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return» tn opt er calling» and vocation»
are »o much better that young men will
not enlist. While tha salary may have
something to do with tbs small num­
ber entering the service of Uncle Sam
and white the wages should be increas­
ed
cn to provide at least the
amount paid a farm hand for labor,
c*M af <3 vttefl® »nd Weston vs. tlwr® to reason to believe that reforms
r »soft ta I m ffdnf ag«!u* ite dé­ in the army and navy are needed in
fait
order that recruit» may be attracted.
The glamour of army lite would hold
U <x*r® |1MI' to paint the E1#M
young men If the privates were treat­
tawar It !• cb«¡Wr to Lar* • White
ed as they should be. Instead of being
•Uÿhaut o» b»nd.
made to serve petty Officers who wish
to show their authority. There Is too
stole
When the bandits near
much flunkeyism In both the army and
tiw« harem® we snppos® they niur-
navy, and if something more of u dem­
»»»red the kloor the merrier.
ocratic spirit exlstdd between the men
The judge ths say» that marriage is aid the officers, there would not be
a »ore for druiUentMaa should produce the great »umber of deserters as now
a few atetlfitlcfi a» an evldeuee </f good reported. Any young man who bus
red blood In him objects to being mad«
a mental and compelled to blacken ths
•Fatbar of twelve Jose« hl» liberty,” officers’ Shoes or perform other humili­
assigned
Mounce» a morning paper. Evidently ating task» that are often
* poor man waa »eut»ueud to »ui/purt him. A conspicuous example of tha
Insolence of some of th« petty officers
a family.
was shown a few years ago In Con­
Th» reappearance of tha Congres- necticut, when a private resented the
•»*! Record ba» also relieved the Insult^ of a sergeant at a theater by
WTSpplu»’ paper stringency in the coun­ shooting him, and the story is well
try newepApar .office».
known of Gunner Morgan in the navy,
who was denied promotl«\i because hs
»■ Australian physician la hcsimlng waa. not up In ball room etiquette. The
fitor milk »■ th« ellilr of lite. We’U tendency of some of the officers to be
to«« to admit that.»our tnjlk Is all on dress parade w‘aa shown »•eeently,
«• m for pwopla with whom It »free® when objection was made to the as­
signment of the Philippine squadron
it cartalnly ••arica one, after ,ra- to Sublg bay, which Admiral Dewey
■m ha* fona down to fl,000,000. an urged was the most effective point for
oca, to hekr people declare that the service, the ridiculous argument being
at of living la •• high as It ever was. advanced that this assignment would
deprive the officers of the social ’ privi­
•hat la to become of our boasted 11b- lege« of Manila. In the civil and
WKkM If 11 m » lordly sophomore cannot Spanish ware, men did not desert tlielr
•® m the pleblan freshmau without te- colors. Despite the carping critics of
*Hg dragged before an uneducated court the regular army, the volunteer sol­
»• m * insds to psy • vulgar final
dier In th« militia who waa treated
soinawhat oq an equality by his officers
Tffir* new doga for th« J?«w York was on hand when wanted.
Disci­
fftltw “ar» trained to regard with aua- pline in the ranks is essential to ef­
gkrlon everyone who do«» not wear a fective service, but when off duty a
•ilform.” Th* ev«rage American clti- feeling of fellowship between officers
•m 1« trained juet tha other way •nd men should be encouraged as
tending fo Improve the morale of the
James O’Neill announces that ha haa army. • America 1» a democratic na­
flayed the tltla vol« In “Th* Count of tion and must depend on the patriot-
MINERS ENTOMBED FOR WEEKS.
Wiota Crlwto” 2,00t> timas. Peopl« lam of it» citizens for defense in time
of
peril.
But
the
tendency
to
make
a
Who have bad.to a»« ths play thraa or
Three Men Buried a Thousand Feet
tor times will sxt«ud to him their lot of strutting peacocks out of army
Underground in Nevada.
and
naval
officers
and
allow
them
to
Itorttelt sympathy.
One
morning early in December a
wipe their feet on the private soldier
sudden
crash of timbers, a muffled
Is
rapidly
bringing
the
military
Into
Cobden-Sanderson, th« English
•MFragett«, says American women are disfavor. To invoke conscription would clatter of rock and cloud of dust told
•twrssted in nothing but themselves, be fatal. Th« American people would the engineer of the Alpha mine, near
■rw Cobden-Henderson has evidently never consent to It in time of peace, Ely, Nev., that the five men he had
*sv«v beard two or more Ajnerican and they would eliminate the present just sent down in the cage were buried.
standing army rather than force young He gave the alarm and a thousand
wwwbsn dlw-useing cloth««.
men Into the army now. Improve con­ men, eager to be of service, gathered
ditions
surrounding the life of the reg­ about the shaft. Supt. Gallagher care­
'Richmond Pesreon Hobson’s fam» Is
fully picked the men he wanted, noti­
ure.” says an exchange, “but who ular soldier, stop the monarchlal flun­
fied others that he might call upon
keyism,
give
the
private
a
chance
to
1 tlaas pert paragraphe!» who are
them later and at once began efforts to
itlnually jabbing him?” Why, they advance, provide a system of training
communicate with the entombed men,
where
he
can
reach
even
the
positions
1 the hard-working gentlemen who
•loping some might have escaped death.
re helped to make his name secure now held exclusively by West Point
Before nightfall he learned that two
graduates, snd, above all, Injecd a lit­
tle democratic spirit Into the army and Greeks were caught in the cave-iu and
A tea kettle containing $3,000 In grtld navy, and the young men of the coun- • i*uried alive, but that the three Ameri-
warn dug up recently on ■ Connecticut
cans, Bradley, Brown and McDonald,
try will do the rest.
ftrai where It bad evidently .teen bur­
j were in no immediate danger. A six-
ked many years ago. The man who
inch pipe runs from the mouth of the
“American It la.’»
••rled II was probably one Of the fool-
shaft
to the bottom and by removing
Th« manner In which Americana
fth people who Insist on boarding, and
“do” Europe la a constant source of the cap from its base the imprisoned
it la only proper, therefore, that gome-
bewilderment and amusement to the men managed to talk with Gallagher.
tody
is to have fun with bls
foreign mind. The Rev. John Watson, They told him they had a little food
—Ian Maclaren—whose death occurred and water enough for two or three
days.
Queen Victoria’s letters, which have tn thia country, gives In “Our Neigh­
With rubber devices Gallagher passed
bors
”
nn
account
of
a
“
snap
shot
”
visit
_^*ently been published, are an impor­
food
and liquids down tlie pipe and
tant contribution to the Intimate his­ he once received. *
wits soon able to supply the men. He
It
Is
now
several
years
ago
that
h
tory of an age of English thought and
started a drift toward them and at
literature which bears her name. Her tall, thin man followed his card Into first it seemed probable that he would
my
study
with
such
rapidity
I
bad
tetters to Tennyson, published some
reach them In a week. Before that
years ago, and other first-hand records barely time to read it before the vlslt- time the unforeseen happened and the
or was In the room.
erf her which have trickled Into print,
rescuers were compelled to make new
"My name Is Elijah K. Higgins a
have long sine« dispelled the Idea that
I am a busy man. You are also bur. plans. It was then announced that ten
*• win only a aymbol and a name
and have no time to fool away. Four days would be sufficient to get to the
die new volumes show more abundant­
days la all I can give te> the United miners, but fresh accidents beyond the
ly that ahe waa a keen, vigorous think­
Kingdom and I wished to shake hands pale of prevention delayed the work­
er about men and event a If she had a
with you.
Good-bye, I am off to ers, Now Gallagher declines to make
•»nhia for atateamanahlp. ahe had alao
predictions and simply says that he
Drumtochty.”
• gen 111a for an art quite •• rare, th*
I calculate that Mr. Higgins spent will continue his effort as long as ht»
*t of letter writing.
I'be men
thirty Second» In my study, He left has strength to direct It.
so swiftly I only overtook him at the can be saved, he declares, and he will
in unusual method of construction front door. I asked him If he knew save them.
law been adopted for the Michigan Cen- where Drumtocbty was.
The entombed miners spend their
•il Kaliroad tunnel under the Detroit
“Guess I* do. Got route In pocket. long days far more cheerfully than
afvar. Instead of boring a hole under Northwest from Perth."
might be expected In such circuni-
•to river and lining It with masonry • Jn two seconds he was whirling stances. To safeguard them in case
*v Iron, the tunnel la bull» lu sections away in a fast hansom. As I returned the rescue party Is delayed. Supt. Gal­
at a shipyard In St. Clair and floated and Imagined my visitor conjpassing lagher has supplied them with enough
fi’Vn the St. Clair river anil across St. Great Britain Ir» four days, I was for a provisions to last three weeks. Th«».v
•air Lak» to th» place In the Detroit 1 moment roust'd from that state of com- receive cooked food, eggs, milk, and
elver where It la Aealrtsl to yun trains .paratlve lethargy which we In England tobacco by means of a six-inch pipe
•r* «•
* trench haS’vtlready been call work,, and added six more engage­ running down the shaft. They have
•slg.'d In the bottom of the river, and ments to the afternoon's program. For 1 onnected the mine teleplume with an
•s tunnel Metlon is Sunk ihjo the days after, as often ns I was tempted electric cable, and are able to talk daily
•vnch and encased with enough ce- to rest In my cjinlr, the remembrance with their families and friends. They
•Mnt to hold It down. Each end of the of that whirlwind gave me renewed are well supplied with news.’ nnd have
tortion 1». of course plugged to keep • Igor
shown much interest in the Goldfield
•
•» water out, and ns a new section is
crisis. Tiny have plenty of light and
TBr Itirfrrn Way.
ton® it* and* are bolted to the ends
room to move about, so that If they
“Will ,«'>u have this here woman to
«* tbs »action »lra»dy In .place. Each
can endure the long delay they can
«arthsi 1» a »•«•! tuba two-hundred and be your lawful wedded wife?”
wait for rescue with confidence and
“▼hat’» what I 'lowed I would."
tMty fset long and twenty flirts» feet
comparative comfort.
“Will you love, honor and obey her?"
«nd four tnehn® In diameter. Ten of
The rescue party itself has dangers
"Ain’t you got that switched around,
•>«sa will ba laid In the trench In the
to face. A cave-ln below the temp >-
»Iver ht'ttoi»» making a total subaque- parson?" asked the bridegroom.
“John.” said the bride elect, “don’t rary platform of timbers upon which it
•to langth, for th® tunnel of more than
•waatywia fcundrud feet. The total you reckon the’ parson knows bls busi­ Is working might precipitate it hun­
dreds of feet. Each man works with
ltWfth of th» sxcasatlon. Including the ness’- Answer the question!"
“Yes. sir." said the bridegroom meek­ a rope about his waist, so that If all
land approaches Will be nearly two and
<»ahalf milt» Th» tunnel la to be ly. "I reckon I'll have to."—Atlanta suddenly find themselves without any
footing they can be hauled to safety.
coiTipleted In Jnna. 1309, at a coat of Constitution.
|10.(W.<M0 Th®
Clair rlrer. under
Which th» train» of the Grand Trunk
Railway ar» »arrled. Was tunneled by
•» mor® common method of boring a
tel® through th* ground under the riv-
« *K>d.
r«Tt of cotffirrlpMon to fill the Unit-
•A fitatto arm» «nd nnvy naturally
firing® th® Inquiry why conditions are
«prfi that there ®r« hot plenty of young
saw® •lllln® and eager to enter the
a«v«i«® of Uncle Ham. Although vari-
«m® «heorb® have been advanced, few
•f »lwm ar® Wnt I »factory. ■ One goner-
•11» •«'«»eftted the<wy I* that yotiag men
b»v® «ton «»fferefl better inducements
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niufr.
”Y«a.” boasted the fortune hunting
rannt, “nil of our old family enstlea
were on high mountains. My ancestorr
all lived on big bluffs.”
"Indeed.” replied the wise heiress,
“and I see that you take after them.
count."
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A
Tempting Chance.
Jone» That young man who plays
the comet Is 111. Green—Do you think
he will recover? Jones—I am nfrahl
not. The doctor who Is nthatdlng hltn
Ilves next door. London TH Bite.
:
We never knew any one who did Qot
talk "shop" too much.
SieKlect Mnklntz of Alcohol.
SATE NOW
ÏK1 MTJ-SAlOON FIGHT.
A
lt)»t<to corr»«i>ond»nv«
Vested right» as represented fir (Ar
breweries, distilleries and )!®uor dQ
®rs, have begun to petition Congseto tA
anticipation of a strong move In fuvar
of prohibitory legislation at th«» bands
of the national lawmakers, l’rlniarfti
the petitions are aline I against a “dm
capital city, which is th«» object tliw
ujMm by temperance ¡issiwltitlons whiss
teve teen eticourttg«>4 by the prohlki
tion wave that r«»«vntly swegit vartene
»»»ettonH of th«» country.
For some time a well organized l«bbv
has been doing quiet preliminary wosk
In the Interest of the atitl-prohlblttan
Interests, which have b«»en made m«r«
anxious over the possibltltlcs of legh*
lation In the near future than surfa«»
Indications would lend one to bellev«.
The belief is entertained that the yv«
hfbltlon elements are bent on driv Ing
liquor out of the country’s capital ter
the moral effect such an accomplish
ment would have Iti still further na
tlonnlfzing the general
prohibition
movement.
Tlie question before studrnts «f ft«
situation who are able to look at b«tk
sides without having tlielr view warp«»
by prelinXice Is this; Has the pro’ifki
tion tide reached Its flood, and will •
reaction presently set in; or will tto
wave sweep on without serious IntSv
ruptlon until It has converted tha en
tire country Into a land of no Ilcens»*
With this.qnestion in mind the work
ers on one*sid«> will put forth efforts to
’ make the-capltnl’ of the United Mtnte»
a temperance capital, while thos« ••
the other hope that by downing th»
movement here tte way Will be pnva*
for reaction .front the results reet’ntk»
brought about In several of the Sint*
especially those of the south.
The chances seem to be against »»y
Urastlc legislation on the subject .by
Congress tills winter Possibly more at
tention might te given to the subject If
the Republicans nnd Democrats dldw’t
have so much to think about In the ■•
ture of politics pertaining to Preside«
tial candidates next year. And If aettea
Is staved off the “antis" figure on •
reversal of sentiment that will not r*
quire them to worry so much in tte te
ture.
But there Is another side to tte an»
prohibition propaganda now In progres»
here which deals with the subjew-
wholly apart from the local Iswte hi
volved. The attempt Is being made ta
Impress upon Congress tte niagnltn®«
of the whole prohibition question wit®
the argument that If prohibition »»•
hlhlted the government system of tax
atlon would have to te revised. Inn«
mn' h as two-thirds of the governm««®»
Income Is now derived from Inter»».'
revenue taxes.
BUT IT WAS SCARY FOB AWHILE.
THREE MEN BURIED IN A NEVADA MINE.
/TE.W PIPE
WA7T7? P/PF -
U¿>ED TO SEND
SUPPLIES.
POIHT TO BOTTOM
CHAMBER AT 1000f'T-
LEVEL WHERE
AREEHT0MBED
TO LIMIT. IMMIGRATION.
Japanese and American Officials Out-
line Plan at Tokio.
Ttiere is reason to believe that, the
entire questuai of emigration of. the
Japanese to America-has been satisfac­
torily settled, at least for the present,
after a series of conferei?-es tietWeoii
United States Ambassador O'Brien and
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hayashi in
Tokio.
It Is understood that nt tlielr last
meeting, the representatives»<>£ the Jap­
anese government outlined a plan by
which it is agr«s»«| to limit emUrraklon
to students ami commercial men hav­
ing means of supi*>rt, and entirely to
prevent Japanese laborers froiii going
to America.. This arrangement will en­
tail the closest supervision on th«» part
of the Japanese authorities. As the
agreement is verbal,
Aniitnssador
O’Brian accepted It provisionally, but
maintained that any violation of its
terms would seriously embarrass a
friendly government. It is said that
Foreign Minister Hayashi will exercise
absolute control.
Snritery
for
Insanity.
The report of the commissioner of inter­
Dr. N. M. Owensby of Baltimore has
nal revenue shows that since the passage crented something of a stir in medical
of the free denatured alcohol bill only ten circles by asserting that dementia pree-
mills have been set up for turning out cox, or precocious insanity, had tieen
this product, notwithstanding the fact cuted in recent cases by the use of the
that the Treasury Department has sent knife to relieve the thyroid gland of nn
out pamphlets instructing the farmers excess of certain chemicals in the blood
how to manufacture the spirits. While or tte accretions. Out of five eases so
the distilleries are permitted to use anv treated, ail but one are said to have re
material whatever in producing this spirit, covered, whereas the diswise hits gener
Pv^iuct so far has been mainly from ally been regard«*! as incurable.
Dr.
corn. It is said that in Germany there Spitzka of the Jefferson Medical College,
are about 70,000 farm distilleries produc­ however, says that the theqry on which
ing industrial alcohol, which is a<>ld 10 Owensby operated I.* not been prove«!.
consumers for about 27 cents a gallon.
while in th© country the average price in
Moro than 290 mon in New York City
jars working to improve .»utomobilas.
barrel lota is 30 cents a gallon
Portland Typographical Union content
plates the organization of a mutual ai<
society.
The entire membership' of Minn«wp«lir
Cigarmakers’ Union No. 77, is said t« k<
employed.
THE WAMIHGT0N
Ijist year the memliership of the BriS
.sh Amalgamated Society of Engineers in
MOtnMENT
creased 11,7S2.
COM TAPED WITH GHATT
Twenty-one new unions of horseshovr<
IM WHICH MEH APE.
have been organised in Massachusetts
during the last year.
JURIED» * • a.
A new union of mattress makers, car
pet layers, shade hangers and draperymar
lias beeb organized in Boston. Mass.
TELEPHONE
Seattle Central Labor Union is warn
ing union workingmen to give the coaa
territory a wide berth for the present.
Girous mine, Nevada, and dia-)
There is no such thing as organised la
frams showing plight of thre« bor in Porto Rico to amount to an influ
“nee for the betterment of the masses.
miners.
Common laborers in France are pair
40 to 50 cents a day. High-grade ra»
chanics arc paid from $1 to $1.20 a day
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.
Al) the stockholders of the Union Lun
. A Greek, bound to fatherland, tool I er Company, recently organized at Meia
wrong train out of Chicago and went tc phis, Tenn., are members of the Carpen
San Francisco.
t««rs' Union.
The Russian war department has or­
Granite cutters of the Twin Cities bar.
dered the formation of a military auto formed a ujiion embracing practically cv
mobile corps, to be’has«««I on the Gertnat cry member of the craft in Minneapofit
model.
vnd St. Paul, Minn.
Pierro Jules C.esnr Janssen, the cele­
There are only three engravers of short
brated French scientist and director ot hand in England. One lives at Fath, llr
the Mouls n obsor' atory. is dead in Pjiris has suggested to his two London fellow
i
II«» was born iq 1S24.
■
workers the propriety of a trad«» union.
William Crosby, a publisher of Bos
Efforts are being made in Brooklyn*
ton, who died the other day nt the a’gy of N. Y„ to bring aliout a' consolidation nt
S9 yenrs, once refused poems that were the fthoe Workers’ Council and the me in
offered by Longfellow.
• here of the Boot and Shoe Workers ol
Coj. Goethals and ex-Senator Black America.
burn have return«-«! from Panama and
Census reports show that wage« a me.a,
Jell President Roosevelt work on canal’ll» |shoemakers of the country have bee»
progressing satisfactorily.
steadily increjjsing.
Brockton (Mat®. >
Gov. Harris of Ohio pardoned \Villmn shoemakers fire the highest paid in t®e
Houck,» serving a life s«»nte4>ce on erttivic vorld, it Is alleged,
.
.
tioti of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Hhtss. at
There nr* two unions of brie® a«,
Bladensburg, Knox cjuinty.
building material handlers in Brooklyn,
\V. H. Williams, nu<-r of the b«anl N. Y., and. they have been at war wit®
of review of Columbus. Ohio, died of a each other. Efforts to bring a bant co*
stroke of paralysis, lie was one of thr solidsfioH will be mad*.
best known Democratic politicians in
The United States Bureau of Imeiigr«
Ohio.
tion is preparing to enforce the alien eon
Thomas W. Lawson of Bo*on nn tract law more rigorously than befos*
nouncei that he is going to start a n»’w with a view of keeping out of the countay
political party nnd run Roosei«Jt foi many undesirable ]>ersons.
The societies not affiliate»«] with tte
President and Gov. John A. Johnson ol
American Federation of Labor have fi
M Hl 1 esota for Vice President.
membership of alsiut JJttO.OtlO, making tfia
The National Red Gross Society haa be
membership of all the Inltor societies «1
gnn an active campaign for new members
the United States, in the aggregate, ab»»f
Circulars an<1 appli«ation blanks are lieiuji
2.500.000.
s« nt out iv large numbers. The nations
The Georgia Federation of I-aboV nee*
Isaly possess«»» more than Kl.tMMi members ed considerable surprise recently who«
but it is hoped to greatly enlarge th® it went on record, at a meeting of the tr»
membership.
ecutive committee, deprecating the redu»>
Elinor Glyn, the English writer, whos» tion in mWroad rates and fares through
book, "Three Weeks." was the cause ol legislation, and opposing further legisla­
her Ireing snubbsd by the Pilgrim Moth tion of this kind. It is contended that
ers in New \ork. « alls the motlrers. hi an labor conditions in the South have bse«
interview-, “an aggregation of dowds distorted by legislation which caused th«
frumps and tab! > - nt« a lot of bntsst- shortening of hoots, and thereby a redi*»
less, slab-htppisl. pancake &«oted irightf tion in the wffges. ns well ns ewiising •
of things."
numter of wart men to te laid •*
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