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NOTES AND COMMENT.
THE STRIKE OF THE EASTERN MILL
OPERATORS.
L(!(lurn in tho Movement ou Uotli Sltlea
—Japan Is a Populous Country—Trioka
of Contortionist*—A Huron as Nwi
Gatherer.
What promisee to result in a pro
longed and terrible strike, probably not
with disorder and bloodshed,
has commenced at New Berford, among
the mill operatives of Massachusetts.
The strike of these operators is for a
matter of sixty cents a week to each of
them. The pay. it Is now said, averages
bur. six dollars a week ,and the proposal
of the owners is to cut these wages to
25.40 a week. Against this reduction
the strike is ordered by the organized
forces, and a bitter contest has un
doubtedly commenced. At this time
public opinion apears to be with the
operatives, because it is believed that
they are'now working for as low wages
as it is possible for them to exist on.
The local authorities realizing that
there would be great suffering result
ing from a strike, especially at this
time if the year, asked the mil owners
to postpone the reduction for the pres
f
M
A. G. Pierce, Leader of the Mill Owners.
ent, and it is said that may of the man
agers and stockholders were disposed
to do so. But there was on e strong
minded man, a leading spirit among the
owners, and he insisted that the re
duction must be made. His influence
carried the day, and the strike result
ed.
In tnis strike at the present time,
ab m: 10,000 men are involved. There
are fully seventy thousand more in
the state who are watching the out-*
come 01 this strike and who will be
governed by its results. It is true that
the stockholders have received the low
est dividends this year that they have
ever received, but this fact, it is urged,
does not warrant them in reducing the
wages below the living point. The
combination of the operatives is de
scribed as being just what might be ex
pected, where an attempt is made to
live on starvation wages. The tene
ments are owned by the companies, and
most of them are in a filthy and un
healthy condition. It is nothing un
usual to see families living in crowded
quarters in total disregard of the sim
ipliest regulations of health. If the
strike is prolonged terrible suffering
must follow, for the operatives have no
money and the resources of their
friends and supporters are limited.
Every moment, he it a strike or a
political contest must have a leader.
The organized strikers have their lead
er, and among the mil owners there has
arisen a man of Iron nerve and an un
yielding determination, who is now de
pended upon to keep the weak among
his associates firmly set in the decision
mot to yield to the demands of the
workmen. This man is Andrew Pierce,
who is pictured by the press as a hard
and unmerciful taskmaster. However,
this may be, he is most cordially hated
Iby the employees, and If the scenes of
disorder continue his life may be in
danger. Conflicting storicsareput forth
respecting the amount that has been
paid in dividends to the stockholder*,
and the amount that is earned by the
men. From the best obtainable inform
ation it is evident that the stockhold
ers are not now reaping very rich re
turns, but It Is thought that in view of
the very large dividends that have been
earned in the past, they might con
tinue the old prices a while longer eveij
it the profits are small.
I The census of Japan was taken Dec.
II 13th, 1896, and the returns are now
/ partially aggregated. The population
k of the empire exclusive of the island of
I Formosa, acquired since the war from
I China, is 42,708,204. This makes a re-
I spectable aggregate and demonstrates
I the power of Japan pretty well. The na
tion has benefited so fast in all that
f modern civilization can offer, and has
added so much to her military and
naval equipment, and extended its re
sources so much by foreign trade that,
despite the fact that China outnumbers
it in population 10 to 1 Japan Is thei
principle power in asiatic seas. Its in
sular situation compete it to depend
largely on its r.&vy and in that respect
It is fast becoming the England of the
Orient.
The contortionist is getting in his
tricks on rnilroad companies. A few
months ago at one of the stations near
Jndianapoli3 a man fell on the plat
form having caught his heel in a crack.
The result was a dislocated hip. Phy
sicians including the company sur
geon examined him and decided that he
wo'iid bo a cripple for life. The rail
re. d settled lor $2,700 and his laweyr's
leer., and did other things to make him
coir.fortable. One day last week a man
fell from the platform of a railroad sta
tion in Virginia and dislocated hie hip
The company investigated the case. The
poor fellow was badly hurt, that was
plain to the physicians, and they were
about to recommend a compromise
With the company when up came an
i eye witness who declared he 6ay the
I man looking for a crack in the plat
form. A traveling man recognized him
as the Indianapolis unfortunate. The
case was Investigated and the man wga
found to be a professional contorionist.
I It was a bad day for him, he will col-,
lert no more Indemnities from rail
roads.
Sanger, the great English menagerie
ma has lately acquired an elephant
tha .he Prince of Wales rode In India
when he visited that country, early in
the 80s. The animal la over 60 years
old; It has tusks tour feet long. At the
end of each tusk Is a brass ballweigh
lng eight pounds. It Is rather an af
fectionate beast, no vicious habits but
such a wonderful tendency of friend
ship that it refuses to eat when tho
keeper w£o has been with it 25 years
is absent for two or three days. Al
though this elephant carried the Prince
of Wales through Indian Jungles, the
English people have not the feeling for
it that they had for Jumbo. It is not
as large a creature as Jumbo, but its
frontal development is greater.
Judge Uentor-Barou Rentor, is his
title —Is the principle news gatherer of
Europe. He has lived lu London since
the year 1851, when he begun his work
on a large scale for the English news
papers. By birth a Prussian, he was in
his earlier years a courier, and as ouch
carried dispatches from Berlin to the
several courts of Europe. This gave
him a valuable acquaintance with the
officials of high rank, the source of
much of the political news of the day.
Before this he was a bank clerk and
while thus employed he attracted the
attention of Prof. Gsues, one of the first,
men to introduce the electric telegraph
into Germany. Rentor learned telegra
phy from the Professor, and became
proficient. After resigning his post as
courier he had dealings with the tele
graph companies, and by means of
mounted messengers, conveyed dis
patches from points in Prance and
Belgium to the wires of the German.
When the wires were extended he be
gan to gather and supply customers
with commercial news, and established
agencies for that purpose in different
Cities in Eut'ope. The possibilities of
supplying the newspapers with speedier
and more complete intelligence began
ed his services to the London Times.
10 dawn upon him and he in 1858 offer-
That paper having a steam yacht of its
own to carry dispatches across the
chanel to railroad connections at Dover
declined Rentor's offer, saying it could
get by its own methods a better ar.d
cheaper news service than his. At first
Rentor was much discouraged, but otily
for a little while. He went to the edi
tor of the Morning Advertiser and off
ered his proposal, which was accepted.
Arrangements were made with six oth
er English papers, and the business be
gun. So many successes were scored
that all the London papers except the
Times became his cllients, and very
soon the Times also subscribed tor
Rentor's service. Among his first
achievements was the information
about Ivlason and Slidell, the confeder
ate commissioners being taken by a
vessel of our uavy from the British'
ship Trent. He also was first to< in
form Europe of the Assassination of
Abraham Lincoln. Baron Reator hit 3
made a large fortune by means of his
foresight and energy. His enterpriso
though compares unfavorably with
that of the American Associated Press.
Prof. Macclcskie, professor of biolo
r.v at Princeton university an extensivo
writer an scientific subjects, when ques
tioned as to his opinion concerning
Prof. Scheneck's discoveries concern
ing the possibilities of sex selection,
said that ho had been expecting some
thing of the kind for some time. So
said:
"•.Modern science has been confornt
cd with two very serious problems,
namely the increase of the population
end the decrease in the supply of food.
The latter problem will have to be met
and will, indeed, in the near future be
so met by the production of food by
artificial means. There is no way, then
to decrease the population except by
the generation of a larger number of
human males than females. That ia
what Prof. Scheneck's scheme, if suc
cessful, will in all probability bring
about. This thing has been acomplish
ed already in the plant world and in
some forms of animal life. It has been
found that hemp, when grown in rich-
WHDM
A Striker's Home,
soil, produces the female plant, while
in scant soil it produces the male.
Working bees will, when fed upon very
rich foods, become queens, while sala
manders, when fed upon the fragments
of their brothers and sisters, will pro
duce almost twice the percentage of
females as when they are fed upon or
dinary foods. On the other hand, the
starving of caterpillars has been found
to make them of the male sex.
"Modern biology has established the
fact that there is no fundlmental differ
ence between the sexes. The eggs of
both sexes will if supple
mentation Is for healthy
growth. The requires rich
food and moves while the male
egg requires light food and moves with
great rapidity. This is the only dif
ference between them."
A resident of Brockport, Me., 75 years
old, has a penny which was given him
when he was a young lad. He hung
ho It when it was the only cent to his
name, and he hangs on to it yet. As a
sailor he has traveled around the
world; been shipwrecked and been in a
few broils In foreign localities of dis
leputc. He has been a miner in Idaho,
and suffered all sorts of losses by the
toughs and pickpockets, but he never
lost the old cent. Considering It is a
talieman of fortune he will not ex
change It for a gold eagle, but wil keep
It as long as he lives and have It burled
with him when he departs.
"Well," remarked the very progres
sive woman, "at last a way is open for
us to get deep into politics."
"How?" asked her less progressive
sister.
"Marry a member of the Ohio Legis
lature." —Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMBBURG, PA.
DUB'S BEFOBT-
Business Increases But Improvement In
Prices Disappointing.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review
of trade says :
The first month of the new year
has brought rather more increase in
business but less improvement in
prices than was expected. With pay
ments through clearing houses 7.3 per
cent, larger than in 1892, and proba
bly the largest ever known in any
month; with railroad earnings 11.2
per cent, larger than the best of past
years, the fact that prices are very low
only shows more clearly the increase
in quantities of products sold.
Nor is there any disposition to re
fuse orders, even at present prices.
Indeed the compelition of manufact
urers seeking orders alone prevents a
rise. Most of them have all they can
manage, many working night and day,
and one great steel concern running
on Sunday, but the works not yet
filled .with orders are seeking contracts
at as low prices as have ever been
made, indicating that even these are
not entirely unprofitable.
The cotton manufacture is in more
difficulty than any other, not merely
because prices do not much improve,
nor as yet the demand for goods,
though both are helped by the closing
of many mills, but largely because the
manufacturers and workers have con
sidered too little the rapidly growing
production at the south.
Ths woolen manufacture is doing
well, fine worsted goods having open
ed at an advance of twenty per cent,
over last year, and the large mills are
constantly buying wood, even at cur
rent high prices, which implies great
confidence in the future, presumably
based on larger orders than are pub
licly reported.
The iron manufacturer is getting
larger orders tor finished goods, which
crowd many works almost beyond
their capacity, although some others
are still in the market and keeping
prices down. Pig iron is steady, ex
cept that Bessemer at Pittsburg is ten
cents lower, the output last year be
ing officially reported at 9,652,680
tons, and the consumption in this
country, unsold stocks considered,
9,625,383 tons, against 9,601,504111
the largest previous year, which was
1895, and 9.394,392 tons in 1892.
Failures for the week have been
342 in the United States against 331
last year; thirty-four in Canada
against fifty-seven last year.
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Such an Offering, Except From the Poor, is
an Insult to God and His Church.
"The important part which the
penny plays in the average church
offering is known to every one who
has ever been interested in church
finances," writes Edward W. Bok in
the February Ladies' Llorne Journal.
"And that it is a part entirely out of
proportion to the necessities, is felt
and realized by many a church treas
urer. Scores of people who could
afford to drop a nickel or a dime into
the church offering, content them
selves by giving a penny. The feel
ing is either that the smallest offering
'will do,' or the matter of church
finances is not given any thought.
There is a failure to realize that a
church is the same as any other busi
ness institution, and it must have
money for its maintenance.
"There is such a thing as too liter
al an interpretation of the phrase that
'religion is fr#e.' Of course, it is free,
and let us hope that it will always be
so in this country. But to make reli
gion free costs money—and this isn't
an Irish bull, either. There are those
to whom more than 'the widow's mite'
given to the church would mean do
ing without some absolute necessity
of life. The penny of such a one is
the most welcome gift to any church,
the most nobie offering which any one
can make. But from those who can
give more than a penny, and who are
giving only the penny, such an offer
ing is an insult to God and to His
church, and the soonef people see the
matter in this hard, true light the
better. lam almost tempted to say
that the great majority of churches
could, with perfect justice, rule out
the penny from their offerings. Were
this done the nickel would be the pre
vailing offering, and to how few per
sons, when one stops to consider the
question, would such an offering be a
hardship or an impossibility ? A year
ly offering of two dollars and sixty
cents, calculating that one attended
church once each Sunday, or twice,
with one offering of five cents, would
galvanize the church finances of this
country."
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