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''VOX POPuu VOX DEL"
4 RECOGNIZED TRUTH
q
The Voice of the People is
the Voice of
GOd.'
He Who Has Understanding Will
Hear the "Still, Small
Voice.

Rev. harles Stelzle discusses an old
question In new way, and says, that
1T has long been acknowledged that
the voice of the people is the voice
Of Cod The undiscerning may hear
in the peoples voice only great roar
of discomfort, or the mutterings of the
misguided mass. But he who has un-
derstanding will hear the still, small
voice. which speaks the will Of Cod"
Inspiration Of Statesmen.
'The statesmen in every age who
have accomplished the things which
have produced the greatest good for
all the people, got their inspiration
because they kept close to the masses.
Rarely does the vision come to the
man who spends all of his time in the
seclusion of the study His touch on
life is so slight, and his understanding
of the needs of men SO Inadequate,
that his outlook extends only to the
limits Of his own alife and his own
narrow experience: It is only as a
man comes into contact with others
that his own life becomes larger and
fuller, and it is out Of this fullness
that he is enabled to speak concerning
the greater problems of life :
Common Peoples Experience.
mo class Of men have broader
experience than the common people,
no class knows quite as we'll what it
means to toll and to suffer and to sac
rifice. None have higher aspirations
and none exhibit deeper conservation.
1t is because Of this that God speaks
through them.
Sometimes their expression of Gods
will is crude. Sometimes it comes as
a shock to men who have become &C
customed to things as they are, who,
quite satisfied with present conditions,
are unwilling to be made uncomfort-'
able by a change which may mean a
readjustment in their method of liv-
ing and in their way Of doing busi-
ness. But to stand in the way of
progress is futile. It may be that it
is necessary to oppose certain features
-man-made and MISUNDERSTANDING
have crept into the plans which the
people present, but back fthem all
and beneath them all will be found
the hand of God.'
Lessons Of History.
This has been proven in history. In
every great fight for the right and for
progress, the leisured classes, the So
called upper classes, have been on the
wrong side of the battlefield. The
common people-the men Of uncom-
mon sense-to the these the world
owes debt Of gratitude.
If you would hear the voice of God,
keep close to the people.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-12-05

The nations production % abrasiveg
garnet in 1907, 7.05S short tons was
the greatest on record, exceeding this
previous years production by 50 pet
cent.
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foreign countries. s u
As Pig Iron" Kelly once said.
want free trade in workingmen and
We don't want free trade in anything
else. atsonville Register.
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A Day Of Reckoning. /

Justice may move slowly hut after
a time it comes. Some day the
workingman who voted for s"pr protection
and high wages will wake up and
learn that the Steel Trust pockets an
annual profit Of $3.50 from each OF its
10000 workers, but that each worker
gets on an average only $3.50. That IS,
the average steel truth worker pro-
5duces 81, 400 worth Of product, but the
steel trust pays him 81 in protected
wages $3.50 aud keeps $3.50 as It's
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BURGLARS SECURE sS.0oo.

PORT BYRON, ILL.,, Dec. 1.-Burglars
blew open the vault of the State bank
early today and escaped on a hand car
with $4,000 in gold. silver and currency.
A few residents were aroused by a
muffed explosion. but paid no atten-
.tion to it and the burglary was not
discovered till the bank was opened
for the days business. VI. ! n
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rake-Off.

rake off.
ALL that. mind you lis for the bene
fit Of the workingmen. to maintain
the American standard OF living
Meanwhile, that same steel trust is
selling It's products In foreign coun
tries cheaper than in America, and
thus encouraging foreign workingmen
to come here and bid for the jobs of
American workers; and there Is no.
protective tariff on workingmen from
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-12-05
REBATE PROBE BEGUN.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The federal grand
Jury empanelled today began an In
vestigation Of the rebate charges made
against the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul Railroad company by an agent Of
the Interstate commerce commission i:
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SCORPION GOES TO TURKEY.
NAPLES, Dec. 1.-The American gun
boat Scorpion left here today for Con-
stantinople, where she will be stationed
as despatch boat for the American
embassy.
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ID Because a Stamford, VT, official forgot
to file some papers the place cannot elect
town officers this year. sssS5 sf9s
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8 Around Worcester's monument to Senator
Hoar has been planted . thorny rose bush
to keep loafeTs off 5sa}2
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bits of court plaster which he adjusted with most

bits of court plaster, which he adjusted with most
tender soicitude.
Now the average martyr, in parallel employ
merlt, finds balm of relief in muttering yet the
mate refrained He had discovered by experiment
that muttering caused movement of the lower jaw.
and if there was portion of his sore anatomy
that needed complete rest and inactivity, that
part was the part Immediately affected by left
hand grapevine.
Therefore Beasley ministered to his hurts in 81
lence, expressing the yearnings of his soul in re-
fected glares; and if wise enough to inter-
pref them we should know that Morson-Brown was
held in rather poor esteem. To be exact, the mate
onged earnestly deprive that Southern aristocrat
of health and wealth and happiness, to say nothing
of his privilege of staggering about this terrestrial
globe.
IF people talk long enough, it gets late; and we
l ourselves have been doing quite enough of it to
affect time seriously. Be that as it may the Spit
fires company had long since settled down to peace
full sleep; that is say all but those who paid
salaries for remaining awake, others whose in
somnia arose from purely private reasons.
The main saloon was lighted by handsome brass
ships lantern attached to a beam and swinging
gently to the Spitfres roll Tonight its Oil was low
and presently the flame grew weak and faint to
flicker and die with one last smelly Whit of smoke
vet the rising higher still and peeped from
time to time the room, like thief for it peeped
in through transom Its light was not steady
light for as the vessel rolled this transom sneaked
away from the line of radiance, then settled back
again, leaving the main. saloon now dark, now
family bright with pale and ghostly glow
One specially frivolous little moonbeam began a
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a money strngency vitiated unwrtten contracts, or
subjected such contracts to advanced rate of
interest and greater number of shares. Girard at
first, endeavored to explain the situation from
humorous point of view; but naturally the Eng
ishmen failed to it. The American then ex-
humor, and hurried back to London.
His position a trying one. This failure on
the part of the Liverpool money kings to back
their promises with cash placed heavy burden
affairs had become a couch of thorns True, be-
fore going to Liverpool. he had seen the trouble
coming, through the morning paper, and his sub
sequent conference with the unhumorous Liver
poolans merely proof of his own prophecy;
still. the reality put him in a boiling rage.
1t was now necessary for him to reach his base
of operations in New York at the earliest possible
moment; he at engaged passage the
Lusitania, which would leave on the following
morning, intending to order the Spitfre to follow
him at leisure. This, in his opinion, the best
arrangement, anyway for in the stress of delicate
business complications. his brains would not be
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blazing glance every mark that 1oated the sea-
it peered into the clouds, then jumped suddenly,
if it ,thohght somebody was creeping up behind it
then began to thresh about again.
"Moses!" unused Captain Joe, in tone of heart
felt sympathy, Il guess that fellow must ave
lost his pocketbook.
If anything was lost, however something soon
found; for the glazing, inquisitve eye of light
popped full upon the Sptfre, fingered an instant,
disappeared, came back again in steady stare
of boorish impoteness and then went out for
good.
This lack of breeding was of Captain Joe's
affair." he kept straight in obedience to his sail
ing ORDERS but CHANGING to glance once more across
the moonlt waters he conscious of the fact that
a big black yacht, erupting thick black smoke and
showers of sparks, tearing after him. -"
"Moses!" he unused again. Now maybe I'm the
fellows pocketbook.'
WHILE dwelling on the subject of eyes, it might
w be we'll to state that two other pairs were
deeply interested in the eye of light that came wink
ing the waters. Just why these orbs were not
fast closed in innocent sleep at this late hour OF
night is rather difficult to say; but they belonged
respectively to Ornond and his private secretary,
and framed attractively in two respective port
holes -.
Jim" observed one of the owners of the eyes, in
guarded tones. if your friend Girard happens to be
working that bull eye lantern over yonder, and he
happens to on board and happens to fall to the
song and dance of that scrapper, George c. Brown
we'll. wouldn't give bag of beans"
Tracy, said Ormond, with an air of patient sui.
fering, will you keep your blamed mouth shut?'
Sure, returned the accommodating secretary
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it rose to its knees again and began to turn the
polished disk with eager, nervous fingers.
So strange and vague this prowling specter seemed
that it might have been part of a dream of some
who had dined too we'll; yet, presently, while the
main saloon was dark it and slipped away
silently it first appeared Then the frivolous little
moonbeam once more flirting through the
transom and the little round metal eye took up it's
wnking most facetiously.
TT is funny how this chapter seems to to eyes;
but the fault is neither yours mine. People
had way of looking at things whether those things
were moons or mirrors dreamlands nothing in
particular. There Captain Joe, for instance.
He was at the wheel in the pilot house. looking
straight ahead into the night in ORDER he claimed,
not to run into anything big hard otherwise
disagreeable. But Captain Joe saw something.
Away off on the weather quarter he flash
light. There was, of course, nothing remarkable in
was about the most industrious and overanxious
fashlight of which his nautical experience had
run afoul 1t beat the sea in circles; it shot its
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cp your OldlliCu lAOuCA SluI:
the accommodating secretary.
Its your deal, Jim. and no
mistake; but I'd like darn well
to cut the deck"
Which deck?" asked his
superior sharply.
The incongruous Tracy then
shrugged his shoulders, -:
XIV. Looking Backward
MARCUS GIRARD had just
AvA returned to London in a
frame of mind that proved his
daughters right by direct in
heritance to the title of spitfire.
This effervescent brain storm
was caused by the following
reasons:
He had been closeted for
many hours with several finan-
cial magnates in Liverpool, and
the interview resembled GER
tain fizzy, spluttery fireworks.
The three financial magnates
had previously made verbal
pledges to support large
american enterprise in Cana
dian timber lands, agreeing to
furnish the capital at a mod
crate rate of interest plus a
specified number of shares of
stock. Girard, relying on these
verbal promises, had pledged
himself by cable to become
sponsor for the deal. Then
something happened. The
American market became de-
pressed, refusing to be aroused
therefrom, either by mental
suggestion or osteopathy. The
English market suffered
corresponding fall in spirits,
languishing in sulky gloom
until such time as her sister
gambler should perk up and
begin to take notice. Marcus
Girard was a man that kept
his promises regardless of
markets rise or fall. The three
magnates of Liverpool held that
vitiated unwritten contracts, or
,racts to an advanced rate of
r number of shares. Girard, at
} explain the situation from a
view; but naturally the Eng
,e it. The American then ex-
al opinions of them, without
back to London.
n frv;p0 ono Th;c foi1,,ro n,,
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STICKING TO THE POINT.
The Question That Won a Good Posi-
ton for Boy.

The Question That Won a Good Posi-
ton for Boy.
4 lawyer wanted an apprentice and
placed an advertisement in the local
paper. A number of boys replied, so
he gathered them all together in his
office at once and looked them over.
He found it pretty hard to make
choice, but at length a happy idea
struck him.
"Once upon a time" he said "a
farmer was very much annoyed by
huge rat that made a very comfortable
living by feeding upon his grain and
other products. He tried traps of all
kinds to catch it, but the willy rodent
evaded them all and apparently en-
ioyed the game Of hide and seek that
the farmer had devised for it's recrea-
ton. One day, however. as the farmer
turned the corner Of a haystack, car
rying a gun in his hand, he spied the
troublesome rodent at the edge of the
hay Instantly raising his gun, he
fired, but the blazing gun wad dropped
among the hay
Here the lawyer stopped, and, look
ing at the boys. he said. "If any of you
want to ask question. write it ON a
piece of paper" Each did as sug-
gested. and here are some of the ques-
tons that were asked:
did he set the hay on freq
WAS the stack burned to the
ground?"
did the farmer have his hay IN
sured?"
WAS the fire engine near at hand?"
WAS the rat killed?'
The boy that asked the last question
was chosen because he stuck to the
point-American Photography.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-23
EFFECT OF AN AUTO RACE.

TickIes an Owner to Have a Car OF a
Make Which Takes q Big Prize.
1t is, indeed, easily noticeable after
a big automobile race Of any sort, in
which the particular winning make Of
machine gets great deal of attention,
that owners Of cars Of this certain
make are apt to look a little bit more
proud than usual, says the New York
Sun. Take, for instance, directly after
the Grand Prix race at Dieppe, where
a Mercedes car was first. There have
been folks driving Mercedes cars in
subdued manner, about the streets of
the city for some years when tile Ger
man machine was not showing up at all
we'll in races.
Lautenschlagers victory was spread
abroad they began to look a little more
conscious as they drove about. It was
as If each one felt that he had the
handling Of car that might turn ont
any day and win just such a race.
When the Isotta- Fraschini finished
first at Briarcliff that sent the heads
or whole lot or owners OF these cars
away up. It is the same with every
little thing-a road race or hill climb
or some unusual feat; they make the
driver or owner Of one of these tri-
umphant cars q bit more cocky.
When the Thomas car was leading
the others across the continent Thomas
drivers, whether they were handling
1904 or 1908 models, apparently all had
mental pictures Of what they could do
to some other makes If they wanted to-
1t is sure thing that each Of these
races has such a result and sometimes
the drivers are surprised and hurt
when In road brush they get left by
some car that never won blue ribbon
as a racer.
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The Overtired Conductor,

When the horse cars were in exist
ence there was greenhorn known as
John who conducted on the Thirteenth
and Fifteenth street lines. He boarded
with his two aunts, who lived on Cath
arine street, between Thirteenth and
Broad. One day his aunts though they
would take ride with John and see
how he was getting along, so they
waited for his car. Soon the car began
to get crowded and passengers got off
and on at every square. John began to
get angry. At last he became so exas-
perated at having to stop so often that
when an old lady asked him to stop at
Chestnut he bawled out: I'm darned
sick and tired pulling the bell. It's
nothing but stop here and stop there,
stop here and stop there. Away with
youse all down to Catherine street with
me aunts, and you get out in bunch"
Philadelphia Ledger.
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An English legal periodical discusses
recent epidemics Of crime and expresses
the opinion that the increase Of murder
ard violence would seem to constitute
grave and critical feature of modern
life in great cosmopolitan communities.
In Great Britain, it says, outrages and
atrocities are reported in the centers
with alarming frequency, and from the
continent of Europe similar complaints
are heard. Paris has for years been
fighting It's "Apaches hood
lums and hold-ups who display amaz-
ing audacity and savagery, and whose
leaders often remain undiscovered. A
sense of insecurity spreads among GER
tain elements of the population, and
there are demands for more police, bet
ter detectives, speedier criminal justice.
While these demands are perfectly nat
ural the deeper questions as to the
causes of the crime epidemics and the
tendency to violence should not be
neglected. Do the contrasts of life in
rich and gay cities make for temptation
and crime? To what extent do the In
dustrial Embellishments contribute to
the evil? Idleness, voluntary and m
voluntary, the decay of the apprentice
system, the lack of moral training In
the schools, the relaxing OF home dis
cipline, are generally named as other
factors in the situation. And then there
is the whole chain Of complications that
s,,tr hn No
fairly efficient work in circumstances
with which their experience has made
them familiar may display glaring I'M
fitness under conditions that are
strange to them. In New York, we
know, the police commissioner is urging
the establishment of special secret ser
vice force for opera tons in the Italian
quarter and in other foreign colonies.
In Chicago the White Hand is asking
for the appointment of more Italian po-
lice officers and detectives. The sug-
gestion that foreign criminals should
be pursued by men who understand
their language and know their habits
and tactics is as reasonable as 1t Is
natural, In every great city there are
strangers Of all sorts and conditions,
and among these strangers there are
characters who left their own country
for it's good. There are also in great
cities the difficulties that arise from toll
Grated vice. from certain lodging houses
and refugees of Migrants, from the ia
cility with which suspects dodge the
officers of the law. and from the failure
to prevent the carrying and indiscrim-
mate selling of deadly weapons. But,
complicated as the problem Of city
crime is, there is no cause for despair
or resignation. Epidemics Of violence
are not an inevitable feature of econ
centrated civilization" Efficient and
honest police work, with proper ordin-
ances regarding weapons, vice regula-
ton, night closing of saloons, etc, will
make life in crowded cities much safer
than it is
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corner OF star section coinciding with
point midway between the top a;.d
bottom Of the staff"
When flag is placed at half mact
In the navy said a lieutenant Of the
Unlteo states naval recruiting station
the distance between the top of .le
nag and the top Of the mast is made ia
equal approximately the distance he
tween the bottom Of the flag and the
base of the mast."-Kansas CITY ines
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diaey in proper places in which to raise
seeding trees distribution to all who will plant them
under nroper conditions and the supervision the de-
partmen These should be distributed for actual cost
or, better vet, il it may be done, free of cost.
There are 10000 persons in the State of New York
suffering from tuberculosis been demonstrated
that so in the incpient stage may be
cured by Adrondacks and abiding there for
a considerable time.
There is found natures great sanarum The balsam-
sweeping $50 miles of dense woodland
cooled by the great mountain peaks filed with oxygen
thrown off by the forest foliage produces curative quail
ties this disease beyond the of mans ingenuity
to produce in any other way.
casts aside the commercial feature, reforested
protected Adirondack and Catsk forests kept
for health resort and playground will reward the
State for all labor and money expended
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with strict adherence to the principles which
derle safety and the perpetu1ty Of in
situations than any momentary gained at the
price Of sacrificing that which alone make
ultimate achievements.
That method, those principles which define the meth
cd, simply that each stands equal to his neigh
bor and that not to be controlled by caba
or coterie any abusing power but to work
through democratic methods by honorable representa-
ton Of the popular Will
American life is wholesome to-day and
intent right things; there is quicker to
demand for proper representation in politics. there
is senstiveness the part of those having power
lest their abuses of should be discovered than
at any time in history. No battle has been lost
Many remain to be
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short Suggestions.

Cold cereals can be fried the San'
as mush; serve with gravy or SIruN
Nickel may be kept bright by OelDS
rubbed with wool saturated IN "|
monia.
Alcohol and whiting make Il good 81
yer polish excellent for polishing pl""
glass mirrors.
Black lead mixed with vinegar Nn
be found to give a specially sood p"
ish to the kitchen stove.
To raise the pile Oh plush, sponge =. :,
with little chloroform and II ""
look fresh and new again.
A piece of flannel dampened WIZ
spirits of camphor will remove S'S'D'
from mirrors or window glass.
To cover the pan in which hsh =
cooking will make the flesh soft
Honey should be kept in the u"l~'
If exposed to light it will quickly si"D
ulate.
To clean silver, mix sweet Oh a.
whiting to the thickness OF q ci'' -
put on with soft cloth, wash III ~ r.
soap suds and polish with q cnaiD'
skin or a piece Of old soft linen
A cheap floor stain, which VIII pm NV
ably be in demand during house cio| s,l
ing, is made by dissolying teaspoon -
IF permanganate Of potash III =,
quart of boiling water. a darhei 10
lighter stain may be had by lncfe"''''
Or decreasing the amount Of potash
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LOWERING THE FLAG.
The Regulation Method of Hah
Wasting the Co1Ors.

The Regulation Method OF HaiK
Wasting the Co1Ors.
The method of showing honor TO the
dead through the position Of the flag,
placing it at half mast-it is termed
in naval circles. in the army, at half
staff-is described in Article Al, par
agraph 42S, of the United States army
regulations as follows:
Where the flag is displayed at half
staff it is lowered to that position
from the top of the staff. 1t is after
ward hoisted to the top before it Is
finally lowered
"At military posts" said sergeant
of the army recruiting station, where
the flag staff is planted in the ground
It is usually in two sections and about
eighty feet high. When the flag is
placed at half staff it is customary %
lower it to the middle OF the upper
section, which in this case Is consid-
cred the staff. At forts and other posts
where flags are on top of buildings the
flag, when placed at half staff. Is hang
ing from the middle of the staff, the
central point of the fage the lower