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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
BY PETER POWER

One of the important results of
the signal victory gained by the
striking workers of the Pressed
Steel Car Co. at McKees Rocks.
Pa, and the pending strike of the
tinplate workers against the United
States Steel corporation, will be
the formation Of great national
organization comprising all branch
es of artisans engaged In the iron
and steel industry.
Those who are promoting the
new labor combination declare
that 1t will have membership of
half million men before very
long. 1t is an undisputed fact
that there has been general dis
satisfaction with the policies pur-
sued by former officials of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron.
Steel and Tinplate Workers. 1t
is charged that their whole ambi-
tion in life was to secure high pro-
tective tariffs for manufacturers
and political offices for them
seles. and the records sustain the
charges.
Butte while the Jarretts, Weihes
and Garlands stepped into politi-
cal offices, the tariff-fattened COM
bines smashed into the unions,
and tens of thousands of men were
victimized or withdrew in disgust.
Now these men all over the coun-
try, largely owing to the merciless
oppression imposed upon them by
the trust, are again becoming i'm
bued with the spirit of organization
and resistance, but they demand a
merging of all factions and branch.
es In the industry and clean leader
ship.
In all likelihood the Amalaga-
mated association, the Sons of
Vulcan, the Tinplate Workers
(finishers), and the Industrial
Workers will form the nucleus of
the new movement The Industrial
Workers are comparatively new
organization and include the
Pressed Steel Car strikers as we'll
as thousands of heretofore unor-
ganized laborers. Their slogan is
that no agreement can be made in
any institution unless it includes
every worker from the humblest
laborer to the highest-priccd me-
chanic. and that principle will I'M
doubtedly dominate the new
amalgamation. 1t proved the win
ming card In the Pressed Steel Car
strike.
Those silent workers, the railway
postal clerks. are being stirred into |,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22

the whole country. He had to work
along the black hand angle as we'll
as others.
I'VE have almost martial law In
the Italian district in this city. Our
police and detectives are instructed
to stop any Italian on the street
and search him for arms. This isn't
the low. of course, it's a form of
martial law. We have taken guns
and knives by the score. When the
Italians complain say to them,
Well, IL you don't like it, why don't
you stop wearing guns, and make
your friends do the same?'
Then l suggest to them, as l
have been suggesting for many
months, that the thing for the Ital-
ians in this country to do is to take
their own countrymen in hand. The
Italians can wipe out this black
hand evil"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
JUST CAN'T MAKE
HER EYES BEHAVE
(By United Press.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Miss
Nettie Crosby, daughter of the late
Captain Thomas Crosby of Sayville,
l.. l., was taken i'll two weeks ago,
when her eyelids closed tightly, and
she has not been able. even during
her waking moments, to open her
eyes by the usual muscular power.
When she wishes to see at all she
must force open her eyelids with
her fingers. Her physicians re-
gard her case as battling.
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black hand, yet the time is ripe to
impress one lesson on peoples
minds, and that is this:
If the black hand is ever sup
pressed, the Italians must do it
themselves. The police cannot do
1t alone"
1t was Chief of Police Edward
Brophy of this city who spoke. 1t
was conclusion uttered with deep
conviction. Utica, city OF $4,000
people, has 10000 Italians, and
Chief Brophy finds the regulation
of the Italian district his most diff
ficult task.
He had been working for week
to discover the motive and perpe-
traitor of the brutal murder of two
Italian children and the wounding
OF another--a crime that shocked
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
HASN'T MISSED MEETINGS FOR
5000 CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-With the
arrival last night of the thirty-sec-
ond anniversary of the Pacific Gar
den mission. Mrs. Sarah C. Clarke
attained the record of having at
tended meetings for 5000 consecu-
tive nights.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22

Special Coxxaspondenos TO xhs Press
UTICA, N. T., Sept. .22.-"Though
1t has been proved that the murder
Of the Procopie girl and the Infu-
sin0 baby was not the work of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
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DOCTORS SEWED .
SPONGE IN MAN .
(By United Press)

= IOWA CITY, Ia, Sept. 20 .
. Mrs. c. F. Hanes, Colfax, has .
= started suit for $4,000 =
= against DR.. William Jepson. .
. DIR. Jepson is a member of the .
= state university medical fac .
= ulty. Mrs. Hanes says that DIR. .
= Jepson operated on her hus- .
= band and left a sponge in him. .
. He died afterward. .
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
cHINA's BABY EMPEROR SICK
fey United Press.l

PARIS, Sept. PA Picking dis
patch reports that the emperor of
China is seriously ill with dysen-
terry.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
HAD TO WASH
FEET OF BOSS
Domestic Also "Manicured" His
/. Toes, But Got No Pay.
(ey United Press.)


i. KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. o.
Because, she alleges, it was neces-
sary in the performance of her du-
ties as housekeeper to daily wash
her employers feet and manicure
his toe nails, for which she re-
ceived no compensation, Hattie
Rappas instituted civil proceedings
to recover from N. Lope, her for
mer employer, $36, which she de-
clared was due her in wages.
The case was tried today. Judg-
ment was in favor of the defendant.
Tat Squadron to Leave Hampton
Roads for New Orleans Oct. Fl
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. o.
The armored cruiser squadron,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
The Wiles of Women.
BY tom p. MORGAN.

"Bewar' y oytnously said good old
Parson Bagster, addressing IN
dle-hued young theological student.
"Bewar' o de wiles o. women!-an'
ee-speeially widdah women! All
th'oo life de pafway of de preacher
am besot by designin women in
sleeps clothin', seekin' whom dey
mought devour l muhse'f was de
humble instrument in one O. de most
diabolical plots ever hatehed to kotch
a man; an if it hadn't uh-been for
de blessed fac dat de Lawd was wild
me I'd sho' have been trapped:
Oar was lady-good-lookin' yal-
lah widdah-dat indoOced me, in muh
Sophisticated innocence. to hol her
han now an ag'in, an guggled like
a jug wild bashfulness every time.
An she softly whispuhed in muh
yeah dat her husband had died of
dat ar intellectual disease. info'ma-
tion on de brain, leayin' her mighty
nigh three hundred dollars on de-
posit, an all alone in de col world
'cept for one brudder eight feet tall
But, uE-well. sab, | was TUX sick on
mum way home. count of a cullud
man dat was fatigued bout de afo'-
said widdah kotchin me an hom-
merin' me widout mussy - Lawd S
wuk, sab. dough I didn't organize it
at de time-ontwell l was fast in muh
bed for two weeks When was able
to crope out into de sunshine ag'in
| learned dat it wasn't brains dat had
killed her husband, but a gropin
pain in his abandon dat twisted him
out'n his mawtal guile; an de money
he left on deposit was what de cou'ts
had elected out'n him fun time to
time in fines; and de brudder eight
feet tall, dat q enterprisin' pusson
could a make his fawchin out'n in de
op'ry business, was two half-brud-
ders, bofe hunch-backs fou' feet high
an busted in deir financials at dat;
an, sides. de culled man dat gimme
de beatin had one mar'd de widdah
next day after his frolic wild me.
Il allus blesses de Lawd an de
tudder gentleman for lookin out for
me when l was too innocent to take
keer o muhsef. Bewar' o de wiles
o women!"-Puck,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
The Egyptian Crocodile
Its Cunning and Wonderful
NOiseIeSSneSS--ItS Enemies

caught with goats. and NJ. Du Chaillu
tells that in Africa the Anengue "har-
poon them with a rude Jagged spear
Diodorus. however, averred that they
could only be taken in iron nets, and
the general belief that they were be-
yond the power of man to capture is
reflected in the medal which Augustus
struck to commemorate his conquest
Of Egypt, with the crocodile chained
to tree. and the proud legend, "Ne
one has bound me before" 51ul
II in Egypt they bound the {, 70
odile at all it seems to have been with
garlands OF flowers and chains Of
gold and gems. a proceeding which
interested the crocodile only in so far
as 1t offered a chance for a succulent
garlander coming within reach. The
promiscuous Identification. which was
shared with such things as cats and
beetles, was after all but an indlffer-
ent compliment. nor even so was 1t
seemingly universal among the
Egyptians. Those about Thebes and
Lake Moeris consider them to be very
sacred. but the people
whe dwell about the city of Elephan-
tina eat them Which fairly re-
dressed the balance; but we must
conjecture that whether for worship
or for the table the croeodlles were
caught young.-London Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29

Regretfully as one must acknowl-
edge it, such novelties in the way Of
entertainments as have illumined the
past rather dull season have been pro-
vided by American hostesses. The
soiree Watteau gave recently in the
garden of house not hundred
miles from Sloane street was abso-
lutely charming and original
1t is wonderful what can be done
with quite a commonplace back gar
den" in a London square if the host
ess only has ideas This American
one has many. and by means of roses,
electric lights. artfully constructed
little fountains and the most graceful
measures-for it was pavanes and
minuets and gavottes that We're
danced in suitable costume amid
these picturesque surroundings-she
transformed her little garden space
into fairyland and transported her
guests to the eighteenth century
Lady's Pictorial.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
Polishing by Hot Air.

The marvels of friction are infnfrs.
The use of the sand blast for polish
ing metals is quite recent invention.
and now it is followed by that of a
blast of simple hot air It is the ve-
locity that gives the polishing power
The articles to be treated are placed
in a basket in a centrifugal machine
driven at a very high speed and
heated air is blown from a pipe
through the basket. A high polish is
thus produced very rapidly
Nickel plated articles that have be-
come tarnished are made bright in a
few minutes Wet metal fresh from
the bath needs no preliminary dry
ing. for the current of air dries and
polishes at the same moment 1t is
only necessary to so pack the articles
that the air reaches them on all sides.
Youths Companion.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
A Question of Grammar

Hetty's uncle, who was a school
teacher. met her on the street one
beautiful May day and asked her if
she was going out with the Maying
party
mo; amt going"
"Oh, my little dear" said her un-
Gle, you must not say 1 amt going.
You must say I am not going, and.
he proceeded to give her a little leSs
son in grammar you are not goa bet
He is not going. We are not. BY
You are not going. They are
ing. Now, can you ss,. On
7 l1c.ty?" - ~
Sure. l can. shea, MD.
a courtesy. "Thev--
iag."-LutherarsDY BREAD.
4 Dandy. 5-21-Os
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
Ii MARYLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER q.

er would do the washing, and I'll do
it even at the cost of such a pleasure
as an auto ride"
A few minutes later. as Julia was
hurrying home she met Walter Rad
cliffe Unexpectedly on turning a street
corner. "our friend Polly cannot
join our auto party to-day" she in
formed him after the usual greetings
were over.
The young mans face fell. 80?
am indeed, sorry to hear it. 1 hope
she is not ILL.,"
Julia laughed. mot at ALI 1
found her Just now shoulder deep in
the soapsuds, her cheeks and hands
scarlet. l suggested putting aside the
work and coming along with us. but
she would not shirk her duty to her
mother. Poor little household
drudge,'
A peal of laughter followed her
words, which somehow Jared on
Walter Radcliffe, and like a lightning
fash his thoughts and feelings un-
uSlWtut CnduBe.
Il am sorry she cannot come" he
said earnestly. but" his eyes grew a
trifie cold as he looked at her. 81 am
sure such faithfulness deserves re-
ward, and for Polly's sake | shall
postpone the auto trip until to-mor.
row"
Polly was hanging out the clothes.
so deep in her disappointment that
she did not hear the footsteps ap-
preaching until tall. sylisbly
dressed young man stood before her,
hat in hand, Polly uttered a sur
pfised ''Oh!" and made wild plunge
to run out of sight, but was caught in
a pair of strong athletic arms. and
soon found herself gazing into Walter
Radcliffe's merry blue eyes, which
held IN them a light so strange. so
thrilling, that poor little Polly was
actually frightened, yet her heart fut-
tered exquisitely at the same time.
Polly, l love you!" he cried with
the vehemence of youth and passion.
Il want you to marry me, VIII you.
little girI?"
She freed herself from his arms
and stared at him. You marry mel"
she exclaimed, bewildered why,
where is Julia? I thought you we're
going to omarry her-she is so stylish,
while I-oh. dear"
You are the best little girl in all
the world and want vou polivt
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
THE NEWSPAPER MAN.
Ny son, ! don't know if your youthful c.
narfiap

My son, don't know if your youthful con-
ception
Has breadth in the scope of its nebulous
plan
To WELD comprehension Of that one ex-
ceptIon to workaday mortals the
newspaper man.
But if you'll agree to a feeble description
From one of their number, I'll do what
| can
To blend in the way of little prescription,
The mixture that's known as a news
paper mani
Take brain that is stepped in a solution
Of knowledge,
Most varied and picturesque under the
Then add just pinch of the salt of the
college.
A flavor of wit and a soupcon of fun.
For relish, Bohemian sauce is the caper
And a min1 that will stretch from
Beersheba to Dan,
In fancy or fact, when it comes to "the
Or touches the heart of the newspaper
mani
To a memory that clutches the veriest
triie,
And a hand that is tireless when works
TO be done,
Add an eye that is quick as the flash of a
rife,
And keen as the eagle that flies to the
sun.
Take strength and endurance and loyal de
voton,
And add all the grit and courage you
can
To the heart that's big and as deep as the
ocean:
A hundred to one on the newspaper
mani
With a brew of ideas that, seething and
boiling,
Run out into molds that are models Of
men,
Add eeaseless encounter with planning
and toiling
For the world Of today that is ruled by
the pen.
Add the honey of friendship, the dew of
affection,
And the esprit de corps that gets down
to hand pan;
And paste in your hat the whole mortal
collection
As the regui4r stock of the newspaper
man.
Press and Printer.
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when he doesn't nsr.
mind with him.
An editor on a daily paper has laid
himself open to unkind remarks by
trying to take up a collection in his
office. Happening to want small
coin he turned to a fellow-worker and
asked for a quarter
Haven't got it, but here's a dollar -
the man replied, as he tossed it over.
The editor put the dollar in his pock-
ct and Immediately turned TO a spe-
cial writer at the next desk and said
Miss --, could you lend me
quarter?" Then, seeing the man
from whom he had got the dollar
grin. he added hastily. "Oh. never
mind; I just got a dollar from
Brown"
In analyzing his conduct he said
that Browns reply that he did not
have quarter was apparently the
only part of the transaction that made
any impression upon him. But he is
under suspicion in that office. and
will probably never be able to live it
down.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
AbsenteMinded.

When lapses of memory become
habitual the person is properly called
absent-minded The Chicago Tribune
relates the following absurdities into
which some victims of this disease
have fallen:
A bridegroom of twenty-four hours
left his wife. strolled around TO his
new mother-in-laws house. and asked
her if her daughter was at home This
came from force of habit he had
been calling there daily for some
time. and it probably occurred to him
that he had not paid his usual visit.
A Chicago bank president is un-
able to account for three-quarters Of
an hour of his life He went into a
restaurant, as usual, and ordered his
lunch Nearly an hour later he found
himself in his office chair. and sud
denly remembered the order
He went back across the street and
asked if the luncheon was ready.
The clerk informed him that he had
.e.f,ten nald the Hill aud hat he (the
3 illne i a-@g-s'.
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NsssSARIPPLE,S
6f555II6rEaIETAl3syg

"uope remarted the mere man
lis certainly 4 wonderful thing" m
is renIled th.o wiae woman awbv
one NILE plbbIe Will tesn NV husband
esbinc Iii da,.@ Chtcsro paiiv
News.
81 tbint the iittis one = oa. -,
hear resemblapee 10 bIs,,ys,ss.P : -
well ,. answered Mr. pasnsr .If
that is tho oass bono ne cbiId viii
learn n near n Win na,,ence IVA
courage wasbing,on stsr
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29

water quake, the hideous tnlnp A..
denly. still in complete silence.
thrusts itself out upon the bank many
yards away-it may be further off
or nearer to yOu-to lie a mere snag
at the waters edge, waiting for what
ever may come within its reach,
whether you or another. the dread
fulness of the thing is very chilling.
Sir Samuel Baker tells of the cum
ming of croeodiles which advance at
an animal without any concealment
and then, as if in disgust at their
failure, turn and swim away, still in
sight, only at last to sink below the
surface and returning without a
ripple to betray them rise Immediately
below the quarry. which has by this
time returned to drink in fancied
security. By this trick he saw them
again and again catch birds which
settled on branches overhanging the
water The chief food of most mem
bers Of the family, and probably the
entire food of some, is fish; but now
that we know that a full grown
rhinoceros can be pulled into the
water and killed by a crocodile we
may believe that few living things
do not at one time or another fall
victims to them. Horses, oxen. buff
faloes, boars, mules and camelsn is
list which one writer gives of animals
which are known to have been eaten
by croeodiles in Egypt In South
America jaguars and tapirs have been
seen being seized, pulled into deep
water and drowned; while as for
man, consider the Mugger Of Mugger
Ghaut in Mr.. Kipling's grewsome tale,
The Undertakers
According to old writer's the ich-
neumon, besides eating crocodiles'
eggs, would run into the full grown
animals open mouth and so down its
throat, whence, after revelling for a
while amid Leviathan's vitals, it ate
its way out of the dead carcass vic
toriously to daylight The hydra. ."
it seems. did the same But the dol
phin's method was the more artistic,
for being provided with a knife edged
dorsal fin it swan underneath tine
encased erocodiles" and sliced clean
open the soft, unprotected parts be-
low.
In real 1ife, however the large
crocodilia have probably no enemy
but man, and even man without mod
ern firearms was nearly helpless
against them.
The sword of him that layeth az
him cannot hold; the spear the dart
nor the habergeon.
-Canst thou draw out Leviathan
with any hook?" asks the sacred
writer. Herodotus says that in his
day they could use pig for bait In
India we know that they have been
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29
HOW, WHAT, wHEgH wrH

Who'll be the frst to vis1 Marsy
How may a man incre x hh sizeg
Why do men smoke sun rank ciRarf
What Of the wiicherythat lies
Hid in tbc. Jfue q Chloe's eyess
Let re repeat Was Hamlet mad?
cay. does ii pay to advertise;
Why did ! write this gay baliadeg
What's the best cure for family jarss
show us how wrinkles to disKuiseA
u there a way % count the stars "
IS there a way TO kiii of ficss ecte
What Tor the blues would you ads-ihed
Why does tbe hardling feel 70 glad = the
As for long hours bis trade he psaint
Why did ! write this gay hall9des int
What is the use Of kings or czafs
Where does the rose 90 when it diesy
Why do men tinple at the barsg
What shall We do when baby cries.
What are the whereiores and the whye
Ihal underlie elch reigning fady $
''leS do the ghosts the light despises a
sso !, -'ta this gay ballades
IN, oi Gltleers ,. s., -s,1Alsans rise ,iaI
DAY SFer day to make NJ ---------'s's'-at
Tel me--Im sure I can't surmise- Va
Why dj1 | write this CAV halladeg
Nathan N Levy in New York Sun
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29

One Of the reasons given by old
writer's for the crocodile being wor-
shipped in Egypt was the somewhat
cryptic one that Il "laid threescore
eggs and lived for threescore years;
but from twenty to thirty is the com
mon number of eggs found in a
clutch In the reptiles easy code
Of ethics. however. its parental re-
sponsibilities end with the act of owl
position, for having covered the eggs
with layer of sand It leaves the sun
to do the rest whence doubtless
Shakespeare your mud and the op-
Grafton of your SUM- and leaves It
also to the ichneumon to do its worst.
In some places 1t seems that water
tOrtoises, too, eat crocodiles' eggs;
but the ichneumon is the real DESC
lator of crocodile homes, scatching
up the nests and eating or breaking
the entire sitting" at a meal. Croc-
odiles eggs, however. are absurdly
small. mother twenty feet long be-
ing content with an egg no larger
than that of a goose. and the newly
hatched young. hardly more fOrmida-
BILE than a common newt, are preyed
upon by birds. which a little later the
rapidly growing crocodile would like
nothing better than to get within its
reach, as well as doubtless by many
other things, including old crocodiles
themselves.
Tho real horror of the members Of
the crocodile tribe lies in their usual
noiselessness. They swim with great
silence. making scarcely even a ripple
on the water" says NJ. Du Chaillu,
and the terror of the stealth of their
approach is well conveyed in Mr.
Rudyard Kipling's cripple Song"
"Wait. oh! wait, the ripple saith;
Maiden, wait. for l am Death!"
The first sight of an alligator or
crocodile, however large summing it.
self on a mudbank and pretending to
be a stranded log is usually disap-
pointing. and if it is lying with its
mouth open, as in the sunshine they
all love to do Wherefore, seeing them
remaining SO immovably in what
looks like so strained an attitude,
many visitors to the gardens go away
declaring that the crocodiles are
stuffed). it becomes almost absurd
But when you have come upon one
Unexpectedly with its head and fore
quarters out of the water. and have
seen it slide noiselessly back until it
Al
sun ~ = tsfferal Passenger a gent
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29

The Kaiser's only daughter, Prin-
cess Luise Victoria. is to be confirmed
and to come out in the world after
her seventeenth birthday,
She has been kept back much less
than English princesses, says the G. D.,
tlewoman, and fashionably dIp
has visited endless theatres aAAS 4
cert halls and driven her
cart in the Thiergartep -fNs
there ever since she Sss 49,
Most distinguished .fs-gpsssSs ssss9lE5j
Princess is as fuE - Ss.s..,..a a
as any Of her .-.s-;s&s7. = = - Z, = Z.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-10-29

Tel me-~i'm sure I can't surmise--
Why dji | write this CAV hallade2
Nathan NJ Levy, in New York Sun.