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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-19
MINNEAPOLIS LABOR
after THE CHINESE
Recent Outrages in Flour City
Call for TIMELY Action by
Labor Unions.
Chinese Restaurants Prove to
be Recruiting Places for
Practising Vice.

Miinneapo Nov. 1.-THE Union,
the official labor paper Of Minnea-
polls, In the current number deals a
timely blow to the iniquitous Chin
ese Chop Suey joints, and calls the
attention of the people to the neces-
stty for stamping them out a. fol-
lows:
The moral sense OF our city has
been terribly shocked recently by
the disclosures OF the crimes in con-
nection with certain Chinese restau-
rants. The papers have been dis
cussing the matter; the Humane So
ciety, members OF women's clubs and
prominent officials Of the city have
been offering remedies, but 50 far
no suggestion has been made that
goes to the root of the matter.
Every condition has a cause, and
no effect can be permanently remov-
ed until the cause is removed. The
Chinese restaurant is only an Incl
dent in whole system OF social vice
and immortality. Prostitution is the
open sore OF our present social life;
the inevitable accompaniment OF the
present economic system. How
shhall we be rid of it?
First, we must find the cause.
Back of this dreadful thhing lies
number of conditions which taken
together constitute the social prob
lem. Whatever else may be said, the
world cannot get itself free from
this curse until it changes the condi-
tions that cause and culture 1t.
There are number OF Chinese
restaurants in Minneapolis. Every
one now believes that these are re-
cruiting stations of vice. The work
ing class OF this city knew that q
year ago. The labor unions under
stood instinctively that these institu-
tions were a menace to the morality
OF our people and especially OF their
class. They reasoned in this way:
"These institutions will bring cheap
labor into the city. That will COM
pei other restaurants to hire cheap
labor. This will demoralize the
restaurant workers, compel them to
work, for low wages and put hum
;dneds syounK Enrnensin spostttona
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
TO APPEAL TO HIGHER COURT.
Bakers Fined by Police Judge Under
Old legislative Assembly Act.

Three cases of alleged lightweight bread
were tried in the Police Court today. The
defendants were August SCHUYLER of 2510
Pennsylvania avenue, Patrick Stanton of
2315 L street and Joseph Flagman of 1916
9th street. Policemen Newkirk and Hixon
were witnesses in the cases. They accom-
panied an assistant to the sealer of weights
and measures to the bakeries of the defend
ants, and, 1t was alleged, found a number
of loaves which did not weigh a pound.
Attorney Rosso Downing represented the
defendants, and raised a question concern
ing the legality of the law. He contended
that the law under which the prosecutions
were brought Is unconstitutional. and also
that it has been repealed or Is imperative
Judge Mills said he would not attempt
to pass upon the questions raised by coun-
sci, and said the latter would have to seek
redress in the Court of Appeals. The law
was passed by the legislative assembly in
1858, and provided that the police magis-
trates should try the cases brought under
it. Assistant Corporation Counsel Pugh
said the only question was whether or not
the Police Court succeeds the police magis-
trates in the authority conferred by the
law. Judge Mills disposed of the cases by
imposing penalty of 81 on each loaf shown
to have been below the one-pOund weight.
Mr. SCHUYLER was fined SOS, Mr. Stanton $64
and Mr.. Flagman 500. Counsel gave no.
tice that he would take the cases to the
higher court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Bequeathed a Million to the Public

A dispatch from Boston last night SAYS:
fuphc requests aggregating over 81, 600 CO.,
including a gift of $3.50, 900 to the city Of
New Bedford. are contained In the will OF
the late Mrs Sarah Potter of this city,
winch was filed for probate this afternoon.
Mrs. Potter died last Friday at her summer
home at Beverly. To the Boston Medical
Library is bequeathed $4,000; to the Kim
dergarten for the Blind at Jamaica Plains,
100000. and $4,000 to each of the follow
ing: Harvard University, Boston Home for
Incurabies, Hospital Cottages for Children
at Baldwinvtlle, Mass. Free Hospital for
Women at BrOokline and the Massachu-
sets College of Pharmacy. There are nu-
merous other public requests in the docu-
ment. The money bequeathed to Harvard
University is to be applied to the work Of
the Gray Herbarium. to which Mrs. Potter
contributed during her life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
WERE WELL ENTERTAINED.
weather Bureau officials Return From
Their Convention

Prof W. L. Moore chief of the weather
bureau who has been in Peoria, ILL.,, attend
ing convention Of weather forecasters.
mas returned to Washington. He says that
the Washingtonians were well entertained
and their stay was both pleasant and bene-
hciaL Prof. E. B. Garriott, who also at
tended the convention, read paper on
Long Range Forecasts" and referred to
theories regarding weather periodicities de-
pendent upon lunar or planetary influences.
and Prof F. III. Bigelow discussed the
Popular Account of the Counter Current
Iheory or Storms Prof. Cleveland Abbe
explained the instruction and Research by
weather Bureau Officials" and Prof. Oliver
u. Fasslg explained the "Diurnal PeriodieI-
ties IN the Climate Factors at Baltimore
among others from Washington who at
tended the convention were James Berry.
T. =. Calvert, III. H. Kimball, A J. Henry.
Z. f. Marvin and W. F. r. Phillips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Naval Orders.

Commander C. P. Perkins has been Or
dered to command the Pensacola at San
Francisco.
Lieut.. A. Rust, to this city for exami-
nation for promotion and then to the Min
neapolis.
Lieut.. H. A. Pearson, from the Mime
.apolis to the Illinois.
= Lieut.. L. R. de Steigner, from the Illinois
and wait orders
Ensign G. j. Meyers, to the Chattanooga
Mate A e. Strom. to the naval hospital,
Philadelphia.
Warrant Machinists G. NJ. Heinen and J..
]. Fuller from the Rainbow to home.
Capt. A. J. Matthews, from the Olongapo
station to the Cavite station.
Assistant Surgeon r. A. Bachmann, from
the Supply to the Cavtte station.
Acting Gunner w. ]. Creelman, from the
Yokohama hospital to the Cavite station
Passed Assistant Surgeon F. L. Benton,
from the Olongapo station to the Cavite
station.
Surgeon W. H. Butcher, from the Yoko-
hama hospital to the Olongapo station.
Lieut. NJ H. Signor, from the Cavite sta
ton to the command of the Quiros.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Pleas Entered in Criminal Court

When arraigned today before Chief JUS
tice Clabaugh, in Criminal Court No. L.
Harry Williams pleaded guilty to a charge
that he had committed an assault with a
dangerous weapon. Sentence of peniten-
tiary Imprisonment for five years was i'm
posed.
Others who pleaded guilty and the sem
fences pronounced were: George Cant lar
ceny of horse, wagon and harness from
Heitmuller & Heider, three years; Wilbert
fayne. housebreaking and larceny two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Kaiser Reported in Good Health.

reports circulated in the United States by
a news agency yesterday, Emperor william
is described by members of his suite as
being in perfect health and as speaking in
a clear and natural voice. He enjoyed his
yachting trip in the Mediterranean last
spring and 1t is possible he may go there
again next year, although no determine
ton to do SO has been expressed. Some Of
the members of the crew of the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern. which is being over
hauled at Kiel, surmised that she might be
preparing for another voyage south. and
sertion that the emperor was again suf-
fering from his throat, which report recurs
regularly at intervals OF three or four
weeks,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
ANOTHER POLITICAL BANNER.
Virginia Democrats Would Like tc
Stretch One Across the Avenue.

Commissioner West this morning re-
ceived application from the Virginia
Democratic Association, asking permission
to stretch a banner across Pennsylvania
avenue from the Regent Hotel, for a pc
Rod Of six weeks, or until after the cleo
ton. The application is signed by R. E.
L. Yellott and g. A. Armes. This makes
the third application presented to the Com
missioners to suspend political banners
across the streets of the city
1t Is understood that Corporation C0un-
sci Duvall, late this afternoon submitted
to Commissioner West his opinion as to
the authority Of the Commissioners under
the law to permit banners to be stretched
across the streets Of Washington. Mr..
West declined to make public the SUBJ
stance Of Mr.. Duvalrs opinion on the
question until after he had himself reached
g decision,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
seaman's Serious Charges Of Cruelty.

dispatch from Newport News, Va, last
night says: Edward Foster, a discharged
seaman, who recently left the cruiser
Dixie. told pltiful story in the police
court today, where he was arraigned on
the charge of trespass. He declared that
he was subject to inhuman treatment while
the cruiser was lying at Philadelphia. He
says he will go on to Washington and
place his case before the Secretary Of the
Navy In person. His specific charges of
cruelty were made In this language: Il lay
fiat on my back In Philadelphia hospital
for weeks suffering from injuries inflicted
by two brutal masters-at-arms They
threw me down q hatchway, broke i've
ribs, fractured my jawbone and dislocated
my elbow, making me utterly unfit for any
service" He told OF other cruel treatment
endured on the Dixie. He was fined on the
trespass charge, but the magistrate remit
ted the 11na.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Disastrous Timber Fire.

HAMILTON. Mon, September 29-Re-
ports from the Bitter Root forest reserve
say that fire is ravaging the timber of the
reserve with great destructiveness despite
the recent rainfall One instance is report
ed where the flames. famed by q stiff
breeze, burned a swafh about ten miles
long and from q quarter of q mile to half a
mile wide during one night number OF
cabins of prospectors and lumhermen on
the edge Of the reserve have been destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Struck by a Falling Brick.

Mulberry Young. colored, sixty-seven
years old. living at 1872 C street southeast,
was struck on the head with brick this
morning and painfully injured The brick
fell from scaffold on G street northeast
He was taken to the Casualty Hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Fatal Head-on Collision Of Coal Trains.

SCRANTON. Pa, September 29.-Fireman
James Flanagan OF Middletown. N. " was
fatally crushed and Engineer Ed. vickers
of Carbondale. Pa. seriously injured in a
head-on collision of coal trains today near
Preston Park. on the Scranton division CT
the Ontario and Western railroad. Both
other trainmen escaped by Jumping. Mis-
understanding Of orders Is said to have
caused the wreck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Want Roadway sprinkled.

The Commissioners today received a Pc
tition signed by M. A. Spencer and seven
other residents on I'd street between C
street and Massachusetts avenue north
east, asking that the street sweepers on
I'd street be required to sprinkle the road
way before sweeping II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Detailed to the Ordnance Department.

Under instructions from the President,
Capt Herman w. Schulz, Artillery Corps,
recently promoted, has been detailed for
service and to fill vacancy in the ord
nance department to complete his unexp PRED
term.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Berlin Orchestra Arrives in New York

NEW YORK, September 29.-The Berlin
philharmonic orchestra, in charge OF the
conductor and composer. Franz Won Blon.
arrived here today on the steamer Pretoria
from Hamburg. The orchestra will go to
the st. Louis exposition and later give con-
certs in several cities. About forty menu
bers OF the Metropolitan Grand Opera
Company also were among the passengers
on the Pretoria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
Friday is Not Remnant Day.


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Now for tonorow bargains 81 o he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
The PalaiS Royal.

T h e P al a i 5
Royals new S.
Hats of the 1904
o5 season are al
ready { a m o II S.
They are ideal sec
ond-best hats, and
are a necessary
adjunct to every
woman's ward
robe. $2.Io in
stead of So for to-
m orrow only.
Note that S. is a
low Price for
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-29
s. Coats,

Choice of Cheviot and Fa
Cloths, but in black only. Man tai
ed and lined throughout. The r
SO. 9S-will create an extraordir
demand. Be early.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-06-18
Fair Play for the Press


When a man attempts 10 frame an in
dietuarut against an Institution such, fer
example a. the American press, be should
bc careful ut his facts ii be wants his in
dictmeut TO hold. NT Edward " Box
the writer Of reoent magazine article
~ho zrraigucd American newspapers as
unworthy 0f belief made the SERIOUS mjs-
take Of impatiug the sins II few 90 the
many. Of rating down the standard Of the
10 600 20 she standard Of 10 Every In
ielhgen. person knows and uo one better
than Mr.. Box. that no editor IN chief oi 4
reputable newspaper office wants anything
bu, the truth. and that be vii nos print
ANYTHING else IL he can help t. Ii no
higher motive were present he would not
do i, as a matter Of pure business policy.
Ii needs ouly a modicum Of comuou sense
to see and understand that newspaper
that willfully aud habi,ually mtsleads and
dcoeives il, readers bv falsehoois and per
versions 1T statement must soon lose the
confidence Of even the lowest class Of
newspaper readers, and With this It's last
asset a. a money making enterprise. Even
the yellowes, and most sensational sheets
which bring shame and diserediI upon the
newspaper profession do not Deliberately
invest in lying stories nor count upon such
features as a source Of strength and popu-
larity They tell the truth, as general
rule. although it may be, ofttimes. truth
thar had better been left an,oid The
American press as whole Is jus. as worthy
Of belief a. the American pulpit, and to
charge that either one or the other of these
agencies Of influence is yenal and menda-
cious would be equally untrue and unjust,
The American newspaper reflects as &C
curately aud conscienuously as any human
agency eau do the life aud thought Of the
American people. This Is its declared
purpose. aud this it does as well as the in
telligeuce which it commands will enable
il to do. To iudict the American press as
falsitier is To cast the same sin At the
door Of the whole American public.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-06-18
He Hired a Substitute.

This story is told at the expense of a
recently appointed supervisor of a public
school in the city of Philadelphia One
day she happened to be visiting a school
where a young incorrigible was undergoing
punishment for a series of misdemeanors
The teacher cited him as "the worst
boy in the school-one | can't do any
thing with I've tried everything in the
way Of punishment.
Have you ever tried kindness was
the gentle inquiry of the other lady
Il did at first, she said, but l We
GOT beyond that now
At the close of the session, the lady asked
the boy if he would call and see her at her
home on the following Saturday. \ boy
arrived promptly at the appointed hour.
/ The lady showed him her best pictures,
PLAYED some of her hveliest music, and set
before him a luncheon on her daintiest
china, when she thought it about time to
begin her little sermon.
My dear boy, she began were you
not very unhappy to have to stand in the
corner of the room before all the class fol
punishment
please, ma am, broke in the boy,
with his mouth full of cake, that WASH I
me you saw That was Pete, and he gave
me 10 cents to come here and take youl
jawing -
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-06-18

The most durable wood of which we
have evidence Is that OF which the wooden
tombs discovered in Egypt We're built aud
which Professor petrie estimates to date
from 4777 b. {. They were most proba-
bly constructed from timber yielded by a
species Of palm.
Oak wood when once it has passed a
certain age becomes practically everlasting,
Evidence of this is found in the roofs Of
Westminster hall and of the cathedral at
Kirkwall, which have lasted almost a
thousand years Ancient oak canoes dis
covered from time to time yield strong
testimony to this, for one thirty-three feet
long was recently retioated on the Clyde,
probably 1000 years after it was first
made.
For general durability, however, oak
must give place to teak, which when sea-
soned will neither warp, crack nor shrink.
1t will. indeed, last longer than many
kinds of stone, since neither weather nor
water affects it injuriously. Fragments
of teak many thousand years old have been
found in Indian rock temples 1t Is proba-
bly the most durable material used in mod
ern ironclads, where it is invaluable as
backing to armor plates and as deck
sheathing.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-06-18
A Filipino's Philosophy.

''Senor, answered the old man, 'flis-
ten am an old man. know my peo-
pie; but | know something of other peo-
pies also. | have not lived here all my
time. | have travelled and have seen
the world. | have been in your own land.
| have seen your cities and your country.
| have been much more in America than
you Americans have been here, yet l do
not know the Americans But they who
have been here only so few weeks or months
talk assuredly of the Pilipinos. As if they
could know new people in such a timei
Truly the Americans are wonderful peo-
pie, but they cannot do that tell you,
senior, that they can never know us, just
as we can never know them For they
are West and we are East, and we cannot
meet
Between us there is line which Meth
er you nor | can define. Nor can we tell
when we have crossed it. We make a
mathematical calculation and say: Here
We are over That was West, this is East
That calculation serves as a mark or longi-
tude, fixed and absolute; but can you go
out there on the ocean and show me the
line that divides the East from the West
Can you see it, can yoa touch it, can you
feel it, The difference between the peo-
pies Is just as great as that, yet Just as
subtle and p intangible TIL you can
mark that line and fix it upon the face of
the unstable sea you cannot determine the
line Of difference between your people and
mine. How. then, viii you understand
US OF We YOU r. cannot be.
4 tell you that between US there is
more than shat you know as race differ
ence 10 Jour country. There race diser-
euce l. still difference between Western
race. Here Il Is a world difference. Be
tween you and me there is more than
difference Of color, or statue, or even of
civilization. There Is a radical Intellectual
difference difference of thozght, of un-
derstanding, Of Interpretation of the same
acts aud events; difference of mental pro
cess which neither you nor will ever be
able to comprehend fully of the other. We
see that 1t exists; why or how we can never
Ah'h' We CdHhut idtHotu the ways or the
wisdom of God, who made us both.
yet there are some things we can
know. The civilization of the West is not
for the Fast. The two can never assimi-
late or amalgamate. Your race and mine
will never join. Why, look you, in my
country, in this island, there are peoples
who have lived side by side for a thousand
years, and yet the line of demarcation is
as distinct today as it was in the beginning.
Do you think these people viii assimilate
with newcomers from the West whom they
have known less than thousand days?
who can trace the course of mans
thoughts? There are certain facts. You
and know them You draw your con-
clusions and draw mine They coincide.
For that reason shall we say that you and
| think alike? Perhaps it is so for that
time. but, senor, the ways of the East are
not those of the West This time and
next time we reach the same conclusion;
then We differ, and you do not know why,
nor do l. We have worked through sep
aiate channels, even when we arrived at
the same end.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-06-18
Great sieges.

Sebastopol, with its grim, massive forts,
was quickly evacuated, while some de-
Tended BY 700 guns, many of them of
heavy ealiber, held out against the com
bined armies Of France and England for
327 days.
Khartoum withstood the Mahdi and his
hosts for 34l days under the brave direc-
tion Of Gordon, and in Kars General vii
liams. with 10. 600 men with provisions
for three months and ammunition for three
days, kept an investing army of 80, 900
at bay from June to November.
II took 1872 days for the Germans to
bring Paris to her knees a generation ago.
During January, 1871, no fewer than TO-
600 shells were rained onto the doomed
town every day, and of these 500 fell into
the city proper During single day,
January 3, the Prussians hurled %, 900
projectiles at Paris.
Gibraltar, as all the world knows, stood
impreguable against all the assaults of
Spain and France for S74 days, although
week after week 5000 shells were hurled
at it every day, and in spite of the com
bined attack of forty,six sail of the line, a
countless feet of gun and mortar boats and
floating batteries which had cost 81, 500,
600 to construct.
Richmond, Va, was defended by Gen
eral Lee through year of terrible fighting
until the seizure of his lines of supply
compelled him to evacuate it on April =,
1865; Lucknow held out for eighty six
days. when General Havelock came to its
relief, and Strasburg, with all its strength,
defended by garrison of IL, 600 men, had
to surrender TO the Germans after siege
Of forty. eight days Among other notable
sieses Mafeking survived seven months,
Kimberly l23 days, Ladysmith lis,
Potchestroom "a, Metz y, Gaeta a and
Chitral 46 days.