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WITH THE NATIONS TOILERS

tional eight-hour law, old age pen
sions and workmen's compensation
laws.
Catalonia. a province in Spain, has
so, 600 textile workers. The working
day Is eleven hours
Investigations among juvenile work
ers at York, England, resulted in the
discovery that one boy is. employed
for forty-fiye and one-half hours each
week at a wage of weight cents.
One hundred of those involved in
the gas workers strike in Sydney,
Australia. which was settled recently,
were fined altogether over $4,000.
State labor bureau will be estab-
lished by the California State Typo
graphicai Conferences for the equal
distribution of labor of this craft
throughout the State.
In case of illness. employees of the
London. England, postoff1ce may be
absent on full pAy for as much as six
months, and on half pay for another
six months.
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Electrical railways in this country
employ 100000 people.
California printers have formed a
State Typographical Conference.
Toronto, Can, Stree Railwaymen's
Union has a membership of 1900.
Mexico has 1000. 900 poems, whose
daily average wage Is 1924 cents.
An amalgamation of the dual sheet
metal workers organizations in New
York city has taken place.
Organized labor In Canada has de-
eided to enter municipal politics.
minimum wage for agricultural
laborers is possibility in England
Postal employees in st. Paul. Mimi,
have organized cooperative COM
pany and opened a store with Wow
of reducin4 for themselves the cost
OF livings
The National German Alliance has
adopted resolution demanding = ma
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A GOOD MOVE FOR CoLoRED WOMEN

THE ORGANIZATION of colored suffrage club
IN is suggestive of what these do for their
aiding securing the franchise for all of
legal age The negro is the pillar of the church
the church the principal
rare average her the horizon
contracted and church duties often become merely
she She does look outside of
church what she might do for upft Usually
like her white sisters she has conception of such
Organized to with white for equal
suffrage the negro will enter sphere of interest
Where mind may be broadened enough to enable her to
there things she do with the sisters of her
with sympathetic aid from white benefit her
helps those who help themselves The who
joined the suffrage would get any advantages
merely by equal suffrage but identifying themselves
they eventually may do
The welfare of negro and women
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Detroit Never Socialistic
, the editor Of the Evenlng Star:

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Can l, as a courtesy, have space for
brief reply to your editorial of yes
terday, in which. referring to the de-
feat for reelection of DIR. Lunn. you
say Every once in awhile some
American city elects Socialist
mayor. but the people invariably get
tired of Socialist rule after one term
of it. Detroit was a famous example
of 1t, and now the same story Is told
in Schenectady"
Now. what are the facts as Socialists
see them?
First--We have never elected so
much as a dog catcher in Detroit.
Very likely the editor meant to write
Milwaukee, and not Detroit
Second-In at least one city Quite,
Montana) our ticket was reelected.
And other places could be cited.
Third-That the people do not Gin
variably get tired of Socialist rule is
proven by the fact that Invariably
more of them vote for our candidates
at the contest for reelection than al
time of the original election. Thus in
Schenectady, although defeated, DR..
Lunn and the Socialist ticket had a
vote so per cent. higher than at the
SiSItiuii tiidt pidctu lnelil III Office
The same thing was true of our defeat
in Milwaukee. This simple fact ie
worthy of thought on the part OF
every intelligent citizen.
The reason we are defeated for re-
election is that the special interests al
ways bring about coalition or fusion
of all other parties against the Social
list candidates, which results in our
temporary defeat, even though we pol
a much increased percentage of the
total vote cast.
We Socialists accept these defeats
with equanimity, as we know that out
of each such experience comes a
greater common appreciation of the
lack of any real, vital difference be-
tween these other parties, and the
nearing of the day when we will see q
straight lineup in America between
those who stand for the public well
fare as against those who stand fol
private interests.
Defeated or victorious, we have the
satisfaction of knowing that every.
where our people, when in office. have
been clean of graft, and have worked
with an eye single to the genera
good; while. on the other hand, every
CRATER, dishonest contractor, cadet
and the forces of evil in general, have
rejoiced at our defeats and cursed oul
victories.
Thanking you in advance for Won,
fair play in printing this article
Very truly yours.
GEORGE H. GoEBEL.
Newark, November 6, 1913.
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tine was. uncomplaining and patient
according to modern standards some
thing of a doormat, but to Germans
of the day a, pattern of wifedy viz
tue She had no children and passed
her days in uneventful secluaion,
broken only by an occasional formal
state dinner or celebration. Orc
might think that Frederick the Great
was disappointed with his wife; that
he had reversed his first favorable
impression. but on the contrary Eliz-
abeth Christine left nothing to be
desired in the estimation of the great
king. for, when, realizing that he
was to have no children OF his own,
he was eager for his younger broth
er's marriage in order that there
might be a successor, he chose Louise
Amelia. the younger sister of the
neglected Elizabeth Christine. His
own wife had been SO satisfactory
so unassuming. so passive-that he
thought he could do his brother no
greater favor than to bestow upon
him another like her.
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For two years he lived Win MS
young wife and then, though there
was not the slightest suggestion of a
quarrel. he packed her off to a palace
of her own. called Schonhausen, for
which she had expressed her admira-
ton. and he went off to his own pal
ace. "Sans Souci.' Then for twenty
wears he used to make a formal call
upon the queen annually upon her
birthday. On these occasions he
would remove his habitual high boots
for the dav and wear slippers. and
silk stockings as a mark of his high
respect. For the next thirty years
after these annual visits ended he
never went near her, although still
there was no quarrel. If by chance
he saw her driving or at a public
dinner. he would bow very low and
very respectfully to her. Once when
she was suffering from an attack of
govt and he sent a formal inquiry
after her health. all Berlin was in a
state of excitement, such a con-
sideration was so rare with their
great ruler.
In the meantime Elizabeth Chris
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Mexican Hospitality

Nearly two-thirds of the Mexican
population are poems. The remaining
third is divided into landowners, mer-
chants and professional men. The
landowners are the ruling class, and
a visit to their haciendas is always
interesting. There is chivalry about
the Mexican haciendado which is ex
ceedingly pleasant and covers many
defects. Everybody has heard of
their proverbial politeness. and it is
pleasant to relate that this quality
exists in fact. 1t is often carried to
extremes. however, and has led to
Observation-Disclosures According to Mex
lean etiquette it is not considered
good breading to admire unduly any,
thing belonging to your host; the
code requires that such a thing must
be Immediately offered to the guest,
and to do so may not be always con-
venient. 1t is related of General
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HONEST MARKET MEASURE.

sb ALTHOUGH VEGETABLE and fruit dealers of this
under fixing standard capacity for baskets it
weeks get the in working shape.
10 the millions of baskets in is task that will keep
the year. eventually
will be saving of thousands of dollars who
will know that they getting what they pay for 1t is salts
factory note general anxiety the part merchants all
the State to have their containers of the standard size
The majority of the dealers be honest but the
defect of the that it fails provide penalty
those who willing to cheat their customers Newark
which the ordinance exception, but
the standard basket completely effective throughout
the State the next Legislature put teeth into it,
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PAY FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD.

CONGRESS HAS always been strangely and obstlnately
unresponsve of the National Guard For many
wears appropriation of only 100000 for the
oe country and paid equipment Senator Sewel
had the appropriation doubled and still it dribe 1T was
aferward increased to 100000 The Dick made great
change 1t provided for considerable appropriations conditional
upon the making the National Guard effective Some
States other including New Jersey have thus
far failed requirements of the law The vanity of
enc in New Jersey But with the more
examination of recruits it has become difficult to
fill out the infantry companies to their minimum This
may by small allowance of to compensate
they give to armory duty Congress
has twice refused pass militia pay BILL although it
by all military authorities but the
dull Congress capable of learning something and it
has evident enough that if to have really
efficient National composed of young of physical
yigor of for the rank and file
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Che poDer Of Knowledge

They tell us that knowledge is power,
They say that it pays to be wise;
know rich trader in flour
Whose brow ends an inch from his eyes,
have heard him declaring, Il done it,
His knowledge is little, but, say,
Do you think would scorn ii or shun it
The power he has to display?
II pays to have wisdom, they tell us
know good preacher whose search
For knowledge has always been jealous,
But few people go TO his church;
He has studied things deeply and broadly,
Yet he owns neither houses nor lands
He is praiseworthy, scholarly, cody
And pittance is all he commands
They say that it pays to have knowledge;
| know professor or two
Who add to the fame of college
That ranks with the prominent few
They forced to work on at all hours
So their wives and their children may Dress
And meager indeed are the powers
They claim or can hope to possess.
They tell us it pays TO have learning
But the preacher must preach for year
To get what the ball players earning
In fortnight for whacking the sphere;
And the college professor processes
For life and is poor when it's done,
While the man who sells turnips possesses
fortune to leave to his son.
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Many people scatter suggestions of
fear, doubt and failure wherever they
go, and. these take root in minds that
might otherwise be free from them
and therefore happy, confident and
successful.
Who can picture the havoc which
the suspicious suggestion has wrought
in innocent lives? Think of the in
fsuence of employers holding the
thought of suspicion regarding their
servants or other employees.
Servants have actually been made
dishonest by other persons perpetually
holding the suspicion that they We're
dishonest. This thought suggests
dishonesty to the suspected perhaps
for the first time, and being con-
and bears the fruit of theft.
Is it not cruel to hold a suspicious
thought of another until you have
positive proof? That other persons
mind Is sacred; have you any right
to invade it with your miserable
thoughts and pictures of suspicion?
Many being has been made
wretched and miserable for years;
has been depressed and borne down
by the uncharitable, wicked thoughts
of others. There is no doubt that
many a man IS serving a sentence
which ought to be served by those
who have influenced him to commit
the crime for which. he is being pun
ished
The time will come when we shall
have more sympathy for those who
go wrong, and even for criminals, be-
cause we shall know how powerfully
human minds are influenced by the
vicious thoughts of others
We are the creatures of suggestion.
We get them from newspapers, books,
from everyone with whom we come
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

lsalt. They are the dreamers of great
dreams, the seers of wonderful vision
the makers of romance All the world
loves or should love them. The news
Of the day is too much burdened with
heavy reading. . One wearies at last
of political and social reform, of d.
vorce and murder in sordid barrooms,
of the cost of living ano the course
of the markets. There is a craving
for something not so commonplace,
for something less prosaic, tor some
thing which has a touch of moonshine
in it. Let Us not, therefore. discour-
age the treasure hunters, with cold
reason like a dash of cold water. Let
us rather fan their enthusiasm and
keep it forever aglow so that as long
as newspapers exist there may be now
and then tale of Cocos Island
wedged in between tbs tariff and the
trusts
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UPLIFT TALKS
BY oR1soN SWEET MARDEN.
Author OF 'sPushing TO the Front Etc.
Copyright. 1918.
OBSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTION

Newspaper Syndicae)
Western cities requested the
thee publishing details OF
~ publication epidemic Oh
key high low base or no
by the of
book play OF
may
a cowady one o'
ILL., Our characters are largely
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THE NEXT SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY.

ss THE SPEAKERSHIP Democratic Assembly
next month will general attention There
now candidates. of whom Hudson
understood that the Governoreect will hold aoof from
and Assembly fights The Hudson dele
cation will be divided the four county candidates but
unite candidate it will
the for the nomination Combinations al
WAYS prior the a egis7
organization officers and the negotiations will be carried
on among the members until the caucus meets. ~
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Yuan shih Kai. Dictator.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Those enthusiasts wao greeted the
establishment of a parliamentary form
event, paralleling the like develop
ment in Persia and In Turkey, and the
Adjustment of a republic in Portu-
gal, reckoned without their host
Persia is ruled by Cossacl1s. The par
lament at Constantinople is as farci-
cal as the duma of st. Petersburg.
Portugal is still a republic, but has
failed to preserve order. And now
Yuan Shih Kai has made himself a
dictator in China. expelllng 300 mem
bers of the national assembly and
ending the experiment at which the
world wondered. He is said also to
have called back some of the elder
statesmen who advised the Manchu
dynasty. hoping to get the right sort
of counsel from them.
Mere initiated forms never vet
meant liberty for any nation. 1t may
not be true that "whate'er is best ad-
ministered is BEST" but it is undeni-
able that a citizen with civic virtue.
gradually trained to the exercise of
suffrage; citizenship that knows its
rights and knowing dares maintain,
is tne only safeguard to a. republic.
China had not such citizenship.
Some sort OF dictator was bound to
take control.
What sort of a dictator Yuan Shih
Kali will turn out to be nobody is GER
tain. Among students of contempor-
airy history in China he has many adj
mirers. Possibly the best thing for
China, considering her fear of inter
ference by the Powers, is what has
happened. That is on the knees of the
gods.
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James H. Briggs was, all his life, an
active Politician; Charles F. Briggs
was, all his life. a literary man, and
both of these relatives We're alike in
their capacity for retaining in their
memory vivid recollections of men
who were of prominence in the par
ticular intellectual field in which they
moved.
You may not know that James II.
Briggs was really the confidential po-
litical friend in New York State of
Salmon p. Chase. when Chase was
governor of Ohio Charles F. Briggs
once said to me.
Governor Chase impaired to him
many confidential statements, espe-
cially at the time the friends of Chase
were making a preliminary campaign
for the purpose of securing Chase's
nomination for the presidency in 1860.
Mr.. Briggs went so far as to call in
Chase's interest upon Abraham Lin
coin in the early winter of 1850. when
Lincoln was in New York. and he told
Governor Chase that Lincoln had then
said to him that he looked with great
favor upon the proposed nomination
of Chase for the presidency. Further
more. Mr.. Briggs told Governor Chase
that he heard that in Illinois there
was a strong movement under way in
favor of the nomination of Chase for
President and Lincoln for Vice-Presi-
dent.
1.-The warm and confidential rela-
tons which had been long maintained
between Mr.. Briggs and Governor
Chase We're continued all the time that
! MIR. Chase was member of President
Lincolns cabinet as secretary of the
treasury
sat one time Governor Chase said
to Mr. Briggs that il had always been
a source of sorrow to him that he
and President Lincoln did not seem
to get along very well together. H.
went so far as to say that the Sec
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MORE PAY FOR THE COMMISSIONERS.

AN INCREASE of the salaries of members the police
aud commissioners from $1,000 $500 by the
Council in be called extravaganza The old sal
ago when the departments
smaller and
small With great decrease in the purchasing power of the
have been practically reduced about oneha
But compared the officials performing similar
other large cities the figure fixed by the council is
modest enough.
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Epmty-Handed Immigrants.

ANpthAy-nAnoGu 1ntmhKfanf8.
Professor Edward A Ross. in the
Century.
More and more immigration is an
economic matter. a flow of men rather
than of families, seeking gain rather
than religious and political liberty.
Those who bring anything but their
hands are very small and diminish
ing contingent. Most of the money
the immigrant shows on landing has
been supplied him for that purpose.
In 1882. when the old immigration
reached its height, the public domain
was being carved up at a tremendous
rate, and the home-seeker FREEDOM
mated. A quarter of a century later,
when the crest of the new immigra-
ton arrived, free land was gone for
ever, and the job-seeker FREEDOM
mated. Formerly the idea of wander
ing oversee sprang up naturally
among the intelligent and restless;
now the idea is sown broadcast by
thousands of steamship agents and
their runners. In the tavern, knee to
knee, with the yokels. sits the run
ner, and paints an Ell Dorado. The
poor fellows win believe him if he
tells them the trees of America bear
golden leaves. When the american
fever seizes upon the peasant it is
the obliging runner who suggests
mortgaging his home for the passage
money, or who finds a buyer for his
cows.
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Grant that when in the City of
Mexico he was the guest at the man
sion of a native millionaire and
greatly admired one of his paintings.
He was Immediately told that 1t was
him. The general. in his simple way,
took the host at his word and sent a
messenger to make arrangements for
the shipment of the picture. The con-
sternation in the Mexican household
can only be irr1agined.-E Engineering
Magazine.
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Happy Treasure Hunters.

Charleston News and Courier.
For the sake of romance and ad-
venture and all that puts color into
life it is to be hoped that the failure
of the expedition which recently went
to the Isle of Cocos in search of pirate
gold will not mark the end of treasure
hunting. In the interest also of the
good town of Panama, where the
treasure seekers are wont to outfit
and buy supplies, we should point out
that negative results never really
proved anything. There may be gold
on Cocos. There may be millions of
pieces of eight and jewels galore and
wine which the buccaneers. who had
more than they could drink, laid aside
for a rainy day. Because many
treasure hunters have ransacked
Cocos from end to end no man can say
that the next treasure hunter will not
find that for which all tho others have
labored and sought in vain.
Treasure hunters are of the earth S
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EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE

Nothing apathetic about the situa-
ton at all; it looks snighty good, and
things are coming our way faster than
we had a reason to expect they would
do SO. Let the Evening Star twinkle
and shine for any old party 1t likes
but don't go dimming your light by
shedding any tears over the Progress
sive party; If you do You are a-going
to get fooled and look foolish. Truly
yours,
BEATEN BUT NOT LICKED.
Paterson, N. J., Nov. Z. 1918.
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Calls to See His sWidow, After Sec
Ing Death Notice,

Calls to See His sWidow'' After Sce-
Ing Death Notice.
SHARON. Pa, Nov. S.-The body of
a man killed by a train here three
weeks ago was identified by Mrs.
William Mcconnell as that of her
husband and was inferred in a
Youngstown (Ohio) cemetery. Yes
terday while Mrs. Mcdonnell and her
children were at dinner Mcdonnell
walked in. He said he had been in
Ohio searching for work and returned
home when he read his death notice
in a newspaper. The identity of the
man buried as Mcdonnell has not
been determined.
Not Word Was Said by Either at
Their Wedding or Divorce.
RENO, New, Nov 8.--The ouietest
divorce trial ever witnessed in Ne
vada occurred yesterday at Winnie
mucca, during which not a word was
spoken to or by the plaintiff, and
there was little need of court re-
porter.
John A. Ottinger, a wealthy land
owner of Chattanooga, Tenn, sued
Rebecca Ottinger, alleging desertion
October 10, 1910.
Both principals are deaf mutes,
They were married in Chattanooga.
November Z, 1909 One day she wrote
a note and handed it to him. 1t ran
thus:
81 can't stand living with you any
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Arms and Men to Carry Them.

From the New York Times.
General Venustiano Carranza. the
head of the Mexican Constitutional
lists, may be a very capable rebel
chieftain, but he pays q poor compll-
ment TO our sagacity when he asks
that we give his party the right to
import arms freely from the United
States. What, send rifles and ammu-
milton, gatling guns, bayonets and
sabres to MeXicans, who would be
very likely to use them against us in
case we were compelled to interfere
in their turbulent diversions? The
Mexican Federalists say that if We do
send an armed force into the country,
Mexicans to a man will be against us.
That may not be true, for it is under
stood that Mr.. John Lind has got the
impression that Mexican Federalists
do not always tell the truth. But,
putting it in another way, We know
that Mexicans are mighty uncertain,
and in a matter of such importance
we shall have to be on the safe side
If we decide to send arms into Mexico
we shall send Americans to carry
them.
That is intended only as an answer
to General Carranza. Every sensible
and sober minded American most fer
vently hopes that we shall have no
occasion to send or carry arms across
the border. We want the Mexicans to
settle their own quarrels, but it would
relieve our anxiety if they would
hurry up the settlement.