Initials on Coins. - The old Bland "cartwheel" dollar bear the Initial "M." of their design er. Morgan, In two places; our dimes, quarters and half dollars bear the In itial "B." of Mr. Barber, chlof en graver at the mint, though It takes a strong magnifying glass to And It; our gold quarter nd nnlt eagles boar three Initials of Bola Ij. Pratt, the 'an 1st who designed them; the $20 grid pieces Issued from 1849 to 1907 bore the Initials of their designer, "J. B. L" and the original Indian head cents bore the "L." of the same designer. It Is n excellent custom, and Mr. Brenner's "V. D. B." should he left alone. If Secretary MacVeagh wants something to play with, let him tackle the puzzles in the new tariff. Brook lyn Ragle. A Bad Maa. Thomas Nelson Page was talking In the Bmoklng room of the Amerlka about the old-fashioned bad men of the West. "They are extinct now," said Mr, Page, "and I am sorry. They were, you know, so picturesque. I remem ber a western trip " He laughed heartily. "We were all seated In the bar room of Tin Can or Dead Cur some such town. I was the only tenderfoot present. Every man about me bris tled with guns and knives like an en raged porcupine. If I refused to drink, 1 was given to understand I would bo turned Into a human pin cushion or worse. "Well, as I sipped a friendly glass of something resembling wood alco hol, a very bad man. Indeed, rode on a pi t icing mustang right Into the bnrroo i. He drew up and had a drink- Ylien, spying me, he said: " Whar ye from, stranger? " 'Richmond,' said I.. ' w 'Not good old Richmond, Va.T' he exclaimed. " 'Yes,' said I; 'do you know It?' " 'Know it?' he shouted. 'Know It? Best jail I ever was In.' " Wash ington Star. the average cost of maintenance was twenty cents per tree. Scientific American. Edible Collars. Governor Stubbs' brother owns number of valuable dogs. Recently he directed the old colored man who works for him to go downstairs and buy some dog collars. "Remember," was the Injunction given the colored man, "remember to get good ones. Get the right kind." The colored man faithfully carried out orders and purchased what he be lieved were good collars. When he got home some one asked him, "Well, did you got the collars?" , "Yassah," he replied. "What kind did you get?" "Ah got de digestible kind." And he produced a number of adjustable collars. Kansns City Journal. The pack of Columbia River salmon shows a twenty per cent, shrinkage from last year. The season has been A Diminishing Audience. "I hope," said the captain, address ing the passengers on a small coaster, "that we all twenty-five will have a pleasant trip." . The soup then ap peared. "I trust, too, that we-er-twenty-four will reach port bene fited by the voyage, and, ns I look upon you-er-lwenty-two smiling faces I nm sure this group of-r-seventeen will be a happy family. Will all of you-er-tlilrteen I see at the table join me in drinking a health to our com Stately Trees. Everyone who admires the stately trees of Vhn old New England towns and who does not? will ho grati fied to know that tree planting Is be ing carried on, systematically on the Massachusetts roads. The report of E. V. Breed, forester of the Stat r Highway Commission, shows that during the year ending November 30. 1908, 1 134 new trees were planted nud 74 4 old trees were replaced. During the preceding five years, 13, 113 trees had been distributed among fifty-live towns. The cost in 1908 of new trees averaged $1.20 each, and ing trip? We seven, t lint Is, three j well, you and I, my dear Blr here, steward, clear away these dishes." Bohemian. At n rerrnt exhibition of women's work at London there were exhibited five safety ra.ors Invented by women. Five end a quarter million people are employed In the world's mines. about twenty-five per cent, short of preceding seasons In duration. t it won i cost yon a penny to reach out a helping hand to a great army of honest, hard-working and deserving men and women. Just your moral support will Insure work, a living, and comforts which are now either partly or wholly de nied them. How so? Come on, let's have a look. You've often been Importuned and many have been commanded by ad vertisement or otherwise to "refuse to buy anything unless It bears the union label." Looks harmless on Its face, doesn't It? It really Is a "demand" that you boycott the products made by over 80 per cent, of our American working men and women, who decline to pay fees to, and obey the dictates of the union leaders. It demands that you ask the mer chant for articles with the "union label," thus to Impress him with Its Importance. It seeks to tell you what to buy and what to refuse. The demands are sometimes most Insolent, with a "holier than thou" Impudence. It demands that you take away tho living of this 80 per cent, of American workingmen and women. Is that clear? Why should a small body of work men ask you to help starve the larger body? There must be some reason for the "union label" scheme. Ron over In your mind and remem ber how they carry on their work. During a discussion about working or striking In the coal regions, about 25,000 men preferred to work, they had wives and babies to feed The anion men said openly In their con vention that If the employers didn't discharge these men they (the union men) would kill them. So they dynamited about a dozen homes, maimed and crippled women and children and brutally assaulted scores of theBe Independent workers. The big boys of the union men were taught to pound the school children of the Independent men. How would you like to have your little girl short ly grown from the toddling baby who used to sit on your lap and love "Dad dy" pounded by some big bullies on her way home from the school where she had gone to try and please Daddy by learning to read? The little bruised face and body would flrst need tender care while you ponder the Inscription writ deep In your heart, by that Master and Guide to all human compassion, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren ye have done It unto Me." Then perhaps you would drop to your knees and pray Almighty God for strength In your right arm to strike one manly and powerful Wow for baby's sake, even If yea went to death for It Helpless children were brought home, with faces black or bleeding from the blows and kicks of these fiends, teaching independent Ameri cans that they must stop work when told and pay tees to the leaders of "labor." Thousands of men, women and children have been treated thus. From somewhere, Oh, Father of us all. we try to believe that Yon look witn pitying eyes upon these brutal blows, cuts and scars on the many human bodies made In your likeness and Image. They are beautifully and wonder fully made, each the dwelling place of a Divine Soul. Is It Your wish that they be crushed by Iron shod heels, cut by knives or torn asunder by bullets and dyna mite? May we venture to think that a long suffering patience is extended In the hope that the men and women of America may some day wake to a realization of the awful cruelties per petrated by this spirit of oppression and that they will some time learn the lesson that the "sacred gift of hu man freedom and liberty" was given by God and must be defended even to death ttaelf . Oar forefathers were used by th infinite God to establish oar freedom la 4771. a ad our fathers gave freely ot,ttelr Mood and treasure to estab lish the freedom of the black. Now again It seems we are called upon to protect oar brothers and ourselves from that old time spirit ot tyranny which comes op from time to time to force people to obey tyrannous rales and bend the knee of the slava Pass tlhe Word tn Wellston, Ohio, thirty Amer icans sought employment In a factory. They were seeking to earn food for their families. They were bombarded by rocks and pounded with clubs In the bands of union men. One of the Injured, John llrannl- han, was taken to the city hospital with a broken Jaw. crushed skull and Qther cuts and bruises. He was the father of two children, and was thought to be dying. Perhaps be did I don't know, but I sometimes wonder what the children said to Mother when "Papy" didn't come home, and how they and the little woman got any food, and bow they could place their wrongs before their own Amer ican fellows. Maybap sometime soma kind per son will equip a home where the or phans and widows of the victims of the Labor Trust may be cared for and fed. It would take a big home. It has been said there were 31 Americans many ot them fathers, killed In one strike, (the teamsters In Chicago) and over 5000 maimed, many for life. That's only one "lesson" of these bullies. There are literally thousands of cases wherein your fellow Amer ican has been assaulted, maimed or killed by these men. The same work Is going on day by day. Suppose you make a practice of picking out each day from the papers, accounts of bru tality to American workingmen who prefer to work free from the Impu dence and tyranny of self constituted leaders (?) than to be always subject to their beck and call, pay them fees and be told by tbem when and where to work, and for whom. You will discover the same general conditions underlying all these dally attacks. In every case the workingman pre fers to be free. He has that right. He then tries to go to work. He and his family sorely need the money for food or he wouldn't run the risk of his life. Many such a man has wiped the tears away and quieted the fears of a loving wife, left with a kiss on her Hps, set his manly Jaw and walked Into a shower of stones and bullets to win food for the loved mother and babies. A good many have been brought home on stretchers with blood oozing from nose and ears, some cold, while some gradually recover, and carry for life the grim marks of the "union label." They are your fellows, my frlenja, and yet you supinely redd the ac counts and say "too bad." Have you grown so calloused that you care nothing for the sufferings of these men who need food and these helpless ones who rely on the life and strength of husband and father? Let us hope that soon you may be moved by a just God to rlcf In your might and by voice and pen, by vote and right arm you will do a man's part in protecting yourselves and your brothers from this onslaught on American citizens. This cruel war fare Is carried on not always to raise wages, but to establish union' con trol, kick out the independent men and establish the "label." Unfortunately the "Labor move ment" which, started many years ago honestly enough, has fallen under control of a lot of tyrannical, vicious "men of violent tendencies." There are too many to attempt to name. You can recall them. . They Include men who have planned the murders ot miners, teamsters, press men and carpenters, shoemakers and independent workmen of all kinds. Many of them have escaped hanging by an outraged public only because Juries became terror stricken and dared not convict them. Some have been punished slightly and some, Including the principal offi cers of this nefarious crew are now under sentence to imprisonment but have appealed their cases. .' Right here some apologist rises to protest against "speaking thus of laboring men." Bless your dear heart. It Isn't the honest and real workman who doea these things. It Is the excitable ones and the toughs and thngs who don't work except with their months, but have secured control of too many anions, I don't even at tempt to specify the criminal acts these persons have assisted or winked at in their plan for destroying free' workingmen and forcing men to stay in "the anion" and hence under their controL The newspapers for the past 7 years contain almost dally accounts of the criminal, lawless and tyranni cal acts against American citizens and haven't told half the tale Right here It becomes necessary to say for the ten thousandth time that there are scores of honest, law-abiding union men who deplore and are In no way responsible for the long Infamous rec ord of the "Labor Trust" under Its present management, hut they don't seem to stop It The men who manage, who pull the strings and guide the policy have'trate themselves before this stupen- made the record and II stands, as dous and tyrannical aggregation of made by them leeches upon honest American labor? Examine, if you please, the record, of a string of members of the Amer lean Federation of Labor and you will view a list of crimes against Amer icans, stupendous beyond belief. They defy the laws, sneer at the courts, Incite mobs and are avowed enemies of the peaceable citizens of all classes. This band wields an Iron har over their subjects and drives them to) Idleness whenever they want to call a, strike or exact 'extra pocket money for themselves. Men don't want to he thrown out of work and lose their livelihood, but what can they do when the slugging . and murdering committee stands al ways ready to "do them" If they try to work The poor women and helpless chil dren suffer and no one dares present their case to tho public. They must suffer In silence for they have no way to right their wrongs, while the no toriety-seeking leaders carry out their work These men cannot thus force op pression on the weak and Innocent or use them to bring newspaper notice to themselves and money to their pock' ets unless they can "hold them In line." Therefore, with the craft of the fox and venom of the serpent they devise the "union label" and tell the public to buy only articles carrying that label. Smooth scheme isn't It? iney extract a ree from every union man, and In order to get these monthly fees, they must hold the workers In "tho union" and force nanufacturers to kick out all Inde pendent men. Can anyone devise a more com' plete and tyrannical trust? If allowed full sway, no lndepend ent man could keep working in a free factory, for the goods wouldn't sell, no matter how perfectly they be made. Then, when the factory has been forced to close and the employes get hungry enough from lack of wages the workers must supplicate the union leaders to be "allowed" to pay their fines (for not becoming mem bers before) and pay their monthly fees to the purse-fat managers of the Labor Trust. Thereupon (under or ders) before the factory be allowed to start they muBt force the owners of the business to put on the "union label" or strike, picket the works, and turn themselves Into sluggers and criminals towards the Independent workers who might still refuse to bend the knee and bow the head. tn the meantime babies and moth ers go hungry and shoeless, but who cares. The scheming leaders are trained to talk of the "uplifting of la bor" and shed tears when they speak of the "brotherhood of man," mean ing the brotherhood of the "Skinny Maddens," "Sheas," "Gompors." et al.i always excluding the medium or high-grade Independent workers. Perhaps you have noticed lately that the makers of the finest hats, shoes and other articles have stopped putting on the union label, i Natural ly the Labor Trust managers have or dered their dupes to strike, lie Idle, scrap, fight, slug and destroy proper ty to force the makers to again put on "the label." But for some reason the buying public has been aroused to the Insults and oppression behind It. and In thousands of cases have re fused to bu any article carrying, what some one named the "tag of ser vitude and oppression." The bound and gagged union slave Is fined from $5.00 to $25.00 If be buys any article . not bearing the "union label." Nevertheless, he. time and again, risks the penalty and buys "free" goods simply In order to help tbe fellow workingman who Is brave enough' to work where be pleases without asking permission on bended knees' from the bulldozing leaders who seek by every known method or - oppression and bate to ravem him. ' If these poor wageworkers will thus brave fine and slugging to help out other men who seek to live a free life under our laws and constitution cannot you, reader, help a little? Will you reach out a hand to help an Independent workman earn food for bis wife and babies? Or will you from apathy and carelessness allow him to be thrown out ot work ana the helpless suffer until they pros- The successor of Henry Ward Beecher In Plymouth Church. Brook- ln, says: "Union labor ' hatred for labor burns like a flame, eats like nitric acid, Is malignant beyond all descrlp- tlon. But the other day, a woman representing a certain union visited many families In Plymouth Church asking them to boycott a certain In - stltntlon. Alas, this union woman's hatred for non-union women burned In her like the fires of hell." j Hut You. Why don't you strike She was pitilessly, relentlessly and out and demand defense for your fel tirelessly pursuing the non-union lows? women and men to destroy the mar- ket for goods, to ruin their factory and to starve them out. In the French Revolution only i! per cent, of the French people be lieved In violence. The ! per cent disclaimed violence ami yet the 98 per cent, allowed the 2 per cent, to fill the streets of Paris with festering corpses, to clog the Seine with dead bodies, to shut up every factory In Paris, until the laboring classes ( siarvea Dy me score. ine sinaii per cent, element in tne j Labor Trust which hates and seeks to destroy the large per cent, of Inde pendent Americans semi? out letters declaring "free" Industries unfair and tries to boycott their products. If they could bind every one It would Dnng sunering upon nunjreds of ; thousands, Immeasurable ruin upon tbe country, and land It absolutely under control of the men now at tempting to dictate tbe dally acts of our people and extract from each a monthly fee. There are babies, children, women and honest, hard-working and skill ful fathers who rely upon the protec tion of their fellows, when they seek to sell their labor where tbey choose, when they choose, and for a sum they believe It to be worth. Every citizen having tbe rights, privileges and protection o( a citizen has also tbe responsibility of a citizen. The Labor Trust leaders may suavely "request" (or order those they can) to buy only "union label" articles, and you can of course obey tf you are under orders. Depend upon It, the creatures of the Labor Trust will, upon reading this, visit stores and threaten dire re sults unless all tbe things bear "the label." They go so tar as to have their women pretend to buy things, order yards of silk or cloth torn off and va rious articles wrapped up and then discover "no label," and refuse them. That's been done hundreds of times and Is but one of the petty acts of hatred and tyranny. Let po one who reads this article understand that be or she Is asked to boycott any product whether It bears a "union label" or not One baa a constitutional right to examine the article and see whether Its makers are Labor Trust contributors and slaves or are free and Independent Ameri cans. ' I have tried to tell you something about those who are oppressed, vili fied, hated, and when opportunity of fers are attacked because they prefer to retain their own Independent Amer ican manhood. These men are in the vast majority and Include tbe most skillful artisans In tbe known world. They have wives and babe dependent on tbem. These men are frequently oppressed and have no way to make their wrongs known. They are worthy of defense. That's the reason for the expenditure ot a few thousands of del. lars to send this message to the American people. Remember, I didn't say my "excuse" for sending It The cause needs no "excuse." C. W. POST. Battle Creek, Mich. N. B. Some "parlor socialist" who knows American manhood and freedom t nothing of the Russian Czarlffin of the j making tbe finest goods In America great Labor Trust will ask right and which do not near the oral ul in here: 'T-on't yon believe In the right dustrlal slavery, the "l!ninn Ijiin-I." of certain workmen to 'organize?' Ob, yes, brother, when real workmen manage wisely and peacefullly, but I would challenge the right of even a church organization when Its affairs had been seized by a motley crew ol heartless, vicious men who stopped Industries, Incited mobs to attack citi zens and destroy property In order to establish tbelr control of communl- ties and affairs, and subject every one to their orders and exact the fees When you see work of this kind being done call on or write the prosecuting olllcers of your district and demand procedure under the Sherman aotl- trust law, and prosecution for con splracy and restraint of trade. We have the law, but the politicians and many of our officers even while draw- Ing pay from the people are afraid to enforce It In protection of our citl- tens, and now the big Labor Trust U 1 moving heaven and earth to repeal , the law so their nefarious work may be more safely carried on Put your prosecuting officers to the test and Insist that they do their sworn duty, and protest to your Con gressmen and legislators against the repeal ot the Sherman Anti-Trust law its repeal Is being pushed by the La- hor Trust and some big capital trusts In order to give each more power to oppress. Do your duty and protest In this great American Republic every one must be jealous of the right of Individual liberty and always and ever resent tne attempts made to gain pwer ror personal aggrandizement. winy me poor rool allows his lib erty to be wrested from him. Some one asks "how about your own workmen?" I didn't Intend to speak of my own affairs, but so long as the question Is aimosi sure to be asked I don't mind telling you. The Postum workers are about thousand strong, men and women, v uiriiiiig ig inuor unions, me uanor irust has. time without num bers, sent "organizers" with money to give "smokers." etc., and had their "orators" declaim tbe "brotherhood of man" business, and cry salty fears describing the fearful conditions of the "slaves of capital" and all that But the "confidence game" never worked, for the decent and high grade Postum workers receive 10 per cent, over the regular wage scale They are the highest paid, richest and best grade of working people In the State of Michigan and I believe In the United States. They mostly own their own homes, and good ones Their wages come 62 weeks In a year and are never stopped on the order of some paid agent of the Labor Trust They have savings accounts In the banks, houses of their own and steady work at high wages. They like their dally occupation In the works (come and ask them) and are not slaves, and yet the Labor Trust leaders have done their best to ruin the sale of their products and force tbem Into Idleness and poverty It would coBt the workingmen of Battle Creek (our people and about 3000 others) from $1000.00 to izooo.oo a month In fees to send out t0 tne leaders of the Labor Trust. If they would allow themselves to be come "organized" and Join the Trust Not for them, they keep the money, school the children and live "free." That's some comfort for white people Once In a while one of the little books "The Road to Wellvllle," we put In the pkgs. of Postum, Grape Nuts and Post Toastles, Is sent bark to us with a sticker pasted acrris it saying "Returned because If don't bear tbe union label " Then we Join bands and sln h hymn of praise for tbe discovering h some one thatv our souls are noi seared with the guilt of being ron splrators to help bind the chains ot slavery upon fellow Americans r placing added power In the hands ot tbe largest, most oppressive and harmful trust the world has ever seen When you seek to buy something look for the "anion label" and sivai your sentiments. That's an opportu nlty to reach out a helping hand to the countless men and women in all klnda of Industry who brave hrtrki stones and bullets, to maintain their A patent has been granted In Ger many on a starch, insoluble in hot water and unaffected by strong alka lies, which is useful as a filter In plastic compositions and in the manu facture of paper. The possibility of a planet outside of the orbit of Neptune, since its dis covery In 1847 considered the outer most of tho solar system, is indicated by calculations at Harvard Observa tory of certain Irregularities In Nep tune's orbit. Concrete, when brought Into con tact with water, steadily acquires compactness and resistant power un til It maintains Its maximum in those qualities, which It retains Indefinitely and without deterioration. . Every year thousands of persons In France, according to M. Motals dressmakers, clerks, cashiers and ac countants -lose their sight, not so much from excess of work as from de fective lighting and a deplorably faulty position during their work. In a p'aper read before the Paris Academy of Sciences, Monsieur Chau veau shows that the organism to which the effects of ordinary vaccine are due is still unknown, being be yond' the reach of the microscope. Its properties can be inferred, how ever, and experiment proves that It cannot be of a crystalline or colloidal nature. When the vaccine Is covered with water and allowed to diffuse, no virulent properties are communicated to the upper layers of water. Mon sieur Chuuveau regards It as certain that the organism Is a living being. According to Electrical Engineer ing, rules have been Issued to the effect that no apparatus for wireless telegraphy on board merchant ships, whether British or foreign, shall be used In any ot the harbors ot Gibral tar, except with the written permis sion ot the governor. Tbe making or answering of signals of distress are excepted. The bill requiring all steamers to be equipped with wire less apparatus, which was Introduced In the Canadian Parliament, has been shelved for the present, for the rea son, it is said, of seeing what steps the British Government Is taking In this direction. A PARISIAN SEANCE. The Materialization of a Man Graph ically J)escriled. Vance Thompson, In writing a ser ies of articles on psychic research, based upon his experiences and Inter-, views among the savants of Europe a series which in vivid portrayal and authentic detail far surpasses anything of the sort yet printed In a popular periodical. In Hampton's Magazine he thus describes a seance, men and women seated alternately in a circle: Suddenly one of my neighbors grinds her body against mine and gives a little cry. "There!" she exclaims. I, too, see a vague light flickering against the curtain, far up near the top, and to the right, of the opening into the cabinet. It is a luminous f nebulosity. At tne ena oi a minute i within this light, which Is wavering f and fluctuant, there comes a globe of radiance which is clearly outlined j against the black curtain. At first; this globe is no bigger than a golfy. ball. It augments rapidly until It lji the size of an lnfant'3 head. There seems to be gray spots on it and lit tle points of brighter radiance. (Dr. de Vesme says one might have been watching the genesis of a child, all ' the slow growth crowded into a pan oramic moment.) The ball Is now the size of a man's head, and the ex treme brilliancy has faded from it There Is a bluish tonality in the neb ulous mass. For a while It hangs against the curtain; then, as though it had shaken itself loose, it descends in zigzag lines to the floor and hovers there. It is a ball of blue-stained light; bluish as Sheffield steel. It rises and falls, floats this way and that, now toward the curtain, again two or three feet away. There la a time when It has drifted within five feet of my knees. Then it becomes stationary. It grows taller; It is as though the head rose while below it the shadowy light took on consistence and. form. lit grows until it has attained the height ot a man. The human form, uncertain at flrst, la clearly accentu ated. You see the head (which was the ball), tbe arms, the hands; but all this you see behind nebulous drapery. The figure Is now very near ly six feet high. It wavers there. Abruptly a circle of light, like a gilt crown, forms on the head. - The eyes are- visible. Silence now; only you feer the lurching of those magnetic waves as the women press themselves harder against you, clutching with hands, grinding with knees. - (This is not rhetoric. I am leading you to a for midable fact. I Iterate it so that you may have clearly In mind the physical basis of "the chain.") Then in the profound silence, a voice, strong and rather formal: "I am Dr. Benton." The total continental area of the Ualtd States, lB?tu:V?r; f'at cf AIa.!:a, Is about eaual to tLat ot all Euisfe.