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Lineman Works 1856 Hours
Without Any Sleep

Utica, N. T., March 4.-Dorr Handy
Of Utica is at his homie exhausted from
working 156 hours without sleep. Hardy
is a lineman employed BY the Bell Tele-
phone Company. With other members
OF his gang he went to .cooperstown
more than q week ago to repair wires
which. had been torn down by recent
storms -: - T. ".I"~'
Hardy is a cable spices and realizing
the necessity OF early completion Of the
repairs SO as TO reopen, the service he
declared that he would not quit until
the. Job was done Or six days and
seven nights he toiled, stopping only
for meals: All Of his 1v,or X was among
the: cross bars 81 the poles, thirty feet
from The ground: 3 HI! midnight meals
he ate aloft. $.
IL = said that u nerves were s:url-
akensuntil ltshed hen Re. re-
|la1tton .
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A hundred years ago the United States
had only six cities with population
of 5000 or more. Today we have about
900 such cities. A hundred years ago
per cent. of the population :of our
country lived in the city. To-day 80
per cent. live In the town. This growth
Of the city has brought with it some of
the most complex problems that the
world has ever faced. Chief among
them are the social problems Of the
day. Stories of Darkest England" and
"China's Millions' appal us. But there
are 100000 people huddled together on
that little tail Of Manhattan island with
which many Of you are familiar. This
is the most densely Populated part Of
the world. In another section of fifty
| acres there are $4,000 people. about TO-
| 600 more than there are in the entire
state OF Nevada, with it's over 10000, 900
acres.
But New York hasn't a monopoly of
the tenement-house. have found some
| Of the worst types in many western
cities. Not so many people to the acre.
| age, but as bad in sanitary conditions.
! Any crowded district is 'slum'' in
| the minds Of the average reporter and
| the faddist, but these tenement districts
are not slums. They are the homes of
| the average workingman in our great
cities.
1t is here that the foreigner is found.
During the past year, about 1,000,0 900
came to America. Among this number
forty languages were spoken. Seventy
per cent came from Russia, Austria,
Hungaria and Italy. One-quarter of
thehm could neither read nor write.
According to recent report, there are
nearly 100000 persons in the United
States engaged In the liquor traffic.
This means that there are about 1900,
600 persons who derive their support
directly from the manufacture and sale
OF intoxicants, and that It requires
about as many people to minister. to
the wants Of those who go to the sa-
looms as it does to educate all the SOM
mon school children Of the United
States. In thriving western city ]
found one saloon to every 1923 persons
among a population of 5000. Much is
being said about the saloon being the
workingman's club, and that it is not
the unmitigated evil which it has been
painted. ut is his reading-room, his
lecture hall, his Information bureau
Here he meets his friends and spends a
social evening with them. The saloon
keeper is his friend and lawyer" These
are some Of the things that men are
saying about the saloon. No doubt
there is much truth in all this.
The cartoons printed in some tenn
perance papers are not always true tc
life. If all saloon-keepers were the
devils incarnate which they are repres-
ented, it would be an easy matter tt
fight them and their hellish traffic, but
many of thehm are as conscientious as
the average business man, and very few
of them are fools. have the largest
sympathy for the workingman who is
attracted by the saloon, after a days
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FOREIGN LABOR NEWS rs

In Russia all wages have to be paid
in cash. There are no factory stores or
store orders. Employers cannot dis
charge workmen contrary to the terms
of their contract, nor impose fines ex-
cept in accordance with the rules of the
Department of Labor.
The secretary of the United Garment
Workers Of Great Britain, Lewis Lyons,
writes from headquarters at London
that the American union label for cloth
ing has been copied and adopted by the
English organiza ton.
A mass meeting of garment workers
was held recently at Hamilton. Can, to
protest against the proposal Of the Brit
lsh Women's Immigration Association
to send thousand garment workers
to Canada.
Frau Krupp, of Germany, observed
the birthday Of her late husband by
giving SIS each to 1000 workmen who
had been twenty-five years nthe SER
vice of the company and by donating
$4,000 to the Workmen's Hospital
Last year in Austria thirteen factories
We're closed by the inspectors because
the factory laws were not observed. AL
together 1918 factories were visited,
$50 manufacturers were found to be
negligent and 142 were fined to the
amount of $780,
Obeying the mandates of the rich
mine capitalists Of the Rand, the Trans
vaal Council has passed bill for the
admission of Chinese. laborers 200, 0O0
of whom are wanted in the mines and
half as many more for public works.
A number OF well-known trade un-
ionists, Of Quebec, have been injunc-
toned and sued for damages for par
ticipating in the paper makers strike
at Hull.
1t is reported from Winnipeg that the
organized employers Of Manitoba have
destroyed the factory laws of that
province.
immigration into the port of New
York for the year 1903 has passed all
previous records. The arrivals have
been 619,980, an increase Of 72,7S3 over
1902, which was at the time the record
year. The largest proportion, about
one-quarter Of the total has been Ital-
ians.
The aggregate number of members of
the various Danish cooperative insti-
tutions exceeds 100000.
In Lancashire, England, $4,000 textile
workers are either idle or employed on
half time.
The great textile strike at Crimmit-
schau, Saxony, in which 10000 men held
out five months for higher wages and a
ten hour day, has ended in the COM
Dlete defeat and tho s,,rrandor ~ +ho
strikers.
Labor disputes were fewer in Eng
land In 1903 than in any Of the previous
tetn years. The total number was $50
disputes, affecting 1883 workpeople.
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500 MEN WANTED
to buy watches Of Harris & Esterly.
jewelers..
Spalding Hotel Block.
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WESTWARD HO:!

A special colonist excursion for Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon
points in charge Of competent man
will leave Duluth March 18TH. No
change of cars, baggage checked
through to destination. Cooking range
in toruist car, adjustable tables for
meals, writing Of amusements. Very
low rates. Parties desiring to join this
excursion will communicate with A..
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are deciding to accept


manufacturers are deciding to accept
contracts.
The Brotherhood Of Painters and Pa
perhangers claims to be second to none
in the wonderful growth it has made
during the last few years. 1t has
membership Of 64,093. Yet 1t began only
Is years ago with 600 members. In that
time it has paid out over $4,000 in
death benefits and disability claims.
The two unions Of sheet metal work.
ers in New York combined. Those who
were organized by the bosses for the
purpose of destroying the bone fide I'M
ion have become very hostile toward
their former masters, claiming matters
had been misrepresented.
Seven hundred bridge and structural
iron workers at Philadelphia were no.
titled of a 10 per cent. cut.
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Single Tax Literature will be sent
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you will kindly send us a copy of the.
issue containing this notice we viii
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man with the microscope was not SO use
less and ridiculous after ali.
So now that his position before the farm
ers has been won there need DO no ques-
ton as to the interest and satisfaction with
which the cotton growers will receive the
announcement by Secretary Wilson that
one of his botanists has discovered q brown
ant In Guatemala that kills the boil
weevil and In that region keeps the crop
free from that devastating insect. The in
vestigations have been quietly conducted
and the conclusion is apparently fully con-
firmed that this ant, which finds nutriment
in the blossom of the cotton plant, fights
to preserve the growth and kills all the
pests that tend to destroy it. Arrange
ments are to be made at once to import a
quantity of these ants into the United
States and place them where they win do
the most good. in the cotton belt. The
entomologist's work win by no means end
there. for he must take pains to see that
the ant has the proper conditions for propa-
cation, home building and self-preserva-
ton in general. The decades of quiet re-
search into the habits of ants Will come
into play and there will open a chapter Of
experimentation which will hold the keen
interest of every cotton grower and cotton
manufacturer and the public at large until
1t Is demonstrated that this Guatemalan ant
can live In this climate and can work Just
as efficiently here as in his own region for
the preservation of the great staple. II
that is done all hats will come of to the
modest men who have for many years been
finding out things about ants and the other
minute Inhabitants Of the earth.
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Flowers for the Windows.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Not the least of the many good influences
eAerted by the City Parks Association is
illustrated in the appearance of flower
boxes before the windows of dwellings in
many of the streets. This Is an ameliOra-
ton of the ugliness and dreariness of the
city In summer so simple and so obvious
that 1t should be sufficient to call attention
to it to insure it's general adoption. Yet
the custom has been very slowly followed
in Philadelphia, and it has required a con-
certed effort, such as that made along Wall
nut street to secure an example conspicu-
GUS enough to command attention. To
families that remain at home through the
summer the attractions of a window gar
den should make selfish appeal A box
hung from the window ledge costs little,
and can be kept filed with blooming plants
at very slight expense and with only
such pains as will be well repaid in pleas
ure. To the passerby in the street such
window gardens are all gain. But it is
most of all necessary to urge upon the we'll
to-do people who go to the country In the
summer and leave their houses closed that
it is possible to provide for the continued
care of the window boxes at an expenditure
trifiing in proportion to the boon conferred
on those who remain in town.
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The BuS-Man's Work.

The day of the scoffer at the Industrious
researches of the "bugologist" is past A
substantial respect for him has arisen in
the minds of the farmers and other I'M
scientific classes of people who formerly
were wont to ridicule him as he went forth
into the fields and woods with net and
pincers and micr oscope trying to learn some
thing about the minute insect life swarm
ing everywhere. For the once despised
entomologist has proved In hundreds of
cases that the insect bears a very close
relationship TO the welfare of man. Man
himself realized that fact as II affected HIS
personal comfort generations centuries,
ages before the science was evolved. but
he regarded the insect pest as one of the
inevitable Ills of life, like the excessive
heat or cold. or the wind or food. When
the locusts descended upon the land In
Egypt they were denominated a plague
resistless and unavoidable. When man be-
gan to cultivate potatoes and the DO
tato bug appeared promptly to devastate
the fields, the farmers took II for granted
that the pest was provided by nature as a
check upon the output and struggled indi-
vidually to kill off the bugs Even when
insect pests became intolerable the farmers
had but little faith In the patient. SLOW
out how the little creatures lived, what
they ate, how they were reproduced. and
all about their private lives.
The broad doctrine of the tiller of the soil
was to slay the bugs by wholesale, il DOS
sible, by retail otherwise. What mattered
It IL the plant-destroyer grew up in a cocoon
or came out of an egg. throve on stagnan;
water or required running streams for de-
velopment. preferred this food to that OIL
enjoyed a large and indiscriminating APP
petite? The thing was there. In the fields
eating up the plants, and time spent in
finding out how many legs II had and how
its mandibles were fastened to Its body
was sheer waste. But when the scientists
after years of patient study, began to
learn how the insects could be destroyed
by wholesale, how one pest could be SET
upon another, how the propagation OF
harmful creatures could be restricted If no,
prevented. and proved their claims by
works. tho skeDtics began to admit that the
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suficaent and the price reasonable. But II
the coal magnates want to prove that It
Is really luxury they have only to put
the price up to an extortionate figure and
this commodity will lose Its market cor
respondingiy. and the domestic coal users
will turn to kerosene and soft coal. and gas
as they did during the strike days. until
the producers Of the luxury find that they
have an unstable article on their hands
and come down with the price accordingly.
It is with hard coal today Just as with
clothes. The latter are in one sense lux
ury. for aboriginal man went without them
But no cloth manufacturer or tailor ever
ventured to justify unreasonable prices on
that score
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Beautiful and
Appropriate Gift Books
For Graduation,
Commencements, etc.

1t is becoming more and more
customary to present books as gifts
to graduates and to the younger
students at commencement time. 1t
is change for the better, for a book.
chosen with discrimination, viii be
not only an encouragement, but dn
assistance toward the larger view
of affairs that the student will meet
with in after life.
Our stock of books, suitable for
gifts of this class, is notable both
in variety and extent. Works on
American History, Poetry, the Gas
sizes, sets of Standard Authors,
Works of Travel, Religious Works,
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, etc.
We will be glad to offer sugges-
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An inspection is invited.
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Anthracite q Luxuryp

The coal magnate who declared that an
thracite coal is a luxury Is Just about
eighteen or twenty months belated with his
dictum. Had he preached that proposition
before the great strike of 1902 he might
have been believed by some people who
had had no occasion to measure the real value
of hard coal to the modern community.
But that strike effectually proved that at
least In this climate hard coal is a neces-
sity and cannot be efficiently and safely
replaced in general use by any other fuel
1t Is not to be doubted that If the strike
had continued for three or four months
longer-or perhaps for only as many more
weeks-the public suffering would have
been so intense that riots would have &C.
Cured In the large cities, with chaotic
conditions everywhere throughout the hard
coal using region.
The question is not whether there are
other means of producing heat in resi-
dences. for either cooking or heating pur-
poses 1t is whether the average house Is
today so equipped as to permit the use of
any substitute for hard coal. Anthracite
was, to be sure, unknown few decades
ago. and people got on fairly well without
| it. But that fact does not demonstrate that
1t is today luxury. At least generation
thracite was not used. Stoves and fur
naces are fitted for it's burning People have
been trained to its use. Household arrange
ments have been made with reference to It's
purchase. storage and consumption As the
experience during the strike proved even
In the face of extreme provocation, 1t Is
difficult almost to the point of impossibflity
to persuade any large number of people to
shift permanently from anthracite to
another domestic fuel.
1t was thought and freely predicted for a
time during and shortly after the strike
that the lessons OF that distressing time
would result In a permanent falling or In
the consumption of hard coal. But the
fact has not justified that forecast If not
actually a necessity in the sense that heat
can be produced by no other means, it has
at least become a necessity through custom.
use and convenience. and the coal operator
who talks about the people being compelled
to pay appropriate prices for Ii a luxury
Is flying in the face of economic laws and
public sentiment combined Hard coal will
continue TO be burned by the average east
ern householder in preference to all proffsr-
ed substitutes. as long as the supply Ii
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Davis and the Beers.

The men accused of threatening Webster
Davis in connection with charges respect
ing his championship of the Boer cause
having been held for trial. why should not
that whole story be opened up and who
would prove so interesting witness as
Paul Kruger? The ex-president of the
Transvaal republic is not in the most robust
health. but a sea voyage would probably
help him. 1t was proposed to him several
years ago. and at one time the announce
ment was made that he had decided to
visit the United States. But If the journey
is too long. why not take his deposition?
He met Mr.. Davis when the latter visited
South Africa and was moved by the
situation he found there. and If Mr.. Davis
feelings against the British government
We're intensified in any way by the Boer
government Mr. Kruger should know it.
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Folk and Phrases.

The chattanooga News. replying TO an
editorial of The Star the subject of Mr..
Folk ana the presidency. says:
There is one thing Mr.. Folk would do If
elected TO the presidency. He would turn
the rascals out or resign his office. 1t APP
pears II the News that Joe Folk as the
nominee and a miniature broom as a CAM
psign device would be taking argument
with tho people. 1t might sweep the repub-
lcan party out of power, and the rascais
out of Office"
Mr. Roosevelt cannot be defeated with any
catchpcnny phrase. Turn the rascais out"
has no force as applied to him, or to the
situation the people are now considering.
He has as little use for boodlers as Mr..
Folk. and has shown himself to be quite as
courageous in dealing with them. And of
course It is preposterous to assert that all
the honest men are in one party and all the
knayes N the ether. After sweeping out
republicans Mr.. Folk would have to sweep
in democrats, and they would be chosen for
him by local leaders. Take New York for
example Would Tammanyites raise the
standard of honesty or efficiency In the
federal service IN that state? Or take Ms
souri, Mr. Folks own state. Would any OF
the Butterflies there be an Improvement In
Office on the men now serving?
Another catchpenny phrase is that Mr..
Roosevelt Is an unsafe man If that Is
true how has 1t come about that In his
three years of office he has brought the
country into no peril? And how has he
managed to keep at his side advisers
some of the safest and best approved men
in the public service? Must they sit at
table with a scatterbrafn, or a man of
dynamite? Besides, the republican veterans
in Congressman like Allison, Cullom,
Hoar. Frye. Proctor. In the Senate. and
Cannon, Hit, Payne. Dalzell. Grosvenor, In
the House-indorse him cordially and CO.
operate with him thoroughly This would
not be true If the President answered the
description of the wild man of Borneo.
And then IL would be amusing to ask the
country to turn, on the score of safety,
from a man thoroughly known and Of twen-
ty-fve years experience in office. to man
who will not be of the presidential age until
October, and who three years ago was un-
known outside of the city of st. Louis.
Mr.. Folk is a good man, and the effort
of his friends to nominate him for COVER
nor of Missouri Is praiseworthy and should
succeed. He may in time reach the presi-
dental stature. But there Is nothing to
warrant the proposition to run him for the
presidency now. and especially as against
a man who possesses In eminent degree
the one quality which so recently has
brought Mr.. Folk into notice. If an anti
bcodler is desired in the White House.
where is there a stronger or a better one
than Mr., Roosevelt?
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Clean Upl
From the Houston Pos

The 'rost important thing at the present
time however, is to clean the back yards.
1t is said that some of the finest places In
town have ugly looking back yards and
filthy stables. This Is inexcusabie. The
weIl-to-Jo should set an example in cleanli-
ness for everybody else. But poor people,
who are unable to employ labor for the pur-
pose, must do the work themselves. 1t Is
o matter of self-defense. If nuisances are
maintained in any part of the town. report
the matter to tho authorities. See that the
sewers and plumbing are in proper condi-
ton Ia other words, leave nothing what
ever undone to make Houston a clean city.
1t will be money IN everybody's pocket, with
good health thrown In for good measure.
Let this be general cleaning-up week in
Houston.
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Boldt
Erom tbe chicago inter ocean.

AS the Hindoo usurer squeezes the last
farthfng out of starving children and re-
ioices in his gains, so does Mr.. George +.
Raer treat his hard coal business. He has
the power. and he Is going to use 1T. Fur
thermor2. he loves to boast of his power and
tc hold the mirror up &c his own ignorance
and sarctimonious Dragging and admire it
as wisdom. With man SO lost to common
prudence as well as to common decency 1t
is impossible to be patient. There Is, how
ever. this consolation with respect to him:
The more he talks the more injury he does
to his own cause and to the grossly abused
privileges of his employers. Let Mr.. Baer
talk oui