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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-29
SPECIAL NOTICE TO
UNION SECRETARIES
TO the Recording Secretaries Of
All the Local Unions in
Duluth, and
Also to the Recording Secretaries
Of All Unions in Northern
Minnesota.

Brethren-Eacn one Of you is here
by appointed special correspondent
of the Labor World, with all the
privileges that thereto appertaineth;
and for the advancement Of our CON-
mon cause. we respectfully ask that
you send US once a month, brief
communication about Your union, en-
bodying the following particulars, and
las many more as your good judgment
1may suggest:
!. Name and number Of your local.
z. Date and place of meetings and
whether the attendance is usually
good, fair or indifferent. limitations.
etc. y
3. Names Of your officers, at least
once In each term, and changes oc.
casioned by resignation or otherwise
4. Condition of trade, and such OBJ
servations with reference thereto as
the facts will warrant.
5. Notice of any lectures, Debates
Uances, assemblies or other entertain
dnents. If in advance, give time and
!place thereof, If after the event. give
a brief account Of it, stating number
present, If an enjoyable time was had
and other particulars.
6. Such accounts Of your last meet
ing as will enable your brethren else
where to read Of your progress, be-
tween the lines, without disclosing
matters that outsiders are not entitled
to know.
T. Matters about which we would
be pleased to have you write us, are
Implied in such words as, attendance
punctuality, enthusiasm, harmony
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-29
THE oPEN-sHoP~ DICTIONARY

Few Deflnftions-By The Quizzer.
Real Estate Exchange-An Asylum
for Rack Renters and Rake-off Men
Ministerial Union-A Gathering of
High Vests and Hat Passers, having a
Closed Meeting for the Open-Shop
Privately holden in a Public Room
Business Enterprise-In the Vernac-
udar, this Is written t-There-And
Grab-1t A Game which is Assiduous-
ly practiced by Men who desire to ac-
cumulate Wealth enough to enable
their Wives to entertain Monkeys at
Dinner.
Re]lgion-Thc Holiness OF Things
As-They-Are, believing in which the
Many are told is Necessary to their
signed to enable Them to endure He'll
while They are Here. i
Clergyme Expounders of the
Holiness Of-Things-A They Are. The
individuals periodically become Filled
Up with the knowledge Of Unknown
able Things, whici- they proceed upon
every Seventh Day to impart to the
Race Of Pew Warmers. During the
Intervening Six Days, they Wait for
the Seventh Day to Come Around.
Stockholders They are Great
Fishermen, yet they are not Highly
Esteemed by True Sports, for they
love Nothing Else so much as Catch
ing a Sucker.
Bucket-Shop Men-Another Variety
Of Sucker Seiner.
Freedom of Contract-A Lega
Phrase, originally written in Hog
Latin Free Translation into the
Vernacular reading Long Hours AND
Low Wages"
Free" Laborer-A Poor Coot Kicl
Him Again! He's got no friends.
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protection of the law; would drive

protection of the law; would drive
trade away from our city and de-
preciate the value of real estate:
would bring in here the same era
of hypocrisy and smuggling and
bcakbiting and spying and bitter
ness that has followed prohibition
wherever tried; and in return for
it all would accomplish no good, but
would bring in here, as it has
wherever tried, a lot of wretched
dives, speakeasies, bootleggers and
lawbreakers; and inasmuch as thds
organization believes that the inter-
ests Of temperance can best be sub
served by preaching sobriety and
good habits and by giving the saloon
credit for the good it does and
helping it to be respectable and law
abiding, instead of trying to OUT
law it and make it constantly fight
for it's life;
Now, therefore, the Baltimore
Federation of Labor, in meeting as
sembled, representing 100 unions
and 10000 workingmen and voters.
does hereby resolve that the men,
bers of the legislature of Maryland
be requested to oppose the local op-
ton bill now pending before IT., or:
any similar bill, and that the leg
islative committee of this body be
instructed to appear before the
proper committees of the legislature
to urge upon them the views set
forth in this resolution, and that a
copy of the same be sent to each
member of the general assembly
and to the press of this state.
Committee on Resolutions, =:
MACK HERZOG,
Chairman.
GEORGE C.. GRIFFIN,
WALTER c. POTEE,
JOHN G.: WALSH,
JOHN RIEGER:
EDWARD HIRCH.
President Federation of Labor.
JOSEPH McGREGOR,
Secretary Federation of Labor
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just pause and consider if you are
patronizing friend or an enemy of
the labor cause. Let labor but once
learn this lesson. let it but once
uritedly strike at the business count
er, and it will carry with a moral in
f1uence that no opposition can. with
stand. The working class constitutes
the big majority, and when they de.
eide to trade only with their friends,
they will begin to understand the
power they possess, ana adverse court
decisions will be no more"
The next meeting of the League
will be held at Columbia Hall, West
Duluth, on Tuesday, March 3rd, at 3
p. m.
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THE IDLE RICH ARE -.
DANGER TO SOCIETY
Professor Edward A. Ross Puts MIL
iionaires and Tramps in Same Class.

Professor Edward A. Ross Puts MIL
lionaires and Tramps in Same Glass.
can idle, parasitic class in any COM
unity is a detriment to it., whether it
is composed Of millionaires or hoboes."
said Prof Edward A. Ross of the Uni
:versity Of Wisconsin, i'm recent adj
dress. 1.-THE greater danger" i Prof.
Ross continued, lies in. the form Of
'class because, while, people look down
on the hobo, they are inclined to look
up to the wealthy parasites. In emu-
lation Of them honest methods Of get
ting living are deprecated and idle,
ness Es exalted. . <I#s H 55. .ss t 4sss q .y I.
&, Besides this, the method of life Of
the enormously rich, tends to corrupt
their blood and produce degenerates..
And these men, even though they are
what they are and are obviously 90,
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success, prosperity, industry, benefits
progress, events, unionism, nome hap
penings personals, etc.
IT you are pressed for time, or 9TH
erwise prevented from putting your
thoughts on paper in form for publ
catlon-no matter-scribble then
down in any shape, and if need be
your communication will be revised
and corrected by yours fraternal,y,
Editor, Labor World.
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are able to find women who mate with
them. and thus rear more degenerates.
'The5:o1d saying 81 three generations
from shirtsieeves to shirtsleeyes' - no
longer true. It was true back In the.
40's. before our milkonaires learned
to take care ofs their fortunes and to-
sperpetuate their HES. but It II not.
true now Al this country any r1ors
than IS 81 bee rtrue IA Europe. ~
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STATE FEDERATION.

The next meeting Of the Minnesota
State Federation Council will be held
at st. Paul, on Sunday, March 1st.
Local unions having any matter which
they desire to bring before the coun-
Gil will please communicate with the
undersigned by addressing. him, care
of the Labor World. Duluth, Minn..
w. E., M'EWEN, Secy-Treas. :
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CHILDREN'S EPARTMENT:

Beach Yaw, In the Delineator. She
feels that she must have professor,
and if she once masters the elemen-
tary course she thinks that it is neceS-
sary to go abroad in order to perfect
herself This is all very we'll it one
can afford the expense, but it is mis-
take to suppose that no particular
progress can be made without those
advantages In singing as in all other
undertakings it is of the utmost I'M
portance that there shall be proper
foundation, and that foundation can
be made by the girl herself.
Would you, one of the millions OF
girls who are now beginning the study
of singing, learn the secret of sue
cess in my chosen calling? 1t is as
have said, within yourself.
It is unnecessary to suggest or ap-
ply any fixed rules for each individual
student, but it is of inestimable value
and consequence that this one general
rule shall be adhered to, as applying
to all cases and to every individual
singer, namely, seriousness OF
thought, earnestness of application,
patience and perseverance.
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CHAPTER x.

"Mr. Follett is here, Jane. Would
you like to see him alone?"
Eyes, auntie, alone-and let him come
in at once, please. 1t tires me to be
kept waiting or to have to expect any
thing now"
And in another minute the Vicar of
Chesterford-for the first time since
Clifford Mohun left-was admitted into
poor James little sitting room.
He set his hat down carefully in the
window seat: laid his walking stick
across it; then took off his gloves, fold
ed them neatly together, and deposited
them in the breast-pocket Of his coat.
James weak nerves were horribly irri-
tated by these preparations. She
thought that the vicar meant to stay
long; she felt that he was going to
drive her wild by commonplace con-
dolence and exhortati tons to long-suffer-
ing and patience.
81 am sure 1t is very good of you to
come to see me, SIR" and there was a
weary, half querulous tone in her voice,
very unlike it's old, frank, unconscious
happiness. I'm weak and ill, and l
can be of very little interest to any
body now; but Miss Lynch would send
for you.'
The vicar looked kindly into her
hopeless, sunken eyes.
"Jane," he began, after few in
quiries respecting her bodily state, not
made in the accustomed style of friend
ly sympathy, not accompanied by any
of those stcreotyped platitudes which
jar so horribly upon the temper Of
every real sufferer, but just in his
usual, quiet, rather reserved manner,
Jane, Go you know that | was mar
ried once"
A faint ttnge of color came into
James face-a faint look of interest III
her eyes.
Yes, Mr.. FoIlett, l have heard that
you were married in your youth"
Il was married for just one year,
and I had one little child. Would
YOU care, do you think, to hear me tell
the story of that part of my life"
Yes" she answered, she would care
to hear whatever Mr.. Follett liked to
tell her. 1t was very kind of him to
trouble himself about her at all; and II
it would give him pain to speak about
the past he must not attempt to do SO
for her sake.
And then her head sank listlessly
down upon the pillow of her couch, ana
she turned her white fnce away toward
the window.
1T won't pain me to speak of the
past now, Jane, and to you; but you are
the only person in Chestcrford to whom
l have ever volunteered such a con1l'
dence. Most people, l find, when they
are in trouble like great deal of posi-
tive advice or positive pity''-Jane
shuddered-ta Of course. in all such
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and the different way l should nave
behaved under af11iction! How glad L
am put on my new bonnet-the damp
has scarcely taken the stiffness out Of
the strings bit.'
From this time on, Jane began daily
to speak more. She was very bitter in
all she said-bitter, and at times al
most sharp and caustic; her sorrow
; lending her a kind Of hard humor
wholly alien to the natural tendency of
her mind. She read "Ecclesiastes,"
and found 1t good; she studied VANITY
Fair"-then newly written-and consid-,
cred life-like. She bethought herself it
was time to get her winter clothes, and
she got them, and went to church, and,
without faltering, brayed out the eyes
of half the parish, and put on coor
and Indifferent manner when her vii
lage friends pressed around her coming
out Of church to inquire of her state.
And then, after q week or so of this
new condition, she sickened suddenly
of the preacher and Of Becky Sharp
alike, and said nothing more at all bit
ter or pungent, and found going to
church did her no good, and that she
hated to see peoples faces, and to hear
their condolences.
"They all cared for her, in reality, no
more than she cared for them"
And then she took to lying all day,
without even pretense of book or
work in her hands, upon the sofa, look
ing more white and stupefed and
weak than she had looked even in the
first days after her parting with Mo
hun.
The sound Of Miss Lynch's voice. or
of the little maid servants singing at
her work, tortured her; the sounds Of
the robins twittering around the FROST
ed window panes tortured her; the vii
lage children's shouts, as they ran
along the lane to school, tortured her.
All life was one intolerable, nauseating
burden-not a dull, stagnant weight,
as it had been at first, bringing with it
at every hour, almost at every moment,
an acute stinging, unbearable evidence
of it's pressure Her days began with
the horrible thought that so many more
lOurS OF llguL anu Sounu hflu W NC
lived through, and ended with GER
tainty of broken, fitful night-a night
whose ghastly, mocking dreams We're
yet the least intolerable part of all the
four-and-twenty hours of feverish suf-
fering.
When Mr. Follett heard how she was
now he asked if she would like to see
him, and Jane said yes.
On the morning when his message
reached her she was wondering how
many more months of her present life
it would take to bring her to her grave,
and she felt sort of curiosity to hear
the opinion of another person on the
subject.
"Only ask him not to condole with
me-" she remarked to Miss Lynch, who
was rapturously waiting to bear her
uItimatum to the vicarage. "Tell him
1 wish to see him to ask his opinion
about something; but | don't want to
be condoled with. need no coincidence
at all, for I have quite ceased to think
of myself and of my own grief"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-29
1900 MILES IN A ROWBOAT.

lSUU MILES I'm a fLOW BOAI.
Edmonton, British Columbia, is to
be the starting point of another ex-
ploring trip to the north.
v. Steffanson is the daring voya-
geur who with healthy body and
cheerful mind as his principal
equipment is to start for the Arctic
Circle to learn the ways of Esquimau
tribes that no white man has yet Wis
tied. He will not require money, but
he will carry few files, needles and
butcher knives as gifts in return for
the hospitality which he expects to
receive. One rifle, few fishhooks
and nets and a suit of fur clothing
will be the equipment of the expedi-
tion
1 Steffanson was formerly instructor
at Harvard University, and his COM
ing expedition is under the auspices
CT the American Museum of Natural
History. The expense of getting to
the Mackenzie River, where he will
build rowboat, is to be advanced by
the institution. The museum will
publish his report, and if it is possible
to bring any out of this inaccessible
country it will secure whatever eth
biological specimens Steffanson may
gather.
Steffanson is of Icelandic birth and
speaks the Esquimau dialects. He
will live on the country. He expects
to travel 1900 miles in a rowboat.-
New York Sun.
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Test Your Coal.

The United States Government Is a
buyers of coal to the amount of over
S6,O00,000 year. Prior to 1904
contracts were given to the lowest
bidder on the theory that coal is coal
and that there was not enough heat
making difference between different
lots from the same region or mine to
make any scientific quality tests
worth while.
Since then several testing labora-
tories have been established and it
has been found that some of the coal
offered is expensive at any price. Now
samples are required with bids and a
great saving has been effected. The
time may come when the citizen WIZ
require a chemical analysis of the
contents of his bin. 1t will be an, easy
matter to enact pure fuel law and
make it finable offense to sell coal
without an analysis label or with a
false one.-Utica Press.
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A Snake-Bite Knife.

The British government has been
actively fighting snakes in India for
a dozen years and more, and still
these reptiles kill many thousand ma
tives annually. Sir Lander Brumton
a little while ago devised a neat
pocket instrument for handy use in
case of a snake bite, and the Indian
government has decid I'd to distribute
the apparatus widely among the ma
tiyes. 1t consists of small knife
in the handle of which is cavity.
This is keEt filled with permanga-
nate of potash, powerful antiseptlc
and caustic. When a person is bitten
he Immediately cuts the wound open
widely and rubs the permanganate
upon the raw surfaces. II the bite
is in the extremities and this opera
ton is performed without delay, the
treatment is said to be very effective.
Chicago Journal.
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The French Academy.

In a period when so many time.
honored traditions of France sink be-
meath the waves of what we are
pleased to style progress, without
perhaps caring to learn whether we
gain or lose as the stormy tide flows
on, there is one national institution
still standing firm, which, despite all
that is said against it, is unique: ]
mean the French Academy. In vain
have men tried to raise up rivals; it
remains the sole arbiter of taste, the
guardian of our language, the last
surviving vestige of sovereignty. To
prove this would be an interesting
study, in view of the increasing i'm.
portance attached to the Academic
des Goncourt," and to the committee
which has been humorously called
the Academy of Women" - From
TIL. Bentzon's Literary Rolls of Hon
or in France" in the Century.
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AN EGGSHELL OSTRICH.

One eggshell, three twisted paper
lighters, and small piece of fringed
paper go to the making of one os-
trich. You will need a whole egg
she'll for the body, and must empty
it by making a small hole in each end
and blowing out the egg. Bore the
holes with a large darning needle or
hatpin, pressing steadily but not too
hard, and twisting the point round
and round until a small hole has been
punctured; then enlarge the hole
slightly with the sharp point of your
scissors, being careful not to crack
the shell in doing so. Make the hole
in the large end of the shell trifle
larger than the one in the small end
to your lips and blow steadily until
all the egg has run out of the she'll
From "Hints and Helps for Mother p"
IN st. Nicholas.
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GOODNESS IN DANGER

When Lieutenant Henderson was
captured by the natives of the Gold
Coast hinterland they got into a
wordy discussion as to how they
would kill him. The victim listened
awhile till he was weary of it. "Oh,
well,' he said. II can't be bothered
with your arguments. I'm very
sleepy. Let me know when you've
made UP your minds And off to
sleep he went. The unexpected per-
formance saved his life. His calm
Indifference persuaded Samory's men
that they had to do with some one
of immense importance. Unwilling
to take on themselves the RESPONSE
bility for his death, they sent him
unharmed to Samory'S court, in the
Jimini country.
Once again Lieutenant Henderson
saved himself by like exhibition OF
courage. He found Samory on a
throne, surrounded by 1000 warriors,
yet when motioned to do homage on
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-05-29
A BRAVE LITTLE GIRL

The diploma of honor of the French
Life Saving Society has been award
ed to Lily Ripton, the daughter of a
non-commissioned officer at Colches-
ter Camp. for her bravery in rescuing
another child from drowning. After
the rescue she remembered that she
had been forbidden to go near the
water, so she walked about until her
clothes were dry, and then, leaving
her sodden boots in an oIthouse,
crept upstairs to bed, where she was
found when her parents heard of her
brayery.-Home Chat
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THE DAYS LENGTH.

The boys and girls may be sur
prised to hear that the length of the
day may be found by doubling the
time of the suns setting, and the
length of the night by doubling the
time of the suns rising. If, for ex-
ample, says the Chicago News. the
sun sets at 730, the length of the
day is fifteen hours, for twice 7.20
is fifteen. If the sun rises that day
at 4.3O, the length of the night is
nine hours, for twice 4.30 is nine.
The thirteen hours of daylight and
the nine hours of night make up the
whole day of twenty-four hours
Philadelphia Record.
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HERE Is A PIPE STORY.

After Ventura Dominica, thirty
four years old, had arisen he lit his
pipe and seated himself in his win
dow, in the third story of No. $50
Grand avenue, to see what was going
on in the world below. Leaning too
far out, he lost his balance and
tumbled to the cement sidewalk. A
passerby summoned police ambu-
lance, but when the vehicle was with
in half a block of the house the driver
saw Dominica get up, shake himself
and walk into the house, still smok-
ing. Dominica nor the pipe, full of
fragrant cut plug, suffered serious in
jury.-Chicago Correspondent of the
New York Herald.
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NEIGHBORLINEss IN ALASKA.

NEIGHBORLINESS IN ALASKA.
1t is phase of woman's life in
the North that when she herself is
beyond her own resources of body
and spirit, brave things and hard
things are done for her by man
done unhesitatingly and willingly
because woman's place in the North
is high one. The wife of Yukon
settler, fifty miles beyond Dawson,
was at the point of death, and the
doctor said that only fresh milk
would save her. The nearest milk
to be had was at Dawson, and the
mercury stood at seventy below. No
stage runs at seventy below for
money or government. But it went
for neighborliness' sake, and two of
the toughest Yukon horses, blanket
ed and nose-bagged, and one of the
Yukon's ablest stage drivers, fur
wrapped and felt-booted, made the
hundred-mile trip. What that meant
is known only to those who have had
experience of away-down- -below-zero
weather. But the milk was procured
and the woman's life was saved.
Another Yukon woman was herself
carried over winter trail of 175
miles in dog sleigh to the nearest
doctor. A weary and trying journey
it was, with narrow escapes from
wolves and from sheer exhaustion
but it was safely accomplished and
was not without it's reward
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A FRIGHTENED TIGER.

Missionaries sometimes tell funny
stories about the things that happen
to them. DR.. Jacob Chamberlain tells
about the way he frightened spotted
tiger with umbrella.
The tiger wanted to eat him, he
says, and instead of running away
Dr.. Chamberlain sprang suddenly at
him, with a terrible warwhoop that
he had learned from an Indian tribe.
at the same time opening his big
white umbrella. The tiger thought it
must be some new kind of animal and
turned and ran for the rocks.
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Everyone is Friendly.

"In all my daily walks and rides for
miles here and in the streets of Toxic
says a traveller, II never heard an Of
fensive word applied to me, nor saw an
unfriendly face. Nor in the quieter
streets did 1 ever sec what is so COM
mon in China, women and children
darting in and boiling the doors on the
approach of a foreigner. Even the
dogs here are friendly and never bark
at yOu'