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TO AID UNEMPLOYED Labor Council Will Plan Freo Na tional Labor Exchange. AT WASHINGTON THIS MONTH. With Branches In All Large Cities, Great Country Wide Bureau Would Assist Employer as Well as Em ployee—Should Relieve Laborers’ Distress, Sa/s Secretary Straus. A great national labor exchange, free alike to employer and employee, with.branches in all the large cities of the country, is one of the results to be sought by the council of labor tln.t will meet in Washington this month at the suggestion of Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and la bor. Mr. Straus is now in correspond ence with E. 11. Gary of the United States Steel corporation and other large employers of labor throughout the country, and plans for the conven tion are rapidly being formed. The date has not been set for the meeting, but it will probably be held in the*last week of the month. “The most important of the subjects to be taken up,” says Secretary Straus, “is perhaps that of the unemployed. How to give work to men out of work when there is no work In sight is a se rious problem, but by no means an un solvable one. “Suppose we take the case of a tin ner in New York,” Mr. Straus contin ued, “who has just lost his job be cause work in his particular line has given out. He tramps the streets for several days and finds other tinners in the same predicament. After he has convinced himself that there is nothing for him to do in the big city he applies to the bureau of information of the department of commerce and labor—which in the meantime has been perfected and enlarged to the proportions to which we hope to see It grow—and makes his wants known there. The man tn charge of the in formation of workmen wanted takes down his big book and looks over the pages. He finds that 1,000 tinners are wanted in Seattle to work on the build ings of the Alaska and Yukon exposi tion, that four or five hundred sheet metal workers are needed in Chicago, St. Louis and Denver and that 3,000 men can find employment in the great fruit orchards and vineyards of Cali fornia, all at first class wages. ‘l’d like to take a job out in Seattle,* the tinner says, ‘but how am I to get there?’ ‘We can send you out there for $12.50, and the fare will be taken out of your first week’s wages,’ the man at the bureau tells him. So the thing is done. The workless man goes west and finds his work, and the help less employer in Seattle finds his help. We hope to be able to make such ar rangements with the railroads that re duced rates may be obtained for men who are going after work, and by the establishment of offices in the various big cities of the country the scope of the work may be extended to prac tically cover the whole United States. “When the wants of the employer and the employee can be made thor oughly known to each other,” Mr. Straus continued, “as soon as their wants occur a great share of the dis tress among the laboring classes will disappear. Judge Gary of the Steel corporation has written me a letter setting forth his views on the matter, and I have written him. I am also in correspondence with other prominent men on the same subject. Messrs. Powderly and Keefe of the immigra tion service and Donnelly of the gov ernment printing office are in corre spondence with the principal labor representatives of the country, and the views of all men interested in the good of the workingman’s cause will be given opportunity for expression at the convention.” Since July 1, when the bureau of in formation of the department of com merce and labor was established, work for 2.512 men has been found. This record, brought up to Dec. 19. is con sidered very gratifying when the fact is taken into consideration that the scope of the bureau is still extremely limited and its operations are practi cally unknown to the great mass of workingmen and only partly under stood by the employers. Talking Postal Card Coming. The talkin’’ postal card is the inven tion of a Fl en<*h engineer and has be come so popular in that country that the American rights have been se cured, and the device will be placed in the cities of the United States. The person wishing to send a talking post al card to a friend enters the booth and talks into a machine that records the words on the specially prepared' postal card. When the recipient re ceives the card a hundred or a thou sand miles away he or perhaps she takes the card to the nearest postal booth and Inserts It in a machine which talks the message it contains. The record on the postal card is inde structible, and the exact voice of the fender is heard. Longest Tunnel For Russia. Russia is on the eve of undertaking tflie construction of the longest and most difficult tunnel cutting in the world. It will be twenty-one versts or more than fourteen miles long, ex ceeding in length by two miles the Simplon tunnel, at present the longest in history. The Russian tunnel is to be cut between Vladikavkaz and Tiflis, in the mountains of northern Cau casus. It is estimated that the tunnel will cost $30,000,000 and that the work will take ten years. GANDERBONE FORECAST. C. H. Reith’s Drall Summary of the Closing Half of February. Between St Valentine’s day and Washington’s birthday there will be a lull enlivened from time to time by Carrie Nation in London Tower, newspaper editors sentenced to hard labor on the Panama Canal for gosaip ing about the Government, and the Duke Jf the Abruzzi giving up all for Miss Elkins. The fleet will continue on its homeward way. making Spain, where there will be a tremendous ovation tendered it on Feb. 31. And then the day of days w 11 come When everyone will try To honor most the name of him Who never told a lie— Who never u rote a nature take. Or lied about a deal In timber lauds, or called the sale In Panama a steal. Or represented Standard Oil Behind the country's back, But always made a very straight And unsuspicious track. T. R. will take a cherry trt3 and drag it through the aisles of Congress till the country whoops and even Con gress smiles; and having surfeited himself with this amusing skit, he’ll center Tillman out and run him up and down a bit. At night the Annanias Club will burgeon with a ball and all the liars will disport and frolic in the hall. The cheerful liar will consort and mingle with the plain, the unpre meditated type will trip to the re frain, the willful liar will essay the Merry Widow waltz, the suave in fernal liar will be welcome for his fraults, the artful liar will consign the truth to utter Hades, and the droll dam liar will delight the none too squeasmish ladies. The season for sifting the ashes ends on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 24. The supposition is that we can make ends meet in some other way during Lent, which immediately fol lows. February was named for Februns, an old Etruscan god with a bad liver. Information of him is meager, but history calls him a holy terror, and he appears to have been a providential preparation of the earth for the sub sequent occurrence of President Castro. The password for the month will be ‘‘Prssum.” Prosperity will return on the 28th. And then the ides of March will come, Which long ago played hob And the fattest man we ever chose Will go upon the job. BOOST SCHOOL FUND. Proposed Changes in the Inheritance and Primary Laws. Assemb?yman Merlin Hull of Black River Falls has introduced a bill in the Wisconsin legislature to provide that the moneys collected from inheritance in the state, as the result of the operation of the inheri tance law, be turned into the com mon school fund. The school fund amounts to about $1,700,000 annual ly and the amount collected by the state from inheritance amounts to an average of $250,060 annually. He would turn this last sum into the common school fund annually to be distributed for the benefit to the common schools of the state. Assemblyman Hull presented an other bill providing that the primary election be held on the fourth Tuesday in September, in stead of the first Tuesday, as at the •present time. It has been found that Labor day coming on the first Monday in September interferes with getting out a full vote at the primary. It would also allow a longer time for campaigning be fore the primary. It shortens the time between the primary and the general election. HEED THE WARNING. Many Lancaster People Have Done So. When the kidneys are sick they give unmistakable warnings that should not be ignored. By examining the urine and treating the kidneys upon the first sign of disorder, many days of suffering may be saved. Sick kidneys expel a dark, ill-smelling urine, full of ‘‘brick-dust” sediment and painful in passage. Sluggish kidneys cause a dull pain in the small of the back, headaches, dizzy spells, tired, languid feelings and frequently rheumatic twinges. Doan’s Kidney Pills are 1 for the kidneys only; they cure sick kidneys, and rid the blood of uric poison. If you suffer from any of the above symptoms’ you can use no better remedy. Lancaster people recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. George W. Marks, Jr., Fourth Ward, Lancaster, Wis., says: ‘‘l suffered from pains in the small of my back for months which at times would change to sharp, shooting twinges and I could not get about. The kidney secretions were also un natural and irregular. Hearing of Doan's Kidney Pills, I got a box at J. D. Hatch’s drug store. They soon banished the pain and restored my kidneys to a healthy condition.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, FEBRUARY 17, 1909. romangeofaugtion SALE OF UNCLAIMED EXPRESS UNITES LOVERS. Norwegian Harvest Hand Comes Into Possession of Sweethearts’ Letters and • Heals a Broken Heart. St. Paul, Minn. —At a sale of un claimed baggage held in the Union depct Herbert Leonard of Plainfield, Wis., paid $7.50 for one lot of five bundles, in one of which he found some old letters, and having no use for them threw them away. Adolph Berg, a transient, looked upon this careless waste of effects with budding curiosity, pawed heedlessly about among the debris, sorted out a few letters idly, perused them and stuck them excitedly into his bosom and made his way rapidly from the depot to a saloon at Sibley and Rob ert streets. He ordered a glass of beer for an excuse—leaving it un touched —and buried himself in read ing the letters he had found in the baggage scrap heap. Berg had been a resident of Amer ica nearly five years. He came from Norway and engaged in the restaurant business at Minot, N. D. He had bad luck there and took a claim near Bis marck. He proved up on this and took a job as a farm laborer in the Carrington neighborhood. His job on the Carrington branch of the Great Northern proved a good one for a time. Now when Adolph left Norway he left behind Hilda Aase, with whom he was deeply in love. While he was in America he promised her he would send for her and they would get mar ried and make their home here. But things did go so awry with all of Adolph’s brave plans that he continu ally declined in fortune until he got the job near Carrington. So then about a year ago he sent for Hilda to come in the spring of this year. Hilda prepared to do so, but for reasons not disclosed she did not make the trip and set the time off un til July. Meanwhile matters were going bad with Adolph. The slump came during the winter, hit labor like a blast, cheapened it and threw those that had any sense of their value out of a job. So with Adolph. Meanwhile he looked for the com ing of Hilda with renewed fears. He feared that the place he was able to provide for her would not meet her expectations in this rich country of America, and wrote her in July not to come until she should hear from him again. After writing Hilda this he secured a position on a threshing machine crew and worked throughout the Da- He received the letter from Hilda announcing that she had started, but believed she had received his own letter before starting, telling her not to come, and dismissed the matter from his mind. So hard have matters gone since that time that Adolph Berg has writ ten no letters to Christiania to the woman of his heart. Little did he know that Hilda, last July, duly ticketed by the immigration officials that make one’s trip easy came to America and North Dakota, looking for her long-lost love. He did not know that she had been caught” in the whirl of the busy world about St. Paul and the northwest, and, failing to find him, had returned hastily to her native land, depressed to the oblivion of all else at the thought of the possi ble defection and desertion of him who was most dear to her. In the debris at the Union station Adolph Berg found letters written by his own self, and they were in a piece of baggage that Hilda had once owned. It did not take Adolph Berg long to find out where the package came from and learn or divine the true course of his love-lorn lady of Christiania. Berg, who has some money saved up from his threshing experience, sat down that night in the dingy room of his rooming house on Robert street and wrote Hilda to come again to America, inclosing an express order to cover the expense. Herbert Leonard, who bought the unclaimed effects which were forgot ten by Hilda at the St. Paul baggage station in her sad katabasis back to Norway, is also a thresher, by coin cidence, and has been employed at Maxbass, N. D., and Valley City. His home is located at Plainfield, Wis., where are also the other effects of Hilda, to which she has no legal right, but which would probably be returned upon satisfactory arrangement. Three Names in Three Hours. Savannah, Ga. —At one minute to 12 o’clock Mrs. Roxie Spalding, ten minutes later Miss Roxie Phillips and at five minutes past two Mrs. Roxie Martin was the record of a Savannah woman who as the clock was striking the noon hour was granted a divorce from S. F. Spalding and allowed to resume her maiden name. When the decree vras announced she left the courthouse with John B. Mar tin. whose housekeeper she had been and together they called on the city clerk for a marriage license. They then went to the office of Justice Van gessen- -and had the justice been in they would have made even a faster record getting married than they did. They had to wait on him and lost two hours. By two o’clock Miss Phillips was married again and had become Mrs. Martin. The Origin of Moving Pictures. The beginning of moving pictures was in this wise, says the Chicago Tribune: Sir John Herschel after dinner in 1826 asktd his friend Charles Babbage how he would show both sides of a shilling at once. Babbage replied by taking a shilling from nis pocket and holding it. to a mirror. This did not satisfy Sir John, who set the shilling spinning upon the dinner table, at the same time pointing out that if the eye is placed on a level with the rotating coin both sides can be seen at once B *bbage was so struck by the ex penment that the next day he de scribed it to a friend, Dr.Fitton, who immediately made a working model. On one side of a disk was drawn a bird, on the other side an empty birdcage, when the card was re volved on a silk thread the bird ap peared to be in the cage. This model showed the persistence of vision upon which all moving pictures depend lor their effect The eye retains the image of the object seen for a fraction of a sec ond after the object has been re moved. This model was called the thaumotrope. Next came the zoetrope, or wheel of life. A cylinder was perforated with a series of slots and within the cylinder was placed a band of drawings of dancing men. On the apparatus being slowly rotated the figures seen through the slots ap peared to be in motion. The first systematic photographs taken at le gular intervals of men and animals were made by Muybridge in 1877. Foley’s Orino Laxative cures con stipation and liver trouble and makes the bowels healthy and re gular. Orino is superior to pills and tablets as it does not gripe or nauseate. Why take anything tlse? J. T. Bennett. The Soft Answer. Struck on the head with an egg while addressing an audience at Croy don public hall, Mr. Victor Grayson, M. P., declined to be disturbed by “the softly yielding argument which has impinged itself against my cerebel lum.” —London Daily Mail. Foley’s Honey and Tar clears the air passages, stops the irritation in the throat, soothes the inflamed membranes, and the most obstinate cough disappears. Sore and inflam ed lungs are healed and strengthen ed, and the cold is expelled from the system. Refuse any but the genuine m the yellow package. J. T. Bennett. - - 1 «wi -- Bible Money Terms. The money mentioned in the Bibl© would possess the following equiva lents to-day: A shekel of silver, 32 cents; a shekel of gold, $10; a talent of silver, $2,000; a talent of gold, $30,- 000; a piece of silver or penny, 17 cents; a gerah, 3 cents; a farthing, 1 eent: » mite, less than a farthing. ——— Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar, and it soothes inflamed membranes, heals the lungs, and expels the cold from the system. J. T. Bennett. Capital Offenses in Britain. The are five capital offenses under British law —murder, high treason, piracy, arson in the port of London and attempts to destroy public ar senals. Pneumonia Follows LaGrippe Pneumonia often follows la grippe but never follows the use of Foley’s Honey and Tar, for la grippe coughs and deep seated colds. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow package. J. T. Bennett. — Cruel. “There,” said Rimer, in conclusion, “clever idea, isn’t it? I thought I’d work it up into a ballad.” “Why not a quatrain?” suggested Crittick. “Oh, that’s too short.” “I don’t believe any editor would think so.” C. R. Kluger, the Jeweler, 1060 Virginia Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., writes: “I was so weak from kidney trouble that I could hardly walk a hundred feet. Four bottles of Foley’s Kidney Remedy cleared my complexion, cured my backache and the irregularities disappeared, and I can now attend to business every day, and recommend Foley’s Kidney Remedy to all sufferers, as it cured m« after the doctors and other remedies had failed.” J. T. Bennett. Disease and Remedies. It is almost a truism among physi cians that the intractability of a dis ease may be measured by the number of “infallible” remedies for it which from time to time have been recom mended. —London Times. Hexamethylenetetramine The above is the name of a German chemical, which is one of the many valuable ingredients of Foley’s Kidney Remedy. Hexame thylenetetramine is recognized by medical text books and authorities as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for the mine. Take Foley’s Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice any irregularities, and avoid a serious malady. *>• T. Bennett. Jaques Mfg. Co. : ’ " Chicago. u /Kc\ / BAKING Stands for Quality SB Economy K i KC' I Purity Jy e j n providing the family’s meals,don’t be sntisfied with anything but the b est ’ K C te guaranteed perfec- OflflW J* 011 at a mo^era^e price. It makes everything better. Try <*• Money barlg, | BLACK CAT CAUSE OF IT. 'TH Po’vwow Doctor at Last Discovers Secret of Tuberculosis. Bethlehem, Pa. —A prominent mar ried woman, her masculine neighbor and a coal-black cat figure in a genu ine oid-iashioned powwow story that has just come to light here. For more than a year the woman, living on East North street, has been ili with tuberculosis, and, as her con l.tion became worse, she followed the advice* of friends and called upon a well-known powwow doctor of South Jethlehem. Two questions were put to the pa tent before the powwow doctor told iier the certain cause of her sickness: ‘Did you hand ’something to a black :at?” and “Did a man recently hand something to you?” The woman answ’ered both ques icns in the affirmative.* She was then old that the man was responsible for ?er ills. To prove this she was in structed to throw something at the oiack cat the next time she saw it, and the man in question would be come lame. When the cat appeared at the kitchen door meowing* for milk the next morning it was a target for a tin .adle. Now the remarkable fact de velops, according to the abundant estimcny of neighbors, that on the uccecding day the masculine neigh bor of ibe woman, the man whom the jowwow doctor accused, was noticed . be walking lame. He told the in quirers he had rheumatism. The powwow doctor’s prescription s turt the woman will recover if she is careful not to take anything handed to her by her masculine neighbor, and so she has moved aw*ay and is getting veil, they say. Treasure Above Rubies. A good wife keeps off wrinkles. — German Proverb. ‘‘is our winter climate changing?” asks a scientist. That is the ques tion our grandfathers used to ask. Another thing that’s hard to under stand is why your bad cold should always be so much worse than any body eke’s. NEW LIVERY STABLE The Northwestern Livery, Feed and Boarding Stable A share of your patronage fc solicited. North side of the Grand Central Block. Unior phone 111. D. R. NEWMAN. DR. BREWER &. SOM feteWW' have now on record in their case book 17,500 PEOPLE 17,500 NO ENCOURAGEMENT WITHOUT PROSPECT OF SUCCESS. Are y ca satisfied with your doctor? Are you gain H y° u are rema ’ n with your home physician, it you are not recovering to your satisfaction, call at once on DR. BREWER and see the wonderful re suits from a new and original method of treating chronic diseases. Over 17500 cases recorded on my book show the results obtained. No matter what ’your complaint is, no matter how' long you have been sick or how many doctors have treated you, try my method once. I never ails where there is a possibility of a cure and the di -INCUR.ABLE CASES°NOT ACCEPTED, Unless t»he Patient Understands 1L- Delays are dangerous. When others fail let us explain our method. We Extract the Natural Drug Principle from the Crude Roots, Barks and Leaves of the Herbs, and apply them to the healing of diseases. Why not consult a physician who makes his visits regularly and you are sure to meet again. ~*TThose Afflicted with Diseases of Throat, Brain, Lungs, Heart, Stom ach Liver, Kidneys, Nerves, Rheumatism, or suffering from Neuralgia, De bility’ Fits, Tumors, Cancers. Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Diabetis, Dropsy, Eczema, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Loss of Voice, Consumption, Astama Humours: Erup tion, Bad effects of Grip, Sores, Nervous Debility or ANY DISEASE OF LONG STANDING. He keeps a record of every case treated and the result obtained and can refer you to those who have been cured. DlbE. b b U WOMEN A SPECIALTY. Consultation and Examination are entirely Free Reasonable Terms for Treatment, One Price, No Large Fees. LABORATORY . . 1234[C HICAGO Ave., EVANSTON, LLD Will be at the Wright House, I Lancaster, .... Monday, Mar. 8 RESIDENCE FOR SALE CITY OF LANCASTER VERY DESIRABLE One block from Court Hojise, across street from Episcopal church; two blocks from Catholic church. Seven 100 ms, woodshed, barn and chicken house; 2 beauti ful lots: 20 ft alley back to barn; city water. Will be sold cheap if taken before March 1. Enquire of H. W. BROWN or W. J. BRENNAN Lancaster, : Wisconsin FARM FOR SALE 171 i acres in the town ship of Little Grant, un der high state of cultivation. Good house, barn and out buildings, some good stand ing timber on the place. Price reasonable and terms easy. Call on or address me for par ticulars of this fine farm. C. H. BAXTER, Lancaster The Best O f Wines, Liquors and Cigars are the only kind I keep. Come and see me. John Schmidt, Pink’s Old Stana .