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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11

ures compiled by the bureau of labor Of
that state =
The opinion recently rendered by At
torney General Hamlin, Of Illinois. that
the letting of contracts for the labor Of
SoIii XH m penal Institutions of the state
IS illegal, has given the Anti Convict La
Dor league great encoufage en- aTI.
The Chicago Qll.) Steam Power Co1in-
cli 4 mas secured a satisfactory agreement
About 81 large buildings are Included lin
the compact and nearly 1000 emploFes-
Will benefit by the agreement.
Iron Molders' union of indianapolis,
Ind, is asking for an increase Of rs per
cent IN wages. Conferences are being held
with the different employers, and it con-
hdently expected that the raise will be
granted, to become effective Jan. l.
Referendum ballot by the United Asso-
Steam Filters of the United States and
Canada has decided that after JAM 1
the dues shall be increased to 80 cents
a week. The project for equalizing the
animated benefits was adopted There
had been no uniformity in this matter
and some locals paid no benefits. III
The Cleveland Cliffs company, at Glad
stone, Mich, has opened a club house
which it has built and equipped for the
exclusive use of the employees Of its
Gladstone blast furnace. Aside from
large reading room where magazines $and /
newspapers will be kept on file pool and
billiard tables, card tables and parapher-
MALTA for other similar pastimes have
been provided. The use Of the club is free
to its employees.
Arrangements have been made for a.
joint conference Of the iron working
crafts affiliated with the Allied Metal
Trades, to be held in Pittsburg, Pa, Jan.
10. The conference is called to discuss
the changes required in the wage agree
ments Of these various iron working
trades for the coming year. Among the
trades which desire an advance in wages
ara the sheet metal workers, boil9rmakerS
and structural iron workers.
Veterans in the service of the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Company will
-De benefited by the introduction Of a
pension system to apply to those employ
ed continuously for twenty years or more
and who have reached an age necessita-
ting retirement therefrom
Compulsory arbitration bills for the set
Element of labor disputes will be present.
ed before the Washington (state) legisla-
ture at this session. Briefly, the bills
are three in number. One provides that
combinations of employers and employees
may incorporate. The second provides for
the establishment Of courts Of arbitra-
ton. The third provides that the incor-
porated employees and employers may APP
peal to the said courts of arbitration for
redress of grievances, and that the de-
cisions of the courts are binding for two
years Only incorporated wOrking1nen
are allowed the privilege of appealing to
the courts thus compelling all to OF gan
iZe and incorporate if they wish to get
the benefits of the law.
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Showinq Is Remarkable.

When the relative sizes of the two
cities is considered, and when the stu
atiOns of the two centers is taken into
account, st. Paul Will be seen to have
IN advantage over the Windy City.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11

neither wheel of the worlds milestone
and to tell how finely it ground the
unfortunate.
The bailiff, who accompanied the
prisoners to the workhouse, gave our
names to the clerk and we were
searched and record made of all the
property which we had.
Next [ was standing stark naked in
a small room before a big tub filled
with water. I was glad to plunge in
and when I came out 1 presume I was
the cleanest man in America. Never
had had such a thorough cleansing in
my life. The attendant scrubbed me
with soap and brush and then seemed
to holystone my skin as the way sail
ors do the deck of man-of-war.
He examined my clothing carefully,
tied it up in bundle and put it away
with scores of similar bundles Then
I was taken to my cell, after of course
being provided with proper garments.
In a short time dinner was served. 1t
consisted of soup, bread and coffee. 1
wasn't hungry-all 1 wanted was a
drink, but the other prisoners seemed
to enjoy the fare.
When I went back to the cell felt
very nervous and my hands were
shaking.
Been on a toot?" asked the guard
who accompanied me.
Yes I replied.
In a few moments he came back
with bottle filled with a black fluid
of which he gave me a dose. 1t was a
good nervine and in half an hour my
system was so much toned up that 1
60
The work was light the first afternoon
1 simply scrubbed some woodwork in
one of the halls and washed some iron
bars.
After supper,w was a substantial
meal, though coarse, we We're allowed
to walk about the corridors for short
time and talk to each other, old pris-
oners told me that this was necessary
to enable men to retain their reason
where their confinement lasted for any
length of time
Then came the bell at $3.50 o'clock
which was the signal for taps It's
vibrant tones Kissed through the corri-
doris of the prison. The effect on me
was appalling. 1t meant a night of
ten hours in a cell, alone and in COM
plete darkness. I had been reading
Charles Reads Never Too Late to
Mend" and had just reached the point
by the way charitable people should
send the workhouse some of their
spare novels-where the Rev. Francis
Eden went into the black hole to see
what punishment the prisoners had to
suffer. The lights went out Through
the bars of my cell 1 could see a faint
light in the corridor. 1t seemed to be
fading slowly away and I thought I
was in the black hole.
/ wrapped my head in my blanket
and covered like woman on the lit
tie shelf which served for bed Then
the regular tread of the guards MAX
ing their rounds came to my ears It
| was as welcome to me and as entrance
ing as the finest chorus ever sung in
grand opera. 1t showed me that I was
not alone in the prison. Other men
| We're near me. They were probably
| undergoing the same experience as my
| self.
Then the lines of Richard LoveIace
| came into my mind:
"Stone walls do not prison make,
| nor iron bars cage;
| Minds, innocent and quiet, take that
for hermitage.
J If have freedom in my love and in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11

workhouse he will be without a job,
without money and without character.
The purist in thought, diction and
action will sit upon his iceberg and de-
clare the negro deserved the punish
ment he received because he got drunk.
The humanitarian with active pulse,
throbbing heart and kindly speech may
think that the law imposing $40 as the
minimum fine for drunkenness in a
city which receives $685. 900 a year
for allowing men to buy liquor to get
drunk with, might be changed.
This is only workhouse suggestion,
however.
AS rule the men at the worl1house
do their work cheerfully. Most of
them do this from wise policy. They
know they have a certain time to stay
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under the care of the warden. Oblivion
in a prison~is not desideratum to be
longed for at any time. The chief OBJ
ject Of prison inmates should be to
make time pass as quickly as possible.
In order to do this the old offenders
say the easiest way is to work, work
hard, work constantly, and thus keep
your mind Off yourself.
A man is rather low in the scale
Of human beings when he is serving
term in the WOrkhouSe Yet in many
different ways most of them coarse
and couched in uncOuth language,
heard DR.. Edward Everett Hale's
famous lines beginning:
'Look forward, not backward;
Look upward, not downward"
The expression of the thought was
DR.. Hale's, butt the language was Of
the slums. One MODE of putting it was
this:
ITO HI with the past; it isn't
what you used to be, it's what you'll
be tomorrow"
That sentiment is what makes life
in the workhouse bearable.
No Excuse for the "Vaq"
Now, 1 don't believe that I am a
hard hearted man. have to ask that
so many~eXcuses be made for myself
that / am willing to grant them for
others. But 1 see no excuse for the
Workhouse vagrant.
~ For the vagrant arrested because
he, according to law, has no visible
means of support, have some sympa-
thy He works. He wears good
clothes Diamonds adorn his shirt
front. To be sure, he works other
people and is dishonest. But then he
~Warks and he takes his chances of 60
ing to the penitentiary.
But the workhouse vagrant never
works. He is not honest. His honesty
doesn't come from principle, however,
but because it is too much trouble to
be dishonest.
He likes the workhouse. The curses
of the guards are incense to his soul.
If he can play sick he enjoys TAX
ing nasty tasting medicines because
they are free. If he can avoid lifting
a pin from the floor he is happy for
a day.
After seeing his species at the ST.
Paul workhouse, ask:
rs it any wonder that prisoners are
sometimes badly treated?"
The Ten-Day Man.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
THE CAPTURE.

Duck come switchin' cross de lot,
Hi, oh, Miss Lady,
Hurry up an hide de pot,
Hi, oh, Miss Lady!
Ducks a mighty 'spicious fowl,
Slick ez snake an wise ez owl
Hor dat dog don't let i'm yoWl,
Hi, oh, Miss Lady!
Th'ow dat con out kind Q slow,
Hi, oh. Miss Lady!
Keep yo'sef behime de do,
Hi, oh. Miss Lady,
Lots o. food'il kill his feah,
Con is cheap, but fowls is deah,
Come, good 6lcky, come on heah,
Hi, oh, Miss Lady!
Amt he fat, an amt he fine!
Hi, oh, my lady!
Des CANT wait to mex him mines
Hi, oh, my lady!
See him waddIe when he walk:
'Sh, keep still an don't you talk!
Got you. Don't you daih to squawk,
Paul Lawrence Dunbar in Ainstee's
January.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11

If the aggregate mileage operated by
all the railroads having terminals in
St. Paul would be stretched out In one
continuous line of road it would reach
twice around the earth. The total
mileage of the ten roads that run into
st. Paul, as far as can be ascertained
amounts to 50,440, the lines which this
figure represents ramifying the West
ern and Central states. These rail-
roads tap one of the richest sections of
the terrestrial globe and the number of
people and the value of the goods they
carry annually, if computation was
possible, would amount to such a to-
tai as to well-nigh defy expression in
figures.
The extent of the railroad interests
tributary to st. Paul, and the impor-
tant part they take in maintaining the
commercial, industrial and social life
Of the country, as we'll as the great in
fuence they exercise in the develop
ment of the growing section, is scarcely
realized by the masses. Those inter-
ested in the work of railroads and en-
gagged in their operation, of course,
understand this, but the general public
does not appreciate its significance.
st. Paul is today recognized as one
of the most important railroad centers
in the United States, and, therefore. in
the world, and it can stand COMPARE
son with Chicago, which is yielded the
palm as the greatest railroad center
in the world. Though all but three of
st. PauFs railroads center in Chicago,
still, when the aggregate mileage of
all the railroads having terminals in
the two centers is compared, St Paul
Will be seen to have two-thirds as
much mileage as Chicago.
AS neaIly as can be ascertained from
the records available, the mileage of
the railroads centering and having
terminals in Chicago is 1891, which is
25,161 miles more than is credited to
st. Paul. Fifteen of Chicago's rail-
roads have a total Of 36,9SS miles, and
the remaining seven. counting Jointly
the Minneapolis & st. Louis and the
Illinois Central which are common to
St Paul and Chica go, have total of
1858 miles. The Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and 500 lines having
a total Of 11,S27 miles, help to lift the
balance up to two-thirds of Chica COS
mileage. Stated directly, Chicago has
36,9S8 miles not touching st. Paul, and
1858 miles operated by the roads con-
Meeting it With st. Paul. The 1927
miles operated by three roads that st.
Paul has to its individual account, cuts
far into the 36.9SS miles operated by
Chicago's sixteen roads that do not
touch st. Paul.
Showing Is Remarkable.
When the relative sizes of the two
cities is considered, and when the stu
atiOns of the two centers is taken into
account st. Paul viii be seen to have
an advantage over the Windy City.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
Life in the Workhouse.

The bolts closed on my cell door at
the workhouse, with a cIangor which
did not have the terrifying effect it
had when 1 heard it the first night !
was there.
l had been an inmate of the institu-
ton for eight days. had come there on
a sentence for drunkenness, which was
just, and was condemned to ten days
imprisonment.
was put in the "Black Maria" about
10 o'clock in the morning at the city
hall. There were seven other occu-
pants Of the wagon-two of them
women. One negress who had hardly
recovered her sobriety was loud in be-
moaning her fate.
IF some one had only lent me &c."
she reiterated as the wagon jolted on
the pavement, Il would not be here"
IF [ hadn't got drunk I wouldn't
be here was the philosophic remark
of a young man with a scraggly beard
which made him look almost like an
anarchist. He took matters as inevi-
table results and tried to be happy
[ attempted to follow his example,
and met with fair success. And yet
when the doors of the workhouse clos
ed behind me 1 cringed with horror
My personal liberty was gone. was
in jail-a felon.
To be sure, 1 had committed no
crime. I had simply been drunk. 1
had friends in st. Paul and could have
obtained the requisite money to pay
my fine of $40 had I desired to COM
municate with any one of half a dozen
men. But my pride was too great for
that. | would not admit that I had
been on a spree, that had spent every
cent that [ had, that I had hooked my
watch, jeWelry and overcoat; that in
fact l would have sold my soul for a
big drink of whisky. My punishment
was Tighten days imprisonment
a chance to see somethiA of the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
By One on the Inside.

my soul am free,
Angels alone who dwell above enjoy
such liberty"
But Lovelace was Imprisoned on ac-
count of the cruel Vaccinations of the
father of the girl he loved. 7 was
imprisoned for getting drunk. for being
a disgrace to myselfs for being a hu-
initiating recollections to the minds of
my family. But finally sleep came.
The Awakening.
The clang of the bell in the morning
caused me to jump from NV couch in
bewilderment. 1t was a welcome
sound. There was activity to it, There
was noise in the corridor. The voices
of guards and turkeys were audi
BILE. The sound meant work, meant
action. 1t was dress, wash, clean cells
and breakfast. The coffee and bread
and hash tasted good. / enjoyed the
fare. The nervousness from my spree
had passed away.
1t was a fine day, and after breakfast
we went out into the adjacent park
and worked in the open air. I enjoyed
tossing the snow off the rocks. en-
joyed bringing down the heavy sledge-
hammer upon the stones. I was once
more in Gods sunshine. My muscles
were in fairly good condition and I
wanted to hit as hard a blow as / could
each time brought the hammer down.
I stood the work much better than
big, muscular fellow by my side APP
peared to do.
But, he was an old offender. It was
the third time he had been sentenced
to the workhouse and he was due to
pass ninety days there on the charge
of vagrancy. The guards had no pity
on him and he was compelled to do the
hardest kind of work. When dinner
time came I was glad of it. L enjoyed
the strengthening, if coarse, fare
which was provided for u.s. 1t tasted
good. In the afternoon 1 was employ
ed at some unskilled labor in the broom
factory The skilled work is only done
by men who are undergoing longer SEN
fences than mine. They develop some
times a remarkable Antitl1de for the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
GENERAL GOSSIP
OF THE WORKERS
A Brief Review Of Weeks
Work of Every Nation
Oh the Globe.

Plumbers in England receive SIC. "a a
week.
Cigarmakers of Dodge county, Wis,
will organize union.
Boot and shoeworkers at Omaha. Neb.,
have formed a union.
Striking boot and shoe operators at
Ipswich, England, have returned to work.
Female house servants command from
$40 to $50 month in South Africa.
Trade unions at Everett, Wash, have
built home for themselves at a cost of
81, 600. -
During 1901 the amount paid in wages
I eco d 6aDor IN the state of Ohio was 1884,,
Tt is estimated that non-union men do
not represent more than 20 per cent of
the various trades.
After Jan. !, Boston tMass.) newsboys
and bOOtblackS under fourteen wears Of
age will be licensed.
Bridge and structural ironworkers at
Cincinnati will present new wage scale
to take effect Jan. /.
80 Employees of the Memphis (Tenn.) street
railway company have secured an adj
vance of cent an hour.
An hourly wage of As cents will be de-
nlanded oy the Milwaukee (Wis) bridge
and structural ironworkers after May /,
An energetic attempt is being made to
unlonize the bakeries at Columbus. Ohio
by the journeymen Bakers union at that
place.
Oregon labor unions are preparing child
labor, eight-hour and other labor meas
this session.
Window glassworl1ers have practically
severed their connection with the Knights
OF Labor, having refused to send delegates
to the next convention.
It is reported that a number of labor
unions IN the East propose to affiliate
with the American Labor Union, which
promises to put organizers in the field.
The Factory and Shop Report Of
Queensland, Australia, states that in
every instance the proportion of female
to male employees in shops has greatly
Four hundred and seventy-tfree thou
sand miners work in the district covered
by the Miners Federation of Great Brit
ain and of these 347, 900 are union men.
Calculating the annual industrial value
OF Workman's life at $700, the Italian
office Of statistics finds that Sicily lost
S250,000 last year through deaths from
malaria.
Telephone operators at Vancouver. B.
e., have returned to work, the company
having come to terms with the local
branch of the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers.
DUnion painters in New Jersey work
forty eight hours a week and average
S2. DO a day; nonunion men, fifty-seVen
hours and so day. according to fig
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
A sordid Philosonhv.

'sWhat have you decided to do about the
man who publicly accuses you Of putting
money into politics?
Nothing answered Senator Sorghum.
Hell work out his own retribution. If he
keeps on talking that way people with
money to spend will keep clear of him,
and he'll miss lots Of good things" -
Washington Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
Chicaqo's Mileage.

as approximate. but it is thought they
will convey some idea of the Situation.
The actual number of lines having termi-
nails in Chicago is thirty two, but some
of these are merely suburban, which are
omitted. and others are embraced under
the titles of roads with which they have
been consolidated.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
This Is a Goldfish Joke.

Adlai F. Stevenson says he will not
leave Bloomington. ILL.,, until he goes to
heaven That is q compete and emphatic
deniel of the report that he intends to
move to New Jersey.-Boston Globe. ;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
ENOUGH VIII Be Plenty.

Minister Bowen, like an agent Of the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children, should see that President cas-
tro is not overspanked. sF
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-09-16
Losal rIns Of 1raIa. on An Railroads.

+. as. w.-Leavea Deming at 0 a. M. con.
meets At HemanOs for the east. south and west.
Arrives at p. M, connects with the Santa Ne FOR
me north and east P. II. Bunk. Agent
SANTA FE-Through passenger and mail from
the east arriSes at Tao a. M. leaves $50 D. m.
Silver City braneh-Inavos At 7;t5 a. M. arrives
S;iOp m. VIC. Rocursrrn Agsr,
soUTHnRN PACIFIC Throug, pasnenger and
mail service between California and the eas,
Local passenger leaves for the east $50 a. m
sunset Limited leaves for the east ~ s05 D. m.
Sunset Limited leaves for the west at $40 a. m.
Local passenger leaves for the weal at s.as b. M
East bound Tuesday and Friday at iiQoam
G. B. BoawoRrH Agent
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-09-16

CITIZEN OF Deming said the other day talking about the
territorial fair If Luna county does not have an exhibit at
the fair the saying she has nothing to exhibit That
just the point and the hundreds of people who are
the fair looking the advantages offered by different parts
the territory will view just that way They will see fine fruits
grain and mineral from Bena San JUAN Chavez SocOrrO
Dona Ana and other counties and when mentioned to then
they will say Where Lunas exhb and when told that Tho
people there did not have the enterprise send one they will loose
all interest in her and turn their attention the others The tins
is short and should be at work The Mmbres valley will fur
nsh the fruit and the Cooks Peak and Florida districts have pro
missed the ore. It is now up to Deming
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-09-16
Southern
Pacific
Double daily train
service between
5 anFranCiscO
and New Orleans
East Bound
Double daily train
service between
SanFranCiscO
and New Or
East Bound

No. l0-SUNSET EXPRESS via the
Coast Line leaves San Francisco 7 n.
m, Deming $40, arriving at New Or
leans 6.46 p. m.
This train carries dining car, OBSERVE
ton, compartment and drawing room
sleepers through Chicago, Kansas CITY
and New Orleans, also tourist slet pers
70 Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago.
Memphis, st Louis, etc. Free recli
ing chair car 10 New Orleans.
No. 8 - PASO PASSEN-
G h R-via San Joaquin valley line
leaves San Francisco 10 a. M, Deminq
1923, a. m. and arrives at FL Paso / 80
p; m. carrying Buffet drawing room
sleeper Also first and second / and
coaches.
West Bound
No. 9-SUNSET EXtRESS. via San
Joaquin valley line-leaves New Or
leans ll:6O a. M, Deming $40 a. M,
arrives at Los Angeles lbs a. m.
San Francisco 8:25
No. 10.
Mr.. I. Ell PAso PASSENGER via
theCoast Line leaves III Paso al
1910 p. m, Deming 4:SO D. m, arrives
san Francisco 1870 p. m. Los Angeles
Through Buffet drawing room sleeper
~ Paso to Los Angeles, drawing room
sleeper and Pullman tourist car Chica-
go to San Francisco; also first and Sc
cond class coaches.
For further information call ON or
address G. NJ. BURKHALTER,
D. r. & P. A., Tucson.
G, B. BoswoRTH. Agent. DeminV.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-09-16

COMPANY has been formed for the purpose of making an
other effort work the immense gold pae of southern Santa
Fe county Golden 1t has known for years that this
field contained large of gold but there no water work
and the dry processes tried have proven successful Now
proposed the from the mountains in
vos and them big undertaking but proves success
full will develop great wealth.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-09-16

FL PASO is going after the next Irrigation Congress and is
quite likely that she will get meeting of the business men
Of the town held short time ago for purpose of sending
delegation to Ogden to work her interest and in commenting on
this meeting the News of the Sh said The business men Of Ell
Pao have forgotten all political anmoses and are unit in their
efforts to secure for the Queen City of the southwest the
nua convention Of the National Irrigation Association
That the point The business and citizens of any place
must unite to help build the place and when the opportunity
comes to advertise the town they should nothing too much
trouble to gain their end Deming have almost any
thing she wants her people will go after in that way
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N 5. ROSE. EDIgoa AND raOFmaT0a..
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IT HAS BEEN suggested to that many of the school
children leave home very early the morning and as they cannot
the school grounds until $3.50 left wander in the streets
until that time This is quite annoyance to the teachers as
they fear something may happen the children during this time
that they are not under the of either parents or teachers
Parents should note this and allow their children to start TO
school until $50 in the morning