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SUNDAY MORNING Work for Vricle Sam A*" In the city of Washington, standing at the M intersection of Pennsylvania and Now York avenues and Fifteenth street, any morning ex cept on legal holidays, between 8:30 and 9 o'clock will observe * great many thousand people .emerging from numerous congested trolley cars and rushing hither and thither into this and that public building near by. If he should ask about them' he would be informed that they are all government clerks employed: in the various departments In the vicinity. They live, many of them, asi far awsy as Baltimore, others have houses or One of the Census Girls. farms scattered through the pictur esque Maryland hills, while yet others seek pastoral seclusions beyond the historic Potomac in the rolling uplands of Virginia. Chevy Chase, the suburb that. Cleveland made fa mous, contributes its generous quota of government clerks. The hour of nine Is signaled by the hoisting of the star Sand stripes, which are run up over all government buildings, a token to the Initiated that the United States government has begun its dally routine of clerical duties, and the administration of official business. Like nay private enterprise, the government Is obliged to conduct its affairs on a systematic basis. It is not all politic*, nor congressional leg islation, nor appointments abroad. The enormous mass of work that Is done dally consists mainly of the kind that Is done in tho great commercial houses. To do this the government clerk is appointed, either through influence or from the civil service eligible list. Nearly 20,000 clerks aro necessary, it would seem, to do the clerical work of the government In the departments at Washington. The work cannot be described with accuracy. It compre hends every system of office work known to civilised man, and a few systems known only to barbarians. The individual clerk Is representa tive of the class. In a short time he has learned to keep his mouth shut upon all topics political, and ho has little to say about anything af fecting the service as a whole. He will brag about the work of his desk and work himself into a state of pacific frenzy when promotions are in order, but apart from this he is a very lackadaisical follow, noted chiefly for his languid listlessness whenever he walks along the street or Is not rushing to get to his office in time. The subject of ‘‘promotion" Is an endless source of conversation. It bobs Into every question up for dis cussion no matter how remotely from it the main proposition began. Hand in hand with the topic ‘‘promotion” goes ttiat. of "influence.” There was a time, long ago, say in the seventies or early eighties, when the word "promotion" was synony mous with “influence.” The relation to-day, superficially, is very distant, hut if investigation could be had, It would be discovered that the words are still united in a secret and power ful alliance. Under such conditions it is scarce ly to be wondered that the clerks resort to all manner of subterfuges to keep their names on the payrolls of the United States. Between pay days they contrive to do their work, whlift in most Instances Is little enough, and on the first and fifteenth Government Clerk in Action. of every month they lino up outside the disbursing officer's room and await their turn at the loot. . This is the lime when you see the government clerk with a smile spread over his dull countenance. At other times he bemoans his fate—but would not exchange his position for the same money in civil life, because he knows what it means—three hours more every day. and work twice as great, without the long summer vaca tion or the month's sick leave with pay in case of illness. The government clerk Is of all aorts and conditions, just as his pro- totype in the commercial world, but after he has been In the service for a number of years there attaches to him a peculiar characteristic which you find nowhere else in men. His facial expression assumes a weariness, his clothes, his shoes, his hats a slouchlness which is unwar ranted In the light of his occupation. His whole nature seems blighted, and as one with some Incurable ailment, he measures off the years with stoic indifference, being content to slouch along if the powers that he will but permit him to drag his lengthening chain until the day shall come when his compatriots in office may gaze at his vacant desk and suggest that he worked himself to death ju3t like a ‘government drudge.” The women clerks, or as they pre fer to be called, “lady” clerks, dress well, and in many cases, elaborately. They are different from the rest of womankind, and the longer they re main in the public service tho more unique they become. They, that Is the large majority of them, aro presumptuous, impudent and supercilious. Forgetting the causes which gave them their posi tions, they indignantly wonder why Washington official society declines to accept them. The gulf between them and “soci ety” is the same as that between capi tal and labor—both have their proper stations in the community, but the “lady clerk” forgets that oil will not mix with water. Among these clerks there is the eternal striving after the unattainable, the continuous effort to produce impressions that, must vanish as tho breath from a mirror. This leads to interminable contests in dress, finery of all kinds, and prolonged debates upon the topic, "My influence.” Women usually get Into office either by reason of their pretty faces or engaging manners. There Is a goodly contingent of widows who have been given places In the public ser vice because their husbands nave met death while engaged in military or naval operations or duties. Com paratively a very small percentage of the women in office have obtained “Pay Day.” their places on competitive exatnlna tion under the civil service. All in all, these clerks, female and male, regulars and contemporaries are accomplished and similar in on respect—they know how to kill time during office hours, and that time is killed not by doing government work. The Law of Recapitulation. The baby epitomizes in the four ot five years before he grows into a normal child the whole history of the human race and is therefore an in teresting object of anthropological study. Before ho is born he passes through a stage in which he is a fish with gill slits, then through the dog stage, then through the monkey stage, in which he has a perfectly apparent tail. After his birth he represents man in his rudest stage, speechless and without a glimmer of intelligence. Then he passes through the stone age, through all the phases of the de velopment of the barbaric man, until at last he reaches the upper plane .of civilization. Biologists call this the law of recapitulation. How Two Minks Caught a Big Bass. While standing on the iron bridge that spans Salmon River below Lees ville dam, Charles P. Murkett wit nessed a novel sight Sunday after noon. Two large minks suddenly dived down and soon regained the surface with a good-sized bass they had caught. One had it by the head, the other by the tail, and together they hauled it ashore, where they en joyed a full meal. It is a well known fact that mink are deadly enemies of trout, but it is seldom they are caught in the act of fishing,—Hart ford Courant. A Natural Curiosity. It is not to be wondered at that a pearl necklace “collected by a de ceased nobleman" sold in London for SIIO,OOO. The thought of a deceased nobleman wandering about collecting jewels lends a vivacious interest to the most ordinary transaction and completely disposes of the theory that our period of usefulness ceases with death. Perhaps we should dispute the story had we not read it in a Sab bath newspaper—that vast repository of useful and diverting knowledge. Criticised Reed’s Methods. William M. Evarts once met Thom as B. Reed in the Capitol at Wash ington, and said to him: “Mr. Speak er, 1 half suspect that vftu believe a deliberate body is like a woman —if. it deliberates it lost” A CHILD OF THE WOODS. He knew the first sweet wood note of the thrush, x’he first pale wind-flower hidden In the (trass; The little shrines where fireflies saying mass Swing low their censers through the marshland's bush; The quickened sound before the poignant hush Which preludes charges at old earth’s cuirass— Illinois Child Laborers The last report of the Illinois fac tory inspectors is Instructive rather than reassuring. It appears that the number of children at work In Illi nois is now about 19,000. This means an increase of 100 per cent over the figures of five years ago. By a “child” is understood any person under 1G years of age. The law protects the child until he is 14. The factory in spector's figures are concerned, there fore, with children between 14 and IG. The number of such children who go to work instead of keeping at school is proved by the report to be For the Eight-Hour Day George E. McNeill of Boston, known from one end of this country to the other as the father of the eight-hour movement, has been chosen by Gov. Crane as the labor representative on the Massachusetts commission au thorized by the recent legislature to urge upon all the other states in the country the adoption of uniform eight hour laws The commission is to con sist of five members and its duties aro to “examine the subject and pro- Strikes ir\ the United States. “Fools do not strike,” remarks Car roll D. Wright, national labor commis sioner, in the North American Re view. “It is only men who have In telligence enough to recognize their condition that make use of this last resort.” He advocates boards of arbi tration based on the successful ones in openation in Great. Britain. Labor conflicts, in his opinion, grow out of increased intelligence. The strike per Meant to Deceive Workingmen The I-os Angeles, Cal., County Coun cil of Labor has issued a circular which says: "Advertisements are be ing run in hundreds of eastern news papers for the purpose of inducing carpenters, bench hands, milimen, ma chine men, lathers, plasterers, hodcar riers, and, in fact, mechanics of all kinds, to come to Los Angeles, where they are promised steady work at big pay. In conjunction with these adver- Houscs for Employes The Carmichaels Weaving & Spin ning company of France, with their central office in Paris, employ some 2,000 people, of which 80 are men, 600 women and 600 children. In order to provide healthy and economical homes for their people they have constructed an industrial colony, comprising nine ty-three houses. The houses, exclu sive of the land, cost about S6OO each. They contain a dining room, throe Sacredness of Property We contend for the sacredness of property and property rights. Prop erty is, and should be held, sacred. Property rights are Inherent. But we must recognize the fact that the claim of sacredness becomes a per nicious absurdity unless we restrict our claims to actual property, id ost., real, produced wealth, and unless we Not a.n Unmixed Evil The fight against the consolidation of railroads and other large interests seems to be about as effectual as an attempted trip up Niagara falls in a llatboat would be. The merging of all similar productive and other ener gies under one management must eventually bring about the complete organization of those engaged therein. Disproving a. Theory To those who believe that labor unions are organized for the sole pur pose of forcing strikes, the recent de velopments in Chicago tell an inter esting story. The strike epidemic, which seems to have struck that city, was confined almost entirely to unor ganized workers, or to those who had Strike Wins Nine-Hour Day. The nine-hour day was wen by the metal polishers, buffers, platers, brass molders and brass finishers of Cleve land, O. Eighteen manufacturing con cerns gave in to the demand. The settlement made by President E. J. Lynch was ratified in a meeting which was attended by 750 members. Some Stove Mounters Elect Officers. At the ninth annual convention of the Stove Mounters' International Union in Allegheny, Pa., the following officers were elected: President, J. F. Tierney. Detroit; first vice-presi dent. Alan Studholme. Hamilton, Ont.; second vice-president, Charles Edin- May Build a. "Home” The recent convention of the Inter national Brotherhood of Bookbinders decided to submit to referendum vote of the members a proposition for the payment of a death benefit. It also appointed a committee on a bookbind ers’ "home'' patterned after the print- THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. That magic moment when tho seasons pass And all live things a newer promise rusn. He loved the bobolink's familiar call. The friendly clover nodding to the bees; The tiger-lilies flaunting, gay and tall. Their motley coats of spotted harmonies; And when the night lay on the forest grim, He heard the tree-tops croon a song for him. —Charlotte Becker, in Outing. growing larger. That such a tendency Is desirable no one will now try to maintain. The boy or girl under 16 has not yet had either the mental or the physical development which the stress of modern industrial conditions demands. Now and then it may be well for the boy to go to work early. In most cases, however, as Mrs. Flor ence Kelley and all other persons who have given the subject their atten tion are willing to testify, early work means reduced vitality and impaired efficiency. Child labor is a waste as well as a crime. mote the object and interests of the working classes, and endeavor to pro mote the uniformity of legislation, maklt-g eight hours a legal day's labor throughout the United States.” Just how the eommisslon will accomplish its objects is not known, but consid erable literature will undoubtedly be circulated in other states in an en deavor to reduce working time to eight hour3 a day for all classes of labor. iod in Industry is one of development, and “when laborers shall have ac commodated themselves to the new conditions and when employers shall have recognized the Increased intelli gence of their employes, these mat ters will be handled in such a way as to prevent in the future a repetition of incidents like those which are chronicled in the statistical history of the strikes of the last 20 years.” tisements, circular letters are being seat broadcast, in the holies of getting men to come here in order to disrupt the unions of this city and to break a strike which is being waged against several planing mills. The advertise ments and circulars being sent out by the Employers' association are full of lies and misrepresentations. Do not be deceived by these enemies of the workingmen. bed rooms, an attic, a cellar, and, in the court, water closets and a wood shed. The houses rent for 35 cents a week. About 600 persons occupy these houses, and of this number 400 work in the factory. The occupiers are asked to observe the regulations con cerning cleanliness and hygiene. A sanitarium receives any family where a member is sick with a contagious disease. have come into possession of it by natural and just methods that deny to no other man his just and sacred claim to the property which he has pro duced, Mere legality does not always establish the moral right, and onl;- the moral right is sacred. —St. Louis Finance. Such a condition will give stability to wages and permit the workers to know about how much a day’s work will purchase. Wages will become uniform as the wage-earners wiil in seJMefense be compelled to organize as solidly as the trusts and act in har mony and unity on wages and condi tions affecting themselves. but recently formed unions and had little or no experience in union affairs. Gas workers, rubber workers, glove makers, iron workers and others who struck had practically no organization, while the strong unions that forced recognition from the employers arc working along harmoniously. of these concerns are the largest plumbing supply houses in the United States, and the president thinks it now an easy matter to establish' the nine hour work day in all similar plants throughout the country as a conse quence of great victory in the Ohio city. ger. Dover. N. J.; third vice-president, H. J. Ragon. Atlanta. Ga.; fourth vice president. Louis Volkert, St. Louis; secretary-traesurer. J. H. Kaefer, De troit. The next convention will be held at Indianapolis, Ind.. beginning the second Tuesday in July, 1903. ers’ home at Colorado Springs. Al ready $20,000 has been subscribed for the project. It is likely the institution will be situated at Colorado Springs. E. W. Tatum was re-elected interna tional president. The order is in s j flourishing condition. Newport in Summer _ NEWPORT has put on her gar ments of gladness for her D summer of roses and wine. There is an exhilaration about Newport in summer which is found nowhere else. Besides the brightness of the sparkling ever flashing sea, the blueness of the sky 3hot with sunlight, “like a great vault of lapis lazuli flecked with gold,” and the air mingled with the breaths of ocean and green fields, to inhale which 13 like drinking a very dry cham pagne. there is the greater exhilara tion of thousands of people all bent on having a good time and doing it on a grand and generous scale, regard less of expense. The only Newport society the great world knows is the rich society of the summer. It is a most difficult one to “arrive” in. Many folk, after spend ing any amount of money, have given up the attempt after a few seasons and gone elsewhere to spend their summers. The favorite entrance into its inner circles for those who are not born there is by way of London, but even that path is not so sure of leading to the goal as it used to be. The coiony is divided into strata. En trance into the higher one depends for one thing upon how long a family has made Newport its summer home. Newport ceased to exist as a great commercial port with tae revolution ary war. Then, in the ‘4o‘s, the wealthy southerns discovered it and each summer saw them assembled there in force with their best of every thing in clothing and slaves. horse3 and carriages. A great deal of dig nity and not a little magnificence In its way attached to the “afo’ de wah” society of the south which used to assemble in Newport. The predom inating society of the place always has been given to doing things on a grand scale—there is something in the air and his guests ate heartily and drank — z- Goclet Palace at Newport. heavily, after the manner of those times, while the burning house was the torch which lighted their revels. Such tales as this and stories of the French occupation during the war of the revolution are dear to the hearts of the eldest old society of Newport. They like to tell of tho Quaker maiden who fell in love at first sight with Rochambeau and threw a rose at his feet as he passed down over the hill riding with Washington. The ghost of the maideu. dust and ashes so and the sunshine “tangled in the fringes of the sea” which miflvcs one want to glow and glitter as much as he can. Even that old colonial society, the laded remnants of which are now so lusterless and prim, was gaudy and brilliant in its day. Could any feast of the old slave-holding aristocracy, or of their successors, the "captains of industry,” exceed in the free mag nificence of its setting forth the din ner given by old Col. GeofTrey Mai tione at his neat of Maibone Hail? When the tables were spread and the guests assembled the house was dis covered to be on fire. The doughty old colonel ordered the tables to be removed to the lawn, and there he many years, still haunts one of the Newport houses. Bret llarte makes her spirit come back as a "faint sweet odiSr of mignonette"; but the older story is that of a rose. Harte wrote his "Newport Legend” The Lorillard Residence. in the Bonaparte house, over toward the fort, a house he occupied for a time and a house filled with many fancies. Here used to come some times Betsy Patterson, wife of Jerome, king of Westphalia, a poor, shriveled old woman in her latter years, but with eyes from which upon occasions would flash out a glance of that spirit with which, in the pride of her ma jestic beauty, she played at the game of empire with kings and emperors. Every year the summer Newport becomes more artistic as regards its houses and its grounds. The archi tectural monstrosities which were perpetrated for rich men in the ‘6o‘s and ’7o‘s in all parts of the country have their representatives at New port, but the millionaire of to-day knows a thing or two about art and architecture and is able to pick out a competent architect to construct his villa. Of late the Newport colony ha3 been going in for landscape gardening, Italian gardens and such adjunct to their villas. And this is a good sign, and excellent sign, a sign of the ap preciation of the beautiful. Some of these! Italian gardens are elaborate affair.s, costing so much money that an ordinary family would consider it- Malbone Hall. self rich if it possessed it. The gar den of Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss —a beautiful thing of the kind —cost $60,- 000, and there are others scattered i about among the villas which prob ably cost as much. Certain it is with luxurious mag : nifieence which recalls the days when ; the wealthy Romans tad their villas I along the shores ef tho bay of Naples ; that many of these rich people live here in the season in which they i make the place their home. Great j rooms, glorious with all that the dec- I orator’s art can the artist’s ! brush accomplish and tho architect's i brain plan, form the interior of houses many of which have not their equal in the country. The “Newport cot tage" of other days has evolved into the palace by the sea and the owner has embellished it in many cases at the expense of his city house. Newport has a charm about it which wooes one and makes him feel at home —even in a palace. Though the average member of the summer col ony does not arrive before the first of •Tilly and takes his departure the let ter end of September, still he likes to think of himself as a resident of Newport going for his annual visit to the “springs” of Virginia, the “season” in town and the annual trip to Eu rope; to return “home” again to the shores of the Narragansett when these “functions” are over. HE REFUSED TO ENTER. Good Example of the Colored Man’s Fondness for Long Words. A good story teller had been in town for a few days, though few of the thousands of people who saw him had the privilege of talking with him. Lew Sells, whose circus last week de lighted Brooklynites, has been travel ing ovor the United States for thirty years, and more, with occasional side trips to Australia, down into iitxico and through various parts of Canada. Mr. Sells is a keen observer and has a wonderful memory. He had stored up many of the queer and amusing sayings and situations that have fallen to his lot, and those of his friends who have heard some of them know how amusing they are when Mr. Sells relates them. Mr. Sell’s greatest pleasure comes from the South. He finds an unfail ing source of amusemeftt in the real southern negro, and as soon as the circus gets into the southern country he prepares to lay up anew store of stories. At Albany, Ga., one day a ;ro peeked around the corner en trance and said; "How much to get in, boss?” "Two*dollars,” said Mr. Sells, with out hesitation. The negro looked at the ground for a moment. “1 refuse to enter on such terms,” he said, and disap peared.—Broqjtlyn Eagle. Reindeer as Food. It is stated that an attempt is be ing made by some enterprising Nor wegians to popularize reindeer flesh as an article of diet in Europe. The experiment of raising the animals in large numbers for slaughtering pur poses will be fairly tried. They ex pect to find profitable markets in France and Belgium, and will even endeavor to induce beef-eating Britons to purchase the article. Birthplace of Cecil Rhodes. A slab has been fixed to the front of the house where Cecil Rhodes was born at Bishop's Stortford, bearing the inscription: “The Right Honora ble Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rho desia. was born in the room within, July 5, 1853.” QTTOBER 5’