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The ffcdemptiot?
El f)dVid forsot?
By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS
Copyright, 1"00, by The Bowen-Merrill Company.
CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.)
To his own unbounted astonishment
this young man who had long ago
abandoned his faith In Christianity,
began to plead like an apostle for the
practice of Its central and fundamental
virtue,
"My friend," he said, with a new sol
emnity In his manner, you are on the
threshold of another world; how dare
you present yourself to the Judge of
all the earth with a passion like this
In your heart?"
In the momentary rest the beggar
had recovered strength enough to re
ply: "It is t-t-true. I am on the
threshold of another world! I didn't
use to b-b-believe there was one, but I
do now. There must be! Would It
b-b-be right for such d-d-devtls as the
one that wrecked my life to g-g-go un
punished? Not if I know anything!
They get away from us here, but If
eternity Is as long as they s-s-say It
Is, I'll find D-D-Dave Corson If It t-t
takes the whole of it, and when I f-f
find him " he paused again, gasping
and strangling.
"And so you really mean to die with
out bestowing your pardon upon those
"who have wronged you?"
"1 swear it!"
With a heavy heart Mantel left him
and hurried home to report the Inter
view to David. He found him Just
returning from his work, and conveyed
his message by the gloom of his coun
tenance. "Has anything gone wrong?" David
Inquired, anxiously, as they entered
their room.
Casting himself heavily into a seat
and answering abstractedly. Mantel
replied," "Each new day of life renders
It more inexplicable. A man no soon
er forms a theory than he Is compelled
to abandon it I fear It is a labyrinth
from which we shall none of us es
cape." "Do not speak In parables," David
exclaimed, Impatiently. "If anything
If the matter, tell me at once. Do not
leave me in suspense. I cannot endure
It Is he worse? Is he dying?"
"Ha is both, and more," Mantel an
swered, still unable to escape from the
gloom which enveloped him. "I have
at last drawn from him a brief but
terrible allusion to the tragedy of your
lives."
"What did he say? Quick, tell me!"
"He aaid that he had been wronged
by those whom he had benefited, and
that he would spend eternity In re
venging his wrongs."
"Horrible!" cried David, sinking In
to a chair. "Did he show no mercy?
Was there no sign of pardon?"
"None! Granite Is softer than his
heart Ice is warmer."
David rose and paced the floor.
Pausing before Mantel, he said, plt
eously, "Perhaps he will relent when
Pepeeta comes!"
"Perhaps! Have you heard from
her?"
"No, but hr answer cannot be much
longer delayed, for I have written
again and again."
"Something may have happened,"
said Mantel, who had lost all heart and
hope.
"Do not say It" David exclaimed, be
seechingly. "It Is a long distance. She
may have changed her residence. She
may never go to the postofflce. She
may be sick."
"Or dead!" bald Mantel, giving ex
presslon in two words to the fullness
of his despair.
"Impossible!" exclaimed David, his
face blanching at this sudden articula
tion of the dread he had been strug
gling so hard to repress.
They passed out Into the night to-
geiner ana nurnea away to me beg
gar's room. Each was too burdened
for talk and they walked in silence.
Arriving at the house, they ascended
the stairs on tiptoe and paused to lis
ten at the door. "I will leave it ajar,
so you may hear what he says, and
then you can Judge If I am right"
said Mantel, entering quietly.
He approached the table and turned
up the lamp which he had left burning
dimly. By its pale light David could
see the great head lying on the pillow,
the chin elevated, the mouth partially
open, the breast heaving with the
painful efforts to catch a few last flut
tering Inspirations. Nestling close to
the ashen face and licking the cheek
now and then with his little red
tongue, was the terrier.
Mantel's footfall, quiet as It was, dis
turbed the sleeper, who moved, turned
his head toward the sound and asked
in a husky and but half-audlbla voice,
-Who is there V
'It is L How are you now? A little
better?" said Mantel, laying his soft
tool hand upon the broad forehead,
wet already with the death-damp.
"I am getting weaker. It won't last
long," he answered palnfnully.
"I do not want to bother you, but I
eannot bear to have you die without
talking to you again about your fu
ture; I must try once more to per
uade you not to die without sending
lome kind word to the people who
have wronged you."
The expression of the white face un
Serwent a hideous transformation.
"If you do not feel like talking to me
nbout a matter so sacred and personal,
would you not like to have me send
for some minister or priest?"
The head moved slowly back and
forth In a firm negation.
"In every age, and among all men.
It has seemed fitting that those who
were about to die should make some
preparation to meet their God. Have
fou no desire to do this? If there ab
solutely no word of pardon or of klnd
sess which you wish to send to those
who have Injured you, as a sort of leg
acy from the grave?"
"None!" he whispered fiercely.
appose that your enemy should
All Rlirhti Rwti-4
come to see you. Suppose that a great
change had come over him; that he,
too, had suffered deeply; that your
wife had discovered his treachery and
left him; that he had bitterly repent
ed; that he had made such atonement
as he could for his sin; that it was he
who has been caring for you in these
last hours, could you not pardon him?
These words produced an extraordi
nary effect on the dying man. For the
first time he Identified his enemy with
his friend, as as the discovery dawned
upon his mind a convulsion seized and
shook his frame. He slowly and pain
fully struggled to a sitting posture,
lifted his right hand above his head
and said in tones that rang with rau
cous power of by-gone daye:
if I had known that I was eating
his b-b-bread. it would have choked
me! Send him to me! Where is he?"
"I am here," said David, quietly en
tering the door. "I am here to throw
myself on your mercy and to beg you,
for the love of God, te forgive me."
As ha heard the familiar voice, the
beggar trembled. He made one last
supreme effort to look out of his dark
ened eyes. An expression of -alr-lng
agony followed the attempt,
then, with both his great bony hands,
he clutched at the throat of his night
robe as if choking for breath, tore it
open and reaching down into his
bosom felt for some concealed object
He found it at last grasped it and
drew it forth. It was a shining blade
of steel.
Mantel sprang to take it from his
hand; but David pushed him back and
said calmly: "Let him alone."
"Yes, let me alone," cried the blind
man, trembling In every limb, and
crawling slowly and painfully from the
bed.
The movements of the dying man
were too slow and weak to convey any
adequate expression of the tempest
raging in his soul. It was Incredible
that a tragedy was really being enact
ed, and that this poor trembltn crea
ture was thirsting for the lif-'- of
a mortal foe.
David did not seek to escaoe. He
did not even shudder. There was a
singular expression of repose on his
features, for In his desperation he so
laced himself by the reflection that he
for a sin whose atonement had become
was about to render final satisfaction
otherwise impossible. He therefore
folded his arms across his breast and
stood waiting.
The contorted face of the furious
beggar afforded a terrible contrast to
the tranquil countenance of the pent
tent and unresisting object of his ha
tred. The opaque flesh seemed to have
become transparent and through it
glowed the maleful light of hatred and
revenge. The lips were drawn back
from the white teeth, above which the
great moustache bristles savagely. The
lids were lifted from the hollow and
expressionless eyes. Balancing him
self for an instant he moved forward:
but the emaciated limbs tottered un
der the weight of the body. He reeled.
caught himself, then reeled once more,
and lunged forward In the direction
from which he had heard the voice of
his enemy.
Again Mantel strove to Intercept
him, and again David fore -
Uncertain as to the exact location of
the object of his hatred, he raised his
knife and struck at random; but the
blow spent Itself In air. The futility
and helplessness of his efforts crazed
him.
"Where are you? G-g-glve me some
sign.!" he cried.
"I am here," said David, in a voice
wnose preternatural calmness sent a
shudder to the heart of his friend.
With one supreme and final effort the
dying man lurched forward and threw
himself wildly toward the sound. His
hand, brandishing the dagger, was up
lifted and seemed about to descend on
his foe; but at hat very instant with
a frightful Imprecation upon his Hps,
the gigantic form collapsed, the knife
dropped from the hand, and he plung
ed, a corpse. Into the arms of his In
tended victim.
David received the dead weight upon
the bosom at which the dagger had
been aimed, and the first expression of
his face indicated a certain disappoint
ment that a single blow had not been
permitted to end his troubles, as well
as terror at an event so appalling. He
stood spellbound for a moment sup
porting the awful burden, and then,
overpowered with the horror of the sit
uation, cried out:
"Take him. Mantel! tsk Mm! Help
me to lay him down! Quick, I cannot
stand it; quick!"
They laid the lifeless form on the
bed, while the little dog, leaping up be
side his dead master, threw his head
back and emitted a series of prolong
ed and melancholy howls.
CHAPTER XVII L
Bewildered by the scene through
which he had Just passed, Corson re
turned to his rooms and spent the
night in a sort of stupor. What hap
pened the next day he never knew;
but on the following morning he ac
companied Mantel to the cemetery
where, with simple but reverent cere
mony, they committed the body of the
doctor to the bosom of earth.
Just as they were about to turn
away, after the conclusion of the bur
ial service, a strange thing happened.
The limb of a great elm tree, which
had been tied back to keep It out of
the way of the workmen, was released
by the old sexton and swept back over
the grave.
It produced a similar Impression up
on the minds of both the subdued spec
tators. They glanced at. each other,
and Mantel said. It was Ilk the wing
of an angel','
"Yes," added David with a sigh, "and
seemed to brush away and obliterate
all traces of his sorrow and his sins."
They did not speak during tholr
homeward Journey, and when they
reached tholr rooms David paced un
easily backward and forward until the
shadows of evening had fallen. When
he suddenly observed that it was dusk,
he took his hat and went out Into the
street There was something so rest
less and unnatural atout his move
ments as to excite the suspicion of his
friend, who waited for a single mo
ment and then hurried after him,
The night was calm and clear, the
autumn stars were shining In a cloud
less sky, and the tide of life which had
surged through the busy streets all day
was ebbing like the waters from the
bays and estuaries along the shore of
the ocean.
A few moments' walking brought
David to a weird spectacle, A torch by tne growing plants. Soils once fer
had been erected above a low plat- te are 8a,d t(J be exhausted when de.
mini un which hioou a man or niuiij . , , , , . . .
unique and striking personality. He pfived of such food as is required for
looked like a giant in the wavering
light of the torch. He was dressed in
the simple garb of a Quaker; his head
was bare; great locks of reddish hair
cunea round his temples and fell down
upon n snouiaers. ls massive coun-
mlnrl. n nrl hPAmAH with raaf m nAPA. I
As he sang an old familiar hvmn. he
looked around upon his audience with
an expression such as glowed, no
doubt, from the countenance ' of the
Christ when He spoke to the multi
tudes on the shores of Lake Genessa-
ret
iubo iu u amau yia.nur.ll w -
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lence and respect by the charm of this
remarkable personality. Next to them
came a ring of women some of them
old and gray, with haggard and wrin
kled countenances upon which Time,
with his antique pen, had traced many
Illegible hieroglyphs; some of them
young and bedizened with tinsel Jew
alyv an1 flu ah v ninth In cr iia! a fow nt
them middle-aged, wan, 'dispirited and
bearing upon their hips bundles wrap-
ped in faded shawls, from which came
occasionally that most distressing of
sounds, the wall of an Ill-fed and un
loved Infant crying in the night
Outside of this zone of female mis
ery and degradation, there was a belt
of masculine stupidity and crime;
with corpulent bodies, bull necks, dou
ble chins, pile-driving heads; men of
shrunken frames, cadaverous cheeks.
deep-set and beady eyes vermin-cov-
ered, disease-d3voured, hope-deserted,
They clung arouna mm. tnese con-en-
knw nt wht ra!HtifiRH Attraction.
The simDle melody, borne upon the
pinions of that resonate and cello-like
voice, attained an almost supernatural
Influence over their perverted natures.
When it ceased, an audible sigh arose,
an involuntary iriouie oi aaoranon ana
Ul awe. a 9 buuii am no uou union- -'a
w
11 j Hill. Ill IB i;unoci,t a. luu '-tv
lost sheep of the great city opened a
well-worn volume.
The influence which he exerted over
the mind of David was as Irresistible
as it was lnscrutame. His language
had the charm of perfect familiarity.
fcvery word ana Phrase nao. rauen
I ruiu Ilia uwn nua iiuiiuicu ihiicb tu
kL,. in fct."-th
seemed to him strangely like the echo
of his own voice coming back upon
him from the dim and half-forgotten
past
(To be continued.)
Doubtful Identity.
Cricket Is the national game of En
gland, and It would no more help one
to Identify an Englishman by saying
that he was a cricket player than It
would to distinguish a college man in
this country to say that he was de
voted to baseball. In his book on the
game. "Kings of Cricket," Richard
Daft relates many amusing things of
the sport and of men who have been
connected with it. One of his stories
is about two iNOtungnam piayers oi a
common family name with similar lnl-
a'a'
We had two players of the name of
Johnson, one being John Johnson, for
years the secretary of our county
team, and the other Isaac Johnson.
As John Johnson's initial was near-
ly always written as an "I," confusion
arose concerning the Individuality of
the two players.
Charles Thornton, a well-known sun-
porter of cricket in Notts, once got
into conversation with a stranger in
a railway carriage. Cricket cropping
up in the course of conversation, the
stranger happened to say he knew a
Mr. Johnson, who belonged to Notting
hamshire, who played cricket, and
asked Mr. Thornton if he knew him.
Mr. Thornton replied that he knew
two Mr. Johnsons who played.
"This one," said the stranger,
lives in Nottingham."
They both live in Nottingham," wa
the reply
'This one is Mr. I. Johnson."
They are both I. Johnson."
'This one I mean plays with, the
Commercial."
"They both play with the Commer
cial."
"The one I mean Is a fast bowler."
"They're both fast bowlers."
"The one I know Is gray-headed."
"They're both gray-headed."
"The one I mean wears spectacles."
"They both wear spectacles."
The gentleman gave up in despair.
Mlaaed Ills Only Chance.
There once lived a woman who
never gave her husband a chance to
say a word, lne moment J8 opened
his mouth she closed it with a torrent
of words. It happened that he fell
sick when -his wife was out of town,
and before she could get home death
came and took him away.
"I would feel better about it" she
is still saying between her sobs, "if
I could have been with John when he
died. There must have been some last
woras ne wanted to say to me.
. . .
Atc&lson Globe.
Keeping- the Soli Fertile.
According to Prof. Whitney of the
l'ureau of Soil, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, a soil to be fertile
must contain a sufficient quantity of
the ash ingredients of the plants to be
cultivated, and these must be In such
soluble condition as to be taken UD
M"""1 uuuiou, out rest ana menurai-
ing treatment will, in time, restore
such soils to a fertile condition.
Until past the year 1750 no Just
ideas upon the rotation of crops seem'
ed to haye been f fl , ft (
The rotation Of crops affords time
'or the disintegrating action of the at-
mosphere, rain and frost to prepare
new material from the rock particles
In the soil and get It in a form to be
used by the plant. One crop may use
UD the available food of a nart.lnnliir
bind fnater than Ir o ho ,.n,
y these natural agencies. When prop-
managea u enables one plant to
prepare rood tor another.
All plants exhaust the soil, though
I In an unequal degree; plants of dif
ferent kinds do not exhaust the soli In
the same manner; all plants do not
restore to the soil a like quantity or
Quality of manure, and all plants are
not equally iavoraDie to me growiu
of weeds. Upon the above principles
is based a regular succession of crops.
Though the system of rotation Is
adapted to every soil, no particular
rotation can be assigned to any one
! description of soil which will answer
at all times, and on the demand for
different kinds of produce. On clayey
soils, beans and clover, with rye grass
are generally alternated with grain
-rona. and on drv loams or sandy
. frr,,na hcpta. notatoes and
alternate husbandry Is most conducive
to the plentiful production or rooa
both for men and animals. One por
tlon of a farm would thus be always
un(jer grain crops, while the other por
H erowine roots or cultivated
es; but ag tne major part of ar-
i . . ,,,a i Q
able lands can not be preserved In a
i ..... ... . , . . . . m
state of fertility with even this kind of
management, it is requisite iuai iub
portion of the farm which is under
cultivated grasses should be pastured
for tw0 or three years. In order to give
,t Ume tQ recrult The following Is a
goQd TolMoli o crop9: Flrst year
i , . . ,
clover; second, clover; third, corn
fourth, oats; fifth, wheat. The clover
does well with oats, and after an early
mowing can be very well prepared for
wheat
Modern Farming;.
The use of the most modern meth
ods In farming is by no means re
stricted to the huge ranches of this
country. In nearly every locality in
the state farmers are using traction
engines with steam or gasoline for
power to plow and harrow their land.
We know one ranch of 6S0 acres not
large for this state on ' which the
plowing and harrowing is done with
a 20 horse-power gasoline engine. This
nau,s fQur 14.lnch gang pl0wg and a
2horB(J harrowthe equivalent of the
work Qf twenty horges Tne dIstance
traverged over tougn 8oll ,B from two
to two and a half miles an hour. One
harrow Is placed off to the side so that
the result is a double harrowing of
he tract. It was considered too small
an area to warrant the initial expense
for the machine, but the owners of the
ranch are satisfied that It will save
Its cost In a few years. The time is
coming when the tedium of farm, work
will be laid upon machinery.
The Sand Pear.
The sand pear is the only pear that
Is practically free from blight. It IS
a very rapid and continuous grower.
It Is a prolific bearer and requires
less attention and will stand more
abuse than any other fruit tree known.
The sand pear comes into bearing
at -an early age, and at 10 years old
ordinary trees will yield from 10 to
20 bushels of pears. The trees usual
ly beeln to bear at five vears of aen
The Blxth year each tree win net 25
cents, the seventh year 50 cents, and
A SMALL GREENHOUSE.
iM fmilr J J
While most greenhouses are expensive to build and maintain, It is pos
sible for an amateur to have one at
dwelling. Hotbed sashes cost from $3.25 to $3.50 each, and measure 3x6 feet
If steam or hot water heating cannot be provided from the house, an oil
stove will maintain a high enough temperature.
the eighth year fl, the ninth year $2
and tenth year $4 per tree. By plant
lng 24 feet apart 75 trees can be pet
to the acre. This would give a net
return of $300 an acre the tenth year
which would be equal to a $3,000 In
vestment at 6 per cent. This Is a very
conservative estimate. We have seen
ten-year-old trees at different places
which yielded rrora 10 to 20 bushels
and large trees which yielded from 30
to 50 bushels.
Ten acres of the sand pears at the
above conservative estimate would
bring $3,000 income, or equal to a
$50,000 investment, at 6 per cent.
Orchard Pests.
Whether there is a good or poor
fruit crop it will pay to keep the fruit
trees as free from disease and Injur!
ous Insects as possible. The healthy
and uninjured tree is more liable to
bear and prove profitable than the
one full of disease and injury. The
orchard will last longer If It Is kept
clean and healthy.
Borers are - among the most insidi
ous pests of the apple orchard In some
localities. On account of their habits
they cannot be reached by poisonous
sprays, and nostrums placed about the
roots, as sometimes recommended, are
utterly useless. The most efficient
means of preventing damage from
these pests Is by anual inspection of
the trees and removal of the. grubs
with a sharp pointed knife. Various
protective measures are also used.
One of the most effective is to paint
the lower part of the stem In late
winter or early -spring with a fairly
thick paint made from pure ready
mixed paints for this purpose, since
others may contain injurious sub
stances. Wood veneer strips and wire
gauze are sometimes used to prevent
the eggs from being laid on the trunks
of the trees, but white lead paint is
simple and cheaper.
Black rot is a fungous disease which
attacks the fruit, foliage, old bark and
branches of apple and pear trees. The
leaf spot form probably causes more
damage than the other forms. Some
times black rot cankers on the trunk,
and the limbs develop so rapidly as to
endanger the life of trees, but this is
seldom the case except where spraying
la wholly neglected. The fruit is rarely
seriously injured, though outbreaks In
this form may sometimes be quite se
vere.
Potatoes and Corn.
While there is much difference ot
opinion as to the rotation of crops
on a medium heavy loam, we have had
the best results from following corn
with potatoes, always being careful to
heavily manure the ground for the
corn and not use any stable manure
at all for the potato crop. By heavily
manuring we mean giving the soil
more than will be required by the
corn and more than will be necessary
to make good to the soil any reserve
fertility the corn takes from it; in
other words, so that there will be
some of the virtue of the manure left
for the benefit of the potatoes. For
the latter crop we confine ourselves
to an apllcation of mixed fertilizer,
consisting of sulphate ammonia, bone
meal and sulphate of potash, applied
at the rate of 800 pounds to the acre.
There may be no objection to the use
of stable manure for the potato crop,
provided one can obtain- it well rotted,
but the fresh manure is a scab breed
er and we never use it for potatoes.
A Large Poultry Farm.
Isaac Wilbur of Little Compton. R.
, has the largest poultry farm in the
world. He ships from 130.000 to 150,
000 dozens of eggs a year. He keeps
his fowls on the colony plan, housing
about forty In a house 8x10 or 8x12
feet In size, these houses' being about
150 feet apart, set out in long rows
over the gently sloping fields. He has
100 of these houses scattered over
three or four fields. The food Is load
ed into a low wagon, which is driven
about to each house in turn, the at
tendant feeding as he goes; at the
afternoon feeding the eggs are collect
ed. The fowls are fed twice a day.
The morning food Is a mash of cooked
vegetables and mixed meals; this mash
is made up In the afternoon of the
day before. The afternoon feed is
whole corn the year round.
One Thing- Yet to Learn.
We have learned how to telegraph
without wires and fly without gas
bags, but the antidote for a common
ordinary cold still mocks the foiled
searchlngs of the human race. St.
Louis Republic.
small expense, as an addition to the
HE WEEKLY
i778 John Jay of New York elected
President of Congress.
1807 Kingdom of Etruria dissolved
and annexed to France.
1813 Oen. McClune, commanding at
Fort George, burnt the Canadian
village of Newark, and two days
later was compelled by the British
to abandon the fort.
1816 First savings bank in the United
States opened in Boston. .. .In
diana admitted to the Union as the
nineteenth State.
1817 Mississippi admitted to the Un
ion as the twentieth State.
1828 The Legislature of Georgia pro
tested against the last tariff act
passed by Congress.
1830 The flrst locomotive built In the
United States was finished and
tested at the foundry at West
Point, N. Y.
'.833 The Green Bay Intelligencer ap
peared at Green Bay, Wis.
1838 Silk growers met In convention
In Baltimore and organized a na
tional silk society The Monroe
railroad in Georgia opened to pas
senger traffic between Macon and
Forsyth.
1844 Jefferson Davis entered the
House of Representatives from
Mississippi.
1847 Sir Donald Campbell became
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Ed
ward Island.
1850 Nearly 100 lives lost by an ex
plosion on the steamboat Anglo
Norman at New Orleans.
1854 Doctrine of Immaculate Concep
tion proclaimed by the Pope.
862 Confederates victorious at the
battle of Fredericksburg, Va....
Fredericksburg, Va., bombarded by
the Federal army.
1867 House of Commons adopted pre
liminary resolutions In regard to
the acquisition of Rupert's Land
and the Northwest Territories
Reconstruction convention met in
Atlanta.
1889 Funeral of Jefferson Davis In
New Orleans.
1891 The Knove bridge across the
Ohio River above Cincinnati open-
ed for traffic.
1895 William O. Bradley inaugurated
as flrst Republican Governor of
Kentucky.
1898 Sir William Vernon Harcourt re
signed the leadership of the Liber
al party in England.
1899 Sir George Klrkpatrlck, former
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
and Speaker of the House of Com
mons, died In Toronto.
1901 SIgnor Marconi announced the
receipt at St. John's, Newfound
land, of wireless signals from
Cornwall, 1,700 miles distant.
1902 Vermont substituted for her pro
hibitive liquor law a local option
high license measure.
1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Incorpo-'
rated as a city.
1904 Earl Grey assumed office as Gov
ernor General of Canada. .. .New
British ministry formed by Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
1907 Gustav V. ascended the throne
of Sweden.
The first local unions of printers
were established In 1831.
There are 65,000 Chinese and Lascar
seamen now, on British vessels.
Ship owners in England have forced
down wages from $25 to $15 a month.
and this has reduced the membership
of the unions.
In order of membership the flrst four
divisions of America's labor army are
miners, carpenters, painters and gar
ment workers.
One feature of the great labor dem
onstrations, or Btrlkes, that have occu
pied public attention for the last year
has been the uniform demand on the
part of the workers for arbitration of
their grievances.
A. Rosenberg, president of the Gar
ment Workers' Union, says that In his
line more men than women are em
ployed In the larger cities, but that In
smaller places women and girls do
much the greater part of the work.
John T. Smith, of the cigar makers,
is the labor member of the public util
ity commission of Kansas City, Mo.
This commission Is a standing body
that deals with telephones, street rail
ways, electric lighting, etc
Only 29 years old, Matthew Woll,
president of the International Photo
Engravers' Union, is probably the
youngest international president.
Working "at the bench" by day and
studying at night .he put himself
through a considerable law course.
The Railroad Telegraphers' Union Is
a widespread one. It has members In
Canada, the United States, Porto Rico,
Cuba, the Hawaiian islands and the
Philippines.
A plan has been approved for organ
ization among the 600.000 commercial
stenographers and typists In the Uni
ted States and Canada who would be
eligible to Join a union.
The International Glove Workers
Union faors woman suffrage on the
ground that "the ballot for women Is
essential to economic Independence of
the working classes."
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