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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-5-24, Page 71.111,1) OF LROR TalMage on the Relations Of Employer and ErnPlOYee. THE RIGHTS OF BOTH PARTIES, A Timely Discourse Aimed at Airinim., About'. More Friendly '',Itel•it i one tt}e... •• tweet' Capital Old Latter-The'f„Thrist-..• tan Re Iledi' for Industritil Trouble:t.. . Washington, May -20da— At a Tillie when in various districts. labor 'trim- bles are existing or impending the efL. feet Dr. Talmage makes . in th i s dis- course to bring about. a .hettee feel- ing between both sides Of this diffi- cult question-, is eyell timed, texts,, -Galatians v, 15, "Bat if ye bite and devout' one another take heed that ye . benot consumed one of another," ' and PhilipPlans ii, 4, "Look. not every man on. his, own things, but , every man also on the, 'things of others.'' ,;.. .About every six months there is a great labor agitation. There are "violent questioria new in discussion between employers and employee. The present ''strikes'' will go into the. past. Of, course, the damage , done cannot inuriediately be repaired. '.-Wcteres will not be -so highas they were. '' Spasmodically they may be higher,. but they will dtop lower, Strikes, whether right or wrong, al- ways injures laborers as Well as cap- italists. You Will aee this in the starvation of next -winter. ,Boycot- ting and violence and murder never . pay. They are different stages of anarchy. God never blessed murder. .' The worst use you can put a man to is to skill him. Blow up to -morrow all the country seats on the banks . of the I-Tudson and the Rhine and all the fine houses on .Madison Square and Brooklyn Heights and Bitten - house square and Beacon street, and all the bricks and thriber and stones will just fall back on the bare hands of American and European labor. The worst enemies of the working classes in the United States and lee - land are the demented coadjutors. Years , ago assassination—the assas- sination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in .Phoenix Park, Dub- lin, Ireland, in the atteiapt to aven- ge: the wrongs of Ireland only turned away .from that afflicted people mil- lions' of sympathizers. The at -Len -lots ..to blo-dr up the house of commons in . London had only this effect -- to -throw out Of .employment tens Of thousands of innocent Irish people In England. In this country ,the torch put to the factories that have 'discharged hands for good or bad rea- son, -obstmictions on the rail tracks; . in front of Midnight express trains because the offenders do -niet like the president of the company; strikes on shipboard, the hour they were going to sail or in the Mines. the day the 'coat was to be deliveredor on. house M(Sidings so the, builder fails in I' .: ping his contract—all these are 'only a hard blow on. the head of Am- erican. labor and cripple its arms and . lame its feet and Pierce its heart. Frederick the. Great admired some. ' land near his palace at Potsdam, and he :resolved to get it. It was own- ' .ed by aethillee. He offered the miller three times the Value of the Proper-. -tea The miller would not 'takeit be- cause it Was the Old homestead, and he felt about as Naboth felt. about hi vineyard when. Ahab wanted it Frederick the Great was a tough anc . terrible"inan, and he ordered the mil ler. into': his presence, and:. the king, with a, stick in his hand e— a stick : . with which he sometimes struck the officers., of stateeecticl to the miller. "Now, I have offered you threls timet the value'. of that property, and if youw-oil't sell it I'll take it any- how." The miller said, "Your ma- jesty, you won't." "Yes," said the king, "I will take it." "Then," said the miller, "if your majesty does : take it Twill -sue you in the chancery court." At that - threat Frederick the ' Great 'yieldedhis infamous dee man& And the, most imperious out- rage 'against the working classes will yet cower. before the law. Violence and -.defiance of the law Will never accomplish anything; but righteous - awes ,and submission- to the hew will accompliele.it, But gradually the damages done the ..laborer by.'the etrikeswill be repair-. .•ed, and .some important things ought now: to be, said, :The whole tenden- cy of Our times, as you have notic- e is .to - make .the chasm between oyer and ernploye ' wider- and' In olden times the head Man Of the factory,- the master build- er,' the capitalist, the head.. map of the . firm, wprkecl , eide.' by side with their .employesa working sothethnes at the,. 'aiitne .bench, dining - :at the sa,m0able, an d ' there . are th °se here can remember the time when. the -clerks of large coltrtilercial establieha merits Were. accestorned to homed. with the head men of the firm. . All that is , changed, and.. the ten-' dency is . to. make . the .distance between employer and employe wid- ae.and winder. . The tendency is to make the employe feelathat , he is wrongedby the. success - Of the capit- alist and to Make the . capital ietdfeel: .., 'NOW, . MY. -laborers are only - bees te of Mirden; I initat give so .tnuch ' moneyfor so much drudgery, just so many .pieces of silver for 'So . many .heads of sweat," l In other.. words, ' the bridge Of sympathy is brOlcen: down at- bOth. ends.. That' feeling Was well deScribed bY ThomaS Carlyle xViien he said: "Plugson ' of : St. Dolly Dridershot, •1Mccaneerlike, sa.yS to his tiut.p:'r -`1\rob1e Spinners, .this is the. hundredth th Onsand • We haVe gain'ed, wherein I mean to dWell...and plant Thy vineyards The t1.00,000, s mine. the daily wage Was yonrs„. Ad ion, -noble spinnora t Drink my -health Wi th tli is groo t each.. Which 1 'I've yen over and abOve.'.".. Now, What we want iS to rebuild that bridge Of syrn.PathY, end I put the troWel i : b one of the :tiliutUmnt:5t to- a1,, and 1 preaeli rime° esnecitelly Itt omPlovers as such, although what I Itaye to otied Will be appe both employere. and On The , behavior .pf laborer, toward their ell Mg :the last :three inoatl induced oome employers. the neat Christian ,dutie- owe to thole whom t Therefore 1 Want to s to whom I confront face face those to whom these words ,ecurie that all Shipowners, all pa alisteegill 'commercial fi:::nle• all n ter,builders, mil dmitis'eVives, - are boundto be inter'e'sted iin the entire ;welfare of their subordinates. Years ;Igo' some one -gave .threele prescrip- tions for becoming a : -spend your life -in getting and keeping the earnings. Pi other .people; secondly, have no .anxiety about the woer iments, the : losses., the disape pOintments, of others; -thirdly, do not mind the fact that Your vast ,Wealth implies, the poverty of a great many people." Now, there is not a limn hero who would consent to go into life with these three principles. , to earn a fortune. It is ,your desire to do your whole duty to the Men and women in your service. First of all, then, pay as large wages as are reasonable and as year business will affordeeenot necessarily What others pay, The eight :of' a. laborer to tell his einployer what he must pay implies the right of an em- ployer to compel a man into service whether he will or, not, and either pf those ideas is despicable. When any eraPiciyer allows a -laborer to say What he must do or have his business 'ained and the employer submits: to it, he does every business Man in. the United States a wrong and yields to, he principles Which,- carried out, vould dissolve society. Look over 'our affairs and put yourselves in magination in your laborer's place, nd then pay him what before God nd your own conscience you think on ought to pay him. Do no' be too ready to cut down wages. As far as possible, pay all, nd pay proniptly. There is a great eal of Bible teaching On this sub- ect. Malachi: "I will be a swift vitness against all sorcerers and gainst :all adulterers and against hose who oppose the hireling in his vages." Leviticus: "Thou' shalt ot keep the wages of the hireling 11 night unto the morning." Coles - lens: "Masters, give unto your sere ants that which is justandequal, flowing that ye also have a Mester n heaven." So you see it is not, question between yOlt and your ems, loye so much as it is a queetion etween you and (Iota Do ,not say to your employes, Now, if you don't likethis place et another," when You know they annot get: another. As far as pose ible, once ,a year visit ,at -their home our clerks and your workmen. That the. only Way you can become Ac - tainted with your eyaets. You q.1.1 by such process find out that iere is a blind parent or a sick sis- r being. supported. Y -w ou ill find ome of your young men in rooms ithout any fire in winter, and in ummer sweltering in ill -ventilated mrtments. You will find out bow ueh depends ' on the wages you pay withhold. Again-, I counsel all employers to ak well cater the physical health their subordinates. Do not put 1 them any unnecessary. fatigue. ver could understand why the drives on our city cars must stand' all y when they might just as well t down and drive. It seems to me st unrighteous that so many 'of the male clerks in our stores should be napelled.: to stand all day and' rough those hour's when there are t few or no customers. These peo- e have aches and annoyances and weariness enough without putting upon them additional fatigue. Un- less these female clerks must go up• and downon the 'businese of the store, let thein sit down. But, above all; I pliarge you, 0 employers, that you look after the Moral and spiritual welfare of your employes. First, know where they spend their evenings. That: decides everything: You do 110t want around your money drawer a young man who wept last night to see "Jack Sheppard." 'A Man that comes into the store in the Morning ghast- ly with .midnight revelry is not the man fdr. your store. The young meo. who spends his evening in the so- ciety of refined women or in musical or artistic circles or in literary .im- provement is the young Man for your store. Do not say of these young men, "If they do their work in the busi- ness hones, that is, all 1 have to ask." God has Made you that man's guardian. I want you to 'underatand that many of these young hien are orphana, or worse than orphans, flung out. intosociety to struggle for thernselyes.. .A young man is pitched into the middle of the Atlantic ocean,. anda plank is Pitched after him, and . then he is told to take that and swini ashore. Treat, that „young man as you :Would like' to 10. -ye yo-er sea treated if you were deyea.-e Do not :tread 011 him. Do mit: swear at him. Do not send, him pa a -useless errapd:' Say "good morning-''' and: "goad night" atld "L2;00fi1yY.." 701I are .dedding that man's destiny 'fat' two worlds.. of 0 lect 'hey hey. you and tatty pit- me - a a a 1 11 a a a is qt '(1 ti te tV al or lo of 01 ne er da si mo fe co th bu pi Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was beyond computation, and at Saltaire England, he had a church and a chapel built and supported by himself — the church for those, Who preferred' the Episcopal service, and the chapel for those who preferred the Methodist servioo. At the open- ing of one of his factories he gave a great dinner, anci there were 3,500 people present, and in his after din - her Speech he said to these people gathered; "I cannot .look around me nnd see Allis vast ossemblage of friends and work people without be- ing moved. I feel greatly honored by - the presence of the nobleman at my sidle, and I am espeCially delighted at the presence of my 'work people. I hope to draw around me a popala- tion that will enjoy the beauties Of this neighborhood—a population of well rani d, COD t.,011 tad., ha py 'opera- tives. In-i've given instructione10 my arehitect, that nothing* is to be spared to reader the dwellinge ,of tho o,oera Lives a pattern to the dotInttyl, e - - i•-••---••••••ne • • • e • - • • • • ••••••••••.e.e • - • - • e e're.a and if tIlY life is spared by divine „, O.? ,iFF i,ope to see eon'tentment D 01 S , CI, Till 1,\ ,K sat isfac lion and happinesS a re and me,' TE MS OF INTEREST FROM AROUND '11101 is Chrietia0 character demon- strated. There are others in this THE WORLD eountry and in other lands on a smaller scale doing- their best fel their employes. ',they have riot for gotten their own early strugglee They remember how they were dis- couraged, how hungry they were and how cold and how tired 'they- were, and, though they may be 60 or 70 years of age, they know just how a boy feels between 10 and 20 and how a young man feels between 20 and 30. • They have not forgotten it. Those 'we:111.11y employers were not Priginally Iet down out of heaven 11'ittl pulite\ s of sill- in a wicker b ket, setin lined, fanned by cherubic n gs • Star ted in rough est cradle, dri whose rocker misfortune put her violent foot and tipped them into the cold world, l'hose old men are , sym pa tl o t ie bOyS And then I charge you not tte 'put unneeeseary temptation 'in the wa.y.of ybu,r: young men. Do ,hot : keep large" sums of money lying ateutid unguard- ed Know how mach Markey ,there is [11the till. Do not have the account hooks loosely kept.' There are .teMpa 'battens inevitableto yourtg 1.11e7.1, and enough of them, without :your, put- ting' an unneceSsary temptatibrie in their way, Men'an Wall: street, hav- ing 30 year of reputatioo .fcir hon- esty, have dropped into Sing 'Sing and perdition, arid You must be .careful how you try a lad of 15. And :if he do wrong do not pounce on him like a hyena. he proveshiniself - worthy of your confidence, do not call in the police, but. tele him hornee Tell why e'Ott dismissed him to: those. Who will give him another chance. Many a young man has done wrong once who will never do wrong again. Ah, my friends, I think eve can af- ford to give everybody another chance \Viten G od knows we should' all have been in perdition if he had not given us 10,000 chances, Then, if in moving around your fac- tory, or mill or berm or: store, you are inexorable with young men God evill remember it. Some - .day the wheelof fortune will ‘turn, and ,you -will be a pauper, and your daughter will go to the workhouse, and your son will die on the autfield. If in moving among your young men yon SCO one with an ominous pallor of cheek. or you hear him coughing I..ie- hind the counter, say to him, "Stay home a day or two and rest or go out and breathe the breath of the hills," If his mother die, do net dee mend that on the day after the":f1111.,.. eralhe be in the 'store. Give hini leost a week to- get Over that Which: he will never get over. • Employers, urge .upon your em- : • ployes, above all, a religious life.. So far 'fvom that, how is it, young men? Instead of being cheered On the road to heaven aome of you are ;:121-i-- paturedi and it is a.. hard thing for you to keep your Christian integrity in that store or foctOry where there are so many hostile to religion. Zie- then, a grave general under Frederick the CO:eat, tra.S A Christian. Frederic:le the Great was a Skeptic. One day Ziethen, the venerable, white' haired general asked to be excused from military duty that he might attend the holy sacrament. 1 -le was excus- ed. A feW days after Ziethen was dining with the king and with inany notables .of Prussia when Frederick the Great in a jocose way said, "Well Ziethen. !iota- did the sacrament of last Fr i (la y digest?" The venerable Old warrior arose and said: "For • your majesty I have risked my life many a time on the battlefield, and, for your majesty I would be willing at any time to die: but you do ANT0ng. when you insult the Christian relig- ion. You will forgive me if I., your ' old military servant, cannot bear in silence any insult to iny Lord and my Saviour." Frederick the Great leap- ed to his feet, and he Put out his hand, and he said: ''Heppy Ziethen! Forgive me, forgive Me!" Oh, there are many being scoffed at for their religion, and I thank God there are many men as heave as Ziethen! Go to heaven yourself; 0 em- ployer! Take allyour people with you. Soon you will be through buy- ing and 'selling and through with manufacturing and building, and God will ask you: "Where are, all those people over whom you had :so great ipfluence? Are they here? - .Will they be here?" 0 shipowners, .into What harbor Will yodr crew sail? 0 you 4 • merchant grocer, are those Young • men that Under your care are provid- ing food for thedbodiee and families of men to go "starved forever? 0. You man u fa cturere, with so -many wheels 'flying and so many bands mill- iliter and so .many new patterns turn- ed out and so many goodsdehissped, tire the spinners, are the carmen, are the draymen, are the salesmen, are the Wa1C11 ers of your establishment -working out everything but their 0711,11 salvation?. Call it abe, that, having those people ander your, care 5, 10, .20 years, you have made no everlasta ing impression for good on their intrtiOrtia ecalls?-. God turn! U n1121.1' be ck from • su011 s el lishness and' teach us to live for ethers andenot for our- 12',19 selyesi Christ ads ea the eXaMple of sacrifiee and se de Many of his dis- ciples. ed, Punctuated and reserved in Pithy l'aragraplis for the Perusal ot Pracileal I'eopie — Personal, l'olitleal *lid 1'1'0E12011e. UNCLASSIFIED, The Ottawa relief work goes brave- ly on, and the relief fund now am- ounts to the stun Of $799,678,75. Earnings Grand Trunk Railway *SySLO111 1St to 791 May, 1900, 3391,- 383; 1899, $362,297; increase, 329,- 086; Chicago and Grand Trunk earn- ings omitted. The third drawing room of the season was opened by the Queen in person at Buckingham Palace on Fri- day. Bright weather prevailed, and immense ceowds ,assembled. , The ,Quito sailed feorn New York on Thursday for lionthay, India, with 200,000 bushels of corn for the fam- ine districts. 11 is expected that the \ ege will be made in 40 days. , epe511101111 from Duluth, Minn., says all the lines of the new Canadian Transeontinental Road (McKenzie & Mann's roads) have been ,coasolidat- ed under the name Canadian North- ern. On Wednesday' was found a body partly' buried in' the sand cm the beach, near Oswego, N.Y. The body was so badly decomposed that iden- tification was impossible, but it is thought the body may be that of William Jordon, drowned off the steamer Argyle on the civic holiday last year. After a tenure of office as President of the Industrial Exhibition Associa- tion at Toronto, for a period of 21 years, J. J. Withrow has retired from office, and his late colleagues on the board'took occasion on Friday night to tender him a banquet at the Al- bany Club. They also presented him with an elaborate cabinet of silver- ware, suitably inscribed, as a slight tribute to the excellent services ren- dered to the association by Mr. With- row. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. At Thursday's Police Court in To- ronto, Central Prison Convict John Thompson, who stabbed Albert Bad- geley, a fellow -convict, was sent to the penitentiary for five years. Sarnuel If. Handy shot and killed himself on Sunday in front of Potter Palmer 'a residence, on the Lake Shore drive, Chicago. Ire had be- come despondent at being unable to obtain work. Counsel for George D. Storey, Hal- ton County briber, asked the court -„to reduce his fine to 8100 from 3200, and not to disqualify him, as his had been an unintentional wrong. The court reserved judgment .on the aP- lineation. Justice Forbes, in the Supreme Court at Ithaca, N.Y., on Thursday, sentenced Charles Ingersoll. the de- . faulting treasurer of 'Tompkins Coun- ty, to four years and six months' imprisonment at Auburn, and to pay a fine of 36,000. Aleck WhiLny, aged 25, a society leader and popular young man, was shot and killed on a street car at August, Ga. on Sunday. by Gus Wil- son, a uegre;, about a scat in the car. Much excitement prevails, but there is not much need Lp fear lynching, Burglars entered the postofice at Sodus, N.Y., on Friday, and with two charges of , dynamite blew open the doors of the large safe. The rob- bers were frightened away before they could reach a steel chest which contained the postdflice money. Messrs. Reeves and Reynolds, the auditors of the Postal Department, at Havana, have been detained in charge of a detective. The amount of the postal defalcation so far as discovered at present is $36,000 dur ing the year 1900 and 369,000 dur- ing the year 1899. Thomas Taylor, a prominent citi- zen of Dunlap, Iowa, on Sunday shot and probably fatally wounded 11, H. Barrett, a school director. At the last meeting of the School Board, Taylor's daughter failed for re-elec- tion, and Taylor is supposed to hava held Barrett accountable. Early Sunday morning William Kerns & Co.'s general store at Bur- lington, was entered by burglars, who carried off about $100 worth of goods. Footprints gave evidence of three persons, and were traced to the lake shore, a couple of hundred yards .away, showing they came and went by boat. Francisco Abbatto was hanged in the Camden County Jail at Camden, N.J., shortly after 10 o'clock Thurs- day Morning, for the murder of Gen- era° De Fe°. Abbatto became infat- uated with De Feo's wife, and one day hest summer he killed him. Ab- batto was convicted on the testimony of Mrs. De Feo. Charles E. Ryan and William Sher- od of Halton County must Pay 00 and costs ,for having 1)00111)0011guilty bribery at the electicm held in Hal - "in in 1898 or go to jail for six 111115. :Mr. justice Osier and Mr, Greatest I3anquet in Iligtory. The greatest banquet in history took place August 18, 1E389, when the 40,000 Mayors of France eat at a table in the Palais de Pinclustrie in Paris. There were three relays of about 13,000 guests each. To pre - Pare the feast required 75 chief cooks, 13,000 waiters, scullions, cel- latemin and helpers, 80,000 plates, 52,000 glasses, knives, forks and spoons, in proportion, 10,4100 rolls, and fish, meat oral lowl by the ton. The banquet wa,s part of the centen- ary celebration of tile events of 1789. Four 111 Three Thousand. Font persons oftt of every 3,000 Men, Women and children in the ,lin- ited States are ei thee' in 4, 11 or out tice Afri clennain o had reserved eir cases at Milton, so directed t Toronto on Sa.turclay. Bigamy was the charge preferred at the Court Street Police Station in Toronto Thursday night by the par- ents, of Annie Rosie Robinowitz against one Abraham Cohen, who was taken into custody by Detective Black. The prisoner has resided' in Toronto for about two years, 'hav- ing come from the United States. A man named Haskins, who runs a sawmill at Elbe Mills, near Brock- yille, Ont., was arrested on' Friday on a charge of dealing in "green goods." liaskins pleaded guilty, but as he has heretofore borne 0, good character and. has not actua,)iy dis- posed. of any of the .stuff, Ile was let go on suspended sentence, giving bonds to appear when Called upin 10 do so. o.S31141.14Ttens. mos ,Towirurst, an inmate 64 the ' them 1Iouse of Refuge, met a very doh death on Thureday at neon choking on a, piece of meat. I -Ie ' dead in three initiates. 1111 Haggerty was killed at the fort Soap Works at Toronto etiori Sathetle,y by the fall of ` Ja on bail, or are fugitives i(on) Ma- sCI.,laa; 111111 i9heir total number lo 90,000, by out at a population estimated at was 70,000,000. Only six per Cent. of aa all tho$0, lVho 1111.0e fallen foul of do cow law are women. Jun an elevator. Thomas Dennie had 1 left leg broken in the same accidel At, Duadas, Ont., John Bryant, 1-21 ploYed by 4. W. nickson tukit out gravel for the new cement sit Walks being' laid in town, was Pi ied under toes of gravel to his nee the sand pit mound caving in. II pollee' bone was broken, besides oth in juries, Louisa Gunther, a seamstress, w struck by a Michigan Central 'fa train five miles west of Wayne, Er day night and instantly killed. Lo isa Gunther was 40 years of ag About seven years ago she lived Canada with her parents. Disappoin ed in love, she went to DetroiE at the Detroit Sanitarium learned t be a nurse. Five Years ago she wel to her home near Berlin, Canada, tev months ago she 'returned to Detroi She acted queerly of late and is su posed 'to have been demented. DEAD. Jemima Mackenzie, widow of th late Charles Plerchimer, died Thur day night at Belleville, aged 8 years. . Rev. J. P. Kiernan, Vicar -Genera of Rochester Diocese arid rector c the St. Mary's Roman Catholi Church, died on Sunday at Ste Mary' Hospital, aged 40 years. James Fordyce, engineer of Guelp Waterworks, was stricken with apo - r te LIEBIS fir CURE • Will cure Epilepsy, Fits, St.Vitus Dance and Falling Sick- ness. A TRIAL BOTTLE sentFREE ALL CHARGE tb any sufferer sending ,LiS their name an o address aad mentioning this paper. , 4ddress The LIEB1G CO 179 Ring St.W., Toronto. Plexe' Thursday morning. Ife neve regained consciousness, and died th same evening He 'was Guelph's firs engineer. Ile leaves two sons. LieutsaCol. Cosby of .the 4Sth High lenders' Regiment, Toronto, died on Saturday night. He was about 60 years of age. He began his military career in 1892 when he helped to or- ganize the 4Sth Highlanders, of whom he was the first major. Three years ago he succeeded Col. John 1. David- son as commanding officer. Two of his sons are in service in South Af- rica. THE FIRE RECORD. The new Hotel Strathcona, nt Shawenegan Lake, B.C., which was to have been accepted from the con- tractors and formally opened this week, was on Sunday morning burn- ed to the ground. Loss about 820,- 000. Fire yestrday ' afternoon at Dau- phin, Man., destroyed the postoflice, owned by Thomas Iredale; loss, 81,- 500, insurance 31,000; J. J. Walker, loss 31,200, insurance 3600: R. C• Ennis of Neepawa, loss on flour $2,- 000, insurance 31,000; Denirr:ev, loss 82,000, irsurance none: D. Moine tosh, loss 85-00, partially insured. There are also a great number of small losers. THE LABOR wonLn. Miners -to the number of 2,500 are on strike at the Osceola and Quincy mines in lfichigan. There is a strong probability of the strike spreading. Every street car in Kansas City on Sunday was in full operation and 210 violence was offered by the atrikers. The injunction of the Federal Court, enjoining the union- men from inter- fering- with the 'running of the cars, had a deterrent, effect on the strikers. FOR M.E.N OE WAR. Tne Canadian Patriotic Fund no \NT amounts to 8273.528. Serious reports are current that the Ashantees are determiited to throw off the British yoke, that they have segured the co-operation of eight other tribes, and that they are able to raise 00,000 men. THE RELIWOCS NVORLD: At the Methodist Episcopal General Ccriference at Ch ea go on Thursday, the Board of Bishops. was directed to appoint a fraternal delegate to at - fend the next Conference of the Can- adian Methodist Church. SUICIDES. IL H. Norrie, manager of the Union Bank of Scotland, was found dead Friday morning at his residence in Edinburgh. His head was half blown away by a gun. Apparently he com- mitted suicide. Unappreciated Advantages. "Mike," said I'loddiug Pete, "here's a piece in de paper 'bout 00100 dat says he got into jail fur doin nothin at all!" ."Arl yit he's kickin," rejoined 'Mean- dering Mike. "An some o' de trouble we've been put to to git into jail out o' de cold has often come dos to beim downright work!"—Washington Star. The Savage Bachelor. "I wonder," said the soda fountain clerk boarder, "why the women are so set on marrying soldiers?" "They like 'em because they have al- ready been trained. A Soldier's first duty is obedience," said the savage bache- lor.--Indiananolis Press. Is It th That WHEN MEN DOUBLE UR, A Sure Place to Eind an Exhihitiew of Meanness. "There's one place above all other 'whore a man exhibits his meanness,'" said the traveler, "and that's aboard Sitt OCeall liner and toward the mai who is obliged . to occupy the same stateeetere, -with him, You are mad to begin ranitt that you have to bunk in with some/lady- If be gets the lower berth, he's done got: a mortal injury. If he's seasick, you have a contempt for him; if he is not, you am a bit envious. I've crossed the Atiatitic nine times and always ehated etatee room, and I was never more than. oat speaking terms with my roommate. 1Ltatt, can lie all right toward everybody rim aboard, lent he's your enemy. The elEtt is worse when it's a pair of old travelers., as each is posted as to his rights allid privileges and is zealous in enforcing" them. When I crossed to London ta4 year, I had a Chicago man for a anent: - No doubt he was an all around good fel- low, but it was his sixth or seventh trip, and he'd got posted as to when and beer to exhibit his meanness. I found him in the staterooin when I came aboard. We recognized each other as veterans, but few words must be uttered for de,ceney's sake. " `Name's Jones,' says I as 1 chack4A away iny steamer trunk. "'Name's Brown,' says he as ha. -hang- ed on his hat. "IVe didn't speak again for four daye. Then,we got a heavy gale and a big sera and as I was lying in my bunk he eamai in for some cigars and growled: "'Got it?' '"No; have you?' • "'No. Hoped' you had!' "'Ditto!' "An hour before we landed I handea him a paper on which I had written down my feelings concerning him. E called him a crank, a curmudgeon, a bear, a heathen and a lot of other things and expressed the fervent hope that it neight never occur that the sante betel would give us botli shelter in Euesige.t. As I handed out my paper, he extended one. He had written down his feelings toward me, and I pledge you my ward; if the two paperi'; weren't alike to al word! I met him in Paris six weeke. later, and we rushed to greet each other like old friends, end for two weeks wit - walked about like two brothers and wero, grieved when the parting ctime. That was on land, you know, and we weren't' bunkmates. I'm going, over again nert month, but I'm making no promises of.' better behavior. Whether my roommate, IS a minister froin 13oston or a cattle raiser from Arizona, I shall probabay de all I can to make his position uncomforta- ble, ana I an sure he -will do :IS Eallaik for nie." M. Q trA.e. His Two Wishes. "Did I understand you to say that yen wished to marry my daughter?" inquired the fierce old man as he reached aremail into tlie corner for a thick cane. "Yves," stammered the youth. "Well," said the old man as he weight- ed the club in his hand and then heft rose from his chair, "you are justly en- titled to one more wish. Name it." "I wish," said the youth despairingly, "that I might get out of this more alive." 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