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THE McHEITRY miNDBALERr MeHENRI wnue WERE BORM Mr*. Oiwtld Benefited bf T«kmf Lydia E. Pinlcham't Vegetable Compound Irardvflle, Pa.--*1 took i'a Vegetable my 1 Lvtfa K. Compoond before r IMI two babies came. It keeps me In perfect health and am on my feet stting meals and >lng all my boosework until an hoar before the- baby is barn. A friend told ^ 2 Ulltt&K-AUHIme to take it and I have used ten bottles since I beard about it. I recommend the Vegetable Compoond whenever I can. Just yesterday a friend was telling me how miserable she felt, ahd I said. 'If you start taking Lydia E. Pinkhams yea will feel fine. Now she is ? l* *3*3* ~ & v™"* "c 7"" ;,fc ,* «*« 5?%y " VH,* 'v;,y < *•„*" " i*. / * ** v\ V ^ \ I* About an Indust Thai Affects 6very Citizen it5^-Mrs. P. J. Os- WALD, JB., 406 T. Ogden St, Girard- Tills, Pa. Mr*. Nkoli Pahzzi Says Mishawtka, Indiana.--"I took Lvdla EL Pinkham s Vegetable Compound far weakness before my babies were born. I was weak and tired out all the time and it helped me. When I had toward inflammation the doctor treated me, bat it did not help me, so I tried Lydis E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash and it helped me right away. I will always have your medicines." Mrs NICOLA PALUZZI, 416 E. Broadway, Miahawaka, Indiana. United States Coal coatadaaion reported that nonunion pick miners earn ah average of $1 a day leas than onion pick miners the country over. la erder to earn $1,000, the commission stated, DOBaaion tonnage mea -were required to work sixteen more days than onion men. Tonnage men ace the men who actually dig the coal. In 1921 most of them earned between $800 and (1,400 la nonunion mines and between $1,000 and $1*800 la anion mines. The commission's report shows that In 1921 men known as "outside men" had to work 280 days at union mines and S16 days at nonunion mines to earn $2,000. In order to earn $3,000, the report shows, 78 union men oat of a total of 28,- 852 worked 373 eight-hour days and 20 nonunion aen worked 399 eight-hour days In the year. Thla Is more days than there are tn the calendar year. She only way these men made these earnings ton* by working every day and Sunday, at night and overtime. Eighteen thousand out of the total of 29,552 union men earned less than $900 In 1921 tod more than 30.000 out of 40,409 nonunion men ewrned less than $900 in that year. Coal mining is one of the most dangerous of all occupations. Approximately 2,000 persons are killed each year In the bituminous mines and more than 500 each year In the anthracite mines. It fa estimated that the number of fcccidents of all v^lnds, fatal and nonfatal, In the entire coal tnjfbstry will average 100,000 each year. iOne of the most important studies which the United States Coal commission made was ef the 'bituminous miner and his home life. It found. Ktnong other things: * To a great extent--greater, probably, than In other occupation--coal miners are dependent (t» their employers for the conditions under which gwy work. Cor the character of the houses ta Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. MOTHER! CbiWs Best Laxative 6 'California fig Tongue Shows if Bilious, Constipated Hurry Mother I Even a fretful, peevish child loves the pleasant taate of "Callr fornla Fig Syrup" and It never falls to open the bowels. A teaspoonful today may prevent a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for genuine "California Fig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother I Ton must say "California" or you may get an imitation fig syrup. Silence may be golden, but a good deal of speech is brazen. ' Wkr ta«w Fata from a cut or burn? Cole's Carbollaahre •tops pain instantly and heals quickly without a scar. Keep it handy. All drug- Cists, 30c and 60r. or J. W. Cole Co., Rode* ford. 111.--Advertisement. Compromise Is eftough to take all the pep out of a man. A MAN OF INTEGRITY & phy sic Ian who reaches out to benefit humanity leaves a record behind him that is worth while. Such a man was Dr. R. V. Pierce, founder of the Invalids Hotel In Buffalo, N. T. Be was an eminent physician, a leadin* and honored citizen, known for his honesty and executive ability. His study along medical lines, and his knowledge of the remedial qualities of herbs and plants led to the discovery of bis wonderful herbal remedy, Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the woman's tonic which has had the greatest number of supporters for the past fifty years. It is just the herbal tonic required If a woman Is boras dowD by pain and sufferings at regular or irregular Intervals, by nervousness or dtoy spells, headache or backaches Favorite Prescription can now be had la tablet form as well as liquid at most drug stores. Send 10c for trial sample to Dr. Pierort Invalids. Hotel in Buffalo. N. Y. Green's August Flower He reared? with a record of fifty-seven years afsacpssstag exceUeace. AH who saffer with nervous dyspepsia, tear stoatach, eoesti|wtMa, iadigcstioa, torpid Uver, headaches, coaiiag-up of food, wiad oa stotaach, palpftstioa aad ethet indicatfoas of digestive disorder, will fiad GftttNi AUGUST FLOWU aa effective aad effkieat remedy. For fifty-sevea years this awdieiae has been saccMsfnOy used ia seHlees of heeeehelds aD ever the rivalled wortd. Becaaseof tenant sad popularity GUBN-S AUGUST FLOWS* caa be found today wherever Medicines are sold. 30 aad 9® cent bottles. KEMP' \ Xfjr « By JOHN DICKINSON 8HERMAN NOTHER bituminous coal strike this year? Probably not. It looks as If we had escaped It by the skin of our teeth. Representatives of the coal operators' associations of the four states comprising the central competitive field--Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania-- and of the miners* union have been battling over a wage scale and contract at Jacksonville, Fla. The miners wanted $7.50 a Itay and a wage contract running four years from April l. A contract has been signed for three years. Thla lays the groundwork for peace, aceording to both operators and miners. The miners have yet to hold a referendum vote on the contract . Coal mining In the United States Is really quite Important--something like agriculture and transportation. And it has features all its own that are quite out of the ordinary, which the writer will here set forth. He has no brief for either the operators or the miners. His viewpoint is rather that of the consumer--one of the public that always gets the worst of it, no matter whether the operators or the miners win. If all the world loves an able fighter, then both operators and miners should be popular. No need of comparisons; there is honor enough for alL The operators of union mines fight among* themselves. Union mine operators fight nonunion mine operators. Right now there are operators of closed high-ccst mines who are doing their best to bring about a strike in the hope of being able to operate at a profit under strike conditions. And so on. The miners fight among themselves. President John L. Lewis adjourned the recent sixth biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Indianapolis in the midst of an exceedingly animated struggle between his followers and those of Alexander Howat, deposed president of the Kansas district. Howat, defeated In his attempt to gain a hearing. Immediately set about making arrangements for a rump convention of five states. And when operators and miners fight each other--then comes the tug of war. The public Is the Innocent bystander--and gets what the Innocent bystander has been In the habit of getting from time immemorial. Last year the United States Coal commission, reporting on the anthracite situation, offered a number of suggestions looking toward bringing operators and miners together In a more friendly spirit and recommended "that each side forget past differences and grievances and attack the problem in the spirit of Justice and fair dealing not only between themselves, bnt with due regard for the rights and sensibilities of the American people." Another oustanding thing about the coal mining business Is that entirely artificial conditions obtain, In which the law of supply and demand has quit working and ordinary economic principles do not apply. There are too many mines. There are too many miners. High wages are offset by parttime work. The waste is prodigious; It is estimated that a ton has been left to waste underground for every ton mined. Coal itself is an interesting substance. It was made about 150,000,000 years ago In the bowels of the earth. Nature Isn't making any more. So when we have dug out what there is man will have to use some other fuel. There are several kinds of coal, according to the process nature used In transforming trees, ferns, mosses and vegetable life: Lignite, bituminous (soft), seml bftuntinous, anthracite (hard), and semi-anthracite. Lignite, plentiful in the Southwest, retains the texture of the wood from which it was formed. Anthracite was subjected to tremendous heat and pressure tn the making. Bituminous was subjected to less and contains much volatile matter--oil, gas, tar and the like. Coal deposits underlie abouf 460,000 square miles of the United States, with an estimated total of four thousand billion tons, out of a world total of seven thousand billion tona. We supply twofifths of the coal now being mined in the world. Hard coal operations are concentrated in about 500 square miles In northeastern Pennsylvania, which mines about 80,000,000 tons a year. Colorado has vast anthracite deposits, at present inaccessible for lack of transportation. Most of the hard coal is used for domestic largely In the northeastern^ state* 7 #»ft coal t« mined commercially In thirty-one states, but the bulk of It comes from a dozen or so. Here Is a table showing the production of these states together with the Mcoal mine operatives, male." Both sets of figures are from the 1920 United States census. Fig* ures vary greatly from year to year. The total number of miners was 732,441. Of this nutuber 80 per cent was tn the soft coal fields; 79 per cent was rural. The value of the output was nearly $2,000,000,000. The table: Pennsylvania Illinois West VlrrMa Ohio Keptuckjr Indiana Alabama Colorado Iowa Wyoming Virginia Tennessee Kansas Missouri Soft Coal, Toaa. 145,6SS,7n 80.401,7S6 75,125.00# 40,178,57* 17,678,671 27,160,714 14,910.714 10.80J.67J 8,187,600 8,9X8,871 8,794.MJ (.018,7 8f 6.98J.14J (.138,9X9 Miners. 149,819 82,891 87,788 47,788 •a 44.888 89,148 <8.804 12,489 12,808 6,874 12,418 18,228 - 10,278 8,509 There are too many soft coal mines In the country and too many miners. This condition Is admitted by both operators and miners. Experts say that several thousand mines will have to be closed and from 150,000 to 200.000 miners released to other employment In order to bring about economic conditions. These experts look for bankruptcies, reorganizations and consolidations, and for the permanent abandonment of high-cost mines for which there has been no real need since the abnormal war-time demand for fuel. Reports Indicate a cut in the last six months of 20 per cent In the number of mines operating tn Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Approximately 548,000,000 tons of bituminous coal were mined In the last twelve months, 43,- 000,000 more tons than were required to supply the soft coal needs of the country. There are more than 14,000 soft coal mines of all sizes and kinds in the United States, with a total protlu^ ing capacity of 800,000,000 to 000,000,000 tons annually. The total amount of soft coal required to meet alt requirements Is approximately R00r 000,000 tons. The mines have a capacity nearly double the requirementa. Therefore the miners can work only one-half to two-thirds of full time. If they worked every day they would produce nearly twice aa much coal aa the country could uae. ^ _ Employees In anthracite mines are employed mora steadily because there Is no excess number of anthracite mlpes. The average annual output of anthracite is about 75,000,000 tons, and there is a market for- all of It In the year 1923 the output reached the extraordinary total of 95,197/ 000 tons. As a result, _ anthracite mine worker^, are employed an average of about 272 days a year. But their wage rates are lower than in bi-~ tumlnous fields. Too many mines and too many miners mean part-time work. Unsteady employment is a great evil of the soft coal raining industry. Allowing for 52 Sundays^and 5 holidays, there are SOJ' work days in a year. In the lust thirty-two years, according to the report of the United States Coal commission, bituminous miners have been employed from 149 to 249 days, thfe average being 213 days. This means that they lose more than fifteen weeks in the year. Thus, the mine work* era fcre employed only about two-thirds of full time on the average. In 1923 the average number of days of employment waa leas than 149, It , Is stated, though official figures are not yet at hand. How much does a coal miner earn? The basic wage rate for bituminous mine workers Is $7.50 a day, but tills does not mean that all of them earn that aum. In union fields the highest day wage rate Is $7.65 and the lowest around $6.75. In nonunion fields, the wage rate runs as low as $2.75. and from that up. Nonunion miners of. Alabama are the poorest paid In America.- The which they live, and for the atmosphere of the community. In respect to physical comfort, educational advantages, protection of health, the mine worker's family In a company town'"may be better off or worse off than the average workman's family in town or city. In Pennsylvania and the Uiddle West the coal miners live for the most part tn or close to eetahilshed communities. In the southern Appalachian areas, and In the western and far western states, the miners' homes are frequently located In places where no white man has ever lived be> fore. Many of the places are at a considerable distance from any town or city. ' Abuses growing out of company stores, out of company houses, out of company-controlled communities, and closed communities, with an accompanying restriction of or suppression of civic rights, are nofr practically unknown in the anthracite fields, since less than 10 per cent^f the anthracite workers live In company houses, less than 10 per cent in company-controlled communities, and a very few of the communities are more than a few miles from an incorporated town with easy transportation connections. Approximately 90 per cent of the anthracite Workers reside in communities that are Independent of coal operator control and they accordingly "live Just as the mass of other Americans live," In free self-governing communities where their civic rights are within their own keeping. Similarly these types of grievances and disturbances -from which the anthracite field Is practically free are. found infrequently, if at all, tn those bituminous states where, as In Indiana and Illinois, nearly one-half of the mine workers are able to live In free, incorporated cotffmunlties; and they are found with more frequency and In an Intensified form In places where, as In West Virginia, only a small part of the mine workers are able to live to such communities. About 550,000 mine workers are members of the United Mine Workert of America, which is the miners' union. They pay from 75 cents to $1 a month dues, which Is divided between the local, the district and the International organizations. Dues are collected through what Is called the •Vheck-off.," The check-off means this: a union member gives to his employer a written order dl- -npctlng the employer to deduct each month from his pay envelope a sufficient amount to pay his union dues to the secretary of the union. The United Mine Workers of America told the United States Coal commission that the check-off is merely a business convenience. United States courts have declared the check-off legal. Coal companies have used the check-off themselves for more than seventy years. They deduct money from the wages of their employees to pay house rent, store bills, doctors' hills, taxes, lodge dues. Insurance, old age pensions, supplies, tools, contributions to Red Cross and other charities and for many other purposes. United Mine Workers of America Informed the Coal commission as to its attitude on the sub- •jert of arbitration of controversies thnt' orlse between miners and operators. The union refuses to arbitrate malters that enter In the making of a wage agreement, such as rates of wages or conditions under which the men shall work. It holds that these are questions that should he left to the employee and the employer. The union submits to arbitration any question arising under a. contract after an agreement has been made. FAMOUS BOOKS KILL OTHERS There is a curious fact about "Robinson Crusoe"--it has "killed" all the other books of Defoe for the general reader, Just as a rich made of green gown may "kill" a gown of more subdued green In a ballroom. Such books as "A Journal of the Plague Year" and "Moll Flanders" have a right to recognition on their own account, but they are almost never read because they are by the author of "Robinson Crusoe." The story of Defoe's sailor has so occupied the attention of the world that tiiere seems to be no capacity left te read his other works. , This ts a common phenomenon In literature Who reads or has read the other books by the author of "Ben Hur"? Who reads or has read any of the books 'of Harriet Beecher Stowe except "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? It Is a case of the richer green "kHHns" the more subdued shade, a case of the one famous book "killing" all the other books to which a writer has devoted his life. 9 And the widely known book is not always the writer's best. In Defoe's case it probably Is, but some of the other books that stand to his credit are hardly less worth wmie and would hnve a high rank In English literature If pot overshadowed by "I'oblnson Crusoe." And If Defoe's other books were "killed" by "Crusoe" in its genuine •• ^ :• form, there would be comfort In the thought that at least Defoe was being read at his best, but in "t-tllty the undoubted works of art tike "A Journal of the Plague Year" and "Moll Flanders" have been crowded out by adaptations of adaptations of the real "Robinson Crusoe." And so Daniel Defoe does not exist for thousands who are capable of enjoying him. Which Is a pity.--Arnold Mulder in the Outlook. Giving Out? ARE yon miserable with an arhing back? 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In constipation, aay intestinal 'r specialists, lies the primary cause of more than three-quarters of all illn diseases of life. i including the gravest Hence, doctors urge internal cleanlineaa-- regular and thorough removal of food Wlkste from the body. i- Laxatives Aggravate Constipation Laxatives and cathartica do not overcome constipation, says a noted authority, but by thei^i$ontinued use tend only to aggravate the condition and often lead to permanent iqjuqr. Why Physicians Tavor Lubrication Medical science, through knowledge of the intead» nal tract gained by X-ray observation, has found at last in lubrication a means of overcoming constipation. The gende lubricant, NujoL, penetrates and aoftens the hard food waste and thua hastens ita passage out of the body. Thua Nujol brings internal cleanlineaa. Niqol is used in leading hospitala and ia prescribed by physicians throughout the world. Nujol ia not a pnedicine or laxative and cannot gripe. Like pure water it ia harmless. 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