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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
L0CKSLEY HALL HERMIT
WAS TIGHT ROPE WALKER
Eccentric English Millionaire Hao
Been Friend of Blondin.

England has just lost by death 6
most eccentric character, George Ed
ward Dering. eighty-one years old, g
fellow of the Royal society, whose
diversion was to walk tight rope
over a lake In his grounds.
Dering was the owner of Locksley
Hall and its 1000 acres at the village
twenty years. since the death of his
wife. had not been outside his park
gates. Within the park he drove In
old King George coaches swung on
leather. He never saw an automobile
refused to look at one because he
hated noise.
Though he had millions in cash and
large estates in Galway, Ireland, he
rarely spent any money, permitted
poachers on his land to supply his
table and would often have them sup
with him. Yet to make his home
quieter he spent 100000 in shifting
a public road.
He was a great friend of Blondin,
the old rope walker who crossed Nj
agara Blondin taught him to walk
the rope, and he frequently invited
the villagers to see him perform On
such occasions he always wore tights,
Just as Blondin did. He belonged to
an ancient Saxon family, of which Sir
Henry Neville Dering is the head. He
left an only daughter, who is now hav-
ing the lawns moved for the first time
in a generation.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27

o 1911, by American Press Association.
clean majority over all FIVE Repub-
lican opponents in the primary. He is
Charles E. Merriam
The name of Carter II. Harrison is
known to every voter in Chicago. but
no one, 1t is said. knows Carter II.
Harrison. Inscrutability seems to be
those who know him best are the first
to call attention to the fact
Harrison is unique figure in Chi
cago politics. For four terms, from
1897 to 1905. be wore his fathers
hat" succeeding the elder Harrison In
the chair that he relinquished only
when he was shot down by the assas-
sin Prendergast.
Harrison was born in Chicago In
1860. When he was thirteen he was
sent abroad to study German. and for
nearly four years he lived in Heldel-
berg and Altenberg. To this day he
sings the old German songs.
Merriam the Scholar.
Professor Merriam, the slender
scholar with the boyish face. doesn't
object in the least to being dubbed
politician. He believes in reform--in a
whole lot of reforms should anybody
ask you-but he isn't in the way Of
trying to bring them about by ranting
and writing letters of protest
Merriam calls himself a young man.
He was born in Hopkinton, Ia, in
1874. got all the college and university
degrees he could accumulate at Lenox
college. the state University of Iowa
and Columbia university and then
spent two years in Berlin and Paris
up on some of the things he
thought he didn't know lr,mediately |
thereafter. in 1900. he joined the fac. |
ulty of the University of Chicago and |
has been there ever since In the de |
Dartment of political science.
Not being busy enough at the uni
versity. Professor Merriam has gone
INTO civic matters a good deal
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
COURTSHIP IN STATISTICS.
German Prober Has Declarations o.
Love Codified.

Love Codified.
Nothing is sacred to the German
statistician. Presumably basing his
calculations upon information culled
from fiction, he calculates that in the
case of proposals of marriage SO pei
cent of the suitors press the hand OF
their beloved, "a per cent conclude
their speech with an embrace. pei
cent kiss the hair, 2 per cent kiss the
hand, per cent fall on their knees
and 20 per cent swallow nervously be.
fore they declare their passion.
Ten per cent open and close then
mouths without being able to utter a
single word. and per cent make theiI
proposals while standing on one foot
With regard to the women, on the
other hand. 20 per cent sink helpless
into the lovers arms for whose pro
posal they have been waiting, 20 pei
cent blush and hide their faces, l pei
cent swoon away, per cent are genu
inely amazed. IA per cent gaze silently
into the suitor's eyes and l per cent
run away to tell girl friend.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
Announcement.

We wish TO announce to the
people of Emmett that we have OPP
ened an up-to-date paint and wall
paper establishment in the Whelchel
building, where a complete line of
paints, varnishes. wall paper etc,
will be kept in stock at all times.
We are prepared to duplicate any
mail order house prices and will
guarantee the goods.
We will take contracts for painting
paper hanging and all inside deco
rating.
YoursTruly,
Standard Paint & Oil Co.,
WoMACK BROTHERS, Props.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
NEvADA's STATE ANTHEM.

A Reno (Nev) hotel manager has
this striking. even audacious. per-
version of the national hymn
America" on a circular advertising
, his hotel
Nevada. tbs OF thee.
Sweet state OF liberty.
or thee | sing
State where our fathers fee.
State that sets mothers free,
Marriage. because of thee.
Hath lost its sting.
My state that holds the key
That sets the shackled free,
love thy name.
love thy lawyers ways.
Thy dazzling Divorces.
The briefness OF their stays,
Their little game.
Reno. II is to thee.
Daughter OF liberty.
To thee we fee.
Long may thy streets resound
With freedoms Joyful sound,
Scatter thy light around.
From sea to seal
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
lands LIKES OLD CLOCKS.

Judge Substitutes One For Govern
ment's Time Recorder.
Old clocks Of established reputation
are liked by Judge Kenesaw NJ. Ian
dis of the United States district court
at Chicago, therefore an ancient time
piece has replaced the modern one fur
nished by the government in the court
room and chamber of the judge.
ut is just good old timekeeper,
that's ALL" said Judge Lands. II like
1t better than the newfangled ones tn
government furnishes, and l am going
to keep court by 1t, no matter what the
other clocks declare the time to be-"
The clock is over half century old.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
ONE COLD IN HEAD, $44.34
Boston Statistician Has Figured Out
Cost of Nuisance.

A common "cold In the head" one OF
those things which make usually vol
uble person a mute as to certain con
sonants, has been found to cost $44.34
This is what the Boston chamber OF
commerce, which has been Investigate
ing colds, has found out. The stats
tics have been compiled from observa-
tion of $4,000 cases. The cost is in
lack of wages, doctors bills, economic
loss to the community, etc.
There is this consolation. however:
Changes in weather. changes in cloth
ing and low shoes make no difference.
The germ will get you anyway If it
starts after you.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
TWO BATTLESHIPS ARE "DRY"
Total Abstinence Has Invaded King
Georges Navy.

Total abstinence Has Invaded King
Georges Navy.
The British navy has just taken a
step unprecedented in its history. The
two cruisers Rainbow and Niobe are
to be teetotal men-of-war, contrary to
all marine traditions.
Grog has always been a part of the
standard ration, being a connection OF
one part rum to three parts water,
but no such luxury is to be permitted
on the two ships above mentioned. In
the old days-in fact. down to 1S30-the
daily allowance to each man was a
gallon of ale and half a pint of rum.
The quantity has been greatly modi.
fed, but 1t certainly never entered
any tar's head that the time was com
ing for total abstinence.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
LONG WAY AROUND IN KANSAS
Mail Service Encounters Novel OBJ
stacles In Routes.

Mail service encounters novel ID
stacles In Routes.
If a man in Richfield. county seat OF
Morton county, Kan, should send a
letter to man in the town Of Sid. in
the same county and but sixteen miles
away, his letter would have to travel
514 miles to get there. 1t would take
longer to get that letter from Richtield
to Sid. sixteen miles, than 1T takes to
send letter from New York to Liver
pool, England
The only way mail from Richfield
can be sent to the towns south and
east of there, even a dozen miles away.
is to send it north ffty-two miles to
Syracuse. then east 222 miles to Hutch
inson. then back again on to Meade or
Liberal. from where 1t is carried back
to its destination. possibly only twenty
or thirty miles from where it started.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
One Conductor Helped Back to "

Mr.. MILFORD Adams is his ma
and he writes: 81 was confined
my bed with chronic rheumatism
and used two bottles of Foley's Kid
ney Remedy with good effect. Tn,
third bottle put me on my feet anC
resumed work as conductor OF
the Lexington, KY, street railway
1t will do all you claim in cases o.
rheumatism" 1t clears the BLOOD
of uric acid. B. B. Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27

Had dyspepsia or indigest
for years. No appetite, and wha
did eat distressed me terril
Burdock Blood Bitters cured mel
]. H. Walker, Sunbury, Ohio.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
Mucb Wire Talk.

In New York there is nothing buster
than the telegraph instruments, which
tick OF an average of $4,000 messages
each day.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
To Harne,, JORDAN, Fan,

The falls of the river Jordan below
the lake Of Galiiee are to be harnessed
to supply electricity to the larger towns
of Palestine.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
SCHOLAR FIGHTS
WISE POLITICIAN
Chicago Has MayordIity Cam
pdign Of Novel Character.
GENERAL INTEREST IN VOTE.

Carter H. Harrison, Four Times City
Ruler and Who Game Back" OPP
posed by Charles e. Merriam, College
Professor, Reform Alderman and Elk
poser of Municipal Graft.
Chicago has selected its candidates
for mayor by primary vote. the first
time the state law has been tried
municipality by the big Illinois city,
and the election in April will be watch
ed with great interest as a possible
political forecast of the times.
The election will admittedly be won
by either Carter II. Harrison. the Dem
ocratic nominee, or his Republican op-
ponent, Charles E. Merriam. although
the Prohibitionists and Socialists will
have full tickets in the field. On one
hand Is the astute political leader who
served his city four times as mayor
and with credit. who has an enormous
personal following and who attracts
thousands who knew his father and
who later admired the son for the man.
ner in which be smashed the Yerkes
street railway combine many years
ago. This is Carter II. Harrison.
Theory Versus Practice.
Opposed is young man, formerly
professor in one of the greatest of the
country's universities. theoretically an
expert in political science, and who
has proved some of his theories In
oil oh frrT ~
an investigating commission that IN
covered numerous instances of munich
pal graft. This young man received
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
AMERICANS lead
IN SUGAR EATING
Consume Nearly Twice as Much
Annually as England.
half OF SUPPLY is FOREIGN.

British Lead In Yearly Per Capita
Statistics With Sc Pounds to Uni..d
States 91La, but Total Is but 4,coo,-
100000 Pounds to Yankees 100000
900 and Germany's s,ooo,ooo,ooo.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23
Hatters ADOPT Referendum.

The convention of the United Hat
tiers of North America, recently in ses-
sion In New York city. will meet again
in that city in May, 1915 One of the
important propositions adopted was
the one providing for the recall of the
unions officers. Another was the ref.
erendum In elections on and after
next January. Simon Blake of Dan
bury was made president and Martin
Lawlor. the present incumbent, secre-
tary treasurer, to hold Office until the
referendum goes into effect on the first
of the year 1912. 1t was one of the
most progressive conventions held by
the hatters in years. Matters not
reached by the delegates will be taken
care of by the new executive board
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23
REST FOR TRAINMEN.
Supreme Court Decides In Favor Of
Time Limit Law

Time Limit Law
The hours of service law for rail
road employees" passed by congress in
1907 has been upheld as constitutional
by the supreme court of the United
States. This decision was announced
by Justice Hughes in the test suit in
stltuted by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad The decision of the court
was unanimous
Justice Hughes said that the words
Of the statute were plain that only
persons engaged In interstate com
merce and Interstate carriers were af-
fected by the statute. In this partic-
uar. he said. 1t differed from the EN-
the interstate employees sometimes en-
gage in intrastate business did not de
feat the law. he added.
AS to the authority of the interstate
commerce commission to issue the or
der putting the law into effect, the
justice said that the entire question
of authority had been settled by legis-
lation in 1910 The justice found no
other objection to the order or to the
law itself.
The act made 1t unlawful for any
common carrier engaged in interstate
commerce to permit any trainman sub
ject to the act to remain on duty long
er than sixteen consecutive hours or
any telegraph operator more than nine
or thirteen hours. according to the time
the telegraph station was opened for
business. The act also created periods
of rest for the employees.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company attacked the law as uncon
stitutional on the ground that ii ap
piled to interstate as well as to inter
state railroads and employees The
order by which the interstate com
merce commission placed the law into
operation was attacked also The rail
road asserted that congress could not
and did not attempt to delegate to the
commission the power to require re-
ports of violations of the law; that the
labor and expense necessary to make
the reports constituted taking of the
railroads property without due process
of law and therefore in violat ton of the
constitution, and that 1t compelled self
determination by officers and employ
ees of the railroad also In violation of
the constitution.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23
CHURCH AND LABOR.
The Union Movement Mainly Unselfsh
Saws Bishop Greer.

The Union Movement Mainly UnseIfish
Says Bishop Greer.
Bishop David II. Greer of the Episco
pal diocese of New York city was the
principal speaker at a recent dinner of
the Church Association For the Ad
vancement of the Interests of Labor
The church, he said. must recognize
that the labor movement. despite its
extravagances. irregularities and the
things in it which are reprehensible. is
not wholly or chiefly actuated by
greed, selfshness. covetousness or ma
terial ambition, but that there Is soul
in it and a spirit of earnestness 1t
stands today for what is perhaps the
greatest spiritual earnestness of the
age.
The men who are in it are not in Ii
for themselves or for what they can
get out of it or in 1t altogether from a
spirit of selfishness and desire for self
improvement, but in a spirit of sacri-
fee and for human betterment. There
fore our part is not merely to stand
aside and find fault. but to recognize
the spirit of earnestness in the move
ment and to cooperate with it and try
to lead it fpm whatever is defective,
earthly and imperfect to a still higher
plane and greater attainment in the in
terests not of a part but of all our
common humanity.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23
DEGRADATION OF GIRLS.
Shocking Conditions That Prevail In
New York Factories.

New York Factories.
II was searched ut the Greene street
door by IL man every night" This was
one of the shocking statements in the
testimony of Yetta !uhtZ, one Of the
Triang. e company's factory girls. made
at the hearing o: the New York coro
ners jury in the fire case Shocking
indeed, i'm even one instance, this fact
of Il young girl being subjected 10
search by Waterman the degrade
ton of the thing becomes the more
striking when one reflects upon 1t as
but one circumstance among many
which In some back ward countries
have been long customary in factories
To treat a woman. no matter what her
station in life. with consideration. to
assist her in preserving her modesty
and self respect, 10 defend her against
rough treatment. TO share the senti
ments of solicitude of her male rela
tives toward her these are principles
which have been instilled in our Amer
lean men as part of the universal
everyday religion of our country To
treat a working woman like a serf. to
pay no Difference to her because of her
sex. to look upon her as mere piece
of machinery. to permit low men to be
familiar with her these are customs
prevailing in those countries of Europe
which border on the half civilized.
10
This is one of the outburSts to which
we are growing accustomed as from
time to time the daily press reveals
the fact that some practice or crime
or doctrine or social view which here
tofore has usually been associated with
as a matter Of CURSE by some element
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23
Rrotherhood of Trainmen.

The tenth biennial convention of the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen,
that represents 100000 men In the
United States and Canada, was held
recently In Harrisburg. Pa. One Of
the chief topics was the suggestion of
federal legislation defining the en-
ployers' liability and workmen's COM
pensation for death and injury. The
trainmen take the position that the
railroads should be held responsible
for personal mishaps to the men in
their employ. The brotherhood paid
out more than 100000 last year in
death and disability claims.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23
Trade Union Notes.

Brooklyn's clothing industry employs
$4,000 persons.
Cleveland granite cutters have put a
new agreement into effect without any
trouble
Ohio's legislature rejected the bill for
a state wide twelve hour day for city
ti.'emen.
The employment of women at night
in industrial establishments is prohib-
tied in Sweden
The ST. Louis Teachers Benevolent
Annuity association has issued a re-
port showing assets of $129.I0
Onion labor of Cleveland will aid
state officials in their campaign to com
pei manufacturers to report all acct
dents to workmen to the state factory
inspector
The gain In the American Fedora ton
Of Labor. according to Secretary Frank
Morrison. since the convention last
November has been 156.S9S members
Of trade unions.
Chicago Billposters' union has pur-
chased two plats of eighty four graves
and has erected monument at cost
Of 81 900 for burial ground for men,
bers of the organization who have no
relatives in the city
The five daily newspapers of New
--- ""nn have signed agreements
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23

When /. a law not law! When it is
incapable OF enforcement, of course. We
have just been treated to another law
travesty. one OF the many that 90 to
make the sum toto OF disgust with the
tortuous turnings and back somersaults
in legal procedure. We refer to the
Sahlinger ten hour case which was dis
missed by Justice Shelter last Tuesday.
In this case the violation of law was
plain. 1t was pretty conclusively shown
in court that the complaining witness
had been worked over the ten-hour limit.
The question turned on fixing resposi-
bility. Sahlinger had a special sale on
and claimed that the sales manager was
responsible as the girl was working
under the lattpr's orders. The girl was
paid by Sahlinger, however. when she
quit her position. Judge Shelter took
the case under advisement to determine
whether Sahiiuger or the man conduct
ing the sale was responsible to the law.
As the complaint was entered against
jackson, the sale manager. the dismissal
of the case is evidence that the court
arrived, at the expense of how much
mental stress we do not know, at the
conclusion that the complaint had been
entered against the wrong man.
We are not finding fault particularly
with Judge Shelter. He probably read
up pertinent decisions that convinced
him that the case could not stick if ap-
pealed to a higher court. Our criticism
is directed rather at system which al
lows the merest technicalities to inter
fere with administrative justice. The
law was plainly violated yet everybody
rot off scott free Abstruse reasoning
and mouldy presidents weigh more in
most courts than plain horse sense. God
i've us a judge sometime that will say
I don't care what former decisions in
imilar eases may have been, this man Is
,oing to get a judgment, because he IS
morally right" And fortunate indeed
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23

Opponents of municipal ownership in
variably point to some city which has
made an Indifferent success in municipal
management of public utilities as an
argument against the theory in general
1t is rather an untenable position to
take. 1t would be interesting to take
some specific case wherein it was claimed
municipal ownership had failed and in
vestigate carefully the causes of failure.
A successful corporation never thinks
of employing men who have no knowl-
edge of the particular business they are
expected to handle \ municipal cor
poration very often does that very thing.
We have. too, a habit, very pleasing to
the recipients but hardly beneficial to
the public of passing out Jobs in this
or that department of city activity sole
" as a reward for political services rem
dered. \ corporation again would not
tolerate an employee who was known to
be working in the interest of a rival
corporation. We do that in many cities.
We elect or appoint men and pay them
to do certain things for the people and
find them acting as tools for some pub
lie service corporation. Any or all of
these conditions are extremely liable to
be found existing in cities where it is
claimed municipal ownership is a failure
1t is manifcstly unfair to declare NUM-
cipal ownership wrong in theory because
men succeed in defeating in one place
and another the workings OF that theory.
Law can be made a farce if its admins
tration Is entrusted to men antagonistic
to it or out of sympathy with the par
ticular statute to be invoked If the
people want public ownership Of public
utilities the first requisite is public Of
ficials who are in entire accord with the
principle OF municipal ownership. Such
Officials. being anxious to achieve re
suits would appoint men with regard
for their training and fitness for the de-
partmeuts in which they were to work.
Given such a condition and there would
he little question about the success of
public-owncd utilities.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23

Wonder if Teddy the Terrible isn't
sorry he took a stack in the Mcnamara
game. First he slammed the trade un-
ionists and Mr.. Gompers riddled him full
of shot. Then he turned on Gen. Otis
and the Los Angeles warrior (f) turned
loose the vials of his wrath on his head.
Now he can't 90 forward and he can't
90 back and he stands exposed to fire
from both front and rear. He might go
straight up but he would have to come
down sometime and then he'd get it
again.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-23
British labor EXCHANGES,

The first year of the government la
Dor exchanges in Great Britain has
closed with the system announced as
successful About 100000 vacancies
were reported by employees to the ex
changes, and 10000 of them were
filed. In order to enable workmen
without money to reach distant places
where they were in demand the gov
eminent exchanges provided transpor
tation. the cost of which has been re-
paid out of the workingmen's wages.
Perhaps the most surprising develop
ment has been the fact that more skill
ed than unskilled workmen have found
employment through the exchanges.