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Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
Six Extraordinary Values
 For Today In Domestic Department

SPECIAL VALUE NO. !
 One bale of 4o-inch good quality Unbleached Sheetang-run of the inidlIvery soft hntsh-Special price 63Ac a yard, value 10c. QAmit 20 yards to a customer.)
 SPECIAL VALUE No. 2
 One case of F'ull-sige Sheets. no center seam, full bleached, standard Special price 55c each. valne 75c. Gsrnit to a customer.) SPECIAL VALUE No. 8
 10. pieces of Unbleached Sheeting. zA yards wide, 8 standard make Special price 22c a yard, value Soc. SPECIAL VALUE No. 4
 6 pieces of extra heavy Irish Table Damaaiz, 66 inches wide and strictly all linen, our own importa- tion-Specia1 price 66c @ yard. value s9o.
 SPECIAL VALUE No. 5
 f5 pieces of extra heavy All Linen Crash for Towehng. 1T inches wide. bleached only, with assorted color borders, very absorbent and desira- Special price f2lo a yard, value 17c. (Linit 10 yards to a customeF.)
 SPECIAL VALUE No. 6
 10 pieces of Fine Belfast Glass Checked Toweling, strictly all linen, assorted size checks, in blue and red-Special value 12Ese a yard, value 17c. Girnit 10 yards to a customer.)
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
A SPECIALIST SAYS:

EPILEs CAN'T RE THOROUGHLY
 CURED BY OUTWARD TREAT
 MENT."
 pr. J. s. Leonhardt, the celebrated specialist who has studied every phase of piles, says. Piles can't be other outside treatment The cause is internal and needs internal treatment" first internal pile remedy It frees cir cufatiol in the lower bowel and has cured thousands of cases
 Sold under guarantee at N D. sevin s Sons. Price S1. pr. Leouhardt Cs, Station B.. Buffalo. N. r., prop. Write for booklet.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
Weather Date to Fill Out,

Charles Thresher of Mansfield Gen. ter has been keeping a record of the weather every day for about 50 years, having commenced it when a boy. He remembers that there was a big snow in April. 1854. but cannot tell the date and would be glad to have anyone sup ply this missing information for him.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10

A former pastor at Preston City, Rev x. R. Prindle, now of Shelton, ie de- voting his efforts largely to evangelis- state.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
AFTER THE WAR is OVER

British labor officials, if one may
Judge by the reported accounts of
their utterances, seem to be fully con-
WINGED that when the time comes for
making peace in Europe, they will get
a place and part in the conference
which will bring that about. For ap-
pearance's sake, and to give the thing
an outward semblance of being genu-
inc, some one or more of them may
be given a seat in the conference
Nominally they may be in it. Blu &C
tually they will be out of it. The
underground machine of international
diplomacy will see to that.
When that gathering does assemble
it will contain the foxiest and most
machiavellian minds in Europe, each
with a corps of trained experts to
help him. Men, who by birth, train
ing, and instinct, have nothing but
contempt for the working classes
Skilled to a degree in every form OF
polished deceit and lying, fully &C
quainted with all the subterranean in
fluences which will enter into the ne
gotiations, they will be more than a
match for men who think the only
factor needed in such a meeting is a
conscientious desire to make plans to
prevent such another war as this.
They will represent the ruling class
of Europe. BY that time the working
class will have done all that was re.
qured of it as long as the war lasted
and there it's part will cease insofar
as it's influence in the conference goes.
1t may not be physically kicked out,
but it will be out-maneuvered by sup
er-astute tactics which it will not even
notice while they are being used. A
mental picture of the typical British
labor official seated in such an aggre'
cation is nothing short of a shame.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children should look into
the matter.-The B. c. Federationist
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
LABOR FORWARD CAMPAIGN
ON FULL SWING

Everetts Labor Forward movement
is on, full swing.
Look out there, you fellows asleep
at the switch!
Things have been too quiet; you
fell to doing on the job, Ell?
All right, a rest is all right once in
a while.
But it's time to wake up now and
get enthusiastically fervently
busy, busy rousing the drowsy, the
apathetic, the "let-er-slide" fellow.
Brother Charles Perry Taylor, the
State Federation's energetic, deadly
in-earnest secretary has been in Ev-
erett all this week organizing the live
men and women of the local labor
movement with a view to effecting a
general revival in unionism, in all that
unionism and the label stand for
He is brim full of the faith and OPP
timism that comes from work accom-
plished. He has the courage and the
confidence that come from getting re-
suits. When a man is in a work to
win, to achieve something really worth
while to himself and his fellows, his
zeal becomes contagious, and others
fall into line, trimming over with the
will TO do! The Labor Forward Move
ment in Everett is now in full swing.
All earnest men and women who have
at heart the forward advance of those
whose labors have made Everett the
city Of smokestacks are invited to
meet Brother Taylor any evening
about 7:30, at the Labor Temple.
He will be glad to explain to each
and all how they can serve in Ey-
|erett's Labor Forward Movement.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
PATRIOTISM AND BUSINESS

That the economic motive is the
dominant factor in the actions of
classes and groups Is a well known
truism in the history of philosophy.
Sometimes the admission is uncon-
sciously made in business" literature,
but perhaps the following, taken from
a paragraph boosting" Newark, N.
j., as a commercial and industrial
center, is so plain and candid as to
deserve especial notice:
! For more than century Newark
had been supplying the south with
large part of it's shoes, for blacks
and whites, and had also been send
ing great quantities of carriages, har-
ness and saddlery hardware to the
same region. Many Newark manufac-
turers feared their business would be
swept away by war between north
and south, and did not see where they
They opposed the war before it came,
and it was some time after it came
before they were reconciled to it. But
once the war was we'll begun, business
came to Newark in the way of con-
tracts for materials needed by the
soldiers. Newark was a very busy
place during the Civil War, for its
factories were kept humming getting
out vast quantities of leather belts,
buckles, harnesses, saddles, shirts and
carriage boxes for the army; and boys
and girls were set at work in the
shops while their older sisters, moth
ers, aunts and the old folks took work
home. The city became terribly in
earnest over the war. 1t did not rest
simply making things, but sent many
of it's youths and men to the front to
fight, many of whom never came back
Boys scarcely out of school, and some
who had not completed their studies,
put on the uniform and joined a regi-
ment."
Doubtless the writer of the above
paragraph never heard of the mate
rialist conception OF history, but none
the less he has fully qualified as a
witness for it. The patriotism Of
the capitalist is in his pocket Out
of their own mouths shall they be
judged.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
UNION LABOR STRIKES
GENERALLY SUCCESSFUL
An Interesting Insight Into the Re-
suits Of Fights for Betterment.

More strikes succeed than fail and
the most successful ones are those
called by organized labor. So the de-
partment of commerce and labor has
|ascertained after a digestion of labor
statistics gathered during a quarter
of century.
the employees won all their demands in
48 per cent of the establishments and
succeeded partly in Is per cent more,
while in only 81 per cent did they
fail. Labor organizations were wholly
successful in 40 per cent, while unor-
ganized labor in only "a per cent.
Demands for increase of wages has
been the most popular cause of strik-
es, Al per cent being due to this. Dis
putes concerning the recognition of
unions and union rules caused 23 per
cent of the strikes. The sympathetic
strike has constituted only 8 per cent
of all labor disturbances in the last
few years.
During the last five years per cent
of all strikes and II per cent of all
lockouts were settled by joint agree
ment, and 2 per cent Of the strikes
and per cent of the lockouts by ar
btration.
The total number of strikes and
lockouts in the twenty-five years
studied was 33,303, affecting 7,444,279
employees.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
COMPULSORY VOTING TRIED

BRISBANE, Queensland Australia
AT the recent elections the labor
party secured control of the govern
ment in this state, which tried COM
pulsory voting for the first time in
Australia. Opponents of the laborites
passed the law, believing that it would
aid them. The result proved their
mistake.
Commenting on this new voting
idea, the Adelaide Daily Herald pre-
diets an extension of the compulsory
voting plan, as the labor party con-
trolls Australia. The paper says:
ut is to be feared that many per-
sons, who should be intellectually
for labor, treat their political obliga.
lions all too lightly. In time of ma
tional stress they will vote but when
all is going well, many do not The
compulsory voting provision acts as
a spur to them. 1t may be taken for
granted that the principle will be
adopted in the commonwealth arena
at an early date"
The Daily Herald says that the
Queensland election and the triumph
of the labor party shows that the
voters in that state did not forget the
clumsy attempts Of the government
IN e
street car workers. Armed bodies of
men were brought from the country
districts, and the affair was treated
as civil war. Since then there has
been ample time to expose the lies
that served so well years ago." and
even non-labor voters resented the
deception that had been practiced on
them.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
HIGH WAGES AND LONG
LIFE GO HAND IN HAND

add to the laboring mans wage
from SIPS to $3.50 day and you will
lengthen the average Americans
thread Of life 10 years at least"
That, in a nutshell, is the conviction
of Maj.-Gen. William c. Gorgas, sur
Igeon general of the United States
army, the officer who converted the
Panama canal zone from a death-deal-
ing to a death-defying isthmus, as ex-
pressed in a copyrighted interview
with John Callan OLaughlin in the
Chicago Herald.
MY belief that an increase in the
workingmans wage would lengthen
materially the average life is based
largely on my experience in Panama"
said Gorgas.
The question of improving the
lower classes was forced on me in
Cuba and Panama. | am convinced
that increased wages were responsible
for much of our success on the 18TH
mus. OF course more pay could not
affect yellow fever and such diseases,
but it did make possible better houses,
better clothes and better living condi-
tions.
1--WE doubled wages automatically
when we went to Panama. 1t is not
within the power of the United States
government to double the wages of
every laboring man in this country,
but | feel certain that if it could be
done the average life would be much
longer. l hesitate to say how much
longer, but I feel sure it would be at
least 10 years"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
PAROLE SYSTEM A SUCCESS

Approximately rs per cent Of the
prisoners paroled from Monroe re-
formatory since the establishment of
that institution are making good ac-
cording to a report of Parole Officer
C. r. Webb to the board of control.
There have been a total of 1896 pris-
oners released on parole. Of these
1877 have been returned to Monroe for
parole violations and SO have found
their way into other institutions, but
of the others the vast majority have
found steady work, reporting monthly
wages averaging s415O, a marked fin
amelia gain to the state, replacing
loss which would be sustained by
maintaining these men behind the
bars.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
TRADES
COUNCIL
n E w s

Credentials were received from the
Bartenders Union, Local asa for
Brother John Giblin.
Brother Taylor made an interesting
report on the work just begun by the
wideawake committee of the Labor
Forward Movement Several unions
were visited during the first half Of
the week by the committee and infor-
nation was obtained which will be Of
help in the work of advancing the
cause Of unionism in Everett.
The usual amount of routine bust
ness was transacted number of
delegates were absent.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23

An exhibit of the work being car.
ried on at the states twelve institu.
tons, where 5000 inmates now are
being given care, will be made by
the board of control at the state fair
at North Yakima, the Spokane Inter
state fair and possibly at the Puyallup
fair. The exhibit this year will he
more extensive than last years dis.
play, which won warm praise.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23

The most favorable wind can do
him no good who has no port.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
GRAFTERS FIND WAYS
TO ROB WORKERS

Prosecution has been instituted at
Spokane by Labor Commissioner e.
W. Olson against a labor agent who
sold rings, worth a few cents. to
workmen for 81 each, giving jobs to
workmen holding rings The agent is
charged with violation of the employ
ment agent law adopted by initiative,
which prohibits charging a workman
for securing employment
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
THE PALACE BAKERY

We carry a full line of the American
Bakery Goods, Ice Cream and Soft
Drinks.
1917 Hewitt Avenue
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23
CLANS ARE TAME ANIMALS

On the ground that CLAIMS and oys-
ters are domestic animals, rather
than wild animals, Attorney General
w. V. Taner has ruled that the pro
hibition in the new fish code, against
aliens taking these shellfish for COM
mercial purposes, does not apply
when the bivalyes are taken from
lands owned by these aliens.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-23

What makes you think the baby is
going to be a great politician" ask
ed the young mother, anXiously.
IN tell YOU answered the young
father, confidently; "he can say more
things that sound we'll and mean moth
ing than any kid l ever saw"
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22
The Teachers Greed

believe in boys and girls, the men and women of great tomorrow; that whatsoever the boy soweth the man shall reap. I believe in the curse of ig- norance; in the efficacy of schools; in the dignity of teaching and in the joy of serving others. l believe in wisdom as revealed in human lives as we'll as in the pages of a printed book; in lessons taught, not so much by precept as by example; in ability to work with the hands as we'll as to think with the head; in everything that makes life large and lovely. l believe in beauty in the schoolroom, in the home, in the daily life and out of doors. l believe in laughter, in love, in faith5in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. l believe that every hour and every day we receive a just reward for all we are and all we do. l believe in the present and it's opportunities; in the future and it's promises; and in the divine joy ot living. Amen.-Edwin Grover Osgood.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22
Last Rites for pr. Simpson
R. R. No. 3. AsHroN. ONrARI

R. R. No. 8, ASHTON, ONTARIO. EDITOR DOUGLAS ISLAND NEWS.
 DEAR SR:-I thought perhaps you would like to have some account of the funeral of Dr. Simpson. will just try and give you some of the particulars and you can put it into shape. The Doctor, as you perhaps know, died alone at his residence, AIS Helmcken street, Victoria, on Thursday, Sept 2d, at about 10 o'clock. Mrs. Ross came in at about 1 o'clock on Friday morning to see how he was, as he had been sick for about three days, suffering severe pains in his head. She found him cold. He had died in his sleep I saw him about o'clock. His hands were across bis breast, his eyes closed, his face just as in peaceful sleep. He had apparent ly never moved. Since coming here l find that he wrote home on Tuesday, that week, saying that the pain in his head was fierce, and giving certain di- rections about some things in his house. His sister Ethel said that she knew from his letter that he knew then that he was dying. l saw him last on Tues day morning. He was out to see my little son and another little child he was looking after at Mt. Tolmie. Tues day afternoon be went to bed. He should have gone Tuesday morning, but guess you know him. We'll, l started home with the casket at 8 o'clock Saturday and arrived at Carle- ton Place, Ontario, at 3;1O Thursday morning, Sept. 9. He was taken to his boyhood home at Ashton, from which place, after an appropriate funeral ser vice, he was taken to the family plot at Deuais county. The funeral was a very large ore. There were a great many flowers, including a beautiful wreath from some Alaska friends. Mrs. John c. Ross and her daughter Rita, now re siding in Victoria, did much to allevi ate the darkness and long suffering.
 The text of the funeral sermon was, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me-" (Matt: %: 40) l preached the sermon, which was simple one, telling the near relatives, friends aud ueighbors something of bis life in Alaska, of his kindness and life of service, and his suffering, and of the kindness to him by the people of Ju- neau, and the hope that we might find some way of showing our appreciation of their great kindness to him. You might say, iu the best way you know, tba, Che people who love him here deeply appreciate any and every kind ness shown to him by the people of the Pacific shore. Rev. Mr. Mosach, of Ashton, took part with me in the funeral services both at the house and the grave.
 He had not requested a Masonic funeral, but a party of Masous came from Carleton Place 10 do honor to him. Yours sincerely,
 W. J. KIDD
 Presbyterian minister of Mt. Tolmie, Victoria, B. C., and cousin of pr. Simpson.
 P. S.-The funeral services began at 2 p. m. Sept 9tb, the day we arrived home. The party le9t the house at 2:30.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNT

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNT I'm the United States Commissioners Court,
 Territory of Alaska, Division Number One,
 at Juneau.
 In the mutter of tho Estate of Erhng O. In-
 dregaard, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that the final ac- count of the Estate of Erling O Indregaard, deceased. has been rendered to said court for settlement, and that Friday, the 22d day of October, 1915, at ten o'clock a. m. at the office of the United States Commissioner, EX- OfhciO Probate Judge, has been duly ap- pointed by said court as the time and place for the settlement thereof, and at which time any persons interested in said estate may appear and file his exceptions, in writ ing, tO said account, and contest the same.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this Fist day of August, 1915.
 rsFAT1 JOHN B. MARSHALL, United States Commissioner, EN-OthciO Pro-
 bate Judge.
 First publication Aug 25, 1915
 Last publication Sept. 22. 1915.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

That 296OOO acres, at the least, of good agricultural land lie adjacent to the route of the governments new Alaskan railway, half of it in the inc mediate Susitna and Matenuska val leys, and 100000 more acres to be found between the Tanana and the Yukon, in the region to be opened by the upper reaches of the road, is the judgment of the experts of the depart meut of agriculture.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

The Development number of the Al aska Daily Empire bas at last made it's appearance. lt is devoted to the busi- ness enterprises in and around Juneau in particular, and the greatness of Al aska in general. The descriptive arti- eles are mostly written in a conserva- tive vein. A large number of engrav- ings brighten the pages. It will no doubt be a great help in fighting the battle of Alaska against the ignorance that has held it back, and we have DO doubt that the 5000 copies printed will hnd a ready sale
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

The people in the States are begin hing to understand and appreciate the true worth of the health resorts of Southeastern Alaska. But as far as that goes many Alaskans are inclined to sheer at the mention of hot spring But those who try it very seldom sheer, but more often voice their ap- proval at every opportunity.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

Juneau papers want it distinctly understood that Gastineau channel never freezes up in winter time and that steamboats from Seattle land at Juneau every month in the year. We suppose there are people who are still ignorant of that fact
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

When you want Coal, see Martin Olson, on Ferry dock
 Ladysmith Coal, delivered S1O per ton Screened Ladysmith ' ..S11 per ton Newcastle Nut, delivered S9 per ton BriQuettes ...SlO per ton Ladysmith Screenings 57.5O per ton This meaDs delivered.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

Last week a little 8 year old boy was drowned in Douglas. Whose fault was itg Some might condemn the parents because they let SO young child wan der SO far from home. Others put the blame on the mayor and the council because they have not issued orders forbidding all children from playing on the beach. Others criticise the town marshal because he was not watching. Perhaps the merchants and tradesmen are at fault because iu their expressing pursuit of wealth they have not found time to advocate safeguards. But is no one really Co blame io the matter? Not Che child surely. What is the matter with people who mutually enjoy the children, who love to see their bright happy faces, yet carelessly allow them to drownS Yes, we are all at fault in the matter, and unless we learn a les SOD from this sad happening aud guard and protect the lives of the children, we are little less than murderers.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

A kicker is born every minute. A great deal may be accomplished by just kicking, or, iu other words, "Whosoever bloweth not his own horn, the same shall not be blown.n Douglas Island has been a great producer of wealth. For more than three decades a steady stream of gold has poured from her mills Co the States. Before the great Kloudike was discovered, before any thing was known of Fairbanks or Nome, the Treadwell stamps were pounding out the precious metal. Many of the men who struggled into the wilderness and discovered the treasure places of Alaska, earned their grub-stake work ing in the Douglas Island mines. The United States government has speut millions ofmouey to aid in the opening up of Alaska, and it will spend millions more in building roads, trails, bridges and railroads. But what has the gOv- ernment done for Douglas Island? Built a little measly piece of road that goes nowhere. Now the progress and advancement of the community de- mauds that a bridge should connect the Island with the mainland, with Ju- neau, with the system of roads reach ing from Thane Go Eagle river. The great business interests of the commu. nity demand it, the large and growing population demands it. Will it be built?
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

According to the Dispatch, the na- lives predict a long, cold winter in Alaska. The winters are always long and cold to the natives, and we never heard of them making any other pre- diction.
Douglas Island news., 1915-09-22

Notwithstanding the predictions of an early and a cold winter, we may call attention to the fact that no fresh snow appears on the tops of the high mountains, and this is September 22od. And the gardens as yet show no sign of frost.