Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1895, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1895-TWELVE PAGES., 11 RIUPANS TABUILES. Pronounced ‘Rip=pans.’ You should always carry in your pocket a little vial of Ripans Tabules, taking one after each meal, whenever you feel bilious, have a sick headache, or an uneasy feeling at the stomach. Often one Tabule will be sufficient to relieve you. whole.” The Tabules should be ‘‘swallowed Ripans is about the only patent medicine in existence that has re- ceived the indorsement of leading physicians, who are, as a class, opposed to ready-made medicines of all kinds, No good physician could withhold his professional indorsement from a remedy whose formula is like this: ll : A 5 N Is Rhubarb «Ipecac ‘Peppermint « Aloes * Nux Vomica «Soda: The above is the exact formula of Ripans Tabules, and is considered by medical authorities the best prescription possible to write for in- digestion, constipation, biliousness, torpid liver and other diseases of the bowels and stomach, Remember, the Tabules should be ‘‘swallowed whole.” All Druggists. 50c. Box. = -* FINERTY AROUSES HIS HEARERS. He Outlines the Aims of the Chicago Meeting. Mr. Finerty’s address to the Irish-Amer- fcan convention at Chicago yesterday was made after he had been chosen perma- ment chairman. He said: “American papers question the prudence of holding this convention, dictating to us a policy and hoping we will do nothing to offend English sentiment. What do we care for English sentiment (laughter)? We do not want to offend American sentiment, nor French sentiment, nor Russian sentl- ment, but we want to offend most serious- ly our hereditary and merciless foe (cheers). We are here today to sound the death knell of whiggery in Irish politics. ‘We stand on our rights as a race to advo- cate the absolute indep2idence of the land that gave us and our fathers life. Our friends, the editorial writers, may preach the doctrines of prudence. We will follow their advice so long as it may be neces- sary. I will remind my American editor- fal friends that when America had a griev- ance against England they Gid not stand on the order on which they threw the Brit- ish tea chests into Boston harbor. “The English press will say that we are here for other purposes than the accom- Piishment of the liberty of Ireland. It is nysically and moraily impessible for the Bnlish press to tell the truth (cheers). ‘We do, however, desire to tell Britain and France, and Russia, and every other pos- sible enemy of Britain that we are in this fight to stay (cheers). We are not in for one year or three, but for the war (tre- mendous cheering). We do not care if we are to be beset by whole battalions of Eng- lish spies. We do not care if all Scotland Yard was @ithin hearing tonight because ‘we are meeting in public and with an avowed purpcse.”” Continuing, the speaker said: “England tole our parliament. We have asked it ck. We have gone out of our way to humiliate ourselves at the feet of England. ‘Are we to remain thus forever? We are Not here to be told that we contemplate murder or swindling. These properties be- long to England. We are here to attract ‘the sympathy of the whole world to our We are here to tell our beloved Sam that if he draws the sword in @efense of the Monroe dectrine the Irish of America will be behind the stars and stripes when the struggle comes. We are here to tell Russia if she desires the con- quest of India that our hearts and hands are with her, the French, who hate Eng- Jand, that whenever they get tangled up in a dispute with England cver the colo- mies they can rely upon our support. * “We are here to encourage the enlist- ‘ment of young Irishmen, whether in inde- pendent or rogular battalions, to be ready When the time comes.” (Prolonged cheers.) Mr. Finecty having thus outlined the cause and purpose of the meeting, con- cluded with a ringing peroration that brought the audience to its feet again and again. The close of the speech produced a won- ‘erful scene In its way, the audience stand- ing and cheering for fully ten minutes. ‘After this two resolutions were offered expressing sympathy with the Cuban rey- olutionists. A communication was present- éd from the Polish Alliance of the United States expressing sympathy with the ob- Jects of the convention. Several other resolutions and communi- wations were then handed in and turned pver to the committee on platform and Fesolutions. A number of telegrams and cablegrams approving the convention and indorsing the cause were read by Secretary Sutton. A noticzable fact was that many of the telegrams from Ireland came from the morthern end of the island, where the National idea has been supposed to have put few advocates. All these cablegrams were recelved with Breat applause. ; A motion by O'Neill Ryan of Missourl that a committee from each state be ap- pointed to draft resolutions was adopted. William Lyman of New York moved the Bppointment of a committee on organiza- tion and ways and means, which was Adopted. In the afternoon session the chairman read a clipping from the Pall Mall Ga- zetie, which favored meeting the Irish half way in their struggles for indenen- dence. The reading was received with loud applause and the delegates seemed to thirk that it was the first symptom that England would give attention to their de- matds. Several committees were appoint- ed, Willlam Lyman of New York being appointed chairman of the national com- mittee of ways and means. O'Donovan Rossn Spenks. Calls were then made for other speak- ers, and O'Donovan Rossa, O'Neill Ryan of St. Louls and Delegates O'Leary of Mon- tana, Langdon of New York and Wilhere of Pennsylvania responded. Rossa was given an ovation when he arose to address the meeting. He said in part: “I am not in favor of waiting. In my judgment the time to strike is when you are ready, and the place to strike is Eng- land. All this talk of organizing to fight the English out of England is very well, but it has no terror for England. She is more afraid of the Irish in England and Ireland than in any other place. Now is the time for us to strike and the quicker the better.” O'Neill Ryan of St. Louis said that he spoke for the young men of the Irish na- tion, who would take up the fight when some of the old men before him were ready to lay it down. . “This move means,” he said, “revolution. It means the turning point from _parlia- mentary tactics to the sword. We have given a patient trial to peaceful agitation and we now turn to the teachings of O'Neill and O'Donnell.” The other speeches made were in the same vein and all were heartily applaud- ed. Today the real work of the convention will begin and all committees are instruet- ed to be ready to report without fail. ——+--e+___ Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the following: Theodore Grant and Clara Washington; Cofer Ledman and Jennie Lambert, both of Occoquan, Va.; John H. Anderson of Bellefonte, Pa., and Mary C. O'Brien of Martinsburg, W. Va.; Fletcher Bowden and Nettie E. Stewart; Abraham Griffin of Baltimore, Md., and Hattie Kerr of this city; Wm. T. Howlin and Annie Crawford Gordon; George Spicer and Cor- delia Mahones, both of Albemarle county, Va.; Jos. S. Felix and Mamie Fellers, both of Clifton Forge, Va.; Leroy Croswell and Mary A. Hurst, both of Accomac county, Va.; Walter Stewart and Daisy Brooks; Marshall Dean and Florence Harris, both of Occoquan, Va.; Chas. H. Turner and Priscilla Jones; William Brent and Mary E. Brown, both of Benning, D. C.; Jas. E. Campbell and Mrs. Mary A. Green; Ed- ward C. Grumley and Hattle A. Williams; Samuel Thomas and Emma Laws. —— Sunday School Union. The Sunday School Union of the District has inaugurated a new policy of work, by which meetings for Sunday school workers will be held at varicus times in different sections of the dMty. The first of these meetings will be held tcmorrow evening at the Eastern Presbyterian Church. The program includes opening devotional ex- ercises; a short address on primary work, by an experienced primary teacher; an- nouncements as to the coming Sunday school workers’ convention; a talk on home class department work, and the work of the union and its relation to the interna- tional union. In addition, a model lesson will be taught, an address on “The Whole Duty of the Teacher” will be delivered and an open parliament will be held. —— Not That Man. The Charles 8. Johnson mentioned in Tuesday's Star as having been arrested on the charge of carrying a razor is not Mr. Charles S. Johnson, who was formerly secretary of the board of public works, and who is now in the Department of Jus- tice. (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) (Continved from Wednesday's Star.) CHAPTER Iv. “Well, now, Mr. Morford, I don’t jest like you should talk that way,” said Nancy to her visitor the next morning. “It’s a real mir’cle; and real mir‘cles is like religion— I think they be. So I don’t lke you should poke fun at it. You city folks don’t never want to be serious ef you can help it, 1 know; but there ’tis. It dropped right down out of heaven, through our chimney, an’ jest at the very time we needed it the worst, too; and then there was my poor brother Matt’s voice a-sayin’ he'd sent it a purpose to pay off Mr. Corvin, and free the mortgage. An’ that’s what I’m a-goin’ to do the first minute Mr. Coryin calls here this day; an’ my sakes! won't that man Jest be surprised! I guess he won't b'lieve where we got it, no more’n you do—may be less.”” Mr. Morford, it should be said, was the young man with the patent electrical in- vention, who was making the rounds of the neighborhood to get subscribers to his stock. When he had knocked at the door that morning Nancy had supposed it must be Corvin, come for his mortgage money, and opened to him with her rosy face dimpling with pleasant anticipation. Ex- planations had ensued, Mr. Morford had introduced his business, and had soon cre- ated so pleasant an impression that the con- versation became easy. Nancy was far too full of her miracle, and far too unversed in worldly caution, to withhold the story; though Mr. Morford wore city clothes, and had a rather satirical expression about the corners of his mouth occasionally, still there was something about the look in his eyes, and his general bearing, that inspired confidence. At all events, she unfolded her guileless heart, and in the course of half an hour had told him at least as much of her history as the patient reader has learn- ed in all these painful days. Nellie, after studying the young man with the silent profoundity of childhood for ten or fifteen minutes, had also decided to like him, and had presented him with a bunch of gor- geous sugar-rraple leaves. “I'm not a skeptic, ror an infidel, Miss Billop,” said Mr. Morford. “I like to see the bottom of things if I can; and there are miracles enough without needing to have solid money fall out of the sky. Have you searched the garret and—” ‘Searched? Weil, jest you ask Nellie. Ef there’s a square foot o” space “inside this house or outside of it that she ain't poked that little nose of hers into, I don’t know! An’ there ain't no trace of nothin’, nor no- body, not nowheres. An’ then as for the music an’ the voice, I don’t know how you'd get around them! “Is what I hear in the village true—that Matthew Billop disappeared mysteriously? —that his manner of death was never |. known?’ “Yes, but he's dead, poor Matt, I gues: said Nancy, with a sigh; “ef he warn’t, I'd a heard from him before this; an’ then again, ef what some thought was true— that he'd head foul play from—well, from any one, I'd a heard of it, too, from his sperrit, ef no ways else. I was thinkin’ last night, after he'd sent that money, that ef he'd been murdered, he'd a sald so then. But all he said was, ‘Pay Corvin,’ he says, ‘an’ I'll be at peace;’ so I guess he died nat’'ral. An’ though Matt was a real good brother to me, an’ I al'lays loved him right hearty, yet I don’t mourn after him like I would ef he hadn't been a man past his prime, as had lived an’ had his fling, an’ I don't doubt is happier now than ef he were here with us. But it’s different bout Tom; I never can get used to losin’ that dear, precious boy. He was the cutest, smartest, best boy ever did live, an’ I couldn't have loved him more not ef he'd been my * * * An’ I_ain’t never felt the same woman sence I lost him; an’ it may be wickedness, but I do say I ain’t never been able to for- give Mr. Corvin for the part he took in runnin’ Tom to his death. In course he didn’t mean it; but still * * * Mr. Corvin might a sold me up an’ I don’t bear him no grudge ‘bout not payin’ the money he owed Matt, ‘cause the paper that showed the debt was lost with Matt, and men o’ bus'ness nat'rally don’t pay more’n they have to; but when I think of my darlin’ Tom drowned jest because they found money in his pockets that he'd never in this earth put there himself * * * Well, Mr. Morford, I don’t know what you'll think of an old woman like me to be cry- ing "bout it after these nine years; but I love my Tom jest the same as ef I'd seen him yesterday.” “Then you feel quite sure the boy never stole the money?” sald Mr. Morford, after @ pause, in a gentle tone. “That boy steal? It'll be the happiest day of my life, Mr. Morford, when I meet him in heaven, and hear all the angels standin’ roun’ there say, ‘You was right, Nancy; there aln’t none innocenter than him here!” “It ought to make him happy to hear you say that, wherever he is,” sald Mr. Morford, getting up and walking to the window. “It would be a good thing if you could find the I, O. U. for the money your brother lent Corvin, wouldn't it?” he added, presently, turning round. “Well, I'm thankful enough to be able to pay him, without his paying me; and land sakes!” she observed, with a laugh, “I guess tt 'ud go agin’ the poor man’s grain to haye to do it.” “He'll be here in a few minutes,” said Morford. “I just saw him turn in at the foot of the hill. Now, look here, Miss Bil- lop; if I were you, when you pay him the money, I wouldn't tell him anything about how it cam2 to you; just let him guess all he wants to. It’s none of hi8 business; and maybe the spirit of your brother may have some other surprises in store for him, that would be interfered with if you were to say anything now. Walle you're doing your af- fair with him, I'd like Nellie to show me round the place a bit, outside. Will you do it, Nellie? I saw a jolly cave underneath “Are you afraid of ghosts, Nellie?” there as I came up; I'd like to explore it.” “Come,” said Nellie, with an air of gra- clous proprietorship, “I'll show you;” L they went out at the rear door, hand in hand, just as Mr. Corvin, ali unsuspicious of astonishment awaiting him, was admit- ted at the front. “Well, Nellie, I suppos? you don’t remem- ber much about Tom?” said her companion, 2 t I remember I liked him,” said ‘and mammy has told me lots of things about him. He used to play robber in the cave, and monkey in the big trees. He knew some way to get up the trees with a rope. I have never been up.” “But you've played in the cave, I sup- ose? bate a little; but I don’t like it much, becatse it’s Gark, ard smells dampy. If I'd had Tom, maybe I wouldn’t have minded so much.” “Are ‘you afraid of ghosts, Nellie?’ “Not when they really come, as they did last night. I am a little afraid, sometimes, when mammy tells stories 2bout ’em before we go to bed. But really I think ghosts are fairles, don’t you?” “I should think likely. So this is the robber cave? Let's go in. I have wax matches, so it won't be dark.” ‘The cave, as a mere natural phenomenon, was certainly not very interesting. It was much in need of @ boyish imagination to liven it up. It was too low to allow of Mr. Morford’s walking upright in it; and the floor was litt2red with ancient rubbish, and with the decayed remains of a paloeozoic cart. After creeping inward for ten or twelve paces, they turned a corner, and Nellie showed signs of reluctance. The lit- tle wax taper, burning in {ts socket in the silver matchbox, showed what looked like queer, irregular pillars and rafters; they were really straggling roots of the big but- ternut tree overhead. At the end of the passage they found some half rotten planks fixed upright Mke a rude door; Morford pulled at one of them, and it came away, revealing a further, narrow cavity beyond. Neilie shrank back. “What is there in there?” asked Morford. “I don’t know; it isn’t nice; let's go “A potato cellar, perhaps. Yes, we'll go back. The sunshine is pleasanter, isn’t it? Do you suppose Tom ever explored that place when he played robber?” “He’must haye been brave if he did! I like to be where it’s all alive and bright.” She sighed with relief when they stood once more In the broad October daylight. They strolled round the ccrner of the house, and looked up at the mighty, over-spreading boughs of the butternut. “It reminds me of when I used to be a boy,” remarked the young man. “I was very fond of nuts in those days. That old tree seems to be full of them; wouldn't it be fun to get up there and pick some! Have you ever been up?” Nellie shook her head. ‘There's no rope; besides, I don’t climb ropes; I’m a girl.” “But ‘here's a gcod ladder,” rejoined her companion, point:rg to one that lay under the end of the house hard by. ‘Why, so there is! I never saw it before!” “The fairies must have brought it especial- ly for'us. Let's see if it will do.” He lifted it and set it against the great bole of the “Must we go down so soon?” Said Nellie, tree. It just reaehed) the fork of the lower branches. ‘‘It cauidn't be better!” exclaim- ed the young man pnthusiastically, “Now, Miss Nellie, will you walk upstairs?” Nellie hesitated, but there is a great deal more of the bird;and the squirrel in a little girl than of the mole; they move heaven- ward more readily than the other way. Un- der Morford’s guidance and protection, his bands holding «the sides of the lad- der on each side of her she clam- bered up, step: by. siep, until last they found themsélves standing in a sort of hollow, cupshaped place, thirty feet above the groundwith the branches stretcn- ing out and up in all directions, each as big as an crdinary tree. They overlooked the flattened roof of the old house, and had a fine view all about the surrounding country. The breeze blev sweet and fresh, the sun- shine twinkled down between the leaves, and the nuts bobbed against their heads. It was fine! Nellie had never been up a tree; but now she thought it would be wise to spend most of her time here. It was more exhilarating than any other habitation she knew of. “This is just like a little room,” she said, with a delightful smile at her companion, who smiled back. “And,see—here is another almost as big on the other side of the great branch. I’m going to climb over into it.”” “Mind you don't fall, then; let me hold your hand.” She scrambled across, and Morford let her carefully down into the broad crotch. After a moment she uttered a shout. * “Oh, see! Here’s a great big enormous hole right down into the tree! It’s like look- ing down a chimney; it’s all hollow! And here’s something sticking in a crack in the side of it. It's an old piece of paper, folded up, with writing on it!” “Look out you don’t tumble down tke hole,”” said Morford, looking over at her. “Take the paper out and hand it up to me; it may be something important. How do you suppose it got there? Perhaps the fal- ries put it there, or a squirrel, or a magpie, or_ somethin; She gave him the paper, which bore the signs of age, though, considering its posi- tion, it was in remarkably good preservation. . He opened it, glanced it over, and then said quietl: “Yes, Nellie, it is important. I think it will interest Miss Billop very much—and Mr. Corvin, too. We will show it to them. Let us get down before he goes away.” “Must we go down so soon?” said Nellie, regretfully. “Never you mind,” replied Morford cheer fully; “we'll come back as often as we lik (To be continued cn Friday.) pacer HAD A MEETING. at Col. Carson Spenks of the Killing of Dempsey. At a large and enthusiastic meeting held at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Montello, D.C., for the purpcee of perfecting the organiza- tion of a suffrage association, the follow- ing officers were elected: President, Rev. Johnson; secretary, Wm. Brown. After the orgarization was perfected Col. Carson made his appearance and was called on to address the meeting, and urged upon them the necessity of such an organization in every legislative district in the District of Columbia, he urged them to stand by Dr. Reyburn as the acknowledged leader of the ‘suffrage movement He denounced the killing of Dempsey, and said that they had cst twenty-one souls by the same kind of shooting; that the life of a white man will never be made secure until the negro's life is made safe in“this country. He would like to know if the rtiles have been amend- ed, for the slayer pf Dempsey was sus- pended during the iiivestigation, and they could not have the,slayer of Foster sus- pended. The applayse following Carson's speech lasted fully five minutes, after which Mr. E. B. Welborne spoke pretty much in the same strain as Col. Carson, and said that he heartily indorsed every- thing he had said.. “I think,” he said, “that every businegs man and laboring man in the District,pf Columbia would be willing to employ fivé of the ablest lawyers in the country 40 g6 before Congress and urge the passage of 4 suffrage bill.” Mr. Hall and ethers then addressed the meeting, following the same lines as the former speakers, and the meeting then ad- jcurned. wo3 — Death of-Rabt. F. Owens. The death of Robert F. Owens, who has been seriously ul for some weeks past, oc- curred last evening 4t Lis home, 2308 @ street northwest. Mr. Owens was twenty-six years of age, and the second son of the late James E. Owens, the well-known hotel keeper of At- lanta, Ga. His death will be felt with double force by the family because of the fact that his brother, William E. Owens, was one of the victims of the smallpox during the epidemic of a year ago. The funeral will occur temorrow from his late residence, at 4 o'clock. The interment will be in Congressional cemetery. Rev. J. Russell Verbrycke of Gurley Memorial Church will officiate. IS YOUR BRAIN TIRED? ‘Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. It supplies the needed food for the brain and nerves and makes exertion easy. . THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW Efforts Made to Enforce It in the District BY TECHNICALITIES en! DEFEATED A Labor Leader's Interesting Re- view of History. THE PENDING PROSECUTION ‘The prosecution begun by a committee of the Federation of Labor of a contractor en- gaged on the extension of the government printing office building for the alleged vio- lation of the eight-hour law has drawn attention to that law and the charges made by workingmen that it has not been en- forced as it should be. Mr. Milford Spohn, a well-known labor leader of this city and a member of the committee referred to, said to a Star re- porter today: “On the 25th of June, 1803, Corgress passed the first national eight- hour law. Though this law remained upon the statute books for twenty-four years, it wus not generally observed, and in not a singie instance was a court invoked to com- -pel edience. “While those who desired the enforcement of this law were aware of its general in- fraction, the defective construction of the law was in the way of a successful prose- cution. The law, so called, was simply mandatory; it provided that eight hours should constitute a day’s work for me- chanics and laborers employed upon gov- ernment work, but it provided no penalty, and hence was inoperative. So the law was constantly violated with impunity, even by government officials having charge of public censtruction. “To reach this class of offenders, those who desired the enforcement of the law appealed to President Grant, and he, in 1870, issued an order which made the law operative for a while. But in a short time there was a general lapse of respect for the statute, and it was regarded as being More honored in the breach than in -the observ- arce. “Those who for years had devoted them- selves to the effort to secure shorter hours of labor were convinced that the law should be amended by the enactment of a penalty clause, and effort was made to secure such legislation, but without success. An effi- cleat law was required—a statute that could be enforced and made effective. The Present Law. “After earnest and persistent effort, the legislative committee of the Federation of Labor of this District succeeded in having enacted the following law: “That the service and employment of all laborers and mechanics who are now or may hereafter be employed by the gov- ernment of the United States, by the Dis- trict of Columbia or by any contractor or subcontractor upon any of the public works of the United States or of the said District of Columbia is hereby limited and restricted to eight hours in any one calen- dar day, and it shall be unlawful for any officer of the United States government or ef the District of Columbia or any such contractor or subcontractor whose duty it shali be to employ, direct or control the services of such laborers or mechanics to require or permit any such laborers or :ne- chanics to work more than eight hours in any calendar day, except in case of extra- ordinary emergency. “That any officer or agent of the govern- ment of the United States or of the Dis- trict of Columbia, or any contractor cr subcontractor whose duty it shall be to employ, direct or control any laborer or mechanic employed upon any of the public works of the United States or of the -Dis- trict of Columbia, who shall intentionally violate any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every such offense shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by Imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such tine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction thereof.” The Emergency Clnuse. “This law was approved August 1, 1892. Though not wholly satisfactory to organ- ized labor, it was gladly accepted in lieu of the old statute. There was, however, general disapproval of the clause making an exception ‘In case of extraordinary emergency.’ This was regarded as a con- venient way of escape for every offender. “This has been the plea in every prose- cution, and will continue to be until “ex- traordinary emergency’ is legally defined. Under this law there have been several attempts made to have alleged offenders prosecuted in the courts of this District. Former Cases. “About a year ago there was reported to the Federation of Labor a violation of the law on the works of the Kasby Point sewer. A committee was appointed to as- certain the facts, and, if convinced that there was a violation of law, to have the offending contractor prosecuted. The com- mittee, after much patient inquiry, con- cluded that they had ‘a good case.’ The facts were, two engineers were worked twelve-hour ‘shifts,’ or four hours beyond the legal day. As they were employed upon District work, it was thought to be a gross violation of the law. The twelve- hour ‘shifts’ of the men were so arranged that one entered upon the work of his ‘shift’ at 6 o'clock in the evening and re- tired at 6 o'clock the next morning, hav- ing worked twelve hours continuously. Here was a clear case, and the committee devoted much time to the necessary !egal preliminaries. They were preparing to effectually close the emergency breach, when a legal technicality, being at leisure and in sympathy with the offender, came to his assistance. Technicality decided that as the law limited labor to eight hours ‘in any one calendar day,’ and as the calendar day ends at 12 o'clock :nid- night, and as the employe commenced work at 6 p.m., and the day ended at 12 ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt mm its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug- gists. 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They could not positively ce- termine the legal gender of an engineer. ‘The serious question was, whether he should be designated a mechanic or laborer, as the law provides shall be done. Worcester and Webster were consulted, but their defini- tions were too vague and indefinite. It was, however, concluded that an engineer was neither a mec’anic nor a laborer. Evidently, not being of the professions or a gentleman of leisure, he remains a human nondescript. Of course, not being a creature in law, the committee had no case. “Attention was then’ given to the laborers employed in driving piles. The committee succeeded in becoming intimately acquaint- ed with several of them, as this was a legal necessity. After another preliminary set-to the matter was submitted to the grand jury, and these gentlemen concluded that ft was @ case of extraordinary emergency and re- fused to indict. We have never been inform- ed of the evidence from which the jury con- cluded, whether it was because of the opin- ion of the pile drivers or the apprehension that some time in the remote future a rise of the river would inundate the flats and consequently it was necessary to work long hours and shatter the statute in anticipation of an emergency. The Contractor Not Found. “Another case was that of the California Dredging Company, which had contracted to dredge the Potomac charnel anywhere from the Long bridge to the arsenal. This was thought to be another good case. These employes were worked twelve hours. The crews were largely composed of just-landed Swedes, and it was presumed that the con- tractor employed such help because the average Swede in Sweden has not a very extensive knowledge of the national elght- hour law. = “After much labor sufficient evidence was secured to prosecute, and the slow and com- plex legal machine was put in motion. A Mr. C. W. Catts was the contractor, the enly party Hable. Mr. Catts was a non- resident, having offices in New York and San Francisco. Of course it was very neces- sary to find Mr. Catts, and how much time was devoted to finding him is not known. It iy known, however, that Mr. Catts has never been located. He remained somewhere safe- ly until his contract was completed, and the case will forever remain in a condition of legal restfulness. “These are the only two attempts made in this District to prosecute under this statute, though there have been many violations of the law. It seems to be a very difficult mat- ter to sustain the law. It is strange that men whose honesty is unquestioned in all business relaticns will deliberately violate this law, which is demonstrated by an ad- vanced civilization, which, in an honest and strict application, would make us more of the man and woman and less of the over- worked brute. It is strange how many ex- traordinary emergencies arise during the corstruction of a public building. In many cases the whole construction is an emer- gency, and every excuse is made for the vio- lation of a law which does injustice to none. During the coming Congress an effort will be made to amend the law so that the stat- ute will plainly state what conditions shall constitute an emergency. This is necessary to make the law effective and fully accom- plish the ends for which it was enacted.” —the woman who keeps at a distance the com- plexion beautifiers, paints and powders, whichsoon ruin the face. A healthy glow to the skin, a face without wrinkles, and sparkling eyes, will be yours if you | Keep the system and the ) pest internal organs in good condition. The young gir}, or wo- man, often grows pale, wrinkled and thin, eats little, ever ‘ing wearies her, she com- plains of herself as aching and sore and as sleeping poorly. 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