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Mr Nakaye Tokusuke, a freethinker,
of Toxic. Japan, who died recently,
believed neither in the existence Of
God nor of the soul. He was a man of
strong will and convictions and of con-
sistent sincerity. He had been prom
ised a year and a half of life by his
physician if he adopted the utmost
care. but he lasted only a year. The
celebrated Buddhist priest, Shaku-Un-
sho. made many attempts to obtain ac-
cess to Mr.. Nakaye during the final
days of his Illness and was at last
admitted by Mrs. Nakaye. who did not
share her husbands agnosticism. The
dying man had almost lost the power
of speech or motion, but it is related
that he attempted to throw his pillow
at the reverend gentleman when the
latter began Buddhist service. His
will forbids the use of any religious
ritual at his burial.
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To Organize CoIored workmen.

President Joseph w. Morton of the
International Brotherhood of Station
airy Firemen. has submitted to the eX-
ecutive board of that organization
proposition for organizing the colored
workmen in the south. The racial pre-
iudice which is strong in the south,
has hitherto prevented the white and
colored workmen from fraternizing in
one local union, and the laws of the
organization forbid the granting OF
charters to more than one local union
in any city except by special dispense
ton. This has barred out the colored
workman to a great extent, and Mr..
Morton says applications are now in
the national Office for fifteen charters
for colored unions in the south. He
proposes to have the constitution
changed so that each city in the south
may be granted two charters, one for
the white men and one for the colored
workmen.
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What Is THufhy

What is the condition on which
knowledge of truth is attainable? IF
any man will do His will. he shall
know of the doctrine. whether it be of
God, or whether l speak Of myself"
Annexed to this condition, or part OF
it, is earnestness. IF any man will
do His will" Now that word will
is not the will of the future tense. but
will meaning volition; if any man
wills, resolves, has the mind, to do the
will of God. So, then, it is not a
chance, fitful obedience that leads us
to the truth, nor an obedience paid
while happiness lasts, and no longer,
but an obedience rendered in entire
pess and in earnest. 1t is not writ
W eff any man does His will" but
by man has the spirit and desire.
re are in earnest we shall persevere
the Syro-Phoenician woman, even
ugh the ear of the universe seem
Ii, and Christ himself appear to bid
pack. If we are not in earnest diff
kculties will discourage us. Because
will is wanting we shall be asking still
;in Ignorance and doubt, what is truth
Rev Frederick w. Robertson.
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In sprinStime, when the little leaVeS
Unfold upon the trees.
And open to the gentle rain
And to the soft. warm breeze,
Entranced, they listen to the songs
OF little birds that sing,
And cry aloud for very joy:
How beautiful is spring."
In summer, when the trees are clothed
In cool and shady green,
The pretty, clust ring little leaves
In beauty full are seen.
With wondrous grace the branches
spread
Beneath the sunny sky:
How beautiful the earth appears,
The little green leaves cry!
In autumn. when the earth is clothed
In rich and mellow shades,
And ali the foliage from green
To golden yellow fades,
The little leaves begin to fall,
And whisper as they pass:
"Good-by, dear trees; good-by to all,
And fiutter to the grass.
In winter. when the snow fast falls,
And all the trees are bare,
The little leaves upon the ground
Lie snug and cozy there.
Goodnight they whisper to the
wind,
Here safely shall we keep,
Until new life. with spring, returns
And then they fall asleep!
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-28

Most battles are decided before the
conflicting armies meet. The prepare
ton, skill and power Of each deter
mine the issue. So life's great strug-
giles are settled not when the conflict
with temptation is on, but in the quiet
and solitary hours when purposes are
formed. Those decisions are really
all-important that are made by soul
when no eye except Gods beholds.
Destinies are determined in the silent
hours, when the soul settles for itself
the great problems of conscience and
conduct. Purpose is all-important
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-28
Trade JurisdkctIon.

Trade JurisdictIon.
Disputes over trade 5urlso1ct1oh nave
broken out in new direction. NOW IL
is the international, Association OF Ma
chintsts and the United Metal WORK
ers' International Union that are az
cusing each other OF encroacnlns on
the others territory. The dispute IN
Chicago was referred to the grievance
committee of the Building Materlai
Trades council, with which both unions
are AFFILIATED. That committee has held
a meeting to consider the question. out
concluded to pass 1t back to the unions
involved, with the recommendation
that representatives from each saoe
meet and define the work which they
claim. The machinists are also having
trouble with the Elevator Constructors
union over the right to erect elevator
machinery in a building. The macnln-
lists say that as they make the macnan-
cry in the shops they are the ones TO
set It up, and the elevator constructors
reply that the machinist has no more
right to set up his product on pullo-
ing than a brickmaker would have to
come out of the yard and lay orlck.
The whole vexing problem shows the
necessity of having sections IN the
central bodies where trades closely al
lied in the nature of their work could
define their jurisdiction and settle IN
ternal troubles without inconvenience
ing owners and builders who are not
responsible.
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A Game of lag
Little Jack Frost ran out ene day
And called to the Brook ~ come and
play.
Lets play tag, and you musA nun,
And I'll be 1t, and won't we han fun?
Old Father Winter will think In. lost!
Hoorayr' cried little Jack Frost.
So the Brook ran off with merry Shout
And Jack at her heels in a jolly rout,N, y
Down through the plowed fields. sunny
and bare, \
Into the woods and the piny air,
Past mighty powders gray and mosseo.
The Brook led little Jack Frost.
Over the waterfall she sprang,
And the hills with her hooking iaughSef
rang,
Down came the leaves in gorgeous
throng
To hide her away as she ned along.
Under the mill wheel her hair she tosee0'
And laughed at little Jack Frost.
But oh, and alas! how tired she grew!
Slower and slower her light feee new
Painting under the bridge she ran
And into the wide marsh, stu anu $500
She faltered a moment, tired ano Nse'
'-TaSu' cried little Jack Frost
YOUTHS Companion
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Have No Limitations.

Make up your mind that the Creator
made you to enjoy life and to have
all the good things IN this world nee
rssary to your well-being and moral
End spiritual growth. Think large
things for yourself; for the all power
,fu1 ruler did not set you for the mar
frow limit which you have in mind.
Limitation in thought will certainly
produce Limitation in possession. If
you are convinced that you will never
have much, that you are poor and will
yemain so, the chances are ten to one
that you will, says Success.
How can you expect to expand your
life, to enlarge your possessions, to
widen your sphere, while you think
and talk limitation? Enlarge your
horizon; be generous to yourself in
thought and ambition. The Creator
Anever made people to limp along the
kstarvation line; there are enough re-
sources in the world to make every
body well, happy and contented. The
greatest trouble with us is that we
scircurnscribe ourselves by thinking
within narrow limits. LAS a man
thlnketh in his heart, so he is"
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Tuned to Finer Issues.

Our spirits may always be tuned to
finer issues. There is kindly inf1u-
ence above and around us that always
awaits the receptive soul. 1t has been
felt in all ages by the rarest spirits.
The poets have felt it; artists have
felt it; the good have always felt it,
and named it with some angelic name.
The heroic have been turned toward
it. 1t has been known and recognized
and has been unknown and unrecog-
nized. 1t has always been breaking in
upon the best order of souls and noble
leaders of men with a more open and
rare sensibility. 1t has been an in
spiration and hep to countless souls
as they have struggled with the vicis-
STUDIES and have felt the burden OF
this unintelligible world. What shall
we call it?~ What more significant
name THIN that of the Divine Spirit
moving on the hearts of men to bring
them sinto ultimate harmony with
oESd, and thus to realize the great ends
or a final and universal redemption
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Ira SankeY Still At Work

Ira d. Sankey-greatest OF living
gospel singers and a man whose songs
are sung in every clime-was in
Brockton. Mass, recently and spoke to
200 men. Such a great outpouring of
the men of the city has not been wit
messed since the Rev. c. L. Jackson
urged men to cast aside the garment
of sin for the robe of Christ, in City
theater years ago. Every seat was
filed. the aisles were crowded, men
hung about the corridors loath to miss
a single word.
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Origin of no irish Potato.

The Irish poto the common, or
white, potato distinguished from
the sweet, or yeiv potato, is so called
from its being nle food in Ireland.
1t Was recommend for INTRODUCTION
into Ireland ~ the ondon ROYAL So
ciety in 1868 as a ,afesuard 1against
famines. A native olChile. Peru and
and Mexico, the potato IS trl >psplant-
ed to Spain from Peru ca an the six
teenth century and brought to Vir-
gnia from Florida by the Spanish ex-
plorers, and from Virginia to Great
Britain in 1865
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Travels of an Iceberg.

From the regions around the north
and south poles there are perpetually
starting on journeys, which N.Y. be
long or short, according to the cur
rents of the ocean, a great number of
icebergs. Many of these ice hills are
of large size and wander far before
they are at last melted by the heat of
tho tropical seas into which they have
been carried. Bergs setting out from
Baffin's Bay, up Greenland way, have
travelled as far as the Azores before
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-28

A change in the presidency of the
Southern Railroad company, it is be-
lieved, will bring about an end to the
strike Of the machinists, which has
been on since May, 1901. President
Spencer, it is said, has notified James
O'Connell, international president OF
the machinists, that if the strikers
will return to work he will receive a
committee to consider a basis of set
tlement The strike was for nine
hour day and an increase in wages.
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What God Gives q Boy.

A body to keep clean and healthy,
as a dwelling for his mind and a.
temple for his soul
nair of hands to use for himself
and others, but never against others
for himself.
pair of feet to do errands of love
and kindness and charity and business
but not to loiter in places of mischief
or temptation or sin.
pair of lips to speak true, kino,
brave words.
A pair of ears to hear music of bird,
tree and human voice, but not to give
heed to what the serpent says or to
what dishonors God or his mother.
A pair of eyes to see the beautiful,
the good ald the true-God's finger
print in flower and field and snowflake.
Young Crusader.
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Cbristian Epdeavor Movement.

Mr.. John Willis Baer, secretary of
the Christian Endeavor, is absent upon
a four months campaign undertaken
in the interests of that movement.
During his absence he will travel over
sixteen thousand miles and attend
meetings. conferences and conventions
in California. Nevada, Utah, Wyoming,
Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona, Ore
gon. Washington. British Columbia,
Montana, Idaho, Mexico, Texas, and
Alabama.
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We Must Choose.

We have the choice before us day
by day, of doing as God would have
us do. or of failing or refusing to do
as God would have us do. The choice
is ours, in the plan of God, and we
cannot avoid or evade the choice, how
ever we may desire to do so. AS to
this life of ours. with its imperative
necessity of choice, Henry Ward
Beecher said: God asks no man
whether he will accept life. You must
take it; the only choice is-how."
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A. the Love of God Rules the Soul.

Sin or righteousness does not con-
sist in an act or a series of acts, but
in the heart condition of the actor. In
this sense a good true cannot pro-
duce evil fruit. The fruit does not re-
deem the tree but the tree redeems it.
We judge men by what we see and
hear. Our limited knowledge shuts out
all else. There are no human scales
in which to weigh the heart Religious
goes deeper than that. 1t is false
or true. in proportion as the love of
God rules the soul.-Presbyterian
Journal
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Assist Mckinley Fund.

The Bricklayers' and Stone Masons'
union of Chicago has levied an assess
ment of 10 cents on each member in
aid of the Mckinley Memorial fund.
This donation. which will amount to
about 1926, will be paid through the
Mckinley Trades Union Memorial as
ISOLATION. President Mckinley was an
honorary member of the Bricklayers'
union and made an address at meet
ing of the bricklayers at the time OF
the cornerstone ceremonies there.
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Riddles from Ky.

See how many or te Won can
guess without looking a ,e answers:
l am BIND, put sho" o3rs the way;
deaf and dumb, but ,,w how to
count. A milestone
People pray 10Y md long for my
company, but direct appear they
hide themselves. Ra
l nave iour less q feathers, but
am neither beast bird Feather
bed.
There are four tthers under one
hat. Legs Of to.
A pack Of woiv ran bv: one was
shot, how many emained? One.
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A God Willis.

Night after night, as you lie down to
rest. the weary day ended, think that
a day offered to God in WEAKNESS and
quiet endurance may bring you fuller
Joy than the brightest, happiest sea-
sons of enjoyment gan do; and when
morning brings a tSesh beginning, 1t
may be OF wearinGs~ of the body ana
spirit. strive to hear the voice of God.
saying: my son, it is thus Will
that thou shouldst serve me! If l
will that thy service shall be weary
and lifeless, and deficient in all earth
ly rev,aid and pleasure, what is that TO
thee, so long as it is my will? what
do, thou knowest not now, but thou
shalt know hereafter
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The Magic OF Smile
iWhen the gentle words 80 easy,
And the kindly moods 50 sweet.
Why.not make the dull day brighter.
For the folk you chance to meet.
Why not cen though troubles thicken'
Face the trial, dare the worst
With a look so brave and buoyanI
That you rout it from the hrst:
In the world through which we're pass
ing,
We may make the feeble strong,
We may cheer the lonesome pathway
with the ziadness of a song.
We may vanauish fiends and COLLINS,
IF the fight we deem worth Whne'
BY the valiant front OF patience
And the magic of a smile
Christian Inteligence1.
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What. Your Namsr


When a boy, the great French au-
thor Alphonse Daudet was very poor,
but he was allowed to attend, without
paying any fees, a school in which
the majority of the pupils were the
sons OF rich men. His appearance at
the school. dressed in a blouse, which
only the very poor wore, was the oc-
CASTOR of many taunts and jeers from
his school fellows, and even the mas
ter never called him by his name, but
addressed him as Whats your name,
says the American Boy. But the boy
never needed the i'll will nor the
sneers; he determined that he woul1
make something of himself, saying.
IF l am to take any position in this
school l must work twice as hard as
the Others" BY steadfast persistency
and courageous determination he did
succeed, and when his name had be-
come famous he wrote a story in mem
ry of those days of hardship and pow
ertss, and called it Little Whats-Als-
Name"
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Goner0l Topics Of Interest tc Workers In All
the VeArious Fields.

the employers during the lockout OF
the building trades In 1860. Is about 10
pass into oblivion. During the past
week seventy-five of its members have
Joined the regular organization, and as
1t only claimed a membership OF
eighty, the officials of the regular
union say there are not enough men
left to fill the Offices. The contractors
have abandoned the men whom they
organized to help them out when they
were in trouble, and the moral Is
plain. When the trouble Is oyer en-
ployers never stand by the men who
take the places OF strikers, but tahe
back the old men.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-28
NIust Tell of Strikes.

The labor unions have had bill
introduced in the Massachusetts legis-
lature compelling an employer who adj
vertises for help during the continu-
ance of a strike among his employees
to state in each advertisement that a
strike is on and a lockout exists. A
penalty of 500 is the fine for viola
ton of the act, of which sum one-half
goes to the person making the COM
plant.
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some Good Thoughts

A noble life is only the fault of a
noble purpose.
Purpose is the dynamo which runs
all life's machinery.
What we really purpose in our hearts
God writes upon our faces
The nonconformers have ever been
the formers of human thought and his
tory.
Nothing but a high and Intelligent
purpose can carry a young man spot
less through the mire Of this life.
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Union Made cigars.

The quarterly report Of George }.
Thompson, label secretary of the
Cigarmakers' unions, shows how ex-
tensively union-made cigars are used,
During the three months past $40 800
union labels have been issued. These
were placed on boxes containing IT,
953, 500 cigars made in Chicago. This
does not include a number OF factor
les employing union men where the
label is not used The humber Of union
cisarmakers employed in the three
unions of the city was l,546. and the
aggregate wages received was about
$245. 900.
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'p,ssaanIx sAs Mas9 Aasssas Csats3 -
11sAs = As Wsrld.
The moet ancient center OF trade In,
the world, and ,ome which still retains
Its mercantile current. iss Damascus.
The caravan scomea and goes as 1t did
j, 600 yearss ago; there the sheik, the
ass and the water wheel, the mer-
chants Of the Euphrates and of the
Mediterranean still occupy with the
multitude of their wares. From Da-
mascus comes the damson, blue Plum,
and the delicious apricot of Portugal;
Damascus damask, the beautiful FAB
rio of cotton and silk, with vines and
flowers raised upon smooth, bright
ground; the damask rose, introduced
into England in the time OF Henry
VII; the Damascus blade SO famous
the world over for its keen edge and
wonderful elasticity, the secret OF
whose manufacture was lost when
Tamerlane carried OFF the arts into
Persia; and that beautiful art of wood
and steel with silver and gold-a kind
of mosaic engraving and sculpture
united-called damasceening, with
which boxes, bureaus, swords and
guns are ornamented. Damascus re-
mains what it was before the days OF
Abraham center of trade and trav-
ell, an island of verdure in the desert
a presidential capital through more
than thirty centuries. It was near Da-
mascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the
light OF heaven above the light OF the
sun; and the street which he called
straight, in which 1t Is said he prayed
still runs through the city. The city
which Mohammed surveyed from a
neighboring height and was afraid to
enter because it was given to men &c
have but one Paradise, and for his
part, he was resolved not to have n1s
| In this world-Reform Advocate.
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Love.

Love is patience. Love understands,
and therefore waits. Love is kind
ness. Have you ever noticed how
much of Christ's life was spent in
doing kind things? He spent a great
proportion of his time simply in MAX
ing people happy, in doing good turns
to people. God has put in our power
the happiness of those about us, and
that is largely to be secured by our
being kind to them.-Henry Drum
mond.
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French Women Who Fence.

Fencing is a favorite pastime with
French women, and it is not only
practiced by ladies in the privacy of
fashionable schools, but in their own
rooms. Several of them give public
exhibitions, and go on tour around
the country, displaying their skill in
contests with men before nails packed
with connoisseurs.
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A Gigantic Tunnel,

The subject Of 2 tunnel c6L
ireland and Scotland has been
before the British governme
the project will be pushed if
uuisite financial support can
tanned. The estimated cost is
600. The route Professionally 7
is from Strauraer in Scotlan
fast in Ireland. The total d.
5l1h miles, of which 341a m
be tunnel and 25 miles of
would be under the sea. ale
where the maximum depth isy
Electric motors would be used(
the trains at an average speed
ty to seventy miles per hour.
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May Adopt Union Label.

Thomas l. Kidd, general secretary
of Amalgamated Woodworkers' Inter
national Union, has been invited to
speak before the Furniture Manufac-
turers' Association. of Cincinnati, on
the subject of the union label. The
furniture manufacturers are discuss
ing the question of adopting the label
and placing it on all furniture made
by them.
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Big Strike in Ptttsburg.

The strike of 1.400 painters of the
Pittsburg district has lasted nearly two
weeks without a settlement in sight.
The painters have been successful in
getting all union men to quit work.
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Arctic Schoolboys.

A picturesque little Eskimo Is one
of Uncle Sans most northern schooi-
boys. His schoolhouse is at Port Bar
row. Alaska, and stands on the most
northern portion OF land on the AmeH-
can continent.
The schoolhouse is built OF huge
logs. having double walls many Oh
the children come from points torty 10
100 miles away. This distance Is COW
cred in dog sleds.
The teachers declare they never hao
more intelligent pupils than these Oh
the wild Eskimos OF the north. AL
the beginning of the school year only
a few could count ten in the blunder-
ing fashion and nine-tenths knew no
English whatsoever. AT the close Oh
the first year they could count. up 10
l 900 and write and read simple Eng
lish words.
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Peace in Brick Industry.

The Illinois Brick company, COM
monty known as the brick trust, has
made an agreement with the Brick
makers union which insures peace in
that industry until May !, 1908. BY the
terms of the pact the men are given
an advance in wages which will aver
age about 21a cents an hour, and will
benefit about 1900 men.