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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23
Table Talk.

a story IN which Webster is said
TO have figured: The statesman was
once asked by a woman at a dinner
given in his honor. how he varied in
his eating and what he generally ate.
Madam" the answer ran. Il vary in
eating in thin respect; sometimes /
eat more. but never less"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23

Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails At druggists.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23

Lewis Single Binder straight &c. Many
smokers prefer them to loo cigars. Your
dealer or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23
RILlN6 WOMEN.
Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kid.
neys viii Keep You Well.

Sick, suffering, lanEuid women are
learning the true cause OF bad backs
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23

When you wear out suit Of clothes
you can generally get another. but its
different when you wear out your vel.
come.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23

Do not force yourself to take offensive
land harmful drurs-takc Garfield Tea,
Natures Herb laxative; it ovcrcomcs con.
stipatIon, puritics the blood, brings Health!
The sugar production of the United
States does not grow with the con
sumption.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23
Red, wenk, Weary, wntcry Eyes

Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Com
pounded by Experienced Physicians. Con-
forms to Pure Food and Drug Laws. Mu-
rire Doesn't Smart: Soothcs Eye Pain
Try Murine IN Your Eyes. At Druggists.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23
BARNES ST. Mo NOUS COLLEGE

Bookkeeping. shorthand, Typcwrtlng and English
Branches Est, q yrs. Eight experienced tenchcrA
Individual instruction, Catalog free. Enter now.
No vacation Address J. X. ANDERSON, Prime pal
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23
ST. LOUIS DIRECTORY
Your Eve Sight

We VII Property and SccnllhclIly nt your Cys-
with proper glasses "By Mail" or II you HT5
coming ~ 1t. Louis, come In our store Spcctuclcs
800 and up. Established In 81 Louis Is years.
ALOE OPTICAL CO.. 5lS olive st., 81 Louis Mo.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-23
SEWER PIPE and 1 nFA'N

BLACKMER 4 POST PIPE COMPANY.
ST. Louis, so. Write for catalog and prices.
Mention this paper.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
RICH Man STUDYING
THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
To Get Information at First Hand
Has Assumed the Role of
Hobo"
SPENDS HIS NIGHTS IN
CITY LODGING HOUSES
Says He Finds Ninety Per Cent of
the Homeless Honest and
Worthy.

NEW YORK, March 4.-Edwin A.
Brown, a Denver millionaire, is in
New York getting practical experience
to guide him in a movement he has
started to induce his home city to
establish municipal lodging houses.
Mr.. Brown is grand d-nephew of
Montgomery Pike, whose name is
borne by Colorados most noted, peak.
He has a fine home on Capitol Hill,
In Denver, owns automobiles and
similar luxuries. His real estate
holdings in Denver bring him a large
income. He feels that he has mis-
sion to perform with his fortune and
is going about it in earnest.
On Monday night Mr.. Brown set out
to acquire information at first hand,
as is his custom. When he left mis-
suite at the Waldorf he wore, under
his expensive overcoat, a jumper that
cost 60 cents, pair Of overalls that
cost SIS cents, a shirt that cost 25
cents, and brogans for which he paid
$1.00. He walked over to the Mar
Unique, checked his overcoat and thus
effected his transformation to rough
looking "workingman."
He then went to the new municipal
lodging house on East 25th street
and had a taste Of the real thing"
He was given a meal, consisting Of
black coffee and bread, then was sent
down to bathe. His clothes were
taken away and placed in the oven to
fumigate, and, with several other
"hOboes," was sent upstairs to his
cot
when I went to bed last night
there was an old man right next to
me who settled down to rest with a
sigh, and a prayer that touched my
heart" said Mr.. Brown Tuesday. "He
was away past the allotted tnreescore
and ten, and he was evidently a. man
of intelligence :Oh,, God. I. thank
you,' he said, as he sank into that
public bed.
Il have found that the people with
whom I come in contact in the brick
ovens and the municipal lodging
houses are possessed of heart and
brains, the same as the rest of u.s.
Mr. Brown went into a statistical
investigation of the homeless. He
says he found 80 per cent of the men
honest and worthy. He went to Chi
cago and spent night in the munic-
ipal lodging house there. He arrived
late, and no beds were left.
Il had to sleep on the f1oor,' said
he. There were many others sleep
ing on the floor, too. The Chicago
system is good but the rooms should
be lighted"
MIR. Brown hopes to return to Den
YER armed with statistical facts rnat
will enable him to place an intelligent
plan before his fellow citizens.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
MERRY WIDOW PLAY :.
CAUSES TURK PANIC
When Show Is Produced in constan-
tinople 1t Is Kissed OFF Stage
Women Faint.

CONsTANTlNOPLE, March "A
crowded house, including the British
Ambassador and his wife, were wit
Messing last night a. performance Of
the MERRY Widow" by a company Of
Austrian artists when a group Of
Montenegrins, considering that the
piece wounded their national senti-
ments, created a disturbance by hoot-
Ing, ,whistling and beating the floor
with sticks. This brought the per-
formance to an abrupt close and most
Of the audience left the theater pre-
cipitately. Several women tainted
during the excitement. The Monte
negrins were arrested, but subsequent
ly were released.
Tn country of "Marsovia" in the
Merry Widow" is Enthusiastically
Montenegro, and it was originally so
called in the piece, but the name was
changed. The costumes are a humor-
Gus exaggeration of those of the
Montenegrins and the description of
the occupations and habits of the
Mlontenegrins are ridiculed by the
author
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
bLACKL|ST|NG GETS A
WELL DESERVED BLOW
Blacklisted Telegrapher Awarded
Verdict for $1,000 Against
Western Union.
Company Was Unable to Produce
Evidence to Show Plaintiff
Was Incompetent.

SEATTLE, Wash, March 4.-The
Western Union Telegraph company
will have to pay $1,000 damages for
blacklisting James w. O'Brien, for
merly employed by the United Press,
according. to a verdict rendered in
Judge Wilson r. Gray's court.
During the telegraph strike Of 1907
O'Brien became chairman of the press
committee and gave out information
concerning the manner in which the
Western Union handled messages at
that time.
On December 80, 1907, O'Brien was
discharged by the United Press from
the Puget Sound American at Bel
lingham on demand Of the Western
Union the only ground being that he
was not acceptable. Since that time
OBrien showed that he was unable
to work In Vancouver and Tacoma,
Where newspapers wanted a telegra-
pher and where the United Press
wanted to hire him, but could not be
cause the Western Union objected.
The Western Union was unable to
produce any evidence that O'Brien
was incompetent or was not of good
character.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
PANT MAKERS SSTRIKE
"A GREAT SUCCESS
Has Come to Close After a Hard
Struggle Of Several Weeks.


NEW YORK, March 4-The strike
Of the pants makers and the knee
pants makers has come to close
after hard struggle for several
weeks with complete success. Never
before in the history of strikes in
the clothing industry I'm this city has
a gretater victory been achieved, and
what makes it more remarkable in
what has been accomplished is the
fact that it originated among unor-
ganized workers. I
The net results Of the strike are as
follows: +
First-Tne total abolition of pay
ing for steam power for which each,
employe had been heretofore taxed
in amounts ranging from 80 to 40
cents per week. 4 r.
Second-An increase in prices from
20 to 25 per cent.
Third-The fixing Of a day at the
end of each week that the employe
shall be paid in cash instead of
checks as heretofore. and on which
there was often a. loss Of 25 or 80
cents in having them cashed
Fourth-The last but not the least
result secured was the formal recog-
milton Of the union,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
RACE INTERMARRIAGE
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM
Such Is the Opinion Of Japanese
Student in Duluth High School.

1ntermarriage of the races would
solve the Japanese immigration ques-
tion, according to Dan Shibuya, Jap
anese student in the Central high
school,
Shibuya came to the United States
some years ago bent on getting an
education. He comes Of wealthy
parents and when he goes back to
mis- own country will walk in the best
Of society.
He has written paper which he
thinks comes about as near to solving
the yellow peril problem as any yet
devised. He states that after all the
Jap is not SO very different from the
Caucasian in either color or accomp-
lishments. His countrymen are wax
ing up to sucn an extent that their
civilization is now beyond the send
ing Of missionaries.
The question, if a question at all,
is one Of the heart, can be solved by
marriage alone and that governmental
Intervention is out of the question.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
Securing Large Number of 1mmi-
grants of Good Glass and
Easily Assimilated.
FROM NORTHERN EUROPE
AND THE UNITED STATES
A Standing Rebuke to the Indis-
criminate Methods of It's
Republican Neighbor.

NEW YORK, March 4.-In the last
ten years ending with 1908 Canada
has increased ner population by i'm
migration to the extent of 1,166,126;
of these 487,720 came from the British
Islands, 432,493 from the United. States
and 356,913 from other countries.
The matter of significance in these
statistics is the large number of peo-
pie having left the United States for
Canada, and they are mostly of a class
of desirable citizens which we can ill
afford to lose-Western farmers from
Montana and the Dakotas, who have
emigrated to the Northwest wheat field
provinces of Canada, such as Mani
toba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Brit
ish Columbia.
The emigration Of such is a decided
loss to the urban industrial worker.
The statistics of United States immi-
grafton may be kept up in spite Of the
loss of these Western farmers, but it
is made good by the increase of in
dustrial immigrants to our cities.
which makes a double loss.
The United States boasts of it's vast
population, but it would have been
far better had she made a better Sc
lection in her immigration class and
not opened the floodgates and filled
up the country. There is no doubt,
could the last two decades be recalled,
a different system would prevail.
The Canadians are learning their
lesson from the United States and are
not anxious to fill up the country al
though their land areage~ is far greater
than ours, and they began the twen-
tieth century with the same popula-
ton that the' United States began it's
nineteenth 100000.
Take the Canadian statistics above
referred to, a little over 100000 in
ten years, and Of these more than two
thirds English speaking people, 4accus-
toned to self-government,1 = while the
other third contains a fair proportion
from Germany, France, Sweden, Den
mark, etc., whose peasants make de-
sirable settlers.
The congested cities and conditions
as a result of hasty and indiscriminz
ate immigration to the United States
are frequently pointed to by Canadian
statesmen and taken as an example
and warning as preventive against
| falling into the same error, and the
people of the Dominion of Canada will
no doubt profit thereby.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
RAILROADS NOW ASK
TO Be GIVEN A REST
Burlington Road Circulating Pc
tition Against any Further
Legislation.
Employees Asked to Cooperate
With Roads Against Legisla~
tive Interference.

CHICAGO, March 4.-The Burling-
ton is preparing for circulation
among it's $4,000 employees pam
phlet containing an address by Vice.
President DAM Ell Willard, Of which
the keynote is a plea that the railroad
be given a rest from further anti
railroad legislation. This, ne declares.
Is necessary lin order that they may
adjust themselves to the conditions
imposed b ythe host Of new laws pass
ed within the'last two or three years.
Mr.. Willard asserts there are now
in congress or in the legislature of the
eleven states traversed by the Bur-
lington 272 proposed laws regulating
the railroads, and the employees are
asked to cooperate with the man
agement by using their influence to
oppose such legislation. He describes
the effect Of the recent business de-
preston on the roads by citing figures
showing the almost completed discon-
tinuance of railroad improvement work
and reductions of payrolls and ex-
penditures on the Burlington system.
He points out that during the leg
islative season Of 1906-07, over 500
bills concerning railroads were intro
duced in the eleven legislatures and
in. congress, all Of which, he, says,
were regarded by railroad men as
hostile ,and many Of which, such as
the two-cent fare laws, reduced reve-
nues. At the same time, it is stated,
wages were being generally raised,
this item amounting to $3,000,000 for
the Burlington. @
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
LONDON COPS ARREST
MANY .sUFFRAC|STS
Society Leaders Adopt Militant
Tactics But Police Guard
Parliament.
The Situation Has Taken on An
Embarrassing Aspect for the
Government.

LONDON, March 4. 4.-Every effort of
the suffragettes to- force the hand Of
the government becomes more deter
mined, and it is Increasingly difficult
to predict how their demands may be
parried successfully. The situation
has taken on an embarrassing aspect
for the government, owing to the high
social position Of many among some
thirty or more women arrested last
evening.
Both sides were we'll prepared for
last nights attempt of the suffra-
gettes to force themselves on Premier
Asquith, who declined by letter Tues
day to receive the deputation. the
women held parliament in Caxton
hall and a. number of them started on
danger duty led by Mrs: Lawrence.
~. The police, abaKdo n1ng former tac-
ties OF barring stt.sB approach to the
House of Commons, adopted the new
plan of breaking up the procession
close to Caxton hall. They permit
ted the suffragettes to proceed simply
by couples, escorted by small parties
of spectators. Thus, although they
were allowed to get close to Parlia-
ment, the police kept them moving
and none was allowed to enter the
building.
Finally, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, the
leader; Lady Constance Lytton, sister
of Lord Lytton; Daisy Solomon, daugh-
ter of the ex-premier of Cape Colony;
Una Dugale, niece of Viscount Peel,
and several others were arrested.
The news of this caused much ex-
citement in Caxton hall. Mrs. Saul
olomon volunteered to lead a second
deputation to the house. This met the
same fate, but provoked more street
scenes and a much larger number Of
arrests
A third deputation started from the
hall, but this time the destination was
Brooks club, where the premier was
dining.
Near st. James Palace a large force
Of police descended upon the process
sion, compelled it to break ranks, and
more arrests were made. Only two or
three Of the women reached the doors
of the club, where they were stopped
by the police and sent away.
Last nights demonstration were not
marked by such roughness and vio-
lence witnessed on some former occa-
sions, but the women leaders declare
their intention to adopt still more for
chile methods.
Miss Christabel Pankhurst in the
course of a speech said:
'<When I speak of stronger meas
ures I speak in all earnestness. We
Va1,1a neither o1Ir 1ihertv NOR O11r lives
unless the women of this country get
a VOTE"
All the expeditions received musical
honors when they set forth, the band
playing the "Marsellaise."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
Cardinal Gibbons a Most Sincere
Admirer of the Nation s New
President.
ABILITY AND JUDGMENT
CHARACTERIZE MIR. TAFT
All Things Considered Said the.
Cardinal Taft Should Make
An. Excellent President.

BALTIMORE, Nd, March IA
cast-iron hand in a silken glove is
Cardinal Gibbons characterization of
President-elect Taft The Cardinal
has just returned from his trip to New
Orleans and talks interestingly OF it.
Of Mr.. Taft the Cardinal spoke in
the highest terms. He expects the
president-elect to conduct his office
admirably.
'Mr: Taft is man of fine caliber,"
said the Cardinal, "and his tact and
diplomacy is offset by his kindness Of
spirit and his open heartedness.
HE filled all who met him with
love toward him, and I am sure he
made few or no enemies. His good
executive ability, combined with his
judicial judgment, should go to make
him an excellent president. feel
that he is a man of principle, who
will respond to his duties nobly.''
The cardinal said that the big din
ner in New Orleans was a fitting proof
of Mr.. Taft's popularity and that by
his address the president-elect en-
deared himsel to the people Of that
city.
OF the Panama canal Cardinal Glib
bons was not so enthusiastic. He said
the business interests of New Orleans
do not think so highly of the project
as their Northern countrymen, de-
claring that the money invested in it
would not justify the results.
Colonel John T. Gibbons, the Car
dinars brother, is one of the largest
merchants in Louisiana, and it is his
sentiments tnat the Cardinal voices:
"The merchants of New Orleans
said the Cardinal, "say that the
money being invested in the project
will not bring its worth in business.
They declare that the canal will take.
a great part Of their trade from the.
east ana That there is5iitttle or NO good.
to be derived by them from the west
ern coast Of the country. This, they
say, holds true also for other cities
on the eastern seaboard."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
DOCKED FOR OBSERVING
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY

NEW YORK, March 4.-Because
Boss j. E. Wewey, of the United Gar
'r't ompany, IS University place, a
concern that manufactures ladies'
rubbers, wrappers, etc., insisted on
docking the weeks wages of four
cutters, VINO, led by Adolph Lebowitz,
of AT East ssth street, refused to
work more than half day on Wash
ington's birthday, the cutters walked
out last Saturday, telling the boss
that they would never come back un-
til he paid them what was legally
due them. S>
These men earned only from So to
50 per week and the working condi-
tions were bad. The trade is unor-
ganized, but 1t is reported that an
effort will now be made to uniopize
the several hundred rubber cutters in
this city. . y, >
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
LICENSED TUGMEN's =, i.
PROSPECTS ARE GOOD

The Licensed Tugmen's Protective
association, at its hall Tuesday even
ing, listened to an interesting report
from the grand president, Martin Cole,
about his trip around the lakes. p. 4 ... Y
Mr.. Cole stated that conditions as
far as the tugmen were concerned
were vastly improved from last year.
Agreements nave; been reached with
all the tug owners. except a few indie
5pendents. and the salaries are the
same and some 8 instances increased
over last year. IA
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
ACCUSES SALVATION
ARMY OF DISHONESTY
California Paper Says It is Graft.
ing on the Unemployed Of
San Francisco.

The "World," a Socialist publica-
tion in Oakland, California, gives the
ofllowing account of the trouble now
existing between the unemployed of
San Francisco and the Salvation
Army Of that city:
I'm last weeks issue of the
World attention was called to the fact
that two active religious organiza-
tions, the Whosoever Will Rescue Mis-
sion and the Salvation army in San
Francisco, are turning the local un-
employed problem to good account, fl
nancially, for themselves. It was
pointed out that J. C. Westenberg, or
ganizer of the Whosoever Will outfit,
is grating from the needy what he
can and turning away to walk the
streets 'whosoever' cannot come
through with the ready money He
evidently believes that charity begins
at home,' and lives up to his faith, as
in none of his five lodging houses can
charity bed be found.
Meanwhile, the Salvation Army is
getting hold Of It's 30 per cent, ex-
penses fund by selling food-cabbage
meal, for which they themselves paw
absolutely nothing. Also they offer
charity beds at Is cents per, and
those who are without the change
may walk without, taking up a. bed.
It's case of leave the bed and walk.
During the past week all the ref
use of the restaurants and hotels
had been, eaten up by an army Of
more than ten thousand unemployed
men. When the St. Fancis hotel
was reached the Salvation Army had
got there first and 1t was from
the cabbage leaves they there OBJ
tanned free Of cost that the ready 30
per cent was realized. (After the or
ganization uses up for themselves
about 80 per cent Of all money OBJ
ta1ned for charity, they divide up the
rest with the needy!)'' as. y 4,13.sssSs
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
SUPERIOR UNION MEN
WILL bU|LD TEMPLE
Large Amount Of Money Has AL
ready Been Subscribed for
the Purpose.
Building Contemplated Will be a
Credit to the Head Of
the Lakes.

SUPERIOR, March 4.-The union
labor men of this city held a mass
meeting recently at Union hall for the
purpose Of discussing means Of rails
ing funds with which to build the new
$4,000 Labor Temple. The meeting
was we'll attended. William O'Carroll
acted in the capacity of chairman.
Although all of the subscription lists
had not been brought in so that an
estimate could be given as to the ex-
act amount of money that has already
been subscribed by the working men
toward the project, it was shown that
the work is progressing very salts
factorily.
The plan that is now in use by the
trade unionists is to circulate sub
scrlption lists among the $500 labor
ing men belonging to the various
unions in the city. Each member is
asked to subscribe at least IS, which
buys him a membership to the priv
ileges of the new club house. The cost
,being only nominal has proved already
the popularity Of the scheme y
The new labor temple, according tc
the present intentions Of the pro-
moters, will be a three-story struc-
ture, including ba sement The low
er floor will be used for club rooms
for the various unions. The second
floor will be used for an auditorium
and the upper story converted to lodge
rooms and headquarters for fraterna1
organizations. AS soon as sufficient
money has been secured, site will be
selected, centrally located, and build
ing operations will be started.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-03-06
BODY OF PET DOG IS -
ORDERED REMOVED FROM
FAMILY LOT IN CEMETERY

KANSAS CITY, March 3.-Because
the trustees of the Sharon cemetery at
Merwin, Mo-, ordered him to remove the
body Of his pet dog "Fritzie," now bu-
ried in the family lot, William D. Cor
bin, a well-to-do oil man Of Kansas
City, today withdrew his preferred
gift Of $4,000 to the cemetery. Mr..
Corbin also ordered the bodies of ten Of
his relatives now resting there ex-
humed and buried elsewhere. ,s..., ,Ss
The cemetery authorities assert that
the burial OF dog on their premises is
an insult to the town Of Merwin. Mr..
Corbin declares the dog, which was his
wife's companion is buried at the foot
Of his sons grave, and II there is re-
Election upon any one. 1t is on his own
relatives Sc s e .: ta.Ea