POOR MEMORY

A man wished to introduce a friend to his wife, who was at the seashore. When the pair got to the resort they found the wife in the surf. Entering the bath house the men donned their suits and went into the water. The husband introduced his friend.

A week later the friend observed the woman he had met in the water sitting opposite him in a street car. He bowed. She looked puzzled for a moment and then exclaimed:

"Oh, how do you do? I didn't know you with your clothes on." They had to leave the car at the next corner.

SETTLED THE VOTING During the presidential campaign the question of woman suffrage was much discussed among women pro and con, and at an afternoon tea the conversation turned that way between the women guests.

"Are you a woman suffragist?"

asked the one who was most interested.

"Indeed, I am not," replied the other most emphatically.

"Oh, that's too bad, but just supposing you were, whom would you support in the present campaign?"

"The same man I've always supported, of course," was the apt reply -"my husband."

NOT QUALIFIED

"I want to be excused," said the worried-looking juryman, addressing the Judge. "I owe a man $5 that I borrowed, and as he is leaving town for some years I want to catch him before he gets on the train, and pay him the money."

"You are excused," replied the Judge, in icy tones. "I don't want anybody on the jury who can lie like that."-Kansas City Journal.

DELICATE PROBLEM

Parson Johnson, an evangelist of color, was caught hugging one of the finest ewe lambs of the congregation, who was a very popular young lady, and was brought up for trial.

"You have seen these great pictures, I suppose, so you know dat de great Shepherd am always pictured with a lamb in His arms," said Brudder Johnson.

"Yes, sah, Pahson, dat am so," admitted Deacon Jones.

"Den, Brudder Jones, what am wrong in the shepherd of dis flock having a lamb in his arms?"

After the point was discussed at the afternoon meeting the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, Dat for the future peace of the congregation, dat the next time Brudder Johnson feels called on to take a lamb of de flock in his arms, dat he pick out a ram lamb."

STUNG

A builder observed a man standing on the scaffolding with his hands in his pockets, smoking a pipe. He went gently up the ladder, and said:

"Now, I've caught you; we'll have no more of this! Here's your four days' pay, and you can consider yourself discharged!"

The man pocketed the money and went away rather quickly.

Just then the foreman came up, and the builder told him what he had done.

"Why," said the foreman, "that man wasn't working for us; he was only asking for a job!"

SMOKE FIRST, FIRE LATER Maud "Would you object to a husband who smoked in the house?"

Marie "Most decidedly. But I shall keep quiet about it until I get one."-Boston Transcript.

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all men; it has compelled the passage of laws to protect the health of the workers; to take children from the

As an individual the workman is as helpless as a sapling in a tempest. He may say that he intends to work for whom he pleases for as many hours as he pleases and as much as he pleases, and he may feel that he has a moral right to do so, but he has not.

And then again he should know, as he will sooner or later, perhaps when it is too late, that he must ask his employer for leave to work for what he chooses to pay, and for as many hours as he desires.

Organized labor has been able, through united action and collective bargaining, to shorten the workday, raise wages, and in many ways improve the conditions of the worker; it has prevented reductions in the pay; it has made the homes better; it has secured better clothes, better food, more comforts and has made the shop, factory and the mine a better place in which to work.

Organized labor has been the fighting force in State legislatures and in Congress, not only for labor, but for

in school; to limit the hours of labor for women and fix their wages above a living wage; to prevent the loss of lives and limbs, and to compel the payment for injuries to body or health. It has done this and more, more than we can enumerate here.

Every time organized labor achieves a victory it not only raises the status of the union man and his family, but of the non-union man and his family as well. And on the other hand, when a non-union man takes another worker's place and crushes the union, it lowers the status of all workingmen, non-union and union, who share the degradation of labor.

OPPOSITION TO LABOR UNIONS ON THE WANE

It is a fact, that where formerly almost everyone was more or less opposed to labor unions, the general sentiment of the whole country is undergoing a change. Men who a few years ago were most bitter opponents of the unions, are to-day advocating that the unions be given an opportunity to work out the true democracy for which they stand. American ideals stand for a perfect democracy; a perfect democracy is that form of government which guarantees to all an equal chance. More and more, men who have the welfare of the nation at heart are coming to realize that trade unions stand for “equal opportunity for all," and that instead of being the "unreasoning monster" as it was formerly considered, the labor union is far more reasonable in its demands and more inclined to grant a measure of justice, than is the representative of capital, who still clings to the idea that labor is a commodity and that ought to be for sale at the lowest possible figure, to insure them big profits, and who totally disregards the human factor in the matter.