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VOL. XIII. NO. 48
SENDING A PARCEL BY MAIL.
Cxp«ri*nee of an English Tourift Who,
With Joyous Confidence, Undertook
to Perform What Was Supposed to
Be a Perfectly Simple Operation.
In all Innocence and lightness of
heart 1 set out one morning to send a
small parcel to England from the town
In Germany where I was staying. At
the postolHce I was confronted by
three booking office windows, each
having n weird and formidable Inscrip
tion over It. Those inscriptions were
Dot to be comprehended at a glance
bo, not wishing to gaze up at them too
long, I selected the least crowded win
flow and handed over my parcel. It
Was promptly returned to me with a
curt "Go to the next window!" It
was just that window I specially wish
ed to avoid, being the most crowded,
but I waited my turn and then made
another attempt. The official looked
at me sternly.
"Have you the circulars?" he asked.
"No." I replied faintly.
He handed me three circulars, for
which 1 had to pay a small sum and
which 1 was requested to fill up. Pick
lug up my parcel. I sat down to study
those circulars. They were covered
With Instructions, the language used
Was magnificent, and the effect was
go overwhelming that I found it diffl
cult to grasp what I was instructed
to do. If my papers were not filled up
accurately it was not from untruthful
ness, but owing to my limited German
vocabulary.
By the time I had described the
parcel, the gross weight thereof in
grams and kilograms, the gross
Value thereof in marks and pfennigs
and given a detailed description of
each article contained therein, with
its separate weight and value. I felt
lik.» an old inhabitant of that postoffice.
1 had seen, as it were, generation after
generation of stamp purchasers come
and go, and Rtill I remained. As to
the weights, my idea of kilograms
was about on a par with my knowl
edge of definite integrals. However, I
did my best. I guessed at the prob
able weight of the parcel and divided
the article** iuto it.
At length I came to the end. and,
feeling like a candidate at an exam
ination. I gathered up my papers and
the parcel and went over to the win
dow. After waiting my turn I handed
over the papers. The official glanced
at them, then at the parcel, and
frowned^
"Did you weigh the articles?" he
asked sternly.
"Ya-a-a!" I stammered.
"Then go home and weigh them
again. You have put them down at
half a ton!"
There was no help for it. With a
sigh 1 gathered up niy papers and
went back to a secluded corner. After
patiently reducing all the weights I
again presented the papers. This time
they were passed, and I was sent on
to the next department, where I had
to purchase and fill up another docu
ment. I was now getting into form,
and this paper was soon dealt with.
Then, with my heart beating fast. I
handed over the parcel. It was once
more returned to me. The official said
he could not take it in that condition
It was insecurely made up.
Now. if there is one thing upon which
I pride myself it is upon the neat way
in which I turn out a parcel. So,
smothering my indignation as well as
I could, 1 assured him that it would
be all right, that it was perfectly safe
anci that there was nothing in it which
was breakable. He repeated firmly
that it was insecure and that he could
not take it. So I sadly collected my
papers and the parcel and went home
to dinner.
GERMAN RED TAPE
j» A MOST IRRITATING BRAND IS USED IN THE POSTOFFICE J*
I spent all the afternoon trying to
purchase a cardboard box of exactly
the right proportions and some water
proof cloth to wrap round it. 1 next
pfbeured a stick of sealing wax and a
German seal, and by the time I had
finished that parcel looked as if it
were prepared to travel to the north
pole.
It was now getting toward evening,
and I was feeling wearied after my
day's work, so I besought my brother
—a willing, guileless youth—to take it
to the postoffice. He took it so inno
cently that my conscience reproached
me for not having given him a word
of warning. He was a long time gone,
but that was to be expected. When
I saw him come in my heart sank in
despair.
"They won't take it like this," he
said cheerfully.
I groaned and asked:
"Why not?"
"There's not enough sealing wax
on it"
"Not enough sealing wax?" I cried
incredulously.
"No. You must put a blob wherever
the string crosses and wherever there's
a knot"
In desperation I seized the sealing
wax and worked away until 1 had
Used it to the last speck and the par
cel was one intricate mass of string
and wax. Then I conveyed it once
jpore to the postoffice. It was now al
most closing time, and the officials
A
V
ea over-ttie papers ami the |Wir«*el with
out a word.
Two minutes later I walked out" oi
the postoffice wnh
jo.v
in my heart and
a smile of"satisfaction on my face. I
had sent the parcel off.—London fami
ly Herald.
WSTORIC BELL
Prom the Guerriere to the Constitution,
Then to a Mill.
One would hardly expect to And an
object of historic interest In so pro
saic a place as a New England mili
an object older than the oldest title of
the English peerage, an object made
before the English parliament was
formed. Yet such an object is in daily
use in a factory at Saylesville. It. I. It
is a bell, whose history is a most in
teresting one. Around the bell, about
four inches from the crown, is this su
perscription: "Peter S^cest Amsterdam.
Anno 12(53, me fecit."
The date, together with other well
Authenticated facts, leads to*the belief
that the bell was long used in a con
vent belfry in England and was taken
therefrom for public use during the
reformation. But the connecting link
between its life in the old world and
its advent to America is the famous
naval battle between the Guerriere
and the Constitution.
The Guerriere. a helpless wreck, was
rolling in the trough of the sea. while
her brave but defeated commander.
Captain Dacres of the royal navy, on
the deck of the American frigate, the
Constitution, was offering his sword to
gallant Captain Hull.
The two officers had been friends in
time of peace, having often exchanged
hospitalities at the Mediterranean
ports, and now Hull's magnanimity
shone out.
'Tit not take®your sword, Dacres,"
said -he. "Keep It."
In the meanwhile the boats of the
Constitution were busily engaged in
transporting the crew of the defeated
ship to the deck of the victor. A mid
shipman reported to the first lieuten
ant that the ship's bell had been car
ried away by a grapeshot from the
Guerriere and that there was no way
of announcing the time to the ship's
company.
At that moment the Guerriere gave a
succession of iieavy plunges, and the
clear tones of a tine bell rang over the
water.
"Go get the Englishman's bell," said
the lieutenant to the midshipman.
"There will be no further use for it on
board that craft."
The Guerriere surrendered at 7
o'clock in the evening of Aug. 19. 1812,
and at 8 o'clock the same evening Pe
ter Secest's bell in sonorous tones rang
out the hour on board "Old Ironsides."
With the lapse of time the bell, amid
the confusion and debris common to a
great navy yard, became misplaced,
lost its identity and was thrust care
lessly to one side. It found its way to
the scrap heap, was afterward sold by
the United States and finally came to
rest in its present quarters.—Boston
Post.
AN ANIMAL IN PAIN.
It 8uffers. Less Than Man on Account
of Its Low Intelligence.
It is a platitude that "pain is as one
feels it." But that statement falls a
considerable way short of the truth.
The measure of pain undoubtedly de
pends as much upon realization, com
parison and constructive memory as
upon sensation. In other words, the
individual with the most highly devel
oped imagination enjoys and suffers
most intensely, though not perhaps
most violently. Pain and death are
terrible In proportion as one Is capable
of relating them to experience. To
children they are not terrible in this
sense, because children have small
experience and even smaller powers
of imagining relations.
In the case of animals the power of
constructing a memory picture and re
lating the same to present conditions
Is probably exceedingly low, if not en
tirely absent Pain to an animal rep
resents an unpleasant experience
begun and ended sharply. It is un
related. It has no social or moral sig
nificance. It is not terrible In the wide
sense. An animal lives from moment
to moment. At any given moment its
happiness is a question in the main of
physical comfort. The caged skylark
(though It must not be supposed that
this is any defense of an objectionable
practice) experiences none of the
misery of the caged man. It does not
know that its liberty is hopelessly lost.
It cannot relate its present position
to past experience in the way in which
a prisoner can and must do. The cage
is merely an accidental obstruction
which may at any moment disappear
Should the bird stop struggling It does
so because struggling is unpleasant,
not because it te hopeless.—London
Chronicle.
Family Repartee.
MNo
man is good enough for a good
woman."
"You're right, my dear. If* abso
lutely impossible to please on*."—De
troit Free Prtm
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He Had to Mee at the Last Battle
of the Revolution.
A FIGHT WON WITH A BROOM.
The Engagement Was Short, Sharp
and Decisive, and In It the Patriot
Spitfire, Mistress Day, Earned the
Right to Her Title and to Fame.
The last battle of the Revolution was
not at Yorktown, nor was it any of the
many small skirmishes that occurred
after the surrender of CornwaHis and
before the formal declaration of peace
in 1783. The last battle was of the na
ture of a duel, and it happened on the
day the British evacuated New York.
The great day that was to see the
last of King George III.'s regiments
leave these shores finally arrived. The
British army was to board the ships
that lay in the harbor. Washington
and bis troops were waiting at Kings
bridge and AlcGowan's pass to take
possession of the city iramedately on
their departure
Major William Cunuingham, the
British provost marshal and command
er of the prison on the common, gave
one last look about his office, tossed
the key on the table and went out
into the sunlight, slamming the door
behind, him with much unnecessary
violence. His infamous reign was
over. There were few forms of cruel
ty that he had hesitated to practice on
the luckless Continental prisoners in
his charge. Among the mildest were
the contamination of their drinking
water by throwing rubbish into the
well and the appropriation and sale of
their rations for Ills own profit.
The friends and relatives of his vic
tims were flocking back to the city tri
umphant. and it behooved Major Cun
ningham not to linger. So he feft
the prison, turned into the Common,
and crossed it to gain Broadway. He
strode along muttering curses under
his breath. At the corner of Broad
way and Murray street something
caught his eye. He stopped, hesitated,
then turned aside and hastened down
Murray street.
"What audacity! What monstrous
audacity!" he thought. But it was like
that rebel spitfire. Mistress Day. Ho
would teach her one final lesson.
He reached the Day house, which
was a tavern near Greenwich street,
opened the gate and shook his fist at
the Stars and Stripes that fluttered
from a tall flagpole, as if waving a
triumphant welcome to the Continental
troops.
Wrathfully he seized the halyards
and began to pull
the
BUTLER COUNT!
flag down
the
pole. There was something about tho
action that soothed bis rutlled feelings.
He would at least take back to Eng
land with him one captured rebel ban
ner. But he had reckoned without
Mistress Day!
From her kitchen that patriotic wo
man heard the creaking of the pulley
on her flagstaff. She tiptoed to her
front windows und peeped out. She
knew the major only too well, and she
determined to prevent this final out
rage. She flew back to the kitchen and
seized her broom.
In the meantime, with his back to
the house, the major was hauling away
vigorously. A few more jerks and thu
flag would be within his grasp. Bang!
His hat suddenly flew off and went
scuttling down the yard. In his as
tonishment he continued to pull me
chanically on the halyards. Bang,
whack! The major saw many time*
more than thirteen stars, and the pow
der flew from his wig in all directions
He dropped the rope and turned about
purple with indignation.
"Woman, do you realize what you
are doing?" he roared. The broom
stick was in the air again, and the
major dodged. Whack! It struck him
squarely across the bridge of his nose,
and the field at once became ensan
guined.
The bleeding officer now began to
take hasty counsel with himself. He
was late for the embarkation, the
American troops would soon be upon
the ground, his hat had received an ir
reparable dent, his wig was in the
wildest disorder, his regimentals were
stained with marks of the bloody af
fray, his head was yet spinning from
contact with Mistress Day's weapon,
and there were unmistakable signs
that Mistress Day's arm was by no
means weary! Some warning bugle
notes from the Battery decided the
matter. He turned about and strode
off, picking up his damaged headgear
on the way. Mistress Day, smiling
contentedly, returned to her kitchen to
continue the baking and brewing for
the evening festival.
It took the major some time to re
move the evidences of conflict before
he appeared at the Battery. He must
have been hard put to it to explain his
lateness and his disheveled state to his
superior officer. His- career after his
return to England continued to be dis
reputable. He was executed for for
gery eight years after he left New
York. As for Mistress Day. the wo
man who flew the first American flag
in the evacuated city and who fought
and won the last conflict of the Revo
lution. she deserves a wider fame tfcan
she has enjoyed —Youth's Companion.
Cutting Remark.
If we Judged ourselves by the same
standards we use for judging others
many of us would be cutting our own
acquaintance.—New Orleans Picayune.
Try a new way if the old way does
got produce good rasujts -Old Saying.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 13 1914.
CHILDREN OR COTTON?
The motions are simple and
easily learned. After that it is a
question of nimble Angers and
endurance—pick, pick, pick, pick,
drop into tfce bag, a step for
ward pick, pick, drop into the
bag, step forward, a hundred
bolls a minute, 6.000 an hour,
75,000 a day, this for six days in
the week, five months in the
year, under a relentless sun, and
they speed each other up to
stimulate the numb fingers and
aching backs. Yes. it Is God's
great out of doors, this workshop,
and a beneficent nature their
master, but somehow it seems as
if the hand and greed of man
had transplanted into It some of
the worst features of man made
factories. To such a life and
such a future a quarter of a mil
lion children are condemned In
the one state of Texas so long as
this condition is tolerated.
No wonder a school superin
tendent told me, "Cotton is a
curse to the Texas children."—
Lewis W. Hine in Survey.
PROFIT SHARING PLANS.
Pittsburgh Firm Has Arranged to Give
Stock to Employees.
One of the most comprehensive profit
and ownership sharing plans that have
yet come to light has just been adopt
ed by the Kaufmann Department
stores, incorporated, of Pittsburgh.
Edgar J. Kaufmann, the father of the
plan, has personally assumed responsi
bility for a donation of a fund of at
least $1,000,000 of the common stock of
the corporation to initiate the plan and
carry it out.
The plan, which will be carried out
through the "Kaufmann foundation,"
now being established for that pur
pose, provides that it shall apply to ev
ery employee In the Kaufmann stores
regardless of salary. It not only pro
vides for sharing profits with employ
ees, but also for distributing to them
pro rata shares of the stock of the
company, without cost to them. The
plan permits every employee to name
a beneficiary, who shall receive in case
of the employee's death a minimum of
40 per cent and a maximum of 100 per
cent of the stock and profits that the
employee would have received if he or
she had lived. Permanently disabled
employees will be taken care of in a
similar way. while temporary disabil
ity will not affect the employee's right
to full participation. The plan will in
no way affect the normal and usual in
crease of salaries of efficient employ
ees.
About 2,500 employees will reap the
benefits of the scheme. They will re
ceive in the course of five years stock
to the value of the salaries they are
earning, though a minimum share of
$300 has been set aside for employees
earning under that amount. Twenty
per cent of the stock due will be dis
tributed to the employees annually,
which will make them full owners of
their allotted share of stock if they
continue in the firm's employment for
five years. Recently this stock was val
ued at $00 a share.
VICTORY TO WORKERS.
Rev. Or. Holmes Predicts Labor Will
Eventually Control industry.
In a recent debate on "The Way to
Industrial Unity" between Dr. C. W.
Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard,
and Rev. Dr. J. H. Holmes of New
York city Dr. Eliot said profit sharing
offered a solution of the labor problem.
Dr. Holmes, replying, said in part:
"I don't believe with Dr. Eliot that
profit sharing offers any solution what
ever to the warfare in the industrial
world. Yes, as Dr. Eliot says, it is in
deed warfare—open warfare. And no
such visionary scheme can end or
abate It. It seems to me like some
magnificent scheme of largess. The
capitalist dips his hand into the coffers
which labor has filled and with mag
nanimous smile scatters the gold
among those who have made his busi
ness what it is. But that does not sat
isfy the laboring men. They will never
be satisfied with anything short of vic
tory.
"They will not cease their fight until
the power has been wrested from cap
ital and is in the hands of labor. And
that is Just what is going to happen."
Dr. Holmes declared that eventually
control of all industries would be vest
ed in the state.
Masons Adopt Pension Plan.
The pension proposition submitted to
the membership of the Bricklayers
and Masons' International union has
been carried by u substantial plurality.
The plan is practically the same as
the one which has proved so success
ful for the International Typographi
cal union, except that there Is a week
ly assessment of 25 cents on each
member of the organization to main
tain the fund, whereas the Typogra
phical union applies the perecentage
on earnings method to secure the
money. The age requirements and the
amount paid to pensioners are almost
identical with that of the printers.
Long Service Record.
Nearly a thousand years is the ag
gregate of the service of the twenty
oldest employees of the Clark Bridge
mills, Halifax, England. In all seven
ty-seven employees at the mills have
an aggregate of 2,986 years' service, an
average of thirty-eight and one-half
years each, says the Yorkshire Even
ing Post. The longest period served by
any employee is sixty-six years, anfl
two have been with the firm s4x*f-two
f«cuak
RIGHT TO STRIKE.
OMahema Court Decides Worker May
Quit When He Chooses.
In an opinion written by Judg*
Brewer, the Oklahoma supreme court
commission has taken an advanced po
sition on the right of organized labor
to strike in protest against the em
ployment of a nonunion!!*. The latter,
according to the decision, has no cause
for action, as workingmen have the
right, in the absence of contract, to
quit whenever they choose.
The decision is the result of a threat
ened strike of union miners against
the Western Coal and Mining company
at Lehigh, Okla., unless a nonunionist
was discharged. The mine foreman
complied with the request, and the
nonunionist then sued the union for
$100,000 damages. The lower court sus
tained the union, and on appeal the
state supreme court commission af
firmed the ruling.
'"Employees of a coal company," said
Judge Brewer, "who are members of a
labor union have the right, when In
volved In a trade dispute between
themselves and their employer and
growing out of this relation to protest
to their employer against the employ
ment or retention in his employment of
a nonunion employee and to accom
pany such protest with the statement
that if such nonunion man is employed
such employees will strike—that is.
that such employees will simultaneous
ly cease to work for such employer—
and if such protest Is not heeded the
union men have the lawful right to
strike and if It is heeded the nonunion
man who is discharged has no cans
of action against either the union a
an organization nor the mem hers* there
of as individuals.
"Any man, in the absence of a
LOW WAGES FOR WORKERS.
Thousands of Women Receive Les*
Than $6 Per Week.
The New York state factory investi
gating commission, of which Lieuten
ane Governor Robert F. Wagner is
chairman, and Abram I. Elkus of New
York city is chief counsel, has Just
transmitted its report to the legisla
ture.
Figures that were submitted to tbe
legislature show the exceedingly low
wages paid to workers in the confec
tionery and paper box industry. The
figures for the confectionery industry,
for instance, in greater New York
show that $5 a week is most frequent
ly quoted for girls. The majority of
male workers receive $8 to $14. More
than one-half of the men receive lesa
than $10 a week and one-half of the
women receive less than $6 a week.
The less skilled women receive $4.r0
to $0.50 a week. More than two-thirda
of the girls under eighteen are rated
below $5.50 per week, and more than
one-half of the women above this age
fail to rise above $7. As a matter of
fact, the earnings of these workers
is much less even, because of deduc
tions for absence and fines and be
cause of unemployment during slack
periods.
In the paper box industry the ma
jority of the women workers are rated
under $0.50 a week. Almost 2.000
women, or nearly one-half of all over
eighteen years of age in the trade,
earned less than $0 for a week's work.
More than 700 girls under eighteen, or
almost 50 per cent, earned less than
$5 a week.
Unions to Run Stores.
Taking the first step on a large
scale to adopt the co-operative plan
so successful in Wales a group of
labor union leaders will establish
chain of co-operative stores in Pitts
burgh. The Federated Co-operative
association has been organized with
Joseph C. Kane president. "Cost of
foodsvuffs can be reduced 25 per cent
the first year," said President Kane.
"We shall open retail stores one after
another and buy all our goods direc?
from the manufacturer or the grower
We will make a specialty of union
made products. Customers will be
stockholders."
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LABOR NOTES.
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Longshoremen of New York wan?
$G0 a mouth and union recognition.
The soft coal mines in Ohio. Indiana
Illinois and western Pennsylvania em
ploy 250,000 union miners.
As a result of the upholsterers' strik
in Minneapolis a local union of "vai
nishers and cabinetmakers has beer
formed.
Approximately 21,000 applicants fo
jobs were placed during the fiscal
GOOD ROADS AND THRIFT.
France Sets an Example the Rest a#
th® World Might Follow.
Good farms and good roads go to
gether. Good roads mean cheaper haul
ing prices, better profits—therefore
more money. The wealth of a nation
is the wealth of its population. The
population of the country of France is
known to be the most thrifty, the least
poverty stricken and the best provided
for of any country in the world. And
France has a better road system and
more good roads in proportion to its
area than any other country of the
same or greater size. Has France ru
ral wealth because of its good roads or
has it good roads because of its thrifty
peasantry?
It is, therefore, for us In this country
to look upon France not only as a good
example, but as the example of the
fulfillment of dreams. We cannot
solve our problem in any other way
than as France has solved hers with
any surety of success. She builds her
national highways first, owns them,
controls them, repairs them. She has
her departments—her divisions corre
sponding to our states- build their own
roads as feeders of this system, con
necting with it joining national road
to national road. Finally her parishes
or communes—similar political divi
sions to our counties—build their own
roads, interlacing, connecting and bind
ing together the whole into one vast
The
con
tract to work a definite time, has n
rlfeht to quit whenever he chooses, fo
any reason satisfactory to him or witli
out any reason*. If his wages are no1
satisfactory, his hours too long, hi
work too hard, his employer or his em
ployment uncongenial or his colaborer^
objectionable, his right to quit is abso
lute. What an individual may do u
number of his col a borers may join hln.
in doing, provided the thing to be don«j
is lawful."
A" vw
year
1913 through the efforts of the Masstt
chusetts free employment office.
A compensating insurance fund for
the protection of city employees ha
been created at Berkeley, Cal., by th
enactment of a municipal ordinance.
In spite of the immense number of
persocb out of work in London an 1
elsewhere In England, it Is stated tha
there is a "famine" In office and erran 1
boys.
M. Calllaux, minister o' finance, and
M. Noniens, minister of war, have do
cided to introduce the English working
week into the state workshops of
Franc*. It is expected ^iat the hours
of wow will be limited to forty-nia®
weak.
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aetwora or hard surfaced toads.—Suo
urban Life.
Microscopic Handwriting.
It Is possible to possess a certain ele
gance of penmanship and yet be al
most undecipherable as a writer. A
distinguished literary man, whose
name I mercifully withhold, writes a
microscopically small hand, almost
fairylike in its outlines and possess
ing a quite elfin elusiveness—almost
every word can be read as some other
word. Waggish friends who received
from him letters on commonplace mat
ters would sometimes affect to regard
them as descriptions of his exciting
adventures in the Alps, the burning
down of his house or something simi
larly sensational and reply according
ly. After being long the subject of
such merry jests he decided to silence
the scoffers by using a typewriter
London Chronicle.
Last Resouroe.
James twho is broke t—I have one
faithful friend left Hulks (also brokei
—Who is it? James—My pipe. 1 can
•till draw on that.—Stray Stories.
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Queenswarc
Millinery. House Furnishings
Voss-Holbrock Stamps with
all Oasb Purchaser,
jAL&k
A straight line is the shortest in
morals as in mathematics -Edgewortb
Fair Warning.
Teacher—Willie, if you don't behave
yourself I'll write a note to your father.
Willie—You
do and you'll make ma
Jealous.—Boston Transcript.
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