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THE MORNING QREGOyiAN, TUESDAY, 'AUGUST 5, 1903. ir WAS Blfi LOCAL RALLY I'RESIDEST GOMPERS GOT GREAT RECEPTIOX. Head of American Federation and Other Labor Leaders Delivered AddreaseM on Unionism. (Continued from Tlret Pace.) ' der to better our condition as wage-earners, we, too, must Join with wage-earners to win the benefits to which we are en titled. We realize that If It were not for organized labor we should be working 12 and .16 hours a day. We are entitled to as good positions In life as the members of any other profession, and the time ,wlll come when we, too, shall Insist upon a minimum scale of wages. Our aim Is to achieve such organization as will enable us to weed out child labor. Here In Ore gon you do not have a law to prevent this evil. It will come to pass through our efforts that children in your state of ten der years, who would otherwise be dwarfed In body and stunted In mind by this evil, will go to school and stay at home. "Is there ever an effort at reform in behalf of the common people in which trade unions are not foremost? Are there any of your organizations, religious or charitable, that have done so much work for good as ours? , "Yes," answered a voice, but the speaker went on without retorting. "Organized labor is everywhere uplift ing womanhood and manhood. I ask you to purchase nothing, be it an outer gar ment or an under garment, a cigar or a broom, that does not bear the union label, the symbol of a brighter citizenship, a higher womanhood, a higher manhood." Address of W. D. Mahon. The next speaker was W. D. Mahon, In ternational president of the Amalgamat ed Association of Street-Car Employes. In Introducing him President Harry said: "All trades unions are working for the same purpose, and we have with us to night a representative of a very strong organization." Mr. Mahon spoke with directness and force, and as he warmed up his discourse radiated with caloric energy. He is a large man, quick in action, and his phys ical powers lent action to his words. He went after the owner of the voice who had yelled "yes" in the previous discourse right roundly. Preachers he treated with an inspiring If not irreverent hand. He said: "We believe the policy and principles of our organization are respected by every thoughtful civilized man and woman. I will speak of the union labor movement, divested of Its theoretical or sympathetic side, for in our business lives -we view it from a thoroughly business viewpoint. This is an age in which the world Is busi ness, here, there and everywhere. "Down through all the ramifications of life we find it moved and controlled by organization. This has come to pass in the last century, due to Improved machin ery. There is no escape from organiza tion. The coffin trust dictates the price of a tiox in which we shall have final re pose. In two years the Bible trust has put up 23 per cent the price of the sacred Word of God "Now. how are we going to meet this business world that .confronts us? "In Philadelphia some years ago street railway employes decided the conditions Under which they labored were unjust. A committee went to the company with tho grievance. It complained of the long hours and low wages. But the companvv said: " 'This Is a business organization, not an aid or charity society. We look "upon labor as a commodity of the world, and we propose to buy It where we can get -It cheapest.' "This Is the case In the entire business world. Now, how do you propose to deal with It? x "We say. deal with it in a business way. We organize the men of very calling and say, 'We, too, are a business organization. We have a commodity neces sary to your business, and we require the shortest hours and highest wages we can get "A man who operates or conducts a car Is just as much a business man as he who clips bonds in Wall street And we are trying to educate working people to be practical business men and women. (Ap plause.) We have adopted the tactics and ethics of the business world In our busi ness. If the other fellow wijl change his ethics and tactics, we will change ours. Unions Xot Unpatriotic. "They say labor unions are unpatriotic. un-American, unlawful. Is a man who would dispose of his labor to greatest ad vantage to himself Is he un-American or unpatriotic? Wc insist that trade-unionism represents bona llde citizens, and true Americans. We struggle for true citizen ship, for improved conditions, for the ele vation and preservation of this country, if jou piease. i deiy any organization or society to show It has done more for men and women than has trade-unionism. (Loud applause.) "We ooast of our republicanism. Where did it have its inception? In a trade union hall. In Philadelphia, in Carpenters' Hall where met the patriots to promulgate the declaration of Independence. Who gave us our free schools? Tho trade unions of Massachusetts fought for and established the system. Who has fought for free school books and who for abolition of child labor? Why, the trade unions. They have put child labor out of every state In the Union, except live. Even a Preachers Union. Mr. Mahon went on to tell how to strike Is Inherent in the very underpinning of society. "Even the preachers have a union, and they have been known to strike. There isn't a severer union In the world than the preachers' union. You must have your card in a nrpaehers' union or you may not preach in their preacn snop.. in my city this union got into a scraD. One of its members used to go down -every morning to pray for tho Ohio Legislature. One Monday , morning mey touna tney had a grievance. They wanted Day or thev wouldn't nrnv nnv more for the Legislature. So they de cided to go on a strike, just like a trade union. (Laughter.) "But several mornings later a preacher broke the strike of the preachers' union. He explained that the Catholic clergy dld not belong to the union, and he feared they would pray for the Legislature. Labor as a Commodity. "Labor is the only commodity in which the buyer and not the seller sets the price. And when you try to set a price on your brawn or your brains they get out an injunction. "No world movement is based on a more time-honored principle than Is trade unionism. Unionism is the bedrock of business. The question of the hour is not production, but consumption. Trade unionism stands for consumption. They used to disturb us by saying the law of supply and demand ruled the world. But the Jaw of supply and demand is subject to tho law of wages. This law in turn is subject to the law of organized- labor. Trade unionism stands for this side of the buflness world, and the person who con siders business from this standpoint can not help but be the friend of tho labor ing man." President Gonipers Spends. Gompers first spoke of the work that h is doing and of the success that he hoped to attain. "I spoke in Portland 12 vears ago." said he. "and if at the time I 1 planted in the mind of one man or woman the seed for thought that will grow and make a good union worker I am satisfied with the work that I did." He held that the movement of organized labor was but the natural tendency, and that there was no man who could sub stantiate his position In opposing the novement to organize labor. He said: -"What la your City of Portland hut s. PRESIDENT SAMUEL GOMPERS (ON THE RIGHT) AND VICE-PRESIDENT MAX MORRIS CON THE LEFT'' OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. union where the men, women and chil dren surrender a part of their privileges in order that their rights may be safe guarded? What is our Government or our Nation but a large union? If I read history aright there was at one time a part of the members of this Union that wished to withdraw. They called it se cession, and at that time a great strike occurred. It was a long and ?erious one and lasted for four years, and after it was over those that wanted to leave it were not permitted to do so. Now there are none prouder of their great Union than those .who were not permitted to leave It. "Just so we find the case In our union work at times. It Is often necessary to use a little moral persuasion, but in the end they are proud to be Identified with the union that has uplifted their condi tion. The man who would take a stand against the labor organizations would try to combat all the movements today. Boards of trade, manufacturers' associa tions, all such societies as these, are the same movement. These men find It to their advantage to organize. If It is to the advantage of men who control millions to organize, why Is it not much more, eracntial for the worklngman who owns nothing but his own labor to organ ize, that he may get the best price for this? "The ministers, the lawyers, the doc tors, all have their organizations and force their members to live up to them. If a doctor should violate the medical ethics as laid down by the medical so ciety, he is put tinder a ban by the rest of the profession. The lawyers have a trade union. They do not call it that. They call It a bar. association' and think that It sounds prettier. They have a sys- "We favor arbitration, but not by compulsion." tom or apprenueesnip tao same a- we have in all of our trades. They call it 'student life,' and think that that sounds prettier. I care not how logical you may be, if you would go Into a court where Justice i3 dispensed and would wish to ap pear in defense of some one, the Judge, who lli the walklns delegate of the law yers' union, would ask you to show your working card. (He would not call it that. He would say your diploma, and think that funded prettier.) Lesson of Organisation Learned. "Can We be expected to be different from our fellows? We have simply learned the. lesson that they have taught. We. too, have formed our. societies, and have formulated our ethics, and one of the fir?t rules is 'thou shalt not take thy neighbor's Job,' and for any one that vio lates this law we have a pet name of our own that we apply to him. "How often wc read or hear discussions on the labor question, and after listening to them we are convinced that there is no labor question worth consideration, and that the condition of labor Is pretty good, after all. Now. If we want to learn any thing about navigation, we go to one who has made a study of this particular lino. If wc want to learn, anything about aotronomy. military tactics, finance, or any of the questions of the day. we go. to some enc that has made a study of v BS this particular line. But if we want to get anything on the labor situation, we go to every other source and load our selves up with a lot of Invaluable infor mation. I don't say that all of the papers oppose the unions, but the heads of the papers are employers themselves and cannot help but speak from an employ er's point of view. When you hear a minister speak on the subject he voices the sentiment of the pillars of the church, and they are employers. I want to Insist on it that if you are rational enough to look to the bottom of the situation that you hear the question from the stand point of tho laborer before you make up your mind. There are some that pray for the laboring man for five minutes a week and spend tho rest of the time preying upon him. Then they call us that are Interested in this work 'agitators, and even 'professional ngltators.' At first these remarks used to sting, but when they called us professional agitators we felt relieved, and took "breath anew, for all of the professions are highly respected. And If the people are disposed to make our work a profession, there will soon come a time when we will be knocking -at the doors of our colleges and universi ties and demanding our diplomas. To Strive for Better Conditions. "There are many who want to divert our attention from tho condition that we find and tell us that it will 'all be bliss over there.' To them we say that we won't surrender a bit of our right to tho 'bliss over there,' but that we will con tinue to strive for a better condition here. What we want is a 'better now and now.' If we are to have such a blissful hereafter, we want to get used to it, so that we will not be shocked at the grandeur of the heavenly world and will be able to appreciate It. "We are often confronted by men who, when we talk to them of the labor move ment, say. Pooh, there Is no labor move ment. If they think that there is no la bor question before the people today, let them go to the sweat shops and see there the miserable existence that is led. Let them see the stunted forms, the early decay stamped upon the brow of men, women and children. Ask these peoplo if there Is no labor question. Go in;o the mine's whore the workmen never see the rays of the sun. Go . into their cab ins and see the marks of despair, whero the people own neither themselves nor their homes. They are taught by the company's teachers, preached to by tha company's preachers, they are all the company's, and when they die they are buried by the company's undertaker and in the company's cemetery. Go to the in dustrial centers and see there the changes as the employer gains control more and more. See today strong men out of work and the women working In the factories. See tomorrow tho men and women both out of work while the factories are filled with children. When the men are idlo and the childron are overworked, the con dition Is deplorable Indeed. Go to those people and ask them If thero Is a labor question. Ask the men whose position is so insecure as to depend upon the whim of some employer or understrapper. Ask tho workman who may find himself at any time in the midst of an Industrial panic and is not In a position to help It and In a short time may be asking for the privilege to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. In every caps comes the emphatic answer, 'Yes.. Jt is the burning question of the hour, and it de mands the vefforts of the best men and women to find a solution,' and it finds an-l echo in tho hearts and minds of our fel low workers. Demands of Labor. "We all love the free Government un der which we live, and are bound that Jt shall be maintained. Who Is going to maintain It? The unorganized? Surely not, for they are working for their own interests all alone. Anorganlzatlon Is a co-operation to help all concerned. The load falls upon the men and women of the unions, who realize their duty to themselves, to -their comrades, to society and to their descendants, and who stand ready to contest every Inch of ground that the oppressor 'seeks to question, and who have consecrated their lives that the Republic of America shall not fall. Upon our shoulders falls the load, and we will struggle for right and justice. We shall demand more, and shall never cease to demand more. Whsn we have obtained that for which we have asked we ahall demand mo're. If we obtain that we shall demand more. Then we shall demand more and more and more, until we have the full fruition of our labor. And I know of no people who are so entitled to ask for more as the people who. produce "the wealth of the world. Not an Advocate of Strikes. "It Is a mistake to suppose that the labor organizations stand for a policy of striking. They do not advocate a strike except ajs a last resort. In fact, a strike may be considered a3 a jrare occurrence In a labor organization when we consider the number of troubles that are settled with out ever coming to a strike. There are worse things, however, than a strike, and. among them are debased and degraded manhood. There are times -when an organization .that would refuse to strike would brand the members as cowards. A trades union that will not strike Is Hko a company in the Army that will dis band when war breaks out, "If a boy goes along the street and sees a dog that looks tlmld and not vicious) a yellow dog, the chances are that he goes up to him and gives him a kick, and the dog gets up and runs away. As he goes oh a little farther he sees another dog, but this is u different kind of a dog this Is one of the kind whose upper checks hang down and has a different ap pearance. The- boy Is not nearly so'bots terous, and makes a good circle about this dog, and Is glad when he Is out of sight He knows that he tan bite if he chooses, and that fact saves him many a kick. Just with organizations. The Nation that is always ready for war Is tho least likely to have it. and l3 in the best position to have It arbitrated, and the labor organization that Is the strong est Is the least likely to have a strike, and stands the best chance of having its troubles fairly settled. "If England has trouble with the smaller nations John Bull bombards them, but If It is with Uncle Sam he wants to arbitrate the matter. If I am go- "We demand the fall fruits of onr labor," thundered President Gom pers. Ing home and a man says 'your money or jour me ana araws a gun X cannot talk of arbitration with that, roan. If I should have drawn the same kind of a gun at the same time we might stop and arbitrate the matter The good book tells us that the lamb and the lion shall lie down together, etc., but under the present conditions when they He down to gether the Hon wakes up and finds that ho Is outside of the Iamb. We want ar bitration between equal powers, between two Hon3 or two lambs, but not between the Hon and the Iamb. If you believe In arbitration- you must realize that it requires organized labor to force It Xot for ConunlKory Arbitration. "This brings up the question of wheth er we ought to have compulsory arbitra tion or not- The organization is In fav or of arbitration, but when It comes to compr.lsory arbitration there Is a differ ence. We see the strike and are willing to resort to almost any means to avert the trouble, but we do not consider the troubles that wc may cause in stopping It. As soon as you make It the right of the law to compel arbitration you take away the right of liberty. When a man goes on a strike he Tefuses to workTand are- we going to say that the law shall compel him to accept the terms of the arbitrator and go back to work? And there Is another consideration in this question. Suppose that the employer cannot pay the wages that are asked but the law says that "he shall pay them. At this time the confiscation- of property is commenced. If the state says that a man shall go to work at a certain condi tion, and he refuses to, then the state says that he shall go to work or shall go to prison. And as soon as you do this you Institute slavery. Why did the whites have their niggers in the South? For the reason that they wished to be able to call them slaves? It was so that they could command, demand and en force their labor. The history of the movement Is strewn with the corpses of men and women who wanted tho right to change their employer and their con ditions, and we will struggle for right and Justice and will never surrender to the state our right to strike when ah in justice is done. On the Local Situation. "Mr. Gompers then referred to the local situation and said: "You should not lose heart because your strike In the Building Trades did not terminate in, your favor. In all of the great wars for a good cause there have been battles lost. You have not re treated, you have only withdrawn. The army of organized labor knows no re treat, but Is going on and on and on. and has conquered and will conquer all ob stacles to its growth. And If you ex pect to hold your own In the struggle you will have to continue to work for the interest of the organization. "Capital Is organized all over the world and knows no barrier, nor do the oceans sev er the connection. So you will have to Join your ranks and make a formidable army that, will demand thrt you get the worth of your labor. See to If that the Mongolian shall not Invade your country, that this larid is reserved for the Cau casian -race. Unite that you may be freo and establish a day for which we have struggled from time Immemorial a . day of right, of Justice and franchlsement." HOW GOMPERS SPENT THE DAY. Confers With Labor Leaders and Writes Editorials for His Mnsarine. President Gompers and Max Morris, ac companied by G. Y. Harry, president of tho State Federation: H. A. Duke, state organizer of the American Federation of Labor; Charles Mlckley. "president of the Federated Trades Council; H. G. Kundret. editor of the Portland Labor Press; A. W Jones, president of the CIgarmakers' Union, and George B. Thomas, delegate from the Machinists' Union to the Trades Council, all of Portland, who had met the visitors at Salem the night before, and had been In attendance at the mass meet thing there, arrived In Portland yesterday morning. W. D. Mahon. president of the Amalgamated Association of Street-Car -Employes of America, was in the city Sunday night, and met the party after their arrival. The labor leaders were tired' from their Journey, and most of the forenoon was spent In their rooms at the Perkins Hotel, resting and attending to their correspond ence. President Gompers Is the editor of the. official magazine of the American Fed eration, and spent a part of the day writ ing editorials for this paper. In the after noon he took a trolley ride to Portland Heights, and upon his return spent a short time visiting among bis friends. The president Is a clgarmaker by trade, and dropped Into several factories tq see the boys at their work. While thcTe he met a number of his old 'friends that he had known while working at the craft, and they undertook to josh him about his supposed lost proficiency, but he soon demonstrated that he could roll a cigar a3 well as the best of them. "How long since you have rolled a cigar?" asked one of the friends he met. "It has been 14 years," said he. "3lnce I have worked at the trade, but I don't believe that I, have forgotten how." "I will bet that the' cigar you roll now won't smoke." said the friend, and got up and offered his seat to the president. Mr. Gompers was game, and would not take the bluff, although he confessed afterward that he did not know exactly how he was going to make out with the experiment. The way he took hold of the material, however, showed that he was good for the test He was probably not fast enough to command as high wages as he did when he was at his best, but in a much shorter time than was ex pected by the spectators he had a cigar rolled and was puffing away In a way that showed that It was a good one. "This Is a cheap cigar." said he, and went to work at once and made another, which ho slyly put In his pocket. "I can make them easier than I con buy them." said he. and got up and had a good laugh over the way he had fooled the boys. There were several of the clgarmakers that had known Mr. Gompers years ago, and he had a pleasant visit before he went back to his rooms and resumed his work. Aside from this short recreation, he was In his rooms all day, working and meeting the various union officers that had matters about which they wished to consult him. He expressed himself as well pleased with the showing the unions have made in the city, and says Portland is becoming one amofig the best-organized cities in the country. Those who sought his advice say that he Is a very deep thinker, and that they will profit much by his visit. He has not yet been"askcd concerning the strike sltautlon here, but h.e will be here all day today, and the matter will prob ably be looked Into. Max Morris, secretary-treasurer of the Retail Clerks' International Union, who, with his wife. Is accompanying Mr. Gom pers on his tour, 13 especially interested In the Retail clerks UIon, and spent much of the time visiting Its officers and making susgestlons to them as to the best methods to pursue. He is also the fourth vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, and Is the only vice president west of the Mississippi. He takes a marked interest in all of the labor organizations. This is his first trip to the Coast, and he is well pleased with the reception he has received while here, and says he thinks the Oregon climate cannot be beaten. He says Portland Is a well-organized city, and that the clerks' union has done especially well. "We have over GOO members In this city." said he. "and they are all good union men. They have brought about a good con dition of the clerks, and the wages that are paid here are good as compared with other cities. The stores close early, and, to take It all in all. there are but fw places where the clerks enjoy a better con dition. Our aim now is to get all of the friends of organized labor to help us to POOD TREATMENT. Old Stomacli Made Over. Improper me'dlclne knocks out as. many stomachs as bad fcod. but proper fcod will nearly always restore the health that Nature Intended. "I suffered with chronic constipation for a long time, and two years ago became an invalid,- being unable to retain any. thing on my stomach," says Mrs. F. 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Corp., Solo Props., Boston, IT. 3. A fUlTinunfl BrCftlUCMT nil!? (Chocolate Coated) aro a new, tasteless, 1 itiUliA nLoULftn ! r iUO odorless, economical subacute forthe cele brated liquid CtmccKA Iiesolvkxt, as -well as for all other blood pnriflew and huroout enres. Put up In pocket vials, containing 60 doses, price 25c. Ccticpea Pili-s arc altera tive, antiseptic, tonic, and illcestivc, and beyond question the purest, s-sroetesi, most successful anil economical blood acd alila pursers, humour cares, aad tonlc-digestivea vut coinoounded. make the clerks' union one of the strong est there is In the country. "We -want every one who goes Into a store to buy anything to ajk that a union cleTk wait upon him. and we want them to demand tnat tne cirK snow ms caru as evidence ( 5 mm cocoanuc ou. ineir countenances that he Is a member of the union. If we strong and In most cases pleasing, rath could get them to do this, soon every j er than forbidding. A thing that at onco clerk would have to join the" union, and I Impresses the visitor Is the varied and wc would have great strength." striking manner in which both men and During the day he was shown about the women the former especially arrange city by the president of the clerks union, their hair. Here a man Is seen whose T. Ferry, and met. a number of the local Pate seems covered with a thick coating labor leaders. Ke Is tvers Inch a union of whitewash: there another whose locks. man, and gave them s.orac good sugges tions. Sir. Mahon was taken in charge by the street-car men, and was not to be seen very much during the day. He spent the time tiding- and talking with them, and Ja the evening delivered two addresses, one at the theater, and one at the union hall after the mass meeting was over. - FIJI ISLANDERS. Talk "With n. Cannibal on Taste of Human Flesh. Chicago News, -v writer In the Scientific American says of a recent visit to the FIJI Islands: "I met an aged man at Mlbau who gave me much Interesting information on can nibalism. His father, he said, had beon a famous trenchman In the good old days, and although he denied that he himself had ever eaten the flesh of his kind, yet In the course of his descrip tion he fingered my arms and pinched my legs and poked cne In the ribs In a man ner which seemed to me not altogether Platonic Fijian fle3h, he stated, was superior to that of white men, who tasted of the salt they ate with almost evorythlng while a tough old sailor was practically a waste of raw material from the tobacco and grog with which a life before the mast had a tendency J.o flavor the human system. Interrogated as to choice cuts, he gave the palm to the head the brains and eyes being particu larly desirable, and the cheeks, especially in young subjects, submitting to baking very kindly Indeed. The upper part of the arm, too, and the calf and upper portion of the leg. were not to be de spisedbut, said the epicure, as for the rest of the body, "throw him away." In the afternoon this Interesting savage came around for me to get my gun and go Into the bush with him, where he would "show me plenty parrots." After the enthusiasm of his morning descrlp- Brewed from carefully selected bar.cy and hops never permitted to S3 1 oi y C1IAS. KOHN St CO.. DISEASES OF MEN And Their Certain Cure J. HESRI KESSLElt, 31. D. 21a nnger. EXAMINATIONS FREE VARICOCELE THE DISEASE. An enlargement of the veins surrounding the spermatic eortL a twl3ted, knotted, wormy-like or swollen appearance of the scrotum. Tiiii CAUSE Sometimes self-pollution, but often blows, falls, strains, excessive horseback or bicycle-riding. THE EFFECT At times a dull, heavy, dragging pain In small of back, extending down through loins Into the part3. low spirits, weakne.33 of body and brain, nervpua debility, partial or complete loss of sexuaL power and often' failure of general health. THE CURE If you are a victim of this dlro disease, come to my office and let me explain to you my process of- treating IL Tou will then not 5-o"d,5r.wvy 1 have cured, to stay cured, more than 7C0 cases of VARICO CELE during the pet 12 months. Under my treatment the patient improves ' from the very -beginning. All pain Instantly ceases. 3oreness and swelling quickly subside. The pools of stagnant blood are forced from the dilated veins, which rapidly assume their normal size, strength and soundness All Indications of disease and wenkr.ees vanish completely and forever, and In their Head comes the pride, the power, and tho pleasures of perfect health and restored manhood. " I alBocure to stay cured forrver. Stricture. Syphilitic Blood Poison Im potency and all acenrlate diseases and weaknesses of men. To these ma ladies alone I have earnestly devoted my whole professional life If you cannot call at my office, write me your symptoms fully. My hems treatment by correspondence Is always e-uccessful. My counsel is fre"and sacredly confidential, and I give each patient a legal contract in writing to hold for my promise. Address u 6 " J. H. KESSLER, M. D.? Cor. Yamhill and Second, Portland, Or. f Women tlon. however, I thought it prudent- to decline. The Fljlans are a stalwart race; very tall and muscular, for the most part. j their skins soft' as velvet from anolnt- radlating In every direction from his skull as If they were electrified, could hardly be Inserted In a bushel basket. The former state Is but a preliminary to tho second. The natives plaster their hair with a kind of paste made of pow dered coral mixed with water, which, after hardening and then being broken up. stiffens the hair and bleaches It from Its natural black to odd shades of red and dull yellow thus producing strange effects In combination with the dark brown skins of the people. "Will at Last Found. NEW YORK. Aug. 4. The will of Thomas F. Lane, the American represen tative of Vlckers & Maxim, who died In Washington. D. C. nearly two years ago, has been found In a safe deposit vault fn "Washington, according to rela tives of Mr. Lane, at Summit, N. J. His widow, who was a daughter of. Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, died recently In addition to the will there was a docu ment dated October 33, 1900. transferring "for love and affection and ether good and valuable considerations" all his right, title and Interest in 1S0O shares of the stock of the Vlckers Company to his mother, brothers and Bisters, besides a sum bf money. One-half of his estate, exclusive of this portion, wa3 given . to his wife. For many years Mr. Lane was active in New Jersey politlci. Xo Chinese Wanted. LONDON, Aug. 4. The Johannesburg correspondent of the Times strongly pro tests. In a dispatch, against the attempts of some Influential houses to remedy the scarcity of labor by tho Introduction Into the colony of Chinese, and declares If those attempts are seriously pushed the government must Intervene. The corre spondent adds that the government has a lready undertaken to promote Immigra tion of women to South Africa by assist lng them with passage monev and advanc ing the remainder of the funds for the J ourney. Distributers. Po rtlnnd. There Is a certain cure for these dis eases without resorting to those unpleas ant and painful methods still used by many, which aggravate, rather than give relief. With the same certainty as" that of a perfect diagnosis. I adapt my special French treatment to the radical cure. of Stricture, Frostatla, Inflammation of the Bladder, Private Disorders, Varicocele, And all Genito-Uninry Diseases It affords Instant relief. I remove every vestige of disease wltohut resorting to those painful processes usually employed and .which -Jo not give satisfaction. It Is not reasonable to suppose that a man can ' exercise the essential functions while the urinary channel Is blocked by stricture or other disease, which destroys the vital power and which becomes more aggravated under Improper treatment. These diseases, while they last, always detract from the sexual and bladder functions, and an early cure Is always advisable.