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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

Wanted First-class machinists.
Steady work, good pay. Write n. M.
C., 500 National German American
bank building, ST. Paul, Mimi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
FOR RENT.

For Rent-As good suite of rooms
for light housekeeping as there is In
the city, fronting on Main street Oven
100 West Main street. VIM. II. Cal.
houn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For Sale-Improved 5-acre tract
southwest part city, Good buildings,
fifty bearing fruit trees, small fruit.
Price s2,5O0. j. M. Carmean, l09 West
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For Rent My residence at 616 West
Main street, after May IS. Call on ].
&c. Hollingsworth, over 1os East Main
street Geo. W. Beasley.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

Housekeepers, Attention! -Robt. Mc-I
CURE is now ready to do cleaning Of all
kinds. Address, care Mrs. ]. 6. Barr
ker. 4o3 South Second avenue, phone
167Y, or leave orders with Mr.. Gallo-
way Johnson at Hawkeye building and
business will be promptly attended to.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For Sale - Seven room house, fur
mace. good lot, fruit, ETC., in First ward.
Good bargain if taken soon. els, care
T.-R.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For Sale = Rubber tire top buggy;
good second hand condition. See Jos.
H. Egernayer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
sToLE N.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Tho Dealers that want the best Ice
cream made, should write w. 8. Mead
Parkersburg, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For SaI,,-Range, heater, bookcase,
rugs, bedroom suit, china CABINET
wednesday. 312 North Third street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

Wanted Strong boy to deliver bum
dies E. r. Lay.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
FOR SALE.
For Sale - store counters in good
,ndition. j. F. Meeker.

For Sale ~ 10 shorthorn bulls, to
IA months Did. of good breeding and at
reasonable prices. D. w. Turner,
Steamboat Rock, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For Rent - Elegant furnished rooms.
Prices reasonable. 301 South Second
avenue. New phone $50 Red.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

If you have any properties to sell.
trade or exchange, list them with mes
or IL you want to buy, see me. Georges
d. Young, 1O7 East Main.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For Sale Eighty Montana horses,
best wind limbs and feet. Heavy
horses broke to work, light to drive.
Prices right. S. w. Myers. two and
one-half miles west of LaMoille, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For sale-White Wyandotte eggs,
fresh and fertile farm ranged, soc per
sitting (13). Exhibition penned sl.5o
ner sitting +. G. Paul, Laurel, la.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For Sale White Plymouth ROCK
eggs, Is for 81. Al stock. E. II. Keller.
"The Clothier," MarshalHown, Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

For sale.-we want agents to sell
our Morton county, North Dakota,
lands. Write for maps, facts and con-
tracts. vvaupun- Dakota Land Co,
Waupun, Wis
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

$50 per week for demonstrators, eithY
er local or travelling positions. ADJ
dress A. II. Latimer, Mason City, Ia. 4
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-14
LIS PNNDDNk

LIS PENDDNS.
STATE OF M1NNEsOTA, COUNTY OF
st. Louis, District Court. Eleventh
judicial District, , ri Y:
6eba 8: Brown, III Plaintiff.
Melvin j. Clark. g. p. Webber ana II,
". Coffin. and I'll other persons IN.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-14
EIGHT HOUR WORK DAY 7. 2.
g.. RULE N MIDDLE ACES
Professor Theorold Rogers Makes
Some Discoveries About An
Gent Labor Conditions.
In Many Instances Night Work
Was Not Permitted.-Quilds
Of England Were Active.

Long hours did not prevail in me-
diaeval times. Professor Theorold
Rogers, In speaking of wages and
hours of labor in the thirteenth GEN.
fury, says: 1.-THE winters wages were
about 25 per cent less than those Of
other seasons; bus the winter seems
to have been limited to the months
Of December and January. This fact,
which I have frequently noticed, is
proof that the hours Of labor Were not
long. They seem to have been not
more than eight hours a day, and at
later period in the economic history
Of labor, the eight hour day seems
to be indicated by the fact that extra
hours are paid at such a rate as corre-
spends to the ordinary pay per hour
tor eight hours, being a little in ex-
cess"
In addition to this, the craft guilds
almost universally prohibited working
at night, as tending to deprive some
members Of the craft Of work. Like
Saturday afternoons, or feast days of
the church (and on the eve Of double
wise, work was usually prohibited on
feasts), and particularly on that Of the
patron saint Of the guild, and IN
Christmas week and Easter week. The
truth Of the old saying, that "there is
nothing new under the sun" is here
exemplif1ed. The adoption Of an eight
hour day with Saturday half -holi-
day is simply returning to a prevalent
custom Of more than five centuries
ago.
In claiming that the working day in
the middle ages was one of eight
hours. Professor Rodgers al1udes to
the practice of laborers working more
than the regular hours at harvest and
hamakine times, and for which they
| received extra pay. It was also GUS
tomary for many Of the artisans of
the towns to go to the country and
work In harvest time. In fact, in viii
lage communities many Of the artisans
Of the towns to go to the country and
work in harvest time. In fact, in viii
lage communities many of the artis-
ans united the function of husband
man with that of the craft which they
practiced.
Professor Rogers states repeatedly
that the fifteenth century We're the
Golden Age Of the English workmen,
if we are to enterpret the wages
which he earned by the cost Of the
necessaries of life.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-14

known claiming any right, title, estate,
interest or lien in the real estate de-
+ scribed in the complaint herein,
Defendants.
Notice is hereby given that an action
has been commenced in the above named
court by the above named plaintiff
against the above named defendants,
That the object Of said action Is to de-
term1ne adverse claims to the real estate
hereafter described and to have the
above named plaintiff decreed to be the
owner Of said premises, and each and
every of the defendants above named
jdecreed to have no right, title, estate,
Interest or lien therein. The premises
affected by said action are situated In
the County Of St. Louis and State Of.
Minnesota and are described as follows:
The SEA Of SWA and the SWA of SEA
OF Section Eight (S); Lots One (1) and
Two ca; E7$ Of NWA and EN- Of SWA
Of Section Thirty (30) all In township
FIFTY $500 Range Twenty (2O2; the SWA
Of NEA; the SEA Of NWA; VIZ Of
SEN OF Section Twenty-six (26); Ell Of
sWA Of Section Twenty-seven (27) !;
NEA OF NWk and WIZ Of NwA Of Sec
ton Thirty-four (34). all In Township
aRtlty (AQ). Range Twenty-One (21).- !. ::
Dated Aug. 18th. 1907. Il -ss@ En.,.-%
.1.@ PORTER J. NEFF, Y
" ~ Attorney for Plaintiff
/ e1o First National Bank Bldg, Duluth
Labor World. Aug. i, a, 81. Sept, !. 4,
a. 1907. ss ss%s83s 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-14

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
st. Louis, District Court Eleventh
judicial District.
Seba s. Brown, Plaintiff.
Melvin J. Clark, c. P. Weber, and H.
W. Coffin, and all other persons un-
known claiming any right, title, es-
tate, interest or lien In the real es-
state described in the complaint here.
in, defendants.
State of Minnesota to the above named
Defendants:
You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer the complaint Of the
plaintiff in the above entitled action.
which complaint is on file in the office
Of the Clerk Of said District Court. at
the Court House In the City Of Duluth,
said County and State, and to serve a
copy Of your answer to the said COM
plant on the subscriber. at his office In
the City of Duluth, in said County Of
st. Louis, within twenty days after the
service Of this Summons upon you. ex-
elusive Of the day Of such service; and,
II you fall to answer the said complaint
within the time aforesaid, tho plaintiff
In this action vii apply to the> court for
the relief demanded in said complaint
Dated, August 13th, 1907. ~
PORTER J. NEFF
I Attorney for Plaintiff. 50
210 First National Bank Bldg,.
Duluth Minnesota.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-14
The Child Slave.
70 IN Y/S',

For a little bread and a little meat,
For two poor soles for his weary feet,
For a tattered coat and a bed Of rags
And a curse or blow if he ever lags-
For the right to live as worm may
He gives up all that child may give.
Ere he tastes the joy to which youth is
heir
His brow is scanned by the marks of
care;
Before he has learned that he has the
right
TO set his goal on the fairest height,
He is robbed Of hope and deprived of
And is bound for life to the racking
wheel.
And we preach Of glories that are
above,
But never, whatever Death has in
For the little slave when he slaves no
May the glee Of youth he has never
known
Or the joy Of winning become his own.
He may never know that. the world is
fair,
And he never may struggle above de-
spair;
He is robbed of tbs chance that he had
at birth
To claim the price that a man is
worth,
! And, with limbs that ache and with
eyes that plead,
He is crucified on the cross of Greed
For little meat and a little bread
And little rest when the day Is
dead
For the right to live as a worm may
| live
He gives up all that child may give:
And We speak with pride of the grace
we claim
And with love we mention the dear
! Christ's name!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-14

Mr.. Union Man:-Notify your res
taurant man that the Bell Phone is
Unfair.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-14
We ARE FROM MISSOURI

And If you will only give us chance
to show you our fall line we know we
can show you how to save one-half of
your tailor bills. Stop in as you are
passing. No trouble to show goods at
the "Fitwell." 112 West Superior
street,
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
TRIED TO DRIVE OUT DEVIL.
Filipino Witch Doctor May Have
 Caused Deatf of Girl.

A Filipino girl, IS years of age, was beaten and tortured until her life is now in danger in an attempt to com pei devil to leave her body" The operation was performed by one Esco- lasticos Ramos, the husband of her mother, and Tuburio Mables, witch doctor. The girl has been subject to convulsions and these, according to the doctor, were caused by a devil who had taken abode in her body.
 At his suggestion it was decided to ill-treat the girl until the devil should become uncomfortable and leave her. Taking the girl into a side room they knocked her down and commenced to beat her with fists. As the devil did not seem to leave it was decided that the girl was not suffering enough pain. Securing large stingaree whip they beat her with this and also used it to scrape the skin from her face, arms and body. The girl is now at her home in serious condition, while the two men are in custody-Manila American.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
TRAPPING IN A CAVE.
Coon, Rabbit, opossum, Fox, Skunk
 and Weasel Caught There.

"The cave on the Warriors ridge in Port township is a wonderful work of nature, The entrance is so small that one would take it for fox den, and a man has to lie flat down in order to get into it. It goes down 60 feet to mud and water, and then you have to climb up over muddy rocks and banks to get to the far end.
 There is a stream of clear water running across the far end of this cave. The roof is 60 feet high and is solid rock of limestone and full of white stalactites.
 The cave is full of animals. The groundhog, the coon, the rabbit, the weasel are all there, and have caught some of each in this cave set traps inside.
 The animals stay in different cracks and seams in the rock; some climb almost up to the surface of the ground, and others go downward They all have their dens inside this large cave. It is very warm in the winter. A man will sweat the coldest day of winter and there is a steam coming out of the entrance on cold days.
 "I had to hunt for weeks before found the, entrance. I was told where it was supposed to be. and yet I had great time finding it. I went in with a railroad torch and I was sur
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Buttons for the offertorx.

A Sussex vicar complains that but. tons find their way into his collect ing-bags. Prebendary Garlic, of the Church Army, supplies buttons at St Mary-at-Hill for that very purpose. My poor people" he says, with hard. ly a rag to wear and nothing to eat, haven't even a button to spare, yet pride keeps them out if they cannot give to the offertory. So we go round the streets with our buttons before service and friend of the Church Army redeems them at so much a dozen. '-London Standard.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
REvrsIrs SCENE OF CRIME.
Thrilling Ghost Story Told by Eng.
 fish Magazine.

This ghost story is contributed by a correspondent of an English maga- zine: "Wycollar hall, near Colne, was long the scat of the Cunliffes, of Ellington. They were noted persons in their time, but evil days came, and their ancestral estates passed out of their hands. In the days of the com monwealth their loyalty cost them dear; and ultimately they retired to Wycollar with remnant only of their once extensive property. About 1919 the last of the family passed away and the hall is now a mass of ruins Little but the antique fireplace re- mains entire, and even the room al luded to in the following legend can not be identified. Tradition says that once every year a specter horseman visits Wycollar hall. He is attired in the costume of the early Stuart period, and the trappings of his horse are of a most uncouth description.
 "On the evening of his visit the weather is always wild and tempestu- ous. There is no moon to light the lOASly lOotuOg dnQ llIS lCoIuCnlS OI llC district do not venture out of their cottages. When the wind howls loud est the horseman can be heard dash ing up the road at full speed and, after crossing the narrow bridge, he suddenly stops at the door of the hall. The rider then dismounts and makes his way up the broad oaken stairs into one of the rooms of the house. Dread full screams, as from a woman, are then heard which soon subside into groans. The horseman then makes his appearance at the door, at once mounts his steed, and gallops off by the road he came.
 His body can be seen through by those who may chance to be present; his horse appears to be wild with rage, and it's nostrils stream with fire. The tradition is that one of the Cunliffes murdered his wife in that room, and that the specter horseman is the ghost of the murderer, who is doomed to pay an annual visit to the home of his vic tim She is said to have predicted the extinction of the family, which, accord ing to the story, has been literally full filed"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
q Have Come Now to Say Goodbye"

exile?' You led us to believe that you would stay among us-why are you going back to the west?'
 "Because-I am a coward" he re- peated miserably
 T don't understand" she said. However, since you seem to wish to dispel your illusion about me-perhaps it is better go"
 She took his hand and placed it upon her face, but at it's touch the self-control for which she had been struggling gave way; hot tears welled up against her will and fell in burning drops upon his hand.
 "Mary-Miss Agnew! Tears-they are not for-me?"
 "No," she cried passionate1y, they are for myself, for I thought you prized this-friendship-jus a little; and it was a-a shock to find that you could say goodby so lightly when after such verdict-even so slight thing as woman's friendship might have been something to you"
 "Oh, you do not understand" he said quickly. Tt is harder than death to part from you like this Since the first night I met you my only thought and hope have been to recover my sight, that I might see you and win your love and ask you to be my wife. That was my vision of heaven, and you-its angel; and I never doubted. I thought that light would surely come And when they said Darkness forever, I was stunned I tried to go away without this last interview, but l could not. I had to come once more. I never meant to tell you this. but when you think I do not prize your friendship I cannot bear it! It is more to me than all the world; it was my hope that one day l might be able to win your love"
 But if-it is already-won?" she murmured tremulously.
 He started TT d6 not under stand"
 Nor l., said she. But have loved you-from that first day, l think! Now. Anthony Gordon, have you the cour- age-will you dare go away?"
 But l cannot let you sacrifice your- self so. Oh, my love, never dreamed of this!"
 He caught her in his arms, and while her head rested on his breast he passed his hand tenderly across her upturned face and bent to kiss away her tears.
 My angel-you are more beautiful than l had ever dreamedl" he said And now l bless the darkness, which has crowned me with such loye!"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
The Fringe of Art.

Elihu Vedder, the noted painter, lives in Rome, where he has a beauti- ful apartment, and in Capri, where his white villa looks down on the sea.
 "Elihu Vedder," said a New York Illustrator the other day, lis as Bohe- milan as ever Fame has not spoiled him. I visited him last year. and his Bohemian ways were delightful.
 You know they tell story of a visit that he once paid to Alma Fade ma in London, to Alma Tadema in that glittering house which Mrs. A. T's money, made in grateful, comfort. ing cocoa. bought.
 The morning after his arrival, very early before even the servants were up, Nedder began a thunderous knocking on his hosts sandalwood door.
 Alma Tadema turned in his gold bed, threw back the lace coverlet, sat up.
 Who's there? What is it?' he cried in startled voice.
 T say, Tadema,' shouted Vedder, where do you keep the scissors that you trim your cuffs with?'"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Toothblacks.

"Ae we have bootblacks so they've got toothblacks in the Sunda islands, said travelling man.
 What is a toothblack?"
 Don't you know? A toothblack is an old woman with pot of black paint. a gold leaf book, and lot of vegetables brushes. From hut to hut she passes, and for a small fee a yam, a bunch of bananas, three cocoa nuts-she paints the Sunda islanders s teeth glistening black. All but the two front teeth; these she gilds. And the Sunda islander thereafter goes about with a self-conscious smile re- vealing a truly knock-me-down dental display, black and gold symphony.
 Tt is a common trick among the semi-civilized to color the teeth. In Macassar dark brown is the popular hue, and in Japan among the unen- frightened classes, the teeth of wives are always painted black.
 IT such countries the toothblacls is an institution. She goes from house to house, as full of gossip as a barber"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
BLESSED BLINDNESS
 By JUDITH SPENCER
(Copyright.)

which time Gordon had not been to 1 see her and had made no sign.
 She could not bring herself to write to him, to have even a letter of mere friendly inquiry read aloud to him by that man Brown. She was too proud to write for news of him to Jack. And it so lhanced that during all that time she saw no one of whom she could inquire.
 At last one night, when she was sitting quite alone, he came. She looked up, flushing at his approach, and his changed face startled her.
 You have been ill?" she cried.
 Not ill in body" he answered gloomily, but i'll in mind They've rendered their verdict-perpetua darkness-and I'm off again to the west. l tried to go without seeing you-but I am a coward, I have come now to say good-by."
 There was a conflict of wild emo- tions in Mary Agnew's breast For moment she could not speak. He had come to Say good-by!
 SoIu COulun [ go without seeing you, he repeated, and I've come to ask blind mans last favor-before I go, may l pass my hand over your face?"
 What if I say no?" There was something strained and unnatural in her tone.
 Don't refuse me! You don't know what that would mean!" he cried Can you realize that all this time you have been but beautiful unseen spirit to me-a heavenly voice? I thought I should see you some day with my eyes and I forced myself to wait-but that is not to be-and you won't refuse to let me carry away your true image into the night of my exile?"
 T am not beautiful" she said. q have told you that before. And if in spite of that you have deceived your- self-why need you undeceive your- self now? And why need you go into
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
The Doqsmith.

"The dogsmith will soon be busy in Alaska" said a miner of the Yukon. Hen have his work cut out for him, too. The winter promises to be very severe.
 The dogsmith," the miner went on, shoes, of course, dogs, or he wouldn't have such a name. The sledge dogs of Alaska have day by day run over miles of rough ice that is as hard on the feet as broken glass, and hence were they not shod they would soon grow so incurably lame that they'd have to be killed
 Yes. there is need for the dog smith up there He shoes the dogs very neatly in a shoe made of wadding and leather"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Brouuht a Rush.

Yeas" related the old postmaster at Bacon Ridge, times were getting rather dull around here, so we had to resort to some press agent tactics like you show fellows The village ed itor put an ad in his paper that Hiram Brown would take city boarders at five dollars a dozen.'
 Great Bernhardt!" gasped the the atrical manager. You don't mean to say that Hiram kept his word?"
 That's what he did, stranger, with reductions in large lots"
 "But-how could he board them at five dollars dozen?"
 He didn't board them, stranger; he just took them. You see, Hiram Brown is the village photographer"
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
Buck Fever.

In the delirium of buck fever he mistook a colt for a deer.
 And the colt, mortally stricken, sank down upon the straw of the barnyard. looking with glazed eyes upon the null titude of sympathetic creatures that gathered gently about it.
 Have you no last message for any. one?" they inquired.
 Thereupon the moribund animal reared it's head proudly.
 Tell my sire" it said in a loud, firm voice, that I died game"
 One long, shuddering sigh, and all was over.
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

Mrs. D. M. Tinnev s+o,,.
 writes: 4Aii'ohlo, Tex,
 During 1901 I suffered fo,,,
 eaii eeatarrh, which various other remadsal adsa "Slx bottles of Peruna, which BOOK, entirely cured me, tie "atCn catar,l ! olsappearing and never returning o'"i I'll "l therefore cheerfulIy recon3y,.., Peruna to all similarly afflicted dITmIHeld
Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

out the cinder "On railroads, in foundries, in stoke-holes," the conduc- tor said afterward, wherever cinders get continually in the eye, there every body extracts them in one way-with the tongue The tongue removes things better than any instrument would do-it sweeps the eye clean as a flood sweeps clean a river bed Further, it is painless; it's passage over the eyeball is, indeed, a rather pleasant sensation. As regards the sensations of the owner of the tongue well, to do good We should be will ing to undergo a little nastiness."