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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-03-16

swell, first it means that I'm not
Anna Shepherd either any more. I've
been married for nearly eight years,
Mrs. Mason. Fancy!' She held her
out at arms length and looked smil-
ingly down into the woman's surprised
eyes:
"And I've two boys, just the finest,
bonniest boys in the whole world.
Really and truly they are!"
I'm sure Of it, I'm sure Of It," &C.
guessed Mrs. Mason. "How could you
help having children of that sort! You
know I always had very warm spot
in my heart for you, Anna. Your moth
er and r.
"Oh, I know, I know! Poor, beau
dful young mother of miner Hastily
Anna brushed away bit of undue
! moisture in her lustrous eyes. "How
she used to preach love and ideals to
me, and how you used to preach duty
and principles! Have you still that it,
tie yellowed book compiled by your
great.grandmother filed with clippings
concerning the duties Of motherhood,
the goodness Of woman and the incon-
stancy of man? / remember the mar
gins OF the book were strewn with
old recipes for the dressing Of meats.
tho preserving of fruits, the brewing
Of cunning cordials, all Of which struck
me as ministering to at least one con-
stancy In man-his devotion to good
dinner, eh?" Anna laughed at the rec
| objection. #
Yes. still have It And speaking
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-03-16
The
Fighting
Hope
Novelized by
VIRGINIA LEILA WFNTz
From the Play by
WILLIAM J. HURlBlJRT
Copyright. 1911, by American Press
Association
CHAPTER II.

IN EMORY suddenly stabbed tbs
V man sharply, and he flushed.
$50 far as I can remember
- he returned, II lunched with
Brady
Nonsense" said she, still struggling
with the dimples. Don't you know
there is the greatest difference in the
world between mans bill Of fare and
a woman's? Look at that" and bend
Ing so that the tendrils of her hair
brushed his cheek she ran lightly over
the discriminating list. "Would two
men have ordered such a collection of
dreadful things-Martini cocktails, cav
lar, mollusques, foie gras au trufles,
homard all diable? My dear. oh. my
dear, this is a most immoral bill of
fare. There was a woman here,
tell you, woman! And" she whis-
pered mysteriously, catching a renec-
ton of her own bright presence in
the mirror, probably a brunette
"A woman nothing" protested Gran.
ger holly. He had missed the little
vein Of light comedy in her mood. He
had taken her for tragedy queen. ut
was Brady, tell you-Brady."
Straightway the scene became
charged neither with comedy nor trag-
edy, but with very quiet, pitiful hu-
man drama.
Anna drew her fingers across her
eyes as if bit Of lightning had blind
ed them, that was all.
"Oh, Robert" she said DULY.
He stood up and faced her.
'Do you mean that you don't believe
me?" he asked in a grieved tone.
mo, Robert, how could I? can't
believe imposs1b1lites. You forget that
Mr.. Brady told US he came back from
a weeks trip in Nantucket last night"
1.-THE f1nality Of such an assertion ad.
mits Of no discussion" returned Rob.
ert coldly, but adroitly.
''No." she said quietly. I'm glad
you don't want to discuss it. It would
be foolish, I think. and not in tho
least interesting" She ended with
soft laugh. It hurt her, but it pleased
Robert. It announced that she had
changed the subject. Presently:
'T'u just stroll around to the club"
said he. So Anna was free to seek
refuge in the little vine covered porch
back of the children's nursery, to be
alone with the night and tho stars
and to draw in a little of the outside
air for which she was sitting.
For full hour, white faced and
staring, she scarcely moved 1t was
not that she for moment suspected
her husbands loyalty to her-if he had
taken any woman to luncheon yester-
day 1t had probably been one Of those
little typewritists down in the swell
tering Offices, the tiredest and most
pale faced among them-no one could
deny Robert his kindness and suscep-
tib1lity of heart. Oh, it wasn't that
at all which had brought her to this
cruel pass! It was that her husband,
the father Of her children, had proved
himself beyond peradventure DELHI
crate liar. And to her!
That one lie had become, as it were,
the torch which lighted up all the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-03-16

Employers have found it. easier to
hold organizations of labor off, than
it is to hold them down.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-03-16

II. you doubt that r'all the worlds a
stage watch the hamfat actor strut
down Superior street.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-04-14
GERMS OF OUR CITIES.
$4,000, 100000 of Them to the
Pound of Dust.

Founu OF DuANs
From the New YOfk Sun.
Cheer up! II really doesn't matter
much II there are some 81, $50. go strep-
tococci germs, by actual count, In a
pound Of city dust. There Is no danger in
II unless a windstorm comes along and
the bad man refuses TO close his eyes
because he may happen to be interested
In things feminine, and gasps OCCASION
ally TO let the chains of micrococci play
leapfros down his throat. II Is soothing
TO learn that the nucleus of doctors
bills are seldom contained In the MILL
gram Of dust we city folk breathe into
our lungs with the average quantity OF
800 liters Of air that We inhaIe every
hour
This. at least. appeared to be the opln-
ion OF authorities at the meeting of the
biological section OF the Academy OF Sci
ence. presided over by DIR. +. A. Lucas.
director OF the Museum of Natural His
tory. Incidentally. DR.. Lucas conveyed
q message OF optimism TO the habitues
Of the city. He cited the case of. two
rats who waxed corpulent on sewer air
which might lead one to suppose that
sewer gas ought to be 9 good fat pro.
Queer.
Among the speakers were Prof c. 2.
winslow, OF the biological department of
the College OF the City of New York. and
DIT. G. V. Chaplin. a Providence au-
thorityN on municipal hygiene They
secuted the theory Of aerial transmission
Of diseases
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-04-14
varnint Garments.


rum auuBea
When the Kansas editorial mind
launches itself at a subject. pity that
subject, for II Is in for some aggres-
sive handling. Some way or other, a
report got into the sanctum of the
Downs News that gloves. belts, and neck
ties OF rattlesnake skin would show
among the Easter fashions for women
Then .~
We knew the poor ranlesnake would
come to II sooner or later. It was about
the only varmint left that women didn't
wear. Think OF a woman going arrayed
in a silkworm dress. a sealskin sack.
ostrich-feather hat goatskin shoes,
whalebone stays. kidslin gloves. horse
hide belt, tortoise-shell comb, hsh-scaIe
trimmings, stuffed canary birds, clam
shell buttons. Spitz-dog mum. camePs-
hair underwear. mink-tail collarette, al
Ilgator-hide purse. and now a rattlesnake
necktie! Solomon In all his glory wasn't
such a menagerie as one OF these-and
yet We love them, no matter what they
wear.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-04-14

I'VE were justified in doing 80. An
thracite coal, in its production ana its
price to consumers. Is a monopoly. Be-
ing q monopoly there Is. OF course, no
competition. The users OF coal are help
less. Immense dividends are being paid
by the companies owning and operat-
ing the mines. Prosperity has come TO
them. great prosperity individuals have
made millions. The 1880 anthracite
miners employed by the monopoly daily
risk their lives underneath the ground.
They are courageous and generous heart
ed men and earn less than 800 each
annually. Their wages. indeed. amount
to about s150 a day, figuring their pay
on a yearly basis, and butter has been
50 cents a pound and eggs have sold at
4 cents apiece.
Miners In the bItumlnous regions earn
little more than the anthracite min
ers. When We. ask for a small advance
IN the pay OF our men in the hard coal
district We are told, in effect. that God
gave the mines TO the present owners
and that they are acting as trustees OF
the property under the favor and dlrec-
ton of heaven. In other words, the rate
now given the miners Is All the industry
viii stand, which means that the public
win kick IL the price OF hard coal il
increased. Nothing IL said about a re-
duction of dividends paid on coal shares.
Heaven. suppose. would object to that.
The truth OF the matter is that the am
tilracite monopoly is squeezing the last
possible penny out OF the public. and Is
beating down the miners at the sumo
time"
Trusts Are Helping Socialism.
SHOULD the national government own
the coal mines OF the countryT'
Il would not be averse to such an
arrangement" Mr.. White replied with a
smile. The trusts have shown what
Combinations can accomplish They are
daily proving TO the workingman that
great properties. can be assembled into
limited ownerships and that competition
is an obsolete law OF trade. II a few
men can run all the railways, and a few
all the coal mines. and a few all the
iron furnaces and steel mills, why can't
the government run everythingg Diver
sity Of ownership, It would seem. is no
longer necessary or desirable. II there
Is no competition, no Individual initia-
tive, no individual enterprise because OF
the trusts. why not face the matter
honestly and either restore old condi-
lions or turn our industriesf over to the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-04-14

Paris. April iS-A bet between a
Partisan and a Prussian as to who Is
the most decorated man in the world
has brought out the fact that this hon
or belongs 10 Count Gutenberg. the
grand marshal Of the court or Berlin.
Most people thought that this distinction
belonged to a Frenchman. because there
are so many decorations here For, In
addition to the i've grades Of the ma
tional decoration of the Legion OF Hon
or. there are forty other decorations.
The Emperor William has many deco
ratiohs. but not as many as Count
Gutenberg, who has seventy-fve. Gar
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria was the last to
have decorated Gutenberg. He gave him
the seventy-fifth grand cross. People
thought former Chancellor Won Buelow
had the most decorations. As matter
OF fact. he has only forty. II Andrew
Carnegie's cups and trOwels were equiv
alent TO decorations. he would be a more
decorated man than any of them.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-04-14
HOGS IN RABBIT HUNT.
BIoated Porkers Pursue Poor Bunny
TO His Death.

Ffom the HarrOdsburE tKy.l Leader.
While Mr.. W. X. Cardwell was clean
ing out a culvert on his place a rabbit
ran out am started across the lot. In
the lot were some hogs. which, on CATCH
ing sight OF bunny, started in pursuit
Across the lot they went at full tilt. and
just as the rabbit started through the
fence 2:l0 porker grabbed hi-- by the
left hind foot and pulled him back.
The whole bunch rushed in, and DON
there was neither hide nor hair left OF
poor bunny. From the grunting It was
evident that the hogs enjoyed the pot
pie immensely.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-04-14

A blue fox farm is to be started on
Karagin island. Kamchatka. and to be
managed like similar farms IN North
America
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07

Central avenue, East Orange. as
h~ostesses. Colombia and Ecuador"
was the topic of a paper given by
Mrs. Theodor Heyden, and Mrs. Her
bert Lawson contributed an essay on
Venezuela and the Guianas." Mrs.
Horle talked of current events, and at
roll call the members responded with
anecdotes of Christmas customs OF
the countries of South America. The
president, Mrs. William S. Corwin,
was in charge.
Mrs. Arthur p. Dickinson and Mrs.
c. w. Dickinson, were joint hostesses
at a meeting of the Travellers Club
of Roseville, held yesterday after
noon at the home of the latter in
North Ninth street. The wanderings
in Belgium were continued, and the
papers read included "VagabondiZing
in Belgium by Miss Van Emburg;
Provence and the Troubadours,' by
Mrs. Frank S. Hampton; 1.-THE Latter
Day SWISS" by Mrs. E. 7. Mason,
and THE Salt Mines of Wieliczka,"
by Mrs. \. B. Johnson. The presi-
dent, Mrs. Hampton, occupied the
chair. The club will journey to Italy
the next meeting, December 20,
when Mrs. George F. Scull and Mrs.
William A. Kirk will entertain.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07
From the HlckeyvilIe Clarion.


Hiram jerks, our landscape paint
er, amt much on painting animals.
He says it is hard to paint a boss.
for you can't get the critter to stand
still long enough. Besides, the paint
fills up the pores in the hoss's skin
so he can't sweet. A dog bit Hank
Tumms the other day and now the
dog is liable TO die from the rabbits
superinduced by acute alcoholism.
The Clarion is closed today, for the
editor is having his pants pressed
down to the tailorin' shop.
Rev. Hanks said he was going to
exchange pulpits with the preacher
over TO West Hickeyville last Sun
day, but everybody that went to
church was fooled. as the same old
pulpit was there. Preachers can
joke once in a while. But there is
one consolation. The West Hickey
Vile fellers was just as badly fooled
as we was. Miss Pansy Tibbitts
sent down to the city for some qui-
nine and then sent it in capsules. She
says she don't like to get q%uinlne
that way, as 1t took too long to shucls
the dunn things before taking 'em.
Folks all thought she vas eatin' pea
nuts.
The other night, when they had
company to dinner, Hold Peters's wife
told him that it wasn't etiquette to
set down to the table in his shirt
sleeves, but Hold said he'd be ding
swizzled If he was goin' to take his
shirt off, etiquette or no etiquette.
The only way to get the laugh on
a magazine editor is to tear up your
manuscript and throw it in the fire
before sending II.
Many a successful poet got his
start writing epithets for tomb
stuns.
Ansel Jimkey, our tonsorial artist
and leader of the band and orchester,
busted the g string on his violin the
o.her das, and says shore Will be no
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07
On the ~ ~ ~
SPUR qEz
MOMENT
By Roy K. Moulton
U G ON II FLY.

The Nicaraguans have promised to
be good, but a Nicaraguan's idea of
being good would land him in Jail
anywhere in the United States.
The steel trust reports an era of
great prosperity. 1t certainly takes a
trust to find out when prosperity is
lurking around.
Pierri Lott says he is pleased with
the freshness of American ome
Let 1t be hoped he neal what he
ought to mean.
While the Greeks are calling for
volunteers why do the members of the
Greek letter f~raternities hang back?
General Grants picture will be on
the $4,000 bills, but those desiring to
familiarize themselves with the gen
erals features can buy a Autograph
much cheaper than that.
Joe Cannon's old auto has been sold
IN Washington for 5000. All his ma
chimes seem to have gone to the bad
A New York policeman has been
shot by mistake for a hold-up man.
Rather a natural mistake, after all.
The trouble with these Mexican
revolutionists is that they are not re-
volving in the same direction.
Turkey is up against four kings.
and Turkey holds a punk hand to
bluff on.
Three alfalfa crops in California
this year, meaning real alfalfa, not
Whiskers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07
AN ORDINANCE AGAINST TREATING.

TIME right of ii municipality to enforce an ordinance pro
hibiting the custom of treating in saloons is upheld by
a decision of the Supreme Court of Washington in a
case arising in Tacoma. The court rules that the police power
Ia regulate the saloon includes also the power to regulate the
conduct of those who patronize the saloon. The decision is far
fetched in it's logic. A social act, perfectly lawful and proper
in any other public or private place, cannot by any stretch of
reason be held to be criminal in a saloon, which is merely a
licensed public place and does a business recognized as lawful
hy the law. Drunkenness may be prohibited and punished, VIC
lence comes under police authority, but why the act OF one
man paying for another mans drink as a social courtesy? The
treating custom is a bad one, inasmuch as it encourages over
indulgence in liquor and makes men spend money foolishly. 1t
is a custom best observed in the breach. But why not attack
it in a social way? The habit of profane and indecent language
could never be abolished by ordinance. But what a splendid
work has been done in a few years by the Holy Name Society!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07

THE BORE.
He stands on one foot for a while,
Then stands upon the other
And stares at you as though you
were
Indeed, his long-lost brother.
A hint to him is naught but Greek,
He always fails to heed it,
And sticks around to take your time
just when you sorely need it.
He cuts in with a word or two
And never fails to blunder
Right in upon your train of thought
And knock it all TO thunder.
When putting salt upon the tail
OF some fleet inspiration.
You're interrupted by his harsh
Unwelcome exclamation
About the weather we have had,
Or else about the %pennant,
Until you feel as though you would
Become a bughouse tenant.
He is concerned about your health
And says you're looking sickly,
And If you are not sick at all
He makes you so right quickly.
He never has a thing to do
And not a single worry,
And no one ever saw him yet
When he was in a hurry.
He has no business of his own
That needs attention badly
And so he just attends to yours
And does it very gladly.
There are but ten commandments
now
But / would have eleven,
The last would be 1.-THE chronic bore
Shall never go to heaven"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07
N :. 1912.
A FEARFUL BUT NEEDLESS ScOURdE.

"HERE is a disease that is causing this country an economic
loss Of $780, 600, 900 a year. There were more cases of
it in the United States three years ago than there were
Of plague in India. In nfty of our largest cities it kills an
average of twenty-five persons in every 100000 annually, against
Il rate Of FIVE and onehalf for t~hirty.three leading cities of
Northern Europe. Every case of this disease is due to ignor-
ance or carelessness somewhere, and so it is entirely prevent
able. Its name is typhoid fever, and these facts are stated by
DIR. Mclaughlin, of the United States Public Health Service,
addressing a convention of life insurance presidents. The moral
pointed is a nationwide educational campaign directed against
improper disposal of sewage, impure milk supplies, official and
medical neglect of typhoid cases, filthy homes, the house-fy
and, above all, contaminated public water supplies. As DR..
Mclaughlin saws, it is hard to understand the complacent atti
tude of American physicians, and especially health officers,
toward this awful scourge. They think that a city is doing well
enough when its annual death rate from typhoid is only twenty
per 100000, or more than three times what t is in a European
city of the same size.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07

Dinner Stories


distance anecdote teller of the world,
says that where he came from, u
Ohio, there was a stranded hungry
racetrack gambler who struck town
and found the friend OF his boyhood
running n short-order restaurant
The restaurant man made his old
comrade welcome and at first fed him
copiously, but after a week or 90
grew weary of SO Improbable a guest
and decided to give the wayfarer a
gentle hint.
So he instructed the walters TO
give him only liver to eat-liver be-
ing the cheapest thing on the bill of
fare. The race-track man had liver
for breakfast, dinner and supper-just
liver, and nothing but liver. He lived
on liver nine days; then, on the
morning of the 10th, he found a $50
bill on the street.
He made hotfoot for the most pre-
tentious cafe in the place. The menu
was printed in French. He beckoned
the waiter to him.
Have you got liver here?" he
asked.
This is liver said the waiter.
pointing to a line on the card.
The gambler laid a thumb over il
firmly.
Nov, then" he said, bring ne
$40 worth each way from liver!'
The ardent swain was doing his
best TO pop the question. She re-
peatedly put him off by changins
the subject. and this broke in upon
his urgent plea: ooh, listen to that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07
HIS IDEAS WORKING FOR A JURY BILL.

YOUNG lawyer in Mercer county, elected to the Assembly
~ for the first time, has announced that there is really
= only one important bil' he will introduce, and that
will be a bill to reform the present system of drawing juries."
This young lawyer talks with all the bumptiousness of the
newly pledged. He has an ideal system in his mind and he will
have a law passed %embodying it. There have been as many
jury bills as legislatures in New Jersey and their introducers
were all as confident in themselves and their ideals as the young
lawyer in Mercer is. The scheme of the bill is not disclosed,
but there can be no mistake as to its bias. The professional in
stinct is there sure enough. 1t can never be reconciled to the
idea of a grand jury of laymen selected by a lay officer elected
by the people and representing the people. The ideal grand jury
is a iudgemade one.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07
The NEW FAIRGROUNDS COMMISSIONERS.

n AYOR HAUSSLING has made two excellent appoint.
" ments of Fairgrounds commissioners to succeed
Messrs. Jagle and Froeich, resigned, Former Judge
Sweeney is Familiarity known. The great interest he has taken
in the betterment of social conditions makes the appointment
an ideal one. Mr.. B. NJ. Stanley, jr, is a largehearted citizen
whose services on the commission will be invaluable. Mr.. Swee-
rey well says bygones will be bygones and that the work of the
commission will be constructive. 1t is with a due sense of the
Importance of the commission work that the two men assume
its responsibilities. Next year, with a new start and under
favorable auspices, the citys playground system will begin to
develop on the right lines into a great municipal department to
be of inestimable benefit to the community.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-07
UNWORTHY OF NEW ORR.

ATEW YORK solicitude in regard to any encroachnents
~ upon New York harbor is always confined to what may
' be proposed to be done on the New Jersey side. During
Governor Abbetts administration the State Riparian Commits
sion adopted a plan of establishing an outer bulkhead line at
Robbins Reef and making piers without interfering with access
10 the shore piers. New York and the railroads defeated that
object by an act slipped through Congress. The secretary of
war has refused to permit the narrowing of the Hudson at
It's narrowest point by the building out of longer steamship piers
on the Manhattan side, a cheap and nasty enterprise unworthy
of a great commercial city. Congressman Sulzer proposes in
j bill introduced in Congress to get a law authorizing pier ex-
tension in spite of the secretary. Pier extension is needed on
the New Jersey side, and with equal rights in the stream this
State can demand all the privileges that may be given to New
York. But the fiat of the secretary of war should and doubtless
viii stand. The Sulzer bill will have some hard shedding.