Turner County herald., August 19, 1897, Image 8

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STREET RAILWAY DEVICES.
Amo«| IhMi Scheme to Keep COD
doctors Honest.
It is many years since Mark Twain's
lines immortalising the enforced
punching of variously colored slips by
street railway conductors to prevent
their "holding up the company" ran
fiot through the land, and the "buff
^ripslips," the "pink trip slips" and the
1'blue trip slips" have long been aban
doned by most street railways in favor
Of the clock faced indicator. This is a
fairly good device, but still it maybe
worked by a clever man not unwilling
to divert a few nickels to his own
pocket. In Toronto the company has a
scheme which, so far as any one knows,
has never yet been circumvented by a
conductor. Indeed, it is difficult to see
how it could be got around without tho
connivance of a pussenger. By this plan
the conductor does not touch money or
tickets at all. When collecting, he car
ries around a specially made receptacle
into which the passenger must put his
own ticket or 5 cent piece. The con
ductor who violates the company's rules
by taking the' fare from the passenger
and putting it into the fare holder is
liable to discharge. At the end of each
cqllection the receptacle is hung upon a
special hook and must there remain un
til more passengers board the oar.
,... Tho cars of the trolley line between
Minneapolis and St. Paul are fitted with
admirable appliances to prevent acoi
dents to passengers careless in stepping
on and off. At the rear end of each car
are folding gates which are under the
control of the motorman, who does not
open them until the car has reached a
full stop and closes them before it
starts again. Controlled by the same
lever as that which opens and closes the
gates are folding steps, which let down
When the gates open and close up when
they shut.
The managers of this same line have
carried the street car advertising notion
to a greater length than the managers
of most other trolley lines ju the United
States. In addition to the ordinary space
for advertisements over the windows,
the backs of the seats are provided with
panels for the display of advertising
matter. This does not, however, seem
to attract the advertisers of the twin
cities very mnch, for the panels are very
rarely utilized except for amusempnt
annou ucements. -—Exchange.
HER LIFELIKE STATUE.
's]tt Signalized Hip Departure From the
Worid of Artists.
"^Before her marriage she had been a
famous sculptress. She had made sev
eral portrait statues of well known
men* afid every one predicted for her a
Will inore brilliant future, when she
Suddenly set all predictions at naught
by marrying a wealthy man who dis
approved of her keeping up her profes
sional work. She was very Quiet under
this restriction, but was supposed to
rebel inwardly. Therefore when at a
dinner party one evening she asked her
old friend General Basbar to Come to
see her on the following evening and
inspect her last piece of work, which
She thought the best and most lifelike
she had ever executed, he supposed he
was expected to use his influence to pre
vail upbn her husband to permit her to
resume her place among the working
fraternity of artists.
"I am sure you will like it, general,"
she said, with a winning smile. "It
fairly lives and breathes. I confess I
am in love with it myself."
On the. appointed evening the gen
eral, with some misgivings over the
delicacy of the task intrusted to him,
presented himself. Instead of inviting
him to the studio his hostess, to his
surprise, offered to bring her last bit to
him.
'Oh, it's a statuette, is it?" he a»ked.
"Well, yes, you might call it so,"
she answered, as she went out of the
loom. In a few minutes she returned,
bearing in her arms—a baby I—Chicago
Times-Herald.
Mistaken Pride.
Phil May, the artist and caricaturist,
tells of a funny experience he had on
his return* from a tour for the London
Graphic:
When 1 came baok to London, I
hastened to the office, and imagine my
gratification when I saw everywhere
resplendent banners bearing the inscrip
tion in large lettfere,^ ".Welcome to
May.",
"This is indeed fame," I thought,
and when I got to The Graphio office
there was another inscription, with
flowers and all the rest of it,1'Welcome
to M. and Q." The G. worried me a
bit, but then the name of the man who
went out with me commenced with G.
I told the editor of my gratification.
"Why, you egotistical idiot," he re
marked politely, "it's nothing to do
with youl It's the marriage of Prince
Georgo and Princess May."
The Price of Songc.
7he following list shows that a great
deal of money is made from popular
music in England:
Sir Arthur Sullivan is said to have
realized £10,000 by his celebrated song
"The Lost Chord." Balfe appears to
have received high prices for the copy
rights of some of his songs. For "I
Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" bo
got £8,000, the same for "When Other
Lips," and £5,000 for "The Heart
Bowed Down." When recently put up
for auction, £1,212 15s. was obtained
for the copyright of? Michael Watson's
Bong Anchored.,.".—Harper's Bound
Table.
...
English writer says that if the
Prussian conscription were applied in
India England would have 2,500,000
rfgular soldiers actually in barracks,
With 800,000 recruits coming up every
year—a force' with which not only Asia
tint the world might be subdaed.
'wo branches of the Aberdeen Asso-r
ion For the Distribution of Litera*
to Settlers in Canada have been
id Montreal.
Court fteientotloai.
Here is one of the posers whioh I
oc­
casionally find in my letter box, says
London Truth:
"Some young married ladies—quite
loyal to th-5 queen—feg Trpth to tell
them what is the good of being present
ed. Two of them have been teased to go
through this ceremony."
Personally I do not know what return
is to be gained by the process at all
commensurate with the expense in
volved. As, however, a young married
lady's point of view may possibly be
different from mine, I have sought fur
ther information among my feminine
acquaintances. As far as I can make
out from tho information I have ob
tained, tho chief advantage of being pre
sented is that it enables a young lady,
married or otherwise, to make her hus
band or father, as the case may be, pay
for a magnificent frock, which slio
tvould hardly be able to get out of him
under any other circumstances. It also
enables her to be photographed in this,
frook and become an object of envy and
admiration to her less fortunate female
acquaintances. Of course the frock, aft
er it has served its original purpose,
"Will, in the hands of a judicious owner,
come in useful on many subsequent oc
casions. I must leave my correspondents
to decide for themselves whether the
possession of such a frock is worth the
worry and anxiety incidental to being
presented or whether it is better to stay
away and submit to further teasing.
Little Indians at Play.
What unconfined joy when tho camera
came out to picture some one, or when
we played pa-tol, tho game of the
bounding sticks, or the aboriginal hide
and seek 1 Wildest of all was the fun
when the fire fights were on, and one
party defended the pueblo and the oth
^r, assuming to be Comanche, attacked
it at dusk. /'Then how we rolled adobe
mud pellets and stuck them on the tops
of onr throwing sticks and jammed a
live coal 4nto tho side of each and sent
them hurtling into the enemy's camp
hntil, fdl the sky seemed to rain shoot
ing fiiars. And what perfect spirits 1
Now and then afire ball would find
its billet, and there would be a howl of
pain, and in the next breath the wound
ed warriorling would be bombarding
again, with more spirit than ever, and
not a whit worse nature. That is an
6ther of the good things that generally
go with the brown skin—these Children
of the Sun, young and old, are fit play
ers at any game, for they do not lose
their tempers. They give and take like
the manly creatures nature meant us' to
be, and not the peevish, selfish, inflam
mable things that civilization has made
us. I would like to see just how long
one of these happy fire fights could
on between an equal number of Little
Lord Fauntleroys before there would be
several real fights on hand.—C. F, Lum
mis in "Land of Sunshine."
The Rats'Pound.
There is in the city of Paris a regular
fiound, surrounded by a massive stone
wall, wherein the services of rats are
utilized for clearing the bones of dead
animals from flesh. A horse thrown in
overnight is quite stripped by morning,
and it is the regular work of the man
in charge to remove the beautifully pol
ished skeleton. Of course the rats thus
1 pampered increase at a terrible rate and
invade the neighboring slaughter houses,
So it becomes necessary at times to have
a regular battue. This is rather clever
ly managed. All around tho walls of
the pound hundreds of little hoies have
been bored, the depth of each being just
that of a rat's body. Early in the morn
ing, while the rats are still enjoying
their meal, a' couple of men with lan
terns jump suddenly in with a great
noise and olairter. The terrified creatures
rash for the, nearest refuge, and the
walls are socn ornamented with a regu
lar forest of tails whisking about like
animated black icicles. Then arrives the
rat collector, who with skillful hand
seizes each pendent tail and deposits the
astonished owner thereof in a bag which
jie carries slung over his shoulder. The
skins are largely used for making
gloves.—New York World.
Mr. Gladstone as a Sport
While on a visit to Mr. Gladstone Sir
William Harcourt mentioned that the
boys at Eton take in a large number of
evening papers. Dear me, how remark
able 1" said Mr. Gladstone. "How
things have changed since I was at Eton 1
But it shows what a remarkable inter
est the you^h of the present generation
take in current events." Sir William
ventured to suggest that it might be
that the youth of the present generation
took a remarkable interest in sport.
"Indeed," said Mr. Gladstone, "not
gambling, I hope." Then Mr. Gladstone
became reminiscent. "I think the only
thing I ever did in that direction was
to put an occasional shilling on a prize
fight "—Household Words.
On a .Technicality.
%:v'
"I see your friend Giltedge, the
banker, has had.some hard luck lately."
"How was that?"
"He was out fishing, and the shore
caved in with him, and he swallowed
about a gallon of water before they
could get him out."
"That was pretty rough."
"Yes, but that wasn't all. He was
arrested afterward for taking in a draft
when he knew the bank to be broken."
—Detroit Free J^ress.
Paris Milk Supply. .'
Paris consumes 209,000,000 liters of
milk a year, whiqli comes to about oilly
two-fifths of a pint daily for each ffi
habitant. City ccjfcvs yield 21,000,JQQO
liters suburban ciows within a radius
of 12 miles, 68,000,000 liters the re
maining 153,000,000 liters come rail
from a greater distance. ... ..^
Plants growing ftear the seai have,
thicker leaves tbafijthqpe grov^ng in»f
lipid. Apparently tlw^sea salt is th^
pause this phenomenon, as plants cul
tivated^ in artificially salted floil yield
thicker leaves/ "C
Parnell.
Many people set him down merely as
a man who, out of some sort of sinister
purpose or maliguity, wished to inter
fere wi£h aud harass, obstruct and irri
tate every English government aud the
whole ho^se of commons. Mr. Parnell
had no feeling of the kind. His was a
deliberate purpose, and it was even by
the process of exasperation that he tried
to fix the attention of the house ana the
country ou the fact that there was an
Irish national demand which it would
bo necessary to listen to and to take
into consideration. Parnell's creed was
that the house of commons was the one
great public platform of the country.
From that platform ho was determined
to appeal to and arouse the English peo
ple. Therefore he said in substance to
the house of commons, "If you will not
listen to our Irish national claim, then
we will not allow you to discuss any
other question whatever of which we
can prevent the discussion,"
He acted on the inspiration of the
woman in the eastei'n story—of which
woman he had probaoly never heard—
who, having tried in vain to get a peti
tion delivered to the. sultan, took her
place with her little children in the
publio street and waited until the sul
tan rode that way and then flung her
self and babes in front of his hprse's
hoofs and declared that sho would not
move from thatV spot until he had lis
tened to her appeal or had trampled her
and hers to death. That was the real
meaning of the later policy of obstruc
tion. It had its effect.—From VA His
tory of Our Own Times," by Justin
McCarthy.
What Bothered Him.
1
Senator X. made it known, says the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune, that he was looking for
a furnished residence. He was accord
ingly beset by agents and the owners of
houses. A woman of wealth who owns
a very handsome house followed the
senator from pillar to post, —"1 finally,
to get rid of her, he promised to go
through the house. "NoSv, senator,"
said she, when they had thoroughly in
spected it and had stopped in the draw
ing room to talk the matter over, "I
am going to rent this house to you for a
mere song because I am so anxious to
have some one in it who will keep
things up." "How much, madam,"
demanded tho senator, "do you propose
to ask for your house by tho year?"
"Four thousand five hundred dollars,"
said the lady,'' and at that price I think
it is the most reasonable house in town."
The senator walked to the window and
stood with his hands in his pockets
looking out. He remained in this atti
tude for so long a time that his guide
went up to him. What are you looking
at, senator?" she asked. "I am not look
ing," said the senator "I am think
ing." "Well, what are you thinking
about?" "My dear madam, I am think
ing," replied the senator courteously,
"if I took this house what in the world
I would do with the remaining $500 of
my salary."
Care of the Cow.
It is by physicians and scientists
considered of the utmost importance
that the milk supply be regulated and
watched over with a thousand times
more vigilance than has ever before
been done. Tuberculosis may get firmly
rooted in the cow's system and continue
there for a long time before any danger
is suspected. First of all things, it is
necessary that a healthy cow be select
ed, then that she have every advantage
of healthful conditions. Crowding,
dampness and darkness are serious
faults in the buildings where cows are
kept. Milk for bottle babies should not
be furnished from cows kept in badly
ventilated and ill smelling buildings.
A very small proportion of tho milk
furnished to cities is fit for the use of
infants. If the present state of things
continues, there will of necessity be a
revolution in society and consumers
will demand the enactment of sanitary
laws as regards cows and will insist
that every regulation be complied with.
—New York Ledger. .-...v ..
His Choice.
It is said that Charles Wesley was
sometimes easily annoyed, and on one
occasion at a conference he became so
irritated at the prolix remarks of a
speaker that he said to his brother:
"Stop that man's speaking. Let tis
attend to business."
But the offender was relating his re
ligious experience, and though it was at
so great a length John Wesley evident
ly thought that no ono had aright to
interfere with it. He was therefore al
lowed to continue, but the moment
came when Charles could contain him
self no longer.
"Unless he stops," he whispered to
John, "I'll leave the conference."
By this time John was enjoying the
man's simple story, and he only turned
and whispered to some one sitting near:
"Beach Charles his hat."—Youth's
Companion.
Burma Marriages.
In Burma marriages are exceedingly
simple there is no display and no ex
citement. The bride, though, not the
bridegroom, is the wooing spirit. When
a Burmese beauty spies a youth with
Whom she believes she can be happy,
she gives him apiece of candy. If he
takes it and eats it, the matter is set
tled, and the two are pronounced man
and wife without any more formality.
But if the youth's heart is otherwise
.engaged he refuses the candy, and the
woman has to be content with that.
St. Louis Republic. --fi
Sven Hedin, the Swedish traveler,
laughs at the idea that China could
ever be persuaded to attack Europe or
America. The Chines0 are convinced
that the soldier's calling is low and
brutal and do not oare to be conquerors.
isgow S^bhitb School
had duri
(nnion
[.the last ten jrears bieebme af
itul bbdy aud now counts in
Jrship bver 2&,000f Sunday
bohool teachers.
THEY COINED WORDS.
A Young lady's Interesting Dream of In
vention and Wealth..
''Good morning," she said. "Yon
l:ok quite griggish."
"Griggish?" he interrogated. "What
kind of a look is that? I—is it—is it
I anything alarming?"
I "Oh, no, silly! Don't you know what
griggish means? I manufactured it ages
ago out of grig, a grasshopper— some
thing blithe and sprightly, you know.
That reminds me, I had the most inter
esting dream the other night. I dreamed
we kept a word store."
"A word store?"
"Yes, we coined words and sold
them to the inventors of foods and of
typewriters, and"—
"How were they sold, by the yard or
by the dozen?" he interrupted.
"Neither way. We sold each word ac
cording to the amount of brains expend
ed in inventing it, except the words
pertaining to bicycles—they came high,
because they were so fashionable. Oh,
it was quite a large store, all divided
np into departments. There was the
bicycle department, the cigar depart
ment, the electrical department, the
patent medicine department—in fact,
all lines were represented in which in
ventions might be made needing names.
You see, we sold a name for
BO
much,
and then if the invention proved suc
cessful we shared in the profits."
"Well," said the man, "I hope you
showed more taste in the matter than
the person who invented such words as
'cupograpli, "mimeograph,' 'comptome
ter' and 'operaphone'—they give one
literary indigestion."
"Oh, yes," shei replied, "our coinage
was of a muoli higher order. Of course
we had words ending in graph and
phono and cycle, but they were exceed
ingly cheap, and inventors were rather
ashamed to be seen buying tliem. Wcrds
like 'pegamoid' came high. I wish I
could remember all the lovely names
we coined," she went on. "The only
one I can think of is 'hamwich,' a sub
stitute for ham sandwich. Don't you
think that's choice? I dreamed that wo
sold it to a restaurant man and he made
a mint of money out of it."—Chicago
Tribune.
WARFARE OF CLASSES.
Modern Football Mere Play to Yale's Old
Freshman-Sophomore Struggle.
The organization and development of
intercollegiate athletics now absorb
much of the energy that used to bo
given to the furious internecine warfare
of classes. From time immemorial there
were mighty games of football on fhe
New Haven green, in which whole
classes engaged. The freshmen posted
their formal challenge on the bulletin
of lyceum, and the supercilious accept
ance of the sophomores named the day
for the struggle. ."Gome," cried the
class of '60,
And liko sacrifices in their trim ••'S
To tho firo oj'ed maid of smoky war,
All hot and bleeding will we offer you.
And the Tyrtajus of '58 cheered his
mates with the noble lines:
Let tliem come .on, tho bnseliorn crew!
Each soil stained churl—alack I
What gain they but a splitten skull,
A sod for their laso back I
On the bloody day. appointed both
sides massed in heavy column with Na
poleonic tactcis, while the New Haven
fathers surrounded the field. When the
round leather ball was kicked, 200 men
clashed together in frantic, shoving,
dusty, roaring chaos, tho one side striv
ing to kick the ball to tfie Chapel street
fence, the other to force it to the steps
of the statehouse. Swift runners hung
upon the outskirts to seize the ball
chance directed to their feet, and hurry
it amid full gazing applause to the goal.
But it was in the middle press where
deeds were uncrowned, where shirts be
came streamers and rib squeezed rib
until they cracked, that the heloes of
war and the college bully were to be
found. From this Titanic struggle the
'degenerates of today havo evolved the
emasculated game whioh they call foot
ball, a wretched sort of parlor pastime!
—Judge Henry E. Howland in Scrib:
ner's.
Turkish Traffic In Slaves.
Slave dealing in Constantinople, as
wo know, always exists, and tho wife
of a pasha is not above the wretched
business. Richard Davey, in his book,
"The Sultan and His Subjeots," says:
"A good deal of Turkish traffic in
slaves is conducted in the following
manner on very well conceived com
mercial principles: The wife of a pasha,
as a matter of speculation, purchases
two or three little girls for a trifle,
either from a slave dealer or some poor
woman, generally a Christian, possibly
a Bulgarian refugee who is unable to
bring up her own children. The lady
educates cacli child, teaches it those ac
complishments which are indispensable
to harem life, such as singing, dancing
and playing on musical instruments,
washing, starching, ironing, erhbroid
ery and even a little cookery. /To this
may be added a smattering of some for
eign language and a very elementary
knowledge of Turkish caligrapby. When
the child is grown np, if she is hand
same tho lady turns her to account
and liberally repays herself for her
trouble by selling her at a high figure
to some pasha of her acquaintance
through the medium of one of the well
known old women whose business it is
to carry out transactions of that sort."
No Inventor.
"They do say tljat every American is
& born inventor,'' said the patriotic
gfehtleman. j,
"My husband,'? said the fafylady, "is
nil exception. He uses the same old ex
cuses for being^7rtit late that used to
hear my fathjbr use. "—Indianapolis
Journal.
—r——e
Sir James jGrant* predicts ^hat the
Id output of Canada, especially of
iritish Cdfombia, "^vill astiiiish the
Id at obidistant^Blte.
''i'
W« are aftvays bored by thoB4 whom
bore. «~-IA Btfcheforibaald.
THE WOODPECKER.
Four Characteristics of the IJttle Drum
mer of the Woods.
There is an articlw by Frank M.
Chapman in St. Nicholas on "The
Little Drummer of the Woods," giving
much curious information concerning
the woodpecker. Mr. Chapman says:
If we had a woodpecker in our hands,
we should see in the beginning that its
bill is not slightly hooked," with tho
upper mandible turned down at its end
and overlapping the under mandible, as
in tho crow and other birds that "pick
up a living," but that both mandibles
aro of equal length and out squarely
off at the tip. It is, therefore, like
wedge or chisel.
Perhaps the tip of the bird's tongue
will be seen appearing through its near
ly closed mandibles, and our attention
is at once attracted by its peculiar
shape. We discover that it is remark
ably long, and when fully extended
reaches almost if not quite an inch be
yond the point of the bill. It is not
flat, like the crow's, but round and
fleshy, and has a sharp, horny point,
which, by looking at it very closely, we
see has a series of barbs on both sides.
In the meantime our hands have
doubtless bjeen pricked by the bird's
tail feathers, each feather being stiff,
bristly and pointed at the end. Some
of the larger woodpeckers—the pileat^d
and ivorybill, for instance—have this
singular kind of tail feather highly de
veloped. The main stem or shaft of the
feather is much larger than usual, and
each barb growing from this shaft is
curved downward and inward and is
strong and pointed. Comparing this
feather with the flat tail feather of a
crow, we see at onoe how different it is
in form.
The wings do not impress us as in
any way unusual. They are neither
very long nor very short, but the ar
rangement of the toes is so peculiar
that they were at once commented upon
by a blind girl, to whom I had handed
a specimen of one of these birds. In
stead of the disposition common to most
birds, three toes directed forward and
one backward, we discover two front
toes and two hind ones, and we will
note also that each toe is armed with a
strong curved nail.
INVASION OF WASHINGTON,
Admiral Cockburn's British Soldiers Loot
ed and Fired the Publio Buildings.
"The last glimmer of twilight was
fading away when (after the battle at
Bladensburg, two miles distant from
Washington) into the well nigh desert
ed city rode the redoubtable Cockburn
at the head of his band of marauders,"
writes Clifford Howard in The Ladies'
Home Journal of the invasion and burn
ing of our national capital by the Brit
ish forces under Admiral Cockburn in
August, 1814. "Elated at their decisive
victory over a force nearly twice as
large as their own and thirsting for
spoils, the red coated soldiers marched
triumphantly toward the capitol. Dis
charging their firearms at the windows,
the soldiers burst in the doors and with
a shout of triumph carried their leader
to the speaker's chair, from which, with
mock gravity, he put the question,
'Shall this harbor of the Yankee democ
racy be burned?' A yell of affirmation
rang through the hall, and without fur
ther preliminaries papers and other
combustibles were piled under the desks
and set on fire. In a few minutes this
noble edifice that had been in course of
construction more than 20 years and
containing the library of congress and
vast quantities of official documents of
great historical value was destroyed.
"Now thoroughly aroused to their
work of plunder, a howling crowd of
the desperate marauders hurried to the
White House in the hope perchance of
capturing the president and his wife.
Finding the house locked and deserted,
they battered down the doors, and, con
soling themselves for the loss of their
distinguished captives by a ruthless de
struction of the furniture, they raided
the larder and regaled themselves with
a hastily prepared feast in the state
dining room. Then, destroying the re
maining provisions and breaking and
mutilating, whatever they could readily
lay their hands on, they concluded their
visit by setting fire to the home of the
president. Numerous other public aud
private buildings ware also destroyed
by fire."
A Carpet Knight.
The following curious definitions of a
carpet knight were recently given in an
English examination: "One who re
ceived his knighting upon the field of
the cloth of gold," "a knight who stood
on a carpet and had another thrown
over him while being knighted," "the
common black, beetle, which, when
equashed, resembles all the different
shades of a brussels carpet," "a knight
which sleeps on a carpet," "a man
like, for instance, Sir X. & Co., who is
one of the best carpet makers, and be
cause he did make them so well he wa
rn ake a knight."
A shot was said to go off because
the sudden shock in a sort of way
frightens the bullet." And it was de
clared that a dog turns around several
times before settling down to sleep "to
make sure he is not sitting on any un
pleasant object, such as a black beetle,
pin," eto.
A Good Guess of Long Ago.
During the American Revolution an
English magazine published an estimate
of the North American colonies. Plac
ing the population then at 3,000,000
tiftd assuming that it would double it
self every 25 years, the writer estimated
that in the yea* 1890 the number would
have increased to 64,000,000. This may
be taken as a most remarkable proph«cy,
inasmuch as the census of 1890 fixes
the total population at 62,622,2o0.
if Angelic Temperanient.
"H« good natnred, is te?"
^"Gjo^l naturedfy 'Wby, IJjave
tnat man to wear'a smiling-jface whed
he was speaking taking off a poronj
plaster. Boston Traveler.
Is There a Remedy?
Longmont {CUorado) Ledger.?
It has become a standing comulai
and accusation made a-jainst the po
tical party in power, whichever pat
it may be for tho time being, that t~
said party, is mainly responsible
the condition of the great army ol
unemVloyed. The claim is reiterat
over aud over atraiu, until it swells
a graud chorus of several millions
yoices, all joinitij in tho name vv"
lamentations that until there is a
ical change in the governmental poli
mainly dependent upon a Change
the political party in power, there is
solutely no hope for the unemploy
But is it reasonably certain that
remedy prescribed would prove asp
ific, and without fail, cure the disea^
A change of the administration wi
its accompanying change of goyei
mental policy, may and frequently d(
shift the burden to the other should
and thus give partial and tempore
relief. But this is not all that
needed by the great army of the une
ployed. They not only demand
ploymeut, but they claim their vi,
to employment at good wages,
any change in the administration,
cure what the unemployed ask
If so, in what way and by what me
ods can it be done?
We have been studying this probl
for several years, in the hope that
true cause of the trouble might be
covered, and with it an effective
edy. Our personal experience and
servation cover a period of half a
tury, going back to a time when
wonclerful labor-saving machinery
the present day had not been invent
Nearly everything that is now ma
factured by machinery, was then
by hand. At the present day' mach
ery steps in, and by its aid one
does the work of 10, 20, 50 or 100
hand workers. This necessarily
prives a large number of men of
ployment, who under the old order
things prior to the invention of
wonderful labor saving macine
would have found constant em ploym
at satisfactory wages.
Tn a late issue of the Cheyel
Sun-Leader, is found a very suggest
article written by Judge J. H,
ford of Laramie City, in which he
cusses the Labor Problem from a
tistical standpoint. We quote from
article a9 follows: "I have been
ing and studying a carefully prepa
statistical table, showing the amo
of the product of labor now with
improved labor saying machinery,
compared with fifty years ago.
"I find that in nearly all tho dep
rneuts of labor, one man can prod
in a given time, as much as fifty
could produce in the same time 'I
years ago. The statistician fig'
that in agricultural products,
man's labor will produce as much
thirty-seven men could produce hal
century ago, aud taking all kind"
labor, skilled or otherwise, the prod
is increasing at the average ra,te
fully fifty to one. The conclu.
reached by the statistician in is',
irial economy, is that if all the la
of the country were employed
hours a day steadily, tho prod
would be more than could possibly
consumed by the couatry.
"These estimates are approxima
correct, I presume, and it present
condition which must necessarily
awaken some solicitude for the. well
of the country. fyc
"It is useless to charge this co"
tion to any political party or pol
nor do I see how any administra
can materially change it.
"And if it is true, that there is
work enongh to employe mankind
hours a day, what is going to "be
moral and social effect upon the wc
in the near future? It goes with
saying, that capital is not going to
ploy labor to produce more than th
is any use or demand for, and coi
quently this condition of things
sents a problem that it will be diffi
for the sociological or political
losopher to solve.
"Labor saving machinery has rec
ed prices and increased the product
of the luxuries cf life, until now
have become the necessaries, and
placed within t!?e reach of even
poorest classes. If one were to
the homes of the laboring men of
day, he will find more Brussels
velvet carpets, more upholstered fu
ture, more pictures, orpaineuts
more musical -instruments, than
would havo fduhd in the homes
those considered wealthy fifty ye
ago: The result we can all rej
over."
And we now repeat tlie! ques
placed at the head of this editorial:
Is there a remedy? We frankly
fessour inability to answer our
question, and we are not ashamed
say so. The article in the Sun-Les
from which thf aboye was clipped
not point out 'tke remedy.
Politicians of 'the different s'tri
denjocrats, republicans, populists,
called silver rapublicans, and all
rest of them, dach cypress the ufti
confidence that if his particular
tical hobby cauld be carried oat
the legislative and ^executive dfep
mentt of the government, all the
emp}byed would sjbon find
emptoyjnent it
andffcwant wotDu
op?
reaqmerative wil
be-knowti no mor£
H-til what fftident& do Ajhey .*ufp
that their