Heppner gazette., June 07, 1906, Image 2

Prisoners and Captives
By H. S.
CHAPTER V. (Continued.)
The idlers in the shipping office at
Tower Hill were treated on the following
morning to a strange sight. According to
formula, the brokers of the Martial had
Indicated to the shipping authorities their
desire to pay off the crew of the vessel.
Shortly before the hour named a nunibor
of women began to assemble. Some were
dressed respectably, others were of the
lowest class that London produces ; but
all made some attempt at mourning. One
or two wore their crape weeds with that
Incomprehensible feminine pride in such
habiliment which shows itself in all
grades of society, while others were clad
In black rusty, ill-fitting, evidently bar
rowed. A common sorrow, a mutual in
terest, served as introduction among these
ladies, and they talked eagerly together.
Scraps of conversation floated over the
black bonnets. One had lost her husband,
another her son, a third only her brother.
"Ain't he come yet?" they asked one
another at Intervals. "Th .urvlvor 'im
that brought 'er 'ome with his own hands.
I wanter ask him about my man about
bis end."
At last a hansom cab turned the cor
ner of the Minorles and pulled up noisily
on the noisy stones. Claud Tyars threw
open the doors and stepped out. He had
come to be paid off; he was the crew of
the Martial.
In a moment he was surrounded by the
women, every one clamoring for news of
her dead sailor. The broker's clerk, an
observant youth, noticed that during the
half hour that followed Tyars never re
ferred to his log-book, but answered each
question unerringly from memory. He
gave details, dates and particulars with
out hesitation or doubt It was rerhaps
owing to a knowledge of the commercial
value of a good memory that the young
clerk made note of these details. He
was not observant enough to take account
of the finer shades of manner, of the in
finite tact with which the survivor of the
crew treated the women folk of his late
comrades. He did not detect the subtle
art by which some were sent away re
joicing over the dogged, dauntless courage
of their husbands; he was only conscious
of a feeling of admiration for this man
who, hitherto, had hardly noticed him.
But he failed to discern that the difficult
task was accomplished unconsciously. He
did not realize that Claud Tyars possess
ed a gift which is only second to genius
in worldly value the gift of unobtrusive
ly ruling his fellow men.
As Tyars drove away from the ship
ping office he saw the street news vend
ers displaying their .posters with the
words, "A Wonderful Story of the Sea"
printed in sensational type.
"Hang it!" he muttered, with a vexed
laugh, "I never counted on a notoriety of
this sort."
Presently he bought an evening paper
and read of the exploits of "Captain"
Tyars with a singular lack of pride.
When Mr. Lowell, the owner of the
Martial, offered him the command of the
ship the same afternoon he gravely and
politely declined it. With the ship-owner,
as with Lieut. Grace, Tyars appeared
quite blind to the necessity of an expla
nation, and none was asked.
So ended the Incident of the Martial.
Its direct bearing upon the life of Claud
Tyars would seem to terminate at the
same moment ; but indirectly the experi
ence thus acquired influenced his career,
formed to some extent his character, and
led as all things great and small lead
UB-r-to the end.
CHAPTER VI.
In the meantime Lieut. Grace had re
ceived at the hands of his father and
sister a warm welcome.
Without announcement of any descrip
tion he made his way from the Admiralty
to Brook street and knocked at his fath
er's door. He found the old gentleman
and Miss Helen Grace engaged in the
consumption of afternoon tea.
"Oswin !" exclaimed the old admiral.
"I thought you were on the African
coast."
Helen Grace was a young lady not
much given to exclamatory" expressions of
feeling. She rose from the low chair
she habitually occupied and kissed her
brother. Then she turned his face to
ward the light by the collar of his coat.
"Have you been invalided home?" she
asked.
"No."
"But the Foam Is out there still," put
In the Admiral, eager to show his Inti
mate knowledge of official matters.
"Yes. I came home on a derelict. A
fine, big ship without a crew. All dead
of yellow fever except one. I am glad
that he was picked out by Providence to
survive."
"Why?" inquired Helen.
"Because I like him."
"What was he, an officer?" asked the
Admiral.
"Second mate, holding a captain's cer
tificate. I have asked him to dinner to
morrow night."
"Oh !" murmured Helen, doubtfully.
"With bis dog the other survivor."
"Ah !" said Helen in a more interested
tone. "Io they know how to behave
themselves ?"
"I think so both of them," was the
reply. "Although we did not dress for
dinner on board the MartiaL
"It seems to me," observed the Ad
miral, with an easy chuckle, "that you
did not devote much time at all to the
question of toilet."
"No," replied Grace, frankly. "We
were a shady crew. You see, there were
only ten of us to navigate a thousand
ton ship full rigged. We had no time
for personal adornment. You will see
all about it in the evening paper. I
brought one frith me on purpose. May I
have some tea, Helen? It is months sine
I have seen such an article as bread and
butter."
The' girl hastened to supply his wants.
performing her duties with a deft aure
nesa of touch where maidens ar not
dolls. While Grace was performing won
ders among the dainties supplied to him.
bis father read aloud the details of his
deeds upon the high seas, and Helen
listened with a faint smile of pride upon
her refined face.
"And this man " she Inquired, when
tbs paragraph bad been duly digested
MERRIMAN
"the man you have asked to dinner
what is he like?"
The naval officer helped himself to a
limp slice of bread and butter with great
thoughtfulness.
"That Is just the difficulty, my dear,"
he replied. "I cannot tell you what he
is like, because I don't know. I do not
understand him that is the long and
short of it. He Is above me."
"I suppose," suggested the Admiral,
who held the keener study of human
nature in some contempt, "that he is
merely a rough sailor man a merchant
captain?"
"No, he is hardly that. I want you,"
continued the lieutenant, after a pause,
turning to his sister, "to judge for your
self, so will not tell you what I think
about him."
"Then he is interesting?"
"Yes, I think you will find him Inter
esting."
Helen was already seeking In her mind
how things could be made easy and com
fortable for the unpolished hero whom
her brother had so unceremoniously in
troduced into the house.
"Agnes Winter was coming to-morrow
to dine, but she can be put off," she ob
served, carelessly.
"Agnes Winter why should she be put
off? Let her come, by all means."
The little man's manner was perhaps
too Indifferent to be either natural or
polite. He was either unconsciously ruda
or exaggerating an Indifference he did not
feel. Helen, however, continued her re
marks without appearing to notice any
thing. "Would you not," she Inquired, while
replacing in its vase a flower that had be
come displaced, "rather have him quite
alone when we are by ourselves, I
mean?"
"Oh, no. He is all right. If he Is
good enough for you, he is good enough
for Agnes Winter."
"Has he got a suit of dress clothes?"
asked the Admiral, with a blunt laugh.
Lieut. Grace let his hand fall heavily
upon his thigh with a gesture of mock
regret.
"I quite forgot to ask him," he ex
claimed, dramatically.
"There is some mystery attached to
this person," laughed Helen. Her laugh
ter was a little prolonged in order that
her father, whose duller sense of humor
sometimes failed to follow his son's fan
cy, might comprehend that this was a
joke.
"Well," said the old gentleman, thrust
ing his hands deeply into his pockets, "I
like a man to come to my table in a
claw-hammer coat."
CHAPTER VII.
Helen's eyes rested for a moment on
her brother's face. With an almost Im
perceptible movement of lid and eyebrow
he reassured her.
"What time Is dinner? I told him to
come at 7 o'clock," said he, holding out
his cup for more tea.
"That Is right," answered Helen.
"You would have done better," said
the Admiral, still unpaclfled, "to have
given the man a dinner at your club."
"Oh ! replied his son, serenely, I
wanted you and Helen to make bis ac
quaintance ; besides, I could not have In
vited Muggins to the club.
"Muggins !" growled the old gentleman,
interrogatively.
"The dog."
"Ah I Is he a presentable sort of fel
low, then, that you want your sister to
meet him?"
"The dog?" Inquired Grace, with much
innocence.
"No," laughed his father, despite him
self ; "the man Tyre, or Sldon, or what
ever his name is."
"Tyars. Yes; I think so. Tyars is
distinctly presentable, or else I would not
have suggested his coming to dine witn
Helen and Agnes Winter."
Helen had moved away toward the
window, and was now leaning against the
folded and old-fashioned shutter. She
turned and looked at her brother as he
spoke, with that gentle, womanly scru
tiny.
Like her brother, Helen Grace favored
to some extent a gravity of demeanor
when in repose, and her face was of that
refined type which possesses a great mo
bility. Some faces there are which seem
to have brought from old times a recol
lection of gay knights, full of poetry and
full of fight; of troubadours and patient
women. Oswin and Helen Grace were of
this mold. In profile the chiseling of
either face was perfect, for Helen was
but a refined miniature of her brother;
and in smiling their gray eyes lighted up
with the self-same soft merriment.
As she stood in the soft sunlight look
ing sideways toward her brother her ten
derness was visible. These two were the
only children of a dead mother, who if
she had never quite understood her hus
band had at all events possessed the pow
er of loving her children. Oswin Grace
had left home early, as all naval men
must, and during the short spells allowed
to him by a grateful country as recrea
tion he had not learned to know his sis
ter very well not well enough to forget
that he owed to her the respect due to all
women.
The two men now started a conversa
tion upon very nautical matters, employ
ing such technical terms and waxing so
interested that Helen sought a chair near
the window and settled down to listen
with respectful silence. When the Ad
miral had left the room Oswin crossed
the floor and stood beside his sister, his
scrutinizing glance cast downward.
"How is Agnes Winter?" he asked.
"She is very well. Did those flowers
remind you of her?"
"Ye-es," he replied, slowly. I wonder
whyr
"Because she arranged them, I sup
pose," suggested the girl, looking up sud
denly, as if struck at the possibility of
her idea being of some weight.
"Perhaps so. She is not engaged yet?"
Helen threaded a needle with some
care and stooped over her work.
"No ; she is just the same as ever. Al
ways busy, always happy, always a fa
vorite. Bat one never hears the slight
est rumor of an engagement, or even a
flirtation."
"While " A fine. Irllv. 'her dear
I friend flirts here and flirts there, but
keeps clear of the serious part of it all
with eaual skill."
I "Which friend?" Inquired Helen, In
nocently. I "Yourself."
' "Oh ! I have my duties. Papa could not
get on without me. Besides, I pever flirt.
Marriage and love and all that, my broth
er, have much more to do with conven
ience than is generally supposed.
"Indeed?" he inquired with fine sar
casm. "Yes ; I have studied the question. You
may know more about the slave trade
than I do, because you have had superior
advantages in that direction ; but I also
have had advantages, and from personal
observation beg to state that in nine cases
out of ten convenience is the source of
love in the tenth case it is propinquity."
"Thank you," he said, fervently. "I
will make a mental note of your observa
tions, and when I marry a plain and
stupid heiress perhaps you will withdraw
them."
She ignored his pleasantry.
"I often wonder," he said, thoughtfully,
"why somebody or other does not fall in
love with Agnes Winter."
After a pause he put forward a sug
gestion. "Because she will not let them, per
haps." "That may be so ; but surely a sensible
man does not wait to be allowed."
"The question," he answered, with
mock gravity, "is rather beyond me. It
is hard to say what a sensible man would
do, because in such matters no rule can
be laid down defining where sense begins
and foolishness ends. The man who got
Agnes Winter would be sensible, however
he did it."
Presently the girl went to dress for
dinner, leaving her brother standing ot
the window, whistling softly beneath his
breath.
CHAPTER VIII.
If there had been any doubts enter
tained or discussed as to the presenta
bility of Claud Tyars in polite circles,
these were destined to an instant re
moval when that individual entered the
drawing room of No. 105 Brook street.
His dress, if It erred at all, did so on
the side of a too scrupulous adherence to
the latest dictates of society. His man
ners were those of a traveled and expe
rienced gentleman. That is to say, he
was polite without eagerness, pleasant
without gush, semi-interested, semi-indifferent.
Oswin Grace advanced to meet him
with a quick glance of satisfaction at his
irreproachable get-up, which Tyars show
ed no signs of having detected.
The necessary introductions were
made, and Tyars displayed the same per
fect knowledge of social habits up to
date. His bow was pure and simple, and
to the Admiral he offered his hand in a
calm, decisive way, which somewhat in
terfered with the old gentleman's digni
fied coldness.
"I think," said Helen at once, with a
characteristic desire to make things pleas
ont, "that we have met before."
She was looking up at Tyars, who,
being very tall, stood a head higher than
any one in the room, and in her eyes
there was no speculation, no searching
into the recesses of her memory. The re
mark was without interrogative hesita
tion. It was the assertion of a fact well
known to her, and yet her color changed.
"Yes," answered Tyars; "I had the
pleasure of dancing with you on. several
occasions at the Commemoration three
years ago."
"But you are not an Oxford man?"
put in Lieut. Grace.
"No."
He did not seem to think it worth
while mentioning that his name was on
the books of the sister university.
"What a good memory you have, Mr.
Tyars !" observed Miss Agnes Winter in
a smooth, soft voice. "Perhaps you can
help mine. Have we met before? I know
your face."
He turned to her with a smile in which
there was no light of dawning recollec
tion. "Hardly," he replied. "But you were
sitting in the middle of the last row of
the stalls at a performance of 'Hamlet'
last autumn."
Tn h. onntlnnol.t
Looktns Forward.
Lending Lady Where Is my salary?
Theatrical Manager I'm very sorry,
but business has been bad this week,
and the ghost Is unable to walk.
Leading Lary Well, I must have my
money or I'll quit
Theatrical Manager Don't worry;
we'll have all kinds of money next
week. We play In a section of the coun
try where you are not known.
It All Depends.
Mrs. Caller Mrs. Gabbleton Is an
awful talker and I used to thluk she
always told the truth.
Mrs. Homer And now you think oth
erwise? Mrs. Caller I certainly do. One
can't believe a word she says.
Mrs. Homer So slie has begun to
talk about you, has she?
t'n professional.
"Say," growled the sjxirtlng editor,
"what do you mean by saying the light
weight boxer weighs 122 jMiunds?"
"Well, that's what lie weighed," pro
tested the new reporter.
"He didn't do anything of the kind,"
retorted the s. e. "He 'tipped the
scales.' "
Sis Week Later.
She (after eloix'inent) I received a
letter from papa to day.
He Well?
She He writes that he had Just fin
ished making his will.
He Did he remember us?
She Yes, Indeed. He has left all his
money to an asylum for hojieless Idiots.
Snap for the Hero.
"Your play Is too commonplace,"
said the manager, as he handed back
the manuscript "There Is no snap to
It"
"No snap!" echoed the author. "Why.
the hero marries an orphan girl with
a million dollars In tht? last act,"
Handle the Boaea.
Myer Black tells me he has a broth
er who Is a rattling good actor.
Gyer That'a a fact He's one of
titc end men In a mlustrel show.
Potato Cutting- Table.
When one has a large area to plant
to potatoes the work of cutting the
seed tubers in the ordinary way is not
inconsiderable. One who Is handy can
readily make the seed cutter here de
scribed and save considerable time lu
preparing the seed for planting. Build
a table about three feet deep and six
feet wide, setting on it legs so it will
stand about twenty-nve inches from
the floor, just high enough so the av
erage man can get his knees under It
comfortably when sitting down. Have
a back to the table a foot high, with
sides cut so that at the front end they
will be not more than six inches high.
A similar board is run down the cen
ter, thus making a table at which two
can work. In the side pieces, about
three Inches from the end that Is open,
the front end, cut a hole eight Inches
long. A basket Is set under this hole,
on the floor, and the cut tubers are
passed through the hole Into the bas
ket. This Is done so that by a move
ment of the hand the cut pieces may
be dropped into the basket, rather than
have the cutter reach over or around
to drop the pieces,' which would be
necessary if the baskets were behind
him or at the sides. Tall baskets are
used eenerally. although the ordinary
peach basket will answer the purpose.
A shelf is placed at the top of the cut
ting bench at the back, on which knives
and any other tools needed in the work
may be kept. The idea is plainly shown
in the illustration. Indianapolis
News.
Good Word (or Guinea.
The Guinea fowl may yet become a
very profitable branch of farm poultry
raising. The scarcity of certain kinds
of game which resemble In flavor the
Guinea, especially the Western prairie
chicken and grouse, has led to a sub
stitution of young Guineas on hotel and
restaurant bills of fare. Guineas of
about the broiler age. weighing about
one pound and a half are of an ex
ceedingly fine, gamy flavor, and seem to
satisfy the consumer. In this way the
restaurants are able to dodge the game
laws In certain States and serve "prai
rie chicken" on the bill of fare at all
seasons. Gamehouses are pnylng high
prices for young Guineas, and it would
seem that large farms might be devot
ed to them profitably wherever turkeys
and pheasants succeed.
Colony Iloune (or Plf".
Small houses built after the follow
ing description may be readily moved
to any desired location on the farm.
The house Is very inexpensively con
structed, consisting of two large dry
goods boxes; the ends of the boxes are
removed, the tops cut off on a slant
and the edges of the ends are fastened
toegther with small cleats of wood or
straps of iron; these latter are better
from the point of strength. A cleat of
hard wood covers the rough ends of
the beads of the floor six Inches wide.
All nualls are clinched on the Inside
and all cracks between boards are bat
tened. The door Is cut in the end and
boles, eight Inches in diameter are cut
in the upper front for ventilation.
Small covers of wood may be fastened
with screws so that they can be closed
over the openings when the weather Is
very cold or stormy.
Blowing- Oat m Stamp.
To remove a stump bore under It a
slanting bole twelve or eighteen Inches
deep and use balf a stick of dynamite
or a whole one If the stump be large.
Adjust the fuse and fill the bole with
dry Band Use a two Inch augur for
boring the bole. The stick of dynamite
under a large bowlder will usually
break It up ao that It can be moved
a ally.
4
FOB CUTTING POTATOES.
$ 1
p
MOVABLE HOUSE FOB PIOS.
Start the Plirs IllRlit.
The man who starts off his pigs on
the corn ration about as soon as he can
after they are weaued Is laying in a
store of trouble for himself later. There
Is a trouble known to swine raisers ai.
contracted stomach, which results from
an improper ration. The animal Is ap
parently "off Its feed," but the fact is,
the ration has been so poorly balanced
that the stomach has not grown with
the growth of the rest of the body. If
the young pigs are to be allowed a
range they will do more or less root
lug, eating of soil and sod; as this Is
their nature, It will not hurt them, but
if they are placed where one does not
wish the sod uprooted, then the ani
mals must be ringed. If middlings
and ollmeal are Introduced with the
corn ration there will be considerably
less trouble. Some of the stock foods
on the market have their greatest value
to the swine raiser who does not feed
a balanced ration and If these stock
foods can be obtained practically free
from drugs or condiments, they are
very valuable In such cases.
Cold Killed Weevil.
In the cottou-growlng season the
farmer is prone to forget the many
new facts, developed within the past
five years, concerning the protection
of his primary crop against insects.
The leaf worm is easy enough. The
boll worm succumbs to poison and
machine gathering. The sharpshooter
and cotton-square borer can be suc
cessfully fought with parls green, ac
cording to the best authorities. The
boll weevil must be studied further
before final results can be announced.
Fortunately, the severe winter Just
past has put so many of these pests
out of business that the cotton crop of
Texas will be exempt from devastating
attacks from that source this season.
Farni and Ranch. N
Warm and Cold Winter.
According to the director of the
weather bureau at the Missouri State
University, the time may not be far
distant when the United States weath
er service can tell us at least six
months In advance whether the win
ter will be warm or cold. It has al
ready been determined, he says, that
there are great world eddies of air
sweeping around the globe which it Is
thought cause the difference in our
winters, and as soon as stations are
established everywhere so that the
progress of thesemay be watched, the
bureau will likely be able to give In
formation by the last of September
concerning the weather In January,
February and March.
Corn Marker.
Runners of this corn marker should
be 2x6 Inches by 2 feet. The side arm
is fastened to sled on a swivel, and Is
pulled along by attaching a rope to
shoe and hooked to singletree as shown.
This arm is made IVjxIV Inches and
MABKEB FOB COBX.
1012 feet long, for rows 3Va feet apart
Of course this arm is reversible.
Winter Chicken.
Chickens can be hatched In the win
ter months and profitably raised. You
can hatch them from Sept 1 until June
1. Other months are unprofitable.
Chicks can endure cold weather lietter
than extreme heat Disease, lice and
mites always come with summer
months. The expense of feeding Is no
greater In winter. Profits can be real
ized from broods hatched In November,
December and January. Of course, win
ter chicks do not grow quite so fast,
but they produce a heavier coat of
feathers. They grow more compact
and solid if hatched early in the win
ter, and will be Just right for April and
May, when the price Is at the highest
point
What Line Doe for Land.
Farmers often say that they do not
need to use lime, because they use
large quantities of It In fertilizer.
Ground bone and other forms of phos
phate contain lime. We cannot obtain
phosphoric acid In ordinary fertilizers
without lime. Such farmers mistake
the most necessary function of lime In
the soil. Air-slaked lime has a chem
ical action which sweetens the soil,
makes It more compact or sets free
other forms of plant food. This Is quite
distinct from Its power to provide ac
tual food for the plants. The lime in
the bone or phosphate may In time
serve as plant food, but the air-slaked
lime la needed for the more Important
service.
Wlreworai.
It Is claimed by a New York fanner
that wlrewonns will not live In ground
where buckwheat Is grown for two sea
sons and that potato land may be
cleared of these worms by growing
buckwheat
SXrt?
ffHEUEEKlY
RIAll
1402 Battle of Nisbeth between English
and Scotch forces.
1429 Siege of Orleans abandoned.
1487 Lambert, an Impostor, crowned at
Dublin as Edward VI.
1494 Columbus discovered the island of
Jamaica. t
1502 Columbus sailed from Cadiz in
search of a passage to the South Sea.
1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped
from Loch Leven Castle.
1590 Siege of Paris begun by Henry IV.
1640 Charles I. surrendered to the
Scots.
1G57 Cromwell declined the title of
king.
1G82 William Tenn published his frame
of government for the colony of
Pennsylvania.
1724 Coronation of Catherine, Empress
of Russia.
1734 Treves taken by the French. '
1743 Treaty concluded between France,
Spain, Naples and Genoa.
1757 Prussians defeated Austrians at
battle of Prague.
17G7 Prof. Cassini discovered the revo
lution of Venus.
1770 American Congress declared Eng
lish authority over the colonies abol
ished. 1778 Battle between Americans and
British at Bordentown, N. J.
1789 Opening of States-General at Ver
sailles. Marked beginning of French
Revolution.
1794 Postoffice Department established
by United States Congress.
1795 Tax on wearing hair powder went
into effect in England.
1804 Empire formed in France.
1S0S Insurrection in Madrid, Spain.
1S30 Treaty signed with Turkey to se
cure to United States free naviga
tion of the Black Sea.
1S40 Tornado in Adams county, Missis
sippi ; 1(H) killed; $1,000,000 in prop
erty destroyed.
18-42 Great fire at Hamburg. Lasted
three days.
1S46 Gen. Taylor defeated the Mexi
cans at Resaca d la Palma.
1853 New planet discovered by Prof.
Luther. .. .City of Sehiraz, Persia,
destroyed by an earthquake.
1861 Secession of Tennessee from the
Union.
1862 Battle of Williamsburg.
1803 Battle of Chancellorsville, Va.
1871 Treaty of Washington.
1875 Verdict of acquittal ended im
peachment trial of President of Mex
ico. 1882 Parnell, Dillon and O'Kelly re
leased from imprisonment.
1887 Osman Digna, Mahdi warrior, cap
tured by Arabs.
1S90 Oklahoma organized as a terri
tory. 1897 U. S. Senate rejected treaty of ar
bitration with Great Britain
Universal Postal Congress assembled
at Washington, I). C.
1S98 China paid the last of the war in
demnity to Japan.
1905 Steamer Falk wrecked off Lands
End ; 97 drowned.
Labor Notes.
A general advance in wages will be
asked by the operatives in the cotton mills
in several Massachusetts cities soon.
An iron and steel company at Parry
ville, Pa., has voluntarily raised tho
wages of its men 10 and 15 cents a day.
Seventy-five men are affected.
A contractor on the Western Pacific
railroad in Butte county, Cal., has dis
charged 70 Japanese laborers and em
ployed whites in their places.
The Carbondale (Pa.) painters' strike
has been settled, the contractors agree
ing to the men's demands. Wages ara
now $2.75 a day, an increase of 25 cents.
Members of the local unions of the
United Garment Workers of America
have been asked to contribute to the fund
for the union label agitation now under
way in Chicago.
American Federation of Labor organ
izers expect to institute several new
unions in Allentown, Pa., within the next
few weeks. Seven applications for char
ters arc now on tho list.
Organized lalmr of Seattle, Wash., will
l.nild and conduct a steam laundry as the
result of agitation against the present es
tablishments, which work the help long
hours and give poor pay.
The referendum vote of the Boot and
Shoe Workers' Union was in favor of
holding a general convention this year.
Milwaukee, Wis., was selected as the place
and June IS as the date for beginning the
session.
The Australian federal Parliament has
adopted the union label clause of the
trademarks bill, under which trade unions
may secure the protection of their labels.
The debate on the proposition was the
longest in the history of the Parliament
Contractors and builders in all parts of
Lancaster county. Pa., declare that not,
for many years, has there been such ac
tivity in building operations. Every avail
able carpenter, mason, bricklayer and
painter is at work, with the prospects
bright for a continuance of steady em
ployment during the entire summer and
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