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•Snaan* aHuraui o f t h e GJass Waratars Aewaaawlated S800,O00.

•"Simon Burns, president of the local 'window glass workers; has a private *ortane of $600,000."

This assertion was made one night veeently when a number of local labor leaders were standing on Fifth avenue, •ays the Pittsburg Dispatch.

"And he made it all as a laboring n a n or a union worker," the first spokesman continued.

Uvery labor worker present swore he had not over $5 in his pocket and even sis an officer of a labor union never sonde more than would keep him in money enough to buy union cigars. ~Burns, though," the first speaker said, *9ms been very lucky. He has been the luckiest man I ever heard of. You tarre heard about men who put their stands on something that became mon-«y Immediately. Well, that's Burns.

"Starting as snapper in a glass factory, he has saved bis money; his in--vestments did the rest. Once he went out in Illinois. A. glass plant built at soa outlay of $200,000 was to be worked Iby natural gas. When the plant was finished the voluminous flow of natural S*s ceased entirely. The plant was 'worth nothing, and when .Burns came around and offered something like $10,-000 for it everybody was afraid to talk lor fear he would wake up and refuse t o buy.

**But Burns bought Then what do you think happened? The natural gas started to flow again.

"In Iowa he bought a lot of marsh land that no one before him could be hired to take. The government soon wanted it for an arsenal.or something Mke that. He sold. He came to Pittsburg and bought a store that—the luck could not leave blm—sooo was needed ~to make room for the widening of an alley.

"Burns sold his glass plant, sold his marsh ground, sold his store In Pitts-hrarg. He made a tremendous profit on •ach deal. If that isn't luck—but what's the use?"

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l a U Bra of "Prosperity.** The supper had been scant In the

home of Thomas Fitzgerald, which is In little rooms at 412 West Seventeenth street. In fact, for a month there has not been much to eat there. He could not get work. He was a young man, but there was that about the wan look of his wife, the pinched look of his little daughter Margaret, who is ten yearo old, that finally made a coward of the man.

At the supper table the man wept. His wife wept with him. The chHd looked and wondered. Then, as her mother sat with her head resting In her hands, the little girl saw her father suddenly grope in his pocket, draw out a bottle, look at it, get up and walk into the front room.

Uttle children of the poor, pitiably enough, know about persons who' kill themselves because they are so poor. This little girl, following her father into the other room, saw him uncork the bottle and put it to his lips.

Silently the child went swiftly to htm. With * sweep of her thin arm she knocked tht bottle from his lips. Then she screamed, ^er mother rah Into the room. The face a«4 the arms of the child were painfully burnt*! by the acid. The man stood staring stu-pidiy, uninJ<n-ed. * > fie w«« locked up in the West Twentieth street station house on a charge of attempted suicide. The child, after being attended by Dr. Mills, surgeon of the New York hospital, remained'with b.er mother In the dreary home.—New Tor* American.

T h e R e w a r d of the Toi ler . "What I object to r is this, economic

chance world in which we live and . Which we seem to have created. It ought to be law as inflexible in human affairs as the order of day and night in the physical world that if a man will work he shall both rest and eat aztd shall not be harassed by any question of how his provision and repose shall come. Nothing less ideal than this satisfies the reason. But in our state «f things no one is secure of this. No one is sure of finding work, no one is "Sure of not losing it. My work may be taken from me by the caprice of my employer. At any time of life—at ev-*ry time of life—ai&nan ought to feel that if he will keep on doing his duty fee alia 11 not suffer in himself nor in those who are dear to him, except through natural causes. But as things -are now no man can feel this. And so ~ve go on pushing and pulling, climbing and crawling, thrusting aside and trampling under foot, and when we *ret to the end, covered with blood and dirt and sin and shame, and look back « w r the way we have come to a palace «f oar own (or to the poorhouse, which ite about the only place we can claim irfth our brother man), I don't think yth-f retrospect can be pleasing.—William Dean Howells.

Lalce Dredgera' K e n Scale. Th* International Brotherhood of

#*"**m Shovel and Dredge Engineers and Crnne Men of America is perfeet-*txg plans which contemplate a uniform Wfirw srole on the chain of lakes, ef-toctftv* tn the spring. The scale as pro-rwwwl is $125 a month and board for *nrin«ors and $90 a month and board "for crane men on dredge work. *

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JULY 10 to 18 was a week of battle for the mastery of Fort Wagner, one of the grim guardians of Charleston harbor. Wagner

became one of two models long in use at the West Point academy. The other was Sevastopol. Captain Langdon Oheves of the Confederate States engineers planned and constructed Wagner and gave his life in its defense the first day of attack.. The Confederate outposts were driven in the morning of July 10 by a sudden dash of Federals almost out of the sea waves, and when the guns of Wagner opened upon the intruders Cheves started from his quarters to report for duty on the walls. He was struck* by the first shell that entered the fort and instantly; killed.

The surprise of the Confederate outposts had been effected by Oeneral George C. Strong's brigade of 2,000 men, who had landed from boats, on the southern end of the island. Every man In the garrison remained on post the night of the 10thr believing that the affair on the beach was to be the forerunner of an assault on the fort Near daylight on the l l t& the sentinels, heard the advahee of stealthy footsteps and made out ghostly forms of armed men climbing the sand ridges on the beach in front of the sea wall. Georgians' and South Carolinians stood at their places, holding their fire until their own pickets came in.

At the heels of the retiring Confederate pickets the advance of the Federal stormers, led by Colonel Rodman, Seventh Connecticut, mounted the walls. One of them climbed to the

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crest liTf-rbntr of jft 32 pounder, beside which .stood Xleutenarit Gilchrist, commander of the Gist guard artillery. Gilchrist challenged the intruder/ receiving for an answer a shot from a rifle held so close that the powder blinded his eyes. The bullet clipped a lock of his hair and passed on. Suddenly the 32 pounder opened, and the entire charge of canister went .through the body of the Connecticut rifleman. That cannon shot was a signal for the batteries to open, and under the sudden, awful fire of columbiads, canon-ades, howitzers and mortars the storming column was swept from the beach.

Not Only Wagner's storm of iron deluged the sandy plain in front, but Sumter's shells raked the charging lines. ''Aim lowT was General Strong's command as he placed himself at the head of the storming parties. Just in front of the fort was a marsh, and after struggling through that the men leaped into the ditch. A few climbed the bank and waited under the shelter of the parapet for re-enforcements. But the enemy's fire became so hot that a line of battle could not survive the march. The assailants who reached the pans-pet fired blindly over the wall and picked off the gunners ki the exposed angles of the fort In retaliation the Confederates tossed hand grenades over the wall. Finally Strong declared, with tears in his eyes, it was useleai ind gave the order to fall back.

In the still more desperate attack of July 18 Strong's brigade was given the post of honor. An eyewitness In the fort, Paul Hamilton Hayne, the poet, Described the thrilling scene in the Southern Bivouac. "The sun had almost reached the horizon," says Mr. Hayne, "when these regiments, glittering in blue and gold, the last rays of the luminary flashing in ominous brightness from their bayonets, swords and epaulets, formed upon the beach, the Sixth Connecticut to lead and attack the southeast angle of the fort, the Forty-eighth New York to pass along the sea front and. facing inward, attack there, the other regiments of the brigade to charge the south front extending Inward toward the marshes on the left while to the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, colored volunteers, 1.000 strong, the honor was given of a position in advance of all.

"They were to distinguish themselves In the ambitious and romantic role of tufttnta perdus. Colonel Robert' O.

men, doubtless his pride and confidence were high as he beheld—

"Down the long* and dusky line Teeth gleam and eyeballs .shine.

"The Federal bombardment on land and sea suddenly ceased. A great calm ensued, but it was portentous and terrible. It seemed as if the heart of nature stood still, awed by a prescience of the Impending and fearful catastrophe. Gradually the smoke of the cannonade, swathed about the fort for hours, so far lifted that the enemy were seen debouching from their first parallel and advancing over the narrow approach between it and the fort Then from the bombproof * and sand hills the garrison quickly gathered along the ramparts. Field pieces were ranged, the artillerists double shotted their guns, and— "Bach gunner moveless by his piece with

rigid aspect steads, The ready lanyards firmly grasped In

bold, untrembltng hands; So moveless in their marble calm, their

stern heroic guise, They look like forms of statued stone,

with burning human eyes. "On rushed the Federals at double

quick, saluted by a simultaneous outbreak of hot shot, an implacable,4 concentrated fire from Sumter, Gregg and James island. Conspicuous in the van, on came the misguided and unfortunate Colonel Shaw,' his long hair waving behind him as he led his sable en-fants perdus. A portion followed bim over the ditch and planted their flag on the ramparts, where the colonel was shot and Instantly killed. The others, however, could not endure the sight of that gaping ditch or the revolting sensation of winged metal viciously near.

"Some of the frightened creatures ran like deer, others in the base paralysis of terror prostrated themselves upon the ground, crawling along on hands and feet Then a grand deed which the old northmen would have called a deed of derring-do was performed by the men of the ever dominant Caucasian race, the thought of which as I write, a quarter of a 'century after its occurrence, makes my heart beat and my pulse throb tumultously. Across the narrow and fatal stretch before the fort every inch of which was swept by a hurricane of fire, a besom of destruction, the Sixth Connecticut (and Forty-eighth New York) charged with such undaunted resolution upon the southeast salient that they succeeded in the very face of hell, one may say, in capturing It"

The commandant of Fort Wagner, General W. B. Taliaferro, describing the charge, surpassed in fervor the enthusiasm of the poet Hayne. Said he: "The Confederates, with the tenacity of bulldogs and a fierce courage aroused almost to madness, poured from the ramparts and embrasures sheets of flame and a tempest of lead and iron. Yet the Intrepid assailants rushed on like she waves of the sea by whose shores they fought They fell by hundreds, but they pushed on, reeling under the frightful blasts that almost blew them to piece*/up te the Confederate bayonets."

The Sixth Connecticut and Forty-eighth New York belonged to General Strong's brigade. It was "8 o'clock and fully dark when the assailants, to the number of 700, entered the bastion. Soon after dark Colonel H. S.v Putnam charged with the Seventh New Hampshire in the wake of Strong anjg in the confusion and darkness'assaulted the very point held by Strong's men. The bastion was held for three hours^when the survivors, 140 in all, surrendered to a party of the garrison led by Captain W. H. Ryan, who was killed in the counter assault

Continuing his description, Mr. Hayne says: "The history of war, rife with terrible conflicts, can show no more terrific strife than this. I have conversed with old Confederates in regard to the night succeeding, this great assault and have remarked how seasoned veterrns shudder when they recall its horrors. Wearily the dark hours passed, and Sabbath morning

dawned over the sand hfils, and every detail of the scene was brought out in bold relief. Men lay in every possible attitude, with every conceivable expression on their countenances, their limbs bent into unnatural shapes by a fall of thirty feet

"In the salient, on the ramparts, they lay heaped up, often three deep. Conspicuous among them was a tall, superbly formed man, an officer, whose calm features,- only the more clearly cut by the chisel of death, gazed toward the cloudless sky—a breathless Apollo! This was Colonel Putnam of the Seventh New Hampshire. Although, horrible to relate, the entire back of his head had been blown off, the wonderful beauty of his face remained unshadowed, evoking from his

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SOME POINTS OF PRACTICE. Author i ta t ive Ia t ermat loa e a Maay

Qwestlons. The following answers to questions

l y the master of the Michigan state grange, Hon. George B. Horton/are of general interest:

Q.—How often should a grange meet? A.—Article III of the constitution says, "Subordinate granges shall meet at least ease .each-month *"* »«» *»«id <nt*ym<MW-

C A B D I N A L G I B B O N S , T H B A M E R I C A N M E M B E R O F T H E S A C R E D C O L L E G E .

Cardinal Oihboat, who has beta dUoassed in Rome as a possible sneosssor to Pope l£o X l l L u a npe scholar sad posse—— a wide and ultimate knowledge of men and affairs. He was created a cardinal in lo86 and is 69 yean ef age.

foes a sigh of pity. On the crest surrounded by a few—a very few—of bis sable troops, at the foot of the flag he bad vainly planted, was the body of Colonel Shaw. One would have thought at a cursory glance that it was the corpse of a mere boy."

The assailants of the bastion repre-

f tnted nearly every regiment In trong's brigade, but the most of them

were from the Sixth Connecticut and Forty-eighth New York. The last named regiment entered the fight with 516 officers and men. Its death roll was 85; wounded. 112; prisoners in the bastion, 73. The loss in the Sixth Connecticut was 15 killed, 77 wounded jand 46 captured. Shaw's colored regiment lost 180 out of 1,900 borne on the rolls.

GEORGE L. KILMBR.

Honor to This T o w * . The ancient town of La BocheHe,

France, is making greatly for temperance. The town council has Just passed a law forbidding the existence ofbafes and drinking places within a radios of a kilometer around buildings used for religious purposes, for the education of, youth, the relief of Illness' and' the burying of dead. This will wipe out, nearly all the drinking places In the town.

Moslem Miss ionaries Heeded. An Illustrious Turk at a* great ban

quet declined wine and said to a, distinguished American: "Do you thins: Turkey would better send Moslem missionaries to America? I, a'Mohammedan, am the only temperance man in this company."

W i l l Christen "War g a l a W i t h Water . Governor Bailey, the chief execu

tive of Kansas, has decided to grant the wishes of the Women's Christian Temperance union and use water instead of wine in christening the battle ship named after his state, v . .

ate meetings:" Experience proves'that meetings should be held at least semimonthly te meet all demands upon the grange la oarrying on Its several lines of Important work.

O.—Are tfio open meetings desirable? A.—The grange is established as a closed session organization for the fkenent of its paying member*. So called open meetings may be held with profit occasionally, say once a year. On such occasions the grange should be shewn at Its best.

Q.—In- holding open meetings should invitations be given in general? A.—Fo> the success aad benefit to be derived from such meetings eaoh member should be given the prtvtie|e of Inviting such neighbors sad friends as are eligible to membership and who would make desirable members. There are but small chances for good/from a general public^ meeting.

Q.—Should the rejecting ef a candidate be discussed^y the members? A.—Except In very extreme cases no good can come from discussing beforehand the rejection of a candidate, aad after the event it is positively Irritating aad wrong. All such matters should ^ s t with the conscience of each individual member.

Q.—.Can a master give the annual word te a visiting^ member? A.—No. Each m « m h a r miia t raoaiva th* wpryf fram tfrw

master "©fine grange'to which he neiongsl Q.—Can first and second degrees ba,aon£

ferred on one candidate1 and the third and fourth on another candidate all in the same evening? A.—Tea The constitution ^ y a that "No grange shall confer more than two degrees on the same person at tha same meeting." It is considered that the lessons of two degrees are all that tha candidate can retain sufficiently to proV % L ceed Intelligently, and if the grange perV ̂ :p.i forms the work properly it Is all that y.A should be undertaken for the good of taw ~" X order. f *!*•$»?,

Q.—When should the minutes be ap» .#31 proved? A—The ritual provides that the %%, minutes or record of a meeting shall bs> \,^-| approved at the close of the meeting* l'i^ when they were enacted. The reading of "" '$ records at a subsequent meeting is for -J the Information of members only. $

Q.—Should the worthy master sign that "s minutes? A.—There is nothing in grange law which requires the signature of tha master to the record of a meeting. -* "

Q'.—When the assistants are taking up T

the word shall the annual or degree word , be given first A.-r-rt is fequtred that the- ' " *» annual word be given first, then followed i by the fourth degree word., . '--

Q.—Has a grange the right .to elect a new officer to fill a vacancy where a resignation has not been made? A—Tea, •> for the grange can declare a vacancy when an officer is delinquent in duty. Any officer, from whatever cause, should not be permitted to be a stumbling bloclc to the progress of the grange. Punctual officers and regular meetings are essential to grange success.

Q.—In electing officers Is It permlsswla to vote to instruct the secretary to cast the vote of the grange for a certain member for'•:*• certain office? A.—Election by-ballot In the grange; has • reference to a \ free, untrammeled' expression of prefer- { ence by each Individual member. To in- >-struct the secretary to act for the whole body is not th line with this Just principle-and-should not-be-allowed: •—'

Q.—Should an applicant come to the grange meeting at which his application is to be balloted upon? A.—While an applicant can be elected and have the first degree conferred upon him at the same>-> meeting it should hot be encouraged or practiced except in extreme cases to concentrate several candidates and thus save* work to the grange. With the applicant in waiting at the grange hall it would be> very embarrassing in case of rejection. There Is generally time enough to wait until results are known.

Q.—Shall the worthy master or lecturer be addressed when rising to speak duringr the lecture hour? A.—The worthy master.

Q.—In the initiatory work has an officer the right to use any language not given in the manual? A—The ritual is very complete within itself, and it is not In good taste to use outside language. There* • is no law, however, against it, providing; the ritual is not abridged or changed.

Q.—When an incorporated grange becomes dead, what disposal can be made of the grange property? Grange property-may Include a halL A—The grange thus being a business body can proceed legally to close out lis real and personal property for the benefit of outstanding indebtedness or other disposition of the pro-., ceeds, but state grange law provides that if it appears that a few members are act^ ing In a way to purposely wreck grange for the property the state granfwi J may take possession and hold it in trust for such time when the grange may de-slip to work again.

Q.—What redress has the state grange* when a subordinate grange persists in receiving new members for a lees fee than stated in the bylaws? A.—If a subordinate grange is working in violation of toe-bylaws. Article XVII of the bylaws of the national grange makes it the duty o f the master of the state grange to suspend the charter of such offending'grange.

Q.—Does a Pomona grange send any of the initiation fee away? A—Pomona, granges have fall benefit of all fees and dues collected.

Mr. B. A. Callahan, who died recently In Albany, w a s a grange speaker and entertainer of much ability. H i s services. were a lways in demand a t state grange meetings and on other oc casions.

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