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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-22

Try 8. I. Levin's Xxx Columbian
1892 rye. It is the very best that can
be nad for family and medicinal pur-
poses. At the old stand. sol West su-
perior street ;<*s =: -: =: 37zss :;
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-22
Tho, Highway TO-. Prosperity.

Wheneyr the worknaen Of country
are: striving for better education and
more thorough. knowledge: Of; the prob.
lens that confront them that country.
Is safe and or. ]. Il 8. hi ghway to peace
and. sperlty Iron Mould ers, J Tour J:
nal
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-05
HELP wANTEp-MALF-cnn-

AT C.,R HANSEN * 60 s.....Emp ofhcs
40 Bush ST. .-..-...... 642 Clay o..
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-05

felIer SEQ and board; tallyman and
lumber sorter. $50 and board; logway man.
$50 and board: machine - men for sash and
s. so day; band sawyer and shapeT hand;
brick burner. 81 so day: laborers for sash
and door factory: blacksmiths, 81 80 day
and board and So day; mixers. $40, $35 and
$40 and board: farmers. $50 and 81 so day:
farmer and WIFE $50 and board; young man
to drive milk wagon country. $35 and board:
cooks walters, elevator boys and others. j.
F CROSETT & CO.. 62S Sacramento St
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-05

FOR NEVADA
FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Fare To above points 50.
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the whole character rushes into ex-
preston in every part, because every
part reports the soundness or unsound-
ness of the whole to which it has con-
tributed its due proportion of those
elements which in their aggregation
and coordination make up a human
life.-Rev. John White Chadwick, Uni
tartan, Brooklyn.
A LARGER WORLD.
While theologians have been cudgel-
ing their brains over some new way
to reconcile the old and the new, and
preachers have been wrestling with the
same problems-trying to put the new
wine of modern knowledge into the
out-worn forms of ancient dogma-the
great poets and essayists and scientists
have been quietly and silently leading
the thoughtful into a new and infinite
~ larger world, where the bubbles and
disputes of theology and sectarian re-
hgion seem trivial and unworthy of the
notice of earnest men.-Rev. w. H.
Ramsay, Unitarian, Louisville, KY.
THE SLOCUM HORROR.
If, as reported, certain United States
officials defy the American people,
who, through Secretary Cortelyou de-
manded a reinspection of vessels, and
refuse because of a technicality, then
these officials. because of the evasion
of their plain duty, are branding them
selves as cringing criminals. They
should be held traitors to the Ameri-
can people and ostracized from all de-
cent men. But will the owners, off,
GERS or whoever was responsible for
the catastrophe be actually punished?
Ought there not to be some protection
to society against repetition of such
evils by the perpetrators being de-
prived of their liberty as an example
to all who are responsible for the safe
ty of human lives? Our fashion is
soon to forget and forgive these awful
crimes against humanity. We are lax,
slipshod, wishy washy invertebrates.
We are all guilty of the blood of need
lessly murdered neighbors because we
do not demand the enforcement of
righteous laws which we are taught by
nature and by God to place in the
statute books-Rev. Horace Porter
Montclair, N. J.
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They Pursued Him with whoops and Yells.

of one of the sly and active insects. He
had covered several rods OF ground
when the farmer whom he had met at
the terminus suddenly appeared at his
elbow, accompanied by his two stall
Wart sons.
''Huntin' for crickets, ~" he queried
with laugh. ''Wall, if you can catcn
'em by candle-light you can do bet
tern anybody L ever heard of, and I've
known some purity smart fellers in my
time. You see, a cricket amt as big
as a dog, and he knows better than a
fox how to hide himself
81 am not asking your advice, sir,
replied Mr.. Bowser, as he rose up in
some embarrassment.
mo, know you amt, but kinder hate
to see a man maxim a fool o hisself. If
you was to offer me a dollar apiece for all
the crickets 1 could catch the money
wouldn't buy my tobacco. Bein' you are
so stiff about it you can go on huntin' !,
but you look out for that shotgun! If I
find you on my land I'll pop you over
right to, because 1 believe you are a
dangerous man."
Mr. Bowser wishing he hadn't come. The
crickets were singing again, but he real
out his candle and made sudden dives
into the grass in the darkness, but the
clutches. While he was standing and
looking about him and wondering what
he should do in the matter he heard the
voice of tree toad from a tree not fer
away. He at once advanced in the hopes
to make a capture. AS he stood under
the tree he heard no less than five voices
piping away. but he felt around in TIE
darkness without result. Then he lighted
his candle but the noises ceased at once.
Thought you had him. eh?" laughed
the farmer, as he appeared with mis- sons.
Wall I've known some purity big fools in
my time, but I guess you take the cake
over all. You'd better go home and ask
that wife of yours to make bran mash 70:
your head
.'sir, want no more of your interfer-
encei' exclaimed Mr.. BowSer, who was
now mad enough to tackle an elephant
'tOh, he don'tl' sneered one of the sens:
HE wants the boot to help his case!
Eyes, boys, I think We had better help
him along on his way homa," added the
father. Come oni
And then and there with the soft, still
darkness brooding over the highway, with
the tree toa6s piping and the criclSets
singing, they rushed upon Mr.. Bowser and
thumped and punched and knocked him
about, and when he finally fled they
pursued him with whoops and yells until
he at last reached the terminus and the
car. 1t was midnight when he quietly en-
tered his own house and softly climbed
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He Left Mrs. Bowser and the Cat Sit
ting Side by Side.

do tell! Have you got a wife that
don't know a tree toad from a cricket?'
"She said they were the same thing"
'Then she must be a fool! That is,
there's a fool in the family somewhere.
never heard of a man coming out to
hunt such things jest to get the better
of an argument with his wife. Is the
top of your head loose?'
THE top of my head, sir, is all right,
and tink can find what l want with
out any help from you
wall, that's all right if you can, but
femme tell you o0e thing. If 1 catch
you housing around my barn or hen
roost tonight I'll fill you full O bird
shot, and don't you forget it! A Teller
who come out here a few nights ago to
try and find out why bullfrogs croaked
the loudest on dark nights broke into
my barn and stole a saddle, and / amt
trustin' to what folks say any more.
I'll bet your wife knows a heap more
about crickets and tree-toads than you
do"
Mr.. Bowser boiled over and wanted
to bring on head-on collision, but with
a great effort he held himself and turn
ed away. He wouldn't lick the farmer,
but Mrs. Bowser should hear from him
when he got back. He had wandered
along the country road half mile be-
fore he suddenly caught the voice of a
cricket. A dozen of the insects began
chirping at the same moment, as if to
attract his especial attention, and he
lighted his candle and got down on his
knees to make a. search. The chirping
ceased at once, and hunt as closely as
he would he could not find hide nor hair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-08
BOwsER's RESEARCH.
He Makes a Night Trip to the
Country.

The Bowsers had eaten dinner in
peace and serenity, and Mr.. Bowser
had given no sign whatever of "break-
ing OUT during the evening, when he
suddenly observed.
Mrs. Bowser, do you remember
that on the evening of the 18th day of
last March we had a discussion about
tree toads and crickets?"
"Why, no." she answered in sur
prise. 81 don't see how we came to
be discussing such things at that time
of year."
Yes, we had a discussion. 1t came
about through my recalling my boy
hood days. 1 spoke of the night songs
OF the crickets and tree toads, and in
your impetuouS way, thinking you
knew it all, you at once declared that
a cricket was the same thing as tree
toad
You are mistaken, Mr.. Bowser.
Any child almost could tell you that
one belongs to the reptilian order and
the other to the insect I couldn't
have told you anything of the kind.
If you so understood me-
'Your statement was as straight as
a string and must stand. If you think
to change your mind now it is too
late. When my own wife stands be-
fore me in my house, with her hands
on her hips and her nose within a foot
of mine, and says a tree toad and
cricket are the same thing, she must
stand or fall by what she says"
But how could I have said such
thing?" protested Mrs. Bowser.
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you have said thousands of things
to be wondered at, though 1 haven't
always paid attention to them. In this
case, however, I propose to bring you
living, breathing proof that you didn't
know what you were talking about. ]
want to cure you of your habit OF
making reckless statements, and |
shall therefore furnish you an object
lesson not soon to be forgotten. /
shall take a little trip out into the
country this evening and secure a tree
toad and a cricket, and if you still in
sist, after I have shown them to you'
that L
but I shan't insist never insist
ed. There is just as much difference
between a tree toda and a cricket as
there is between you and kangaroo,
and there's no call for you to go gal
Iivanting out in the country"
Mrs. Bowser," he stif1y replied, i
do not like your SMILES. When wife
draws comparisons between a kanga-
roo and her husband, or even mentions
them in the same breath, she can have
no great respect for him. AS 1 stated
in the first place, a tree-toad is not a
cricket. and before midnight 1 Will
prove it to you. After that you Will
perhaps be more careful about airing
your knowledge of natural history. You
and that yeller-eyed cat are always
anxious to butt in.
"In my time" said Mrs Bowser, anx-
ious to place herself right, 'I have
seen ana nanOleQ UunuIeOS u tree
toads and crickets, and I think 1 ought
to know the difference between them.
If 1 made any such statement as you
impute to me-and I beg leave to doubt
that 1 did spoke without thinking. L
don't see how we came to talk of those
things in March, anyway
THE month makes no sort of differ
ence," he replied. lone can talk about
huckleberries in January as well as in
August. I have waited for months to
prove that you didn't know what you
were talking about, and now the time
is here When I have placed a. tree
toad in your right hand and a cricket
in your left perhaps your eyes will
detect a slight difference between
them. On more than a thousand oc-
casions during the last year you have
boldly and impudently controverted my
statements, and 1 have finally reached
what may be called the dead line. At
ter this what 1 say goes, or I will be
a nonentity in this house and you may
run things. AS I may not return from
my trip before midnight you needn't
sit UP for me. Tomorrow morning will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-08

An enterprising bookseller of New York
who believes in the realistic method of
advertising, has placed in his show win
dow on Cortlandt street an eight foot
ladder composed entirely of swords.
Around its base are great heaps of Gilbert
Parker's new novel. "A Ladder of
Swords"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-08

1.-The Wandering Twins is a new story
by A. c. McClurg & Co.
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be time enough to convince you that
cricket is not a tree-toad."
Realizing that Mr.. Bowser had one of
his spells on, Mrs. BoWser had no
more to say He changed into an old
suit of clothes, slipped a candle and
some matches into his pocket, and left
Mrs. Bowser and the cat sitting side by
side on the front steps. After a trolley
ride of three miles he found himself
at the end of the line and the country
before him. AS he stood looking
around him in the twilight, farmer,
who was on his way home, stepped for
ward and inquired if he was lost or
wanted to inquire about somebody.
Il came out here to look for tree
toads and crickets,' replied Mr.. Bow
ser, and 1 was wondering where to
go. You have such things around here,
1 suppose?"
Land o. Goshen. yes; but what on
earth do you want of emp
1 want to convince my wife that
one is not the other"
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Mary z. wilkins Freeman's story about
useless and foolish Christmas gifts, which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-08
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

The Designer for November presents
advance styles for winter, in which eff
lfectiveness, practicability and simplicity
are combined to produce thoroughly up
to-date garments for adults and little
folks. Those who have a winter we'd
ding in prospect will appreciate For
the Holiday Bride" offering bridal
coat,and costumes for the attendants at
coat, and costmeS for the attendants at
the ceremony; Catering for the Home
Wedding" giving a dainty and mex
pensive menu and telling how to pre-
pare it, and Etiquette Hints" illus
trating the latest in wedding invitations.
Points on Dressmaking' follows in line
with suggestions for the arrangement
of the veil, wreath and other accessories
is usually uncertain, and Her Crown
of Glory" presents hair dressing suffi-
GENTLY varied to suit any face. Women
who contemplated making Christmas
gifts for their friends will find in The
Designer a fund of fancywork informa-
ton.
Margaret De1and's essay on "Glass
Houses" published in a. recent number
of Harper's Bazaar. has made SO profound
an impression that one reviewer de-
clareS: Had Mrs. Deland never writ
ten q word before. and should she never
write another line, her fame is made by
Glass Houses " This essay will be in
Common Way which Harper & Bros.
now have in preparation for publication
this fall
Mary E Wilkins Freeman's story about
useless and foolish Christmas gifts, which
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was crossing the plains twenty years
ago he was killed and scalped by the
Indians, and that clerk almost wept
with me-"
THAT was indeed kind of him. After
he had almost wept, did he want to
sell you any goods?"
HE left it all to me. He said he
was awfully sorry about my husband
being killed, but as they had the scalp
lock of the Indian who killed him,
and as it seemed to be a sorrowful
case, 1 might have the relic for 81 to
hang on the parlOr wall"
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A Considerate People.

There are such considerate people
in Chicago, you know" said the old
lady, as she returned to her village
after a shopping excursion to that
metropolis.
You got your right change every
time, did your was asked.
La, yes, and 1 must tell you how
they treated me in 'brick-a-bat store.
/ went in there to look at some Indian
relics, and the clerk took the greatest
pains to show me everything. / finally
mentioned that when my dear husband
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-08
Waste of Time

"I see the Russians have decided to
win by firing the Japs OUT
Eyes. l once knew a man who
thought he'd do that with a bulldog
that had secured a grip on his leg. But
he finally decided that 1t would only
be wasting time."-Chicago Record
Herald.
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the stairs. Mrs. BowSer was asleep and
the cat was not to be seen, and he drew
a long breath of relief and said to him
self:
There is big difference between a
tree toad and cricket, and know it and
all the world knows il, but if Mrs. Bow
ser doesn't say anything about it in the
morning I'll be hanged If 1 dor'-(Copy-
right, 1904, by T c. McClure.)
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-11-02

Smiles that will Danish the sorrow and
rue;
Noy is your choice of the Godgiven
way
Never tomorrow, always to-day.
Mrs. De Grace wept copiously
during a melodrama; but, when a
mother and her child starved to
death in the second block from her
residence, she said, How shock
ing!" and immediately asked a
guest to describe Mrs. LIE Bullion 5
new hat. Mrs. De Grace is an
excellent woman, but sometimes [
wonder if she is not lacking in the
sense of proportion.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-11-02
ST. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway
Co. Notice of Meeting of Stock
holders and Directors.

Notice IS hereby given that the DlreC-
tors of said Railway Company do hereby
call a special meeting of the stockholders
of the ST. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico
Railway Company to be held at its Gen
eral offices III the town of Kingsville, in
the State of Texas, on Tuesday, the 18th
day of November, 1904, at the hour of
eleven O'Clock a. III. of that day, for the
following purposes:
First: To authorize the execution of a
contract for the construction of the said
railroad company's line of railroad from
its present terminus at RobstoWn through
the county of Nueces to the town of Sin
ton, and thence through the counties Of
San Patricio, Victoria, Jackson, Calhoun
and Matagorda to the town of Bay City,
in the county of Matagorda III the State
of Texas, distance of about one hun
dred and forty-two miles.
Second: To authorize the making, is
suing, execution and delivery of a series
of first mortgage, so, gold bonds, not
exceeding the aggregate of the principal
thereof. Four million Dollars face value,
to be issued at the rate of Seven Thou
sand Five Hundred Dollars per mile
upon the Company's constructed line of
railroad from the crossing with the Tex
as-Mexican Railroad, known as Robs-
town, through NueceS and Cameron
counties to the town of Brownsville, and
the branch line of railroad from a point
about twenty-five miles north of Browns
vile through Cameron and Hidalgo
counties, about fifty-six miles III the di-
rection of the southeast corner of the
county of Starr, ard also of q COntinu
alton of its said constructed line of rail-
way from the aforesaid crossing with the
Texas Mexican Railroad known as Robs-
town, IN north-easterly direction
through the county of Nueces to the
town of Sinton in the county of San Pa
triCiO, and thence in a north eaSterly
direction through the counties of San Pa
tricio, Refugio, Victoria, Jackson, Cal
houn and Matagorda to the town of Bay
City in the county of Matagorda, and also
upon the combinations and branch of the
company's authorized line of railroad
from Bay City to the town of Houston in
the county of Harris, and from point
OH said main line within FIVE miles of
Chenango, in the county of Brazoria to
the city of Galveston in the county of
Galveston III the State of Texas; said
81 900. 90 each and to bear sc interest,
both principal and interest being pay
able in gold; and to authorize the execu-
ton and delivery of mortgage or deed
of trust upon the said lines of railroad
and branches, and the property and
franchises of the Company pertaining to
the same, to secure such issue of bonds.
Third: To amend the bylaws of the
Company in such respects as may be
deemed advisable.
4 meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Company viii also be held irn1ne-
diately upon the adjournment OF the
stockholders meeting aforesaid
BY order of the Board of Directors,
&. Lori, President,
st. l., B. & NJ. Ry Co.
II. ". ADAMS, Secretary,
St. l., B. & N. Ry. Co.
9-1e-11-16.
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The Philosophy of Felix c. Pryme.

From the October Success. -
Platitudes are the paste diamonds
of wisdom.
The professional advice-giver
rarely advises himself.
An augur and a man of many
anecdotes are alike perfect bores.
1t is usually safe to be suspicious
of the man who is suspicious of
others.
The possibilities of a fool are
naught when compared with his
impossibilities.
To know what is. right and not
to do it is as bad as to know what
is wrong and to do it.
Donot forget that IS ism t necessary
to be disagreeable in order to disa-
gree with the other man.
When a man admits that he IS
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never too old to learn you may be
sure that he is getting pretty old.
Life is like ripple, your hind
sight and your foresight must be
in accord if you would hit your
target.
A man usually begins to appre-
ciate his wife about the time that
he has killed her appreciation of
him.
One point which this old, gray
world has as YET failed to learn is
that truth is infinitely better than
falsehood.
If we took as great pains to say
kind things as we do to think I'M
kind ones, life would be one long,
metaphorical May.
Never tomorrow, always to-day,
This have I learned as I went on my
way
Words to be spoken, something to do,
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the paper back i'll the post office
marked Refused. A few days
later the wife of this same men call
ed at the office of the editor with
long obituary of her deceased neph
ew and got hopping mad at the
editor, who declined to publish 1t
as a news item but offered to pub
fish it for so much per line.
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Iron-CIad Nerve.

Texas Mosquiter.
Talk about gall, but a neighbor-
ing newspaper man gave us an ex-
ample the other day. A man had
been taking his paper and was two
years behind and fearing that he
might be asked to pay up he put
Evening journal., 1904-02-11
re z

AS you here, the little discs of the diaphragm SIM
ply pop and down like the expansion the lungs of the
human body, and there is no out
AS matter of record, OF three million diaphragm
pneumatcs in use, In the AngeHS since 1897 and in the
Symphony since 1885, there has been wear out
or burst And strong is the faith in the Aneeus,
Mr. Whte of Wilcox White, the inventors and makers
that he has offered select ordinary instrument
his endless sheet of perforated music
operating any note twenty notes, which would
four hundred to five hundred of the
matics every minute allow this to be operated thai
rapidy by continuously for thirty days. ihus play
each note 4O0O times h0r nnl the bNeHnsahcs
operated haze opened and closed 720O0O0 fsDes And
the test is not then satisfactory, to continue this operation
for thirty days longerl
1t IN Dqt hDze the pneumatic hurst showea naeyza
SzgNs Uear, tie w0uld be ak0Oea sslsct on
4ngeluS or Symphony wtffout cast
Up to the present time no one has come forward tc
make the test.
The Amgeins uHdoa6tedy supreme, onLv boaOeS
of expression, hzeh from the aO0nderlnI bhyGsns
Ievey, bit also zn ITS mechanical construction
Ye by1ce ktehey than any otey bsano-bIayey-
S250-tO be basd BY The month, If byefeya6e
Evening journal., 1904-02-11
SPORTING NOTES

Harry Forbes and Gus Bezenah are
20 box at Chicago.
Jack Prince has opened his bicycle
coliseum az Jacksonville.
Jimmy Gardner and Patsy Sweeney
will meet at Marlboro on Friday.
Tommy DAILY is scheduled to meet
Joe Tipman in Baltimore ON Friday
night.
Martin Connole and Young Corbett
may be matched in the near future in
Frisco.
Gonthier threw Miller in a. minutes
at Montreal Saturday night and made
him quit
Martin Candle. OF Fan River. knock
ed out Arthur Cote Ia two rounds at
New Bedford Monday
Among the baseball players who are
playing the ponies at ingleside are
Billy Sullivan. Jake Beckley "sandow'
Mertes Sharley Irwin. BIN Everett and
"Bidr McPhee.
The Main Line Baseball League,
composed Of Berwyn. Malvern. Ardmore
and West Philadelphia clubs, was or
ganized at Bryn Mawr yesterday the
season to open April 90
Grin Jones Is very anxious 20 have
the bantam-wcight championship OF
Pennsylvania decided. and he thinks
some o. the clubs should ge, up a
tournament and have the boxers weigh
IN al us pounds ringside.