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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12
Steady Employment Assured.

Officials of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers of America announced
today that practically all the lead.
ing independent sheet and tin plate
companies of the country have
signed the wage scale for the en-
suing year This, it is said, in
sures work being started at once
III all OF the independent plants
and steady employment for the
year. owing to the large number
of orders already booked
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12
What 1t Really Is.

The s'open shop is a synonym
for slavery, for child labor, sweat
shops, crowded tenements. i'm
poverlshment. rags, filth and YER
min, bribery, pollution and de-
fiiement. 1t stands against com
mon schools, "Christian' churches.
school laws, factory laws. 1t
stands against everything pro-
gressive, and everything for which
organized labor stands.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12

work was To be imprisoned for not
more than two months If any en-
ployer paid higher wager he was
to be fined S25 and the workmep
who took the increase were to be
sent to jail for two months.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12
Unionized.

Cecil T. Hill. one of the faithful
employees of the Argus office, sur
prised his fellow workers as well as
his host of friends on Monday
afternoon by being quietly married
to Miss Anna Bandnsh, q charm
ing young lady of this city. May
their pathway be ever Strewn with
roses which they so richly deserve.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12
Sidewalk Layers Strike

At Il meeting of the Chicago
Gement Sidewalk Layers Union
Monday night it was decided to
insist upon the demands filed with
employers for an advance in wages
of five cents an hour.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12
Fighting the Printers.

The Curtis Publishing Co.. of
Philadelphia, have assumed an ur-
fair attitude against the Typo
graphical Union in that city. They
publish the Ladies' Home Journal
and the Saturday Evening Post.
Un1oa men and women bear this
in mind.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12

deputy sheriffS are to guard as
long as no attempt is made to
operate with non-union men. Pres
ldent Willard wants clause that
the deputies We're to guard i'll case
OF operation, but the county officials
will not stand for it.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12

at 2:3O Sunday afternoon at which
tlme all delegates are requested to
be present. a cordial invitation
Is also extended to all visitors who
are Interested in the cause.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-07-12

Portland, Oregon, street car men
have reorganized, over 300 stroI @.
They have tired OF. the 'ssociet v,
engineered for them by the street
railway magnates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
kAIsER's DIGNITY WAS HURT.
Offended by Shoes of One of His Con.
sular Agents.

The enthusiasm of the good Norwe-
CLANS for Queen Alexandra is the
more remarkable as in the matter of
crowned heads, they have some ex-
cuse for affecting to be blase.
The German emperor, of course, is
a regular frequenter Of the fjords, but
he allows no liberties to be taken
with his sacred person. On one occa-
sion when the Hohenzollern anchored
off little town, the German consular
agent. as in duty bound, went aboard
to pay his respects; but, not being
possessed of uniform, it did not APP
pear to him necessary to appear at
midday In the comic opera kit of
evening dress on board the vessel.
He therefore presented himself in
an attire that compromised the official
correctness of frock coat by brown
boots. His majesty, however, resent
ed the informality, called the atten-
ton of the consul general at Bergen
to the solecism, and announced his
intention of ceasing to honor the
place with any further yisit.-London
p TO
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
COFFEE IMPORTERS
Publish a Book About Coffee.

There has been much discussion as
in fact that some of the coffee import
ers and roasters have taken to type
to promote the sale of their wares
and check If possible the rapid growth
of the use of Postum Food Coffee.
In the coffee importers book chap
ter is headed Coffee as a Medicine"
and advocates its use as such.
Here is an admission of the truth,
most important to all interested.
Every physician knows, and every
thoughtful person should know, that
habitual use of any medicine" of the
drug-stimulant type of coffee or whis-
ky quickly causes irritation of the
tissues and organs stimulated and
finally sets up disease in the great
majority of cases if persisted in. 1t
may show in any one of the many
organs of the body and in the great
majority of cases can be directly
traced to coffee in most unmistak-
able way by leaving off the active ir-
ritant--coffee-a using Postum
Food Coffee for matter OF ten DAYS.
If the result is relief from nervous
trouble. dyspepsia, bowel complaint,
heart failure, weak eyes, or any other
malady set up by poisoned nervous
system, you have your answer with
the accuracy of a demonstration in
mathematics.
There's a reason" for Postum.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22

vantages that makes it not only prac-
teal, but indispensable in profitable
poultry keeping. 1t frequently hap
pens during the breeding season that
one desires to separate few indiyid-
uals from the flock for special breed
ing purposes.
A portable hen house furnishes
means through which the desired pur-
pose can be accomplished economical
.ly and conveniently. The house can
be moved short distance from the
main plant, small area fenced in,
and the flock maintained without
much additional expense.
There are always occasions in poul-
try raising when it becomes advisable
to promote best results to keep brOOds
of young poultry separated during the
growing season. In fact if the brOOds
can be distantly separated they will
do much better.
In such instances 1t is a matter of
great convenience to resort to small
shelters for carrying on the work. /
have many times found it advisable to
separate my young growing stock into
colonies of hundred and house them
few rod apart.
b To separate. the fowls successfully
used colony houses, and find that am
not only able to conduct the work
more satisfactory, but far more eco
young growing stock the colony meth
Cd of growing the stock is the most
profitable.
There are various designs Of colony
houses that can be made portable and
answer the purpose in every way. The
one here illustrated is an excellent one
and has many strong advantages over
many that are in use to-day upon some
farms. The house Is 5x61A with five
posts.
The building is mounted upon rum
ners that serves as means of trans
portation. The runners are 5x5-inch
pine with an iron strip nailed to the
bottom of the runner to save them
from wearing, also to keep the wood
moisture. The main frame work is
made of two by tours.
The siding is pine ship-lapping Of
good quality. Shingles were used for
roofing. In the front is a door for en-
tering the building when necessary
and for cleaning out. A system Of
ventilation is used that supplies fresh
air on the same principle as used in
cow-stables. This is essential as the
shelter is small and tight.
This portable shelter, says Prairie
Farmer, has been in use for several
years and is one of the most popular
portable hen houses in use upon sew
eral Michigan poultry farms.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
WHEN CUBA WAS FOR SALE.
Offered to France for 100000 IN
time Of Louis Philippe.

It is not generally known that
Cuba very nearly besame a French
Colony in the reign of Louis Philippe,
for Spain, being without means OF
raising money, Queen Christina Of
fered some of the principal Spanish
colonies for sale.
Secret negotiations were carried on.
at the Tulleries between Senior Cam
puzano, the Spanish ambassador;
Senior Aguado, the banker; Prince de
Talleyrand, and King Louis Philippe,
and the first article of the treaty, by
which Spain was to sell Cuba to
France for 3O,000,000 francs, or So
100000, was quickly agreed to.
But the second article, relating TO
Porto Rico and the Philippines, broke
off the negotiations, for Spain asked
$4,000 900, whereas France would OF
fer only $1,400,O00, King Louis Phil
ippe asserting that the acquisition OF
the Philippines might very easily IN
yolye him in a war with England.
IT is significant that in those days
neigther party paid the slightest at
tention to what the United States
might think; but the Spaniards must
now regret that they did not accept
for It would have saved them many
millions in the ensuing go years
London Sketch.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
Four-Footed Thieves.

In Winchester, England, grocer
began to miss money from his till,
and set his wife to watch. After two
weeks the wife was not able to de-
tect the thief, though money was
stolen almost every day. There were
two clerks in the store, and the
grocer finally called them thieves
and discharged them.
When two others had taken their
places the money continued to dis
appear, and the case was given to the
police. An officer who hid under the
counter solved the problem. He
found bits of paper representing
about $50 that the mice had made
nests of. They had entered the till
through a hole in the back and taken
the bills one at time.
The two clerks who had been dis
charged for dishonesty brought suit
for damages, and the other day the
grocer was compelled to pay them
$500 each.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
"oLD MAN" LlRBY's DEER.
Remarkable Story of Killing Told by
Blind Guide.

"Old Man" Libby is one of the best
known guide camp keepers in the
state of Maine, and for years has been
totally blind. Four years ago he car
ried into Bangor the carcass of a
deer, and had it taken to the office
of Fish and Game Commissioner Car
penter. Libby expressed the wish
that the venison be given to the Ban
gor hospital.
Carpenter wanted to know who
killed the deer, and was much sur
when Libby claimed to have been the
destroyer.
why, Libby" he asked, "how did
you, a blind man, manage to kill this
deer?"
oval, you see," drawled Libby, y
was standing outside my tent yester-
day morning, AK in hand, just going
to chop leetle wood, when felt this
burned critter rushing onto me.
thought twas a bar, so l hauled of
and soaked him.
The commissioner always has a
grin on tap when telling this story
for he has doubts as to who killed the
deer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
AWFUL SUFFERING.
From Dreadful Pains from Wound on
Foot-System All Run Down
Miraculous Cure by cuticura.

Words canoRt speak highly enough
for the Cuticura Remedies. am now
seventy-two years of age. Ny system
had been all run down. My blood was
so bad that blood poisoning had set
in. / had several doctors attending
me, so finally / went to the hospital
where / was laid up for two months.
My foot and ankle were almost be-
yond recognition. Dark blood flowed
out OF wounds in many places and /
was so dfsheartened that / thought
surely my last chance was slowly leav.
ing me. AS the foot did not improve,
you can readily imagine how felt. /
was simply Disguised and tired Of life.
/ stood this pain, which was dreadful,
for six months, and during this time
/ was not able to wear a shoe and
not able to work. Some one spoke to
me about Cuticura. The consequences
we're / bought a set of the Cuticura
Remedies of one Of my friends who
was a druggist, and the praise that
gave after the second application is
beyond description; it seemed mir
acle for the Cuticura Remedies took
effect Immediately. / washed the foot
with the Cuticura Soap before apply
ing the Ointment and / took the Re-
solvent at the same time. After two
weeks treatment my foot was healed
completely. People who had seen my
foot during my illness and who have
seen it since the cure, can hardly be-
lieve their own eyes. Robert Schoen-
hauer, Newburg, N. Y, August q.
1909"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
Women at Strenuous Tasks.

On the western coast of the United
States, at Monterey, CAL, Mrs. Fish
keeps the lamps lighted in the Point
Pinas lighthouse. On the eastern
coast, at South Portland, Me-, Mrs.
Gordon earns her living by working
as a deep-sea diver. Sprinkled over
the country between these two wom-
en- are thousands Of other members
of the female sex who deserve to be
enrolled as auxiliaries to Mr.. Kip
ling's corps of "Unafraid Gentle
men, And then, from the woman in
Utah who is sheriff and hangs MUIR
derers, to the woman in Chicago who
bosses a gang of Italian street clean
ers, he tells the role of women who
are engaged in strenuous occupations
in the United States. Wherever man
has tried to wrest a living from I'M
willing nature there woman has also
left the impress of her daring ex-
ploits. -Technica World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
Bic Dividends from Mines.

Some remarkable results have been
obtained within the last half dozen
years by those who had the enter
prise and nerve to assist in the devel-
mines. The Calumet and Arizona
mine at Bisbee, Ariz., which is now
paying dividends every year of ST.
100000, has made a profit of $500 per
cent. in four years to those who
bought it's stock. The man who put
500 in to assist in the development
of the Calumet and Arizona in 1902,
now has holding worth $4,000,
which is paying him an annual in
come of $4s0-Nearly five times
his original investment. - Leslie's
Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
His Monument.

There has been set in cemetery
in Orwell, Oswego county, N. Y, as
the memorial of lumberman, framed
of granite and marble, the exact re-
production in miniature of a sawmill
in the town of Redfield, which was
owned by the deceased.
On the scale of an inch to the foot,
the mill is complete in every detail,
being provided with saws, carriages,
rollers to carry off the sawed lumber,
skids with three logs placed thereon
ready to roll on the carriage car,
which is loaded with lumber
So one man has escaped from the
conventional angel with outspread
wings, the recumbent sheep, and all
the rest.-Springfield Republican.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
PREPARING THE NEST.
Some Hints to Remember When Next
Setting Hen.

Many clutches of eggs are lost
through the careless preparation of
the nest. Do not use small boxes
that so confine the hen as to permit
of the influence of sudden changes
of temperature to cool the eggs dur
ing the early spring. Better use a
box two feet square. with plentiful
supply of nesting material, and make
the nest in the center of the box, than
to use the smaller one. The larger
box, with a good deep nest, makes a
warm surrounding for the hen, and
does not permit the heat from the
nest and the eggs to pass SO quickly
or to be reduced by outside influences.
People often ask why barrel is so
good for hens nest. 1t is because
the barrel furnishes plenty of room
for the large, comfortable nest, and
prevents the chilling of the eggs dur
ing chilly nights.
An inquirer short time since asked
Country Gentleman if it were true
that when hen hid her nest away,
she produced larger brood of chicks
than when cared for at home When
the hen hides her nest, it is usually
under a hay stack, barn or in the
hay NOW. where she has plenty of
room, which provides the very condi-
tons that enable her to keep an even
temperature about the eggs. When
set at home. equal advantages should
be given.
Do not save for Matching the eggs
of poor layers. Either put them
away from the layers from which you
select the eggs. or dispose of them in
some manner. Do not continue to
court inferiority by Matching eggs
from hens of no value. No one would
think of reserving a calf for mich
cow from a mother that was never a
good mixer herself. This is doubly
true of poultry. The best hens pro-
duce the best offspring; inferior. hens
usually produce worse than them
selves.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22

While no woman is entirety free from
periodical suffering, it does not seem to
be the plan of nature that women
should suffer so severely. This is a
severe strain on a woman'S vitality.
When pain exists something is wrong
which should be set right or it will
lead to a serious arrangement of the
whole female organism.
Thousands of women have testified
in grateful letters to Mrs. Pinkham
that Lydia e. Pinlxham's Vegetable
Compound Overcomes woman's special
pains and irregularities.
1t provides a safe and sure way of
escape from distressing and dangerous
weaknesses and diseases.
The two following letters tell SO con-
vincingly what Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound will do for
women, they cannot fail to bring hope
to thousands of sufferers.
Miss Nellie Holmes, of 540N. Division
Street, Buffalo, N. Y, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:--
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
a WeII-known Remedy.

One Of the Oldest, safest and most
favorably known remedies in the
world to-day is Brandreth's Pills-a
blood purifier and laxative. Being
purely vegetable, they can be used by
old or young with perfect safety, and
while other remedies require increased
doses and finally cease acting alto
gether, with Brandreths Pills the
same dose always has the same effect,
no matter how long they are taken.
One or two pills taken each night for
a while is the best thing known for
any one troubled with constipation, in
digestion, dyspepsia or any trouble
arising from impurity of the blood.
Brandreth's Pills have been in use
for over a century, and are for sale
everywhere, plain or sugar-coated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
Ask Mrs. PInkham's Advice 4
Cosmopolitan America.

Is there a type of average Ameri-
can workman" DR.. Arthur Shad-
well, an Englishman, author of In
dustrial Efficiency" tells how in one
of the older towns of Massachusetts
he witnessed. a procession of cotton
operatives on strike. They were
marshaled by nationalities with a Gu
rious effect The different types,
cheek by jowl, stood out in vivid con-
trast-the French, the familiar Eng
lish, the Celtic, the Scandinavian, the
Slav. the small Portuguese and the
swarthy Greek. Such a sight can be
seen nowhere else. 1t brought be-
fore my eyes in one living picture the
amazing cosmopolitanism of Ameri-
can labor and made me think with a
smile of that convenient abstraction
but almost mythical person of whom
we have heard so much-the average
American workman"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22
American invasion of Canada.

Within the last IL years there has
grown up in western Canada an
American population estimated at
100000 farmers, growers of wheat,
corn ard flax, settlers not only imbued
with the American spirit of enterprise
but devoted to American institutions.
During last year the immigration
from this country to Canada, accord
ing to official figures, was more than
$4,000 persons. To-day in the north
west. outside of Winnipeg and some
of the older towns, the jewellers who
have crossed the border from the
United States outnumber the native
Canadians, in places, two to one
Appleton's Magazine.
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Vegetable Compound has done for me.n
Such testimony should be accepted
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women.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkhams
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S1nn Reward. sion

The readers of this paper VIII be pleased to learn
that there Is at least dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages and that fs
cure now known to the medical fraternity Catarrh
being constitutional disease requires constitu-
tionai treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken IN
ternallv acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing itswork. The proprietors have
SO much faith In its curative powers that they ocr
One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fails to
cnre Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. j. CHENEY. & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
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A PORTABLE HEN HOUSE.
The Advantages of Such a Building
Over the Stationary Structure.

Poultrymen are fast recognizing the
indispensability of portable hen
houses as an adjunct to their perma-
nent system of house arrangement in
profitable poultry raising. There are
always conditions under which poul.
tryman must labor at certain periods
of the year that makes any permanent
system of shelter management more
or less inconvenient.
1t is only through some intermediate
means, such as portable shelter that
he can eliminate his difficulty and
conduct his business upon an econom
tca1 basis.
A portable hen house has several ad
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After Many Trials.

Johnny had been fighting. His
mother was telling him of the evils
of resorting to violence to obtain re-
dress for a wrong.
T don't care said Johnny. 4he
took my ball"
Did you try to get it from him
peaceably?"
"Yes'm.'
How many times did you try,
Johnnie"
Il tried once, twice, thrice and
force; and ] didn't get the ball till the
last trial.