INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS CHANGE PROBABLY DOES. IN WOMAN'S AMERICAN ocvyjuoHt LIFE & ff/tejotf d54i»srtasc- re&. oa fcrWi ELLO, Henry, I am going to leave you today. I've sold my Made Safe by Lydia E. Pinkham's carcass again." Vegetable Compound. This remark by a big sailor to a friend on the San Francisco Graniteville, Vt —"I was passing water-front caused a landsman through the Change of Life and suffered to turn around and regard the from nervousness pair curiously. It was the tenth and other annoying time that he had heard that remark symptoms, and I can truly say that in the course of an hour Lydia E. Pinkham's as he loitered about the wharves Vegetable Compound watching the whalers preparing has proved for their season in northern worth of mountains seas. He had seen big, hard- gold to me, as it Howell—My wife is a woman of fisted men boarding the vessels or sitting about on restored my health few words. boxes on the docks chatting with friends until and strength. I 1 Powell—But doesn't she make the never to tell they should be summoned on board for the cruise. forget few work overtime? my friends what And always, as the sailors would greet a new companion, Lydia E. Pinkham's came that remark, "I've sold my carcass." BETTER TEETH Vegetable Compound has done for ma It puzzled the landsman. He did not understand, during this trying period. Complete FEWER DENTIST'S BILLS but figured out that it was some rough restoration to health means so much pleasantry. He did not know that every man who to me that for the sake of other Suffering women I am willing to make my sails out of an American port in a deep-sea vessel Your teeth decay because particles trouble public so you may publish under the stars and stripes must literally sell his of food get into crevices between and this letter."—MRS. CHAS. BARCLAY, body and soul into a servitude as abject and as around the teeth and create germs B.F.D., Graniteville, Vt. debasing as that of the black man on the southern of decay. Ordinary tooth powders No other medicine for woman's ills plantation before the Emancipation Proclamation and washes are entirely inadequate has received such wide-spread and unqualified was issued. to prevent it. endorsement. No other medicine For the American wlio sails the high seas we know of has such a record Try Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic, a delicious, under the stars and stripes is a slave. He is a of cures as has Lydia E. Pinkham's harmless germicide. Just a Vegetable Compound. slave under the law. True, he cannot be put upon little in a glass of water, and rinse the the auction block by his master and sold to the For more than 30 years it has been mouth and brush the teeth thoroughly. curing woman's ills such as inflammation, highest bidder. But he must surrender his American It will whiten the teeth, prevent ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, birthright—freedom of contract he must and remove tartar, destroy all germs periodic pains and nervous sign away his right to his pay when it falls due. of decay and save you dentist's bills. prostration, and it is unequalled fof And he cannot be a sailor without signing them Paxtine thoroughly cleanses, deodorizes carrying women safely through the away. And he cannot run away from his bargain period of change of life. and keeps pure and odorless and his master. If he tries It, he is arrested and v-*y false teeth and bridgework. Paxtine Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., taken back, no matter in what quarter of the & is far superior to liquid antiseptics invites all sick women to write globe his vessel Is anchored. For, by the operation her for advice. Her advice is free, and peroxide for all toilet and hygienic of treaties with all the maritime powers of and always helpful uses. At Druggists 25 and 50c, the world, the United States agrees to arrest and 44 Bu. to the Acre or sent postpaid upon receipt of price return foreign sailor-slaves, In retunn for which by The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, the foreign countries have agreed to arrest and Mass. Send for a free sample. return to American ships America's chattel slaves. is a heavy yield, but that's what John Kennedy of No man is ever a slave under the law unless Edmonton, Alberta, Western Canada, got from 40 Tuberculosis In Japan. acres of Spring Wheat In 1910. .Reports conditions are such that it is necessary for his Japan is not lagging behind in the irom other distriota in that prornce showed other excellent masters to hold him legally In servitude in order fight against tuberculosis. The Japan results—such as 4,000 to retain his services. Every land is full of industrial bushels of wheat Health association has over 200,000 mk from 120 acres, or 881-3 slaves who cannot desert their masters If bu. peracre. 25,80and40 local members, and carries on a campaign numerous. busnelyields were they would, because there is nothing else for them of lectures in the cities and As high as 132 bushels of oats to the to do but to submit or starve. But the occupation towns cf the country. Tuberculosis is acre were threshed from Alberta fields in 1910. of a sailor carries him to foreign lands where the Ths Silver Cup Increasing in Japan due chiefly, Prof. lure of untried conditions is forever beckoning, S. Kitasato of Tokyo says, to the and it would be comparatively easy for him to rapid development of the factory system at the recent Spokane Fair was awarded to the desert his master. But here the law steps in, and ard's quarters). Here the men rnuoc uve, eat, of industry, the introduction of Alberta Government tor sleep and keep their clothing. It has been described Its exhibit of grains .grasses and modern methods and manners of civilization vegetables. Reports of excellent as "too large for a coffln and too small for yields for 1910 come also from and the increasing acuteness skatchewan and Manitoba in a grave." It is unsanitary, dark, and dirty. estern Canada. of the struggle for existence. Free homesteads of 160 The American sailor is compelled to sign away acres, and adjoining preemptions of 160 acres(at in foreign trade his right to part of the wages the Much Easier to Handle. 83 per acre) are to be bad due him at ports of call. Consular agents have declared ill the choicest districts. Mabel—Father's so glad you're a Schools convenient, climate this to be the most prolific cause of desertions excellent, soil the poet. very best, railways close at from American ships. The act of December hand, building lumber Scribbler—Ah, like yourself, he cheap, fuel easy to get and 21, 1898, gives the sailor a right to half the wages adores poetry? reasonable in price, water easily procured, mixed that may due him at any port of call, but add be Mabel—Oh, no. But you see poets farming a success. "unless contrary be expressly stipulated in the Write as to best place for settlement, the can't fight. The last lover of mine he settlers' low railway contract." The ship-owners see to it that this rates, descriptive illustrated tried to throw out was a football sea, no one loses but the sailor and his widow and "Last Best West" (sent free on stipulation is always made. application) and other information, player! children. The property is paid for by the community, to Sup't of Immigration, The sailor must compete with the unskilled Ottawa, Can., or to the Canadian by you and by me^ for insurance shifts and destitute of all nations and races, because the Government Agent. (36) The Army of the burden of loss from the shoulders of the Individual lav/ as to citizenship was repealed in 1864, and the the fear of the foreign dungeon and the certain Chas. PIBho, Clifford Block, Grand Forks, N. D. to the shoulders of the community. Perfect J. M. MadJdilan, Drawer 197, Watertown,S.D. operation of iparitime insurance has reduced the return to his ship in irons holds him to his contract. LT. Holmes, 315 Jacksoo St., St. Paul, Minn. Constipation policing of the sea has removed the dangers standard of skill In seamen. No standard of efficiency And even with the fear of certain re-enslavement from piracy, and losses from state or local disturbances has been supplied by law. The ship-owners staring him in the face, the sailor under Northwestern 401ntructo"' are paid for by the states and localities the stars and stripes is far too often a deserter. may hire whom they please and as few men as the Is Growing Smaller Every Day, responsible. inspectors will let them. There is no standard to It is idle to argue that ft is in the nature 600 Students CARTER'S LITTLE Conservatory And so the old principle of common hazard Has guide the inspectors. And so the sailor must do of the sailor to wander, to desert master for LIVER PILLS are been abandoned so far as the ship-owner is concerned the unskilled man's work at sea because the work another, and that therefore laws are necessary to through the operation of maritime insurance has to be done and there is no one else to do it. onfy^giro relief— of Art and prevent the disorganization of the merchant marine. CARTERS An branches Music Dramatic Art, and modern laws. But how is It with the Orchestral and Band Instruments. Normal Courses Often he must risk his life because the vessel is they permanently Every occupation has its devotees to whom in Public School Music, Art, Piano, Physical Training, sailor and with you and me? It is easy to see cure Constipation. undermanned and unskilfully manned. Because It calls in an insistent voice, and there are thousands Domestic Science. Terms Reasonable. Catalog Free. how this has worked to increase the hazard borne Millions O, A. EVERS, Pros. Minneapolis, Minn. of this competition with the foreigner, his wages of men who follow the sea from choice. The me by the crew. Formerly the ship-owner would not answer to the question, why is the sailor legally a are as small as the wages of the cheapest port of them for load his vessel to the danger point he would not KNOWN 1836 RELIABLE call of his vessel, and he cannot get enough to SINCE AS slave, must be found in an inquiry Into the conditions Bilious* risk employing unskilled men or too few sailors, 'i c-Ll'C t-TRADE MARK from which he seeks to run away. If he marry and live a normal life. As vessels grow MM, Indifestioa, Side Htadachc, Sallow Ska. LACK because he did not want to risk his property. Now likes to follow the sea there is no reason why h© larger, his chances to earn a decent livelihood grow SHALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SHALL PRICK he does not care Insurance will take care of the PCTCO» should forever try to leave it or to leave his smaller. Genuine mutUu Signature risks, and the idea is to make all the money possible. CAPSULES VOt Big Business conceives ships to be for the master and his flag except that the conditions purpose of making money, not for the purpose of under which he Is forced to work are intolerable. SUPERIOR REMEDY FOR MEN ETC.ETC Let us look a little more closely into the condition carrying goods from place to place for the purpose ,And here lies the answer. BOX BY AT DRUGGISTS TRIAL MAIL 50Q PLANTEN.<p></p>WANTED! of the sailor's occupation that has been of piling up dividends no matter at whoso ST. BROOKLYN.N Y. The earliest known facts about the condition 93HENRY evolved out of this hodge-podge of laws, ancient of the laborer at sea take us back to the ancient expense the dividends are piled up, no matter at and modern. And then we can see very clearly laws of the Norseman and to the code that governed what cost to the sailor or to you and me. It how this condition affects not only the sailor but the sailors of the ancient cities on the would take away cargo space to provide decent you and me and every other American citizen. shores of the Mediterraniean. In the north the A living quarters for sailors on shipboard, and less brief comparison of the conditions on shipboard laborer on land and at sea was a free man. The cargo means less dividends. To load a vessel so under the American flag with those under the sailor had the same status aboard his vessel that as to minimize the danger from shifting cargo flags of other nations will explain why the American his brother had in the Norse towns. He had the means less cargo also. Better food, more men boy does not go to sea, and why it is necessary same freedom of contract and the same voice In and skilled men all cost more money, and therefore to keep the American sailor a chattel slave the laws regulating the conduct of his companions Big Business, which is not compelled to take CONDUCTORS AND MOTORMEN by law of congress. To begin with, the American and himself. The laborer of the south was a chattel risks because its property is insured, refuses these sailor who would ship over the high seas is compelled slave on land and on sea. He was usually a things. In fine, It is much cheaper to run vessels to seek his employment through a "crimp." prisoner of war and his body and soul belonged to with slaves therefore Big Business employs The crimp Is the runner for the notorious sailor's his master. He was chained to his seat in the galley slaves. By the Duluth Street Railway Company "boarding-houses" which furnish crews for all and lashed to his task. Manual labor of all Not only Is American commerce being conducted deep-sea-going vessels. He Is the absolute master kinds was considered to be debasing and performed by vessels flying foreign flags, but American of the sailor's employment. All deep-sea captains only by slaves. over-sea commerce in American ships is being ship their crews through the crimp. The crimp The Island of Rhodes gave to the Mediterranean handled by foreign seamen. The astounding fact Is Steady employment for able-bodied men of is paid out of the unearned wages of the sailor. its maritime law, and the Roman code was true that not only has America fewer sailors than It is called "advance money" which the law permits average intelligence, with common school education. patterned after that of Rhodes. When Rome conquered any other nation on the face of the globe, but the the sailor to sign away and which the system the countries of the north, she gave them great majority of the men in the American Takes about ten days to learn a trade that compels him to sign away. The sailors call it her laws for the regulation of labor on the sea as merchant marine are men of other nations. And "blood money." The money is paid by the captain well as on land. The all-pervading idea of Roman the majority of American seamen are sailing, by pays good wages and has no "lay-offs" on account directly to the crimp. In fact all the negotiations civilization was that labor is debasing, and the Choice, under the flags of other nations than are carried on directly between the captain and laborer on land was a serf and on the sea he was their own. So when we trust our lives and our of bad weather or hard times. the crimp. The sailor is not consulted at all. a slave. The maritime power of medieval Europe, goods on the high seas, we entrust them to foreign More often .than not, he is taken on board after which was expressed through the laws of Barcelona seamen, slaves on under-manned vessels, living Steady and Industrious Carmen Can Earn having been liberally treated to "third rail" or and later through the all-powerful Hanseatlc under conditions that have driven Americans from "doctor," a drink that robs him of all consciousness. League of cities, was maintained through Roman the sea. That is what concerns us. And it con The practice smacks very jnuch of the old maritime law. It gradually overpowered and obliterated cerns us vitally. practice of "shanghaing." The act of December From $75.00 to $85.0C Per Month the law of the north, and the free sailor Statistics published by the United States commissioner 21, 1898, prevents the payment of this bloodmoney, ceased to exist. Since that day the sailor has of navigation show that out of every called "allotment to original creditor" In been a chattel slave. hundred American seagoing steamers of over one the domestic trade (coastwise shipping and the When vessels replaced the galley, it became Bailing hundred tons for the past seven years, an average trade to nearby foreign countries). But it is permitted We pay 21 cents per hour for the first year, necessary that the sailor's status as a slave of 2,24 have been lost each year, and that out of In the deep-sea trade, and no sailor ever bo maintained by rigid laws against desertion. every hundred foreign seagoing steamers of over obtains employment on a deep-sea-going vessel increasing to 25 cents per hour with longer service. Freedom of action was necessary for the operation one hundred tons for the same period, an average without having visited the crimp. The crimp of a sailing vessel, but it was still necessary to of only 1.98 have been lost. Out of every hundred This Company has no labor troubles, has had exists because the law permits him to exist, by keep the sailor bound to the ship because Injury American seagoing vessels of over fifty tons for permitting the assignment of "advance money." might come to the vessel through his desertion. the past seven years an average of 4.13 have been none for many years and does not anticipate any. One state, oregon, actually recognized the system And so his status as a slave was maintained by lost each year, and out of the same number of by a statute limiting the amount of blood-money Jaw on the "principle of common hazard." All the foreign seagoing sail vessels of over fifty tons, the Call at office of the company, Twenty-seventh to thirty dollars. The crimp ceased to exist in Jaws of the Hanseatlc League stipulate that If any loss has been only 2.97 a year. the domestic trade when congress abolished the harm come to a vessel while any sailor Is absent On the Pacific ocean the situation Is almost intolerable. avenue west and Superior street, Duluth, Minn., "allotment to original creditor" in 1898. from shipboard, the absent sailor shall pay the The United States commissioner of damage. The safety of the Tessel and her cargo at 9 a. m., or address When the sailor gets aboard he Is compelled to navigation in his report for 1898-99, page 20, declared: was in the hands of every man on board while live in a space 6 feet long by 6 feet high and 2 "The crews of our own steamships plying the vessel was at sea or in foreign ports. feet wide. This Is the legal forecastle space (72 to China and Japan are almost wholly Chinese and Duluth Street Railway Co. The progress of civilization has relieved the cubic feet) except in sailing vessels built or rebuilt Japanese shipped before American consuls at ship-owner and the master of the hazard of th« after June 30, 1898. The sailors call it the foreign ports where the vessels enter and clear." sea. Maritime insurance has been devised to pay "dog hole," to distinguish it from the "fire hole" And this condition has grown worse Instead for losses through acts of God. If a ship sinks at (firemen's quarters), and the "glory hole" (stew better since that tlawy D. C. M0U, S*t.