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PERSONALITIES.
Queen Liliuoknlanl has sent to Father
McGce of Washington an altar cloth
worked in gold, with lace trimmings.
Magistrate Mott of New York in a
late case before bim decided that no
man is intoxicated so long as lie is able
to run.
To his other numerous accomplish
ments I'resideut Roosevelt is said to
add those of a clever amateur actor aud
a more than acceptable singer.
Professor Hubert Ilerkomer, al
though generally accounted an English
man, is really a Bavarian. He refuses
to accept money from his art pupils and
is an em husiastic cricketer.
The queen of Roumauia is interesting
herself i t present in improving the ar
chitectural qualities of the theaters in
her husband's domains and also in rais
ing the standard of dramatic perform
ances.
What's in a name? Mrs. Isabella
Toothak r of Argentine, Kan., writes
poetry; Kalney Day is running a livery
stable in an lowa town; Brand New is
one of the oldest men iu Washington
county, O.
A German nerve specialist, I)r. Er
nest Liebmann, publishes an article in
one of the Vienna medical journals in
which he takes the position that bad
grammar is a disease and may be
cured by proper remedies.
The example set by Adjutant Gener
al Corbin since his return from China
and the Philippines of wearing his uni
form while on duty at the war depart
ment is being gradually followed by
other army officers on duty at that de
partment.
The grave of former Governor Jona
than Jennings at Charlestown, Ind.,
the first delegate to congress from the
Indiana territory and the framer of the
Indiana constitution prohibiting slav
ery, has been marked by the state with
a large granite monument.
Sir Thomas Lipton hardly stands for
so prominent a representative of Brit
ish sport as Lord Lonsdale. The latter
owns the finest pack of hounds in Eng
land. Is a splendid boxer, rides and
drives to perfection and has earned
fame as a yachtsman, hunter and ex
plorer.
George W. Carleton, the New York
publisher who died recently, opened a
bookstore on Broadway nearly half a
century ago, and it became the liter
ary rendezvous of the time. He pub
lished Artemus Ward's first book, and
also the books of Bret Harte aud oth
er leading novelists.
BETWEEN THE ACTS.
Patti is making a concert tour in
England.
Helena G. French lloey, widow of
the late comedian, William lloey, bet
ter known as "Old IIoss," is dead.
Clyde Fitch has agreed to write a
play of New York life for William A.
Brady. Two of the scenes are said to
be strikingly original.
It is said at the New York theater
that the gross receipts of "Florodora"
performances are 20 per cent higher
than they were at the Casino.
A new play founded on Ira D. San
key's hymn, "The Ninety and Nine,"
Is to be produced next season by Frank
McKee. The play is to be a story of
Indiana life.
Charles Frohman is said to bo under
penalty of a forfeit of SIO,OOO for not
producing "The Great Millionaire,"
this autumn's Drury Lane melodrama,
In New York city.
James K. Ilackett recently played
"Don Caesar's Return" before several
professors of the College of the City
of New York, from which Institution
lie graduated In 1891.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the English
actress, is coming to this country un
dcr contract to Liebler & Co., who
have made repeated efforts to bring
her here in recent seasons.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
Ihe Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the '
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BY CONFERENCES.
tHUS MAY LABOR AND CAPITAL BE
MADE HARMONIOUS.
H. W. Hoyt, Pre*i<lciit of National
Fomwlem' T ion, T*llN HOW
111 M OPB ill nation of Employers HUM
Met the Iron Mulders' Union.
Tlie Industrial problems, so called,
must be adjusted along the line of least
resistance, and the line of least resist
ance, in my opinion, is voluntary arbi
tration. The highest conception of arbi
tration is that of an unbiased confer
ence board—a judicial body composed
of arbitrators outside the sphere of in
fluence exerted by the contending par
ties.
Another idea, approaching more uear
ly the practical, is that of a board con
sisting of equal numbers from the two
bodies, with an umpire chosen by both.
Each of these conceptions of an arbi
tration board has failed to satisfy the
parties interested or to solve and settle
industrial disputes. The best thinkers,
who are also charged with the trying
duties of practical arbitration, have
about decided that unless satisfactory
settlements can be reached by an equal
number of representatives of employer
and employee without an umpire the
conference would better fail. The fu
ture economist may be wise enough to
present to a waiting world some plan
of arbitrary arbitration acceptable to
the wage earner and wage payer, but
we fear that genius is not yet born.
While waiting for his advent, arbitra
tion will go on. Every day we realize
that public sentiment is crystallizing
around that thought.
Arbitration invariably means compro
mise, and unless the contending parties
are prepared to accept this absolute
fact the work must fail. Everything
depends upon the personnel of the
board. How important that the choice
of arbitrators should fall upon the
clearest and deepest thinker, whose
vision is not obscured by his preju
dices.
Questions of difference between buyer
and seller are as old as mankind, and
yet the dominion of commerce illus
trates how easily adjustments are made
in that realm.
The purely commercial aspect of bar
ter and sale is complicated with the
human element in questions relating to
wages, and he who would settle the
wage problem without taking human!-
tarianism into account will not serve
his follow men acceptably. The old law
of supply and demand, strictly inter
preted, does not avail to adjust all dis
putes that arise iu the economical
world. Tlif competent arbitrator must
acknowledge this. The employer who
admits no other rule of action is un
wise.
There has been an infinite amount of
trouble in conferences for conciliation
and arbitration caused by insistence
upon rules of conduct evolved in the
lodgeroom and forming the written or
unwritten laws of unionism. Equally
provocative of trouble lias been the tend
ency among some employers to ignore
the wage earners in the collective ca
pacity. Some time these two great
forces will learn that the intelligent
modification of their respective posi
tions will extinguish the causes of what
lias too frequently been called an irre
pressible coullict. It may require a
great calamity in tbe industrial world
of America to teach lis anew some of
the truths uttered by our forefathers
and imperisliably preserved in the Dec
laration of Independence.
The National Founders' association is
one of the practical results of the evolu
tion of modern social economics. The
fundamental article of its constitution
is the very embodiment of voluntary
arbitration and reads as follows:
"The objects of this association are:
First, the adoption of a uniform be
sis for just and equitable dealings be
tween the members and their employ
ees, whereby the interests of both will
be properly protected; second, the in
vestigation and adjustment by the prop
er officers of the association of any
question arising between members and
their employees."
This association was formed three
years ago. It now numbers about 400
members throughout the great manu
facturing centers of the east, middle
west and west. It employs an army
exceeding 30,000 men.
One of its earliest acts was a joint
conference with the representatives of
the Iron Holders' Union of North
America for the purpose of considering
an agreement that should form the
working basis of a treaty of peace.
This Joint conference agreed upon a
plan of arbitration, which was subse
quently adopted by the rank and file
of both associations. It was an ex
ceedingly simple ami effective agree
ment, by the terms of which each body
solemnly agreed that there should be
neither strikes nor lockouts in the
foundry Industry until arbitration had
failed to adjust the differences. The
wise provisions of this agreement have
been invoked scores of times with such
fluttering results that neither party
could be persuaded to consent to its
abrogation.
The National Founders' association
Is the largest orgaidzed body of em
ployers in the United States committed
to the utilitarian object set forth In its
constitution. The Iron Holders' union,
on the other hand, is one of the largest,
best organized and most intelligently
governed labor unions in this republic.
It is significant therefore to remember
that during the eventful and Intensely
active industrial year of 18b!) there was
not a single disastrous strike or lockout
in the foundry industry, notwithstand
ing the conditions were such as to
naturally provoke wage conflicts.
These two great associations of em
ployers and employees were not as suc
cessful In averting all contention in thn
year 1000, but the very failures have
emphasized the necessity ami the wis
dom of a still closer adherence to the
principles of arbitration and concilia
tion and a more profound study and ex
amination of economic conditions.
Permanent results have already been
definitely reached. It has been found
possible for the representatives of the
two organizations mentioned to meet
and discuss the principles for which
each is contending without the slightest
danger of personal animosity. Various
conferences have been carried on, with
a strong desire on both sides to reach
a common ground by the exercise of
mutual forbearance and concession.
Failures to arrive at a harmonious de
cision, even in the face of Impending
Industrial conflicts, have not destroyed
faith in the success of the principle of
arbitration. Each party lias become
more tolerant of the other. Friendly
conferences, face to face with each oth
er, have destroyed preconceived no
tions of each other's characteristics,
broadened and deepened the spirit of
toleration and gradually paved the way
lor eventual peace in that great indus
try.
An attempt has been made to nation
alize the scheme of arbitration—in oth
er words, to take away from each indi
vidual case of difficulty its strictly lo
cal character and place the adjustment
of it in regularly appointed committees
chosen by both associations, which
committees, by reason of their experi
ence and broader horizon, are able to
eliminate the local features and arrive
at results in harmony with existing
and accepted conditions elsewhere
throughout the country.
This course of action has gone far
toward relieving the manufacturer
fiom those petty annoyances which he
has always associated with unionism
and at the same time has elevated and
dignified the mission of those local and
district officers of the Iron Molders' Un
ion of North America.
The consequence has been that a
more experienced, intelligent and toler
ant body of men have been called into
action and that the rank and tile of un
ion men are rapidly becoming educated
to the new method of dealing with their
affairs individually and collectively,
while the manufacturers have been ed
ucated to a more liberal and just con
sideration of their employees' interests.
The preamble of the constitution of
the Iron Molders' Union of North Amer
ica begins with this declaration:
"Believing that under the present so
cial system there is a general tendency
to deny the producer the full reward of
his industry and skill"—
Upon this declaration of want of faith
in human justice is builded practically
all there is of unionism. The searcher
after truth cannot deny that there has
been much justitication for this as
sumption. The National Founders' as
sociation has expended a great deal of
energy in endeavoring to bring about
a set of conditions which would destroy
the force of such a charge among its
members.
The association of which I have spo
ken is a type of its class. It is most
gratifying to note the success achieved
by the kindred organizations. The gen
eral public is scarcely prepared to ac
cept tlie simplest recital of the history
that has been made in promoting the
principles of arbitration.
What of the future?
As long as the wage earner believes
or is taught to assume that society is in
league to rob him as an individual of
some of the purchasing power of his
services so loug must society reckon
with him in his collective capacity. The
employer who elects to ignore this fact
is often as much of a menace to the in
dustrial peace ns is that agitator who
plays upon tlie prejudices and inflames
the passions of the men lie falsely
serves. But the conditions are improv
ing on both sides. The progressive man
ufacturer has learned that a union is
not an altogether reprehensible evil in
social economics and readily admits
that when organized wage earners are
dominated by strong, conservative men
they will meet the employer half way
in arbitration.
Unions must remember that there
never was an attempt made to unite
manufacturing employers in the com
mon cause of treating collectively with
the relations of labor until the unions
themselves had asserted their power.
Both the employer and the employee
must be honest enough to concede that
their interests are mutual and that the
deep problems of economics cannot be
solved in a decade. It is a slow evolu
tion that cannot be hastened by vio
lence or intolerance. All the theories
of all wise scholastics on earth are of
little avail. There is only one certain
rule of action. It was loug ago called
the Golden Rule.—ll. W. Iloyt in Chi
cago American.
Hallway Employee*.
In tlio year 11100 there were no loss
than 1,017.053 railway employees m
the United States, 110 other business
owning so many, except agriculture,
title] that upon the earnings of these
men 5,000,000 persons are dependent.
Engineers, firemen and conductors
alone constitute an Industrial army of
110,000 men. Including other train
men, station agents, switchmen, tele
graph operators and dispatchers, one
third of the million employees ore en
gaged directly In the operating of
trains. Over a quarter of a million
men are needed to keep tracks in re
pair, while another quarter of a mil
lion are required in shops and else
where to maintain the plant.
Woodenrvcn' U'nKP. Rained.
The advanced scale of wages for
union wood carvers and modelers has
gone into effect. The new schedule
was agreed to by the associated em
ployees after several friendly confer
ences with representatives of the
organized journeymen. It is a victory
for united labor through the improved
method of conciliation instead of a
strike. Twenty-five cents a day is add
ed to the men's pay for eight hours'
fvorU.—New York Evening Journal.
FOR THE CHILDREN
A Bird That Plays "I Spy."
Did you ever know a bird that could
play "I spy?"
Well, Mauucln, our parrot, likes
nothing better than to have the chil
dren gather in the back yard and make
ready for a game of "I spy," says Julia
li. Tutwiler in Little Folks. Of course
she doesn't hide as the children do—oh,
no, she thinks her part of the game is
to keep watch.
Just as soon as the "counter" goes to
the base, shuts his eyes and begins to
♦ay "5. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30" and so on to
100, Manuela runs for the pine tree
tinci up she climbs to tlie highest limb.
From this perch she can see behind the
barn, around the corner of the house
and back of the garden fence; In fact,
she has a good view of all the nice
hiding places.
I wish you could see Manuela climb.
She has a great, long, crooked bill,
which she hooks into the bark of the
tree and pulls herself up until she gets
to the limbs. After that it is very
easy. She looks so funny with her
long tail hanging down, for, you see,
Manuela is a macaw and has a red tail
tkree feet long.
She is not green, like most parrots,
but is red, with bright blue and yellow
rings. She looks like a great big, beau
tiful flower up among the dark green
pine branches.
When everybody is hidden and the
"counter" begins to spy around to see
whom he can find, Manuela calls as
loud as she can from the top of the
pine tree: "C'om-i-u-g! Com-i-n-g!" And,
oli, when a race for the base takes place
between two of the swiftest runners
you should hear her scream and laugh:
"One, two, three, for me! Free! Free!"
She says, "All free; free lis," and all
the other things the children say in the
game, and she never gets tired of play-
Ing.
Manuela seems to love little children
more than anything, and lots of little
boys and girls come to see her. What
do you suppose a little girl asked the
other (lay? She asked, "Is that the bird
that lays the Easter eggs?" You see,
Manuela is blue and red and yellow and
green and purple, just like an Easter
egg, and it was very natural for a child
to think she might lay those pretty
eggs.
Children and (he President.
Many stories are told of the affection
Theodore Koosevelt entertains for chil
dren, be they from the daintiest homes
or from the streets. One day when he
was governor a delegation of public
men came up to Albany and called up
on him. lie was not In his otlice, and
no one knew where he was. The busi
ness was important and time not to be
wasted. A dozen messengers were sent
hunting the governor, ami after ten
minutes of the precious time had pass
ed they found him curled up in a cor
ner with one or two neighbors' chil
dren and a street arab drawing pic
tures of guns and ponies on the writ
ing table. The children had waylaid
him and begged him to show them pic
tures of the guns and mustangs lie had
in the war. At another time he was
found in the executive chamber half
burled under children clambering over
his chair, while he tried to show them
photographs of scenes of the campaign.
Animal liimtlnet.
Animal instinct often gives a valua
ble hint to human reason. A case in
point is cited by an engineer in a re
cently written review of the subject of
dams. The beaver, he says, does not
build his dam straight across the cur
rent. his instinct telling him that in
this form it will better resist Hoods
and the impact of floating ice. This
hint from the little animal has been
acted upon in many cases lately, nota
bly in the building of the ({rent Boar
volley dam in California. Engineers,
as a rule, build straight across stream,
chiefly, perhaps, to save material, hut
the arched dam is the more economical
In the long run.
Beechnut*.
There is nothing sweeter than the lit
tle three cornered beechnuts, but very
few people have the patience to take
them out of their brown leathery jack
ets, let alone hunt for them and pick
tlieni ui). They are generally left for
the pigs and the squirrels. Many birds
are exceedingly fond of them, and it is
said that in certain localities the num
ber of redheaded woodpeckers which
remain for the winter can he pretty ac
curately determined by the size of t lie
beechnut erop the preceding autumn.
The (lunrrclNome Kittens.
Two little kittens,
One stormy night.
Began to quarrel
And then to fight.
One had a mouse,
And the other had none.
And that's the way
The quarrel begun.
"1 will have that mouse,"
Said the biggest rat.
"You'll have that muuset
We'll sec about that!"
t£i -V- \
"I will have that mouse,"
Said the tortoise shell.
And, spitting and scratching,
On her sister she fell.
The old lady took
The sweeping broom
And swept them both
Right out of the room.
The ground, was covered
Thick with snow;
They had lost t lie mouse
And had nowhere to go.
So they lay and shivered
Beside the door
Till the old lady had finished
Sweeping the door.
And then they crept in
. As quiet as mice,
All wet with snow
Aad cold as ice. 1
And found it much better y
That stormy night
To lie t>y the firt
* i* Than quarrel and fight. J
' A DRIVING
commonplace shoes out of
the market is what the
/, All America SHOE
is doing. How would you
sL "k® to re duce your shoe
~~f \\SJMRU"" 55 wants to two pairs a year?
How would you like to wear
the custom-made $5.00
kind for $3.50 a pair?
■VpiKg. |g Made in the custom way, of
r vHt choicest selections of leather,
they are the snappy, thorough
nHm' t s a P' easure to show them.
Other Styles and Prices.
Our Assortment of
Men's and Boys' Underwear
embraces every variety in the market. We have all weights
and qualities and can suit you at any price from $1.50 per gar
ment down.
In Hats and Caps
and Furnishing Goods
our stock is by far the largest in the town. We carry the
latest styles in these goods and sell at reasonable figures. All
people pay the same price at this store, and the child receives
the same service as the man.
McMenamin's
Gents' Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store,
South Centre Street.
\The Cure thai Cures /
Coughs, &
\ Colds, J
I) Grippes, U
w. Whooping Cough, Asthma, I
Bronchitis and Incipient A
Consumption, Is V fcj
foTJo'sl
f (}U% %
A THE GERMAN REMEDY* £
Cures YWotA J
a\\ 25 6^50
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RAILROAD TIMET ABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
.1 une 2, 1901.
ARRANGEMENT OIT PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE FKEKLANJ#.
6 12 m lor Wcnthcrly, Muuoh Chein*v
Allentown, Bethlehem, Huston. I'hilu
dolphin and New York.
| 7 34 ii i" !' Sandy ltun. White Havon
Wilkes-Bano, Pittston and Senmion.
8 15 a m for Uu/.leton, Weutherly, Munch
Chunk, AI lent- wn, Bethlehem, tiaston*
I'hiiadcli ida, JNCVV York, Delano and
Potisville.
9 30 a in for llu/lcton. Delano, Mutar.m>v
<'it3". Shenandoah and vt. ' ariuel.
1 1 42 u in for W fatherly. Munch ( hunk, Ak
knt.own, Hoi hie hem. Huston, Phila
delphia, New York, Huzletnu, Delano,
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Mt.!
115. a in for While Haven, Wilkos-Burro*
Hemnton and Hie Weal .
4 44 1> in l'or Wealherly, Munch Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem. Hasten, PhUtuM
|>hiu, New York, Ihizleton, Delano,
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, >2l. Carnu-S
and Pottsville.
6 35 p in for Sandy ltun, White Haven,
Wilkos-Barre, Scrautou and all points
West.
7 29 piu for lluzleton.
A It HIVE AT PREKLAND.
7 34 a m from Pottsville, Delano and llaz
leton.
9 12 a m from New York. Philadelphia, Fas
ton. Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk. Wonlberly, Huzletou, Mnhuuoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. Carmel
9 30 a in from Scranton, Wilkes-liarre and
While Haven.
1151 am from Pottsville, Mt. Carmel, Shen
andoah, Mahanoy City, Deluno and.
Ilazloton.
12 48 P m from New Yoik, Philadelphia*.
Hasten, Bethlehem, Al.entowu, Mauob
Chunk and Weatherly.
4 44- l l in from Seiautoii, Wilkes-Barre and
While Haven.
6 35 Ji in from New York, Philadelphia,
Huston, Bethlehem Allentown, Mauch
Chunk, Weatherly. Mt. Carmel, Shenan
doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Ha/ie
-7 29 l> in from Seranton, Wilkos-Barre and
White Haven.
For further information inquire of Ticket
■\ Kent*.
ttoLLIN H. Wl LBT r R, General Superintendent,
20 Cortluudt Street, New York City.
CHAS. S. LKE, General Passenger Airent,
*2O Cnrtlnndl Street., New York City.
G. J. GIL'DItOY, Division Superintendent,
Huzloton. Pa.
DELAWABK, SI'MJRKHANNA AND
A SCHUYLKILL RAILKOAD.
Time table in effect Me roll 10. 1001.
Trains leave Driftnn for Jeddo, Rc.klcy.'
brook, Stockton, Heaver Meadow Head. Koare
anil Hpzleton Junction K t (10U air.' diol,-
except Sunday; anil 7 07 a in, 2 lit, p ru. ?' U nd'av
Trains leave Drlfton for liarwoed.t>. anl eri v"
J'onihlcken and llerlnirer at l) (4; ;l ;n
except Sunday; anil 707a m, 2 Pa"p in, .s U r,_
Trains leave Drlfton for Oneida .TnnpKnn
llarwood Koad Humboldt Hoad Oneida ami
■beppton at 800 a ra, dally except Sin.
day; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p u\ Sunday
Trains leave Hazletcu Junction for Harwond
Cranberry, Tomhiclren and Derieeer att.i£ a
tn, dally except Sunday; and s 58 a m. 4 22 D n
Sunday. F '
Trains leave Hazlcton Junction for Oneida
Junction, liarwowl Hoad, Humboldt Jtual,
Oneida and Sheppton at 111) 10 o m 44' n ir
daily except Sunday; anil 7 87 a m.'dll o e>''
Sunday.
Trains leave Dorlnsrer for Tomhicken, (Iran,
berry, Haiwood, Hazleton Junction and Itotn
at 6(B p m, daily except Sunday; ana 3.17
r in, .107 pm, Sunday. '
Trains leave Sbeppton for Oneida, Humtoklt
Hoad, Ilarwond Head, Oneida Junction liuit.
ion Junction and dtoau at 711 am 1e" .
p m, daily except Sunday; and 8 li R " ra' Su
Dm, Sunday. ' 1^
Trains leave Huzletou J motion it .....
Meadow Hoad, Stockton. Haile Brook iSfhlTev
led do and Dril'ton n m a ? *
except Sunday; and 10 la a ln , 5 41,,. *
Pance n |!no. th ' !r "" in ' B tbr 'fom:
Train leavlpe Drlfton a' 600 m
mnncctmn at Doric (tor witli P.jj. u rams to?
Sunbury, Harrlsburff and
LC'IHSW C. SMITH. au'M>iuCfc|>H|jbt