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Show i LABOR AND INDUSTRY SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST UNION WORKMEN. TO his last report to the state department, AhhIcu Export TrUe Doubt TU.l of tko Imports -- Prims KhsIimI Therefor Are Grsslst Lower had lower ho That the Excess Amount to kothlng. 1 good place to go to In search of a Job, because the labor market la well stocked Consul1 General Haywood, in A The Axe of the hrltler. Thou conqueror of the wilderness, With keen end bloodiest. Hail! to the siurd) ariirau WJo wildtd thee loll Though the wgrnor de m tin wiapoit FaalDoned only for the sl let the settler knows thee mightier u e Than the tiled Damanus tula' While desolation maihith The course of foemar. s isiul Thy strong blow si alters plu.lj And gladness thiough the land Thou opcat the soil to culture, To the sunlight and tin d w And tho Milage sp're thou plainest Whore of old the forest grew quoted wages and pi lies of necessaries as follows. Waes on the plantations. Including house and fliewood m room and hoard, range from $125 to 17". per month for engineers ,.cd s, gir boilers, $50 to fltHi pet month foi biac ksihltbs and carpenters, $40 to $73 per mouth for locomo- tive to $175 pr mouth for and $ld to $40 per month for tfanicis In Hono ulu the rates are $5 to $i, per d.M for lutikhiyeia and masons., $r 50 to $5 pei t'M for carptu-t- c t s and i ah t is and $5 to $5 per dav fui nuthiM'is ('ooks ieeie from $3 to $0 pei wetk, uuise , house strvanta and gaidene.s, $ to $12 pci mouth Retail pruts of i roMsious are as follow Hum lb to is cents per pound, bacon, 18 to 20 cents, flour, $2 50 to $5 per loo poun.li-- , im $!2U to $5 per 100 pounds eggs 20 to 50 cents per doi, butter 23 u 50 tnt per pound, When the bioad sea relied bolw cn them And their own far nathe land. Thou wert tho faithful ally Of the hardy pilgrim hand They bore no warlike eagles, No banners swept tbe sky, Nor the clarion, like a tempest Swelled Its fearful not s on high. But the ringing wild Thy bold, lesietlesw stroke. Where, like Incense on the morning Went up the cabin atnokr. The tall oaks bowed before thee. Like reeds before the blast, And the earth put forth In gladness Where the axe In triumph passed. Then hall' thou noble conqueror. That, when tyranny oppressed, Hewed for oir fathers from the wild A land wherein to rest Hall, to the power that glvelh The bounty of the soil, And freedom, and an honoicd name. To the hardy sons of toil' Our Expoit Trade. An expoit tiade uluiobt double that in Impoits is the noteworthy feature of the statistics of the foreign commerce of the I'nited States for the f , fe d1 hus, $100 bookLeepets fiscal year ending with June, the preliminary flguies of which have just been given out by the treasury department. The excess of export over import trade measuies the volume of money or salable securities that flows into a country. When money flows in industry quickenB, expands. This Is what has been happening. Industrial activity in the United States is far more general and vigorous than the chronic growler is willing to admit This Is a big country, and a great deal of business canbe going on 'without any particular noise or stir being made about it In the state of New York not less than 1.390 new manuin facturing concerns hav8 started business this year, and 1,500 old Arms that had closed their doors have resumed operations. Some 400 manufacturers applied for permission to run their plants overtime, and 50,000 extra hours of labor is the record of these Anna. In comparison with the more perfigures of 1897 some 40,000 sons are now employed in New York than in that year. Instances of a like nature might be multiplied in which the hands employed by some firms have been nearly doubled, one steel company alone adding 1,800 men to ita pay roll. In Pennsylvania the iron Exindustry to in good condition. are steel and products iron of ports freegoing forward with their usual one As trade war. the despite dom, authority says: "Railroad and instruccon tural work la being turned out slderahle volume and shipbuilding is also active, while exports of finished products continue on a liberal scale.'' orMany mills and furnaces still have them to sufficient keep ders on hand busy for montha to come, Labor journals that devote much space to matters pertaining to the iron Industry contain few notes of reductions of force or hours, or of suspensions, hut many of Increased force, added hours and resumption. The condition of the iron and steel interest is Justly as a faithful barometer of the general situation, hence the present improvement to highly agreeable to people having no direct connection with the toon and steel trade. But all the iron business to not done In Thus, In Colorado, Pennsylvania. new steel rail and Iron mill has had a market for' all manufactured toon it could produce. In the South the output to constantly increasing. The greater part of the increased demand that has made this general revival possible has come from abroad. Un der present conditions that's the only place it can com from. . And revival in cotton, shoe, hardware, and about all other Interests must come the same way. If It to to come at all. It Is Sanworthy of note that a soon as with tiago had been taken ships loaded general merchandise set out for that town from every Important point on the Atlantic coast. Tlie cargoes were not for Uncle Sams use, but for sal to tbe merchant of that once Spanish city. Trade began almost literally as soon as the stars and stripes had been run np, and the news reports say that the Spanish merchant to elated at the prospect he has ot doing a big business. He can buy lower than he before could, and can sell accordingly. He maj-h- e the scion oL an Interminably line of dona, but that doesnt prevent him from seeing on which side his bread la buttered. While our exports far exceed imports, the prices we receive are grad' we u&lly growing less. Everything Interest to pay end to England goes charges on English loans here, of prices continue to fall, the excess In export will soon measure far les dollar and cent than imports. and ice tents pa pound. In Dumlet, IieUud weavers are paid $165 a week ami many of them have families Fort) thousand working women In New Yoik city a.e reviving wages so low that they are compelled to accept (hailty or ilo worse The municipalization of telephones, gas and water has already been accomplished in Amsterdam, the chief city of Holland, and the municipal council is now considering the question of the municipalization of the street rail- way. In Spain women work. About 2,500 aie employed in mines; the state tobacco factories give woik to about 25,000, and lace making engages 6,000. They may even be found engaged in the manufacture of d)namite and gunpowder. In one factory of Detroit, Mich., is a machine on which a boy not over 15 or 1G years old Is doing the work which, until recently, required six men, working by hand. The boy gets 54 per week The six men, who were of necessity capable mechanics, could not be had for less than $1.50 a day, or $9 a week each. A decision was rendcied by the United States supreme court recently affirming the validity of the South Carolina dispensary system in Its essential features. Three lodges dteseuted, but substantial majority of the court accepts the view that a state has a right to conduct the liquor traffic on Its own account as an exclusive state monopoly, subject only to the qualification that a citizen may Import liquors from beyond the state for hla Individual use without interference from the state. The decision Is of importance a establishing the right of a state to set up and conduct, not only a public liquor monopoly, but any industrial TO AN ACTRESS. THE GRAN D-- D AUGHTEH OLD IRONSIDES. ot MwrgrtUa Mewnrt, TkrM SUtcnt, Kedacod ta Want Forced to Twko lp Iafc'x Talented and ilex in I ful. OF MIm th httl ESSIE, Margretta and Frances Stewgranddaugh art, Adrnira' ters of Sic wart, the brave commander of th historic war ship Constitution, were on theii bom es- grandfather's Ironsides, tate at Iiordentown, N. J to heavy pecuniary losses Owing and the illness of their father, ot Charles Stewart, theB" Parnell. J. E. the late Alice three women have been obliged to goout Into the KUUU and aeeV their fortunes. The New York Tribune states that Bessie and Frances are Just be- Marand career, a ginning literary gretta bas entered the dramatic profession. Margretta also has great mechanical ability, and used to spend muth of her time In her fathers tool-shoShe became an excellent amateur carpenter, and, being well known in Bordentown, practiced her amateur trade upon her neighbors houses,barns and fences; she was rarely seen about town without her tool box. John Howard Parnell, a member of the British parliament, inherits the old family estate at Ironsides, which was heavily mortgaged by his mother, Alice F. 3. Parnell, to assist her son, Charles Stewart Parnell, to gain home rule for Iteland. The Inheritor will, if possible, carry out his mothers wishes. He will try to keep Ironsides for the descendants of her father, Admiral Stewart. At this place these girls spent Him-l- An unusual amount of public inter eet is Just now being shown la tbe restoration work at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-AtoWorkmem are engaged in taking up the floor oC tbe nave, Bide aislee and transepts, preparatory to the laying down ef new block floors and pavements. Havtnjg to excavate some depth tor the purpoae of filling in with concrete and cement some curious old vaults, quaint epitaph 8 and tombs are being disclosed, and are being treated with the greatest, care. A portion of tbe present churehj dates back nearly 700 yeare, and J 5l,n authorities agree that upon the same aite stood a much older church of the. Saxon period. As a place of cepnlchef the aite haa so doubt been In use lor 1,000 year. The floor ot the pave and particularly the transepts, are honeycombed with vaults, and it will be necessary to lower tbe crown of the arch of many so to excavate to tbe As Interment lngidfi proper depth. churches are not now permitted, all the vaults will most likely he filled In. They are not being entered, but in tha course ot the work coffins, mostly of lead, are seen, and skull and bones are being turned up occasionally,. plate But Quantum mutatus ab iilo! bar, These are treated with the utmost rev. All afloat in water, let In at a leak In He the way gotTn suddenly ereace and will be relnterred in the the roof. Now there were a thousand I was so near, now Im so fan churchyard. A group of vaults in tha of other spots which It might have south transept has been exposed. They chanced to leak as well as this one. Moment. An laxnapieloox contain the bodies ot the Mason fam-IlBut It is my opinion that the devil I am going away to kilt myself! the interments dating from 188. came and bored a hole over It on purcried the heartbroken young man as The family is now extinct, hut ol loBt her pose Well, my poor watch the beautiful maiden slammed tbe door Stratfordton teU of a remarkably speech. I should not have cared much after him. comhorrible, act ot for this, but the water got inside the Just my luck! growled tbe foot- mitted by one of the Mason family watch case, and destroyed the priceless shaor seventy years ago. Going into pad, who had been waiting In the picture, and I would have cried bitterly dow. "Whats the use askin' him for sixty a In the paddock at the back of hovel ot H the had dignity not been beneath or hi life mew? his money the house, he put together a great a man. Poor fellow, after all hia wild quantity of straw, and, lying down on, devotion he was Jilted for a handsome Shop Lifting. top of it, he act ike heap on fir and Whereupon he wrote college swell. was literally roasted alive. Quaint again to his fiiend: I am sure the Inscriptions are being brought to light man who powders most, perfumes In removing the wooden floor that most, embroiders most, and talks most covered the old stone paving of the nonsense is mobt admired; but some transepts, and- - it . to satisfactory to know that all will he carefully .preserved and shown In the "random pavernc nf whicb will border the pew, St. Jameaa Gazette, v In a speech delivered at the comAND SELECTED. mencement of the university of Virginia, Col William Lamb gave this inMaw tha Foot Keep Coal luuyli'kiw teresting sketch "Jefferson had his Mutuant llloatrataS Shitpllrilug unpleasant ltmimstenceg of his alma outer. Although he was a tall, thin, Kuougk to Maka Har lllifl Mora ia boned jouib with red hair, angular 'oaportitnt (irros features and fieikied face, he fell desperately In lui e w ith Rebecca Burwell. H.m tha loatx Kaap Cool. a utmg girl of fine family, turnout! The snow Is failing fast today, of autj and high intelligence, a type Tbe Icebergs are In bloom, those women m that portion of th oh' The hail and aleet with raptuie beat dominion whose Influence was boundOn housetop, tree and tombl less h the sea th'U laves the shores The wild wind whlsTTca fancy free she smiled on him he was tho With fierce and cutting foice; happiest bo; within the sound of the Old Boreas howla so merrily She gave him a watch college liell Tla winter time, of course! bit h be regarded as more picture, And, oh! ireMovs tbau hib bhthiigbL Its loss cauhed him agonizing grief. He writes The poet wipes his brow and says. to his old filend rage, afterward govI feel murt cooler now! j ernor of Vligima from college1 1 he Max Scher u cursed rats ate up my pocketbook 4 ! within a foot of inj head and carried 1 ht Senrcher IxCBiut. would away my silk garters. Of this I I know a maiden who is fair, not have accused the devil, for rats will As far as foim and features go; rate, but something worse happened Her father to a millionaire, ,? . , j went to j It rained all nght. NNhen I But ehe can neer be mine, for, oh, bed 1 bad my wntih In Its utual place. Aa I was riding yesterday In the morning I found it in the same With my head bent oer the handle- - n. j . y, dWoioas Haa Wba to Coord - Moro Important Sarrlco. feh She Youre a big, low. Why arent you awsy fighting for your country 4 He 'Gracious, goodness! 2 guess you dont keep very well posted. Didn't you know that I had been chosen a on of tbe members of the team that to to represent our golf club In the match gam against the Huxegoe next month I able-bodi- ed r Harpers Weekly says: "The strike of the engineers In England is over, and the men have been defeated. In their defeat is involved that of trade unionism, for the employers insisted on the right to manage their own business in their own way, and, after a most extraordinary struggle lasting six months the men have practically surrendered. One thing the English capitalists, and all capitalists everywhere, should bear in mind. The Inevitable tendency of a strike like this Is to strengthen the socialist movement The workingmen will reason that If they cannot bring their employers to terms by negotiations, or even by striking, they will try to accomplish their object by legislation. Aa Ordiaary Hrd,h!p away to stay until Shes gone The early autumn days, Where the winds blow cool and o'er tbe blit There ever bangs n base. She lolls at ease from morn till night. While I must toll away But the worst is that I've got to wiltt Unto her every da. A Slaw Mathod. MARGRETTA STEWlRT. "Poor Dawkins ha Wilberforce committed suicide, did you say! When did it happen T Well, it hasnt taken TilUngbast effect yet The method he chose to -- Caique and Expand. Book. There are many rare and costly books In the world, but the most expensive of all are certain copies of religious books. A copy ot the Korsn, now In the posse aslon of the 8hah oi Persia, is worth one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Its parch ment sheets are bound in gold f cover an eighth of an inch in thick- ness, with a silver lining equally thick, The golden cover is decorated with precious stones in the form of a crescent One hundred and nine diamonds, one hundred and sixty-seve- n pearls, and one hundred and twenty-tw- c rubies make np (the, brilliant decoration. By the side of this book the Churchman places a copy of tha Bible, as one among tbe costliest books oi the world. At the present time it has do price, for money would not buy It It to a Hebrew version now In tht Vatican. Aa long ago as 1512 Julius IL refused to part with it for Its weight la gold. There is, in the library at Gottingen, a unique Bible written on five thousand three hundred and seventy-three palm leaves. Amongst unbe common religious . books must classed the edition of the Bible need by the Oxford University Press. It is inches in only one and In length, and one and seven-eightbreadth. It hss to be read by means of a magnifying glass, and one is given with this tiny Bible for two shillings cents. The and threepence, or fifty-si- x e Marquis of Dufferin has a small one-ha- lf tha slse of a postage-stomp- . It to an edition of the sacred book of tbe Sikhs. ( The Wore Dollar. Dollar is a word that has passed through yartou forms. It was that, thaler, dahler, daalder, daler and It originally cams from Thai, a town in Bohemia. Here coins of an ounce,, in weight were made. They were called Joachims thaler or thaler. So popular did these Laker te Hawaii Now that Hawaii has been annexed coins become that they gave their to the United States, Industrial condi- name to those that came after them. dates from about tions them have become Invested with Their manufacture now Interest. Hawaii 1 probably not the year 151 tal-ler- o. BURIAL, nt toff Dirvetloaa It, ... 7 Against Wilkie Collina left a missive among hla papers directing that when he died a thorough examiuatloln of hi body waa to be made by a skillful Burgeon. Lady Barton, wife ef eptatn Sir Rich Burton, ordered that her body should be pierced with needle in the . region of the heart Edmund Yates ot the World, Miss Ada. Cavendish, Miss Harriot Martineau, the authorens, and Hans Anderson, the writer of to many fairy tales, may he mentioned as Instance of men and women who ham toft instruct kma that they should not be interred until everything possible had been dona to make dure that they were lifeless. In some case It was the severance ot a vein, in others even de. capitation that was resolved upon Other, with a similar end In view, have adopted different means. The signaling - Invention of Edgar Allen Poe, who wrote this subject up In hi characteristically weird fashion, 1 familiar to all readers. Then, there to the apparatus of a Russian Inventor, which consists in a mechanism placed . in the throat of tbe corpse. If consciousness returned, and an effort war made to breathe, the effort set In mo 'tion certain wires, which resulted In n bell ringing is the cemetery keepers lodge. In "Jesebele Daughter" the Idea to very similar, aar that instead ot a throat apparatus wires were fastened to tbe hands of the corpse. Last year 8ir Henry Littlejohn told hla stn ' dent nt Edinburgh of a fancy coffin, fitted with patent springs an constructed that on tha slightest indication ot returning life they would Immediately open the coffin and thus save the vie. ttm. This may have been a reference its the Russian invention,-seeinthat the idee Is the same, though there to a alight difference in detail. Cham here Journal. f monopoly. vol-um- BqjS M PREMATURE three-quarte- -- fiomn InterMtla KeUca FnnnA Doris Work of Hmtoratlaa. f SOME COOO JOKES, ORIGINAL CHURCH. L i half-broth- runt to Sattaly with a Wide. rim, lie SHAKESPEARES OUR BUDGET OF FUN, JEFFERSON'S LOVE AFPAIlf JUicd at Seh-llck- en i BE most happy years, leading a healthy out of door life. They became expert horsewomen, and an excursion in their fathers steam launch waa one of their It is an historiprincipal recreationa cal fact that when the war ot 1812 Bain-soli- d broke out It was Stewart and authorities the who persuaded yjdge th united States navy a tj) government being afraid eh(nce to undertake a contest with the British navy. Though having been made a rear admiral on the , retired llsL bis Stewart was always known among"Old and "commodore as neighbors At the breaking out of Ironside. ba the civil war he demanded to rewas but active list, on the placed With fused; be was then Slyeara old. such an ancestry andjroch associations these three women carry with them solthe courage and determination of diers as- - they enter upon lifes dally battle. Where the Husband Oeta Nothing. in tbe Philippines is more that which relates to the than quaint to enproperty of married persona. It wife. of the In favor Property of tirely a bride te never by any chance settled bn a husband, and if he is poor while she Is well oil he can only become at most an administrator of her posaes-sloAfter death tbeproperty goes to her children and blood relative, unless she has executed a deed in her busbande favor under the eye of a notary. A married woman bears her maiden name, but adds to it that of her husband with the prefix de. Children bear the name of both parents. The independence which women enjoy in the Philippines to held by MU Garnett to afford evidence that Mill was wrong when he assumed that the eubjectlon of women to Immemorial and worldAfter the marriage ceremony wide. the husband 'symbolically endow the bride with alt his worldly possession ft to clearly a case, so far as the wife is Concerned, of "what Is yours is mine Fort-nlghand what is mine Is my own. Review. No law n. have too good sense to esteem aucb animals as these, in whow formation the tailor and barbere gt halve with the Almighty. He in vites Page to take a trip with him te Europe that would last two or thre years, and writes: If ire should not both b cured of love la that time, think the devil would be ta,lL Bui this disappointment in lov did not prove a perpetual frost upon histoffee tions. It due time he fell in love with the charming widow Martha 8kei ton, and the union proved a peculiarly happy one, and for many years she was the source of the greatest domestic felicity. It is quite a coincidence, II not a consolation to us ordinary mortals, that Jefferson, like hts illustrious contemporary, George Washington, the Tither of his country, although so great and first In so many things, was not first in everything, for they both married widows, and had io be satisfied with warmed-ove- r affections, however sweet and precious." monkey-lik- e rather alow," What method did he Wilberforce chooser He has gone to Klon Tillinghast dike after gold. g V Ua A Child f PramUo. Phwats te matther, Label Ouida Upton la tbe fanciful Mlethresa OToole, thot makes you luk name of n little girl.' Her initials be. so bluet" O, U it I presumable that abaMrs. OToole "An its bad luck to tag s. te a child of promise. to Mlsthresa Pats OBrien, me, tapper baa been an worrud jist glttin' cowld, ODDS AND ENDS. brought from te quarry thot Pat waa blewed oop, an bas not come down till Shells aa they arq knowa ta the ylt Pat 1s o tortless bad cesa to present day were not need in tha navy bim. until the latter part of the eighteenth Kuaagk Mrs, OBrien to Maka Her . t (Jail r1 StotatknuT Widows, There are ptill seven old Indies la the United States drawing money that was granted for servlce'wlth Washington's troops In the War of Independence against King George. A young recruit from the Bay State, for instance, en listed Just before hostilities ceased, secured fatg pension for self and wife, married n girl ot fifteen in hla eightieth year, and left her provided with a pension until this day. True. TJt-Btt- century. The Ink plant of New Granada (a A curiosity. Tha juice of it can be used as ink without any preparation. At first tha writing to red, but after a few hours it ebangea to black. The cries of a birds, especially sen gulls, nr very valuable to aniloni in misty weather. The birds cluster on lb cliff and coast and their cries warn boatmen that tbey are near tod land. Early man used to be able to wag his mire a an indication of pleasure or to brush away files from under bin baek hair, but as tha muscles were not brought into continual t they be earn rudimentary. , , The Belgian government offers a prize ot $10,000 for tbe Invention of a match paste containing no phosphorus A Kw of Affxlr. and not otherwise dangerous to "We are selling these goods, in Its manufactur. Of course, other the clerk, at a positive loss. Practic point are required, hut the object ot ally, we are giving them away. Convict 'What makes yon think 1 tbe offer to to find a way to do away Then," said the lady with the haughty am n golf enthusiast T" with a dangerous employment x demeanor, "I must decline to purchase, "You are so attached to tha Visitor Among proposed applications' ot I cannot accept gifts from a sbopkeep link. r. Indianapolis Journal. power at long distance! from Its source to the lighting of the interior passage Horrtkto. , , and chambers fit the great pyramids " pf Cmim, gay, if Bpaln could only get hold ef by electric currents generated at the Browne The popular price for man who discovered America! cataract ot Assouan, several hundred la the next century will be tha do worse than jail him now. miles swsy. The same power to inShed ten cent. Towns Then, we can corbelieve they'd tended to operate pumping stations and I yeti "Heaven, cent-ur- y. rectly refer to it as the Tea cotton mill along the Nile. force bim to succeed Sagasta' Indianapolis tm t . ts. Journal if r |