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SUNDAY MORNING. Fishing Time. I cannot fix ray mind to-day ' On what I have to do; A picture haunts my inner eye Of waters swift and blue. My fingers itch to cast a fly, The bells of memory chime And call me to the woods and fields, For this is fishing-time. I tlrcam of mossy stepping-stones In lazy amber brooks, Or grassy banks with blossoms bright. And silent, shady nooks, ■Where I forget the world of toil And wash away its grime In crystal depths of running streams That sing of fishing-time. I long to sea the sunftsh play, The minnows’ marry schoo*.. The trout beneath the shelving bank Or in his favorite pool, And all the silver finny folk That throng the watery clime; So hand me out the old brows aoat I keop for fishing-time. —Minna Irving in L*slie’9 Weekly. Surprise With an Infernal Machine. Think of constructing an infernal machine out of five wooden tooth picks! And when you get it all fixed and ready to be “touched off,’* it will - Ready For the Explosion. make as much fun as any little device you ever heard of. Here is the way to make it: Select five of the longest and smoothest toothpicks you can find, and place two of them on the bottom of a goblet or wineglass, turned upside down on a table, in the form of the letter X. On these two place a third one, so 4that it will lie lengthwise along the line of the letter. Now place a pick at each end so that it will rest on top of the middle one and under the ends of the crossed ones. This will make a little bend in the middle pick, causing enough pres sure to hold the device to gether. The picks may be more easily arranged if you get someone to help you. Get a long cork and stick matches into it to represent arms and legs. An extra piece of cork may he carved into a sort of head for the figure, and the effect will thereby be made more grotesque. Or you may make the head with all the features out of new bread, which is malleable enough for the purpose. A little water color paint 'will make eyes, nose, ears and cheeks. Now place the figure astride of the middle toothpick, at one end, and you have everything ready for the “going off’’ of the machine. To bring about the catastrophe you have only to touch a lighted mate!. to the end of one of the crossed toothpicks, and just as soon as enough of it has burn ed to reach the point of junction the wuole device will fly to pieces, and as the bent middle toothpick will spring up when thus released from pressure it will throw the figure into space dismembered. The result is both startling and amusing. Knot in Handkerchief. The task is to fold a handkerchief lengthwise; to take hold of both ends with two hands and to make a knot in 1 -• I the handkerchief without letting go the ends. This is done with the knowl edge of a trick. Place the handkerchief before you, fold your arms ala Napoleon, and take one end of the handkerchief with the left hand, which is now to the right, and the other end with the right hand, now to the left By unfolding the arms make a knot in. the handkerchief and the trick is done. The Sun Curve in the Sky. Get a smooth piece of board, say ten inches square. Get a sheet of ruled note paper and a piece of stiff card board about three inches long and half an Inch wide. I asten this card to the edge of the board with a tack. Place the board in a sunny window just before 12 o’clock and mark the place so that you can always place in the same position every day. Lay the sheet on the board so that the first ruled line touches the cardboard. At exactly 12 o’clock place the board so mat the shadow of the card will cover the first ruled line. Just on the same minute of 12 mark the top of the shadow on the ruled line with a dot in ink. Do this every day at exactly 12 o’clock, using the next ruled line. Cloudy days skip a line. Mark the shadow on the ruled line for twenty days or longer. If there are more lines. When all are marked join all the dots together with an inked line, and you will see that the line is bent or curved. This curved line shows the curve in the sky the sun follows as the season changes. A Punctual Bird. What tempts the little humming bird that we see in our gardens to travel every spring from near the equator to as far north as the arctic circle, leaving behind him as he does, for a season, many tropical delights? He is the only one of many humming birds that pluckily leaves the land of gayly colored birds to go into voluntary ex ile in the north, east of the Missis sippi. How it stirs the imagination to picture the solitary, tiny migrant, a mere atom of bird life, moving above the range of human sight through the vast dome of the sky. says Neltje Blanchan in Country Life in America. Ha oovers the thousands of miles be tween his winter home and his sum mer one by easy stages and arrives at his chosen destination at approximate ly the same date year after year. Shadow Pantomimes. This amusement makes lots of fun for the evening. Fix a white sheet across the room, or, what is better, over folding doors. Sent the company before the screen, without lights. The actors dance and act behind the sheet, on which their magnified shadows are cast by the lamp. Occasionally they jump over the lamp, aad thus appear to the spectators in front as if they had jumped upward through the ceil ing. Some amusing scegie3 may hs contrived with a little ingenuity chairs and tableß may be called dowr from above by passing them across th light; a struggle between two seeminj combatants may take place, and one be seen to throw the other up in the air on the same principle. Of course, the actors must promote the delusion by their gestures, moving their hands and feet as if climbing upward. Care should be taken to keep the profile on the screen as distinct as possible, and The Struggle on the Sheet. practice will soon suggest some high ly humorous situations. About Your Lessons, Boys. The boy who used to boast of get ting the best of h:a teacher has bees heard from. The same traits of char acter which tempted him to deceive his teacher into believing that he had solved his problems, and completed his tasks himself, led him to cheat hi; employer, to idle whenever his back was turned, and to shirk his day’s work, until he finally lost bis position. His lack of education—the result ol cheating his teacher —has proved a perpetual handicap, and has lost him many a good situation. His dishon esty, which started in the schoolroom, has grown until nobody will trust him and he has no credit or standing in his community. Asa boy, he thought himself very clever in being able to dodge his lessons and impose upon his teacher; but he realizes now that the person cheated was himself. In those pre cious days of youth he robbed himself of pearls of great value which he never will be able to recover. The thief of time and opportunity often thinks he is enriching himself, but he awakes one day to the truth that he is poorer and meaner for the thqft. Fun in a Clock’s Face. Some amusement may be had in a company of boys and girls by asking them to draw a picture cf the face of a clock. Most of them would be likely to draw the letters IV. instead of 1111. for four, and would forget, perhaps, that all the letters of the dial should stand wifp their base toward the cen ter. It is probable that most people read a clock dial by the position of the fig ures or letters and disregard the fig ures themselves. Some of the larger clocks now made for steeples have only a straight line at each hour place and they serve their purpose admir ably. It has been found, however, that while most persons have no accurate knowledge of dials, any marked de parture from the usual method of marking them Is at once detected. A dial bearing IV. instead of the - four straight lines attracts everybody's at tention. Kitty's Swarm of Beas. Kitty’s little swarm of B’s, which she presented to Johnny upon his eighth birthday as a set of good reso lutions, were deciphered by our solv ers to read in plain English as fol lows: “Be backward in nothing. Be on hand. Be wise. Be independent. Be benign. Be on watch and on time. Be honest and Be behind hand la nothing ” THE WISE tv l AN’S SONG. Whet pleasure have great princes More dainty to their choice Than herdsmen wild, who careless In quiet life rejoice. And fortune’s fate not fearing Sing sweet in summer morning! Their dealings plain and rightful, Are void ml all deceit: They never know how spiteful It is to knee, and wait On favorite presumptuous Whose pride is vain and sumptuous. All da 5- their flocks each tendeth; All night they take their rest; More quiet than who sendeth PAiNTERS AND DECORATORS One of the most prosperous trades unions in America is the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper hangers. First organized in 18S6, the craft was in a most demoralized con dition, until it joined the American Federation of Labor, when its growth was rapid. In 1894, writes Secretary- Treasurer M. P. Carrick, we divided L. M. P. Carrick. (Secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Pointers, Decorators and Paper hangers.) our forces and became two separate unions with tine headquarters in the East and another in the West. For nearly six years we fought each other bitterly, each side seeking to destroy the other. Both factions lost consid erable strength, due to the bitter quar- LABOR'S ACT CRITICISED Labor men throughout the country who have been associated with P. J. McGuire for many years, and who know his qualities as a leader, will re joice at the action of the Atlanta con vention in exonerating him from the charge of embezzling SIO,OOO of the or ganization’s money. The convention decided to remove the headquarters from Philadelphia to Indianapolis. This will give the Indiana city the honor of being the headquarters of the two largest labor unions, numerically, in the world—the carpenters and miners. The most remarkable thing done at the carpenters’ convention, according to press dispatches, was the adoption of a resolution declaring for the Monroe doctrine in trade unions. The arguments were that as the United States would not permit a European power to plant its flag any where on the Western hemisphere, the trade unions should not permit a for eign organization to have Its branches in this country. Of course, the resolu tion was aimed at the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, but if it had stated so openly it would not have ap peared so ridiculous. Put in the light it is, as favoring the Monroe doctrine, it looks line an eighteenth century step UNION IS JUSTIFIABLE Therefore it is obvious that where employers control the opportunities of employment, which can be only where some itind of law-made or law-sanc tioned privilege exists, a union among laborers is necessary for their protec tion, and therefore is justifiable. If employers have the means of making opportunities for employment artifi cially scarce, then laborers have war rant, in justice to band together ami exact as much by concerted demand as is possible. But this is only to say that both of these restraints upon production are not natural and are not for the high est good of all. Destroy privilege among employers and let competition have free play among them, and then IMPOSE HEAVY FINES James McCarrick, former president of the Kansas City (Kan.) Boilermak ers' Union, has been fined $1,500 by his co-workers for refusing to walk out when the order came for the strike ofVJnion Pacific employes. It is said to be the largest fine ever imposed upon a recalcitrant by a labor organi zation. McCarrick has been in the employ of the Union Pacific company for thirty years. When the call came to strike he chose to remain at his /Neat Printing Creates a good impression among your correspondents and helps to give your business prestige. We Do Neat Printing at Reasonable Prices. THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. i His ship into the East, Where gold and pearl are plenty; But getting very dainty. For lawyers and their pleading. They esteem it not a straw: They think that honest meaning Is of Itself a law; Whence conscience judgeth plainly, They spend no money vainly O, happy who thus liveth! Not caring much for gold. With clothing which sufiloeth To keep him from the cold. Though poor and plain his diet. Yet merry it is. and quiet. -William Byrrl (15SS) rels, and we might to-day be one of the largest national building trade unions in the country had we remained united. Shame at last compelled us to bury the hatchet and in June, 1900, with the active assistance and support of the leading trade unions in the country, representatives of both organizations met at the American Federation of Labor headquarters, Washington. D.C., and drew up a peace arrangement sat isfactory to all parties concerned. Since the amalgamation of the two factions the wonderful increase in strength is surprising. We have to-day (July, 1902), 735 lo cal unions in good standing, and near ly 40,000 members, 210 local unions be ing organized In the first six months of this year. We have increased wages and de creased the hours of labor in over 150 cities and towns in the United States and Canada since the first of January. We hope that in a year from now it will be a curiosity to meet a painter, decorator or paperhanger who works longer than eight hours. We have alßo established the Satur day half holiday In several cities. We believe in conciliation and arbi tration. We favor the establishing of conference committees with our employers, to hold annual meetings, and peaceably adjust all differences. Secretary Carrick never lost faith in the organization, and of course is highly elated at the splendid outlook. The showing is a remarkable one. instead of a twentieth century one The interests of the workers are the same everywhere, and it seems ridicu lous to contend that they are not. Fra ternal delegates are sent from Ameri ca to Great Britain and vice versa every year, and the hope has been fre quently expressed by these delegates that the day was drawing near when the workers of the world would be united in closer bonds. British unions have contributed liberally of their funds to assist the men in this country during strikes, and as American cap itai is now controlling many indus tries In Europe, it seems absurd to try to keep the workers more divided than they are at present. Of course, the resolution will have no effect one way or the othe: except placing the Brotherhood of Carpenters in the last column in the march for industrial freedom through trades unionism. II will now be up to the carpenters tc carry out the program in its entirety and give up the locals they control in Canada. After this display of patriot ism how can they consistently chartet locals under another flag? The action may be construed as good patriotism but every thinking workman will con demn it as poor unionism.—Chieagc Inter Ocean. there would be such a great and last ing demand for labor with the highei and wider advances of civilization that laborers would not have to band them selves together for self-defense, but would be getting in wages what now go in the appropriations of monopoly —wages that would be so much higher as to make unnecessary labur unions, which, as we have seen, necessarily hedge and cramp individual powers. With large wages to all workers a new race of workmen would appear— a race of workmen among whom taste art and invention would be called forth and stimulated and would de velop in each individual those powers that make man the most wonderful of creatures. —Henry George, Jr. post. His defense was that his duty to his family took precedence over his duty to the union. Recently the local union tried the former members who did not strike, and besides MeCarrick’s fine others were assessed, averaging about S2OO each. These ex-members, if ever a time comes for them to be re instated, will have these fines to pay. Demagogues govern some communi ties and demijohns r'ule others. Death in Alpine Climbing Of All Exercises Pursued In the Name of Pleasure, This Is the Most Perilous — Appalling Record of Lives Lost. jjSJ yiN THEIR assaults upon the Tgl I I higher slopes of the Alps a pgHJS—I great army of tourists suffer [jtvSl each year a larger percentage of losses than have troops in many famous battles. During the present season the death roll of the Alps has grown to an appaling length. Among its victims are incljKled men prominent in science and in society. Judged merely by actual statistics, Alpine climbing is too evidently an exercise the most perilous pursued in the name of pleasure. The deaths met by Alpine adventurers are, be sides. likely to be sudden and violent. They must face th-e possibility of be ing dashed down hundreds, even thousands of feet into some crev ’ ' S . asse - of being /Jk overwhelmed by El® avalanches, or iSy’’’ eTen being lost in jthese wil l regions, jto die a miserable .death from starva moving fear- I" \ dent. ' \ The news spreads quickly, I ntn every glass V >n t he 1 lace is fo - eused upon the Z&slifc- J“2 faint, wavering Ic-fcWHline traversing the pass. Often the anxious crowd must wait hours before the news can be learned. Then a sad little procession, bearing the dead, finally arrives, and the death roll of the Alps is found to have been increased. A few days later one or more tombs have been added to the bare little graveyard on the mountain side, and the next day a crowd of tourists, larger and more en thusiastic than the last, will probably start merrily out to face the same dan gers. One of the striking features of this strange, useless game with death is the peril that idle folk are willing to face for the sake of getting a flower that is said by tradition-to grow only in w'ell-nigh inaccessible places, but that flourishes, as a matter of fact, in many a peaceable pasture and harmless garden. On a single day a few weeks ago three fatal accidents occurred to seekers after edelweiss in different parts of the Alps. One of the victims was an Italian customs official from Chiasso. tn trying to reach a bunch of edelweiss which grew on the edge of a precipice he lost his balance and broke his hack. A Swiss schoolboy was following the same will o’ the wisp on the Heimwehfluh rocks near Interlaken when he missed his foot ing, and, tailing into the Wagneren ra vine below, was killed instantly. Eight days afterward the body of a Swiss named Inheid -r was found at the bot om of an abyss under the Sc-hwelgalp, a bunch of the deadly flowers gripped in his fingers. The fatalities of last season were twice as many as those of the year be fore. The present seasos promises to establish still another record. The sta tistics will speak for themselves. During the season of 1901 there were 19 deaths reported in the Swiss to*,ip. .ytjk ipgsL Alps alone due to mountain-climbing accidents. This was nearly double the number in the same region for the previous season. It is impossible to tell how many persons were engaged in climbing the higher peaks, but the number is, of course, comparatively small—not more than a few thousand at most. In many decisive battles in the Boer war, where tens of thousands were engaged, the actual loss was somewhat less. It is estimated that several times last year’s number of tourists are now engaged in acaling the same peaks and facing the same dangers. The greatest number of fatalities are reported from Chamouni and the general region thereabout. The Mat terhorn claimed several, but its dan gers appear to be decreasing. Since it was first conquered and its summit was reached, some sixty-five years ago, the famous mountain has lured several hundreds to their death. The most appalling record for any single section was that of the Swiss Alps during the season of ISBG. Ac cording to the statistics of the Alpine club eight peaks were ascended dur ing the year, and in these expeditions n total of eleven lives were lost. This refers, of course, only to the highest and least accessible mountain tops. The record was therefore about three deaths for every two peaks ascended. The dangers of north pole exploration seem trifling by comparison. The greatest number of deaths among climbers has been caused each year by slipping. The bulletins issued by the Alpine club would indicate that fully three-fourths of all the fatalities are due to this. The climbers are constantly being reminded or the nec essity of wearing proper shoes. In many cases, of course, this is the re sult of carelessness. The men wear shoes improperly supplied with cleats, or they wander outside of the path. The next greatest danger, according to the records, is of death from ava lanches. All the experience and skill of the oldest mountain guides is not sufficient to avoid this danger. The onslaught of the great masses of snow and ice is so sudden that often there is not time to escape, and the party is overwhelmed in an instant. The high altitudes of the mountains, again, of ten exert a fatal effect upon weak hearts. New York's Best Charity. Nathan Strauss, who for several years has been providing Pasteurized milk for the poor of New York city in the summer months, announces that next year be will have in operation a new and larger laboratory, the de mands on his unique charity having vastly increased. The milk is given free to all who on examination are found unable to pay, a nominal charge being made to others. Dr. J. Corwin Mabey, who was delegated by the health department to investigate the results from the use of Pasteuriezd milk and miii-. foods, said that he be lieved the low death rate among chil dren under 5 years of age in the bor ough of Manhattan is directly attrlu uted to the distribution of Pasteur ized milk from the stations maintained by Mr. Strauss. The Economical Widow.' Once upon a time a man who hail become quite wealthy through the careful management of a clever wife died. His wife’s passion for saziug was strong, even in his death, and though the demands of fashion re quired that she should show her grief by wearing mourning, they did not de mand that she should be extravagant. She was well equipped with clothing, anti instead of putting it to one side, to go out of style through lapse of time, she took her outer garments to a dyer and had them changed to the mourning color. Moral —Widows sometimes dye on account of grief. ( - Prai.e American Uniform. Gen. Andre, French minister of war, is quoted as saying to Capt. Bentley Mott of the embassy of Paris: "The United States army now has the most serviceable and warlike uniform I have ever seen. The headdress is perfect; tho color is scientifically cor rect. To my mind the new American uniform is the best yet invented.” Gen. Brugere, commander in chief, and the French officers of the younger and less traditional school shared Gen. Andre’s admiration. Glance was Unfortunate. A story is told of a certain English clergyman who had for his curate a tall, cadaverous-looking individual. One Sunday, according to custom, the vicar made an appeal for the curate’s stipend lund, but, unfortunately, glanced over at his co-worker as he concluded with these words: “The collection will now be taken for that objecL” NOVEMBER 23 h FLOWERS AND INSECTS, WVv Some monoini Open at TTtglit .and Others In the liny. There are many interesting things in nature that we can fully understand without having to hotluT wich the dry problems that confront the scientists, and Ibis is one of them, says the Scots man: Flowers live by tlie insects, and the insects live by the flowers. The nec tar in tlie heart of the flowers is tha insects’ food, and the insects, to get at it, light on the flower and thrust their proboscis down into it for a sip. In doing this they bring to the flower oil their legs ami feet pollen gathered from other flowers. Without this pol len the flowers would he without the fertilization that they must have to live and continue their kind. So you sec how dependent one is on the other. There are certain flowers that open at a certain time of the day, and oth ers that open only at night. Now till* is not the result of chance. Tlisse flow ers depend on certain insects for fer tilization and they open when those particular insects are on ihc wing. Flowers sometimes act as If they were endowed with human intelligence. Cut a spray of laurel from outside and put it into water in your house. Now you will find that the flowers will last longer in the house than those on the bush from which you cut them, it seems almost incredible, hut it is true, that these flowers lust because they are waiting for the visits of the insects on which they depend for fertilization, and from which they have been sep arated by your bringing them into the house. Some tropical orchids last longer iu our hothouses than I hey do in their natural state for the same reason—they are waiting for natural fertilization. WISE WORDS. They talk most who have the least to say.—Prior. Great talkers are not great doers.— French proverb. . Without consistency there is no more strength.—Owen. It is better to wear out than to rust out.—Cumberland. Nothing is so hard but search will find it out.—Herrick. The worth of a tiling is what it will bring.—Portuguese proverb. Sloth makes all things difficult, hut industry all things easy.—Franklin. Friendship has a power to soothe af fliction in her darkest hour.—H. Kirk White. Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.—Mere. The small fidelities of life acumulale 1o great changes, until at last the faith ful soul Is born again.—Lawrence I*. Jacks. Since we are set here so fast in the midst of duty that we cannot escape if we would, we must find a way, even If we cannot find beauty In duty, to bring beauty out of it.—Henry Wilder Foote. Beautiful is the good man's regard for all other members of the grout human family, when nothing that is human is alien to his heart, when the sight of the weak, the ignorant, and the poor reminds him that we are all of one primal nature, and that the law of kindness is the supreme law foi man.—Nicholas P. Gilman. “ Precisely as Advertised.** Soon after one of the largest Amer ican railways had been opened a trav eler noticed a marked disregard for punctuality on the part of the officials, lmt he was interested in the country and made no complaint. At last the ter minus was reached. There he met a beaming official of the company, who, pulling out his watch, said: “Just look and see wliat time you make it, will you, please?” "It wants ten minutes to 1,” said tlie traveler, a little puzzled. “Yes, sir, 12.50 exactly! And that's the hour she's timed to arrive! How's that for promptness? Crossing the con tinent almost .'IOOO miles, and getting here at 12.50 o'clock, precisely as ad vertised.” “I can't deny that, you know.” said the traveler; “how many days were you late?” “Oh. two or three, perhaps; but we struck the Coast at 12.50!”—New York Times. I'rmn Norway in a Coftln, Mrs. Hanna Lind, eighty years old and paralyzed, arrived at Tacoma, Wash., from the Interior of Norway in a coffin-shaped box, which was padded and otherwise arranged to make her trip comfortable. Her son, Henry Lind, went to Nor way two months ago to visit bis birth place. He there decided to bring his mother home with him to Ballard, where she will pass the remainder of her days. As she could not travel In the ordinary way lie hit upon tlic plan of making a Norwegian coffin serve as a conveyance in which she could be carried aboard trains and steamers. In London this arrangement attracted much atteniion. Lind re mained by liis mother's side day and night during the trip of seven thou sand miles, personally feeding her r.t every meal.—New York World. A Fog Horn Twelve Feet Lone. A fog horn twelve feet long anu four feet across the mouth is to Be placed on a cliff on the St. Lawrence Itlver. The sound will be a deep roar, followed by a shriek every two min utes, and will be produced by sirens and compressed air. The horn is to be mounted on a revolving track, so that the sound may be directed to any point