Show A riotous street railway strike at des monies was settled in a bold and novel way by judge degraf who issued an injunction squiring the men t to t go hack back to work and the company to receive them this is the first filst timea time a labor war has been ended in this way work has begun on I 1 the he building of the fortifications tot for the panama canall canal under the direction of the canal commission misi ion there will be six forts four on islands at the pacific entrance and two ou on points of land at the atlantic entrance the work will cost about the christian reform church in convention conventi at grand rapids mich made a demand that all members of labor unions must either quit the union or the church A committee reported that tha t the oaths required a labor unionists agthe and the methods supported by them are inconsistent with religion the the national reform association with headquarters in new york i is s preparing to make war on graft corrupt corruption i on and immorality of every sort wherever it is found in the united states the constitution declares axes that it is the duty of members to 4 report any wrongdoing to q the president who wallsee will see that it is stopped just how it is to be stopped is not not made clear post office inspectors have arrested the officers of the sun electric co for using the mails to defraud dei defraud raud they claimed aimed c 1 to have an invention that developed electricity from the suns rays and had sold a lot of stock but the officers found that the plants were bein being grun arun by secret wires from a cen bial stati station oi the at A the heid b united wireless 1 afar biel val ar get gutrich rich quick concern have been I 1 sentenced to imari imprisonment for or two years and also to pay fines fine senator cummins of iowa has presented sen ted in the form of a report of 25 ass 5 pages an exhaustive discussion by 11 D brown of the question of a system for retiring aged government clerks it is assumed that the only plan of this sort acceptable to the govern government me nt would be one under which the employees y themselves would contribute most oi of the expense of their own retirement on pet pension islon that is to say the idea is for the government to withhold a certain percentage of each clerks salary and abid invest this money for their bone benefit fit thus forcing them to save for their old age it is proposed that all clerks shall be retired at least by the time they are 70 years old at that time they will be paid a luma sum in cash according to the length of their service and the a mount amount they have paid in or they can take their benefit in the form of an annuity of so much a year year for the rest of their life in case a clerk is discharged before he is 70 he will receive similar benefits in this way a definite way would be provided for the government to get rid of cle clerks iks that have become aged 2 and incompetent whereas now under the civil service law clerks are entitled to stay on in the service as long as they can crawl to their desks Und under erthe the plan proposed for example a clerk entering the government service at 2 20 0 years of age and retiring at 70 would pay 84 27 a month out of a month andon and on retirement would b be e entitled to draw out in in cash or take ahanonu an annuity ity 01 of a year for the rest of his life his payments for the period would amount to 2650 while the government would pay the balance of 7 8 in the form of interest most pf af the clerks themselves favor a straight civil pension list at the exclusive coltof co uncle cambut uncle sam does alook with eye cye on 1 p aseem tse ento to look V the biggest swarm of grasshoppers I 1 seen since the days when kansas suffered so was reported the other day at councial bluffs la ia for over in an hour the sun was obscured by bf the insects I 1 art y f 3 lw VV ft I 1 ai abib by ya a c cloud 0 dispatcher stale sav i 1 l the child that rides his grandfathers walking stick far only half a block may enjoy as much pleasure in the act as the man who rides a autom autor ible nible through a dozen streets of a great city mayor gaynor gay nor in a letter to boys of the city says he is sorry they cannot always play ball on the streets but tells the police to let them use the streets as much as possible A healthy man Is a king in liis his own right an unhealthy man Is an unhappy slave Bur docIc blood bitters bitten build up sound health kee keeps p s yon vot well |