TELL HIM NOW.

If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,

If you like him or if you love him, tell him now; Don't withhold your approbation till the parson makes oration

As he lies with snowy lilies o'er his brow.

For no matter how you shout it, he won't really care about it,

He won't know how many tear-drops you have shed;

If you think some praise is due him, now's the time to slip it to him, For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead.

More than fame and more than money is the comment, kind and sunny, And the hearty, warm approval of a friend,

For it gives to life a savor and it makes you stronger, braver, And it gives you heart and spirit to the end.

If he earns your praise, bestow it; if you like him, let him know it; Let the words of true encouragement be said;

Do not wait till life is over and he's underneath the clover,

For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead!

-Selected.

MEANS TO AN END.

An old colored uncle was found by the preacher prowling in his barnyard late one night.

"Uncle Calhoun," said the preacher sternly, "it can't be good for your rheumatism to be prowling 'round here in the rain and cold."

"Doctor's orders, sah," the old man answered.

"Doctor's orders?" said the preacher. "Did he tell you to go prowling 'round all night?"

"No, sah, not exactly, sah," said Uncle Cal, "but he done ordered me chicken broth."

ANOTHER BOOK NEEDED.

Detroit, Mich., Jan. 1, 1917. Gents The elevator you put in for me stops when there's nothing the matter with it that's the trouble. It wouldent bee so bad if it stopped for some reason and anybody knows theres reasons enuogh for it to stop. I received the book which you sent me which is named the operation of our elevator. I aint read it yet because what the use reading it when I dont care what makes the elevator operate as long as it goes which mine dont only occasionally. What I want to know is What Makes the elevator stop. If you got a book called that send me one. I want to know what makes my elevator stop when everything is O. K. and nothing is the matter except that it must be a rotten elevator.-Bill Cunningham.

SO SAY WE ALL.

Wife-This paper tells of a man out in Ohio who lives on onions alone. Hub-Well, any one who lives on onions ought to live alone.

Pat Cassidy purchased a new automobile, and while still inexperienced in the handling of it he drove down one of the crowded thoroughfares of the city. Coming to a crossing where traffic was held up, he lost control of the car and ran squarely into a handsome limousine. The crowd which gathered found the situation amusing, and to add to Pat's discomfiture the crossing policeman, a big Irishman, commenced to berate him.

"Since when did you learn to droive a car?" demanded the officer. "What's yer name?"

"Cassidy," answered Pat.

"So?" said the policeman interestedly, "And where are you from?" "County Clare," said Pat. "Say," said the cop, "how the divvil did that fellow back into you?"-Ex.

Don't tickle a Missouri mule's hind foot-it's dangerous.

WHY THE ANKLE GAZERS? The Dallas police force has declared war on ankle gazers. Bums who stand around the street corners with nothing to do but train their trifling lamps on the divinely beautifully hosed ladies will wind up at the police court. A sweeping order has gone forth, the regular force has been augmented with plain clothes men, and a strenuous campaign has been launched to chase this evil into a hole somewhere and stop up the hole.-Temple Mirror.

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Why get the ankle gazers and not the ankle showers? If women didn't choose to expose their shapely limbs to the view of the public, why punish the public for viewing? If the women didn't want their ankles gazed at they would not expose them to view. men who stand on the street corners to ogle every comely woman who comes along, men who make themselves offensive by impertinent remarks need jailing or whipping, but the women who, by suggestive acts or by suggestive dress, invite the remarks, are as deserving of censure as are the men.Bonham News.

"REFUSED TO ARBITRATE." Cleveland, Ohio. The Locomotive Engineers' Journal is making merry with those people who denounce train service men for refusing to arbitrate an eight-hour demand.

Recently Ashtabula, Ohio, doctors called a meeting of their organization and raised prices.

The railroad men's paper says: "Of course it is not a question for arbitration, it is a public pill the people may take or suffer the consequences.

"If it were a labor organization, the next State legislature would doubtless be confronted with petitions to make them submit to compulsory arbitration, but the doctors have the best of it their organization obtained a law driving all the scab medicine-mongers out of the State.

"What a difference there is in whose ox is gored!"

ST. LOUIS, MO.

To the Editor:

No. 3 is having a very prosperous time; all are working and the prospects look bright for the future. The prosperity is not all with the men in the hatch. Bro. Jim McIntire, our B. A., won on a twenty-five cent raffle a 1917 model 4-cylinder Snort, made by the Detroit Can Company.

Maybe I have that wrong, but that is the way I understand it. The B. A., formerly a walking delegate, furnished his own gas. Now being a riding delegate, we can look for the gas bill soon.

Bro. Frank Wilson, of Denver, steamed into this harbor and made fast to a job with Otis. Bro. Wilson is a rattling good fellow, some 6 feet 2 in height around the waistline and wears a smile.

Bro. John Fierce came down from Chicago a few days ago. Jack certainly looked fine, and we all wish him success in his new field of labor.

Bro. Henry Bradford, also of Chicago, was here. Both Brothers are old No. 3 boys.

Bro. Bradford told us that Bro. John Hopkins, formerly of St. Louis, met with an accident which resulted in his death. Have not heard officially of this, the second sudden ending of former St. Louis men. We share the condolence of the families of both Bro. Frank Savage and Bro. John Hopkins.

Bro. Parks, of Indianapolis, is here with us and he is a fine lad.

No. 3 wishes all Locals a happy and prosperous year for 1917.

day, except in sentiment, but as sentiment rules the world, the beginning of 1917 takes on a coloring of new courage that the ending of 1916 may have lacked.

If there is anything in getting away temperamentally from 1916, the world ought to rejoice at the coming of the New Year with its possibility of better things. So long as history is remembered, 1916 will be known as another year of the Inexcusable War. No matter what of good it has brought the world-and there has been much-its place in mankind's long calendar will be marked with accusing red. There is a blue sky ahead. As the old sea captain assured his nervous passenger who asked during a storm if he thought it would clear up, "it always has, mum." The war is still raging in its fury, to be sure. but it is measurably nearer its end than it was in January, 1916. This may be the year of peace itself.

Here at home we have every promise that 1917 will be a happy year. Our financial system is sound. Our commerce is increasing every day and our industries are bound to feel the stimulus of wide demands. All the conditions that make a nation powerful and prosperous are at hand, if we will but accept and utilize them.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

To the Editor:

The old proverb, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, instead of being just a saying has become a well defined matter of business. According to statistics there were 216,000 accidents reported during the past year, 75 per cent. of which were preventable. Under the compensation law of the State every person is entitled to compensation after the first 14 days, and for the first 14 days an allowance of from $25 to $75 is allowed for medical care. This, of course, means a large outlay of money, and it goes directly to the injured person, and in case of fatal accidents to the wife or nearest heirs; hence, in almost every mill, factory or warehouse we see signs, safety first, or gasoline is worth money, if your life is not. This means that practically every place that has an elevator is having their plants put in first class condition; hence the repair departments of every firm in this city have been busy. This has given a large number of our men work during the last three months. We have in this city about 12,000 elevators. About 1,000 of these are inspected regularly by the various companies, and all are inspected regularly by the city inspectors and the insurance companies' We believe the riding public using elevators are the best protected of any city that we know of.

men.

Local No. 5 starts the year full of enthusiasm and energy, with every man at work, and more to follow.

Our election of officers placed the old officers all back, with the exception of Bro. Riddle, our vice-president, who refused to serve. Bro. Wolfe was elected to fill his place. Bro. Groves was elected to the Executive Committee.

This is the Supreme Court of the Local, and under the leadership of Bro. A. Cain, who has been chairman for the past years, has given general satisfaction.

Bro. J. S. Irwin, our old reliable money man, has during his in

cumbency handled over $100,000, and is still on the job.

Up in the Harrisburg district there is plenty of work, and a large number of buildings are being equipped with locking devices. We have Bros. George Gray and William Coyle up in Allentown, Pa.

Bros. Wm. Aitkin has three weeks for the Peelee Door Company in York, Pa., and Whitey Hamilton and Phil Gardner are in Harrisburg, whilst Bros. Chas. Kirsh and Harry A. Brien are attending to business in Philly.

We have seven or eight helpers who have taken the step to mechanics, and so far all are making good. Local No. 5. W. B. MacALISTER.

PITTSBURGH, PA.

To the Editor:

What are we living for? Are we going to do anything to make the world better, our fellow workers a little happier, and ourselves more contented and independent? I believe these are good questions to consider just at this time when the Christmas season is closing, and the new year (1917) is opening with a glorious outlook for organized labor.

It seems many people do all their kind acts just at the holiday season, and forget that there is such a thing as charity for another year. We have all read of the bounteous bonuses being paid employes of some of the large corporations of this country. When we take into consideration how the men have had to speed up and the few dollars which fell to the lot of each individual employe and the increase in the price of foodstuffs during December, 1916, are the employes any better off? We think not. It looks as though the bonus was given out with one hand, while the other hand was held out to receive it back, indirectly, at least, as many of the large stockholders in corporations are back of the cold storage warehouses and other modes of manipulating the necessities, as well as the small luxuries of the workers.