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THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1896-FOURTEEN PAGES. = Sri hate - Your Face Shows the state of your feelings and the state of your health as well. Im- pure blood makes itself apparent in a pale, sallow complexion, pimples and skin eruptions. If you are feel- ing weak and worn out and do not have a healthy appearance, you will derive great benefit from taking the invigorating stimulant, Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Which will purify your blood, quick- en your circulation, build up your system, and give you new life. It ‘promotes digestion, cures constipa- tion, and arouses the glow of health in every part of the body. Try it! Sold by all grocers and druggists. MR. HILL’S PROPOSED INQUIRY. “Some Matters He Thinks Should Be Investigated by the Senaate. netor Hill caused considerable amuse- ment in the Senate yesterday afternoon ‘when, in the course of nis speech on the Peffer resolution to investigate the bond sales, he called attention to the fact that it is one of the easiest things In the world to ge wrongdoing on the part of public Is, and, to verify this statement, he 1 a letter from a man nameid Sam San- ders, addressed to him late in February. Mr. Hill said that the investigation busi- 3 was becoming contagious. He 2polo- for the handwriting of the letter, . as he said, bowing low to Senator althali, came “from God’s own country down in Mississipp!.” “I am an American democrat” were the opening words of Sam Sanders in his letter to Mr. Hill, “That ts good tween the lines. “—Who unquestionably sent Mr. Page M. Baker, editor of the Times-Democrat, New Orieans, a silver dollar in a regtstered let- ter November 6, 1895, to renew my sub- scription to his most valuable and reliable democratic journal. But I have not re- ceived a copy of the Times-Democrat for above said $1 to date. I am in favor of you for President of the United States in 1896—" “The man has considerable sense,” com- ™mented Mr. Hill, amid the roars of the Sen- ate interjected Mr. Hill be- tead of any one of the republicans in this country. But I am opposed to the re-election of Mr. Grover Cleveland. That I have not received a registry return receipt is undoubtedly very strong evidence that Mr. Page M. Baker of the Times-Democrat has not received the. registere@ letter and above said silver doilar which it contains. Mr. Joseph Pulitser, editor of the New York city. some silver money the two registered letters, Nos. 27, which I wrote him October 17 and October 22, 1892, but that I have not received a return receipt for elther of them is unquestionable evidence that the editor of the World has not received the two above said letters and money. The above said money, which “I sént to Mr. Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World, in the above said registered letters, was for the democratic national western campaign fund ¢ . Th ani vulsed by this time Hill d his reading to We know t Pulitzer was sent but what he did with it does yet seem to be dtsclosed. think,”" continued Sam Saunders, in r, “that the siiver money which e said registered letters contains, lost or stolen—” Mr. rem irk the - serious charge, Mr. President,” grav ly remarked Mr . “—That the parties to whom it was ed- dress~1 has not sived it—"" “That exculpates Mr. Pulitzer,” exclaimed Mr. Hill. “—So please investigate the mstter in re- gard to above said silver dollar, which I sent the editor of the -Times Democrat, and also investigate the matter in regard to the sllver-money as stzted above, which sent che editog, ofthe. World. Find the which all three of the above said ered letters Contafns, and then have the result of your investigations publish- ed in the New York" papérs.” is ended Sam Sanders’ letter and Mr. Hill went on to say that he submitted the communication because it might az well Make the proposed inquiry an omnibus in- vestigation and includ= every: charge that be suggested. ———_—_—_—_ +e ___ THE BENEFICENT CROW. What He Does for the Farmer and the Farm Crops. The “Year Book” of the Department of Agriculture tclls about cow blackbirds and What they eat. About 2,300 of their stom- achs .have been examined, and of these 2,258 contained food. The birds were killed in twenty-six states. Forty-eight per cent of the food was animal, forty-eight per cent vegetable and four per cent was min- eral. The blackbird has a variety of things it ts. “The animal food,” says the report, ‘“con- sisted of insects, spiders, myrlapods (thou- sand legs), crawfish, earth worms, sowbugs, hair snakes, snails, fishes, tree toads, sal: manders (newts), lizards, snakes, birds’ s3 and mice.” might have been fish cast up by the tide, minnows caught while swimming in shal- low water and probably meat and carrion ov various kinds. Most of the animal food of course, insects. These constitute for- ix per cent of the total, the other two t being the larger things, like mice. imal food is taken mostly in the summer. In winter the food is mostly vege- atter. The insects the bird kills han make up the damage he does, lly as his nest robbing appears to be an Incidental habit not large flock of the birds, of course, de- Stroy a lot of grain. Some OOO would eat about 3,000 pounds a day, but they would m= as many insects, which would than destroy the amount the bird often indulged —se+— A Greater Risk, From Li Agent—“I represent the Bicycle Union In- suran-e Company. Will pay you $2,000 if you are injured in an accident, and the cest is $8 a year. - Grymes—“But ET never ride a wheel." “Then you can't get along without the Policy, but the cost will be doubled.” Dr. Shade’s Method of Treatment tude's chloridum discovery for consumption, lung and catarrhal diseases Is a threefold ut In which the chlorides predominate. he inhalatikn repatrs damages of threat tissue, incrensing chest expansion and re- ¢ glasticity and normal integrity of the Second, ‘the constitutional part of the sup the soll in which the germs and devele thereb; adually anniatlating souree tion is obtaine op the Th curcd of onary consumption or co throat and lung troubie In Washington, D. E aise a number In imore. Dr. Olds of said city r treatment at this time, and wil-be dis- red in 2 few months. to 6. Sunday, 1 to 2. lath st. aplase A quarter spent in HIRES Rootbeer does you dollars’ worth of good. Mate only by The Charles E. Hires Co, _BSSe.patatas eases Scales, oid creryoe Get Out Your Spring Gowns You'll peed them. ‘Thes’re sure _to be — chase theat abd "uo ‘thetd up? t0 look trea ——~_and sweet as new. Wazon calls. ANTON FISCHER, 906 G St. 15-Sd ap! THE KYMOGRAPHION Dr. Arthur McDonald’s Interesting Demonstrations With It. RECORDING EMOTIONAL PHENOMENA Experiments Which May Lead to Important Results, THE MIND WAVES Dr. Arthur McDonald of the United States bureau of education lectured last week be- fore the Anthropological Society on “Psycho-neural Measurements of Human Beings,” illustrating the subject with ex- periments and demonstrations by means of the kymographion. This is the instrument intended to be used on Holmes, the con- victed murderer, during his execution in Pheladelphia, May & Dr. McDonald's re- quest to be permitted to make the experi- ment of registering the emotions of a man about to be hung was dented by the author- ities, although Holmes himself made no ob- jection to it. There was, therefore, great interest in the lecture and in the instru- ment, which is probably the only one in this country. The word kymographion is derived from the Greek words kumos, wave, ard the verb grapho or graphein, to write. The instrument is the invention of Prof. Ludwig of Leipsic, and Dr. McDonald combines with it the pneumograph and Cambridge tambour. Briefly de- ribed, the apparatus. is a clock- work device, by which the excitement of the thorax, under various emotional states of the mind, is recorded on a cylinder covered with paper. This paper is black- ened with smoke, and so made sensitive to the slightest mark of the indicator. The method of use is to pin around the chest of the subject a silk ribbon, each end of which attaches to a fine sensitive rubber dia- phragm stretched over the end of a metal- lic cylinder from which there runs a small rubber tube, which terminates in another rubber diaphragm called the tambour. Within the cylinder, the tube and the tam- bour is a vacuum, so that the tension of the three diaphragms is exceedingly sensitive to the slightest movement of the thorax. In contact with the tambour diaphragm is a multiplying lever, which moves the slender needle-like indicator, which is put in touch with the smoke-blackened eylin- der. When the subject is In readiness for the experiment the cylinder is set in mo- tion, revolving once in two minutes, and the needle, vibrating up and down, marks responsively to the action of the thorax a sharp, white line on the sooty surface of the paper. How It Works. Thore who are skeptical as to the prac- tical work of the kymographion would be surprised to note the variations in the waves resulting from different states of the mind. For instance, Dr.’ McDonald ex- perimented before. .his audience.with a bright young boy. Being excited, the no- dules of the normal or regular wdve shown were deep, feequent and sharp. Giving him a book to read, the nodules became longer, shallower and more quiet and pa- cific in character. Told top listen to the music of a mandolin, the boy. showed far less excitability, and the wave mark again swept along on the cylinder In long nodules, different, howeyer,. from those produced when he was reading. Exper ments were made on other subjects during the evening, with interesting and varied results. Speaking of the necessity of experimen- tation in all directions of scientific inquiry, Dr. McDonald said: “Philosophy in the old sense is almost impossible. No one man can have sufiictent insight into the different sclences to under- stand their relations and make judgment of their content. Specialism may narrow a man, but it deepens his knowledge. Knowl- edge is so dovetailed together that a spe- cialty studied thoroughly necessitates the investigation of the nearest lying branches. Generalism 1s liable to be superticial. The habit of studying one thing thoroughly is the method of spectatism, and is directly practical. The desire to inchide the uni- verse may bs called generalism. Facts about the nervous system ‘of man are as important as facts about stones, , plants and animals; yet there is perhaps the least definite knowledge about man. The scien- tifle study of man in an experimental way is just in its beginning. A man should in- vestigate fifty times as much as ‘he writes, and not vice versa.” Interesting Phenomena, _ Experiments with the kymographion, said Dr. McDonald, the-pheumograph and the Cambridge tambaur, .on both children and adults seem to indicate that concentra- tion of mind or emotion lessens breathing. The effect between patietic and lively mu- sic is noticeable; the former lessens the breathing, the latter increases it. In a somewhat extended experiment on a_ re- porter with his newly constructed plethys- mograph, Dr. McDonald found that by ap- plying the algometer (pain measurer) to the temporal muscle there was a decrease of flow of blood in the arm; and by passing a galvanic current through the brain, caus- ing a pain like the prick of a pin, the ef- fect was a decrease of flow of biood in the arm. It Is probable (not certain) that this means an Increase of blood in the brain. Fatigue and Other Sensations. By experiments on two women and two men with Mosso’s ergograph the results of Dr. Lombard were confirmed, that the re- covery of the power of the finger after fa- tigue owes its periolicity to fatigue. After the finger is tired of pulling a weight that it can hardly move, the almost immediate recuperation of the finger, making it able to pull the weight as fast as ever, is not due to nutritive changes in the muscle, nor to variations in the strength of will power, but, as before said, is a result of fatigue. Similar phenomena are the “second wind” in the pedestrian. The hearing of a tick- ing of a watch varies periodically; it sounds louder and sofier. In adding long columns of figures or in following a long argument the mind at periods refuses to work, and then resumes. Dr. McDonald illustrated with instru- ments of his own and those of others quantitative measurements of sensibilities, of smell, heat, locality, pain and muscular judgments. At the close of the lecture an experiment vas made with the entire audience in reg- istering spontaneous concepts of the mind, the results being writte. on slips of paper and kept by Dr. McDonald for classification and analysis, with a view to a consideration of them before the soclety at some future time. ae Not Constable Gibbons. It was erroneously stated in yesterday's Star that Constable Gibbons figured in the case of Mrs. Sarah White, the colored woman who fought for possession of her organ. Constable Swinburne was the offi- cer who made the unsuccessful attempt to serve the writ. —_—_—_ Well Qualified. From Life. « “Is dis where dey wants a boy?” “It is, but he must be a boy who never utters an untruth and does not use slang or swear.” “Well, me brudder’s a deaf mute. send ‘im ‘round.” —— +e. Nothing New to Her. From Harper's Bazar. Mrs. Jones—“That Mrs. Tucker next door must be an awful gossip. Mr. Jones—“Why, what’s the row now?” Mrs. Jones—“Oh, nothing in particular, but I never can tell her anything but what she’s heard it before.” rm ASHORT STORY, Indigestion, misery—avoid both. Use the Genuine JOHANN HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT. It produces flesh and blood. Ask for the Genuine JOHANN HOFF’S. MALT EXTRACT, Avoid substitutes. | been in the ministry for ty RECORDER TAYLOR TALKS He Says He Owes His Suocess in Life to the| Ohurch. M. E, Conference—Missionary Work and Church Finances. Associated with Bishop Gaines this morn- ing at the opening of the Baltimore confer- ence of the African Methodist Episcopal Church were Bishops Abraham Grant, D. D., of the sixth and eighth Episcopal dis- tricts, enibracing Georgia, Alabama and Florida; B. W. Arvett, D. D., Ohio, Indi- ana, Towa and part of Pennsylvania, and B.T.Tanner,D.D.,Pennpylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. The devo- tional services were conducted by Bishop Gaines. . Rev. J. C. Embry, D. D., who has suc- cessfully managed the book concern and Publication hovse for several years, made some remarks on his department. The de- partment has, he said, done business during the year to the ar-ount of $13,000, which 1s | $5,000 less than in former years. He added | that the publication department had print- ed all the hymn books. of the church, church disciplines, the magazine and all of the church literature except that of the Sunday schcol, which was published by the Sunday School Union, under the manage- ment of Rev. C. S. Smith, D. D. Rey. James H. Armstrong, D. D., secre- tary of the financial department of the church, made a short addreses, showing the financial condition of the general church. This department, as shown by Dr. Armstrong’s report, has handled $350),- 000 during the past four years, which was used for paying the salaries of general ofti- cers and educational work. Rey. C. T. Shaffer, D. D., secretary and treasurer of the church extension depart- ment, in reporting the work under his charge for the past four years, stated that the church had assisted a large number of struggling churches and saved church prop- erty. In this direction $17,000 was ex- pended. Missionary Work. Rev. William B. Derrick, D. D., of New York, secretary of the missionary depart- ment, made an address, In which he showed that a large amount was raised for home and foreign mission work during the past four years, and the Ladies’ Mite Mission- ary Society had raised a large per cent of the money for carrying cn the foreign mission work. He referred in compliment- ary terms to Mrs. F. M. Ridgel, who had lost her health while laboring in Africa with her husband for the evangelization of that contirent. Rev. H. T. Johnson, D. D., Ph. D., editor of the Christian Recorder, which is the oldest paper In America published among the colored people, showed that the Re- corder was doing good for the elevation of the race and church. Rey. L. J. Coppin, D. D., editor of the A. M. E. Church Review, reported the success of his department, showing ‘hat it was be- ing patronized largely among the colored | people of the country, place in the homes of some of the leaiing white familles. c Recorder Taylor. Recorder of Deeds C. H. J. Taylor was in- troduced to the conference, and delivered a short address, complimenting the church on its organization and its finance. he owed his success in Hfe. Mr. Taylor) spoke ef the large number of educated men and women in the African Methodist!| Episcopal Church, and said that it was the most aggressive church vrginization in the world. Mrs. Frederick Douglass was also tn- treduced, and the members of the confer- ence rose to their feet as a compliment. | She made a very short address. The re- mainder of the session was occupied with the transaction of routine business. The Vacant Bishoprics. ‘The conference of the A. M. E. Church at its session yesterday afternoon had some discussion in reference to the four vacancies in the eplscopacy which are to be filled by election at the meeting of the general con- ference, at Wilmington, N. C., next. month. Since the meeting of the last general con- ference, four years ago, Bishops Brown, Payne, Ward and Wayman have died. Not only must their successors he chosen, but it is possible also the list will be added to, as there is a widespread impression among the membership of the connection that there] ought to be more bishops than are provided for by law at this ttme, even when the board of bishops Is full In addition to these all the general officers of the cenomination are to be elected. The discussion developed that, while the bellef is general that the church has a large number of competent men for the various positions, the most favored for the epis- copacy, however, are Revs. J. H. Armstrong, D. D., financial secretary; J. CG. Embry, D. D., general manager of the book concern and publication house; L. J. Coppin, D. D., editor and publisher of the A. M. E. Church Review; J. T. Jenifer, D. D., pastor Metro- politan A. M. E. Church, Washingion, D. €., and H. T. Johnson, D! D., editar of the Christian Recorder. Among those mentioned as likely to be elected a general officer is Rev. W. R. Gul- lins, D. D., pastor of the A. M. E. Church, Richmond, Va., who is one of the leading ministers in the connection. Dr. Gullins was appointed to Richmond last year by Bishop Gaines, an@ succeeded in paying off a delt which had been carried by the church for twenty years. He presented the confer- ence in its session held last week in that city with a note and mortgage, bearing the date of 1876, both canceled. Rey. J. A. Johnson, D. D., pastor of Bethel - M. B, Church, ‘Philadelphia, is also spoken of in this connection. He is a native of England, and was educated in the schools of that country. Until a few years ago he had been in charge of the work in Canada. He was transferred io this country, and has been in charge of some of the most import- ant churches in the connestion. He has enty-one years, and is a fine scholar. The Baltimore conference wili he repre- sented in the general conference by Revs. J. W, Beckett, D. P. Seaton, J. H. Collett and I. S, Lee'as ministerial delegates and J.T. Layton and John W. Murpay, lay dele- gates. At Thursday's meeting Miss Mary Jones of Raleigh, N. C., and Rev. J. Strange, pre- siding elder of the Danville district, Vir- ginia conference, were introduced to the conference, ‘The following transfers were announced to the Baltimore conference: Revs. J.B. Shepherd, from the Bermuda conference: E. E. Grenage, from the Philadelphia con. ference; 8. T. ‘rice, from the Georgia con- ference: W. H. Hunter, D.D., from the Vir~ ginia confererce, and J. A. Robbins, M.D., from the Ohio conference. A committee consisting of Revs. J. W. Beckett, J. T. Jenifer, D. D.. and W. R. Arnold, D.D., was’ appointed to walt on the President to arrange an hour for the conference to visit the White House and the President in a body. The committee performed the duty as- signed them, and later returned and re- ported that ‘President Cleveland had said he would comply with their request with pleasure, and named Saturday at noon as the time. ‘The conference was addressed during the morning sessiun by Bishop B. T. Tanner, D.D., of the first episcopal district, and Bishop B. W. Arnett of the fourth dis- trict. ——-._—_ Something Like an Oyster. From the Springfield Union. An extraordinary oyster shell is owned by a Portland nian. It is almost two feet in length and one and one-half feet in width. The shell is very rough on the outside, and white and smooth and beautiful on the in- side. It is at least three inches thick in the central portion and ts very massive and heavy. It tips the scales at thirty-seven pounds. Of course, the two halves of the shells would weigh at least twice that, or seventy-four pounds. These huge oyster shells'were brought to Portland in the five- masted peneones Governce Ames on the oc- casion of her jt visit here, some years ago. ‘the eyster was secured alive in Japan, an enough for eight men. The whole oyster, when. alive, weighed eighty-two~ poun: Leaving out the seventy-four the shell, and there are elght pounds that the oyster itself must have weighed. Fed and was finding] system of} He said that it was to the churehd Pb) made a stew that was more than|’ HIGH ,scniOLeagnperics. Base Ball - TeadesWReing Formed— The Interschoel Meet. ‘The ‘base’ ball: af’ the respectiv> high schools havggff@p late In beginning practice this year—om—account of the time and attention refifi€a for the arrange- ments of the spring, athletic meet and the bad weather that. piqvailed when it was Possible to practic fe ute It is hoped that it will be poaat ig to organize a team at each of the four 8¢ Is, so that a series of games can be arfgnged between them for the champlonship, which has not been determined for several years. The team at the Centrat is in a more cer- tain state of organization at present than any of the rest, and aE the middle of next week it fs expected that the members of the team will be fully decided upon. Prac- tice this week has been sharp. The men are rapidly getting into form and playing In regular positions. Eckert, who was cap- tain and manager of the Portlands last year, will catch on the Central team this season and will be of much help to them in their stick work. Capt. Ennis, who piayed first base for the Arsenals of the Depart- mental League lagt year, will alternate pitching and playing: the above position; thus the chtb will always receive the bene- fit of his batting ‘strength. Warren will take turns with Ennis, and Mm the absence of either Tisdell or Kimmell will be play- ed on first. The other members for the in- field are Smith or Shuster, second base; Downing. short stop, and Phil. Tindall, an eMcient batter.and fielder, .will play third hase. Guy Oyster will play left field, and Eddie Maynard center field, while the right fleld wtll be covered by one of the extras. Mr, Charles D. Young, who was elected manager for the season, has arranged for a game with the Le Droit Parks at the Arsenal today; and one with the third Georgetown University team for next Sat- urday, to be played on the college campus. Challenges have been sent to the other High Schools. At the Other Schools, Prospects at the astern are much brighter this year than for several years past, as these schools have better material and are golng about their work in a more systematic manner, unde: the guidance of Mr. Emory C. Wilson of the faculty. Very little practice has ‘been had so far, and Rothing definite has “been decided, but the make-up of the team will very probably be as follows: Harris,catcher; Hand andWable, pitchers; Snell and Hand, first base; Gapen mbs, second base; G. W. Kelly, short ; Zurhorst, third base, and Maupin, Sprucebank, Hoover, Wallace and V. G. Kelly tor the outtiebl. Very little has been done in regard to athletics of any kind at either the Busi- ness or Western school, but it is probable that both schools will have teams in the field in a couple of weeks, Spring Athletic Meet. The third meeting of the executive com- mittee? on the inter-High School track and field day was held at the Central High School when the rules of the Inter- collegiate Athletie Association were adopt- with a few -additions respecting the filing and. decisions of protests, and establishing conditions for entries. it was decided to apply to the L. A. W. for a permit tezhold the bicycle race under its sanction. ,The three-legged race was excluded from (the entries, Throwing the base ball and the running hop, skip and juinp contests have been excluded from the original list of events. As Wednesday, Jane 3, is the most de- Sirable date for the, meet, as long as the Georgetown College ‘grounds could not be secured for a Saturday, it was decided to request the board of trustees of public schools to allow the high schools a_half- day holiday that day. Accordingly, Mr. "hij. Tindall, .uresident, ¢f the committees, wrote a letter to the beard, making such a request, which was appreved by Dr. F. R. lane, the supervising. principal of the high schools.” “When the communication was brought up for consideration at the meeting of the board Tuesday the request was unan- imously granted. Therefore, the inter- high school field and track meet will be held on the above da: = ROR the high schools, will be dismissed af 12 o'clock. Apparatus has beth putéthased by each school and practice is had almost daily. Preparations for the events) have pro- ed further at the Central than any other schools, and the following en- tries have been received from this school: Watker, Jalty, Stuart, €nderwood “and joftin, forthe one-hundred-yard dash; uff, Stuart, Kimmell and Ketcham, the two-hundred-and-twenty ,and. four-hua- dred-and-torty-yard dashes; Hottell, Stuart, Ruff. Oyster-and Albert," fy thé miffe dnd’ dalf-mile runs; Smith, Young, Curtis anu, Tindall, for the relay-race; Wilson, Marcan, Hdmonds, Potbury and Barnard, for’ the hieycle race; Ketcham, Farrow, Shuster, Gains and Hottel, ranning broad jump: Slack, .Coffia, Rollins, Farrow, Browning and Alden, running high jump, and Cur- sis and‘Cotlm, for the polé vauitl=e - Notes, ‘The principal matters of “interest to the. pupils of the High Schools for the last sev- eral weeks have heen base ball and dra- matic affairs. Five plays have been in preparation in the last couple of weeks, and now rehearsals are being regularly held for three of them. One of the farces, “Lend Me Five Shillings,” was presented by a cast of Central High School students and graduates at the dramatic and terpsi- chorean entertainment, given by the Cen- tral High School Orchestra at National Rifles’ Hall last Thursday night, while “Richard III" is still being contemplated by the Central High School Literary and Debating Society. ‘The cast that was selected for the presen- tation of Goldsmith's'“‘She Stoops to Con- quer,”” at the annual May concert of the Central, has been rehearsing steadily three times a week for the last three weeks, and is doing excellently: Although the contest for the “review” prizes closed about a month ago, the win- hers were not known until last week, when their names were announced as follows: Charles Mayer, first prize; James Hottel. boys’ second prize; Miss Scudder, girls’ sec. end prize, and Arthur Plant, boys’ third. Another prize, a camera of the latest pat- tern, will be given out at the end of the year to the pupil of the Central High School who has published the best original drawing or sketch. The Philoterpians were so successful in their St. Valentine's reception at Haines’ Hall on the 14th of February-last. that they have decided to give another one on the oth of this month, at Carroll Institute ‘all. The Eastern High School wfll celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the bat.le of Culloden during the last hour of school tomorrow. A program of Scotch songs by the school and the reading of selections from Scotch poets has been arranged. Miss May Weide will read an account of the hatslé-asd Miss Walport will sing Scotch balladsa. b: Preparations for the entertainment to be held in a cuuple ofvavess for the benefit of the school fund have about been completed by the committee mf tHe three teachers in charge. BE 9 ’ Mr. David Wolfe Browne, the chief ste- nographer in the Hause of Representatives, delivered a very interesting lecture to the advanced clesses ia :their calisthenic hall during the first geriot of school Friday morning. His subject was ‘What the Bus- iness Man Expects ofxHis Stenographer.” The timo for the mdney-raicing project, whereby each puptkis to raise a dollar for the benefit of the Mbrary, will expire next week, when an interesting celebration will take place. Many of ithe pupils have de- vised unique sc! . for raising their money, and at thavexercises which are to be held some of them will read essays de- scribing the methods’ b¥ which they earned their subscripttona. All of the pupils are hard at work, and returns are beginning to come in, someof the pupils having already secured a dollar.’ ‘The third quarterly exercises of the pu- Pils of the High School of the seventh and eighth divisions were of a pecullar nature. The program for the exercises was left en- tirely in the hands of Mr. Hayson and his classes, who filled it out with Latin songs, poems and declamations. The entire school was preegoe with about a hundred visiting friends of the ils, who acquitted them- selves croditably, 7 SSS The Sweetest Girl in the World. From Harper's Bazar, “Have a good time vacation, Bob?” “Great. Met the sweetest girt in the world.” “Why, I didn’t know you went to Wilkes- Tre. “Didn't. What's “Wilkesbarre got to do with it?” “That's. where the sweetest girl in the world lives.” AMONG THE TOILERS Workingmen, especially those who are members of the carpenters’ and horse- shoers’ unions, in Washington, and through- out the country, have been considerably exercised of late over the fact that their crafts have been selected by the American -Federation of Labor, with which both are affiliated, to make the long-talked-of de- mand for an eight-hour day from and after May 1. An eight-hour day is the ideal period of labor with thousands of laboring people, and it has been feared that in their desire to secure the object of their demand the car- penters and horseshoers would strike if it was refused. While the American Federation of Labor will, as is their announced intention, morally support the movement of the two organiza- tions named to secure a uniform eight-hour day, they will not countenance a strike on their part. Of the organizations selected by the A. F. of L. to receive its ald and Regn ee in the matter, the carpenters and joiners is probably the largest and most important affiliated with the parent body. At present the carpenters are enjoying the shorter work day in about sixty cities in different parts of the country. The nine-hour day Prevails in a much larger number of cities, and it is the pur- pose of the carpenters to establish a uni- form eight-hour day in all sections. From this it will be seen that the carpenters have apparently a less difficult task befora them than have the other unions. The carpenters have been hammering away for a reduction in the hours of labor for some years, and have attained either an eight or a nine-hour day in nearly every large city in America. The horseshoers have made some progress in this direction, but not so much as the carpenters. Both of these crafts would be greatly benefited by a curtailment of the hours of labor, as both have suffered much loss of employment by the introduction of modern devices—the carpenter by reason of the great improvements made in mill ma- chinery, and the horseshoer by reason of the general substitution of electricity for horse power on street railways. Action of the A. F. of L. A communication has been received in this city from President Gompers of the A. F. of L., Inclosing a declaration adopted by the executive council on the subject of the eight- hour day. It disposes of the supposition en- tertained by many that a general strike would be inaugurated May 1 to force recog- nition of the shorter day, The declaration reads: “At this hour, when myriads of work- men are seeking employment, and in their despair numbers of them are captivated by the seductive theories and glittering prom- ises of securing state help, we, the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, reatfirm the neces- sity of concentrating all the forces of the Practical labor movement by the voluatary and collective efforts of the trades unions, backed by a sympathetic public opinion, “The general and constant introduction of machinery, the minute subdivisions of labor, the irregularity of employment, the continually recurring periods of industrial stagnation and financtal panics, the hope- less wail of the unemployed, all deu:and equalization of the cpportunities that will come from the general adoption of the elght-hour day. All other ‘isms’ and cco- nomic theories within our ranks should be subordinated to the great task of giving work to the unemployed and of bettering the wages and conditions of all who toll. “There is no movement of more value to the working people than that which will lighten the burdens of those who are ov worked and underpaid, and which will give employment to these who wahder our by- ways and highways, searching in vain for a better chance to live. The realization of the eight-hour day to them means better food and raiment, happier homes, better zens, a nobler manhood and a higher civilization. “AS We approach this question, we realize fully the magnitude of the interested and Selfish forces arrayed against us, the indif- ference of the working people themselves, their old-time prejudices and the many dis- sensions which divide them. More than all, We recognize the need for a more thorough and complete organization of every craft and occupation oa trade union lines before we can undertake a general or simultane- ous stand for the elght-nour @ay. This se- vere industrial crisis from which we are now emerging, however, should he a help- ful lesson to lead the industrial classes in- to such compact organization, which, when once attained, wiil briag at!ll greater achievements to the working people. + “We heartily approve the shorter work day asked for by the Journeymen Horse- shoers’ National Union, and tender it and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters our active co-operation and united assistance in their present efforts to reduce the hours of toil. We congratulate them that they are in a position to undertake this move- ment without our financial aid. “To insure continued and successful ef- forts by the working people in this direc- tion, the president and secretary of the American Federation of Labor are hereby directed to issue an address to the wage workers of the country, urging them to Join the trade union movement with the view of securing all possible advantages re- sulting from organization, and especially to put into operation the eight-hour day as soon as business will justify such action without injury to the public. “That the aforesaid officers notify the executive heads of all unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor of such action and seek their co-operation and as- sistance, and request them to correspond with empleyers to the end of securing an expression of opinion on the voluntary con- cession of the eight-hour work day, and tbat all unions whose members now’ work more than eight hours per day be request- ed to select committees to wait upon em- ployers with the same object in view. “Further, that the press, pulpit, public speakers and reformers generally be urged to make the need for the eight-hour work day a theme of concerted and persistent discussion. “We hail the decision of the Bricklayers and Stone Masons’ International Union to adopt the eight-hour work day in their trades as a hopeful sign of the irresistible movement for the establishment of the eight-hour work day.” The Brotherhood of Carpenters. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, ubeve referred to, was founded in Chicago in August, 1SS1. At first ft hag only twelve local unions and 2,042 members. Now, in ten years, it has grown to number over S15 local unions in over 724 cities, and 84: enrolled mem- bers. It pays a wife funeral benefit of from $25 to $0; member's funeral benefit, $100 to $200, and disability benefit, $100 to $:00. In these general beni 13 has been ex- pended the last year, and ten years, while was spent for sick benefits by the local unions. It has raised the wages in 581 cities and placed $5,500,000 more wages annually in the pock- ets of the carpenters in those cities. It re- duced the hours of labor to eight hours a day in forty-six elties, and nine houts a day in 393 cities, not to speak of 432 cities which have established the eight or nine- hour system on Saturdays. By this means 11,150 more men have gained employment. Labor Notes, Kansas City is to have a labor temple. There are 1,500,100 members of organized labor societies in Great Britain. The’ K. of L. in New York city have a beard of walking delegates. The trades unions of Cleveland are in favor of civil service in Ohio. The Building Trades Council of San Francisco represents 4,000 men. aan ing, Mich., has a Women’s Federal inion. The carpenters of Detroit who struck for eae day have accepted a compromise o There are twelve unions and one Central Labor Union in Alexandria, Ind., and the entire population numbers but 3,000. ‘Women have to a large extent taken the place of men as waiters in St. Louls. The former work for $4 per week—the latter were paid $10. Colored men are now pcrmitted to be- come members of the Journeymen Barbers’ International Union.” ‘The miners in the George’s Creek, M4., granted an increase of region have been five cents a ton. It is claimed that the iron molders of Scotland have the most perfect trade union in the world. It has 7,000 members and $150,000 in the treasury. The strike of the San Francisco painters has been settled—the men getting the in- crease of pay asked for. The Ellis & Lessig Steel and Iron Com- pany have advanced the wages of their employes 10 per cent. ‘Fhe typewriters, shorthand writers and bookkeepers in Cleveland, Ohio, have or- ganized a union, § SSS The Road to Success, ‘WHICH FINDS IT MORE EASILY, THE MAN WHO IS BORN POOR OR THE ONE WHOIS BORN RICH. An Almost Certain Way of Making Money. Some time ego a leading metropolitan newspaper itterviewed a number of prominent men in all lnes of business, asking them which had the best chance for accomplishment in life—the man who {s born poor or the one who is born rich. There ¥28 some difference of opinion expressed, but on the whole it was decided that a man had Letter be born poor. Poverty is a stimulus to effort. The poor young man bas to be ever om the alert or be will lose some tricks in the game of life. ‘The rich young man can afford to lose. 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