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8 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. ATLANTA "ing , lesidev joint, < 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. jon22-fri-aundv I IrR COUGHS-SCROUP US: TAYLOR’S |, VV 1)F Ml B*d > 1U 5: T „_Cc« ontH'“ e Kea-**" ,t«n»- 1 ^ A very oM In . '«'?; , Mac sue draat I’m »*«re j jibe Ijof coll:* rbWy®*; She d dr» *od*‘ D bj^rtlOSM Ami 1 Vet lMv lg ,ui Jrt" 1 I Keel* v ®° (country i, honored [he ii looker naniou. e n of n ° h the men f aites am . fiml w having I" 1 y with r v’her cm t tends ti J with eve) there is Icihaibai lie const"] n »ives» (nuint**- o mad« r has a worn* a all th kid iilDil tf 1 | bw 3 lx 1 ft” m tha! • of ,M ba* |qII1—&! » that i I she w If there * ftbi i vo — '—- - -• — ~ | —The proponed visit of Jefferson Da via to wage, for «U Monteonlary. Ate, ha* cr-aud a demand a^toeooeeam^wateadopt thte . for Coni(<Vrate bill*. The monument workingmen'andriteiremployer*, and ha. £ ilh toTe c£ * tj Uar ,h * Tignate of trove ray which tnaued. We propoea in fu- “ r - tore article* to follow the natural develop- —Edward Everett lisle is aixty-four. SWEET GUMS —AIM ID— MULLEIN. TX« m* pa, m fathered fra® atreatflfra—•**—^ frewfai itoM tlM —an iu—ai la «*• 1—tS— •aatalM a aUaalatlM a«p#-1ar»*» prtaalpU that *«■■* U.phWf® rredaatof l*a Mriy ®ar*ia« «*. latre tat child to threw uf Um falaa ®t®brant la '««» .a,,lu -.<> WW MM vHk IX. XMIM — maw *t.*> ta ix. B.U.U rnaiwix.uza.UM— •••U n C.Kao.1. Iuut °» »•••* °'V” «cu«. a. 1.M tun iMn*r fcr Cmi»>. vw«Cmi.xuiCnnurinx: m* - .xiizuriMM* uux.il XitiM.4r.nu.uvtL rn». U..-UI. WAITE It A. TXT10E, AtU»t»- ^ um di. ainoxar HCC*i.r.*«**T eoam.n JJ PUmXulUIMMMT ut CXUZIM TmOSM- — - 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 WATER. THE I.IVKU. TUKKIIRHKVa. . 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