CONSISTENCY.

By Stuart W. Knight.

"I have gone a long way towards making my wife a consistent woman," said Greene to Brown, as they were strolling along the avenue. "I have explained to her that if she abolishes feminism, she must expect me to adapt myself to her views; that if she upholds the independence of woman, she forces me also to recognize it; that if she is going to abolish the differences between the sexes. I also must abolish it and neutrally abolish all the little courtesies I have heretofore shown women. Well, at first it was a bitter pill for her, but she finally agreed that my views were just. Hereafter I keep my hat on in elevators, so that any women there may feel that they are my equals; I keep my seat in street cars; I never open a door for a lady, nor stand aside to let one precede me. If she drops her handkerchief, I let her pick it up. In short, I am going to respect my wife's repeated insistence that woman is in every way man's equal and

"Pretty nifty little blonde just ahead of us," ejaculated Brown.

"Certainly is. Ah, she's dropped her bag! Keep back, Brown; I saw it first."

WISE BRIDE.

"Now," said the bridegroom to the bride, when they returned from their honeymoon trip, "let us have a clear understanding before we settle down to married life. Are you the president or vice-president of this society?"

"I want to be neither president nor vice-president," she answered. "I will be content with a subordinate position."

"What position is that, my dear?" "Treasurer."

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THE MIRACLE.

"Miracles-I speak of modern mircan usually be explained," said Dr. Elliott Young Savage in an address before the Chicago Ethical Culture Society.

"Bishop Blane's son is a clergyman, and assists his father. At dinner the other evening the young man said:

"On Broadway to-day an old beggar woman asked me for money. I said I had none with me. She begged me to look and see, so I felt in my trousers pocket and, lo and behold, I found a two-dollar bill there. It was a miracle. I gave it to the old beggar woman, of course. Yes, a real miracle!"

"The bishop put on his glasses. He stared long and attentively at his son. Then he said:

"Confound it! That's a pair of my trousers you've got on there, boy!'"

ILLUMINATING COMPARISON.

She entered the department store and complained about a lamp she had purchased, demanding that it be taken back.

"What's the matter with it, mad

am?"

"It has all the faults of my husband, with none of his virtues."

"Please explain yourself?"

"Well, it has a good deal of brass about it, is not remarkably brilliant, requires a good deal of attention, is unsteady on its legs, flares up occasionally, is always out at bedtime and is bound to smoke."-Boston Transcript.

CHANGED TIMES.

Mother "Little boys must always be nice and clean for school."

"Well, you know, mother, they got a lot o' new advanced ideas since you went to school."-Life.

country, several States gave their electoral votes by smaller majorities than did some wards in this city. The result of that election for Congressmen, owing to the close fights, leaves both of the old dominant parties without a majority to organize and elect the Speaker of the House. Now if the labor group in Congress had a representative from each State, that would mean forty-eight, or a sufficiently large vote to get substantial recognition.

This city and State are conceded to have the largest industrial and manufacturing concerns in the union.

This city, then, being a great manufacturing centre, means a large working force, hence a heavy voting population (300,000 at the last election).

We sent a solid delegation of rockribbed, dyed-in-the-wool Republican Protectionists to Congress.

Who were they? Some of your own class?

No, sir-ee. We are so busy knocking each other, if one of our own had the nerve to announce his candidacy, he would never get started. We much prefer some lawyer or real estate man or banker. They have plenty of time to give for nothing you know.

It is about time that the working classes got together and send some sensible, thinking fellows (there are quite a few mechanics right here in Philly who would compare very favorably with the average Congressmen you meet) to fill the responsible office of Representative.

Every measure passed by Congress has been debated upon from every angle, voted upon at least three times by upwards of 400 men, among whom some of our brightest lawyers and shrewd business men, and then, for final action, the Chief Executive scrutinizes and signs the measure, making it law. Some individual or perhaps corporation will be heavily affected by said measure, and have a writ issued, taking same into Court, where some dignified and learned Judge, after due deliberation, will declare the measure unconstitutional.

Now if a crowd of lawyers can't do any better than that, we believe there are mechanics in our ranks that would fill the bill as well.

This city and the State of Pennsyivania have been an easy mark for the politicians for years, and now we have the prospect of a Legislative investigation of our Executive, both sides of the Organization in control have been throwing all sorts of bouquets at each other. If only part of this is true, they deserve to be overthrown.

Work continues brisk and the prospects are bright.

Bro. J. McClintock has been made general foreman for the A. B. See Elevator Company in Philadelphia. W. B. MacALISTER.

Local No. 5.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

To the Editor:

Is civilization Christianized by the advancement of mechanical ingenuity? Is the world better than during medieval days? Is morality on the improve as the calendar grinds out the years of time? Is the peasant, the artisan, the professional man or the business man better off to-day than during the last century?

Speaking from a perusal and a close observation of the ruling current news of the press for the past year, it does seem that we are placing more on the camel's back than he can carry and the aeroplanes of our imagination will soon collapse, and this commercial bloodthirsty orgie of killing will cease and the "supposed heroes, the deluded husbands of families and the flowers of the rising manhood" will go back to tilling the soil.

The human savage of Colonial times was an "Archangel," with his scalping proclivities, as he carried your topknot home to his tepee as war trophy, as compared with the way the machinists, the gas workers and the chemists are suffocating the enemy with gas and pouring liquid fire in their "palatial trenches of mud and pestilence."

Is morality improved by the capture

of new territory and the subjugation of the populace by a bloodthirsty enemy, going to work for the better morals of that community? I do not think so. Do you?

Fraternity, with its wings of the past spreading over all those warring nations and administering the oaths of man's conceptions of right and wrong and their millions of wealth doled out to the "suffering old and the education of minors," has received a setback and the cold chills must run swiftly over the veins of some lodge members.

The uplift of the common man through socialism seems to have been relegated and placed on the archives of the shelves of ancient history.

I have witnessed the families of the mountainous parts of our State"where mechanics and chemistry are not so advanced"-plodding their way to the "Little Church on the Hill," where they were going to attend Sunday service. A person found working on that day would have been ostracized and severely condemned until he could or would have mended his ways of living and this would have been attended to; but now all I'd ask or you would ask, Mr. Christian, No. 8, man, "ARE YOU GETTING DOU BLE TIME?"

The position of the peasant and the average working man has been ground to position of intolerance by his failure to keep pace with this mad rush of "Get there first."

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Some business men of San Francisco have worked the last two Sundays, "and their hundreds or so employes worked too." This was plained to the employes by saying we have to keep pace with the times and we will pay you "SINGLE TIME, as we paid for CHRISMAS and NEW YEAR'S." This is a fruit of commercial madness-likewise this moral decay-likewise this "scientific slaughter" in war-torn Europe-likewise this deceiving yourself with double timewhen there is no "ox in the ditch to be pulled out."

Hurry, get there first, best your com

petitors, don't stop at enough is the commercial slogan of each and every part of this industrial globe, which applies to all species of the human family in this age of hurry.

"HURRY." This word will be applied to the most of us when we attend our "own funerals" in an automobile hearse, that does things quickly and profitably. Bury your friends in the forenoon and the pallbearers can get in a half day's work in the after

noon.

There is a limit to all things. Remember the turtle lives a very long, healthy life. The abalone clings to rocks under the sea with an adhesive force that hardly allows his movements to become visible under six feet of water, and he enjoys many years of peace. The wild Indians of America lived past their hundreds "until Christianized and civilized."

Nature rebels against hurry-take time to eat your dinners or pay the penalty. Nature makes you pay the price of patronage of chemists, who adulterate your foodstuffs. Nature makes you or yours pay for the abortions of professional tricksters. Nature will begin to post the wrinkles before they are due, if you try to best time. Nature will return the little house you live in back to earth, even though you have nearly "hogged" it all.

The morals of the man is often forgotten in this day and his depravities and licentiousness are often classed as eccentricities, providing he has the coin, however it might have been procured. This country is money mad. The home of the $3.00 man is run on a $5.00 basis. An automobile for a working man by the installment route is bad business. Modern apartments kill the old feeling of having a home and are likewise very antagonistic toward the propagation of the species.

Christianization civilization and modernization are now about to reap the harvest of their efforts in China, and before another decade has passed they will be as bloodthirsty and dishonest as the more civilized classes.

We gave them Bibles in the past, and now we stand ready to furnish them arms for modern preparedness, with full instructions in how to use them.

Modern civilization seeks the material, not the spiritual power, and the call from one pulpit to another is too often reckoned by the price. These statements are just plain facts without any coloring, and it may tend to stop some of this HERO worship by the hyphenated Americans or those with foolish sympathies.

Local No. 8 has to meet these false standards, and we are trying to be as un-Christian, uncivilized and modern as the rest of our compatriots in this age of hurry, squeeze and "get there first."

Through the efforts of Delegates McGee, Usher and Dr. Carlyon, of the Building Trades' Council, No. 8, is progressing along lines of modern warfare with an eye to business.

Bro. J. J. Sauder has the newly elected Executive Board ready for 1917, and he is the president of the Board. What J. says is going to count during the next twelve months.

Bros. T. Danielson and Grierson, of Burlingame, spent a very pleasant evening with us last meeting and explained conditions in the lower bay cities.

Bro. Ed. Edwards came over from Alameda and brought along a few of his friends, among them Bros. Upphoff, Wolf and Cove, who were fully prepared to look after grounds and short circuits.

Roll-call brings many of the members out to hear their names calledjust to remind them that they are alive yet.

Bro. Z. Carlyon has just returned from Nevada, where he was looking after the interest of the Otis Company.

Bro. Wallace Day, "with his home industry smile," was in one of the front rows at the meeting January 19, 1917.

Ex-Bro. Chester Leatham has accepted a position in the service department of the Otis Company at Los Angeles. His many friends will miss

him and the members of No. 8 join in wishing Chester success-for nothing succeeds like success.

Bro. Fred Wolf, "foreman for B. C. Van Emon," is keeping Bros. Ahern, Finnen, Sweeney and Boteron busy in changing elevators to comply with the new State laws.

Bro. Jack Buckley has gathered up most of the idle elevator men and is using them on some improvements at the Emporium.

Bro. Colbert is looking after the welfare of our venerable warden, Bro. Hicks, and they report business good from the Cliff House to South City.

Bro. A. Krause is going WHALE fishing next Sunday down at "Carmel by the sea."

Bro. J. Slough does not always carry a working card. The card was issued and the finder will please return same.

The Helpers of No. 8 have joined the Progressive Party, and waiting patiently for developments during 1917.

Work at this writing is very good. All No. 10 boys are working. We have signed up another shop, one, Blake Palm, who is handling the Ohio elevator of Columbus, Ohio. The signing of this shop has made our city very close to one hundred per cent. organized.

The happenings of No. 10 are many. The high cost of living doesn't bother us a bit, as quite a few of our boys have got tin tommys. The last added to the many is H. Hunt, though his is called a Reo. Some one asked Henry if he had any accidents yet. He said, "No, the telegraph poles move out of my way when they see me coming. One big pole the other day came near getting me; it crossed before me twice and I stopped. It's hard to tell what would have happened if I'd kept on going."

Bro. J. Follar received quite a severe laceration on the right leg which