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SIX i ib: 7 THE PITTSBURG PRESS isn. AND DAILY The WomantL ireet-t "It Is More and More Difficult for the Girl i PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY OUVER 8. HERSH MAN. President and Treasurer. ft.

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"Man." said Donald. "I wasa wonderin" what you will be askin for yon bit sheep over at your steadm'?" "Man." replied Dougal, wass think-in" I wad be wantln 60 shullin's for that sheep." "I will tak' It at that." said Donald; "but, och. man. Dougal, I am awful surprised at you doin' business on the Saw-bath. "Business!" exclaimed Dougal.

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Alleghsny 257 Cedar. Worker to Stay 'Bjr JESTS-IE M. In every land, in every clime, whers men are depraved and women weak, are found the Daughters of Llltth. The treatment accorded the declass woman Is paradoxical. With one band we push her farther down Into the black abyss of crime: with the other we veil our blushes or righteous Indignation that such evil should exist.

Economic conditions In America make more and more difficult for the unskilled girl worker to remain virtuous. -and yet we cast out Into the underworld the girl who falls. She cannot associate with the wives and daughters of the men who reap fortunes from their underpaid labor she Is not fit. But the man who offers that girl $3.50 a week as a living wage, explaining she is not expected to live on It that man is honored and respected by society. Down In the depths of New York's lower East Side, that seventh circle of an inferno surpassing Dante's vision of hell, I found Hannah Weiss.

She is a Russian Jewess, just -17. a girl like any other girl, loving pleasure and pretty clothes and the society of her fellows. Hannah Weiss works In a dirty, lit-, tie. ill-smelling Houston street sweat shop from 7 a. m.

till 7 p. for $4.50 a week. She makes buttonholes in coats and vests, 200 buttonholes a day. There are SO girls in the shop where Hannah Weiss works, and some of them make as high as $10 a week on "piece work." These are now nothing but machines, with lack-luster eyes and yellow, parchment-like -skins. The ordinary girl hs only been making buttonholes a couple of years gets from S3.50 a weeK to How do you suppose these glrs live? ATLANTIC CITY OFFICE PRESS BUILDING, Cor.

Atlantic and Pennsylvania Ave. FOREIGN ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. J. BILLSON. Manager.

JOHN GLAS3. Manager 9 West Twenty-ninth New York. Boyce Building. Chicago. THURSDAY EVENING, Better Than Being Oslenzed No.

6. In another column today we print several suggestive letters on the "Back to the Farm" idea. Mr. McCracken hits upon a phase of the subject which we referred to In a recent editorial that is, the desire of young men and women In the country for city life. It is this abandonment of the farms in many sections bv the vouneer eeneration that is responsible for a large part of the de preciation in agricultural property.

Mr. McCracken touches still another phase Of the subject to which reference has been made by The Press that is. the nPinesSnes of laree farms. He declares that a man can make a living in his 1 thf miintrv from ten acres this assertion should take the trouble dence to corroborate Mr. McCracken.

ti tm. laro-o urv4usr i i i mi ujo ii i-T Kottor than 200 acres ncii ui rvT; i i France and Germany are a revelation to or to All worth notina- that according to Mr. McCracken there are thousands of acres in Clearfield, Clarion and Venango counties which can be bought for a song Furthermore, manv of these farms contain good buildings. sellin' a sheep like that for 50 shullin's is not business at all; it's just charity!" Scottish-American. Moving Hades.

Pat and Mike had lately arrived from the very bosrs of Ould Tipperary and got a small room somewhere In the Bowery for a lodging. At 3 In the morning there a terrible noise. Pat ran to the window and poked out his head Just as a fire engine passed by. Sparks were belching from the engine in vast quantities. The whistle was blowing.

The bell was ringing. The furnace was dronpinar hot coals along the pavement. It was a sight to stagger Pat. In a few seconds another engine dashed by, clanging, rat tling, thundering, sparking. Pat yelled to his chum: "Moike, Moike, come quick! They're movin' hell an two loads be gone by already!" Test of Truth.

A Scotchman went to London for a holiday. Walking along one of tne streets, he noticed a baldheaded chemist standing at his s.TTip door, and inquired if he had any hair restorer. 'TTes. sir." said the chemist. "Step Inside, please.

There's an article 1 can highly recommend. Testimonials from great men who have used It. It makes i he hair grow in 24 hours." "Aweel," Faid the Scot, "ye can gie the top o' your heid a bit rub wi t. and I'll look back the morn and see if ye're telling the truth." Windsor Magazine. 9 "Very Suspicions.

-i-setter seno an inspector down to see what the mater with this man's meter said the cashier In a local gas company's omoe to tne superintendent. un: Degan me superintendent, "we throw complaints about meters "This is no- complaint. He sends a check for the amount of his bill and says It's Very reasonable." Richard Croker, finding the damp Irish climate rather trying, has decided to spend the remainder of the winter In Egypt. William Crosby, a publisher of Boston, who died the other day at the age of 89 years, once refused poems that were offered by Longfellow. Mme.

Melba, the prima donna, will not sing in America this winter, on account of the bad health of her father, and instead Bhe will remain in her home near Melbourne, Australia, all winter. Mrs. Eunice E. Baker, of Denver, a granddaughter of Betsy Ross, who made the first American flag, is 111 and destitute. She has appealed, through a Denver newspaper, for financial assistance.

She has been an Invalid for years. M. Andre Tardieu. the foreign editor of the Paris Temps, and an acknowledged authority on French and international politics, has been chosen to deliver the Hyde lectures at Harvard this year, and will give the first of the series on February 5. Dr.

Wilfred T. Gienfeli, the explorer and missionary, lectured several days ago to the students of Columbia University, and so much Interested them in his work that an expedition was arranged by Columbia undergraduates to go to Labrador next summer. A number of the undergraduates will accompany the expedition. The correspondent whose communication is signed "A Farmer," writes very interestingly even if be does seek to throw cold water upon the $5 ap acre farm. He insists that buying cheap land is a waste of good money, but he thoroughly agrees that farm life would be a godsend for many of the people now struggling with unequal conditions in the cities, and lest the reader come to the conclusion that, a large sum of money is needed to obtain a farm lays Well, you will nnd Hannah etss home on the top floor of a Delancy street tenement.

In a room about as big- as a cell in "bankers' row" in the Ohio penitentiary she lives with five other human beings. Could that girl invito her friends Into that home, with such surroundings? Certainly not. So. as a consequence of her youth and sex she spends her evenings In a dance hall or out on the street. The lowest price at which a girl can obtain board and lodging In absolutely respectable surroundings is $3.50, ana that is at the Young Woman's Christian Association which can only take a limited number.

Suppose the girl pays A LL her salary for board and shelter, where is the money coming from for clothes, car fare, lunches, doctor's bills, and the hundred actual necessities of life? Visit the Havmarket dance hall, sit through a session of the night court, go to "Cairo," or look into the dance halls and sitting rooms-' along the Bowery and you will find the answer. Vice Is a repulsive thing, isn't it? Tn theory I mean. Actually It presents a fashionable and altogether pleasant appearance, at least, in New York city. Out of 20 women of the street haled into court I could not find one half so wretched and deserving of pity as my little Hannah Weiss of the Houston street sweat shop. These were fashionably dressed women.

Their eyes were bright, their hair soft and silky and daintily dressed. All nonchalantly paid fines of $3 and $10. Then the obliging judge turned them back on the streets. Judges, lawyers, settlement workers will tell you nine-tenths of New York street walkers are daughters of Immigrants. That's what wo are doing for the immigrant and his children.

The majority of these girls' parents are respectable, hard-working people who came to America to better their condition. Their children, growing up in abnormal surroundings and confronted on every side with the spectacle of ill-gotten wealth enjoyed In Immunity, learn their lesson and profit by it. There should be a labor law in every state of the union fixing the minimum wage for all women workers. This should be based on a decent standard of living, and a penalty fixed for the employment of any girl or woman at a less wage. Either pay these girls enough to sustain life honorably, or make It unnecessary for them to labor.

MIm Partlon'a nnt article will be The Boy of the Tenement." -PAHTLOJ TYPE OF EAST SIDE GIRL Thousands and thousands, oppress by Industrial and social conditions, yield to the lure of vice and Its attractiveness. want, to go with you and be your girl, and' I know- you can't steal my little sister." Harper's Weekly. The Dlaatlsfled Stage. "You downtown? I thought you wers going to gtt your shopping lone early this year." "I did. T'm busy exchanging things now." Kansas Citv Journal.

He Could Improve It. Iwent to the theater last night." "What did you see?" "A play called 'Hamlet. "How was it?" "Fair, onlv fair. A good, lively sextet would do it a world of good." Louisvilla Courier-Journal. Institutions of Learning.

"Your son joined a college fraternity, didn't he?" "No. it was tripping at the top of five flights way." of stairs that laid him up that Puck. Mutual. Mrs. Neighbors It's too bad of you.

Mildred, to worry your mamma so. Little Mildred Huh! you don't know mamma. She worries me more than I worry her. Chicago News. AMUSEMEJTS.

AT THE MATINEE ECEMBER NIXON emphasis on the fact that farms are as a rule too large to be profitable. Although the average farmer thinks that he is up against it if he does not have over 100 acres, this correspondent says: periciivts dim iiiutu inu.i ..7 the purchaser of the 140 acre farm put NEWS. 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878 Main. P. TEL.

PHONES: East End 77 Highland. DECEMBER 28, 1907. less. One who doubts the truth of investigate. He will find much evi There are thousands of farmers who exnerience nroves that 25 to 50 acres half neelected.

The small farms of the average American farmer. It is "It requires a man of very large ex- llv handla a farm of 140 acres. Had the same amount of money into a 5 or one, entirely. We are strenuous in the accumulation for selfish purposes unselfish ones begins? At Jacobs Creek. that the cause of the explosion there that before the disaster occurred the How a mine in which there was an could have been classed as non-gaseous hypothesis that our inspection system A rreen Christmas doesn't necessarily mean a lean on.

Surg-eon General Rixey la a regular wet blanket. Isn't he? An optimist Is a man who Is Just as cneerrui tne day after as before. Lots of people have made money In siocks uus year, by not buying- them. When we have a Christmas without a carnival of crime, we shall know it is the mlllenlum. Let os quit calling Bob Evans' fleet an Armada.

Remember what harmene to the real Armada. Will the critics of the American navy i navy By which It has please point out i ever been licked? What a dreary holiday the man who celebrates Christmas by killing- himself and his wife has! lawyer O'Reilly, of the Thaw contingent. Is in a sanitarium. By the way, where Is "Napoleon" Delmas? Here's wishing- that nobody got more than half a dozen duplicates and that the plum pudding was delightful. The New Tork papers say Mr.

Harrlmsn has the jrrip. but recent events Indicate that Mr. Roosevelt is the one who has it Frankly, we would like Senator Foraker a gTeat deal better if he knew he was dead. It is not nice to see the undertaker "gassed" so outraeeously bv the corpse. That New Tork woman's pledg-e to bring- the millenlum for $300 simply shows what a big premium the metropolis is willing- to offer to attract currency from the ret of the country.

The Chicago grand Jury has discovered evidence of a milk trust In that city and has promptly Indicted the managers thereof. What a pity good example Is not more contagious! a t'ncle Sam has 1,600 more islands In the Philippines than he thought he had. Uncle Sam is liable to carry a million dollars in his pocket and forget, as Johnny (rates once did, that he has it. This notice, says Harper's Weekly, was posted in a pleasure boat belonging to a certain steamship company: "The chairs in the cabin are for the ladies. Gentle men are requested not to make use or them till the ladles are seated." A real pleasure boat, that was.

There have been 59,327 marriages in Pennsylvania during 1907, to say nothing of elopements to Toungstown. If all of these 59,327 couples could be Interviewed five years from now. we should have something worth while reading on the perennial topic, -'Is Marriage a Failure?" Dneka -Without Brains. "You will think that I'm the rankest nature faker in all the world when I tell you that I've seen ducks with half of their heads eaten off by minks live and grow fat." said Samuel R. Emerson, of Boston, at the Hotel Duncan.

"When I was eight years old I went to live with my grandmother. She had many chickens and ducks and one of the biggest farms in Michigan. Many times a mink would happen along during the night and eat out the brains of three or four ducks. My grandmother would get the poor, wounded ducks and cover their heads with a thick coating of tar. In a few days the ducks would be as spry as ever, but they had absolutely no sense.

They didn't even know when to eat. They lived all right, but always acted crazy." AN HE -SWEEPS THE VWLK- THEN DUSTS FUKNrfWE AUTHORITY ON "LOVE AND THAT 10 acre farm near the city, he would have made more out or nis investment and still have been within reach of all the good that the city affords." For the person who has $2,500 or more to put into a farm this is all true enough. But the "Back to the Farm" cry appeals to many persons who have not that much to invest. Mr. McCracken's letter suggests that such as these need not despair.

Good livings can be made from the cheaper farms which abound in the counties he mentions as well as in the localities that The Press mentioned the other day. And when a man is fleeing from the city to the country because he is afraid that if he tarries much longer in the city he will be Oslerized that is. thrust aside by the competition of younger and less dependent men it should be remembered he is not so much concerned with scientific farming and the maximum of possible profit as with mere independence and livelihood. 1776 Battlo of Trenton: the Americans under Washington crossed tha Delaware river this night, and surprised the Hessians at sunrise. This well-judged and successful enterprise revived the depressed spirits of the Colonists and produced an Immediate and happy effect In recruiting the American army.

1804 Much discontent prevailed among Americans at New Orleans, occasioned by the former Spanish governor retaining his troops In the city to act as a guard. 1S11 Destruction of Richmond Thsater in consequence of the scenery taking fire. when 123 persons perished, among whom was the governor of the xtate. 1813 Joel Barlow, American poet and statesman, died at Garnowltch. Poland, while on an embassy from the United States to.

Bonaparte. 1825 President Adams sends a confidential message to congress In which he announces that he has accepted the Invitation to send commissioners to the proposed Panama conference, be lieving that it might be advisable to settle the question whether the se curity of republican institutions does not require the parties to prevent any European power from establishing colony within the borders of the parties; he also nominated Richard Anderson of Kentucky, and Hoghn Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, as com mlssioners, and W. B. Rochester, of New York, as secretary. 1S29.

A party of Choctaws attacked a camp of Osage Indians on the Cana dian river and killed seven of their number. 1854 Indians of Texas promise to keeep the peace and settle on the lands re served for them in the state. 18AO Mapor Anderson left Fort Moultrie and took possession of Fort Sumter. He had with 111 men. South Carolina commissioners arrived In Washington.

The President re fused to receive them. 1874 The "mixed-school" controversy in New Orleans resulted In a street duel between former Governor War-moth and Editor Byerly, of the Bul letin. In which the later was kiled. 1886 General John A. Logan, senator from Illinois, died at Washington aged 0.

ltKM Miss Marguerite Letter was mar rted at Washington to Henry Paget Howard, earl of Suffolk. 10OS Louis N. Megaree, a well known newspaper man and writer, died near Philadelphia, aged 50 years. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. By Fits-Greene Halleck.

Green be the turf above thee. Friend of my better days! Non.knew thee btit to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep. And long, where thou art lying. Will tears the cold turf steep.

When hearts whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid In earth. There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth; And who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand In mine. Who shared thy joy and sorrow. Whose weal and woe were thine. It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow; But I've in vain essay'd And feel I can not now.

While memory bids me weep thee. Nor thoughts nor words are free; The grief is fix'd too deeply That mourns a man like thee. Tne Only Way. Mrs. Casey I don't know what we'll put In little Patsy's stockln', Mike.

He writ a letther Santy Claus axin' fr a rale auttymobile, no liss. Mr. Casey Shure, we'll drop a few drops lv gassayline in it an' I'll bet he'll be thankful he didn't git th rist iv the machine. Puck. St.

raul'a Trick. "St. Paul knew how to get women to church for all time to come." "How did he do it?" "Made It a rule that they must all always wear hats." Town and Country. caping through the waters of creeks, rivers, etc. Respectfully, C.

H. SNIVELS'. Valencia, December 20, 1907. JitLccvrit A Prime Excuse. Parson Bagster Cseverely) Loogy yuh, Brudder Sagg! Whuh am dat side o' bacon and dem two hams yo'-all promised to fotch me on muh sal'ry? Brother Sagg Uh-well, sah.

I'll dess tell you': I)e hog done got well. Puck. She Knew the Formnl. A stranger approached a-little girl, who was somewhat accustomed to Interviews, with the usual question, "What's your name, little grrl?" The little girl, without looking up from her sandpile, replied: "My name is Edith. nnrt I'm four.

She my little sister; ner name's Mildred, and she's two. I don't AMUSEMENTS. MONSTER BETTER THAN BEING OSLERIZED. Some Sample Letters from Readers on "Back to the Farm" Editorials. To the Editor of Th reading your editorials on farm t'le im great interest, and I pass my i-ress arouna.

We think von have hit the right nail souare on th head. never lived in the city and do not want to. 1 was in Pittsburg last fan and went to see an old neighbor who left his farm, and I found him and wife and etx children living on the South Si.i crowrtn.1 into three rooms on the second storv of house on an allev. Ma h. for me to stay all nisrht.

and haH if been discharged from the mill. He said he had made the mistake of his life in moving to the city. I went Into a big uo.nn. uuumca -i young men tn one cage, making a noise worse than a thresh ing machine. A man with brass buttons on his coat and a gilt can ordered mm to move on, or I would have seen mnrf Now.

we have thousands of land up here in Clearfield. Clarion nrt Venango counties that can be bought for a song. Many of the abandoned farms In Venango county have b-ooh Our farms ars too big. and we must di vide them up. A man can make a living on five or ten acres, as them la market for all kinds of berries, cherries, apples, eggs, here In Brook-ville, Reynoldsville.

Punxsutawney and many other towns. ihe trouble is both the boys and girls are crazy to go to the city, and the old people die off. If more people would come to the country and settle it up. It would be better for us and for them. I have five children and they are as happy and healthy as birds on good air.

good water, good food, plenty of sunshine, plenty of sleep, and they have all the healthy amusement they could wish both in summer and winter. Keep up your good work. LEWIS M'CRACKEN. DuBois, December 1ft, 1907. Editor Press I have read your No.

2 and NoS "Better Than Being Oslerized" Tour editorials are aiming at the correct solution of the great probflem -of existence with many, and a comfortable livllhood with more. Times like these cause many people to think and cast about for some more stable method of earning a living. The man with a family, living In a rented house, finds himself out of a position and no incqine whatever with which to meet his monthly rent bill, grocery bill, gas bill, meat bill, milk bill, etc. Is not a rare object these kind of times. If he cannot pay his rent he must vacate for one who can, for the owner of the house is carrying a large mortgage on the property and the interest must be paid every six months, besides taxes, Insurance and repairs.

Likewise with the grocer, butcher, milkman, etc. Their bills must be met and paid every 30 days, so if one customer can't pay, another must be found who can, and so the poor man soon finds himself without credit and his family in want And then follows desertion, suicide, burglary, murder or some other crime, all of which could be avoided if we but properly used those things which a wonderfully kind and beneficient Father has so bountifully supplied us with the fundamental of which are land, rain and sunshine. The same law which applied to Adam, namely, that the earth would yield him a living If he properly tilled it, applies with equal force to us today, and right here Is where so many people make the great mistake, either no tillage or improper tillage. So when a man boasts that he gathered 18 quarts of strawberries from one field is an acknowledgement that he is a failure as a farmer. For this is what practical growers have done 4f0 crates from one acre; $2,000 net profit from five acres.

f960 from Vs acres, $1,600 net 3 acres and so we could cite hundreds and thousands of similar cases. Not the work of novices but the results of practical farming. Farming reduced to a science, as all business must be. always succeeds. I requires a man of very large experience and much resource to successfully handle a farm of 140 acres.

Had the purchaser of the 140-acre farm put the same amount of money In a 5 or 10-acre farm near the city, he would have made more money out of his investment and still have been within reach of all the good that' a city affords. For there is no denying the fact that a city offers many advantages that are not obtainable In the county and likewise the country many that cannot be secured in the city. What we want and need is an interurban life, one that partakes of both city and country. A coun try life that is interwoven largely with a city life. The day of railroads, electric railways, macadamized roads, automobiles, naptha launches, have made this not only possiDie, dui snureiy feasible.

The day of $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00 per acre land, as practical propositions has long since passed when land in the far West, away from railroads sells for from $10 to $15 per acre, why should any one, even though lie knows nothing whatever of farming, think of throwing away hts money on Rocky Mountain land at even $5.00 per acre, much less $2.00 land? The man who would make tnis Kina or an in vestment is the man who will fall as a farmer and then condemn the profession of agriculture as an unprofitable one. The writer knows of several localities within 40 to 60 miles of Pittsburg where this cheap land can be had, and which It has a certain value for a proper use, that use does not consist In farming. I have In mind now a locality less than 40 miles from Pittsburg, where land can be bought for from $40 to $50 per acre, whereas adjacent land sells at from $200 to $300 per acre and the latter is by far the better Investment for farming. I should like to say more on this subject -and may at another time. It is such a very important one that I feel two much cannot be said on it.

A FARMER. Editor Pittsburg Press: After reading the editorials under the captain "Better Than Being Oslerized," I was very much impressed with the Idea of farming, especially when farms can be purchased from $2 to $5 an acre within RO miles of Pittsburg. I am a good deal Interested to know where the land is. Any amount of men who do not feel as strenuous as in days of yore will avail themselves of this opportunity to buy land for fishing if nothing else. A READER AND SUBSCRIBER.

Doubts Negligence Theory. Editor Pittsburg Press: Reading your editorial in last evening's rress. relative to the cause of mine disasters, and the report of the special Investigators connected with the United States geological survey, discloses the superficial character of such Investigations. They do not go deep enough. Contrast the difference in conditions between the coal fields of Europe and those of America.

Deep below the coal beds of the Appalachian field there are vast reservoirs of gas. held captive from long past seismic convulsions, and extending down irom tne suriace oi me eann to a point possioly mues oeiow me gas reservoirs, are seams or earth cracks from which gas is -constantly escaping, and where a cavity, such as a coal mine Intervenes, the gas will accumulate. The immeasurable contractile force which is and has been In operation from the birth of the earth up to the present moment, is more manifest at some pe riods than at others. We are. no doubt.

experiencing one of -the active periods at this time, and an increased internal pressure In the vicinity of the Appala chian coal field would Involve a release of larger quantities of gas than usual. The Inference la plain that natural gas and not the negligence of those engaged In operating for coal Is responsible for the epidemic of disaster now prevailing. Europe has no such death-dealing force below her coal despolts. and Is, there fore, free from such explosions. There are no explosions In drift mines, where entries are driven through the hills, and the only safe mines during an active period of contraction are surface mines.

Burning Springs. W. is one of the most notable examples of places where bubbles of gas are constantly es- it Value of a Minute. What is a minute worth A man with a head for figures estimates that New York, the greatest city of the country, earns $30,000 every minute of every working day. A gTeat new depot is costing $70,000,000.

When it is finished, each train will save from six to eight minutes, but those minutes have an earning power of from $180,000 to $240,000. Another railroad is spending $120,000,000 just so that It may move its passengers and freight in and out a Jittle quicker. Even the ferry boats are too slow, so the big city is spending $500,000,000 for bridges and tunnels. Time time time! Anything to save a minute! Other cities are taking up the same cry rapid transit, quicker cars and more of them, speedier delivery, faster mails. The people are hurrying along with the cities quick lunch, think fast, work fast, play fast, read fast, learn fast, make money fast.

Don't waste any time. Precious, golden diamond minutes! Can't be polite haven't time. Can't stop to apologiz got an engagement. Can't think about that ragged child have to make another million dollars. Have 1 a soul? Well, maybe so think about it tomorrow.

Prayer? What's prayer? Any money In it? Hurry, hurry, hurry! Faster, faster! If they don't get out of the way, step on them. Quicker, quicker! Souls and bodies and hearts and love and life, all swallowed up in the onrushing tide of the world's greatest madness. oi will note the standard that determines the value of a minute with us LITTLE CHERUB, THE MOON-FACED MAN. BENEFIT of the Twentieth century is a financial FRIDAY Di AT 1:30 P. M.

economizing time not because in a minute man may go a long way toward SHARP BENEFIT relieving distress or saving a soul but because in a minute a man may make so many dollars. Here is the whole secret of nearly every one of the "modern Improvements." They save time and money, and if they did not save the DARR MINE SUFFERERS PITTSBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN CHARGE OF RECEIPTS THE FOLLOWING WELL KNOWN STARS WILL latter they would be discarded. We do not even ask if they save life. If they save money, they have answered the purpose. And that suggests the follow HE TENbS THg WURHACA THE CANARY (iovc Me irne 1 Yoo Ate MY PEAK-sweer-Pxecovs- W43HE5 THE DISHE ANO GETS HIS REWARD tL ing questions: Is or is not the accumulation of wealth the chief motive power of our civill Otis Whitford, Girls POSITIVELiY Nora Bayes Nixon.

Mile. Dazio Nixon. The Randolphs Grand Elita Proctor Duquesne. Annabel The. Bathing Nixon.

Jimmy Rosen tation? And how long will it be until eeases and its accumulation for purely "Non-Gaseousness" Reports from the Darr mine Indicate Alvin. Will iams Walker Bijou. Young Buffalo and Sioux Indians was gas and that the accumulation of gas was In unusually large quantity. The awful havoc that was created in the mine when it was set off is responsible, for the exceptionally slow progress that has been made In the work of recover Act from "Graff Duquesne. Fox.

Zouaves Gayety. 'l-jiey's ing the bodies. If it is true, as rumored, Kiiriia'a 14th Rea ment Band operating company considered the mine non-gaseous, and that consequently the rules against the use of open lamps were not as strictly enforced as they otherwise would have been, it Is evident that the state Is In need of a drastic over GRAND AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA. SEATS NOW ON SALE AT NIXON BOX OFFICE, 50c TO 2.00. BELL PHOYB GRANT 3800.

hauling of its mine-inspection system. exceptionally large accumulation of gas cannot be understood except upon the An'KAIC Bickel Watson Nixon. Llane D'Eva Grand Four Fords Grand Davis Davis Co. Academy. Mattie Locketta Co.

Alvln. Frank Fogarty Grand. urace iarue Nixon XMAS LIAISE D'EVA. WEEK NEIL CHAMPAN. Wilbur's Six r'unny I-'oiks.

0 Special Price Mat. Today. 47V Rest Reserved Seats 25o and 50c. This Week. "BUSTER BROWS.

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WOMEN THAT THE "MOO-n -FACED MAN "DIC'? AND "DOC." Claus for the essenger boy, to make a hit. BUT the gifts don't seem His purp plays Santa is slipshop. If the coroner's inquest is more than a burlesque it will seek to throw light upon this point. In this connection it should be noted that effort was made by the representatives of the miners to secure new mining legislation at the last session of the legislature at Harrlsburg. The need of such legislation has been apparent for years.

Why it was defeated at the last session has never been satisfactorily explained, but the miners" officials have hinted strongly that the operators' influence was against it. If the operators' influence is still against it at the next session it must be because they can figure out a profit somehow in such disasters as those at Fayette City. Jacobs Creek and Fairmont. The public would I -r IS re ji-111 re n- II- ne as on er. -1 tlr- I it ic rit- ul- an.

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The exact character of th agreement is not known but it is said in a general way that it guarantees to protect Canada from all Japanese immigration of a coolie character. That is, Japan will acquiesce in. measures taken by Canada to exclude all Japanese of the laborer or artisan class. And it was of course only against this class of immigrants that Canada was protesting. Otherwise the disturbances would have been not merely a labor agitation but an expression of race hatred.

This apparently does not exist as a factor in the anti-immigration movement in Canada any more than it exists in the United States. It Is said at Tokio that probably the same basis of agreement will be suggested by the Japanese government to the United States as has been reached between Japan and the Dominion. Until its provisions are known in detail judgment canhot passed upon it, but the United States is certainly as liberal in its foreign relations as Canada and we can probably harmonize with the Harry W. Williams This Week ACADEMY Miss HewYork Company MATINEE DAILY. JfElV YEAR'S FESTIVAL.

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