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a • •/ *•*??,«rv ' *• • ** * ULTO?" Do you think enthusiasm is greater than laughter? KS%i' z*. - " This accuracy review department is for co­ operation in informa­ tion on the enemies of easy errors ana friends of forethought, to reduce mutually ex­ pensive mistakes. It i$ for mechanical, com­ mercial and profes­ sional people,' the in­ dividual employer, employe and customerf^and consist of extracts taken by permission from the copyrighted letters, 4he lectures, notebooks and libraries oj Karl M. 1 Pratt, Oak Park, Illinois, lie is hunting the whole world over for information of every day •use to you, and he regrets his inability, personally 40 reply to contributors. So far as possible he viehss to hate in this space the very idea you would like to find here. You are at liberty to send him any suggestion you may care to. His collec­ tion was started f.i 1812 and now contains vn- pvblished information dating back lo 1796, with lyzte'naticplans extruding to 1952. Your short storuof MXtnt example of forethought given to j&nrMf prent tiN* your moet valuable gift to . ^hert. • Men, Methods and Work. The manager, for a very successful . mosey maker,' said that he worried over the big things, while his employ- j er worried over the little things. The manager got along with the employes and the details better than the proprietor did* but the proprietor got along with the whole business much better than the manager could. Some men can keep anything run­ ning lovely if some one else will only see that pay day is passed in good ' shape. The man able to attend to pay-day requirements might rattle the whole concern if he were to see to J little things. " a man able to make a hundred dol-^ lars an hour may be able to hire for .a hundred dollars a month a man who can do some things better than the employer can do them. Few are able to get a living doing just what they want to do, and very •; few are willing to limit their efforts to the things they can do the best. One man told me that more men failed in his line of work for lack of Ability to handle men than for any other or all other reasons. Few men know how to interest, animate, educate, and keep on good terms with other men. In some cases the more you know the more in the background yon have to go, due it may be to. having more knowledge than skliL In one case, of an unpopular fore­ man going on a vacation and a popu­ lar workman taking his place^ for the day, the product was over twenty per cent more than usual. If ten thousand men of all kinds should find themselves out of work, one might create ideas, another exe­ cute them, another organise and man­ age the others. Some could do some parts of the de­ tail work twice as well as some of the others could. One would be a good buyer of material and another a good collector of accounts. Some would win honors and some would get disgraced, but they would Anally drift or climb, fall or Jump, to positions just as we find them to-day. Only this difference--the successful might make better use of their success and the failures profit by their ex­ pensive experiences more than they hare been doing during this century. If this possibility were to be ac­ complished the next century would be more than a hundred years ahead, and the common humdrum life would be quite ideal. If our best intelligence were to ac­ company our every action much would he done. We all know why things are not better than they are. Questions. Can you report something which was fine In theory but a fixzle in prac­ tice? What is your remedy for serious trouble du%to foolish sport? What have you learned by expensive experience? What do yon want to know which you would be willing others should know? Are you willing to join us in build­ ing lighthouse thoughts on life's dan­ gerous rocks? Are little errors the sources of big mistakes? Can you recall a laughable laugh- last. event? Have you a record of a fakir's fanny reasoning? How could the accidents you know about have been prevented? Have you spoken to a stranger while thinking him an acquaintance? Have you been injured while watch­ ing to see if some other person wotild get injured? Can you think of a good illustration of profitable politeness? Old or new or both. What are two or three of the difficulties you have to contend with in your work? Lending Money. Tears ago I read that a young man should be satisfied with a low and safe rate of interest and take the advice of those more experienced--to not know it all. I have been very fortunate in not losing money lent to friends. Fre­ quently I give small sums to old friends who are now deadbeats and wish to borrow for a few hours or days. I never get such sums back and never expect to when 1 let it go. But whenever I have lent $50, more or less, to a friend and expected it back it has come. I think this is due to my use of a discriminating Judgment before lending. Once it cost me a good deal over a thousand dollars cash to dis- obey my better judgment and go into a side-line business with a friend. I did not get the" counsel of those to whom I should have gone, and I re­ fused to follow my own feelings. I was "roped" in by talk. Health Helps Money Making. I began talking with a man soon after we left the morning train, and some remark brought up the subject of his health. He said: "I have not been feeling well for three weeks." , 'Tour health is generally good, isn't it?" Yes, I am usually as strong as an ox, but I have been working too hard and I wish my vacation came to-day in place of a month from to-day." "How to take care of yourself while you overwork is a pretty good subject to study." "Yes, I should say it was. I sleep pretty well, although I dreamt last night that I was a cashier in a bank and was taking an inventory of the stock when the papers in the safe caught fire." ft Hard to Believe. t That any one would try to start orchard by planting dried apples. 2. That any one would stock a mule stock farm with mules. S. That people would make a hole in the ground to fill another and keep on till they ran the hole out of town. r 4. That a man would move his office furniture and also his telephone with­ out notifying the telephone company and then complain to the company that the telephone was no good--that It had not worked since he moved. But this last act is on record ahd dupli­ cated. "' Get the Right Plow. -v It fi without doubt unwise to turn bacK far look back after you have put your han^,j0_vth§ plow, but a great many have taken another plow and done the world good and cut out a nick for themselves in a manner sur- Stflsing to all their friends. The Man Himself Studies. "What is the cause of criminal care­ lessness?" Two years ago a man ask­ ed me the above question. He had been having trouble and I have been thinking about the subject ever since. It may be due to ignorance. Some claim that people are not as good nor as bad as they appear to be--if we knew more we would be better. But we will know more if we are any good and have our goal In the right place. The idea that experience is a dear school but fools will learn in no other, might be revised to read: It is a wise man who learns by experience; fools never learn. Though a man is not to be blamed for being born ig­ norant, he can be blamed for re­ maining ignorant, and continued or repeated carelessness may be called criminal. STATUE OP RAMESES II; Treasure In the Lately Unearthed British Museum. By special permission of the direct­ or of the Egyptian section of the Brit­ ish Museum, I have just been permit­ ted to photograph for the first times- the remarkable statue which, after having been stowed away as of no im­ portance in an obscure corner of the museum for several years, has Just been identified as a probably authentic PWMX1. WHO C&OSED SZXRSf effigy of Rameses II.--whom the Bible calls Pharaoh--the Egyptian tyrant who persecuted the children of Israel, writes a famous scientist. Thus we have the first portrait of this famous monarch. It is now authoritatively declared that this statue must have been taken from the tombs of the Egyptian Kings. It was brought to the museum from Egypt some years ago, but then its genuineness was called into ques­ tion. The other day, however, C. H. Hendemondt, an Egyptologist of Eu­ ropean repute, and Mr. Birch, the pres­ ent head of the Egyptian section of the museum, while poking around, haphaz­ ard fashion in the rubbish room of the institution, happened on the rejected statue and had it brought out in the daylight. After that it took them a compara­ tively short time to satisfy themselves fcejxmd any doubt of the genuineness of this"likeness of the Egyptian ruler who flourished 1333 years before Christ, and whose tyranny was resist­ ed by Moses. The statue was prompt­ ly added to the famous Egyptian room at the rquseum and given one of the places of honor there. Pagoda Hat & A A German inventor has devised a hat that he claims would be useful in uncertain climates. It is telescopic and worn shut in fair weather, but when it rains it forms a complete cov­ ering for the wearer. An author says: "The three de­ grees of a lawyer's progress are get­ ting on, getting honor, getting hon- >, _____ 11>^ :•'£§><).* Sunday Recreation. »"*' "* Statistics say that Monday is the careless day of the week and the day for mistakes and accidents. This must be due to people using Sunday to get untuned rather than to become better tuned. How is it with the vio­ lin and strings? Is it better to loosen the strings when not in use or should the instrument be kept all the time la tune? I may select Sunday for a subject in order to learn how to use the day to my profit. I heard Moody say that he had learned by ex­ perience that he could not preach seven days a week and keep free from headaches. The teacher and preacher live the longest of any class of work­ ers, so the hint from Mr. Moody Is worth remembering. What do you .v v Jkaow about Sunday recreation? One's Sphere of Usefulness. One of the most important things for ns to learn early, is what we are able to do and not to do. As for my­ self, I believe I was born without a sense of money value, and as I look back and note my expenditures and in­ vestments, I feel that I might have had a nice little property to-day had I put my wasted dimes and dollars reg­ ularly In some trustworthy place. It has taken me a quarter of a century to recognize my inability to lend mon­ ey commercially, or in a wise way so­ cially, and I feel like saying to all young people the quicker you can find out what you can do well, and what you are unable to do well, the better it will be for you. Lightning 8et Newspaper Afire. Harry Oarver, a stableman em ployed at the Kansas School for the Blind, in Kansas City, Kan., was shocked by lightning while sitting on a box in front of the barn at the school. A boy standing near, seeing Garver fall over as though dead, ran into the main building and called as­ sistance. Several people ran to Car­ ver, but found him sitting up rubbing his eyes. Dr. Wilkinson, who attend ed Garver, found that lightning had burned several places on his right side. The newspaper which Garver was reading was set on fire and was burning at his feet when the attend­ ants arrived.--Kansas City (Mo.) Star. HIS NARROW ESCAPE NEGRO'S LOVE OF ICE MADE TROUBLE. CREAM Opened His Jaws So Wide He Could Not Get Them Shut--After Surgical Operation Me 8ays "Never Again." m &'• Dumplings. i-'-'V. Once upon a time a good cook tried make dumplings without baking i A powder and another one spilt all the cream she had for her own breakfast, though cream is nine-tenths of her breakfast Many times do the last tiling we want to do. A Good Team. "Seize upon truth where'er *tia found, among your friends, among your foes; on heathen or on Christian ground, the flower's divine where'er it grows." "Gems of price are deeply hidden, 'neath the rugged rocks concealed. What would ne'er come forth unbid­ den to thy search may be revealed." Placing Savings in 8afety< There are thousands of men who are recognizing the value of tying money up in a safe place so that they cannot get at it when tempted by some wild scheme. They can borrow money on it, but they cannot destroy the deposit in any way for a number of years. Men as Housemaids. In England a special $3.75 license Is required for the privilege of keeping a man servant, and a Londoner recently arrested for failure to comply with the law brought forward the novel de fence: "He is my housemaid." There seems to be an Increasing tendency in London to employ men to do the work commonly assigned to housemaids, and thoy do it better. The defense, how­ ever, wa8 not accepted by thej^gr. Topsy Turvy. 8CULPTOR'S WORK MADE EASY. Not a handsome person, but better than the demon you may see by look­ ing at him upside down. Corn-Made Memory. v A student thought he had his les­ son, but when recitation time came he found he was mistaken. He went to his room, got 100 kernels of corn and used them to repeat his lesson 100 times. Hej^ttfelt forgotten it twen­ ty years The Smallest Republic. The smallest of all republics is that ^of Tavalora, established in the Island of that name off the coast of Sardinia. It has a population of fewer than six­ ty, including the president and his con­ gress of six. First Use of the Dahlia. The dahlia was Introduced into Eu­ rope for the value of its bulb as a substitute for the Irish potato, which It resembles when baked. In the amphitheater of the'1 Charity hospital the other evening the wailing of a negro boy could be heard. "Oh, lordy, lordy! 'f I ever gits my mouf shet ergin I never 1b gwine ter open it ergin. Oh, doctor, doctor, please, sir, git my mouf shet. I been tryin' ter git hit shet 'n I. kaln't. 'F yo' ken shet hit fer^me I ain't nebber gwine eat no mo' ice cream. Hit's dat nigger 'oman whut has got me inter dis trub- ble." The negro's cries could be heard in almost every part of the hospital. He had been taken there by a friend. As he entered the gate one of the stu­ dents saw him with his mouth as wide open as it was possible -to open it. The student followed the negro into the amphitheater and found that«£fae boy had opened his mouth so wide that his jaws had become dislocated. Th§ student backed him into a corner and with his thumbs covered with rub­ ber ran them into the negro's mouth, trying to get the jawbone back in place. Every few moments the* negro would bite the thumb of the student and the student would mutter some­ thing which would not look well in print A The negro was very much frighten­ ed. His eyes looked as though they Were about to pop out of his head and if he had walked through a brier patch his eyes would have been pulled out by thorns. The student understood the negro's condition and worked with him for some time. The first attempt to get the j&ws into place was not successful. The student removed his thumbs and shook his head. The negro thought this meant that the student could do nothing. |ie gave vent to a wail that sounded like a lost soul and begged the doctor to make another attempt. All this time he was talking as though his mouth was full of hot mush. His mouth was so wide open that it was almost possible to see the cfoam he had eaten. The student put the negro's head against the wall and bore down on it. There was a sound not unlike the popping of a champagne cork. The student removed his thumbs and the negro looked at him and began to work his jaws. The feeling of relief that came over his face was indes­ cribable. The negro could not realize It for a few moments, and tnen, in anecstasy of joy he shouted: "Hit's shet, doctor! hit's shet!" The negro used his jaws far a few moments and the student told him to close it. While the student was pre­ paring the bandage for his jaws the negro told him how he got into such a predicament 'Me an' er 'oman was eatin' erwhile ergo some ice cream. Me an' her was 'vidin' what we had betwixt us. She tuck a big spoon and filled hit full uv cream an' she axed me did I want hit. I tol' her to gib hit ter me, but I djldn't 'low dat I could take dat spoon in my mouf. She said ef I would put hit in my mouf I could hab it all, an' as I is powerful fond ub cream I trow­ ed open my mouf an' tol' her to shove hit In. De spoon was er heap bigger den I tought hit was an' when de cream got inside an' I tried ter shet my mouf hit wouldn't close. Dare I was, wld my mouf full ub cream an' couldn't swallow an' couldn't spit hit out. Hit kept gittin' col'er an' col'er, en I hung my head down and let hit run out en de groun'. Den I tried ergin ter shet my mouf an' couldn'. I cummenced ter git skeered, den, en I 'lowed I better go to horsepittal. 'F I hadenter got here wen I did I dunno whut woulder happened. I sho wus skeered, en fum dis time on I nebber. is gwine ter open my mouf wide, eben 'f sumboddy wants ter gib me er big piece oh w?termillion." The student bandaged the negro's jaw and took his name. The negro said his name was Henry McClennon and when he left the hospital he was the happiest negro in New Orleans.-- New Orleans Dispatch. Wrecked the Machine. "fcliere is, or rather was, a new slot machine. It appeared in a Bowery "museum," but is now laid up for re­ pairs. The Inscription read: "Drop a penny In the slot, press the button and see a wild, mad dance." A typical East Side "spieler" was the first vic­ tim of record. He produced the cop­ per coin, dropped it into the slot, gave the button a vigorous push and promptly executed a "mad dance. There was a stout needle concealed in the center of the push button, and the pressure on this button, besides sending the needle into the finger, exposed rf mirrpr in which the victim could aee his contortions. The | spiej^ir" smashed the machine to pieces and threatened to bring his friends and "clean out" the place if the proprietor resented its destruc­ tion.--New York Post. The General's Vanity. William Simpson, a British artist Who accompanied the army during tho Crimean war, relates that Lord Cardi­ gan, the commander, examined his early sketches of Balaklava with Vacant stare," curtly remarking, "It is all wrong." Still Simpson persevered and was rewarded in the end "with the expression of Lord Cardigan's high­ est admiration." "The real truth was, he adds in his simple way, "that in the last sketch I had taken greater care than in the first two to make his lordship conspicuous in the XpoiM^of the brigade." •' ' Changes In London." The outward appearance of many parts of London is changing very rap­ idly, and there are schemes xfor vast changes In the future, with tne view of overcoming the difficulties ofUteeet traffic. Objects of Art No Conger a Matter of Skill. Machinery is about to invade the domains of art. Not satisfied with the tremendous strides made in the com­ mercial world, mah is invading the realms of polite learning with me­ chanical appliances, and the lathe, the wheel and power threaten to displace chisel and the skill of the sculptor. A whirl of the wheel and all the romance that has surrounded art for ages Is no more. The art of sculptur­ ing mechanically is said to have been solved, at least so far as the making of busts is concerned, by Sig. Auguste Bontempi of Naples, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already famous in medi- K MACHINE. F<?FL MAKJNCr MARBLE. " BUSTS AT W cine, in fiction and In war, has lent his name to this invention of what is con­ sidered a remarkable machine. Conan Doyle and W. G. Jones, also of Eng­ land, have acquired all the British rights to the invention. The machine consists essentially of needle, or a revolving steel drill, which is worked hydraulically. ' The machine is designed only for the purely me­ chanical processes of the sculptor's art One machine, it is said, can turn out as much work in twelve hours as it takes two months to complete by hand. Of course, one's imagination can run riot as to the possibilities of this invention. It is said that when the Yankee improvements are made on it, possibly the laurels of Michael Angelo and Pygmalion will be in danger, and the work of .the golden age ot Greek and Italian sculpture will be cleverly imitated. The work the machine does in seven hours, according to critics, is astounding. Living models are em­ ployed and likenesses struck off in marble that are- reported to be mar­ velous. Valuable Hint. If Mr. Carnegie starts a newspaper he can win a large number of subscrib­ ers by personally conducting a column 1 of market tips.--Washington Star. Cow Bells. 8carlet, purple, orange light * ' ~ Fades to palest green; ^ 4 Farm house windows grow less vrlght Where the glare has been, ' Dusky lie the fields about, And, faintly heard again. ^ ' ̂ ̂ Far-off, thro' the mist and Cow-bells down the lane. , , * . ^ ̂ Tinkle, tinkle, cllnk-a-clink,', . • » V . Cow-bells down the lane. •' w -^V • Swallows cheep on circling wtnjtsj'r^- •;-!/ Winds have chilly grown; "yi And the cricket shriller sings; Trees look strange and lone, , Nearer, clearer, past the woods, - 7' A silvery refrain. 1 ' Winding slowly up the hill, Cow-bells down the lane. • Tinkle, tinkle, cltok-a-cUnk,^:rti'^r?: Cow-bells down the lane, ':•*» A - Bess and Brindle, Snowflake, let. Breaths like new-mown hay. Dewy nosea, trickling wet, Barn ward wend their way. One by one, faint, pearly stmrs Watch the twilight's wanfi. And the put-up bars shut oitt;,. Cow-bella down the lane. Tinkle, tinkle, clink-a.-clinl£>;V;.» Cow-bells down the lane. l'a - •-George Cooper. v jji'iiv NEWS OF THE LABOR FlEt THINK WELL OF AIRSHIP Stanley Spencer's Machine May Be the Long Looked For. There has been a great deal of In­ terest attaching to Mr. Stanley Spen­ cer's preparations at the Crystal Pal­ ace for his airship trip around St. Paul's, sayB a London (Eng.) dispatch. The "ship" is the largest of its kind constructed In this country, and muoh more powerful than that used by M. Santo-Dumont in his flight round the *rv|rT»nc w»«'f I* The Spencer Airship. V Eiffel Tower. The gas vessel Is 83 feet long, and the twenty-four horse­ power motor can develop a speed ot twenty-five miles an hour. The weight of the whole apparatus is about 15 cwt., and requires 30,000 feet of hydro­ gen gas to lift It. It has been Inflated with gas several times, and found to work well. ' Doe Waited to Be 8Hot. Fred' Unger, a Bleeker (N. Y.) teamster, was driving on the Glovers- vllle road, when he saw, a large doe come out of the woods a few yards ahead of his team and begin grazing at the roadside. Unger had passed a house some distance back. He stopped his horses, and as he was getting on his wagon the doe looked up at him In a wonder­ ing way and then resumed her graz­ ing. Unger hurried back to the house, where he borrowed a gun. When he got back to his wagon the deer was still cropping the grass at the road­ side. She heard Unger as he came back, raised her head and gazed at him, but made no movement to escape. Unger fired and killed her where she dooi. ' - : Done Out or a • Fortune. Says a Chicago publication: "It was a shame that the man who eloped FRtAK. OM tAUTH ittcrfifctt to Chicago with his mother-in-law was taken- back to Michigan by the sheriff when he might have secured a profit­ able engagement in the museum had be stayed." Above is the artist's idea of Hie hero In his glory. Has Read Bible Often. • , > John Shuler, aged seventy-three, one Cf the most highly respected citizens of Hughesville, Penn., is an ardent student of the Bible. He bas read it through from Genesis to Revelations forty-three times, and soon will have made it forty-four times. Items M Interest Gathered from Many Sources. All Minneapolis flour mills were closed by a strike. No disorder ac­ companied the walking out 'of the men. v The executive council of American Federation of Labor has referred Mil­ ler case to a sub-committee for con­ sideration. By the lockout of the National As­ sociation of Marble Dealers it is esti­ mated that 6,000 men throughout the country are idle. Rumprs are afloat that the govern­ ment printing' office in Washington will be equipped with modern type­ setting machines. The Alabama legislature passed a bill punishing boycotts and blacklists as conspiracy and providing action in damages against those who formulate or circulate them. An Italian laborer was killed and two other persons were injured in a riot on the Onconta, Cooperstown and Richfield Springs trolley line as a re­ sult of trouble over wage claims. Four more Judges, within a month, have declared picketing legal. They Were Judges Donovan of Michigan, Kelly of Minnesota, Hemphill of Penn­ sylvania and Kavanaugh of Illinois. The Trade Union Congress of Great Britain, which held its annual session in Leicester the past week, adopted a resolution favoring direct labor rep­ resentation in the English parliament. International brotherhood of team­ sters and helpers of America, of which Cornelius P. Shea of Boston is presi­ dent, has established offices in Indian­ apolis, in the same building as the United Mine Workers' union. Pennsylvania leads all other states in the number of labor papers, with fifteen; Ohio comes second with thir­ teen, Illinois has eight. Almost every state and territory in the Union is represented in the list of 192 labor pa­ pers. President Hill of the Great North­ ern has opened war on the Car Men's union by discharging one-fourth of all the union men in St. Paul, St Cloud, Hlllyard and Everett shops, including the leader in a movement for In­ creased wages. Calls issued during the past week for international conventions are for the International union of seamen at New York, Nov. 21; United textile workers' union, at Philadelphia, Oct. 21, and the National cotton spinners' union, in Boston. Adolph Strasser, former internation­ al president of the cigarmakers' union, has been chosen umpire in the dispute between the brotherhood and amalga­ mated carpenters' unions. He has heard the evidence and will give a de­ cision next month. Because the company 'refused a prop­ osition to arbitrate the motormen and conductors of the People's Traction Company, which operates a line from Galesburg, 111., to Abingdon, struck. The men were discharged, the men say, because they joined the union. The Indiana Federation of Labjor convention instructed the committee on law to make a complete revision of the present constitution in such a way as to strengthen the organization and enable the state officers to advance the principles of the organisation at all times. The controversy between the engi­ neers and firemen and the Great Northern road was amicably settled. The firemen are understood to have been granted a slight increase In wages, and numerous minor changes were made in the working rules of the engineers. All labor Influences have been di­ rected by the A. F. of L. to be con­ centrated toward the passage by con­ gress of the eight-hour and anti-in­ junction b'ills. Unions are requested to write their senators and congress­ men, stating their position on these measures. Reports at the annual convention of the international brotherhood of elec­ trical workers, in session at Salt Lake, showed that it has increased from 8,600 to more than 37,000 members in two years. Despite the heavy drains on the treasury the national funds amount to more than 930,000. All labor unions in New York state have been invited to send representa­ tives to the second annual convention of the State Woman's* Union Label League, which meets In Rochester. Monday, Oct. 13. The representatives are to be given the privilege of speak­ ing on the claims of their particular label or shop card. General federation of trade unions of Great Britain has proposed an amendment to the conciliation act of 1896. It advocates inquiry into the causes and circumstances of disputes, the taking of steps to bring disputants together, the appointment of a concili­ ator upon application of either side or an arbitrator on the application of both parties. Determined to have discipline, and that contracts made with employers should not be broken, the Amalgamted meat cutters' and butcher workmen's union expelled 1,600 members of Chi­ cago branches. A large number more may be disciplined, it is stated, be­ cause they have jeopardized the bus!-, ness of the employers by unnecessary industrial disturbances and unjust de­ mands. A bulletin has been issued by the executive committee of the Brother­ hood of Locomotive Engineers that there will be no change in the policy of that organization since the election of W. S. Stone as grand chief. Chief Stone is said to be qualified as a suc­ cessor to the late Chief Arthur, and in his dealings with railroad corporations will carry out the policy adopted by his predecessor. In the long drawn-out controversy between the brotherhood carpenters and the woodworkers' international, the executive board of the A. F. of L. has notified all unions that the carpen­ ters have violated the decision of the arbitration board, which fixes the jur­ isdiction of each trade, and orders every union to assist the woodworkers in its efforts to conform to the deci­ sion made by the arbitrator. An interesting and unusual suit was begun at Philadelphia last week by a labor union against an employer for breach of contract. The suit Is brought by the Amalgamated Painters' asso­ ciation against Huneker & Sons, mas­ ter painters, and the amount of dam­ ages claimed is $5,000. Huneker, it is alleged, had a contract with the amal­ gamated association to employ only members of that organiaztion. The orders for a restriction of the anthracite coal output have affected nearly all the collieries in the Wilkes- barre region. Over 43,000,000 tons of coal have been mined since Jan. X, which is several million tons more than was ever produced for a like period in the history of the mining industry. The present glut In the market and the efforts to prevent a break In prices is the cause of the re­ striction. George Hodge, secretary of the Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Workers' alliance, has issued a report of the progress made by the organization in the past year. He has issued fifty- nine new charters, while two have been surrendered. There have been sixteen strikes, twelve of which were won, one lost, two compromised and one still pending. The greatest gains have been made in the way of shorter hours, although wages have increased about 6 per cent The differences between the Ameri­ can Association of Masters and Pilots and the Pittsburg Steamboat company have been settled. The Pittsburg com­ pany receded from its position relative to Capt Frank Btee of the steamer Clemson and his mates, who are not members of the association. The re­ maining grievances of the men were waived for the present time and ipx rangements made for the holding f|f R meeting after the q!q|§ of the present season of navigation, i It is believed that the United States Steel Corporation will be confronted with a great strike ere long. District superintendents are alleged by union­ ists to be doing all they can to foment trouble with union employes. Union workmen have been given some hard raps, and a year ago these actions would have brought on a general strike. The officers refuse to talk on the subject. It is alleged by old mem­ bers that unless something is done the organization will go to pieces. Brass workers from Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and oth­ er eastern cities met at St. Louis and with local representatives organized a union, to be known as the Independent Association of Brass Workers, for the purpose of doing away with all strikes in the trade and to settle disputes with employers by means of arbitration. In the declaration the members are pledged not to Jnaiigurate a strike, and all will be required to take the oath of allegiance to the United States. The National Association of Steam- fitters has Issued a pamphlet giving full details of the controversy with the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters, and setting forth rea­ sons why its charter should not have been revoked by the A. F. of L. The pamphlet claims that steamfitting is a distinct trade, and that the men fol­ lowing it should have jurisdiction over their craft. It is a forerunner to an appeal for a i>ew charter, which will be made at the coming convention of the A. F. of *L. to be held In Boston next November. Since the death of Grand Chief Ar­ thur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, there Is talk among the officials of the railroad brotherhoods of reviving the movement to form a federation of the various railroad brotherhoods. Several such federa­ tions have been in operation, and one in particular, that planned by E. B. Clark of the Order of Railroad Con­ ductors, worked successfully for some months, but fell through because of the opposition of Chief Arthur, who opposed the plan because to his mind it meant sympathetic strikes. Sam W. Hoke, an advertising t and poster agent, filed a complaint in the United States circuit court at New York against the Associated Bill Post­ ers and Distributers of the United States and Canada, in which he claims $60,000 damages on thi? ground that the association is an illegal trust A. B. Beall of Sioux City, Iowa, the bill­ posters' treasurer, is made an indi­ vidual defendant Mr. Hoke charges that the billposters have broken the federal anti-trust law by arbitrarily fixing minimum rates to be charged for bill posting throughout the United states. '*4 lit x ' '>?;• Jlfh'S ; r? _J ftf si n w £3 * .1 3 / K-- i§ m Patent Coffee Pot Exploded. Mrs. Sibley, wife of Sheriff F. B. Sib­ ley of Windham county, Conn., was seriously burned by the explosion of a patent coffee pot. The steam gener­ ated in the pot, and when she took it from the stove it exploded, the steam severely burning her face and hand* s