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HE REFUSED THE JOB Because He Wanted to Parade With the Unemployed. “I am beginning to lose my faith in the @incerity of the ‘unemployed working- man.’” Thus spoke Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire today, in conversing about the advent of Coxey and other signs of the times. “A friend of mine in Boston,” he ‘went on, “had an experience recently that fonvinced me that much of the talk about the poor ran out of work is nonsense. He had a good deal of work to be done ebout his place, requiring the service of a man for perhaps six weeks, and hearing of @ deserving fellow out of employment, he @ent for him, and told him that if he wanted a job he could have it. Owing to the hard times he could not afford to pay him much, but it would be steady employ- ment for at least six weeks, and the pay ‘would be a dollar and a half a day. He had expected the man would accept his offer without hesitation, and was consider- ably surprised when the fellow returned: ‘T'd like to take this job first rate. It is a first class chance, and I need the money. My family is in need of money, too, but you know I can’t do it. You see, I am unde> promise to march in parade of the ‘unemployed next week, and I can't break it." It seems to me.” concluded the Sen- ator, many of the so-calied workingmen eager for a job.” ;| been talking to invited me to su “that this is cbout the character of| SEARCHING FOR WORK “conrsé.|The Experience of a Railroad Man Out of a Job. le TRAVELING FROM OCEAN 10 OCEAN Everywhere He Met With a Dis- couraging Reception. WILL RETURN TO THE WEST He came into the editorial rooms inquiring for the city editor. Firding that individual, he asked if “special” or “space” articles were accepted. Being informed that they were, he asked the privilege of doing a little work for the paper in order, as he termed it, to “make a stake,” on which to get out of the city. He was apparently intelligent and well-informed, and a little talk with him developed the fact that he was a practical railroad man of many years’ experience, with recommendations crediting him with merit in his line of work. But he ‘was out of @ job, without money, and with no chance to get employment on any of the railroads in this city. His story was inter- esting in that it deals with a condition not very familiar to the public generally; that of the impoverished railroad man, who, when by chance he loses a position on one road, travels sometimes thousands of miles im search of another job, often with no mon- ey, and generally with no baggage. The unprecedented business depression of the past year had thrown him out of work, and since the loss of his job he had traveled nearly all over the continent looking for the job that, so far, had failed to materialize. Hustler that he was, he was not by any means discouraged or blue over his want of success so far, but intended to keep on until, as he termed it, he found an “office.” A Story From Life. His story is given in his own words: “I had been working in East St. Louls for about four months, when the raflroad busi- ness in that section began to drop off at the commencement of the present hard times, a year ago. The company commenced to reduce the force, and before they got through, in fact, almost as soon as they started, I ‘got it where the chicken go the ax,’ and, with thirty dollars in my pocket, started to look for another job. I tried all the roads In St. Louis, and as the condition Was just as bad there as on the east side, ing of April 10, 1893, I started on what ha: turned out to be the longest trip on record, I think, ever made by a man who was willing to work looking for a job. “I came east over the Ohio and Missis- sippt road, got to Cincinnatt all right, but there was no work, so I kept on to Co- lumbus, Ohio. The farther east I went the worse it got, so, in order not to go back over the same route, I struck out north- West from Columbus, over the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo for Toledo. I in| Teached there the 30th of April, just in time to get the full benefit of a coal miners’ strike that knocked the bottom out of what little business the rcads were doing the! I only stopped over one day, and on th morning of the 24 I went to Mr. Calloway, the general manager of the Clover Leaf (Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City rail- way), showed him my letters, and asked for a pass back to St. Louis, which he gave me, and that night I started for the west. St. Louls was worse than when I left it. Men who had worked in the yards there for years were pulled off, and, with fami- lies to look out for, were unable to leave the city. Hundreds of them were showing up gt the yards morning and evening, only to get the same answer to their in- quiries for work: Dow: “TI did not tarry long there, but struck out over the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern for Texas. I visited Denison, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Waco, Houston, Galveston, Yoacum and San Antonio, but all to no purpose. The spring stock business was over, and the roads were housing their engines and storing their cars. So far traveling had been easy, but at San An- tonio the conditions changed. Hundreds of railroad men were traveling, and the con- ductors were getting chilly, and then, too, my money had given out. I got a little assignment from the San Antonio ‘Express that relieved the financial embarrassment for a few days, and eventually succeeded in getting a ride out of town. I was mak- ing for the west coast, and unless I found work I didn’t propose to make any long stops. I stopped one day in El Paso, and one in Mojave, but the yards were full in both places and plenty of extra men wait- ing for any vacancies that might occur. “I arrived in San Francisco on the morn- ing of July 20, without a ‘sou’ in my pocket, and, so far as I knew, no friends in town. I ‘hustled’ the roads and then the a but with no good results, and was just | trembling on the ragged edge of starvation when a good-natured switchman I had with him. Of course, I accepted, and, in the evening, he told me the Central Pacific out in the mountain districts was always good for a job. He volunteered to ‘square’ me out of town, and that night I left the Gold- en Gate for the east. Back East Again. “I stopped at every division headquarters from San Francisco to Ogden, and from Ogden to Omaha, over the Union Pacific, but in every town found lots of railroad men on the same errand as myself. From Omaha I went to Chicago, and after a few | days in the Windy City, during which I | thoroughly canvassed it for work, I started on @ trip through northern Illinois, Indiana |and Michigan. It was the same every- where. No business on the roads, and an army of men idle. I went clear into northern Michigan, crossed the Sault Ste. Marie into per.insular Michigan, and went down through northern Wisconsin to Mil- waukee. The iron mines had shut down, and business was at a standstill. “From Milwaukee I went to Minneapolis and St. Paul. In the latter place I met Mr. Arthur Law, general superintendent of the Great Northern, and from him got a pass through to Portland, Ore. On the way west I stopped at all the principal points, enly to find everything full. Boise City, Spokane Falls, ma and Seattle, nearly always good for work, were crowded with miners, railroad men and mechanics, out of work, who were getting a precarious living out of ‘the few’ of their fellow-laborers who were lucky enough to have a job. I went down through California to Bacra- mento, and there to San Francisco. it was worse, if anything, than when I was there before, and I! left the same day I ar- rived, over the Southern Pacific for New Orleans. A conductor I had known in the east, who was in @ good job in ‘'Frisco,’ gave me $10, and wits this for a@ ‘starter’ I hardly left the train until it had covered the twenty-five hundred miles between San Francisco and New Orleans. There wasn’t much of the ten left when I arrived in the crescent city; just enough for a breakfast in the French market, and after the meal I walked up through the yards, looking for that ‘office’ I had hunted for so long. No Better Luck South. “Business was good. Cotton, sugar and tropical fruit was coming in in great quan- tities, but the men from the east, north and west had flocked in in such numbers that half of them were literally starving. I found lots of old friends in the yards, but neither their influence nor my own ability could get me a job. Disgusted with the outlook, I started for the north over the valley route (L. N. O. and T.) for Memphis. I got along all right until I got to Vicks- burg, and from there I could only get over the road by taking a ‘side-door Pullman’ (box car.) In Memphis one of the boys laid off fifteen days, and gave me a chance to get on my feet. My clothes were gone up and I was nearly barefooted. His kindness enabled me to get a good suit of clothes and a pair of shoes. When the job played out I went across the river and tried Jones- boro’, on the ‘cotton belt,” and Little Rock, Ark., on the Iron Mountain, from Little Rock to Poplar Bluff, and from the last place to St. Louts. “I got to St. Louis during the holidays, and, if it had been bad in the summer, it was awful now. Here were thousands of idle men, of ali trades and professions, who were only too glad of a chance to earn a dime shoveling mud or snow in the streets in front of the big business houses. The charitable institutions and police stations were full every night, and hundreds of men slept on the bare stone floors of the court use and city hall. One place there, lied the ‘Yellow Front,’ a saloon, was a doleful curiosity. The building was three stories high, forty feet front, and one hun- dred and forty deep. Forty feet of the THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1804-SIXTEEN PAGES. lower floor was used as a bar room, and in the rear a huge stove was kept red-hot, day and night, warming through fe holes cut in the floors the rooms above; and here the poor fellows who could find no other place could sleep on the bare floor if they wished. The only price was the purchase of a glass of beer at the bar in front. If the rooms were not full at night with the ones who had pstronized the bar the proprietor was not exacting, and many a poor devi] who otherwise would have walked all night to keep warm was given a shelter here, A Long, Fruitless Journey. “T left St. Louls January 1, and since then have been in every city of any importance and every railroad town ffom the Missis- sippl to the Atlantic. There isn’t a job any- where, and now, as all the unemployed are coming east to join Coxey, I'm going back west to try once more for a job, “Since I started I have traveled over 50,000 miles, and have been in thirty-eight states and territories, and have ridden, more or less, over nearly one thousand rail- roads, to all of which, and to some I have not traveled on, I have applied for work. But now business is improving, and as the men, or at least a great number of them, are on their way east, I shall try the west once more, and I hope with better success.” ——_——._— VIRGINIA POLITICS. Populists to Make a General Contest in All Districts, Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 30, 1804, A great deal of interest is being mani- fested already in the coming congressional campaign in Virginia, That the populists are laying their plans for a general contest in all of the districts is conceded on all sides, They are availing themselves of the feeling of unrest and disaffection among the rural democracy, and confidently pre- dict that the democrats will not again re- turn ten Congressmen this fall. It is well known that the populists are much stronger now than they were two years ago, when in some of the districts their nominees poll- ed a@ large vote, especially in the fourth, where Mr. Epes was only returned by a small majority, and whose right to hold the Seat Mr. Goode, the populist nominee, is now contesting. It is said that Mr. Goode, mo matter what may be the result of his contest in Congress, will again be the nom- inee of his party in this district. State Chairman Hobson of the populist party says that they will have candidates in the field in all of the districts, and while he is not as sanguine a political prognosti- cator as his predecessor, he is confident that they will succeed in electing half of the delegation from Virginia. A well- known populist, who recently left the dem- ecratic party for his present political faith, said to The Star correspondent a few days ago: “The democratic party is in a worse fix row than it has been since Mahone made his remarkable coup d'etat. I have just made a tour of the south side, which has jong been noted for its strong democratic faith, and I find a feeling there almost akin to a political revolution. The farmers are in @ pitiable state. They cannot sell their tobacco, as a rule, for as much as it cost them to raise it, and other agricultural they say, are drugs upon the mar- et. Nearly all of the best farmers in the country are loud in their denunciation of the present administration. They seem to forget everything and everybody in their present wrath against Mr. Cleveland and ‘his associates. They have no love for the republican party and are dublous as to the populists, but I think a majority of them will vote with the latter. I am firm in the belief that if an election were held in Vir- Inia tomorrow the democratic party would suffer overwhelming defeat in south side Virginia.” Nearly all of the city people who have visited the country during the past sixty deys confirm this report as to other sec- tions of the state. While the cities in Vir- ginia generally stand by the administra- tion, the people in the country are at outs with it, The greatest cause of complaint which Virginia farmers have against Mr, Cleveland is his veto of the seigniorage bill. For some reason or other the farmer looks to free silver as his only hope of salvation in these distressing times. Nearly all of them are imbued with the idea that free silver will give them better times, and no argument on earth will convince them to the contrary until they have seen a practi- eal application of it. A well-informed politician said to The Star correspondent today that if a vote were taken in Virginia on the subject of free silver three-fourths of the state would vote in its favor. “This accounts for the fact,” said he, “that John W. Daniel is such @ lion with the farmers of Virginia. They look to him as their Moses, and they sit around their hearthstones and talk about what @ great man he is. It will be remembered that some predic- tion was made that Daniel would be given the cold shoulder at the recent state con- vention on account of his antagonism to the administration on the silver question. Just the reverse was the case, however. He made an eloquent speech in response to a volley of calls made for him, in which he clearly defined his views upon this ques- tion, and, in conclusion, said: “Am I right? Must I stand by my convictions or must I resign my office?” A storm of approval came back from the vast assembly, and they cheered and cheer- ed him during his speech and for some time after he had taken his seat. A great deal“of speculation 1s indulged in as to what attitude the republican party will assume in the coming congressional contest. It is believed that if Mahone's Wishes are obeyed no nominations of repub- licans will be made. But it is well known that several prominent republicans are anx- fous to avail themselves of the opportunity of running for Congress, with a hope of getting - es eee among the democrats, by whic! lieve that part; will be divided. ea x if It is pretty certain that J.Hampton Hoge, the recent convert to republicanism, will be ra fees for a ed = sixth dis- ict, now Tepresented by his former politi- cal friend, ul C. Edmunds. The oe lists will certainly have a nominee in this district, which will | hep. opel a warm tri- angular fight, with the chances in favor of the democrats. The fifth district also is looked upon as one in which a hot contest may be expected this fall. Mr. Claude A. Swanson, the pres- ent representative, a young man of marked ability, has given great satisfaction among the pee ee but Gop ces are numer- ous, and of course they are not satisfied with him, and will not be with ybody except with one of their own party. MUCH WOMEN. The Present Age is Not the Only Period of Woma: Influence. For conscience’s sake, let us cease this everlasting prattle about the present being “woman's century” and “woman's age, implying each time that we say it that the worren of any previou: fe were driveling idiots, and casting a slur upon the very women who gave us our being, writes Ed- ward W. Bok in a vigorous defense of the woman of a generation ago, in the May Ladies’ Home Journal. Why is this “woman's century” any more than was any century before it? Just because a few thousand more women are engaged in business? Does that fact make a “woman's century?” We haven't determined yet, by any means, whether the present tendency of woman going into the rougher commer- cial pursuits is to her interest or to the benefit of those who will follow her, A little caution here is a very good thing. What sense is there in this constant ding- donging into the ears of our girls that they are born at the “dawn of woman’s eman- cipation?"" Emancipation from what? Will this sort of thing teach our girls to have a greater respect for the women of past generations? If we keep up this harangue much longer I shall not blame our young- est girls if they get the notion that the world only began about forty or fifty years ago. If we expect children to have a re- spect for their mothers, and their mothers’ parents, we cannot enshroud the times in which they lived with the darkness of tg- norance and bigotry. The women who lived before the present agitators of the “woman's century” were born did a thing or two in the world’s history, far more, I venture to prophesy from their present talk, than the women of today will do in these latter days, if they pursue their pres- ent course. ——-+ e+ —____ Fighting Col. Breckinidge. The anti-Breckinridge people in the sev- enth Kentucky congressional district have issued a pamphlet of 12,000 words, written by Prof. J. B. Jones of Hamilton Female College. The book is entitled “An Appeal to the People of the Ashland District for Purity in the Home and Morality in Public Life and a Protest Against the Re-election of Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge.” At the bottom of the title page appears: “Righteousness exalts an alien, but sin is @ reproach to any people.” Twenty tho sand a of the pamphlet have been is. sued and their circulation began yesterday. In the introduction it is stated “this mphiet is printed and distributed in the Interest of no candidate in the fleld nor hereafter to be announced.” WILL SOON BE FREE Prospective Release of Two Kansas; Mur- derers. They Have Been in Prison for Twenty Yeare—Many Efforts to Secure Thelr Pardon. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. TOPEKA, Kan., April 26, 1894. At noon on the 9th day of January, 1898, Gov. Lewelling was sworn in as chief execu- tive of Kansas. Just one hour before Chief Justice Horton administered the oath of Office to the new executive the retiring gov- ernor, Lyman U. Humphrey, exercised his official prerogative for the last time, and to this day only the intimate associates of the governor know what he did as the last act of his administration. While the populist throngs were surging about the state house, anxious to see ushered in the “first people's party government on earth,” Gov, Hum- Phrey wrote his name on two pieces of pa- per, which will, on June 10, give Arthur Winner and J. A. McNutt freedom and lib- erate them from prison cells in the Kansas state penitentiary. The story of the atrocious crime commit- ted by Winner and McNutt is familiar to every old resident of Kansas. In 1873 these men, aged respectively nineteen and twenty- five years, went to Wichita and started a paint shop. McNutt carried a policy of $5,000 on his life. The two plotted to swindle the insurance company. They sent to Kan- gas City for @ painter named W. W. Seiver, @ man who was always drunk, if he could get hold of intoxicants. On Christmas e 1878, Seiver was given all the whisky he could drink and before morning was laid away in the paint shop unconscious. While in that condition he was murdered. His body was placed in a trunk, saturated with kerosene and set on fire. When it had burned beyond recognition the building was fired. The plot was deep laid, and but for a wo- man the mystery would probably remain unsolved. The plan was for McNutt to dis- @ppear and for Winner to inflict some injury upon himself and claim that a strange man had murdered his partner and then attempt- ed to murder him. When the old Wichita volunteer fire department reached the scene of the fire, Winner was found lying at the foot of the stairs, with his head and side badly gashed” He had no sooner been hauled away than the spectators were horri- fied to see a ghastly corpse, burning and frying in the heat, go rolling down with the floor of the building into the cellar below. The officials at once commenced to inves- tigate the cause of the murder. The facts came out in a peculiar way. McNutt’s wife, & pretty, delicate little woman, lived in Kansas City. She had been Informed of the plot by her husband, and, on the morning after the murder, a letter was found from her imploring him not to commit the crime, In that letter were these words, which led to the conviction of her husband and his accomplice: “If you carry that on we will all be ruined. Before I will have the name of stealing and murdering for wealth I will beg om hands and knees.” In that letter Mrs. McNutt said she had only one dime left in the world and that she sent it as a Christmas present to her husband, with her blessing. This letter was sufficient evidence to con- viet Winner and McNutt, and they were ac- cordingly sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for life. It was, in fact, a death sentence, but as the statutes make it the duty of the governor to name the day for the execution, and as no Kansas execu- tive has ever yet ordered a man hung, such sentences run during a criminal’s natural life, unless pardoned. The sentences of Winner and McNutt were commuted to twenty-five years, which will, counting out time for good behavior, let them out June | | 10 next. During all these years these men have had Powerful friends at work in their behalf and every governor has been importuned to show them executive clemency. brother was for many years one of the wealthiest citizens of Kansas City, Mo., and his father was a rich and respected citizen. These two worked constantly to secure the liberty of the two men. At one time, during Gov. Glick’s administration—twelve years ago—Winner and McNutt came near being pardoned. A very thorough case had been made and the importunities for execu- tive clemency had been favorably enter- tained. At last, the story runs. it was settled. The governor promised Winner's oid father that his son’s pardon would be placed in his hands that day. The old man waited patiently in the reception room of the executive department, his cup of joy full to overfllowing. A prominent politician from Atchison, the governor's home, stepped into the executive chamber. The governor nodded him “good day.” Then he dipped his pen in the ink. pointed out the vacant line for his signature and set his pen upon it, Only a scratch of steel across the piece of per—that was to be the liberating stroke. The tiny, liquid-filled instrument started on its fateful journey across the pa- per, The first initial was made—the sec- ond—the pen sputtered—— “What are you doing, governor?” said the man who had just stepped in. The governor raised his pen, ard, looking up, replied: “I am signing McNutt and Win- me pardon. Q) ° “Don’t do it,” quickly replied the man; “there's politics in it. You will want to run for governor a second time, remember.” The pen dropped from Glick’s hand. ‘The thing was settled. The unfinished signature remained as it was, and the father was put off with some excuse of delay. Thus it was with every governor until Gov, Humphrey acted on the last day of his term of office. The letters sent to him during the last year of his term came from the most influential men in Kansas and Missouri. Thirty mem- bers of the Kansas state senate signed a petition for the pardon; judges, United States Senato: ministers, all united in asking clemency. They were submitted to the state board of pardons, but the mem- bers, after hearing all that could be said in favor of the release of the convicts, decided that the crime was so heinous that the ends of justice would not be subserved by re- leasing them, and reported on the applica- tion unfavorably. This was on the last day of January, 1892. But Gov, Humphrey had the right, under the law, to overrule the boatd, and he did so, believing that the men had been sufficiently punished. The records at the prison show these men to be perfect in deportment and conduct. During the long confinement not a single demerit mark has been made against either of them. McNutt is employed in the paint shop and is the leader of the prison choir. Winner is bookkeeper for the shoe con- tractors, who have promised him a position after he is liberated. In fact, he is to have a as a free man that he MeNutt will go to where his old mother still . She poor, and McNutt, prisoner though he is, has been of great assistance to her in her old age, working extra time and sending her every cent of his earnings. He is small in stature, with a yellow skin. Sorrow is marked deeply in his face, and his figure is bent. It is conceded that Winner Is the best-edu- cated man in the prison. He }s a tall, fine- looking man, with a bald head, with only a fringe of black curly hair. For years his haunting horror has been that ke will lose his mind, but now that his release is near at hand he is greatly changed. Since enter- ing the prison the confinement of these men has been of the closest character. Tilus- trating this, the warden tells this story: “Winner went into the residence portion of the prison one day recently to measure the warde! daughter for a pair of shoes. After he had finished the task, by the per- mission of the warden’s wife, he stepped to the window and looked out. Turning, he a: said: “This is the first time in nineteen years I have seen outside these prison walls; the first time in nineteen years that I have seen a tree, a field or a blade of grass.” A moment later he was hustled back behind the iron grates. ——~— How Marbles Are Made. From the Philadelphia Record. Most of the stone marbles used by boys are made in Germany. The refuse only of the marble and agate quarries {s employed, and this is treated in such a way that there is practically no waste. Men and boys are employed to break the refuse stone into small cubes, and with their hammers they acquire a marvelous dexterity. The little cubes are then thrown into a mill consist- ing of a ed bed-stone and a revolving runner. Water fs fed to the mill, and the runner ts rapidly revolved, while the fric- tion does the rest. In half an hour the mill is stopped and a bushel or so of perfectly rounded marbles taken out. The whole Process costs the merest trifle. 200 The golden jubilee of the Church of St, Francis of Assissi, in New York, yesterday was celebrated with much pomp. Arch- op Corrigan attended, and the Rt. kev. Winand M. Wigger,D.D., bishop of Newark, celebrated solemn pontifical mass =| Craig & Harding, \Cor. 18th and F Streets. Kae CARE. ea propitious period than stuff “hawk Chamber Suites Below Price. By taking all a factory bad om band we can save you from 25 to 40 r cent on what other furniture lers ask. Here is a hint: 2 ‘of Fine Antique Chamber Suites, one with 24x30 beveled plate mirror, Re. the lother with gluss, "highly polished, very sbowy suites and cennot be duplicated in this city under $20. Only $14.50. Tere are a lot of single suites Which we propose to close out at Sreatly reduced prices: Handsome lat Med Birch Chamber Suites, large beveled plate glass, brass ‘trimmed, swell ends, neatly carved, Were $45. Now $32. ‘One Mussive Solid Quartered Sawed Oak Chamber Suite, 30x40, French beveled plate mirror, 50-In, dresser, 40-in. washstand, being extra large pi Was $97.50. Now $67.50. One eng emg Red Curly Birch Chamber 31 id shaped, French beveled pl swell front, richly carved, an exceptionally hand- some suite. Was $105. Now $75. “Odd’’ Dressers Half Price. We have just closed out from the factory 35 “Odd” Dressers, in a va- riety of woods and finishes, jast the thing for brass and iron fold- ing &e. 5 Worth $16 to $50. Now $8 to $25. |§| $60 Parlor Suites $38. We have secured from the fac the ‘balance of their Tae of Hand Frames, ‘piano polished, well ‘tage, rames, pol wel ly “upholstered, 4 @ifferent pat- terns, cannot be duplicated for $60, which has been prior to this purchase. Choice, $38.50. Sale’? here tomorrow of Furniture, whi factories at a heavy loss, and have also included many regular lines which we offer at greatly reduced prices. You can always be sure of the lowest prices here, notwithstanding the fact that our Furniture represents “masterpieces” of the leading makers and not the worthless, ** in the papers as bargains. eel “May Sale” Of Furniture, &e., Craig Hardimg’s. The bottom has dropped out of the furniture market. We spoke even wiser than we thought when we told you that there never has been a more ur homes. We begin a a we have just closed out from now to furnish as Per Cent Off Reed & Rattan Furniture We hay it our stock of d and Ratton, Furniture "on, the floor and will Leather Furniture. One Handsome Green Leather Couch. Was $22.50. Now $15. Library ‘Balter -quattered sawed eek rxket Ss sofa, divan, arm Was Sus. Now $71.50. Hall Stands Reduced. Reduced to $3.25. One lot of Solid Oak Hall Stands, Wood seat, with arms, mirror, &c., ‘worth $10. Reduced to $6.75. Was $22.50. Now $16.50. Couches Reduced. ‘One lot of Chenille Covered Couches, spring head and edge, well made. Reduced to $8. iga tureay eg goa Sees 3 ‘nab ‘ies Sinha eches on Were $6. “Now $1.75 Ea. Euptre pattern, pillow spring Dosens of “Odd” Half Pairs of Was $18.50. Now $14.50 Was $34. Was $57.50. Now $38.g0. “May unseasoned ‘Now 22.50. if One | Handsome Streo ine ton” nines “wich tasab oe ee ee with sideboard in “Fomorrow, $2.25. a Chenille Portierss, wide Were $4.75. Now $3. 2 ol Green Portieres, heavy Were $8. Now $5. chealite” porteraa, *S5f “Suen “ass Were $10. Now $6. 3 pairs Preoch Blue ordered Were $i2. Now $ $4.25. Choice, $1.50 Each. RL LC RUMORS OF ARBITRATION. It is Said That Congressman Tom Johns w Act. ‘There are many rumors of arrangement for a national conference of miners and operators for a settlement of the great coal strike, but nothing definite has yet come to the surface, end the national officers deny that any proposition for a conference has come from any person who could be recog- nized by them. They will confer with no person or no committee that does not come with full power to speak and act for the miners of all the bituminous coal fields, as there is to be no local settlement allowed. Tom L. Johnson, the Cleveland Congress- man, capitalist and manufacturer, recently held a conference with President McBride. He came and went very quietly, and the fact the distinguished gentleman had called Was not given out at the headquarters. Mr. Johnson’s name has been connected with the movement to arrange a conference. Secretary P. A. McBride left Columbus, Ohio, Saturday night. At headquarters they declined to say where he gone. It is believed that he is on a mission connected with the proposed conference. President McBride says the second week of the strike begins auspiciously for the miners. They have their forces well in hand, and are receiving reinforcements daily. All the men engaged in mining block coal in Indiana, excepting only 600, are now out, participating in the strike. There are 8,000 of them in all. Of the 17,000 men employed in mining coal in the coke regions of Pennsylvania, 15,000 are now out. In his previous estimate he counted only 10,000 out in this district. Nor did he include in his latest estimate the Indiana block miners mentioned above. Altogether of the 190,000 men employed in the United States mining bituminous coal for all purposes, 165,000 are now out par- ticipating in the strike ordered by the na- tional convention. “When it 1s known,” sald President Mc- Bride, “that the small proportion of the bituminous miners still at work is made up largely of negroes and unskilled work- men it can be seen that practically the whole production of coal has been stopped.” He predicts a coal famine that will = lyze industries before the middie of y it the strike goes on, and says it will begin to be felt very sorely by the 10th of May. President McBride praises the miners for refusing to go to work on locai settlements, im the many places where the operators have agreed to pay the wages demanded. He has just been informed that the miners at Broad Top, near the Maryland-Virginia line, have refused to accept scale wages. These are newly organized miners, and such firmness was hardly to be expected. “ee Thomb Signatures. From the Philadelphia Record. The latest fad of the studios is a new form of impressionism. Atter dipping his thumb in ink or pigment, the artist im- presses it on a corner of the drawing or aquarelle, and over this impression he signs his name. The idea of thus imparting ad- ditional authenticity and a certain degree of interest to a signature is not altogether new. Bewick, the celebrated English wood engraver, made an impression of his own thumb on a block of wood, and then en- graved it so minutely that all the papillary ridges were shown. These ridges are said not to be alike in any two individuals. A Disadvantage of Health. From the New York Tribune. A visitor among the poor on the east side of the city found unexpected testi- mony to the disadvantage of health in one of her recent calls. Mrs. B. has a family of a dozen children, and, like most of her class, she had her tale of woe to tell. “How are the children, Mrs. B.?” quired the caller. “All very weil, indeed, ma'am, very well, indeed.” indeed. “You ought to be thankful, I'm sure, with so much sickness about.” “Yes, ma’am; I suppose I ought to be thankful—but I tell you, ma’am, when they're well they eat an awful lot!” in- ALL THE KNIGHTS CALLED OUT. ‘The Great Northern Strike Likely to Extend. Every Knights of Labor man on the Great Northern railroad has been called American Railway Union chiefs. The fignation of the strikers knows no they say they are bound fhe day regardiess of this the in- bounds, to carry and firemen at Wilmar, S! Barnesville yesterday ih ir superintendents at those its that “I had just got off a train and was ged, hungry and penniless. “T see lots of such.” > iba lem tits aA a “ @0,” i 4 g f & | ! i | §3 : Ff i i é i : i E i i ? 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