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The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-03-09 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

SUICIDE OF A COAL MERCHANT IN WAKEFIELD PRISON.  On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Wake Held Home of Correction on the body of a prisoner named Booth Greenwood, a octal merthant of Brantley, who died in the prison about a quarter past two o'clock on Tuesday morning, in eon., <pence of having cut his throat a week ago. Tht deceased, who was It'd year. of age and a widower was committed for trial by the West Biding nuigut• trate. at Bradford on the Bth ult., and he was to have token his trial at the West Biding Assizes which were opened at Leeds, on Tuesday, for feloniously shooting with Intent to murder at Calverley, near Bradford. Not having been convicted, his friends were allowed tc provide him with food, and his meals were replerly sent to him in gaol On the let Instant his dinner was taken to the prison from a place in the town, as usual, a knife and fork being along with it for his use. Shortly after dinner one of the officers found Greenwood with his head hanging over his closet in a cell, .where he was confined. He had a fearful gash in his throat, was bleeoing profusely, and was In a very weak state from the loss of blood. The prlion surgeon was summoned, and the man was at once removed to the hospital in the prison. Or. esamiping the prisoner. Mr. H. Clark, the prison surgeon, found that he had cut his throat, and It was evident that he had committed the deed with the knife Sent to him along with his dinner. The man was In a very critical state fur several days, but hopes were entertained that he would recover from the effects of his rash act. He progressed favourably for tours days, and then an unfavourable change took plasm.. and he died on Tuesday morning as already stated.
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-07-20 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

MAN. ' women and girls as far as the waist, and then vie- stones, &c. and shoutieg at her "Man-woman." O'Donovan Rum and other political prisoners. The News has been received in Mangles o e shockingl listed them in the presence of their relations; all the The explanation is that the prisoner's husband was Home Secretary opposed the proposal, but said he accident which happened to a party of vetors whilst male inhabitants were made prisoners; end finally, a sea captain, and on his death she betook hermit to would carefully consider the matter during the re- returning from Glenmaye, near Pet, a few' to fill up the measure of these horrors the harbors- a sailor's life, and served for several years elan ems. He ales opposed the appointment of a Loyal der ago. It appears that the party, umbering, loeing all .feeling of humanity, cut off the arms able-bodied seaman without discovery of her sea. Commission. The amendment was withdrawn, and Osman, were in a two-horse sociable, and alien near of a woman, and in derisiou placed her unfortunate During the American war she was engaged on one the Home having gone into Committee of Supply, • ! a public-house in Petrick the driver lost entrol of child in the mutilated and bleeding aims. The Mon- of the blockade runners, and at the eonclusionnt the number of votes were agreed to. The attention of ' the horses, which dashed down a steep hill 0a very tenegrins, who mutilated their prisoners, and thus war she came from Liverpool to Warrington, and the Government having been called to the recent i rapid pace. ! On turning scorner at the feud the excited the indignation of Europe, always respected settled on one of the ferns in the vicinity as an suicide of a Blue Coat School bee', the Homo Seers- ' hill the vehicle was jerked completely over, ffid a women and children, and it was reserved to the Res• agricultural man-servant, still maintaining her dietary announced the names of the Commission ap- passenger and the driver on the box were'tiown sians to present a spectacle of monstrosities unknown guise successfully. For her employer she used to pointed to enquire into the discipline in Christ's HospitaL House resumed o'clock out with greatwh violence, the latter being pit y ehmente 1 the least civilised nations. to break in horsee, plough, and do other kinds of The at nine , and Isehlse ...,... ie.e.cA1i0.4,17 oounf ad nne stateinsensibility. Issettusnee was rendered tem
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1912-03-22 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE PICKET.  A seceder is one who 'operates from others. In the Army and Navy deserters are shown email mercy; m the tntlustrial army they seem to be encouraged and pampered by many who have nothing in onnimon with them, but • prospect of gam—from am arum of the =bon secedura. _ While our unions are rallying Around the tabour Flag. In • manner which they've never done before; 'Ti. end to find we've workers who Are putting on the "drag." And pa Nmg to their ettescueis of yore. Some plead they've got a is eon,  Or & grievance. or la 4 ; Some, perhaps. are only sully, -And wane other have been "had"; But, whatever be their titni sa, it is plain for all to ewe. That seremaion wüi not benefit bueh Lake ma "you" and me.'  And, listen to the hoses How they laugh; Theme etO them A theme for 'h&f; And the more we are divided And the moos we'll be derided: The "wwwsmionmst surely 'OB hie !lair!"  If dogma i to dominate oar ammo, Then, truly, we are in a sorry stem; There's a chum+ in vo'ry street, and s diffeeemt "faith " in emelt- God save our union mom fvwnMCl II We! Our union has been our common groimd, Where men of any faith had equal right; Are WV to be the plaything of the crank Who fancies he is Heaven's shining light?  Oh, just look st the beams How they senile, And watch them wink the °ether eye' the white; i They ewe an. seoessiores tide Means the workers' suicide, i And for them, ma) be, an extre little pile.  Tb Socialist's oar enemy "" you lois! I AM, ilverefora, to lieocisiast I wfit rust trand ;"  Fry peaoe sake. now. I will "Oa say you nay; But have you found the boas to be your friend? Ton insy talk about year conscience or your creed; Ton tuay designate opponeota "knave" or " fool ;" But, in candour I must say--it's as plain, as light of a., That the beeent seek to bawl you for a tool!  Oh, listen to the bosses how they roar, They cam fancy times with Imbour troubles o'er. 1 And some others do a grim ; As they see the and of sin, When tbs so-calksi Csdlems union man's DO more.  Oh, you poor, deluded workers, rub your eyes; You're been drugged with emit and craft, pretty plain; And the future bolds for you a big surprise— As well as indignation, shame and pain. The Lebow atom, methinks, will stand the ' blast, Nor will it from its pedestal be burled; The lemons of the past are bearing fruit at last, And Labour soon Mall dominate the wurld!  • So beerl you not the horses when they praise, NOf others when the " bigots" cry they raise; For the workers' common moos Can permit no splits or Haws, If the worker is to lire in " better days."  I  TIONS 1
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1912-03-29 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE IN MILL LODGE.  A sanaation was caused in the town on Frids, morning when it became knows that • primrose Martha Margaret Taylor, • two-loom weaver Carr Mall, fiamingdon, bad comised suicecis drowneog. The gut it appeared. went to her work as sea& on Thuradskt, and alter coining home at night her father sm t her out to bring a younger child in to tea. She did not mown home stun, however, and her fasium was out marching for the girl ;manure/0 all the night. Early nest monung he found her ahead on the embank. inent of the lodge belonging to the Grans Manufacturing Mill Co., which is in the vloinity of the girl'v homr. At the inquest the father. Mr. J. E. Taylor. Mated that there woe no unpleassotneas at Mane, nor wee there anything wrong at the min to far sib. knew. The girl had earned bur iregas.  Th-r. mother steed that recently the -4;u'll heti complained of plena in her heed, and twice within L fortnight ahe had out her hair, whinii waa vory thick upon hor heed. She had newer made any complaint about her Work.  Tile Coroner said is was ussisoal let ewe MO young to commit suicide, but lus was ours tate chtld was not responsible for her adios& _  The jury roturlied a vordiot "firomossd soli wide* of unsound mind." The grease,* iyoupatby has boom ospreasod ow an bands with the parent', lobo aro soil known ard hairldy rospontod people+, humor resided in %OD town all thew I've&  The bowel took Owe on Tufiday altornooo. when AL large 00000uree of people watched tem ead oeremooy.  Chapter $ What Some Folks call clean, others don't. The particular woman wants her 'clothes "a nice colour." That's why particular women like Fels-Naptha. It not only takes out the dirt and stains, but also leaves the clothes a good colour. It's a new way of washing clothes without hard rubbing or scrubbing. Seems strange, but so did matches at first. Yet who would use a tinder and flint now—who would use an" other soap who knows Fels-Naptha ? , Jeks.iiiall. a Wiles& sissa Lefties aG
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1912-08-30 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

NUT. 'mar Imm ta.hlp  hnniw. tet  1 !Inf.,. Imm h... work  Sho lAtti I},nr  and r,be not Innk -am if  SP ,thltlZ  16 11171,11 Ft  The e Wee* clef waked  CP4ll,4Psi 1 .  to tin DArnaAnd Tery a4ukrlNl y  .... . . . . . 1.0. otrity... ..awl: oho eater' her daughter if mho vreut.l hay . to pay for it- anti ahe nephew! entrt-tv. -7,,,,.," - fare real been altarlA '..' ....talll, mired. and her da 'chin, ropltert vor., Aharrly. - Nn. no 'rhe girl a her dinner. hut went out before hew *were., art. rent'. In to In Work. She we.. IT no ether treen tr.a• far as witneria knew. Jam", Vright Ftirehttll, everlenker at the m.ll where worker'. mot a fortnight ago rite girl put t shuttles in the loom, and catated a meet; H. complained to her then. She did the aarne•thing ahrsit half-peal eleren an Friday morning, .biut said nothing to her then. He did nor elien •' w her up. .. 'I. -Lit .110? : . That sort of thing would he rhea more to a.. .mindedriere than anything fotoYea, t - more oarelrrenese than anything elm. H you MIAe her pay for the previous daniage! - Y a • illing, just to pay for the mama wages who id - work. I). Me sport to pay for this rilso!--Shs never tnld . ything et all about it. I Led to fuid out pelf W • general tweakdown!-Yes. *he could not - on with her pros when ~.tie had two Mutt. is. Di.. it - It the loom !-- No, it broke the yarn. W her loom standing idle when you came up! --V S wou . have been fined in the ordinary wity! -1 • • • .- know. If the beam had beer taken out e • . have had to pay for the man's work wit. cock. . tut. ..‘ . IR ey, an operative at Jones's mall, said about arp • r-peet one on Friday afternoon the saw • •- . going a•ong liollhouse-larie in the ref di ' • the oana/. and away frees her work. She id nein wank m her. 1:ho girl wan walking quirel , A - rdier. of ' Suicide wh:.lat tioniporarily imam" wan r wawa. . I ' 11 . . , ... .
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1912-11-08 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

WORZ.  "An Wpm* was bald an des body d Mr. WaL Maiden, weereaary cif tbe &spire pith C, aeyaisis, co Friday hulk at Biaphom, near Blackpoet, wilco the following Wits were eboised.  Up to Wednesday &Jawed had been attandlnir to his duties as usual, and nothing was thong* 04 his not returning home in the evening, as it frequently occtred that through emending to his duties ha was prevented from getting home tilt We But towards o'clock Mrs. Maiden becalm alarmed, and oho and her eon were kept ia a .etate of suspense thecsighout the night. Deuried did not pot is an appearance at the mifl no Thom day. and on Thursday night the am was called to Blackpool. At the mortuary there the poke* showed him a body which had been vitiated up by the wig and he identified is a* that of hie father. Mr* Maiden said her huieband wee secretary at the Empire Spinning Co., Oldham. for whom be bed worked for 30 years. On October 31)* he returned home from work at the usual time, and left for Manchester expecting to stay in town for his duus•r. 11. aPoeszed worried, and elle thought that the Notional Heath Insurance Act had something to do with this. She expected him home that melt, tark received a telegram headed in at Blackpool. ma ring that he would not he home ma lito was at Blackpool. She did not think he had mu* money on hint. She got & letter on Thursday morning, whioh road:— I Dear Wife and Soo,—l'm so tirid of being so handicapped at the mill that I have decided to make away with myself, and by the time you receive this letter I expect being at the bottom of the sea at Blackpool.—Your lowing husband and father.  The widow, in reply to further questions said the dsceseed had never threatened to commit suicsida. and "he was not in all suspitioos The nrenaisr at the mill toad her he was a bells be with his work buil that wea all. The jiffy returned • verdict of suicide while tsrepovarily Means and expressed deep eympatey with the bereaved widow and son.  . -IL GRAVES GRAMOPHONES WI IMO& lel Ire
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1909-01-29 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE EDITOR OF THE " FACTORY TIMER.")  Sir,—" Lancashire Man!' has excelled himself this week. Really, if I had known what an intellectual giant he was I should never have entered into this controversy at all. His fine Earcam is MO6t galling, especially to a tackler. His mud throwing is also exceptionally fine, and I almost think it would be better for me not t, say anything else on this subject. I did not call him a fool, but I now take the opportunity of doing no. I gather from his remarks the information I most desired. That is. what his occupation was. He is a weaver, and—backward. The sort that are a bogey and a post to tacklers. He seems to have been out to Canada, and probably was not • sucees.s. so I guem they shipped him back. They don't want intellectual giants out there— only weavers; good weavers, who take a practical interest in their work, anti who are not alway, thinking about reducing the wages of a trade that they don't happen to belong to. 'Lancashire Man" might be interested in all the great weaving concerns in Lancashire, judging by the way he "froths" about reducing the wages. Does he think it will benefit him to lower the wages and give them more looms to runt I guess net? His chance of ever becoming an overlooker would be very remote if this were the ease. He says: "Are facts so annoying that they cannot bear to have them mentioned?" As As a matter of fact they are not fact. His letter was -imply a lot of "spiteful to-addle," aimed at • body of reTeetable met:, arid if he had not bothered about the Canadian trade (which, by the way. he assumes to know a lot about), and juwt attended to the latter part of his letter, he would have saved a lot of ink.  }Tednbel,ovenmvstatement of the 300 tacklers in 20 year, and seems desireus of knowing the place. And I should like him to know it, too. It would knock a few of the silly notions out of his head. If you will gin,' me his address I wilt tell him in confidence. but I cannot make it public, and I can a6sure him also that if he Is anxious to be a tackler, this is lhe place to go to. They hare three sets of ancient looms. which they don't care much about. and I dare my if he talked nicely to the boss he'd get net on straight away, and seeing that on his own statement he “well knows" a tackler's duties, he would be a huge success.  Ills remarks about the bonny girl weavers are absolute rot, and the suicide statement is threadhare to a we‘nrying degree. I have been a tackler eight rears, and I rlnn't remerrder boring any mill girl to death by arrognnt. foul-mouthed talk, and certainly I don't think anyi:ody has gone inSPTIP through me. I do know a ca, of a tackler banging hineelf on the canal bank thrtut,th bOr CI Is a lot of theoretical mumlie also ears tattHers nuebt to be "drummed" mit oi" the mil' for hutillmgging women without eat Now, wluever heard cf a tackler humble. on a vilmivor withwit The idea les-imply ,uosterous. There is not a Meer fellow on  earth than a tackler when hone that
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1909-05-21 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SOME ROMANCES OF THE LICENSING TRADE.  A public house hardly seems to be the sort of place where one might expect to find happenings of a romantic nature, but all the same the writer knows of some occurrences in the liquor trade which read as if they belonged more to the domain of fiction than of fact  Here is one which it would be hard to find a parallel to outside the covers of a novel or a book of fairy tales. Some twenty years ago there was a hard working Jew in the East End of London, who followed the occupation of leather dressing, and by dint of great self-denial managed to save a matter of fifty pounds or so. With this ho somehow succeeded in getting accepted as tenant of a small beerhouso in the neighbourhood of Tower Hill, and nursed the ambition of working up the trade no that he might perhaps clear two or three pounds a week ior himself. But Inc poor Israelite soon found that to achieve success HS a publican something more than the mere ability to "put a head" on a pot of beer is necessary, end at the end of a twelve month he was worried to the verge of desperation by importunate creditors in the daytime, and his sleeping hours were one long hideous nightmare of what would happen when he and his family were turned into the street. The strain at last became so great that he could t.asd it no longer: but instead of turning lts thoughts to suicide or America, as a man with less backbone would have done, he called a meeting of his creditors, and addressed them somewhat after the following fashion: "If everything I have were turned into money it would not realise a tenth part of the amount which is due to you. If you drive me into bankruptcy the little there is will be swallowed up in costa, and none of you will get a single farthing. Now I don't believe there is one of you who is not of the opinion that I would not pay you every cent if I could, and, this being so I'll put it to you that your interests don't lie in the direction of smashing me up so that I can't trade, but rather require you to help me to make some money so that I can pay you What I suggest then is that you should all of you let your present debts stand over, and, further than that, give me more credit to an equal amount. I didn't know enough of the trade to keep me out of the wet when I first came into this house. but I am certain that I can snake it pay well now if I am relieved of monetary worry."
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1909-02-05 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE EDITOR OF T. FACTORY TimEs."] liir.--The first paragraph of the letter of One of Them" (in the issue of January 29th.) stamps him as a simpleton of the third degree, for he calls me a fool because I write what I think is beet, and what I know from experichoe. He next fats all over by becoming a seer, and proclaiming that he finds I ant a weaver—" a sort of bogey, and a pent to tacklers." but his guesses are like his afeertions—false and futile.  As for my bcibefiting by roduction of wages in mills, I will not benefit personally, but there is no question the trade will benefit, and all those who are connected with the cotton trade, directly or indirectly, will to some extent be benefited, because the security of markets will thereby be guaranteed, whereas under our present high cost of production they are in a very insecure position, which is liable to become worse and worse.  Ho says that what I have istated are not facts, but his crude opinions. without proof to substantiate each a charge, are unworthy of notice, and I look to "One Of Them" to show tee where I am wrong, and give particulars; and as I have given particulars aa I know them, not as I hear them, it is now up to "One of Them" to prove differently. "One Of Then" re-aeserta his previous statement—that he knows of a mill .in Lancaehire—and oontaining three :sections of looms or with three tacklers—where they clanged tacklers 300 timesi inside of 20 years, or an average of 15 tacklers per year, on three sections of lc.ms, and he says that if my atitirms is given him he will prove the statement. Now, as my address has nothing to do with this subject, I propose that he write the name of the concern. and send it to the editor of the  Factory Timer.," and prove this statement as correct.  The statements I gave about insulting weavers, and driving many insane, are correct., as the readers of this paper can undoubtedly substantiate; but "One Of Them" says be knows of a. tackler committing suicide by weavcra boring hint (?) Will he also state when and whore this happened? For surely he cannot object to do so, and when he denies that tacklers insult or humbug weavers, such a statement is beyond comprehension, for it is ver3 common. If "One Of Them" thinks his statements scare me in the least, he guesses wrong again, becattso I have gone through too much to be frightened by anyone, or anything human. Let these tacklers remember that their positiorrs in a mill are of far keg importance than a mechanic, and very little more important than first-class weavers. Let them also remember it is an easy matter to learn the main points of a tackler's work, and it is an easy scatter for a tackler to learn to be gentlemanly at his work. if he has common-,ense.—Yours, etc., Jan. 29, 1909.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1909-08-06 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

VESTA.' .  Lot no misfortune ever maAlor thee, For only strong endurance leads thee to The day of bli.. Whate'er can chance to mar, That he has strength to meet; What he has strength for, That it behovetli him to bear, dear soul.  Someone very sensibly remarked the other day that the great prevalence of suicide could be traced in some measure to the lack of self-control which our children are allowed to exhibit.  •• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, .If-control, These three lead mon alone to sovereign power." Nowadays the ncoeksity of .If-control seemsro little impressed upon young people, and for want of it v are allowed to grow up byeterical, neurotic, not unbalanced. Even in the nursery the virtue can be inculcated. Instead of potting the child for the smallest hurt, he should be taught to smile at his misfortune. A rainy day, any little disappointment should be borne with cheerfulness, and not alloworto be the occasion for sulky or bad temper. Girls, especially, need to learn this lemon, but happily the outdoor gainon which they TOW share with their brothers are a great help in this direction, all teaching unselfishness. and subordination of ones own good to that of the "side." The Useful Beach Chair.  At it' end of a pleasant hour spent by the sea in a folding beach chair, which I was allowed to occup.v for tlie sum of one penny, I began to wonder why more people do not use these cheap and comfortable articles of furniture in their houses instead of the more expensive productions of the cabinet-maker. I have one at borne, which maintain is the most comfortable chair in the house, and I carry it about from room to room! One can be bought for the low price of in. 9id., but for In. 6d. a very nice one is obtainable, and by spending in. or no more it can be made mo,t inviting in appearance. Fire of all the woodwork should be sandpapered, then treated to two costa of common paint and one of enamel, or to an application of oak staining varnish. The canvas may be covered with a strip of art serge or plushette, or, better still, a piece of coarse, brown linen a little wider than the canvas may be laid mer it, and secured to the woodwork at either end by strong drawing pins. Tile linen may then be quickly removed for washing purposes. Anyone with a taete for needlework may like to embelli,h this strip with a little simple broidery in washing threads. Now such a chair as this is invaluable in a small room, as it can be folded up flat and packed away in a corner in a minute's time. There in no padding to harbour duet, and it can be cleaned in. a very short time. Let out to ita full extent it makes a splendid baby's cradle in case of emergency. Try