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chimes and. in fact, every kind Of ma
chine and machine tool. is the work OF
the machinist. Such work requires great
Intelligence and skill The man must
sbe an inventor as we'll as a mechanic,
every job. and he has to use his j.dg-
ment In almost every bit OF repairs winch
comes before him.
',How many such machinists sre there
Il, the country?" | asked
There are, all told, about 1000 in the
United States
They Control the Trade.
''rhen / suppose If the union has sew
enty thousand members It practically
controls tho trade?" tb5585
.,.Yes 1t does" replied Mr., O'Connell.
''Any organized body Is as strong as ten
times the same number unorganized,l I
there are ten union men inn shop where
81 hundred men are employed they Will
dc NOR, AS to regulating the hours Of
a7inety non-union individuals. We find
this the case all over the country
"What has your association done for
Sour trade?"6I asked,
1T has r,,nefited 1t In many ways
replied President OConnell, we have
reduced our hours from. ten to nine Be-
fore 1900thc machinists of the United
States worked ten hours or more, At the
BEGINNING OF that year we notified the
employers that we should demand a ninf,-
and Gnevhaf. hour day at the end Of Sin
months and the 8nine-hou. day beglnnlng
with January, 1901. We carried our point,
Nc have gotten the nibs-hour day not
only for our trade, which, including those
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third of our members liye. For EASY ! tx
figuring we will aurpose there are s S,ovy
granite cutters there. Nov let NE sh ..n.
you wha those 5000 men lave go..elf -, =,
Of the union III The. fifteen years t lo = :
1856 10 1900. During that me the i MyeTaf ie
Increase Of wages has bes 1 e1u !, |, !, 40 .
Is cents per THIS On snd i men ea so5
Wb Sl'n &c ,,s wy to pftFh he Year
and YOU havo d gross gain Ct sl6, s7oUo. i.
Now take The expenses. IN. "a dues pa'a q
during that time we're only 60 cents q
mads PEI otai AZ Of $4,000 fot the 500 men
i,, i that and you have a net gain
n,ef,i of d little more than hall q million
u t,'tn other words. we have made our
sIs ~ Ssy ireeelyed ss7Sooo e boot ornore
tbnn In Il Of all we have put IN. vent nre
tha ! very! few Of the big trusts can show
a : I brofltable returtls
aSh1p' ondd ton to & this" concluded Mr..
i,,,nca n we have reduced our WORKING
time two tours per day; we have estab,
iishod cast, payments; we have abolislied
rnt,nanv stores, and we have provided
/ think We may say that the granite grant s,
cutters have more than gotten the worm worth
OF 1helr FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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AN EASTER DAY THOUGHT.
~ REV THOMAS b. GREGORY

such matters. The thing would be i'm
possible.
the larger life Is the fact that that life
ia proclaimed within and BY the soul.
,35 No other evidence Is necessary. The
questions "Do you believe In a future
4life?" Is bit Of supererogation. 1t Is on
" necessary to ask: DO you feel that
there Is such life?"
silt q sentiment Of the soul. an In
stinct Of your deepest. noblest humanity?
$1fitis, that settles the matter. so far as
1T Is possible to settle It In this world
testify against the soul. The soul Is
the highest and It's testimony Is not to
be mpea ched by Inferior witnesses.
THE facts. so called. OF logic and science
are ruled out Of court, since the question
OF Immortality is one upon which they
are not competent to speak.
The soul proclams Its deathlessness,
and the truthfulncss Of the proclama-
ton must pass unclallenged
6 We feel that there Is something within
us that cannot die. something that sur. :.
wives the body; and not all the facts
OF all the sylogisms and microscopes
and telescopes are able TO prove mat
feeling to be lie. N
Therefore. with the courage OF the bet
{ ter self. let us enjoy the inspirations OF
this great day.
why should we beittle ourselves? Why
try to hush the finest music of our life ?
why permit ourselves to grovel when8it
IS our privilege to soari Why sit In the
valley and the shadow Of death when we
can mount the hills OF life and go on
rejoicing as the sons and daughters or
God?
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but tic ordinary fee Is under .. Appren'
'ie WV XII III arc re- yo III clnes \" ~, !.
Fl G'Eow do YOU spend the money
,.1'Le tiiost Of II goes to ,supports qlir
neopia IN case or str lkes and locko ny we
p pa o,r men Wien they are cut OF work
p pns siich accounts. and we lave also u
wIlo died recently hud joined , IL ne hnlon
wnss edntcly paid the sl25, 70 which
liz death entitled her. as TO our strike
n,id lockout funds we paid OUT an en0r-
nous amount during the Lockout q w OF lsa
AZ fha time we used UP hl the money
we had In the trehsurry and thcn I /, issued
tm,teon ,,n ssory notes 10 those who stu held
XIII agreeing TO pay them gu! OF the
flrst money that came INTO the treasury.
Those note,s amounted 70 more tilan
ssto, oo. II I, t9,?9t US I'VE years 70 pay then"
I The Union as an Investment.
.Do YOU think. Mr.. Duncan. that the
members q y your y union get the worth Of
'n vi certaiily do, replied Secretary Dun
can, @There Is no Investment In the
World tat as Paiaa better Nsr,oa than ,, hat
~ Granite cutters Take New England.
for instance. IN that partgof the country
wa arc strongest, and there about one
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INDEMNITY COMPANY OF NEW YORK, I. Or
HE STATE OF NEW y DIRK, MAD ITO THE
i COMMONWEALTH OFsJVIRGISIA,s e PURSUANT
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not belonging to the union. numbers 100
COO men. but also for allied trades. which
number 10000 more"
..How about wages? Do you get the
same for nine hours that you did for
Iaten?" 88
'.Yes.
docs the association Insist unon a
minimum wnge?"
Eyes; but the minimum wage varies
In different localities and is settled for
each locality by an agreement with the
employers there. In New York the low
est wage Is 50 per day. In some other
places 1t is $3.50 and s.. Any employer
can pay as much more as h.a pleases.
bur he must pay the minimum or our
men Will not work for him.
No Piece Work Wanted.
r.Then you are not paid by the piece"
no; our association Is against piece
work. We believe 1t contrary to the in
terests of the workngman. The en-
ployer will say that such methods or
payment give greater chance for the
Individual. and that every man can make
more working bytthc piece than by the.
DAY. but 1t is not true. The system keeps
every man up to a high tension. I
makes him strain every nerve TO produce
4 large output + and when the output IN
creases. the employer invariably reduces
the rate per piece, so that the man mas
he Is working harder and receiving less
than under the old day rate THIS Is q
matter Of experience
One Man4t to Every Machine.
"Blt does your association try to re.
strict the output =
mo; it does not said Mr.. O Council
'gu, how about your rule that one man
shalt operate one machine and no more!
That is certainly q restriction OF out
put. 4.
Not in work like that we do. replied
Mr.. O. Cornell. Our machines are neces .,
sarily fine. and we have to insist upon
tina rule to protect ourselves. The, en-
ployer will say he is willing 10 stand the
loss of any work spoiled by having,
man run several machines but We find
that ii the work is spoiled the man is
discharged sooner or later. In some Q!
uul work man does not need 10 touch
4
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"1t n man die shall he live again?"
Job. xiv, ID.
I~> HE question is practically as old
as humanity. 1t Is doubtful II
y we have any evidence Of a time
when men did not believe in some kind
Of future existence. 8
From the beginning Of his history, man
has been .'yonder- minded" being. look
Ing away from time to eternity. from the
finite to the Infinite, from the imper-i
lection Of the three score and ten" to
the splendid completeness OF the "eter-
nal years OF God"
Through tho ages. through all It's pa
thctic groupings and grim battlingss.
through all It's "hursts Of great heart"
and "slps In sensual mire." humanity
has held on,to Its dream of the larger
and better 10 Be-.
Never has man capitulated to the
thought Of his mortality---ever has he
chung with sublime tenacty and devo-l
ton to the idea OF his deathlessness.
II am immortal!' has been the souls
slogan from the earliest dawn OF human
existence and on this Easter day. the
latest in the calendar. the soul with all
of its old-time earnestness. re!terates us
larger and glorious claim.
What does the claim amount to? Has
any one been over tte&"Dark River" and
returned with the proof OF q failure life?
Can the existence of a future life be dem
onstrated By facts and figures?
If not. then how do we stand? What
evidence have we that beyond the portals
OF the tomb there IS the life OF which we
dream?
& The answer to these questions is the
dream itself.
Whence came the dream? How hap
pens it that man Is found entertaining
such mighty thought?
Have we any proof that any other
creature in the animal kingdom is
troubled with such thought. is haunted
by such tremendous vision?
There Is no Easter Day In the calendar
of the lower creatures. No one Of them
7 Is disturbed by the thought of unfulfilled
ideals and Of Il perfection awaiting them
in the distant time. No one OF them
thinks the thought Eternity. No one OF
them ''shrinks back on itself and startles
at destruction"
What. then. Is the fair. the inevitable
inference. but this-that man is a being
8immea surably larger than those with
whom he shares this little planet; that
within him are the facts and forces to
which the other creatures are strangers,
and that 1T is of this larger nature that
the instinct OF the future life and it's
boundless progression Is the natural ex-
preston.
In other words, you think OF immor-
tally, because We are. in our essential
nature. immortal. The thought is sim
ply the reflection OF the fact. and we are
found thinking and talking about eter-
nifty because, in our deeper being, we be-
long to eternity.
81 If there was nothing Of the eternal and
immortal within us IL is pretty safe to
say that we would not be thinking of
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and what wages do such men gel, Nh:
The Eight-Hour Day.

.'IIow about hours?"y asked,
I'VE have the eight hour day lay: al over.
the United States was IKE 51e t Iepg men who
cut granite in Butte City get 50 ior OF
eight hours work. ~,
Eyes that is just what ] mean replleiui
sorts are high there. AS for The hours.
VIC have been lighting for the ei q nt
day for long time. we tried 20 se .t,I II
In 1897 we got tired OF waiting and w
then notified our employers that we should
Insist upon the eight-hou day, DeslnHil,s
one.third of our mon We're working eig En-
hours Since then we have all had thac
day. and that with increased profit 10
ourselves and our empl6ayer,s I, o,o sal nro.
fit. Mr., Dunchn?" asked;
III mean that the workman Is better
off and that the employer se,s mere n,, o ~
formerly did in the nine hours, Wages
have risen as much as twenty-three per
cent, but nevertheless the product y
cheaper than 1t was under the long Houts
and lower wages.
Duncan said l.,
sit may sound 50 to YOU we, was : t { b,
less You must remember that granite
cutting is hard work, and at the !, same M,
time work laat demands len q DIFF sn,' must ,,
Be fresh and not tired. out. In the long
hours. as noon approached, the men We're re
played out. and they. lad to loaf o. t rS
to save themselves for the rest or INC
day. NOW they put IN, only four .ho ,lr
in the mornins and after the noon resi-
90 In and work for tho remainder or me
day The employers are now Interested ~
seeing that the men have better tools,
and and That the cheaper. or rougher work
il done Thy helpers. Al any rate they
have systomatized matters So that 4, ! TIE 4,
n e1sh,bour d Etsa han FsessE
nine hour day of the past, One OF the
largest employers at Barre, VT, where
about 500 Of nlr men have regular
work. recently told me tint not only had
& his output been greater under tho eslghtT
hour day, but that the character Of me
work WAS .ibter, 'yl
4 "Do you think the time Will ever com.
when the eight-hour day viii be the rus
for all Glasses of OUR mechanios?'
rs" ~ do replied James Duncan; ~ Is sc
now IN many bf the trades, and y VIII pe
more so as time goes on,''
What It Costs to be a Union Man
''What does II cost 4, 70 g, belong to the
s1'eThe Initiation fee Is from s2 70 500. re-
piled Secretary Duncan, IA difference IS
made in accordance with me slandins
Of the applicant toward !orga nisea Ia noli
In the past. II a. man ha5 been hg htlnsi
us and asks to Join he might Re punis hes
for the past by q high Initiation fss,
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The Granite Cutters.

but. Mr.. Duncan" said l, ''do not the
members Of your trade cut other stones
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III man die shall he live again?"
Job. xiv. ID.
~ He question is practically as OLD
as humanity. 1t Is doubtful II
\ ,ve have any evidence OF time
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eve take In and pay out several nun.
dred Thousand dollars In money every
year. but our accounts are as careflliy
mana ged as those of bank ana our
losses are comparatively much less"
The Voice From the Granite.
James Duncan. the secretary and treas;
lurer OF the Granite Cutters Natlohal
Union, spent years In cutting out ceme-
terry monuments. granite statues ana
building blocks before he was chosen as
the leader of the Granite Cutters Union.
and he tells me he can make more money
to-day polishing granite than ny acting
as the secretary of his union. asked e,
him somsh,1ng abent the gT "a s ous'-
THE granite industry represents hun
dreds or millions ofRdollars Its chief
center. Is in New England, but It rs
carried on IN nearly ev cry palt ot he
duarries and in the chops Of almost every
city. Their work is in every cemetery
and their buildings eyeryw.nere. NEATLY &c ~
bniidings are granite The sl4,Mo.Ooo
Pennsylvania depot which is. about to be
built here VIII be Of ,,d g IA }, and th ne
public buildings which they have decided
to put up in Washington IN the near ca,
future will be granite structures: We W
have many great granite quarries. and
the business of taking out and pre- pairing
the stone is a special trade
The Granite Cutters.
but. Mr.. Duncan" said !, do not the
mem bers Of your trade cut other stones ',
Mo-. was the reply. "The granite
cutter has a trade of his own. There
is as much difference between him and
the soft stone cutter as there is between
the shoemaker and tailor The soft stone
man shapes his work with chiseis of
soft. steel, which he pounds with a wooden
mallet: fIc owns his own tools and car
ries them from job to job. The granite
cutter works with the finest steel. He
uses a steel hammer He does not own
His tools and he Is rcadyEto work with
Iatools or machines as his employer
directs All he asks Is that his employer
keep to his agreement with the union,
| giving him reasonable hours and fail
How many granite cutters are there.
I'VE have about 1900 In the United
/ States, and % per cent Of these belong
| 10 the Granite Cutters Union
Three to Six Dollars Day.
| And what wages do such men get, Mr.,
( Duncan?"
/ According to our national agreements
! with the employers they now receive
I minimum wage of from s. TO 50 per day
4 according to the locality where they work
i The minimum wage in New England is 70
Hand men are paid higher than tnat, az.
! cording to their skill. In Butte CITY the
4 lowest wage lis Sc day, and In Helena
/ Great Fails and Spokane: IS day, ~
4 some other places 1t is $500 and 81 nu.
1 where the wages are high the maximum
i and minimum rates are about the same
=. il I . N
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Brave Stand Made By Russian Ships
That Went Down
THEY CALAMITY WENT TO DEATH
With Bands Playing and Fleets
Cheering the Russians Faced the
Enemy In Prospect of Certain
Death.

Nagasaki. BY Cable.-The vessels
comprising the Japanese feet which
ettacked and destroyed the Russian
cruiser Varigan and Korietz at Chem
rlpo on the Sth inst. were the cruisers
Naniwa, Akachiho. Akashi, Suma, and
the Asama. Japan did not lose map.
The survivors from the Variag and
the Korietz. the Russian cruisers that
were sunk by the japanese feet at
Chemulpo last Tuesday, still remain on
board the British cruiser Talbot. the
Italian cruised Elba and the French
cruiser Pascal.
The situation is becoming acute as
the japanese have twice made demands
on the commanders Of the three for
eign vessels that the Russians be sur
rendered as prisoners of war. The cap
tain of the Talbot. being the senior
raval officer, each time replied that he
was awaiting instructions from his
government. None of the Russians is
on board the American gun-bCat Vicks-
bIrg whose commander considers that
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the Japanese are right in their de-
mand. as the Russians took advantage
of the clemency of the japanese in
returning to the harbor. then taking
refuge on the foreign vessels and re-
fusing to surrender. whereas the Jap
anese feet refrained from sinking
them in the open sea as they could
have done.
A magnificent episode in the battle
was the second sortie of the two Rus
sian cruisers. With bands playing the
national anthem, the international
fleet loudly cheering the bravery and
gallantry of the Russians. the Variag
and Koreitz faced the japanese feet
in what was certain death. The posi-
tions of the wreck appear to be such
that it will be easy to recover the
guns. The Russian losses were one
officer and 40 men killed and 464
wounded.
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SCENE HoSTIIITIEs RUSSIA

London. BY Cable.-The Daily Mail,
the Daily Telegraph and other papers
publish dispatches from Toxic. Nasa'
saki and Shanghai, reporting the de-
struction Of three Russian cruisers
by mines or torpedoes in Tsugari
Straits. The Daily Mail, which at
first described the news as official
in a telegram says the report still
lacks absolute confirmation. In the
absence OF confirmation the reports
are generally discredited.
A statement that China will main.
tain neutrality is published in Pekin.
1t is reported from Tien Tsin that
all foreigners end civilians have been
ordered to leave Port Arthur. 1t is
also reported that the Siberian rail.
road has been wrecked in six places,
covering a distance Of seventy miles.
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Libel Suit for 100000.

Pensacola, Fla, Special.-A libel
suit for $4,000 was filed in the United
States Court here by John H. Thomp-
son, administrator of the estate OF JEFF
erson Davis, of Mobile, Ala, against
the Linea de Vapores Sierra, corpora
tion known as the Sierra Line OF Steam.
ships of Bilboa, Spain. The suit also
named the Spanish steamer Wilma, one
OF the vessels owned by the firm and
which Is now in port, aL'9 the vessel
was taken into custody by the United
States marshal and is held.
The suit is brough on account of the
death OF Jefferson Davis in Mobile har-
Dor several months ago, vile it is
said. he was at work CT the steamer
Alicia. also owned by that comnary.
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Judge Brewster Dead.

Danbury, Conn, "a. ~ Judge Ly-
man Denison Brewster, jurist of ns-
tional reputation, is dead at his home
in this city Sunday. He was charter
member of the American Bar Associa-
tion From 1890 until the beginning OF
the present year he was chairman CT
the committee on uniform State laws.
The uniform divorce law, which is
expected Will be adopted by nearly
every State in the Union, was drafted
by Judge Brewster He was associated
with Joseph H. Chcate, now United
States ambassador to England. in
breaking the will OF the late Samuel j..
Tilden.
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Gorman's Challenge.

washington. Special.-ln the report
on the naval appropriation bill made
to the House by Chairman Foss. OF the
naval affairs committee. the gauntlet
thrown down by Senator German IN
his announced policy of internal i'm
provements in place Of naval construc-
ton, is taken up with vigor. The re-
port says:
IF we judge public sentiment Alright
II is in favor of the continuance OF
the policy OF building up the navy. II
we stopped now we would be left and
behind the leading countries OF the
world. ~
"The Amer: can people are not WILL
ing to lessen. their influence on TINS
hemisphere, nor forsake their interests
on the other
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Turks Attacked.

Berlin. By Cable.-The Frankfurter
Zeitung Salonica correspondent tele-
graphs that a Bulgarian band, num-
bering 100. has been attacked at
Dchumbala by Turkish frontier guards,
who were reinforced by two companies
of infantry. The battle, the correspon-
dent adds, lasted a long time and the
Bulgarians fed at night, leaving twelve
dead on the field. The Turkish loss
was one man killed and two wounded.
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I.Soo Reported Killed.

Nagasaki, BY Cable.-SiX Norwegian
steamers chartered BY Russian naval
contractor have been captured. The
vessels are the Lena, Activ, Sentis,
Seirstadt. Argo and Hermis. They
carried coal cargoes. The Hermis ar
rived here Sunday and under convoy
o. a cruiser. 1t is rumored that l.Soo
Japanese soldiers have been killed,
presumably by the sinking of trans
mort. Disturbances are reported IN
Seoul
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Starch Factory Burned.

Oswego, N. Y, Special.-Fire which
started in the chemical room OF the
Corn Product Company's starch fac
tory threatens the destruction OF the
whole establishment. Aid has been re-
quested from Syracuse and three en-
gines have arrived from there. The
plant is the largest starch factory in
the world. The loss will not be less
than s5O0,000.
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Steamer Ashore.

New York, Special.-Marine advices
received here reportthat the ship Henry
E. HYDE, bound from New York to Bal
timore. with ccal, is ashore near DAM
neck life-saving station. Va, having
gone ashore during a furious gale.
The crew Of IA. including the captain s
wife, were taken off safely today. AL
though the storm continued TO rage, at
tempts will be made to save the snip,
which lies in fairly good position.
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qure advancing from car to car each % time bigger &c d @ % @ % to
devil
But man!
fad VIII lose part
oft automobinc dawbacKs II
auonopHS
that the hT
smoothly their and their owners as
automobns defective as sport IN h
1t looks that
the liver in fashion that highly
Walking fat and are plainly
bit
older esTecal!
kme the body III such con
all the stable to itself
perish
with his mind and his body When human
Ingenuity succeeds thngke transportation MAIN
trouble that particular difficulty ceases IN some
people healthy and some other DIM
could live without trouble we shond
degeneranS
wiseen to it-Harpers Weekly.
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Addressed Virginia Committee.

Richmond, Va, Specsal-Coiin Nc
Isaac, commissioner general Of the
Lewis and Clark centennial exposition.
Oregon, addressed committee OF both
houses Of the Legislature in behalf Of
the enterprise he represents. It is de-
sired that Virginia shall take special
interest in the exposition referred to.
Lewis and Clarke both having been
Virginians.
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New Steamship Service.

Boston. Special.-Announcement was
made that a new steamship service had
been inaugurated between the Mediter-
ranean ports and this city. The steam
els of the new line are all under Italian
registry. On their outward trips they
will not load here. but will proceed to
New Orleans and Galveston, where they
will oad cotton. provisions and general
merchandise for Mediterranean ports.