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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12
A Queer Test,

The grocer said to the applicants:
Your references are good. Show
me your style Of weighing out Eve
pounds Of sugar. There's the scales"
The applicant wreathed his face in
the amiable smile all statesmen wear
and weighed out the sugar with dis
patch and accuracy. He put on too
little sugar at first; he added gently Il
full half pound before the scale bal
nncel.
you'll do" said the grocer 'You
understand the scale trick. 1t is plain
that yon learned your trade in the
thorough old School way"
Yes. Sir" the other answered. 81
learned in the country. and almost my
first lesson was that in weighing. Tou
must add, add, add, till the beam tips
because all that adding pleases the Gus
tomer-seems TO him almost like Il gift
But IT, on the contrary, you substract
from the quantity on the scale the
customer is affected In the opposite
way-you seem to be robbing him. He
goes away convinced that you are a
stingy cheat.'--New Orleans Times
Democrat,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12
Women OYSTER Gatherers,

The work OF oyster collecting and
culture is most unsuitable for women,
but in France. owing TO its tedious ma
turc. it does rot appca! to men. Often
from an early hour i'll the morning till
late into the evening the women are
standing up to their knees in water,
with strong sun beatin. down on
them. The result is that never 4 year
passes without some OF them Soin.
mad and having to lie hurried away
20 the asylumS. The work is we'll paid.
as. Indeed. it ought 10 be. while in the
case OF the few who own beds the
profits are large. and small fortunes
are quickly amaSscd.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12
Beaten at His Own Game.

"a few days SINCE" relates a solicit
or, las ! was sitting With my friend ID.
In his Office man came in and said:
"'Mr. W., the livery stable keeper
tricked me shamefully yesterday, and
l want to be even with him.
State your case, said u.
Il asked him how much he'd Charge
me for horse to go to Richmond. He
said half a sovereign. took the
horse, aud when i came back he said
he wanted another half sovereign for
coming back and made me pay it.
I'D. gave his client some legal adj
vice. which he Immediately acted upon.
as follows: He went to the livery
stable keeper and said, How much
will you charge for Il horse to Wind
sor?'
"The man replied, A sovereign
"Client accordingly went to Wind
sor. came back by rail and Went to the
livery stable keeper, saying:
Here is your money paying him a
sovereign.
"'Where is my horse:' said W.
"'Hc's at Windsor answered the
client. I hired him only to go to Wind
sor.' "-Pearsou's Weekly.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12
THE TRUE COURAGE
OF TRADE .UNIONISM

If You are union man at
heart you will never say that you
are going to quit the union because
you have a grievance against some
member or because you do not like
the action of the union on some
particular matter. This is good
logic, says the San Francisco
Clarion. The trne unionism that
is in you, if there be any, will he
proved by your ability and willing
ness to accept in manful way the
will OF the majority, and in ac-
cepting that will as your OWN.
Grumbling and :'knockingh will
not serve your purpose in this
world, nor will they accomplish
your end if good results are desired
and most certainly those are the
results for which we all must
strive. Stand by your union in
the midst OF adversely. as we'll as
OF prosperity. This is the true
moral courage.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12
MEN OF WEALTH.

VIM. TraverS Jerome. district
attorney Of the county of New
York, prosecutor Of Harry X.
Thaw, and held responsible for the
failure to prosecute in the famous
insurance fraud cases; sees no
equality between the rich and the
poor before the law. Mr.. Jerome
said:
'.1'hcrc is 10 real equality of
rich aud poor before the law.
The poor mems chance of properly
defending himself in court is
small. 1 do not see how the con
dition can be remedied.'
The case Of John Van Rensselaer,
son OF wealth, who wrote letters
threatening to kill his own mother
if she did not give him certain
sum of money. was. particular
instance which served as an illus
Stration Tor the distric. attorney.
Van Rensselaer, escaped punish
ment by the quick work OF his at
torneyS, who had him committed
to Bellevue as temporarily ire
Sponsiblc. Instead Of being charg-
ed with blackmail. Van Eens-
salaer was merely charged with
threatening. This allowed the
authorities to send him to the
hospital instead of to jail.
''If he had been a poor man it is
likely he might have gone to Jail"
said Jerome. ''But he waS able to
employ lawyers who were shrewd
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enough to take every advantage
the law allowed.
"A poor and rich man may
appear in court in similar cases.
and yet the rich 40 free and the
poor be convicted, although one is
no more guilty than the other.
THE state. of course, is expect
ed to aid the poor man in his de-
Tense. But when q court appoints
attorneys for the defense they are
often OF the shyster variety, and at
least seldom experienced or very
able. The poor man has no funds
to bring in witnesses or experts or
detectives, but the rich man or the
prosecution can do all these things
and more. SO their cases are I'M
equal.
'The rich man gets the best
lawyer to be had, one who knows
every loop hole which can be
legally taken. and he can do like
Thaw-send clean to Europe to get
witnesses. He brings every bit of
light there is to bear on his side OF
the case The jury is likely to be
oTei,awcd. The state is placed at
a disadvantage. Aud all this the
rich man does legally on the
ground that it is an effort to get at
the truth.
This is to say nothing of the
way the rich men may use their
money for the purpose of cor
| ruption ana still escape must come
ont of their profits. one of de-
lection Labor Journal.
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Jessie.

1t IS related that when the young
man who afterward became General
Fremont ran away With and married
Jessie, Tom Benton. the great SEN
ator, made terrible threats OF what he
would DO to the young man. lie
would give him rcasts and bullets. and
30 on. TO all of which Mrs. Benton
quietly remarked. You had better
give him Jessie my dear"
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12

We would be glad to have all
local unions in the city to send in
the name and address of their
President and Secretary and also
to receive communications from
them every week
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12
A Mean Man.

Medical Man-Jobson has done the
rneaneSt thing l ever heard of. He
came TO my house the other night, ate
a big dinner. got Indigestion and then
went to another doctor 70 he cured
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12

The most wasted OF all days is that
day on which one has not laughed
EhaRtort
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BILL. AMENDING SHERMAN ANTITRUST LAW

all
United Mime Workers lcrica representing in
Fifteenth Disrct Pennsylvania which following
4
n r. ?o5s4ro amend the approved July >? 1890 entitled
monopolicS
BE Representatives
United States assembled That
by al Of said act following
enforced apply organizations associations
profit and without capital stock the members of such oani
Il
nothing provision
with OF enhancing III" price OF their agricultural orti
product.
The
Wilson bill privileges upon
rights which United States
LABOR PRESS .s4
Of
Labor invaluable
yield LOYALTY labor
they have nclgcnly and erocay thrown Influence
with the olers.
jour
support every power plan campaign
etabistmn of Iabos rights outlined by
labor
journals generally
confident tangible results will
follow the of which have the honor 10 be part
No language OF personal
Of their cooperation and excellent work. and sincerely
greater support given
heretofore.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-11-12
Annual Report Of President Samuel Gompers.

The highest Massachusetts
labor
TO become ike breaker
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06
PITHY SAYINGS
OF THE CHINESE

Shrewd and pithy sayings are char
acteristic of the Chinese, who delight
in this form of didactics, says a
Shanghai correspondent of the Evening
Post. I have collected from various
sources a number of well-known Chi
nese proverbs, the keenness and wit of
which is not TO be denied
The gist of the proverb. "A new
broom sweeps Clean" is found in the
Chinese saying:
He lifts his feet high who has put
on boots for the first time"
The following hit OF the distinguish
ing characteristics of certain classes of
people whom each of US has met:
Free sitters at a theatre who cry
down with the play" those who want
to plant a tree in the morning and
saw blanks from it at night" and the
dreamer who spends his days Sitting
in a well staring at the sky.
Some of us also know '@The man who
falls to beating the priest the momen:
he has finished his prayers" The Chi
naman is not a bigOt. as witness the
proverb: The right path is in each
mans mind Nor is he very easily be-
fooled bv a plausible front: Polite at
tentions generally mean L want some
thing"
Here is a little gentle cynicism:
III i easier TO visit friends than to
live with them
..-rhe riches of one family are the
hatred of many
Great folks may set the town in a
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bachelor is the most magnificent being
yet produced by the evolutionary proc
ess. Far from being the inferior of
the married man, he is, we believe in
fnitely the latter's superior, not only
on account of his greater measure of
liberty, his more philosophic mind and
his escape from petty distractions, but
also because of his obviously greater
efficiency He is, in a word, the COM
plete master of his environment
which means the sum of the natural
and artificial forces working toward his
discontinue, enSlavement and disSolu-
tion-whereas the married man is al
ways handicapped by some inimical and
sinister influence, whether IL be q senti-
mental tendency to yield to his wifes
idiosyncrasies, or supine inclination to
submit to his mOther-in-law' ukases
and edicts.
According to the current view the
married man is, ipso facto, hero. This
view infects even bachelors themselves.
as is well shown by the proposal of the
captain in the story. II is revealed
again every time a fresh panic arrives,
for the bachelors are always discharged
before the married men. The theory
seems to be that the latter are of more
value to the world-a notion as indie
feasible as the kindred idea that the
moon is made of celluloid.
AS a matter of fact, a mans value
to the world is determined, not by his
domestic condition, but by his eff
ficiency. A man who can earn SIC. 900
a year is worth two men who can earn
but $1,000. A man who can iump
thirty. feet is worth fifteen men who
can jump but two feet. A man who
can eat a ham and two cabbages at a
sitting is worth forty dyspeptics who
MUNICH toast and zWeiback. And final
ly. man who. in the face of constant
endeavors by fascinating widows. an
thropophagus maiden ladies and match
making mammas. TO lure him into mat
rimOny yet manages TO elude the hv-
meneal hook. and 10 live out his DAYS
in 4 capelia biessedneSs doing fhe
thinking of the world and serving as d
glorious example to youth-this man is
worth leo who permit themselves to be
dragseds shrieking, UP the Aisle of
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blaze; common people mustn't even
light a candle"
The following is a bit of good advice
for the over-sanguine:
Better go home and make net than
jump into a pool after the fish,
Business men will appreciate the
keenness of these four:
Don't smash your goods to kill a
rat"
Without lucky help one never grows
rich
when the market is brisk the seller
does not stop to wash the mud from
his turnips.
You burn the insence and I get the
profit"
The last quoted proverb is. 1 think. 4
particularly incisive one. There are
probably few of us who have not found
ourselves. at one time or another
Burning the insense" while another
reaped the profit
The following contains tip-top advice
for the young man:
HE who pursues two rabbits will sue
ceed in catching neither
The subject of legal administration
has elected the following:
while we live let US keep out OF the
courts. when dead out of hell
1.-THE magistrate is not so dreadtui as
MS man.
e.The sword of Justice is swift. but viii
not wound the innocent
The tragedy in the life OF many q
red-nosed church-goer is indicated by
the following;
"A red-nosed man may not be
drunkard, but he will always be called
one
Even chinese wives are sometimes q
trifie contrary The Chinese say:
ITO oblige your brother is to disaP-
point your sister-in-law
The desirability Of disarming suspi-
cion is inculcated in the Injunction
IF you don't belong TO the famNy'
don't go into the house
Advice 10 mothers;
IF you wish your children to have q
auiet life. iet them always be little
hungry and cold
The relation of parent and child IN
China is peculiar on account OF the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06
THE VALUE OF A MAN.
1t Is Determined, Not by His Domes-
tic Condition, but by Efficiency.
(Baltimore SUM

On the coast of England the other
day small pleasure steamer bearing
twenty-six passengers. all men, ran
upon sunken wreck and began to
sink There was but one small life
boat, and this would hold but half of
the passengers. Thirteen might be
saved. but the other thirteen would
have to plunge into the sea and take
their chances.
In this emergency the captain, a
young Englishman, spoke up:
How many married men are here?"
said he.
Thirteen men stepped forward.
Let these men get into the boat"
said the captain. I'VE bachelors will
try TO SWIM
The married men eagerly assented to
this proposal. and in two minutes they
were in the boat and rowing for the
beach. Just then the steamer went
down and the thirteen bachelors jumped
into the angry waves They were will
ing to take their chances They were
willing to give every advantage to their
married brethren. who had wives and
children at home.
And did the heroic bachelors drown?
Not at all. They breasted the gigantic
pillows like mermen and reached the
strand safe and sound And then,
pausing a moment to draw breath,
they plunged in again-to rescue the
married men, The latter. crazy with
fear. had managed 10 swamp their boat
within fifty yards of the beach and
were now struggling in the surf and
bowling for help. The bachelors. shout
ing reassuring words to them. got them
ashore. emDtied them OF sea water.
rubbed their ears. Gained their fears
and carried them home.
This true story proves anew a thesis
that we have been maintaining. IN the
face of frenzied opposition and calum-
ny, for the past forty-two years Brif-
ly stated, it is this: That the human
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GALL ABOARD"
OPhiIadelphia Ledger. }


Two little youngsters sh2mbled peni-
tently into the class room long after the
school had opened for the morning ses-
sion.
Boys. come to my desk Immediately. -
said the teacher
The meek little lads walked to the
teachers desk and stood looking helpless
~ at their feet
Tommy, why are YOU late this morn
ing2'' asked the teacher
Il OVERSIGHT myself. ma'am.' began
Tommy. You see, teacher. dreamed I
was going TO take a railroad trip.
Just got TO the station when I woke IN
an found Il was way past school time -
Freddy. why are you late2" inquired
the teacher. turning to the other bow
please. ma'am.' replied the trembling
Freddy. Il went to the station 10 see
Tommy off -
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high degree of control exercised by the
father. Hence:
Men rear sons to provide for OLD
age; they plant trees because they want
the shade
IF the father is not compassionate
the son is sure not to be filial -
He who has no father or mother can
boast of his filial behavior
AS all over the world. and to a pecu-
liar extent in China, the poor and OBJ
scure person hasn't much show. Wit
ness the following, one of the best
known of Chinese proverbs:
The large fish eat the small fish. the
small fish eat the shrimps, and the
shrimps feed on the mud
A disturbing factor is thus described
There is no ease for the mouth
where one tooth is aching"
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silly says Sadie II sha'n't let you,
that's all, Shorty, you see that she
doesn't I'll be back soon' Then
she's off
Well, looks at Miss Hubbard, and
she looks at me.
Miss Peggy don't act like she was
real tuned I'D for conversation just
then; but she manages to say that she
and Sadie got chummy comm over on
the steamer that she don't know hard
ly anyone in New York. and that she
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great headwa. After my second or
third crack she gives me the three
quarters view of her right shoulder and
goes on bitin' her lip. We must have
looked about as joyous and CHEEKY as a
pair of plaster images on the mantel.
Once Pinckney floats by with some lady
friend on his arm, and wants TO know
if everything is all right.
"Oh, lovely"' says /. IT couldn't be
enjOyin' myself more if 1 was tongue
tied"
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wishes she had stayed right in her no.
tel with mommer, instead of coming out
among a lot Of stiff strangers.
Live in Chicago, eh?" says L
'''Chicagor' says I she. Certainly
not!'
"Whewr' says l. 81 might have
known il was Denver"
But this only brings her chin up a
little more, so 1 declares the class in
geography adjourned. What / wanted
to do was to soOthe her down and make
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her feel comfortable for it was as
clear as day she was some outsider
that Sadie had rung in on this swell
dinner party, and that she'd been up
against the cold, CLASSY gaze. You
know how them folks can do it. Even
if she hadn't been a friend of Sadie's.
I'd been sorry for her; for there was
no denyin' that in the brunette class
she was a star. and a nice. well be-
haved girl at that.
Somehow, though, didn't make any
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06
a JOKE THAT FAILED.

The smart coc1ney tourist thought he
would have a Joke with the gendarEle
and handed him the restaurant menu in
stead OF mis- passport. while his friends
stood by to laugh at the puzzled Frog
gle
But the Frenchman took the document
with grave poiiteness. glancine keenly al
the cOckney as IL to verify the desc-ip-
ton
Then he read and translated slowly from
the menu: "Caifs head" pigs feet"
pass on, N sieu-Quite correct"
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Signs, their hair clipped short, their
shoes shining their eyes bullying with
horror and plain gold rings in their vest
pockets.
A soldier who dies ingloriously upon
the battle field is not entirely useless
to the world it may be admitted with
all truth; but of infinite greater value
is the soldier who bestrews the field
with the ma1gled corpses of his foe
men, and then goes home himself un-
harmed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-06-26

and Lee Frazier. They played var
Ous games for amusement, and had
chicken sandwiches, Ice cream, cake,
ihsrbet and coffee for retreshmeptA
They. had . splendid evenings AuA
tsrtainment, and oil voted Mr.. and M
Tullis firstIclass entertainers.
The Baptist Mite Society met With
hps. Griffith, Of Buffalo, this. altar
noon and had an old fashioned quiit
Ing bee. Quite q number. went oul
from town and had q great good time
in addition 10 one Of those farm din
ners where they don't count the
chickens they try. add where yod can
eat all you wait-and Il you don't
eat nors than Is good for you, they
think you are starving yourself. Well
they had a big dinner and did some
quilting. but the, dinner Is the CHIEF
topic Of conversation with the, guests
from the city which b plenty Of evil
dsnce that Mrs. Griffith knows how b
entertain. e..
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-06-26

Schemes hes never gone beyond III
shove simple statement Of scripture. But
II Ass iIlsninstsd thss statement sud
givsn II . meaning ever broadening with
The increasing breadth Of knovlsdss.
When the blood % ,bsd or impure Il
q not alone the BODY which suhsEs
SAsoaah disessa Tbs bfsin b slsp
eleulA. Va nina ana Svd~nsps IN
en,essd. end nanv A evil - Or Inpues
tl0>shiSn6.S iSstly tsssul "a ~
lnp6Iydthsk Tow. impvrs hlooi
eaa lausd6 pufI IN pm d6M K
fIVS5S 6olSS IS1ieal T. 1o6sSry : D.
ssrieSS ~ ssrIIG ~ ~ fnS
ssdns. SinslsN Sls1Sk0. ssSSSls1a ~
stkss sptesspos s4sctie6A g pGesna,
tsesg, q aitrlhsum, hive ~ stAls
manifestations Of inpusS b3ocl > :
\ a sa- n
In N. e1,S A SSo6Slois SSs(S,S =,
,.rssd Sas.das Can S6aaue uhugG =. 81
- u .Go;isn Nslisai piussacey.Aa
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-06-26

Nature has provided the stomach
with certain natural fluids known as
the digestive juices, and tits through
these juices that the food we eat is
|acted upon 10 such way as to pro
duce the rich, red blood that flows
through the veins Of our body and
thereby makes us strong. healthy and
robust, and Il Is the weakening Of
these digestive juices that destroys
health It is oulown fault il We
destroy our own health, and yet it IS
50 easy for any one to put their stom.
zach out Of order. When you need to
take something takeit promptly, but
ftake something you know is reliable,
something like Kodol for dyspepsia
and indigestion. Kodol is pleasant
ito take, tits reliable mdlsguaranteed
Ito give relief. 1t is sold by Hooper
nDrug Co.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-06-26
HolsINeToN HAPPENINGS.

Wv sNbNSSs
From The Dispatch, June IS.
H. Wildgen is getting along nicely
now and has been able to walk around
some the past few days. %
Henry Bell returned Tuesday morn.
from a trip through Wyoming, Idaho,
and Colorado. He does not like the
Wyoming desert very well, but gain
ed twenty pounds in weight while
out there. He expects to return to
Colorado next year and locate at
Montrose. g.
The proper name for the organiza-
ton which was perfected among the
Hbisington business men by F. L.
Marsh Is the Business Mems Asso-
citation, instead Of Commercial Club.
The business men are organizing owe;
the county for their mutual benefit,
with headquarters at Great Bend.
A quiet wedding occurred at tie
Methodist parsonage last Sunday eve.
ming at 1880 o'clock. The contract.
ing parties were John A. Shriwise an
Christine Schwint. Mr.. and Mrs. shr
wise expect to make their home Just
north Of town. They are well known
here, and many friends and acquaint
ances wish them q bright future and
a successful journey through Me.. H
j.. Donaldson, pastor Of the NJ. e.
church performed the ceremony