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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18
BY Robert Hunter.

Sometimes one sees great building
supported by columns fashioned like
the giant figures: of human forms
And across the massive shoulders OF
these men is an entablature on which
rests the structure.
In Greek these men are called At
lantes which is merely the plural for
Atlas who was one of the older family
of gods and bore up the pillars of
heaven.
It used to be very common in for
NAL architecture, to place these two
giant figures at: each side of a. great
doorway. " -
It is not easyoto learn now all that
the ancients meant to tell by these
figures.
Nearly >every thing they did was
symbolic and it is possible they meant
to typtfy by. the ss figures Labor bear
ing the burden Of the world.
And indeed when we think of what
Labor has done for the world it seems
incredible that it should. be so de-
spised.
It seems beyond belief that those
who produce food: clothing and shell
ter for the entire world-for them
selves and for ALL others-should be
still condemned to poverty and inse-
curity.
1t seems impossible that a great
class, numbering vast majority of
the population, toiling day and night
to produce all the necessaries and all
the luxuries of the world should yet
themselves live from day to day a
dread, uncertain existence.
1t is only nightmare that these
men who solve the problems of our
material existence should today be the
problem of philanthropists and aims
givers? H.
Can anything be more weird than
that men of fashion, of wealth and
leisure should form their boards,
committees and charities to solve the
problems of these poor?
Is it not strange that in the midst
of vast wealth, of great estates,
palaces, cathedrals, sky scrapers and
marble shops, Of silks, satins, jewels
and laces which these Atlantes have
produced that the great mass of these
working giants should be ever on the
verge of misery?
They take trains across continents
every day and night. 49,.
They cut the ties, lay the rails
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18
AN EDITORIAL BY AESOP

"Beware of Greek bearing gifts" is old adage
yet how often is forgotten Whenever special inter-
es or politicians want anything very badly they stoop
to fattery and softsoap unfortunately there are
instances where branches of the labor fall"
for the dope"
1t reminds US of Aesops story of the Fox and the
Crow which follows: "A fox once saw crow
fy off with piece OF cheese in it's beak
branch OF tree. That's for me, I fox" said
Master Renard, and he walked up the foot of the
tree Good-day, Mistress Crow" he cried. "How well
yon are looking today how glossy feathers how
bright eye. feel your voice would surpass
that OF other birds, just as your figure does let me
hear but one song from that may greet you as the
Queen Of Birds. The lifted up her head and began
70 cav her BEST but the moment she opened mouth
piece OF cheese fell to the ground only be snapped
up by Master Fox THAT will DO" said he "That was
OH wanted. In exchange for your will give
piece OF advice for the fuure-Do trust fiat
terers.' ':..'
F1atterers have frequently eeced" the workers and
~ Is high time that politicians and those with
irons in the fire" were ignored. :... .~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18
BURDENS BORNE BY LABOR

build the Pullmans, dig the coal and
then see to it that the trains run.
They pillow the fields, plant the
seed, grow the harvest, make the grain
into flour and into dough and into
bread and they take it from the oven
and bring it to the door.
They herd sheep on the lonely hill
sides. They cut and wash the wool
and comb it and spin it and weave it
into cloth. Then they cut it and sew
1t and bind and bring it to the door,
And these millions of~Atlantes bear
the burdens of the world, run through
all dangers risk their lives in mines,
stand before flaring furnaces and pro-
duce all the coal. the iron and the
steel.
These men quarry the stone,' cut the
forests, take the wood and stone and
iron and fashion out of them our
palaces. And what have they at the
end Need we ask?
Even the kindergartens and nurser-
les for the babies are problem to
the rich.
The rich form boards to study how
to clean the streets, to make sanitary
the houses and to light rooms in which
the workers live.
To care for thei r hungry babies and
to provide for their old age, is a
problem to the rich.
The idle, the fashionable and the
learned busy themselves with char
tiles, trouble themselves with boards
to provide for the weak and helpless
dependents of the working class. 5
Sometimes when one thinks of the
burdens borne by the workers, even
the burdens of the idlers that pretend
to help them and then of the misery
that is their all this aims giving and
che rity and philanthropy arouses only
bitterness and resentment. =
For the poor not only provide the
idlers with rent, interest and profit;
they even send their sons and daugh-
tiers in the homes of those idlers to
prepare their baths, to shave them, to
brush their clothes, to wash their hair,
to cook their food and to clean away
their dirt. .y.E ...~
Yet these very ones, who are cared
for like babies by cooks, buffers, foot
men. Wallets and waiting maids. are
looked upon as philaz,thropists and
rush of to their boards and commit:
tees in the mad belief that they are
trying to solve the problems; Of the
poor. +*.*, i 49,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18
IN MENfORIAN.

All Duluth n,ourns the untimely death of Assistant
Fire Chief Granzow who gave his life in service the
city.
His life like hat of all firemen, consecrated to
peaceful pursuit that calls for all the bravery
Ism of equally if not less hazardous duties For %
years Chief Granzow has served the city and WE'LL
having risen from the ranks to the position
assistant chief.
The accident, while most unfortunate, will, hope
to draw the attention of the citizens
the hazards that confront the fire de-
partment. In the past, little consideration has been
given to the fremen while the people hailed
cheered far less deserving individuals organizations
Not that these other bodies do not deserve credit
what they have DONE but that the whose
Ices of nestimabe value to the community shall be
given greater consideration.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

Poland is one Of the countries that
provide backgrounds without much
chance Of participating in the bene-
fits of victory on either side.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

This is that which think great readers are apt to
be mistaken in. Those who have read everything are
thought to understand everything, too Il not IL
ways Reading furnishes the mind only With materials
Of knowledge it s thinking that makes what you read
your own--John Locke s#@% @3 ss sS
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

% desire not g be- angry? Then do not be IN
auisttve The man who inquiries what HIS besn said
about him., who lnalicious gossip even if 1t has
bssn+ conftdsntial disturbs Hi own peace san
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

Trade unionism has been the great revolutionizing
force for Industrial betterment and progress.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

The whole labor movement is concerted and united
short to achieve industrial democracy which nneAns
sell rule self CONTROL the self direction of the masses
s. their efforts to gain livelihood It is primarily be-
cause profit sharing means departure from not an
toward industrial democracy We are forced
reject it progressive step IN accompanying those
which the labor il naugugated to achieve
-. IS Ely Professor Of Economies University 81 Wis
constr Ri 5#.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

Window sma1lwood. Who's who anw why? The
people want to know If ever there in the history
of Duluth ludicrous situation it has
recorded. And to think it brought about by man
who favored the Commission Government Charter for
the city of Duluth
Were civilian to enter the court room and hold
the court in the contempt that both claimants Of
the office and their appointees evidently hold it. he
would receive Justice" in very short time and the
citizens of Duluth would uphold the court in taking
drastic action.
Now municipal court which holds itself in
contempt and asks the respect the support the
community at large The court not only defies itself
but also defes the of the apparently
has acted on the advice of the attorney general.
Judge Window, if he may be called Judge, has GER
tainly done nothing to uphold his dignity and has
most assuredy lost favor in the of those who
once his strongest supporters. Whether he is
sirious of serving city the capacity of Municipal
Judge whether he desires the salary has yet
officially stated
AT all events, to use the words of the morning
editor the situation is the most aughable
time the disgusting staged for the bene
fit of an "American audience
Our boasted freedom necessarily involves slavery so
long recognize private property Until that
abolished Declarations Of Independence and Acts
Emancipation in vain. So long claim
the exclusive ownership of the land from which other
men must live, slavery will exist, and as material pro-
gress goes must grow and deepen!-Henry George.
Resolved that we pledge support to any plan
which has for its purpose the bringing about of the
of nations to the furtherest conss
tent with the of law and order throughout
the worldResoluton No. 70 adopted at Philadelphia
by the A. F. of L. November 1914. %(:
r." g-f -.uk-
Here's another one, DIR L.. Coenaneo Pasadena
announced that Abraham Lincoln freed slaves on the
advice little girl Of the spirit world who appeared
to him in his study at the White House the night
| he signed the emancipation proclamation And Mr.
Lincoln doesn't deny it, what you going to do
| about it? .r@l'~= zE@%#%
Trade unionsm has been the great revolutionizing
| force for Industrial betterment and progress
z----------------------- IT, L. '5.@55#F
The label helps labor. also the merchant
This is that which think great readers are apt to
be mistaken in Those who have read everything are
thought to understand everything, too but 1t not IL
ways So Reading furnishes the mind only With materials
Of knowledge it thinking that makes what you read
/ your own.--John Locke II Chi ss# So 81.
20 desire not g b angry Then do not IS IN
quisittve The mAn who inquiries what HIS been said
about him, who malicious gossip even fs it has
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

The label helps labor, also the merchant.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

3 Want makes men murder and hunger drives the
wolf out of the forest.-Francois Villon.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-18

Resolved, that we pledge support to any plan
which has for its purpose bringing about of the
disarmament of nations to the furtherest conss
tent with the preservation of law and order
the world-Resolution No. 7s adopted at Philadelphia
by the A. F. of l. November 1914. ||*<
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-01-26
HIGH IN nARKTOWN'S 400"
Surely Little Question as to the Social
Status of MIR. Samuel
Brown.

Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas
is an ardent advocate of river Inn
provements. Apropos of the river
steamers before the advent of the
railroad, he tells the following aneo-
dote:
In "befo' de war" times it was Gus
tomary, among the dusky bellies, to
regard the stoker on a steamer as one
Of high social status. At a negro ball
one night, on the Mississippi river
bank, a certain Sam Brown was In
troduced to a dusky belle. Facing her
former partner she turned up her
nose and remarked:
What fur does yer interduce me
ter such low-down trash as Sam
Brown"
Sam Brown low-down trash!" ex-
claimed the man, rolling the whites of
his eyes in surprise. why, oman, yer
don't know what yer is talking aboutl
Why, Sam Brown is the biggest man
In Mississippi-he fires de middle fur
mace on de River Queen all by his
self"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-01-26

the door of her compartment where
an even more furious resistance for
some additional minutes prefaced the
ultimate closing of the door upon the
maddened Judith. Even then he might
not draw free breath: there was no
way of locking that door from the out
side; and he dared not leave go the
handle, lest the girl again fly out and
renew the battle.
Waving aside Alan's proffer Of as
sistance, he acidly advised that gen.
tleman to return to his post of duty
and not let his infatuation blind him
to what might at any moment loom
up on the track behind them, Barcus
stoutly held the door against the girls
attempt to pull it open and through
another period when she occupied her
self with kicking its panels as if hope
full of breaking way out A long
pause followed. He heard no sounds
from within. And wearying, he won
dered what the devil she was up to.
Then her voice penetrated the barrier,
it's accents calm and not unamiable:
"Mr Barcus!"
"Hello!" he replied, startled. What
is it, Miss JUDITH"
please let me out"
mot much"
"Oh-pleasew
Struck by the fact that she hadn't
lost her temper on hearing his refusal,
he hesitated.
"Wll you be good If let you out?"
Perfectly"
mo more shenanigan?"
II promise
Word of honor?"
''If my word of honor means any
thing to you-you have it."
well y" he said obviously.
In the same humor' he turned and re-
leased the knob; promptly Judith
opened it wide and swept out into the
corridor, her mood now one of really
fetching mockery.
Thank you so much!" she laughed
ping him an ironic curtsy, she turned
forward and swung. into the drawing
room occupied by Urine.
Wonder what she put that on for %
he speculated, with reference to the
ankle-long Pullman wrapper which Jul
dith had seen fit to don during her
period of captivity Heaven knows
it's hot enough without wearing more
clothing than decency demands
But you never can tell about a WON
an | bet a dollar I've made a
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-01-26
CHAPTER xxxIV.
Hand Car.

Hand Car.
"Welli' Mr.. Barcus broke a silence
whose eloquence may not be translated
in print-"can you beat it,"
Not with this outfit" Alan admit
ted gloomily.
"But-damn it!-we've got to-"
"Profanity-even yours, my friend
won't make this Pullman move without
an engine"
All the same, we can't stop here
like bumps on log, waiting for that
gang OF thugs to sail up in the light
engine and cut our blessed throats.'
Mr.. Law answered this unanswer-
able contention only with shrug.
Then, stepping out on the forward
platform of the Pullman, he cast a
hopeless eye over the landscape.
Raw, rugged hills hemmed in the
right of way, hills whose vast TANKS
were covered with dense thickets of
mesquite, chapparal, sagebrush and
| cacti, the haunt Of owls and rattle
snakes and-solitude. No way of es-
cape from that pocket in the hills 9TH
er than by the railroad itself.
He lowered his gaze to the tracks
and siding-and started sharply.
'Eh-what now?" Barcus INQUIRED
with interest.
Some thoughtful body has left an
old hand car over there in the ditch
Alan replied. Maybe it isn't beyond
service
with me supplying the horsepower,
I SUPPOSED"
Horse isn't the word" Alan cor.
rected meticulously; and escaped the
others wrath by dropping down to the
ballast and trotting over to the ditch
where the hand car lay.
Looks as If it might work" he an.
nornced. Come along and lend me q
| hand"
Half a minute" Barcus answered
| lodging suddenly back into the car.
When he reappeared, after some five
minutes, Rose accompanied him, and
Barcus was smiling as brilliantly as
though nothing whatever was wrong
with his world.
Sorry to keep you waiting, old top
he explained; "but was smitten with
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-01-26
BIG EATERS HAVE BAD
KIDNEYS AND BACKACHE
Back Is Hurting or Kidneys and
Bladder Trouble You.

The American men and women muss
guard constantly against Kidney trou-
BILE, because we eat too much and all
our food Is rich. Our blood Is filed
with uric acid which the kidneys
strive to filter out, they weaken from
overwork, become sluggish; the elimi-
native tissues clog and the result In
general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like lumpa
of lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full Of sediment or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night; IL you suffer
spells, acid stomach, or you have rheu-
matism when the weather is bad, get
from your pharmacist about four
ounces of Jad Salts; take table,
spoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast for few days and your kid
neys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations to
flush and stimulate clogged kidneys;
to neutralize the acids in the urine so
it no longer is source Of irritation.
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in-
jure, makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater beverage, and belongs In
every home, because nobody can make
a misteke by having a good kidney
flushing any time.-Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-01-26

perdue. now and again chucklsns
lmpishly to herself in anticipation of
the time and the event she was biding
with such patience as she could mus
ter
The whistle of a locomotive over
taking the freight sounded the signal
for her to take action on her cherished
plan.
Rising, she glanced out of the open
door. A curve in the track below the
freight, laboring UP steep grade, en-
abled her to catch a glimpse Of head
light, followed by a string of lighted
windows. indicating a single ear: the
special, beyond doubt.
Without hesitation, since the train
was not running at speed, she dropped
out to the ballast, wheeled smartly
about, caught the handbar at the end
of the box car as it passed and swung
herself up between it and the caboose.
A tri1e later the freight gained the
summit of the grade and began to run
more smoothly.
Climbing to the top of the box car
she peered keenly through the gloam-
ing, which was not yet so dense that
she might not discern two heads pro-
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chair IN which Rose was resting. One
of his arms was around her shoulder.
Her face was lifted confidently to his.
Barcus unused morosely on his ap-
prehension of trouble a-brew. simmer
ing over the waxing fire of that strange
woman's jealousy. He didn't like the
prospect at all. If only Alan and Rose
hadn't been SO desperately in love
that they couldn't keep away from one
another! If only Alan had been SEN
sible enough to outwit the woman and
leave her behind when he started in
pursuit of the special! II only there
had not been that light engine in pur-
suit-as Barcus firmly believed it must
be-loaded to the guards with Trine's
INSCRIPTIONS hirelings
No telling when they might catch
upi
The fear of this last catastrophe
worked together with his fears of Ju-
dith to render that night a sleepIess
one for Barcus. He spent it in a chair
whence he could watch both the door
to the compartment Judith had chosen
for her own formerly Marrophats
quarters) and the endless ribbons Of
steel that swept beneath the trucks
and, shining fugitively in the light
from the observation platform.
streamed away into the darkness
astern.
But nothing happened. He mapped
uneasily from time to time, waking
with start of fright, but always to
find nothing amiss. Ever Judith
stopped behind that closed door, and
ever the track behind was innocent OF
the glare of pursuing headlight
Nor did anything untoward mark the
progress Of the morning-unless, in
deed, Judith's protracted sessions
with her father behind the closed
door of the drawing room were to be
counted ominous.
Ever since lunch time the girl had
been closeted with her father; Barcus
had been getting some well-earned and
sorely-needed rest in his quarters;
Alan standing his watch on the obser-
walton platform, in company with
Rose; and the train booming along
through an uncouth wilderness of arid
mountains, barren mesas, and sun
smitten fats given over to the desolate
genius of sagebrush.
Whatever had been the tenor of the
communication between father and
daughter, Judith eventually emerged
from the drawing room in an ominous
temper. Barcus, coming droWsily
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CHAPTER XXI.
Liuht Enqine.

light Gn9ihc'
Toward the close of that summer
day it was the within of that arch-man-
ager Of theatricals whom men call
Fate to stage an anticlimax IN the
midst of a vast and billy expanse OF
desolate middle western country-a
rude and rugged disk of earth which
boosted no human tenancy within a
circle of its far-fung horizon and was
tbisected, not neatly, rather irregular
1y, by the flowing double line of steel
ribbons which marked the railroad
right Of way over the old Santa Fe
trail.
So much for the stage: the light 81
fects were provided exclusively by the
crimson and purple and gold of a por-
tentous sunset; the properties en-
ployed were simply a special train and
what is known as light engine (mean-
Ding a locomotive unhandicapped by
cars); audience there was none, If one
except the actors-who were one and
all far too deeply preoccupied with the
Interpretation of their several roles
TO be aware of the show.
They were not many in number:
perhaps half a dozen aboard the spe-
ciaI train-which was making away as
fast as it could run toward the glory
of the sunset; as many more aboard
the light engine-which had sudden
by slowed down from a headlong pace
and squatted on its launches with an
air of conscious recitude, as one who
has won hard race. 1t was painting
violently, partly to keep in its part,
partly to drown out the clamor Of hui
man squabbling within its cab. In this
effort it was successful only in so far
as concerned the jackrabbits and 9TH
er retiring denizens of the land; the
human actors never missed a cue.
1t was the engineer who started the
Erouble. After bringing his monster
10 full pause, he turned upon his
passengers and-not without plausible
violently indicted Mr.. Alan
Law for abuse of his and his fire.
mans trustfulness. This the said fire.
man climbing forward over the ten
der) vigorously applauded.
They had been engaged, both gentle
men asserted vigorously, for nothing
more dangerous than a quick run
across the prairies, in furtherance Of
the unspecified plans of Mr.. Alan Law
and his companion, Miss Judith Urine.
After starting out, they had wickedly
and maliciously been bribed by the
said Law to put on speed and catch up
with the special, in order that he might
rescue from the latter young woman,
his bride-to-be and the sister OF Miss
Urine.
But-and here was the grievance
they hadn't bargained to be shot at
with pistols. And precisely that out
rage had been put upon them during
and subsequent to the moment of res
cue.
1t was unhappy Mr.. Barcus who pre-
cipitated the affair. This gentleman