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smgmmmmmmgmmggggg ttwww STORY OF SCOTT LOSING HIS FIGHT FOR LIFE. IS OUT London, Nov. 6. The thrilling story of Captain Scott's discovery of the South Pole and his losing fight for life in the Antarctic including the explorer's diary, was published today. The narrative fills two large volumes. "The end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look-after our people." Those were the last words writ ten by Scott ,and tehy are produced in fac simile in the first book. Though the man was then partly dead, his frozen feet being in process of mor tification, the handwriting shows no tremor. At one stage of their suffering, Scott made the expedition's doctor furnish all the men with enough opium to kil Ithem, but the suicide 1 .an finally was abandoned. o o S..3 .WHITE CHILDREN ARE BECOMING DEGENERATE Seattle, Wash., Nov. 6. "Within a generation the negro in the South will be the superior, both mentally and physically, of the white, unless there is a radical change on the part of the South in handling the child labor problem." President Samuel Gompers of the, American Federation of Labor made this declaration today upon his ai rival to attend the annual convention of labor hosts. "White children," said Gompers, "are becomming degenerates through work In the cotton mills, while the negro children, because of their ability to live on less, grow up in the outside air and attend school more regularly." Gompers reiterated his statement at Chicago that he is only a receptive candidate to succeed himself. LINER LIMPS INTO PORT New York, Nov. 6. The steamer Bremen struggled into port tpday- with all her upper works smashed as a result of buffeting for four 'days with one of the worst storms of the season. For three days the passengers could not visit the dining saloon. Even the officers and crew were sick and the steerage passengers were in a panic. O O a LATE NEWS Cleveland, O. Liquor dealers have adopted resolutions giving smaller drinks of beer for a nickel and doing away with custom of giving patrons free drinks at holiday times. Peoria, III. Guy Allen, Galesburg; Jesse Coombs, Chillicothe, and Jno. Bennett, Peoria, indicted for violation of Mann white slave act. Denver, Col. With death of hus band from tuberculosis, marriage of Adele Ritchey, Canton, 111., to Way-, mon P. Harmon, 18 months ago, be came known. o o SHAW OFFICIAL FINED FOR THEj SLUGGING OF UNION MAN ' Slugging of union men by non unionists received a severe setback when Judge Mahoney fined Paul Geiser, foreman, of the Walden W. Shaw Auto Livery Co., $50 for beat ing Rudolph Stimpsel, a member of, the Machinists' "Union. Stimpsel was beaten up when it was discovered that he was a union, man. He had been wroking at his trade at the Shaw garage, which is notoriously non-union, when he was. ordered into Geiser's office. "Is it true tnat you're a union' man," asked Geiser. t The man admitted he was. , "Don't you know we-aln't got any use for union men around this place," shouted Geiser. Then he pounced, upon Stimpsel and struck him several blows. In fining Geiser for the slugging Judge Mahoney administered a caus tic rebuke to the foreman. aMSCm jJJjAW!. I -ii- ay&g wo,jUrf:A , u MwJttiiMlKh