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.1 The action of the railroads in eomlng to the aid of the farmers and endeavorlng to obtain harvest hands for them is really far more unselfish than appears on the surface. The railroads themselves need men, and need them very badly indeed. On the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Railroads alone, for instance, there is a demand for nearly as many men as Kansas says it wants to move Its wheat crop. Recently there was a great deal of agitation because the Northern Pacific employed nearly 3,000 Japanese on It's western division work. The protests against the employment of this class of labor were so great that at last the railroad agrreed to discharge the Japanese as soon as it could fill their places with non Asiatics.

Some ot the men have already been discharged and their places filled, but it now becomes apparent to the railroad that it will be unable to fill the places of the others. It is even quite likely that those already discharged will have to be re employed, for the white men "are leaving the works, preferring to try their luck in the Klondike. The Klondike, by the way, Is the greatest rival the railroads have. No sooner do the railroads, at much trouble and expense, gather together a number of likely laborers and ship them to the far West than the whole outfit catches the gold fever and "pulls out" for the Klondike. It is estimated by Western authorities thaMulty 20,000 men have gone in to the gold country this spring.

All the railroads are willing, and even anxious, to employ white labor if they can get it; but, failing it. they say they have got to get their work done and must hire such laborers as they can got. Hundreds of railroad laborers, most of them Italians, have been sent to the Northwest by the railroads, hut although 1.500 were sent last month the demand for men is still as great as ever. Contractors who have the railroad work to do are at their wits' ends for men. They say that there is actual need for at least 10,000 men to work on the railroad building extensions and improving the roadbeds alone.

The Western movement of settlers has been unusually heavy this spring, and wherever there are young men among the newcomers they have been eagerly gathered up at good wages by the railroads. Most of these young men, however, prefer to stop at home to help the older folks with tho clearing and preparing of the newly acquired land. Others, again, wish to hold land of their own and are taking up sections of land for farms. Altogether. railroads have not much to hope for from this source of labor.

It is hard to make on exact estimate of the number of men really needed to work in the West, but any one who cares to do so can figure it out tor himself with very little trouble. Kansas needs 10,000 men. This is no mere guess. The figures are the official statement of the bureau established by the state. The railroad contractors who are puttingor trying to put in the new branches demanded by the Western railroads say that they can employ at least 10,000 more.

Each of six states needs men so badly that 10,000 for each seems like a low estimate. Then there are all the smaller farms, each wanting from two to a dozen extra men. With tho first touch of winter and winter comes very swiftly and early in the Northwestthe need for the services of these men will stop. Neither farm nor railroad work can be done in a Western winter. Supposing that it were possible to send to the West for all the men for which it asks say the 80,000 estimated above.

What would happen when winter came and the 70,000 men who were not needed were turned loose on the country to shift for themselves, and find occupation? NEED exactly the same trouble. They had wanted laborers to work on new railroads and extensions of old systems, and had been unable to get the men without paying heavy tribute to the employment agents. The result was that some of the more prominent railroads established their own unostentatious, but effective, employment bureaus. They made a practice of putting in charge of such offices some picked men who hart been successful section bosses. They argued that such men would be able to pick out a desirable laborer when a less experienced man would hire a useless hand.

The railroad plan worked excellently. The men who wanted work found that they could go to the railroad's labor bureau and get quick and courteous attention without having to pay a preliminary fee for "booking." No fees of any kind were charged. Men who seemed desirable were gathered together until enough to fill a car had been secured. Then the party was put in charge of one of the company's men and the laborers made a through trip to the place where their services were needed. This was done without trouble and without expense to the laborers.

Good meals were furnished to them at the railroad eatiug houses on the road, and if a really long distance had to be covered arrangements were made so that, the men could pass the night, comfortably. The hoarding house evil a system by which laborers were often mulcted of most of their earnings to pay for food and lodgingwas also attacked by the railroads. The railroads built dig, comfortable, temporary houses, easily accessible from the place at which the men wore working, and saw to it that the food was good and the prices moderate. No sort of "pluck me" store or boarding house has been tolerated. Such was the system to which the farmers and wheat growers appealed for help.

It was not necessary to say much. Men at the head of big railroads grasp things quickly and it was needless to put into words the evident fact that if the farmers had men to work the wheat crop there would be heavy pecuniary returns to the railroads in the "shape of freight payments for tho transportation of the grain. Every big shipper of wheat and every owner of a large wheat farm is known to the railroads which tap his territory. The word or agreement of such a man is "good" with the railroads, and when the wheat growers said that they would pay agreed upon transportation rates for such men as might, bo sent to them, the men at the head of the railroads knew that the agreement would be faithfully carried out. Some of the railroads, more far seeing than others, offered to send the farmers, free of all charges, as many harvest hands as they could obtain, in exchange for a promise that shipments of grain would be made only over the obliging railroad.

Others agreed to carry men for a rato so low that it was practically giving them a free ride. At first there was snmo demur as to possible conflict with the Law and others which regulate the manor of transportation of both freight and mankind, but it was decided that common sense was the best arbiter of the I situation. Men were needed urgently, or there would bo no grain crop garnered and no freight, receipts for carrying it. The law is not being dangerously violated if at all and there is now some hope of the farmers getting the tr.cn they need. Many of tho men who employ large num hers of harvest hands have undertaken to repay the railroads for the transportation of tho men without making any return charge i upon the men themselves.

Others have col lected from the wages of the men just half the amount paid to the railroads for their .0 kcts. Most of the shipping of men is being from Chicago, but some of the Western railroads are trying to collect men even as far East, as; Ww York. In no case, however, will Die railroads undertake to send men free from New York to the wheat fields of South Dakota nr Kansas. They will not do that even when they need men to work on lh if own roads. The man who wants to work in the Western harvest fields must pay some part, at least, of his fare to Chicago.

Thence ho may, if he is tip to the physical standard, get transportation free to the wheat fields. In the case of a bona fide farm worker who wants to go to the West and stay there many of the railroads will make a reduction of fare so groat, that almost any one can raise the amount necessary to reach A 'VARSITY CREW. (As It Isn't.) OF 80,000 MEN is work to be done. Another fact which has dawned upon the agriculturist is that single men are not the only workers who get out of employment. In the cities men know that the contrary is the fact that it is the luckless married man; the man with a couple of children, who loses his position.

It. is upon such that the terrible struggle for existence In the cities sets the stamp of hopeless failure. A single man can leave a town in which" he cannot find work; the married man must stop by the wife and ilic babies. The bachelor may wander the wide world over, but the man on whom rests the greater responsibility and care can go only where he can take his' wife. Love will have its way, and the man will wed the maid whatever the future may hold, but many and many a young worker is halted, perforce, by that dread of dreads: "What would happen to my wife it I lost my job and couldn't get another?" Hitherto there have not been many answers to that question.

Now, thanks to the wave of common sense which has waiered the wheat fields of the West, the fanners offer this reply: "Bring your wife and babies out here and work on my farm." Not very much hope for the unemployed weak and pallid sweat shop worker is contained in those words, for the ability to do a hard day's work such a day's work as a strong man only can do is a pre rcquisite to the winning of a position on a wheat farm. The farmer is glad enough to get help of almost any kind, but to accept as a workman one who is physically unfit 10 do the work would be foolish and uncharitable to others. The work of a modern wheat farm is conducted jn the interdependent plan that is to say, that each man continuously passes along his work to the next in line. If one man in the line breaks down it throws all the others out of action. Married men, who are tired of city life and are able to do a good day's work are the kind of people the farmers want to get.

There will not be steady work for very many such men, for it is only at harvest time that the wheat farms employ such armies of men; hut all the year around there is work of some kind to do which can be performed best by steady, settled men, who will not want to draw their pay each month, only to spend it in three dcys' debauch at the nearest town. Much of the difficulty of getting agricultural help has always depended on the difficulties of transportation. Chicago has been the great collecting ground for the Northwest and West, but this season and last, it has been unable to supply the demand. Help, of a sort, can be shipped out from Chicago in droves, but the farmers, somewhat naturally, have a liking for men who can speak English, and the men whom the employment agencies want to ship speak anything from Italian to Yiddish. Up to the present time, the custom of the errployment agencies has been to shin men out to the farmers, taking in advance from the new man a note of hand for enough of his wages to cover the cost of his railroad fare and the agent's commission.

The wheat grower or farmer has been bound by hie, agreement with the agent to see that this money is paid. Many hardships have been worked by this system, for it is usually at the beginping of his employment that the new farm hand most needs money. Then, too, ho has been compelled to pay full fare for his ticket, and in some cases this has cost enough to use up a great part of his earnings. One of the undesirable results of this is that the farm hand feels that his work brings him in nothing that he is working for a I'lik employment agent instead of for liimsalf. Consequently he does as little wcrk as pos sible and the farmer suffers.

During the times of great wheat plenty, as during the days of want, the farmers appealed for help to the railroads and obtained prompt and generous aid. When the farmers wanted stpplies, they were shipped to them at greatly reduced freights. When the wheat growers ncdeed cars to move the wheat crop, cars were furnished quickly and in abundance. Last year the idea occurred to two or throe of the big wheat growers that it would be a good idea to ask the railroads if they could help to solve the labor problem. This year nearly all have followed the example.

The wheat growers could not have asked help from a more able source. The Western railroads, themselves, had been confronted by The New La Valliere, Odd Pendants With DIAMONDS and Semi Precious Stones, Flatbush Av. and Fulton St. COMING EVE JITS, A special meeting of the Brooklyn League will fee held at 189 Montague street to morrow evening. A union excursion of the young people's Bocle ties of Central Baptist, First Baptlsi, First ffree Baptist aria United Congregational Churches to Laurclton Grove will take place on Saturday, June IS, The boot leaves Pier 1, North River, at 1:15 and South Fifth street, Brooklyn, at 2:15 M.

The Hotatlo Seymour Democratic Club of the Twenty eighth Ward will install its officers at Its headquarters, Cooper Hall, Bushwtcfc avenue and Cooper, street, to morrow evening. Uhe children of the industrial school at 141 Eouth Third street will give a concert to morrow evening. A testimonial dinner will be given to Magistrate Edward J. Dooley at the Clarendon Hotel on Tuesday evening. A mass meeting of the New York branch of 1 Alliance Israelite Universale will be Jield in the auditorium of the Educational Alliance.

East Broadway and Jefferson street. Wednesday next, at P. M. The speakers will he E. Lauterbach, the Rev.

A. M. Radtn, the Rev. H. Masllansky end Dr.

B. Blaustein. The twenty eighth annual picnic and summer night's festival of the Daughters of Israel Benefit Society, which was to have taken place on May J6, will' bB held at Ulmer Park on Wednesday next. Preparations for a largely attended strawberry festival on "Wednesday and Thursday are being made by the Church of the Holy Comforter, De trevoise street, between Graham avenue and Humboldt street. An attractive programme will, be night, Including the largest sized phonograph, with 150 records.

PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Princess gown 04 embroidered crepe de chine with flounces of plain oreps de chine, also jackets and sleeves of plain material; trimming of black velvet ribbon and steel buttons. Eli PBOGRESSO COPPER MINE. The El Progresso Copper Mining Company, which has an office at 69, Wall street a mining property in Mexico, is offering some of its treasury stock at 35 cents a share, for the purpose of raising the money to build a smelter.

The company expects to begin the paying of dividends before October lpr and to the assays of ore from the mines there is little doubt that the property is a valuable one, and will make big returns when properly worked. HAMMOND KA 0XIITO. A pretty home wedding was that ot Miss Elizabeth Kauling and Albert H. Hammond, which was celebrated last Wednesday evening at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

GeQrge Kauling, 329 Marion street. The Rev. Charles Herald, pastor of the Beth esda Congregational Church, officiated. The bride was given away by her lather. She wore a gray gown, trimmed with heliotrope and white'lace.

She carried white roses. A large bridal bouquet was a gift from the bride's two consins, the Misses Jennie and Oliver of Ravenswood. The 'bridesmaid was Miss Mamie Rauling, sister of the bride, while William Frank acted as best man. A reception followed the ceremony. The gifts received by the bride were numerous, including silver and costly pieces of bric a brac.

Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. George Kauling, the Misses Mamie, Louisa and Augusta F. Kauling, Herald L. Kauling, Louis C.

Kauling, G. W. J. Kauling, Mrs. Charles Hammond, Miss K.

A. Hammond, Mr. andMr's. J. Oliver, the Misses Jessie and Ada Oliver, Charljs Crawford, Charles Crawford, Mrs.

Thomas Wilson, Miss Ida Wilson, Mr: and Mrs. Charles V. Herbeck, Mr. and Mrs. William Russell.

Mis? h. Her beck, Charles Herbeck, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Shea, Miss Jennie Glvens, William Frank, Miss E.

Prank, Mr. and Mrs. C. Sutter, Miss O. Schiedner, Miss and Mrs.

Charles L. Fraser, Miss T. Fraser, Miss Lulu L. Mulliner, Mrs. P.

Bowman, Mrs. S. Wagnar, Miss K. Wagnar, John Wagnar, William Wag nar and Mrs. M.

Bretsnuts. KAISER'S GIFT TO CONVENT. Berlin. June' 8 Emperor William, who was accompanied by the Empress, to day presented to the Abbess of the Convent of Heili genrode a crozier, expressing the hope that it would "ever be the pastoral staff of motherly love, a Moses' staff of steadfast faith and a pilgrim's staff of joyous life." The convent is exclusively occupied by titled spinsters. A.

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SIEGERTS Angostura Bitters, unequalled South American tonic. Refuse imitation. Notices received tqo late far tliln col npiJV Will le fqand ou page 14 of the third section. MAERIED. BUCKINGHAM EDWARDS On Thursday, June 6.

1S01, CAROLINE EDWARDS to FREDERICK E. BUCKINGHAM. DONIGAN CABROUGHER On June 2, 1901, LOTTA T. CARROUOHER to CHARLES W. DONIGAN, both of Brooklyn.

OITHE.VS WRAYTON At Dorchester, on June 5, 1901, by the Rev. Robert A. Macfadden, FLORENCE LILLIAN WRAYTON, Chelsea. to GEORGE SEMELL GITHKNS. Brooklyn, N.

Y. JANSS ESKUCHE On Wednesday, June 5. 1901. at the of the bride's parents, 45 Clermont av, by the Rev. W.

Ludwlg. pastor of St. Luke's G. E. Lutheran Church, ANNA PAU.LINE, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry J. Eskuche, to MATTHEW CHRISTIAN JANSS of Brooklyn, N. Y. FLESSA VAN INGEN On Wednesday, June 5, 1901, at the residence of the bride's parents.

92 Sixteenth st, by the Rev. G. W. Holmes of tha Fifteenth St Baptist Church. SADIE J.

VAN INGEN to CHARLES J. FLESSA. PUOH JEWgTT On May 27, 1901, JNO. F. PUGH to JANIE DUNHAM JEWETT.

at their borne, 398 Fourth st, Brooklyn. At home after August 1. REYNOLDS DILLON Married at Chicago, Thursday, June 6, 1901. at Holy Name Cathedral. Father O'Brien officiating, F.

H. REYNOLDS of Babylon. L. to Miss LIBBIE DILLON of Brooklyn, N. Y.

HOE RUMPFOn Thursday, June 6. 1501. by the Rev Minpt J. Savage, D. SUZANTNE JBANNE TT RUMPF.

daughter of Mrs. Chas. Rumpf, to CHAS. N. ROE, both of Brooklyn, N.

Y. SIRINE YATES On Wednesday, June 5, at the residence of the bride, by the Rev. George Calvert Carter, ALEXANDER HOYT SIRINE to MARGARET BOND YATES. DIED. BEEVrAt 167 Huntington st, MARY ANN.

wife of Peter A. Bee and daughter of Patrick and Cecilia Farrell. Funeral services will be held at the Church of St. Mary Star of the Sea. Court and Luquer sts, 10 o'clock Monday.

8 2 BIRD On June ELIZA BIRD, in her 90th sear. Funeral services at the residence of her son in law, Geo. E. Henderson. 782 Putnam av, on Mopday, the 10th at 8 P.

M. Burial at convenience of family. 9 2 DANIELSOn Saturday, June 8, WILLIAM H. DANIELS. Funeral from the residence of his daughter, Mrs.

Russell McClure, 258 Pulaski st, on Monday, June 10, at 2 P. M. DAUPHIN Department of State, Washington, D. C. June 7.

1901 Information has been received at this Department from Mr. Vm. Hahn, the Deputy Consul of the United States at Stuttgart, Germany, of the death on the 2d March, M01, St Stuttgart, of WILLIAM DAUPHIN of Brooklyn, N. Y. The legal representatives of the deceased can obtain further information by applying to this Department.

Per dispatch No. 91. bated April 30, 1901. DQ0LEY KATIE, beloved daughter of John J. and the late Mary E.

Dooley, aged 10 years. Funeral from her lata residence, 115 Bergen st. Monday. June 10, at 2 P. M.

Interment at Holy Cross. Cemetery. 8 3 DUFFEE On Friday. June 7, 1901. EVELYN aged 12 years and 8 months, daughter of John G.

and Julia li Staff eg. Funeral from her lata residence, 1,028 Madison st, Sunday, June 9, 3901, at 2:30 o'clock. FARRELL On Thursday, June 6, 1901, EDWARD FARRELL. aged 1 years. Funeral services from his late residence, 481A Qulncy st, on Sunday.

June 9, at 2 'o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited. 7 3 GEDDES At 231 Gates av. Brooklyn, on the 7th JANET MURRAY, only child of James Peter and Leila Brownell Geddes, aged 5 months. Funeral private.

7 2 GBDNEY On Friday morning, J. WORDEN GEDNJ3Y, in the 65th year of his age. Services at his late residence, 1.255 Gates av, Sunday, 4 P. M. Interment Greenwood Union Cemetery of Rye Monday, A.

M. (Vestchester papers copy.) GREELEY On Saturday, June 8, MARY COCHRANE" GREELEY. Funeral' services at her late residence, 61 Dean st, on Monday, June 10, at P. M. Relatives and friends Invited.

LOHMEYER On Friday, June 7, 1901, at his residence, Union place and Amber st. Richmond Hill, L. HERMANN L. LOHMEYER, In the' 59th year of his age. Funeral services Sunday evening at o'clock.

8 2 MALCOMSON On Saturday, June 8, at 188 Ber gen st, JEANNETTE aged 27 years, wife of ym. T. Malcomson. EHmeral services, Monday evening, June 10, at 8 o'clock. Interment at convenience of family.

9 2 MALLON On Friday, June 7, 1901, of membranous croup, EDWARD only son of James E. and Fannie Gee Mallon, at 707 Lafayette av, Brook lyn. Funeral private. MAXWELL On June 6, 1901. MARY wife of William Maxwell.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, SI East Fourth st. on Monday, June 10. at 9 A. M. to the Church of Immaculate Heart of Mary, where a solemn high mass of requiem wll be offered for the repose of her soul.

In terment at Holy Cross Cemetery. 7 2 MINER Suddenly, at. Alexandra, on June 1901. VIRGINIA A. MINER, widow of Gilbert S.

Miner, in Iter 78th year. Interment at Alexandria, in family vault. MORRIS On June 7, at 68 Smith st. HENRIETTA, sister of H. Salomonsky.

Funeral Monday, at 11 A. M. NEALIS On Tuesday, June 4, 1901, C. B. NEALIS, for many years a trusted employe of Journeay Burnham.

(Boston and St. John, N. papers please copy.) O'NEIL On June 6. 1901, MARGARET O'NEIL, beloved wife of John J. O'Neil.

Funeral from her late residence, 462 Warren st, on Sunday. June 9. at 2:30 P. M. 7 2 OWENS On Saturday.

June ANNIE VANSTON SAUNDERS. beloved wife of Robert Owens and youngest daughter ot ths late Rev. J. V. Saunders.

Funsral service at 66 Decatur st, Brooklyn, Mon day, 8 P. M. Interment private. Long Island papers pleafe copy.) PHELAN On Saturday, June 8. 1901.

at his residence, 336 Myrtle av, JOHN son of John and Mary rhelan and beloved husband of Ana stasia Cushovjn. Friends of the family are requested to attend the funeral on Tuesday. June 11. at 2:30 P. M.

PHELAN At her residence, 913 Pacific st, Mrs. ELLEN PHELAN. Funeral from St. Joseph's Church, Pacific st and Vanderbilt av, Monday, June 10, at 9:30 A. M.

SKINNER On Friday morning, June 7, ARTHUR CLIFFORD, only child of Eugene F. and Augusta Jennings Skinner, aged 1 year and 19 days. Funeral, Sunday, at 2 P. from S82 Hancock street. (Saratoga and Ballston papers please copy.) SMITH On June 8, 1901.

JOSEPH MANNING, Infant son of Jos. M. Smith and Grace G. Smith, aged 7 months. TARTIERE On Friday.

June 7, 1901. ELEANORA TART1ERE, wife of the late Luclen A. Tar tiero. Services at her late residence, 902 Bedford av, Brooklyn. N.

on Sunday, 2 o'clock. Interment Evergreens. (California 'and Central American papers please copy.) 2 EDWIN BAYHA. UNDERTAKER AND EMB ALMER. 219 Atlantic av.

Telephone 1.269 Main. ANSAS wants help. The assistance for which it asks is not monetary, but muscular. Kansas, in fact, wants men to help garner the wheat crop of the state, which, according to the agricul tural experts, is to be the heaviest in years. The whole of the West and Northwest is in the same case.

Any healthy man who is willing to work can find profitable employment in Kansas this summer, for that state alone can offer work to 10,600 men. Harvest hands are needed so badly that the "West is actually imploring unemployed men to come out there to work for a time. Wages vary somewhat according to locality, but a man who can do a good day's work can count upon making $3 a day, and, if he chooses to do so, he can put in seven days a week at that price. Western farmers do not like to work upon Sunday, but the exigencies of harvesting weather and the size of the crop often compel the harvest hands to work not only seven days a week, but also every minute of the time in which there is light enough to see. The wages indicated are for an ordinary working day of ten hours.

Often enough, though, men go Into the wheat fields soon after 4 o'clock in the morning and will stay there, until the light fails, between 8 and 9 o'clock at night. For these sixteen hour days $5 and sometimes a day are paid by the managers of the great wheat farms. Kansas is by no means the only state from which appeals to the Eastern unemployed have come. 'The whole Northwest wants men to work during harvest time. Last year, and the year before, grain rotted in the.

shocks, and in the stacks because men could not be hired to handle it. The employment agencies in St. 'Paul alone could give work to at least 30,000 they say, and so far from asking a fee from those employed, they would in many cases give a bonus to men willing to work. In the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa there is to be found highly paid temporary employment for nearly 60,000 men, Enormous as those figures seem, they are well within the limit of fact. Only those who live in the agricultural districts of those states can really appreciate how urgent is the need of men.

For. the last two years there has been such a scarcity of farm help that those whose capital and future. are at stake feel appalled and helpless as they face the harvest situation of 1901. No man has arisen to' tell the puzzled em ninv prs the reason for this dearth of farm workers, but there is a general belief extant among them that the scarcity is due to ine general prosperity the country. It a strange argument to advance, perhaps, but the men who employ farm hands insist that it is the tfue reason.

They say they have learned by sharp experience that prosperity in the cities means hard times on the farm hard times in this case representing a scarcity of men, not money. When the last period of depression swept over the country the farmers say that there was no scarcity oE men to gather the harvest or to do general farm work. Every state had plenty of men, they say, because the lack ol manufacturing work was so general that the men were forced to leave the cities or starve. For the first time the men who have been called the "wheat kings" of the west seem to appreciate that the scarcity of farm hands is no mere transitory condition. They have abandoned their belief that "next year" will bring a change, and that they will be able to hire all the men they want.

It is apparent, say those who study labor conditions, that the wheat growers have at last come to an understanding of 'the fact that the attractions of the city even with its hardships are superior to those of the country in the estimation of the class of men with whom they have to deal. As long as a man can get in the city enough money to keep him alive it is patent to all who observe that he would rather exist on scrap's in the town than luxuriate in plenty on the farm. W'hy this preference exists among workers is a matter labor authorities refuse to try to discover. They say it is in the province of the psychologists. The result of this appreciation of existing labor conditions is making itself apparent this year.

Instead of placidly waiting to see if farm hands would come to work at the desired time or not, the wheat growers have taken steps to let all unemployed men know that they need help and are willing to pay well for harvest work. In Kansas there has been established a state employment bureau, to which employers needing help can apply for workers, and by which unemployed men and women will be assisted to find work. This year the wheat growers of the state have freely appealed to the bureau for workers. Each wheat growing county has sent in a list of its needs. Here is the list by counties: Barton, Butler, 250; Ellsworth, 400; Harper, 500; Mitchell, 200; Ness, 750; Ottawa, 250; Pawnee, 150; Pratt, 1.00Q; Reno, 300; Rice, 250; Rush, Stafford, Sumner, 100; Trego, 300.

Another thing that is being done by the wheat growers speaks volumes for what they have learned from the experience of the last two years. They are seeking help from the railroads in the matter of transportation for harvest and farm workers, and they are also endeavoring to make life In the country suf ficiently attractive and remunerative to in duce the best of the men to stay on the farms instead oE returning to the uncertainties of city life. All Eastern people who have visited the hop growing districts in the State oE New York during the gathering season have probably noticed the class of people who make a yearly occupation of hop picking. Eighty per cent, of them might be classed as undesirable. Exactly the same conditions have usually obtained in the West.

Except during the periods of depression the men who have gone out into the country to help gather the harvest have been single men of a particularly shiftless kind. The unemployed of the West are not like the unemployed of the East. Here, in the crowded districts, any one may be thrown out of work, and, from the inexorable conditions of supply and demand, may be unable readily to find work again. If he remains idle it is not his fault. In the West it is usually different.

A man there may lose one position, but if he really wants to work he can generally get another, even if it is in a different occupation. Idleness in states like Minnesota and South Dakota has come to be considered tne synonym of worthlessness. The wheat growers and other employers of agricultural labor have suffered much at the hands of men of this shiftless class. They know that the big Eastern cities, as well as those of the middle West, holds thousands or desirable mon who are out of work. It is the belief the wheat growers and farm ers that these men would be only too glad to work in the harvest field, at least for a time.

If they could be transported, without Immediate expense, to the places where there) IN MEMORY OF JUSTICE SMYTH. Tablet to Be TJnvailed in New York County Court House Monday. A tablet to the memory of the late Supreme Court Justice Frederick Smyth is being erected In trial term. Part VII, of the County Court House, Manhattan. It is being placed thero by the bench and bar of the First Judicial District of this state.

It is a huge bronze work of art. and measures four feet six inches by three feet six inches, and is the work of George Thomas Brewster, the sculptor. It was manufactured by the Gorham Manufacturing Company. The tablet will be unvailed with appropriate ceremonies on Monday. At the toji of the tablet i a bust of Justice Smyth In profile.

Below is tho inscription: "In memory of Frederick Smyth, born July 15, 1S34; died August 18. 1300; Justice of the Supreme Court. 1S96 1HO0; Recorder of the City of New York. 1S79 1 S9I. "The bench has lost, one of its most able, upright, and industrious members, the law and its administration an untiring and wise exponent and guide, and the bar a kind, attentive and considerate friend.

"Resolution of bench and bar, October 1900." I MEN and WOMEN, v. A It Was Lamb in Either Case. One of the editors who read the manuscript of Henry Thew Stephenson's "Patroon Van Volkenberg" thought that the author might be a good man to know. Accordingly, I says the Youth's Companion, wrote a pleasant personal letter, inviting a better acquaintance, and as one of the tests of companionable fitness inquired whether tha author preferred Lamb or Milton. Mr.

Stephenson replied, acknowledging the pleasure the letter had given him, and saying: "I do not know whether you ask me if I like Lamb or mutton, or Lamb or Milton best, but in either case it's Lamb:" Even the reflection on 'the editor's handwriting could not detract from the edttoral approbation of Mr. Stephenson's choice, and the new partnership of minds wafe immediately formed. When One Good Turn Did Not Deserve Another. The "Messiah" was 6'u'ng 'feYcntly iri'Thlla delphia. and one of the anthems rendered by the chorus had as Its theme.

"We have turned every one to his own way." As anthems go this sounded somewhat as follows. "We have turned, turned we have turned, yes we have we have turned every one to his, to his own own way every one to his own way." The anthem involved several pages of music, and every time tha chorus sang "we have turned, turned' turned," they proceeded to turn over to the next and then burst out again with "wa have turned, turned!" A certain plain citizen, rather elderly, who at. well in the rear, not appreciating the delicate sentiment, was heard to mutter, disgustedly. "Weir; when you get through turnin', turnln' pages, suppose you shot up them!" Harper's Magazine. Pigs Dispersed by the Sheriff.

"One of the many laughable ihWdent of a more or less recent tour in the West, said Joe Jefferson to a writer in "took place at Grays End, Mo. You probably don't know the place, and couldn't find it on the map. All the same, the people ahereabout are very good friends of mine, and, what is more, invariably make an emlnepdy respectable showing at the box office which increases my regard for them. Nfew, the opera house at (he End began life as a bis barn. As Is the custom in that section of the state, the building is raised on pillars, some three or four feet.

This, in its barny was to prevent its contents from being harmed during the annual spring overflow of the adjacent river. Well, on the occasion of which 1 speak, we rea hed tho town early in the day Illness had depleted the ranks of my supers and I found that I needed at least a dozen more men in the Cat.skll scene of 'Kip Van But I couldn't of the local talent to help mc. They either wanted to see the show from the front, or wero shy of making a professional debut. Finally I appealed to the sheriff of the county, a very excellent, person who. I verily "believe, slept with a small arsenal buckled around him.

'You shall have all the boys you said he, 'or "I don't know what the 'or' ipiplij, hut I do know that, an hour or so jie appeared with several strapping young felow3. on whom he kept a strenuous eye. He also offered to himself become one of Hendrick Hudson's ghostly crew, which suggestion I gladly accepted. "The curtain finally rose, and my volunteer aids acquitted themselves nobly, bad been with some difficulty that, I had persuaded the sheriff to doff his gun's, but he finally consented to do so, with the proviso that they were to be kept handy at the wlng. All went swimmingly until Rip's 'return home after his long sleep.

In the midst of one of the most, pathetic situations in this scone there came, from beneath the theater, the strident squeal3 of razorback fighting for a choice morsel. The audience tittered. I continued, but then was heard a volleying chorus of grunts, squeals and screams, that told of a general' engagement in the space beneath the floor. The sheriff who was standing at the wings, hissed, lu a stage whisper: 'AH right, Mr. Jefferson, I'll make th pesky critters qut." "He grabbed hiB pistols and disappeared.

A few seconds later there rnuffle4 bang! bang! bang! followed by the agonized howls of the wounded pigs. stopped. I Just had to. Fortunately, the sperr. itors did not laugh.

It was a familiar sound to them, and they remained impassive. The sheriff reappeared, and then the play ran its course without further interruption. We had fresh pork chops for breakfast next day, but I'll never forget that night." Royal Carelessness in Geography. A certain carelessness about propnr names is a common quality with aristocracy and royalty, and this Is said to be borne out by a story going the rounds about his, majesty the King of Great, firitain. Some weeks ago, according to a Glasgow authority, he "pointed out a picture to one of the royal household, and said: "I have promised to send that picture to Moscow; see that it "To Moscow, your majesty?" said the gentleman addressed.

"Yes, Moscow." said the King; "there's an exhibition, or something of that sort, on there just now." "Moscow! Your majesty." said the official again. "There's no exhibition at Moscow. Your majesty perhaps means Glasgow." "Ah! Glasgow. Is It?" said Edward VII. reflectively; "I dare sny Ir.

Is. Anywa'y. see that, the picture is sent." KICHAED CHOKER, SAII S. Richard Orokcr, sailed yesterday on th A Untlr Transport Line steamship Menom Il5c, There was a number of friends down to see the young man off. He will Join hlfl tether at Wantage.

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