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The labor standard., 1910-01-01
The Labor Press.

Again I may refer to the splendid service rendered our movement by the labor press of America. In no country on the globe are there so general or so effective publications purely devoted to the interests of the wage earners as are issued by the men of our move ment. The service of the labor press in organizing and uplift work cannot be calculated in dollars and cents. It is our duty as trades unionists not only to give them our moral support, but the more substantial assistance that they may live and prosper and be of still greater efficiency to help in the struggle for justice and right.-From President Gompers' Report.
The labor standard., 1910-01-01

In 1871 the General Assembly ap- pointed a commission to contract for and fully complete a Capitol building in Hartford, and appropriated five hundred thousand dollars, authorizing the city of Hartford to appropriate and issue bonds to the extent of one million dollars for the same purpose.
 The commission accepted the pres ent site from the city of Hartford, and the plan of MT. R. M. Upjohn of New York as a design for the building.
 In 1873 the plan was changed to a design for the present fire proof building, and five hundred thousand dollars additional appropriated by the State. A new commission was also appointed. In 1875 this was supple mented by a further and final appro- pration of one million dollars.
 The General Assembly opened it's
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THE STATE CAPITOL

from ground to top of roof, ninety-two feet eight inches; to top of crowning figure, two hundred fifty-seven feet two inches.
 The offices of the Comptroller, Treasurer, Commissioners of the School Fund, Adjutant- General, Quar- termaster- General, Insurance Con- missioner, and Superintendent of the Capitol are on the first floor.
 On the second floor are the Senate Chamber, Representatives Hall and coat-rooms and the offices of the Gov- ernor, the Secretary, the Highway Commissioner. the Clerk of Bills, and Engrossing Clerk.
 On the third floor are the Supreme Court room, the office of the Reporter, the State Library, the Tax Commits sioner's office. and the offices of the Attorney General, Factory Inspector,
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first regular session in the building in January, 1879, but it was not fully completed until some months later.
 The entire cost including heating and ventilating apparatus and such statuary as was placed at the time of erection, was S, 532, ,524.43, and the cost of the furniture was about one hun dred thousand dollars more.
 The rooms used for offices and by committees are numbered from 1 to 80. The Senate Chamber and Repre- sentatives' Hall, on the second floor, and the State Library, on the third floor, are not numbered.
 The dimensions are as follows:
 Extreme length, two hundred ninety-five feet eight inches; width of central part one hundred eighty-nine feet four inches; of wings, one hun dred eleven feet eight inches; height
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the State Board of Education, Railroad Commissioners, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Dairy Commissioner, and the Commissioner on Domestic Animals. The ladies' parlOr is also on this floor.
 On the fourth floor are located the offices Of the State Police, Bank Con- missioners and Commissioner on Building and Loan Associations, the State Board of Charities, and the Board of Education of the Blind; the other rooms arc used for committee purposes during the sessions of the General Assembly.
 On the fifth floor are the offices of the Connecticut Prison Association, the State Board of Health, and number of committee rooms and stOrerooms of the different departments; also the Capitol restaurant.
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UPH0LDS' THE BOYCOTT.
Right to Withdraw Patronage Cannot
 Be Enjoined, Says Mitchell.

Be EnJoined, Says Mitchell.
 "The fight must continue to uphold the boycott" said John Mitchell in a recent interview in New York. "Not because the laboring men have any particular love for the boycott" he added. Indeed, they have no more love for the boycott than for the strike. Both are extreme measures of defense forced upon the wage earners by un- just conditions. The workers fully realize that the boycott and the strike are means to be used to maintain their rights and promote their welfare when seriously threatened by hostile, greedy and unfair employers when no other remedy seems available. It is not the strike or the boycott itself which mat ters so much as the recognition of the lawful right to employ either or both when necessary.
 "With the boycott cleared of wrong full charges and misapprehension and recognized as a lawful right we will find it's use diminishing. It will be power held in reserve and used only when no other remedy is adequate.
 "Even if we had been guilty of un- lawful conspiracy and coercion and in- timidation--Which we were moisture ly there should be some more adequate punishment than by process of in junction. In fact, existing laws do not provide greater punishment for these offenses; and l submit that if we are guilty of them we should be tried by due process of law before a jury of our peers and, if found guilty, punish ed as the law provides rather than be subjected to the caprice of a judge who solely determines the sutficiency of the charges, the guilt of the defend- ant and who imposes punishment as his whim may prompt"
 Reverting to the boycott as means of remedying wrongs, MT. Mitchell said: "We have always held, and we still hold, that laborers or other citi- zens have the right to withhold or to bestoW their patronage as they choose; that they have the right to advise friends and sympathiZers of this ac- tion and of the reasons therefor. It is hardly necessary to state that in the case of the workers the unfair attitude of the dealer in question has always been the reason for the withdrawal of patronage.
 Ut has been made clear that he re- fused to pay the standard rate of wages and to agree to other equitable conditions which the workers seek through organizations, and hence the withdrawal of patronage. The boy cotts declared by other citizens have sometimes been placed for other req sons, and they can safely be left to defense of their own actions.
 "The boycott is by no means weap- on used by workers alone. It is one of those inalienable rights which are at times used by all people. The right to withhold or withdraw patronage is one of those things which can neither be enjoined, forbidden nor punished. Upon us, however, the attempt has been made by the courts to have the boycott declared unlawful and con- spiracy and hence subject to judicial decree and punishment"
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1910-12-07

Los euentoe hasa aho1a ecihlcos pubcados para 10
char ep e] campeonao LA Cor1s popdenoa auto
res son los que slguen,
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1910-12-07
omite EjecutiVo del CarnaTt
PREs1DENo1A.

Este comit6 acord6 en- sesi6n
aver, anunciar un oencu1so poE qul
ce dias a partir de esta fecAA. soli{
tlndo dibujos artisticos para 4 cabf
ia del programa de las festas pros
mas del Carnaval de l91l;y sok
las siguientes bases:
la.-se otorgara un premio de s
al autor del dibujo que este 6
mite ella; J entendiendcse i
dlcho dibujo queda desdo 'la
de la propiedad del Comite.
2a.-Los dibujos deberan ser acak
dos, y en- forma que cualquis
que sea e. elegido pueda ser
producido en- cliche al objeto (
dicho de que Sc s;rva para ]
cubiertas del programa; y hi
dc representa- asunto prop
para el case de que Sc trata.
5a.-Los dibujos no elejidos por
Junta Q Comite quedar&n 4 dl
rosci6n de sus autores; J 81 prt
mio del elgido podra ser satisf
cho desde el dia siguiente d
acuerdo en- que Sc eliza.
IA. a.-Detalles del tamaho' 'podran s.
licitarsc del Secretaio de es
tomite sehor Nazquez AlayoI
5a. Los dibujos deberan dirigirse
nombre de ests presiden eia,
sobre cerrado, sin que en tall
dibujos SC indique el nombre {
su aItor; pero en- un sobre cerrt
DO tameien y que Sc incluird,
pondIa on una hoja de papel
nombre del autor. Cada dibu
deberd tener un lena, Y un lem
igual Sc pondra exteriornente
el sobre que contenga 81 nombr'
! IN cumpllmiento de acuerdo
publica para conocimiento de euanto
quleran presentarse Il este eoncurs
artistico. DR.. +. lei Yale Atile
Presidente
San Juan, P. r. + dc Diciembl
de 1910.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1910-12-07
BESO TT[RAGICO.
Hist6rico.sOcial.)
(Por Ea1la1ia Psaa.)
u2s del campeonato de "La Correspondence

La escena que Sc desarrollaba te-
MIA lugar en- el pequeno y pintoresco
puehlecito de Cataho. Esto sucedia a
mediados del siglo diez y nueva en-
que la poblacion Sc reducia a dos
largas Gales y algunos calleiones.
En- su mayoria no habian nj la ter
cera parte de lujosas casas que hoy
en- dia tiene.
Todo Sc reducia a una esplendl.la
vegetaci6n de arboles frutales en-
que sobresalia gallardamente Ia pal
ma del coco.
Dandole una idea 4 mis- amables
lectores de 10 que era antes el pueoio
voy a empezar mi relate.
Por aquel entonces era medico
delpueblo, un doctor muy afamado,
muy cortes and very sweetheart.
Tenia su despacho por el Malecon
CD en- una casa de basta aparlencla
aunque SUI interior no estaba con
ammonia con la fecha, pues guarda-
ba mucho ljo y limpieza. Tenia Wis
ia al mar por tres grandes ventana,
de vidrios de ,colores y tres pueltas
de escape
Muebles de mimbres cuadros,
espejos alfombras, etc; todo Sc 10
permitia el dueno de mi relate. To-
do los utensilios que requiere Ia
cirujia estaban ALI, en- aquella
mansion de lujo y sencillez reparti-
dos en- perfecto orden. La otra habi-
tacion contigua i la que nos ocupa
era el recibidor. NADIA hahlaremos
de ella pues no tiene ningun atrac-
two.
Era Gle tarde.
El sol declinaba lento Y ma gestuo-
SO hacia el cent llevando en- su al
ma de fuego las enloclones sufridas
por la humanidad dllrante aquel
dia.
La tarde era apacible y sere-
ma. :. una brisa primaveral de
de esas brisas que solo hay en- nues-
ira Borlnquen, dulces y gra tas, inn
pregnada de perfumes acaticia
dulcemente 4 los habitantes de aque-
LA comarca. Los pajarillos ocultos
en- la enramada preludialMn amoro-
SOS trinos, que hacian languidecer
el alma y palpitar el corazon de
anlores.
La natura Sc habfa vestido con su
suave ropaje de verde y ORC; las TO
sas ADRIAN mas sus corolas espar
ciendo perfumes como 81 quisieran
abarcar mas vida para simbolizar
SUI grata existencla filtrandose en-
las nubes.
La reseda Y el nardo Sc disputa-
ban las primicias Gle sus perfumes.
La violeta oculta entire el cGsp,',
asomaba su corola Y derlamaba sua
We esencia admirando las otras flo
res que vanidosas Sc erguian sobre
sus tallos.
Hasta el mar grave y silencioso
Q) Nombre que tenia antes Ii par
te que hoy dia llaman Puerto .Ar,i-
TO-
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habiase introducido en- aquella fiesta
de Ia naturaleza tan armonlosa y
dulce pues sus olas morlan lentamen
te soble la playa, fernando caprlcho
so juego SUI blanca espuma, que pa
recia el velo de una desposada hecho
glrones y tirado al azarde Ia ventura
Todo reia todo era luz, todo poe
sla....
Ella envuelta en- luz no veia nj
! ola, 500 hacia dulces esfuerzos por
desaeirse de entire sus brazos.
Mas por aquellos momentos en-
que su alma Sc hallaba extasiada,
contemplando Ia belleza que oprlmia
contra su pecho tampoco la escu-
chaba
Tenia los ojos inyectados en- san
gre, palido el rostro, y sus lablos 70
Jos como el coral temblaban por lo-
barle un beso.
--Hace tempo te amo en- sllenclo
decia el- sofocando el grito del amor
mo queriendo turbar Ia paz de tu
existencia, pero no puedo mas.
lo Sc que soy correspondent,
desde lace tempo, pues tn palldez
! v emoc.on me 10 demuestra ahora.
Y asf es que los amantes no Sc ME
Gan carieias. Me daras un beso, blen
mio, I'm beso solamente, que 70 slen
ia tu coraz6n palpitar junto al nl1o;
muy junto, que el fuego de tu sangre
Sc filtre en- mis- venas. In heso qiie
poetise mi vida, que sea "a bace g
mi ciencia, Ia musa Gle ilais poaaaa.;;..
que sea todo, que sea mi vida, MI
amor, mi esperanza, todo en- fin.
Que 70 yea flotar ese beso, que
me persiga en- todas parties, que sea
la brisa que acaricie mi rostro, Cue
le yea en- la palida faz dc mis- enter
mos que 10 yea en- mis- lloros, que
sienta su agradable sonido en- el aolo
roso aye de un moribundo consuml-
do por el dolor y la miseria.
-lCallas- deciale oprimiendoie
amorosamente las manos- no yes
que estuy ebrio de amor no YES que
Ia fiebrc consume mi cerebro9
NO YES que las fuerzas me faltan
no me sientes desfallecer?
/ Ella por toda contestacion Sc AFRO
jo en- sus brazos. Impossible es de-
ducir 10 que sucedio entire ellos, pues
besos suspiros lag1i,nas juramentos
de amor, todo Sc virti6 a los pies del
trono de Cupido.
Despues de la tempestad viene la
bonanza.
.Asf nuestros dos amantes Sc cal
maron Sc miraron en- silenclo como
para funuir sus almas en- una.
l'restamente ella Sc levanto del
suelo ,ionde cstaba sentada, Sc abra
z6 i su amante, lc bes6 con frenesi
| y dclirio, escape por el jardin dejan
do Ia estancia envuelta Ell luz y per-
fumes y desapareciendo por el jar
| din f;lf 1 hundirse en- las profundi-
!ades del octano, donde. =.
FL amor la volvio loca.
-eY 6l.-preguntaran mis- lcctores.
70 no Sc pero adquirirG noticias.
san Juan 1910.
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SO FL Castigo de una venganza, por Rafael Prieto
Azuar Rincon
94 Sin venganza, por Norberto Escabi Mayaguez.
95 Amor llanto, por Josefa Archa, Vega baja
So Los dos hnerfanos por Fidela Benitez. Gurabo
81 La sobre el monte por Angel Guillermo Rodr
guez Ponce.
50 Fenomeno raro, por Vvimar, Aguadlla
80 La Guadalupe de Ponce, por Armando Flores Ponce
100 La tragedia del sato por Ramon Roure Rodriguez
San Sebastian.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1910-12-07
Huelga de zapsteros,

Los zapateWs de San Juan Sc har
presentado Ell huelga al YER que el
Ia Palmesana de Juan Pieras Allen
32 que tienen un fenomenal surtido
de calzado 4 precios baratisimo:
Ropa hecha Gle los ultimos mo
delOs de los Estados Unidos.
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81 FL Vagabundo por NJ. T., Arecibo
SS Rosln Flerida, por Carmelo Oben Glayama
SO De TERRA Baja. por Eugeno Rodriguez Cuebas.
Mayaglez
90 ;Quifn engaa qu6n, por Yalentin Polanco dc Je.
sus. Ciales
81 Amor juyenil. por P. H. Negron. Nueya York.
50 La Desconocida, por 6. II. C., Trujllo aIto.
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pILDOaAS ANTIBACILAaES.

Las Pdo ausare- nan probado pode,.o meicamen
para IL euraon dc las ae'eones del
Las hronquiis scudas ssns L rnne q, -
bercuicsi puHonar Gen plsor
Asi hn Totldo ompcnarto sulayov Ios IA.
uumtabies sniernos dern elias resabIe rieUto
&c h.iian DC ysua rgCps d1oSuer u de Ia .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26
Wash Your Hands.

Civilized man touches a hundred
things with his hands to every one
with any other part of his body. Lit
orally he sticks the former into ev-
erything. 1t follows, as DR.. Eccles
points out in the Dietic and Hygienic
Gazette, that hands probably play a.
very important part in the spread of
disease. From this the further cor
ollary may be drawn that washing the
hands is sanitary process of great i'm
portance. 1t affords an imperfect but
partial disinfection.
Pretty much everything touched by
the hands may be infected-money.
newspapers, books, street car straps
restaurant knives and forks and tum-
blers, other peoples hands, door han
dies. public pens and pencils, and so
on, ad infinitum. Every one of these
touches may. and some of them GER
ta1nly do, result in a transfer of germs
Fortunately most of the newcomers
Will be harmless, but occasionally a
batch" arrives analogous to the
blackhanders, and if they find any
cut or minute abrasion of the skin, or
If the imbecile care1essness of their
the possibility of a death, or at least
an expensive illness in the latter's
family becomes imminent.
Therefore, says DIR. Eccles, wash
your hands as often as opportunity
offers. You can't overdo it. Clean
hands are Of far more Importance n.y.
chemically than esthetically; washing
them after handling some dangerous
ly infected object may save your own
or some one else's life. AS you have
no way of distinguishing infected
from uninfected things-bank notes,
for instance-the hands should always
be washed as a matter of routine be-
fore they are carried to the eyes or
lips.
What Dr. Eccles would like to see
adopted is antiseptic hand washing
involving the routine use of some fair
ly strong germicide. This is a counsel
of perfection that cannot be hoped for
A more frequent use of soap and water
will be boon enough for a first step.
The Medical Record agrees with DR..
Eccles as to the necessity for a hand
washing crusade.-NeW York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26
CANNON AND HIS HOME FOLK.

Some days ago, the Chicago Tribune,
which has been actively engaged for
the past couple of years in fight
against Speaker Cannon, reported that
it had made a poll of the Republican
newspaper editors in the congressional
district which has kept Mr.. Cannon in
congress for so many years. for the
purpose of ascertaining how they felt
on the prospects of his reelection to
congress. his reelection to the speak
ership, and if they approved of the
Payne Aldrich tariff law.
AS a result of this poll the Tribune
printed a table claiming that it had
received eighteen replies to its queries
ard that of the eighteen. twelve were
unalterably opposed to Mr.. Cannon.
The Commercial-News of Danville, Ill,
one of the prominent papers in Mr..
Cannon's district. had reason to be-
lieve that these figures put out by the
Chicago Tribune were misleading. at
least. and did not express the true SEN
timent of the Republican newspapers
of the district. The News did not re-
ceive a request from the Tribune for
its opinion and 1t was inclined to be-
lieve that several other papers in the
district had been misrepresented. SO
the News took a poll on it's own hook
and sent inquiries to all the Republi-
can newspapers in the district, asking
them for answers to questions which
were Identical with the ones which the
Chicago, Tribune said it had asked.
Replies were received by the Com
merciaI-News from the editors and
proprietors of twenty of the Re
publican newspapers in the district.
Nineteen Of them replied that they ap-
proved Mr. Cannon's position on the
tariff; they are in favor of his re-elec-
ton to congress and also in favor of
his reelection as speaker of the house.
The other one refused to express his
opinions either way.
This makes it apparent that the Chi
cago Tribune got its wires crossed in
the poll it took. If it did not DO any
thing worse. 1t also shows that the
anti-Cannon forces will go to almost
any extent to accomplish their ends.
And If several of the polls taken by
the Tribune of late which have been
accepted at their face value and which
have been deemed to be of consider
able importance in the world of poll
tics, are no more reliable than this
one which was shattered by the Dan
vile Commercial-News, none of them
amount to very much.
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she looked up, suddenly i'll at ease.
you see, I'm an-an American, and
IN my country girls almost always go
about unattended
He thought that she seemed f1uster-
ed and confused in her bare statement
OF. cold facts, but he waited, interest
edly, for her TO continue.
You see," she suddenly biurted
out, they want me to marry man
Inat don't want to. They say that
I've turned from too many good offers,
ana that must marry now. L came
here to get away from them for awhile
ana tnats the reason that like to be
alone.'
The princes eyes were filled with the
light OF more than mere impersonaI in
terest as he gazed down at the little
tender sympathy. my dear child" he
said, 1T Is my case exactly. am an
ahem-Englishman. My land borders
on nat OF young lady, the heiress of
an immense fortune. My family, my
friends. in fact. every one insists that
l orer my hand and go Join the two
great tracts of meadow and woodland
LILO one priceless estate. /, too, came
TO Rentreux to think things over
There were many condoling chats af-
ter that. The prince found the young
person, though Independent at times
ana OF manner somewhat overbearing
| and inclined to domineer, more widely
read ana deeply cultured than he had
IN him a great comfort and solace to
| her woes.
| The week sped all too quickly. The
Gay Tor parting arrived with remorse-
| less rapidly. It was with strange re-
iuctance and deeper detection than ever
as to his future that the prince bade
the young American goodby on the
| sandy, eoam-strewn shore.
He said. Il wish the very brightest
fate for you. have known few women
to equal you. and 1 know that you de-
| serve the best" Then there were a
few broken sentences Of distinctly
personal nature. and she replied:
:. All II the prince-I mean the mill
| honaire. the man I'm to marry, you
know-were only like you'll"
When Prince Frederick married Ro-
| terta of Marlborough both nations re-
| Joiced. And no one but themselves
| knew Of the little incident on the sands
by the sea.-(Copyrighted, 1910, by AS
| ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26
CORN DETHRONEs COTTON.

Nothing agriculturally is more fasci-
mating than to study the corn crop Of
the United States. Cotton used to be
king, but corn has dethroned cotton,
and has rolled up figures that simply
take you off your feet writes j.
George Frederick in the Travel Mag
azine for March. Corn grows in 100
days from its planting time. Out in the
great corn belt, during 1909, the corn
farmers made the ground give up TO
them $15,OOO,00o every day of those 100
In other words, every day from the
time the corn farmers put the seed in
the ground. fifteen millions of dollars
were poured into their laps until a
grand total Of s1.720. 900. 900 was rolled
up! All the gold and silver in the whole
of the United States today isn't equal TO
this corn crop of last year; it was
worth enough to buy entirely new
clothing, jewelry and personal adorn-
ment for every man, woman and child
in the country.
And this is only corn. Wheat and
cotton are not far behind. Wheat never
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.l

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
Brains may come in handy if your
II oney gives out.
And many a cheerful dentist looks
down in the mouth.
Don't be an eavesdropper. Brace UP
and butt in like a man.
An undertaken by any other name
would lay us out. just the same.
The man who digs the hardest doesn't
always get out the most dirt.
The secret a woman can't find out
may become her secret sorrow.
Let your mind work overtime, If it
will, but give your tongue frequent va
cations.
There is much low grating that can
not be stopped until the man higher up
is behind the bars
It's mans inability to understand wo-
man that places him at a disadvantage
in the matrimonial game.
If Senator Aldrich would make him
self solid with the masses let him in
vent a dollar with eight quarters in it.
Why is it that an otherwise sensible
man Is seized with a desire to say
id5otic things when alone with pretty
woman?