The Daily Herald from Arlington Heights, Illinois • Page 5

MAY UNIONIZE ZEIOLER PLANT. Mmnr Dig: Coal Company la to Be Sold. All official of the suBdistrict of the Illinois Union is authority for the statement that the Western Mining Coal Company, which has an office in St. Louis, expects to secure possession in the near future of the plant of the Zeigler Coal Company and will at once unionize the men. This is the shaft operated by Joseph Leiter, where for over two years a fierce contest has been waged by Leiter against the- union and where on April 3, 1905, fifty-one persons, including State Mine Inspector Atchison, lost their lives in a gas explosion.

The Coal Company, a Chicago corporation and one of the largest single operators in southern Illinois, has just completed the deal for the addition of nearly 6,000 acres of undeveloped coal land in addi1 tion to its already large holdings. The land is situated in Franklin county and is underlaid by a ten-foot vein of fine coal. The company already operated fourteen miues in Saline county. The price paid will average $46 per acre. LOSES $3,500 ON BOGUS DEED.

Smooth Swindler Lawyer in Quincy on Farm Deal. A few days ago a smooth-shaved man, apparently about 58 years of age, who spoke both English and German, giving tiis name as J. Yinkling, came to Quincy and posed as a farm buyer. On a second visit he said that he found a farm that him near Clayton, and, as he lacked sufficient means to pay cash for the entire consideration, he asked A. Bro- an attorney and financier, for a loan of $3,500 on the property.

As the papers for transferring the property to be straight in all parricuiais, Broschmidt gave Yinkling a check for the amount specified, which was immediately cashed. Yinkling left the city. Hie check was given at noon, and at night it discovered that the deed io the farm and the notary public acknowledgment were both fictitious. When Yinkling was at Clayton he gave his name as Butler. MARRIED FORTY YEARS AGO.

WankeKon Families Celebrate a Double Weddiiis Anniversary. Forty years ago at Ivanhoe, there look place two weddings, one ceremony being performed at 11 the other at 1 the bride and groom of the first attending the second wedding and the principals in the second having witnessed the first. The principals 'o this prac- tieally double wedding were: Charles A. Partridge of Waukegan and E. Earle (now Mrs.

Partridge) Dr. J. A. Freeman of Chicago and Mss Lottie M. Partridge (now Mrs.

Freeman of Chicago), sister of Mr. Partridge. The fortieth anniversary of the wedlhus was Observed the other afternoon at the Partridge home on West street, Waukegan, by the gathering of about thirty relatives, who at 5 sat down to a sumptuous dinner. The ev-mt was the more interesting as Mr. and Mrs.

Partridge and Dr. and Mrs, Freeman and their families were all there. PYTHIAN HOME ORDERED BUILT. Grand Lodge Orders Construction of $150,000 Edifice at Decatur. The Illinois grand lodge.

Knights of Pythias, which held its thirty-seventh annual convention in Chicago, instructed its board of trustees to proceed immediately with the erection of a $150,000 Pythian home at Decatur, for old people and orphans. Decatur donated $25,000 and sixty acres of land for the institution. Grand lodge officers were elected fas follows: Grand chancellor, L. Gass. Danville; grand vice chancellor, L.

C. Ilay, Bloomington; grand prelate, E. E. Bone, Springfield record keeper, H. P.

Caldwell, Chicago; treasurer, Millard F. Dunlap, Jacksonville; master of Arms. Albert Watson, Mount Vernon; guards, J. B. Vaughn, Cariiuville, and Charles L.

Kilter. Murphysboro; trustees, W. D. Hadfield, Peoria, and R. F.

Leonard, Chicago. Next year's meeting will be held at Moline, he Wtn TROLLEY SLEEPERS IN ILLINOIS. Firat of Kind in State Are About to Be Installed. The first sleeping cars to be operated wn the lines of an Illinois traction com- any will be placed in service Dec. 1.

will run from central Illinois points "to St. Louis. The price of a berth will be $1. The cars to be operated are now in the shops of the company in Bloomington, being gotten into condition for regular service. They cost each and Weigh 100,000 pounds.

Each cor has four 150-horse power motors. They are of handsome equipment and each can accommodate twenty persons. These are the first intorurban sleeping cars to reach Illinois and the experiment will be productive of much interest in transportation circles. SAY THEY PEDDLED BABIES. an Infant Farm Closed by Quincy Police After an The authorities in Quincy have closed alleged where babies were sold, it is charged, for from cents to $2 each.

James and bis wife, accused of selling infants, were arrested. It is charged that women were given babies with fraudulent adoption papers. In one instance a baby was carried on the street in a market basket and Killed in Row Over Joseph Diamond shot and killed Lathers Moore at a railroad camp near City. Both are negroes and trouble over a woman was the cause. Diamond escaped.

Veteran Conductor William Hale, for forty years a passenger conductor on the Illinois Central between Chicago, Freeport and Centralia, died in Bloomington, aged 68. Place for Tnylorvllle Man. Gov. Deneen has appointed Phil S. i Hamer of Taylorville a member of the Illinois' live stock commission, to succeed John Juneman of Springfield, re" ied.

Fined for Hiring: Children. Officials of the Wilson Manufacturing Company pleaded guilty in a justice court ia Aurora to a charge of employing two boys under 16 years of age, and a $5 fine was imposed. The charge was made at the instance of State Deputy Factory Inspector James Brown, who has been investigating the factories there. State News in Brief. The 6-year-old daughter of Mae Seelen- ger of Harvard was drowned when she fell into a cistern.

Orson A. Farmer, residing near Mounds, sustained injuries in alighting from a train that caused his death. Pure Food Inspector T. J. Murray of Chicago addressed the Club of Moline on pure and adulterated foods.

Miss Lelia Livingston, aged 14, died in Rockford as the result of injuries received when she walked from a seoond- story window while asleep. Forty-two liquor dealers have been arrested in Aurora charged with violating the election day closing laws. Every dealer in Aurora is affected. Joseph Medill Patterson, the millionaire socialist of Chicago, has enrolled himself as a student in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin. Benjamin Matthews, aged 45, a prominent Kewanee farmer, died from blood poisoning caused by a slight injury on the hand inflicted while picking corn.

The planing mills of the Wahlfield Manufacturing Company at Peoria burned to the ground, incurring a loss of $60,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The Elgin League has begun circulating petitions asking for the removal of John A. Logan, chairman of the police board, because he is interested in the liquor trade. Harry Kenney, a Decatur baker, aged 45, suddenly stopped work, saying, be all through in ten and, stepping outside the door, shot himself in the head, dying instantly.

At a special meeting of the Fairfield board of health it was decided to close the public schools, Sunday schools and churches on account of diphlheiia. Several cases have been reported. Kelsoe Gebbie, aged 28 jears, a millwright, employed by the Postel Milling Company in Maseoutah, fell through a hole on the first floor of the mill to the floor below, sustaining internal injuries from which he died. Constant attention to her child which was very ill drove Mrs. Max King of insane and when she was being conveyed to the asylum at Jacksonville she died suddenly in the depot.

The child is not expected to live. The new $30,000 township high school at Duquoin is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy by Jan. 1 of next year. The structure is equipped with all modern conveniences and when completed will be the largest educational institution in Perry county. Elmer Brown and Hugo Lewis killed a lynx on the Phipps farm, three miles south of Coffeen.

They were coon hunting when the dogs treed the animal, which was shot after four dogs nad been put to flight. Old settlers say this is the first lynx ever killed in that section. All the accouterments of the three altars in St. Catholic church in Edwardsville were destroyed by unknown vandals, who entered some time following the morning mass. The wreckage was strewn about within the chancel.

Half of a paving brick had been hurled through the center of altar fitting. Mayor Beverly of Dundee stopped a kidnaping when Frank Lohrn of Penn Yann, X. arrived in the Fox river valley village and attempted to take by force his 12-year-old son Harold, whom he had not seen for six months. Lohrn and his wife separated last May, agreeing that their son should live with his mother six months and with his father the next six months. Upon the expiration of the first period, the mother, who is living with her uncle, John Wolavor, refused to give up the child.

Frank J. Loesch of Chicago, general solicitor for the Pennsylvania railroad, stated before the railroad committee of the State board of equalization that the company which he represents has been overtaxed for ten years. He produced figures to show that the company paid $280,000 in taxes in Chicago annually, and asked that the amount be reduced. Mr. Loesch spoke in answer to the plea made some time ago by Corporation Counsel Lewis of Chicago, who claimed that the roads are assessed at too low a figure.

Papers for incorporation of the Aurora Railway Company have been filed with Secretary of State Rose at Springfield. The capital stock is $300,000. The new company has been formed by the same financiers as the Aurora, Dekalb and Rockford railway and the plan is to take over the franchise for city iines granted that line, which recently was granted a franchise to enter the city. The company has agreed, in consideration of the franchise, to construct a cement bridge across the Fox river at the foot of Galena and Main The trustees of Andover Theological seminary (Congregational) in Massachusetts have received a letter from President James of the University of Illinois offering to transfer the seminary to Urbana. The offer from the University of Illinois comes at the most critical stage in the life of the theological seminary, when from an attendance of over 100 students at the height of its prosperity it has declined to only fourteen students at the beginning of the present year with an entering class of only three.

The seminary was founded in 1807 and for many years was the most widely known institution of the kind in America. Temporary insanity is ascribed as the cause of the suicide by shooting of Mrs. P. M. Snyder, wife of the pastor of the Second Congregational church of Rockford.

Mrs. Snyder had been in poor health for some months, and at times was mentally unbalanced as the result of an accident. Mrs. Snyder, it is said, had made a previous attempt to end her life by the use of poison. On the breast of the waist worn by Mrs.

Snyder were pinned two notes, one to her husband and the other to a niece, both of which read: Imrd is calling Mrs. Snyder was born in Connecticut, and resided there until seven years ago, when she came to Rockford. She graduated from Vassar, and her daughter is now a student there. One son is at Harvard and another at Yale. Merritt Chism, a wife murderer of McLean county, now serving a 17-year sentence at Joliet, was sued for $5,000 by William Slack and John C.

Wilson, lawyers of Chicago, who were not remunerated when they recently failed to secure his release. Chism claims they were not to be paid unless they were successful. Grieving over the sudden death of her brother, Miss Petronella Romeiser, 24 years old, daughter of P. M. Romeiser, a prominent Belleville merchant, leaped from the third-story window of her home, fracturing her skull and arm.

The Attending physician believes she cannot live. Her brother Roland, 17 years old, died suddenly from paralysis of the heart. TO FIGHT GRUB WORM. Will Try to Exterminate Pest Which Loss of Mlllioas. A campaign against the grub worm will be waged by the entomologists of the State of Illinois next year.

Prof. S. A. Forbes, who is at the head of that department, has just made public the iesulta of careful investigations concerning the damage to corn this year by the white grub worm the corn root aphis and the corn root worm. In the territory immediately contiguous to McLean county and about fifty square miles, he found the loss in corn to aggregate six and one-half million bushels, or the equivalent of the crop acres of land.

The money value of the loss is about $2,500,000. The next district in extent of infection extends from Mendota to Prophetstown, and from Dixon to Buda. Another is in the vicinity of Waverly. It is believed that the havoc of the grub worm was for most of this loss, as the number of this pest is believed to have been far greater this year than ever before. The worms have not only damaged corn, but have eaten the roots of grass, Dearly all the lawn about the residences in central Illinois being ruined this year, said to be the first time where the damage was so extensive and so general.

Fortunately a parasite has been found whom is certain death to the grub, but the difficulty will be in distributing the parasite so that it will prove effective. KILLS FOE WHILE ASLEEP. George Crutuley Confesses Murdering: Farmer Near Eureka. George Crumley, who was arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of James Gibbons near Panola last August, has made a full confession to Sheriff Gish of Eureka. The crime was one of the raosr.

revolting ever committed in central Illinois. In the confession Crumley says that he killed Gibbons about sunrise Aug. 28. He purchased the shot for the deed the day before and shot him through the window while he was iu bed asleep. The top of head was shot off and he was killed instantly.

Crumley gave as a motive a quarrel he had with Gibbons several months ago over a plow. After the crime he took a watch from the house and fled. He hid the gun, placing the stock in one place and the barret in another. Deputy Sheriff T. W.

Gish went to the place and found the barrel, buc not the stock. The man says he pawned the watch in Peoria, but search failed to reveal it. HE FINDS CHICAGO IS EASY. Counterfeiter Says He Paused 5,000 Spurious There. George Howard, a counterfeiter, who first told the police that his name was George Coin, was arrested in Milwaukee.

Ilis whole outfit of tools and a large number of spurious half-dollars were seized. At the police headquarters he admitted that he was arrested three years ago at Chicago for counterfeiting and was sentenced to two imprisonment at Joliet. Howard came originally from Ohio. lie appears to be a well-dressed working man, 43 years old, slightly gray, stoopshouldered and wearing a reddish gray mustache. was so he explained at the police station.

did not like to work after I learned how to do it. I made 50-cent pieces entirely, because they pass without difficulty. I have passed probably 5,000 of them in FIND STOLEN GOODS AT Police Arrest Three Meu After Fight and Recover in Loot. An alleged for thieves in a three-story brick building at 45 North Sheldon street, Chicago, was raided by detectives of the Desplaines street station and property valued at $1,800 was recovered. Three men were arrested in a room in the building after a fight in which the detectives were forced to use their revolvers.

The men gave the names of Frank Donovan, 35 years old Hugh Doran, 36 years old, and Michael Ryan, 39 years old, Donovan is said by the police to have lived at the building. The property consisted of clothing, shoes, earthenware, machinery, delicacies and cigars. Some of the property has been identified by six merchants as part of that taken from their places of business in burglaries. ROCKFORD SCHOOL BOARD OUT. Court Decision that Body Is Illegal and Munt Go.

Judge Frost in the Circuit Court in Rockford, rendered a decision declaring the present school board of the city is illegal and demanding that a new board be appointed to conform to the law of the State and also to the requirements of the State superintendent. Rockford has been working under a system similar to that used at Peoria, and which was declared illegal a year ago. DENEEN NAMES THANKS DAY. Governor Isnues Call for People of Illinois to Observe Nov. 29.

Gov. Deneen has issued a on designating Thursday, Nov. 29, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and calling on the people of the State of Illinois to assemble in places of worship and give thanks for the blessings which have been bestowed upon them during the past year. Car Shortage Loss. A car famine threatens great loss to southern Illinois sweet potato growers and brokers.

Notice was received in Alto Pass the other day that the Armour err service at that point has been discontinued indefinitely. There were 16.000 barrels of sweet potatoes there to be shipped. Typewriter Company Fallt, Walter C. Libby of has been appointed receiver of the America Company of Momence, which manufac'ures typewriters and sewing machines. Lack of working capital forced voluntary bankruptcy.

The assets are listed at $250,000. To Brinft Back Bank Robber. Gov. Harris of Ohio has honored a requisition from the Governor ot Illinois for illiam I unk, who is wanted at Ladd for robbing the Farnir-rs and Bank of $1,750 and who is now under arrest at Canton, Ohio Enemy of Police Arrested. As a climax to a series of attacks upon the police Apartment charging malfeasance in offices and friendliness toward the gambling element, George McIntosh, a young business man, was arrested is Bloomington.

Night Police Captain E. Potts made the complaint, charging ORIGIN OP THANKSGIVING DAT. In 1631 the United States was a tiny babe in English long clothes; and It happened that there was a great scarcity of food in that little colony that had settled on Massachusetts were threatened with famine. The prospect grew dark and ominous; the people were brave; but their anxiety grew very keen for all that, and they knew not where to turn for earthly aid. It was the wont of those early pilgrims to turn to God in times of need and the elders decided that a special day be set aside for fasting and prayer.

Before the day arrived, however, their long expected boat hove iu sight and the day set aside for fasting and praying was transformed into one of cheer; good dinners and hearty thanksgivings prevailed. This was the first general Thanksgiving of which we have any record; it was by no means the last; from that day to this successive Governors and Presidents have set apart many different days for special Thanksgiving for some propitious event in State or county. After the Revolutionary War was successfully ended Washington appointed a Thanksgiving day that was universally observed with the greatest rejoicing, as we may well believe, and after our own sad Civil War was almost ended President Lincoln proclaimed another of similar sort. Many hearts were full of grief then, yet there was much to be thankful for. For over a century now the States of New England have set apart a day in the autumn for giving thanks to God for the many blessings of the year.

It gradually came to Seem a very pleasant, appropriate custom, and one State after another adopted it, until now, for many years past, the President has Issued a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving throughout the Union. This day is one of our legal holidays, a day that rich and poor alike can spend as they will. We all welcome it with delight, and it is a day peculiar to America only. Peter had scarcely closed his eyes Before his hair began to rise. For who should be perched on his bed But Barnyard Turkey, tierce and red! he roared, saw to-day You looked at me as If to say You are so fat and On Thanksgiving make you mine say you for I know Your greedy nature makes you cried Peter, must be Some other lad that looks like me; I am not greedy, sir, at all: In fact ray appetite is cried Barnyard Turkey.

Shall I destroy you on the spot? Did I not see you do your best To eat my brother, legs and breast. Till you were stuffed so full with him It almost made my senses swim? But now things are the other way, he no more Thanksgiving Day, We gobblers have it in our view To turn about and gobble you." With that he puffed and puffed until He grew as big as any So big the walls just burst apart, And woke up with a start. With trembling voice he sighed: "Oh, dear Turkey Is bad for me, I Thanksgiving weather ho having, remarked Mr. Wheeler as he came in to supper. snowing hard, and the wind is coming exclaimed Martha in high glee.

Thanksgiving without The next morning it was still snowing, and the wind was busily piling up great white drifts. be a pleasure trip to go to the village with the said Mr. Wheeler, as he prepared to start, I got He found the traveling even worse than he expected; it was very late when he reached the village, and he did not return home till nearly dark. Not being a robust man, he was completely exhausted from his exertions, and during the night became ill. shall wre Mrs.

Wheeler asked Martha despairingly. must have the doctor, and how to get the milk to town is a problem. And Thanksgiving Day, volunteered Martha, cheerfully. tell Dr. Brown to come right up, and then peddle the milk.

been with father so many times that I know all the Martha bundled herself up, put on her rubber boots, and two pairs of mittens, and set out. Billy must think pretty she laughed, as she drove out of the yard with the milk cart. Getting to the village, two miles away, was not an easy matter for a girl not yet sixteen. The roads were not broken out, and badly drifted. The milk cans bumped into each other with great force, and Martha had several narrow escapes from an upsetting.

But finally, Grafton was reached, and Martha drove through the almost deserted streets to Dr. Brown's house. When she had stated her errand, the doctor promised to go to her father immediately, and urged her to come in and rest. no, I exclaimed Martha. got all the milk to peddle, and very late already.

People need their milk for dinner, and the babies will be crying for it, Martha set out on her rounds. When she opened the door of Mrs. Judson, her first customer, that lady started as though she saw a ghost. sakes, she cried, catching her by the arm and seating her in a chair by the stow. on earth did you get here? mighty glad to see you.

There a milkman been around yet. your sick and come, and I thought folks get along without milk on Thanksgiving Day, anyway. How much do you take five answered Mrs. Judson, her heart aching for tired Martha. going to pay you double price for it, too, for earned it.

the only had gumption enough to get around, so Everywhere Martha went she was greeted with exclamations of surprise and delight. In nearly every instance she was voluntarily paid extra for the milk. bless you to the last day I cried Mrs. Morton, when Martha clumped into her kitchen with the milk can. been crying for milk all morning and I have a mite to give When Martha came to the house where her last customer, Miss Webster, a maiden lady, lived alone on a side street, she was surprised to see that snow had not yet been removed from the doorstep.

All was very quiet, and Miss Webster could be neither seen nor heard. Martha banged the door, stamped her feet and rattled the milk can to attract attention. Then she felt sure something must be wrong, and set out to investigate. She opened the door leading from the sitting room into the ball. There lay Min Webster unconscious, with a look of agony on her face.

Martha felt a strong impulse to m. Shi cMQoaiud tha feeling, got her milk can and dashed some of the icy cold liquid over Miss face, and at length she opened her eyes. The poor lady was too dazed to talk, but only moaned about her foot. Martha tried her best to assist her up, but found it impossible. So she made her as comfortable as she could, and started for help.

In the next house an Irish family lived. Mrs. Mulcahy caught sight of the milk cart. is It milk she asked joyously. saints be good to ye, child, for bringing it.

take three quarts, if ye a foine said Mrs. Mulcahy when Martha stated her errand, faith, darling, meself would be glad to do something, but got the measles, and my man home, neither, so what kin I do, at all, at Martha concluded to go directly for the doctor. Fortunately I)r. Brown had just returned from the Wheeler farm. Leaving the milk cart at the barn, Martha got into the sleigh, and they drove back to Miss Her ankle was broken, as Martha had guessed, and she assisted the doctor while he set the fracture.

When he had finished, he said little girl, just stay here a while longer till I can get somebody to come and take care of our patient, and then go home and thankfully eat our No Thanksgiving dinner had ever tasted so good to Martha before, though she missed her parents. The doctor insisted upon heaping her plate at every opportunity. Late in the afternoon Martha drove home, tired but happy. Her father was comfortable, and was quite as much interested as her mother in listening to the narrative of her experienc. But Martha Thanksgiving surprises were not all ended.

A few days later her father, who had nearly recovered, came home one morning and gave her a huge bundle. Webster told me to give that to he said. good and heavy, whatever it The bundle proved to contain a mammoth turkey. Around its neck was tied a blue ribbon to which a card was attached bearing the words Miss Martha Wheeler, with the compliments of those whom she made happy on Thanksgiving. Look at mv Martha was nearly overcome gift, but she proceeded to investigate the meaning of the last sentence.

The inside of the turkey proved to be neatly lined with white paper and contained a dainty box, inside which reposed a beautiful watch, suitably inscribed. hy, exclaimed Martha, have a second Thanksgiving day now, we? That wind and snow brought me good fortune, though I think it was very nice Life. GEORGE SHOT TURKEYS. A Mighty Hunter Was the Father of His Country, The following history of the origin of the name as applied to the American bird, Meleagris gallopavo, is given in a note by the editor of George of a Journey Over the Mountains in where, under date of March 29, 1748. may be found this record: morning went out and surveyed 500 acres of land and went down to one Michael Stumps, on the South Fork of the branch (of Potomac); on our way shot two wild The wild turkey is the largest and finest of game birds, and, although native to North America, it bears a foreign name from the following circumstances: Specimens of the living bird, as well as its eggs, were sent by the early Jesuit missionaries from America to the old world on Spanish and Portuguese ships, entering Europe through Portugal.

It was as yet unnamed anti was st first referred to oy writers of that period merely as the As it became known the demand for the stranger was supplied chiefly from Turkey, where it thrived exceedingly well, and in time it came to be familiarly spoken of as It gradually became tame and, proving to be quite prolific, was recognized as a great addition to the luxuries of the Washington Star. Not Sent in Vafn. Widow Dr. Quack, my dear husband devoted his life to charitable purposes; he was served at a Thanksgiving dinner for the poor! Thanksgiving; Odd Places. Almost every nation has its counterpart of the American Thanksgiving, says Jane A.

Stewart in Weekly. In some respects our Thanksgiving resembles the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. That was a national institution appointed by the great Jewish law-giver, Moses. It was also called feast of held annually at the end of the harvest season. By dwelling during the feast in crude booths, or tabernacles, built of the branches of olive, palm, or pine trees outside the walls of Jerusalem, and within the streets, the Israelites were reminded of the struggles of their forefathers in the wilderness, unhoused, sometimes in despair, then filled with hope, ever pushing on in search of better where they might develop their national life.

This feast recalled gracious guidance in past history and acknowledged present blessing in an abundant harvest. Its peculiar characteristic was the spirit of rejoicing, praise and thanksgiving. This spirit entered largely into the life of ancient Israel. Not only in their law was sacrifice of prescribed, but also their national hymns express praise and thanksgiving. has beeu celebrated as a day of rejoicing and thanksgiving in England from the time of the Druids.

Both France and England have had many special thanksgiving days in commemoration of particular events. In Scotland they celebrate Both Japan and China hold celebrations of thanksgiving with feasting when the fruits of the earth have been garnered. He Han It got a notion to get down and punch that conceited once or twice just for do it. get a dressing in 2 few A Thanksgiving; Menu. No real Thanksgiving dinner would be complete without pie; indeed, it is said that a certaiu 8-year-old lad, on being asked to write out what he ered a good bill of fare, offered this: FIRST CORSE.

Mince IMe 8EKOXD CORSE. Pumpkin Pie and Terkey THIRD CORSE. Lemon Pie Terkey Cranberries FOURTH CORSE. Custard Pie Apple Pie Mince Chocolate Cake Ice Cream Plum Pudding Dessert Lacking in Respect have a great respect for gray said the amorous boarder as he raised his eyes from bis plate. very creditable of you, Mr.

said the landlady. I bare no said the humorous boarder, gray And he tapped viciously on the tough fragment of turkey that lay before Plain Dealer. In the middle of last century it was fashionable, and therefore customary, to make calls. Thanksgiving day rivaled Now day in this respect. Society folk dined at noon and then held receptions.

UNCLE BOUNTEOUS THANKSGIVING. Birmingham (Ala.) carpenters have obtained an increase.in wages of 5 cents an hour. Piano plate molders of Cleveland, Ohio, have obtained a 10 per cent advance on piece prices. The newly organized Harness Union at Seattle, has enforced the nine-hour day. Boston (Mass.) Bill Posters and Union has begun a campaign to have next convention held in that city.

Organized labor in Brockton, numbers 25.100, of which 13,000 are affiliated with the Shoe Union. Organized labor in Alabama will try to effect the repeal of the anti-boyeott law at the coming session of the Legislature. Iron molders at Portland, have gained 25 cents a day increase on the minimum rate of wages and a nine-hour workday. Augusta (Ga.) textile workers have reduced their hours from sixty-six to sixty- three hours a week and obtained a slight increase in wages. Newmrk (N.

trade unionists are to have a labor temple. In the same city a subscription of $30,000 has been raised to start a daily labor paper. York hod hoisting engineers have, within a decade, reduced weekly hours of labor from fifty-three to forty-four, and gained advance in daily wa gee from to Fifteen hundred San Francisco (Cal.) mill workers have gone on a strike, causing thirty planing mills to shut down and reducing the output of building materials 80 per cent. The attempt to resuscitate the British Agricultural Union is making some progress, but it wrill take a long time to bring it to the position it occupied in the seventies. From the institution of strike benefits, in April, 1891, to June 30.

the International Association of Machinists has paid out $1.018.697.40, and for death benefits, since April, 1898. $110,976.10. Iron molders of Victoria, B. have obtained a written agreement with the foundrymen for the eorning year, which gives an advance of 25 cents a day. making the present minimmh $3.75 for nine hours.

The Bui Exchange League of Pittsburg, lias declared for the open shop, or merit system, as it is termed. This action will affect all workmen whose labor goes into the construction of buildings of all kinds in Allegheny county. Birmingham (England) iron workers are reported to be submitting loyally to the new 2Vi per cent reduction in a mill- wages and 3 pence a ton in pud- occasioned by the new average selling price, although an increase had beeu expected. Another of the federal eight-hour law was won by the government at Cincinnati, when the jury found the Sheridan-Kirk Contracting Company guilty in the Ohio river dam at Fern Bank. Employment agencies said it was impossible to get meu at the wages offered for an eight-hour day.

district council of eastern Massachusetts recently elected a committee to discuss a uniform wage scale and working rules project for the men of all the unions of the entire metropolitan district. Jan. 1 was the date mentioned at the last meeting as that on which the agreement be presented. The total number of employes of each nationality on the sugar plantations of Hawaii in 1905 was: Japanese, Chinese, 4.409; Korean, Portd- guese, Hawaiian, Porto Rican, Caucasian, excepting Portuguese and Porto Rican, negro, South Sea Islanders and others, 32. A decision rendered by Judge Rosalsky of New York holds that two members of the typographical union convicted on the charge of disorderly conduct for approaching non-union men upon the street were not guilty, as charged, as magistrates had no jurisdiction, and as there was no such crime defined in the criminal code.

In the first six months of this year the changes in rates of wages in the United Kingdom resulted in a net increase of about £26,000 in weekly wages, in which 843,000 workpeople have partici pated; these advances have been chiefly in the textile, coal mining, engineering and shipbuilding industries. In the corresponding period of last year there was a net decrease in wages of £9,800 a week, some 305,300 workpeople being invited. Demands for higher wages and shorter hours are being made by the heads of many railway labor unions, and the officials of various eastern trunk have engaged in conference with the union leaders in the hope of adjusting the difficulties amicably. The railroad attribute the demand of their employes to prosperous times, and there is a disposition to these demands half On the Southern railway about 700 to 800 men are on strike for higher wages, as President Spencer was unwilling to meet their demands. B.

F. Yoakum of the Rock Island says that an unusual demand for labor has been created by active business conditions. To Reduce Prison Population. Samuel J. Barrows, president of the International prison congress, discusses this question in the November Charities and the Commons, saying first, that we must stop making criminals and that society must frankly face its own responsibility.

Among the various suggested means of preventing the increase of criminals, he mentions vacation schools, parks, playgrounds, courts and probation system. He would abolish absolutely the fee system under which the county sheriffs are paid so much a head for entrance, discharge and board of prisoners. He contends that no prison system is a success which does not aim at the education and reform of the prisoner, and. finally, that it is imperative to extend a helping hand to the discharged prisoner by giving him a chance to find his proper place in society. Caban Rural Guard Extended.

Gov. Magoon announced that it was deemed best to increase the rural guard so that country roads, as well as city streets, might be constantly patrolled to prevent robbery and disorder. In Santa Clara province an armed band under Sanchez and Jiminez are encamped under the American flag, declaring their purpose to support American annexation. Arkansas Paelcinw Company. The State of Arkansas has won a notable victory in its campaign against the packing company.

Judge Winfield of Little Rock sustaining the motion that the Hammond Packing Company be fined $10000 because the officers of the com- failed to testify before tbe ta the recent Chicago hearing.