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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Rival Labor Federations.


Has shadow been cast within the
ranks of the American Federation Of
Labor? And if coming events cast
their shadows before is that what
prompted that body, at its recent con-
vention, to invade new fields where
the banner of trade Nnionism had al
ready been planted by what may prove
to be rival body? Will the American
Federation of Labor have a rival?
These are the muchiy discussed
questions since the American Fedora
ton OF Labor has decided to send its
organizers into the territory which
had been operated and largely con-
trolled by the Western Labor Union
an organization whose remarkable ra-
pidity of growth during it's short ex-
tstence has been something phenome-
mai
For many years there had been a
desire on the part of the labor men In
the far western part of the United
States for closer utilization of the
various local organizations than seem
cd possible through connection with
the American Federation of Labor or
the Knights Of Labor, both of which
organizations operated almost exclu-
sively in the eastern and middle west
ern, states Neither of these bodies ever
held but one of Its annual conventions
west OF the Mississippi river, and that
was the A. F. of l.. meeting in Den
yer N 1894.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Buzzard and Bat,

Put buzzard in pen about six feet
square and open at the top and it is as
much prisoner as though it were shut
up in a box. This is because buzZards
always begin their flight by taking a
short run, and they cannot or will not
attempt to fly unless they can do so.
So also a bat cannot rise from a per
fectly level surface. Although it is re-
markably nimble in it's flight when
once on the wing, and can dy for many
hours at a time without taking the
least rest. if placed on the floor or on
fat ground it is absolutely unable to
use its wings, The only thing 1t can
do is to shuttle helplessly and painfully
along until it reaches sos trifiing ell
ovation from which it car throw itself
into the air, when at once it is OF like
a flash.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Diss ats fed with Major BlounN

President James O'Connel OF the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
at the request of President Roosevelt,
has prepared a detailed statement of
the complaints urged against Major
Blount, commandant of the Rock Is
land arsenal. 1t is probable that Ma
jor Blount will be transferred to an
other post. President O'Connell urges
that Major Blount has been decidedly
prejudiced against members of labor
organizations, and is unjust in his
treatment of the workingmen. One of
the employees related the hardships i'm
posed by Major Blount, one being an
order prohibiting the men speaking
during working hours.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
RAINED BLOOD.
But the UnfeelinK Microscope Dispelled
Fear of the Supernatural

But the UnfeelinK Microscope Dispelled
Fear of the Supernatural
A peculiar phenomenon was observ-
able recently throughout southern Eu-
rope, and more especially in Sicily. in
the occurrence Of what seemed to be
rain OF blood. The fields, trees and
roofs were painted red in very
literal sense, and doubtless in many
outlying parts the occurrence was re-
garded as a portent of terrible sig
nificance
The rain, however, was subjected to
chemical analysis-a process which
has little sympathy with supernatural
things-and its exact composition as
certained, confirming the accepted the
Org of its origin.
1t consisted of 60 per cent OF red
sand, and the rest was composed OF
clay, little organic matter, and about
per cent of water. Under the micro
scope vegetable fibers. fragments OF
diatoms and other debris could be
seen.
1t was evident that the red matter
was not of volcanic origin. The va
rious chemists who examined it agreed
that it had come from the desert of
Sahara, and so the mystery of the
rain of blood" was explained.
The matter is of great interest when
we remember that similar occurrences
are described by Livy and other old
writers, at a time when microscopes
were not and the oracles were ignorant
of analytical chemistry-Chambe r's
Journal.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09

Friction Over Twentieth Century Fund.
There is a little friction between the
missionary society of the Methodist
Church North and the twentieth cen
fury fund commission. Those who are
not members of both organizations al
firm and deny, as the case is, the inter-
ference with the missionary offerings
to the extent of 500. 900, by the collec-
ton of SIS, 900. geo to pay church debts.
The society has now perfected it's open
door emergency fund commission, and
will next week announce the details.
1t is claimed that the increase In COM
municants in Methodist foreign mis-
sions during the last decade has been
145 per cent. Methodist churches gave
last year more than during any pre-
vious year save one. yet the amount Is
not sufficient to meet this phenomenal
demand The bishops Of the new COM
mission are Bishops Andrews. Fowler
and Thoburn, and field secretaries have
been named for New England. the mid
die Atlantic states. Cincinnati, Chi
cago. Kansas City. California and
Southern divisions. These secretaries
are to undertake the holding OF great
missionary meetings and the distribu-
ton of missionary literature. Metho-
dists hold that crisis has come In
their mission work; that contributions
must be increased or the work suffer
retrenchment. The object of the COM
mission will be to increase the income
Of the society this year to $1.5O0. 900.
The printed announcement OF the I'M
dertaking concludes with call to
prayer.
" MshsA.S
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Miners Would Honor John Mitchell


A movement has been started
among the coal miners to set apart one
day of the year for recreation and
speechmaking in honor OF their ma
tional president John Mitchell. There
is no doubt that Mitchell deserves
great credit for his generalship as
head of the miners organization. In
a short time he has succeeded in build
ing up a healthy. prosperous and
peaceful organization out OF an over
worked, disconnected, unorganized peo-
pie. Mitchells modesty prevents him
from taking any credit for the present
conditions of the miners. He says that
the men themselves are RESPONSE BILE
for their present condition, but the
miners know that 1t was his wisdom
on methods of organization that rails
ed their association to the high stand
ard it occupies among the operators
and general public.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Ru,.s Of sinee..

The longer 1 live the more feel the
Importance OF adhering TO the rules,
which I have laid down for myself in
relation to such matters;
First-To hear as little - possible
whatever is to the prejudice Of others
Second-To believe nothing Of the
kind till am absolutely forced to It
Third-Never to drink in the spirit.
of one who circulates an evil report.
Fourth-Always to moderate a. far,
as I can the unkindness which is ex-,
pressed towards others.
Fifth-Always to believe that II the
other side were heard q very different
account would be given Of the matter.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
More About Child Labor.

When capital began to seek invest
mep' in the manufacture OF cotton
some years ago. cheap labor and an
absence Of danger of interference by
labor unions were among the induce
ments held out in Alabama A MasSa-
chusetts corporation, however, while
investigating these points discovered
an old law. passed In 1887, which pro-
hibited the employment OF children
under IS years of age for more than
eight hours a day. This law was
srrenuously objected to. and an ac-
commooating legislature repealed it in
1894.
Since then there has been nothing to
prevent the mill owners from running
about as they please, and the Massa-
chusetts concern is now employing
many children under the age OF IL. II
fact the Alabama mill that does moi
employ children of eight and ten Is q
rarity.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09

DR.. Wallis Bulge. one of the first OF
a history of Egypt from the earliest
times.
The drapery of President McKinley's
pew of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church OF Canton. O., was removed the
other day.
The large but "unchurchly' chancel
of Trinity Church, Boston. is to be
remodeled. Choir stalls are to be put
in for a vested choir.
The Rev. F. r. Half, assistant rector
of Trinity Episcopal Church. Oshkosh.
reached the fifty-fifth anniversary OF
his ordination on Feb. 2S.
The Rev. DR.. William Howe OF Cam
bridge, Mass. the oldest living gradu-
ate of Colby College. was graduated In
1888. He is 96 years Of age
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, who win
celebrate his s0th birthday on April
8, persists in refusing to be called q
clergyman. He wishes to be designated
only as christian minister"
Miss Louise B. Pierson, daughter oe
the Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, editor OF
the Missionary Review OF the World.
has gone to India for the woman's
Union Missionary Society of New York.
Bishop Latane, the noted Reformed
Episcopal divine, who died An Haltl.
more recently, was consecrated BY -
Rt.-Rev. William r. Nicholson e 49,
city and the Rt-Rev. Samuel Fnlaowo
Of Chicago in 1879.
vi
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
flights Attained by Birds.

The aeronaut Hergesall of Strass-
burg saw. In one of his ascensions, an
eagle at a hight of 5000 meters, and
in another two storks and buzzard
at 900 meters. Larks have been seen
at 1000 meters and crows at 1,480
But these are exceptional nights
Birds are rarely seen above 1000 me-
tiers and very few above 400.
Birds have been released from bal
looms at heights varying from 900 to
5000 meters. In a clear atmosphere
they flew directly downward, remain
ing near the balloon, however, If the
sky were cloudy
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Qzxezi,17 end Curious.
Cdd Happenings end Events from All Over
World.

English letter, and In the center is cut
the year when 1t was done, 1900" The
naked eye cannot distinguish scratch
on the pins head. but powerful mag
nifying glass, such as is used by
matchmaker. reveals the letters of the
alphabet in proper order around the
edge of the head, every character sep
arate and perfectly formed. The en-
graver. August Starcke, who did the
work. spent one year at it. and SO
tedious was it that he could only
work at it a few minutes at time.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
SUCCESSFULLY Walk. on Water.

Capt. Grossmann, who started on
Feb. to walk down the danube from
Linz to Vienna. a distance. of 100 miles
on his newly invented water walking
shoes. towing hts wife in boat. has
reached his destination
The long time spent on the voyage
Is explained by the fact that Capt
Grossmann stopped at several places
to give exhibitions of his shoes. These
are five yards long
The trip was made without mishap,
Notwithstanding there was an unusual
ly strong current and much floating ice
in the river, In addition there were a
number Of storms. which made the
travelling perilous.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
TRIUMPH, of Conserve tbs M

officers of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work.
ers are to be complimented on the
wise and conservative plan they have
adopted to prevent further trouble
with the steel trust. The effort that
will be made to have wage scales sign
ed for three years instead of one year
as at present is praiseworthy. This
will greatly minimize the uncertainty
and trepidation felt annually under the
present system.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
49,
For rexa. Hall OF Fam..

A meeting OF the Daughters OF the
Texas Republic was held in San An
tonic. Texas. recently to consider a
proposition to establish a Texas hall
of fame in that city. The proposition
OF Fompeo Coppini, the New York
sculptor. was accepted. and he will fur
nish busts and statues of famous Tex
ans. as the daughters may direct. His
first work will be group of Alamo
heroes. which will occupy a place in
the Worlds Fair at St. Louis in 1903.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Paper Cannon.

Krupp, the great German manufac
turer of cannon, has lately completed
a number of paper field-pieces for the
use of the German infantry. Their
calibre is a little less than two inches.
and the pieces are so light that one
soldier can easily carry one; but the
&c distance is greater than that of
field piece Of steel of the same calibre.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Do What You Can.

What we value for ourselves We
must seek to spread to others; and
what we shrink from ourselves-low-
ering surroundings, a tainted atmos-
phere-what we shrink to think OF
those nearest and dearest to US being
exposed toilet US do all we can to
remove from others. Lead us not
into temptation. Deliver us from evil"
Do what you can to sweeten the men
tai and moral atmosphere that sur
rounds you.-Arthur C. A Hall.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
United chr,.t,.n Party.

William r. Benkert, national chair,
man OF the united Christian party. has,
issued a call for a national conference
of Christian patriots, to be held At,
Black Hawks Watch Tower, q pictur-l
esque resort near Rock Island, H..
May 1. Mr. Benkert claims a member,
ship OF IA 900 for his party now. The
most important subject to come before
the conference will be a plan for hold
ing an international assembly in St !
Louis in 1903
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
For fhe Qrxie4 Hour.
z eligious Thought and Sentiment 1h0es
Should Interest ALL
Living and Givi.s.

Living and Giv1sg.
There's nothing 30 easy as living,
When we've learned the way to live
And nothing SO easy rs giving.
When the heart Ia willing to give.
And our load isn't hard to bear. rs
II we follow the light within, ~
For the God is everywhere, fGE
And there IL no sorrow and sin 4
We have lots to give II we'll give It.
And no matter how poor we seem.
nThe Gospel of Truth, II we live IT.
VIII drive away poverty's dream. .
The way to receiving is giving, asG
However SO little 1T be: SR
And love is the keynote of living.
The love that makes every one free-
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
The Building of @ Life

Life is building. 1t rises slowly,
day by day, through the years. Every
new lesson we learn lays block on
the edifice which is rising silently
within us. Every influence that I'M
presses us, every book we read, every
conversation we have, every act OF our
commonest days adds something TO the
invisible building.-J. r. Miller.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Tho Lord.s PRAYER.

Henry Ward Beecher once said: IT
used to think the Lords prayer was .
short prayer; but. as live longer. and
see more of life. I begin to believe that
there is no such thing as getting
through it. If man in praying that
prayer were to be stopped by every
word until he had thoroughly prayed
it, it would take him a lifetime"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
EeiAshneSA

1t is selfishness in every instance
that makes the hard-hearted man.
He comes to regard himself in a class
by himself, and by his reasoning.
things not allowable for himself are
permissible for him. 1t is perfectly
possible for a nation to become kind
hearted, as well as 1t is for an indi-
vidual to become so. Argument and
sophistry can harden our national
heart-Rt.-Rev. F. Burgess, bishop,
Long Island, Brooklyn, New York.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Cold Well Get. Steam Up.

The people of WOODBURY., KY, have
been greatly puzzled for several days
by the strange action of welt in that
town. The water in the well has sud
denly become hot without any appar-
enu cause. The citizens do not know
whether the phenomenon is due to
chemical action of some kind or to
heat from the interior Of the earth.
The well is about fifty feet deep. wall
ed up, and about three feet in dame
ter, and was built by the KirbJ Mill
ing company. Since the water became
II lted it has risen up to within ten
feet of the top of the well, and and is
perfectly clear. The temperature is
said to be about 100 degrees.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Monument To Leavenwo or h.

Gen. Henry Leavenworth's remains.
which are at present buried at Delhi.
N. Y. will be removed to Leavenworth.
nan, in May of this year, on the 18th
anniversary Of the founding of the
.ryy post at Fort Leaverworth. 1t
Ia also proposed to erect an imposing
monument to his memory at the fort
he established three-quarters OF cen
tury ago.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
AGED Birds.

1t used to be believed that ravens
lived longer than any other species OF
birds. and it was said that their age
frequently exceeded a century. Re-
cent studies of the subject indicate
on record. But parrots have been
that no authentic instance of a raven
surprising seventy years of age is
on record But parrots have been
known to live 100 years.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Plans Intnense Motor.

What is said to be the largest motor
in the world is that being erected by
a French doctor, in which he intends,
with two students, to make a trip
around the world. 1t will contain two
sleeping apartments, a large work
room, and four big tanks for storing
oil
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09


Dane Care, pray you, stand aside,
40 Kind companion should,
ThAt may view the wider world
Ana live the life ! would.
When Dawn, with blithe, bewitching face,
Entaces toll to leave
Row prompt are you my side to seek!
HOW closely there you cleave!
lame Care, ! pray, your clatter cease,
30 close I'm harassed ear.
That that far. Transporting note
on mtnstrelsy may hear.
1et care, were you commissioned not
ny comrade to abide
Perchance, one mournfuller would stalk
Persistent at my side
j would not with Detection plod.
Nor Journey with Disgrace
j would not choose with doleful Grief
To keep a somber pace
30. Care. though you're an irksome guest.
1 might sadder know
Then let us. since together paired.
Make merry we go.
Clara. Bellinger in Town and Country.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Wooden Pavement, Not Lasting.

The experience in Edinburgh, Scot"
land, is that wooden pavementS, even
when made from the creosote- bearing
Australian jarrah wood, last, on busy
streets, but ten years, while granite
blocks, If reset once or twice. will las,
thirty years.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Mr. Moody's Prayer.

Mr.. D. L. Moody told some hundreds
of messenger boys who went to hear
him in New York that he thought he
had said the little prayer. Lord. help
me-" million times in his life. Surely
there is no one who does not need To
breathe that brief petition more than
once in the course OF busy day.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Lif. Tim. Devoted to Religion.

Mr.. Robert Chapman OF the Ply
mouth brethren. though in his Tooth
year. is still hale and hearty. For
more than seventy years he has
preached without interruption at
Barnstaple, England, and the bretn-
rem make long pilgrimages to hear
him AS young man Mr.. Chapman
was solicitor. practicing in London.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
The Eight-Hour Day.

The garment workers of the east,
emboldened by the Hanna-Schwab
Cleveland arbitration committee, sees
an opportunity to secure the eight
hour day, which causes a New York
daily to remark that the said commit
tee is encouraging unreasonable de-
mands inspired BY the agitatofs.~
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
signed the

river Meniel and there signed the
treaty of Tilsit in 1907.
In the course of it's development the
tree became entangled with a large
inortuary cross of stone, which. to-
gether with its heavy base. was lifted
bodily from the ground as the tree
grew.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
? Curious Servian Gus tom

traveller through Servia will often
notice dolls hung up inside the cot
tage windows. He learns that the dolls
are put up as a sign to announce &c
wayfarers that a manageable daugh
ter dwells in the house.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Tres Seize. a Monument

The strangely shaped tree in the
picture is an old ash. growing in a
cemetery at Tilsit, Prussia. 1t was
near this town that Napoleon met the
king Of Prussia and the emperor of
Russia on raft in the middle of the
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Nest ornamented with Fir.niea.

The baya bird OF India spends his
spare time catching mammoth firefies
which he fastens to the sides OF his
nest with moist clay. On a dark night
a baya's nest looks like an electric
street lamp.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
Hrisk Lamplig htor.

f.. A Partisan lamplighter makes his
rounds on bicycle, with long torch
carried over his right shoulder. He
guides the wheel with the left hand
and is so expert that he lights the
lamps without dismounting.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
ws<.s In o,d.n rtm...


Compared with other professions.
physicians, for instance. the salaries of
teachers, low as they seem to US, were
never unfair in the early days of the
country. The only trouble was that
they were not always paid. as the
towns did not always have the money.
These arTearages ran sometimes for
years. Prior to 1882 physicians, even
In Boston, where rates we're higher
chan in the smaller towns, charged
but twenty-five cents for visit, ex-
cept to such as were in high life" to
whom the fee was fifty cents. In 1882
the Boston physicians formed a club
and raised the common fee to fifty
cents; q visit in consultation 81 and
double fee for night calls. But the sal
ary OF the teacher of the Boston Latin
creased from time to time. Even after
lit Is doubtful il many of them had a
larger income than the salary of the
principal OF the high school, which
twas then $500.
The school teachers began to have
trouble with the puritan ministers al
most from the start Cheever was ex-
spelled from the New Haven school
1or his views. but continued to teach
In other colonies till he died in 1908.
having taught school for seventy
years- His deathbed statement con-
tvinces one that from New England's
school teachers, rather than from its
puritan ministers, came that which
made it the cradle of liberal thought
as well as Of political independence in
America
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09

Many persons who otherwise know
little of early church history have
read "Quo vadis?" and have marveled
at the calmness and steadfastness of
the Christians under persecution there
- forth. Men. women and childrsn.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09
An Immense Ceuneter..

At lockwood, Australia, is the
largest cemetery in the world. 1t
covers 2.O0e acres Only a plot of 200
acres has been used thus far, in which
100, 600 persons of all nationalities
have been buried.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-09

A man in Philadelphia wears a COM
monplace looking little pin as watch
charm. on the head Of which is en-
graved the En- aisf alphabet In old