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rf^X'¥W~7* 2 \ / * *'" i_L •* '*' ̂ - * "* "'*' *"• ~V *' •'. ' * ~ ** ̂""t*""*' "' ' V'-: i * 'a \ . \ V _ > * _. _ _ ". ' ' " . " ' '"' . '• - . .._ „ 1 ; -J, 55Sfe^f« S;^j Mistress Rosemary Allyn By MILLICENT E. MANN Copyright, 1904, by LUOASLINCOLtN CO. CHAPTER I--Continued. • basket on my arm. and In r.cr mouth ..Lord Feltoa sat during our heated j was the fish she had purloined. I talk a figure of marble, with an im­ mobile face, eyes staring--staring at nothing, like a drunken man's--only fcls fingers rat-tatting on the board. Now he aroused himself. "Let there be no brawling," he said, and he imperiously motioned the crowd back. "I have staked naught (hat belongs to any one else, I think." A sneer hovered on his lips as he looked at the flushed faces of the men, and especially at Raoul Dwight. "It was fairly won.. We shall see you In London soon?" His words were now addressed to me, and they were eourteousness itself, yet I read the menace in them, as did the men also. They seemed satisfied that my lord Would find a way of relieving me of my newly and most unexpectedly ac­ quired treasure--the promise of a bride--betore I should have time to use it ' "Ere many days shall have passed," I replied. "You will be welcome," he said. "I shall bring that which shall win me a welcome," I returned. "If you still have it," muttered Raoul Dwight. "Do you threaten?" I sneered. His reply was a shrug of the shoul­ der. and as he, the only one, still whipped his sword up and down, Mas­ ter Arnold cried: "You are my guests, gentlemen; seek some other place to do your brawling." "You were not wont to be so par­ ticular, Master Arnold," said Raoul Dwight with a snarl. "It was in this very room, if I remember, rightly--" "Raoul Dwight!" Master Arnold's voice .rang out sharply. Sir Raoul Dwight laughed unpleas­ antly between his teeth, but he stopped, for Lord Felton had arisen and made him a motion not to be dis­ obeyed. The first-faint streaks of the early morn now began to show through the jerked my knife from my belt, not being in the humor for such pleas­ antry. I was too late. As I held it ready to strike, she was off. No, she had not escaped me yet, for with a swiftness equal to her own, I threw my knife after her. It struck her in the neck. She fell to the ground pot twenty paces from me, plunging, reeling, emitting a gurgling cry. When the bird had flown exultingly forth and my knife after her, I had heard the lilt of a laugh, which had ended in a plaintive cry. The deed was of the moment without a thought. Had I wished it otherwise, as I soon did, I could not have helped it. I looked at my arm where the claws of the falcon had ripped the skin so that the blood flowed freely. I turned over the dead thing on the ground with my foot, and wondered whence it had come. I again heard that little cry. I raised my eyes. There before me in the narrow pathway stood a very madcap of a child or woman! I could not tell which. Her hair was piled on top of her exquisite head in some foreign fashion, and her dress was down to her tiny slippered feet. She was breathless from running, and held her dress bunched in her hands. Laces and frills made ^a perfect cas­ cade about her ankles "Oh! What have you done?" she cried. She dropped in a heap of farderals beside the dead bird and began call­ ing it all manner of pretty names. "You loui!" she stormed and faced me. She was one who in her rage and grief did not stop to pick her words with a squeamlshness. "You have killed my falcon! How 'dared you--how dared you?" A moment before the place had seemed ordinary enough, for places we see habitually become so. Now everything $ras changed. A beautiful woman had entered--the landscape was transfigured. "Recompense! Estate! Yowl" she sneered. "A hnt on my Lord's land with one wa« '5l« In mom Ilk* *n lw» your estate." She threw back her head an<1 laughed, while she took me in from my head to my foot. "Do you hear that, Nurse Moffett!" she continued. "Recompense! 'To the half of my estate.*" She mimicked me to a nicety and then went off into throws of laughter, joined by her nurse. I waited with a grave face until her merriment had subsided. I saw she was a maid of moods and fancies; for now she sat quite down upon the ground, unmindful of everything ex* cept her dead pet, and tears fell from her eyes in big drops. "What a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear," said William Shakespeare, a writer of plays and sometimes actor of the same, and I aver that he never spoke truer words. He is dead these many years, but his speeches are remem­ bered, and plays still to D6 seen at the theaters in London. "Do not, I beg of you, do hot," I said as I dropped on my knees beside her, and stretched out my hands to take, the dead thing from her. The old dame as if desirous of keep­ ing before her mistress my share in the miserable business made the air murky with her execrations. Inwardly I cursed myself IP being so ready to cut and to slash. Perhaps the lady read some of my contrition in my face; perhaps she had changed her mintl as to my condition in life; certainly she looked at me with a lit­ tle kindliness and there were ques­ tions written on her face. She let me take the bird and place it on the sward, and wipe her gown where the gore had ruined it. So much grace I had--no more. Too soon she remembered that I had done her an injury. Her eyes now flashed like steel. Her" bow-shaped mouth drew itself into its haughtiest curves. I thought what a pity, love-light alone ought to linger about those dimpled corners. She arose and stepped back with much imperiousness, strange to see in one so young and petite out­ side of royalty. I towered head and shoulders above her and could scarce hide a smile at such behavior. "Get you gone to your--estate," she drawled, v bowing low before me, "my Lord Mayor of all you survey. Get you gone, for if you happen upon these grounds again, in spite of your great estate, I shall have you whipped off." "You believe at least that I regret my act?" I stopped long enough to ask, paying no heed to her mockery. "Regret! regret!" she repeated "Of what use are regrets?" She turned her shoulders upon me. (To be continued.) IN THE LAND OF CIVILITY HARD JOB TO START Ft*E. There before me stood a very madcap of a child, or woman! slats of the closed shutters, and or- ders were given for the saddling of horses. The servants blew out the last flarings of the candles and opened the windows. The air came- rushing In sweet with the smell of earthly things, cutting its way through the "dense smoke-laden atmosphere. The money still lay on the table dull and sordid in the light of day. "Oil," said I, "see that my Lord Felton has back what was his before we leave--" I touched the gold and notes with the tip of my sword--"ex­ cept this." With a light laugh I took up the promise of marriage and dropped it carelessly into my pocket, even as one might take an uncut dia­ mond of which he knows not the value, and puts it heedlessly away. "And he is welcome to the rest for its sake." "You are to be congratulated," said Harcourt Nym. "If you succeed with that bit of paper; I fear me it is too perishable." CHAPTER II. A Beautiful Woman. We rode warily along at first mind­ ful of Sir Raoul Dwight's boast that I should not leave with the promise Of marriage. As the distance be­ tween us and Long Haut dwindled down to a few mileB, we came to the conclusion that the man thought bet­ ter of it. The breath of life was «weet to our nostrils. The scent of fhe newly turned hay came from some distant field, and it was good. ,, I thought of pleasant things: of a ij|ay not yet a week agone. Then it %as a St. Martin's summer's day, and the heat was intense. 1 had opened the neck of my shirt, thereby laying |>are a brown and brawny throat, i was on my homeward way, with a |>asket full of trout on my arm, for I been thrashing the streams up r~ 'find down since daybrteak. J gtumbled down a footpath which ^ |ed past Castle Drout, an ancient anor, yet hidden from it by tall ranches, trailing vines, and briony. ayety had possessed me until now, d I had even trolled a song at the op of lusty lungs. Qualms of hunger - f>egan to cry aloud, and that, together lJwlth the heat, made me drowsy. I t ;fnlnded not my steps, only one wish lis* litlrred within me: that I were home with a trenchon of beef before me Such as old Nance prepared. I com- xnitted the midges, burs and other f, -nuisances to a thousand deaths--so ^captious does a man become when !P' hunger assails him. fe . On a sudden there swooped through pi";' ""the air, with the swiftness of light- ning, a peregrin-falcon. She alighted ;,.v- upon my shoulder. Her long curved - talons tore the unen of my shirt and I', ' cut deep furrows in my flesh. I stag- &-<?ered from the unexpectedness of the pt" attack, mm hung upon.me, otr «he How shall I describe her gleaming beauty? She was slight, but fully developed. She was fair--wonderfully fair--with perfect features. Her eyes were like the changeful sea. Her hair was rolled back from her face in a million ripples of softened gold. It was dressed high upon ber head, yet fell about her neck in tendrils. There the gold nestled against the white like the yellow center of a water lily among its ivory hued petals. When the sun's rays caught it, and lingered as though they loved to play in its meshes, the darker parts became Titian red. I stood before this grande dame, half disgusted that she should waste such sweetness upon a thing so con­ temptible, when there was better quarry at hand, half lost in open ad­ miration, wholly spellbound. At last, mindful of my manners, and tongue- less condition--for she 'ooked at me from between her fingers with both curiosity and coquetry--I said: "I am sorry, Madame, that I should have junwittingly been the cause of this Hurt to you." "Sorry! Sorry!" she repeated scorn-* fully. "What can sorrow do? Can it bring the life back to my bird? Ah! you are stiff and cold, poor pretty dear; and to think I sent you to your death. You are a clown--a clown in­ deed, if you have never seen a falcon- gentil. Did you ever see one?" She asked as she turned again to me. A clown Indeed I felt myself. For words are like a pack of cards, 'tis the manipulating" of them that counts; and I was in the position of one who bandies them for the first time, and knows it will be more matter of luck than skill if he win out. "If there is a falcon within twenty leagues, Madame, It is yours," I an­ swered, "to take the place of yonder bird." "Do you think I would accept aught at your hands?" she cried. 'Ere I had time to reason with her 8he was joined with a serving maid to whom she turned and began to tell of the bird's mishappening. She spoke in French, thinking, no doubt, the language unknown to me. I heard that milady seeing me half asleep coming down the path and thought to have some fun at my expense, bhe had fowled her bird after a trout, not reckoning with either man or knife, And, the result of their harmless bit of frelicsomeness, he was a--dead pet. - • When they had reviled me enough or so I thought, for their contempt- | uousness made my ears to tingle, i said in the same speech and in as ' gracious a manner as 1 could com j mand. ' "I would recompense you, Madame, to the half of'my estate--believe me, It is yours." « Labor in Getting Up Steam for First Time in Locomotive. The average citizen manages to set the house in an uproar every time he has to make a fire in the heater, bat his job is a trifle in comparison with what a railroad fireman faces when a new fire has to be built in a locomo­ tive. As a starter about 200 pounds of wood are necessary to fire up the ordinary engine. The wood used1 is old railroad ties cut into convenient blocks. When the firebox has been lined with wood it is drenched with oil and the match Applied. As soon as the fire gains headway forced draught is applied, the opera­ tion necessarily being performed in the roundhouse, where all apparatus for quickly producing high tempera­ ture is at hand. When a good bet of blazing wood has been produced the fireman gets busy with his shovel, placing coal in even layers over the flames. This part of the work is hard on the back, and the aggrieved indi­ vidual whose woes are evident to the whole block when he labors with the heater would go down and out in the first minute at it. Undert the forced draught it is only a few minutes be­ fore the coal had been reduced to a sheet of embers at white heat, and by this time there is enough steam pres­ sure generated to permit of the loco­ motive being moved under It own power. Continuous resort to the shovel on the part of the fireman does the rest. It is only about once a month that a new fire is built in a locomotive while in service. The balance of the time the fire is kept alight by being banked when the iron horse is not on the road. TURNING ON HIS HEEL, Trafn Which Obstructed View. The Spectator has .a friend, a resi­ dent of Japan, now in this country, who believes that one result of the Increased interest in Japan owing to the war will be a new appreciation of that side of its life which finds sat isfaction in sltnple pleasures, ' and especially in natural beauty. * * * He then went on to tell of a little experience illustrating how much a beautiful scene means to all Japan­ ese. He was standing with his wife on the platform of a country railway station, waiting for the train to Tokio, and looking at a beautiful moonrise, when a long freight train pulled fn, Mid stopped exactly where it cut off the view. He approached the engi­ neer and said: "My dear sir, I know you have inadvertently stopped your train where it prevents this lady and myself from seeing that beautiful moon. Can I ask you, as a great fa- ror, to move that train a little farther along?" "My dear sir," replied the engineer, "I regret exceedingly having f been so unobserving, and It will give tne great pleasure to do as you re- .jjuest." An2 be zi oZZz t«c •entire train beyond the end of the platform. "Imagine," the Spectator's friend concluded, "the sort of reply I should have, should I venture to make a like request of an engineer here in America!" But the Spectator refused to imagine It The language of the probable reply would be quite too dreadful. ACCENT HARD TO USE. Spread of Miners' Phthisis. The Council oi the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy has Issued a memorandum to the members of the institution calling attention to the serious nature of the statistics of min­ er's phthisis, urging the Immediate adoption of effective methods of pre­ vention and requesting the collection of further information as to the preva­ lence of the disease and the conditions which give rise to it. The opinion is that the main cause>of the disease Is the breathing of air containing dust. Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. ' » V." Sides of the Water. Francis Wilson says that Maurice Barrymore once made the rounds of the offices of the theatrical managers in London, trying to get them to put on a new play that Barrymore himself had written. One of the managers to whom Barrymore had read the play seemed much impressed. Before their Interview had ended it had been de­ cided to give the piece an early pro­ duction and to have Barrymore "do" the leading role. About a week after what Barrymore had supposed was the definitely agreed upon arrange­ ment had been reached, the actor re­ ceived a note from the manager ask­ ing him to call. When Barrymore responded to the summons the man­ ager said: "I like the play, old fellow, and I'm going to give a fine production; but, really, I don't see how I can use you in the cast. Your beastly Ameri­ can accent won't do at ati, you know. They don't like it here." "That's odd," said Barrymore; "ihey tell me on the other side that I won't do on account of my beas uvaiiou auvcili. »»uat uu cai til oiii lii to" do--give recitations on the transat* lantlc steamers?". ;'•&£ lii Pa Twaddles. %- "Look here, young man!" said Paf Twaddles excitedly, "did I see you1' - kissing my daughter lasL-fifebt?" f ^ "Were you in the vicinity of thet*^ front gate, last night, Mr. Twaddles?"; .. "I was." * ^ . "Were yott.. looking in W diteo^-;;! ̂ tion?" "Yes, sir." , .J** "Well, sir, if yon are not troubled A* with myopia or an astigmatism, or anything of that sort, and you are tell----- ing me the truth, your question isH-|51 highly superfluous, and I can only re-, gard it as trifling, sir. I repeat it, sir r, --trifling!" \ > Aid Pa Twaddles sneaked into the house. * J M -V; A girl encourages a young man to; . : stay out late during courtship and , ' then kicks because he keeps it upt^.; after marriage. ; 6 S VI of Gymnastics of the Novel's Hero Be­ yond Common Man's Ability. The other day I was reading a thrilling story and I was informed that the hero "turned on his heel and walked away." In other tales of a similar class, I found certain import­ ant characters went through a simi­ lar species of difficult gymnastics without any apparent provocation. I don't see why they should do it, for I am inclined to think it is a some­ what unnatural proceeding. The herO referred to was a baronet, but I ob­ served the higher these heroes were in the social scale the more they turn­ ed on their heels. If a prince had been introduced, he probably would have developed into a sort of human teetotum. As far as my experience reaches I find that when anyone turns, he turns on his toes. I know I do; but then I am a commonplace person. But let any practical person try "turning on his heel." If he has not had some months of hard practice at tne ekerclse the chances are that he will fjnd himself sitting on the ground and ^eeling very much hurt.--London Graphic. Had a Pass. Tfce spirit of independence rules in the "girl of the period" in the state of Illinois. Two beautiful daughters of Judge H- were driving out an the, plank road near Chicago, and stopped at the tollgate and asked the keeper: "How much is it?" "For a man and a hors§," replied the gatekeeper, "the charge is 15 cents." ' "Well, then, git out of the way, for we are two gals and a mare. Git np. Je«»yr--Philadelphia Ledger. Tha only place in the United Stages that guarantees freedom from strikes, lockouts and labor: warfare is Battle Creek, Micli. v The story? The work people, mer­ chants, lawyers, doctors and other citi­ zens became aroused and indignant at the efforts of the labor unions through­ out the country to destroy the busi­ ness of one of our largest industries-- the Postum Cereal Co., Lt'd, and at the open threats in the official union pa­ pers that the entire power of the Na­ tional and State Federations of Labor was being brought to bear to "punish" the industries of Battle Creek, and particularly the Postum Co. This sprung from the refusal of C. W. Post to obey the "orders" of the unions to take the Postum advertising away from various papers that refused to purchase labor of the labor trust-- the unions. Mr. Post was ordered to join the unions in their conspiracy to "ruin" and "put out of business" these pub­ lishers who had worked faithfully for him for years and helped build up his business. They had done no wrong, but had found it inconvenient and against their best judgment to buy labor of the labor trust: It seems a rule of the unions to conspire to ruin anyone who does not purchase from them upon their own terms. An inkmaker or papermaker who failed to sell ink or paper would have the same reason to order Post to help ruin these publishers. So the ped­ dler in the street might stone you if you refused to buy his apples; the cabman to run over you if you refused to ride with him; the grocer order the manufacturer to discharge certain people because they did not patronize him, and so on to the ridiculous and villainous limit of all this boycott nonsense, in trying to force people to buy what they do not want. If a man has labor to sell let him sell It at the best price he can get Just as he would sell wheat, but he has no right to even intimate that he will ob­ struct the business or attempt its ruin because the owner will not purchase of him. The unions have become so tyran­ nous and arrogant with their despot­ ism that a common citizen who has some time to spare and innocently thinks he has a right to put a little paint on his own house finds he must have.that paint taken off and put on again by "the union" or all sorts of dire things happen to him, his em­ ployer is ordered to discharge him, his grocer is boycotted if he furnishes him supplies, his family followed and ineulted and his life made more mis­ erable than that of a black slave be­ fore the war. If he drives a nail to repair the house or barn the carpen­ ters' "union" hounds him. He takes a pipe wrench to stop a leaking pipe and prevent damage to his property and the plumbers' "union" does things to him. He cannot put a little mortar to a loose brick on his chimney or the bricklayers', plasterers' or fod carriers' "union" is up in arms, and if he carelessly eats a loaf of bread that has no "union" label on It the bakers' "union" proceeds to make life miser­ able for him. So the white slave is tied hand and foot, unable to lift a hand to better himself or do the needful things, with- |out first obtaining permission from Seme haughty, ignorant and abusive tyrant of some labor union. It would all seem rather like a comic opera if it did not rob people of their freedom; that kind of work will not be permitted long in America." Some smooth managers have built up the labor trust In the last few years, to bring themselves money and power, and by managing workmen, have succeeded in making it possible for them to lay down the law in some cities and force workmen and citizens to "obey" implicitly, stripping them right and left of their liberties. They have used boycotting, picket­ ing, assaults, dynamiting of property and murder to enforce their orders and rule the people. They have gone far enough to order the President to re­ move certain citizens from office be­ cause the "unions" weren't pleased. That means they propose to make the law of the unions replace the law of this government and the union leaders dominate even the chief Exec­ utive. This Is a government of and for the people and no organization or trust shall displace it. But the unions try" it every now and then, led by desper­ ate men as shown in their defiance of law and support of lawbreakers. The "union" record of asskults, crippling of men and even women and children, destruction of property and murder of American citizens during the past two years is perhaps ten times the volume of crime and abuse perpetrated by slave owners during any two years previous to the civil war. We are in a horrible period of lethargy, which .permits us to stand idly by while our American citizens are abused, crippled and murdered in dozens and hundreds by an organiza- k* > - '1 * i • • thrusting what it has to sell (labor) upon us whether or no. \ Suppose an American in a foreign city should be chased by a mob, caught and beaten unconscious, then -his mouth pried open and carbolic acid poured down his throat, then his ribs kicked in and his face well stamped with Iron nailed shoes, murdered be­ cause he tried to earn bread for his children. By the Eternal, sir, a fleet of American men of war would assem­ ble there, clear for action and blow something off the face of the earth, if reparation were not made lor the blood of one of our citizens. And what answer do we make to the appeals of the hundreds of widows and orphans of those Americans mur­ dered by labor unions? How do we try to protect the thousands of intelli­ gent citizens who, with reason, prefer not to join any labor union and be subject to the tyranny of the heavily paid rulers of the labor trusts? Upon a firm refusal by Mr. Post to join this criminal conspiracy a gen­ eral boycott was ordered on Grape- Nuts and Postum all over the coun­ try, which set the good red blood of our ancestors In motion, bringing forth the reply that has now passed into history: "We refuse to join any conspiracy of organized labor to ruin publishers, nor will we discharge any of our trusted employes upon the orders of any labor union. If they can make their boycott effective and sink our ship, we will go down with the capatin on the bridge and a com­ mand." This set the'"'writers in labor paperB crazy and they redoubled their abuse. Finally one rof their official organs came out with a large double column in denunciation of Battle Creek, call­ ing it "a running sore on the face of Michigan," because it would not be­ come ."organized" and pay in dues to their labor leaders. Tire usual coarse, villainous epithets common to labor union writers were indulged in. The result was to weld public sen­ timent in Battle Creek for protection. A citizens' association was started, and mass meetings held. Good citi­ zens \yho happened to be members of local unions in some cases quit the unions entirely for there is small need of them there. The working people of Battle Creek are of the highest order of American mechanics. The majority are not union members, for practically all of the manufacturers have for years de­ clined to employ union men because of disturbances about eleven years ago, and the union men now In the city are among the best citizens. No city in the state of Michigan pays as high average wages as Battle Creek, no city of its size is as pros­ perous, and no city has so large a pro­ portion of the best grade of mechanics who own their own homes. So the work people massed together with the other -citizens in the organi­ zation of the Citizens' Ass'n, with the following preamble and constitution: Whereas, from 1891 to 1894 the strikes instigated by labor unions in Battle Creek resulted in the destruc­ tion of property and loss of large sums of money In wages that would have been expended here; and, Whereas, These acts caused serious damage to the city and in a marked way delayed its progress at that time; and, Whereas, Since the year 1894 the citizens hfive been enabled, by public sentiment, to prevent the recurrence of strikes and labor union disturb­ ances which have been prevalent else where; and, Whereas, The employers of this city have steadfastly refused to place the management of theil* business under the control of labor unions, out have maintained the highest standard of wages paid under like conditions any­ where in the United Staets, and here­ by unanimously declared their intent to continue such policy; and the em­ ployes of this city, a large percentage of whom own homes and have fami­ lies reared and educated under condi­ tions of peace and the well-earned prosperity of steady employment, have steadfastly maintained their right as free American citizens' tovwork with- "out the dictation and tyranny of labor union leaders, the bitter experience of the past offering sufficient reason for a determined stand for freedom; and. Whereas, The attitude of the citi­ zens on this subject has been the means, of preserving peaceful condi­ tions and continuous prosperity, in marked contrast to the conditions ex­ isting In other cities suffering from the dictation of trades unionism; It is therefore Resolved, That the 'continuance of peace and prosperity in Battle Creek can be maintained, and the destructive work of outside interference avoided under the combined effort and action of all our people, by the forn-aticm of a Citisens' Association. ^ - * - C O N S T I T U T . - permanent condition of peace, pros- the blight of strikes, violence and ftiW"'" .Article 1.--Name. Article 2.--Objects. JtWfr--To insure, so far as ' .. :• ' v; -• . • ..*• possible. perity and steady employment to tbe people of Battle Creek. Second--To energetically assist in maintaining law and order at all times and under all conditions. Third--To protect its members in their rights to manage their property and to dispose of their labor in a legal, lawful manner without restraint or in­ terference. Fourth--To insure and permanently maintain fair, just treatment, one with another, in all the relations of life. Fifth--To preserve the existing right of any capable person to obtain employment and sell his labor, without being obliged to join any particular, church, secret society, labor union or any other organization, and to support all such persons in their efforts to re­ sist compulsory methods on the part of any organized body whatsoever. Sixth--To promote among employ­ ers a spirit of fairness, friendship and desire for the best Interests of their employes, and to promote among work­ men the spirit of industry, thrift, faith­ fulness to their employers' and good citizenship. Seventh--rTo SO amalgamate the public sentiment of all of the best citizens of Battle Creek, that a guar­ antee can Jae given to the world of a continuance of peaceful conditions, and that under such guarantee and protection manufacturers and capital­ ists can be induced to locate their busi­ ness enterprises in Battle Creek. Then follows articles relating to membership, officers, duties, etc., etc., etc. This constitution has been signed bv the great majority of representa­ tive citizens, including our workpeo­ ple. • A number of manufacturers from other cities, where they have been suffering all sorts of Indignities, in­ convenience and losses from the gen­ eral hell of labor union strikes, pick­ eting, assaults and other Interfer­ ence, proposed to move, .providing they could be guaranteed protection. The subject grew in importance un­ til it has reached a place where abso­ lute protection can be guaranteed by the citizens of Battle Creek on the following broad and evenly balanced terms wnich guarantees to the work­ man and to the manufacturer fair­ ness, justice, steady work and regular­ ity of output. The newcomlng manufacturer agrees to maintain the standard rate of wage paid elsewhere for like serv­ ice, under similar conditions, the rate to be determined from time to time from well authenticated reports from competing cities. The tabulated wage reports Issued by the Government Department of Commerce and Labor can also be used to show the standard rate, and It is expected later on that this government bureau will furuish weekly reports of the labor market from different centers, so that the workman when he is ready to sell his labor and the employer when he Is ready to buy, may each have reliable Information as to the market or ruling price. The newcomlng manufacturer also agrees to maintain the sanitary and hygienic conditions provided for by the state laws and to refrain from any lockouts to reduce wages below the standard, reserving to himself the right to discharge any employe for cause. The Citizens' Association on Its part agrees to furnish, in such numbers as it is possible to obtain, first-class workmen who will contract to sell their labor at the standard price tor such period as may be fixed upon, agreeing hot to strike, picket, assault other workmen, destroy property, of do any of the criminal acts common to labor unionism. Each workman re­ serving to himself the right to quit work for cause, and the Citizens' As­ sociation further p'edges its mem­ bers to use its associated power to enforce the contracts between em­ ployer and employe, and to act en masse to uphold the law at all times. The new industries locating in Bat­ tle Creek will not start under any sort of labor union domination whatso­ ever, but will make individual con­ tracts with each employe, those con­ tracts being fair and equitable tnd guaranteed on both sides. Thus from the abuses of labor unions and their insane efforts to ruin everyone who does not "obey" has evolved this plan which replaces the old conditions of injustice, lockouts, strikes, violence, loss of money and property, and general ifldustrlal war­ fare, and Inaugurates an era of perfect balance and fairness between em­ ployer and employe, a steady continu­ ance of industry and consequent pros­ perity. The entire community pledged by public sentiment and private act to restore to each man his ancient right to "peace, freedom and the pursuit of happiness." . Other cities will be driven to protect their Workpeople, merchants and citi- •ens aa weii a» their industries irom losses brought on by labor unionism^ run amuck, by adopting the "Battlel.' Creek plan," but this city offers in­ dustrial peace now, with cheap coal and good water, first-class railroad facilities and the best grade- of fair, capable and peaceable mechanics known. Details given upon inquiry of the "Secy, of the Citizens' Ass'n." Identification. ; The public should remember that there are a few labor unions conducted on peaceful lines and in proportion as they are worthy, they have won es­ teem, for we, as a people, are s"~ongly In sympathy with any right act that has for its purpose better conditions for wage workers. But we do not for­ get that we seek the good of all and not those alone who belong to some organization, whereas even the law- abiding unions show undeniable evi­ dences of tyranny and oppression when they are strong enouglf, while many Of the unions harbor and encourage criminals in their efforts to force a yoke of slavery upon the American | people. As a public speaker lately said: "The arrogance of the English King that roused the fieryx eloquence of Otis, that inspired the Immortal declaration of Jefferson, that left War­ ren dying on the slopes of Bunker Hill, was not more outrageous than the conditions that a closed shop would force upon the community. These men burst into rebellion 'when the king did but touch their pockets.' Imagine if you can their indignant pro­ test had he sought to _prohibit or restrict their occupation or determine the conditions under which they should earn their livelihood," and to assault, beat and murder tbem, blow up their houses and poison their food if they did not submit. The public should also remember that good, true Amer4can citizens can be found In the unions and that they deprecate the criminal acts of their fellow members, but they are often In bad company. Salt only hurts sore spots. So, the honest, law-abiding union man Is not hurt when the criminals are de­ nounced, but when you hear a union man "holler" because the facts are made public, he has branded himself as either one of the lawbreakers or . a sympathizer, and therefore with the' mind of the lawbreaker, and likely to become one when opportunity offers. That is one reason employers decline to hire such men. A short time ago inquiry came from the union forces to know if Mr. Post would "keep sti'.l" If they would call o'! the boycott on Postum and Grape- Nuts. This Is the reply: "The labor trust has seen fit to try to ruin our business because we would not join Its criminal conspiracy. We are p ain American citizens and differ from the lalor union plan in that we do not force people to strike, picket, boycott, as­ sault, blow up property or commit murder. We do not pay thugs f 20 to break In the ribs of any man who tries to sup­ port his family nor $30 for an eye knocked out. We try to show our plain, honest regard for sturdy and independent workmen by paying the highest wages in the state. We have a steady, unvarying re­ spect for the law-abiding, peaceable union man and a most earnest desire to see him gain power enough to purge the unions of thsir criminal practices, that have brought down upon them the righteous denunciation of a long-suffering and outraged public, but we will not fawn, truckle, bend the knee, wear the hated collar of white slavery, the union label, nor prostitute our American citizenship under "or­ ders" of any labor trust. You offer to remove the restriction on our businees and with "union" gold ' p choke the throat and still the voice r a i s e d I n s t e r n d e n u n c i a t i o n o f t h e - . . J despotism which tramples beneath an irou-ahod heel the freedom of our brothers. You would gag us with a silver bar . " and muffle the appeal to the American people to harken' to the cries for bread of the little» children whose faithful fathers were beaten to death while striving to earn food for them. Your boycott may perhaps succeec In throwing our people out of wort and driving us from business, but yc<v cannot wrench from us that priceles jewel our fathers fought for and whlc# every true son guards with his lift. • Therefore, speaking for our work­ people, and ourselves, the infamo*d offer Is declined."*' . POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. ------•---- Note by Publisher. - ? The Postum Company have a yearly contract for space in this paoer which they have a right to nse for announcements of Jfacts and princi­ ples. Such use does not necessarily carry witli it any editorial opinh»t >