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Show LABOR AND INDUSTRY BOMB ITEMS OP INTCRBBT TO UNION WORKMEN. Vhe rlgbl rloar Sfovamaal la Aaitratla "Traotndaaaa DeiaenilMllon by the CaUa Labar Taraa ot tba Clty'af taay Oaaeral Lakar Hotea. Tba lUtn Upon the Itoaf. (An eld rarerllt ) Long ago a poet dreaming, Weaving fancy's warp and Woof, Panned a ttndar, soothing poem On the "llaln upon the Hoof" Onea t read It. and lis beauty yuled my heart with memories sweet; Daya of childhood nutttrtd round me. Violet sprang btnaalh my feet. And my unlit, loving mother flpoko again In accents mild. Curbing every wayward paialon Of btr happy, thoughtless child. Then I heard the swallows twittering Undarntalh the cabin eaves. And the laughing shout of Ullle Up among lbs maple leaves. Than I bleated the poet's dreaming, Illtattd his fancy's warp and woof. And 1 wept o'er mtmorlte treaturod, Aa the rain fall on the root. Tears ago Z loil the poem, Hut Ita swrelntii lingered atlll. As the fraihntis of tht valley Marks whtra flowed the springtime rill. toil to reach, but not'lb'ttttlng; Por the rain-drop never falls O'er my htad wnh patttrlng music. Hut It ptopftt mtmory's halls. With the old familiar faces Loved and trsssured long ago. Treasured now at In life's springtime ror no change my heart can know. And I live sgaln my childhood In the home far, far away; Itoam th woodland, orchard, wlllnood. With my playmates still at playl Then rny gray.Vialrs preta tha pillow, , lidding all the world aloof. Dreaming awtetly. aa I listen To tha rain upon the roof. Every pattering drop that falltih Detmath irxe an angtl'a tread, mioslng mtttages of merer To tha weary heart and head. Pleasant thoughts ot years departed, IMrataitt soolhtnaa for to-day, Earnest longings for to-morrow, Hoping for the far away, ror I know each drop that falleth. Comee to blest tha Ihlraly earth, , Making seed to hud and blotaom, Springing all things Into birth. As the radiant bow that ratterelh All our falthlttnneaa with proof Of a ttedtlme and a harvest. Bo the rain upon the roof -rlln V. tl Oage. . ' , Eight Hour Hay. Oct, 3 was' celebrated at Eight-hour day In Sydney. Tbe principal feature of the celebration was tho procession of trado societies through tho streets, headed ly the elgM-Jiujirbaooer, nnd attended by their own .baefnors and bait a doxen bands. Tbe following societies took part In tho profession: Seamen, Progressive Canntors, Coacbmakors, .Arnajsiusatc'u"' Engineers, Engin-eers, Typographical, Ilookblnders, Lithographic, Letterpress Machinists, Coopers, Trcssers, dlas Workcrs.Iloll-ermaker, Workcrs.Iloll-ermaker, United Laborers, llutcher. Bricklayers, Tinsmiths, Amalgamated Carpenters, Gas Stokers, Australasian Engineers, Furnlturo Trades, Painters, Plasterer. Shipwright. llakcr. Plumbers, Stonemasons, Ironmoldcrs. Punctually at D o'clock tho head marshal, Mr. 0, Moody, gave tho order or-der to march, andthe cavalcade, headed head-ed by a detachment of mounted troopers, troop-ers, moved from tho Trades Hall Into George, Park, Colloge, Oxford, and Uourko streets, and thenco to tho Agricultural Ag-ricultural around. All along tho route crowds lined tba roadway on both sides. About 15,000 people attended tho Agricultural Ag-ricultural around, Mooro Pnric.o 'witness 'wit-ness tho sports and military tourna-mont, tourna-mont, which began at 10 o'clock, and eoncludcil.nbout 0. The military con-teita con-teita jiiro the feature of the day, some excellent horsemanship being shown. Other snorts wcro well contested, and the whole combined to make n capital day' outing for tboso who Invested the "nimble bob." The chairman, In proposing "Tbo Day We Celobratc," referred to tho progress of the eight-hour moTemcnt, and he expressed regret that restrictive restric-tive legislation In regard to tho hour pt labor was not moro advanced In this colony. Ileferenco was mado to the rejection of tho bill to.lecalliq Jlwi Art Unlqn. which, Jfad fiftdefto been A prontlnenl feature In connection with the demonstration. Tho bill could bavo been oppoicd only through Ignoranca, because tha committee only on-ly desired to have the same privileges which were granted to artist In connection con-nection with the holding ot art union. r'nr.W-jr'.ir ."."-jry V-fnlli Imrulgratloq for 1A08. The number of Immigrant who have come to tho United States daring tbe fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, was 229,21)9, while the number for the preceding pre-ceding year 'was 30,832, thus It is observed ob-served that notwithstanding the .war tbo Immigration bis not decreased to any appreciable extent. Of tbls number 41,473 were illiterate, S3, per cent ot those aboro tbe ago ot flftcon year hot being able to read or write. More than half of these Immigrants Immi-grants came from Austria-Hungary, Italy, Poland and Ilussln, whllo not quite a third camo from Oreat Urltoln, Franco, Oermany and Scandinavia. It Is evident from tbe (nfmlgratlon. rtporta far tho post tow years tfiat that class of Immigration usually considered consider-ed desirable Is becoming fewer In number num-ber each year, while tbe undesirable Immigration Is Increasing at an alarming alarm-ing rate. Tbls la accounted for by the known fact that a dealre to better one'a condition la the solo cause of Immigration. Immigra-tion. So long aa Industrial conditions HHBVHHHHHHHMBHjHjHjl In the United State were far superior ' to that of Oreat Britain, France and Oermany, tbe working people ot those countries Immigrated to the United State In Urge numbers, but whsn the wage reductions and lack of employment employ-ment of the present decade became known In thoae countrlca It was a debatable de-batable question aa to which of the countries afforded a natlro ot Europe the most desirable home. Japan a TValth lodnttrr Notwithstanding tho cheap labor la Japan and atrenuous effort made to manufacture watches by the Japanese, that country continues to Import great numbers of watches and clocks from Bwltxerland and tbo United States. In 1897 1816.000 ot Swiss watches and 1109,810 pf American walchea wero Imported, Im-ported, whllo for the first six months of 1803 Bwltxerland supplied Japan with watches to the vnluo of 1551,005, and tbe United States sent watches amounting In value to 182,845, It ts stated lhat the American watches are held In high rcputo by tho " . Japancso, but the Swiss watches being much tho cheapest tho latter are most popular with tho masses. A showy raso counts for mora than an accurato tlmcpleco with most people In that country. Concerning tho conditions of tbe watch Industry and tho prlco ot labor, a leading paper of Tokyo say; "A member of tho Osaka Watch company com-pany say that tho wages paid to tho worker In lhat factory aro certainly much lower than those paid In European Euro-pean or American factorlos; yet, despite de-spite this fact, tho business ot watchmaking watch-making Is not a paying ono In Japan. Lack of skill among tho mechanic Is ono ot tho reasons glvon for this state of affairs." Labor Xolta, Tbo clgarmakcrs spend $30,000 a year advertising their label. Tho percentage of successful strike oI wqrklngmcn Is greater tbl year than evor beforo. A. L. Flfo, a Chicago prlntor, waa fined 1100 for using tbe printer labbl , Without authority. The union scale Is the living wage, tbo Itfo lino beyond which tbe worker--, A will not allow themselves to be farced. Tho strlko of COO shoo'lators at Drocton, Mass, has been settled by the committee. ' A a result 78-' now members' wore Initiated at one meet- . Ing. Tho leather Udt will shut down 10O , tanneries to ralio tho prlco of leather. Tho man or concern that controls tho ,mcah of production Is tho rulor, what- - ever jou may think or say about'JU- Tho people, therefore should have co'n- - , trol. ., ' Thos, J, Kldd, Geo. Zentner, and. Michael Trocbcr, accused pf consplf- ,. ncy to tnjuro tbe business of tho, Palno ' Lumber Co,., of Osbkosb, Wis,, durng the Woodworkers strike, wire ncqultt , ted In the Municipal Court November . -". 3d. The Jury was outgone bour. . B.ll-I llhllng Oat Itnratra, .,. j ' The Matchless Gas' Lighting iyndl- -cato of London bow bav o on exhibition , a self-lighting gas burnef, which la . said to perform- perfectly the .duties expected' of It It Is described a fol- i lows; ' "A In prorlous dorce ot tho same kind, tho catalytic properties of spon-17 spon-17 platinum aro emptoyod to effect the . actual Ignition, the novelty In tho apparatus ap-paratus on view consisting In an automatic auto-matic byo-pass valve. On turning. on the tap to tba burner, tbe gas. In the first Instance, flow through this byo-pass byo-pass to a small Jet, through which 'It escape nnd. Impinges on n particle ot spongy platinum. The latter quickly Ignites the escaping Jet, and tho flamo thus produced bents ji wlro connected by suitable linkages with the, bye-pass valro In such a way that a tbe wire expands tbo by-pass closes, opening at tha same tltno n passage to the main Jet Tho lighting' devlco Is Iptendod, ' , , In the main., for uso with Incandescent-.- burners, but Is'alao fitted to tho ordinary."' ordi-nary."' The stonlclpal rrebtam. ( v Whllo tho cltlxens ot American nru-' ' nlclpalltlcs aro crouching. In fear, ex-' ' ' pectlng momentarily to have their vejy - . homes given to corporation seoklpgj ' franchises at the .hands ot aldermen,. tbo pcoplo of Ituropean cities, are ds-' cussing a very different! problem. In- m stead of corporation ruling the municipalities mu-nicipalities of tho monarchies nnd military mili-tary power of tho Old World as thoV "" do In the American republto tbe people ( are thero taking things In their own . bands, Much has been said ot the municipal f gas and water plant and street rail- .r i i " - ' " "'' ' ' r tt"' i " new come that tbo great strike ot laborer In Parts (wblcb wa "lost" ac- i cording to press reports), ha resulted In the discontinuance ot municipal "contracts" and tho cjlrect employment " of laborer by tho city In public worlca. - Political Arilbmetle. In Australia, aa In tho United States, t school-teachers need a largo discretion; ' Mere, fqrpxnmplo, 1 a story from tbo , Sydney' Telegraph: A Now South , J Walea country school-teacher aet a boy rt question In compound proportion for hdme work ono evening. .It happened to Include tbe circumstance ot "men working ten bours a day In order to complete a certain work." Noxt more Ing (ho unsuspecting teacher, In looking look-ing orer the little pack of exercises, found "Jim's" sum unattempted,- and tbe following lettor attached to tbe page; "Sur I refuse to let Jim do tbls sum you give blm last nlto has It look to m to be a slur at 8-hour U-turn U-turn enny sum not more than 8 hour be I weleum to do but not more. Tour truly, Abram Blank, senr." |