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THE AlACON WKKKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1886.-TWELVF* PAGES.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
1 VARIOUS VIEWS OF THE GREAT
QUESTION OF THE HOUR.
A New Phase of the Industrial Situation-
Federatloni of apltal v*. tnlons of
Labor — Phenomenal Growth
of the Knights of Labor.
Bradstroet'tt Boston Correspondence.
The indnstrial sit nation in the textile cen
ters of New England is beginning to assume
a new anti most significant phase. For two
years past the Knights of Labor, as Brad-
street’s has pointed out from time to time,
have rapidly increased in numbers and
strength. At present in the six States there
are no fewer than 445 assemblies and 94,000
members! In not a few places the organi
zation is powerful enough to carry every
thing its own way when pitted against indi
vidual manufacturers. But the union of
operative) for purposes which appear im
portant to them suggests inevitably the pos
sibility of similar combinations among the
employers for mutual defense.
To a certain extent manufacturers’ com
binations have existed for a long time. At
Fall River, for example, the board of trade
virtually directs the bearing of the thirty-
seven or thirty-eight corporations toward
their operatives. If wages are to be reduced
or advanced the manufacturers come to
gether in the board and adopt a course of
action which each one subsequently follows.
Just before the strike at lirockton a few
months ago forty-two shoe manufacturers
in that city likewise entered into an agree
ment to stand together. At Lynn, under
the plan of arbitration which now prevails
there, the united manufacturers deal with
the united operatives through committees
appointed on each side. These several un
ions, however, have existed rather for the
purpose of assuring uniform prices for
labor than as a means for the protection of
individual orapanies or manufacturers
against demands presented by federated la
bor.
Within a short time, however, it ha) be
gun to be apparent that the principle of
union among capitalists may bo carried
much farther. If the employes of different
manufacturing establishments can unite to
enforce demands upon their employers,
whether singly or collectively, the employers
in turn can band togetlicrjFor mutual ac
tion. Numerous textile manufacturers in
Rhode Island have already token this step.
A similar league of mill owners is ubout to
b» formed in Maine. Just outside of New
England, over in the hosiery-producing city
of Cohoes, N. Y„ a third association is in
existence, its members being bound to assist
each other in resisting extravngant requests
preferred by labor combinations. These
movements are, if possible, of even more
importance than the union of the workmen.
From the nature of the case the employ-
era concerned in these various combinations
are, for the most part, reticent about tho
scope of their organizations. Tho oxi d ®nee
of an extensive combination of mill owners
in Rhode Island is not denied. Tho
toi of tho movement is fonndinthe “Slater
Club.” A bill is now pending in tho Legis
lature which, if it shonid become a law,
would prohibit the infliction of the cus
tomary’ lines and other penalties imposed by
manufacturers lor faulty work. Thcro is
not tho slightest chance of tho passigo of
snch an act, but its introduction shows as
clearly ns anything could do the increasing
power of the Knights of Labor, by whom
most of the demonstrations of tho time
among work people are originated and
pressed. Not long ago, after some informal
conferences, manufacturers of cotton and
woolen goods, currently report©/ to repre
sent many million dollars of capital, deter
mined on positive measures. The details
of this agreement entered into hnvo been
ffcrapnlously guarded, but the prevailing
impression la that tho concerns ruprcsentei
pledged themselves mutually to subscribe,
' **? JUKCMftrjr, M much as fi p*r of their
P«» roll* M promote -'“ttlltirest, uU.l Well
beiOfl o( Rhode Island manufactories." It
Mia further that the payments will be
made in response to a oall of tho finance
.jfatmnittco, and that, if thin engngtmeut is
lived np to, not leu than •1,000,000 may
lie rained with which to fljJR the Knights of
I<abor. Precisely bow the money U to be
need baa not come to light. It in currently
"reported, however, that it will bo devoted,
ao (or ns it ia needed, in tho ease of aHtrikc,
to mooting the necessary cntrenl expenses
ol the idle companies.
The Bales Manufacturing Company, of
liewiiton. Me., hot been idle for some time
nn account of a strike resulting from the
discharge of an employe and the refusal of
the corporation to reinstate him at the dic
tation of the Knights of Labor. The rep
resentatives of the company hold, naturally
enough, that a controversy over such a
uattor involves the important question
jvhether the capitalists who have myestod
their money or llio man whom they hire are
to ruu the business. Other companies in
Maine are similarly threatened, ntid the ne
cessity of couctrt.-d action has been more
than once suggested. A few day s ugo, ac
cordingly, a large number of manufacturers
in Maine und elsewhere met in this city to
discuss plans for a union to resist wbat are
deemed to be outrageous demands from
their hired help. No definite conclusion
waa reached, but tho adoption of an agree,
ment to act together is certain, ami will
probably be brought about in tho course of
the coming week. It in thought by kodio of
the movers in this project that textile man
ufacturers generally throughout New Eng
land will enter into the association. What
the combination will determine upon us
necessary for self-defense is, of course, un
certain. The most natural thing would be
to follow the example of the Knights of La-
bor on the Gonld railroads, who struck over
several thousand miles of line on account
of the discharge of one man in the employ
of a single corporation. Acting on this
principle, a strike in one cotton mill iu
single city would Ire followed by the lockout
, of all the employes of the various mills iu
the association. ’
The idea of union among employers has
been carried into practical operation fur
ther at Cohoes than elsewhere. In that
city ami the adjoining town of Waterford
27 manufacturers of hosiery have formed
I. an aasociation bound together by the
strongest tics. Wbat the connecting link is
cannot be stated positively, but there is the
very best reason short of actual knowledge
for saying that the members of the combi
nation have mutually given bonds in te.bun
to act as a unit. The scope of the agree
ment in part is said to be furthermore a
pledge to close all of the factories in case
of a strike in any one of them, lie this as
it may, the association has been formally
organized with John U. 8. Lansing, of the
Tmy Manufacturing Company, as president.
Long and carefully drawn articles of asso
ciation hare been prepared ami. signed.
Copies of them bare also been sent to the
I hosiery manufacturers of Troy, Amsterdam,
Little Fell* and some other places for their
use if thought best. The provisions agreed
on are believed by the Cohoes manufactur
er* to be such as may well be adopted in
any textile manufacturing community where
the employers need some defense against
extortionate demands.
The Cohoee anion has so far bad no op
portunity to show its strength, inasmuch ss
on Wednesday of bat week the spinnera in
all the hosiery mills of the city wero or
dered out by the leader* in their organiza
tion. in consequence of tho withdrawal of
the 231 hands iu this department the mills
have been forced to shut down, taming no
fewer than 7,000 operatives into the streets.
Four concerns were excepted from the
strike, and tho i larmony cotton mills like
wise escaped. Nevertheless, in the course
of a few days tho four hosiery concerns
which were exempt shut down, as they were
apparently bound to do in consequence of
their membership in the manufacturers'
union. The power of the association is now
apparent in that, under the agreement vol
untarily entered into by the employers, and
upheld, as it is believed, by the bond, no
individual manufacturer or company can
yield to the strikers and start up his wheels.
Either |the mill-owners as a body must
yield to tho Knights of Labor, or tho
Knights of Labor must accede to the terms
of the associated manufacturers. Capital
is thus banded against labor, with most of
the chances of success on tho side of the
former. The strike, if long continued, Will
ruin the tradespeople of the city, who are
chiefly dependent on the operatives. If
they continue to give credit to the idle mill
bunds many of them most be bankrupted,
whilo if they refuse credit they will inevita
bly be boycotted.
On the 1st instant wages throughout the
knitting mills, in every department save the
spinning, were restored to the level which
prevailed in January, 1885, while the spin
ners, whose wages were readjusted rather
than restored, also obtained some advance.
The strike is accordingly designed to force
a still further increase in wuges, in addition
to that voluntarily given by tire employers.
The extent of the demand mode by the
spinners appears from the fact that on a
certain grade of goods for which '.sic. has
been paid for fourteen months, $1.23, or 37
per cent, more, is now insisted on. The
employers are willing to concede *1, or 11
cm-, more than formerly. In case tho
bout c mtinneH for any length of time an
effort will probably bo made to induce the
hosiery manufacturers ot the neighboring
towns to stop their worksin correspondence
with the agreement of the Cohoes and Wa
terford capitalists. All signs, however,
point t > a coinpleto victory of the mill-
owner,, in this instance, in which event a
powerful impetus will perhaps be given to
the citation of similar combinations else-
prostration would increase the purchasing
(lower of a dollar in direot proportion to
the limit that would be put upon the earn
ing capacity of the masses; and to recover
from such a state of business pumlysis
would require years of well-directed effort.
The -combination of employers in the
New England States to meet with united
forces the demands of employes makes it
of paramount importance that labor organi
zations should be jnst and equitable in iheir
demands and prompt to show by decisive
action that they do not endorso acts of vio
lence to persons or property, nnd that they
will not tolerate among their members those
who instigate or commit snch acts in vio
lation of peace and order. In the large
membership enrolled in the Knights of La
bor there are donbtlefB men who have
joined the order with no other purpose than
to epileavor to bring about a state of society
in which wage-earners as a class shall be
arrayed in open warfare against their em
ployers and all capitalists, in the hope that
during the conflict nnd after ita settlement
opportunities for their own advancement
may he presented. Tho leadership of such
men would he disastrous to to the welfare
of organized labor and to that of the indi
vidual workingman; and when from their
teachings violence results, the Knights of
Labor should he thoroughly in earnest in
disclaiming sympathy with tho act nnd with
the perpetrators. Their sincerity can in
no other way be better shown thsn by the
expulsion from their organization of all
men known to have been guilty of an overt
act. No great social reform was ever nc-
ompl'-shed that was not conceived in jus
tice and equity; and only by the present
ment of its claims in a spirit of fairness to
all concerned can organized labor hope to
succeed in its efforts to better the condition
of the wage-earner.
Itl(lits ol Workingmen.
Now York Journal of Commerce.
Some years ago we came across a quaint
plea for religions freedom. It denounced
in eloquent terms the tyranny of hierarchies
and urged the laity everywhere to rally for
their complete emancipation from church
authority. Rut tho writer came to a most
illogical conclusion. After removing the
yoke of bondage from their necks the rank
and tile of believers were to udopt a system
better suited to universal supremacy, and
as far ns they were able by organized effort
they were to impose this upon the world.
ment of this pernicious system. In doing
thiH we desire no controversy with the la
borer. Onr sympathies are heartily with
him, for we know ourselves in present ex
perience the burden of long, weary hours
of toil, and we have known in former years
the bitterness of working for wages that
seemed a poor return for the life wo gave to
it. There is much of wrong and cruel in
justice in the lot of the laborer all over the
world, but one wrong was never redressed
by another, and the trades union and its
coercive policy will not help him to a truer
manhood, nor lead him toward the dawn
of a better and brighter day.
PASTEUR’S METHOD.
A »|i!Inllit
New York Star.
Of all tho contributions which have been
mode t j the literature of the labor question
none has cut closer to tho bone of the prob
lein than tho article by Mr. Andrew Carne
gie in the current number of tho Forum.
His experience as a manufacturer has been
wide and thorough, As a private, bo to
Hpeak, who rottc from the ruukK, and who
now occupieB a prominent place among mil
lionairo employers, ho ia entitled to speak
ex-cathedra, llin words are words oLweight
und wisdom, for they unite a thorough
knowledge of both sides of the question
If they sink n* deeply in the minds and
hearts of workmen and manufacturers as
they should, they can hardly fail to have u
beneficial influence.
In discussing tho different plans sug
gested and put in force to elevate the con
dition of the workingmen, Mr. Carnegie,
while approving of “co-operation” in the
ory, finds many difficulties in its working
value. That it has been successful in a few
eunen dues not necessarily establish it ns
practicable for general use. The author
says that “if any such “co-operative organ
ization succeeds it muy be taken for granted
that it is principally owing to the excep
tional business capacity of one of the mana
gers and only in a very small degree to the
efforts of the workmen owners. This busi
ness ability is excessively rare, as is proved
by tho incredibly large proportion of those
who enter upon the stormy sea of business
ouly to foil. I should say that twenty co
operative concerns would foil to every oue
that would succed.” This dictum, we are
bound to say, is affirmed by the views of
every employer w’ho bos studied the
question. The enoi« VomnetiUon which
machinery has introduced Into tnt tternev
has vastly increased the risks of capital,
and put a corresponding premium on the
rains of the exceptional business ability of
which Mr. Carnegie speaks. Let ns quote
farther:
I can of course picture io tay mind a
state of civilization in whioh the most tal
ented business men shall find their most
cherished work ia carrying on immense
concerns, not primarily for their own i»er-
Hoiuri nggraudizement, but for the good of
the masses of the workmen engaged therein
nnd their families; but this is only a fore
shadowing of a dim and distant future.
When a class of snch men has been evolved,
the problem of cupital ami labor will be
termunently solved to the entire satisfac
tion of both. But as this manifestly be
longs to a future generation, I cannot con
sider co-operation or common ownership as
the next iinmediute step in advance which
it is possible for labor to make in its path
upward.”
After reviewing the whole ground the au
thor finds in two principles the untying of
u very hard knot.
In the first place, the adoption of a slid
ing scale of wages based on the proportion
to the net prices received for products
month by month.
Secondly, the settlement of all disputes
as to the standard of this scale by peaceful
arbitration between the owner and an intel
ligent committee of the workmen.
Where this experiment cf a sliding scale
has been tried, it U proper to say that no
strikes have occurred, nor has there been
anght but the most cordial relations exist
ing between employer and employed. Tho
two forces share prosperity and adversity
with each other, and mutual interest makes
them support each other shoulder to shoul
der. No understanding licing reached on
this poiut, it is perfectly natural that the
employer should not willingly accede to n
demand for higher wages in times of a busi
ness boom, knowiog full woil that his work
men will resist a reduced scale when the ebb
tide comes.
As long as what Mr. Spencer calls “ego
ism” is the actuating principle of humanity,
all plans for reform must l»e ma le contin
gent on it. A system like that proposed by
Sir. Carnegie compromises selfish interests
on a basis of mutual ad vantage, and ap
pear* likely to accommodate itself elasti
cally to the changing needs of busin*
Any mere doctrinuirisin or theory in mat
ters .of complex practice is a shot at the
moon. When the niilleuium comes it will
l>e time to base business on pure ethics.
Short of this we have seen no proposition
that is alike so equitable and practicable as
that advanced by the millionaire steel manu
facturer <>f Pittsburg.
Not alone by moral suasion, but by “prope
legislation wnerever this is possible/’ the;
npItalUU Organizing.
htbliarg Record-
Mot only is the uncertumt v in reg ird to
the relations of capital and labor in the
near future bringing about combinations of
employer**, but bnrinets establishments in
various parts of tho country are declining
to enter upon contract*, nnd builders in
this city have called « halt and are consid
ering the advUabUi y of postponing opera
tion* until after the settlement of the im
pending struggle shall have cleared the
cloud* from the industrial horizon. Capi
tol does not have to eat; it has no small
children, and does not have to »ar rent or
buy cool. Three months of industrial
were to compel the general couformity in
matters of religious faith and practice of all
classes to the will of the majority thus as
certained. It was not, after all, a plea for
religious toleration; there was in tne plan
proposed no recognition of the rights of the
individual conscience, it was simply a
change of masters—the substitution of a
mw order of rulers, who by the power of
association were to be as absolute as Pope
or Council, and were to dictate both creeds
and ritual to all the people. It was in re
ntity the assumption put by the old satirist
in the mouth of the Furitun: “My idea of
religious freedom is the liberty to worship
God iu my own way, and to compel every
other man, without regard to his con
science, to adopt my system and to conform
his life thereto.”
The various trade associations which
have been organized ostensibly in defense
of tho rights of workingmen have reached
about the same conclusion. We accept, for
the purpose of the discussion, their defini
tion of the terms employed, and include us
“workingmen” those who work for wages
at Rome form of maunal labor.
These societies or unions w’ere at first or
ganized in each separate trade to compel
within the limits ot their intlnencc a uni
form rate of wages, and where this was
deemed to he inadequate to force employ
ers to pay a stipulated advance. They as
sumed the right of tho employed to com
bine together for this purpose, uinl to co
erce employers to accede to their terms un
der a threat ot susnending his business in
case of his refusal by leaving their places
in a body without notice to him of such in
tention.
We denied this right in toto at the very
of the movement, nearly forty years
ago. We set over against the combination
of tho workmen to force from employers
who wore unable or unwilling to piy the
prices demanded, a picture of the combina
tion of employers and capitalists to force
the laborer to accept of lower pay and
longer hours, and asked why this was not
os legitimate as the other? If men might
conspire together to ruin an employer’s
ImriurKM in cuse he would not yield to their
dictation, then the employers os a class
might join hands to force a concession from
their workmen under a threat of a loss cf
work by a general suspension, and the con
sequent utter starvation of those who were
dependent on their labor for their daily
bread.
Neither of them, as we claimed then, and
have insisted ever since, has a right to form
such combinations. It is in the nature of
a conspiracy against the weul of others, and
under the old common law would have
been nu indictable offense. A workman
limy make his offer of service at a given
rate, and if this is refune-l decline the em
ployment. An employer may offer a price
for labor, and refuse to employ any who
will not accept it. But a combination to
force, under a threatened penalty, the view
of cither side os to the sufficiency of the
pay, is an infringement of individual rights
and personal libeity.
All persons were willing to admit that
the forestalling of the market, to secure
from unwilling buyers an enhanced price
for the necessaries of life, was a grievous
offense against the public well-being. But
it was not quite as easy for those who had
suffered in this way to see that a conspiracy
to monopolize nud control the available la
bor in a given place so as to compel an em
ployer to pay wbut regarded a a ruinous
price for it or else to close his business, was
equally culpable, and might mean to him a
starvation as literal os that threatened by
the other side.
Apart from its manifest injustice as a co
ercive measure, the principle upon which
the union was founded is altogether err*>-
neons viewed only in its effect upon the
•workingmen themselves. It destroys per
sonal independence and individual ambi
tion. Suppose an association of carpenters
adopt four dollars a day aa the fixed Price
for their labor. This is to Ik- given without
question to every man employed, no matter
what may be his’ natuml gifts or acquired
skill. Between two men working side by
side there may l>e a wide difference in the
product of their labor. NN hat stimulus is
there for a poor workman to ucquire great
er dexterity, or what reward for one pos
sessed of unusual skill when both must
share alike in the remuneration? If the
employer were allowed to hire the man with
the lesser gifts at three dollars, lie could
well afford to give the more skillful man
five dollars, and this would Iks better for
both of them ns well as for the world at
large. The poorer workman would have a
motive for improvement, and the better
one theduc reward of Li» struggle for ex
cellence.
The effort to establish a uniform rate of
ruel Treatment of Rabbits in the Great
Doctor’s Laboratory.
M. Pasteur’s laboratory, writes a Paris cor
respondent of the London Telegraph, is a
long, narrow, low-roofed building, which
fringes the ground stretching before the
entrance portico of the Ecolo Norm ale. It
is divided into three compartments. In the
center is the place devoted to trepanning
operations, a large space being reserved for
the laboratory proper, where tho virus aud
the sterilized bouilon, or beef tea, with
w hich it is mingled are prepared. The rab
bits and other animals are kept in the cel
lars of the establishment. The first pro
ceeding witnessed this afternoon was the
extraction of the virus from a diseased ani
mal which had died in a high state of rabies.
The carcass was opened from the skull
downward, and the whole of tho spinel
cord from the rnedula oblongata, or brain
bulb, as tho French call it, to the
lower parts was laid bare. Then com
inenced the delicate operation of taking
it out whole and entire. This was neatly
performed by the assistant, who with
pincers placed the long strip on a saucer.
The bulb w as then separated from the strip,
and the matter contained in it, which was
the most potential virus that could be ex
tracted, was used for if noculating the liv-
ir g rabbit. The strip of marrow, contain
ing less powerless, but equally useful virus,
was cut with a scissors into several parts,
each one of which was tied with a thread and
placed iu a glass bottle, where it was sus
pended over a bed of caustic potash to un
dergo tbe drying process. Tne potash, of
course, does away with tho necessity of
using the ordiunry nnd less desirable mode
of heating in ovens or otherwise. The mar
row, after having been dried in this manner
for a certain number of days, is pulverized
with a pestle and mortar and then
mixed with the kouilon. After this
it is ready for use on man, the different
degrees of virulence being regulated by the
condition of tho rabbit from which it is ex
tracted at the time of the animal’s death,
and the longer or shorter period during
which it was dried. Tho virus is obtained
from the nerves of the animal's body, hut is
strongest in the spinal cord and the medulla
oblongata. Tho operation of trepanning
the rabbits and injecting them with tho
virus is u painful one to witness. M. Pas
teur’s opponents in England and elsewhere
are loud in their denunciations of the cru
elty to nnimaU which is duilv perpetrated
in the laboratory of the Rued'Him; but they
canlmrdly be too often reminded tlmtM. Pas
teur has a lofty and noble object in view’, and
that the suffering inflicted on animals will
be more than counterbalanced by relief
from pain and tho terrible danger which his
philanthropic efforts will bring forth for
humanity at large. It must also be remem
bered that tho rubbita before undergoing
the “trepanning” are put under chloroform.
This afternoon two tine, fat, well-conditioned
rabbits were taken out of tho enge-t iu the
cellars. The first animal operated
upon had its hood clipped bare to the bone,
and was then placed upon the trepanning
board, its forepaws and legs being strapped
to tho table. A small, bag-shaped piece of
white blotting paper Hoaked io chloroform
was placed over the animal’s head und well
against its nose. The skull was then incised
and the virus injected near the brain. The
animal struggled slightly and heaved,. but
the chloroform soon made it completely in
sensible and dazed. The animal preseated
a hideous spectacle when the operation was
finished. The gash in its skull was ugly and
red, and its eyes were heavy and dull from
the effects of the chloroform. Tho other
rabbit was then subjected to the same treat
ment. Owing to the many cases which Are
now being supervised by M. Pasteur, it boa
become necessary to innoculate fresh rabbits
daily. During tne period of the incubation
of tho virus tne animals romain in a listless
and drowsy state. Then the first symptoms
of rabbits show themselves by a general
paralysis of tbe limbs, and the unimul dies.
THE GREAT IRON HIGHWAYS.
News and Gossip About Railroad Men and
Railroad Measures.
There is considerable talk in Columbus
over the change in the presidency of the
Georgia Midland, and the people who do
not understand the circumstances are very
much dissatisfied. It is said that the change
was made merely aa a matter of policy and
the interest of the company, and is only
temporary. It was intended to keen the
change from the public at least until Mr.
Jordan returned from New York, when he
will explain the necessity for such a course.
The capitalists who a’re to furnish the
money were unwilling to do ho unless he
would become the head of the construction
company and give his personal attention to
the expenditures. In order to do this, of
course, he had to temporarily resign the
presidency of the railroad company, and
this is all there is in the matter.
A person accustomed to travel regularly
on a commutation ticket on the road of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road Company left his commutation ticket
at home one day by inadvertence, and on
being asked for his ticket on the train re
fused to pay fare. Upon learning o! this
the officials of the road issued orders for
bidding the issuance of commutation tick
ets to the passenger. He applied for a man
damus to compel tho sale of commutation
tickets to him, such tickets being sold to all
others applying for them, and the Supreme
Court of New Jersey decided that the writ
shonid issue.
The East Tennessee road has made a con
tract with the Western and Atlantic road to
run its trains over the same from Dalton to
Chattanooga for thirty days. The former
road, it is said, lias agreed to pay the latter
$12,WX) for this privilege. It will take at
least thirty days to rebuild the tunnel on
tho East Tennessee lino at Mi uni o nary
Ridge, caved in by the flood.
There is a hitch over the proposed Illi
nois Central bridge across the Ohic at or
near Cairo. Tho enginee r division of the
NVar Department has found that the bill as
drawn does not meet the requirements of
tho government that have heretofore been
insisted upon whenever permission was
asked to bridge the Ohio.
A railway passenger, unlawfully refusing
to pay his fare and forcibly ejected at a sta
tion, cannot regain his right to passage by
offoring to pay tho fare during or after the
rejection, according to tbe decision of the
Now York Court of Appeals iu the case of
Pease vs. Delaware, etc., Railroad Com
pany.
Railroad conductors say travel is always
lightest on Fridays. This is accounted for
on the score of superstition and hesitancy
about starting on a journey on that day.
The testimony of men who have been hang
ed, however, shows that Friday is a good
day to go to heaven on.
The Southern Pacific Company will build
twenty first-cla-s sleepers, with eluborate
and costly trimmings, and will then operate
their own.line of sleeping coaches.
The average reported cost of American
railroads, including rolling stick, is Slfll,-
400 per mile; that of the British mil road is
over $200,000 per mile.
Five dull irs from the Missouri river to
California points is the rate at present at
St. Louis.
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Death of a Mu.lcal lien In*.
A Marlboro, Mass., special lay*: George
Cliabae, who bail for year* lived tho life
a recluse, was buried to-day. He was an in
ventive and musical genius. He built
organs (or many churches in this part ot tlio
State aud lias turned out many musical con
trivance*. He was an enthusiast at one
time on tbe idea of musical rocking chairs,
three o( which ho manufactured. Rocking
the rlinira was similar to the pumping pro
cess of an organ. The machinery was
below the scat und by simply keening the
chairin motion the music waa rocked out.
He manufactured the steam engine that he
useil in his organ factory, u contracted
apartment iu the rear of his house. More
than a quarter of a century ago he became
piqued because thoso in a position to do so
ilid not give him the contract to btiild an
organ for the Unitarian Church, nnd he
never forgave or forgot them. He kept a
book in which he jotted clown everything
said about him that came to hi* ears. He
never failed to solve nuy mechanical prob
lem which ho studied. lie played his first
tune, when six years of age, hut never in
bis life took a musical lesson.
Tha Karl of Flneall OIT for Hume Fun.
SI. I.out. cilobe-Democrat.
The Earl of l’ingall, Ireland, was regis
tered at the Southern yesterday. The noble
Karl was much surprised when a Globe-
Democrat reporter sent up hi* card. “I
only came over for a bit of shooting, you
know,” he protested, "aud I cawn’t nee
where! it will interest the masses at all,
you know.” "Where do you expect to find
thia shooting, my Lord?” "Why, • around
San Francisco, of coarse. I am told that
big game is plenty all around the bloody
place, you know, and l have brought a
brace of fowling pieces that would kill an
elephant, ba jove''!
A Itultira In a Child'* 8o*e.
Mr. G. W. Dunham, who lives a few
mile* from town, Lad a child about four
yean old to get a shirt button up ita note a
few days ago. lie hul read in a newspa
per that to apply his month to the child's
mouth in such n case that the object could
be blown out. Applying hi* month to the
child’s, and a Anger upon the other nos
tril, he blew suddenly aud vigorously, when
the' button waa promptly expelled und the
child was relieved. Thus a good newspa
per saved a great deal of suflering and prob
ably a surgical operation.—Mt. Vernon
Monitor.
CONVENTION DATES.
Apttl M—General Time convention, at
Grand hotel, Cincinnati, at 11 a. in.
April 15—Southern Time convention, at
Grand hotel, Cincinnati, at 10 a. m.
April 15 -Association of Railroad Super
intendents, at Cincinnati.
June 8—Master Carbuildcrs' Association,
at Niagara Falla.
June—American Association of Train Dis
patchers, at Chicago.
Juno 15—American Railway Master Me
chanics’ Association, at Boston.
June 15 - Car Accountants' Association, at
Buffalo.
June 17—Association of Railway Tele
graph Superintendent*, at St. l’anl’, Minn.
July 21—National Association of General
Baggage Agents, at Niagara Falls.
Heptember—Master Car and Locomotive
Painters' Aasociation of the United State*
and Caooda, at Chicago.
October—Roadnuuter*' Aasociation of
America, at St. Louis.
ANOTHER H0BBV DEA0.
Quinine In Disfavor
(►'rum Halt! more Morning Ilrrad)
In tl.e Khurktxi region of Russia,
quinine is considered of no account for tbe
cure of chills and fever. r rho Khurkoo
doctor catches n mess of live crabs, pours
whiskey over them until they become
hilariously drunk, and then puis them in
a hoi oven. Alter being well dried, they
are pulverized, shells and all and adminis
tered in drm-liin do^es. Where the crubs
most a»«»uii(l in this country, in the waters
of the Eastern shore of Maryland aud tbe
Eastern shore of Virginia, tne inhabitants
have long since abandoned the tisc of
quinine aud ceuhibly retort to pre
vention in the use of pure whiskey. In
the malarial sections of the great
West, Southwest and South, .this onco
■'anted remedy is now looked upon as worse
ihan the disease. In territories w here the
virgin tod is first broken, the malarial
poison exuding thercfipm spreads pesti
lence far and near. Years ago In the
honors or the first Reuters, nn admixture of
whiskey and quinine was the favorite dove
for the chills, but after years of dosing in
this crude manner, quinine has long since
been given up nud whiskey only remains
In the flask, for family,ami medicinal use.
Experience taught these settlers long ago,
that the amount of quinine required to
drive out the malarial poison iu the blood,
left in Its plate, If not a worse poison, a
condition of t he system made worse Instead
of better. The effects of the quinine were
clearly defined in long continued head
aches, disordered stomachs, clouded
meutul futilities, disturbed sleep, and mor
bid ap; .elite and theonly virtue discovered
iu its me they thought attributable to the
wluskev in the mixture. The medical,
profession has very gratefully modified Its
belief in quinine ns a specific. GniUard's
Medical Journal, October, UvSS. con
taining an article bv I*. 11. Ander
son, M. I)., Norfolk. Vn., in which the
learned doctor use* thin emphatic lan
guage: “I hope 1 tnay be pardoned for
saying that the present empirical me of
quinine is worthy ot the darkest period of
the dark ages, it s «i blighting shatne and
disgrace to our ; rofcBsioii.'' The people
exposed lo inn!: i.x now fortify their
systems ag ».u-t the approach and inroads
of the diseases pr*. • m-ding from it. ami by
tha use of pure ntindultcrated stimulant
Ward off attack. Now that Duffy** pure
malt whiskey is the only nbs.ilmely pure
whiskey, free from fusel oil. as has been
tested by ctu mists. It is the recogn zed
cure In mnmrininttacksjtnd sorecngni/'J
by the people and (lie medical piofcssiou.
Something A^ut the Ur,
Downs of ITflnlmbiSy
Miss Dunaway \i 1Vp
Atlanta papers are pivii... q,,., '' ,
curious and wonderful (awes tl.rl ‘' ,ae l
interesting. It seems n v«m, "l
lau':! bail been reported fia
can." to tbe .-urs of a Constit-n; i. 1
that abo was still alive, and bd!*
alert for news, called at bsr ,L
learn all tbe facts. Miss DtltuJ i
had been prononneed dead, su l- " L
‘ ‘For four years, rheumu’ti- m , I
S*’have resisted physicians nmUif *
treatment. My muscles seetnel *“ "
my flesh shrank awev, i.iv L
swollen, painful urd far-,
tite, was reduced to BO po UUUs •
and for mouth* was expected tn;
commenced tho use of 11 jj » '
action of one-half bottle convinla
friends that it would cure ute In
was like magic. It gave mo aa, “
gave me strength, relieved all m,
aches, added flesh to my bones
five bottles bad been used, I had
pounds of flesh, und am to-dav s
well. *
Mr. «T. P. Davis, of West Eat
What Mr. J. 1*. Davis of West Eai .
"I have only a tew words to say nV "
to state that I have been coutine.l
bed for two months with what was
Nervous Rheumatism, or Sciatica .
only enabled to hobble about oceasi,
by tho uso of crutches, aud in this 1
tion I commenced the tine of II. R. n ••
bottles of which enabled me to dhicatj*
use of uiy crutches and attend to busia
1 had previously used all well recommet
medicines without relief. It has been,
one year since using B. B. B., and 1«
sider myself a permanently cured mu.’
Mr. 11. P. Dodtfc.'VardiinuterG
Railroad,
makes a statement:
“My wife has been a great sufferer 1
catarrah. Several physicians nnd v»r3
patent medicines were resorted to, y<t (
disease continued unabated, notkir" >
pearing to make any impression neon
Her constitution finally hoc.me inipliol
tbe poison being in her blood.
"1 secured a bottle of B. B. B. nnd t.„
her upon its nse, aud to onr surprise t
improvement began at once, and her
eovory was rapid and complete. No oth,
preparation ever produced such a wonde
ftil change, and for all forms of Blood I
ease I cheerfully recommend B. B. B. i
superior Blood Purifier.”
Air. Jus. L. Boswortli, Uiittoi
holed.
“Yes,” said Mr. James L. Bosworth,
old Atlantian, “it was twelve years
when I contracted a terrible cu.se of b!
poisoning. I had no appetite, did
sleep well at night, my digestion m _
paired, my throat was cauterized five time!
and in fuel I was a total wreck. II
been under the treatment of several oi
leading physicians of Atlanta; tried ne
every blood remedy advertised: ever*.
Hot Springs, where I remained tee
months, rocoiving no benefit whatever.
“A truly wonderful blood remedy
recommended, known ns B. JJ. B. 1
it, and, sir, 5 bottle* cured me, nud I r<
believe It to be the grandest .and. quh
blond remedy ever known.”
Send to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta,
for their Book of Wonder*, free.
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wage, for «U Monteonlary. Ate, ha* cr-aud a demand
a^toeooeeam^wateadopt thte . for Coni(<Vrate bill*. The monument
workingmen'andriteiremployer*, and ha. £
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trove ray which tnaued. We propoea in fu- “ r -
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SWEET GUMS
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DU. BIGGER8IICCILBRERRY CORDUU
FOR TBE
B0W1L8 AUD CH1LDRKS TKKTH1W-
It is the (Treat Ho ti there nm tly fortbakov**
It ia one of ths most pi—*nl sod
remsdfes for *11 Hummer complaints. M
son when violent attacks of tbo bow*U are"
frequent, some iq ewdjr relief should 1* ^
Tho wearied mother, toeing alcep In ■
tho little one teething, ahonld u<e thl* I
60c. a bottle. Bond 9e. stamp t > Walter A. W 1
lor, Atlanta, Oa.. for Riddle Bo~*~
A Truly Kind
Baltimore AmerWn.
A fitber who can sympathize with his
children, no«l amicably tlecifle their differ
ences, and make himself their instructor
and is as noble a* ho 1* useful. Such
a parent Hvm at Osrin^Hvtllr, Ky. His two
sons, both of whom be love* dearly, were
in. love with the same yonng lady, who was
unable to decide between then. The father
was a thoughtful widower, and he felt
deeply for his son*, and Ia the kindnesn of
his heart he tried to aliost the ill-fee lings
that naturally resulted from saeh strained
relations. And he socceeded. The hors
were sent away on business, and then the
gay old nu<at married the girl himself.
Xrab Orchard
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