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For high grade prescription work, for drug store articles that are perfectly reliable and for price 1 unbeaten anywhere in the Northwest this store is the place. WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF HOME MADE UNION CIGARS. MAX WIRTH S RED CROSS PHARMACY. IS West Superior St. THE PEOPLE'S UPHOLSTERING STORE MATRESSES MADE TO ORDER. PIANOS POLISHED. Picture Framlns and All KlaAi of Furniture Repairing. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Benlth Phone 1249-C. 504 E. 4th M. STOCK YOUNG, Duluth. WHEH PRICES, BUT HIKES ME IMBED Workingmen in Western Penn sylvania Feel Effect of Ig noring Labor Unions. Former Conditions Still Exist Despite Flattering Ante Election Pledges. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 26.—There a^-e about 50,000 heart sick workmen in the steel mills, furnaces and coke works of the United States. They have known many years that corporations have no souls. They have recently learned that corporations also lack honor. Positive assurances were given the tonnage men last spring, when their wages were reduced to meet the falling prices of iron and steel, that with an advance in prices their wages would be restored. This promise was also made tentatively previous to the na tional election. At that time it was stated that if the Republican ticket was successful the price of iron and steet would advance and the workmen would be benefited. Prices have advanced. A boom has set in and the workmen expected by Jan. 1 that they would be benefited by the boom. Not so. The Carnegie Steel Com pany has coldly, told its employes they need not expect any increase in wages. The Illinois Steel Company, Jones & Laughlins and the Carnegie Steel Company have reduced wages. Many smaller concerns have placed the scale of rates below living wake, and the reduction will be severely felt when the Amalgamated Association wage scale expires and a new schedule for the fiscal year is made. Hence the era of good times will probably be rudely shaken by strikes, discontent and miserably-clad and poorly-paid work men. Non-union Men Mourn. The cold facts are in evidence at every mill and coking plant in Western Pennsylvania. The officials of the Amalgamated Assocl&tion are heart sick over the prospects. The men who left the protection of labor unions mourn the day they accepted the doctrine that individual efforts win and not collective cohesion. Last year the coke workers in the Western Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia fields accepted a reduction of 20 per cent. Work was scarce and thous ands of the foreigners left for their homes in Europe. Every coke worker expected that Jan. 1 the H. C. Frick Coke Company would announce an increase in wages of at least 10 per cent. Last year coke sold as high as $2.75 a ton, but the average price "for fur nace coke was $2.50, which is ack nowledged to be profitable. During 1904 coke dropped in price to $1.40 a ton. At that the coke concerns made a fair profit. Now coke is selling at 2.25 a ton and is bound to go to $2.50 because of the .extraordinary demand and the scarcity of labor and poor freight conditions. The coke operators have not make good their promises and have given skilled workers to un derstand that they do not intend to. Furnace Workers Complain. The furnace workers of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania are the hardest worked class of men in the world. Their lives are constantly in danger and it is safer to work in a powder will than about a blast fur nace. During 1903 pig iron was sold at $18 a ton. It dropped to $12 a ton last Summer and continued at this price until the approach of the last election. It advanced continually until to-day pig iron is selling at $16 a ton and promises to go higher. The fur nace workers expected an advance in wages as they had been promised last year when prices were reduced. Puddlers are probably the worst off of any of the skilled workers, as their labor unfits them for other work. Un der the Amalgamated scale they should earn $4.50 a ton at the present time. Wages on a sliding scale soared to $5.50 when bar iron sold at $32 a ton. Bar iron slid down to $28 a ton last Summer and has since advanced to $30 a ton and the mills are filled with orders at that. The puddlers under this price are entitled to at least $4.75 a ton. The concerns employing nonunion work men instead of advancing the scale reduced the price of puddling to $4.25 and some concerns followed this with a cut to $4 a ton, which is the limit. Street sweepers can make more money than puddlers at this scale. Next Summer the Amalgamated Association which is upholding the price In union puddling plants, will have to accept a similar reduction or strike. Wages Reduced to 20 Per Cent. The Illinois Steel Company, for no apparent reason, except that the men had not been getting out as great a tonnage per turn as the C'arnegie Steel workers at Homestead, Duquesne afnd Edgar Thomson plants are, had their wages reduced about 20 per cent. The officials made the plea that the plant could not be operated in competition with eastern plants unless the, wage reduction was accepted. The workmen had cut away from the Amalgamated Association and were forced to accept the offer. Last Summer they had also been slashed but that was when the price of com modities were going down. But the last time they were reduced the price of everything made by the Illinois Steel Company, except rails, had ad vanced $5 a ton. The workers in the Chicago plants will tell inquirers that if their company will put in the same machinery with which the Carnegie plants are equipped, they will be will ing to work for the same wages. Make Individual Contracts. Following on the heels of the reduc tion of the Illinois Steel Company, Jones & Laughlins, the largest inde pendent concern In the country, ad vised their tonnage men that they could not pay such high wages. Jobs that had been paying 14 cents a ton were cut to 7 and 8 cents a ton. This was because the men were called into the office and made individual con tracts. Like the Illinois steel workers, th^ Pittsburgers had cut away from their labor. organization, believing the promises of the Steel corporation that they would fare better by doing so. Last Summer, when a wholesale slashing in wages was made by Jones & Laughlins, the men were also forced to work twelve hours a day. instead of eight. A rougher in Jones & Laugh lins said: "I used to be able to make $6 a day, working seven hours. Now I can only, make $3.70 a day working twelve hours. Previous to the election the story was bruited about the mills that when the election was drer prices of steel would advance and the men would benefit. Prices have advanced and the workmen were shocked when told their wages would be reduced. The Jones & Laughlins workmen are helpless. They are proscribed from working in union mills and many own their own homes, have relatives and are tied down by many ties." Raise Not Forthcoming. The Carnegie Steel Company .h?is been held up as a model for the liberal treatment of skilled workmen. Last year wages were slashed in half among the tonnage men. Thus, a first-class heater who had earned $3,005 in 1903 had his income so. clipped that by working twelve hours a day he could earn $1,500 during 1904. With the advent of the year the ton nage men in the Edgar Thomson plant expected a raise because the price of structural steel, plates and every other product had gone up. The work men were told January 2, when they asked about the promiser raise, that there would be none forthcoming. The workmen have no unions. Formerly in quoting what the steel workers earned the wages of the boss roller, boss heater and a few,, of the high-priced men were quoted. These were pointed to with pride. But they did not represent the average wage. The steel concerns cannot point to these figures any longer. They are re duced to a minimum. When the at tention of the officials are called to this they say: "Yes we do1 not re duce the wages of the laborers, how ever. The are the highest paid in the country." If they reduced the wages the laborers would die of starvation on the pig iron and ore piles. With the cost of living in Western Pennsyl vania, these men do not even exist at their present wages. COLORS TELL AGE OF STARS. From the Booklovers' Magazine: As a star contracts from the sur rounding nebulous matter from which it was thrown off, its temperature ris es, and with this augmented heat oc curs a change both in the star's spec trum and color. Red-hot iron is not nearly so hot as white-hot iron. By observing the various changes in tint which the metal undergoes, the foun dryman is able to tell with considera ble accuracy its degree of heat. A somewhat similar method of gauging a star's temperature, and therefore its age, is relied upon by the astronomer. Color, then, and spectroscopic analysis enable the astronomer to estimate the age of orbs that are only beginning to exist as stars, and others whose light is fast fading. After having coagulated, as it were, from a nebulous mass, a star assumes a color that niay be best described as an intense bluish white, much like that of the electric arc., .Stars of that' hue are therefore in tlieir infancy. Then comes the wfelte sgage, .followed by the yellow, orange and red—each suc ceeding hue indicating^ greater celestial antiquity than the last. Up to the yellow period the star as it contracts grows hotter and hotter. Then a gradual cooling takes place. Accom panying the changes in color are changes in the spectrum of the star— changes that indicate a modification in physical structure. In the bluish white period of a star's infancy the characteristic wide lines of hydrogen gas predominate in the spectrum. As the color changes the lines of the cal cium, magnesium, and iron appear, the hydrogen lines gradually become thinner, and those of the calcium broader. AN ANCIENT TIMEPIECE. From the Philadelphia Record: In the north transept of Wells Ca thedral, England, may be seen the old est self-striking clock with a counts wheel in the world, having been con structed by Peter Lightfoot about 1320. This timepiece, says the Scien tific American, contains many devices which testify to the ancient horolo gist's ingenuity. Several celestial and terrestrial bodies are incorporated in interesting movement and relationship. They indicate the hours of the day, the age of the moon, and the position of thev planets and the tides. When the clock strikes the hour, horsemen fully armed dash out of two gateways in opposite directions, and charge fu riously. They strike with their lances as they pass, as many times as corre sponds with the number of the hour, A little distance away is seated upon a high perch a quaint figure, which kicks the quarters on two bells placed be neath his feet, and strikes the hour on a bell. The djal of the clock is divid ed into 24 hours, and indicates the phases of the moon and a tuap of the heavens. Outside the transept is an other large dial and two bells, on which two armored knights strike the quarters, each witlh his halbert, and are said to be actuated by the mech anism of the clock inside. RAISING TEA IN THE SOUTH. From the Chicago Chronicle: Dr. Charles A. Shepard, of South Carolina, has proved on his own plan tation at Summerville, twenty miles oull of Charleston, that the growing of tea can be carried on successfully and profitably. He has been doing this for twelve years with such good results that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Congress of the United States highly approve his deeds, and botih are extending him liberal assistance. "My idea from the start," said Dr. S?vpard, "was to add an additional crop to the farm products of the coun try. The road to agricultural suprem acy is through diversifying. My friends seem to tlhink I have been suc cessful, and I have every reason to be gratified with what has been accom plished. "Tea-raising in the United States is certainly praoticabla. It Is no new thing in this country, for in the old days a French priest} planted tea oft the banks of the Ashley River. But owing to the difference in the cost of labor the United States cannot compete with the Orient in low-grade or cheap tteas. It will pay us to produce only that of the highest quality, which brings a high price in market. The tea grown on my place in South Caro lina compares with the best that is imported from Eastern lands." Try S. I. Levin's- XXX Columbian 1492 rye. It is the .very ..best that can be bad for family and medicinal pur poses. At the old stand, 501, West Su perior street. Subscribe for the Labor World. .$1.00. BIGELOW PREACHES 01 TUX OIJM EH Text—"If Their Front Door Is Shut, They Will Swear the Whole World Is Warm." Many Men Voluntarily Steal in Order That They Make Sure of a Prisoner's Fare. Cincinnati, OKio, Jan. 26.—At the Vine Street Congregational church, Herbert S. Bigelow, the pastor, took for a text Kipling's lines: "They! If their own front door is shut, they'll swear the whole world's warm." Mr. Bigelow said in part: What you want in a machine is the maximum amount of power with the least possible waste. It is not enough that the engine is able to pull the load. How much coal does it consume? How much friction is there? Human society is a machine that must submit to the same test. As to the many triumphs of our civilization we may agree. But what is the per centage of loss? What is the cost? Nay, is it not obvious that there is a serious flaw in the work? The past week a man was arraigned in the local police court for stealing coal. He had no work, and his wife and a sickly daughter were suffering with the cold. Therefore, he helped himself to coal from a railroad train. But he was not sent to the workhouse. The judge said: "I don't know what I would do if I were placed in a similar position." It would seem that there is some thing out of order when the Decalogue will, not work. Why do we approve of the humanity of this judge? Is it not because we have a vague concsiousness that the misery which drove this wretch to steal is itself the conse quence of other and more respectable forms of stealing? We cannot condemn the judge for suspending the moral law when we read in the report of the Industrial Commission of Congress this official statement "It cannot be long before the anthra cite coal business of the United States in all its enormous extent and commer cial value will be entirely monopolized by a few powerful financial interests.." Last Monday a man walked into the police station, stated that he had stol en a clothes-wringer, and asked to be arrested. The police were incredulous and made investigation. They found the wringer where he said he had hidden it, and the man got a coveted three months sentence in the work house. This same day another man came in and requested that he be arrested. The police sent him away. Later, he appeared drunk. Then the prison doors were more hospitable. The next morning, in policy court, when he was sentenced to a term in the workhouse, he turned to an officer by his side and said with evident satisfaction: "I knew I'd get it." In the Hammond Street station, they have a room, where, on these winter nights, you may always find men lying down on the bare floor more thickly than they will lie in their pauper graves. Now, and then a man applies for 'shelter Who has uncommonly good clothes or gives other signs that he is just down temporarily and may get up again. The officer in charge told me that it was their custom to accord such persons the "privilege of sleeping in one of the cells with the prisoners." That was a sublime dream of Jeffer son's—a Republic which should protect every one in his rights of life, leberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yet here are our fellow citizens in this great Republic committing crimes that they may earn the privilege of wearing a felon's stripes and make sure of. a prisoner's fare. Are we those of whom Kipling speaks? Or have we been committing the crime of which that great French statesman spoke when he said: "It is not error which opposes the progress of truth: it is indolence, ob stinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing that favors inaction"? ED.—Herbert S. Bigelow will address the people of Duluth at Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday evening, February 28, 1905. WHAT IS LIFE TO YOU? To the preacher life's a sermon, To the joker it's a Jest To the miser life is money, To the loafer it is rest. To the lawyer life's a trial, To the poet life's a song, To the doctor it's a patient That needs treatment right along. To ihe soldier life's a battle, To the teacher life's a school Life's a "good thing" to the grafter, It's failure to the fool. To the man upon the engine Life's a long and heavy grade It's a gamble to the gambler, To the merchant It is trade. Life's a picture to the artist, To the rascal life's a fraud Life perhaps is but a burden To the man beneath the hod. Life is love unto the lover. To the actor life's a play Life may be a load of trouble To the man upon the dray. Life is but a long vacation To the man who loves his worl Life's an everlasting effort To shun duty to the shirk. To the optimist life's sunshine, To the pessimist it's dark and blue Life to all is what we make it- Brother, what Is life to you? —Evchange. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. From Public Opinion: A report from the United States con sul at Liverpool states that there is an unmistakable cessation in England of the tendency toward the municipaliza tion of industries. Very little is heard now of new movements in that direc tion, and the thoughts of the munici palities are now. turned toward in creasing economy of management of the public utilities already acquired. Probably the reaction against the municipalization of Industries is due to the fact that there has been an in crease of $l,2f2,000 In local indebted ness in the United Kingdom in 28 years that rates for borrowing money have, become more severe, and that the returns over the whole mass of muni cipal investments have not been any thing like as high as was expected. THE BLUNDERBUSS. Prom the Detroit Free Press: She—"The expression on my' new photographs isn't natural." He—"No, but it's very pretty." Diseases of Men CURED TO STAY CURED. By our new ELECTRO-MEDICAL TREAT MENT, which combines all of the euratlvs powers of both medicine and electricity. 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