Hon BEE re Pennywise Peter, Dr. Britten D. Evans, the brilliant alienist, sald at a recent dinner in New York: “Then there is the cunning lunatie, of whom there used to exist a good example at Bridgetowi. “There was a half-witted youth in There Was No Answer, At an important State function In London blue tickets were lssued to persons of high rank, admitting them to that part of the hall reserved for members of the royal family. Less distinguished guests received white tickets, Through some mistake an A Maine Huxuter. With forty-five notches in his trusty gun as reminders of his skill in bringing down deer, “West” Ad- ams, of Miles’ Notch, up in Oxford County, is a typleal hunter. He has he has no mean helper in the person The Christmas Infidel. Miss Carey Thomas, the head of Bryn Mawr College, sald at a dinner {in Philadelphia that college girls i chose better and also wealthier hus. | bands than other girls. i Migs Carey Thomas, after instanc- number of Mawr & h 4 4 Po Norn FV ITTXTXYY o of . 7 » a : . £4 5 i, J ¢F Tart Hphd Liplw ’ we 5 Al Poultr rofit. WITH 1 M Ost fing a Bryn girls POULTRY Kind of a was brought o produce somes ) definite desi beginning. | Standard breed which important public man received a blue will | pa { Out « card, while his wife received a white one. When the couple reached the audi- Bridgetown to whom the neighboring tarmers liked to offer a penny and a nickel. “Gathered about him in a circle on of his good wife, who assists In set-| whose marriages had been in every ting traps and can shoot, too. Both | way ideal, told a story of the son of aro ardent naturalists and understand one of these Bryn Mawr girls, wood lore thoroughly. A son of four. | “He came home a few days before any a sel purpose { hens if it ms a light ides are good the and glides {thing orig i ith a rl, a OL | behind thie market day the farmers, one after another, would say: “ ‘Now, which'll yer have, Here's a cent—here's a nickel yor choice.’ “And fool shoone the nickel, and the wmeredulous Toolishness would with lnughter, double in two and slap their legs noisily with Jr brown Rands. * ‘Peter? 1 mpatic, ‘why is it that you al teke the cent instead of the “Peter inne a very grin. * ‘Suppose I took the n 1, ke, ‘would I ever get a chance to t: suother one?’ "—Washington Post Peter? take | would invariably | rather than the farmers hefore such Poter con roar th sald nickel’ tly ICAD A variable gine has been designed, evercome the difficulties which pre- vent such engines being applied di-| rectly to the shaft of a vehicle, as in the case of the steam engine stroke peireleum en-| intended to A canal nine miles long, sitty-five | feet wide, and fourteen feet deep, in} Besha County, Arkansas, has been | sampleted and is draining atout 120,- kansas City. Some people swell up on brewed from absolute untru It's an old trick of the Labor Trust to twis make the at the ice house.” the tale further on.) Gompers et al, sr and defy our why by falsel gourts were trying free speech and f Men can s epinions freely | sourt will ject allowed to eriminal con ether ci Gom} starie mit Oa, drive | out of work the pla that hard workod 1 The souris mathods that wo But persisted i Stave Worl eGmpany in some old en union” some of "de g Now let sud have a I Suppose t the union te their union fused, Hoke against that unlo: im an “unfair manufactur Btates anion. have and threaten to ehgnis sold an i i union. Picket the faetori members work and slug them way home, blow up their houses wrock the works, and even murder a faw members of the boycotted union © teach them they must ¢ : ders of “organized Capital?" It would certainly be fair for the company to do these things if lawful for the Labor Trust to do them. In such & case, under our laws the boycotted union could apply to our! eonirts and the courts wonld order the sompany fo cease boycotting and try- ing to ruin these union men. Sup- pose thereupon the company should sneer at the conrt and in open de- fiance continue the unlawful acts in a persistent, carefully laid out plan, purposely satended to ruin the union and foree its members into poverty, | What a howl would go up from the snlon demanding that the courts pro. tect them and punish thelr law -break- ing oppressors Then they would prafse the courts and go on earning a Mving protected from ruin and happy in the knowiedye that the people's! courts eonld defend them How could any of us receive pro- fection from law-breakers unless the soturts have power to, and do punish such men, The court is placed in position | where it muwt do one thing or the other—punish men who persist in des | fylng its peace orders or go out of service, lot anarchy reign and the ; mage powerful destroy the weaker, peaceable citizens sustaip the courts as thelr defenders, whereas thieves, forgers, burglars, crooks of “ull kinds nad violent members of la- por unions, hate them and threaten violence if their members are pun- fshed for breaking the law, ey ‘want the courts to let them go free and at the same time demand punish. ment for other men “outside de union” when they break the law. *# & .» Notice the above reference fa to “violent” members of labor unions. « The great majority of the “unheard” union men are peaceable, upright citizens, The noisy, violent ones get into office and the leaders of the great Labor Trust know how to mass this kind of men, In labor con- | ordered not HS 3 on the and ence chamber there began to be trou- ble, Inasmuch as the lady firmly de- clined to be separated from her hus- band. An alde endeavored to reason her, pointing out the consequences that would of blue and white. “How absurd!” exclaimed the lady. “What do vou take us for—a seidiitz powder?" She was follow a i rmitted Every with body's Magazine, to enter her husband In Doubt, “What : you going to give your “Dear me, 1't know yet. a how much money me have to buy it Detroit Free Press. is going 4 to let Letter to Santa, philanthropists from { Kan.) Graphic: “One yur hundred and rn —— the Note the Oakley to thousand f« nine dollars as night would enable 4 » Tr We the last four years.” far back as manufacture was gland until 1558. as thoelr 18 carry out the lead- abhorrent ates would applaud Gompers wanted, of the real heard, Vea, now and then some workingmen ins on } if the risk of { § ret + is vt 4 vy 4 1100s - 4% S80 y have LION: federation law sre of them.” # 0 at a the d a leaders severe : confidence in narticular ATES Jurns was rt to the ge in his peral assembly their annual meeting ia no or combination yf capital in world,” sald Mr. Burns, “that violates laws than do the trust labor organizations, trust the which resort to more dishonest, un- fair and dishonorable methods to- ward their competitors than any trust or combinations in the country.” Mr. Burns said the action of “these feaders™ would be harmful for years to come whenever attempts were made obtain labor legisla- tion “The 10 Labor Digest,” a reputable the end of Gompersism, many organi- zations becoming tired of the rule-or. policies whieh have been en- forced by the president of the A. F. of L." “That he has maintaivded his lead- of his stubborn clinging to policies which the more thoughtful of the workingmen have sebn {or years must partly of the sentimental feeling on the part of the organizations that he ought not to be deposed, and the un- willingness of the men who were mentioned for the place, to accept a nomination in opposition to him. In addition to this, there is no denying the shrewdness of the leader of the A, FF, of L., and his political sagaeity, which has enabled him to keep a firm grip on the machinery of the organi zation, and to havehis faithful hench- men in the positions where they could do him the most good whenever their serviess might be needed, “Farther than this, he has never failed, nt the last conventions, to have some sensation to springfon the cons vention at the psychologBal moment, which would place him ithe light of a martyr to the cause unionism, and excite a wave of synfhathetic en- thusiasm for him, whichf{wvould earry car or steam engine, but he can shoot, and both he and his mother where the fishing is best in the moun- tain streams near their cosey in the ravine—~Kennehbee Journal Waiting to Find Out. Cincinnati Tourist { first time, has just taurant in Paris) { dered?” i St. Louis Tourist (who has re { the table some minutes be | who looks up {fare)—* Yes.” | Cincinnati Tourist i order?” | { (who, for entered “Have yi fore from a French -“ What St. Louls Tourist (impati “How do | know?" Chicago News, | ish official reports the Kenis forest | Bast Africa to be 287 miles eight miles wide, and to contain standing timber worth $115,000,000, O11 discoveries In Orange | Colony, Alrica, seem impor A More than 1200 English trad are entitled to use the | over their shop-fronts in his re-election, “That his long leadership and this apparent impossibility to fill his place has gone to his head, and made him imagine that he is much greater a man than he really is, is undoubtedly ithe case, and accounts for the f i be has adopted In dealing | tlons before Congress, unnecessarily antag whom organize recognition where labor eo posed on accoun onism, which woul support. § } There no dou hat la i ull Ore ganized labor in this country would be much stronger with a leader who was more in } ti nicl touch they wi fn aot fu $ actually ex bring to whi it ext paper: “Organized mist mus if they 3 (yore oss $1 ir organi: i ors ree the past a ment wh Wi n wi vyement, no orgs cin eye Vosv ws ‘ develop | i which gulde these fish motive come 3 which inged nankind in time since h “It can be said certain leaders of or the precarious r as leaders bh se them to los behind the organizat instinct in man tion is in no sn ble for the i not necessarily in labor uni | but in every branch of society desire for power and lead personal aggrandizement ca { who have been earnest and gi their efforts In the start deterior ate into mere politicians whose every act and utterance is tinged with the | desire to cater to the baser passions { of the working majority in the socie- ties or organizations and this Is un- i doubtedly true when applied to the | present leaders of the Federation | We mention the Federation of Labor particularly in this article because { that organization is the only organi. | zation of labor which has yet found | itself in direct opposition to the laws {of the land, There are other organi. | zations of labor whose leaders have | made mistakes, but they have always { kept themselves and their organiza- | tions within the bounds of the law i and respected the rights of i other man in considering the rights mistaxes # tO | whereas, the motto of the Federation {is just the reverse, and unless the | leaders conform themselves and thelr organization in aecordance with the laws of the land, the leaders and the organization itself must be disinte- grated and pass Into history, for in America the common sense in man- kind is developed to 8 greater extent than in any other nation on the earth, and the people, who are the court of iast resort in this country, will never allow any system to develop in this country which does not meet with the approval of the majority of the citi- zens of the country, “This must have forced itself upon the leaders of the Federation by this time. If It has not, the leaders must be eliminated. The organization which they head has done many meri torfous things In times past and the people are always ready and willing to acknowledge the benofits which their efforts have brought to thelr constituency as a whole, but at the present time labor organizations in general, and the Federation of Labor in particular, stand before the bar of public opinion, having been convicted oh the OeLs aud 1 country to the interest of the few. The people are { Christmas,” she sald, "from a visit to his cousin * ‘Mother,’ i that § eried, ‘do you know }? he Fweddy is an infid« “Hig mother laughed “*An infidel? | gon?’ she asked “He doesn't wns the How an infidel, my helley The Death Wi: ith watel nes form flicer in London did and gtrawberries 4% 3 in the wr Va 25 4 | PR TP Nal WOrgK ot food, ele the summer, I All= { tumn, 1 pi winter, and oak On the la i world. a 25.000-acre affal Ga., Is grown Sumatra tobac appers in the i of all the telgar wr Ouse. snt and awaiting to see which th i y these » forced to give u to be recognized ar to conform ture work thereto.” Eg0ON ¥ "w are going them their fu A ang ordance Ww if you hav it can Do « who continue and sometimes (tended to era threatened are frequently $8, killed sratecrt them } protfecl Laem. 18 the courts i notions and before tho Ca 3 intervene at IUATLE 0 CO f : Now the Labor Tri mand of Congress that stripped of power to lssue prevent them from assaulting or perhaps murdering men who dare earn a living when ordered by the La- | bor Trust to quit work | Don't “weep at the Ice House” and don't permit any set of law-breakers to bully our courts, {f your voice and vote can prevent. Be sure and write your Representatives and Senators in | Congress asking them not to vote for any measure to prevent the courts from protecting homes, property and persons from attack by paid agents of | this great Labor Trust Let every reader write, and write now, Don’t zit silent and allow the or- ganized and paid men of this great trust to force Congress to believe thoy ropresent the great masses of the | American people. Say your say and let your representatives In Congress know that you do not want to be gov- erned under new laws which would empower the Labor Trust leaders {with legal right to tell you when to work. Where! For whom! At what | price! What to buy! What not to {buy! Whom to vote for! How much | you shall pay per month in fees to the Labor Trust! ele, ete. ete, This power is now being demanded by the passage of laws in Congress, Tell your Senators and Represenia- tives plainly that you don't want them to vote for any measure that will al jow any set of men either represent. ing Capital or Labor to govern and dictate to the common people, who prefer to be free to go and come, work or not, and vote for whom they please, Every man's liberty will disappear when the leaders of the great Trust or any other trust can ride rough over people and mass “heir forces to prevent our courts from affording protestion. “There's a Dh” C. W. POST, Battle Crook, Mich, leaders de- be {to house gre not In good there will always iraughts whi though ev ot ba ob © » © ABUT rings wen *ES to give A barley m with can cornmeal meal, mixed gweel Pp noon give ! or barley and at night or cracked corn With feed of buckwheat It t= he not to co ing fattening, as they lose their appetites and atatoes wt iy 1f fod all they will ent they ined rit #8 wins : { are not inad to roam will around Turkeys intended for markets should not be so heavily as those intended gale in a weeks They should be killed at once = reads for the market as they will } quietly fed for tow ee time —M K Home Journ able if kept over this Boyer, in the Farmers’ nal. AREEDS THE RESULT OF ACCL DENT. Three of our most prominent breeds are the results of accidents or papharard dreeding, originally. Ne man knows, except through unrell able tradition, from what sources sprang Plymouth Rocks, Weandottes snd Rhode Island Reds. This is also true of other breeds, but fs nothing arainst them. Our best breeds of live stock, best sorts of fruits, best varieties of graln are mostly the re galt of acckental crosses which some One was acute snoush to see value in and preserve. If we mis take not the Orplngtons are the only 1 yuitry, ’ Tn eeging slants selves those in the ably differemt tha sonal ® SRI In 1R67 further and in 1908 advanced far evident that within a island will again be It is believed thn to them such a8 mosses compositae and borne thither by ocean currents were n he froivs nderatin o E 0 een made, had 80 nts eetablis the blasted soll re that s agents concerned mr nortation geeds and Youth's Companion ¥ i Lil B and iv t} of New Corn for the Southwest. Last year a small lot of shelled corn of a kind new to this country woe sent to the Department of Agri it proved to make It val hot and dry conditions of the Santhwest The piants raised in the test averaged less than six foot in height, with an average of twelve green leaves at the time af tassolling, The care averaged 5% inches I length and 4 1.2 inches in greatest circumference, with sixteen to eolgh teen rows of small graing. On the upper part of the plant the leaves are all on one side of the stalk In stead of being arranged In two rows on opposite sides. Besides this, the upper leaves stand erect justead of drooping, and the tips of the leaves are therefore above the top of tassel. The silks of the ear are duced at this point where the blade is joined to the leat sheath, i they appear before there is any of an ear except a slight Scientific American. ®
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