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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28

a fashionable Fifth avenue milliner and
the same firm has a narrow turban in chin
chills with one very long wide ostrich plume
In shaded gray fastened with a silver and
amethyst ornament in the centre front
and running back straight over the middle
Of the crown to fall low on the hair on the
back.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
AUTUMN DRESS GOODS

Plalds Probably . Passing ~Craze-Chccks
and stripes Better.
Just at the moment there is a craze for
prominent cloth finished plaids in a wide
rangeo OF colors, and it does not seem as
though there was a sufficient stock Of these
goods TO go AROUND.
The majority Of buyers, however, are
Of the opinion that this demand is only
transitory, and as a consequence few are
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
NEW FASHIONS ~ RINGS.
stone Dependent rom Circle OF Gold
silver as Ring Metal.
From ire London Dailv Maj.

From the London Daily Maj.
A very pretty and fanciful looking finger
ring. that Ia one Of the advance couriers Of
the Christmas present season. has made its
appearance in the shop OF a prominent London
jeweller.
II IL an ordinary circlet Of gold act with
a small cluster Of gems. and from II depends
a slender little gold chain. from which hangs
a specimen pearl. pear shaped and OF
an exceedingly ~lustrous and satinllke skin. "
The opportunity Of thus giving prominence to
a specially beautiful stone. such a. a ruby,
an emerald or an opal Is great and the effect
good. The chain 10 only two inches long.
Silver. the old favorite setting for dia-
mOnds, whose lustre IL was formerly held
particularly 10 enhance, s being revived az
a ring metal. A very thick and broad silver
ring 10 sold for Q mans wear. set upright
with a ruby. . diamond and . ruby.
a companion ring for Q woman to wear
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
MARKS on
various Distinguishing Dcvioes-One New
to the Man.

THAT is a new M TO ms, said the bag
gage master, pointing out a particular trunk
in a pile Of baggage.
The novelty about this trunk appeared in
the manner OF It's lettering. OF the three
initial letters painted o n its end the first
and last were painted in black, while the
middle letter waA done in red.
-You always see in a pile OF trunks, the
baggage man continued, more or less
trunks with distinguishing MARKS on them,
white stripes, or red crosses, or blue TRAN
giles, and 40 on, put there by their owners 90
that they can spot 'em easily in picking out
their baggage; and these marks may do
very welNh a man can hit on q mark not
likely Il be duplicated. But II 10 not i'm
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
Linen Novelties

~ High class French Novelties in Travelling and Infants Pillow Cas-
also Lingerie Cases for Boudoir, of Italian Filet, cluny, Colbert, venet
Point and Broderie Angl.ise, also French and Madeira Embroidery.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
The Celestial Method.

P~eter-Isn't Il a lot Of trouble keeping your
boOks7
Recording Angel-No. 7 Just write down I per
cent. OF what the candidates are charged with.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
lPAIlIatIOn.

Knicker-He rats with his knife.
Bocker-Weil. he sticks II In himself. and not
his friends.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18

roads and the priests of the foreign
churches in the mining districts.
On the side of the operators, condi-
tons existed which also foretold an
abrupt clash which would be likely to
result in strike. At the threshold of
the central competitive district" COM
prising the states of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and western Pennsylvania, lie the
non-unionized bituminous fields of
West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes-
see. The West Virginia field particu-
larly has been an aggressive Compel
itor in the soft coal market of the
middle states. In the last year West
Virginia coal has gone into the very
stronghold of the central competitive
district" into the markets of Indian
apolis and Chicago. The reason lay
in the cheaper labor secured in the
nonunion mines and the longer hours.
which enabled coal mine operators to
secure a greater production per day.
1t also lay in the growing carelessness
of the union miners in the mining of
coal; while the graue of West Virginia
coal was improving, the complaints to
the district unions of Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio regarding the increasing
carelessness of the miners were each
month growing. more frequent. In
those fields, moreover. under the gem
eral agreement with the miners ma,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
Nh0E1Q. NT57R1ER5

| was important to his ambition. Conse-
quently, after standing out at the first
joint conference and declaring the ad-
vance demanded II was impossible, he
made a sudden change which obvious
ly will aid his political interests, a
change which has been interpreted by
the press and public as due to orders
from the ''steel trust" that the ad-
vance must De granted the miners ii
that be the price of peace.
This change on the part of Robbins
aroused a bitterness of feeling among
the smaller, operators of Illinois, In
diana and Ohio which never could be
assuaged. In joint conference Com
missioner Philip Penna, of the Indiana
Bituminous Coal Operators associa-
ton, challenged the miners to grant
the coal companies of those three
states the same conditions as those
which prevail under the miners agree
ment in the Pittsburg field, and de-
clared that II they would do 80 the
operators not only Immediately would
grant tho 121k per cent. advance in
wages, but would furnish the miners
their powder free. NJ =.ss d, j. ]. sS
This challenge was directly aimed
at the stand of Francis l. Robbins,
who was proclaimed q traitor to the
cause Of the soft coal operators tn
apparent fairness was g bomb shell ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
FEW AUSTRALIANS HERE,
One Part Of the World Which Sends
Few People to the United
States.

There are only a few Australians
distributed throughout the United
States, and their number is so small
that in most of the official bulletins
they come under the head of "un-
classified"
There are in New York, says the
Sun, less than 500 Australians, and
the majority of these are such "in
name only having been born in
Australia during the temporary resi-
dence of their parents. One such case
is that of Nine. Melba, the prima
donna, who was born in Melbourne.
Australia, in 1866, though her home
is in England.
The only city in the country in
which there is any considerable num-
her OF Australians is San Francisco,
in which there are about 1000. Chi
cago has some 200, and Oakland, a
suburb of San Francisco, ESQ. Once
every year the Australians in New
York city assemble for fraternal meet
ings, and it is found usually that the
larger number o. those present are
travelling Australians.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18

Mitchell jockeyed for the position
of asking restoration" of a wage scale
that was in force one year, the year
of 1903, trying%+o make the operators
appear in the position OF refusing a
wage scale which previously had been
in force, Notwithstanding Che claimed)
the steel trade and railroads now were
prospecting wonderfully. -.
Average Wage Of Diggers.
Reports of labor commissioners of
the various states give the average
number of days which coal miners In
each field work and give the average
daily wage at $2.42. Many of the min
ers earn, when they work, from 81
to. So and even $40 day, but there
has been an overproduction of soft
coal and an influx of coal from non
union mines which has restricted the
operation of the mines in Illinois and
its sister states. The. miners then
earn through the year an average OF
$2.42 per day. The statistics of the
state of Indiana permit comparison
with the wages paid to the butcher,
the baker and the furniture maker;
the butchers being paid an average Of
$2.19 per day, bakers 500 per day,
and the furniture makers $1.87 per
day. Quarrymen, whose work is sim
liar, but not underground, are paid an
average OF $1.40 a day. The average
wages. of engineers and fremen of sta
tionary plants is g. per day, that of
brick makers S1.S5 per day, and brew
ers are paid $2.35 per day.
There are occupations for which
higher wages are paid than coal min
ing, but they are not numerous,
The changes in the coal fields In the
conditions NJ tho ninoro on1 n
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING
STRUGGLE BETWEEN MINERS
AND OPERATORS.
GREATEST IN HISTORY OF COUNTRY
War Cloud Has Been Gathering for Some
Time-Dieeers Have Laid Aside Forn,id-
able Fund to Push Fight-Proposi-
ton to Incorporate Union.
BY CLYDE ALISON MANN.

tional, organization. known as the Gin
terstate agreement" the conditions i'm
posed in the "differentials" between
machine and hand mining reached a
point where it amounted to practically
% cents ton
Tension Constantly Growing.
The stories told by miners of the
numerous small strikes which have
occurred in the Illinois and Indiana
fields in the last two years illustrate
the tension between the miners and
operators, growing constantly greater.
The two interests We're not working
in harmony.
At mine in southern Illinois where
over 400 men were employed, the man
in charge Of the pit mules ordered hay
for them, but because of lack of the
hay in the local market he woke up
one morning with less than bale of
hay to feed the hungry mules. He
filled them up on oats and sent them
into the mine, but the miners learned
of the lack of hay and in few min
utes they walked out and refused to
ing the mules were fed.
At another mine a strike resulted
from the hardness of 20 minutes of
the paymaster upon pay day at the
mine.
These facts the miners>boast about
laughingly, but the operators each
month grow more restless, till the op-
portunity was offered to stand on what
they believed to be their rights Then
they promptly refused to grant the in
crease of wages of 1919 per cent
which was demanded by the United
Mine Workers.
Press dispatches have told the tale
of contention, pickering and delay in
the joint conference of the miners and
the operators, first in February and
again March 10. During the second
convention another influence was
brought to bear which added certainty
to the expectations that the miners
and operators could not agree.
Why Robbins Turned.
Francis L. Robbins, president of the
Pittsburg Coal company, the biggest
corporation operating in the bitumi-
nous fields, will be. a candidate for the
United States senate at the next ses-
sion of the Pennsylvania legislature.
His announcement has not been made
public, but in Pennsylvania it is
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
Magazine. Mcclure's Magazine and
Golfers Weekly. y

MAGAZINE Mcclures Magazine and
Golfers Weekly. y
The trouble, as we gather from the
lates. issue of the Little Already Argus.
began about three weeks ago. when the
Joyce, superintendent Of the pumping
station, had bought barrel of gaso-
line on the villages account. paying
cash for it, and afterwards had served
it to the village at a profit to himself
of $l.35:' AS Editor Denney of the
Argus declares, in double-headed edi-
torial, s'To what spectacle has free
government by the people been per-
veried."
A committee of inquiry has been ap-
pointed by the village board to invests
gate the affairs of the pumping sta
ton, and it is broadly limited that all
other human affairs in Little Already
will be subjected to the same search
light of inquiry. "The truth must be
told though the heavens fall" declares
Editor Denney-an admirable senti-
menr pithily expressed.
The motto of the Little Already Ar
gus is: "Hew to the Line, Let the
Chips Fall Where They May" The pa
per promises to be intensely interest
ing from now ON.
.
In the books you read nowadays you
may have observed the ''u'' in such
words as "humour," ''labour," "misde-
meanour." etc. You see, English pub
| fishers won't buy the plates of Ameri-
can books if they are defaced by
American spelling. So you will not see
thru" and "fonetic,", and similar
atrocities in our published literature.
Which is sad for the so-called ere
| formers" but a good thing for the
kings English.
Pair of longs, Perhaps.
Jim Ford-I picked up a copy Of
| Town Topics to-day"
Olive Herford-You did! What with?
Ffrangcon=Savies, the Welsh singer,
takes issue with the critical opinion
| thai singers as a class are not over
| burdened with brains Curious where
the notion originated. We remember
| the remark of musician of our ac-
| quaintance concerning song bird:
| ''That fellow knows nothing of music;
he's tenor" And many of us recall
the bon mot describing a trio as ''tWo
musicians and singer"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
CLUB NOTES.

Mtnnesota.-pr.s David H. Reeder.
Laporte, Indiana. Dear Doctor I
have read so much of your good ad-
vice and lectures that I also wish a
little advice in my case. My forefin-
gers have been aching for several
years and are swollen. Change Of
weather makes them worse. They
seemed to be quite we'll for time, but
this year they have gotten thick and
stih. When they ache much the fin
gers become warm and they shine as
II polished and look red. They ache
more now than ever before, cannot
even bend the fingers. During the day
while at work do not notice it SO
much, only at night when they are
quiet. Can, YOU tell me what the trouble
e ? The other fingers are beginning
to ache like the forefngers did st tie
sbeginning. will ask you ALTO II PIN
Eples and black eads can be overcome
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18

The facts underlying the great strike
in the bituminous coal fields are the
most remarkable that have been in
history Of the United States, as the
strike will be the greatest strike in the
cOuntry's history.
Few of the moving facts became ap-
parent during the joint conferences at
Indianapolis. They had their origin in
the previous strike in the bituminOus
fields and the remarkable recruiting to
the ranks of the United Mine Workers
OF America which followed upon the
heels OF the strike in 1902. The oppor-
TURTLES in organization shown then
appealed to the element OF the miners
which previously had secuted the idea
OF organization, and this element has
proved to be, us it got more and more
into the harness, Il radical, even social
istic element--much more radical than
The leaders of the United Mine Work
ers or the older membership tn that
body.
Miners Well Prepared.
Through the check off system, the
collection by the coOperatOrs OF union
dues and fines, a system which existed
through the foolish indulgence OF the
operators, an enormous strike fund
has been piled up, the total being to-
day at least $3,000,000 in all the district
and national treasury. There is fund
of $95O,OO0 in the Illinois treasury
alone This is Il sum which would go
but little way in paying strike
wages, but was 4 sum SO large that
the new element in the United Mine
Workers had fixed their eyes upon it
greedily with jealous misgvings OF
what might be done with it. In the
ranks Of the miners, therefore, the
majority sentiment was in favor Of
radical demand, which their leaders
knew were wholly unlikely to be
granted under the existing conditions.
John Mitchell and his lieutenants were
put in position of choosing between
continuing to lead their men and sub
scribing to the demands of the rad
ical majority, or being thrown from
their high position and trampled upon
by thousands Of union members. Such
a situation among the miners was
known to exist and that strike was
likely has been known for months to
many Of the big operators, the rail-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
How He Took His Eggs.

Dwight L. Elmdorf, the 'tglooe
trotter," told recently of a new way
to cook eggs. Il happened" said Mr..
Elmendorf, Ito stop for lunch at a
small railway 'eatin' house in Georgia
My time was somewhat limited, and I
Immediately looked for bill of fare.
it appeared In the form of diminu-
tive colored boy covered with some
three feet of soiled apron, who in none
TOO gentle terms announced "ham,
eggs, corn bread and coffee" In due
time replied that would like some
lam, eggs, corn bread and coffee. The
idea of such pretentious meal being
ordered by one person seemed to stag
ger him. and as he turned kitchen
ward he said: How'll yer have dem
eggs, boss, blind er 1ookin' at yer?'
ordered them looking at me-" said
Mr.. Elmendorf, feeling that If they
were able to sit up and take notice.
they must be in good health"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
WELL-PosTED SERVANTS.
English Butler Who Gave His EN-
ployer's Daughter Hint
on Etiquette.

There is no parsonage more deeply
and defe:entially aware of his own
importance than the English butler:
next to him in privileges, and ahead
of him in sturdy frankness, mus
stand the Scotch gardener, says Youths
Companion.
It was Darwin's gardener who,
when a friend of the family inquired
after the health of the famous nat
uralist, who had been somewhat all
ing, replied confidentially that he did
not doubt his master would be bet
ter IF only he could find something TO
do!" The patient anu minute search
in which he daily saw Darwin en-
gagged struck his mind as merely Il
foolish and fussy form of trif1ing, not
worthy to be considered an occupa-
ton. If, instead of bothering about
the digestive capacity of worthless in
sectivorous plants, the great man had
grown cabbages or raised roses, the
gardeners opinion of him would
doubtless have been higher.
The gardener of Prof. Huxley, with
equal Inconsistencies of doing SO.
also cast a slur upon his renowned
employer.
Mrs. Huxley, fearful that he might
be overworked, had inquired if he did
not need some assistance.
NO. came the reply, the place is
not very large, and Mr.. Huxley IS
almost as good as another man
Better than either of these true tales
is that CT the butler in a fine Old
English family, whose long service
had caused him to feel a personal and
proprietary interest in the sons and
daughters of the house. He could
not acquit himself of sense OF re-
sponsibility for their manners and
conduct, and when at large dinner
party he noticed one of them, young
girl who had but recently entered So
ciety, devote an amount of attention
to her agreeable neighbor on the
right obviously in excess Of that &C
corded to the less fascinating gentle
man on her other side, his perturba-
ton increased till it could no longer
be borne in silence.
Under pretense OF passing her
dish, he managed cle-erly to whisper
in her ear:
"A little more conversation to the
left, miss"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
With some extracts from the unpub-
lished work Of the late Walter
Blackburn Harte.


"Loafe and invite the SOUP is
generally conceded to be "a good,
apt, catchy phrase; but it has
more meaning than the popular
acceptance OF it. The soul is
leagues away in activity gener-
ally. Some men need to work;
they cannot be trusted to loafe
they sink instead Of rise. One
has to be touched with holy. fire
to loafe with moral advantage.
One must have learned to think
the thoughts which are lost and
buried beneath our foolish &C
tivities. Only the fool needs to
hustle all the time to keep him
out of mischief.
l don't find any signs of this
wild regard for brevity in much
Of the standard literature on my
book-shelves. The men whose
style I would emulate never
made collins Of an arbitrary 500
words to hold the mangled
corpse of their thoughts. They
could not have made more than
a punctilious bow in modern
periodical literature. The think
er in every period who had
something to say wanted elbow
room in which to say it.
And as to style, the man who
wants to ride a race-horse can't
really think of taking nap at
the same time. If one must
sleep, stay there in the armchair
and read the newspaper, not lit
erature. I find the best thought
long-winded. We can't get the
best in snippets, even though it
may accord with the. American
genius.
WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
Railways in Germany.

In recent years the construction of
railways proceeded in Germany at the
rate of about GELS miles a year. The
entire trackage exceeds at present 34,-
1873 miles. The identification of rail-
ways is still confined to a few subur-
ban lines, where the system works
satisfactorily.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18

In any way by salve or any other
remedy. Thanking you in advance for
my advice, | am, sincerely, Mrs. E. A.
After carefully reading the descrip-
ton you have given, believe you are
suffering from inflammatory rheuma-
tism. / would refer you to the lecture
just recently given on the subject of
rheumatism, which will give you a
great deal of practical information up
on this subject. In such cases I find
that the digestion is nearly always at
fault. Fermentation takes place in the
stomach which causes uric acid to be
secreted and it goes into the blood and
causes rheumatism I will suggest
that you restrict your diet, that is, do
not eat very heartily for several days,
but drink large quantities of fresh
sweet buttermilk, two or three quarts
each day. Buttermilk gives you both
food and drink, and the acid in it
counteracts the acid in the blood which
causes the rheumatism. II you allow
this difficulty to go on, you might be-
come cripple. You should overcome
often given in these columns. To over
come the pimples and blackheads you
should use the external treatment Of
which I have written you and when
the other troubles are corrected, they
will gradually disappear, and, your
tfcomplexion will be as smooth and
healthy as before.
Florida.-Dr. David H. Reeder, La
porte, Indiana. Dear Sir: Seeing c.
L. from Idaho asking for something
| for the nervous shaking, I will give
him remedy supplied by a friend Of
mine which has proven efficient.
Pitch-pine roots, bruised, (said to-
come from a wagon road, boiled and
skim and save the gum as it rises and
make into plaster-like porous plas-
| ter, on thick white goods and apply
from the neck bone the full length
of the back bone. It will usually stay
| on eight weeks. She now is entirely
| free from the nervousness he COM
planned of. Hoping c. L. and others
may be benefited, l am, very truly
your, Mrs. J. E.
I thank you very much for your sug-
gestion and trust that many will try
it and be benefited. as it is not harm
full in the least. I trust others will
send in their contributions, and there
by live up to the Home Health club
motto, ''Pass 1t On
! Nebraska.-Dr. David H. Reeder,
Laporte, Indiana. Dear Doctor: note
that Mrs. G.. A. M. requests a remedy
for constipation for child four
months old. will send the following:
Take pinch of SIENNA leaves, put
them with handful of prunes and
cook thoroughly. Feed the juice to the
little ones. Give more or less accord
ing to the way it works on the
bowels.
trust Mrs. G.. A. NJ. will try this,
as it is very satisfactory remedy for
such cases. Respectfully, Mrs. E. H.
l have sent the remedy above men
toned to Mrs. G. A. NJ. and trust she
will let us know as to it's efficiency in
her child's case. believe it will over
come the constipation, but would ad-
wise mothers not to continue giving a
remedy of this nature after the trouble
is better.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18
Sweet Potato Crouuettes.

Mash some boiled sweet potatoes.
season them highly with salt and pep
per, and add to every pint Of the vege-
table one egg yolk and very small
piece of butter. Form into croqIettes,
roll each in egg and breadcrumbs and
fry in deep fat
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-18

All readers of this publication are
at liberty to inquire for any Informal
ton pertaining to the subject of
health, at any time. Address all COM
munications to the DR.. David H. Reed
er, or to the Home Health club giving
name and address in full and at least
four cents in postage.