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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Powers Of Commissioner.

Congress has conferred pretty broad
powers upon the commissioner of Ia
Dor. He can undertake at his disose-
ton any investigation which in his
judgment relates to the welfare of the
working people of the country and he
"an employ in this quest for informa-
ton all the means at his disposal and
the corps of statistical experts, special
agents, clerks, etc, carried on the pay
roll of the bureau of labor. Uncle
Sans labor commissioner may, If he
choose, simply make report to con.
gress once year on his Investigations
but Of late years special reports have
been issued monthly or even oftener,
and on a number of occasions the
president has called upon the commits,
sioner of labor to make special inquiry
in some field and communicate his
findings as quickly as possible
The bureau OF labor is in reality a
great intelligence Office" that pours
out information through four different
channels. The first of these is made
up of the results of original investiga-
tions conducted by the bureau or it's
agents and experts. Secondly the la
Dor bureau gives the whole country a
digest of state labor reports, thus
bringing to the attention of the gen.
eral public many matters relating to
conditions in the different states OF the
union that might not otherwise become
matters of common knowledge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Causes of Poverty.

Some people are poor because their
ideas are larger than their purses.
They think the world owes them a
living. They do not keep account of
their expenditures. They try to do
what others expect of them, not what
they can afford. The parents are eco
nomical, but the children have ex-
travagant ideas. They prefer to incur
debts rather than to do work which
they consider beneath them. They risk
all their eggs in one basket when they
are not in a position to watch or con-
troll it. They think it will be time
enough to begin to save for a rainy
day when the rainy day comes. The
only thing, declares the New York
Herald, the daughters accomplish is
to develop fondness for smart clothes
and expensive jewelry. They do not
realize that one expensive habit may
introduce them to a whole family Of
extravagant habits. On a moderate
income, they try to compete in appear.
ance with wealthy neighbor. They
believe they have not been able to
make much in the business they un-
derstand best, but have thought that
they could make a fortune by invest
ing in something they know nothing
about.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Is Doinp Good Work.

By means of an energetic field
force" and a capable corps of experts
in the home office at Washington this
branch of the government is continu-
ally investigating in all parts of the
country such subjects as the relations
of capital and labor, the hours of Ia
Dor, the earnings of laboring men and
women, and other similarly fruitful
topics. What is more, this public in
| stitutiOn is continually striving to pro-
mote the material, social, intellectual
and moral prosperity of the workers.
Of course these government scouts in
the labor field cannot work in a rut.
Indeed the force is so mobile and the
individual workers so versatile that
when serious dispute arises between
employers and employees or there is a
controversy such as that some time
ago regarding conditions in the meat
packing industry all other work at the
bureau can be dropped and all hands
concentrate their attention upon the
causes and facts of the crisis of the
moment.
The late Senator Hoar of Massachu-
setts is perhaps entitled to be con-
sidered the father of the movement to
have Uncle Sam Systematically aid
the cause of labor. 1t was in 1871 that
Mr.. Hoar, then member of the Unit
ed States house of representatives, in
troduced bill providing for the ap-
pointment of commission to study
the subject of wages and hours of
labor and the division of profits be-
tween labor and capital in the United
States. The bill did not pass but the
ball had been started rolling and final
ly after much agitation congress in
1884 made provision for a bureau of
labor as a part of the interior depar-
ment When the department of COM
merce and labor was organized in 1908
the bureau Of labor was taken under
its wing as one of it's principal
| branches.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Deals OnIv in Facts,


In the earlier years of the work peo-
pie did not, in many instances, take
kindly to the idea of having their pri-
vate affairs probed for the benefit of
the public, but latterly this spirit has
largely disappeared. Nowadays if the
special agents of the bureau Of labor
are refused information by one manu-.
facturer they usually have no difficulty
in discovering some other establish
ment where the needed data may be
obtained. The government labor ex-
perts have won confidence by never
allowing the names of parties furnish
ing facts to be given in its reports. al
though, to be sure, they take every
possible means to verify all the infor-
nation gathered. The bureau will
have nothing to do with estimates or
hearsay statements about labor con-
ditions. 1t never makes any state
ments unless it has positive facts to
back them up.
At the outset the government labor
experts thought that they could carry
on their Investigations largely by mail,
but it was soon found that few people
would respond satisfactorily to queries
thus transmitted and so the bureau of
labor had to organize a corps of spe-
cial agents who are continually ION
the wing" securing information at first
hand and recording it on carefully pre-
pared schedules. The policy of the
bureau OF labor in looking into labor
conditions and the problems of life
affecting the working people is seldom
if ever to argue point. 1t simply
secures all the facts in the case and
then let's the intelligent labor man de-
eide what is best for him from the in
formation set out for his benefit. The
bureau of labor is particularly fortur
nate in its directing heads. The COM
missioner of labor, DR.. Charles P.
Neill, formerly one of the faculty of
the Catholic university at Washington,
is man who has a wonderful faculty
for clear-sighted investigation and the
chief clerk of the bureau, Mr.. G. w. w.
Hanger, has been fitted by long expert
ence for work in behalf of the cause
of labor.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
What is Pe-ru-na.

Are we claiming too much for PerunS
when we claim 1t to be an effective
remedy for chronic catarrhH Have we
abundant proof that Peruna is in real
fly such a catarrh remedy? Let us see
what the United States Dispensatory
says of the principal ingredients Of
Peruna.
Take, for instance, the ingredient
hydrastis canadensis, or golden seal.
TIE United States Dispensatory says
of this herbal remedy, that it is largely
employed in the treatment Of depraved
mucous membranes lining various
organs of the human body.
Another ingredient OF Peruna, cory
dalis formosa, is classed in the United
States Dispensatory as tonic.
Cedron seeds is another ingredient of
Peruna. The United States DISPENSE
tory says of the action Of cedron that
1t is used as a bitter tonic and in the
treatment of dyseutery, and in inter.
mittent diseases as a substitute for
quinine.
Send to us for free book Of testi-
monials of what the people think of Pc
runa as n catarrh remedy. The best
evidence is the testimony OF those who
have tried it.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Employment Bureau.

Uncle Sam has also inaugurated an
other aid to labor in the form Of the
largest employment bureau in the
world. This is an adjunct Of the bu-
reau of immigration, and is in charge
Of Terence V. Powderly, at one time
recognized leader of union labor
throughout the country. 1t is the func-
tion of this new bureau to inquire as
to the facts about the reported demand
for labor in all parts of the country.
Mr. Powderly has opened correspond
ence with responsible officers in every
state in the union concerning the need
for labor and the opportunities for EN-.
ployment in each state and when any
workingman desires to make a change
of location all he has to do is to in.
Quire of Uncle Sam as to the prospects
in any section in which he would like
to find employment. "N..
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
4sAp LANDS" IN MONTANA.
Miles on Miles of Rugged chasms,
FantastieaIIy Carved.

u seems to me that no human be-
ing can stand on that spot and vie"
that marvellous labyrinth OF wild
-,uTe "I,IIUul DCliIss l.IInIed o. a.
Instantly your thoughts fly to the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, as
seen from Point Sublime, only this
- In immature The TACT that you
stand on sharp point, from which
the world drops steeply away on
three sides, is not the thing that
is so profoundly impressive. 1t is
the depth, the breadth and the awful
wilderness of the maze of bad lands
int which you look. Before you,
and on either hand, there stretch
miles upon miles of ragged chasms,
divided and walled in by thou
sand fantastic cliffs, and buttresses,
and domes of naked hard pan that
stubbornly defy the forces of ero-
sion, and refuse to crumble down.
In several places there are masses
of earth architecture that remind
one. of the ruined castles on the
Rhine. These bare walls are mos
ly of gray earth, not rock, and the
carving of them has been most
strangely done. 1t is only when you
climb among them, and touch them,
that the wonders of erosion are fully
revealed.
The hard, dry earth has most stub
bornly resisted the disintegrating
action of the water, wind, heat and
cold, and there are hundreds of earth
cliffs nearly as smooth and as perpen-
dicular as the brick walls of Harlem.
dislike to estimate the total
drop of these bad lands from the
plateau to the waters of Snow creek,
but think it is about 800 feet. g..
After the first moments of spell.
bound wonder and amaze, you begin
to pick out the geography of what
lies before you. You see that the
axis Of all this wild waste Of carved
and furrowed earth is the level and
very narrow valley of Snow creek
which comes down from the west
You can easily trace it's course east
ward to the point where it bends
abruptly northward and runs into
the Missouri, parallel with the last
eight miles Of He'll creek. In the
creek bottom there is a sinuous
string Of cottonwood trees, aspens and
willow brush.-Scribner.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

Cuba is taking a step which may be
Of importance as affecting the future
of that island. Many of the more
progressive Cubans, including gentle
men high in official position, are con.
vinced that what the country needs is
immigration which will supply the
necessary means of developing the
natural resources of that section. Cuba
is rich in agricultural, mining and
manufacturing possibilities. An Or
ganiZed effort to secure such immigra-
tion is now being made, and on the
outcome will depend important results
Cuba with good government and indus
trial expansion should be prosperous
and happy.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
.NEWSNOTES|
FOR THE
BUSY MAN !
Most Important Happen"
ing.s of the World
Told in Brief.
PERSONAL.

After spending two sleepless nights
in the Jail at Goshen, N. Y, on a
charge of beating his wife, Ferdinand
Pinney Earle, he of affinity and
"soul-mate" fame, was released on
furnishing $4,000 bail, and at once
started in search of his wife.
Wade Ellis, attorney general OF
Ohio, has accepted the office of assist
ant to the attorney general of the
United States.
Admiral Dewey unveiled memorial
tablet to Admiral Farragut in the
Portsmouth navy yard
William J. Bryan visited Salem, ILL.,,
his birthplace, and was given a great
ovation.
Delaware Republicans nominated s..
S. Pennewell of Sussex for governor.
David E. Thompson, American am
bassador to Mexico, was run down by
a bicyclist and suffered a fracture OF
one arm and contusions OF the race
FRITZ Scheff, star Of the light opera
stage, who was recently divorced from
Baron Won Bardsleben, an officer In
the Austrian army, is to marry John
Fox, Jr., the Kentucky author, 1t Is
reported.
President Roosevelt went to Jordan
vile, N. Y, for the dedication OF a
public library erected in honor OF the
mother Of Douglas Robinson, the pres
ident's brother-in-law.
District Attorney Jerome was COM
pletely exonerated by the commits
sioner named by Gov. Hughes to in
vestigate charges against Mr.. Jerome.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

Proprietors of public places are get
ting a new light on the subject of
treating the uniform of Uncle Sans
men with respect. A manager at New
London, Conn, who was called down"
for excluding a sailor has had a
change of heart. He and others in the
place have agreed that hereafter the
jackies shall be welcomed. Possibly
the announced intention of the naval
officers to cut out New London as a
port of call had something to do with
the matter. But there is better under
standing all around. The residents of
the Pacific coast set good example in
showing courtesy to the enlisted men
Of the battlcship fleet, and the effect
has been excellent
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
An Odd Document.


A very interesting document was
sold in / ,ondon auction room last
week and purchased for $500 by Mr..
Quaritc.n, to add to his literary scalps.
1t was a marriage contract between
the Marquis Desmoutiers Desnerville
and his 15-year-old spouse, Nile. de
la Brisse-Damilly, lady in waiting to
Nine. Elizabeth, before the full court
of Versailles in 1885. Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette signed the document,
which is covered with the names
of the noblesse butchered at the
guillotine. But the age Of chiv-
airy has gone 1t went with the
revolution for France and this
autographed contract has had a
varied experience. Who of its signers
ever imagined then the paper would
pass over to America and be held
there for years, only to return to the
other side of the ocean to be sold in a
London auction room for a mere song.
Mr.. Quaritch also secured at the same
time the portion Of another marriage
contract conjuring up the scene at the
court of Louis XIV, for it bore the
signatures of lie Roi Soleil," and of
the Dauphin and the Due de Bour'
gogne, with that of FRANCHISE dAu-
bigne, who controlled history as Nine.
de Maintenon. Alack the day! Ac-
cording to the London Telegraph, "all
these signatures are clerkly save hers,
written in the petulant hand of a
maitresse-femme." Since the old no
bility of France no longer exists, the
marriage contracts of it's ancestors
count for nothing save for the auto
graphs they bear.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Richest Family in Europe.

1t is not generaAy known that the
imperial family of Russia is the rich
est royal family in Europe, and de-
rives its vast wealth from three
sources-the state treasury, the i'm
perial domains formerly church
lands), and the so-called cabinet
properties" A writer in Harper's 8
Weekly gives some interesting facts.
The state treasury pays out $4,000
per annum for the needs of the i'm
perial house, principally for the main.
tenance of the palaces and the officials
and servants attached to them. The
reigning empress, for example, has
an allowance of 100000 per year, and
the dowager empress the same. Every
child born to the czar receives from
birth to the age of 81 nearly $4,000
a year, while the heir to the throne
receives annually, in addition to the
maintenance of palaces, $4,000
Daughters receive a dowry of one
million rubles when they marry.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
OBITUARY.

George P. Rowell. 70 years old, Of
New York, prominent for many years
in the newspaper advertising busi-
ness, died at Poland Springs. Me.
c. G. Mcleod, president of bank
at McLeansboro, ILL.,, Is dead.
Col William J. Glenn, 68 years old,
formerly commander Of the -Four.
teenth regiment. Pennsylvania Ma.
tional Guard, and prominent ;E Ma.
tional Guard circles. was found dead
In bed at his home In Carnegie, Pa
Mrs. Mary Torphy died in Rockfo d,
ILL.,, at the ago u 100 years.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

A fire which broke out in High street
Walton, was found to have originated
in strange fashion. A circular shaving
mirror standing next the window in a
bedroom had focused the rays of the
sun ON the bed and the intense heat
speedily set the clothes ablaze.-Lon.
don Standard,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
On the Doctors.

Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, who, OF
course, has no faith in medicine, told
q Western Christian Scientist, at one
of her latest audiences, an anecdote
about friend OF hers.
This friend, thin and nervous
woman, could not sleep. She visited
her physician and the man said:
DO you eat anything just before
going to bed?"
"Oh, no, DOCTOR" the patient re-
piled.
Well" said the physician, Just
keep a pitcher of milk and some bis
cult beside you, and every night, the
last thing you do, make a light meal
But DOCTOR" cried the lady, you
told me on no account to eat anything
before retiring"
Pooh. pooh," said the doctor, that
was three months ago. Science has
made enormous strides since then"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

"A st. Louis Judge has refused to en-
join a laundry combination on the
principle that while washerwomen
continue to exist monopoly in laun-
dry work is impossible. Nevertheless,
on the principles of equity, is not the
public entitled to an injunction against
the irreparable INJURY of Saw.edges on
itS collars?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

Jowf. new disease which is almost
epidemic in Philadelphia, swells the
Saws to three times their natural size.
iowf spreads over the country it
haye disastrous effect on CAM
Ngpellbinders.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
The Same Old Bore

"Ah, Miss Wose,D he lisped, there
is a time for all things"
Yes responded the weary girl
with a yawn, but sometimes don't
seem to notice the clock"
And even then he waited until the
cuckoo had cuckooed IL times before
he called for his hat and cane.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

The steepest railway in the world.
with a grade Of 70 per cent. at its
upper end aud an average grade of Sc
per cent. ia the Virglbahn cable up
the side of a mountain in Southern
Tyrol, Austria. The length of the line
Is 945 feet.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03


the working classes of the coun-
try has not by any means been
confined to those conspicuous services
with which the public is familiar, such
as the settlement of the anthracite
coal strike, the enforcement of the
eight-hour day on government work
and the establishment of labor's own
branch of public service-the depart
ment of commerce and labor.
Uncle Sam stands ready, of course
to step into the breach wherever oc-
casion demands in an effort to secure
square deal" and living wages for
the toiling masses but even when there
are no clouds on the horizon of the
relations between capital and labor
this paternal government is busily en-
gagged with the problem of promoting
the welfare of those who labor with
hands or brain. A number of differ
ent branches of the government are
contributing to this policy but in the
main the work devolves upon the bu-
reau of labor at Washington, which is,
in effect, the labor division of the de-
partment Of commerce and labor.
Newspaper readers hear of the bu-
reau of labor when it's head, the COM
missioner of labor, steps in and at
tempts to arbitrate some strike or
threatened strike, as for instance the
recent difficulties of the telegraphers
Of the country, but there is not one
citizen in a thousand who has any
idea of the scope of the everyday work
of the bureau in acquiring and diffus-
ing useful information on subjects con-
nected with labor in the most general
and most comprehensive sense Of that
word.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

Alcoholic smiIes on trains in Louis
lana are forbidden. However the
smiles INDUCED in by the newly wed
will be permitted as before, Though
they are said to be Intoxicating.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

The rural editor is now acknowledge
ing with thanks messes of choice
green peas and other freSh garden
sass from &as appeciative readers
who are stau backward In their sub.
scripuons and who take this method
of keeping their nahhes of the black
list.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Has wlde SCOPE.

Thirdly, this bureau of labor infor-
nation reviews exhaustively for the
benefit of its millions of American eli
ents the labor and statistical docu-
ments Of all foreign countries and
Ehep Gaything Is discovered that has
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03

bearing on labor interests in Yam.
keedom it is promptly brought to the
attention of the people concerned.
Fourthly, the bureau fulfills its func-
ton as public servitor by publishing
and sending broadcast all new laws
that are passed affecting the interests
of the working people. No matter
whether law be passed by the nation
al congress or by the legislature in
some one of our two score states it
is no sooner on the statute books than
the labor bureau sends the tidings to
the toilers who will be affected. Final
ly there is similar system for the
distribution of news relative TO court
decisions interpreting labor laws or
other happenings affecting the rela-
tions of employer and employe.
Most interesting and most important
Of the undertakings of the bureau of
labor are the special Investigations
conducted by it's own experts. These
nave covered a very wide range of
subjects. 1t is, of course, impossible
to enumerate them at length but just
to convey an idea Of the fields that
have been explored there may be cit.
ed such subjects as industrial commu.
mites at home and abroad; co-opera.
tive distribution; railway relief de-
partments; the padrone system; con.
ditions of negro workers; building and
loan associations; the inspection OF
factories and workshops; the trade,
union label; protection of workingmen
in their employment; child labor in the
United States; wages and cost of liv.
ing, etc.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
Another Version.

Smithson-What is Brownies earn
ing capacity?
Jones-It's never been tested He's
always been employed by the govern
ment.-Judge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
PRECISE.

Miss Sentimental-Tell me, are you
sure, Milton, that I'm the first you've
asked TO marry your"
Mr.. Manyack-Do you mean this
present month or do you include last
as well?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
EIGHT.HoUR SONG.

Eight hours work, THAI none may shirk
Their duty for each day;
Eight hours for rest, that each may
best
Earn we'll his weekly pay.
For leisure eight, that up-to-date
Our brain and Drawn may be;
Six days a week; day to seek
God and Eternity.
600 -l4
Aye, let us sing, with a merry ring
This eight-eight, all three
For work and rest, and leisure best;
For cheer of family.
All around the earth let there be NO
dearth
or loving brotherhood
Then blessed by God, on every SOD
Comes q glad motherhood
0-0-S
When work Is done by setting sun
We homeward make our way.
See, on the run the children come
For Here comes dad" they nay.
There's mother, dear, with face all
cheer;
She's looking. too, for pay
A kiss. so sweet, sweetheart treat
Homes be9i place. any day"
-ssN G. = Thurgeed.
-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-03
CORRECTING a MIsapprshensl

You mustn't call Gibraltar an island,
Johnny" said Mrs. LaDsling. ITS a
high point Of land extending into the
sea, and is called prominent tory