. u
am the Resurrection and the Life," He
said. You are the sons and daugh.
ters Of the resurrection" He says
Rev. Edward Franklin Reimer.
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we are at what we are, without genius
or tact. 1t is better to strive to serve
God and to help our fellows without
present possessions and our lack, thar
not even to make the effort. Striving
in the right direction and failing is
better than failing without the effort
to attain or perform.
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Strikes in the United States

Fools do not strike" remarks Car
roll d. Wright. national labor commits
siOner, in the North American Re-
view. 1T is only men who have in.
teAigence enough to recognize their
condition that make use of this last
resort" He advocates boards of arbi-
trAtion based on the successful ones
In openatiOn in Great Britain. Labor
conflicts, in his opinion, grow out of
increased intelligence. The strike per.
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tract yourself by looking forward to
things you cannot see and could not
understand if you saw them. God
gives nights to shut down the curtain
OF darkness on our little days. We
cannot see beyond. Short horizons
make life easier and give us one of the
blessed secrets of brave, true, molly liw
ing-Christian Work.
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Il laes - Nrst swees wood note OF
i ~ 1hrissh z \. /.
- Pais WtnAs hidden In the
lGls shrsRss where nret,Ies saying
as 1ss thesr Sensers through the
fshlAn1'6 Z bush; @
y y Iene6 sound before the poignant
No. sl1aes charges at old~earth,s
1lllsNcae Child L. borsr3

! ne last report OF the Illinois fac
tesy inspectors is Instructive ratker,
49, reaasuring. It appears that the
uumber of children at wor. In SIlli-,
n0as as now about 10000 THIS means
- Ancrease Of 100 per cent over the
Agures OF five years ago. BY a child"
= understood any person under 16
&ears o6 age. The law protects the
child until he Is IA. The factory in
eDectOfS Agures are concerned. there
Tore. with children between IA and
16. The number of such children who
60 70 work instead of keeping at
school is proved by the report to be
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Gods Money

Friends, cast your idol into the fur
mace, melt your mammon down, coin
him up. make Gods money vi him.
and send him coursing. Make of him
cups to carry the gifts Of God, the
water of life, through the world
in lovely justice to the oppressed,
in healthful labor to them whom no
man hath hired. in rest to the weary
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mote the object and interests OF the
working classes, and endeavor to pro
mote the uniformity of legislation.
making eight hours allegal days labor
throughout the United States.' Just
how the commission will accomplish
its objects is not known, but c0nsid.
cradle literature will undoubtedly be
circulated in other states in an en-.
deavor to reduce working time ia
eight hours day for all classes OF
labor. aus,
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who have borne the burden and heat
of the day, in JOY to the heavy
hearted in laughter to the dull
spirited. What true giftc
might not the mammon of upright
eousness. changed back to the money
of God, give to men and women, bone
of our bone, and flesh of our flesh
George Macdonald.
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shall go on. Or, it may show us .
vale OF shadows, or path amid
brierS. No matter; we have but the
one little valley of the day now in
sight. Evening is our horizon. Here
in this one little days enclosure we
can rest as in refuge. To-morrowa
storms and cares cannot touch US
j. r. Miller. D. d.
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Honor or Dishonor

When we take our stand for total
abstinence we associate ourselves with
those whose alliance is an honor. Year
bv wear the lines are more closely
drawn. The moderate drinker 10 reck-
onsd Z comrade by the pronigate ana
ths drunkard. To countenance tha
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Strike Wins Nine-Hour Day

The nine-hour day was won by the
metal polishers, buffers, platers, brass
molders and brass finishers of Cleve-
land, o. Eighteen manufacturing con-
Germs gave in to the demand. The
settlement made by President e. j.
Lynch was ratified in meeting which
was attended by $50 members. Some
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The Los Angeles, Cal. County COun-
Gil of Labor has issued circular
which says: Advertisements are be-
ing run in hundreds OF eastern news
papers for the purpose of inducing
carpenters, bench hands, millmen. ma
chine men, fathers. plasterers hodcar
riers. and, in fact, mechanics of all
kinds, to come to LOS Angeles. where
they are promised steady work at big
pay. In conjunction with these adver-
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~ ~
he neverth siess, goes to an earlier
grave.
Human law touches little else save
that which concerns man In his per.
son and property; it has to leave the
deepest moral vindication for the
world to come. Both for warming and
consolation, we are taught to look
toward celestial justice as the intrin-
sic thing. The end is not here. Look.
ing past relentless shocks of mechan-
ism, past the grimly beautiful exact
ness of the physical order. looking
on to Gods moral disclosures OF the
ends which transcend mere force. we
shall escape both false conhden :e
and a needless foreboding. By-and-
by. hearing the upper parts. we
shall catch the harmony that new Is
only figured with this mysterious
bass. We shall know how even
stress and pain could cooper ate for
good to them that loved God.-Dr. W.
M. Stryker.
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have come into possession Of It by
natural and just methods that deny to
no other man his just and sacred claim
to the property which he has pro-
duced. Mere legality does not always
establish the moral right. and only
the moral right is sacred.-St. Louis
Finance.
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bed rooms. an attic, cellar, and, in
the court, water closets and a wood
shed. The houses rent for 35 cents &
week. About 600 persons occupy these
houses. and of this number 400 work
in the factory. The occupiers are
asked to observe the regulations con-
cernins cleanliness and hygiene. A
sanitarium receives any family where
a member is sick with contagious
disease.
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growing larger. That such a tendency
is desirable no one will now try to
maintain. The boy or girl under 16
has not vet had either the mental Or
the physical development which the
stress Of modern Industrial conditions
demands. Now and then it may be
well. for the boy to go, to-. work early.
In most cases. however. as Mrs. Flor.
ence Kelley and all other persons who
have given the subject their attenA
tion are willing to testify, early work
means reduced vitality and impaired
efficiency. Child labor Is a waste al
we'll as a crime.
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Not an Unnixed Evil

The light against the consolldatlon
of railroads and other large interests
seems to be about as effectual as an
attempted trip up Niagara falls in a
f1atboat would be. The merging of
all similar productive and other ener-
gies under one management must
eventually bring about the complete
organization of those engaged therein.
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Meant to Deceive Workinenen

tisements, circular letters are being
sent broadcast, in the hopes of getting
men to come here in order to disrupt
the unions of this city and to break q
strike which is being waged against
several planning mills. The advertise
ments and circulars being sent out by
the Employers association are full of
lies and Misrepresentation. Do not be
deceived by these enemies of the
workingmen.
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Relentlessness Of the Law

e q q ~
sEverys kiEd OF law Is on his side
Glhp kGeps 1t sand every kind OF law
is against him who breaks 1t. The
law of gravity, Of explosives, OF
health, of contract, of commerce. OF
art-these laws, needed. become al
lies. To observe public morality finds
cubic approval. And he VINO obeys
God, has Gods approval. All obe.
dience, SO far as such, works it's ap-
propriate results. There are no
gratuitous or uncovenanted rewards,
nor any accidental penalties. Mercy
moves in it's own orbit. Each side of
tangible sin keeps its own bounda-
ries. Inner forgiveness, does not re-
init overt penalty. Restitution amends
such offences. but also some scars are
worn to the grave. Rescue does not
restore the external status. There
fore, a true repentance from evil as
such does not stipulate the abate-
ment of outward consequences A
drnnkard reforms. his soul heals, but
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Disproving a Theory

To those who believe that IaDor
unions are organized for the sole pur-
pose of forcing strikes, the recent de-
velopments in Chicago tell an inter-
esting story The strike epidemic,
which seems to have struck that city,
was confined almost entirely to unor-
.ganized workers, or to those who had
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Sacredness of Property

We contend for the sacredness OF
property and property rights. Prop
erty is, and should be held sacred.
Property rights are inherent. But
we must recognize the fact that the
claim of sacredness becomes per-
nicious absurdity unless we restrict
our claims to actual property, id est,
real, produced wealth, and unless we
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Such condition will give stability to
wages and permit the workers to
know about how much a days work
will purchase. Wages will become
uniform as the wage-earners will in
self-defense be compelled to organize
as solidly as the trusts and act in har-
mony and unity on wages and condi-
tions affecting themselves.
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Houses for Employees

The Carmichaels Weaving & Spin
ming company OF France. with their
central Office in Paris, employ some
1000 people. of which 30 are men. 600
women and GOO children. In order to
provide healthy and economical homes
for their people they have constructed
an industrial colony, comprising nine
ty-three houses. The houses. exclu
sive of the land, cost about $500 each.
They contain a dining room, three
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Stove Mounters Elect Officer.

At the ninth annual convention OF
the Stove Mounters' International
Union in Allegheny, Pa, the following
of6cers we're elected: President J.
F, Tierney, Detroit: first vice-presi-
dent, Alan Studholme, Hamilton, ont;
second vice-president. Charles Edin-
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To be contented you must be goot
friends with yourself.
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The man who is bravest in words IL
often weakest in action.
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employees of the company are women.
They will become affiliated with the
Shoe Operators Protective Associa-
tion, the women's organization, which
now has a membership or more than
twelve hundred members in good
standing.
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but recently formed unions and had
little or no experience in union affairs.
Gas workers, rubber workers, glove
makers. iron workers and others who
struck had practically no organization,
while the strong unions that forced
recognition from the employers are
working along harmoniously.
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,att3e. drop Of muddy moisture lay,
'flaif mud. half crystal, on Its bed OF
ebay:
With warm caress bent down and kissed
1.-THE dew.
Responsive to the touch. the drop awoke
To sense OF innate purity. and broke y
From fss soil self J. and rose. both winged
and warnel, Z
formed!
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Nav Build q Home"

The recent convention OF the Inter
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders
decided to submit to referendum vote
of the members a proposition for the
payment of death beneht. IL aiso
appointed committee on nookplno-
ers' sshome" patterned after the print
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of these concerns are the largest
plumbing supply houses in the United
States, and the president thinks it now
an easy matter to establish the nine
hour work day in all similar plants
throughout the country as conse-
quence of this great victory in the
Ohio city.