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Show THE BEAVER COUNTY NEWS W. I Elswlt-k- MILFORD .... , Editor Thla Is floe growing coal bills. & UTAH aealher for earthquake is reported a In Dela- little one I)r. Osier's Indorsement of the sour milk diet doesn't make it any the more palatable. At last it has been discovered that Is to the way to suppress highwuymen suppress them. Meanwhile other parts of the country are exhibiting weather Juat as startling aa ours. Lowering a height recoid and raising a low record Is one slid the same to French aeroplanlsts. When railroad tralna collide the rich man haa no better chance of escape than hia poor fellow-travele- What a long time the world will have to wait to And out whether any really great men were born In 1909! However, any other winter resort is aa much entitled to advertise an exclusive view of the comet as Is California. For the last time, will the gentleman who assured us we would have an open winter kindly send In bis pho- tograph? While the per capita circulation of money la large enough, frequently It la difficult to make it connect with the Individual. That first carload of spring vegetables whlh haa left the gulf region will be lucky If It does not butnp Into a cold wave. Chicago worfld like to hare the International balloon races next fall, but it cannot agree to remove the lake for the occasion. If, aa the days begin to lengthen, the cold begins to strengthen, we have some strenuous weather due ua during the next 60 days. The man over 40 who doesn't own a farm may lay bia lack to III luck, but generally 'he will find the cause in hia own make-up- . Minister Wu haa talked into a phonograph, but aa he did not ask any questions the record will always be open to suspicion. The days have begun to lengthen, but it all in tha afternoon when It loean't make getting up earlv In the morning any easier. from lirorgla says the peach crop haa nt yet been Injured. Before we begin to cheer lustily, lut us hear from Delaware. A dispatch I A French aviator U reported to have fallen front hia aeroplane Into a tree and escaped Injury. Sounds like the twentieth century Munchausen. Now it Is denied that Mars has In the general canals. Perhaps, smashing of received beliefs, it will even he denied that there ever waa a north pole. i Halley's comet, as telescope a few days have only a stub of-It Is the fashion to comets thla year. OF Experts Acknowledge That It la Bound to Be of Much Valuo In India. JNCLE SAM PERMITS NO INTERFERENCE WITH THE MAILS. L. Griffiths, consul-genera- ( c Ijoiidoii, reports progress in developrailroad. $50,000,000 a ing the gyroscopic single-rai- l In which su much interest haa been Yaar for Carrying Them, and Inaroused that the British war office, sists That They 6hall the India office and the KashmTr govGo Through. asernment have seen through a to a tall. Possibly clip the tails of ago, appeared Whenever It happens that there Is no great queatlon demanding Immediate solution It is always possible to renew the discussion as to the existence of canais on Mara. A school la to be opened on Imng Island to train girls to be good wives and housekeepers. Now a correspond- ing school should follow to train young men to be good husbands and providers. Two hours after getting a divorce Nevada the woman In the case married again, and the judge granting the divorce waa highly Incensed at what he termed making a farre of the courts, says the Baltimore American. But then. Interested citizens ran hardly be expected to take better care of the dignity of the courts than the Judges themselves. In Cleveland theatrical reform In the matter of preventing people from disturbing the auditors by straggling In during the first act looks like a reaction to prlmitlre principles, say the Ftttsburg Dispatch. Presently some backwoods city will be advancing the Idea that theaters and operas are not conducted for the purpose of bolding conversaziones In the boxes. An airship expedition la to be sent to discover the north pole under the auspices of the kaiser himself. Failure to locate that lornllty will therefore, be In the nature of lese majeste. During the switchmen's strike, when relgbt cars packed the terminal yards and the sidings f ) In most of the cit-letowns and between 8t. Paul and the Pacific coast, it wss observed that the trains passenger gut through all light; and at that time It was stated hat they would continue to run utiiiu-wdeThe assurance of those who ipoke thus was due to the fad, as was dated then, that these passenger rglns carried mails. Any stoppage of he mulls means the quick arrival of tome Impersonation of I'mie Sam, and rigorous. Irresistible movements to e the obstacle, whatever il may send the hugs and pouches on and je, heir way. Woe to him who stopa the malls. Die United States government pays ipproxlnmtely $50,000,0(10 every year 'or their transportation and it is to get the worth of Ita money, ilrlke or no strike. The malls. The words are almost magical, the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribunsays. And They hold a fund of romance. untie one ought to route and write it town. lty day they fly across the land, a to convey of men four message of business or of love o some one in a distant part. By light they fly, too, while mailmen, at work distributing, stagger about the orklng car that rolls and roam across plain and bridge and crawls with nighty effort up the sides of niotin-.aln- s and slides down Into valleys. II is the public's business and more llrectly concerns each Individual than my other governmental enterprise. Ind In this work the government always haa shown firm determination to irook no Interference. It guarantees lot only safe but quick transMirtatlon if the malls, as though the intimate igure known as Uncle Ham knew Just tow important was the quick delivery yt your very own letter and had a conscience which would not let him tlur over any delay with plausible excuses, he gets right after him who hampers any postmnn and makes it hot for him. He haa been known to call out regiments, with Krags and bayonets and Gut ling guns and no lack af ammunition, to clear the track that the malls might pass on their way. Remember Chicago. Fifty million dollars a year. It's a But they big sum to pay the roads. do My, and have been saying for a long time, that It isnt enough for the work they da This despite the fact Lhat the records snow that the earnings of the railroads of the country at large from the carriage of their mall amount to ten per cent, of their total gnwa earnings from all sources. A lot has been said on the side of the railroads about the Inadequate pay received for mail transportation, but there always haa been keen competition between the various lines for mail Admittedtransportation contracts. ly, however, the question of profits obtained haa been a minor factor In thla effort. The railroads get much Incidental advertising out of the earrings of the malls and a step forward In the matter of mall transportation made by one road forces another to Improve thetr service In order to maintain their prestige. The public has profited greatly by this rivalry. The railroads are allowed no extra pay for Increasing the sieed of mall trains. All that has been accomplished In this direction bus been by the appeals of the iswtoffice depart meut in the interests of the publle and oy competition between railroads f s e contributed financial sistance for experiments on a large scale. In a recent trial by the English Inventor, the car used was 40 feet long, weighed 22 tons and waa designed to carry 15 to 20 tons. The two gyroseoMs, which balanced the ear, were three feet six inches In diameter, weighing together one and tons, with a speed of 3,000 revoA petrol engine on lutions a minute. the car furnished the electric power which drove the gyrosrojiea and the running wheels. While ihn Inventor claims that the monorail, with the gyroscopic principle, will revolutionize the railways of the world, the Times does not share this optimistic belief, doubting whether there will he a wide field for ita application in England, although It seems to offer great advantages for mountain railways in India, and possibly in other countries. The inventor also claims that the train on a single rail can he driven ISO miles an hour with absolute safety. The recent trial was made on a seveu-milstraight rail, and around a circular track, 40 peobalple being carried. So perfectly anced was the car that when the passengers moved over to one aide it automatically adjusted itself to the change. The car is automatically controlled, owing to a new device for accelerating or retarding the precession of the gyroscopes, by which perfect equilibrium Is always sustained. Only a speed of seven miles an hour was shown, owing to a defective engine, which made necessary a reliance on a small motor, both for propulsion of the car and for rotating the gyroscopes. The experiment waa hastily conducted, owing to the announcement that a German ear waa almost ready to be shown to the public. one-ihlr- e d Con- On the evening of July 3, 1909, lit tie Freddy Schaefering was playing Ind. Coal miners Indianapolis, throughout the United States are pre paring to reopen the question ot wages and a demand for increased It may cause a pay la expected. marked advance in the present price The atand taken by the of coal. inirnra that they need higher wages because of increased cost of living comes as a part of the general movement of organized labor begun by the switchmen and railroad brotherhoods. The movement has already spread to Include practically all branches of railroad labor. "It la true that the mine workers will take up the question of wages, said John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation I do not see the necessity of Ijibor. of higher priced coal even if the When coal miners get increases. which costa $7.50 a ton In the United States can be bought for $3.20 a ton In Canada there la something more than the question of wages which Is boosting the price." The coal men' take a different view of the situation. They cannot figure how the miners can be paid more money and the price of coal remain at ths former prices. A. F. An investigation aiming Chicago. it a radical changing of the present prison labor system in vogue at the house of correction was begun by the council committee on police and the bridewell. Alderman Evans and Fulton brought about the Inquiry by a resolution. In which they' charged that the services of prisoners are leased to certain companies at a rate of 25 cents a day. The cost to the city of maintaining each prisoner Is 33 cents a day. "There la one concern, a chair company, that haa such a contract Alderman Evans said. "It pays the city 25 cents a day for each prisoner working for it and provides only the machinery, the city giving it the us of the shop, light, heat and power. Because of thla the company la able to drive competition from the market. Aldermen Mclnerney, Evana and Clancy were appointed a subcouv mlttee to investigate the conditions. Boston The last meetings of the national child labor committee's sixth annual conference were presented with a discussion of legislation, home industries and street trades and the use of child labor in canneries and the farming Industry. Criticism of rhlld labor in New England, which has been a feature of the meetings, continued and especially in relation to work In the canneries. Former Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., presented live hills providing for the considered constructive legislation. He will submit these bills to the legislature. Freddie Schaefering. with hia chuma when one of them undertook to clean a small revolver In glorpreparation for the ious Independence celebration. The weapon waa discharged and the bullet lodged In Freddys head. The wounded boy waa taken to the hospital and lay unconscious for three daya. More than a tablespoonful of brains oozed out, but the bulet refused to follow, and the doctors said that with a hole extending three Inrhea Into his head Freddy must die. However, Freddy had no notion of dying. Hia parents took him home aa soon aa the doctors acid they could he la the livenot save him. To-daIn the neighborhood liest of hia home at 4114 Hull place. He runs, jumps, and plays like any other youngster, knows everybody by name, and la apparently a healthy boy of unusually bright mind. The haa ahown the exact location of the leaden missile that lies In his brain. Once an operation was attempted, but as soon as the skull had been cut through the doctors desisted under the belief that an operation would be fatal. ' noise-makin- to-da- 17-fo- 64-ho- vice-preside- y 'six-year-o- y MISS MORGAN'S UNION PLANS Banker's Daughter Expects to Reorganize Girl Workers and Eliminate Socialistic Features. New York. Mias Anne Morgan daughter of Plerpont Morgan, who haa taken a prominent part in the strike of shirt waist makers here, is con- vinced from her study of unionism in New York that many conditions In labor organizations for women are de- trimental. According to a statement given out here, Mlaa Morgan believes that one of the greatest detriments to the cause is ita tendency towards socialism. She thinks also that the leaders of st.-ik- a. feed-wate- feed-wate- ao-liv- e li-o- Paper-hanger- long-standin- g n While one astronomer declares that there are no canals on Mars, another asserts the planet has COO and that the Martians are still digging. There being no way to decide, the lay world can take whichever view It plensea. In the meantime, all present energy ou the subject la needed In the perfecting of the one canal wa have here. GONE St. Louis. A little German boy In North St. Louis seems likely to disprove certain theories that medical experts have cherished for many years by living In health and happiness with a bullet In hia brain. Boston. Massachusetts state branch of L., executive board and legislative committee decided upon and the official drafts " of presented the measures it desires from this bill year's hgislature. The eight-hou- r presented Is identical with that vetoed last year by Governor Draper. The tinea and picketing bills are also identical with those offered last year, and Indianapolis, ind. A merger of the measure la substanthe ad- resources and the Interests of the as same that previously the tially bill for women Western Federation of Miners (metal) vocated. The and the United Mine Worken of and children la a new draft. The bill la North America (coal), to embrace all FIGURES THAT ARE STARTLING on workingmen's compensation the organized mine workmen of the practically the same as that asked for United States and Canada, Is In prosof lines on the baaed is and last year Railroad Statistics Just Published Are at the convention of the United pect direct for bill The the British law. a Revelation to tha Man on Mine Workers. President Iwli apone same la the offered legislation the Street." aa the state branch supported last pointed a committee of seven, IncludThe most marvelous array of stat- year and which was offered then by ing himself to confer with a similar committee sent to this city by the istics presented for some time past the direct legislation league. Western federation and report a plan was that offered by the Bureau of Denver Denver. The four principal to the convention. These News and Statistics. Railway papers, the News, the Times, the Poet New York. A general increase of S figures arc so stupendous that one can and the Republican, which suspended scarcely comprehend their real mean- issue for two daya as the result of a per cent for all classes of Its employes ing aa they stand In orderly rows, di- strike of pressmen, resumed publica- Is being considered by the Long Islvided into groups of three by portly tion the third The statement waa day. A working agree- and railroad. commas. Figures are mounting up ao ment for one year waa signed by given out by President Peters, who rapidly nowadays that the stattotleaiMwtonWnM. third of said that the. road would not increaao have to keep on hand an ample (UP the National Pressmen's union, and the wages of any class of Ita employes ply of ciphers. the managers of the local papers. It without giving all equal consideration. In ten yeara, nearly seven billion provides for a flat increase of 20 per The equalization plan for the Increase people were carried by the railroads cent in the wages of pressmen and upon which the management is now of the United States, and In a alngls day for work- figuring will amount, it Is estimated, helpers, an eight-hou- r billion men on afternoon papers and a seven-hou- r to an Increase of year, 1908, one and one-hal- f approximately $260.-00- 0 tons or freight were transported over a year In the company's expendifor workmen on morning day the ahining rails from one part of the papers, except on Saturday night, ture for labor. country to another. when they must work eight hours, and Boston. The boilermakers' lodges The weight of Individual locomo- no back pay beyond January 1, 1910. of New England have ratified an agreetives haa increased 115 per cent., and New York. Much satisfaction waa ment for the eastern section of the the number 75 per cent., there being now almost 57,000 puffing over tlia expressed by the leaders of the shirt- country with the Barrett-Haywar- d United States. The increase In the waist strike- when Max KaBlmlraky, company of Baltimore, the largest an- general employers of the country, and capacity of freight cars haa been ap- general organizer of the union, won in who ereect all the gaa tanka, holders, had strikers nounced the that 120 cent., proximately per making etc. The agreement calls for the em39 Nos. A A. Sltomer Co., of the shop their present carrying capacity more and 41 Walker street Sltomer, he ployment of none but union men and than 71,000.000 tons. the detailed wage and hour scale for IVrhaps the statistics giving the aid waa a leading member of the number of railroad employes are the Manufacturers' association, and had diffwent points la an increase for all most impressive; nearly a million and applied for an Injunction against the lines. a half people, an increase of 67 pet strikers. That proceeding waa withPhiladelphia. Declaring that labor cent., are now on the payrolls of Unit drawn, said the union organizer, and unions are doing a great deal of good ed States railroads, drawing a com- a settlement waa made with the union work for the public. Dr. Frank J. pensation of a billion dollars a year ao the 200 girls who went on strike Warne, of the New York university, an increase of 110 per cent., over ten were taken back under union condi last month addressed the students of the University of Pennsylvania, and years ago. Joe Mitchell Chappie in tlona. "Affairs at Washington in the NaLondon, Eng. Miss Kathlyn Oliver, showed how this work was being actional Magazine. a housemaid in London, ia the mov- complished. Labor unions," he laid, are a check to poverty. Each year ing spirit in a domestic servants distribute about $10,000,000 in serthey to Locomotives. alma which every bring Improved union, e benefits The introduction of the articulated vant girl In Great Britain and Ireland death and sick benefits, and unemployed insurance." compound type has made it possible under control. The union already has New York. The General Arbitrafor the railroads to greatly Increase many thousands of members and Ita the effectiveness of existing locomo- first work will be a campaign for an tion Board of the Building Trades Emtives which have become unequal tc increase in wages. It la believed the ployers' association and the unions, e the work demanded. The Baldwin union will be a permanent success, aa after a long and stormy session, Works hare recently en- servants are drawn from a fixed class deadlocked on the queatlon of larged a consolidation engine for tha in England and do not aspire to go expelling the Steanifltters' Union for Odd Way of Sorting Them. Great Northern railroad by extending up thq scale aa In thla country. striking against members of the MasA railroad contractor who hns just ter Steam and Hot Water Fitters' asthe holler shell to include a superla work to Wash. Special Beattie. finished a construction job In Wyom- heater nnd r heater and be carried on in the Pacific coast sociation and refusing to order a reing told this anecdote recently: turn to work arbitration of placing beneath the extension a sep- states "One of my foremen gathered his arate by representatives of the In- the demand for pending wages. higher engine Tile of and Brick, ternational Alliance men together at the section house one It is estimated that the coal consumpChicago. The Brotherhood of Railmorning and said: 'Boys. I've got a tion per ton mile will be reduced by Terra Cotta Workers for the purpose Trainmen which began a moveway the general membership lough proposition on hand and I want nearly 50 per cent.; 10 per cent, be- of Increasing ment early in November to obtain Inthla men to enrty it Out. It's no job for year. 15 per cent due to superht-atlng- , creased wages for its men employed shirkers. The gHng that tackles, the ing r to and 25 per cent Edinburgh, Scotland. Last year the in railroad yards, became suddenly healing work will have to sweat like blazes to e Ixvomo-tlvBritish compounding. Scientific American employes of the North again and now is working to conbefore sundown, besides being liable Company. Polmadie, Scotland, sider wage scales, while the switchto stiff backs for a week afterward. I gave over $1,910 to local charities. men's union still is negotiating with To Give up Coal aa Fuel. want volunteers.' The Holders' the Francisco. In a San Friscp of course to general managers of the railroads the hia report gov To the amazed delight of the foreman all hut eight of the men stepped ernment. J. I,. Nunn. British eonsnl union, with its membership of nearly Chicago. The Plano and Organ out of line. Guess you'll find ua on at Vera Cruz. Mexico, says; Formerly 900, has voted to affiliate with the Workers' Union la voting on a referendum proposal to reduce the Initiathe job, whatever turns up. remarked the Mexican railroads contained from State Federation of Labor. one of the volunteers. We didn't come 120,000 to 140,000 tons of i xtent fuel New York. Last year leather work- tion fee from $5 to $2. Massachusetts up here lo play baseball or casino. drawn from Cardiff and district, but ers on horse goods made s gain of ten Holyoke, Mass. during the latter half of s they new locals and Increased the general State Council of Carpenters was held What's doing?' here January 17, IS and 19. T'm short of men to dig post converted 50 per cent, of tneir en- membership by 2.000. holes,' replied the foreman, grlnulng. gines to oil burners and so satisfacInternaSeamen's The Washington. January 27 President New York. 'You don't get the Job. As 1 said, I tory and economical has the result tional union haa Increased Its member- Gompers of the A. F. of L. observed want "men," hut I don't want good been that it is only a matter of the ship from 4,000 to 20,000 In ten years. his 60th birthday. ones, and I'll use those who didn't erection of the necessary storage annual convenNew At the Members York. of Edinburgh, Scotland. volunteer. It was time to sort out tanks for the use of coal as fjel tc of Urotherhoud International tion the Typographical society the Edinburgh the undesirable citizens In these dig- he given up altogether. have issued a circular to the master of Painters, Decorators and gings. and I'm much obliged.' the controversy printers of Edinburgh Inno which they Jersey's Oldest Engineer Dies. further In- between the painters and decorators sk that there shall be Diiniel J. Cassidy, one of the oldest of women into the printing nnd the paperhangers. Involving tn-Good Haul for Locomotive.-in point of service In New troduction In Edinburgh, nor any Inporta-tlo- pass upon each others' specialty, as Tests by an eastern railroad have engineershas Just trade died at Cnmden. He of female labor from other cen- understood, was taken up, and demonstrated that It is possible for a Jersey, was 70 years old. He entered the and that In future machine com- clause Inserted In the constitution single lucoiuoiive to haul over 6.100 service of the Atlantic ters, City branch undertaken by male designed to cover the matter satistons. of the Pennsylvania Railroad eom position be solely labor. factorily. union pany as a water boy and served la Boston. The Boston building trades San Francisco. The San Francisco To the Moon and Back. various capacities until he became ar council of painters has authori- crafts have been notified that the evedistrict In a He was in the employ ot Arranged straight line, the engineer. to have a monument ning Industrial school, under the ausrailroad tracks of the world would the company for 64 years and was re zed a committee in the plot In Mt. pices of the oity of Boston, will start painters' erected tired on a pension seven years ago. "j-I-i lo the moon and hack again. a class on ulan reading and estimating. Olivet cemetery. them-velve- BRAIN Loss. 3 C Matters of Especial Interest To and cerning Those Mho Do the Work of the World HIS St. Louis Boy Romps and Playa and la Bright Dciplta tha In Labors Realm ; at l OF PART LINE SINGLE-RAI- L ie Paye tha Railroads Unless you are a pyroinaulac do not fight the kitchen lire with gasoline. Naturally, It was FUTURE STOP .Ii lit! Avoid meeting the crime wave on a cold night. Or at any other time. ware. NEVER Manager. Napoleon's hair is for salt. Which color do you prefer? In this age, the water wagon ought to bo an automobile. An MUST s, the unsophisticated girl unionists frequently abuse their office. It Is Miss Morgan's purpose to undertake the organization of women workers on a different basis than at present, but with the same object In view," ia the announcement The New Neuritis. Neurltla la in appendicitis la oi It la very to have appe dlcltis now, but if you get a dose neuritis you are to be congratulat for your modernity." The speaker, a physician, laugh bitterly. We doctors," he laid, are as mu influenced by fads and crazes in d ease aa the women are Influenced fashion's fads and crazes. Everyth! la neuritis nowadays. The dowag duchess of Manchester died of n rills. Edna May's husband went Blarritx for his neuritis. Lord Curz couldn't speak at the budget debate the house of lords he waa sufferl frpra an attack of neurltla. What's the matter with John I The poor fellow haa got neuritis.' didn't ace Harry Lehr at the e broidery bazaar.' 'No, hia neuritis h come back on him.' 'John Jacob J tor's looking rather pale. 'Didn't y know the hurricane gave him ni ritiar Thats the talk nowadays, a mark me well, Sedalla and Duluth w be setting up neuritis cluba before t year la out." |