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VOL. XVI. NO 38.
HOW
BIG WAGES
&
dome Typical Examples of Large Earn
ings Show That They Come as a Re
sult of Extra Labor—Train Worker*!
Willing to Sacrifice Higher Pay For|
the Shorter Workday.
By W. C, CARTER.
President of Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers.
Railway wage statistics show that
ty the overloading of freight trains,
which in many Instances eliminated
the mileage basis of payments to em
ployees, tho wage cost to the railroads
per ton mile of freight traffic has been
greatly reduced. Also the earnings of
employees for a ten hour day have de
creased greatly as a necessary conse
quence of the decline In the average
speed of trains.
Notwithstanding these changed con
ditions, the railroads are able to dem
onstrate that their employees earn
large amounts during months of heavy
traffic. It was shown in a recent arbi
tration that some engineers in freight
service earned over $200 during the
month of October, 1013, and some fire
men earned more than $125 during the
same period.
An investigation of these cases of ap
parently very high wages discloses
facts of which the following examples
are typical: One engineer earned
$212.95 In one month, lie did it by
working 395 hours during that month
—that is, lie worked the equivalent of
49.2 days of eight hours each during
that one month. His average rate of
wages was 53.9 cents per hour. Again,
a fireman who earned $135.29 in that
one month worked 412.7 hours, or an
equivalent of 51.0 days of eight hours.
His average rate of wages was 32.8
cents an hour.
That these highly paid and overwork
ed men In freight service are a menace
to public safety Is well known to ev
erybody—except the public. They serve
a purpose, however, by convincing ar
bitrators and the public that railroad
employees are already receiving a high
rate of compensation and should not be
granted relief.
This steady increase in the num
ber of bourn of work has been the
only way in which the railroad em
ployee has been able to keep his total
daily wage up to (be level at which It
was in the days when it was possible
to earn bis bonus by covering more
than ten miles an hour. Every Increase
In size of freight locomotive and ton
nage of freight train has meant that
the employee must work longer in order
still to earn the same daily wage.
Naturally strenuous efforts have been
made by the employees to change this
situation and to secure an increase in
the rate of wages an hour so it might
be the equal of that in the building or
other trades aud that a fair day's wage
might be earned without working over
time.
Their only hope was a change from a
ten to an eight hour basis of pay. As
an arbitration board had declined to re
duce the locomotive hostler's twelve
hour day to ten hours and other arbi
tratlon boards had refused to increase
the rate of pay per hour, there was not
much to expect in that direction. S
with the expectation of a possible con
flict they demanded the substitution of
the eight hour for the ten hour basis
in existing ^wage schedules and an
overtime rate of time and one-half.
That what was really demanded was
a lessening of hours of work is shown
by the fact that in terminal work also
where engineers, conductors, switch
men, firemen and hostlers are employ
ed entirely on the hourly basis, the de
mand was the same for an eight hour
day, with time and one-half for any
work requiring more than eight hours
irt a period of twenty-four.
a
WHAT RAILROAD WORKERS WANT
jt REAL DEflAND IS FOR LESSENING OF THE HOURS OF TOIL jC
ARE MADbl
This demand for an eight hour day
meant a reduction in earnings for the
large number of men theretofore work
ing more than ten hours a day. Their
opportunity to earn more than one
day's wage was eliminated through the
"penalty" overtime provision, because
la terminal work the railroad can al
ways change crews when the eight
hours are up and naturally will do so
and employ a new crew rather than
pay extra overtime rates. The em
ployees sacrificed higher wages in or
der to get shorter hours.
More Pay For Thread Workers.
A 10 per cent Increase in wages went
Into effect at the WiUimantic (Conn.)
mills of the American Thread company
on Dec. 4. About 2,700 employees will
benefit, and It Is understood that a sim
ilar increase will be made in other
mills of the concern, affecting In all
about 8,000 persons. This Is the third
wage increuse In the thread company's
mills since Jan. 1, 1&16, the aggregate
being 25 per cent.
Limit For Women Workers.
Attorney General Brown of Pennsyl
vania recently rendered an opinion in
which he rules that the word "week"
in the women's employment act does
not mean a calendar week, but that
women cannot be employed in estab
lishments under the employment acts
more than fifty-four hours in seven
comsec.utive days.
5
A
MEMORABLE ECLIPSE.
When the Sun Was Totally Obsoured
In This Country In 1806.
Tho most remarkable eclipse of the
sun witnessed in the United States In
the centuries since Its discovery took
place on June 10, 1800. There were
eclipses previous and since then, but
that of 1800 Is regarded by astrono
mers as the most memorable of all,
that of Aug. 7, 1809, being the next in
grandeur and Interest.
Tho eclipso of 1800 was to be seen
over all parts of North America. For
tunately the day was a remarkably
fine one, scarcely a cloud behig visible
in any part of the heavens. The sun's
entire surface was covered at twenty
seven minutes and thirty seconds past
11 o'clock.
James Fenlmore Cooper, the novel
ist, though' but a youth at the tTOTe of
the eclipse, was so enthusiastic un ob
server of the spectacle that twenty-five
years after the event he wrote a mi
nute uccoant of what he saw and how
he felt during the wonderful occur
rence.
Mr. Cooper states that as he and
other spectators in his company first
discerned through their glasses the
oval form of the moon darkening the
sun's light an exclamation of delight,
almost triumphant, burst involuntarily
from the lips of ull. The people began
gathering into the street. Their usual
labors were abandoned, aud all fuces
were turned upward.
The noonday heat began to lessen,
and there was something of the cool
ness of early morning. Mr. Cooper
further states that "ull living crea
tures seemed thrown Into a state of
agitation. The birds were fluttering
to and fro In great excitement. They
seemed to mistrust that this was not
the gradual approach of evening and
were undecided in their movements.
Even the dogs became uneasy and
drew nearer to their masters.
Every house now gave up Its ten
ants. As the light failed more and
more with even passing sc.-ond the
children came i!
"Cking si i.out their
mothers in terror. The sun appeared
like a young moon of three or four
days old. One after the other the
stars came Into view, which filled the
spirit with singular sensations."
Tho general phenomena at ull the
places where the eclipse was com
plete or nearly so were the vacillation
of the wind, tho deep, strange shadow,
the yellowish pink of the atmosphere
in the west, the flickering and wavy
appearance of the sun's rays when the
eclipse was at its height, the chilly
feeling, the disturbance among the
birds and fowls and tho sight of cer
tain planets with the naked eye.
ALASKA'S LONG SPUR.
The Aleutian Is nnds Chain Over
Thousand Miles In Length.
Few persons are aware that the
shortest route from San Francisco to
Japan is by way of Alaska. Nearly
a thousand miles are saved to vessels
trading with the orient by coasting
along the Aleutian islands rather than
following the Hawaiian route.
Tho Aleutian islands, more than 150
in number, which extend in a chain
east and west for more than a thou
sand miles, are inhabited by the rem
nant of the Aleuts. Their war of the
revolution closed just as the Ameri
can Revolutionary war began. So pa
trlotlc were the Aleuts, so brave
their struggle for hides eudence, that
they succumbed to the Russians only
after a coMlk-t of nearly fifty years
and then simply because tho race was
almost exterminated in the struggle.
While the Aleutian islands must
eventually form an Important link in
the commerce between the United
States and the orient, other Islands
link our country with the vast empire
to the north. In the narrow Bering
strait lie two little islands, one occu
pied by Russia, the other by the Unit
ed States, so that citizens of the two
great nations live on respective islands
within a few miles of each other.
Evening 8ohools.
Evening schools owe their existence
to tho Rev. Thomas Charles, who about
1811 set up one at Bala, Wales, which
proved to be quite successful. In 1839
or 1840 the English Bishop I-Ilnds
strongly recommended such schools for
poor adults, who, on account of en
forced labor, had no clmuco to secure
an education. The Idea was taken in
band by tho British privy council in
1801, and from that date evening
schools began to be considered seri
ously. At tho present time they are
numerous throughout Great Britain
America and many other leading na
tions.
An Old Coat.
My coat and I live comfortably to
gether. It has assumed all my wrln
kles, does not hurt me anywhere, has
molded itself on my deformities and Is
Complacent to all my movements, and
I only feel Its presence because it keeps
me warm. Old coats and old friends
are the same thing.—Hugo.
Too Few.
Hub (during the spat)—I don't be
lieve In parading my virtues. Wife—
don't see how you could. It takes
quite a number to wake a parade.-*
S EIGHT HOUR DAY.
$
Our business men should now
give more thought to what is
S necessary for the decent living
of the employee rather than to
e forming larger combinations to
defeat those of wage earners
$ whose experience and study of
$ the problem have convinced
S them of the evil effects of more
than eight hours of manual la
3 bor. We who are more fortunate
can work many hours to secure
great profits, or in the hope of
them, if we need not worry over
$ necessary food and clothing, but
S» with daily manual labor experl
ence has shown it is very differ
ent.—George Foster. Peabody.
SWITCHMEN'S AWARD.
Eight Hour Concession Sounds Wellt
but Doesrv't Mean Anything.
Members of the New York branch of
the Switchmen's Union of America de
nied that the award of the federal
board of arbitration, filed in the United
States district court. New York city,
on Dec. 24, constituted an eight hour
day as described by that body.
"They've given us a phrase we can't
collect on," was the way one of the of
ficials of the union characterized it.
The eight hour concession was
awarded to the union by the federal
board after a wage aud hour contro
versy extending over months. The
Switchmen's union is affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, but
not with the four transportation broth
erhoods in train service that made the
eight hour day a national issue. The
federal board grained the request of
the switchmen that 'eight hours or
less shall constitute an eight hour
day," but denied their request for time
and a half for overtime. But they did
grant the members of the union, so
far as they had contracts with the va
rious railroads, a tint increase of 5
cents an hour.
"The trouble with an eight hour con
cession," the union official quoted
above said, "is that there is no flnan
ial penalty imposed on the railroads
for working their switchmen more
than eight l'o :rs The f. deral board
merely h.-c-- smH to ii e railroads, "If
you work these men more than eight
hours you must pay them at the same
rate as dnrimr the eiHit hour!?,' which,
of course. i% 1:0 eo:i ~iou at all. They
could have the iis.ard a six hour
day or even a ur hour day. becau
just as long »!ie rate of pay aft
the expiratii n of the stated day re
mains the same as before the men
gain nothing, at 'cast by that particu
lar concession."
FIGHT ONLY BEGUN.
Campaign to Prevent Child Labor Must
Be Continued In States.
State
regulation of
problem.!'
child labor in
local industries is not yet as thorough
as the federal regulation of industries
engaged In interstate commerce, ac
cording to the annual report of the gen
eral secretary of the National Child
Labor Committee.
Twenty-eight states allow hildren to
work more than eight hours a day in
stores and other local establishments
nineteen states allow children to work
at night in such establishments twen
ty-eight states have no regulation of
street work by children, and twenty
states have poor regulations twenty
three states need night messenger
laws twenty-six states do not require
medical examination of children for
work permits twelve states have no
educational requirements for work
permits, and thirty-two states have
standards lower than the fifth grade
one state has no compulsory education
law. and four states have only local
option laws.
"The 1,850,000 working children
whose status cannot be directly affect
ed by any kind of federal regulation
present the major problem on which
the efforts of the committee may now
be concentrated," .says Owen R. Love
joy, the general secretary, in his re
port. "Congress lias forged the tools
for an aggressive campaign, and we
have now reached the stage where be
taking hold instead of letting go we
may hope to .sec the
solution
of the
PLAN BIG UNION.
Needle Workers of the Country May
Amalgamate In One Organization.
The strike of clothing workers in
New York city may result in the amal
gamatlon of the half million needle
workers throughout the country iuto
single union. The initial step for such
a combination was made by Joseph
Schlossberg, secretary of the Amalga
mated Clothing Workers, in a letter to
Louis Langer, secretary of the joint
board of the Cloak and Skirt Makers
union.
Were the organization effected It
would surpass In numbers the Ton
fallroud brotherhoods. The rout cm
plated combination of needle worker:
would probably be built around the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
Secretary Schlossberg's letter to Mr
Langer, whleh furnished the sugges
tion for the greater union, closed with
this paragraph:
"We all- realize that we belong to
you and that you belong to us. We
hope the time will soon come when
Instead of a number of separate or
ganizations, there will be one great
powerful and all embracing body of
needle workers."
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
SIOE!
OF
ROBBER.
hfr Romance of This Now Highly
Prized Material.
WAS OF LITTLE USE AT FIRST.
Not Until the Vulcanizing Process Was
Invented Did Its Vast Possibilities
Become Apparent—How the Amazon
Monopoly Was Broken.
The average man believes that rub
ber is rubber, just as silver Is silver
and ivory is ivory but, as a matter of
fact, the different kinds of rubber run
into the hundreds. If you were to take
up one of the commercial dailies which
devote their columns to the news of the
different industries yyi|t would find
prices quoted on thirty or forty differ
ent sorts of rubber. Some are called
after their geographical location, some
take their name from the method of
preparation, and others have names de
scriptive of their form.
Originally all rubber came from the
valley of the Amazon. When It was
first discovered no one knows. At any
rate, when the first white men. follow
ing along after Columbus, visited South
America they found the Indians play
ing with bulls made from the exuda
tion of tiie bark of a certain tree,
and these balls differed from any the
Europeans had ever seen, for they
bounded and rebounded and were full
of life. But that was not the only use
the Indians put this milk of the tree to.
They smerred it on their blankets to
make tliein waterproof.
Still. 200 years and more went by,
and, while many wise men believed
this elastic, cohesive, Impermeable sub
stance ought to be full of usefulness,
nobody found any way to use It to any
advantage—it was so brittle in cold
weather aud so disposed to get soft in
hot weather. But in the fullness of
time a Connecticut Yankee started to
puzzle it out. It took him the better
part of ton years, but be did it, and in
1839 gave the world his vulcanization
process, which Is in use today.
Up to that time rubber was so cheap
that ships from South America some
times used it as ballast, taking their
chances of selling it for what they
could get in some American port
With the discovery of the vulcanizing
process rubber took on a new hue and
a new value, and the tropics were
searched for it everywhere. It was
found in the vines of Africa, and gutta
percha, a sort of first cousin to rubber,
was found In Borneo, and some years
ago a large volume of rubber was
found In the guayule shrubs of ilex
Ico.
As rubber grew in value the chem
ists fell to work and devised ways of
recovering it from old shoes and bose
and other articles into which It en
tered, and thus "reclaimed rubber"
soon came to equal the new rubber In
volume, and all these varieties found
some legitimate use. Gutta percha
makes unapproachable insulation for
ocean cables. Balata. which comes
from the Culanas, is famous for belt
ing, and even "reclaimed rubber,'
taken from junk heaps, serves perfect
ly well for flooring and mats and other
articles where resiliency is not needed.
For many years the best rubber was
that which came n the banks of the
Amazon. The p-iic of that country
enjoyed a practical monopoly and de
terndned to keep it. Not a rubber seed
would they let pet out of the country,
under heavy penalties. But from time
immemorial the fear of punishment
has given way before the lure of shin
ing gold, and in tSTU. by means of gen
erous presents here and there, a ven
turesome Englishman sailed out of tho
Amazon with rubber seeds, and
that was the start of the great rubber
plantations eylon and the Malay
peninsula.
The beginning was slow. It was
twenty-nine years after these seeds left
the Amazon before the first plantation
rubber was ready for the market, and
then the total was only 115 tons. That
was in 1005. But since then the pro
duction of plantation rubber has grown
enormously, until now it is about 100,
000 tons.
Various rubbers can be used for vari
ous purposes. For some purposes a
lifeless rubber will answer well enough
while for other purposes the only rub
ber that will adequately serve Is the
one that has life and resilency and
toughness. There are numberless rub
ber articles of commerce where resili
ency and wear combined are necessary
and where cheaper grades or too large
a proportion of "reclaimed rubber" Is
the poorest sort of economy.- Hartford
Times.
Suspicious.
"There's a man outside who wants
to seo you." announced the office boy
"He says he's an old friend of yours
"Find out whether he wants to bor
row money or sell life insurance," di
rected his employer. "In either case
I'm not in."—New York World.
The New Age.
The London Office Girl—Could I have
next Monday, sir, for my sister's wed
fling? Her Employer—Why, you had a
couple of days off for a sister's wed
ding last month. The Office Girl—Yes
sir we do get off quickly In our fam
ily.—I iondon Sketch.
The Universal Gratitude.
"How thankful I am that I have a
home."
"Ah, yes, to abater your dear ones."
"No to mortgage for an automobile.*'
—Baltimore American.
The power of concentration Is one of
the most valuable of intellectual attain
ments.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917. $1.00 PER YEAR
RIDING ON BUBBLES OF AIR.
Motoring Would Be Ideal If Tires Could
Be Made Thinner.
In the whole mechanism of modern
tiansportatlon there Is nothing so par
adoxical, nothing so daring in concep
tion as these bubbles of air which we
call tires. They are at once strangely
nonsensical and strangely practical—
nonsensical because they must endure
great strains and yet are necessarily
mado of unendurable material practi
cal because nothing can match air as a
shock absojjjier. From all the tales that
we hear of tire costs and tire repairs,
let it not be forgotten that motoMng as
we know It became possible because of
the art of riding on bubbles of air had
been discovered.
What happens when the old fashion
ed iron tired, wooden buggy wheel
strikes a small stone in the road? It
simply rises and the entire load rest
ing on the wheel is lifted. There is
loss of power—more work for the horse,
for whenever you or a horse lifts a
weight energy must be expended.
What happens when an air tube strikes
a stone? The tube is simply punched
in, as it were, momentarily! The wheel
need not be lifted over the obstruction.
In order to secure this extraordinary
result the air must have a chance to
compress. If It were possible to build
a tire with a wall as thin as a soap
bubble's and yet so tough and elastic
that it would both yield to blows and
resist punctures and blowouts the ideal
would be attained. One of tho hardest
technical tasks ever set was that of de
manding from the rubber industry a
tube which would hold air and which
would also be resilient.
Air tires serve not only to make mo
toring luxuriously comfortable, but to
protect the car Itself. Were It not for
them engines would not perform their
work
BO
efficiently gasoline would not
be so economically consumed high
speed would be unttalnable steering
would not be so easy shock would not
be completely absorbed.—Waldemar
Kaempffert In McClure's Magaelne.
HE KNEW THE TURK.
8o He Boldly Proceeded to Take the
Law Into His Own Handa.
In his book, "Forty Years In Con
stantinople," Sir Edwin Pears tells the
following Btory to Illustrate the Turk's
attitude toward foreigners:
I knew the Englishman of whom the
story was told, and 1 persuaded him
one day to give me his own version.
He sued a man In the chief Turkish
court that has Jurisdiction over cases
between Europeans and Turkish sub
jects. When the Turkish defendant
came to telJ tils tale he spoke of the
Englishman as a giaour, or infidel. The
Englishman objected. Although the
judges knew perfectly well that It is
contrary to Turkish law to use such
an epithet, they did not interfere,
whereupon the Englishman said, "If
you call me a giaour again I shall take
the law into my own bands."
The Turk at once replied, "Well, you
are a giaour."
The Englishman stepped across the
floor three or four paces and gave the
Turk a blow on the nose that startled
him aud the court. As the blood flow
ed freely, there was a great hubbub,
aud orders were given to arrest the
Englishman. lie was a big, powerful
fellow, and Instantly he smashed the
stool on which ho was seated and
cried out that he would brain the first
man who laid hands upon him.
Allschau, the dragoman who first
told me the story, said that every one
hesitated to attack the Englishman,
and he, Alischun, was asked by the
president to tell the aggressor that If
he would apologize there would be an
end of the matter.
"Apologize!" said the Englishman
"Not a bit of It. He Insulted me, and
I let him have it."
Allschau went back to the president
and said, "This Is the kind of an Eng
lishman who won't stand an insult
and I can do nothing with him."
Thereupon the court ordered the pro
ceedings to go on as if nothing bad
happened.
A Rousing Welcome.
"Anyhow," said the small man with
tho big sot of books, over which he
figured from early morn till late at
night, "anyhow, there is one faithful
friend at home that never falls to give
mo a rousing welcome."
"What friend Is that?" asked the
billing clerk, pausing to eat a sand
wlch while the boss wasn't looking.
"My old alarm clock," replied the
small man dreamily. Jacksonville
Times-Union.
8hadows of History.
"William the Conqueror," read the
small boy from bis history, "landed
in England In 1006 A. D."
"What does 'A. D.' stand for?" in
quired the teacher.
The small boy pondered.
"I don't exactly know," he said
"Maybe it's after dark."—New York
jplmes.
Insert Letter "E."
"So you were invited to participate
in a profit sharing scheme?"
"Yes."
"How did you come out?"
"I discovered that the purpose of the
teherne was not sharing, but shearing."
—Birmingham Age-IIerald.
Irresponsible 8plrit.
"Has your husband told you yon
must economize?"
"Yes," replied Mrs. Fllmgilt, "but
I'm not lettfng him bother me. He's
one of those people who Insist on tak
ing up every fad that comes along."
Washington Star.
It isn't a good plan to allow your re
ets for yesterday to overshadow your
opes for tomorrow.
NEED OF REST.
The history of the shorter hour
movement shows that long hours
result in a predisposition to nerv
ous and Infectious disease, gen
eral injury to health, strain from
the speed and monotony of mod
ern industry, cumulative fatigue
and accidents. The spread of the
eight hour day, on the other
hand, has resulted in better Qual
ity and larger quantity of work,
Increased temperance, education
and general welfare. Life is more
than work. The laborer and the
employer alike should have their
free hours between toil and sleep.
Work performed by tired men Is
costly to society.—Mary Alden
Hopkins in Century.
0
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.
Taking Away Right to Strike Would Be
a Movement Toward Chattel Slavery.
In a recent address in New York A.
B. Garretson, president of the Order
of Railway Conductors, said in part:
Now, to talk about compulsory arbi
tration, whether It Is compulsory inves
tigation or compulsory arbitration, is
an utter absurdity.
The very moment it becomes com
pulsory arbitration it ceases to be ar
bitration and only becomes another
form of court, with a Judge possessing
different qualifications presiding there
in. Take away the right to quit when
he will from the laboring man and you
might Just as well enslave him to start
with, provided he will submit to It.
There Is no difference in principle be
tween tying a mau on a public utility
or elsewhere to his labor and actual
slavery.
It is exactly like the idea that labor
is a commodity. If labor is a commod
ity the man who does the labor and
furnishes the effort is a chattel. If
man is a free agent, ethically It is the
same thing to make liiui work for one
hour against his will as it is to make
him work for one ear or a hundred
against his will.
The guarantee of liberty, the pursuit
of happiness according to bis own con
cept of what Is right, as long as it
doesn't infringe, not on the profits, but
on the apparent rights of others, are
his now, and whenever you take these
away from the meanest laborer that
there is on earth you have deprived
him of something—well, there are some
of us yet who believe It is God given
and It will bring its logical result.
The mass of the people are exactly
like the elephant—dangerous when
they learn (heir strength and when
ever lAtrlulitf luu I o| ioSt'd Ol* I.S en-
4
Square is the name. Square is our aim
All Suits and Pants made to your
individual order in a
acteu fiiut infringe* on tlie rights or
man for no cause that can be cited
except for the profit of others, not nec
essarily the comfort, but for the profit
of others, it is bound to bring a re
action that, will lead the man into the
course that will educate him as to his
strength.
If you complain that K 0.000 men
held up the government what will S,
000000 of tlicm do if they can to hold
up the government?
Are they going to be that govern
ment, or is the other 20,000,000 going
to be the government? It is worth
careful consideration. The signs of
the times are not to be disregarded.
The social conditions that exist are
of a character to make every man who
has honestly the interest of the people
at heart, and I am not speaking of
the people as 'peepul' either—the great
body of the race honestly at heart, to
give careful thought to whether or not
the crust is too thin for safety, wheth
er or not evils that exist must not re
ceive tho honest effort of all classes
for the correction or whether there Is
to come a cataclysm that will make
previous occurrences of Its character
all go Into the shade.
This is the age of colossal things. If
It comes it will come in a way that
will make it overshadow all former
industrial upheavals precisely as the
present war blots out of existence vir
tually all of the wars that preceded it,
and it is worthy of the best effort of
every honest man, no matter what he
!«, union man, laboring man, capitalist
or employer, to bring about a solution
that will be equitable to all concerned,
for it will never be settled finally until
it is settled right., and the strife be
tween the man who has and the man
who has not will continue until that
day comes, and it is worthy every
man's effort to bring it about.
His Suspicion Confirmed.
How interesting the financial columns
In the morning papers can be to the
traveled reader! For instance, here's a
market report that says "butter was
strong." This confirms an impression
formed at a bo.-trdim.' house recently.—
London Ideas.
Union Shop
The SquareTailors
106 HIGH STREET
meet him at
Cor. Front and Hisii Sts.
Merchants' Dinner Lunch
Served every Day
Feminine Intuition.
"I thought you were going send
that hat back. Mamie. W'mt induced
you to keep it?"
"Every girl i know was careful to
tell me, as soon as she saw It on me.
how unbecoming It was."—Baltimore
American.
On the Line.
Lunch Counter Connected
"You say you lmve spent hours ©Yer
a single liner"
"Yes and sometimes days."
"Then you're a poet?"
"No: I'm an angler."
The Co.
Reliable Idlers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Q,ueensware
Millinery. House Furnishings
Voss-Holbrock Stamps with
a a s u I a O
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