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Show THE 2ZAVER COUNTY NEWS V. .... U Elswick, Editor MILFORD Meanwhile The A ! UTAH frog In tho railroad tlu-iin. How Cue the globe look with the itara and stripes at the top! Moors ileevea. hnt had any such war up the tln-i- i Some one says thut sulmiuriiu- - ves ela are safe. They are at least bur (lar proof. Vleloua dogs mIioiiIU home so they could their owners. at he kept praelleH upof The aeroplanes may need skypar lors or roosts. They certainly would ha misfits In a garage. Our pole discoverers will find th exhilarating cup of glory more to tha taste than an Eskimo hill of fnre. In her friendly overtures, this country desires to Inform China that shf tan go as far as she likes with us. New York and Isuidon still cherish horse ears, but the mule car haa die appeared from the face of the earth The vagaries and quper happening; u Chicago are now fully accounted 'or. They believe In that rlty In pie tor By Manager. fards continues to gather I.lttle did Spain think STRONG ON DREAMS new system of D!Spatc;::::3 breakfast. girl cashier has been poisoned through handling money. Her acel lent, however, is hardly likely tc nake the practice unpopular. A Since Iterlin's population Is Increas ng, Ixradnn should listen rarcfully tr tee If German la crowding the Kngllel. anguage at headquarters. We should remember In the aunimei lesson, that while some things are are and hard to obtain, the bumble ttomalne Is always with us. RAILROAD MEN FIRMLY IN THEM, BELIEVE Especially Heeded When Conveying Premonition of Coming Disaster How Maple Leaf Came Near Causing Wreck. Railroad men are strong oil dreams. One morning un engineer cuiui-- down to the trainmas- - trr's ulllce and clared that he de- would not gu out oil his run that in o r n I n g and usked for a lay off. Ills superior asked him what the trouble was, and when he said thut he had bud a in the dream night that troubled him, be was laughed at and an effort was made to Induce him to take his run out. Rut and he refused was urged to tell his dream. "I dreamed last night that my collibrother was killed In a head-osion near Topeka," he said, "and luler I dreamed that old tins blew up. As G08 was his engine, he resisted the laughter of his friends and would not take her out and another man was sent for to take the Job. That afternoon the holler of 608 exploded oil the road, killing the substitute engineer and the flremnn. A week later the engineer's Lrolhcr was killed In a collision, un he had dreamed. The horror that engineers have for running over a human being is not directed lo smaller creatures, and It Is considered very unlucky to have a small animal run in front of an engine while It Is going, unless the engineer succeeds In running It down and killing It, when the hoodoo den the Use of the Block Card In view of the annual toll of Hf collected by the railroads of the Tinted HtaTes, the problem of dlspatchii-trains Is an absorbing concern of all railroad men and a matter of no lit t!o interest to the layman. Frequently hniiriunceineiit is made that a t ew n: 1 mil of dispatching trains 1ms b u devised that Is a great impnivciM i t over old methods. However, no method haa yet been formulated free from the possibility of defect In mechanical contrivances or mistakes born of human frailty. Hlnce 1 907 there haa been put into use on a western Hue what is called the A1)C system of dispatching. Within two years this system has been extended to one divislun uft'T another until it is now used In updating over 1,000 miles. It la the only real new departure that has been evolved In many years, for the change from telegraph to telephone was simply a change in the medium by which orders were transmitted, while the A R (J system alters the orders themselves. All superior and Inferior distinctions are abolished and the standard code ia thrown Into the waste Amsket. A train's rights consist solely of posover a session of the single block. Thia right la conferred by a block rard tilled out and delivered by the operator. No train can puss a station without a block card, no matter what the semaphore signal The block card can may Indicate. only be Issued through the of the train dispatcher with the operator at the end of each block, so that there are always three men In the authorization of each single movement on a block, thereby reducing the possibility of error to ' the minimum. With a clear signal and a block y card a train has the absolute to the next station. There, If the signal Is tu go ahead, the engineer proceeds without slackening speed, catching his copy of the block curd by n device similar to a mall bag catcher. Another copy la delivered to the rear brakeinan, who gives it to the conductor. It la claimed for this system thut while it provides safety to the greatest degree possible It also Increases the capacity of the tracks ou which it is used nearly 25 per cent. y right-of-wa- The latest Hying machine la the srnlthopter, which Is based on the parts One night an engineer on a western lying methods of the eagle. Aa a lucceaa It ought to be a scream. road left a division point with a special train running on time to a station The emperor of Germany has Inthe tine, there to meet and wait for troduced f (Kit ball, as it la played In tha up ikrotigh passenger train. Pnlted States, In the army aa a g(HHi As he pulled out of the yard and nerclse for temper and body. It will struck the open track In the country live the troops some Idea of real war. he observed a small animal running The dlacoverer of Cripple Creek haa and leaping along the track ahead of hist died In poverty. When drunk he the engine. It ran and lcaiHd like a laid for $500 property that hat since squirrel, and It stuck to the track produced $2.18.000,000 In gold. Hard with such iierslstcncy thnt a cold chill liquor has often proved n great sol- coursed down the engineer's back. It meant disaster if he could not chase vent for gold. it from the track, and he let out Strange how many men one cornea spasmodic blasts of the whistle in tha icroaa who will tell any size of flsh hope that It would he frightened and itory without the quiver of an eye- leap off. lash, and yet will refuse to believe Rut It stuck to the track, leaping that any flsh large enough to swallow front tie to tie, keeping the same disTonah ever could have lived. tance from the engine, never letting Its stride. The engineer, now thorIt seems to be settled now thnt the up oughly exasperated and somewhat evolt In Catalonia will stop Tar short let out a notch or two in frightened, f revolution. Ilut King Alfonso will increased the want hla throne carefully examined the throttle, and did engine so the squirrel." Rut its speed. lor shaky foundations, at frequent 50 Soon the engine was making for a long time to come. miles an hour, and in front of It, In Returning from an unsuccessful ef- the path of light made by the headfort to fly across the British channel, light, the "squirrel" bounded, never s French avlutor "was compelled to losing or gaining an Inch. Fnster and faster went the engine, kiss ae verst girls, who threw thetr arms around hla neck. This is no In Ita endeavor to catch up with and way to teach aeronauts to be successf- run down the bothersome little an! nml, which Increased Its speed ahead ulof the engine with remarkable A number of women in Massachuand with a tirelessness that setts pleaded with the police to give was remarkable. up a basebull umpire to the crowd thnt The engineer waa so Intent In trywanted to kill him. This removes the ing to run down the little animal that last doubt that women arc fully capa- he waa not pnylng much attention to ble of entering, like men, into the prin- where he waa. and thundered past the ciples of popular government. station at which he was to stop at the GO miles an hour. He looked The exar on hla visit to England rate of back and saw the station agent wawaa more like a captive than a Rut he aa he waa with battleships ving his red lantern like mad. becomes so obsessed with the and hattatioua of men. had down his "squirrel' It is safe to say the uncrowned Amer- idea of running no to It. When attention he that paid ican tourist gets a henp more fun out track again the of hla International Jaunts than any he looked at the "squirrel" was gone. It had leaped European sovereign. the track or had tired and gone unCanada proposes a centennial cele- der the wheels. In front of him up bration in recognition of the hundred the track the engineer heard the enpassenger years of peace that have followed the gine of (he approaching war of 1812. That la a happy idea train aereech a warning from its whisand one that la likely to And hearty tle, and he shut off the steam and apfavor In this rountry. And why plied the brakes and sand. He had Just time to run hack to the chould there not be commemoration State F'" Railrod, "n,r'railof a century of peace and nelghbor-(Ines- a siding at the station when the passen- 1,,1 ,,he eH8 ger thundered past. aa welt aa of bloody conflicts? When he climbed down th. 1011,1 in,l;eration ,8 hut of he ,tate, fro,n lhn? the front of the engine The uniform of the I'nlted States cab to look at army Is to change its color ngnln. A to learn what had happened to the 1 forts of the Imperial government, with generation ago It waa blue. This little anlinnl that had outrun him he an except ionally competent and acrhaneed to g'ance up at the headlight. gave way to khaki, and now the brown la relegated In favor of olive drab. Rut On it was the wet shape of a maple complished general staff of supertoi whatever color may cover the Amer- leaf that had blown ngulnst the glass railroad officials, to get around the In ican soldier his heart, hia loyalty, and as he left town, and It was the sha- creasing difficulties and to make a his courage are the same as they were dow of It that had danced along the good appearance. in '76, in '12, in 45. In 'Cl, and In '9S track nhead of him. The suction of Natural Gas for Train Lighting. win as the engine flew past the staIn railroad train light Ilusiness elosed July 21 with a cash tion had dislodged It. and probably j An Innovation been has by the Western ing adopted balance of $258,437,000 on hand in the prevented a terrible disaster by diMaryland railroad, which tnpi the national at Washington. recting lhi' engineer's attention from West treasury Virginia gas fields. Two uf Its There are to tie economy and retrench the chase. Railway and Locomotive between Cumberland and trains best gient, which Indicates wise manage- Engineering. ltultlmoro are being equlpjied with ment of the people's money. Hut tanks for natural gas. If the khu'iix I'ncle Sam has a considerable surplus Year Free from Fatal Accidents. c pc. P.uent piovc a success the road on hand and his credit Is pretty good laist year was the second In w hieh to use only natural g.ts In all thank you. . J mi passenger lost his life by accident plans a ' to the trains In which he was travel- - j . In theory, at least, we Imprison ertin Ing. The only other year free from immense Switchboard, Inals primarily j reform them. We a lata! railroad (.odision i: r dett Intent Work lias been started on the can not conceive that whipping '"t in il:e world bu g. st switchboard conductive to thnt end. Most eon The number of passen, ters injured t be installed In the New vlcts Imagine that they have been Inst year was only 2S.i, or about h:ilf w,,., York terminal of the Renusylvanta rail mistreated by the Judges's sentence. of that of and coinpuivd siihinuul. All (he switches of the terminal It cultivates and strengthens their an average uf tltis for the pretious 3tl tll iK, electrically controlled from Imaginary grudge against society rears. During that period om- passen-- ! this hoard. It will cost $:.Ui).Ui)t). when they are whipped, amt that feel-inger was killed, on the average, In does not help them to reform every 41.UUil.O00 Journeys, and one In- America's Large Cities. when they leave the penitentiary. In this rountry there 15S cities with Jared In 1.400.000. loud year no one t Moreover, whatrver spark of was killed, sttil only one wus injured populations exceeding 30.000. Of these may remain must lie extini 15 'n 4.500.000 journeys. have over 300.000 Inhabitants, 27 guished by the brutality of a whip The risk is even less than that, have between 100.000 and 300.000, 48 pit g for the journeys uf season ticket hold-- have between 50.000 and 100,009, and or are nut London Times. ' 08 have less than 50,000. king-guarde- pluin-clothe- a I ! j i ! i ; j I - self-respec- ! POET OF SIERRAS Acc- idents Are Reduced and Facili tiea Increased. right-of-wa- 1 In Labors Realm Matters of Especial Interest To and cerning Those Who Do the Work of the World Joaquin Miller Busy Compiling His Works. Famous Cld ConPatriarch Explains Why He Haa Ret fused Tempting Offers to Lecture Lives on Mountain Tcp 'Frisco Bay. Over-lookin- Clevrland, O. The biggest fight which ever has been waged between organized labor and cspltal on the great lakes will be fought In 1910. Plans for the campaign to be followed by the unions were started several weeks ago. Labor leaders have been working upon them- in secret They are now perfecting an organization that will be many times stronger than any of the old ones. There are 50.000 wage earners on the lukes. Heretofore the various kinds of workmen have had their own unions. These have been fought singly by the Iake Carriers' association, and one after another has been defeated. Next season all the lake workingmen will be In one big union that will be a part of the International Seamen's union. Indianapolis, Ind. It is probable that an Interesting collection of documents that have some connection with the early history of the Typographical union will be formed at the Interunion headnational Typographical quarters In this city. A htart already haa been made, and it la understood that a number of documents of Interest and value may be added to it. In the current issue of the Typograhplcal Journal, the official magazine of the union, International Typographical there la an editorial on the matter, and In it an invitation Is extended to any of the members of the organization who wish to contribute any documents to the collection to do so. These documents will be listed properly and filed. Milwaukee. It la expected that the next session of the journeymen barbers' international convention, which will open In Milwaukee, October 5, the first held In five years, will be a very Interesting one, as many matters will be brought up for consideration. The subject that will attract navy. the greatest amount of attention will Pittsburg, Pa. From the headquar- be the establishment of a home for ters of the United Mine Workers of aged and permanently disabled memAmerica at Indianapolis copies of an bers of the craft The proposition Is amendment to the constitution of the that the members by the contribution organization have been' Received by of a small amount of the wages earned miners in the Pittsburg district. The weekly, shall create a fund which amendment reads: "Any member shall be used to erect a home similar or guilty of slandering or circulating, to the one maintained by the printcausing to be circulated, false state- ers at Colorado Springs, Col. ments against any member of the Indianapolis, Ind. If an amendment United Mine Workers, upon being now being voted upon by the Inter proved guilty, shall be suspended from membership In the international national Cigar Makers' union Is adoptor local union ed, the organization will establish a district or for a period of six months and not be pension system for old members. The matter Is being favorably acted upou eligible to bold office in the organizathroughout the entire Jurisdiction, and tion for a period of two years." la that It will be Boston. The International Spin- the general opinion The system will go Into efners' union, which concluded a three adopted. fect on January 1. 1910, and the first days convention in this city, adopted an accident insurance plan which will payment of pensions will be madeIs March 1, 1910, if the amendment apply to all members, and also to buy ratified. At the present time it Is assistants. The next convention will of be held - In Boston next September. intended to levy an assessment in25 cents every quarter, with the Officers elected included: President, tention of increasing the amount If Urban Fleming of Holyoke; the assessment is not sufficient. George Cohnelly, Waltham; Fall River, Mass. The entire plant secretary, Samuel Rosa, New BedO'Donnell, of the Fall River Iron Works mills, ford; treasurer, Thomas owned by B. D. C. Rorden of New Fall River. York, which were shut down following PaAfter of a series Pittsburg, lengthy conferences between the Mas- a strike of the weavers, will remain ter House Painters and Decorators closed and the 5.0UU operatives will tssoclatlon of Pittsburg and District continue In .idleness. The weavers, council No. 1, Rrotherhood of Paint- numbering 1,000 went on strike to eners, Decorators and Paperhangers of force their demands for an Increase America, the wage scale of the union og about ten per cent. In wages, and haa been signed. About 6,000 mem- their absence so hampered the other bers of the brotherhood in Pittsburg departments that the management deand vicinity are affected by the agree- cided to close the whole plant. The ment, which will be In effect 16 weavers voted to remain out until tlio wage increase is granted. months. Brakemen continue Philadelphia. forthof the Washington. Subjects coming conference of the National to figure as having the most hazardCivic federation, which will be held ous occupation in Pcniisylvauia, for In this city the forepart of next Jan- of the number of deaths in six months one-thirof the total ol uary, besides labor, embraces national 43, or nearly were and this number 141, brakemen, Sherresources, taxation, accounting, man anti-trulaw, railway legisla- of deaths is greater than in any other At the same tion, bnnkirg, life insurance, tire in- class of employers. surance, pure food laws, laws relating time the number of brakenieu injured to women, vital statistics, public waa 804. far more than the injuries tn any uther class, and nearly one-thirhealth and good roads. 8aeramento, Cal. The Ruildlng of the total Injured. The same ratio Trades council has given notice to the prevailed in each quarter. Kansas City, Mo.1 The Kansas C'iiy affiliated unions that all parties behod carriers strike Is over. At a must unions to the comply longing of the Ruilders' club it wa. in meeting the council of laws the with the matter of working conditions, and In decided to offer the hod carriers 37Vj an hour, a compromise whicl proof that it means business it fined cents two members of the Cement Workers' hud been suggested by li e state board union five dollars each for having of arbitration. The union acceptei1 started work prior to eight o'clock the offer and the strike was called off The strike was called when the con tn the morning. tractors refused to increase the car. of The the strike Pa. Pittsburg. flatteners and cutters In the Ameri- rlors' pay from 35 cents an hour to 4t can Window Glass works at Jean- cents. New 1 ork. John Sandgren r.nd ('. nette and Mouongahela is taking on a serious aspect. Attempts to iuiMirt E. Tliolin, representing the Swedish workmen have met with resistance strikers, snnounced that they had collected J.'iO.itOii from workers in this from the strikers. London, Eng. There Is a move- rountry amt that money was still flow ment among the rotton operatives of Ing in. The unions In this city hav Lancashire for shortening the hours been the most generous. The C'hic-.- t of labor by further legislation. go bodies are next. Pittsburg. Tbe area of the Washington. The labor law of tin district the most in- District of (Y'.umhia. pushed by coutensive labor section of the country plers as an xprimcni a year ago, i ia 198 square miles, and its popula- reported to le working successfully The mnnller of It has resulted in a reduction of th te 1900 was 623,-14manufacturing establishments in 1904 number of establishments employinj w'ss 1.859, and they employed lt9.-83- children and in general betterment oi persons and put out products vsl- - labor conditions. ued at $383,490,408. San Kranciscu. The Jnnitors' union San Francisco.' The San Francisco which Is not affiliated with an Inter labor council has been advised that national body, has under considers the American Federation of labor, tion a proposal to establish a deatl committee, has benefit, to be created by levying i through Its (dot ted r. resolution looking to the small assessment ou the mriubershit stnbfrshTvrnt of a world federation iro"thly. or levying an assessment or each deRth. f Washington. The right of the laborer to quit work and of the employer to discharge without advance nutice ! a unique principle outlined in a recent agreement reached after ft 12 weeks strike of carpenters and otners in Nuremberg, Germany. This Introduces a pew rule in the German labor world, declares American Consul G.W. Ifft, at Nuremberg, as heretofore In every trade, profession, business and employment due notice has been required before an employe could quit or be discharged. conditions in Germany are believed to be better than In former years and the consul states that one of the chief factors in lessening the number of strikes and labor disputes in both Saxony and Bavaria was the financial depression which prevailed in 1908. In that year there were 152 strikes In Saxony, against 239 In 1907. In Bavaria during 1908 there were reported 164 strikes, or nearly 50 per cent, less than in 1907 Baltimore. Md. The Maryland Steel Company at Sparrows Point, put in blast D furnace. This furnace is the last of the four furnaces to be put in operation, and it haa not been working for the past two years on account of the business depression. The iteel trade has recuperated so In the last two month that all the pig Iron which was stock at the Point has been used, and as three furnaces cannot supply the rail mill with enough steel, the officials of the company were obliged to put In blast the idle hirnace. There are In the neighbor hood of 4,500 men on the pay rolls of the steel company at the present time. This force, however, will be Increased shortly to about 5,000 men. The additional 500 men will be taken on aa the work progresses on the new coliter for the United States - g San Francisco. Bitting on the door step of his cabin borne. The Hites, 2,000 lent up In the mountains behind Oakland, Joaquin Miller, "the Poet of the Sierras," explained the other day why he had refused an offer to tour the United States and England as a lecturer. It was neither because the patriarch poet is averse to revisiting the scenes of hia first triumphs as an exiwnent of the native wonders of ti.e country to the west of the Reekie", nor because a money inducement was lack- The nature lover wont come ing. down out of his mountain home until he has finished his work of compiling a combination autobiography, history and all hla poems he believes ara worth perpetuating. There are to he six volumes, and proofs of the first volume have Just been dc.ivered to the author. For many years, bow many no one on the mountain side or in Oakland is. able to aay, Joaquin Miller haa made hla headquarters on the big sweeping table land on the very top oi the mountain overlooking San Francisco bay, and as far back as the oldest inhabitant's memory goes he has always supported one or more youthful, aspirins artists and poets. To house these proteges the poet has built from time to time replicas of his own cabin, until there are a dozen little, oddshaped buildings, each one containing only one room and all high peaked roofs and stained g'ass winto-da- y dows. On one of the two peaks above the table land, 1,000 acres in extent, and all of It the property of the venerable poet, Is a great stone monument, erected by Joaquin Miller himself, and marking, so he declares with apparent sincerity, "the grave of Moses. If Moses Isnt buried here, where Is be buried?" is the poets never fail r?.-!n- sub-distri- ct t, d d 9 e ing query of all who suggest that the Idea In absurd. On the other peak is the cemetery In which are buried the roet'a mother, bis daughter, several od friends of the days or '49, whose dying wish waa that they lie in the little brush-fenc- e plot watched over by Joaquin Miller. Also in the cemetery are many cats and dogs. Towering up beside the cemetery, and a landmark thnt can be seen 20 miles off down In the valley, la the great funeral pyre of rough stone Joaquin Miller lnshloned with hla own hands. It is hollow and the top is covered with iron grill work. Inside this hollow space Is piled several cords of wood. At his death the poet's body will be placed n top of the pyre and the ashes that remain will be "scattered to the four winds." In dedicating his autobiography to the memory of his parents, Joaquin Miller asks permission to introduce himself, "for It really seems to me that from the day I was suddenly discovered and pointed out in London I have been an entire stranger In my own land; the land I have loved, lived for, battled for from the first. As for that d and hairy man bearing my name abroad, and 'standing before kings. ' I never saw him, never heard of him until on returning to my own red-shlrte- country I found that this unpleasant and entirely Impossible figure ever attended and even overshadowed my most earnest work. So much doubt haa shrouded Joaquin Miller's parentage that hia own statement of his early history haa peculiar Interest "My cradle was a covered wagon, minted west, he writes. "1 was born In a covered wagmi, I am told, at or about the time it- crossed' the line dividing Indiana from Ohio, wherein my mother was burn. My mother's people were Dutch, nut Geras mans, has so often n!d, ar.ii they were the oldest Dutch in My grandfather Miller, oi Scntr'i stock, from Kentucky, fell uf Fort Meigs on the river. I have read he was an officer, but and believe he waa of the ranks.lu.je Please let the dead patriot escape the persecution of idiots seeking an ancestry." b.-e- n If Fight Garibaldi: battle. Mutt Be Mi:'e. A bold onset' i; "telf tha |