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Show Severe. Samuel Gompers was talking in the smokeropm of the Baltic about a re cent newspaper attack on a rich corporation. cor-poration. "It was a cruel attack," Mr. Gompers Gom-pers chuckled. "It was as cruel as the Jonesville Clarion's paragraph about old Deacon Hiram Ludlow. "This paragraph headed the Clarion's Clar-ion's obituary column. It said: " 'Deacon Hiram Ludlow of Frisble township, aged 82, passed peacefully away on Thursday last from single blc-ssedness to matrimonial bliss after a short but severe attack by Maria Higgins, a blooming widow of 37 summers.' sum-mers.' " Detroit Journal. |